Prologue
Only twenty years ago, renown sumo wrestler Emeto Kobeyashi sat in his room with his pet turtle and his oversized bonsai tree while holding a canister of Miracle Green.
"If I feed Michinaga some food covered in this plant growth material, he will grow healthy and large like me."
At the time it seemed like an ingenious plan, but it turned out different than Emeto had planned. Instead of the lettuce it had been given, the baby turtle stepped on it instead. The next day Kobeyashi went to check up on the turtle and saw that it could hardly fit inside the modest shoe box it was housed in.
"I did not expect to see any results so fast!"
Days later after witnessing even more astonishing growth, the sumo legend retired and life changed completely.
Present day
Michinaga stood not too far from the sumo in front of him, who was already tiring. Without warning they both rushed forward at the same moment. Michinaga spun around the other sumo, grabbed him by his side, and then forced him out of the circle with a mighty shove that sent the rather large man to ground hard.
"Winner is Michinaga," Kobeyashi declared.
Michinaga was exhausted after having completed a five straight sessions and winning in all of them.
"Humph, I keep telling you that you rely on your agility far too much, you need to develop your strength further in order to avoid becoming a two dimensional sumo. Oh well, you did good today, you may have the rest of the day to yourself. Men we are finished for today, go home."
All the sumo wrestlers left and Kobeyashi quickly retreated into the house, leaving Michinaga all alone.
Just two years ago he was still satisfied with his empty life, all the training and Kobeyashi. Now he longed for freedom and for a new life. Although he couldn't say that Kobeyashi had been a loving individual or a cruel one, he that at least he was a decent man. Still, Michinaga wanted to experience something deeper than what he had now. He wanted to feel an actual connection with someone, rather than just the pretense of family. When you got down to it there was no relationship other than the teacher/student one they shared.
And to make matters worse he had no friends, no one to even talk with. The people he wrestled with were afraid of him and got the hell away as soon as possible and he had never been past the gate. I need to live, its about time that I finally leave from here. But Michinaga could not leave, because he felt obligated to Kobeyashi to receive his permission. It would be quite simple to leave without him finding out, but Michinaga refused to slink away like a dog that had just done something wrong. The sun was beginning to vanish beyond the distant horizon and that alerted Michinaga to finally get inside.
Only twenty years ago, renown sumo wrestler Emeto Kobeyashi sat in his room with his pet turtle and his oversized bonsai tree while holding a canister of Miracle Green.
"If I feed Michinaga some food covered in this plant growth material, he will grow healthy and large like me."
At the time it seemed like an ingenious plan, but it turned out different than Emeto had planned. Instead of the lettuce it had been given, the baby turtle stepped on it instead. The next day Kobeyashi went to check up on the turtle and saw that it could hardly fit inside the modest shoe box it was housed in.
"I did not expect to see any results so fast!"
Days later after witnessing even more astonishing growth, the sumo legend retired and life changed completely.
Present day
Michinaga stood not too far from the sumo in front of him, who was already tiring. Without warning they both rushed forward at the same moment. Michinaga spun around the other sumo, grabbed him by his side, and then forced him out of the circle with a mighty shove that sent the rather large man to ground hard.
"Winner is Michinaga," Kobeyashi declared.
Michinaga was exhausted after having completed a five straight sessions and winning in all of them.
"Humph, I keep telling you that you rely on your agility far too much, you need to develop your strength further in order to avoid becoming a two dimensional sumo. Oh well, you did good today, you may have the rest of the day to yourself. Men we are finished for today, go home."
All the sumo wrestlers left and Kobeyashi quickly retreated into the house, leaving Michinaga all alone.
Just two years ago he was still satisfied with his empty life, all the training and Kobeyashi. Now he longed for freedom and for a new life. Although he couldn't say that Kobeyashi had been a loving individual or a cruel one, he that at least he was a decent man. Still, Michinaga wanted to experience something deeper than what he had now. He wanted to feel an actual connection with someone, rather than just the pretense of family. When you got down to it there was no relationship other than the teacher/student one they shared.
And to make matters worse he had no friends, no one to even talk with. The people he wrestled with were afraid of him and got the hell away as soon as possible and he had never been past the gate. I need to live, its about time that I finally leave from here. But Michinaga could not leave, because he felt obligated to Kobeyashi to receive his permission. It would be quite simple to leave without him finding out, but Michinaga refused to slink away like a dog that had just done something wrong. The sun was beginning to vanish beyond the distant horizon and that alerted Michinaga to finally get inside.