The Revolutionary Driver Chapter 21, an utena fanfic

Chapter 21: Cat Fight

Tuesday

Utena was feeling good that morning. She and Miki had spent the morning break walking through the courtyard and having a friendly debate over whether the police should follow through on their plan to end the latest problem they were focusing on: street racers. The local street racers had migrated onto the main streets of Tokyo and were, as the law enforcers said, "holding up traffic and making loud, disturbing noises which was causing too many people to complain." Miki was agreeing with the police that street racing was a dangerous sport and should be stopped, but Utena was saying that the city should build a good straight-away track that would be perfect for the street racers. The two had finally decided that whatever the police did, at least they were focused on the city street racers and not on the mountain racers, which were not as well known because of the fact that the nearby mountains were well out of the city. These locations were absolutely perfect because there were rarely any other non-racing cars driving there at night.

Nothing seemed to be able to get Utena down as she walked down the hall in school...that is, until she saw the face of Sayuki Miyasato glaring at her before entering a classroom.

"Damn that frickin' bitch," Utena muttered to herself as the teacher entered the class.

Utena was still muttering the same things when the lunch bell rang. Miki found her with tight lips and a scowl upon her beautiful face as she practically stalked down the hall. He came up behind her and slipped an arm around her waist. "Hey," he said and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek, "What's wrong? Did something happen?" he squeezed her tense side gently.

Utena relaxed into his hug and sighed. "Nah, nothing important. I failed a math test."

"Well, if you need tutoring, I can give you some lessons," Miki said with a smile. "We can study in my dorm."

Utena smirked. "Lessons on what, huh, Mr. Kaoru? Are you trying to imply something?"

Miki's cheeks turned pink. "Not exactly."

Utena chuckled. She squeezed their intertwined fingers. "Well, I'll take your offer of help with math."

"Good," Miki smiled down at her. Gazing into her eyes, he leaned down and gently placed a kiss upon her lips.

"Hey! No smooching in the hallways!" a voice screeched from behind the two.

The couple broke apart and looked behind them to see a laughing Mina and the rest of the gang. "Hey guys. What's up?"

"Oh, we were just making plans to head over to a club Saturday night. Mina found a good one that's ten minutes away if we walk."

"What do you think Miki? Do you wanna go?" Utena looked up at her boyfriend.

"Sure," Miki grinned, "sounds like fun."

"All right. We'll make all the plans and stuff later. The bell's about to ring," Seiya announced and each person headed off in the direction of his/her class.

Utena slipped into the gym just as the bell rang and Ms. Nakahara called the class to order. "Everyone, today we will be doing something different. Today we have lessons in kendo."

There were exclamations of glee and groans of dismay but everyone went to the locker rooms and changed into their gym clothes. The boys did the same after they were told the same thing by their gym teacher, Mr. Kawamoto. When they appeared in the gym again, the teacher assigned each person an "armor" uniform to wear.

Utena easily slipped into hers, while others struggled to slide on the "heavy" padding. The class assembled on the side of the gym as the top members of the Ohtori Private Academy kendo team filed in through the doors of the gym. Utena, standing in the back, easily spotted Miki and Yaten. She knew they had both been on the kendo team since they were freshmen so Utena knew they had to be good, after all, Ohtori didn't have the title of top national kendo team for nothing.

"All right class, you are now to listen to the kendo team and anyone who disobeys their orders will be written up," Ms Nakahara called out and left the gym.

"Sorry I'm late, Miki. Had a meeting to attend to," Julius was breathing hard as he hurried up to Miki and Yaten with his kendo mask under his arm and his kendo sword in his hand.

"No prob," Miki answered. "We're just showing the students some of the basic moves right now."

"All right, I'll—hey I didn't know Utena was in this class," Julius said, just spotting Utena over on the far side of the gym.

"I didn't know either until I paired up the students," Miki said, looking at his girlfriend who was talking with another girl. "She's pretty good, you know."

"Really?"

"Well, I only saw her go through a few moves but she seems comfortable with it and her form is absolutely perfect," Miki analyzed.

"Well, let's see," Julius said. He headed towards Utena.

Utena saw him before he reached her. "Hey Jul."

"Hey baby sister. How about a friendly match between siblings?" Julius invited.

"Sure," Utena agreed. She slipped on her mask and Julius did the same. As is on cue, the two siblings moved at the same time, Utena swishing her sword forward and Julius moved to block it.

A half hour and lots of sweat later, the two ended their match. As the two pulled off their mask, breathing hard and grinning, Miki and the other students, who had been watching, applauded them.

"Wow Utena, you've got some pretty fast moves there," Julius complimented his sister.

"Yeah, but they weren't fast enough," Utena said and laughed.

"Of course. I'm older, faster, and stronger. I'm always going to win, no matter what," Julius teased her.

"You better knock on wood, big brother, your luck will run out soon," Utena promised. A grin was upon her face.

"We'll see," Julius replied with a smirk.

Miki, Julius, and Yaten sat together on one of the benches as they watched the other kendo team members giving pointers to students. They talked about the upcoming martial arts competition that was to be held in three weeks.

"All right students," called out Ms. Nakahara, who had returned, half an hour later. "Now you may all have practice sessions for the upcoming martial arts demonstration. I hope you all remember the lessons from last week…" she sent them all a stern look. "When I call out your names, I want you to begin practicing with your partner. You will be paired up according to your skill level."

Utena's piercing eyes immediately shot across the room to Sayuki, who in turn was glaring right back at her. They had never been paired up before Utena hoped that she was partners with the girl, in the hopes of teaching her a lesson or two about messing with Utena Tenjou.

"Katsuhiro and Tsukino. Sato and Shirozuki. Miyasato and Tenjou….."

Utena smirked. "Perfect," she said to herself. She pulled off the "armor" for kendo and stood up. Underneath she wore her street clothes.

"…may all wear street clothes, as you did during previous sessions, if you wish," the teacher called out. "The kendo team members and I will be walking around to see if you are in a controlled match. Don't go overboard, or you'll be seeing the principal," she threatened.

Miyasato made her way across the gym and the two met in the center.

"I have to see this match," Julius said quietly to Miki. "I saw the scores of last month's matches and they were really close. If the class had been longer they would have had to face each other then."

"Yeah. Let's see how good Utena and Miyasato are," Miki said with interest.

"You ready to lose?" Sayuki smirked. The two girls circled in a seemingly-casual way, but if anyone looked closely, they would see that both girl's body's were stiff, as if ready to spring forward.

"Are you ready for me to kick your ass?" Utena retorted back.

"I'd like to see you try," Sayuki looked Utena up and down with contempt.

"Something's up with these two. What do you think this is about?" he muttered to his blue haired companion.

"Well, Miyasato always was jealous of one girl or another. Maybe it's because Utena has become so popular at Ohtori?"

"Or maybe it's because you dumped her ages ago and now you're going out with Utena and won't take Miyasato back," Julius told him.

"I don't think so," Miki told him. "Miyasato knows that I don't like her in that way, so why should she be angry about Utena and me getting together?"

"Miki, you obviously don't know how a girl's mind works," Julius grinned and slapped his best friend on the back. "Miyasato's probably jealous of the fact that you like Utena better than her." Then, the two heard Sayuki's louder outburst and they turned back to the combatants.

"You're going to be sorry you ever met me, much less came to this school! I'm going to kick your ass back to wherever the hell you came from!"

"Well then bring it, slut," Utena shot back. "Let's see if you can do anything besides vandalism and sleeping with guys."

"You're calling me a slut? After you showed up here and latched on to Miki as if you owned him, you fuckin' bitch?" Sayuki said

"What did I tell you?" Julius said to Miki with a grin.

"You think you can just steal my guy just because you think you're better than me? You're the slut! I'll bet you've already slept with him! Including half, if not all, the guys in this school!" Sayuki said it so loudly that the whole class heard it and everything stopped, every pair of eyes was upon the two, but the girls didn't take any notice.

Miki and Julius, who had been listening to the heated conversation from the beginning, looked at each other in surprise. Mrs. Nakahara headed towards the girls to intervene, but Julius stopped her. "Let them be. It's better that they do this here than in a classroom where someone else could get seriously hurt."

The teacher looked like she was about to object, but everyone knew that the Student Council had the run of the school (the principal's wishes), so she nodded stiffly and stepped back.

Julius sat back down next to Miki.

"I don't care what kind of sick fantasy you're playing in your head, but in reality, Miki was never "yours". And it's nobody's business whether we did or didn't!" Utena retorted back at her. "So why don't you just get a real life instead of depending on others to do the real living for you."

"You're so gonna get your ass kicked!" Sayuki practically snarled.

Sayuki made the first move. She lunged at Utena with her fist flying, but Utena easily slid under her arm and shoved a fist into her stomach.

"Oof!" Sayuki's hand went to her stomach and she backed up, her angry eyes upon her more composed opponent. "Lucky punch." Sayuki went forward with more determination. She went for a chop from the side but Utena easily blocked it. Immediately, Sayuki sent another chop from the other side, but Utena was able to grab hold of her arm and stop it.

Sayuki whipped her arms away to try to release Utena's tight hold from her arms. Utena quickly released Sayuki's arms as the other girl pulled back. There was no resistance in when she pulled so Sayuki fell back too far, having to take a few steps back to try to regain her balance.

Utena took advantage of her opponent's defenses falling for a moment to go down and quickly sweep Sayuki's feet out from under her, but her opponent saw it coming. Sayuki quickly threw herself back, and using the momentum, went into a series of back flips.

Utena quickly jumped up and ran after Sayuki. She was there when Sayuki landed, and sent a kick her way but Sayuki blocked it solidly and grabbed her leg. Sayuki took hold of her foot and leg and wrenched it to the side. Utena felt the movement and was quickly able to avoid her ankle from twisting horribly by turning her body in the same direction. She turned so fast that her body became parallel to the ground for a moment before Utena in a crouch, landed on her feet once more.

Sayuki was there to hit her with an overhead cut, aimed at Utena's neck, but Utena ducked to the side and did a quick cartwheel. She was able to trap Sayuki's arm between her feet as she cart-wheeled and yanked the girl's arm towards the ground as Utena landed.

Sayuki was able to wrench her arm out before she would have been pulled off balance. She quickly balanced herself once again and went at Utena with fists flying. She again sent a quick and solid chop from the side at Utena, but Utena quickly blocked it and shoved her arm down. Sayuki tried to get a low cut in but Utena was there again to block her.

"Utena's gotten even better than last month!" a girl near Miki and Julius quietly said to the young man standing next to her. Her expression was one of awe.

"Yeah. How'd she improve so much?" the boy asked anyone in particular. Miki and Julius listened to the comments but their eyes never left Utena and Miyasato.

Utena retaliated with another sweep and this one caught Sayuki. She fell to the mat, but she wasn't there for long. She flipped up back onto her feet with such swiftness that roused an awed gasp from their classmates and dodged Utena's kick. Utena attacked her with a right jab, which was caught, but she then was able to hit her with a left hook when she swung back the other way. Sayuki fell back a few feet. When she saw Utena had stopped and had backed off a couple yards, she brought her hand up to the side of her mouth and wiped the blood from it. Sayuki looked at her hand and then glared harder at Utena. She rushed forward, as did Utena. The two met each other halfway.

Sayuki distracted Utena's attention by going at her full force with chops and punches as she yanked Utena's foot forward by hooking Utena's ankle with her foot. Utena slid into a forward split which gained a wincing "oooohh!" from their classmates.

Sayuki stepped back, her breathing a little ragged. "So what now? Are you just going to sit there? Or are you going to go running back to your mommy?" Sayuki sneered.

Utena's expression froze upon her face. It was as if a cold wind had swept through the closed gym, chills swept down everyone's spin. Utena's eyes suddenly narrowed and she threw herself up and landed on her feet again. Utena had a deeper frown upon her face. Her eyes were almost slits and her jaw clenched. Written all over her face was rage.

Julius and Miki were both startled. It was as if they were looking into the face of a stranger. Never had they seen Utena in this state, with cold, hard, unfamiliar eyes, and her expression of anger stiffened. What had happened? Was it because of that little comment Sayuki had made?

Utena tightened her fists, all the while keeping her narrowed glare upon her opponent, not even flinching when her knuckles crackled.

Sayuki made the mistake of looking into Utena's eyes and almost froze. The wintry-blueness of her eyes were just that—icy and cold. Sayuki felt chills blistering down her spine as the other girl stare her down. Never before had Sayuki seen a girl as angry as she. Feeling intimidated, Sayuki made the mistake of taking a step back, leaving herself wide open, and that's when Utena made her move.

Flying forward with such speed that caused exclamations of awe to arise from their spectators, Utena landed a punch into Sayuki's stomach, causing the unprepared girl to stagger back yet again. Utena was a blur as she hit Sayuki again with a roundhouse kick that disoriented her. Utena grabbed Sayuki's arm and seeming-effortlessly flipped her over her shoulder. When the girl was lying on her back, barely moving, but groaning with pain, Utena stood over her.

In the last moments of consciousness, Sayuki saw Utena standing over her and heard the loud, cold words, "My mother's death, you bitch," before all was black.

Everyone was quiet and Utena's words echoed through the gym. Julius jumped up in alarm. Had he just heard correctly? The woman who he used to call "Ma" was…dead? How come no one had sent news of this? His shocked eyes met his sister's icy cold ones as she turned to him. He didn't even recognize the cold dark eyes that met his.

Utena looked at him for a long moment, before turning away without a word. She picked up her street shoes and walked across the gym and out the door, all the while feeling the eyes of everyone in the gym, especially the two most important ones, but she didn't stop, not for anyone.