Tokyo-to High: Year of the Dragon

Second chapter came and went didn't it? It seemed like only yesterday I was writing it. It was only yesterday hmmm...

Well regardless we learned a little about Nova, a little more about Akito's relationship with his sister and her feelings towards Tsunami. Ack Tsunami and her won't get along very well will they hmm? Well looks like we have to wait till Christmas time when Tsunami comes to visit before their conflict can begin!

And now it seems that romance is in the air eh? Well it could just be really bad cheese; it's really hard to tell the difference some times.

Whelp despite what happened it's time for chapter 3! So enjoy!

Akito Yagami & Nova Yagami © me, Tsunami is © my lovely Tsu-chan, all other characters are © either Capcom, SNK, Sammy, or any other company I have borrowed existing characters

Chapter 3 - Promises

There he stood; face to face with the girl everyone had warned him about. Akito swallowed hard then manages a soft smile and handed her a handful of napkins. "Here," he said his voice rather meek; he could feel his cheeks flushing rather quickly "I think you wanted some napkins too..." "Oh yea..." Akira said in equal awkwardness "Thanks..."

They stared at each for a few moments longer. Nothing really seemed appropriate to say Akito felt. Finally the silence was broken. "You're the new kid right...?" Akira said softly looking down at the napkins Akito had handed her. "Uh... yea..."

Akira's eyes stayed on the napkins as she continued. "Akito right... Yagami of the Yagami clan?" Akito's sudden embarrassment left for a moment. "Yea how did you know?" He was now looking at her with a look of awe and a tone of impression on his voice. "Oh well you see I have that ninja girl what's her name..." "Ibuki?" Akito said curiously although he was quite sure that's who she meant. "Yes that's her, is she a friend of yours?" Akito blinked and shrugged. "I guess you call her a friend..."

"Well... I have her for Study hall... and she was talking to her friend about you... I just kinda over heard really..." Akito nodded and stammered in his speech. "Well no harm, no foul..." Akira looked up at him and nodded her head. "Hey listen... I'm eating lunch with some friends... your welcome to join us." She said still in her meek tone. "I'm kinda eating lunch with my sister at the moment, as well as some friends of my own..." "Oh..." Akira said her voice laced with notable disappointment.

"Well... I think we have class together next." "Really?" Akito began but was soon cut off by a rather loud and obnoxious voice. "Hey Akira! What's the hold up?! Did you get the napkins or what?"

Both Akira and Akito turned to find the source of the noise. Standing adjacent to Akira was a young man wearing a lavender pair of pants that were obviously sizes larger then was intended for him, and a matching lavender jacket. Akito admitted to himself as odd as he thought his clothing was it was no match for his hair, which was a bright blonde that stood about a foot or so straight up from his head.

"Oh... sorry Edge, I was just talking to Akito..." Akira said gathering some more napkins making it look like she was doing something. Edge eyed Akito for a moment then sneered humorously at him and burst out laughing. "Akira what have I told you about taking in strays?"

Akito's ears flattened against his head as he repressed a growl. Akira looked over at Edge. "He's nice Edge..." Akito spoke up; "If she wants to talk let her talk." he had to admit chivalry was one of his flaws. Edge walked closer to Akito. "I don't recall anyone asking your opinion!" Akito's eyes narrowed; if it was one thing that quickly agitated him it was people who tried to intimidate him.

"Look you pompous little prick," Akito's voice rose as he could feel anger swelling up inside him. "No one asked you to come here, much less wanted to hear your obnoxious bitching about the matter of me and Akira speaking!" Edge's voice rose in volume to match Akito's "Well maybe I'm just looking out for her! Don't' want her catching any of your fleas do I?!"

Akito's eyes flared a violent amethyst as he now growled quite audibly this time. "Brother!" Hibiki had rushed over in front of him and Edge; Akito now became aware that the entire student body in the cafeteria was watching the pair of them. "Stop it Brother! You'll get in trouble stop it please!"

Akito felt himself calming down and was not sure why. His blood no longer boiled and he felt the flare in his eyes slowly dying down. He looked down at his sister, into her eyes and felt himself once again able to gather his composure.

"Uh... yea..." Akito said looking down at his sister. Just then a loud whistle was blown that echoed throughout the silent cafeteria. "What's going on here?!" A sharp rather high pitched girl's voice called out. Everyone in the intermediate area turned to see a girl quickly approaching wearing a white tank top and army green cargo pants. Her hair was a deep brown and shoulder length but was tied back currently.

"Well I asked what's going on here?" She said again loudly and rather sternly this time. "Calm down Muchiko," Edge said rather coolly. "Don't tell me to calm down! I'm the hall monitor! If a fight breaks out during lunch we'll have a riot and that is something I'm Not going to allow on my shift!" Akito had to admit he was rather unsettled by her although she appeared small and frail.

Hibiki spoke up. "It was Eiji, He was arguing with my brother, and my brother was just trying to protect Akira..." Edge winced as he heard his real name uttered; how he loathed it. Akito looked down at Hibiki, she was not afraid of this new girl in fact she looked rather happy to see her.

Muchiko nodded her head and pulled out a small note pad and began to write something. "Edge hmm? Why am I not surprised..." "Hey that's not fair!" Edge began but was quickly silenced by an icy glare from Muchiko. "Hibiki Takane is one of the most trustworthy students at the school, her testimony is more then enough to get you detention. Especially considering your record Edge!"

Muchiko ripped off the note from her pad and handed it to Edge. He quickly snatched it up and pocketed it grumbling to himself about fairness and whining. "You have detention after school Edge; you know the time and place! And don't make me come look for you! Got it?!" Muchiko added a slight threat in her voice. "Yea yea... I hear you..."

Edge turned to walk away and muttered to Akito in a whisper only he could hear. "This isn't over... you can't hide behind your little sister forever..." Akito glared back at him but let it go. "Come on Akira! We're going!" Edge yelled at her. Akira turned to leave as well and looked at Akito one more time and mouthed silently "Nice meeting you..." so that Edge wouldn't hear.

"The nerve of that guy..." Muchiko began but interrupted herself. "And you..." She turned to look at Akito but stopped to think for a moment. "Akito..." Hibiki said as if answering Muchiko's unasked question. "Right," Muchiko began up again. "And you Akito, you keep yourself out of trouble! I know you wanted to protect Akira, but rules are rules and next time you break one you'll have detention got it?" "Uh yea sure..." Akito said even though he highly doubted he would be given detention by Muchiko who seemed to be a friend of his sister's.

"Well back to lunch you two, I have many halls that need monitoring." Muchiko turned and left. Akito picked up the chop sticks he had dropped during the argument and grabbed some more napkins and smiled at Hibiki. "Let's go."

The cafeteria had once again returned to its normal rumble of mixed conversations and noise. Akito followed Hibiki back to their table against the back wall and sat down with Ibuki and Pupa. "You must be really brave or really stupid." Ibuki said lightheartedly her feet on the table as she balanced herself lying back in her chair. "Eh?" Akito said looking at her bemused. "Edge is one of the biggest trouble makers here! And if you got him as an enemy your life is pretty much gonna be filled with a lot of problems..."

"I'll bet..." Akito said sourly passing out the chopsticks and napkins before sitting down. He had more important things to worry about then some stupid school bully. "And where were you during all that?" Akito said after a moment looking at Pupa. She blinked harmlessly. "I saw you were talking to Akira so I got out of way so you two could talk. I didn't know Edge would be showing up."

"Yea well... he did..." Akito muttered as he opened his bento and began to eat his steak strips. "He's a real pain but don't let him get to you." Ibuki said trying to reassure him. "I mean your loads stronger then him, I know that already..." She rubbed the back of her head that still ached from her tiff with Akito before hand. "but it's not really him you have to worry about, it's his cronies."

"There's only one person I'm afraid of..." Akito said bluntly "And it's not him." Akito finished the rest of his meal in silence still frustrated about not being able to strike Eiji. Pupa and Ibuki took turns trying to balance the chop sticks on their noses and timing how long they could keep them that way. Hibiki who seemed rather chipper now, hummed to herself and finished her Math homework while eating at the same time. The bell rang a few moments after everyone had finished and they rose and began to collect their belongings.

Akito pulled his schedule out of his pocket and looked it over. "Does anyone know where 4-C is?" He said looking around at his current companions. Pupa shot up from her seat and grinned widely. "That's Sex Ed, its upstairs!" Ibuki grabbed her backpack and flung it over her back. "The teacher is Ms. Morrigan Aensland. She's alright, I mean she's nice... just kinda weird." Ibuki looked over at Pupa nervously. "Some people say she's a succubus..." Hibiki added picking up her book bag and swinging her sword case over her shoulder. "That's why I refuse to take her class..." Akito blinked at them. "Um right... so up the stairs right?"

"Have fun with Akira!" Pupa said enthusiastically as she turned to turn to leave. "W-What?" Pupa stopped for a moment blinked. "You have class with her next, and that's Sex Ed." She grinned and left walking with Hibiki. His sister turned back and smiled at him. "I like Akira... she's nice..." she said softly before turning and running off to catch up with Pupa.

Akito blinked and turned to Ibuki. "What was that all about?" Ibuki looked at him and frowned. "You really are dense aren't you? Hibiki and Pupa want you to go for it with Akira!" Ibuki looked at him squarely. "G-Go for what?!" Akito exclaimed back at her. "You know, we all think you guys would be a cute couple that's all." "No no I have... have someone..." Ibuki's eyebrows raised as she looked questionably at him. "You do?! Someone who goes here?"

Akito looked down to at his hand, to his ring finger. A silver band across it. "Well... I'm promised to someone... already..." Ibuki scratched her head and blinked. "We'll don't go looking to me for advice I'm bad at this sort of thing... I mean I went out with Edge for like a week..." she rubbed her forehead to show frustration. "Well look I'm off, I got History..."

Ibuki turned and left. Akito turned to the stairs at the other side of the cafeteria and slowly began to ascend them. Why did everyone want him to go out with Akira? He was promised to Tsunami. He made that promise long ago to her, and it was the most important to him. He sighed to himself, after all his sister didn't know how close he was to Tsunami; she was probably just trying to cheer him up by suggesting he see someone else.

"Akito..." He lifted his head and looked up to see Akira waiting for him on the top of the stairs. He gulped hard looking at her and blushed brightly. She slowly walked down the stairs and pressed her body against his, Akito could feel his face a bright crimson. She soon buried her face in his chest, he could feel her warm breath on his shirt as he let go of his back pack dropping it to the ground. Akito struggled for rational though, the shock of having her this close to him; clinging to him was too much.

"A... Akira...?" he managed out despite his rising body temperature. She pressed her chest up against his and leaned up kissing him softly. He froze instantly, her lips so soft and tender against his, he could feel her tongue slowly inching into his mouth as it sought his out. A soft licking began as he began to swoon. Akira slowly broke the kiss and looked up at him blushing, her cheeks a rosy pink. "Is this what you want Akito...?" She reached down and rested her hand on his crotch as Akito gasped slightly, her shyness seemed to fade away and only her aggressiveness was present.

She looked up at him and smiled, her teeth an unnatural white. Akito squirmed free of her grasp and took a few steps back. "Isn't this what you want Akito...?" Her body slowly started to shift and change. Her skin grew tan and her hair blonde, her clothing changing till she was the likeness of Pupa. "What about this Akito ne? Like them frisky and hyper?" Her voice giggled resembling Pupa's right down to the high-pitched tone.

"No?" Pupa said her appearance changing once again. Akito continued to watch stupefied only taking steps back when she would approach him. Her appearance soon resembled Ibuki as she winked at him a playful way and grinned. "Yep Akito likes them dominate. Able to work up a good sweat with him right?" Akito took a few more steps back and stumbled back onto the stairs. She slowly leaned down and crawled onto him, her appearance changing once more, her frame shrunk and her hair grew long down to her back side as she soon resembled his half sister. "Does Brother want to play the dominate one... and teach his little innocent sister how to make love...?" The voice said slowly in the same timid voice that was Hibiki's.

"What do you want Akito...?" Her appearance changed once more, long flowing red hair with ivory bangs hanging down her face. Her eyes a soft loving green as she pressed herself tightly against. Her skin a soft creamy texture, she licked his chin softly and blushed the cute way that Akito remembered when they had first kissed her.

"Tsunami?!" His voice was filled with disbelief and confusion. "Akito... what do you want...?"