Haru:
Third Moon
AUTHOR'S NOTES: ARRRRRGGGHHHH for empty prepaid internet card CREDITS~~~!!! TT_TT I just TOTALLY hate it. TT_TT GOOOMMMEEEENNN to make you people wait for SOOO long. OK, this time it's Chief's turn! ^o^ Professor in Japanese is "Kyouju", and Kyouju is Professor and Professor is Chief and Chief is Kenny. WHEW~~~!!! R/R PLEASE~~~!!!
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Bey Blade, Sakura Taisen, and Asato Tsuzuki (plus all his Shikigami). So please don't SHOOT ME~~~!!!
Kenichiro
Name: Hasami, Kenichiro
Country of Origin: Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Birthplace: Tohoku Area
Age: 12
Height: 149.5 cm
Weight: 40 kg
Blood Type: O
Birthday: May 7
Skills: Tactician, Sigil Tech
PRN: 0020 - 004 - 000
EP: 102
APR: 91%
Test Results: 100%
COMMENTS:
Recommended for transfer to 35th Imperial Capital Defense Headquarters. Training for Elite Kagekidan Branch approved. For immediate action.
***Sigil Tech training highly recommended.
***Animum Psyche Ratio Research approved.
Signed:
JUDY MIZUHARA
Head Instructor,
Imperial Capital Defense Satellite Headquarters,
KYOUTO
Lei's eyes were very wide.
"WOW~~~!!!" His amber gold eyes became expressively sparkly. "Is that..."
"Yes, your Sigil, Driger." Takao let out a long, low whistle. "Wow, it's so SPARKLY~~~!!!"
Max laughed. "Yeah, it just went in through the STEAM CLEANERS~~~!!! Hey Lei, won't you come take a look?"
Spotlights shone down on the mech from way above them. Standing at an impressive 16.3 meters tall, it was everything that Lei had imagined those prototype Sigils Dr. Mizuhara told him about before he left Kyouto.
"Armor's basic -Sigil Guard-. Height: 16.3 meters, weight: 7.5 tons, Steam Engine Output: 17,890 kg, Anpsychic Synch Ratio: 97.435 %, -Nirvana- Crystal Synch: 98.231%. Armaments: Tiger Claws, 3 sectional Tiger Fang Blade..." Kenichiro nodded. "Driger's an exceptional Sigil, if I do say so myself. Best for close and medium range attacks. Excellent for ground-based melees."
Lei looked at it. It was pure white in color, its huge arms fitted with ornate-looking fighting gloves with the yin/yang symbols on them. There were curved golden spikes on its shoulder armor, and gold spikes on its back, and compact canisters underneath the last golden spikes.
"Took Hiwatari Heavy Industries a good 4 years developing those," Max told Lei. "They've found a way in which the steam engines and the -Nirvana- Crystals would work together, thereby minimizing main engine and -Chi Regulator- breakdown."
"Kyrieans Effect Principle," Kenichiro explained. "Somehow, the water-steam molecules react with the Crystals, acting like south-to-south ends of 2 magnets...repelling each other, thereby creating a very powerful chain reaction that serves as the basis for the Sigil's overall power output. The -Chi Regulator- regulates our chi flow, directing our Sigils to execute our unique innate skills and attacks. When the -Chi Regulator- hits maximum...it's party TIME~~~!!! Those Team Axis members wouldn't want to get too close to a Sigil in Rave Mode. So far the only guy around here who manages to execute a perfect Rave Mode Release is Kai-senpai."
"Uh...why, is Rave dangerous?" Lei asked him.
"Normally, when you fight in your Sigil, the 3 major components: namely, the steam engine, the -Nirvana- Crystals, and the -Chi Regulator- must work in COMPLETE, ABSOLUTE harmony in order to make it even move at all. There are rare times when a -Chi Regulator- exceeds even maximum output. In so doing, a rare effect takes place: the Sigil goes into a hyper-powered, obscenely fortified and near-impossible super speed mode that would really take out your Sigil in one go if you don't know how to control it. It only lasts for a full minute, but the results are almost always great devastation and annihilation of the enemy party, if they so foolishly choose to fight the one in Rave Mode. And frazzled dendrites the morning after. Cool beans." Max grinned. "Kai may be acting so high and mighty, but he has a right, you know. Normal pilots wouldn't be able to withstand Rave Mode."
"And if there's something more powerful than the Rave Mode...it's -Nirvana Cross-. By the time you're in Rave Mode and STILL your -Chi Regulator's- pushed to even WAY past maximum of the maximum, all hell will break loose. LITERALLY. The Sigil would go berserk, its' attacks and skills and what-nots going so atrociously high, way higher than heaven itself, and NOBODY, I say NOBODY, would even be ABLE to stop it. Armageddon coming way too early for this world. That person I'm talking about...the ONLY person who was able to pull off -Nirvana Cross- and coming out of it still alive...is none other than Asato Tsuzuki." Takao nodded. "He nearly ripped entire Japan to pieces in the process, but if he didn't go berserk...well, I shudder to think what would happen and Team Axis took over Japan, then the entire world."
"..." Lei was quiet for a while, blinked, then looked over at Kenichiro. "And..."
"That's when the idea for Team Hoshi was born." Max answered for him, nodding, his eyes sad. "Mom was there when it happened. It really looked like the end of the world. Asato was 15 then, and...everything just happened so fast. The last thing Mom knew was the entire Team Axis raiding the Imperial Capital, the next thing she KNEW, the entire capital was in smoldering shambles. Asato became berserk...she said...it had become too much for him, that was why...he summoned all -Shikigami-..."
"-Shikigami-...?"
"Asato's a -Summoner-. He could summon the gods to help him in doing his duties as part of the then famous Imperial Capital Defense Corps...alongside with my mom, Takao's dad, Kai's dad, and..."
"...my father." Lei became quiet again.
"Asato-senpai barely escaped with his own life," Kenichiro said quietly. "The Imperial High Command ordered him put to death for almost causing the annihilation of the entire Japanese race...but, Daitenji-kacho stepped right in and told the High Command that he would take full responsibility for Asato-senpai. Asato-senpai's bedridden and hospitalized ever since. The Imperial High Command scorned at the idea of having that kind of Imperial Capital defender again, multiply it by having agencies in America and France at the same time...you get the idea. Setting freaks loose to fight other freaks. It's a country's worst nightmare. Asato-senpai by far is the most powerful -Summoner- in the entire imperial domains of Japan."
"..."
Takao blinked, then slapped Lei good-naturedly on his back. "Hey, why don't we take your Sigil for a test drive?"
"Test drive..." Kenichiro became SD, all-out panicky. "Takao-SENPAI~~~!!! We're forbidden to DO test drives, Daitenji-kacho would have our HEADS~~~"
"I like my head fine where it is. Besides, who says we're going outside? I was meaning the War Room." Takao grinned. "How about it, Lei?"
Kenichiro went into the circuitry room to flip some switches and to direct some of the main mother steam-powered computer power over to the War Room, where the simulations were done, and research data was gathered and filed. He then sat on one of the chairs facing one of the huge black monitors, typing away as fast as his fingers could allow; they were a blur as he tried inputting some of the battle and simulation data onto the computer in the next room.
***Temperatures should not exceed maximum steam pressure point,*** Kenichiro told himself silently as lines and lines of encrypted data went zooming down the huge monitor in front of him. ***Got to check the temperature gauge all the time, not unless you want all the data in here fried.***
He looks over his shoulder, seeing Max and Takao goof around in the War Room, putting miniature models of mountains and rivers on top of the Strat Table, including the horrid pink flamingos Max had managed to salvage from Daitenji-kacho's trash bin the other day, and he's been putting them in the simulation battles ever since. Lei was just sweatdropping on one side, a helpless look on his face.
"..." Kenichiro's deep green eyes became expressive. ***Yes, they look like they're goofing around, but they're real whizzes on the battlefield. They're so strong. I do wish I'm a help to them, not a hindrance...***
***Oh thank you! THANK YOU! I am very honored...very grateful...***
***Oh do please stand UP, Ayame, you really don't need to do THAT,*** Tsutsuji Kinogu was saying, her startling silver eyes kind as she knelt down in front of the sobbing young girl. Ayame Hasami looked up at her savior with tears in her deep green eyes, gratitude written all over her face.
Tiny Takao was blinking at the tiny boy Ayame held in her arms, who was blinking back at him, too. ***Oh! Aunt Ayame...he's so tiny...***
***Please see to it that the spare room is tidied up for the Lady Ayame,*** Mrs. Kinogu was saying. ***She would be staying here as my honored guest and as my SISTER. I hope that this is all clear for you to understand.***
And that was how Kenichiro grew up along with Takao. Takao's grandmother, Mrs. Kinogu's mother-in-law, disliked Ayame from the beginning, with her hoyden ways and Western traits, that were severely frowned upon by the old woman, straight ancient samurai stock she was.
***If she still has honor left in her, she should have considered herself totally fallen from grace and honor their ancestors by committing seppuku,*** she was telling Mrs. Kinogu one time. ***As you would also have DONE, as a proper lady of samurai rank would.***
***Father has raised us in the ways of the West, honorable mother-in-law, so it is hard for her to bend to the samurai way,*** Mrs. Kinogu told her patiently with a small sigh. ***I am sorry for causing this disturbance to your inner harmony, but then again, my aunts do not consider her as kin anymore, for they also disapproved my father's Western ideals in bringing us up, his children. To them, she's just a commoner who was just mistakenly born samurai.***
***Falling in love with that simple-headed fool!*** Lady Akiko Kinogu fumed. ***Your aunts were very patient with her, going as far as securing her for marriage with a young man of considerable wealth and rank, yet she throws that chance away like a piece of rotted fish, and chose to live with...with that SCOUNDREL~~~!!! Then what did he do?! Left her for a whore! Leaving her heavy with that CHILD~~~!!!*** She shuddered. ***I don't want HIM to associate with Takao~~~as long as I am Lady of this HOUSE~~~!!!***
But Lady Akiko was alone in her efforts to keep Ayame's spirits downtrodden as possible. Mr. Kinogu and Takao's grandfather, Lord Hayao Kinogu, however, accepted her and treated her kindly.
Ayame died of tuberculosis that one cold winter's night when Kenichiro was 6. He felt so very alone then. But Takao was always there, looking out for him, protecting him from his grandmother's henchmen, who was so determined to squash the "devil's child" (as she calls Kenichiro) out of the household and out of sight. When Mr. Kinogu disappeared, Mrs. Kinogu and Lord Hayao were inconsolable, and left the 2 cousins pretty much alone on their devices against his grandmother. He was always so grateful that Takao was there, and when he grew up, he looked up to him like an older brother he never had, who accepted him for who he was. He was always anxious if he ever was any use to him, because he wasn't that strong as Takao was.
He wanted to please him as much as he could, that was why he decided to become a Sigil Tech and followed him here to the Kagekidan to be useful to him, and to everybody else.
Max was waving at him from the War Room. "Hey, Kenichiro! The pink flamingos are READY~~~!!! Let Lei off at 'em~~~!!!"
"..."
"Kenichiro!"
"O-oh~~~!!!" Kenichiro noded. "Yes, Max-senpai, right away!"
Lei was blinking. "What am I to do with the pink flamingos, anyway?"
"Burn THEM~~~!!!" SD Takao was laughing like a madman. "Strap yourself to that contraption over there, and we're ready to roll! Burning flamingos cost 200 points each, and if you get to burn them all in less than a minute, you'll be rewarded with Max's sugar high!"
"Is...that good or bad?" Lei ventured.
"Very, VERY good." Max had a goofy grin on his face as he strapped him onto the simulation device. "OK, Kenichiro, let him have it~~~!!!"
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AUTHOR'S NOTES: This is turning into quite an RPG. Wonder how Lei would fare in Max's sugar high? ***GRIN*** You don't have to wait TOO long for that CHAPPIE~~~!!! ^o^