An honest view about Baka and Test

by Ghost Dog16

This has been going on for too long. May double standards be destroyed, cause I'm pickin' this apart.

3. Outsider Moves

"Better know your friends or else you will get burned."

-Mary J Blige

Akihisa's apartment

Akihisa sitting on his bed looking at the video of Yuuko and Minami getting what they got by the dread lock man.

"Oh, how did she not get her head crushed from that!?" Akihisa said as he leans back just her head was driven down to the pavement.

"Hey Akihisa." Akira says walking into the room and sitting next to him. "What are watching?"

"Oh!" He rolls away from her off the bed, standing on his feet. "This is the guy who not only started calling us out, he also messed up these two girls for something they where doing." And then hands her the phone.

Akira then looks at his phone to see Ghost run towards Yuuko climbing and balancing on her shoulder, then kick her face which makes her look on wide eyed, as he shifts his body to stomp her face that knocks her over, then stomps her stomach and crashes down on it, while he handsprings backwards to his feet.

"Oh my god." Akira says shocked. "Did he just…"

"Keep watching." Akihisa tells her as she looks on to see Ghost finishing Yuuko off.

"And you just knocked the fuck out, BITCH!" He snaps in the video, catching Akira off guard. (Okay, this guy doesn't play around.)Akira thought.

"And he goes after Minami." Akihisa says snapping out of her thoughts, Akira then looks at her brother with a petrified look on her face. "What?"

"Who is that girl that got knocked out?" She asks

"Oh, that's Yuuko, who went after him."

"And what did he do?"

"He just defended himself."

Akira sighs as she presses play on his phone. "Alright, what did this girl Minami do to deserve that?"

"She was treating me badly." She then looked at Akihisa with a surprised look on her face.

"I don't believe you," He takes the phone from her, walking to the window in frustration. "she's not your girlfriend or anything."

"That's all you can say?" He turns around to face her. "That's all you can say?!"

"Whoa Whoa Akihisa-"

"Don't give me that," He cuts her off. "somewhere in my head is telling me that my own sister doesn't understand what I'm going through with these two girls day by day."

"Excuse me?" Akira gets up from the bed. "You could've told me something."

"Oh so wanna get mad at me? Well hear me out." Akihisa pleads.

"I'm listening" Akira crossing her arms across her chest.

"This guy called you out, I would've said something, but you don't believe me. So if he said go back to the university you enrolled to? You're gonna have to deal with him."

"He said that?" Akira walks up to him while Akihisa nods. "What else he said?"

"He also said that you're an incest lover." Akira is taken aback.

"Oh okay, I guess me and him are gonna have a talk then."

"So you're gonna get mad at him and not the problem at hand?" Akihisa asks her.

"Well… Um." Akira uncrosses her arms and rubs the back of head with uncertainty.

"Then good luck dealing with him, that's I can say."

"Akihisa..."

"And since you don't believe me, don't talk to me or be anywhere near me until you get to bottom of this." Akira lowers her head in shame and walks away to stop at his door and turns around seeing her brother getting ready for bed.

"Just go Akira." He motions her out the door which she opens and closes the door behind her.

(Alright you dreadlock bastard, I'll be seeing you soon.) Akira thought as she walks back to her room and gets ready for bed.

Kinoshita's house

"Why didn't you help me?!" Yuuko snaps at Hideyoshi, not before clutching her torso as she sits on the couch.

"You had it coming," He snaps back. "I'll go get the ice." And he walks out to the kitchen to look for some.

(How does that guy fight like that?) Yuuko thought. (Still doesn't change the fact I can beat him in the academy.)

"Here." He comes back to her with a bag of ice as she takes it and puts it on her face, Hideyoshi sits on a single seated couch away from her.

"You could've taken the hint when you got kicked in your face," Hideyoshi starts. "and you was fighting for your classmate."

"But we can take him on in there instead."

"But what are you going to do when he says no?"

"T-then Shouko will tell him."

"And she'll make it worse when he says it." Hideyoshi puts hand on his face and sighs. "You've should've seen what she was doing to Yuuji."

"Well it doesn't change anything now does it?"

He sighs in defeat and gets up from the couch. "Yuuko, just stop. You already embarrassed yourself, now I'm actually telling you to ask Yuuji about your classmate."

"Excuse me?" Yuuko gets up and start walking towards him and before she able to get in his face, Hideyoshi puts his finger out poking her making her stop in her tracks.

"If you're thinking about hurting me again, I'll tell Akihisa. And now that he knows, you won't hear the end of it. So not only you're gonna be dealing with Ghost, you're dealing with Akihisa too." Hideyoshi then walks away from her going back to his room.

Yuuko goes to the bathroom looking in the mirror seeing the bruises on her face and the blood coming from her nose dried up.

"A bath wouldn't hurt." She said turning on the water.

Hideyoshi in his room hearing the water being on as he switches to his sleepwear, takes his phone and makes a phone call to Akihisa. While he waits for him to pick up, he sits on the side of his bed.

"Hello?" Akihisa said

"Hey Akihisa."

"Does this mean he'll be going to our school?"

"We're not sure, but if he does? Trouble is on the horizon."

"But it's here already, and let's hope Miharu can listen."

"You might as well tell her about Minami then."

"I guess, we'll meet up at the park alright?"

"Okay. See you there."

"Later."

"Hey wait!"

"What is it?"

"What did your sister say?"

"She said that she doesn't believe me, about what was going on between me, her and Mizuki."

Hideyoshi sighs shaking his head.

"But, I was able to convince her to show up on first day back from spring break."

"So Ghost and your sister is coming? I hope nothing bad is going on between them."

"Well she wants to "talk" to him, but I know it's not going to be pretty."

"Now she's throwing herself into the lion's den you know that?"

"We'll see on Monday. And see you at the park tomorrow alright?"

"Okay. Bye." Hideyoshi and Akihisa end the phone conversation, while Yuuko appears with her towel wrapped around her body and the clothes in her hands.

"Yuuko!" He falls backwards into the bed. "What the hell!"

"I just want to know where Akihisa is going." She asks

"To the park." He responds. "And why do you have to show up in my toom, after you just got done taking a bath?"

"Geez Hideyoshi, I just came in here for an answer to where he's going to be at that's all!"

Yuuko walks out of his room, but not before going to her room, she pokes her head out.

"Hideyoshi?"

"Yes Aneue?" Hideyoshi looks over to see her poking her head out in the doorway.

"Sorry." She then walks back to her room. Wait she apologized?

"Well," He gets in the bed, head on the pillow."lets hope this conflict doesn't get worse." And drifts off to sleep

Meanwile, Yuuko removes her towel to dry off and puts her sleepwear on, then she too gets in the bed calls it a day.

(I can't believe I apologized… Before Ghost.) Yuuko thought, sighing. (Shouko, if this is true of what you've done to Yuuji. You're dead to me.) Her eyelids start to get heavy and falls to sleep.

Ghost's house-basement

Cold water is spilled on Shouko.

"Wake up." Ghost says, after throwing a bucket of cold water at a knocked out Shouko.

She comes to her senses and starts look around; A wide open room finished with the red carpet on the floor, three buckets and a bag next to them, a M1911 and a sledgehammer and the lights well lit. She tries to move but she's tied down on the armchair. She licks her lips to find out she's tasting blood: Her own blood.

"Where... am I?" Shouko asks.

"Do I need to explain?" He walks over to the buckets putting one down beside them and picks up the sledgehammer on one hand and the gun on the other, then walks back to her pointing the hammer at her face. "This is the basement."

Shouko's eyes widen in shock as she looks around.

(This doesn't look like a basement.)She thought. "Look here Ghost."

"What?" As he raises the hammer away from her face and holds it over his shoulder.

"Whatever it is you're doing," she starts, staring at Ghost. "you will not separate me and Yuuji. Do you know what your problem is?"

"Listenin'."

"You're jealous."

Ghost trying his best not laugh, catching her attention.

"What are you laughing about? It's true."

He walks a few feet away putting the gun down, walks back to Shouko lining the heavy iron up on her hand, bringing it up and driving it down on it.

"AAAAAAHHHHH!" Shouko screams out in pain has this happens, moving in a forceful trance. This is definitely her first time taking damage and she's not taking it well.

She then shoots an angry glare at him.

"You son of a bitch!" She spats out only for Ghost to drive his two fingers into her eyes for a few seconds and rakes them causing her to scream again.

"Does this look like jealousy to you little girl?!" He sets heavy iron down, and starts. "That dopamine really got you, Minami and Mizuki fucked up didn't it?"

"What are talking about?" She asks shutting her eyes.

"I'm sendin' you a message," He leans forward just a little bit. "cut this abuse shit out."

"Or what?" She responds in a cocky tone. "You want me to stop? Try beating me at Fumizuki Academy."

(Yuuko done goofed.) Ghost thought as he rolls his eyes "A summoning battle? Really?"

Shouko slowly nods.

"And does it hurt when you use these… summons in those types?"

"If you're trying to say that our summons are avatars? Yes. But you won't feel any sort of pain while using them."

(She's gotta be lying.) Ghost thought as he picks the sledgehammer and lining it up on the other hand, and smashes it as well, causing her to scream in pain.

"That's for the "or what" question." He rests the heavy iron over his shoulder again. "I'll ask the others who go to your school. If I find out you're lying, I'll end you on Friday… inside your school, and that summon shit will not save you from getting killed in that academy."

Shouko looks at him surprised. How dare he threaten her.

"Well, you wanted to play hardball. That's what happens when you three abusin' musketeers treat your love interests like shit."

"Screw you!" She snaps at him. "He's my pet, maybe you shou- GAH!" She gets cuts off as she takes the heavy iron to the stomach.

Now shes coughing blood.

"You want to say that again?" He says in a menacing tone. "The M1911, a firearm. Is in front of you, ready to be used." He said, pointing at it. "And this," he puts the hammer underneath her chin, lifting it carefully. "will crush your head. But today, I'm not going for the head." He then lines up the hammer on her knee, lifts it up and brings it down on said knee. "I'll do it later."

Shouko's on the verge of breaking out in tears.

"Wow, look at this." Ghost mutters under his breath. "You three girls can cry, run and hide from reality all you want, but check this out."

He puts the sledgehammer down, goes for the bag next to the buckets and puts it over her head.

"When I find strings, I'm gonna pull them." He back side kicks her in the chest with enough force to knock the chair back over with her falling back with Shouko's head bouncing off the floor.

Ghost gets one bucket of water and slowly dumps it on her face. Shouko trying to gasp for air but taking in the water underneath the bag.

"Twenty four seven," Putting the empty bucket down, he gets another bucket. "the days and hours used to hurt Yuuji." Dumps the bucket full of water on her, she starts coughing profusely and he drops it on her head.

Now he gets the third bucket and stands over Shouko.

"Remember those numbers." Dumps the last bucket of water on her face, this time it holds more of it than the last two. Gargling noises coming from her felt like she was drowning. As the last bucket gets empty, he throws it down on her head.

Now Ghost brings her and the chair up and takes the bag off her head. Shouko gasping and coughing finally breaks down crying.

"Your tears don't deceive me little girl." He walks over to the gun and picks it up walking back, standing in front of her. "And I want a response on Sunday. Oh, I almost forgot." He pulls out Shouko's stun gun and waves it in front of her face

"Give it back." Shouko weakly says.

"Nope," Ghost pulls it away from her and puts it back in his pocket. "don't trust you."

"Do you… know who you're messing with here?" She glares at him.

"Well, now that's out of the way. You're gonna have to stay the hell away from Yuuji and stay the hell away from me. If I catch you with that same energy towards him, it's your last day on earth. Any slick shit on Sunday at the park, well…" He walks behind her. "you should know what it feels like to be completely destroyed." He hits her in the head with the gun, knocking her out unconscious.

Ghost teleports to his room to find the pocketknife on his computer desk and teleports back to the unconscious Shouko. With the blade, he hacks at duct tape that he put on her forearms and legs, being quick without poking her. Finally, as he's done, he picks her up from the chair.

(Now to find out where she lives, so I can clean this up.) Ghost thought, as he teleports with Shouko in tow.

Shimizu's residence

We go into Miharu's room where her suitcase is on the bed. She got most of the clothes in there and other stuff in there then zips it up.

"Hey Miharu," She doesn't turn around as her father is standing at the doorway. "you're gonna take a bath?"

"Not with you." She mutters under her breath.

"Come on." He walks up to her and tries to take off her shirt until…

"Don't touch me!" She spins around and pushes him away but her shirt comes off revealing her white bra.

She ends up kicking and punching him as he falls over, he covers up holding her shirt.

"Gimme my shirt back," She stomps on his stomach and takes her shirt away from him. "you pig!" Without getting any time to put her shirt back on, she takes her suitcase runs out of the house.

Shouko's house

(This has to be the one.)The dreadlock foreigner thought, as he finds her place. He walks to the window and throws the still unconscious Shouko through it.

"And that's that." Ghost says cleaning his hands then teleports back home.

Seven minutes later Shouko wakes up to see that she's back home. She tries to get up but falls back down on the glass shards from the window, flinching and holding her knee.

(Yuuji,) Shouko thought as she gets up and limps away from the shards. (you damn coward.)

Limping her way upstairs, she finally makes it to her bedroom, not caring about changing clothes, she goes straight to bed.

Ghost's house

"Alright," Ghost starts as he puts in the code in the keypad to close the entrance to the basement. "now that the cleaning is done, I'll take a cold shower and call it a day."

He hears a frantic knock on the door.

"Oh god." He mutters. Walking to the door, he opens it to see a familiar face, with a suitcase. Out of breath and in her bra with her shirt in hand.

"The hell you're doin' out here?" He asks. "And why you don't have a shirt on?"

"Can we talk inside?" Miharu looking back nervously and back at him. "Please?"

"You pull off any psycho hogwash in here and it's curtains for you, you hear me?

She nods her head goes inside while Ghost closes the door and locks it, Miharu looks around before sitting on the couch. A spacious living room with a flat screen TV with a game console on the shelf underneath it.

(He's got a nice place here.)Miharu thought as she looks around until she sees a small square on the wall. (And what's that on the wall?)

Ghost sits away from her and puts the cane beside the couch.

"What do you want to talk about, hmm?" He starts. "Care to tell me why you ran a marathon, with your shirt off?"

"My father." She throws her shirt on the couch. "That pig!"

He looks at her stunned. "What did he do?"

"Well, when I decide to take a bath, here he comes trying to take one with me. And that's how you see this." She looks away blushing.

Ghost slouches back, facepalming before looking at her. "I understand if it's between lovers but father and daughter? What the hell?! I don't wanna know how long this has been going on for."

"And that's not all. You obviously know how I'm like this?"

"Why?"

"Because my father attacks people whenever they get close to me, which is why I'm like that with Minami."

"Why didn't you tell anyone?" He asks while he takes off his shoes.

"I don't know what he'll do!" She snaps before bursting out in tears. "I don't know."

Ghost gets up and heads upstairs to his room to get the tissue box, comes back to the living room and puts it on the small table. She takes a tissue and wipes the tears from her eyes, while Ghost stands in front of the table.

"Mind if I switch gears?" He asks.

"What you want to tell me?"

He starts pacing back and forth for a few seconds and stops.

"If you can't do anything to fix your nasty problem earlier, then why the hell would you keep going for a bitch in Minami that doesn't like you? Thinking that she's going to fix you?"

"What?" Miharu stands up walking towards him and stands right in front of him. "I actually stood up to that pig this time, and don't tell me your interested in Onee-sama."

"I would rather run Minami ass over in a CCXR before I get to be with her fraud dumbass." Miharu looks at him wide eyed and her mouth agape.

"A what?!" Trying to hold back her laughter and gets serious. "You better watch your mouth pig."

"Oh really?" He crosses his arms across his chest. "That girl is making you look stupid, even though she's an abusive dumbass that treats Aki like crap."

Miharu loosens up and walks back to get the water bottle to take another sip and sits down.

"Once again, how did you now?"

"How about this." He takes her shirt and puts it on her lap as he sits next to her. "Can you ask Akihisa? There's nothing wrong in telling somebody, hell at least try to do something good for once."

"What happens if I don't tell him?" She asks.

He gets up and takes her suitcase. "Then you better find another place to stay. Why didn't you just go to Aki's place?"

"You mentioned his sister being a incest lover," She shivers. "I don't want to live under the same roof as her, reminds me too much of that pig."

"Yuuji's?"

"He'll say no."

"The Kinoshita's?"

"I don't know." Shaking her head.

"Then that's where you're going if you wanna waste time white knightin' for Minami and not tell Akihisa."

(Shoot.) She mentally curses to herself.

"Now let me take this suitcase to your room so I can take a cold shower." Ghost heads upstairs while Miharu takes her shirt and water bottle with her to follow him.

"A cold shower?" She giggles. "Really?

"Well, when that rich girl Shouko says that she treats Yuuji like her pet and beats on him, I better find a way calm down at least."

"She was hurting him too? Everybody thought that they were perfect together."

"And they're wrong for that." He stops and opens the door to a bedroom that has a double sized bed, a shelf of books and a TV. "Here's your room… for now." walking in to put her suitcase on the bed.

Miharu sighs in relief. "At least I can take my baths in peace." As she walks into the bathroom.

Ghost walks out to go back get his shoes and cane heading to his room to put the shoes in the closet and puts the cane under the bed and sits in front of the bed, hearing the water in her room.

(Oh no! The sliding door!) He gets up and heads to the sliding door, only to get stopped by Miharu.

"You got any towels and bath rags?"

"Hmm." He goes to open the door in front of her room to find bed covers and sheets at the top and towels and rags at the middle, then he takes gray towel and a white bath rag and gives it to her. While she heads back to her room, Ghost continues to the sliding door downstairs and locks it. He heads to the front door.

Opening it and poking his head out, looking around slowly looking down the street and walks out to the porch look around the corner.

(Gun? Or no gun?) He thought, as he heads back inside. Ghost looks up to see Miharu, leaning on the balcony.

"Is that pig out there?" She asks.

"Nope." He responds. "I'm straight peeved that he pulls the protective card about you and nobody caught him yet."

"He has a coffee shop at the train station."

"What's it's name?" Shooting a question at her.

"La Veditz." Ghost takes a mental note and nods. "I can't blame you for getting upset, you've could've saved the kick below the belt for my father at least.

"Well…" He pauses as he goes back upstairs, stopping to look at her before walking back to his room. "it's better for you than taking bullets. Now go after somebody else with a gun and see what happens."

Miharu sighs. "Never gonna make that mistake again." She walks to the bathroom in her room, turning the knobs to cut the water off. Then she takes off her clothes and gets in the tub. For the first time, she finally takes a bath all by herself.

(I'm really gonna have to think about of this.) She thought, as she washes up.

Meanwhile…

Cold water coming down from the shower head in Ghost's bathroom, he takes his clothes off, takes a deep breath and gets in the shower. Bracing against the cold until he got used to it.

"Ahh, cold water," Standing there, taking it in. "we meet again. Gotta play detective for a time." He sighs, looking up towards the ceiling. "I gotta see this through. Even if there's gonna be bloodshed." Then he washes up.

Back to Miharu, who's walking out of the bathroom in a towel going to her suitcase to get her pajamas and sets them on the bed. She dries off and puts the towel on the rack behind the door then back to the bed and puts them on. Going into her suitcase to get her phone and puts it on the drawer next to the bed.

Getting in the covers she looks up to the ceiling.

(Almost got killed for Onee-sama in self defense to standing up to my father and now living under the roof of somebody who damn near killed me?) She thought as she turns over. (This is the wildest day of my life.) And falls asleep.

Back again to Ghost who got of the shower, going in to his drawers, finding his black underwear and a white tank top and throws them on the bed, drying off and putting them on. Looking in there again, he finds a black pajama shorts and puts them on, heads out to the kitchen into the fridge to get a cold water bottle, heading back up while taking a sip going to his room, puts it on his desk and sits on his bed.

He flicks his fingers until the powder particles shows up around his hand and puts it on his face: Nothing happens.

"I was expecting to be turned into dust," Ghost sighs shaking his head. "this is dangerous stuff I'm workin' with here." He waves his hand around, making them disappear before going to bed.

"This is gonna be a busy Saturday." He says before falling to sleep.

Saturday: Spring break

Morning

Akihisa's apartment

Sunlight piercing through the window of Akihisa's room as he wakes up and gets out of bed. He goes to the bathroom, turning the knobs on, putting his arm in there and when the water is in the right temperature, he takes off his pajamas, steps in the shower taking his time for the warm water hitting his body then he washes up, turns the knobs to shut the water off, steps out of the shower and gets a towel from the rack to dry off. Getting out of the bathroom, he goes to his closet and picks out a gray underwear; a red and white sweater and light blue jeans, removing his towel to put them on.

Heading to the kitchen making breakfast… but it's just toast, while he eats two of them, he sees his sister walking into the kitchen getting a bowl, milk and cereal.

"You're heading out?" Akihisa looks at her while she pours the milk before pouring the cereal in the bowl.

"Yeah." He takes his last bite, goes to the bathroom to wash his hands and brushes his teeth, walking back to his room to put his shoes on and heads out the door. While Akira goes to the TV turning it on and walking back to the kitchen to get a spoon, then sits down at the table with the bowl of cereal.

At the park

Akihisa walking through the area until he sits on the bench. He pulls out his phone to make a phone call to Hideyoshi.

*phone ringing* He starts looking around nervously.

"Hello?" He answers.

"I'm at the park Hideyoshi."

"Oh we see you." He looks around until he sees somebody waving at him.

"You're with Yuuko?"

"Yeah, we're coming to you now." And they ended the phone conversation, as Hideoyoshi shows up wearing a blue sweater and gray pants. And Yuuko wearing a maroon long sleeve v-neck shirt and light gray jeans.

"Hey Hideyoshi." Akihisa waves at him. "Hi Yuuko."

"You better delete that video." She points at him.

"Gotta wait for Miharu."

"Are you sure about this?" Hideyoshi asks.

"I'm sure." Akihisa says, as they sit on the bench. (Hope she doesn't give Ghost a hard time, she needs to know about Minami.) He thought.

Ghost's house

Miharu wakes up to a smell of something being cooked.

"What's he cooking?" She gets out of bed and heads downstairs to the kitchen.

"Mornin' Miharu." Ghost calls out.

"You cook?" She takes a seat on the stool at the counter top.

"Pretty much."

"What are you cooking?"

"Eggs." He moves them around with a fork until he turns the knob to turn off on the stove and gets two plates from the dish rack, puts the eggs on both of them and hands one to Miharu while getting two forks for her and himself.

"Hold on." She gets up from the stool and walks off.

"Hey," she turns and stops. "your eggs."

"I'll come back down after I head to the bathroom." And she walks upstairs to her room

"Okay." He takes his plate and goes to the table to eat them but he'll have to wait for them to cool down.

Meanwhile after Miharu is done using the bathroom, she walks to Ghost's room examining it. Dark gray walls, a closet, a computer on a desk right next to a metal drawer and a television on the wall on her left. She walks over to his computer desk looking on it, to see a curvy handle.

(What's this?) She thought, as she takes it and sees that it's sheathed. "Why does this have curves?"

"That's not the only blade that's like that." She turns around and sees Ghost leaning on the doorway. "And why you're in my room?" And a startled Miharu unsheathes the curvy blade and points it at him.

"What is this?" Showing the blade to him.

"It's a dagger from Finland." He walks closer to her. "And this room is off limits."

"I've never seen a blade like this." She sheathes it back. "So…"

"So what?" He steps back.

"So we're heading out?"

"Yeah and your eggs are gonna get cold."

"Oh!" She walks out but stops at the doorway. "What are you going to do about my father."

"I need to see Akihisa first, then your father."

"They could be at the park." He stares into space for a millisecond and it hit him.

"Shit, those two pricks might be over there!"

"Let's get there then!" Miharu walks off, heading to the kitchen.

"Gotta pick out my clothes first and eat!"

Back at the park

"So Akihisa," Yuuko breaks the silence. "about… all of this, about those two girls and your sister." Akihisa turns to look at her. "Is it true?"

"For my sister, she tries to screw me," Her mouth opens agape in shock and disbelief. "and for those two girls, hurting me? Yeah, it's true." She gets up and starts pacing back and forth.

"What the hell, this is what I get for not knowing what's going on?"

"For Mizuki, her cooking is poison and you already know about Minami."

"Okay, where is that girl?" She shakes her fist in frustration. "How long this has been going on for, with her?"

"Almost every, single, day." Akihisa sits back on bench. "Along with Mizuki."

"Those two are going to have a lot of explaining to do." Hideoyoshi says, looking away.

Meanwhile

A sliver metallic SUV driving down the street, turning the corner. Inside there's Miharu on the passenger side in her light gray hoodie. And Ghost at the drivers seat, wearing a black shirt with a green athletic watch, baggy black stonewashed jeans and blue and white hiking boots.

"You're full of surprises aren't you." Miharu says. "I didn't know you can drive, what car is this anyway?"

"Well this is the Gemballa GT 750 based off the Porsche Cayenne and this SUV has the pace." Ghost stops at a red light.

"I bet you this isn't the only car you have."

"How much?"

"I'm not going to make any bets but I'll make one about Minami."

"Oh I want to hear this." As he goes at the green light.

"If you're wrong about her," She out the dagger and points it at him. "I'll end you."

"And what if it's true?" Still keeping his eyes on the road.

"Then…" She pauses, lowering the weapon. "Screw this." And puts it away, while Miharu looks away. "I got nothing. Damn you and your nerves."

Turning on a green light, they arrive at the park with Ghost pulling over.

"This is the park?" He says putting car in park and he and Miharu look out the window.

"Yeah, I see Akihisa and the twins."

"Alright," Turning the cars engine off taking the keys out of the ignition. "you know what to do, right?"

She nods and they both step out of the car and walk beside each other heading over to Akihisa and the Kinoshita's are at.

At the bench

"So now I know that Minami and Mizuki are a problem, and I'm lumped in with them." Yuuko contemplates and sighs. "Now I got to find out about Yuuji."

"What is Miharu doing here with Ghost?" Hideoyoshi looking in the distance, seeing the two heading their way, with Akihisa standing up looking.

"How?" They look on in shock as they get closer.

"Was that his car he came out in?" He thinks out loud.

"Now I have so many questions." Yuuko adds, crossing her arms across her chest.

Ghost and Miharu stops in front of them with the dreadlock foreigner waving at them in a friendly manner.

"Akihisa?" She starts.

"Yeah?" Akihisa responds.

"Is it true that Minami has been hurting you?"

"Almost every day, yes."

Miharu slowly walks and sits down on the bench in disbelief.

"Oh my goodness," She starts. "so you Ghost wasn't lying."

"Well now you know." Ghost said.

"Akihisa, I am so sorry you had deal with her and me attacking you." Miharu starts looking down, almost on the verge of tears. "This is what I get for lying to myself and everyone?" She pulls out the dagger and looks at it.

"Miharu?" Yuuko walks up to her. "Where you did you get that weird knife?"

She looks up at Yuuko. "From Ghost, I found it in his room."

"And it's a dagger Yuuko." Ghost chimes in. "And Miharu, if you're going to hurt yourself with that, don't do it. It's not the end of the road for you. Akihisa bailed you out and gave you a second chance, hell I'm giving you a second chance. All you got to do is to not blow it."

"I'm not that stupid Ghost." Miharu deadpans. "I know, I'm a mess, but here's a question about Mizuki."

"She does the same thing as Minami and her cooking is nothing but poison." Akihisa answers quickly.

"How you're still here despite all of that is a miracle." Ghost says, while Miharu sits back perplexed. "Any thing else about her?"

"She'll make you feel guilty and I know she posts embarrassing photos on the internet."

"Well, I'm aware about her crap and now we gotta make sure that we're the ones that embarrass her this time.

Akihisa pulls out his phone, Yuuko looks and watches him as he deletes the video and slaps him on the forehead.

"That was for the punch." She said.

"What are trying to say Yuuko?" Ghost shoot a glare at her.

"You got me, when you know that I hurt my brother, don't you understand that I still care about him?"

"Then try to at least care for him instead of showing jealousy." That takes Yuuko off guard.

"But… now I don't get you. Why are you straight forward?"

"You're assumin' the worst out of me?"

"Well you shot Shouko. Oh and speaking of that shooting."

"If you don't mind us asking." Hideyoshi speaks catching Ghost's attention. "Did you rape Shouko?"

They look at him eagerly waiting for an answer.

"Hell no, waterboarding, sledgehammer and thrown through the window of her house." A sigh of relief can be heard from the three. "And I got some details off her without doing that." He said shooting another glare at Yuuko.

"Dammit." Yuuko curses to herself. "But throw Shouko through a window? What if her parents find out?."

"Details?" Akihisa asks him. "I didn't know she can talk under pressure that easily."

"Yeah." Ghost sits between Hideyoshi and Miharu. "But before I tell you, are you and Yuuko even?"

Akihisa and Yuuko look at each other then look back at him.

"Even." They said in unison.

"Alright, that's one small thing between you two out of way."

"Guys," Hideyoshi calls out. "Yuuji's here."

Yuuji shows up in black shirt with a dragon design with navy blue jeans and gray shoes, running towards them.

"Guys!" He stops in front them. "Minami and Mizuki are right around the corner and I think they almost saw me!"

(I knew this day was gonna be busy.) Ghost thought. "The details will have to wait."

"Yuuji." Yuuko starts. "About my classmate Shouko, was she hurting you?" Miharu puts away the dagger, gets up and stands next to her, waiting for Yuuji's answer.

"Yes, it's true, all of it." Yuuko puts her hands on her head in shock, pacing back and forth.

"And she's my class representative? What the hell?!"

Ghost shakes head and sits back looks away, only to see Minami and Mizuki heading their way.

"Here they come." Ghost deadpans. As everybody looks.

And here they are, Minami and Mizuki showing up in a real bad mood about what happen yesterday.

"Well, well, well." Minami starts, getting in Akihisa's space. "If it isn't the idiot that didn't help us."

"And here you are," Mizuki in a stern tone to Ghost. "out here with someone that you call stuck up."

"And if it isn't the bad cook that's trying to say she's perfect, when in real time she's a garbage follower." Ghost said with a snarky retort.

"My cooking is not bad!" She snaps, getting in his face.

"Get outta my face hoe!" Ghost snaps back at her. That type of language shocks Mizuki causing her to step back while the tomboy focus her attention on the dreadlock foreigner, walks over to him and grabs his shirt.

"Who the hell are you talking to like that?" Getting in his face.

"You ain't bright, aren't you Shitmada?" He pokes her the eyes and punches her in the ribs at the same time making her fall to the ground, covering her eyes and ribs, while he gets up from the bench.

"Akihisa," Mizuki getting his attention. "do something about him."

"Do something?" Akihisa asks her. "All the times you put poison in your food? All the times you two have been torturing me? Nope."

Mizuki and Minami look at him with shocked expressions on there faces.

"So Akihisa?" Minami gets up from the ground. "It's justified, but you and your bad choices is just gonna make things worse between you and me."

"Oh really Minami?" Miharu steps up. "This is what we're doing now?"

"This is none of your business." Minami said. "That idiot of a foreigner should've killed you."

Miharu is a little shocked then Ghost gets up and steps in.

"Well calling you an idiot is an insult to the word itself." He snarks. Which Miharu snickers.

"You wanna go punk? Because that fight yesterday was a fluke, and I'm gonna make sure you're on the ground!"

"I'll help you Minami," Mizuki standing beside her. "we'll show him that love can conquer anything, including this foreigner who doesn't know what it is." She says with malice.

"As if you're the one to talk." Miharu deadpans at Mizuki while walking slowly towards Minami. "I know I treated you bad, but you treating Akihisa badly? Oh no, I have something to say about that."

"What is it?" Minami shooting an angry glare at her.

"Remember the time where I bailed you out from the bullies?"

"Yeah? And?"

"You didn't stand up to them and didn't pay me back and I'm telling you not to. Back there, you were nothing, currently you are nothing, you will continue to be nothing. Hell you can still keep fighting and you'll still be a nothing." Minami felt dead inside already.

(How did this girl come with a speech like this?) Minami thought to herself.

"Are you on Akihisa's side you man hater?" Mizuki said close to losing it.

Miharu scoffs at her. "You're so funny."

She gets slapped by Mizuki. With Yuuko having enough, she decides to step in only to be stopped by Ghost.

"You see what she's doing to her?!" She asks. As he leans into her ear.

"The dagger, watch out."

"What do you mean the dagger?" Yuuji asks Ghost.

"You'll see."

Miharu still standing then takes a closed fist from Mizuki. She shoots a dark glare straight at Himiji.

"I don't see anything funny in calling Minami a nothing you BITCH!" Mizuki with malice throws a punch only for Miharu out of nowhere slip past the punch, take out the dagger to stab Mizuki in the thigh.

She screams out in pain and falls over, as everyone except Ghost a step back.

"That's what you was talking about?!" Yuuko asks him in shock.

"Yep." Ghost responds casually.

"And the fact that she moved in a flash," The perplexed Yuuji chimes in with his hand on his head. "this gonna be worse for Mizuki." While Akihisa shakes his head in bewilderment.

"I know who's a bitch," She twists the dagger that's in her thigh, aggravating it, making Mizuki yelp out in pain but Miharu covers her mouth and gets in her face. "I'm actually looking at one."

She take the weapon out her thigh and points it at her eye.

"And to answer your question, yes I'm on his side. If you have a problem with that, then I'll make sure that I'm the last girl you'll see cutting your face up!" Miharu says in a cold but low tone. "I might as well cut your hair and make you eat it." She moves her hand from her mouth and slaps her in the face. "Pathetic bitch."

She slowly gets up and makes her away to Minami who's frozen in fear, pointing the bloody dagger at her.

Only for her to wipe the blood off the blade and onto Minami's face snapping her out of it, while some of the blood went on her shirt.

"I'm not gonna hurt a nobody like you, but if you wanna fight Ghost?" She inches closer to her. "I would tell you good luck but you don't need it," She uses Minami's shirt to wipe the remaining blood off. "because you're gonna be a firefighter and fight these flames," She stops and checks the blade to see it is clean then looks at Minami with the coldest stare that she can give. "but you're gonna burn in the process."

Miharu giggles before taking a deep breath. "Have a nice time dealing with him, Shimada." And walks away from her and puts the dagger away. Stopping beside Ghost who's looking at her. While Minami wipes the blood off her face and checks on Mizuki.

"Wow." Hideyoshi whispers in shock.

"Are you okay?" Ghost asks Miharu with worry.

"This can sting for a second but I'm fine."

"Me and Ghost was gonna help you until he told me you had that thing." Yuuko chimes in.

"Oh I found it in his room, in his house."

"You went to his house?!" Yuuji asks Miharu in shock.

"I had to get away from my father. You on the other hand would have to deal with Shouko if she saw me.

"True."

"And we're going to see him." Ghost says confidently. "But first, I need settle this spat that the cardboard bitch started."

"I heard that!" Minami yells at him.

"Oh? You was awfully quiet during that speech from Miharu. Somethin' wrong?"

"Screw you!" Mizuki yells out. "We could've had something going on between us," Mizuki slowly gets up. "and you had to be an idiot and allow that man hater in your house and she should've killed you in your sleep!"

"I know what you're doin' Mizuki you guilt trippin' bitch and it's not workin' this time." Mizuki couldn't believe what he saying, her guilt tripping tactics that worked on Akihisa, is not working on Ghost.

"Don't tell me that idiot told you." Minami cracking her knuckles.

"He did." Ghost gets in his fighting stance.

"And you're gonna have to go through us!" Yuuko stands besides Ghost.

"You're ready for this girl?" Ghost asks Yuuko.

"Of course!"

"Akihisa," As he turns to him. "no hard feelings when Mizuki gets laid out okay?"

"Okay." Akihisa says as he nods.

"I never thought I would see this day," Minami starts. "A joke of a foreigner fighting along side someone who is a stuck up bitch." She finishes in a smug tone.

"Oh you don't know me, and you cockroaches don't need to know me."

"WHAT DID YOU CALL US?!" Minami says in a rage. Mizuki charges towards him only to get clotheslined by Yuuko.

(Song playing- 2pac- Holla if ya hear me)

"Now I'm really gonna make you regret saying those words!" Minami also charges him going a dropkick only for him to casually side step it and she falls on her affected side, causing her to clutch it.

Ghost grabs her arm, stomps her face and goes for the armbar.

With Minami struggling to get out of the it, and wasted no time in snapping her arm as she screams in pain. Let's her arm go and kicks her in the other side of her torso, flipping her on her stomach. Ghost walks over hugs her waist, lifts her up and German suplexes her, still holding on to her, he does it again then one more time, making her stunned as she's still conscious.

Mizuki with bruises on her face and arm sore from Yuuko, sees that Minami is down and out decides to go after Ghost, running up on him throwing a punch with him countering by parrying her attack and she ends up taking a shot right at her liver, while Yuuko puts her in a sleeper hold.

Minami slowly recovers and charges him, in which he sees her running, he runs at her, jumps up and striking her with his knee. The impact of the knee landed on her forehead and leaving behind a dent.

While she falls backwards and covering her self up, she ends up taking three stomps to the torso.

Yuuko tosses Mizuki to the bench and blasts her with her knee to the face, almost taking her head off and sending both of them up and over the bench.

"C'mon c'mon. Come on!" Ghost yells at Minami. As he picks her up, he lands a front kick square in her face. Reeling backwards, Akihisa grabs her.

"Nobody's got your back." He opens Minami up with three quick but hard strikes then goes for her body, stunning her Ghost goes for a spinning roundhouse kick her head while Akihisa lets her go and sweeps her, making her take both of them at the same time and landing on her face in an unnatural way.

Ghost unties the ribbon in Minami's hair then grabs her by the hair and drags her to the tree, while Mizuki takes a hurricanrana falling on her head by Yuuko. He lifts up Minami throws her face first into the tree and scrubs her face along the bark, leaving behind a little blood then positions her away from the tree kicks her in the back, sending her flying over to her side. Ghost charges and kicks her in the stomach then stomps on Minami while she's rolling over, six times before his final stomp goes for her head, rendering her unconscious.

Mizuki gets up and makes a last ditch attempt running at Ghost who's paying attention trying to grab him, throws a spinning back kick to her stomach, knocking her back into Yuuko's sleeper hold again. Swinging and flailing around, she tries to kick him but it's blocked and he comes back with a double fist strike at the solar plexus while Yuuko tightens the hold, now struggling to get out of it, she lets go and Mizuki falls to the ground.

"Are you finished?!" Yuuko yells at her and Ghost comes out of nowhere, and jump stomps Mizuki and bounces off her like a trampoline, doing a backflip in the air and sticking the landing. "How do you do that?"

"If they ain't gonna stop, make em' stop by force."

"You didn't answer my question!"

"Pay attention." He points at Mizuki who's getting up, going to punch Yuuko in the face which she blocks just in time and Ghost walks up to Akihisa's childhood friend and puts her in a guillotine choke standing up. Mizuki struggling to get out of another submission move finds out he's got it locked in very tight and before she can try to loosen his grip and break free, he cranks it further making her go limp and tosses her unconscious body to the ground.

Ghost and Yuuko looks at Minami and Mizuki unconscious then they look at each other, then back at them, shaking their heads in disgust.

(Song ends)

"That was brutal," Akihisa said. "but a long time coming."

"Yuuko, are you okay?" Ghost asks her.

"Yeah," She pauses to walk over to Minami seeing the damage he dished out to her, aside from the cuts on her face, she notices a dent in the forehead. "geez I know you hit hard, but not this hard."

Ghost shrugs as he walks over to Minami ribbon and steps on it, leaving a shoe print before picking it up.

"I don't know if Minami is going like seeing her hair accessory being mangled." Hideyoshi warns him.

"So? Girls like Minami, Mizuki and Shouko don't learn until you do somethin' about them. So this is appropriate." Ghost walks over to the unconscious Minami and puts the ribbon in front of her. He walks over to Mizuki who's passed out and crotches beside her.

"Hey Mizuki, I know you can hear me. How about uppin' the stakes: If I find out that your cooking killed somebody? I'll be doing the world class chefs a favor by removing you, permanently."

Then he stands up and walks over to Minami.

"You was playin' tough and you got a tough prize. I'll be seeing you at the academy, if you can make it…and enjoy the same results next time, fuckin' idiot." And he walks away.

"You should've stopped." Yuuko also tells her and walks off.

"You're going to that place at the train station?" Miharu asks.

"Yep."

(He's really gonna see him?) She thought. (Well after seeing what he can do, my father won't know what hit him.)

"Why are you going to the train station?" Yuuji also asks.

"La Veditz." Ghost said walking off while Yuuji stops him.

"That's where Miharu's father works at?"

"Yeah and when you know that he can attack people get anywhere near his daughter and not get caught? That is an issue that needs to be taken care of."

"He does that?" Hideyoshi says surprised. "How did the police did not catch him if he's attacking everyone?"

"How about catching him in the act?" Yuuko walks up, making a suggestion.

"And since he attacks everyone that gets close to Miharu, it doesn't take much." Ghost adds.

"Okay." Akihisa speaks up. "Let's give him a taste of his own medicine."

Now it's Akihisa, Yuuji, Miharu, Yuuko, Hideyoshi and Ghost start walking off to the train station. While a certain brown haired girl who was watching the fight, calls the ambulance.

Meanwhile at Shouko's house

Walking around on a banged up knee, Shouko has make to find a way to get the foreigner off her back.

(I should loan him my money, and if he spends all of it I can play loan shark and make his life a living hell.) She thinks.

"I guess I'll respond to him tomorrow with the money I got," Now thinking out loud to herself. Heading over to her closet opening it and looking in her large safe. Inside there's a lot of Yen and a marriage certificate. "maybe that should let him know who he's dealing with."

Meanwhile at the train station outside of La Veditz.

The crew arrived, standing within view of the place, around the corner.

"So," Akihisa asks Miharu. "what does he look like?"

"He has orange hair." She said.

"And you call him a pig, so that means he's fat bastard." Ghost adds.

"Right." She said with a light smile towards him.

"With those variables in play," Yuuko said. "we wait for him to attack then turn the tables on him."

Ghost pulls out a chain whip and wraps it around his hand.

"Where you got that from?" Hideyoshi asks.

"Travels." Ghost calmly says.

(Oh he's gonna try and ruin her father here.) He thought nervously.

"Let's see if we can catch him out, do everybody a favor." Yuuji declares.

"Of course." Ghost said with a nod.

"And let me see if I can get the police involved." Hideyoshi chimes in.

Miharu, Akihisa, Yuuji, Yuuko and Ghost walk slowly to the coffee shop while Hideyoshi hangs back. And suddenly, the owner of that coffee shop comes out charging at them.

"Get that pig!" Miharu said with malice.

"Legs Yuuko!" Ghost gets in position targeting one side of his leg.

"Okay!" She also does the same thing.

(Song playing – Baxter – Blindside)

Seeing Miharu's father going for a punch, Yuuko and Ghost go for his legs, lifts him up while Yuuji jumps up catching his head and all four of them falling to the ground, with Mr. Shimizu taking the worse of it.

"3D!" Akihisa yells out like a wrestling commentator.

The people around the area gathered around seeing this unfold.

Miharu's father gets up and goes after Akihisa, going for a punch, he dodges and catches him on the jaw stumbling backwards while Ghost runs to the wall and jumps off it for a flying kick, knocking him down and jumps up, stomps and flips backwards.

Mr. Shimizu gets up again, this time focuses on the dreadlock foreigner.

"Who are you?!" He charges him only to get punched in the chest with the chain wrapped around his hand, alternating left and right to Miharu's father's chest twice, then unwraps it from his hand and strikes him in the face knocking him off balance.

Mr. Shimizu, now trying to run off, gets tripped up by Yuuko. Falling over while the crowd backs up a little bit. He gets up and goes after Yuuko but Ghost runs towards him and smacks him in the face with those chains, knocking him backwards into the crowd and a certain girl with blue hair and round glasses grabs him.

"Hey! Let me go!" Mr. Shimizu yells out.

"Oh okay? Who's that?" Ghost gestures Miharu to come here. Which she goes over and stands near him, the round glasses girl covers his eyes and leans him back. Ghost kicks him right below the belt, falling to his knees and everybody oh's and the girl takes her hands off his eyes, as his body goes forward right into Miharu's open hand, uppercutting him, getting lifted and falls on his back.

The dreadlock foreigner drags him away from the crowd and backs off when the pig tries kick him and misses.

Mr. Shimizu slowly gets up and Ghost steps in, spins around and elbows him in the jaw knocking him out.

(Song ends)

"Done?" Ghost asks him. "Already?"

"So this is how your father acts?" Yuuji asks Miharu.

"Yeah, pretty much."

"Okay people!" Ghost addressing the crowd. "How many of you guys and girls, have been hurt by this man on the ground?" The crowd raised their hand.

"That many?" He mutters and starts to hit the floor with the chain, startling everyone in the area. His thoughts are racing through his head thinking about the proper punishment made for Miharu's father, until Yuuji snaps him out of that trance.

"Well Ghost," He walks over to him. "you was on to something about her father and you hit the nail on the head." And the round glasses girl also walks and examines him.

"Hm? Have you got any problems with Miharu's father?" Ghost asks her.

"Wait a minute. This fat bastard who's attacking people is Miharu's father?" She points at him.

"Yep."

"Well, you know that I'm not the only one who has to deal with him."

Ghost glares daggers towards Mr. Shimizu who's still on the ground, walks to him, dragging the chain along the ground.

"Now I see why your own daughter wants you dead." He said monotone. Everybody's got different reactions, from surprised to shocked.

"And the fact I saw Miharu running without her shirt on, care to tell me what you did to her you bastard?" The round glasses girl asks her father in a stern tone.

"And the fact I almost killed your daughter on my doorstep? Runnin' around trying to kill bastards that get close to that Shimada insect?!" Ghost asks him, ready to strike him.

Mr. Shimizu is absolutely in shambles. This man and girl questioning him in front of everybody and he himself is on the ground.

"First off, who the hell are you questioning me what I do to my daughter?" Mr. Shimizu asks him acidly. Then Miharu pulls out the dagger and gets on top of him.

"Answer the questions." She said with cold malice.

"L- Look!" Mr. Shimizu cries out.

"I don't wanna hear it! It's too late for apologizes you pig." She raises the weapon over her head but Ghost stops her.

"You know what Miharu, let me put two and two together just to twist the knife, hold on." He crouches next to them. "When you told me that, your father takes baths with you. Does that run on the line of being molested?" Everybody gasped.

"In other words, it's sexual abuse that she was going through?" The round glasses girl chimes in.

"That…" He pauses, sighs and facepalms.

"Dammit, just like my sister." Akihisa adds.

"Your sister too?!" Yuuko asks him in bewilderment. "I'm done, I'm so done right now."

(This is really personal stuff.) The round glasses girl thought.

"Now there's no point in dragging this out." Yuuji speaks. "You have to take it out on your father and not anyone else."

Ghost stands up and starts playing around with the chain and comes up with an idea.

"I need twenty lashes."

"Oh geez." Yuuji looks around nervously.

"And he needs to be stripped down to his underwear and socks."

"Are you serious?" Yuuko and Miharu asks him in unison.

"Oh I'm dead serious," Ghost says with a nod. "strip him."

"Don't have to tell me twice," Miharu puts the dagger away and gets off him. "I got his pants." And starts to take them off.

"And I'll help you out." The round glasses girl walks to him and stomps on his crotch sitting up in pain, while Ghost wacks him in the back and lays back down. The girl takes off his shirt, leaving him in his underwear, shoes and socks.

"Now get your hands on the wall." Ghost tells him.

Mr. Shimizu slowly gets up and makes his way towards the wall and stopping inches apart to see the crowd.

"Hands on the wall! You don't get to look at the crowd, and put your head down." Ghost shaking the chains, scaring him into doing just that.

Ghost readies himself and whips him across his back as his scream echos through out the train station, another whack then another and another one.

(Six.) Ghost starts counting in his head.

Another wack.

(Seven.)

A wack to his side, causing him to take his hands off the wall and hold his side.

(Eight.)

"Hands on the wall!" The round glasses girl said to Mr. Shimizu.

"Screw you!" He retorts at her, only to be hit in the head and take another wack to the legs and falls over.

"That's ten." Ghost stands over him with malice intent.

"You need help?" Akihisa asks him.

"No help needed." And wails on him ten more times going for his body, Mr. Shimizu covers up taking a few hits on the arms then the last one goes to his head.

Now Miharu's father is covered in welts and bruises on his body and arms.

"Please, Please! No more!" Mr. Shimizu pleads.

"You wasn't beggin' during the fight you moron!" Ghost sighs, puts away the chain and walks away from him.

Miharu walks up to her father and shows him his credit card, spits on him and walks away. The round glasses girl also walks to him, looking down at him in disgust.

"Disgusting man." She says to the now beaten and humiliated Mr. Shimizu, then walks away and stand with Miharu.

"Thanks for helping us out." Miharu says with a wink.

"No problem." The round glasses girl with a smile. "Anyways. About your sister Akihisa," Catching his attention. "that is news to me."

"And dealing with Minami and Mizuki." Yuuko adds.

The round glasses girl is in shock right now. "So help me– why haven't you told the principal?"

"That old hag will probably sweep it under the rug." Yuuji says with certainty.

"And this is why examples must be made across the board." Ghost murmurs and when he see the police officers haul Miharu's father in handcuffs off and take his clothes with them. He taps on Miharu shoulder and points at her father.

"Well deserved you pig!" She yells at her own father, then sees Ghost walking away, "Ghost, wait up!" as she runs after him.

"I need to know if that's his car he's driving." Hideyoshi also goes after him including Akihisa and Yuuji.

"That's his name?" The round glasses girl asks Yuuko.

"Yeah, but I know it's not his real name."

"Where did you meet him?"

"At his house when he was airing us out. When Shouko tazed Yuuji, here he comes out of nowhere."

"And what did he do?"

"Long story short, our class representative got shot for doing that." The round glasses girl is shocked. "And beaten up."

"Does he know that Shouko is from a well known family? If he wanted to take somebody like her down, he's got to play smart."

Yuuko is taken aback at what she said.

"What are you going to do Satou?"

"I'll stay quiet, but when she gets in trouble? I'll have a few choice words for her." Her tone goes low and dark.

"Okay, but what are you doing here?"

"Supposedly shopping, but when I saw you and when Miharu's father running towards you… well let's just say that seeing him get what he deserves is satisfying."

"Alright, I'll see you later." Yuuko walks away.

(That Ghost guy is something else but oh my oh my, everything's gonna fall apart when this gets out.) She thinks to herself as the crowd disperses and she walks away.

At the park

Ghost arrives, heading to his car, he sees the ambulance truck and the paramedics carry Minami off to the truck in the stretcher while Mizuki walks with them.

"That's tough." He pulls out the car keys to unlock his car, suddenly, he hears footsteps and turns to see Miharu running to him for a hug, catching him in one.

"Here I am, thinking you're not gonna do anything about him," She then releases him from the hug. "and you proved me wrong."

"Better than standin' around and listening, but not doing anything." Ghost opens the door to the backseat for her.

"Why thank you." Before she gets in, she also looks at the scene. "And between you, Minami and Mizuki. It's gonna get worse from here."

"I know. So much for stopping those seventeen year olds." With that being said, she gets in and he closes the door. Ghost goes to the drivers side, before he opens it he gets stopped by Hideyoshi.

"Is this really your car?" He asks.

"Yep." Ghost opens the door and gets in and turns on cars engine. Akihisa and Yuuji show up behind him.

"Who called the ambulance?" Yuuji asks.

"I don't know." Akihisa responds and hears the car door close. Walking up to the car and taps on the window with Ghost rolling down the window. "Going somewhere?"

"Somewhere to eat, maybe."

"I'll go with you." He goes to the passenger side to open the door but it's locked. Ghost rolls the window down on the side. "It's locked."

"Waiting for Yuuko." He leans over telling him.

"Why wait for her?" Miharu asks.

"To talk about what we have just witnessed." Then goes back to his seat.

"Well, there she is." She brings the window down and pokes her head out. "Yuuko!" and gets her head back in, sitting back and brings the window up.

That catches Yuuko attention who came back from the train station and walks up to the driver side.

"So this is your car?" She asks.

"Your brother asked me the same question." Ghost sighs.

She turns to her brother. "Is it?" She asks him

"Yes."

"Well in that case," She trails off, looking at the ambulance truck driving off.

(Damn Ghost.) she thought, then looks back at Ghost. "I call shotgun." And she to the passenger side to see Akihisa standing there.

"Hey hold up!" He guards the door. "I was gonna sit there first!"

"She called shotgun Akihisa," Ghost leaning over again. "might as well take the backseat."

"Dammit. Ghost unlock the door." He moves out of the way for Yuuko as they hear the doors unlock, Akihisa opens the passenger door for her.

"Thanks Akihisa." Yuuko says as she goes in and closes the door.

"You're welcome." Akihisa says taking a seat behind Yuuko.

"Room for one more?" Hideyoshi asks the dreadlock foreigner.

"Yeah."

"I guess I'll go with you." He opens the door to see Miharu sitting there. She scoots over so he can get in.

"Well Yuuji, are gonna stay there or wait for Shouko to snatch you off the streets again?"

"Shit!" He also opens the door but sees Akihisa, Hideyoshi and Miharu. "This cars full."

"Akihisa, you might have to sit next to Yuuko." Ghost passively tells him.

"Wait. You can't be serious right?" Hideyoshi asks.

"Make some room, make it work." Akihisa gets out and goes to the front and sits at on the small space next to Yuuko.

"Alright, let's go." Akihisa declares. And Ghost drives off passing a green light.

"So…" Yuuko starts. "That was some intense stuff back there."

"Yeah," Miharu speaks. "but about Akihisa's sister, my goodness. Going though the same thing as me."

"At least Ghost gave him twenty smacks," Yuuji chimes in. "he's lucky that's all he got."

"You're welcome." Ghost says as he stops at a red light.

"And the police did their job." Hideyoshi adds.

"Tch, I don't trust them."

"What?" Yuuko asks in shock. "Even after they arrested Miharu's father?"

"Well I haven't seen anybody go after Shouko's sly ass, so it's gotta count for something."

"That's because she's from a well known family and you're playing with fire."

"Yuuko," Yuuji comes in. "When I called the police on her, they didn't even show up." Everybody in the car is shocked while Ghost goes on a green light, he slams his hand on the steering wheel.

"What the hell?! Aren't they supposed to do their jobs?"

"Money and or status must've been in the works." Ghost starts. "I wouldn't be surprised if she started bribing those officers."

"That's just stretching it to far." Akihisa says.

"She's not the type to do that." Yuuji adds.

"It doesn't even matter," Miharu speaks. "she's still gonna cause trouble… more than me."

"The Shouko gets caught is the day somebody riots." Ghost jokes.

"At least we don't have riots here in Japan right?" Akihisa says changing topics.

"I bet you he doesn't know about that." Yuuji adds.

"Three years: Nineteen eighteen, nineteen fifty two and nineteen eighty five."

Silence fills the car as they look at Ghost surprised and everybody starts looking back at Yuuji.

"Okay, I'll back off." He raises his hands in defeat.

"And that's why vigilantes exist, and I'm not gonna be self righteous about it."

At the hospital

Mizuki is in the room, getting stitches to close up the wound that Miharu gave her on her thigh. 17 minutes later, she's in the wheelchair thanks to that said wound.

"Can you take me to Minami, please doctor?" She asks the man pushing the wheelchair.

"Of course." As they go to her room.

Finally showing up in the room that Minami is in, she's lying on the bed with bandages covering her cuts and forehead and her arm in a sling. From the doctor she asked while getting there. She suffered a fractured skull, a severe concussion and damaged ribs, some were fractured, some were broken and a broken arm. The also doctor said that Minami's injury's would some time to heal.

(The audacity on that foreigner!) Mizuki thought as she's livid on the inside. (And that bitch fought for him, stealing Akihisa away from me! And Miharu? Less said about her the better.)

The doctor rolls the wheelchair near the bed. "Let me know if you need anything, alright?" He said.

"Okay." And he walks out of the room, leaving the two by themselves.

Mizuki pulls out Minami's ribbon out her pocket and gives it to her. Minami slowly takes it and looks at it only to find a shoe print on it. Her eyes lit up in rage, takes a breath only to hold her ribs in pain.

"Careful." Mizuki gets up and places her hands on Minami, comforting her.

"What the hell just happen?" She asks, with pain shooing through her torso. "How did we end up here instead of him? And the balls on that guy to leave this on my ribbon?"

"I still can't get over the fact that he called us cockroaches."

"If I see him in the academy, I'll make sure the inquisition skin him alive." Minami shakes her fist with her ribbon in anger.

"I'll call Akihisa." Mizuki takes out her cellphone and calls him.

"Please do." She said before muttering something in German.

Afternoon

Meanwhile at a restaurant

Akihisa sitting at the table next to Miharu, who's sitting near Ghost, who next to the window. Across from them is Yuuko, Yuuji and Hideyoshi, all of them with their drinks and utensils, now waiting for their food.

"Now for the details." Ghost starts but he hears a phone ring. He looks around and hears the phone ringing next to Miharu and he looks at him. "Who's calling you?"

Akihisa pulls out his phone and checks it. "It's Mizuki." He sighs in defeat. "You know what, I'll answer it."

"Go ahead." Ghost says. And Akihisa answers his phone.

"Hello?"

"Akihisa you idiot!" Mizuki nearly yelling into her phone. "You were suppose to help us! But instead stood by and watched us get beat up!"

"You two actually started that." He says calmly.

"You better not be out with that girl or that foreigner."

"In fact I am, with both of them." He said confidently, leaving Mizuki shocked on the other line and gives the phone to Ghost.

"Okay." He takes the phone and begins.

"Well Mizuki." She's taken aback from the change of voice over the phone and puts the phone on speaker. "How was your nap?"

"Who is this?!" Minami asks sternly.

"And how's your first visit to the E.R. Minami?"

"Don't try to be friendly with us!" Mizuki speaking up.

"I know you got me on speaker but I'll answer that question for both of yous. It doesn't feel good now don't it?"

"Well it should've been you being in here." Minami snarks.

"I can pretty much put the letter t in between Shi and mada, and that's my exact thoughts about you girl." Ghost counters.

The oh's came from the five in unison.

"Shitmada." Akihisa murmurs under his breath in shock, knowing how she'll act out if he said it to her face. "Damn!" And he suddenly laughs.

"You damn right Akihisa I went there." Ghost tells him.

At the hospital on the other line, Minami is red hot right now, ready just get out of the hospital and beat the crap out of him. And Mizuki holding her head in rage.

"Now, back on topic. You Minami want to lead your life has a husband beater and you wanna hold grudges to people telling you the truth? Go ahead, cause that's you're going to end up at from here on out, or worse. Same thing for you Mizuki and Shouko."

"Grrr, when I see you at the academy, you better say your prayers when I get the inquisition on you, you damn foreigner!" Minami rages before holding her ribs. While Miharu can hear her voice.

"Whatever little girl." Before he hangs up, Yuuko gestures him to give her the phone. "Oh, and Yuuko has something to say." Then gives it to her.

"Now that I know about this stuff, how about staying away from Akihisa, until spring break is over. Try to think about what you done so far."

"Wait!" Mizuki yells out and Yuuko hangs up on them.

"Thanks guys." And he puts his phone away.

"That'll teach them." Yuuko says confidently as she takes a sip. "And seriously Ghost? Shitmada? I didn't think that name would be viewed like that."

"Now, you can tell us what Shouko said to you." Yuuji tells Ghost.

"Okay," Ghost begins. "the only way for her to stop completely, is a summoning battle. Am I correct Yuuko?"

"That's what I tried to tell you." She tells him.

"And I asked her about the damage from other avatars, do you guys feel any pain?" He asks them.

"Maybe?" Miharu says.

Hideyoshi shakes his head in denial.

"No." Yuuji says.

"Yeah." Akihisa says. Then everybody is thrown off.

"Akihisa… you're not –" Yuuji pleads but is cut off.

"Oh no Yuuji. You send me to other classes just to get beat, and you wonder why you're stuck with her all the time."

"All of this is Fumizuki business alright." He defends.

"Now I had a hunch that, if Shouko lies to me, I'll remove her." Ghost says in a low, cold tone. Yuuji pales from that statement. "Here's another problem. She told me which school these summons are coming from and it's from Fumizuki academy, which means you Yuuko goofed." He looks at Yuuko

"Are you kidding me?" She asks him deliriously. "She's in class A like me and you think you can take her?"

"Even if you Yuuko didn't say anything, she still would've said what school she's going to. And let's not forget that Akihisa is going through hell, not only from the two girls but from the avatars that she lied about not being hurt. Are you guys lying in my face about this school?" Visibly trying his best not to lose it in a restaurant.

"We're just trying to figure out if you're gonna go there for the summoning battles." Hideyoshi said.

"And there's this teacher Mr. Nishimura, well they call him Ironman, stole something from me and when I manage to steal his stuff and sold them, it's not just him that made a big deal out of it, it's every teacher in there." Akihisa adds.

"He what?!" Miharu asks, looking at him in shock.

"Those bastards." Yuuko says in a low tone.

Ghost rubs his face and sighs, blowing off some anger. "I'm willing to put that day behind me Yuuko, looks like you're in the dark about all of this. And here's two words that you're dealing with, since you Yuuji probably don't help him out or even try: Ignored empathy." Yuuji becomes uncomfortable with the sudden shift of his tone.

"So you don't want to do a summoning test war, because of the teachers?" She asks him.

"With those three girls in the way, to the teachers pullin' that off?." He scoffs. "Fuck Fumizuki."

"Why are you so bitter?" Hideyoshi says surprised. As they look at him with stunned looks on their faces.

"Hideyoshi, let's not forget the about the time that the principal-" Yuuji try's to add but his phone goes off, interrupting him as he answers it.

"Hello." He speaks into the phone.

"Yuuji." A low, familiar voice spoke.

He covers up his phone. "It's Shouko." Yuuji tells Ghost. "Yes Shouko." And Ghost shakes his head about her.

"I need to see you tomorrow."

"Is it gonna be at the park?"

"Yes."

He covers his phone again. "Same time in the morning?" He asks Ghost.

"Sundown." He suggests.

"At sundown Shouko?"

"Fine. Don't be late."

"Bye." As Yuuji ends the phone conversion. He takes a deep breath, calming down. "She sounds pissed off."

"That girl is gonna keep runnin' is she?" Ghost asks deflated.

"Didn't say anything about coming alone?" Miharu murmurs. "Then I'll see her."

"Now I don't know how she's gonna react with you going." Yuuji warns.

"Here's an idea," Akihisa declares. "let's exchange numbers."

"Dammit Akihisa we just met." Ghost pauses to see Miharu showing her phone number.

"Take it." She says with a smile.

"Ah screw it." He takes out his phone and puts Miharu's phone number in his contacts.

"What the?" Hideyoshi asks Miharu. "I thought you still hate guys after that problem with your father?"

"When I ran to him and told him about my father, I didn't know that he was gonna go after him or think about it."

"I was gonna do it myself until you guys wanted to get him." Ghost explains, then sees Akihisa's and Yuuko's phones in front of him, putting his phone number in both of their phones and put their phone numbers into his phone contacts and shows Miharu his number so she can put it in her phone contacts. Then the three put away their phones.

"What about Yuuji's?" Akihisa asks him.

"Shouko's phone number?"

"What the?" Yuuji asks him surprised. "You want her number too?"

"I'll wait for the time and just delete her number." Yuuji takes his phone out and gives him his and Shouko's phone number.

"If you're gonna do that?" Akihisa takes his phone out again and brings up Minami's and Mizuki's phone numbers. "Then you can take these numbers?"

"Okay," Ghost puts them in his contacts. "and I'm gonna get them out my phonebook soon."

"Our food is here." Akihisa tells them and waiter appears with their food, placing them on the table for six of them.

"My first time eating in a restaurant," Akihisa looks over at Ghost. "you're going to pay right?"

"Yeah." He says.

Meanwhile at the hospital

Mizuki and Minami are in the room in silence, figuring out how did that conversation go left.

"Yuuko really stole Akihisa from us." Mizuki says on the verge of breaking down.

"Now we got to deal with two people now!" Minami says with rage. "I really can't handle losing to a man like him, I rather get beat by Akihisa but I'll keep going after him, than lose to Ghost."

"I can ask Shouko, if she's okay." Mizuki thinks.

"You have my number right? I need to know when is he coming to the academy." She holds her ribs again. "This is far from over."

"Yeah. So, what are you going to do when he shows up to the school."

"Like I said before, I'll get the inquisition on him, maybe get the teachers involved."

"You might as well do that, maybe that should put him in his place."

"Alright, then it's settled. You'll have to this without me then." Minami says nonchalantly.

"Okay." Mizuki says with new found confidence.

Afternoon

Back at the restaurant.

"Wow, this is the good stuff." Akihisa says with a smile. The waiter comes back with the receipt and gets the plates from them.

"Okay, let's see here." As he reads the receipt. "Thirty one thousand yen? No problem."

"You was really struggling with the chopsticks." Miharu said. And Ghost slouches back.

"I ain't gon' lie, I should've used the fork and save myself from the frustration."

"But you asked for help right? So thanks to Akihisa, Yuuko, and me. Now you know how to use the chopsticks properly." She says in cheerful tone.

"Of course, thanks guys. Now I need to pay this off and be on our way."

"I'll be outside." Hideyoshi said, as he gets up and leaves.

Akihisa and Miharu also get up and go outside so Ghost who takes the receipt with him, can get up and Yuuko follows suit. The foreigner walks to the cashier and pays for the food, Yuuji walks out with Ghost following him.

"You're gonna have to drop me off at my house." Yuuji tells him. "Gotta prepare for tomorrow."

"Alright." And all of them head to his car. Ghost starting up the engine, getting out parking lot and out to the road.

"So Yuuji, what did Shouko tell you?" Yuuko asks him.

"She said that she needs to see me tomorrow. So I'm just gonna head home and think about this."

"Where is she going to see you?"

"At the park at sundown."

"I'll be there."

"You Ghost is going to be there right?" Miharu asks him.

"Yep. Hope I don't find out anything else about her, so I can have something to hold over her head." Ghost grumbles.

"You gotta hope she understands the situation that she's in, but I doubt it."

(Why do I have a feeling that she'll throw it away like it's nothing?) Ghost thought as he drives his way to Yuuji's house. Minutes later, he arrives parking in front of his house

"Okay Yuuji." Ghost unlocks the doors.

"See you at sundown tomorrow then." And Yuuji gets out and heads back to his place. Akihisa gets out and goes to the back seat.

"Can you take me home?" He turns around looking at Hideyoshi. "Please?"

"Okay." Ghost drives off.

"Why head back home?" Miharu asks being curious.

"Just for a ride, that's all."

Ghost sighs. "Oh well." Minutes later, they show up at Kinoshita's place.

"Yuuko, are you coming?" He asks her.

"Later on sometime."

"Oh, Okay. See you soon Ghost." And he gets out, and into the house.

"Where to now driver?" Miharu asks. "Or are you gonna shoo all of us away?"

"A place to ease my nerves, maybe some place that has a pool table."

"Hold on, a pool table?" Akihisa asks astounded.

"He means billiards you idiot." Yuuko retorts.

"That's another way to say it."

"There's a place in Kichijoji that has it." Miharu says.

"Then let's make it there then." Then he drives off.

"Kichijoji?" Akihisa wonders. "I've heard about it, but I never went there."

"What does it look like?" Yuuko asks Miharu.

"It's a shopping district, went there with my father and that was the last time going there."

"Your father started something did he?" Ghost chimes in.

"It involved me so, yeah."

Ghost chuckles. "How I'm not surprised." And start making their way to Kichijoji.

Meanwhile… outside of the hospital.

Mizuki goes to her parents car that was waiting for her and gets in.

"Don't say anything, until we get home." Mizuki's mom tells her, who's on the passenger side while her father is in the drivers seat.

"O-Okay." She replies nervously. As the silent drive back to their place begins. Finally showing up to their place, getting out of the car and into their apartment. They enter and Mizuki and her mother and father, enters the room.

"What happened Mizuki?" Her mother asks with worry.

"I got into a fight."

Her mother looks at her shocked. "How did you out of all the people, get in to a fight?"

"Well it started with that foreigner, that girl from who from class A and someone else from another classroom. The guy said something bad about my friend, then those two jumped in and attacked us."

"Who are they and what do they look like?"

"Well… For the class A girl; she has short brown hair and green eyes. The other one has those spiral pigtails and orange eyes. And this foreigner, who is a brown skinned man, long hair tied into a ponytail and he's a little taller than Yuuji."

"Alright, I'll see if I can talk to one them when I get chance."

"Okay." Then her mother walks out leaving Mizuki in the room, looking at her patched up thigh.

Kichijojithe shopping district

They arrive at the place with Ghost finally finding a place to park his car. Getting out and stepping into the district.

"This is the place?" Akihisa starts "Looks nice."

"And there's the information desk right there." Yuuko starts pointing at the desk. "Let's ask the lady first." And they walk over to the desk.

"Hello!" The information desk lady greets. "We do our best to provide information regarding this area!"

"Can you ask us about this city?" Akihisa asks her.

"Of course! Please allow me to explain! There are four different areas… On the promenade, you can find a fried food shop, a stationery store, a second hand clothing, and a temple. The ground beef cutlet at the fried food shop is delicious, but you'll have to wait in line."

(I might check that place out when I come back.) Ghost thought.

"If you take a left at the fried food shop, you'll see Retro Street. Here you can find a selection of chic and sophisticated stores. There's also a jazz club at the end of the alley. Sometimes popular singers will go there, and the liveliness is inevitable."

(And a jazz club? This place really got it goin' on.) And we're not sure if he listens to jazz at all, if not all the time.

"Whew. I hope I explained it all right… Do you have any other questions?" She asks them.

"Please, go on." Ghost tells the lady in a kind manner.

"Certainly! After passing Retro street, you'll see Rue De Chouchou, which has a variety of fancy stores to visit. There's also a well known healing crystal store selling power stones that provide real results."

"Interesting." Yuuko murmurs.

"Not only that, but on Rue De Chouchou there is a lounge to enjoy darts and billiards. Excitement is inevitable."

"Game time." Ghost declares.

"The last one is Harmony alley, which is like a drinking district. It's located just past this information desk. It has an old Japanese flavor, perfect for just enjoying the atmosphere. The inspiration is inevitable." The lady notices something off, looking at Yuuko, Akihisa and Miharu. "...Was that too much information for you minors?"

"The three of us are eighteen years old and we don't drink alcohol." Yuuko states. "But I don't know about this foreigner here."

"I don't drink alcohol either." They look at him wide eyed.

"That's a surprise, even though you don't look like a minor, they serve non alcoholic beverages there if you ask them."

"I'll think about that place."

"Well, that's about it for the city. Is there something else I can help you with?"

"What do you recommend?" Yuuko asks the lady.

"I know just the thing! Please allow me to explain! You three are minors correct? If that's the case… If you go past the drinking district and reach Rue De Chouchou, you'll find a darts and billiards lounge. It's actually a very casual place, and people your age can walk in with no problem."

"How about for adults?" Miharu asks her.

"Huh!?" Well, you guys did come all the way here… If you're looking for adults… There is a jazz club… And I THINK minors can go in… Sorry for my lack of knowledge."

"It's okay."

"Would you like to know anything else?"

"That's all." Ghost tells her.

"If you would like to know more about Kichijoji, feel free to stop on by!" He nods and waves at the lady and they walk off.

"Looks like you Miharu is right." Akihisa states. "Not only we found a place for billiards, but for darts as well."

"And some stores, and a temple." Ghost adds.

"Let's go to the lounge. I still gonna get you back for the fight yesterday." Yuuko declares.

"You're on." As they make their way to the lounge, they turn left walking down the alleyway and approaching Stoneon.

"Darts and Billiards Penguin Sniper?" As Yuuko reads the heading, holding in her laughter. "What kind of name is that?"

"At least there's a billiard place around here. Let's go in." Akihisa says and they head inside in the lounge.

Inside the lounge.

They walk up to the counter to see a casually dressed man standing there.

"Welcome!" He greets them. "Would you like to play darts or billiards? It's eight hundred yen to play all you want."

"Billiards. Who's up?" Ghost looks at them.

"You already know." Yuuko says.

"I guess I'll play." Akihisa says.

"Me too." Miharu chimes in.

"Thank you, that'll be eight hundred yen!" Ghost takes out his wallet and gives him the exact amount. "Please enjoy yourselves." And then they look their left to get the cue sticks and walk over to the open pool table.

"Goin' eight ball." Ghost starts setting up the table.

"How do play with these sticks?" Akihisa asks him. Then Ghost takes the cue ball and he taps it and points at the sixteen balls setup in an upside down triangle.

"Are you saying to use these cue sticks to hit, or should I say poke the white ball into those other balls?" Miharu asks while pointing.

"Yep, and from the break they to be sunk in these six holes, except for the cue ball and the eight ball."

"Why those two can't be sunked?"

"For the cue ball, when it's somebody's turn, they can move the ball anywhere. And for the eight ball? Bad vibes, until you take care of the seven solids, and the seven stripes, depending on which side you take first. A demonstration." He leans forward and hits the ball right into the triangle of balls, making them scatter and notices a stripe went in one of the holes.

"Now in this game, you keep going until you miss, hitting a ball that you're not handling or sink the cue ball." He positions himself to pocket a solid which he does. "Me and Miharu will handle the solids, you two handle the stripes. Best of three?"

"We're playing in teams? In a best of three?" Yuuko looks at Akihisa then back at Ghost who tries to get a solid pocketed but misses. "All right. I guess this is another alternative." She sets up, then hits the cue ball which hits a stripe that goes in. "Five left." She goes again and pockets another one leaving four stripes on the table. Another move and she hits a solid and it rolls into a stripe and it misses. (Oh crap!) She mentally curses.

"That's a foul, but you was catching fire." Ghost chimes in.

"I had that stripe lined up."

"At least we got four left." Akihisa says.

"Yeah, pretty much. Your turn Miharu."

"And you can move the ball, but after you take your shot, that's it." Ghost tells Miharu.

"Okay." She takes the cue ball and puts it at an angle where she's aiming at a solid that's in front of a hole which gets pocketed.

"There you go." Ghost says, and she sinks another one.

"You two have four left as well." Akihisa chimes in. She goes again, sinks another solid. "Now three." Hits a solid, and misses.

"Your turn Akihsa." She backs up letting him take his shot and pockets a stripe, then misses on the next shot.

"Now three left. Your turn Ghost." He nods and pockets two solids.

"One left." Miharu says while he aims at the last solid before the eight ball. Takes his shot, cue ball makes it's away to the solid, hitting it, and it bounces off one of the corners and rolls into a stand still.

"Damn." Ghost mutters under his breath.

"You almost had that one."

On Yuuko's turn, she pockets one stripe then another, another stripe and one more.

"Now you can sink the eight ball." Ghost pointing at it. She sets up, shoots, hits the eight ball and it goes in.

"In your face Ghost!" She said pointing at him with a smug look on her face.

"Rub it in all you want to, better win the next one." He gets the pocketed balls and sets them up.

"Oh we'll make sure."

"If that how this game goes, then I'll start." Akihisa then hits the cue ball into the triangle pile, scattering around while a solid goes in. Positioning himself and he pockets another solid. "We'll take care of the solids this time." Ghost nods, as Akihisa take another shot, hitting a solid but didn't go in any hole.

"Stripes?" Miharu asks the dreadlocked foreigner.

"That's how it goes, only when playing eight ball, yep." She sets up and pockets a stripe and misses on the next.

On Yuuko's turn, she pockets three solids and botches her fourth shot, hitting a stripe first.

"Shoot." She curses. "I didn't mean to do that."

"We got two left, so let's see what Ghost got." As Akihisa watches closely.

Ghost puts the cue ball in front of a stripe and pockets it. Then he sinks another one, then another one, another stripe sunked, accuracy and focus was on display when he pockets one more and he was down to the last stripe.

"What the hell?" Akihisa says astonished. "How long you have been playing this kind of game?"

"Just a hobby." Ghost takes a shot hitting a stripe, but it misses the hole. "And you two got lucky." And backs away from the table.

Akihisa with pressure on his shoulders, goes up to take his shot, hitting the black ball, and it goes in a hole.

"Akihisa..." Ghost starts. "In the official rulebook of billiards, pocketing the eight ball results in a loss." Akihisa's mouth was open in shock.

"How was I supposed to know, that the eight ball is a solid but it can't be pocketed?" Yuuko facepalms at Akihisa's blunder.

"Or hit first. Nobody shouldn't be mad at that fact alone, because of newcomers making that mistake."

"Imagine that girl being here." Miharu deadpans.

"Minami?" Akihisa asks her. "She'll ruin the whole thing in here."

"While everyone will try not to take her seriously, she'll be catching cue sticks to the head and body, and we'll get thrown out of here thanks to her." Ghost adds, while he sets the table up again.

"Might be possible." Yuuko says in an irritated tone.

"Alright, last game." He sets up and hits the ball into the pile, starting off the last round, nothing sunked in this turn.

On Yuuko's turn, she sinks a stripe then clears out a small pile while a stripe is sunked and on the next shot, she lightly hits the other stripe. She shakes her head at that shot.

"Messed that up," She mutters as she steps back. "but at least this will spread things out."

Miharu steps up and sinks two solids before hitting a stripe.

"I didn't mean to do that." She said stepping back.

Akihisa takes the cue ball in hand, lines it up with a stripe and sinks one then the other. On the next shot, he hits the stripe but it goes nowhere near a hole.

"Next time I guess." As he steps back.

Ghost's turn, he sinks one soild, then the next one, he hits the other soild which goes into the hole and suddenly, cue ball started to spin a little bit to the right.

"Did I just see the ball spin?" Yuuko asks.

"Yep." He said nonchalantly. And he sinks another solid while the cue ball goes backwards a little bit.

"It's like you have it on a string." Miharu said looking on. "It's weird."

"But cool." Akihisa adds.

Ghost goes and pockets another solid and the cue ball almost goes in a hole, and a sigh of relief comes from him.

(That was close.) Yuuko thought, as he hits the ball out of that tight spot and hits a solid and it almost goes in a hole. (And that too.) He makes room for her as she goes and sinks four stripes before missing the fifth one.

"Not bad Yuuko." Akihisa said.

"Comeback in place?" Ghost wonders.

"Don't jinx it!" She tells him, pointing the stick at him.

On Miharu turn, she was able to sink one solid, but comes up short on the second one.

"That one stung." She mutters.

As Akihisa takes his shot, he pockets the lone stripe and misses the other one.

"Oh boy, it's getting intense." Yuuko said as she's looking on.

Ghost sinks the last solid and on the eight ball, hit and miss.

"Damn it." As he shakes his head.

Yuuko also sinks the last stripe and on the eight ball, she hits it, going slow to a hole and stopping… just short of it, and puts her head down.

"Aw man." Akihisa said deflated. "That was too close."

"Yuuko just recreated one yard short." Ghost snarks.

"Shut up." She retorts and he snickers.

Then Miharu closes the game out by a long range shot, pocketing the eight ball.

"And that's the second win for us. Right?" Looking at Ghost.

"Yeah, this is a good game for all of us."

"I almost had you," Yuuko points at him. "but I'll take that one win though."

"I didn't know a racer can play pool." A man with black short hair, light brown eyes. Wearing a white v-neck sweater and Navy blue jeans.

"Ohhh snap!" Ghost said in surpise. "Yuki? What are you doing here?"

"Ah, just got done playing darts." Then he looks at them. "Who are your friends?"

"They're from Fumizuki: Akihisa, Yuuko and Miharu."

"Fumizuki? I hear that school is rough. But anyways, hey."

"Ghost, who is he?" Yuuko asks him.

"Oh, this is Yuki Nakamura. The man who races for a team named Ravenwest Motorsport, in the tuner and drift scene.

"Ravenwest?" Akihisa repeats.

"First time hearing about them?" He asks him.

"Yeah."

"If you know all of that?" Yuuko asks Ghost. "Are you one that was on the track with them?"

"Not all the time."

"Nathan said you was fun to race with and against, but a pain in the ass to hold off."

"Hold on." Akihisa starts. "Are you trying to say he's a racer?"

"Don't finish it." Ghost making an attempt to stop him from pointing it out.

"Oh what's the matter Marc." Yuki asks deflated.

"Just… not in here."

"Well then, I was going to go out anyway. We can talk right?"

"Yeah. Let us put these pool cues up and bounce." Ghost, Akihisa, Yuuko and Miharu put the pool stick up on the rack and head outside with Yuki.

"Damn Marc it's been a long time since I've seen you at a drift tourney, you're still driving?" He asks walking with him.

"I'm still am, just taking time off."

"What are trying to hide Ghost?" Yuuko asks him.

"Ghost?" Yuki said perplexed. "How did you guys meet him?"

"Well… it's a long story." Akihisa answers.

"Short story:" Miharu starts speaking. "He exposed us, we showed up, he appears and shoots Shouko, then he went at Yuuko, Minami and me… then… I tried to kill him and," Yuki and the others stopped. "Oh no." Miharu mutters.

"The world would've killed you, if they can stop the letting females get way the with stuff like you did." Then Yuki sighs. "Marc, don't tell me you didn't ran from these types of people."

"Hell no." Ghost sharply answers. "It was either I was to goin' to die doin' nothin'? Or go out fightin'."

"And fighting you did." Yuuko adds. "Kicked my ass and probably thrashed Shouko. And today, me and him had to fight off Minami and Mizuki."

"And deal with Miharu's father." Akihisa adds.

Yuki laughs shaking his head. "I guess this day went left on you huh Marc?"

"It's maybe not the first, I don't know." Ghost shrugs and they continue walking. And just when made it outside the district.

"Crap." Yuki mutters as he sees a black car with white racing stripes parked behind Ghost's car. "Marc I need talk about to you about that car." They all stopped again to look at it.

"What's wrong?" Ghost asks worried.

"Before I was picked by Ravenwest, I keep seeing that car in street races, and it hasn't been defeated once."

"You raced against it before?"

"Yeah," Yuki lowers his head. "my car wasn't enough to beat it, even tuned."

"Damn. You win some, you lose some."

"True. Now I need to figure out who's driving that thing, and I can't tell with the windows tinted."

"Maybe I'll find out."

"You'll do it?" Yuki asks in surprise.

"If I get time. Gotta deal with Fumizuki first."

"Alright, if you find the time, good luck." Yuki and Ghost fist bumps. "It was good running into you off the track Marc."

"Are you still with the Ravenwest team?" Akihisa asks him and the drifter groans.

"Nope." Ghost and Akihisa look at Yuki in shock. "Couldn't get the job done."

"Are in a different team now?" Ghost asks him.

"In a drift team? Yeah." A sigh of relief can be heard from Ghost.

"Hope Rick didn't get shafted, that'll be the last thing I'll hear."

"I think you'll be disappointed with the team if you find out." Yuki says with caution. "Now, I'm off."

"See ya around." As Yuki walks off to his car. They do the same thing as well getting into the SUV and driving off.

"Really Ghost?" Miharu starts. "You are hiding something."

"And Yuki was street racing before he was picked up by a motorsport team." Yuuko ponders. "Were you doing that as well?"

"What's wrong with street racing?" Ghost asks her.

"I know there's race tracks around here. Why can't people race in them? And it's dangerous."

"Daredevil city. Racers in a nutshell."

"If that's the case…" Miharu asks. "Did you get involved in them?"

"Well… for the money at first, did so much of them, that I pretty much been in roughly, one too many crashes, and still keep going." They look at him in shock.

"Oh my god, you better not crash this car." Yuuko said as she's in the back seat.

"Hey now, you have to worry about that."

"Are you still doing them?" Akihisa asks.

"Since I have my own race team? Not much."

"Your own team?" Miharu ponders. "What's it's name?"

"Classified," Ghost answers quickly. "I can't tell you."

"Dammit!" Yuuko said throwing her arms up. "You and your secrets."

"So," He stops at a red light. "ready to go home?"

"Not yet." Akihisa answers.

"Well, I wanted to go to that sky tower." Miharu thinking out loud.

"You mean that Skytree tower?" Yuuko putting two and two together.

"Yeah, that tower. So… can we go there?" Miharu asks Ghost.

"Sure thing." Going on green and heading over to Skytree.

Two hours later (Midday traffic) they arrived, they had to wait an extra hour to get in and when they step in the elevator going to the top, then stepping out, walking up to the railing and seeing the whole city.

"So this is Skytree." Akihisa says in amazement. "This view is better than the Ferris wheel view at the park."

"There's another tower over there." Yuuko points at the other sky tower.

"Reminds me of driving underneath those four corners." Ghost adds. "And this height makin' me nervous and cautious as hell."

"Scared of heights?" Miharu teases.

"Normal, no. But mountain type height? It's concernin'."

"Well, there's that mountain over there." Akihisa points at it.

"Mt. Fuji, in the distance." Ghost leans on the railing. "Awesome view."

"You're hiding something from me Ghost." Yuuko getting irritated.

"If he's a racer like that Yuki guy said," Akihisa steps in. "then you got your answer. Right now let's just enjoy view."

Then they walk around in the tower, soaking in the views of the Tokyo skyline, until Miharu trips over a guitar case, bumping into Ghost, but stays standing then he turns around.

"Oh!" She quickly makes an attempt to pick it up, only to be picked up a long raven haired, chestnut eyed lady. Wearing a brown jacket and grey jeans and crimson and black shoes. "Sorry."

"Can't blame you for the view up here." She tells her, then looks at him. "You're a tourist around here?" pointing and asking him a question.

"Pretty much." And walks over to the railing, standing with her, then looks at Miharu. "If you guys wanna head home let me know alright?"

"Okay." Then she catches up to Yuuko and Akihisa, who are taking pictures of the view.

"What did you trip over Miharu?" Akihisa asks her.

"A guitar case." Miharu said bluntly, and Yuuko giggles.

"Out of all the objects?" She asks her. "Imagine if there was a guitar in there."

"I don't know what kind guitar she wants."

A few minutes later, they meet up with Ghost again, who is looking at city with the same lady beside him.

"Hey Ghost, wanna take a picture with us together?" Akihisa asks him.

"Okay." Then he walks away from the railing and stands in view of Mt. Fuji with Yuuko and Miharu then Akihisa stands in front of them.

"Selfie." He takes the picture and when they look at the phone, they notice the same girl they saw when Miharu tripped over, is actually on camera standing next to Ghost, smiling.

"Damn you got photo bombed." Ghost shaking his head in amusement.

"She looks good though." Miharu adds.

"I guess you won't be deleting that then." Yuuko joins in before looking around seeing the guitar case is not there any more. "Where is she?"

"She's gone. Y'all ready to head home?" Ghost asks them.

"Yeah." Then they make their way towards the exits and back the car, Ghost driving Akihisa and Yuuko to their homes while heading back his home with Miharu.

At Ghost's house

Ghost unlocks the door and enters with Miharu walking in.

"Now Miharu, you can't throw every man under the bus because of what your father did to you," Talking to her as he closes the door behind him. "and people won't understand your problems unless you tell them."

"There is one that I talk to… but he doesn't do what you've done to him." She heads upstairs to her temporary room as Ghost follows her and stops at the doorway.

"Miharu talking to a boy? Who is it?" He asks her now leaning on it

"Don't—" She pauses then sighs in defeat. "Toshimitsu Kubo." Then she sits on the bed.

"It sounds like you don't talk to him much."

"Only when I get a chance."

"I wonder what he's gonna say about your father gettin' arrested… and his coffee shop might shut down after this."

"That also means other students that go there won't put up with him, and they'll have to look somewhere else to get their breakfast fix."

"Oh well. Let's see what this delusional girl is goin' to say tomorrow." Ghost leans off the doorway.

"Yeah… Shouko." Miharu says agitated. "Oh, and thank you for standing up to my father." Shifting from it.

"No problem." And Ghost walks off. And the rest of the day goes goes by without any problems and into the night as well.

Sunday: Sundown.

At the park

Yuuji, Yuuko, Miharu standing around while Ghost sits on the bench.

"So Yuuji, are you getting hurt by Shouko?" Yuuko asks Yuuji

"Yeah. And if you know the time she broke into my house, that can let you know she can't stop nor listen."

"Psychotic and delusional." Ghost says sitting back on the bench. "Why is she not stopped?"

Thinking of a response, Shouko shows up with a briefcase in her hand.

"What are you three doing here?" She asks the three. "This is between me and Yuuji here."

"You didn't say anything about meeting alone." Ghost says. "So… what are you gonna do from here?" Extending his arms.

"What's with the suitcase?" Miharu asks.

"Something for Ghost."

"You're going to give him something?" Yuuji asks her. "When you tazed me in front him and he almost killed you?! Maybe I should tell him about the time you broke in to my house." Shouko might want to shut Yuuji up but on a knee that got hit by a sledgehammer? That'll have to wait.

"And you're my classmate?" Yuuko says in a stern tone. "You're dead to me."

"You are as well if you got beaten by him." Shouko points at Ghost.

"Maybe he should've aimed that cane upwards towards your face." Miharu snarks. As Shouko opens mouth to say something to Minami's former lover, Ghost speaks.

"Oh-ho." Interrupting her train of thought. "Yuuji, when she broke into your house, what did she say?"

Looking at Shouko for any fast moves.

"Because I feel like it." Yuuji is still selling out Shouko, can this get any worse?

"And you Shouko want to show me what's in that briefcase?" Ghost asks her. "Show me."

She walks towards him, shows the briefcase and opens it. Ghost looks at it relaxed while Miharu looks at it as well. Hoping to tempt him into accepting it and leave everybody alone.

"You should know that this is a marriage certificate," She takes the piece of paper and shows it to him.

Under it is a stack of yen in the case, which makes Miharu eyes light up. "And this is Fifty million yen, you can have all of this, if you can forget about what me, Minami and Mizuki are doing. And I'll leave Yuuji alone, then tell Minami and Mizuki to leave Akihisa alone." Shouko offers begrudgingly. Having to let Yuuji go in her point of view is not easy, even keeping her word against Minami and Mizuki's potential nemesis.

"First things first," Ghost begins. "put that certificate back in the case. Do your parents know about this?" Which Shouko being taken aback waving off the certificate like it's nothing.

"They… neglected her." Yuuji answers. And Miharu gasps.

"How am I suppose to feel sorry for you, when you can't even walk away from a problem that you Shouko start one too many times?"

"Give me my stun gun." Shouko's dismissing his question.

"And second of all, money can't save you from your demise." Ghost continues. "So put it back." Then finishes. That's a shocker for Shouko. With those words, not only he let her know that she's in total danger from here on out, her offer gets rejected, knowing that she's not going to take no for an answer.

Shouko puts the certificate back in the case, closes it and puts it down. Then she pulls out her baseball bat with nails and broken glass shards and a horizontal swing going towards Ghost gets suddenly stopped by him with one hand.

"What?!" Shouko says with a shocked expression on her face before she takes an activated stun gun to her neck, rendering her unconscious.

"Fucking idiot!" Yuuko curses at her.

"Nice reflexes Ghost." Miharu says while getting from the bench. "To the SUV before Shouko wakes up."

"Sure thing." Yuuko says and the three make a brake for the foreigners car, while Ghost puts the stun gun back in his pocket and walks the other way, suddenly runs towards Shouko with malicious intent and punts her head in. Then he gets her briefcase and places it on her stomach.

"Rich crackhead." He snarks and walks back to his car with the three waiting on him. Unlocking the doors to it and they get in.

"You got your answer Yuuko, Shouko ain't shit." Ghost tells her starting the engine up.

"Attacking someone when your offer doesn't fall through, she would've lost the class representative role in a heartbeat." His car then drives off.

"Under normal circumstances." He adds.

"Now she might focus on you instead." Yuuji warns.

"Like I give a damn." Ghost snarks. "Females like Minami, Mizuki and Shouko are not worth being around."

"Touche." Miharu says looking out the window.

Ghost drops off Yuuko and Yuuji to their places and Miharu to his place. Sounds like this day is over already.

Ghost's place

Nighttime

Ghost in his pajamas laying down on his bed winding down, he hear his phone ring.

(Let's see.) He thought as he gets it and answers it.

"Hello?"

"Hey Ghost, this is Akihisa. I'm calling about Shouko."

"Ah… Akihisa. About her, it's not gonna be a good time."

"What happen?"

"She tried to give me her money, tryin' to strike a deal with me. Sayin' that she'll tell those two girls to stop hurtin' you."

"To good to be true. How much did she try to give you?"

"Fifty million yen."

Akihisa whistles. "I'm stunned that you didn't take it. Anybody could've took that."

"Well it came from her, and she tried to attack me."

"Shit! Are you alright?"

"I won't be answerin' this phone if I wasn't."

"How did you lose Shouko?"

"Tazed."

"That easily? Then it looks like whatever these three will throw at you will be taken care of right?"

"Yeah."

"Well I have to tell you that we have this week off after spring break, so can you hang in there before school starts."

Ghost gets up off his bed. "You guys in Japan have an extra week off… don't tell me I did all of that for nothin'?" Ticked off by this realization.

"No no no Ghost, you retaliating is actually making them cautious at this point." A sigh of relief can heard through the phone.

"Alright. I'll stick around for Fumizuki to open up, and refrain from puttin' holes in them."

"In my mind, these girls had this coming and they confirmed it for me. I'll see you soon."

"Yeah." And they end the phone conversation. Ghost puts his phone on the small table.

"Ffffuuuuuuuuck!" Ghost yells in his indoor voice. And falls to sleep.

x

Over at an undisclosed office.

Into a room that has books in shelf's and stacked neatly against the wall, a desk that has stacks of papers and various important things, a crystal themed tray that's filled used cigarettes at the corner, and the photo of Yuuji's, Mizuki's and Shouko's faces. The chair turns around to reveal the same red headed lady, this time her are glasses off, playing around with some sort of magic, stops... to look at you.

"You think you know me?" She says.

To be continued.