Well well well look at this a 3rd chapter so soon well aren't I gracious.
Jokes aside hey all how's it going as I said this is the chapter where Rika jumps in and as I did say yes this was an amusing thing to write so I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Also to all those that dropped a Review thank you very much these reviews are one of the reasons why I do what I do as well as get up and write throughout the day.
Now with that shit out the way onto the third chapter!
Chapter 3 Training Trick
"I hate the mornings." I groaned out of the bathroom slightly refreshed from taking a morning shower but was somewhat annoyed that I was forced to get up and take it after I cooked everyone breakfast and then apparently make lunch despite me still having no fucking clue what I was damn well doing.
"It's not even a god damned week into living here and I'm already being used as a stupid fucking maid." I growled out noticing how the four teens all regarded me as the newest slave well all but Ringo and Ume as they were kind enough to help organize the lunches.
"Mikan better do her damn job and get me that job or else I'm going to have to go out and try get myself a laptop and good news I got enough money to splurge on something more high grade and hopefully I can get myself a drawing tablet, just cause i need a job and to take down Sora's entire fucking operation doesn't mean I don't have to stop my hobbies anytime soon.
"Alright lets get going I got a stupid shopping list to go through and a lot of time to go and get them." I mumbled aloud making my way to my room but was stopped when I heard a pair of stomping feet coming right at m-"OW!"
"Shut up who the hell are you and why did you sneak into my home!?" I heard a mature female voice exclaim angrily as I was pinned down face first into the wooden floor boards while I hand my arm held backwards.
"Wha?" I exclaimed before feeling my arm slightly twisted causing me to bite my lip so I didn't yell in pain.
"Answer the damn question or I'll rip off your damn arm off."
"I'm Hamish I just moved in yesterday!" I quickly yelled out, eyes closed hoping the pain stopped sometime soon.
"Oh wait so you're the one my sisters were talking about." Hearing this my head turned to look over my shoulder where I saw a very hot as hell redhead holding my arm in place, oh fuck nuggets thats Rika!
Huh the anime/manga does her some surprisingly good justice with her bodily proportions.
"Well I apologize, my sisters called me last night and told me someone moved in I decided to investigate and well when I found you skulking around I just acted on instinct, I'm Rika the landlady of this Inn."
"Nice to meet you, I'm Hamish and as much as I like to be sat on by a… very nice girl I'd very much like to stand up and talk to my landlady face to face." I quipped trying not to sound condescending or annoyed but since she still had me pinned to the ground my arm in the air.
Yeah you could see how condescending I could be now.
"Sorry about that." Rika exclaimed getting up off of me, finally allowing me to get up off of the ground.
"Geez how much can you deadlift, cause your strong as all living hell." I said rotating my shoulders hearing my shoulder blades crack back into place. "So other than obviously assaulting me what can I do you for?" I questioned the Landlady who just rolled her eyes at me.
"I came here to make sure my sisters didn't let a random pervert stay in the Inn so I'm sorry for the rude encounter." Rika apologized again slightly throwing me off considering she's actually pretty well known to be quite… strong hearted.
"You know what as compensation you can actually help me out today." I said watching how the redheaded woman looked at me with wide eyes. "I need to go and buy myself a laptop as well as some other things but I don't exactly have the foreknowledge of this place so if you could show me around while I do some shopping then I would greatly appreciate it."
"Alright that seems fine with me." Rika said with a nod accepting my job for help.
"Sweet let me get my things and we can get-"
"Hold on we can't go yet."
"Eh?"
"We need to clean the place first before we go anywhere."
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"Eh?"
"I can now see how you and Mikan are sisters." I exclaimed stretching my arms out and leaning back feeling the bones in the top half of my body immediately crack right into place. "Your both damn slave drivers."
"What is that supposed to mean?" Rika asked the tone of her voice fairly on edge while I just gave her a blank stare.
"Mikan woke me up this morning to cook her and everyone breakfast and lunch, then you come in and more or less strong arm into helping you clean, which by the way if you asked in a nicer tone of voice I wouldn't have to explain why you are a slave driver." I explained in a very plain kind of tone while the two of us waited in front of some traffic lights.
"Why you-Sigh forget it, no point in arguing with you unlike Ikki you actually seem to have a brain on your shoulders." Rika somewhat compliment me I mean… well actually yeah that is a compliment if we compare anyone to Ikki.
"Anyway what's up with your sister bullying that kid anyway?" I questioned now curious as to how or better yet did Mikan get her rocks off when torturing the younger teen.
"Ikki to put it plainly is a dumbass and doesn't bother listening to reason, and the only way we as a family have more or less couped with trying to teach him anything was through violence or discipline." Rika explained while I nodded on the outside while in my head I had to see the facts.
Yes Ikki was a dumbass and it looked like most of the times he had learned his lesson was when he getting his ass beaten or the answer was forced right into his face and usually most of those times it caused the younger teen to bite back and immediately make the situation worse.
So to quote Agito you can't take into account for dumbass… ness.
"Well maybe if you need something to convey to him I could give it a shot but uh… lets just give it a bit don't wanna suddenly make myself the spotlight of attention when I just moved in." I suggested watching how Rika's eyes seemed to widen in a look of surprise.
"Ahem right well come on let's get those things you want, you sure you have the money for all that you want?"
"Pretty sure otherwise I hope to fucking god Mikan gets me that job she said she was going to get me." I honestly hoped that teen did as she said she was going to do otherwise things were going to get slightly more difficult from here on out.
"Thank you once again Rika for helping me get this stuff." I exclaimed happily to Rika as we walked into the Inn my arms carrying a couple bags one of them holding my new laptop and drawing pad and the others clothes and bathing equipment such as toothbrushes and razors.
"Your welcome I'll call you when I need your assistance." Rika told me while I nodded in understanding before I walked into my room.
Setting everything down I quickly got to work setting up my laptop and overall I spent more than two hundred thousand Yen on this stuff but I feel like it was somewhat worth it considering I got myself a gaming laptop and a display drawing tablet.
Once everything was set up I looked over to my AT's again and quickly moved to grab the memory card in my AT's but stopped when I just realized now that I had a gateway into the world of the internet this was my chance to check something out that has had me slightly worried.
Locations on where I could train myself with AT as well as some tutorials that is if anyone was dumb enough to make them for AT's.
20 minutes later
"Oh you have seriously got to be fucking kidding me." I mumbled as I saw an actual Youtube channel dedicated to teaching beginners about AT's as well as found a website that had locations for beginners to go to if they wanted a nice private place to train themselves and all of said locations were exclusively Tool Tool areas meant it was neutral territory.
"Well looks like I got myself a place to train and a place to ask for help, time to get my ass in gear." I mumbled shutting my laptops screen closed before picking up my AT's and placing them in a backpack I had picked up on the cheap, slipping my head phones around my neck I walked out of my room to tell Rika that I was going to go out again that I would be back before four so I could cook dinner.
Seeing as how Mikan was forcing me to do the job I didn't really mind taking over all that much especially when I had a way station to go to if I have no clue on what the hell I was doing.
Walking into an old looking warehouse I was greeted with the appearance of an indoor skatepark I smiled as it turned out it was empty meaning I had the whole place to myself setting my bag down on a nearby bench I quickly went into putting on my AT's.
Tightening the last last up I pulled off my hoodie and switched on my AT's making sure to choose the most appropriate song for my listening pleasure.
In Da mood seemed very appropriate as the motors in my AT's started up, deciding to do some circles just for a warm up I only stopped when I felt I had my balance on point and quickly shot over towards a ramp feeling confident I leaped off into the air arms spread outwards before i came down into a crouch but lost my balance and found myself tumbling around on the concrete ground.
"Ow." I groaned out in slight pain looking back to the ramp as I saw that I was in the air with what I believed was only 5 metres away. "This may take a lot longer." I spoke to myself before throwing myself back onto my feet and riding around simply deciding to get used to everything before going back to jumping off ramps.
An hour went by as my alarm went off in my headphones signalling that it was time for me to go home, rolling over to my bag I picked it up making sure to tie my hoodie around my waist seeing as I was pretty much drenched in sweat from head to toe.
"Well be back tomorrow." I spoke to myself before deciding to ride out of the skate park my confidence in my ability rising even if I didn't do much for the first session I at least had some fun.
Now to get home and get dinner cooking.
Riding through the street my mind kind of went blank as I felt the air rush through my shaggy ass hair and bent down low and found myself once again staring at the same winged road I saw yesterday but this time I found myself seeing more than one road in front of me.
Seeing the roads my body seemed to automatically choose the closest road that being me speeding towards a nearby staircase, leaping up my eyes bugged in shock and horror as the staircase had a bigger drop than what I assumed.
"Oh fuck."
Near four o clock.
"I'm home." I exclaimed somewhat stumbling through into the living room my body aching from top to bottom as I looked like I got into a fight.
"What the-what happened to you?" Mikan questioned looking at me with wide eyes.
"To be honest overconfidence and a side order of not judging a stupid stair case." I more or less explained feeling more tired with how I ended up like this.
"Wow you tried to jump a staircase, that takes some serious balls." Mikan exclaimed with a smirk on her face.
"Ok Ume go and do your homework, Mikan get me the first aid kit and sit down." I heard Rika ordered the three of us to do exactly as she said.
"Hey where's Ringo and Ikki?" I asked looking at the time and seeing it was well past 3 o clock.
"Ikki's doing his stupid thing and Ringo is with to make sure he doesn't do something too damn stupid." Rika exclaimed sitting next to me as she had a washcloth in her hands already cleaning some of the more obvious scrapes and scratches on my face. "Now tell me what really happened."
"Try to jump a long flight of stairs and well shit happened and didn't exactly stick the landing and so I pretty much had to walk after that." I explained slightly wincing as I felt the alcohol on the washcloth burn through my cuts.
"Your a Stormrider aren't you." I heard Rika exclaim sounding very sad for no reason.
"Wha-no I just started and personally I'm more into having fun than the stupid parts war." I quickly cleared up watching how Rika's face continued to scrunch up in displeasure. "Look Rika trust me this is just a hobby I'm not looking into getting in a career as a stormrider and even if I was I'd probably tell you about it first considering I'm going to have to comeback with the possibility with my ass being covered in bruises."
"Sigh not even one day here and you're already putting yourself on my shit list, fine I won't stop you from doing your hobby but just don't get Ikki involved that idiot doesn't need an obsession like storm riders in his life." Rika breathed out surprising me with how accepting she was of it.
"Why do I have a feeling there's a bit of an Icarus metaphor coming to mind?" I joked before grabbing my shoulder in pain as Rika decided in all of her damn wisdom to punish me with a punch to shoulder. "OW!"
"Oh shut up, I did worse things to you this morning."
"Kinky."
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Pow!
"OW! Ok I deserved that one!"
Chapter 3 end