Sup I'm back and with the newest chapter and also a question which I will ask at the end of the chapter just so it dosen't throw your heads out for the loop and you have to reread the chapter again.
Anyway onto the chapter!
Chapter 13 Setup Trick
"Ikki what in the fuck are you doing?" I questioned finding the teen in the middle of the footpath, his body somewhat scuffed up and looking like he just went through a couple rounds with Mike Tyson.
"I got into a parts war with these dog guys and I screwed up my AT's. What does it look like to you!" Ikki bit back at me looking fairly angry.
"Aaaaaah I'm not going to give you an answer to that, alright come on let's get you home." I exclaimed, taking off my AT's.
"Wah wait are you going to-"
"I'm not giving you
my AT's, I'm just letting you use them to get home and if I find out you didn't go straight home with my AT's I will kick your damn head in." I exclaimed, taking my bag off and pulling out my shoes, seeing as how I was taking up the part time shifts Daunt has been sending me home earlier than usual.
"Oh ok thanks for that um… do you think I could get some money to repair my AT's?" Ikki questioned, sounding somewhat nervous from asking me all people.
"Let me think about it." I said not really giving him an answer but at the same time not crushing his hopes and dreams completely.
"Oh sweet thanks you won't regret this!" Ikki exclaimed as he handed his stuffed up AT's and quickly moved to put my AT's on.
"Whoa these are really comfortable." Ikki exclaimed, noticing something I never really took any notice of.
"Just watch it, Ikki those AT's of mine are faster than yours and I mean that seriously ease up on the throttle on the straights and if you don't you're going to have to powerslide around if you want to turn corners." I explained remembering how my first month of training with my AT's went.
Fairly poorly especially with the amount of times I shoulder checked myself into a wall when I didn't control my speed.
"Cool uh hey can I ask you something else?" Hearing this I gave Ikki a curious look.
"Yeah sure what's up?"
"H-how long have you been riding AT's?" hearing the question I couldn't help but smirk at him before giving him an answer.
"By now over three months." I said watching how Ikki's widened in excitement.
"What three months holy shit that's amazing, d-do you think I could be that good in three months?" Ikki asked while I finished zipping up my bag.
"Honestly No," I said seriously watching how Ikki's face seemed to look down stricken. "Oi let me finish, in one week you'll be at a level that I never was at until I hit my first month, in two months you will get to where I was when I hit me right now."
With that I watched Ikki's eyes suddenly look at me with so much hope.
"But just remember in those two months I'll be better than the me now." I said watching the determined spirit in Ikki's eyes exploded with excitement.
"Sweet thanks I'll see you home!" Ikki looked more happy than he was when I bumped into him at first and took off down the street.
"You know unlike a lot of other people who spy on me they have the decency to come down and have a chat with me from time to time Ms Swallow."
"Aaaaawww but watching that entire exchange was just adorable Raven." I heard Simca before she landed right in front of me.
"You have a stalking problem, you know that right," I said bluntly, hefting my bag over my shoulders. "Then again when it comes to Ikki this shit doesn't exactly surprise me much."
"Hehehe well little crows slowly getting his wings if you haven't noticed."
"I have noticed that's why I'm not gonna hold him back. I'm just going to make sure he's actually ready, then again when it comes to Ikki no one is ready for his brand of sanity." I mumbled the last part to myself as I knew how… theatrical he could get.
"Well Raven I wonder what is your plan in this?"
"What are you talking about?" I asked, utterly confused on what Simca was trying to hint at.
"You've been moving fairly quickly, your actions against the police all the way to your interactions with Ikki you've got something planned." Simca pointed out while I just stood there staring at her. "And I'm absolutely curious about what you have planned."
"Nice of you to notice but you're overthinking it if you think what I'm doing is just a huge ass scheme." pulling out my phone i didn't bother to hide my more advanced phone as I swiped along the screen until I stopped to press on a random track that immediately started to play through my headphones.
"Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go home and go to sleep. I've had quite a long day and I'd like to get enough sleep so that I can get up and make everyone's meals." I said pulling my headphones over my head allowing the electric guitar of 'born this way by thousand foot krutch' to block out the world before I walked off, my head bobbing along to the lyrics.
"Because I was born this way, I got lightning running through my veins, Ain't nobody gonna stop this train so hop on board or get out the way." I sang on my way home.
The next day
"Hey um sooooo about that-"
"If you want money you're going to need a job," I expressed tiredly as it was the morning Ikki seemingly too excited to get that so called loan that he caught me just as I was waking up which was at six in the morning.
"Morning Hamish!" Hearing the new voice I blinked in confusion when I looked behind me to not only see Ikki there but so was Akito.
"Morning… which room did you sleep in last night?" I asked, curious as to where the eye patch wearing teen slept.
"I slept with Ikki." He brightly exclaimed, not bothering to hide his happiness while Ikki looked somewhat angry about it.
"You snuck into my bed last night even when I told you yesterday to not do that." Ikki told Akito not sounding one bit pleased with how the other teen just did it like it was nothing.
"Right ok not going to poke that, Akito you and Agito need any money as well?" I questioned deciding that I may as well ask the other teen than later finding out he's struggling.
"Well kind of, with our AT's it's kind of hard to keep things maintained with our AT's." Akito explained looking somewhat nervous, nearly four days here and Akito was slow to open up to me which was fine I understood that this was going to have to be something I was going to have to deal with over time.
Also appeared that despite Ikki's dislike of Akito and Agito he quickly settled into the older brother role when they went to school or were both at home.
"That's alright anyway if you're interested in getting paid the place I work at is looking for people or well they're going to be looking for people." I said already picturing how these two could work.
"Really you're going to get us jobs?" Ikki exclaimed extremely surprised by the idea of someone getting him a job.
"Yeah but if you want to get paid then you better not screw this up and if you do screw this up for me you will be permanently placed onto my shit list got it?" I expressed with a serious look watching how the two nodded in understanding. "Good now if you'll excuse me but I've got breakfast and lunch to make also can you do me a favor and tell Kazu to come over."
"Kazu, why do you want him over?" Ikki suddenly asked.
"Gotta a friend who needs some help and I thought of your friend Kazu." I slightly explained not bothering to tell him that Spitfire has an eye out for the new Flame king and I thought why not give Kazu a bit of a push.
The first time I met Kazu was when we did that test heist thing, second had to be the time I blew up that box of beer every other time Kazu has met me he was always
"Alright then I'll see what I can do." Ikki nodded in understanding, obviously not taking any time to question me.
"Hey Ikki let's have a bath together!" Akito exclaimed happily.
"Hell no I'm going to have a bath first you can wait your turn ya runt!" Ikki exclaimed as he and Akito made their way over to the bathroom.
I'm happy they're getting along so well, really I am still though I'm a tad worried about Agito that kids got some serious blood lust and it's only a matter of time before the hunger of blood gets too strong.
"Hopefully with this job I can get him. Agito can finally cut loose… within reason of course." I mumbled before tiredly moving to the kitchen deciding to make myself something to eat just so I could wake myself up before cooking everyone else's meals.
3rd POV
Kazuma Mikura was confused.
He met Hamish a couple times and every time he met him the adult surprised him as well as scared him.
From the start he didn't expect Ikki to trust another adult in his entire life but Ikki proved him wrong with Hamish who casually went along with them not minding that he was helping a pair of middle schoolers break into their school and also helped them out when they were nearly caught.
Then there was the beer box incident where the old eastside gunz ended up getting their asses kicked straight after Hamish blew up a box of beer with no real warning and truly didn't care if he embarrassed him and Ikki, that was then that Kazu learned to fear Hamish.
But that fear slowly died out when the blonde haired teen came over to Ikki's home from time to time, Hamish turned from the scariest guy hes ever seen into the most calm collected guy ever, he didn't even bat an eye when they told him that Kazu and Onigiri were going to stay for dinner.
He just cooked the food and talked with everyone and when it came to him talking to Kazu he looked at him with a smile and told him he was glad that Ikki had a friend like him around.
So when Kazu started coming by more and more often to the Inn he was greeted with a wave and asked if he was hungry, and if he was being honest whenever he seemed to come into the Inn he always seemed to grow hungry.
So when he heard from Ikki that Hamish wanted to see him Kazu felt his stomach do a flip, wondering what did Hamish want with him he was just Ikki's best friend nothing too serious hell when Akito came into the picture Kazu was the first to welcome him into their little group of friends despite him being very… off almost like there was something to him that made Kazu feel uncomfortable.
"Don't worry about it, Hamish is cool, it's not like he's going to lecture you or anything." Onigiri exclaimed riding next to the beanie wearing blond, the two of them riding a pair of AT's Ikki had instructed them to get a couple days ago.
"Yeah but he asked for me so how can I not be nervous?" Kazu questioned feeling more and more nervous when he got closer and closer to the Inn.
"Look man I need to get home my old man is expecting me to help him out with the shop so call me later and tell me how it goes." Onigiri told the blonde as the two said their goodbyes and separated.
Kazu got closer and closer to the Inn before he power slid to a stop when he suddenly found a random guy walking(riding) out in front of him.
"Ooooooh shit!" Kazu yelped nearly falling over as he came to a complete stop. "Whoa whoa whoa ok I'm good I'm good."
"Ahahahaha I can see that." Hearing the loud laugh Kazu looked up at the man that he nearly ran into, his eyes immediately spotting the older guys bright red hair and the red leather jacket he wore on top of a black undershirt. "You just started AT's haven't you?"
"Uh is it that easy to tell?" Kazu asked as he looked down to see the guy also wearing a pair of AT's as well.
"You could say something like hey tell me you know the area you know about this Inn nearby got told I was supposed to meet someone there."
"Do you mean Naoyumi Inn?" Kazu asked knowing that was the only Inn that was around these parts.
"Yes, I take it you know Hamish correct?" The guy asked, watching Kazu as he nodded.
"Ah yeah I was just heading over there."
"Very good then I'll follow your lead."
"Sure, I'm Kazu."
"I see I'm Spitfire."
Kazu didn't know it at the time but this first meeting between the more experienced Stormrider and the novice AT rider was the beginning of something.
And Hamish watched over the exchange nearby with a large smirk on his face as he saw how the two started conversing with each other, Kazu smartly asking Spitfire about tips and advice while the later slowly started to judge the younger teens character.
"And like that I'll let the mentor and apprentice relationship start up." Hamish said before leaping back into the air heading back to the Inn to meet up with the two.
Chapter 13 end
So I did something interesting specifically with adding Kazu on Spitfire's watch a lot earlier than before, which I was disappointed when I read that Kazu while did learn from Spit only did so through the SD program he had set up.
So I did Kazu a favour and gave him that master apprenticeship relationship before Spit's unfortunate demise, but I will not going any further than that.
NOW ONTO THE QUESTION!
The question is Simple really how would guys feel if I did a semi side series where I placed Hamish into One Piece specifically on the Baratie before the strawhats popped up and have him and the famous sous chef of the Baratie Sanji challenge each other to a cooking fight and basically join the strawhats as the secondary chef to the crew?
I know Crossover SI's ew, but hey I just wanted your opinions before I do anything of the sort.
And with that I leave you all to enjoy the rest of your days and such.
Later!