"Huhh? Are you serious? He doesn't look that strong to me."
The Itagaki siblings gathered around a table with multiple photo's spread across the surface. On said photos was a foreigner, fighting both Kazuko Kawakami and two random men, though they looked strong.
"I don't get it, what's so special about him?" The twin-tailed Itagaki Angel spat.
"Yeah I mean, he's cute, but I think even I could whoop his ass at this point." Ryuhei chimed in.
"I like his hair." Tatsuko added.
A man laughed. "Your untrained eyes wouldn't be able to see it, but too a master like me," the master of the siblings, Shakadou spoke. "The potential in this boy far exceeds all of yours."
"What!?" The violet haired Itagaki Ami spouted in surprise. "But we managed to master the Kawakami style in a few short years! Are you implying that he could do it in less?"
"That's exactly what I'm implying." Shakadou's excitement could hardly be contained. "This kid could defeat the entire Kawakami school one day… I need him on our side."
"And how do you plan on doing that?" Ryuhei asked.
"It's unfortunate but Tesshin got to him first." You could almost feel the ooze dripping from Shakadou's voice. "But as long as we strike while he's weak, we'll be able to act."
Ryuhei smiled. "I think I know exactly what you have planned."
The small room began to fill with laughter as they started to devise their evil plan for the young man.
…
[Quest added:
"Cast the first stone."
Description:
The Kazama family asked you to help them with a request to bring down the window breakers who have been terrorizing the school. Help them take the vandals down.
Reward:
5,000 XP]
Finally night fell, the plan was all set out.
"Man I can't believe it, my first mission," I was pretty excited despite the fact that Senpai wanted me to fight people of unknown strength.
We looked down from the roof of the school to the training grounds. You could essentially see the entire campus from our current location.
I was crouched down looking down and Momyo was behind me peering down as well.
"We'll test your strength today, and I'll decide once and for all if you're worth being my protege," her voice tickled the back of my neck.
"Senpai, that tickles~"
"Stop trying to be cute, bastard," Gakuto calls me out.
Yamato shushes us. "Shut up you three," he points over to the front gate. "Look."
A few shadowy figures stroll casually onto campus grounds.
"There are four enemies… And it looks like they're conveniently split onto different floors." Momoyo noted, breathing down my neck. She also leaned in for a closer look, pressing her boobs against my back.
"Kinda… getting … hard… er, hard to think… yeah, that's what I meant."
"C'mon Mari, let's go greet these guys," Momyo taps my shoulder and I follow her into the building.
…
The perp skipped through the hallway of the school. "Lalalalla~ I'm going to break the windows now~" Sounded like the dude was foreign, his accent was thick and his singing skills were worse than my own.
"Say something cool," Momoyo pushes me.
"Ah- okay," I ran out in front of the guy. "Hey you!" I pointed at him. "The only thing that's breaking tonight, is your face!" I yell.
"Laaaaaaame," Momoyo comments.
"L-Like you could come up with anything better!"
The dude takes a few steps back in surprise. "!? You saw me!"
"No shit," I reply, folding my arms. '"Did you really think Kawakami academy would just sit back and let you keep this shit up?
"Take my punches!" This dude was a level 10, pretty good, but not good enough.
As he drew further, I side stepped his attack and laid my own punch into his jaw. He fell directly on his ass.
"You really are improving!" Momoyo slaps me on my back.
"Don't give me credit for fighting this bum I-" before I could even finish my sentence said bum jumped back up for another attack. "Let me finish!" I yell as I kick him in his face sending him back to the ground.
See I knew abusing my strength stat would pay off eventually.
"I feel like all ten of us were not needed for this job," I noted.
"Why are you always complaining?" Momoyo asked.
"I'm just asking! And normally I complain because you're usually abusing the fuck outta me!" I object.
"Yeah yeah."
"Alright you two," Moro, who joined us chimed in. "Let's go find team 2, they're the closest."
"Mari you better take down at least one more guy or I'll make you look like a pretzel."
"SENPAI YAMETTE!"
…
On the third floor Gakuto had already approached the other vandal.
"Bob-kun! I-I'm in a pinch!" The small fry cried.
"Senpai, is this dude even worth me taking out? He looks almost harmless." I asked Momoyo as we ran down the hallway towards the perp, sandwiching him between us and Gakuto.
"I don't want to hear your excuses! Whack that little mole!" She yelled.
"F-Fine."
"Now, say something COOOL this time!"
"Ugg, you've gotta give me more time to think about this type of shit."
We continued to close in on the little bastard. C'mon Mari, you got something cool in this noggin of yours, just say whatever comes natural… What did that squirt say earlier?
"You damned right you are!"
"Huh? What was that in reference to?"
"Uh, him being in a pinch…"
"God you're lame."
"Shut up!" I yelled as I continued to rush the squirt. "Senpai, do you know what I did back in high school?"
"Hmm, what was it again? I forgot."
"I played american football."
"Oh… and what does it have to do with this?"
"Not much," I said as I readied my foot. "But I was the best kicker in the state!" And with that I flung my foot forward, smashing the toes of my shoe into his chin.
"OWUWPOOOW" I sent him flying back into a widow, breaking it. Oh shit.
"DUDE!" Gakuto yelled at me.
I put my hands up defence. "I-I'm sorry!, let's just say that he did it!"
"Well I mean, he DID technically do it," Moro defended me.
"T-That was a good kick M-Mari-san," That's when I finally noticed Mayukie was there.
"Ay, good job, you actually managed to talk to him!" Said her little horse thing. Matsukaze I think its name was.
"Thanks Mayzumi," while unsure how I feel about it now, back when I first read through the visual novel she was my favorite girl.
With that thought in mind a familiar blue text window popped up on my screen.
[Quest Passed:
"Cast the first stone."
Description:
The Kazama family asked you to help them with a request to bring down the window breakers who have been terrorizing the school. Help them take the vandals down.
Reward:
5,000 XP]
Level Up!
Level Up!
Level 15 huh? Oh yeah, it's all coming together.
Wait, does that mean that the others took out the last guy?
"Don't ask me how I know, but I think they wrapped up guys, we better go check on them," I let them know as I started walking out of the building. Hopefully that wasn't too suspicious of me...
…
"P-Please let us go, we're just pitiful children."
"Give it a rest," I shut them up. "Jits like you are never actually sorry for what you did, just that you got caught."
"Now stop crying, if it gets too unsightly I'll shave your eyebrows off," Capt threatened.
"Well, all's well that ends well amiright Gakuto?" I asked, slapping his back.
"Don't touch me."
Man he really doesn't fuck with me does he?
"Well to be fair, it didn't really end well for those two," Moro noted.
"Yeah, I don't really care about them," I said with a laugh.
…
The next morning I was brought onto the training grounds with master Tesshin. He called me out for a one on one tutoring session before school starts, but ever since I got here there's been nothing but silence.
"Omari, what do you know about meditation?" He spoke finally.
Meditation? "Not much I'm afraid. I've seen characters in movies and anime do it, but I don't know what it actually is… breathing exercise isn't it?"
"Breathing exercises, ohoho," he laughed. "That's what it may appear to be like on the outside and it does have a lot to do with breathing, but to simply call it breathing exercise would be an insult."
"My apologies," I bow.
"Don't worry about it," he didn't seem to be that mad about it. "You train your body, your body get's strong, yes?"
nod in response.
He continued. "You train your mind, your mind gets strong, yes?"
I nod again.
"So if you were to train your spirit, it would also get strong, wouldn't it?"
I didn't nod in response, as I didn't know.
"Come here, sit and cross your legs," he motioned for me to sit next to him and I did. "Make sure you clear your mind, focus on your breathing, when your mind starts to wonder, bring it back to your breathing."
"Is that it?"
"That is only the first part. When you get good you'll start to feel your energy growing, your fighting spirit as well, meditation is a good way to grow your power."
"Is it necessary?"
"Most certainly, especially if you hope to challenge Momoyo one day… For now we'll do this for half an hour."
HALF AN HOUR!? DOING NOTHING?
…
"So I heard you trained with the old man today," I walked beside Momoyo on the way to school.
"Trained isn't the word I'd use," it was literally the most boring thing ever.
"What happened?"
"We meditated just for a while," I said with a shrug.
She nodded knowingly. "That old man is serious about his meditation." She patted my shoulder. "Well he does know a thing or two about training so you can at least rely on him to steer you in the right direction."
"Sure," I replied back.
Soon the rest of the Kazama family (Plus Chris and Yukie) met up with us by the river bank.
"Today's the Friday gathering," Capt brought up.
"We gotta decide what we're going to do over the long weekend," Gakuto noted.
"Mayumayu, Kri and Mari, you guys don't know about the Friday gathering do you?" She turned to Wanko. "Sis, take them to the base after school."
"Aye, Aye," She mimicked a pirate. "Mari-kun and I had some training to do anyway. Oof, more training.
"Better bring a change of clothes," Yamamto advised.
"You ain't ever lie my friend," luckily I had my casual clothes in my school gym locker.
"Haaaaa…" The shy girl known as Yukie or Mayucchi breathed out a strange breath.
"What's wrong Mayucchi?" Chris asked.
"Well, this is the first time I've received a present from someone other than my relatives," that is a sad statement my girl. "Yamato was my FIRST."
"NANI!?" I almost spit out my drink, had I had one.
"Gakuto, Mari, quick, Grab Miyako!" Momoyo senpai yelled at us.
"OH SHIT!" We both launched at the purple haired girl, holding her back.
"YOOOOOU!" She yelled in anger as we both tried our damnedest to hold her back. Shit, remind me not to fight this chick anytime soon.
"Eh, eh, eh?" Mayuchhi looked around with a blushed look on her face, obviously confused.
"You're a playboy," Moro noted.
"That was definitely just a figure of speech," Yamato didn't even seem bothered by what was going on.
Suddenly Miyako stopped charging. Gakuto and I were able to relax a bit. "I was pretending to be a new wife who snapped."
"I don't understand why you would get so angry." Chris said bringing her hand up to her chin in thought.
"Of course you wouldn't Chris," I said as I patted her back.
"Oh Omari-kun, hello there," She smiled and returned the pat, obviously still confused by what was going on.
"If you don't watch out, Omari will try to take your first, Chris," Momoyo added.
"I-I would NOT try to do that!" I defended myself.
"My first what?" Chris asked.
"Oh you know," Momoyo then leaned in and whispered. "Your chastity."
And with that her face turned red in an instant. "O-Omari! W-Were not even dating, why would you attempt to do something so impure?" She took several steps away from me.
"Why Senpai, what did I do to deserve this?" I questioned.
"It's a good laugh," she replied back simply.
...
I tried to get this out before the end of March... Didn't happen. But my goal is to be past the timeline of the common arc before the one year anniversary.
I'd like to respond to a review about wanting to see more original scenes. I understand completely and will try to add more and more original things, but to be honest, my original inspiration for this fic was to write out how Omari would act and have fun with the characters in some of the scenes that were in the visual novel. But for the sake of all my readers I will try harder to add more original content.
I bet the readers who are having the most fun right now are the one's who've just watched the anime lol.