Fight for Love!
5th Fight: Duel
Tsubasa gulped as he held up four application forms up high right in front of his face. Many boys stood next to him and tried to take a small peek but as soon as they saw what was written on the papers, they had an appalled look on their faces.
Out of the blue, the gymnasium door swung open and four slender figures appeared with arms akimbo on their hips. Instantly, I knew one of the four figures. It was Luna Koizumi, the one who had the Red Belt rank!
"Tsubasa-senpai!" Luna called out and walked over to him while the other three girls followed behind her. "Hurry up and introduce us to the club members."
Tsubasa and the boys gulped again and slowly nodded their trembling heads. Was Luna really that scary until all the senpais were afraid of her?
"Why don't you introduce yourselves?" Tsubasa said.
Luna smiled and said gleefully, "Hello, I'm Luna Koizumi. I am a Red Belt and please take good care of me. Oops! By the way, where is Natsume-sama and Ruka-sama?"
Tsubasa sighed. "On to the next one, please..."
Another girl with pink coloured hair chirped happily, "Call me Anna-chan. I used to take part in Judo when I was in elementary school but I think Judo and Taekwondo are two different things so I decided to join this club, together with Luna-sama!"
The other blue haired girl bowed politely and said in a soft voice, "Call me Nonoko-chan. I am very inexperience in all sorts of fighting. So, please take care of me as well!"
"Hi! I'm Sumire Shouda," a dark green haired girl said enthusiastically. "I bet everyone here knows me so no introduction needed. Anyway, just for your information in case any one of you doesn't know, the four of us are second year students."
Luna added, "And we are the guards of Natsume-sama and Ruka-sama."
Upon hearing that, my jaws dropped. Those girls who suspected me for seducing Natsume and Ruka were the guards of them? They got to be kidding me!
Hotaru mused, "I want to have free serviced guards around me too. Not fair, Hyuuga-senpai."
Natsume glared at Hotaru and whispered, "I don't remember employing them to be my guards."
"Really? That is why I called them 'free serviced guards', dimwit," Hotaru hissed back.
I giggled and Ruka sighed. Natsume rolled his eyes and then stared at the newcomers. Luna looked around frantically and looked at our direction. Her face brightened up like a lost child who had finally found her parents. She clutched onto Anna and shook her violently.
"Oh my gosh! I have found Natsume-sama and Ruka-sama!" Luna squealed loudly. "Wait! I see Mikan Yukihira too."
I jumped and was left speechless. Luna stormed towards me and pointed her index finger at me.
"You seducer, I will stop you from seducing the princes," Luna snarled. "Tsubasa-senpai, I want a duel with this brat."
"What?" I shouted.
Tsubasa shouted too, "That is crazy. I decline your request. Mikan-chan is only a beginner!"
"If Mikan doesn't duel with me, she will have to leave this club," Luna said with a huge smirk on her face.
Shocked, Tusbasa cried, "That is not realistic! Koizumi, you..."
"If Luna-sama wins, Mikan Yukihira will remain as a White Belt for the rest of her high school life or she will leave this club. She will make her choice," Sumire added with a snigger.
Anna giggled and then she put on a serious look on her face. She glared intensively at me and bit her lips.
She snarled, "If Mikan Yukihira wins, she will be promoted to Camouflage Belt. How's that? It's a great jump in rank."
Hotaru blocked me with arms outstretched in front of me and snorted, "I reject this kind of senseless thing!"
Hotaru was right and I agreed with her. A White Belt had no chance of winning against a Red Belt. It was cheating and unfair. Furthermore, the conditions they had made were making the whole duel senseless too. Why were they forcing me to leave this club? It was not like I had the intention to join this club in the first place. I joined it because I wanted to show Ruka that I was strong enough and was not easily picked by people like him and Natsume.
I supported Hotaru, "That's right, Hotaru! It is so unfair! I will definitely lose to her."
"This is not what I mean, stupid Mikan." Hotaru sighed. "It is so unfair to see you getting to promote far higher than me if you win this duel. So, I am taking part in this too!"
My jaws dropped again. What wrong with those people?
Luna laughed and said, "Fine then. It will be two versus one in this duel."
"No way!" Tsubasa and I cried out in sync.
Natsume and Ruka looked at each other and put on a mischievous smirk. They must be up to no good again.
Ruka spoke, "I like this idea. Right, Natsume?"
"Ha! Bring it on!" Natsume laughed. "I wonder who will win, though it is pretty obvious that a Red Belt will surely triumph over a wimpy little White Belt. Idiot Koizumi, don't forget that you are fighting with an international boxer champion."
Ruka laughed heartily and soon, the whole club members began laughing. I frowned and Luna just opened her eyes widely, as if she really believed that I was a boxer. Although they were my senpais, their brains might have been knocked on the wall many times and became brainless.
Tsubasa sighed loudly and said, "Okay, okay. Majority wins but let me remind you that there is no such rule about jumping in ranks!"
Hotaru glared at him and snarled, "As for now, there is such a thing. If you don't let me receive that Camouflage Belt, I will deep-fry you with Luna-senpai."
Tsubasa gulped. "Eh? I will see what the situation will be like first! Geez! Women are scary!"
Without further ado, the duel started. Everyone sat at the side of the gymnasium and the three of us stood in the middle of the gymnasium. We bowed to one another and before Hotaru and I could make a single move, Luna strike first. She sent her feet high up in the air and kicked my lower jaw. I was taken aback by her fast and swift movement and before I could even fall onto the ground, she did a side kick and kicked my cheeks. I landed on the floor with a loud thud and to avoid being kicked out from the duel, I immediately stood up.
It was Hotaru's turn. Hotaru's right knee hit onto Luna's stomach and Luna stumbled backwards. She muttered some curses under her breath and after regaining her posture, she charged towards Hotaru with her fist clenched in the air. I made use of this chance and charged straight at her with my fist in the air too. I wanted to punch her temple so when I was about to reach her, I strike my fist sideways but I missed. She leaped and sent two kicks simultaneously on my stomach and my head. Her kick on my stomach were so strong that I threw up the food which I had eaten during lunch and the impact on my head made my vision go blank.
I knew I had lost in this duel. Though my vision was blank, all I heard was Hotaru's and Tsubasa's voice crying out for my name. I thought I heard Ruka's too but I guessed my ears had received the impact too. Ruka would not care about me and he would never will.
Slowly, I drifted into a dark space of unconsciousness.
First, I would like to thank those who had reviewed Chapter 4. Thanks for all those encouragements. Hope to hear more from you again! :D
Here are the responses:
- jusT-anoTheR-sTupiD-peRsoN: Thanks for the suggestion! Maybe I will put that in, if I can :)
- CaraRein: Thank you! :D
- zaf: Hmm... I am not sure yet but maybe I will. :)
- Lover11Anime: Haha! You're right! :P
- ninjagrl55: Of course, she should win! :D
- GakuenAliceLover: Okay, I will try. I wonder that why too... ;)
- meLOVES'NATSUME: Yeah, he likes her and can be quite dominating too. :)
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