Complications
By zzzzzz
I do not own Tenjho Tenge the man Ito Ōgure or Oh! Great or 大暮 維人 owns this story
All characters and the respective companies that he has sold the rights. I own no rights to this anime.
--Hotaru's complex--
The Juken club has stopped by to check on their comrade and friend. They truly hated this place. Not for its imposing walls, the strong smell of medicine, or the cold temperatures that were kept constant at the building. They hated it because every time they were here they all knew that that meant. That one of their friends was hurt. Nothing but bad memories and just barely won battles were connected with the thoughts of this place. This time was no different.
"Tell us will he be alright?" asked Maya with an authoritative tone. She had spent the most time in this building than any other Juken member and liked the place least of all. Hotaru then spoke up. "Honestly on a physical scale he is fine. The only problem is his energy. It keeps in flux to different degrees. There is not much that can be done. I don't know what is going on in his body right now but I have never seen anything like this before." After saying this, she takes out a cigarette and lights it up in frustration. After exhaling the cancer-filled smoke, she speaks with a sage like wisdom. "It may be a cliché but it is all up to him, all we can do is wait."
--Masataka dreamscape--
The world is very different from the last time he had been here. It almost seemed like someone had switched on a strobe light. There were constant fluxes all around him. He then spoke. "This is just a dream, it can't hurt me. I can control this." With that, he sat down and began to meditate. As he continued this, the world started to calm down. It would first slow down the strobe to a slow steady pace. Then it started to go from a tinted white to a lighter black. Masataka strengthened his concentration and it slowly turned to a gray color all around. This seemed a bit more soothing. He just focused on this soothing feeling, he started to get lost in it, then he opened his eyes and everything was calm. "I feel incredible, like nothing could touch me. But now I have to wake up."
--Hotaru's complex--
The scans started to calm down as Hotaru and the Juken club watched on in anticipation. Then it looked as if nothing were changing but there was a problem with one of the data inputs. Hotaru looked at its reading and noticed that Masataka's level of energy out put had nearly quadrupled since the last time he had been in for a check up. She turned to the group and asked. "Has he been doing any unusual amounts of training?" Dogen stepped forward from the shadows and finally spoke up. "Actually I must say yes. Is that what caused this problem?" Hotaru then spoke up. "No… I do not think so. At least I have never heard of this happening before. He just has an unusual amount of ki output."
Dogen then shoves her away. "Let me see that." He then examines the levels. He is quite astounded to find the levels that were present. 'This is even higher than I could have imagined. Could it be? Could this be it? I know I will observe him and see what becomes of this. I do not want to force anything and screw it all up like I had with my other son.' Dogen then hardened his face to hide both the excitement, glee, and sorrow that had been present on his face just seconds before. Turning to Hotaru, he then asks. "Is this dangerous?" Hotaru puts a smile on and says with a grinning smirk. "Only to his opponents. This is really amazing." After this talk, they both turn around to find that they had been alone this entire time. Unknown to them while they were fretting over numbers the entire Juken club had rushed down to great and help up Masataka. Even thought he really did not need it, to him it felt nice to wake up from such a violent nightmare being surrounded by people he could think of as … friends.
After removing all the plugs and wires from his body, he then stood up and asks about what had happened while he was out. They explained in detail what each of them had seen, heard and interpreted. Having the sufficient gaps, filled Masataka then dressed himself in the clothes that had been brought for him and they filed out of the building.
--Natsume Dojo--
Everyone was going over the previous week's works. Maya was still waiting for the intelligence to report back about the findings of the brutal attacker from a few days prior. They were all talking about things that had been happening to them at school. The intelligence Maya had sent out had come back and entered the dojo. "Maya-sama would you please come with me for a moment." Maya looked up and recognized the person immediately as Shinichiro Kurei. "Yes, what can I do for you?" Maya said as she walked outside with Kurei into the garden. "It is about the attacker. Um. He had struck again against the Kenjutsu club." Maya was shocked. "But Masataka was in charge of dealing with that group. Unless…" Kurei felt sympathy for the situation but had no doubts about whom the attacker could have been. "I'm afraid it is Masataka-Kun. I'm sorry Maya." Maya closed her eyes to think the situation over. Either she could hide the situation or she could confront him and improvise from there. As the executive president, she really had no choice. If she tried to hide it, the other students would eventually find out and the problem could actually worsen. "We need to go and confront Masataka about this." With that, she left the garden to go and talk to the Juken group about this attacker.
"Masataka, would you please come here for a moment." Said Maya, almost mechanically. "Sure thing Maya-sama. What do you need?" Maya got a hurt look in her eye and whispered. "Cut the crap. It was you. Why? Why did you do it?" Masataka responded. "What do you mean?" Maya becoming more frustrated said. "You are the person responsible for the brutal attacks." Masataka looked down. "I…I lost control." Maya elevated her voice to normal conversation levels and said. "Lost control. Lost control. They are in the hospital for crying out loud. Have you not been practicing all this time? You cannot just lose control. Your brother never would have." After saying that last sentence, Maya became surprised for two reasons. The first was that she had done something as stupid compare Masataka to his brother. The second was the horrifying look on Masataka's face. "Do not mention him." At that Masataka's eyes shifted to a deep blood red and he hurtled himself at Maya with a fist drawn to apply and attack. Maya just barely dogged the first punch and the second had clipped her shoulder. That is when the entire Juken club decided to take action. Bob and Nagi were the first to jump up and try to stop Masataka. Upon grabbing Masataka's arms, they were flung away from him. Both landed on their feet and sprung back into action as they watched as Maya blocked a punch to her stomach. The arm that she blocked with started to bruise immediately. Maya jumped back to avoid another punch like that again. Bob and Nagi both tried to lay out Masataka while he was distracted with a punch to the head. That only infuriated Masataka. He started to attack Bob first. Throwing kicks and punches that Bob just dogged by millimeters. Bob could hear the beat but the pace was starting to leave him behind. In no time, flat Bob was being hurtled into a support beam head first from a kick to the chest by Masataka. Nagi cried out. "Bob, no." With that, Nagi turned his hair black and prepared to taka Masataka down. Masataka smirked his most evil smirk as of yet and charged Nagi. They started to exchange blows to the chest and arms until Nagi started to notice the small things. Like how when Masataka hit he hit hard. Also that when Nagi threw a punch Masataka would throw one but it hurt in two or three places. Nagi thought. 'Damn he is too fast and strong. I won't win like this.' With that, Nagi tried a very dangerous move. He jumped back, cut his wrist, and started to fling blood bullets. This was entirely ineffective. Not only was there no penetration but they would splatter on impact and the loss of blood was starting to take its toll on Nagi. Masataka closed the gap and delivered the final punch to Nagi's temple. This had the effect of knocking him out. Masataka then started to get his forged needle attack ready. That was until Aya flung herself on top of Nagi and started to try to protect him. "No Masataka. Do not do it." Masataka then threw the forged needle attack at the closest pillar completely shattering it. With that, Masataka's eyes turned back to their original color and he once again became himself.
"What have I done?!" exclaimed a horrified Masataka. Masataka then looked around to survey the damage he had inflicted. Masataka then looked over to Maya and bowed as deeply as he could. "Gomen nasi, sempai. Arigatou gozaimasu." With that Masataka then ran out of the door as fast as he could, which was surprisingly fast. Maya tried to stop him but the throbbing in her arm and the speed at which he was leaving were too much and she could not pursue.
The Juken club sat back and started to lick their wounds. After everyone had regained conciseness, Maya and Aya started to patch up the wounded. The greatest thing hurt were the prides of Bob and Nagi. They had not been concise when Masataka had returned to normal, but this had a much more devastating effect on those who had witnessed it. Maya felt a mixture of Sympathy, apathy, and pity towards Masataka. They had no idea where he had gone. When everyone was well they called the Takayanagi complex and spoke to Dogen to see if Masataka had ran home after his 'episode', but were surprised to find that he had not been home since the morning that the problems all had started. 'This all started some time before hand. I guess we just never noticed.' Thought Maya as she went to her cupboard and found her bottle of sake. She started to pour herself a saucer when Aya Bob and Nagi all entered the room. "I guess I need more saucers." Maya said in a joking fashion. Bob then opened his shirt and produced a bottle of whiskey while Nagi finally took his hands out of his pockets, which produced two shot glasses. Aya had made her way to the cupboard to get out a saucer, preferring the taste of sake to whiskey. With that, they all proceeded to drink their problems away in a haze of alcohol.
(A.N.- I am stopping here again. Next one will be three and a half weeks later (in the fic not real life) I just don't know if I want to pair Masataka with someone, have character death, of just have Masataka nobly rise above it all? Comments and ideas will be greatly appreciated. Ja ne.