Whip, Xiangfei, Benimaru, & Joe
Iori walks down the street early the next morning, humming to himself as he approaches the corner where his deli was. When he arrives, Goenitz and Billy were already waiting outside the front door.
"Good, you two are on time," Iori says. He looks around for the third person of his staff. "Where's Yamazaki?"
"He says he'd be in a little later, something about getting some exotic meat for the deli's inventory," Billy says, shrugging.
"Whatever, let's get everything setup," Iori says, reaching into his pocket to get his keys.
They were gone.
"Dammit! Where are my keys?!" Iori says, as he frantically searches throughout his body. "That damn Yamazaki must have knocked them out of my pocket when he assaulted me yesterday evening!"
"So how do you propose we get in?" Goenitz asks. "Want me to blow down the front door with my wind powers."
"I could break a window with my staff," Billy suggests, whipping it out in the process.
"If you even dare to break anything in my deli, you'll be paying for it!" Iori warns the two. Goenitz and Billy both turn and look at each other.
"Okay," they say simultaneously, turning toward the building as they began busting up the main entrance with their abilities.
Iori just stands there with a 'what the hell' look on his face.
Later…
Indeed the three were able to get into the building, but they wound up spending two hours to repair the damages with Iori's leftover funds.
"I hope you two are happy. I just made a profit of -$200 before the deli is even open," Iori growls at the two.
Finally they were finished, and were ready to open the deli to the public. Iori takes them inside toward the back and shows them their uniforms. They were red aprons with wicked black and white decors, a sort of nod toward Iori's own clothing style.
"Here, you'll be wearing these while you work. And don't worry; you won't have to wear any fruity little hats like I did at Kyo's place," Iori comments.
Both men slip on their uniforms and report to the main counter.
"So what exactly are you selling here?" Billy inquires, looking through the display case at all of the products.
"Cheeses, jerky, sandwiches, real food for real men, not no girly ice cream cones at 'you know who's'," Iori responds.
The front doors then slam open, breaking another window in the process as it swooped around.
"AND HORSE MEAT!" Yamazaki yells as he drags in a live thoroughbred horse from outside.
"What the hell, Yamazaki?! I just fixed that window! And what the hell is that horse doing here?" Iori yells at Yamazaki.
"I'm going to slaughter it, slice it into horse-jerky, and sell it!" Yamazaki says, licking his lips.
"Hell no! You are not going to fillet a live horse in this sho-" Iori begins to argue, but is suddenly met in the face again by Yamazaki's lightning fast smack-attack, sending Iori crashing into the back room. He stumbles back out to the front moments later with a black eye. "Do what you will," Iori corrects himself to Yamazaki. Yamazaki laughs manically and proceeds to haul the horse to the back, the horse giving the group an 'Aw crap' expression as it passes them.
Iori turns to Goenitz and Billy. "Billy, you make the products, and Goenitz, you watch the register. I'm going to give Yamazaki his assignment…after I find some body armor…"
Minutes Later
It was 9:00 am, and time to open the doors to the public. Goenitz and Billy were busy manning their stations, while Yamazaki sat at the door acting as security to keep away annoying customers.
It wasn't long before their first costumer enters the shop. It was Whip.
Whip, dressed up nicely in her brown Ikari uniform, steps into the deli and heads to the main counter.
"Welcome to Iori's Deli. How may we serve you?" Goenitz says in a professional matter.
"Do you guys sell bagels?" Whip asks.
"This is a deli, ma'am, not no damn bakery," Billy responds.
"Oh, I see. Then I'll just have turkey sandwich then, to go," Whip says, laying some money on the counter as Billy prepared her order.
Suddenly out of nowhere, Yamazaki was next to Whip, staring at something on her.
"Um…can I help you?" Whip asks, raising an eyebrow.
"Nice bullwhip you got there. Mind if you use it on me?" Yamazaki asks eagerly.
"Creep!" Whip says as she takes her weapon, cracks it across Yamazaki's face, sending him spinning around several times before falling to the floor. Whip then takes her order and leaves the deli hastily.
"What's going on out here?" Iori says, emerging from the back room.
"Psycho-Yamazaki here scared away our first customer," Billy responds.
"Did she at least pay for something?" Iori asks.
"Yeah, five bucks for a turkey sandwich," Goenitz says.
"Five bucks? Jack it up to ten dollars," Iori says, before heading back into his office.
The next costumer was Xiangfei. She runs into the shop and presses her face against the display case, almost drooling at all of the food.
"Hey! Order something or get out!" Yamazaki says from across the deli.
"Okay okay! Sheesh, some people! Okay, uh…I'll take one of everything, for here," Xiangfei says to Goenitz at the register.
Billy prepares as fast as he could one of every item the deli sold. When he was done, he had to have Goenitz to help him carry the food over to a table that Xiangfei sat at in the eating area.
In no time flat, Xiangfei was scarfing down all of the food in less than five minutes. Afterwards, she looked fat and round like an Oompa Loompa. She returns to the register to pay for her meal.
"That'll be $800," Goenitz responds.
Iori almost teleports to the front of the register when he heard the three-figure amount to be paid.
"Um, lets see…" Xiangfei says, trying to find her wallet. After she did, she opened it up, and pulled out a quarter and sets it on the counter. "Heheh, oops, looks like I'm kinda short…" she says, laughing nervously.
Iori was about to turn beet-red from anger after finding out the customer barely had any money to pay for her order.
"YAMAZAKI!" Iori yells.
Instantaneously, Yamazaki grabs Xiangfei and tosses her out of the deli through another window, which was now broken as well.
"Dammit Yamazaki!" Iori yells at him. "Just great, now we're deeper debt…"
Iori was about to stomp back toward his office when Benimaru struts into the deli, wearing a leopard skin top.
"Hello, got any deals for a beautiful guy like me?" Benimaru says, striking a pose like a Victoria Secret model.
"Yamazaki! Get this fruity bastard out of my deli!" Iori demands. Yamazaki proceeds to do the exact same thing he did to Xiangfei, only through another window. Almost all of the windows in Iori's deli were now broken.
The last one to show up for the morning rush was Joe. He steps up to the counter and orders five pounds of ham.
"That'll be $80," Goenitz says.
"What?! 80 bucks?! Well here's what I have to say about your prices," Joe says, turning his back to them and pulling his pants down, mooning them.
Iori peeks his head around the corner when he hears the complaining. Before he could tell Yamazaki to remove Joe from the premises, Yamazaki already took action.
"HEY, HORSE!" Yamazaki yells toward the back room. Seconds later, Yamazaki's horse trots up toward the front of the shop where Joe is still mooning the staff, turns around, and kicks Joe out of the building with it hind legs. This time, no additional damage was done to the deli.
Iori raises in eyebrow.
"That was the only decent thing I liked about this morning so far," Iori grumbles, proceeding to go repair the windows again before the noon hour.
Continue on to the next chapter!