CHAPTER 4
As we left off, Miori left her German class for her next class. The Judo club. Kyoya already stated that there were no girls in both the Judo and Kendo clubs, so she hoped that, at least, that the young man named 'Hunny' would be nice to her. She left in a hurry so that she may be able to find who this Hunny is and so that she may be able to get fitted into to the Judo uniform. When she was closer to the class room, she noticed that all the students, that were going in the same direction as she, were all boys. "I guess I must be going in the right direction for Judo. All the boys are heavy built…I must be careful if I cough in there or I'll be beaten up badly." She thought. She loses too much blood, when she coughs, that she feels very weak. (But then again, when you lose large amounts of blood you always feel tired and weak.)
She finally made it to the class room and the whole room looked at her direction. There was puzzlement and the sound of snickering and teasing in the air.
"What are you doing here, new girl!" yelled a boy. The boy came closer and Miori noticed that the boy yelling was the same guy who told her that her hair looked ridiculous.
"Um, I'm in the Judo club classroom, right?" She asked.
"Yeah so what? Are you a teacher's aid? You look like the goodie good kind to do so." said Tetsuya.
"No, actually I am joining the Judo class, and is there a boy named 'Hunny' in this class?"
"MIORI! You're Here, You're Here!" A young boy, who looked like a elementary student, jumped on her back, landed on the floor, and started jumping on the ground. Everyone stared at the little boy and the boy saw this. He stopped jumping around, cleared his throat and started speaking in a serious voice. "Are you Miss Takahari?"
"Yes, I am. Do you know where this 'Hunny' would be?" she asked.
"I am Mitsukuni Haninozuka, my friends call me Hunny and you may call me by that name." The boy stiffly walked a little ways off and then he turned around. "Please follow me, you must be fitted into uniform, then we will be able to start practicing." He walked off in big strides. Miori thought that it was cute that he was trying to act big, so she started walking after him.
"You will have to chose which one is your size and change into it. When this class is over you will have to write your name on the tag so that you will be able to find your uniform quickly for the next time you use it." Hunny left the room, and Miori changed into her uniform. Once she came out everyone looked at her and were gathered around a fighting mat.
"Miss Takahari, you will be tested to see which rank you should be in for this class." said a man. He looked like he was the teacher who overlooks the class. "There are four ranks, which would be Rank A,B,C, and D. Rank A is the highest rank out of the four. The test will be fighting one fighter from each rank and when you make it to Rank A, which I doubt that you would make it that far, if you can endure the fight for ten minutes or more then you can stay in Rank A. Now, please enter the ring." She entered the ring and a boy was there standing. He looked about the same height as she was, but a bit more skimpy.
"Hello, I am Matsutake Inouye. Are you ready to fight?" The boy introduced himself.
"I am Miori Takahari. Isn't your name a mushroom?" everyone snickered.
"Yes, it is and I like the fact that it's a mushroom that tastes good, so don't make fun of it."
"I'm not saying that I don't like the mushrooms. In fact, it is my favorite mushroom to go with soup."
"Enough talking are you all ready? If you are then bow to each other then FIGHT!" yelled the teacher. They bowed to each other and then the boy struck first with a punch. He was slow enough for her to evade the attack and she clothes lined him. He fell backwards and then he got up quickly and charged at her. He showed his back to her, which is a risky thing to do when you are fighting someone. He came slowly to her and she dodged the attack, slide behind him, and twisted his arms to the back.
"Ah, I give up." yelled the boy. She let go of him and he walked off the mat in embarrassment for losing to a girl.
"Next Rank C!" yelled the teacher. A boy walked up to the mat.
"I am Yuki Takagaki." They bowed to each other and the fight began. He was much faster than the one before , but was easily defeated. The only thing that she needed to do was that while he was charging at her, she would only have to trip him by doing a wide floor swipe kick at his legs. He fell flat on his face and his nose was bleeding.
"Ugh! I think I have a broken nose." He left the mat and went to the bathroom. By now, the teacher was ashamed that a girl has beaten two of the ranks and was hoping that maybe Rank B would do better.
"Next Rank B!" another boy entered the ring and it was Tetsuya.
"You should already know my name and don't worry…I won't pull on your hair."
"You shouldn't or I would be less gentle with you." They both bowed to each other and Tetsuya charged in. He did a fake punch to disguise the real punch that he was about to do in her stomach. She saw it coming and blocked the attack, which made him push off from her, about four feet from her. He charged again only he jumped up into the air and did a spear kick to her head. She evaded it and was pushed off a couple of feet away. He slide behind her, before she could recover from the attack, and was about to put her in a head lock, but by the time he could fully head lock her, she flipped him over. He was about to kick her, while he was on the ground, but she was already about to do a heel kick. It hit him in the stomach, but he still had enough strength to get up and continue. He charged at her then he did a slide to the back of her and was about to punch her, but he thought of something low to do. He pulled her hair. She yelled in pain then she kick flipped him and released her furry. She used her hand and put it where the rib cage would be and slid her hand into a spot where you could barely put your hand into your rib cage. She held him up, with two hands in that very spot and flipped him (It's very painful if you flipped someone using that very spot). He landed in pain, and he gave up.
"That was very disgraceful of you to pull my hair. You should be lucky that I didn't just finish you off." She bowed and went back to her side of the mat.
"Tetsuya, you are a disgrace to the Judo Club! It would be better if I could just kick you out of the club, but instead you will be denoted to Rank D. Now, next Rank A." Tetsuya crawled off the mat and glared at Miori. She glared back at the pitiful creature and then looked up to see who was her next opponent. It was Hunny.
"I am Mitsukuni. I will be a honorable fighter unlike Tetsuya, so let us fight with our best." They bowed to each other. She knew that this fight would be more interesting, since she is fighting someone who is so small and that is in Rank A. She readied her stance and the fight began. I will not be saying how the fight went on, but I will say that the fight was long and honorable. None of them made it over the other, both were fighting at the same strength. The fight went on till the end of class and that was her fall. When she heard that the bell had rung, she lost concentration of the fight, and Hunny flipped her over.
"That was a good fight Hunny. Now, could you give me a hand?" Miori held out her hand up to Hunny and he helped pull her up.
"I haven't had a fight like that in a while, except fighting with Takashi. Last year I wasn't in Judo, since it was a seven period class, and now that it's a eight period day, I can be in Judo again. I guess I need to practice more." said Hunny.
"I didn't know that it use to be a seven period day. Well, what class do you have next?" she asked.
"I have Home Ec. We're making cake today!" Everyone around the class room looked at him and he straightened up and looked serious again.
"Well, I have Kendo next and I need to go take a shower, so I'll see you later." she left in a hurry without letting him reply and took a quick shower and left for the Kendo Club.
She made it to the class room, and the whole class looked at her, again.
"Why the fuck are you following me for!" Tetsuya walked up to her and pushed her to the ground. She fell to the ground and he was about to strike her with the practice sword, but was blocked by another. She saw that a very tall, dark haired young man had blocked the attack with his own practice sword.
"You shouldn't be hitting a girl that is defenseless or anyone for that matter. You should be lucky that you're not denoted in Kendo too." Tetsuya walked off in silence and the young man helped Miori to her feet.
"Thank you very much. I'm Miori Takahari and do you know where Takashi Morinozuka is?" she asked. The young man pointed to himself. "Oh, so your Mori?! I'm so sorry to have bothered you. I made you worry." she bowed, and he bowed back.
"It's ok, I'm use to it." He walked off to a different part of the room. A boy passed by him and the two talked. The boy walked up to her and she finally noticed who the boy was, it was Matsutake Inouye.
"I didn't know that you were in Kendo too. Well, the captain told me to take you to the changing room, and that the teacher has ordered that you would have to fight Mori-sempai to see which rank you should be. Don't worry, the teacher in this class is nicer and more accepting to girls in the club. Actually he wants girls to join the club, but most of them just go to their own dojo." Matsutake lead her to a room filled with uniforms and equipment for Kendo. "After you find your size of uniform, grab whatever size of a practice sword you like, then come to the mat." He left the room and closed the door behind him. She looked around to find her size, which was very hard, since most of the boys in Kendo were either heavy built or very tall. She finally found her size and found the right size or a sword. She left the room and found herself being stared at by all the boys, that were gathered around the practice mat.
"It is tradition that anyone that is to join the Kendo Club fight our strongest fighter, and, determined by how long you can stand to fight him, you will be ranked by endurance." said a middle aged man/teacher. The teacher had a long, black pony tail and his Kendo uniform looked bigger and blacker than the students. "You will be fighting Takashi Morinozuka. When you are ready, bow to each other than you may began." They bowed to each other, put their helmet on and readied their stance. Neither of them attacked each other for a while, both were reading each other's steps carefully, so as to see how the fight will go and how it will end. When you are an experienced fighter, you would know these things, but even then, when you are an experienced fighter, there will always be surprises in the end. At first it was hard to tell which one would attack first, but would have to go. Mori charged at her, not even touching the mat, and tried to disarm her. Miori successfully evaded the attack, but he quickly recovered from his attack and side swiped her. She blocked it and did a "From Hell to Heaven Swipe", so that she may be able to disarm him and injure him, even though she didn't really want to ("From Hell to Heaven Swipe" is when you use a sword and you start the attack from the ground and slash up high. Sometimes it would be crouch down and jump up). The attack didn't disarm him, but it made him unbalanced. She quickly cross slashed him, then finally lunged, but he redirected the lunge to his side and slashed her. She rolled to the side, from the attack and quickly got up to find that he was already charging at her again, he wasn't touching the ground. "He must be really strong in his legs…I must attack from there." she thought. She readied her stance to take the hit. Everyone was awed by how brave she was to do that. No one had ever dared to stand their ground when he is charging at them, they always stand to the side. She readied her stance for her "Dancing Darts" attack, the attack it self was like a dance, but the problem is that the sword might not be able to take it and that she must step up a bit to begin the attack. He was five feet away and she began her dance. First she slashed up, when he got close enough, to disarm him or to make him unsteady. Then she twirled around, behind him, and slashed up again, to mess up his foot work. He stumbled to his side and quickly got up again, only shaking a little, but she too was shaking.
"You are a good fighter, Miss Takahari. You've stood against our silent giant and yet you are still standing, and you have staggered him a bit." said the teacher in the side lines.
Without looking at him, but at her opponent, she answered back, "Yes, but the fight is not over." She tried to remember what happened during her attack, to try and find out why she, too, was shaking. She thought back and she finally remembered what it was. While she twirled around, he side slashed her with one arm, while he fell. At first she guessed that she didn't feel it at first, but now she felt the same effects of what Mori was feeling. She rushed at him, this time, she used the "Sending" (The attack is like the sending in FFX, but not the whole thing), which is when you swing your sword around above you then you crouch down and swing , but while you swing, you go with the sword. She made the attack, and Mori saw it coming. He quickly lunged at her and she fell to the ground. She was tired of using complicated moves so she decided to do a simple battle and from there they started sword to sword combat. They were both blocking each other's attack and each attack failed.
Everyone around the mat were amazed by the battle (if you call it a battle). Everyone couldn't practice their lunges or swipes, they could only watch the fight.
The clock was almost ticking to the time of when the class would change. Both Miori and Mori noticed, so they both jumped to opposite sides.
"This has been a great fight, I would like to thank you for it. Now, let's see who's the better." With that, both, in unison, charged at each other. Both had the same swiftness and form. The teacher didn't even know who would win, but as always it has been the same winner.
SWISH
Both past each other, swords to their side, and both were standing still, until one twitched with pain. It was Miori, the pain wouldn't so hard for her if it wasn't for the fact that she started coughing out blood. She tried to conceal the blood in her hand, she successfully did, but Mori could tell that there was something wrong. He let it off and went to get ready to go to the next class
Miori went to the showers, she was all alone. She was kind of glad, since it would be easier to take her medications and wash the blood off her hands. She took the medication and she felt the after effect, which makes her a bit tired. She took a shower and left the classroom. When she left the room, behind the door, Tetsuya and three other students came up behind her.
"Hey you lost to Mori, right?" asked Tetsuya.
"Um, yes?" she answered. She wasn't sure if she should have answered or not and that by now the effect form the medication was very strong.
"I bet she feels weak from that last blow. We shouldn't help you with this one, Tetsuya." said one of the students.
"Don't worry, that's what I was planning." Tetsuya walked up to her and pushed her a little she staggered and walked backwards. "How does it feel, little mouse, to be in a corner?" Miori looked behind her and saw that if she went any further, then she would hit a pillar from the building. She knew she couldn't defend her self because of all the blood that she lost and she stood there as still as she could be, to make it easier for her.
Then, out of nowhere, she heard groans from behind him then suddenly Tetsuya fell to the ground. When Tetsuya fell, behind him revealed the person who did this, it was Mori.
"Are you alright." He asked in his deep voice, but sounded like he was trying to make it gentle.
"I'm fine. I'm so sorry that you had to protect me, you must think that I'm a delinquent." She said while looking at the ground shamefully.
"I know a bad guy, when I see one." replied Mori. Then after a short pause of looking at the ground, embarrassed, he pointed to the clock tower, then looked at her. Miori looked at the clock and saw that it was almost time for the next tardy bell to ring.
"Oh, I'm sorry I have to go." Both bowed to each other and she ran for her next class, which would be…the Host Club.