Chapter 8 – Meteor Monday
Author's Note
I have a planned sequel for this, and it will have a fair amount of twists and turns, but that's all I'm saying :P, and I expect to end this part at about Chapter 10 or so.
7:30 AM Monday, September 7th, 2009
I wake up and lay in my bed for a few minutes, happy that nobody is trying anything as soon as I wake up.
"This feels like paradise." I say. "Being able to wake up in my room without having to dodge someone trying to jump on top of me."
"Oh, don't be so sure of that." says Nee-san with a sadistic smile.
"Damnit, I forgot you slept on the other side of my room last night." I remark.
"What's so wrong with having a beautiful girl like me sleeping in your room for a night?" she asks, ready to start teasing me.
"Don't tease me so early in the morning." I say. "I want to enjoy the peace of being able to wake up without any disturbances."
"Too bad." Nee-san says, with that sadistic smile getting even bigger.
"Damnit, what did I do to deserve this?" I ask.
She starts rubbing my head and says "Hey Everest."
"Shut up, Fuji.*"
When I say that, she gets irritated with me and attempts to put me in an arm lock, but I dodge it.
"Would you stop?" I ask her. "I got to get dressed, damnit."
Right now I'm in my underwear, while she's still in the same clothes she wore yesterday.
She stops when she notices that I'm in my underwear and figures out another way to tease me.
"Hey Miyako! Yamato's in his un-!" she tries to say, but I put my hand over her mouth.
"Do you have any idea what will happen if you finish that sentence?" I ask her, knowing exactly what will happen if she finishes this sentence.
She thinks for a second and then says "Yeah, that would be bad, I don't want to see my little bro's virginity taken away from me in front of my eyes."
I flick her in the forehead and say "You dumbass, I'm not going to let my virginity be taken by Miyako, it's just that I'll have to run around this damn Dorm and Kawakami with my underwear on with some girl chasing me, that's not going to look very good for neither me nor Miyako. I'll probably have to jump off the Tama Bridge half-naked just to escape."
"That'll actually be pretty funny." She says. "Hey Miyak-" She tries to say again.
"I said stop it DAMNIT!" I exclaim.
"Okay, fine." She says.
"Get out of my damn room." I say and push her out, slamming the door shut.
"That damn woman." I say. "What's gotten in to her?"
I quickly change my clothes, just to be safe, in case Miyako comes barging in and tries to chase me around.
I open the door and walk to school, where Nee-san meets a challenger and defeats him within three seconds.
"That was boring." Nee-san says. "I need to find another outlet for my battle libido."
I sigh and start walking away, knowing she's about to take out her frustration on me.
"Hey Yamato, where are you going?" Wanko asks me.
"Away from here, before she tries to use me as an outlet for her frustration again." I reply, and start walking away.
"Oh no you don't!" Nee-san yells. "Who else am I going to take my frustration out on?"
"I don't know!" I yell back. "But it isn't going to be me!"
I break into a sprint, but Nee-san is slightly faster than me, so she's closing the difference between us.
I take an experimental energy shot out from my pocket that I got from Kuma-chan and drink it, which gave me a large speed boost, which made me get a good 250 meters between us.
"I need to train more." I say to myself. "I need to get a bit faster so I can outrun Nee-san."
I make it back to the Shimazu Dorm, where I scale the wall and get on top of the roof, where I decide to take a small break.
Nee-san stops and asks "When did you learn to scale walls?"
"A few weeks ago." I reply. "It's not that hard; you just have to learn where to place your feet and you will be fine."
"I honestly think that you have you have some talent for martial arts." Nee-san says.
"You've already tested me several times about this; both me and your old man agree that I don't have any talent for martial arts, I'm just intelligent and agile." I say.
"Yeah but-" she tries to say, but I interrupt her.
"I really only have agility so I can get away from people like you and the Itagaki Siblings." I remark.
I knew that sentence pissed her off, so I run off the other side of the roof and start sprinting.
"I'm going to punish you when I catch you!" she yells as she is chasing me.
"If you can, you tried ten days ago with all the other girls and Margit and you still failed!" I yell back.
After hearing that sentence, she starts running at full speed.
"Shit, here goes nothing." I say to myself and run at a speed that would normally be humanly impossible, but my body can make an exception just this once.
I overcome Nee-san's full speed and start gaining distance between us.
"See, you couldn't catch me with those others helping you!" I exclaim. "What makes you think that you can catch me by yourself?"
I fly past the Kazama Family after about a minute and a half, while they look at my trail of dust in disbelief.
"I knew Yamato was good at running away but…" Chris starts to say. "Is that speed even humanly possible?"
"NOPE!" I yell, barely hearing her.
"And I thought I was fast like the wind…" Kazama says. "He could outrun a car at that speed."
"No, he's breaking a world record at that speed." Miyako says with a radar gun in her hand that shesomehow got a hold of. "He's running at 75 KPH (46.6 MPH) right now."
"75 KPH!?" The Kazama Family exclaims. "How is that humanly possible!?"
"IT ISN'T!" I yell back. "How many times do I have to tell you that!?"
Nee-san whizzes past them yelling "Get back here Yamato!"
Miyako, who was still holding the radar gun, says "She's running at about 60 KPH (37.3 MPH), she won't be able to catch up."
Nee-san smiles and says "He can't be running like that forever; I just have to run down his energy, that's all."
"Oh, you think it'll be that easy?" I ask as I fly past Nee-san, who had stopped to take a short break. "I've been training to build up my endurance a lot in the past few weeks; I don't feel tired at all."
That was the truth, as I'm not breathing heavily at all, or even hurting, but Nee-san is starting to breathe very heavily.
"By the way, it's almost time for school to start; you don't want to be late!" I exclaim and take off, leaving a cloud of dust behind me.
I arrive at school 30 seconds later, and everyone looks at me in disbelief at how fast I'm running.
"What, you've never seen anyone run at 75 KPH before?" I ask the people looking at me in disbelief.
"Is that even humanly possible?" asks someone.
"I guess so, I'm a human, and I just ran at that speed, didn't I?" I say.
"GET BACK HERE YAMATO!" Booms an angry voice.
"Oops, can't talk, I got to go!" I exclaim and take off again.
I see Nee-san bust through the entrance to Kawakami Academy, searching for my presence with a face that's ready to deal some pain.
"Oh hell no!" I say. "I'm getting to class before I get my arm broken again or get murdered."
I run at this 75KPH speed to my classroom and scale up the wall to the 2-F classroom window and throw myself in, leaving the window open in case I need to jump out of it again.
I sit down in my seat like nothing happened, but everyone in 2-F is looking at me with a strange look on their faces, even Ume-sensei.
"What's so wrong with someone going into class from the window?" I ask jokingly.
"But how did you manage to get in from the window? We're on the second floor." asks Yonpachi.
"Scale the wall and jump inside, it's not that hard if you know where to put your feet." I reply.
"Naoe, what sense do you have going to class from the window!?" Ume-sensei replies angrily.
"It's kind of hard to get to class when Kawakami Momoyo is chasing you, and the fact that running through the halls at 75 KPH is a bit unsafe, no?" I reply.
Everyone looks at disbelief at me running at 75 KPH.
"No way you ran at a speed of 75 KPH…" says Suguru.
"Do you want me to prove it?" I ask. "Someone get a radar gun and test my speed if you don't believe me."
Ume-sensei takes a radar gun and says "Class, go outside, I actually want to see this."
"You won't be disappointed." I say and jump out of the window.
"Naoe! Don't jump out of the window again!" Ume-sensei yells.
"Yes, ma'am!" I yell back, but I have a feeling I'll be doing it again today.
Old man Tesshin and Class 2-F are waiting outside for me to do my record-breaking run.
"Alright, begin!" booms Tesshin.
I run as fast as I can, leaving a huge cloud of dirt and dust behind me, and reach the other side of Kawakami Academy within 6 seconds.
Ume-sensei looks at the radar gun, dumbfounded.
"So, what was my speed Kojima-sensei?" I ask her.
"82 KPH (50.9 MPH)…" she says, dumbfounded.
"Wow, I beat the 75 KPH that I ran on the way over here."
Tesshin looks at me and says "I'm honestly having second thoughts about saying that you don't have any martial arts talent. You have the speed down, you just need the strength."
"Well, strength isn't my strong suit, really. I'm just agile and intelligent, that's all." I say humbly.
"I think we should test you again at the Temple." says Tesshin.
"No, I'll pass. I don't want to be a martial artist, to be honest." I say bluntly.
"Well, I thought it'd be worth a try." says Tesshin with a disappointed look.
"Well Naoe, you broke a record for fastest running speed ever recorded." says Ume-sensei.
"Yeah, I don't care about the world record; whoever had that title can keep it." I say.
"B-but you'll be renowned all around the world for running 82 KPH!" exclaims half of Class 2-F.
"Sorry, there's a difference between having acquaintances and having fans, and I don't like having fans." I say.
"Well, it is Naoe's decision after all; we're not going to submit this to the world record keepers." says Ume-sensei.
"Okay, can we go to class now?" I ask, wanting to get this day over with.
"Okay, 2-F go back to class for homeroom!" yells Ume-sensei, and everyone walks off to the stairs, while I scale the wall to the window again.
"NAOE! I told you NOT to go to class through the window!" Ume-sensei yells.
"Sorry Kojima-sensei, but I like entering through the window!" I yell back.
"What a crazy fool…." mutters Ume-sensei.
Thus homeroom ends and classes start.
After School…
As soon as the dismissal bell rings, I am out of 2-F and ready to go home, but Nee-san is waiting outside the door, ready to deliver some punishment.
"Now, where were we from this morning?" She asks with a sadistic smile.
"You've got to be kidding me." I remark, and start sprinting.
I'm running through the Kawakami Academy halls at ~80 KPH, which really isn't safe, but I ignore my gut and keep running.
I run around a corner and find Capt. just around it, but I manage to dodge him and keep running.
"Whoa!" exclaims Capt. "Yamato, why are you running at that speed in the hallways?"
I point to the barreling object behind me and he instantly understands and says "Well, good luck then."
"Hah." I laughed. "Luck is your strong suit, tactics is mine."
"Yeah, you're right about that." He said and started to chuckle.
I sprint out of Kawakami Academy with Nee-san behind me.
"Come back here and face your punishment damnit!" Nee-san yells.
"NOPE!" I yell back. "I'm not the person to give up that easily! You of all people should know that better than anyone else!"
"You do realize it's going to be three times as worse when I catch you right?" she asks me.
"IF you catch me." I reply, which makes her get even madder.
"It's going to be four times as bad now!" She yells.
Nee-san ends up chasing me throughout Kawakami, but can never catch me, and then she stops to take a break by the Tama River banks, where I stop and say "I told you, you can't catch me alone."
"You're right, I can't." She says, with a look on her face that means she has a plan. "Wanko, Chris, Margit, you can come out now."
Wanko, Chris and Margit come out of nowhere and are ready to help her catch me, but I smack the palm of my hand into my forehead and say "It's going to take more than that to catch me."
"Oh, we'll see about that." Margit says and takes off her eye patch, which is her power limiter.
"Okay, Margit isn't trying to catch me; she's trying to kill me now." I say jokingly and leave a blinking silhouette of where I used to be.
"This is your last chance to give up!" yells Nee-san.
"I am not repeating myself again." I say.
"Well, the negotiations failed; time to capture you by force." Nee-san says, and signals the other three to move to capture me.
I instantly recognize the Pincer attack that they are trying to pull and say "Nice job forming a Pincer attack, but do you know the critical failure of it?"
"What!?" Nee-san says. "You figured it out that quickly that it was a Pincer?"
"I don't have the title Tactician for the hell of it, you know." I say.
Wanko moves in to finish the Pincer Formation, but I easily stop the advance from her and drive her backwards, which fails the Pincer attack.
"The critical failure of the Pincer is when one force of it fails, the whole attack fails." I explain, and escape from the hole I made from pushing Wanko back.
"Damn, the Pincer didn't work!" exclaims Nee-san.
Margit moves in to attack me, saying "Tonfa Kick!"
I easily dodge it and say "So the tonfas really are the source of your concentration, eh?"
She goes for a roundhouse, but I dodge it and take the tonfas out of her hands, saying "Got your tonfas." And throw them into the Tama River.
Margit looks at me in shock that I just took her tonfas, asking "How did you take my tonfas?"
"It was pretty easy once I dodged the roundhouse; you left them completely open and unable to counter-attack if I went to there, so I did." I explain, and start running.
"Well, Margit no longer has her tonfas, so your strongest ally is basically useless now Nee-san, what will you do?" I ask.
"Damn, you really can't outwit the Tactician." Nee-san says.
"I've been trying to tell you that for a long time now." I reply.
"Well, I'll just have to take you down with brute force!" she exclaims and starts running toward me.
"First of all, I'm faster than all of you; second of all, I can still dodge you." I say.
"Oh yeah?" Nee-san asks. "Let's see you dodge this! Kawakami Meteor!"
A meteor suddenly starts crashing for me, locked onto me.
"You really are crazy, having a meteor crash into someone that doesn't even practice martial arts."
"What's wrong?" she asks, ignoring my previous statement. "You can't run away from this meteor or dodge it, you're finished."
"Yeah, and I'll be dead if this thing hits me, you dumbass." I reply. "First you break my arm, now you kill me."
The meteor comes closer and closer to Earth, and right before the meteor hits me, I sigh and say "I always knew I was going to be killed by Nee-san."
The last thing I see is the meteor crashing into me.
End of Chapter 8
*VN Reference in the Prologue, Miyako calls Momoyo Mt. Fuji, and Yamato Mt. Everest, and they briefly call each other by those names.