Naegi Meets Jet Set Radio
By JS Rivas
March 20, 2002
In the busy streets of Tokyo, we see the Naegi family who were walking around they were having a good time but the most exceded was the Naegi's 8 year old son Makoto Naegi. The Naegi's were enjoying themselves until Komaru cried "Oni-Chan~" it was then that Mr. and Mrs. Naegi notice Makoto is missing. They panicked and started to call out for Makoto, as they searched around the area.
Makoto was looking around, amazed at the big city and all the people. His attention was caught on the graffiti on side of a store. "Ohhh Someone drew on the wall~" Chuckled Makoto, He got closer to the graffiti and admired it. He was amazed on how good the artwork was, for all little Makoto been drawing with Komaru was doggies and teddy bears. As he was continued to gaze at it, he noticed a commotion, as people were yelling and screaming, as they moved aside to reveal a bunch of roller bladers, skating through the street. Two of them went pass Makoto, as Makoto looked back at the passing roller bladers, he turned his head back to see one about to run into him. The roller blader skate through him with Makoto hanging on to the roller blader's leg. Makoto hanged on for dear life as the roller blader didn't notice him on his leg. Makoto was looking behind the skater direction to see police men chasing after him. After evading the police, the skaters stopped and Makoto open his eyes and looked around to see he was on an open space that appeared to be a hideout, Makoto then noticed there was chuckling...
"What...What's so funny?" Asked the roller blader who Makoto grabbed on
The roller blader asked what was funny and his friends pointed at his leg, he looked down and finally noticed Makoto on his leg...
"What The-Hey Kid get off!" Yelled the Skater, he then tried to shake Makoto off his leg, but Makoto grabbed on tight.
"Aw look the kid attached to him"
"I think he likes you"
"How cute"
"I'm serious guys get this kid off of me!"
"Beat just relax yo"
"If you stop shaking him he will let go"
He followed his friend advice and sure enough, Makoto let go of the skater leg and stood up on his feet. Makoto looked up the the skater. "Geez kid you hold on like a boa constrictor" Complained the Skater.
"Beat how the hell did a little kid grabbed on your leg!?"
"I dunno I think he's the thing I ran over"
"You ran over the kid!?"
"I didn't do it on purpose!"
"Yo! beat you gotta be careful Yo!"
"This isn't good"
"Yeah we really don't need a bad rep"
"Well let's get him back to the street"
"His family probably wasn't near where he was at the time"
"They must be worried sick"
"Look Yo! This kid is here and has a family worried sick, we gotta get this kid back home Yo!"
"Okay look first let's find out who this kid belongs to"
"Alright in the meantime, YoYo, Soda, Garam, and Rhyth, You come with me to find out if anyone missing a kid. Everyone else stay here and look after the kid, Beat since this is your mess, your helping out Gum to make sure the kid is comfortable here in the meantime"
"Hmph"
"Sure" Agreed the Female roller blader, she approached Makoto as he was staring at her in awe "Hey little dude how you holding?" Asked The female skater, in a sweet tone "What's your name?" Makoto snapped out of it "I-Im Makoto... Makoto Naegi"
"What can of name is Naegi?" Mocked the Male Skater
"Shut up Beat!" Hissed the female skater, the male skater just kept quiet "Makoto as in faithfulness and Naegi as in seedlings?" Makoto nodded "That's a nice name" Smiled The female Skater "You can call me Gum"
"O-okay it's nice to meet you Ms. Gum"
"Ms. Gum? My what a little gentleman!" Gum shook Makoto's hand
He was mesmerized by her. Gum was wearing a light green dress, with a revealing low cut neckline, and a high collar, which is edged at both hem and collar by blue-grey/aqua bands, with an orange stripe between the thicker grey stripes on the collar. Vertical katakana adorns the front, just under her cleavage. A blue-grey helmet, with what appears to be built in headphones, light grey in the center, with an orange ring where they meet the body of the helmet. Her skates mirror the helmet in colour, and have a blue grey cross on an aqua field within a lighter grey circle on both sides of each skate, with yellow wheels, her skates looked high tech. Makoto could tell that she was a real cool lady that leave a trail of broken hearts wherever she goes.
"Nice to meet you Makoto" She pointed at the Male Skater "This guy you can call him Beat"
"Yeah just beat" Mocked Beat
He was wearing a yellowish green and black shirt with the japanese characters 'Bii-to', he was also wearing blue sunglasses, headphones with big spikes in the end of them, and his skates have a black and light blue color scheme with green wheels, his skates also looked high tech.
"Anyway kid we are here to look after you until we get you back to your parents"
"Thanks Beat"
"Whatever"
"You know you can at least be nice to your hostage"
"What!? You're tripping Gum"
"You Pedophile" She Joked
"Wha-What You Say!?"
"Shut it you two" Makoto turned his attention to the voice to see a dancing robot, This blew his mind, Gum noticed his expression.
"Oh that's Roboy, he can be a bit of a pain at times"
"What you say!?" Responded Roboy "Man... Anyway You!" He pointed at Makoto "Come here" Makoto walked to Roboy, nervous about what Roboy would want with him
"Yes?" Asked Makoto
"What product do you use?" Makoto was confuse "That antenna what do you use to make it" Beat walked up to Makoto
"That's a good point" Agreed Beat, touching Makoto's ahoge "I mean what can of.. Hair gel..."
"Beat?" Questioned Gum, Beat continued touching Makoto's hair "Beat?"
"It's Natural!" Gasped Beat
"What!?" Gasped Roboy
"No Hair gel, No nothing it's real"
"The Ahoge!"
"-no joke It's real, this is real natural hair" Gum also touched Makoto's hair
"It's real!"
"That's Impossible!" Retorted Roboy "How does the Human hair defy Gravity!?"
"Kid how did you make that antenna!" Little Makoto was no stranger that question
"My hair was like this, since I was born" Replied Makoto
"I been shot at, got gassed at, and other things you wouldn't believe for skating and graffiti, I've also met a lot of wierdos but you kid and your hair have really made my day"
"Man this is something you don't see everyday" Laughed Gum "Even for a Rudie"
"A Rudie?" Asked Makoto "You mean like the Jamaican slang 'Rude Boy'?"
"This kid got book smarts" Acknowledge Roboy, impressed "Even all of the GG's don't know the origin of the word"
"What's a Rudie?"
"It's what we are Naegi" Stated Beat
"Rollerbladers?" At that point Gum took it opp on herself to explain
"You see Naegi, Rudies are known as both Roller Skaters and Graffiti Artist" Explained Gum "We skate and we do graffiti as to express oursleves" Makoto then remembered the graffiti he saw earlier
"So it was you who drew the graffiti on the wall"
"Maybe" Admitted Beat "I'm not sure, depends on what it looks like" Gum went back to explaining, as Makoto listen to Gum. Meanwhile other members of the GG's went around downtown to see if anyone was missing a kid. They searched around and asked people. At some point the GG's were ready to call it a day...
"Man I can't believe we couldn't find anyone missing a kid!"
"Tokyo is a big city Garam, god knows how common a story like this is"
"What do we do Corn?"
"Let's just head back to the garage, we can just go to the cops"
"Are you out of your mind!? You know the cops will think we kidnapped him!"
"Well what do you suggest!?"
"Maybe we should look tomorrow, either way we are bound to found some flyers about the missing kid" One of them sighed...
"Alright gang let's head back to the garage"
The GG's headed back to the garage as they passed by Makoto's family. Mr. and Mrs. Naegi were talking to a police officer while Komaru was crying. "Oni-Chan~" Cried Komaru, consoling her. The GG's made it back to the garage.
-Back at the Garage-
"Yo we back Yo"
"Why do you always say yo?"
"Yo what's wrong with saying yo yo!?" The bickering ended when they looked at the scene. The GG's were shocked to see Beat carrying Makoto on his shoulders. The most shocking was that Makoto was wearing Beat glasses...
"Yo am I seeing right Yo!?"
"Gum! what is going on!"
"Corn we had a great time" Cheered Gum "Beat took a liking to the kid"
"Will for the kid to be wearing beat's glasses, I imagine it was great" Some of the other GG's were laughing, saying "Awww~" Beat froze when he saw the other GG's. After a while of making fun of Beat. The rest of the GG's introduced themselves to Makoto, also finding out that his ahoge was natural...
"Man I like this little guy, he's cool"
"I tell you one thing if he was a rudie, it would be a great time"
"Why don't we make him a Rudie then?"
"That's not a bad idea" Beamed Gum "I know Beat would love it~" The GG's Laughed
"A-Are you sure" Stuttered Makoto "I can't even draw that good... or skate"
"Yo homie it's cool we can show you a thing or two Yo"
For the rest of the day, Makoto was getting along with the GG's. As it was getting late. Makoto was offered to stay with Gum.
"A-Are you sure?" Blushed Makoto
"Of course little man" Assured Gum "Besides Garam's home in the sewers and Beat's apartment is a dump"
"I heard that" Retorted Beat
"So your hearing isn't bad, would have came in handy when Makoto was clinging to your leg" The GG's Laughed. After that, Makoto was in Gum's apartment. It was small but clean and comfortable. To Makoto he thought that Gum must have a real liking to comfortable surroundings.
"Don't be nervous Makoto" Assured Gum "It's just a sleepover"
"I just never was in a sleepover with a girl before" Blushed Makoto, Gum couldn't help but laugh
"Don't fret over it little dude" Makoto was sleeping on the bed with gum. As Makoto face was red as a tomato, Gum went fast asleep. Makoto stared at her. His heart raced as he admired Gum's beauty... "My chest is tight" Thought Makoto "Is this what Mommy and Daddy call love?" In a few minutes Makoto managed to sleep.
-Meanwhile at the police station-
"You have to find him officer I don't know what our family will do if something happens to him" Begged Mrs. Naegi
The Naegi's went to the nearest police station in order to get help to find Makoto needless to say it has been a roller-coaster of emotions for the Naegi family. Both Mrs. Naegi and Komaru are worried sick as Komaru couldn't stop crying, while Mrs. Naegi was panicking, Mr. Naegi was as worried as his wife and daughter but tried to keep a cool head. The young police man who was talking with the family couldn't help but feel sorry for them, the officer could only pray that the family could get their son back.
"We do everything in our power to get you son back safe and sound mam"
"Please do officer" Said Mr. Naegi
"Will contact you with anything that pops up in the meantime you can help by spreading awareness either by getting neighbors or friends to look around"
"That's a good idea just please help look for him"
"We will sir"
"Honey what will we do if something happens to him" Said Mrs. Naegi
"We shouldn't think like that Honey we have to hope that he will be okay"
"How can you be sure?"
"Makoto is a smart kid also he is brave"
"Will that be enough?"
"You should know that by now"
"Y-You're right...but still"
"No 'buts' now let's go home, you look a mess dear" Mrs. Naegi knew he was right. Mr. Naegi then felt Komaru tagging on his sleeve, she was still crying
"Dada is Oni-chan gonna be okay?" Asked Komaru
"Yeah Komaru Oni-chan will be okay"
"But won't he be scared?"
"Maybe but he's a brave boy also he's smarter than he looks, don't cry Komaru he will be back so don't cry anymore okay?" After calming Komaru down, the Naegi's decided to head back home and start looking for Makoto tomorrow still even Mr. Naegi couldn't help but be worried "Makoto please be safe and come back soon son" thought Mr. Naegi
To be continued