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Western Hills Mall.

With Nuchu, Sai Saici and Deangelo…

Sai Saici and I just stood there with our mouths open once Nuchu got done telling us his story; dad never told me any of this at all.

Of course most of the time I never really ask him, and most of the time he really is a keep himself to himself kind of guy.

Just before I was about to say something I looked up and saw Ino Yamanaka who was looking very cute, she was wearing some tight blue jean pants, a purple t-shirt, black and purple colored Air Force Ones and a white gold necklace that had purple diamonds.

With her was a boy who had long jet blackish brown hair tied into a ponytail, narrow brown eyes and had diamond earrings in both ears.

He was 17 years old and Naruto, Sai Saci and I have known him since we were kids. He was wearing gray baggy Dickie pants, a gray South Polo shirt and gray New Balance sneakers. His name was Shikamaru Nara; he was a street racer from Konoha and a childhood friend.

There was another boy next to him also; he was a pretty big kid, he had brown hair, swirl marks on his cheeks and was wearing gray shorts, a white shirt that had his family emblem on it, diamond earrings in both ears, a short sleeved gray colored jacket that was over his shirt and solid white high top Phat Farm shoes.

His name was Choji Akimichi, another childhood friend that my brothers and I knew; he was a year younger than Shikamaru.

"Oh shit, look who decided to finally come and visit Birmingham!" I said with a grin on my face, I got up and gave both Shikamaru and Choji a hug once the approached the table, "Shit Ino, I didn't know you knew these two guys."

"Yeah, I've known them for quite some time….unfortunately." she said throwing the last comment in there.

"So what brings all of you guys down here?" Sai Saici asked.

"The tournament that's going on." Choji answered, "We're just waiting to see who will be our next opponents."

"Opponents?" I said, "Whoa you guys are a full street racing team?"

"Oh yeah we started after you and your brother left." Shimakmaru answered.

"How is Naruto doing?" Ino asked, "I haven't seen him in a good minute."

"You know Naruto?" I asked.

"Who DOESN'T know him?" Ino replied, "I've known him since we were kids, Sakura knows Naruto as well."

"Well He's doing okay, he's in San Diego doing his thing, he's part of the Unbeatable Street racers up there."

Later on….

With Nuchu, Sai Saici, Choji, Deangelo, and Shikamaru…

We were out in the parking lot outside of Western Hills Mall showing off our rides, Senna and Ino were still inside the mall just doing a little shopping, Shikamaru showed off his heavily tuned 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX STI.

It was practically a race car tuned for rally racing on the dirt and asphalt racing, it was colored gray and had a carbon fiber hood, it also had a wide body kit from Bomex, a custom made spoiler that was colored black, chrome 18 inch rims from Sparco and custom headlights and taillights.

The exhaust were from a company called Flowtech, the interior was completely customized, the back seats were taken out and replaced with a roll cage, the fronts seats were colored black and gray and they were from Sparco as well not to mention the Steering wheel which had two nitrous oxide buttons on both sides of the steering wheel.

The gauges were custom made as well, "That's not all," Shikamaru said with a grin as he popped the hood of the car open, "Check this baby out."

Me, Sai Saici and Nuchu were shocked to see the engine that was in the car, "Wow looks like a modified 3.5L twin turbo." I said looking at it.

Shikamaru put the key in the ignition and cranked the car up, the sound of the engine revving sent chills up my spine.

*VROOOM*

*HISSSSSS*

*VROOM*

*HISSS*

The car was fitted with a high pressure blowoff valve which resulted in a hissing sound after every gear shift; it also produces a lot of turbo lag because of the high power of the turbo.

The exhaust system of the car is prone to letting unburnt fuel explode in flames from the tailpipes during throttle liftoff after high revving, a trait common in high performance and heavily tuned vehicles.

"We spent about two months fixing this ride up," Shikamaru said getting out of his ride, "It goes zero to sixty in about four seconds."

Choji had a very sleek and tricked out Honda Prelude which had sort of a crimson red color to it with a slight shade of gray, the interior was also colored crimson red and gray and so were the gauges, the car didn't have a wide body kit but it did have custom side skirts, front and rear bumper from Wings West company and a large spoiler.

It also had 19 inch rims from Tenzo and low profile tires; he also installed some racing seats that were from the Momo Company and also a custom steering wheel, Choji opened the trunk to reveal two 15 inch sub woofers on each side, a small flat screen TV, two amps from Pioneer, and two NOS tanks.

Under the hood was also a twin turbo engine (that was definitely not street legal), "It took me a little longer to finish everything up." Choji said grinning, "It goes zero to sixty in about 4 seconds also."

"Hmm, I got to admit, you guys did a real good job with your rides," Nuchu said, "Maybe we should get together and race sometime."

"Later on after the tournament of course," Shikamaru said, "The street racers from Sunagakure are coming down here and you know those guys aren't easy to beat."

"No way, they're coming down here too!" I said in surprise, I knew exactly who Shikamaru was talking about, "Shit, the streets of Birmingham are gonna be rather busy these next few nights."

"Yo Deangelo, you know any garages that are in the downtown area?" Choji asked, "We went to 205 Customs but they were closed down."

"No not that I know of," I answered, "But there is a garage up in the south side of Birmingham, the place is called Zoomers it opened up about a week ago, I'll show you guys the way if y'all want to go."

Just when we were about to get up and head back to our cars we stopped dead in our tracks when we saw a police edition Dodge Charger SRT, the police officer looked at us as he drove by.

"Hey let's not do any of speeding down the roads, last thing we need is to attract the attention of the cops," Nuchu stated, "Lets at least wait until we're in downtown or on the south side."

Downtown Birmingham, 2:00 pm.

*VROOOM*

*HISSS*

*VROOOM*

*HISSSS*

Apart from Shikamaru's ride producing that hissing noise, my ride (the Nissan Skyline GT-R R32) also had a high pressure blowoff valve as well; it too produces a lot of turbo lag but the sound of it is music to my ears.

We went flying past by the Birmingham City Hall doing almost 100 and above, traffic in the city was extremely light today as of all weekends, Shikamaru's Subaru was fast it was a lot faster than my Skyline. The same went for Choji and Nuchu as they blew by me and my brother.

As we were approaching the Mcwayne Center I looked in the rearview mirror and saw a pink vehicle, at first I thought it was probably Sakura in her RX-8 convertible but it wasn't once the car got closer, it was another kind of car it was a Nissan 300ZX.

"Now that's a car I haven't seen in a good minute." I said to myself, the 300ZX had a body kit from Wings West, a stock hood, dark black tinted windows, 17 inch rims from BBS and a stock spoiler.

Behind the 300ZX was a solid black Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI, it had solid black 19 inch rims with a vinyl of a heart that had thorny vines around it bleeding, the car also had a wide body kit from Seibon, the windows were also solid black so I couldn't see who was behind the wheel, the car also had custom headlights and a spoiler in the back.

The driver in the 300ZX flashed the headlights challenging me and my brother to a race; the Evo VI did the same thing, "Yo Sai Saici, looks like we got some folks that wants to race us." I said through the walkie-talkie.

"Hey why not, it'll make things even more interesting." Sai Saici replied back.

Both my brother and I turned our hazard lights on signaling them that we accept the challenge, that's when we started to put the pedal to the floor.

Sai Saici and I went speeding by Nuchu, Shikamaru, and Choji with the 300ZX and the Evo VI staying right on our tail, went through the tunnel going almost 170 plus.

We were way out in front as we exit out the tunnel and entered the south side area of Birmingham, we sped by the Chevy dealership place, Sai Saici and the Evo VI we battling for third place while me and the 300ZX were fighting for first.

I looked in the rearview and saw Nuchu and the others finally catching up, probably taking the hint that Sai Saici and I were in a race.

We sped by UAB hospital and were approaching a very large and steep hill, at the top of the hill was the Zoomers garage, "I doubt very seriously the 300ZX can even keep up with my 'R'," I said pressing my foot down on the accelerator, "But I know for a fact that Shikamaru's Subaru and that Evo VI can keep up."

And I was right too merging from both the left and the right was Shikamaru and the mysterious Evo VI, both cars managed to make it all the way to where me and the 300ZX was at, they went by the pink tuner and tried to pass me but I wouldn't let them.

All three of us were side by side Shimakaru had the left lane, the Evo VI had the right, and I had the middle.

Shockingly enough in the end, it was a three way tie, we drove into the parking lot are of the garage once we made it to the top.

Me, Nuchu and the others got out of our vehicles along with the two mysterious drivers, the person who drove the pink 300ZX was a young girl, she looked like she was either 17 or 18, she had long blonde hair, and pink colored eyes.

She was wearing some shorts that came to her knees and were colored yellow, a white t-shirt, a yellow South Pole hoodie that was colored pink on the inside and some white low top Adidas shoes.

"Wow this girl looks sort of like Naruto's old girlfriend, in certain ways." I thought.

The person who was driving the black Evo VI was a boy; he looked like he was in his late teens or early twenties.

He had short ink-black hair, ink black eyes, and extremely pale skin. He was wearing a black shirt that had a dragon on it, solid black baggy pants, and solid black Timberland boots. He also had two teardrop tattoos underneath his right eye (Just like me but I have three teardrops).

"Hmm, I guess they were right about what they said," the girl said to her friend, "There are some good drivers down here."

"Who are you guys?" I asked the two.

"My name is Shion, I am member of Team 7." The girl answered.

"My name is Sai, I too am a member of Team 7." The boy answered.

"I see…so you managed to find two replacements granddaddy Jiraiya." I thought.

Back when Naruto first started street racing, he used to be part of Team 7, during those times I didn't have a lot of knowledge about the car crews in Konoha like I do now. Jiraiya was basically the team leader; he would always give Naruto and his teammates instructions during the middle of races, shockingly enough Ino told me that Naruto's teammates were Sasuke and Sakura, what made Naruto and Sasuke part ways is beyond me but I could take a few guesses.

"Let me guess: you guys must be down here for the tournament also?" Sai Saici asked, both drivers gave a nod.

Suddenly my cell phone started to ring, I took it out my pocket and saw the ID on the screen, it was Uncle Mike I already knew what the call was about, "Look guys sorry to cut this short but I got to go, Sai Saici we got to head back to Druid Hills." I said getting back in the car.

Druid Hills, 2:45 pm.

Ping's garage.

With Deangelo and Sai Saici…..

"So are they here?" I asked Uncle Mike as my brother and I walked through the front door.

"Yeah they're here man, all fresh and brand new." Uncle Mike answered; he opened one of the boxes that revealed brand new racing seats and a new steering wheel.

In another box there were brand new suspensions, rims and neon lights, "This is good," I said, "This will be good for Senna's RSX."

Later on that night…..

Ping's garage, 7:50 pm.

With Sai Saici and Deangelo…

While my brother and I were busy trying to redo the framework on Senna's RSX, my dad came into the garage along with another dude.

The guy that was with dad was probably in his early thirties, he was wearing a black t-shirt, blue jean pants, black and white colored high top sneakers and a black watch from the looks of it he could be Caucasian or mixed.

"Hey Deangelo I want you to meet a good buddy of mine he just came here." My dad said introducing him.

"Hey man it's good to meet you, that's my brother Sai Saici." I said shaking his hand.

"Good to meet y'all." He replied.

"So where you from man?" Sai Saici asked him.

"I'm from the East Coast."

"Oh really? So what brings you down here to the South?"

"I've heard a lot of good things about this city, so I decided to come have a look for myself, and plus I'm here to race some cars."

"Deangelo my homeboy here is gonna need a car, so can you hook him up with one?" my dad asked me.

"Yeah alright man, just follow me."

We walked outside in the backyard area where there were stock cars sitting outside that were for sale, "What kind of car you looking for man?" I asked him.

"Eh something fast, but cheap, you know maybe two or three thousand?" he replied.

I pointed at three cars; one of the cars was a stock Nissan 240SX, the second one was a stock Nissan Fairlady Z (Datsun 280Z in certain markets), and the last one was a stock 1964 Impala.

"Those are the only cars that are cheap, but they are fast though." I said.

In the end the guy ended up buying the Nissan 240SX, "Say kid, you know any good places to race?" he asked me as he got into the car.

"I know plenty of places bro, for starters you can hit up Patten Park which is a few blocks away from here, all the street racers be meeting up there," I answered, "Or you can go to Red Mountain, it's where the Vulcan Statue is sitting at, or you can go to Woodlawn park just east of here."

"Aight thanks man."

With that he drove out of the back yard and onto the street, heading off to his destination, I took a quick glance at the clock.

It was time for me to leave also, I'm facing off against Andrew Ishikara tonight at Red Mountain and I can't be late.

"Yo Sai Saici, are gonna come with me to Red Mountain?" I asked him.

"Yeah, I'll probably head there after I install the new seats." He replied.

I got back into the Nissan Skyline GT-R R32 and head off to my destination as well, "Okay GT-R lets head to the mountains."

Next chapter coming up.