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Red Mountain, 8:20 pm.

With Deangelo, Shikamaru, Choji and Sai Saici…

We were at the bottom area of Red Mountain, just hanging out, joking around and talking about the times when we were little kids, man it feels like the good days again.

"If you guys had to give up one of these things," Sai Saici said, "Which one would it be: cars or women?"

"Hell, I want to say women," I answered looking at Ino and a few other girls, "But god knows I'm weak for them."

"Humph, I'll say women," Shikamaru answered still lying on the hood of his car, "Most of them are too damn bossy and troublesome, what about you Choji?"

"Man I couldn't give up my Honda Prelude," Choji answered, "I'm having too much fun living the street racer lifestyle, what about you Sai Saici?"

"Man I'm a multitasked person," He answered arrogantly, "I can handle both cars AND women, it's you poor saps I'm worried about."

"Oh really kid?" I said chuckling, "I like to see your ass prove it, try talking to one of those girls over there."

"Okay big bro I'll do it, watch closely boys and y'all might learn something."

"This ought to be good." Choji said pulling out a bag of Doritos and pouring some in a bowl for me to eat.

"He about to make a fucking fool out of himself." I simply said.

Sai Saici walked up to a girl and started a nice friendly conversation with her at first, but a few minutes later the girl ended up throwing a cup full of soda in his face, both Choji and I just busted out laughing while Shikamaru just shook his head.

"Oh yeah, we learned something alright!" Chojin said in between laughs.

"Dude just stick to handling cars bro." I said laughing also.

"Tā mā de nǐmen liǎ." Sai Saici muttered angrily, wiping the soda from his face.

"Yo Sai Saici, where the race between Senna and Shuhei is being held at?" Shikamaru asked.

"It's being held at the parking deck of the old Caraway Hospital," Sai Saici answered, "It nothing but all drift, the first person to make it all the way up to the 12th level is the winner."

"A 2008 Saleen S302 Extreme in a drifting match?" Choji asked, "That dude is gonna lose horribly, that ride is a very high performance muscle car."

"Well there's only one way to find out," I said, "Just got to wait and get word from the crew."

Norwood, Caraway Boulevard.

Caraway parking deck, 8:21 pm.

With Senna…..

"What's going on?" I asked through the walkie-talkie, "Are we good outside?"

"Yeah, I'm not picking anything up on the scanner," one of the street racers replied, "Things are pretty much dead out here, but I'll keep listening in case something pops up."

I was shocked at the number of people that showed up tonight, most of which were people from American Royalty.

"Man this is not good," I said scoping out the area, "The way people got their cars parked, it's gonna be tough to try to pass from the outside, it's just like Norwood Boulevard."

I've been practicing for a couple of hours trying to get used to driving a car with 4WD, driving an Evo 4 was extremely different from driving my usual Acura RSX Type-S.

What I wouldn't do to have that car right now, god I wish I didn't wrecked it; I thought everything was alright with that car once I had fixed the problem with the engine.

With Deangelo, Choji and Shikamaru….

"I'm surprised that Shinji hasn't showed up here." I said looking around; the only members that were here were Lisa, Mashiro, and Kensei.

Suddenly I saw a 96' Acura Integra Type-R driving into the parking lot area, it had a JDM front-end conversion, shaved door handles, antenna, emblems, trunk key-hole and molded roof rain gutters. An authentic Mugen aero kit was employed to boot, and everything was sprayed House of Kolor candy red. A closer examination reveals the finer points: Bomex /Vision carbon-fiber mirrors, JDM carbon canards, hood, and trunk, and a Cusco license plate re-locator.

The Integra rolls on SSR SP1 rims that were 16 inches and were chrome also, the windows were colored pitch black so I couldn't see who the driver was.

The Integra parked right next to the members of the Visoreds and the driver side door open, the person that was behind the wheel was Hiyori Sarugaki herself.

"Hmm that car is somewhat moderately tuned," Shikamaru said, "The engine is probably a tuned B18C6 twin turbo."

"Sai Saici told me that you want to challenge them," Choji said, "He also said that the reason you challenged them is so you can defeat them and join the Midnight Club."

"Yeah, my dad told me it would take too long trying to race all the car clubs around here in Birmingham," I replied, "He told to race against a few car clubs so I can attract their attention, so far it's been working, dad told me that they are not just gonna race anyone."

"Yeah that is true, even if your father is a street racing king; you put on a good performance for them and they'll probably race you. But if you put on a very bad performance, they're not gonna waste their time." Shikamaru said.

Suddenly Nuchu and the other members of SOS finally came into the parking lot; looks like Andrew Ishikara did a few little adjustments with the 89' MKIII A70 Supra.

The ride had a newer carbon fiber hood and a brand new spoiler also, "Yo Shikamaru, want to take a stab at what engine is probably in that A70 Supra?" I ask.

"It's probably a V8, but I could be wrong though." Shikamaru answered.

"I was thinking the same thing too." I said getting off the hood of my Skyline as the SOS crew got out of their rides.

"Alright guys you know how it works: first one to the top wins, plain and simple." Nuchu said, Andrew and I shook each other's hands before heading back to our rides.

"Yo do your best Deelow," Choji said with a mouth full of Dorito's, "We'll be rooting for you from the sidelines."

I got into the Skyline and cut the car on, "Okay its game time." I said putting my race gloves on, I drove up to the starting line where Sai Saici was waiting, after Andrew lined up right beside me Sai Saici raised his right hand up in the air.

"Alright I'm counting down," Sai Saici said, both Andrew and I revved our engines, "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, GO!"

*SCREEEEEEEEEEEECH*

With Senna…..

*SCREEEEEEEEECH*

Both Shuhei and left a trail of smoke behind as we accelerated from the starting line, Shuhei managed to take the lead while I was in second place.

People started to cheer as I sped past by them going almost 70 to 78 mph, I was staying real close behind Shuhei hoping for an opportunity to come up later on.

My right foot was working the brake and the gas pedals while my left foot worked the clutch pedal as Shuhei and went drifting around the first turn.

"Damn it feels so different, a four wheel drift with no countersteering what so ever." I thought.

With Deangelo….

*VROOOM*

*HISS*

*VROOM*

*HISS*

*SCREEEEECH*

"Heh, this guy is really good." I said as Andrew and I started to make our ascension to the top of Red Mountain, Andrew had taken the lead leaving me to stay in second place….for now.

The conditions around here were pretty much dry; the temperature around here was 70 degrees so it was pretty warm, there were still leaves on the ground so I had to be careful.

We were going about a good 110 plus on the straightaways, but both of us had to slow down eventually to avoid going in a corner too fast.

"I'm just waiting for the right time to strike." I said putting the car in third gear.

While Deangelo and Senna race, elsewhere some visitors finally make it to the airport…..

Birmingham international Airport, 8:30 pm.

"Ahhh man, that was a hell of a plane ride." My brother said cracking his neck.

"Yeah it was a bit longer than I expected," I replied, "Hey sis, have you called to see if our cars made it?"

"I've already done that bro," she answered, "They're at hangar 8 being loaded off as we speak."

"So this is Birmingham, Alabama," I thought, "I wonder if Naruto, Deangelo, and Sai Saici are still here, I haven't seen them in a long time especially Naruto and Sai Saici last time I talked to those two was back in the late 90's."

We walked into the hangar and saw the workers taking the cars out of the plane for us, I was driving a 2001 Lexus IS300, while my brother had a 2005 Pontiac GTO and my sister had her Honda NSX.

"Your cars are ready to go." One of the workers said.

"Many, many thanks." I replied.

Next chapter coming up.