I do not own any anime or any video games….
And now, part three of Nuchu's flashback.
On the Wangan, the two monstrous Toyota Supras continue to speed at an astonishing 235 MPH and above, Nuchu manages to overtake the gold colored A80 Supra and hold first place. Just when Nuchu and his opponent were about to enter the Haneda North Tunnel, two mysterious GT-R's appear.
Wangan; 8:00 pm.
With Nuchu and Reina….
"Fuck, so much for this being a one on one race." I thought.
As I continued speeding down the Wangan tunnel the Nissan R35 decided to make a move and overtake the gold Supra, scarily enough the driver in the R34 made a move also.
The driver in the gold Supra swerved to the left, blocking the R34 and started to speed up to the point that me and my opponent were side by side again, both Reina and I gasped in shock.
"Where did this come from!" I thought, the gold Toyota Supra managed to regain the lead while the driver in the black R35 passed me and gained second place.
That damn driver in the gold Supra probably got a new engine or something, this is absolutely unbelievable, he shouldn't have been able to overtake me (so easily) again.
"Reina, hang on." I simply said, I put the car in sixth gear and swerved to the left; I pressed on the nitrous oxide button and started to gain a huge boost of speed.
Behind me, the driver in the yellow Nissan Skyline R34 started to speed up at a dangerous rate, taking the hint that the driver also hit the nitrous oxide the driver in the Nissan R35 was in the middle lane, I was in the left lane and the driver in the R34 was in the right lane.
Me along with the R34 and the R35 were perfectly aligned side by side going almost 245 MPH, the driver in the gold Supra was trying to create distance between me and him, I was trying hard to keep up the V12 engine roared (along with the R34 and R35) echoing throughout the Wangan tunnel.
I hit the nitrous oxide again going from 245 to an astonishing 269 MPH and up, I managed to fully overtake the R35 and regain second place, while the driver in the yellow R34 managed to take third and the driver in the R35 held last place.
I started to slowly close the gap between me and my opponent, "Come on," I whispered, my hands gripping the steering wheel tightly, my right foot pressed all the way down on the gas pedal, "Come on, I can't lose again."
Finally we exited out of the Wangan Tunnel I was completely biting down the lower part of my lip as the gap kept getting shorter and shorter, Reina was looking in the rearview mirror trying to keep an eye on the two GT-R's behind me, I swerved to the left as I began to overtake my opponent.
I was sweating hard, my body was getting tensed up, my left hand was tightly gripping the steering wheel while my right hand tightly gripped the stick shift.
There was only one mile left until we reached the Yokohama Bay Bridge I had to gain the lead again and win this race, my heart right now was pounding hard it felt like it was gonna come busting out of my chest, my opponent and I were speeding down the Wangan at almost 300 MPH.
"It's all or nothing." I thought, as soon as I was about to hit the nitrous oxide button, the driver in the gold Supra turned it's hazard lights on and started to reduce speed.
"He's slowing down?" Reina Said.
"Something must've happened." I replied, I turned my hazard lights on as well; signaling to the two GT-R's that the race is pretty much over.
Now driving casually in the slow lane the gold Toyota Supra got off the next exit, with me and the other two vehicles following right behind, "Man that was an intense race," I said, "It was sort of fun while it lasted."
"Hope the cameras were able to record all of it." Said Reina.
Later that night….
Yokohama; 8:35 pm.
With Nuchu and Reina…
There was a large and empty parking lot underneath the interstate where I told everyone to meet at; Reina and I emerged from my vehicle and walked over to the driver of the gold Toyota Supra, the hood of the vehicle was up and there was a little bit of smoke billowing out.
The driver was a man who was probably in his early or late forties or early fifties; he had black hair, black rimmed glasses, black colored tennis shoes, blue jean pants and a black t-shirt.
It was none other than Kazuhiko Nagata (aka "Smoky" Nagata), this guy is the founder/president of Top Secret Performance and has been the active president for over 10 years now, loved and respected by street racers (and completely disliked by the cops) he's become quite well known for his wild stunts on highways and public roads.
This is the first time in my life I get to meet Smoky Nagata in person, Reina casually greeted Smoky while I was standing a few inches from the gold Supra not saying one solitary word, really I didn't know what to actually say truth be told.
I was afraid that I was gonna say something stupid or get tongue tied, I was a nervous wreck and my heart was starting to pound extremely hard yet again.
I looked behind me and saw Andrew, Matoko and the rest of my crew (along with the all GT-R crew and the two GT-R's that were in the race) coming into the parking lot, I turned back around to see Smoky Nagata and Reina walking towards me.
"Smoky-San, I would like to introduce you to Nuchu Akusa." Reina said, with her signature smile.
"It's nice to meet you young man." He said, as both he and I shook hands.
"And it's an honor to meet you Smoky-San," I replied, man I was a nervous wreck, "What happened to your ride?"
Smoky went back to his Supra, "The engine almost overheated," he answered, "If we would've kept on going another mile or two, this engine would've been done for."
I walked over and checked to see what type of engine was in this gold colored street machine, I was in shock at what I saw, it was a V12 engine almost similar to mine in some ways, only thing is his engine didn't have twin turbochargers the engine was all NA (side note: NA means "Naturally Aspirated").
"Jesus Christ, I can't believe he almost beat me with this type of engine under the hood." I thought.
While Smoky and Reina began have a conversation I headed to the all GT-R car crew, most of the drivers got out of their cars and just chilled out for a moment, the same went for my crew as well the car crew was called "Team Sky" they were a car club that consisted of Nissan Skyline GT-R hence the name.
I looked and saw Andrew and Matoko hanging out with their two younger brothers, who are the lieutenants of Team Sky, the leader of the car club was my second younger brother Nikko Akusa he was standing outside of his Nissan GT-R R35 (along with his girlfriend) wearing a basketball jersey that had the New Jersey Nets underneath the jersey was tank top.
The basketball jersey had his name in the back and the number "92" which is his birth year; he was also wearing some blue baggy Capri's pants that were past his ankles and white colored Rob Dyrdek DC shoes.
Soi Fon was wearing a yellow tube top with no shirt, black colored BK Express jeans and a NY Yankees fitted cap that was colored black and yellow and some high top DC shoes that were also colored black and yellow.
Both Nikko and Soi Fon were surprised to see Reina and Smoky for the first time, "I forgot to tell you guys that Reina and Drive Go-Go were interviewing me and the crew today," I explained to them, "Me and the crew found Smoky Nagata speeding down the Wangan."
"And you challenged him into a race?" Soi Fon asked.
"Yeah, a race that YOU guys interfered."
"Eh we only interfered a little bit." Nikko said coming to him and his girlfriend's defense.
My brother was telling me that him and his crew were driving down the Wangan trying to find the leader and the lieutenant of a car club known as the "R200 Club," from what I've been told the R200 Club was a car crew that consisted of Nissan Skyline GT-R's as well.
Suddenly out of nowhere T-Dog came rushing towards us with his face covered in sweat and he was out of breath a little bit, "Guys….we got….a problem." He said wheezing.
"Take deep breaths T-Dog," I told him, "What's wrong?"
Still breathing hard just a tad bit he pointed at a pillar that had graffiti on the wall that was all too recognizable, the graffiti was that of clouds that were colored white, black and red, "Awww shit," I said, "We're on Akatsuki territory."
The Akatsuki were a Japanese yakuza gang that started in Tokyo, Japan, they're one of the most dangerous and feared street gangs so far, they specialize in prostitution, gambling, racketeering, money laundering, and street racing.
To make matters even worse there were a few Akatsuki gang members that were cruising around on sports bikes, there was a group of them hanging around on a corner across the street looking at us, "Shit, I better go talk to them, they'll start trippin' if I don't tell them what's going on." I thought.
I looked behind me and saw Reina and Smoky still carrying on a conversation, the cameramen of Drive Go-Go were filming Andrew, Matoko and their two brothers.
I told Nikko and Soi Fon to come with me, while T-Dog decided to stay behind and watch just in case something happened, "Alright ya'll, let me do the talking, if they make a move you know what to do." I said.
"Right." Soi Fon and Nikko said simultaneously.
The Akatsuki don't take kindly to street racing crews coming on to their turf and racing, the high ranking and older members of the Akatsuki would usually send out the younger members to scare off the other street racers.
We approached the four Akatsuki gang members, all of them wearing their hoodies and vest that have the Akatsuki symbol, two of the members were carrying a baseball bat and a steel pipe.
"What the fuck you guys think you're doing?" one of the gang members said, as we approached them, "You guys just come on our turf, no permits, no parley. You fools got a death wish or something, you guys trying to start a war with us?"
"Relax man, relax," I said trying to reassure them, "We're not here to take over turf, all we're doing is just chilling out and trying to finish up our interview we got with a TV show, once we're done with our interview we'll leave out of here. Just give us at least another forty-five minutes or so."
The gang members took a quick glance across the street and saw Smoky Nagata and Reina along with the camera crew, "Alright, we'll let you guys stay." The gangster said.
Soi Fon, Nikko and I sighed in relief, "Thank god." I thought.
"But under one condition," the gang member continued, "We want to get interviewed by Reina-Chan."
"Done." I quickly said.
All of us went rushing back across the street and headed back to Reina and told her about the situation, though Reina was a little hesitant about doing it I pretty much told her that she didn't have much of a choice, she finally agreed to it and decided to give the young gang members a interview for 20 minutes.
Nine o'clock came around and the cameras started to roll again, as promised Reina interviewed the young Akatsuki members (some of them were showing off their customized sports bikes and import tuners), a few of them were racing and drifting on the streets with some of the members of my crew and Nikko's crew.
This is the first time the Akatsuki let a street racing crew race on their territory, Nikko and Soi Fon got a chance to meet Smoky Nagata and Reina for the first time, the same went for Andrew and Matoko's younger brothers.
Nikko had the trunk of his R35 open with music playing loudly through his highly customized sound system, a few of the racers either showed off their skill in drifting and a few others showed of their skill in dancing (T-Dog, as clumsy as he is, just seeing him dance makes a homeboy want to laugh), "Man this is great," I thought, "It almost fells like a block party really."
I asked one of the Akatsuki members about the police coming around, "Oh don't worry about it," the gang member said, "The police know not to come around."
"Figures." I thought.
End of flashback….
Finished with the Dyno tuning of the new police vehicles, Deangelo and Nuchu head to Western Hills Mall to do a little bit of racing, with RC cars that is.
Western Hills Mall; 2:00 pm.
With Deangelo and Nuchu….
While hanging out behind Western Hills Mall, Nuchu and his two lieutenants were busy drifting their RC cars on a little racetrack that some of the RC hobbyist managed to set up, I was busy cutting up and wise cracking at a few street racers about the cars they were driving in.
The two street racers were part of crew called the "Kut Boyz," a street racing crew that consisted of Oldsmobile Cutlasses (late 70's, early or mid eighties cutlasses I think), their rides were customized and turned into cars called "Donks."
Donks (people also call them "High-Risers" or "Skyscrapers") are cars that have giant rims (the rims are usually 22 inches and up), lifted suspension system (the kind of lift kit one would put on a truck), expensive sound systems and at times the vehicles would have unique paintjobs.
This type of automotive trend started in the southern region of the United States in urban areas, the most popular vehicles that are turned into donks are Chevy Caprices (either 86, 87, or late 90's), Ford Crown Vitoria's (early to late 90's and this year's), Mercury Grand Marquis, and a few other muscle cars, luxury sedans, SUV's and import tuners.
"Yo do a homeboy a favor, accidentally crash your ride into a tree," one of the racers said, as he made fun of my 1964 Impala lowrider, "We don't roll around in shit like that, this is the dirty south, we ride high."
"Yeah take that shit back to the West Coast man." Another racer said laughing.
"Yeah, yeah laugh it up," I said, "At least my car cost more than my rims, sound system and hydraulics."
"Damn!" Andrew said, as him and Matoko laughed.
"Man please," the street racer retorted, "This WHOLE car cost me more money than the modifications I put on it."
"I really find that hard to believe," I replied, looking at his Oldsmobile Cutlass, "Dude you got 28 inch rims that have diamonds in them, those rims alone probably cost between $40,000 to $90,000 each, the lift kit looks pretty expensive, plus the new drive shaft, transmission and let's not forget the new big block engine that pushes out at least 400 horsepower to make this ride move."
"What?" one of the racers said in shock, "How do you know what kind of engine is under the hood?"
"It's quite obvious man, I've been customizing cars so long I can tell what type of engine is under the hood just by hearing it." I answered.
Druid Hills; 2:17 pm.
With Sai Saici, Shikamaru and Choji….
"Aw man, this is sweet dude," Choji said, looking at the new 15 inch subwoofers (from Alpine), "Senna's gonna enjoy this."
Shikamaru was busy dealing with the wiring inside the trunk of the car, when it comes to electronics and a few other things Shikamaru is the man to go when you need help, Choji likes picking out items (such as speakers, amps, subwoofers, etc) needed to make the sound system itself sound and look absolutely amazing.
Choji took out a small flat screen high-def TV (bought by Samsung) that he was gonna install in the trunk of the vehicle, "Hold it right there man," Shikamaru said, "The Subwoofers, amps, and the other two speakers are more than enough. Let's not forget that Senna uses this car for racing also, trying not to put a lot of weight into this car is quite critical, you don't want to put too much weight into this ride otherwise the handling on this car will be quite difficult."
Choji let out a disappointed sigh, "You do have a point there, well I guess this TV can be used for my Scion."
"You still got that Scion right?" I asked, "The one where the DJ booth comes out along with the speakers?"
Choji chuckled, "Oh yeah I still got it, I won so many auto show events with that car, people dubbed it the best ride ever (and people dub me as Konoha's best DJ)."
*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK*
I completely stopped what I was doing and answered the front door, it was a deliveryman that was holding a clipboard in his right hand, "Uhh, are you Sai Saici?" he asked.
"Yeah that's me."I answered.
"Ok, the engine for the RSX is in the back of the truck."
I signed all the paperwork and told Choji and Shikamaru to help with getting the new engine inside the garage.
Western Hills mall; 2:24 pm.
With Deangelo and Nuchu….
"Wow, these came out already?" Nuchu asked, as he checked out a brand new pair of Air Force One's, "These shoes came out about a month ago back in New Jersey."
Nuchu and I were at Footlocker checking out the latest new shoes, unfortunately most of h shoes in the store had already came out where Nuchu stayed, they get their shoes come out a lot more earlier than it does down here in Birmingham.
Suddenly my cell phone started to vibrate with a new text message, I managed to take a quick glance at the screen, "New engine just came in, get down here, need your help."
"That's what's up then." I thought, I told Nuchu about the new engine for Senna's ride just arriving at the house and asked him if he wanted to tag along.
"Nah I'm good," he said, "Besides, I want to get some new shoes for my girlfriend."
I shrugged my shoulders and left, I'm surprised the engine came down here to Birmingham so quickly, usually it take at least about a week or two for an engine to get down here.
As I was texting Sai Saici back (not looking at where I was going), I accidentally bumped into a person to the point where it knocked her to the floor, "I'm so sorry ma'am." I said, as I reached my hand out to help her up, the girl was wearing some brown cargo pants, white Chuck Taylor shoes, a jacket that was colored brown and white and a brown skull cap she also had a brown scarf around her neck.
"Are you alright ma'am?" I asked her.
"I'm alright." She answered, the girl pulled her skull cap up to get a good view at whom she was talking to, when we saw each other eye to eye both of us were stunned.
"Now way, Shizune!" I said.
"Deangelo-Kun!"
Next chapter coming up.
