A/N: Hello, guys! I am currently watching MF Ghost, and to say truthfully I am addicted to that series! I lost count how many times I rewatched it. But the same can be said about Ace of Diamond.
This story took place after Initial D. When Fujiwara Takumi left Gunma to pursuit the rally career another legend has appeared. It was a woman with unparalleled driving skills. Since her appearance, she dominated all the mountain course from Gunma – Kanagawa. She didn't announce her name, however due to her crimson hair, people gave her a nickname Benihime.
Benihime has dominated the racing world for a year, before making a sudden disappearance and never appeared again.
15 years later, MFG organisation created a street racing tournament with the only ratio allowed, which was grip to weight ratio. Two youngsters that has a connection to the legendary downhill specialist will meet each other in MFG.
I guess I will give a try for the idea in my head. To see whether or not it will attract readers, since I didn't do much of a good job in my other story…
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters.
Fujiwara Tofu Shop
A teenager of 17 years old with spiky golden hair and sky blue eyes was in hurry to put on his shoes. A toast in his mouth and he seemed to grumble about something to the oldman in front of him.
The oldman was in his 60-s, but he didn't look senile at all. He has slit eyes and a careless look. In his mouth was a cigarette. He was none other then the legendary undefeated racer, Fujiwara Bunta.
"Listen here, brat! If you want to participate in MFG, you must beat the sector record of your mother otherwise I won't allowed that. Is that clear?!" stated Bunta looking nonanchalantly at his grandson. To be more precisely his stepgrandson.
The teen swallowed the piece of toast in his mouth, while holding the toast in the right hand and retort.
"You are insane old geezer! How am I suppose to beat my mom's record? I am only 17 at the moment! While mother was 20 or a bit more? Hell, even stepdad was at least 19! I just want to test my driving skills in MFG! Why make things so complicated?!"
The teen complained with an annoyed look.
However that didn't bother Bunta one bit.
"I don't care, brat! I gave you the condition, whether you can fulfill that or not was upto you! Didn't you the one that has been screaming his head off that you will surpass Takumi and your mother? If you can't believe that you can break the sector records, how do you even think about surpassing them?" retort Bunta with a scoffed and provoked the teen driver's pride.
That's right! Fujiwara Takumi was the teenager's stepdad. He moved to UK with his girlfriend, however there was a drama between him and the teen's mother. After all complicated stuffs Takumi is now living in UK with both a professional golf player and the Street Racing Queen 'Benihime'. But that's the story for another time.
"Agh! You are impossible, geezer!" screamed the teen in frustration and stormed off. "Oi, don't forget your tofu delivery in the evening!"
Bunta reminded the teen outloud.
'I am only doing this for your sake, stupid grandson. You are a gifted driver, Naruto. Even if you are not a genius driver, you can learn and remember all driving techniques by repeating them with high precision. I guess that's something in your blood, considering your are her son after all.
In Bunta's mind, he wanted for Naruto to master driving in mountain course, because the deciding factor realised in that course. If Naruto could conquer all mountain courses like his mother and Takumi, then MFG will be no problem for him. When his mother put Naruto in his care since the childhood, Bunta gave Naruto the same driving training, he gave Takumi. He is a slower learner, however Naruto has an abnormal ability that allowed him to gauge how much speed he can use when cornerning to not lose the speed when drifting. His control over the car is no where Takumi's level yet, but Naruto's slowly getting there through his hardwork and observation.
He still used his Subaru Impreza for tofu delivery and that was also Naruto's car for delivery. In truth, Bunta wanted to train someone that could give him competition since the closest one was his son, and the second was the boy's mother. Naruto was incredibly bad in theory. But if he was instructed step by step with demonstration, he could repeat that in no time. And because of his abnormal ability, he practically never overspeed wgen driving and could perfect cleared any corner at the highest speed allowed. Of course, he knew that in condition his car right now, Naruto can't even pass the qualifications. And that's not because of his driving, that was because his Impreza too out of times and needs upgrade to compete with the modern cars of MFG.
"Haha knowing the brat, he will probably conquers those courses by the end of the week. I better get the car ready and to complete the registration" muttered Bunta to himself while scratching his neck and looked back at his car.
Naruto's school
The blond was grumbling and mumbling about 'a stubborn geezer that smoked too much for his health' or something about 'making a big fuss by making unfair condition.
His neighbour noticed his bad mood and decided to ask.
"Hey, Uzumaki! Who ruined your mood from the morning? Shouldn't you be excite? You told me that MFG tournament was about to start. No?"
Naruto turned his gaze to then that asked. And it was a girl his age with short hair cut and big brown eyes. She is Ren Saionji and she secretly worked part time as MFG Angel. She might fooled other people through makeup and change of hairstyle, but she can't fool his keen eyes. Not that he told her that he knew about that. Oh, well, what she didn't know won't hurt her, right?
"Ah, it's you Saionji. Who else do you think? My, oh so worriwart, grandpa! His condition that he gave me was too much!" complained Naruto holding his head in discomfort.
Saionji's father was crazy about cars and racing so she knew a little about racing world. And the blond, in front of her, was crazy about cars and racing too. For some unknown reason, she became his listener, when he complained about his grandpa and talking nonstop about MFG. By the way, he told her that his grandpa was a legendary racer in the past, that was undefeated till these days. Of course, she didn't believe him as he never showed her any proof of that. So she thought he just want to brag about having a cool grandpa.
Ren also knew nothing about the blond's mother and father. The blond always avoided that topic for some reason.
"Oh, didn't you say that you will have a relative coming to stay at your house for a while" Naruto recalled something Saionji said before.
"Not a relative?" Ren corrected him."It's the son of Ren's parent friends. He is coming from UK!"
"Oh, the same place as my stepdad!" realised Naruto.
Naruto also mentioned to her about his stepdad. He could talk about his stepfather, but couldn't talk about his biological father?
Suddenly Saionji's friend decided to join their conversation. Her name was Wakana and she can be considered a 'player' since she dumped about 6 guys! She was very lax and on the sight of a handsome, she will turned into jelly. Now Naruto is pretty good looking, however his behaviour is too childish, so both girls nevered considered him to be a love interest. Not that our blond cared about that, because he was busy with the task to complete his grandpa's condition to participate in MFG.
"Oh, what are we talking about? Is it about the half-breed foreigner that will stay in Ren's house? I bet he will be super gorgeous" stated Wakana with dreamy eyes. Naruto could only rolled his eyes at her fan-girlish behaviour. However the half-breed part definitely caught Naruto's attention.
"Wait! You didn't mention that he was half-breed, Saionji" exclaimed Naruto.
"Eh? That's because Wakana butts in before Ren could tell you that!" complained Ren pointing accusingly at her friend.
Why Naruto suddenly taken an interest in that fact? That's because his stepfather mentioned to him, that he is working as an instructor in famous racing school now. And he trained a protege, that according to his stepfather was very skilled. Unlike him, who was practicing his driving through mountain course at night. This guy had a real track racing record. Naruto actually wanted to test himself against such a guy.
Scene Break
There was a rumour about "Blue Phantom" according to street racers. He will only appear at night at mountain course such as Akagi, Myogi, Akina and Usui. Nobody knows how he looked like, because he covered his face with a ninja mask and visors. It all started after MFG tournament was announced.
According to street racers, he won't accept any challenge outloud, but will answer that through his driving. He was madly fast and so far none of street racers could keep up with him. The nickname "Blue Phantom" came from the car that the mysterious driver steering. It was an old model of Impreza Subaru. Modern street racers had all but forgot the legend of 'Project D' except the older generations. However the legend of 'Benihime' was still fresh within their mind.
Why such rumours apoeared? It's just Naruto trying to complete his grandpa's condition to participate in MFG for 3 years! Naruto was not interested in competing against other drivers on mountain pass, because he was fully concentrated on getting approval of his grandpa. Lots of street racers proovoked Naruto on the road, but the blond just made em taste defeat.
After 3 years of non-stop challenging the sector record left by his mother, Naruto had managed to surpass the time in all pass, except Usui. Clearing Usui course will be his last condition to participate in MFG.
(Playing Eurobeat Lost into the night by Elisa)
Naruto is driving through Usui pass, it was the course with most corners and extremely narrow. The blue Impreza Subaru was seen clearing corners with impressive speed through drifting. The other cars passed by him were actually in awe. He became so famous that people started to take pictures or streaming online.
"Oh, look! Blue Phantom appeared again! I wonder will there be someone to challenge him?" exclaimed one of street racers.
"People nowadays concentrate on MFG, I don't think there will be someone out there to challenge Blue Phantom out there. Besides nobody is gonna stood a chance! Look!" argued the other guy then pointed the direction where the Impreza Subaru was at.
Blue Phantom was about to get challenged by the steepest corner of Usui. Naruto shifted the weight to the back and started to drift using all his tires. He cleared the corner with high precision while still maintained his ideal line. The two bystanders had their jaw dropped to the ground.
'Ok, the hardest part is clear. I need to be faster to break the sector record' thought Naruto to himself while steering. Suddenly his navi showed him that there was more hairpin ahead, Naruto shiftdown and prepared for Inertia Drift.
Impreza Subaru was clearing the hairpin with remarkable speed, but at the same remained and in control. There was straight road before the finish, so Naruto accelerated to his top speed, but still maintained the control.
(End of eurobeat)
The blond breaths heavily then looked at the timer in his hand and started to shout in triumph.
"Yes! Yes! I did it! Hahaha, take that you old geezer! It might take 4 years! But I finally did it!"
Naruto couldn't contain his excitement and shouted in triumph gleefully like a kid recieving candies.
From the distance there were two groups that had been observing his driving prowess. One was Bunta and his bestie Yuichi Tachibana.
"You freaking demon! You forced a child of 17 years old to break the record of the woman the called 'Street Racer Queen'?" complained Yuichi looking at his old friend in disdain.
However Bunta could careless about his complaint and retort.
"It's for the boy's sake! Besides he has her blood running in her veins. It was only a matter of time when he could accomplish that. Hahaha, I still remembered that feisty girl when she challenged me to a race and Takumi looked at her like she grew the second head" Bunta revalled the fond memory with a ligh laugh.
"Your son must have the luck of the devil, Bunta! He got a gorgeous professional golfer as a wife and a race queen as a lover. Did you know that at the time where she was still racing in mountain pass, nearly all the racers wanted her heart? And yet she chose your boy" comment Yuichi at Takumi's luck, that had been with him even during races.
"The girl is not your normal girl. She is a tomboy, that won't back down from any challenge and stubborn as hell! My Takumi was kinda like that so I guess that's how they hit it off" retort Bunta with a shrugged and lit up another cigarette and as the one he smoked before was about to end.
"How the heck did Takumi's wife allow another woman to be by his side is beyond me. Nothing is ever particular normal about your family, Bunta!" Yuichi once again remind his friend that his family was abnormal and surrounded by crazy, but skilled drivers.
"Oh, It's just Mika-chan felt really sorry for her after what happened with her husband. They became good friends real fast and she noticed the crush the other girl had for Takumi. It was very obvious. After some discussions and persuasions, they decided to live together" explained Bunta, which gained Yuichi's attention.
"But I heard right now, she is in Germany, researching more about modern cars" informed Bunta.
"Whoa! I don't know that! Do you think she will return to racing world one day? I mean, such a talent will be wasted if she quits all of a sudden. People still hope for Benihime to return to the race" questioned Yuichi looking at the dark sky above him.
"I think she wants to pass the baton to her son. He is her pride and joy after all" replies Bunta knowingly. Suddenly a wicked grin appeared on his face alerting Yuichi.
"How great it will be for the 17 years old teenger to turn the MFG upsidedown! I actually can't wait for that"
Yuichi rolled his eyes at his friends antics.
"You said like you are absolutely sure that Naruto-kun will get into Godly Fifteen"
However Bunta's reply has no hesitation at all.
"Of course! He is my grandson after all! For 3 years, he had been driving through mountain course. MFG course won't be a problem for him! Do you know why?"
Yuichi shook his head in negative, so Bunta continued.
"Because the only regulation in MFG is grip to weight ratio. The brats these days interpreted that as 'richman regulation' due to the fact that you can input no limit into engine. However that is not correct! That regulation was used because that was the most effective way to utilise cornering speed. So the key here is not power, but balance" explained Bunta wisely, which made Yuichi nodded dumbly.
Meanwhile in the distance two men also observed Naruto's run. They were part of MFG organisation, but also the former members of Akagi Red Suns. They were Kenta Nakamura and Fumihiro. They are currently informing back their higher-ups through mobile.
"Hello, Ryosuke? I want to inform it seems that 'Blue Phantom' has completed his training" Fumihiro spoked with Takahashi Ryosuke, the executive organiser of MFG tournament.
"I see. You can send him the invitation tomorrow" responded Ryosuke through mobile.
Kenta also informed Keisuke about Blue Phantom.
The reason why both brothers bothered so much about this boy was because they both fell in love with his mother. Both brothers challenged Naruto's race in their home course and was utterly defeated. Naruto's mother was very attractive and has a strong independent personality tgat attracted many men, especially racers. Ryosuke thought that after he lost Kaori, he would never fall on love so soon again. But Naruto's mother managed to capture his heart after just one race.
Keisuke still felt jealous to this day that only girl he had taken an interest was with Fujiwara. However there was no changing her mind about that decision. He was so mad back that, that he challenged Fujiwara for her heart in a fit of jealousy. However Benihime hated when she was treated like a trophy and took on his challenge instead. And of course, he was defeated, unlike Fujiwara who was only downhill specialist, Benihime was well versed in uphill too. And it was kinda shocking to see her overtaking him so fast on hill climbing. He still remembered that move till this day. She deliberately drove behind him for slipstream and when the hill climb was nearly over, she instantly moved out of the slipstream and overtook him.
"With the joining of Fujiwara's prized student and Benihime biological son, things will turn up pretty crazy this year, I would say" comment Kenta, having finished his report to Keisuke.
"That's something I very glad to hear as an organiser. The more skilled drivers arrived in MFG, the more crowd it will attract" respond Fumihiro with a smile.
Scene change
The next day
Naruto was surprised that he actually received an official invitation from MFG. It's like they have been keeping an eye on him. Naruto entered the MFG site and an exciting grin and started to surf through the list of Godly Fifteen. First was Michael Beckenbaur, the one the announcer called 'German cyborg' due to his smooth and perfectly controlled driving. It was said that he was the only driver that managed to break the sector record of the demo run on Odawara Pikes Peak, which was the opening race.
Next was Ishigami Fuujin, an oldman that was the champion of MFG for 2 times. To tell the truth, Naruto was not impressed with his driving and thought that he won't be able to keep the number 1 position this year.
Next was Akaba Kaito. A pretty skilled driver in Naruto's opinion. However, Naruto noticed that he only often overtake the opponent on the straight due the fact that his car has one of the most HP in the tournament. That means, he is not particular great at cornering.
Next was Sawatari Kouki. A driver with a talent rivaled that of Beckenbaur, but he lacked motivation hence why he ended up in the 4th place. And he is lolicon to boot! He even announced that to the fans on screen! That is freaking sick. For his classmates sake, Naruto will need to remind himself to stay away from Sawatari Kouki for their sake.
He didn't find the rest of competitors appealing, so he exited the site. That was when he heard the sounded on the engine. It was his Impreza Subaru, but the sound of engine felt more powerful?
"Oh, grandpa! Where did you go last night? And also took my car with you" asked Naruto curiosly, but received a bonk from said grandpa, which made him rubbed his head comically with teary eye.
"Whose car is that? I want you to repeat that again! And you should thank me rather then complain, you, ungrateful brat!" retort Bunta in annoyance.
Naruto cocked his head to the side in confusion. Then suddenly slapped his right fist on his left palm since he understood what that means recalling the new sounded of the engine.
"Whoa! You finished the upgrade so fast! You are the best grandpa!" Naruto couldn't contained his excitement and hugged his grandpa tightly.
Bunta lit up his cigarette and started to enlist what upgrade he made. "Well, for start, I put into Shock Absorber and improved the brakes for precise accel work. To make the car balance I increased the engine to 260 HP for now, NA though. I want to see whether or not, there is a need to put turbo charger after the qualifying. And one thing I want you to learn for MFG. That's tire management. During race, unlike street race where if you catched up to the opponent car and the race is finished. You need to gauge the amount of grips you have left on the tires at the end each lap. If you goes on the attack straight from the beginning the tires will worn out after just one lap. That's something you should calculate carefully during the race"
Bunta lectured his grandson about the new information, that he hadn't any need, due to his training on mountain course until now.
Naruto nodded his head slowly and narrowed his eyes in determination. He had a week left to learn about this tire management, perhaps asking around the former racers might be a good idea to grasp that.
Unlike the modern racers these days, Naruto has taken an interest in mountain courses since he found out about his stepfather and mother's past. Naruto had been studiying and copying all the techniques of the drivers in 'Project D' and arranged them to suit his style.
So Naruto pretty much started his task with tire management. First, he needs to find out the limit of tires when he put his car to the limit and adjusted from there. Plus the blond also started to research about the way to heat up the tire fast, as that will be a very big advantage in races, as well as the way how to cool them down when need, if he was in a situation where he put too much strain on the tires. Naruto was quite satisfied with his Impreza upgrade, since she ran more smoothly and the brakes were more effective then before. And with the standard engine boost, he shouldn't struggle on straight due to underpower, but with that said he wouldn't be able to compete with more powerful cars in power section either way. However if he can't compete with them then he just need to make them run on his pace and he had plenty of ways to make them joining his farce.
Scene change
Akina pass
Naruto was in his Impreza testing out e few maneuver in preparation for MFG. Suddenly he heare the sounded of rotary engine and glanced up at his front mirror. It was a yellow RX-7 and seemed familiar to him. The younger driver guts suggested him that the car behind him is provoking him for a battle. And this will be quite a hard opponent since he caught up to him very fast.
(Playing eurobeat Secret Love by Nutty)
"Let's see what you got, Blue Phantom" stated the driver of RX-7.
Naruto began to accelerate trying to get rid of the car behind, but it was not easy at all. The RX-7 is sticking to him like a shadow. However Naruto had a slight idea in his head to try to get rid of his chaser. He eassed up the pedal baiting for the RX-7 to get even closer. When two cars were merely 3 cm before they hit each other, Naruto brakes enough for the backrow light to lit up, which caused the car behind him to slow down to avoid the clashing. However that was Naruto's Feint Brake move and using that opportunity he goes full throttle and leaving the RX-7 behind.
"Oh, so the kid even know how to use Feint Braking. Not bad!" compliment the RX-7 driver and proceed to pursuit his target.
The Impreza is about to approach the 5 hairpin curves, which was the most difficult part of this pass, since here there is no straight for acceleration. However Naruto was all to familiar about this part and prepared to brake for Inertia Drift. The Impreza managed to clear the hairpin using Inertia Drift with great speed. However the RX-7 drove through the corners very fast and smoothly. Naruto was shocked that the car behind still managed to keep up with him.
"You must be kidding me! How did he get here so fast? And his driving is so smooth and the way he cleared the corner with such a precision, it's like he knew this course for a milenia now" grumbled Naruto to himself.
'Hmm, if that was the past me, I would actually be shocked, but too bad for you, I have seen that move before. My driving has evolved drastically since those days' thought the RX-7 driver and felt nostalgia seeing blond using Inertia Drift.
However Naruto didn't give up and shifted his gear higher and took off with incredible speed. The speed made the RX-7 double take.
'He can actually in perfect control with such speed? That was surprising' muttered the driver in amusement.
The RX-7 took off after the Impreza, but he was surprised when the Impreza suddenly made a 360 drift, that distraction was enough for the Impreza to accelerate and disappeared from sight.
(End of the eurobeat)
The RX-7 driver revealed himself to be, Takahashi Keisuke. Despite being much older, he became more skilled through experiences he gained from Project D and the time he was a pro in racing world.
"You son will do fine in MFG. I am looking forward seeing the clash between him and Fujiwara's protege" said Keisuke to no one in particular. The former hill climb sce of Project D, merely wanted to test the boy's driving skill and what he noticed, that while the boy's skill was still no where near his or Fujiwara's. He had a knack to make the perfect ambush on the opponents.
Scene change
1 week later.
A young man with a neat haircut was seen exited out of Haneda Airport. He was greeted by the huge TV screening the MFG event where Nissan GTR driven by Aiba Shun started off. The crowd were glued to the screen as you could see everyone was looking at their monitor, either on the huge TV screen or at the mobile phones, where the drones is streaming the run live.
"Wow! There are more fans here than in England" exclaimed the young man looking at the excited crowd.
This young man is Kanata Rivington. A prodigious driver that was taught by Fujiwara Takumi himself.
Scene change
Meanwhile in Stuttgart
A beautiful woman with long silky crimson hair with lilac coloured eyes wearing a grey suit with a white shirt underneath that was tighten into a knot to reveal her midriff was looking at the screen of her mobile.
"I heard that my baby is finally allowed to participate in MFG. This will be interesting for this year" The woman mumbled with a satisfied grin.
This woman was none other then the legendary race queen 'Benihime' as Japan knew her. However there is another nickname for her here in Germany. Due to her aggressive yet fast driving, the people of Stuttgart gave her a nickname 'Schumacher Mädchen' which means a female Schumacher.
Suddenly a man in business stormed into her room and complained.
"Hey, Frau Uzumaki! The students are arguing again! Can you do something about that, bitte!?"
Yes, the true name was the legendary race queen is Kushina Uzumaki. Her aggressive and blitz cracking driving turned the teaching of Porsche Academy upside down. Porsche Academy has a doctrine of teaching their students of the perfect way to drive that is both elegant, smooth, but at the same fast without any mistake. However with the coming of Kushina, who drove aggressively at the corners at blinding speed,the students began to doubt the academy teachings. Part of that because the other instructors challenged her to a battle and was easily defeated.
Funny enough she was in Stuttgart for vacation at first, but the academy's higher up offered her a job here, since they can't deny the fact that her driving was remarkable. Kushina decided to yake a job because she didn't like the stuck up attitude of the guys here, that thought that their teaching was top notch. She recalled an amusing brat, that refused to acknowledge her driving. That was one funny memory. The brat was capable enough to break the record of the demo run in MFG, so it seems he was not all talk. Even though the others praised and revered him to the point of giving him a 'masterpiece' word, Kushina didn't think that his driving deserved such a praise. He was still green in her eyes and his driving obviously has flaws.
Two new drivers joined MFG. What kind of balance shifting, will those two bring to MFG?
A/N: I guess this it. Probably the first Xover of MF Ghost. Next chapter is the qualification round in Odawara Pikes Peak. I am planning for Naruto to rise to the 9th place in qualification, since his car has more HP and so he didn't really struggled in power section like Kanata? What do you guys think? And yeah I decided to kick out that Natsume guy from the race, because we basically didn't even see him in anime.
Naruto's car is Bunta's Impreza Subaru. Same colour, but with some improvements.
Wait for some reviews! Until next time! Ciao.
