Chapter 7

(Third Person P.O.V.)

Off the coast of a small beach side town in Baja Mexico, two Japanese American brothers were in the water doing some water skiing, one of them skiing while the other was driving their speed boat.

"Hey Shogo what are you waiting for, hurry up and kick it into high gear." One of the two boys said to his elder brother who was driving the speed boat.

"No way Kengo, if you break your neck then dad will break mine." The other of the two brothers said as he steered the boat and took pictures of his younger brother with a digital camera as the younger brother did a few tricks as he continued to water ski.

"Hey Shogo, you think I'm ready for the Del Oro extreme?" The younger of the two brothers asked his elder brother curiously.

"Yeah if it is like a rodeo, you could be one of those clowns." The elder brother said jokingly at his younger brother's expense as they inadvertently got too close to another boat, this one being a much larger black Yacht.

The elder of the two brothers then started taking pictures of it and saw what looked like a hologram of a Jolly Roger skull and crossbones being projected from the large black vessel.

"Hey Kengo check it out." The elder of the two brothers said as he pointed out to his younger brother to look and see for himself.

"Pirates, in this day and age, and here in Baja, come one bro that's just weird." The younger of the two brothers said as continued to look with his brother.

Soon several men in purple armored suits and black tinted helmets covering their faces, riding jet skis came out of the large black Yacht and chased after the two boys, as a man with a ponytail hairstyle and wearing an eye patch looked through an monocular and laughed evilly.

Back in Del Oro Akihisa and Yuuko were both in class in their new American school, answering questions on a written test, only a few minutes left of class as their teacher who was Japanese American looked at the clock and then back to his two students.

The bell then rang, signalling the end of the class.

"Mr. Yoshii and Ms. Kinoshita, both of you please put your pens down." The teacher ordered for them two do, which they did.

Akihisa and Yuuko both then got up and out of their seats and handed their answer sheets to their teacher and looked at him.

"So Mr. Takeuchi, do I at least get an A for effort? Metaphorically speaking of course." Akihisa asked jokingly to his teacher.

"Well Akihisa, seeing as how for whatever reason you're barely ever in class I'm surprised you even have time to study or even want to study at all." The teacher whose name was revealed to be Mr. Takeuchi and therefore shared the same last name as one of Akihisa and Yuuko's teachers from back when they attended Fumizuki Academy, said to Akihisa in a way that made him feel bad and only brought back bad memories from his time as a student in his old former high school if it could even be called a proper school at all that constantly abused him physically, verbally, mentally, emotionally and psychologically.

Yuuko then put a hand on Akihisa's shoulder, making him turn and look at her as he saw that she was feeling worried about him and gestured for them to be on their way as well just as their teacher had turned and went on his way.

After leaving the classroom and heading outside, Akihisa and Yuuko were both passed by a fellow student riding a skateboard who simply shouted, "Woohoo, Spring Break!" in an excited tone of voice as he rode past them on his skateboard.

"Come on Akihisa, try to be a bit like that guy, after all it is Spring Break." Yuuko said as she put a hand on Akihisa's shoulder before hugging him, trying to cheer him up.

"Yeah, you're right. I'll try to cheer up Yuuko, for you, if it makes you happy." Akihisa said as he gave a small smile to Yuuko

"Of course it would make me happy, you're my boyfriend Akihisa, I only want for us both to be happy, if one of us isn't happy then the other shouldn't feel happy and chances are isn't, if you're not happy, then I'm not happy." Yuuko said as she continued to hug her boyfriend Akihisa and trying to cheer him up.

"Yeah, you're right Yuuko. Oh I almost forgot, I made plans for us to spend Spring Break together, just the two of us in the form of a vacation trip to beautiful Baja California, Mexico, surprise." Akihisa said happily with a smile on his face.

"That's great Akihisa, people may call you an idiot, but that does not make you a bad boyfriend, in fact you may only be my very first but you might also be the very best boyfriend I have ever had." Yuuko said sweetly with a loving smile on her face.

"Yeah, and best of all, no old so called "friends" or classmates of mine from back when we both attended Fumizuki Academy to ruin our time together." Akihisa said happily with a smile on his face.

"Damn right, now come on let's head back to our place and get packed so we can get going." Yuuko said happily with a smile on her face as she pulled on Akihisa's arm.

A little while afterwards, after packing their things Akihisa and Yuuko both put their luggage in Akihisa's car and then got in themselves and drove on their way to Baja. Where on the way Akihisa was starting to feel bothered again by the interaction he had with their teacher, Yuuko saw this while Akihisa was driving and decided to ask him.

"Akihisa, are you alright?" Yuuko asked in a concerned tone of voice and matching facial expression, as she was worried about her boyfriend.

"Well, yes and no. Yes in that I'm happy we get to go on vacation together, just the two of us together, and no in that I just can't shake the feeling off from that interaction we had with that teacher of ours Mr. Takeuchi, I mean when we first met him and first heard his last name and asked him about it, I was just as shocked as you were to find out from him telling us that he and one of our old Fumizuki Academy teachers, Ms. Takeuchi are actually brother and sister and that the reason the two of them both aren't currently living and teaching in Japan is because when they were both growing up the relationship between both of their parents ended up becoming very bad, to the point that they divorced and split up, with him and their father leaving Japan for the U.S. and Ms. Takeuchi and their mother staying in Japan, it also came as quite a shock at least to me that despite both of them having more or less grown up in and living in two different countries, they both decided to choose the same career path and became educators, with the only two major differences being they both live and teach in two different countries, and also in the academic subjects they teach. But still, when it comes to me and how I perform in the classroom, it's still the same story no matter what." Akihisa said in a slightly depressed and sad tone of voice and matching facial expression while he drove, making sure not to take his eyes off of the road.

"I guess it is like this old saying that I heard once before now that I think about it and try to understand it from your perspective Akihisa, it goes like this, "If you judge a fish by it's power to clime a tree it will think it's useless." Does that make sense to you?" Yuuko asked hoping that her boyfriend understood what she was trying to say in order to help him feel better and cheer him up.

"Yuuko, babe, you know I love you with all of my heart and being, but I'm sorry, I don't get what you said and mean at all." Akihisa said feeling even more sad and depressed as he continued to keep his eyes on the road and drive.

"Akihisa, what I am trying to say is tests aren't the way to know what you are good at. Sure the teacher can pass those tests, but can he take a metal fist to the face form Psycho and get back up and save the world like you can?" Yuuko asked with confident, happy and cheerful tone of voice and matching smile on her face.

"Well when you put it like that, then no." Akihisa said in a slightly more happy tone of voice and matching smile on his face.

"Exactly, because he couldn't and neither could Iron Man but you can, and you do." Yuuko said in a cheerful, confident and happy tone of voice and matching smile on her face, which made Akihisa feel very happy, not just at what his girlfriend had told him, but also made him feel so happy to have her as his girlfriend and always by his side.

Soon they had arrived at their destination, a very nice hotel.

To Be Continued.

Omake

In an office in an undisclosed location sitting at a desk was the leader of the Dread terrorist organization, John Dread, Psycho standing next to him on his right side and a man named Vitriol who had vibrant, translucent green arms with metallic 'bones' visible, standing next to him on his left side.

The phone on John Dread's desk, which was both encrypted and untraceable then rang and he answered it and put it on speaker.

"This is John Dread, what have you to report?" Mr. Dread said in a calm and collected tone of voice, his facial expression somewhat hidden by his sunglasses that he wore.

"Sir, N-Tek is able to spot and find disturbances around the globe thanks to a giant satellite of theirs in space within Earth's orbit, I'm sending the vital information for how the satellite works and where in Earth's orbit it is to you now, once we get rid of their satellite it will be almost if not completely impossible for them to track our movements and interfere in our operations." Whoever it was on the other side of the line spoke in a very calm and collected tone of voice.

"Excellent, and what about you, have they started to suspect that a mole leaking information about them to us?" Dread asked in a calm and collected tone of voice.

"No, not at all, I have everyone's trust in me and also nobody seems to suspect anything." The person on the other side of the line said in a calm and collected tone of voice.

"Very good, keep it that way, and keep up the good work, Dread out." John Dread said in a calm and collected tone of voice before hanging up.

End of Omake.