BtF - Part II

Tokyo, May 25th, 2013

The blonde kid kicks Miya back. Miya advanced, thought the boy was faster and blocked his strike with his sword with his own, and the turned around him and hit his back. Miya fell to the ground with his face.

“argh! Damnit! You were right, you are good on this.”

“I practiced a bit of fencing at younger age.” He helped Miya up with his hand “It seems I have not lost it.”

“Still, no one grabs a Shinai like you grab it. With just one hand. The sensei himself told us it must be grabbed with both hands. Japanese swords are wielded with both hands.”

“This is my style. I dislike some of those traditions. Adapting to a new style is how I do things. I do not see why I should grab it with both hands. If I did, my strikes would be strong, but I would sacrifice part of my agility.”

“Well, suit yourself new boy!”

“It passed over a month since the begging of the class and you still call me that…”

“Aw come on!”

“You know my name, use it!”

“I have an idea. A gamble: the one that strikes first the head of the other wins. If I win, I will keep calling you: new boy.”

“Then if I win, start calling me by my name!”

“Fair enough…new boy!”

“You are a douche when you want you know that!”

He was about to attack him, when he notices Shun, practicing Kendo next to Taichi. He was skilled, really.

He clashed swords with him; they separate, and stare at each other for brief moment. Taichi attacked, but Shun felt back, eluding his first attack, then he countered with one of his own diagonally to his right, still Taichi was not bad either, and deflected the attack, a small part scratched his mask. Taichi still did not fell back, and attacked once again, but shun eluded his attack, spinning at his side and striking his flank, Taichi fell to the ground.

“He is good…”

“What? Kazeriya? Yes…I hate to agree with you. But his father was master Kenjutsu and Kendo. Is logical that he is skilled.”

“Cool.”

“Yeah…”he said reluctantly.

“What? You have had problems with him.”

“Yes…More than you. He is a total ass with kids like us.”

“And…”

“He has been bulling me more than you! I have been in this school for longer time, and he has been here the same as me. He always sized opportunity to call me mongrel or half-breed.”

“So you hate him?”

“I do not know. But I am close to it.”

“He is not that bad…”

“How do you know?”

“I do not know...Is just…I think it.”

“Whatever…Round two! Get ready!”

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Tokyo, May 26th, 2013

“Hey! Sakura!”

The blonde girl tuned back, to see the kid following her running.

“Ah, new kid!”

“Aw come on! Miya has stopped calling me that. Now you call me or that. That is not my name!” The kid shrugged.

“Haha. Well alright…You are cute saying that!”

“Cute…Me..?”

“Yes!”

“oook…”

“Well? What happened?”

“No…nothing…I forgot…”

“What a dummy! I will go to the bathroom. Go to the break, I will find you there.”

“Okay.”

The kid left to the school-yard with a smile drawn on his face. That was actually the first time a girl had called him that: “cute”. It had never happened to him before. He really liked her…she was cute, sweet with everybody, and caring with either boys or girls. Not even Kazeriya bothered her, and she was half Japanese the same as him and Miya. But for some reason, he bullied more either of them.

The kid placed himself against the wall, and looked down with a smile, waiting for her, and also for Miya, who had gone to the bathroom as well.

Suddenly, a pair of black shoes appears on his view. He looked up; it was Kazeriya, just in front of him.

“Hey! Mongrel!”

“What?”

“Stop talking to her!”

“To who?”

“Sakuya! To her! Stop talking to Sakura Sakuya!”

“Why?!” He looked to the face of Shun, and noticed a small blush on his face, which quickly became redder. “Wait a moment… you like her?!”

Shun blush turned redder still, to make certainty the kid’s question.

“You like her! YOU LIKE SA-”

A strong fist to the pit of the stomach, taking all the air on his lungs. He fell to his knees to the ground, with his hands covering his chest and his eyes with small pupil. He was in pain.

“You stupid mongrel!”

He punched the back of his head, hitting the ground with his front, and making a wound on his head. There were no teachers near, so he would not stop. Other students were looking at the fight, but no one dared to stop Kazeriya.

He placed his foot on the back of his head.

“I WILL TEACH YOU TO SHUT UP WHEN YOU MUST! YOU HAVE TO STOP TALKNIG WHEN I SAY IT!”

He raised his leg, ready to step on the back of his head.

“NOW SHUT UP, MON….”

“NO YOU SHUT UP!”

Miya threw himself to him, and stopped his kick. He punched him on the face, but this did not stop Shun, who then counter with a fist of his own also to his face. They struggled a bit between them two with both hands pushing one another, until shun pushed him back with a kick to his stomach, taking part of the air on his lungs but the strength. They separated and briefly stared to each other faces.

“YOU WILL NOW GET WHAT YOU DESERVE STUPID RACIST!”

“Miya stop!” The kid said, raising his head, with his head dropping blood

“What?”

“This is my fight!”

“But…look at you! You are dropping blood from your face! You cannot fight!”

“No. This fight is one on one, and I have not lost my will to fight! You have no reason to get in the way! Stand down Miya!”

“Alright…you better know what you are doing!”

He crossed his arms and got near the rest of the students, as the kid got up facing shun, and raised both of his hands.

“It seems the mongrel has a bit of honor!”

“I do…”

The kid advanced, as did shun, they started fi a straight punch both of them directly to the face, which both of them well placed on each other’s cheek right cheek, setting distance after the strike, the kid attacked with his left hand, but Shun chained a fat kick to his back, hitting part of his ribs, and blocking the strike with his hand. Still the kid managed to move his other punch and strike him directly to the middle of chest, taking part of his breath. The briefly stared as Shun advanced with a frontal kick but the kicked grabbed it. But still, he managed to bend his leg, getting near to the kid, and fisting him,, still the kid grabbed his hand near to his face, and moved and countered to one of his own to his stomach, but shun jumped, managing to get his leg free of bondage and kicking the boy with his other leg, using a scissor kick. They settled distance and stared to each other for a brief moment, as if they were searching for each other’s weakness, and suddenly they advanced once more, to attack each other. While shut directed a lower fist, the kid attacked with one directly and upwards. They clashed. The kids’ stomach had been pierced deeply but Shu’s nose was bleeding. They pared as both of them fell to the ground, exhausted.

Sakura appeared in front of the kids eyes.

“Are you okay?!”

“I …will be…”

“Idiot! Idiot! Idiot! Idiot! Idiot! DUMMY! DUMMY! DUMMY! DUMMY! Why did you fight him?!”

“Because I had to!”

Teachers arrived, and raised the kid, Shun and grabbed Miya.

“You three, to the director’s office. The others! The brake is over! To your class rooms! Now!”

The kid, Miya and Shun were taken to the director’s office by one of the teachers, as Sakura just looked at them and went back to the side. Taichi followed her.

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“Its all your fault dumbass!”

“You were the one that started the fight!”

“yes! And?! If you had not fought, we would not be here!”

“And then you would have kicked him on the back on the neck further damaging his forehead.” said Miya interrupting.

“I do not care! You dual of Mongrels! You pathetic!”

The door of the office opened.

“SHUT UP! ALL OF YOU!”

The door closed.

Miya: “Dick teacher…”

His friend laughed, as Shun remained still serious. The kid looked him, as Shun did the same, but he quickly parted sight.

“I did not mean to know your secret, but you made it to obvious.”

“Not your concern, Mongrel.”

“Hey. Come on. I know you are not as you appear to be Shun.”

“Not your concern, Mongrel. Mind your own business.”

Miya: “You should not even bother to speak to him, is useless.”

“No, I am stubborn lo let this stay just like this.”

Shun: “you should stop wasting time!”

“Well, I will not. You are not truly like this, Shun. A kid that just likes to insult us for being half japanesse!”

“As I said! Is not of your concern!”

Suddenly a sound of an alarm began to sound. It was the alarm of a fire.

Miya: “what are we doing!?”

Shun: “we are going back to the class room! Help the others!” he began to ran, in the direction of their classroom.

Miya: “No we should stay together! Shit!”

“Let us follow him! We should stay together.”

He began to run just behind Shun, as Miya reluctantly followed. He got next to his friend fast.

“Why is he doing this!? It a mad plan!”

“Yes. But we cannot stop him no matter how hard we try!”

They rapidly arrive to the classroom in few seconds. All the classmate had gotten out, but the classroom, was burning in crimson fire. Most of the children were crying, as there was no teacher nearby.

“Shun!”

Taichi appeared.

Shun: “what happened?!?”

Tai: “The light turned on fire. We all got out as fast as we could. The teacher went to find a fire extinguisher.”

Shun looked around.

Shun: “where is Sakura?”

Tai looked at him.

The blonde kid looked around and noticed she was not there. She was not there….

Taichi: “I…did not see her getting out…”

The blonde kid rushed inside the room, as did Shun following him.

Miya: “dammit!”

They entered. Inside everything was set on fire, as the heat inside could be compared to the one of the sun. Not much could be seen, but they both lowered to their knees, trying to catch the oxygen near the ground, as the air produced by the fire was always in the upper parts.

“SAKURA!” he began to cough. “SAKURA WHERE ARE YOU!”

He heard a sound, and both of them followed.

Shun: “keep on speaking! We are heading there!”

In few time, they found her. She was on the back of the classroom, ad a burning wooden rafter from the ceiling had felt to her legs, trapping her down inside of it.

The blond kid ran next to her.

“I will get you out of here! Shun!”

They tried to get out the beam with all his strength, but it was too heavy from them. They tried several times as the heat grew by each second they spent inside.

Sakura: “No stop! Get out! You can die in here the same as me!”

Shun: “No! We will take you out!”

Sakura: “my legs could be broken by the weight! Just get out! Forget us!”

Shun: “We will carry you outside!”

Sakura: “CAN YOU NEVER LITSEN TO ME!”

“No! a true here does not leave anyone behind! Especially you!”

They both tried once again, but it was on no use. It was too heavy for two kids of just 6years to get the wooden piece of her leg.

Bot of them began to get numb, but the blonde kids kept on trying. He was not going to surrender.

“SHUN!”

“That voice…”

Taichi appeared out of the smoke, alongside Miya.

Miya: “You were taking too much time!”

Shun: “give hand!”

“Now we can do this!”

They all grabbed the wooden rafter, and at the count of three, they lifted up for a second, enough to Sakura to move her body out of it. After it, they let it down.

“Sakura! Are you alright?! Can you walk?!”

“I cannot, somebody haves to lift me up!

“Shun you can?”

He noticed him coughing a lot, he could not stop. In that moment, he decided.

“Miya! Taichi! Help her up, get her out of here! I will help Shun! GO!”

Miya and Tai went to lift her up, by her arms, while her legs swiped on the floor. The kid removed his blue shirt and tied it around Shun’s head.

“This will help you to breath! Let us get the hell out!”

Galant carried him with his arm slung over his shoulders, while both of them walked. After some difficult steps, both kids got out, coughing a lot, but both of them alive and not wounded nor burn by the fires.

Let themselves to the ground on their knees and hands, continuing to cough. The kid looked around and noticed Sakura sat down, next to Miya and Gawn. He, smiled to her, as what she did the same.

Some teachers appeared, alongside firefighters.

“what are you two doing here?!”

“Saving lives.” He replied. “Sakura was still inside. We entered to save her.”

“Well done. But it was mad.”

“It is what any would do, to protect anybody else.”

Some firefighters took Sakura, shun and the kid outside to the hospital to check if they were alright. While he was carried in a wheeled pallet, he could look to Taichi and Miya. He smiled and gave a thumbs up with his right hand.

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“Son!”

Kiritsugu hugged him; Norah did the same short afterwards. Noth of them were happy to see his son alive, and they were both crying, both for the happiness and sadness they held of previous moments.

“Hi.”

Norah: “We thought you dead…”

“I did what I must. To protect people.”

Kiritsugu: “we herd what you did…well done.”

“It was not myself alone, two others helped me. But I have to find Shun and Sakura now, I have to go to see them!”

“Alright.” Kiritsugu parted. “Go!”

He ran to the rooms his friends were taken. Both of them were worse than him. He just had a bandage covering his forehead and other bandages across his arms and hands.

He rapidly arrived to the place where both of them were. Shun having oxygen by a machine, and Sakura with her legs bandaged.

He first went Next to Shun.

“Are you alright?”

“I will be. It seems I breathed much of that monoxide. It affected by lungs, but I will be alright. I just need some bandages in my arms, the same as you.”

“I am glad! I will go with Sakura now.”The kid began to walk to the bed next to Shun’s, when he stopped him.

“wait!”

“what?”

“I…Owe you one…I am sorry for what I said. I will never say it again.”

“See. I knew you were truly not that bad.”

“Indeed. You were right.” He extended his right hand to him. “Let us be friends.”

The boy looked to his hands, and to Shun, mad smiled.

He grabbed his forearm with his hand, and Shun closed his hand to the boys forearm.

“Best friends. And your secret is well kept with me.”

He turned around, as a doctor closed a curtain between him and Shun. He looked to Sakura smiling.

“How are you?”

“My legs are damaged. I will not walk for some weeks. But if I had not gotten out of that place, I would be dead- And if I had spent more time there, I could have lost both legs. You are my hero.”

She extended her hand. The boy grabbed it with both of his.

“I could not leave you there, to die. But I had not done it without Shun Miya and Tai.”

“But you leaded them. And I owe you my life for that.”

They spent a brief moment staring at each other’s eyes. She broke the moment with her voice.

“Hey, what you want to be when you grow up?”

“What I want to be…when I grow up…”

“Because now I notice it. I do not know what it is. But you have a power. You can really lead people to the future.”

“Lead people to the future…”

“Yes. You have that power. The power of gathering peoples wishes and hearts to advance to the future. The power to change the world. You can do it. I guarantee it.”

They boy thought but a moment. His father said to him the exact same thing. Both her and his dad believed in him. In something he had not discovered, or perhaps neither even existed. But they call it as if it would be a certainty. That power…he was not sure if it even existed…yet…all of them saw something on him.

Still, what he wanted be on his future was very clear to him

“What I whant to be…That is…That is a secret….”

She got her back up the bed, and they stood in front of each other eyes. Both of them blushed a little but not parted sight.

“That being the case, let me see what you are capable of that day. Until it comes, I will stay by your side.”