"And what did Sousuke do this time?" Kyouko asked with a light step as she pursued what was quickly becoming her favorite topic: the Kaname and Sousuke soap opera.
Kaname was somewhat tight-lipped this morning, not wanting to say that the military maniac had saved her life from a speeding truck. If she said it, Kyouko would just start gushing about how he obviously was attracted to her and stuff like that. Then Kaname would shoot back something about how gross that was and start pointing out reasons why and all that would do would be to convince Kyouko that Kaname was attracted to Sousuke.
As if.
"Hey," Kyouko said. "What's that over there?"
Kaname looked in the direction Kyouko was pointing, thanking the heavens above for sending the distraction (unaware of the irony of that thought), and saw three large high school boys in karate gis standing around Naiki Satomi.
Eija was to the green-haired girl's side quietly trying to calm her sister down, but not having much luck. As she started to get close enough to hear what was going on, Kaname didn't much blame Naiki for her anger. Their brother was standing off to the side, arms crossed over his chest and a disapproving look on his face.
"You are going to apologize to my sister and I," Naiki said harshly. "Then you are going let us get back to practicing our katas."
"Such women as yourselves should not be polluting the fine art of karate in such a way," one of the boys said arrogantly. "Playing at practice without even a proper dojo. You should join us, the Amateur Karate Club, and then you could watch real men practice the art as it should be practiced."
"I mastered karate by kindergarten," Naiki responded, not alltogether accurately. "Just try something and we'll see who the weakling is."
"Sister, please," Eija said, before turning toward the men. "Please excuse me sister, she is prideful and I'm sure she would not to participate in such a one-sided match."
"Hey, if they want to commit suicide," Naiki said angrily.
"Sister!" Eija snapped in disappointment. "Brother, please, don't just stand there."
"Don't look at me," Deimosu said shrugging irritably. "Any girl but Naiki I would already be teaching these thugs a lesson."
Eija sighed helplessly and turned to her sister to argue farther, this time speaking animatedly in Greek, Naiki answering back just as vehemently and with the occasional comment from Deimosu.
"Hey," the central member of the karate club said. "Don't just ignore us. You want to play martial artist, then you have to accept the challenges."
All three Satomi kids stopped arguing then and turned to look at the man with a serious expression on their face.
"Uh oh," Kyouko said. "Looks like something happened."
"Eija Satomi was trying to remind her sister that they were not supposed to be fighting at school if they could help it," Sousuke said, coming up behind Kaname and Kyouko silently. Both girls jumped slightly at his sudden appearance. "However, now that the Karate club has made the challenge official, even she seems to be dropping her argument."
"You mean Naiki is actually going to fight that big monster," Kaname asked, looking from the five foot six girl to the bulky, over-muscled guy that could barely be still considered adult.
Before Sousuke could answer, Eija sighed and stepped out of the way of her sister, who now grinned with shark-like display of white teeth.
"What are your terms?" Naiki asked in sinister tone.
"If you lose," the leader of the more or less identical trio said. "Then you must become our girlfriends and stop pretending to practice the martial arts." His tone certainly implied that he expected to win hands down.
"When I win," Naiki responded, still smiling. "Not only do you leave us alone, but you admit that women can be just as good martial artists as men."
"We'll need a referee," the karate clubber said eagerly. Looking around, he scanned the crowd and snapped out a finger to point at Kaname. "You, the student council vice president! You'll be our referee."
"Me?" Kaname said in shock. "What do I know about being a referee for a martial arts competition."
"It's easy," Deimosu said. "When Naiki has knocked out all three of them, you declare her the winenr."
"What did you say?" half the field of gathered students asked, including the karate club.
Eija blinked in moderate confusion as she looked over her sister's soon to be opponents.
"You don't mean you want to fight her one on one," she asked somewhat quietly.
"Well, of course," the karate club said, confused. "We want to give her some chance."
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(Posted Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:55)
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