So I steps into a dirt-n'-rock kind of arena you know, stone walls and stuff. The seats for the crowd and audience looked top of the line, each one for first class viewers. It ain't cheap to get in if you on the other side of the business table na' mean. And this place ain't necessarily legit either so of course, this kind of supply for entertainment is gonna cost. Anyway, I wait at the arena entry gate, preppin' mental you know. This ain't no spar session, we ain't friends, we ain't here to hold hands and wish the others the best. We're here to break a leg on the real and then some. Whatever it takes to get that money, that renown, that respect, that lifestyle,... that title. So Juri is out there up there in her own box right. She's addressing them on the mic something like this,
"Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for being here... We hope you have enjoyed the evening thus far with our entertainment. Your patience has paid off as you have waited for the main event. Today we have a special event planned for your viewing pleasure as fighting enthusiasts. An attempt at a title defense like no other. But first, let's bring out the Champion you have watched and grown to know in these past few months. A unique soul, simple but brutally effective style has put you on the edge of your seats, and 'out loud and proud' charisma has pulled some over the edge of those very chairs in laughter. 'The Styler,... the Profiler', !BUSTER GOLD! Gorrruuuudooooo Basuuuuuuutaaaa!"
And that was my queue, so I walk out slow, calm. I pretty much walk to the beat of the music, my body just kinda bounces to it too. Just can't help it sometimes you know. Gives out a few nods, when I get to the center, reach my arms out, breath in... then let them know somethin',
"YEAH, Y'ALL KNOW WHAT IT IS! Let me feel ya." I say that and they start to cheer some, not as much as I'd but hey I'll get the quiet ones soon now you dig? But as I look out now, now I couldn't say for sure but I thought I saw a face I should know well. Though from my current placement at that moment, couldn't say for sure...
'Ja Ja?' Now this I couldn't really believe cuz I thought she left the village. So I keeps looking her way you know, start heading that way too. Then she seems to narrow her eyes like she tryna focus then gets a surprised look on her face as she recognizes me right? Man, she gets a big ole grin. I wanted to talk to her so bad,... but it just wasn't the time right now so I just pointed to her directly. But Juri had a job to do so she was like,
"And for tonight's main event, we decide to incorporate a little traditional, a ceremony to be exact, with a twist of course. Tonight will feature our Champion in a Handicap Survival Match against three competitors! This,... will be a trial by fire." So I'm shaking myself loose while she talking right and I'm thinkin',
'Hold on hold on, time the f@#$k out now. Did this b@%#h just say 3 fighters? I know she told me two in the locker room. That's that ole bulls@%t.' I give Juri the 'REALLY MOTHERF$#@#A' look cuz she and I both knew she deserved it. Had me shoutin' out,
"REALLY!?" Some of the busta's in the audience start to find all this wwwwaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy more amusing then I did.
But she just smiles and shrugs and keeps it movin'.
"There is a tradition, in a land not too far from here, a nation of Fire. A people of noble birth, carry the capacity to defend their honor when disrespected, to challenge the authority of leadership, or to some a simple rite of passage to warriorhood. What shall be the case here tonight? I say to you all, quite possibly, all three. First, we shall see what warriors are made of. Once upon a time, there was a discipline rare to behold. An art form capable of mesmerizing their opponent, be it with exotic movements or brute exertion or their will. To prove her worth as a warrior, entering the arena, Nishimura Tomoka the Shadow Boxer, joins Gorudo Basuta,... in !AGNI KAI!" At the point she starts chanting on a low tune, beckoning the crew to do the same.
"Ag-ni-Kai,... Ag-ni-Kai,...".
As she walks into the arena, the stone walls catch fire off the rip and I'm around lookin' like 'Oh snap, they serious huh?' I look back at Tomoka and she gives me a wink talkin' that s@#t like,
"Hey Basuta, I've been dying to meet a worthy partner. Let's dance." So she runs ready to go on and get this started quick right, went for some bicycle kicks right... NO! I ain't talkin' 'bout that loud annoying monk type of bicycle kick either, but the actual kind. Now I expected three so back up and blocked those but, she did four of dem thangs so I took one to the chest like,
"OOhohoh, look at you. I see you girl. Tryin to show off that pedi. Go 'head now!" A simple unconcentrated hit on me ain't enough to do a lot on me na' mean. And she stops one time, lookin' just a wee bit shocked like she ain't expect my reaction, but then she rolls with it like
"Oh, you mean my pedicure?! Thank you for noticing." Then she starts at it again. Does two jabs, I blocks those. A left kick double shot to the thigh and head. She got me on the low shot but I blocked the head shot back up for more spacing. Them shots were getting kind of tricky cause she snuck the low shot in while her leg was on the way to aim high. Blocking those kicks don't feel good neither so I shake my hands loose and resettle. She follows after me doing a lot of spinning and kicking right? I'm just ah guarding and trying to increase space, but thems kicks were getting harder and stronger na' mean, I was thinkin'
'This right here ain't working. She gainin' momentum.' So I wait for one of the times Legs jumps for another spin into a kick, and when she did I step against her and just straight push her out of the air right? Legs tries to recover her balance,... heavy straight to her face. She stumbles back some more right, and I go
"Yeah yeah, girls can catch these hands too." She stand up straighter after taking a couple of seconds to recover rubbing her cheek.
"Okay. I see." Then claps once and goes into this weird dance that lowers her stance. As she does this, she's constantly in movement and stuff right? I figure that I've her the flying knee right? B#%$% ducks my s^$t on a backbend. The crowd goes "OOOHHH!" So I go over her right, but I touch down I keep walking in that direction. Ain't tryin' to give her a clean hit on the turn-around na' mean? I resettle into stance, she does her foreign-looking dance moves, and I can't tell what she's doing. I mean all sorts of twisting and handstands into somersaults and cartwheels. She throw some sort swop kick at my head, I sways that. A light sweep, lifts the legs to evades that. I go into to for a body shot right? Legs catches me right in the left side of my ribcage. NOT F%#KING ready fo that s#%t. Took my wind you know. I'm all staggered back some of course, and she wanna follow up with an aerial dragon kick too. Fool want me to wear some dirt. No problem, I respect her grind. So I dust off on the come-up while she waits. Then she goes back to it.
"Capoeira." she says. And I'm like,
"Hands." Shows her the mitts, then I get back into stance. And she chuckles one time you know, shakes her head, then starts back at it again. Doing all that twisting and jumping and flipping and stuff and thinkin',
'Awww snap, I think I sees something.' So try to side-tread, give me some room but not too much cause in needed to be close enough to counterattack at the right time right? I watch and wait for a whiff to punish, block a right body shot kick,... lift over the left foot sweep,... *claps* Then I her goes slightly airborne for some drop kick looking move. Snatch that chick right out the air right, holding her kinda like a baby in your arms,... BACKDROP THAT HO! BOOM. But I ain't done cause I gotta go into the German Suplex just a couple mo times on 'er. So I get up right, look down at Legs and she's wallowing. She done, females definitely ain't built to be dropped on the back of there head and neck back-to-back like that.
"Nice dancing wit cha." I step away from the chick so a couple of clean-up goons can drag her away while she's dazed. While all that is going on, you know who makes another speech,
"As expected by many of you, Basuta has prevailed. He not the gentleman many would hope, but that is what we love about him right? And Basuta loves his title yet, there is someone else here tonight that claims to want it just as badly. Born to protect those within the walls of Iwa and now itching to place the Title of Champion under his protection as well, DAIGO!"
So home dude comes out just a little taller than right? Something like 6'5" but I wasn't sweatin' it though. He's all in some dress clothes with a button-up shirt and slack and stuff. Dude was like,
"I heard you think you have those hands. You sure about that?" And I'm like,
"Hmm, weeeellll these hands are a'ight you know, but people tend to talk and they say I'm the s%@t. But one thing they don't do is the tailor work you're about to need." Dude nods at me and takes something like a grappler's stance and said,
"Alright, let me see how you play some pattycake." I thinkin',
'What? You can do better than that dude. But I definitely better not lose now. I don't want word to get around I got pattycake'd to death.' So I square up on the boxing tip right? We both close the gap carefully na' mean. Then we both go in. I'm throwing shots, he throwin' shots. We start out at a slow even pace na' mean, neither one of us land a clean hit. I duck and block his stuff, he blocks and sways my stuff. But then he catches me one time in my ribs on the left. Now from the looks of it, the gut check shouldn't have hurt as much as it did,... but that s#$t HUUUUUUURRTT! So I'm on the defense now right. Rolling here, blocking this and that, then he catches me again in the same spot like goodness man.
'F#%k'! I pulled out and backed away right, and Dude drops his guard all smilin', talkin' smug like,
"I thought you said you had hands. Are you alright? Wanna call a time-out? Here let me take a look it for you." He squares up and starts on the approach, but well he's doing that I look down and see a monster-sized bruise on me,... Then it hit me, rather I thinks back when Legs hit me with that Capoeira kick. The defense wasn't cutting it so I had to find a way to push into the offense. So I square up and goes back in. We go at it again, this time it's a little different I start blocking his fist with my elbow from time-to-time. He goes for what I know he wants to go for now, and I met his fist with a hard stop with my elbow. And when dude shook his right hand, I caught him one time on his right cheek and go in for the clutch. This fool slings me off like a ragdoll for real like had me eat some dirt homes. But I still had a window and I wasn't going to let it go so I go in for a Russian leg takedown right. Pretty much I hug his left leg and work my legs behind his back. Now normally this would be a crazy thing to do to a big earth guy who's a ninja cause that fool wouldn't have moved at all, but remember, no chakra. You'd be surprised at how much people rely on it for simple things like fortitude. Dude go to the ground and I go all-in for the snap-crackle-pop on that ankle. So he gives a grunt at the pain and starts bringing his other foot on top of me to force me off... I stays on and start twisting the ankle every which way I can on that ho. And I said
"Keep kicking, keep kicking foo." Dude tries to sit up to get a hold of me but the with my legs positioned and locked behind him he couldn't get to me easy. So he goes to grip my leg making it clear he's trying to free himself without grapple know-how. So I release the ankle and leave it on my chest, and catch his right hand yo. Now from this new position he was in, it was about game cause I had him stretched at an odd way for him especially for his body-type. So I'm holding on to his already injured hand right and I try to work it in either direction with both of my hands right, and he starts pulling me close so he can get his other hand in play. So I shake myself and wiggle around while his broken ankle is trapped in front of me right.
And when he loses enough resistant pressure, I rotate his wrist and thrust my thumb on the back of his hand dislocate one of the bones in there. From this point, his other hand slaps the ground repeated and I told that fool,
"I release you." I get up and start loosing up and this fool throws dirt at me with his usable hand shoutin'
"B%#$H!" He can be mad if he wants to though, might as well cause I could have kept going and killed his a$$. I'd figure he'd thank me later. I think Juri might cause even though we CAN kill, and most others do, they don't have to cover up a dead visiting or missing ninja if I let them walk. Most people didn't like the thought of me not killing every opponent,... at first,... but I'll tell you why later.
"It seems that the doctor is in. Maybe a few apples might help next time for Daigo. But such things are not in the diet of our final challenger. Tonight we have a special treat, a grudge match of more than ten years in the making. May I introduces to you, from within the heart of the Leaf, to avenge a misdeed of a pack member,... SAITO KOTA!"
I get kinda confused for a minute on what she's talkin' about until she says he name and I'm like
"Ooooh I kinda remember that name." Then the Izunaka comes out with just pants and something warped around his body for whatever reason. I wave, to my former team na' mean? Tell 'em,
"Hey man, what's up dude."He lets down the part over his mask talk some s&^t I thought, but was like,
"I've been waiting for this. You're going to die." And he keeps marching at me all aggressive and stuff and I shrug cause I ain't know where any of this is coming from some I'm like,
"Hey dude what's wit... *Spoken low"I know you screwed my sister a$$hole!" And I'm like,
"Ohhh uhh, okay hold on now..." Buuuuut his starts running at me like I knew he would. I might tell y'all the story behind that,... if I can remember her name. But yeah so apparently, it's okay for these fools to be let into the arena without having their claws trimmed cause he stretched them things out and I go,
"Aww s@%t." So dives at me and I dodge roll to the side, and the crowd goes nuts. And I just run around the ring tryna' get away from this fool. But why is Kota on all four like he in his ninja mode of something? I don't know, I guess it had to do with how they born. I'm still learning about their bio stuff. Anyway, he corners me right cause I can't back up anymore because of the fire around the edges. So he comes slow right, I waits for him to leap but he just creeps so I couldn't just dodge him and let him jump into the fire barrier like a dumba$$. So I did the only thing I could and try to jump over him. Since he is pretty short already and low to the ground I thought it would be worth a shot right? Weeeelllll, clips my leg with one of his claws I trip over. Then he immediately pounces on me and starts tryna tear in me on some animal kingdom stuff. So I grab his arms to stop his baglady nails and then he starts snipping at me with his teeth right? So I toss dog boy to the side somehow and try to run but the dude jumps all on my back right? Then I feel him start to slash all on me I mean, he's got his legs wrapped and one hand clenched in and doin' the scratching with the other hand. So I'm screamin' and stuff like,
"Ahhhhhh!"manage to catch his right hand but only after he gets me good with it down the back of my shoulder. And so his bites the back of my neck and I'm thinkin'
'D@^m, that it then.' Now being a doctor I know I'm only going to have a hand full of minutes at the absolute best before I blackout if my adrenaline kicks in at MAX. So fighting right, fight not to fall down. At least not here. And I look to the edges of the arena stragger over to it and hold on for dear life cause this was my only shot to end this fight and hope they count me the win so I can be healed. Some stumble over while all woozy cause he teeth are still on my neck and throw us against the wall. He groans in stubborn pain, right, feeling some pretty intense fire against him but hang on only for a few seconds before letting go and struggles to free himself. But I wasn't about to let him got until I knew he was done,... well done right. And I feels the fire too starting to reach me man, but I had to hold on until he stopped fighting and screaming. And when he did, I immediately stumble all sloppy into the center of the arena and drop to my knees but hold my hand up to show I was still conscience.
"Well, I must say. I've never seen anything so... peculiar and sloppy as this. But nevertheless, I present to you all, our raining Champion, Gorudo, Basuta!" The crowd grows silent for a quite a while but then erupts into the glory that I fought so hard for. I look right back, to see the toasted boy on the ground. Now, I ain't WANT to kill 'em, but I wasn't able to just TAKE the dirt nap though. I had things and people I still wanted to do. na' mean? Anywho, from here we both get dragged to the med station. Now even though fighter most people aren't allowed to have chakra, med nin's other than myself had their abilities, so I lay on the table for a while like,... maybe an hour and a half. Good for me, they had something like the best underground money could buy and they patched me well enough to walk and function a'ight you know. I step out the room and heads for the boss' office and let myself. And there she was sitting at her desk all composed.
"That,... was something Basuta. I'm truly amazed but,... I have my curiosities as well." So I fire back like,
"B%#^h, you lied to me." The goon squad ready up but she halts them, then dismisses they a$$es... better had.
"You misunderstand, I truly am interested in keeping you around, and in finding out how you are still up and about. You know, most men, if not all, would be dead by the time you were pulled out of the arena, and most certainly at the med station, given two vital arteries were severed." I try to think of an answer but on the real,... well,...
"On the real, I don't know what you. I just wanted it more. Maybe I got something like a second wind." "Hmm, well, even though I had to make a last-minute adjustment,... I still intend to honor our deal, so long as you try hard to give us a much better next time." That right there put me in a good mood, had me noddin'. So I'm like,
"Cool Ma. A'ight, laters." I turn to leave and she clears her throat all loud and stuff and I stop. Then Juri gets up out of her chair and sits on her deck all cross-legged and stuff.
"Did you forget the other part of our deal?" And I think for a minute, strolls on over to the door and close that b%@#h, hit the lock, and collects my other prize. As for my peoples, I hope they didn't mind to wait too much. Insert that FTB,... fade to black, f%#k that b%#$h... either one applies.
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