𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑. || 𝐓𝐎𝐊𝐘𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑𝐒

PART 17.

AUGUST, 2005

"Takemichi! Emma! Hina!" Y/n called out to them as she ran down the alleyway and waved her arm in the air. "Did you call the ambulance?" Y/n asked once she came close. 

"Hina said we're supposed to meet the ambulance here, right?" Takemichi asked her and she nodded but a worried expression came onto her face as she glanced to the ground. 

"Apparently, it's really crowded because of the festival and rain." Takemichi was listening intently to her words until the glimpse of of people caught his eye in the distance of the darkened alley. The faces that came into sight were far too familiar and were by no means their allies. 

"Seriously?" he breathed out. 

"Takemichi-kun?" Hina asked softly when he went to walk past her. 

His first thought was to turn to Y/n with his eyes filled with fear from seeing Kiyomasa. He didn't have a doubt that their too perfect timing was due to someone tipping them off about where they were. Takemichi began to question everything. 

Had Y/n ever been sincere since he'd known her?

It'd been foolish of him to trust her in the first place. She had been Kisaki's main contact in the future and Y/n herself had admitted to everything she's done. 

"What have you done?" Takemichi accused harshly out of fear when he turned to face Y/n. "You'd go as far as putting the girls in danger too?"

"What are you talking about?" Y/n said and backed away from him. 

"Kiyomasa and his gang. How did they know where we were?"

"I don't know!" she responded hastily. 

"Just admit you called them here!" he pressed. 

Kiyomasa's group started to close in on them with nothing but cruel intentions in mind. They taunted them and some shouted threats. "Yo, what the hell? Draken-chan's not dead yet!" One of them said. "Hey, what the hell is Trashymichi doing here?" Another added and light snickering could be heard coming from behind him. 

Kiyomasa was the only one who didn't seem to react to their antics in anyway but, instead stared blankly in front of him. "Hey, someone get me some more duct tape!" He retorted with a grin and looked back at his gang while they all laughed along with him. "Seems like you were right. Now I will be bigger deal than Draken," Kiyomasa boasted to Y/n  but she only shook her head at him. 

"I have no idea what you're talking about," she countered honestly and stepped in front of Takemichi who couldn't seem to even process the situation.

"Sure you do. This was your idea."

"I don't even know who you are," she said before running at him in attempt to land a hit on him. However, she was surprised by a sudden pain in her shoulder, making her arm halt without making contact with Kiyomasa's face as she intended. 

It was silent for a bit and the only sounds that cut through were snickering along with a gasp of horror from Hina when her eyes landed on the knife in Y/n's shoulder.  Y/n put pressure on the place she was stabbed and felt the blood seep through her clothes until it tainted her hand. 

"Don't take it personal, sweetheart."

Kiyomasa chuckled and Y/n grit her teeth in pain from the throbbing sting in her shoulder. Her anger was only fueled by his use of the nickname she'd previously been so fond of. "Don't call me that you disgusting piece of shit."

He arched a brow at her in utter amusement. "You still have the quite the mouth for someone in your situation."

Y/n could hear rustling behind her and the soft whispering of Emma, telling Draken that he shouldn't push himself too hard and should stay down. Though he refused and forced his body to sit up while holding his wound. Draken took a minute to compose himself and took a deep breath before speaking. "Thanks..Takemitchy. I can handle it from here, so take the girls, and run before this goes too far. I'll...be fine."

Just as Y/n was about to argue with Draken, Takemichi interrupted her with a weak voice saying, "Run?"

Then his sudden silence was followed with a loud yell into the sky. 

Nobody was sure how to react but, Y/n felt like she didn't need fight any longer. She felt completely confident in him and only Takemichi could pull a stunt like that. 

"God, I'm pathetic! What the hell did I even come here for?!"

Takemichi started to walk forward and passed Y/n with his head held high. "Thank you, Y/n. You don't need to force yourself any further."

Y/n smiled before she let herself fall and Hina caught her into her arms. Takemichi went directly in front of Kiyomasa without explanation and any fear he'd previously felt seemed to vanish from his body. He only had his one goal in mind and that was to save Draken, regardless of what happened to him. 

"The hell?" Kiyomasa said in confusion while glancing down at Takemichi. "You wanna die, too?"

"You sure you don't need to run away, Trashymichi? Let that girl fight your battles for you!" One of Kiyomasa's men teased with a grin while the rest laughed along with him. 

"I'm not running away," Takemichi said firmly and tightened is fist. "I'm not running away this time. I'm finally going to get revenge on my life!"

Takemichi then went on to speak about the one-on-one match between him and Kiyomasa at the fight club. He realized that it was technically left unsettled since Mikey had came into the fight before the winner could be declared. 

"The hell're you talkin' about? Everyone there clearly saw you lose!" Kiyomasa's men piped in. 

"But I didn't lose," Takemichi said with absolute certainty and in response Kiyomasa's vein became visible at the side of his head. 

"Huh. In that case, I'm bettin' a hundred mil on Takemitchy," Draken said while smiling at him. 

"Huh?" Takemichi responded awkwardly.

"Me, too! I'm putting a hundred million on Takemichi-kun!" Hinata added. 

"I'm betting 300 million!" Emma shouted. 

"Four!" Y/n yelled and raised four of her fingers in the air. 

Kiyomasa howled out in laughter and gestured to his head. "Looks like they finally lost their damn minds!"

"Nah," Draken countered. "Takemichi's going to beat your ass," Y/n finished with a weak smile.

"Thanks, everyone." He then ran full speed a lifted his arm. "Kiyomasa we're finishing this!"