Episode 16: Once Upon a Time

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2005:

-Flashback (2003)-

Tokyo's newest gang was all clad in our new uniforms, as we sped down the highway on our bikes. Well, I was on Katsumi's bike, and Mikey was still rocking his slow ass moped. 

"Beach time, bitches!" Draken shouted.

"Damn, this rocks!" Baji laughed. "So amazing!"

Kazutora serenely smiled. "Man, that ocean breeze feels so good!"

"I can hear the seagulls already," I giggled. 

Katsumi scrunched her nose. "I can smell them."

"Hey, grandpa!" Pah glanced over to Mitsuya, mockingly. "Why'd you have to go so slow?"

"What the hell am I supposed to do? It's not my fault he's so damn slow!"

Annoyed that Mikey was so far behind us, since his moped couldn't keep up, the rest of us pulled over, wishing that he would've just ridden with someone else. 

We all yelled in unison. "Hurry it up, Mikey!" 

"Don't you think it's time to get an upgrade?" I awkwardly chuckled.

"Mikey, dude..." Draken let out a sigh. "You gotta quit trying to rock that moped. You're our commander, get a real motorcycle already!"

"Nah. Thanks, but my old ride suits me just fine. You're not trying to shit on my Street Hawk, my CB250CC model?"

"Man, you can call it anything you want, but it's still a damned moped, you know?" Draken muttered. "You can't even rev that wimpy thing!"

"Not without it taking off on you!" Mitsuya joked. "And believe me, I've seen it happen to guys."

"Sounds just like Mikey, actually!" Katsumi laughed. 

"Only with Mikey, it would be slower!" Kazutora added. 

Furious, being the target of everyone's jokes, a vein popped on the blonde's forehead.

Feeling bad for him, I placed my hand on the boy's shoulder. "Look on the bright side. At least it works."

A light pink tint covered Mikey's cheeks. "See, she gets it."

"Well, you still are pretty slow."

And with that, Mikey stopped smiling. 

"I know you'd prefer to have a real CB250, but there's no one older here who's about to let you have one," Draken frowned.

"Hehe! Look at what we got here." A stranger pulled up to the side of us on his motorcycle. "Look at the cute little boys in their matching gang jackets! Yeah, and the two pretty ladies over there. Tokyo Manji Gang, huh? Nope! Never heard of ya!"

"Where the hell did you loser wannabes wash up from?!" Another guy smirked. "This here is Yokohama, cupcakes. If you little shits came to play gangster, then you came to the wrong place. Get your asses back home!" His gaze then shifted to me and my bestie. "Why don't you two cuties come with us? You don't want to be spotted with these kid losers, do you?"

"Go kill yourself!" Katsumi blurted. 

"Fuck off!" I growled. 

"Well, I don't know about you, but I figure as long as we're all here getting acquainted, I'm gonna scrap that piece of shit moped of yours!" The man in purple laughed. "I'm sure you won't mind!"

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