RUN | MIKEY SANO

TWENTY EIGHT

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{ don't you find it strange?
Only thing we share is one last name
Did I beat you at your own game?
Typical of me to put us all to shame }
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December 25 2005 — Timeline 3

Yuki and Draken sit on the stairs of the church letting out uneven huffs. "We should have just fought them in the beginning and got it over with. Look at how east they fell" Yuki says to Draken

Draken looks at the 100 fallen members of Black Dragons they just beat on their own. Mikey was inside the church, probably with Mitsuya, Chifuyu and Takemitchy considering their bikes were parked outside too. "Could have" Draken says gruffly "but we had to respect Mitsuya's wishes"

Yuki lets out a little sigh. "yeah... At least they were weaker than the 9th gen"

"Hope Mikey finishes fast, it's fuckin' cold" Draken grumbles in annoyance "wish these guys fought on a warmer day"

Yuki laughs and looks around one more time, making sure everyone is knocked out cold. The fight hadn't last long. A few minutes after Mikey entered through the church doors they finished. "Yuki... About your scar... Did Shinichiro-kun tell you not to tell us?" Draken asks

Yuki rests a palm on her solar plexus and crazed violet eyes flash over her vision. Fucking hell she hated him so much for doing this to her. "No... I told him that I didn't want you guys to know" She mumbled

"were you ashamed of what happened?"

"maybe a little... But I was also scared. He" she pauses and lets out a breath, condensation forming in the air for a few seconds before it disappears "he... might be as strong as Mikey. Stronger even. I didn't want any of you to get into a mess you couldn't handle"

Draken looks surprised. Yuki, being the person who stuck so closely to Mikey knew how strong Mikey was. If she's saying someone was stronger than maybe there was someone really dangerous out there. Draken can't help but think it's not the 9th generation of Black Dragons that resulted in Tokyo Manji Gang's formation but the 8th. He feels sick just thinking about what Yuki went through with the 8th successor. He almost doesn't want to think of it. Yuki and Draken turn their heads at the sound of commotion behind them. They see Shiba Taiju down on his knees and someone who Yuki thinks is Kokonoi Hajime standing at the top of the steps. "Oh are things all done in there?" Draken says

"Could you let Mikey know Draken and I are done out here?" Yuki tells them with a sweet smile, ignoring the look of shock on Taiju and Kokonoi's face

Seeing that Taiju and Kokonoi were frozen in shock, Yuki and Draken get up. "Huh, Mikey must've done a number on them" she says and they walk up the stairs and enter the Church

Inside are Mikey, Takemitchy, Chifuyu, Hakkai , Inupi and Yuzuha. Yuki stiffens a little at the sight of Inupi. "Hm? Why's everyone all tense?" Draken asks

Yuki shakes her head to bring back her composure. "Draken and I took care of the dudes outside" she tells everyone, avoiding Inupi's gaze

Everyone looks shocked to hear it. Takemitchy runs outside, everyone else following behind. They all gasp in shock seeing black dragons fallen. "TOMAN WINS!"

"WHOA!" Chifuyu yells

"They both did this all alone?" Yuzuha says

Mitsuya lets out a chuckle. "In the end, our top 3 were the biggest monsters"

"Damn I've got goosebumps!! Don't you Takemitchy?!" Chifuyu says with a huge smile on his face

When Takemitchy doesn't answer, that smile fades. "Takemitchy...?"

Takemitchy passes out. Chifuyu helps Mitsuya put Takemitchy on his back and he smiles. "Draken, Mikey, Yuki... We beat Black Dragons thanks to you three but today's hero is Takemitchy"

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"See, just a sprain" Yuki tells Chifuyu patting his shoulder as the doctor wraps his ankle

"Thank god," Chifuyu says "I would've cried if I broke it"

Chifuyu ended up hurting his ankle while fighting Inupi in the church. He couldn't drive his bike in this state so despite his embarrassment of sitting behind a girl, he sat with Yuki on her bike all the way to the ER. "You kids and all your fighting" The doctor tuts with a sigh at the end

Yuki only smiles while Chifuyu blushes. As they leave the hospital, Chifuyu leaning on Yuki for support, he stares at her for a moment. Woah, she's prettier up close. Alarms blared in Chifuyu's head right after that thought. It was a well-known fact that Yuki was pretty but she was completely off limits. It's an unspoken rule of Toman coming second of never calling Mikey Sano-san or Sano-kun— Yuki is off limits to everyone except Mikey. It was ingrained into every Toman members brain but as Chifuyu stares at her longer, his brain is running 1000 kilometres per second and heart even faster. Oh this was wrong.

But there was nothing wrong with a one-sided crush