Different from the rest

chapter 6

3 days later

It's been 3 days since Tenma became Shindou's bodyguard, and he can't deny that whoever is targeting him and his family is escalating quick. First it was that knife in the school, then he/she/they moved to attacking in the actual house, the worst one so far was actually yesterday, when someone dressed entirely black with a hoodie and mask covering their face tried to shoot Shindou, luckily Tenma had already eyed that person due to their suspicious behaviour around the streets, so he managed to act fast when he saw that person pulling out the gun.

Today's Saturday, they were all having breakfast together, the parents were having a day off and they also prohibited Shindou to go out unless he really had to, although Shindou did not like the idea of it, he understood that it was for the better. He invited Kirino over who arrived at around 20 minutes after their breakfast.

Tenma excused himself to go training while the rest stayed in the living room. Tenma first went to his room to change, he changed into a pair of short black tights pants, a black shirt and a pair of black and white shoes. He went to the training room and set his hologram opponents to easy - cause he already gets really tired with the easiest setting - and started to fight.

His opponents were hooded black figures, their faces were shadowed and only their mouths were visible, they were surrounding the brunet in a perfect circle. To anyone else it would've looked intimidating, same goes for the brunet himself, but that was the least he could care at that moment. At first they all stood still and Tenma wasn't actually in the typical fighting position, he was just standing straight, suddenly he heard footsteps coming behind him, but he didn't move an inch. He waited until the footsteps got louder and as the figure was just about to plunge its knife down, Tenma quickly dropped down with his right leg tripping the figure, then standing back up kicking its stomach while it was still falling, the other figures all started charging towards him at the same time, but the brunet was not fazed at all.

In order to avoid from being 'killed' he did a back flip, safely landing himself on the ground with the figures crashing into eachother, the brunet held back a laugh, but didn't hide his smirk, although very soon they were all back on their feet, charging towards the brunet once again, the brunet avoided the fists that were aiming to punch his face, after a few minutes of messing around with them, he grabbed their arms one after another one, twisting them and either kicking their stomachs with his knee or knocking them out by karate chopping the side of their neck.

Despite the ones who rolled with the punches, there were also others who had weapons, mainly knifes and guns. So basically, while dealing with the brute force ones, he also had to avoid from being stabbed and shot, which was easier said than done. The knife ones, he managed to kick all of them far away, although there were some very close calls and knocking all of them out, as for the gun ones, he had to keep dodging the bullets while fighting against the others, once he was done with the fists and knife ones he kept on running and dodging the bullets just like he has been doing for the most part, until they ran out and had to refill, Tenma took advantage of the brilliant opportunity to run up to them like lightning and kicking all of their guns out of their hands, and with the main problem solved all that was left was to knock them out onto the ground, which was honestly the easiest part.

After finishing with all of them, the hologram dome disappeared automatically and Tenma was left panting and sweating to the point where he had to take off his shirt

'If easy is already this tiring then I've still got a long way to go.' Thought the brunet, getting slight shivers thinking about the next levels 'Uf, I should probably drink some water.' He started going towards his water bottle, until he heard a knock on the door

"Come in." The door slowly opened, revealing the game maker

"Hey Tenma, have you seen Aria and Lute?" The brunet shook his head