Chidori Chinatsu meanwhile was walking along the sidewalk en route to school while looking at her phone and checking out Guardian's Latest Heroics: Stopping a bank robbery and an attempted bombing, the latter thus saving the entire city! It felt good. It felt really good. Seeing her big sis in action saving the city took an enormous weight off of her shoulders and it helped her to relax after all of the stress they'd been going through. After the fight with Suko, she thought they'd been through the absolute worst of it and that the darkness had lifted and left them. But then, not too long after the horror show that was The Blood Hunt, another disaster hit Hinansho in the form of that shapeshifting maniac 'Johnny 88'. It was like the Suko Disaster all over again. Except worse because he could've literally been anywhere and anyone! The whole crew had been on their toes and looking over their shoulders to find him. Unfortunately, Sakura and Hawk were badly injured by 'Johnny' before he was stopped. For good. Sakura and Hawk survived their wounds but had to leave town to a specialized Paladin Hospital Overseas to recover in safety alongside Rin. She sighed. Two of her best friends had been taken down by another maniac and she wasn't there to protect them. Again. Everything she could do now, all of the changes her body had been experiencing since her fight with Suko, all of the strength and endurance, and her training....and she couldn't help them. She couldn't protect them. She wasn't there. Her heart was burning inside, a fire was raging inside of her, screaming at her, calling at her to fight, but to fight what? Despite all of her training and how long she'd waited....nothing else had come to Hinansho and Hiro and the other big guns had any Villain Wannabees handled. So what was she waiting for? For who? Why was she so on edge? What was coming for them?
Chidori sighed and leaned against a wall and closed her eyes and placed a hand over her heart. She could feel the fire inside. The raging inferno just waiting to be unleashed against whatever was coming. Against whatever was causing this feeling of anxiety in her heart.
"Dammit I need to talk to Malty." She decided. "If I'm feeling like this then there's a very good chance that she's feeling it too. I'll call her up at school." She decided and started walking while trying to push down the raging fire locked in her ribcage.
"Uhhhh hey? Lady?"
"Huh?" She turned over on her side and looked at the speaker only to discover it was a small group of kids staring up at her. "...'Sup?" She asked and flashed them the peace sign.
"Lady, i saw you holding your heart, are you okay?" One of them asked her.
"...I-I think so. I'm probably just tired." She replied with a shrug.
"Uhhh shouldn't you be in school lady?"
"Probably." She admitted.
"Are you going to go then?"
"On my way now. You guys should get going too. You don't wanna be late now!"
"GIVE ME BACK MY BELONGINGS RIGHT NOW OR I WILL MURDERIZE YOU!" A voice called down the road.
Chidori looked up from her conversation and saw a girl chasing down a gang of punks. She immediately got in between the approaching gang and the kids.
"Hey kids. Get out of here. Now. This could get ugly."
"WAAAAAH! What's going on? Who's that crazy lady? Who are those scary guys?!"
(Say, doesn't that girl go to the Hinansho High? What's her name? Yoshi something? Yoshi...Yoshi...Dinosaur...Yoshi...ah screw it. I'm just gonna stick with Yoshi.) "Her name's Yoshi. Not sure who the idiots are. But you shrimps should get out of the way before you get run over."
"We're kids, old lady, not shrimps!"
"The ♐︎◆︎♍︎🙵 did you just call me, kiddo?"
"Dammit! Boss she isn't giving up!"
"Are you serious? She's a little girl! How on Earth have we not lost her yet?"
"GIVE IT ALL BACK NOW!" Takako Yoshino screamed again as she began closing in on them after chasing them for the last four blocks.
"Ahhh screw it. This isn't getting annoying." The punks stopped and turned to face her. "Beat her until she can't get up again."
"Woah! Hey! Is she really going to take on all of them? There's six of them! She can't beat those odds!"
"Probably not. Hey, kids! Last time I'm saying it! Go across the crosswalk, get to the other side of the street, and hide in that store over there, alright?" Chidori asked them firmly but gently. "This is going to get violent and kids like you shouldn't have to see it. Try and call Guardian if you can."
"Whaaaaa? Woah, hey, what about you, lady? Are you going to fight them?! That's a whole gang over there!"
"Eh. No big deal. I've taken on bigger numbers." Chidori assured them. "Go. Now. Buy yourselves some candy if you want but stay hidden, alright?"
"I-I think we should go. This looks serious."
"Yeah, come on, lets go."
"Kick their butts lady!"
"But of course." Chidori stood up and began approaching the gang. "It's what I freaking live for!"
Takako Yoshino stopped in her tracks. "Give it back. Give it all back right now before I put you in the ground and take it all anyway!" She threatened in between breaths.
"Look ♌︎♓︎⧫︎♍︎♒︎, in case you can't count, we've got you outnumbered. Now we've been humoring you up until now but you better run home or we'll paint the sidewalk in your blood!"
"Bring it!" She snapped back and charged the punks head on and she jumped up in the air and attempted a kick on one of the punks that he blocked. She dropped back down to the ground and the delinquent attacked her with straight punches she either blocked or dodged before countering with a spinning back elbow to his mouth that split his lip and then she kicked him away. The delinquent recovered however and attacked her again with a set of quick punches that she managed against until he landed some heavy stomach punches to her and then a punch across her jaw. She stumbled to the left a bit until she managed to stop herself and block the oncoming punch, retaliate with a quick check to his neck, followed this up with a quick uppercut to his jaw and then kicked him in the face with a spinning heel kick. They continued exchanging blows until she knocked him down to the ground.
That was when two more kicked her in the stomach and she dropped to the ground holding her stomach and gasping for breath. (URGH! R-right....outnumbered...damn!)
"Stomp her to death!" The delinquents surrounded Takako and began stomping and kicking her.
"This is over punching bag! We're gonna make sure you never get up!"
"Hurry up and finish it would you? Come on already!" Their leader scolded his men shortly before a hand grabbed the back of his neck and threw him to the ground! Chidori raced past him without even slowing down, punched the next delinquent in the face hard enough to smash him to the ground while the leader she'd tossed backwards landed on the back of his head.
"Good freaking grief. Looks like I'm going to have to even these odds up a bit."
Takako Yoshino lifted her head up to see a young lady standing over her now dressed like a, well, delinquent biker girl but she had a beautiful face with midnight dark hair tied up in a ponytail that complimented her toned physique. Clearly this was a girl who lived in the gym and was more than capable of handling herself. It took the dazed girl a moment to recognize her. "W-wait...who...whhaaaa? W-wait a second...is-isn't that...Ch-Chidori? Chidori...Chinatsu? Ch-Chidori? Chidori is that you?"
"Huh? Oh hey, I think I remember your name now....you're...uhhhh...Takako Yoshino right? You're in that Karate Club at school aren't you?"
"Wait a second!" One of the thug's eyes widened. "Did...she just say...Chidori Chinatsu? The Demon Of Hinansho High?!"
"Unngghh my head." The ringleader sat up rubbing the back of his head. "Who the hell did that? Huh?"
"Boss! You alright?"
"I'm fine! Who's she?"
"That's...Chidori Chinatsu, bro."
"W-what."
"That's enough talk. Get up and come at me with everything you've got and try to make this worth my time."
The leader got up to his feet and adjusted his mask and jacket. "D-don't be worried men! She took us by surprise but we've still got her outnumbered! We'll hit her all at once and beat her down too! We can do this guys! Don't be scared of her! She's just one little girl!"
(How hard did I get hit on the head? Because even though she's outnumbered it sounds like they're legitimately scared of her!) "Thank you for you're help but I can still fight. I-I'll back you up!" She told Chidori as she tried to push herself back up.
"That's sweet of you but you can stay down. I've taken out worse numbers than this. Come on now! Take out your weapons and lets get this show on the road already!" She spread her arms out as her eyes widened and a twisted nightmarish smile spread over her face.
"I wanna see your best so challenge me with ferocity! NOW GET UP AND FIGHT ME!"
"Ch-Chidori...please...wait...you can't...there's too many of them!"
"I've got the opposite problem. I don't think there's enough. I doubt I'll even get a buzz from these losers." Chidori took the flask from out of her pocket and dropped it on her back. "Hold onto this for me would ya?"
"HEY!"
"The hell do we do man?"
"Screw it! She wants a fight we'll give her one! Let's tear them both up!" The ring leader told his minions while taking out a pair of spiked brass knuckles.
Another one reached under the back of his shirt and he took out a small sword sheathed in wood that he took off and tossed aside.
The next guy took out two switchblades from his pockets.
The man she'd just punched staggered to his feet and pulled a bat out of his back. It was nearly cracked in half from her punch!
"That's better." She sprung to the left and punched the man with the small sword in his mouth hard enough to break his teeth and smash him to the ground! The others immediately swarmed her in response. The ringleader of the gang attacked her with a rapid combination of jabs to get her to back off and then he began mixing it up with right and left crosses that she dodged by bobbing and weaving and then she leaned back to dodge an uppercut attempt at her jaw. Chidori continued dodging his punches while the other two ran around him. The knife user slashed downwards with his knife while the batter leaped into the air from the other side and swung his bat down only for Chidori to hop backwards a few feet with a giggle. She landed on one foot and leaned forward with her hands dantily behind her back. A common pose for young ladies to show they are interested in someone, but in a subtle way rather than being overtly seductive. Although in this case, it was obvious that Chidori was taunting them. This was proven when she immediately flipped them off and stuck her tongue out.
"☞︎◆︎♍︎🙵♓︎■︎♑︎ ♌︎♓︎⧫︎♍︎♒︎!" The ringleader swore at her and they charged her all at once only for Chidori to spring forward, land on the ground and she began rolling her torso continuously in a circular path on the ground across her upper chest, shoulders and back while twirling her legs in a V-shape through the air to kick the thugs legs out from under them and knock them to the ground. Chidori then stopped her windmill move to roll over on the back of the batter, grab his head and smash it to the ground once, twice, three times until he was just plain done. Next, she stood up and kicked the bat into the air, caught it and swung it down on one of the knife user's hands to break them.
"GGGAAAAAAAHHH!" The thug cried out as Chidori just rolled her eyes and tossed the bat aside and bonked the ringleader in the face.
"💧︎♒︎♓︎⧫︎♐︎◆︎♍︎🙵♎︎♋︎❍︎■︎♌︎♓︎⧫︎♍︎♒︎⬥︎♒︎□︎❒︎♏︎♋︎⬧︎⬧︎!!!" He screamed at her.
"Oh shut your dick holster already would you?" Chidori replied while kicking the knife user in the face and dropping him. "I knew it, you losers can't even get me buzzed." She sighed and scratched the back of her head. "Seriously, this is fun and all, but I'm drier than a nun over here."
"Allow me to fix that!" The ringleader shouted and pulled out a golden whistle and blew into it. The sharp sound of the whistle echoed through the air and soon more of the gang began coming out of the woodwork! More specifically, the alleyways and stores and shops around the block. They came at them like a swarm and raced across traffic to their boss's side.
Chidori laughed as she counted them. About 20 or so now. Much better. "Oh yeah. That's what I'm talking about. This is gonna be fun."
"Brother Katauji! What the hell happened to you?"
"Oh Kami! Who did this?"
"Who the hell is this ♌︎♓︎⧫︎♍︎♒︎?"
"I'm the devil, who's asking?" Chidori joked.
"Th-that...that is Chidori Chinatsu."
The backup gang members looked at their leader in shock and surprise and then back at her.
"There's no way! That's Chidori Chinatsu?"
"She's real?!"
"I heard she's the one who took down Hidzume's gang!"
"Ahhh Hidzume. That was a good fight." She reminisced. It wasn't as insane as a certain other fight she had with a certain bloodthirsty monster but it was definitely a good workout. "I doubt you guys will be though."
"Oh man screw this!" One of the thugs stepped up with a pipe he swung around in a wild flourish before taking up a karate pose. "I've got this!
"Try me."
"I'M GOING TO SPLIT YOUR SKULL!" He yelled out and charged her head on and tried to swing the pipe at her head but she grabbed his arm in one hand and blocked with the other, then blocked his other hand with her forearm, then punched him across the face, then backhanded him, then repeated, while twisting the pipe out of his arm, then she nailed him repeated in the face with several straight punches, then she stepped in, kneed him in the groin and threw him to the ground. Where she kicked him in the balls again before running towards the others and they charged her in return.
Chidori turned her charge into a flying kick. She leaped into the air, kicked one guy in the face, then the other guy with her other leg and then she brought her leg around and up and kicked the next guy in the face and touched back down as the rest surrounded her while those three were recovering from her kicks. Chiodri then leaped back up into the air and performed a split kick that caught two more guys in the face. While she was coming back down one of them tried to tag her with a bat and another one tried to catch her with a chain. She caught them both and held onto them as she came back down and then she yanked the chain away from the man and whipped it around to make them back off and give herself some breathing room. Next she brought the chain down and wrapped it around her arm and hand. Two of the thugs attacked her with short swords from behind only for Chidori to turn around and block their blades with the bat, bright it down and punch them both out with her chained up fist.
The others charged her from behind and from the sides but Chidori didn't wait around for them to get close. She charged them head on once again.
Takako meanwhile had been resting against a wall while she watched Chidori tear through the gang. (Freaking hell man...and I had trouble with just one of them. Now here she is tearing apart this whole gang. She's so amazing. She's light as a feather and graceful as a swan but she hits like a truck! I've never seen anyone who can fight like this outside of our Club President.) Chidori squeezed her hands into fists. "That's..right. I'm a member of the Hinansho High School Karate Club...I can't...I can't just sit here and watch this!" She turned around and grabbed the wall and dragged herself to her feet.
One of the thugs face slid away from the group a few feet after a powerful hit from Chidori. He pushed himself up with his arms and spat some blood on the ground. "☞︎◆︎♍︎🙵♓︎■︎♑︎ hell." He looked back at the fight where Chidori was still taking on everybody and shook his head. "No way she's human. Huh?" He looked back to see Takako standing up and resting against the wall and then he looked back at the fight and back to Takako and smiled.
As Takako Yoshino was catching her breath she noticed one of the thugs standing up and pulling out a knife. "Come here girl."
She wiped the sweat off of her brow and took a midway stance with her left hand held forward and right fist at the ready. She took a few calming breaths. "Fear does not exist in this dojo. Pain does not exist in this dojo. Fight fair. Fight hard. Fight to win." She repeated the philosophy of the Hinansho High's Karate Club Dojo where they learned a fusion of Goju-Ryu and Tang Soo Do. "The things I do now will feel terrible. My pain will help me do the good thing. Therefore, I want to embrace this pain. Hard-Soft Style Way Of The Tang Hand." She calmed herself and got ready. Fist she'd take down this guy then she'd step in and backup Chidori.
"What the hell are you blathering about?" The thug asked while advancing on her with the knife.
Takako Yoshino smiled. "You're about to find out. So come and get me. Flip the coin, ♌︎♓︎⧫︎♍︎♒︎, come get destroyed."
"I was intending to use you as a shield." He licked the blood from his lips. "But now I'm going to have to cut you up first!" He threatened and ran at her and swung at her in a wide arc with the knife blade in a wide arc that she ducked under and then he tried to grab her with his free hand but she grabbed his arm and gave him a quick one two punch in the mouth then grabbed his arm, trapped it, forced him down, punched him in the gut, uppercut him, punched him a couple more times and then she grabbed him and flipped him over her body to slam him on the ground where she got on top of him and hit him with a quick but strong chain punch she borrowed from Wing Chun on her own time to finish him off. This done, Takako stood back up and kicked away his knife.
She took a quick breather and then she ran into the fight as fast as she could and leaped into the air and drop kicked one of the thugs in the back as hard as she could while he was distracted. The impact knocking him off of his feet and causing him to fall against the others.
(Sensei Koudou Marika would definitely scold me for using a dirty move like that.) Takako acknowledged. The Sensei President was big on fighting fair and honor in matches after all but in Takako's defense this was a fight in the streets and these guys had escalated first so she would use as much force as necessary to bring them down. Takako landed on her feet and waited for them to start getting back up. As the three guys started getting back up to their feet. Once they were getting back up, albeit still off balance, she performed a spinning kick that caught one of them across the face while he was getting up and knocked him down. She kept turning and then she gave the next guy a spinning back heel kick across his jaw, turned and gave the third guy a kick in the chest. She took a few seconds to back up and recover then she charged the middle guy and jumped on him and gave him a few hard punches to take him out of the fight and then she rolled off of him and kicked the first guy again in the face. He rolled away and staggered to his feet only for Takako charge him and going on the attack. The two of them exchanged blows for a minute before she slipped under him and delivered a few hard punches to his stomach and then she kicked him in the face and threw him to the ground.
That was when the third guy hit her from behind and she collided with the wall and cried out in pain. Takako gritted her teeth through it and rolled away so his kick hit the wall instead of her. She backed away while defending herself and blocking and dodging his attacks until she managed to find an opening and she delivered a few quick hits and then she caught his arm, moved behind him and kicked the back of his leg a couple of times and then she tripped him and threw him to the ground and then she took him out with some heavy hits. Takako took a few breaths to calm himself and catch her breath.
After she recovered enough she ran back to the brawl.
One of the thugs noticed her coming though and he picked his short sword back up and charged her. Takako quickly stopped and braced herself for the next fight. That was when a baseball bat flew through the crowd and hit the thug in the middle of his back. He cried out and staggered forward. Takako didn't let this chance slip by. She ran up to him and grabbed him and threw him over her head and down on the ground. She kicked his weapon away and then got on top of him and clobbered him until she was sure he was out of the fight.
She took a breather and grimaced from the pain her body was in but she rose up regardless and headed back into the fight.
The ringleader of the gang smacked against the wall and slumped to the ground groaning. Chidori meanwhile was dishing out spinning kicks like a whirlwind while unwrapping the chain from her hand. She swung it overhead and then she lashed out with it to wrap one thug's leg and then she yanked on it hard enough to trip him up. She ducked under a punch, dodged another, blocked the next one and then she kicked backwards and caught a punk in the groin while leaning forward and punching another guy in the gut hard enough to make him gasp and double over. She tossed the chain away and grabbed the thug and kneed him in the face and then she turned around and swung him away causing him to fall against his companion. Chidori then caught aimed at her head with one hand while blocking a punch with her forearm and deflecting it aside before she kicked the guy in the balls and dropping him and then she turned around and punched the other guy a few times in the face and then she knocked him aside.
The remaining guys charged her and began attacking her with punches and kicks from the front and the sides which Chidori blocked and countered and shut down while she backed away from them until Takako reached them and grabbed one of the thugs and threw him to the ground and then she ducked down and tripped another one. This gave Chidori some room to counter and quickly lash out with powerful punches and kicks that knocked the goons away from her while Takako was punching out the guy she'd thrown to the ground and then she rolled around and kicked the other guy in the face a few times.
After knocking down the punks, Chidori offered her a hand up. Takako smiled and took. She pulled her up and Takako took a breather while the punks were scrambling to get up. They charged them again and Takako engaged one while Chidori engaged the other two. It was a short fight. Chidori took one guy out with a spinning kick and then she deflected the next guys arms aside before she knocked him to the ground and punched him out while Takako fought it out with her opponent until she could push him away and then she jumped up and kicked him to the ground.
With everyone down finally, Takako doubled over gasping for breath. Everything hurt and she was completely exhausted but they'd done it. She looked up at Chidori who was relaxing and catching a bit of her breath while dusting off her trenchcoat.
☝︎⚐︎👎︎👎︎✌︎💣︎☠︎✋︎❄︎! YOU CRAZY ☞︎🕆︎👍︎😐︎✋︎☠︎☝︎ MONSTER 👌︎✋︎❄︎👍︎☟︎☜︎💧︎!" The ringleader screamed and attacked Chidori again with another wild combination of punches, mixing in crosses, uppercuts and haymakers but she danced around him with ease in between blocking his arms and striking him in the face with quick shots. He backed up and tried a spinning back heel kick but she leaned backwards to dodge it and then she leaned back up and hit him with a few quick shots across his jaw and then she hit him with a spinning backfist and a kick to the stomach. As he backed away gasping for air, Chidori ran straight at him and leaped forward with a spinning headbutt to the chest. He was knocked on his back while Chidori landed on her hands, pushed herself straight up into the air, landed on her feet and then she flipped forward and slammed her heel onto his chest, sat up and dished out a few quick punches to his face to drop him. Chidori stood up and dusted herself off while Takako could only stare in amazement.
"How did you do that?"
"Well let me put it simply for ya. I AM CHIDORI CHINATSU AND I AM ☞︎◆︎♍︎🙵♓︎■︎♑︎ AWESOME!" She declared proudly. "Buuut...you ain't too bad either, Yoshi. You've got some real moves." Chidori patted her on the back and walked past the gang, kicking away their remaining weapons as she went, and retrieved her flask, dusted it off and put it back in her pocket. "So are you okay?"
"I...yeah..j-just...give me a minute to rest. Maybe sixty."
"Oh I wouldn't worry too much. There's probably a few ambulances on the way now. You'll be fine." She handed Takako some yen bills.
"Huh?"
"Go on and get yourself some ice at the store over there in the meantime. It's on me."
"I-I-I...I can't just..."
"It's fiiiiiine."
"W-well....o-okay..." She accepted the money. "Th-thank you."
"It's all good, Yoshi. Take care of yourself and get some rest. These guys won't mess with you again." She ruffled Takako's hair and walked away. "Lets do this again sometime! This was fun! We make a good team!" She called back to Yoshi.
She laughed nervously and waved back. "N-now then..." She caught her breath and stood back up. "Time to get my stuff back. Give it all back right now you unconscious punks!"
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"and then she left?" Inspector Wakamura Maki asked Takako.
Takako nodded while holding an ice pack to her head. She'd taken back her belongings after the fight and now she was sitting at a café table resting an ice pack against her head and sipping on ice water. "That's right, ma'am. She saved my life and then she left. I would like to reiterate that the punks started it."