Marching forward with both of my hands in my pockets, I stared at the group of delinquents in front of me. Eleven was the exact number of students that were in that group. The guy in the centre of this pack stepped closer to me as I approached them.
A guy with a long red hair, reaching down his eyes, a bit spiky around the top of his head, one button at the top of his uniform was not properly covering his chest area, showing a glimpse of what he was wearing inside his uniform. A red shirt, nearly as the same colour as his dyed hair and his pants below was rolled up halfway up to his calves.
He had a good presence compared to his 'friends' in the group behind him. The insults were starting to dwindle down as their leader advanced towards me. We stopped at about a feet away from each other and did a stare contest. The one who started to speak was him.
"You are Kaburagi, I presume?"
"Yes, indeed I'm him. Do you have any business with me?" I put on a business-like smile as I said that.
"We do. It's about your friend's action, that guy behind you." He pointed the direction by glancing to my right.
Ken tensed up a little while watching the scene of us two leaders looking at him.
"What did he do?" I asked him while maintaining my smile.
"As you can see, he did this to my friend."
As he said that, two guys came forward from that group and looked at me with anger, but mostly aimed at Ken. The two of them were also in the same state as Ken, less worse than him. Good going Ken, at least you did not get beaten without a fight.
"No matter how you look at it, my friend is in a more battered state than yours. It seems like you were the one who assaulted him." I politely countered his accusations in a calm tone.
"It does not change the fact that he harmed my friends. My motto is, 'if anyone fucks with us, we fuck with them', so we are just following it." He cracked his knuckles as he announced his reasons for his coming.
"Oh! What a coincidence!" I lightened my face with a happy aura around me." We also have a motto similar to yours but a bit different. You know, ours goes like this....."
I stepped in closer to him and grinned widely while reciting one that I came up with,
"Anyone who fucks with us, we torture them till we are bored."
I returned to my previous position and regained my happy aura. The leader did not like what I said and he sneered at me.
"Then, do we test and see which one's belief in their mottos is stronger?"
"I would like to but we are in front of a school. This kind of testing will not be approved by those in the school and they will interrupt us. So, why don't we go somewhere else?"
I proposed them a suggestion with minimum disturbance. He appeared to have liked my idea and ordered me,
"Follow me."
He turned his back and went to his group. Those two behind me walked near me while I silently follow that group.
"So, what's the plan?" Aki with a slight tempestuous expression asked me.
"Just one. Ken, just tell me who is the one who did this to your face."
Ken hesitantly put his finger, directed towards the back of a guy who was following the group. A good built of body from what I could see, medium length hair, about the same height as their leader who is a bit taller than me, and squinted eyes that makes him look angrier if he strained them more.
I veered my line of sight to Aki and ordered her,
"Make sure that he does not run away."
While sustaining her fierce face, she questioned me, "You're gonna deal with them all alone?"
"It's my fault and mine only. Only I should solve this."
Ken glanced at me with a worried look but did not open his mouth to say anything.
.......
We arrived at a desolated alley. No one would want to be here at this time so this is a good place to settle some business. This alley was pretty big with some props such as empty cardboard boxes, trash cans, littered beer bottles and many other dirty stuffs.
This terrain is ideal for Aki who is already adept in fighting in this kind of place since she fought with thugs and delinquents in the red-light districts in this exact type of topographic point. Regardless of not having Aki fight here, which would have been advantageous for us, I was not going to let her. This is my problem, my fight, my terrain now.
Their leader stopped and the group followed suit. He turned around as we have arrived at supposedly our fighting place.
"So, now we won't have any prob-"
"GAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!"
One guy of the group started to scream as loud as I'm scared that my eardrums are in danger of being ruptured. So I grabbed his own hand and forced it in his mouth. Only pained groans were flowing out his blocked mouth.
"Hey, you should all thank me for shutting this guy up because we would have gone deaf if I had not blocked his filthy mouth."
All the boys stared at me blankly, uncomprehending of what has happened. The guy who screamed fell to his knees and clutched his right eye tightly. He removed his own hand from his own mouth, but he did not let out an ear-shattering shriek. That's good.
"...W-What do you mean 'thank you'?!" One guy from that group of students mustered the courage to stand up against me. "You are the one who made him screamed like that!!"
Actually, the thing that guy said is true. The reason why this guy on the ground is gripping the right part of his face, where his eye is, was to stop his bleeding. A surprise attack was it? I just tried to gouge out his eye. I did not actually remove his eye, instead, I just applied pressure to his eye with my thumb, maybe damaging a blood vessel in the process. But hey! He should be thankful that I'm not that extreme.
"Aa.....haa.....fuck!!" That guy cursed in his agonized state while glaring at me through his good eye.
I smirked at him, "You look like a pirate. Now say 'Aye Aye Captain!!'."
"Fuck you!!!"
If that insult was a signal for an attack, then it worked perfectly as about six of those delinquents rushed closer to me with a pissed-off expression. I think I have done a pretty good job at instigating them.
They encircled me, closing any escape routes for me that I could find. They are pretty good even if they have been provoked to this extent. Nevertheless, they will still make some mistakes...like this one guy who broke formation and went for me. He is probably that guy's close friend, who is still suffering from my eye-gouging attack.
He tried to kick low at my left calf. I did not do much to evade his attack, I just moved backwards with swift movements of my legs. As he tried for a punch at my face, I closed into him very quickly. He clearly did not expect that as it was blatantly shown on his face.
I straightened my right hand flat, all of my fingers are close to each other except for the thumb. The thumb and the index finger were forming a V shape. I hit the boy's throat with that V shape formed in my hand, rapidly. The boy backed away, wanting to get further away from me but I grabbed his hair and pulled him closer to me.
I got him on an arm lock that gave me the facility to choke him but I did not intend to do that so early. The point of making the V-shaped hand strike the boy's throat was to leave him in a state of shock. This move leaves them in a difficult state where it is hard to breathe. Grasping for air is the only thing he can do for his own well-being. So I used this chance to make him my hostage.
Now everyone was making cautious movements. When anyone tried to attack me, I used the hostage as a human shield. I'm on the defensive yet I'm doing damage to one of them without doing much. What a great strategy. One of them tried to provoke me by saying, "You coward, fight us like a man!"
I just ignored him. There is a contradiction in his 'humble request'. Till the very start, this fight was unfair and he is saying that I'm a coward? The true coward is undoubtedly not me, but all of these pieces of shits. So I continued using everything I can.
Every time they tried to hit me, I use the same move; use my meat shield. My hostage even complains to them like, "Please stop..., it hurts!" They cannot do anything concrete against me, so I watch them as their fruitless attempts result in their friend's increasing harm.
Blood gushing out his forehead, nose probably broken, one tooth actually being broken too, all of that was the consequences. It's not that the attack was only on his face, but I made it that way. Any directions they try to attack, I put his face over there and the job is done.
I could see Aki and Ken staring at me with a disturbed look. I ignored them and I focused on the fight.
After some time, I was bored with this strategy so I threw him aside, not after choking him a bit. Since I got rid of my shield, they can go all out against me. I readied myself physically and mentally by taking a stance. Early before the real fight start, I caused a stir in some and instilled fear towards me for others. The possibility of making mistakes is slightly increased but it will do.
2 guys followed by one guy behind them dashed in my direction, forming a triangle formation. As they got close, I feinted going for the guy on the left while I chose the guy to my right. He was astonished a bit but still threw a side left punch aimed decently at my head. I dodged it by ducking below and used the opening to get to his right hip and then behind him.
I grabbed his neck with my right hand from behind, locking him in between my forearm and my bicep. My other arm was near his left eye, slithering like a snake. Then my index finger acting as the head of the snake, pounced on his left eye and he started shrieking like that other one. A textbook example of my move on my first victim.
The guy who was behind those 2, kicked my back before grabbing me around my abdomen with both hands, in an attempt to separate me from my second hostage. I did let that guy go from my grip and I tried to focus on this guy behind me. As the second hostage went away from me, the third guy threw a roundhouse kick aimed at my head again. Do they seriously want to take me out with one hit?
I tangled my right leg around the right leg of the guy behind me, who was still bear hugging me from behind, as quickly as possible. Then, I pulled my leg forward, pulling his in the process, making him have an unstable balance. At last, I bend my upper body downward just in time to elude from that dangerous kick.
Me and the guy still grappling me, were falling down. I put my weight around my upper body more so as to cause more damage when he makes contact with the asphalt. And it did, as I heard him screech," Gah-!!?" clearly and saw him cough blood. I think I may have had some on my face by the odour of metal that I was smelling.
I got up, not before headbutting the boy below me with the back of my head. One last guy of this small group was remaining. He did not let me fully get up from the fallen boy because he was already throwing a low kick. Without wasting any time, I rolled sideways to prevent any blow from that attack.
He judged my destination as I rolled and threw in another kick, only brushing off my blond hair. I was in a crouch position as that happened. Then I grabbed that same leg he used to attack me and I raised from the ground from my crouching posture.
To eliminate this guy from my hitlist, for now, I threw in his seemingly favourite move, a low kick. But it was not that low as my aim was not at the lower part of the body like the calves or hamstrings. It was the crotch, one of the most sensitive parts of a human body.
He was in despair. Unintelligible words were coming out of his mouth. I let go of his leg as I watched him tumble over in a slow and dramatic way. I chuckled as I saw that circus act.
Now then, only 2 people remained, plus the 4 other dudes who did not join the others the first time when they encircled me.
Maybe my lips were dry or the blood was near my mouth or I felt like it, I licked my lips as I saw the remnants glaring at me.
6 more to go...