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Chapter 3 - Tenma The Boxer

A couple days later and it's just me and Yoshino sitting on the rooftop. It's lunchtime and he can actually cook. Yoshino cooks for me and him so I sit with him everyday at lunch time. I look at Yoshino and say "Why do you always put more rice than noodles?" And he replies "I know your not complaining about the free food I give you!" Then out of no where Fujimoto pops up and says "Well rice is actually healthier than noodles, so you shouldn't complain." I look at her confused and say "where the heck did you come from?" Yoshino says "I don't even think that's a true statement?" I then say "why are you here, you were supposed to only appear in the last chapter?" She replies "What?" I then say "Ughh... never mind." Later on I started noticing her more and more. She seemed to be apart of our group now. I asked her "Why are you following us?" She looked flustered and replied "I'm not following you!" And Yoshino begins to laugh. And he then says "If you can't beat em join em." Then I reply "What's that supposed to mean?" He then says "Oh nothing." Later that day We then continue to walk home but I forgot my bag so I tell Yoshino "Oh, go on without me I kinda forgot my bag." He replies "okay." I dash quickly inside the school and head up the stairs but all of a sudden I ran into someone or something." I fall to the ground looking up in confusion. I say "My bad I didn't see you there." Then I see this frightening face of what looks like a delinquent with a buff body. He replies "Who the hell you think you are bumping into me, huh!?" I yell back at him "I said I was sorry!" As I got up we looked dead into each other's eye ready to swing at each other at any second. But in the distance Fujimoto who was watching behind the corner of the wall looked frightened. She then shouted "Leave him alone!" We both looked in confusion wondering who it was. He started to walk away and say "I have no time to waste on a lame scrawny boy and a snot nosed rich girl." I looked back and saw Fujimoto with a frown on her face. I then noticed that she was just a regular high school girl who had a distinguished family and was just always looked down upon. I then turned around and shouted "Your Tenma right? I I'm not afraid to fight you! I won't let you get away with bad mouthing my friend!" He laughs and replies "Oh really? Well then how about we put some gloves on and fight in ring next week? Seeing as though you obviously need training. Even though you still won't be able to beat me." I reply "We'll see about that." And walks off. I look back at Fujimoto and she says "Thanks for defending me, I hate when people automatically assume what kind of person I am." I then reply "No problem, I won't let him get away with this." I walked home and met up with Yoshino explaining about what happened. He replied "What is wrong with you! You can't just pick a fight with the best boxer in the school!" I tell him "well he dissed me and Fujimoto, I can't let him get away with that!" He replies "fine I'm gonna have to train you. Anyway where's your bag?" I shout "How could I forget my bag!?" He laughs and tells me "Your so hopeless."