Whole everyone was looking, Itsuki finally opened her eyes, she looked in the direction were everyone else looked in astonishment. She saw who saved her from almost having her head smashed by the stray gauntlet. It was other student who was registered to the school that arrived last minute. This student was male as well, around 5'10, he wore beat up baggy clothes that looked like he hadn't taken care of in years. From worn beat up shoes, ripped jeans and tear shirt, the crowd of students would have thought he was homeless just by his appearance alone. He also wore a beaten-up combat jacket from the Army that was old and had been hanging on by the stitch work done to it, the hood of the jacket hiding his face save for mouth being the only thing not covered up. He wore a backpack carrying a motorcycle helmet and damaged dog tags attached to his belt. From the looks of him either he was poor from a military background or the clothes he had were hand me downs in his family.
The students were in awe of his presence, he appeared out of nowhere like a silent hero. Although everyone was murmuring about the attire the actions he took more than made for that. Just the look of him made everyone wonder where exactly did he come from or what his abilities were.
Ryuji glared in bewilderment that the new guy destroyed his gauntlet that easily in front of him from a far distance. He had to have had a great sense of control to do that with that much speed and reaction timing and being able to make the flame small enough to break the gauntlet without hurting Itsuki with any blowback.
Hiro was looking over the new student carefully, he could see the fist that fired the flames still hanging up in the air like he was making a point that he was the one who did it. The other hand that was tucked in the pants pocket not being used, it wasn't needed to destroy the gauntlet show he was strong indeed. His hands wore special gloves with a silver demon face on the backhand and a silver large bracelet with holes in them, from the make of the gloves they weren't just common ones bought on the market for regulars to use. They had been especially made by a higher quality. Hiro could see this student was careful in what he used to his style of fighting.
"Oh ho, seems someone else wants to join in on the fun. Well, I'm game, hey new guy, you going to stand there all stoic like your Kenshiro or something or are you coming to play with me too." Ryuji tried to instigate the new student, but he wasn't biting. The insult was weak, and being called one of the greatest anime characters in history was just a compliment to the new student who silently smirked.
The new student didn't speak still, he kept staring down at Ryuji with his covered eyes hiding behind the hood and shadows in it. His hand he fired the flames withlowered itself, planting firmly in his pocket like the other hand was after making his point known. He slowly walked his way to the crowd that was glued to his direction, he was ready to make the roll call and start his new school year with the others.
"OY! What are you mute or just that arrogant with yourself. HEY! I'm talking to you new guy!" Ryuji yelled out. The new student still didn't answer, he just kept walking at his pace.
Ryuji's veins in his face piled more. He felt disrespected by the lack of introduction from the new student like he was cocky just because he blew up that gauntlet. There few things that annoyed Ryuji the most, one being treated like a child, two being treated like an idiot, the third being ignored by someone with a high opinion of themselves.
"Tch, well if you won't come here, then I'll just come to you." Ryuji formed a new gauntlet and dashed forward to the new student with manic speed. He wasn't going to take that quiet nature of his like that at all, he was going to make him talk even if was wincing a painful noise.
The new student stopped walking, he took a deep breath followed by shorter calm ones in a repetition, he removed both his hands from his pockets now, and he tightened them into solid fists, the sound of his fingers and knuckles cracking from the intensity put into them.
He stood his ground waiting for Ryuji to make his move. Ryuji was in front of the new student after his run, he thought he had a clean shot to the temple, but he was badly wrong in assuming he was going to land a clean hit. The student's eyes pierced through the shade from his hood covering his face as gazed at Ryuji with strong intimidation glowing from them. Nobody saw it in time, it was a quick strike that needed a trained eye in martial arts to notice.
The new student punched Ryuji in the solar plexus with perfect timing, he used Ryuji momentum against to add more power to blowndo the force, the blue flames starting to engulf the fist just enough to not burn Ryuji's clothes off. The feeling of the burn though as small as it was greatly pained Ryuji, he was sent flying backwards from just that one hit to his large frame. Everyone was greatly shocked at how much power was put into that punch, especially against someone with Ryuji's build to be sent away like he was fly being hit with a swatter.
With a devastating punch of that strength and timing with his body frame against an opponent compared to Ryuji's, the new student had to be trained in specific martial arts to accomplish that, it was the only real explanation that could be surmised by everyone who witnessed the technique.
"I recognize that technique he used. It's a breathing technique to gather Ki flow to create powerful attacks with a perfect balance of power, speed, and precision. The strike as well was not something an amateur would have pulled off with ease. That guy waited for Sakurai to get close to him giving him a false sense of security, he perfectly timed that hit using the momentum to backfire against Sakurai making the blow even stronger in its recoil. That takes training to pull that in that split moment without anyone realizing what he did unless they the sense to notice it." Ren commented observing every detail he witnessed in that scene. Besides Hiro, he was the only one to notice how that was pulled off from his own training. He saw the way the first rotated into a twisted snap jab tohit Ryuji, along with the flame magic behind it that added more damage. There wasn't a chance for Ryuji to prepare to defend against that unless he had the foresight to notice, even if he did see it he wasn't trained to defend against it being as wild as he was fighting Ren earlier.
"Son of a….."Ryuji groaned as he was utterly furious with what just happened wiping the tiny sliver of blood off his lip. He felt humiliated even more by being hit like that by someone smaller than him. He didn't want to look like a chump in front of everyone, he was going to get even. He made new stone weapons in response to the attack against him. He formed a new pair of gauntlets, boots, and even armor for his upper body and head.
"Baka(idiot), just stop, are you trying to get expelled over stupid pride, just let it slide before the Headmaster gets here" Ren yelled. Ryuji didn't care Ren was trying to make peace, he was too angry to listen and just didn't care at all.
He charged forward to the new student, his speed was incredible Eve with all that armor on his body. The crowd couldn't help but be amazed at his strength to run like normal even with a stone heavy armor on his body.
The new student wasn't fazed at the display in front of him, he let out an annoyed breath feeling more irritated than Ryuji because how Ryuji couldn't take the hint that he wasn't in the same league as the new student. He wanted to attend the first day with no problems and yet here was a guy acting tough and using him as a platform for it. He decided he was going to teach Ryuji a lesson so he could get on with his day.
Ryuji sped up his charging tackle to the new student thinking he wasn't going to be able to land a strong enough blow with that much kinetic force. Ryuji was within range of his attack, he wanted to make a hit with his tackle and launch the new student in the same way he was launched earlier. Turnabout being fair play in his opinion. He jumped straight with his shoulder pointing to the face of the new student, the shoulder connected but not to the face. Instead the student bent backwards dodging the hit with ease.
Ryuji missed, so he followed by slamming his fists downward in a hammer strike continuing to aim for the head. The new student stopped it by using a kick to the stone fist, hitting the fist with the bottom of his foot and holding the downward strike in position like it was nothing.
The force behind the kick exceeded Ryuji's raw power, the new student then kicked Ryuji off balance by knocking the fist off him. Ryuji couldn't believe that happened, he saw the new student's leg positioned upward pointing to the sky after kicking his fist off like nothing. The students watching were awed at the flexibility the new student displayed, more again in astonishment he kicked such a powerful strike like that with very little effort. The phones recording the fight had there's screens blown with comments and likes from everyone enjoying the scene, practically making it a viral video.
'How the hell did he do that? He's so much smaller in frame than me, is he really that strong and I've been misjudging him. Not only that he hasn't even moved an inch from that spot either he's been perfectly still the whole time when he stopped walking. He' even kept still without losing balance to block my attack. He's just playing with me now at this point. That cocky little prick is screwing around with me to make me look bad on purpose. I'm going to break his skull for that!'
The new student pointed at Ryuji, he gestured with a finger for Ryuji to 'bring it'. Taunting him to make another move, Ryuji's teeth grinded at how much anger was blowing up inside him for being mocked at. He launched the boots off first to try and catch the new student off guard, that proved to be of no avail at all as he roundhouse kicked into pieces. Ryuji believed it made enough of a distraction that he could make his move to follow up on the attack for a split second. The new student raised his hands up in his fighting stance, he was serious now in this fight, soon as Ryuji saw him move his body he disappeared in an instant. Everyone was shocked thinking he teleported, that had used an Esper technique that didn't require a skill by breaking their bodies down at the molecular level and realigning themselves again in another spot. One of the most advanced techniques an Esper could pull off unique to them like magic was to Casters. But that wasn't the case, he only pulled himself into the ground with his brute strength, then spranged himself back up positioning himself behind the new student.
"Got you now! Dodge this ba****d!" Ryuji threw his strongest punch yet at the new student thinking he won.
The new student wasn't fazed, he smirked again, he took in another deep breath as was going to use another counter move against Ryuji. Ryuji swung at what he thought was the new student's head, but it was an afterimage created from the speed of him moving in the instant.
"What the?"
He like everyone else was confused at what just happened, not even their phones could catch the speed of the dodge perfectly. There was no way the new student was fast enough to avoid a punch at that close range like that. At least that's what the untrained Ryuji believed in what was going through his head.
In a flash, the new student was now the one behind Ryuji, Ryuji had no time to react properly against whatever was going to happen next. He didn't even see how the new student got behind him so quickly and quiet without making a sound.
"Ginji Ryu(Silver Guardian Style), Gikufu no Kata, Ryuuha no Mai(Counter Wind Form, Flowing Leaf dance)." The new student proclaimed with a soft but authoritative tone.
The new student said in a soft tone mixed authority behind it.
The new student then positioned his hand in a knife hand move, he thrust a karate spear hand-style hit onto Ryuji's back. The thrust was so strong it shattered the entire stone armor leaving Ryuji defenseless.
"Bukai no Kata(Unbreakable Style), Tetsu no Kiba(Iron Fang)."
Ryuji struggled to move, he felt like his spine was severed from the blow, and the pain made his body go into a temporary painful paralysis.
It wasn't over, not after all the headache Ryuji caused the new student to have. The new student touched the demon face on the hand that stabbed Ryuji, sliding his hand down he opened the mouth piece, the mouth piece making a cocking sound like a gun's hammer being cocked back to fire a bullet. The blue flames shout out of the mouth this time, followed by a punch to Ryuji's back
"HWATCHA!!!" The new student shouting his martial arts cry as the mouth on the demon slammed closed firing off an explosive blast with the punch sending Ryuji flying again to his embarrassement.
Ren recognized the moves that were used earlier, his eyes almost popped out his head from the recognition of them, it was a pressure point attack aimed to paralyze the spinal column creating a 'hellish' nightmare of pain throughout the body's nervous system. Making it worse if the one who was it by it attempted to move any part of their body. The Ryuuha no Mai was a evasion move by relaxing all the muscles in the body and making movements in perfect harmony with the air avoiding any noise made.
"Those techniques, those moves, I recognize them. That person, he couldn't be her student could he?" Ren's heart raced with heavy feelings as his mind began to remember the day he saw those moves used before on his Master. Only one person used those move sets, he studied hard to find similar practitioners but there were none the person was the woman he met the day she fought his Master, it begged him in his head if this new student was that woman's heir.
"That's enough!" A powerful voice shouted, and the echo of it boomed throughout the area the students watched nearly numbing out their ears drums. The sound was equivalent to a sonic boom, making all the students stop what they were doing instantly. Everyone turned to see who it was that made that angry yell. The voice came from the current Headmaster of the school, Anna Takemura, clinching her fists in disappoint at the violence that broke out infront of her school.
The school's security ran to the students to diffuse the situation and rise statements along with the medical staff for anyone injured during the fight. They detained Ren briefly due to his compliance to obey orders, Ryuji was restrained to prevent from attacking again, and the new student was guarded with the security team holding their palms with magic circles incase he fought back too. Natsume gave the the leader of the security team a detailed report of what happened, the officer went over the notes now having a clear picture of what went down between those three. Ren was let off due to hi defending himself, Ryuji had an anti-power bracelet put on his wrist as punishment for his actions, he wouldn't be expelled but he was going to be assigned cleaning duties for a month as penance since it was his first offense. The guards didn't leave the new student yet till the Headmaster would question him personally. He had his hands up in the air, peacefully surrendering to avoid a bad situation.
Anna and Natsume walked over to the new student for questioning, his appearance and skills interested Anna, especially his gloves.
"I'm Takemura Anna, the Headmaster of this school. You can call me Takemura-Kocho.That jacket and dog tags you're wearing are from the Army. I know you're not enlisted yet for your age so you must have gotten those from a family member I suppose. Those gloves though, they aren't normal run of the mill ones right, they're custom made aren't they, judging from the make of them they were designed for you specifically. You must have some connections to get a high-quality design like that. You also must be a student here too since you just happen to show up here coincidentally, am I right?"
"Yes. To all questions Mam." The new student replied.
"Well, that settles it then. From what I heard you saved Shirayuki Itsuki from being severely injured and acted in self-defense as well. You're off the hook but I don't want you using those moves on a student again unless on authorized training grounds, understood." Anna had to make her point, even if it was self defense it wasn't an excuse to go that much out in beating up Ryuji far as she was concerned.
The new student saluted her in respect showing he acknowledged her request. She could tell he was from a military family or at least attended a military boarding school from how he carried himself including the salute.
"Well, that aside what's your name soldier?" Anna remarked with a more calm manner trying to make the student feel more comfortable.
The new student pulled off his hood to answer Anna respectfully. Everyone saw his face finally. He had a handsome face that made the girls blush more than they did with Hiro. His hair long in length barely touching his neck with long bangs down his face almost covering his eyes.
Itsuki saw his face too, the hood being off let her see it better from where she was standing. The sight made her cry. Not from him being handsome, but from what she recognized. The hair he had was the darkest shade of midnight blue, his eyes garnet colored, and the most defining feature. A white ribbon was tied around his neck like a choker. Itsuki couldn't mistake that ribbon from anywhere, because she only gave it to one person in her life.
"It can't be." She said sobbing in happiness.
"Hayashi, Hayashi Kousuke."