"Looking for trouble." Rekin said soon smiling when he found exactly what he was looking for. There were 5 criminals and someone in the middle being attacked.

"P-Please I just want to get by!" A man said lying on the floor

"Oh yeah? Well so do we, take everything he's got!" one of the thugs said and all the others followed.

"No, don't!" the man shouted.

"Shut up!" the main thug said as he swung a rusty pipe at the poor man, but it stopped before it could hit.

"Hey now friends, why don't we just take it easy for a second?" Rekin asked before throwing the pipe to the side and getting into a fighting stance.

"Wait where did you-?" The thug asked looking around "Rush him!" he shouted angrily before running over to his pipe, all of the others rushed Rekin at one time.

"Wait, I'm getting ahead of myself!" Rekin remembered before jumping over the group to where Kiro was "Alright, time to start!" Rekin said before getting behind Kiro "Show me what you did in your previous fight and we'll go from there." Rekin said before pushing Kiro towards the confused and angered thugs.

Kiro fell onto his hands and knees after being pushed by his master, as he nervously looked up at the intimidating group of thugs. "Sensei,' Kiro nervously looked back at his master, "is this really a good idea? If I die, Asuka will never forgive you, you know!" Tears streamed down from his eyes, as he whined.

"Are you friends with the old man, kid?" The leader questioned Kiro, his eyes resembling those of a demon's, as he stared down at the boy. His buddies all chuckled in the background, as they played around with their knives and pipes. "After that old man embarrassed me in front of my crew, you know that I can't allow allow either of you two to live..." He chuckled.

Kiro was frozen in place once he spotted the knives. He could die! This was serious! "Now hold on a minute, you guys, this is all just one big misunder-!" Before Kiro could finish his sentence, the leader swung his pipe downward, towards Kiro's face. Kiro envisioned one of Bakusa's lighting-quick fists speeding down towards him, as he, almost on instinct, rolled out of the way, just in time.

The pipe made a loud clanking sound as it hit the ground. The man was confused by this sound, as it wasn't the sound he was expecting. He angrily lifted up his head, only to realize that Kiro had evaded his attack! "I'll kill you, you brat!" The man exclaimed, as he charged towards Kiro, pipe in hand, ready to swing.


Kiro stood up, and quickly got into the Tenchi Jouge stance that Shin had previously taught him. It was a highly offensive stance; Kiro was planning on attacking his opponent before the opponent could swing. His legs shook, as remembered the terrible feeling of being hit by those weapons from before. If he didn't time this perfectly, he'd be leaving himself wide open for the opponent to rip him to shreds! Kiro let out a short battle cry, as he attempted to hit the attacker with a powerful open palm to the chest. Kiro was so focused on the one opponent, he didn't notice another thug approaching from his left side until it was too late! He was already half-way into his attack. His eyes drifted over to his left, as he saw the shiny knife glimmer in the thug's hands. 'He's going to cut me!' Kiro thought, as he tried to move out of the way, while also delivering his attack. Both the attack and the dodge suffered, as Kiro only pushed the head thug back a few feet, and he still managed to get cut on his side. Kiro stumbled sideways a bit, as he held his side in pain. 'Darn it! I saw it coming, but I couldn't react quick enough!' He thought angrily.

"No, your doing it all wrong! You need to stay on the defensive and counter attack, imagine a bubble around yourself as far as your arms can reach and deflect any attacks that come into reach!" Rekin shouted, though he wasn't sure if Kiro could listen in the heat of battle so he walked to the criminals kicking a knife out of one of their hands and punching another in the side of their head to get their attention "Go watch from where I was, I'll show you what I mean." Rekin said pointing to the beginning of the alleyway over the now knocked out thug on the ground. After Kiro was out of the way Rekin got in a fighting position.

"We'll teach you to toy with us!" One of the thugs said, obviously tired of them switching again, before swinging a pipe at Rekin's head, it stopped as Rekin caught it "Wh-What? How did you do that?" he said still trying to push the pipe down.

"Weapons are just hunks of metal that weak people use to feel strong and hurt others." Rekin said remembering how he got his scar "However, if you know this there's nothing to be afraid of." he said looking at Kiro to make sure he was listening before crushing the pipe so it wouldn't be used again, dropping it to the ground. Soon after another one tried to stab him in the gut, Rekin grabbed the attacker's arm and knife throwing the knife away and slamming the thug onto his knee, and punching the back of his head before letting him fall to the ground.

"Watch out man, he's like some karate god!" one of the two said

The other thug punched Rekin in the stomach, he didn't try to block it "He doesn't seem so tough to-" the thug was cut off as he was struck, falling to the ground

Rekin used the force of the punch to return the attack back in the form of a headbutt. When he got up there was a punch coming to the back of his head, Rekin swiftly caught the arm and threw the attacker over his shoulder onto the ground "So you see Kiro if you stay on the defensive fighting groups you will prevail in the end." Rekin said walking over to where Kiro was.

"Yeah that's easy for you to say, you were a lot bigger and stronger than those guys! I'm just-" Kiro said before he was cut off by Rekin

"An ant." Rekin said finishing Kiro's sentence "Like an ant to a wolf," he thought for a second "No, more like a ant to a elephant." he settled before hearing talking behind him

"...Yeah you need to come show this guy what we're made of!" One of the thugs on the ground said, talking to someone on the phone.

"Who are you talking to?" Rekin asked before walking over to the thug and taking the phone "Hello, who is this?"

"Are you the one who beat up my crew!?" The person on the other line asked

"Yes I believe so."

"Well you're going to get the beating of your life!"

"Alright, I'll be here." Rekin said before hanging up the phone and dropping it on the ground, soon someone came around the corner and bent a street sign with one hand, to show his power.

"Master he's going to kill you, lets get out of here!" Kiro said pointing down to a main street

Rekin walked over to the bent street sign pushing it up with his pinky "I don't see why we need collateral damage." Rekin said looking up at the boss

"I'll kill you!" The thug said before throwing a punch at Rekin's face, it was stopped by his pinky!

"You see Kiro it's not about power, it's about precision, skill and center of gravity!" Rekin said, he was using a toes to grip a manhole so he wouldn't fall!

"What's happening?" the thug said as his fist was getting pushed back by a single finger, he was soon thrown back onto the ground, not knowing what was going on. The boss then pulled out a gun realizing that he couldn't win "I'll shoot you, don't think I won't do it!"

Rekin started to walk towards the thug before the gun fired and he moved quickly to the right to dodge it. Rekin then grabbed the gun from his hand and unloaded it before giving it back "That bullet could have killed some one!" Rekin shouted angrily before kicking the man in the head, knocking him out "Even you could have done that Kiro if you had the proper training." Rekin said "Now lets go get some ice cream!" he shouted excitedly before walking out into the main street.