Yukari Yozakura
Donny was thrown to the wall as the man had struck him, faster and harder than anything Donny ever felt. It was like getting hit by a truck! Donny would’ve been dead or worse if it weren’t for his body, and even then he was reeling. Normally he could make due in fights with hiding or eating, but this guy… He was too fast. Donny couldn’t get an inch underground before he got pulled up, and his guy could get two punches in before Donny could eat him instantly. Worse still, he wasn’t fast enough to even try to counter; ever swipe whiffed, every guard broken or passed. The only saving grace was that while the swordsman was attacking Donny, Yukari wasn’t the main focus. But between all the bearings Donny lost track of where she was; he was too focused on keeping himself alive to watch out for her.
”Tch. Come on kid. I thought monsters were supposed to be tough. You can’t even avoid these baby slaps?” Kensai walked over to Donny as he tried to limber up. He was hoping for a bit more of a chase or a fight, maybe even putting his guard up. But the only thing he had to worry about was this kid sticking to him and trying to burn his skin off. Kensai could feel the hairs on his knuckles get a bit burnt when he had struck Donny, though Kensai wasn’t sure if that was Donny or if he was just making friction burns in the air again.
”Damn. I came to Hosu looking for something new and exciting, but the booze and the heroes are overblown and weak. You need to stop picking fights with pickpockets and learn how to fight a real warrior!”Yukari had grabbed the two thieves and moved them out of the way. All it took was one punch for her to know this guy was way above the threat level the other two possessed. This place would become dangerous. But even if they were bad guys Yukari couldn’t let them get caught up in the fighting. In the distance she also heard sirens; if they could hold out for three or four more minutes they could get back up!
”Hang in Donny, I’m coming!” Yukari Dropper the two of best the entrance of an alley and raced back to Donny. When she saw Kensai wailing on him she stretched out and jumped towards Kensai. She was going to try and bind his arms together and lee him bounded up.
Kensai was about to stomp on Donny when he felt something wrap around his body. [b]”Heh. And I thought you ran away!”[/color] He looked on with amusement as Yukari tried to wrap him up, so he just grabbed her by the face and squeezed. To his surprise she was very squishy, and what would have been a skull-crushing grip just made her face look funny.
“Ha! Maybe you’ll be more fun than this kid.” Still Kensai grabbed Yukari and pulled her off of his body quickly and violently. Fast enough that his fingers dig into her flesh and carved some skin out.
”Yozakura!”At this point the pain was almost unbearable. Donny had never been this physically hurt before. Even when he once burned his hand on a stove or got caught outside of his house in the middle of winter, none of those compared to this beating. He vaguely made out Yukari being tossed away towards a wall. As Kensai was distracted Donny dug down into the ground he raced towards her as fast as he could, popping out of the ground to shield her. To his surprise, it looked like Kensai was waiting for them to attack him.
”Yozakura we have to get out of here! This guy is out of our league!””Ow. This really hurts.”Yukari slammed into the wall, cracking the stone and falling to the ground. She looked down at her leg and saw deep, bloody gouges in her calf. Like someone took an ice cream spoon and just scooped out three balls of flesh out of her leg. And that just came from one man throwing her against the wall. Yukari felt numb, yet at the same time the pain made her want to cry.
”Aaaah…. T-T-This really h-h-hurts….” She struggled to stand up as Donny appeared near her. He said they should run away. She was going to agree when she heard Kensai’s words. Sweat dripped down the side of her face.
”No… We can’t. We can’t leave.”Donny looked at Yukari in fear. What was she thinking? Surely she must be out of her mind! Donny looked down and saw her carved up leg; how she was standing at all surprised Donny the most. He took what remained of the clothes from his meat sack and wrapped it around her bleg, her blood quickly soaking his shirt a bright crimson.
”That’s crazy Yozakura-san! This guy is going to kill us! We can still run!””You say run. We can’t. You heard him. He wants to fight and kill people. If we run away, somehow, he’s just going to look for someone else to hurt. Someone weaker than us.” Patting Donny’s head Yukari took a step forward and nearly stumbled. She had to bend her leg around her wound just to keep standing. The pain was starting to come back now all at once but she clenched her teeth and looked towards Kensai with determination.
”If heroes run and hide, who will stand and fight? Donny… I can’t leave. I can’t leave and live knowing that all I’ve done is put someone else’s life at risk to save myself. That’s not why I came to Komei, to just put all my responsibilities onto someone else I can call a hero.”Yukari raised her fist weakly. Before she was tossed she almost sensed his movements. She was careless to think that he was slower than her; a mistake that nearly cost Yukari her leg. She wasn’t going to make that mistake a second time. She gulped and listened, ready to fight.
”What… Those words…” Donny looked at Yukari as she stepped forward to fight. Those words she said were the exact same from an anime Donny watched. It was cheesy then, but right now they held a lot more weight. At the same time, other words from the same anime came to his mind. A very familiar quote that seemed to be appropriate for this situation.
”No one has to tell me I have no chance of beating you. I already... Know that! And yet, I must try. It's not about winning or losing! It's about me taking you on right here, right now!"”Dammit…” Donny moved up to Yukari, standing right behind her. He knew that he couldn’t get away fast enough if he tried to take her by force. Not only would she probably try to fight him, but Kensai would catch them. No, running wasn’t an option now. Donny couldn’t just hide and wait for it all to be over. There was no underhanded tactics left for him to do to win. He had to face this guy head on, like a true hero.
”I… I-I-I have my pride too! I can’t leave y-y-y-you here to die. I’m not g-g-going to let you!” Grabbing a piece of cement that had fallen Donny carved a new mask for himself, eating away at it into a new shape.
”Yozakura-san, I h-h-h-h-hope you can trust me. W-W-What I’m about to do… I’ve never done. But… I’m going to save you.”Kensai was waiting patiently for the two to finish talking. He knew that they weren’t really worthy of his attention; a couple of kids who wanted to be heroes were a waste of his time. Frankly he was just hoping that if he stuck around long enough an actual challenge will show up and give him something to do for tonight. But it did entertain him how these kids kept trying to inspire themselves with their fancy talk. Kensai was almost tempted to exchange words too, but he figured that he’ll let their final words be something nice. Now that it seemed like the two kids were ready to fight, or as ready as they could be, Kensai clapped his hands and walked forward.
”You children are all the same. So full of piss and vinegar. Well, I don’t hate that. After all the ambitions ones are always the most interesting! But reality check: this isn’t a game that scales to you. At your level those are rookie numbers. Let me show you what a pro has to deal with.”Kensai took one step forward, and in that one step he was right in front of Yukari and Donny. As he planted his foot into the ground he took both fist and aimed right at their chins. He swung upward, hard.
”Delaware….” But right before the point of impact he would flick his finger right underneath their heads.
”Smash.” The force of the flick was strong enough to create a shockwave in the alleyway that would send debris flying, even dumpsters and cars. And it would certainly send these two kids flying.
Yukari felt a disturbance in the air right as Kensai appeared in front of them. The first thing she did was reach out and cover Donny; she could take a punch but Donny might not be able to take another one.
”Donny!” The blast was too much for her though. It sent her airborne and her head began to rattle. She’s been shot out of a cannon, shot at
with a cannon, flatten underneath a great weight, and even slid her body through the eye of a needle. Yukari thought she could handle any sort of attack. But this corruption of All Might’s attack almost felt like it was coming from the man himself; it was overloading Yukari’s limits and left her in a daze.
Spinning through the air her life flashed back to her time at the circus. The first time she ever had to do an aerial stunt. She remembered her parent’s encouraging words, but also the immense amount of fear. A member that was deeply ingrained in her head was when her mother was holding her so tightly in her arms as they were swinging by a rope, only for her to suddenly let go. She remembered hearing her father shouting. The Ringmaster shouting. Everyone was shouting her name. It hurt Yukari’s ears.
”YUKARI!”One moment Donny had declared his intent to save Yukari, next thing he knows he was sent flying. He was still trying to process what Kensai was saying when he was in the air. Somehow though it didn’t hurt too badly. Granted he was still feeling sore from the previous beat down he had gotten. Maybe he was just numb to the pain now. But he was still conscious, so he could still fight. The same couldn’t be said of Yukari; when Donny saw her she appeared to be completely out of it. He wasn’t sure if she was okay or not so the first thing he did was reach out and grab her, ostensibly to protect her. He didn’t know how to check if she was still alive and frankly this wasn’t the time to figure it out; they were already starting to fall and Donny had no idea if either of them could survive the landing.
Donny had made up a lot of attacks for himself. It was just a childish thing he did as he was packing his things to go to Komei. Forest of Fist, Living Burial, Sarlacc, all those cool things that pro heroes shout out when they do their thing. A lot of attacks that Donny hoped to one day show off to others. But there was one technique he knew he could do that required a partner. Despite being rather shy, one of his biggest dreams was to use this technique with someone. Preferably a cute girl he liked. His mind thought back to Mina.
She was nice. She fought him earnestly, didn’t judge him by his appearance, really made him feel good about himself. He wanted to use this technique with her. But he was all too aware of her feelings for others, like Jett. Part of Donny started to feel angry now, but he knew it was an empty anger. He was angry at Jett for “taking” Mina, but Donny knew that Jett was simply doing something Donny didn’t have the courage to do: take initiative. Donny had just hoped someone would come to him and be everything he’s ever wanted. He figured that once he came to Komei everything would fall into place. But there was still a lot more work he had to do. If he wanted to amount to anything, if he wanted to be a hero, he had to take action.
”SYMBIOTE!”Donny began to warp his body to fit around Yukari like a bodysuit. He couldn’t let himself hesitate even if it was a bit awkward; this wasn’t the time to let himself feel self conscious. Once he was had wrapped himself around Yukari he quickly began to create shapes out from his body. Bone-like objects that lined her body and formed protective armor.
”I have to survive. That’s all that matters. It’s always about survival. As long as I survive… I’m protecting Yukari!” Yukari would feel a bit lighter as Donny extended his limb forward to catch a rooftop, then swing upwards, narrowly missing the ground. He would have to survive until she was awake.
”Oho? Neat trick.” Kensai watched as the two kids seemed to have… Fused together. He thought that boy was a strange one. Kensai guess by the attack name, the Donny had combined his powers with the girl somehow. Kensai was certain it wouldn’t amount to much but he did enjoy heroes who synchronized their powers like this. It showed a bit more creativity than just overwhelming with pure force. It made Kensai have to think a little.
”You done? My turn.” Kensei jumped towards Donny and Yukari, arms raised to smash them into the building or deflect any attack they might throw his way.
What Yukari remembered about her first act was that she always felt alone even when she was around others who cared for her. Her mother and father loved her, but were too afraid to stand up for her. The other circus performers tried to make her feel at home, but they were so quick to move on. And of course the Ringmaster only cared about results; if Yukari couldn’t bring them, she was useless. It was always about being useful. Being capable. And putting on a good show. When Donny’s voice reached her ear Yukari opened her eyes. Her leg still hurt and her head was shaking but she was somehow moving. She felt something warm all around her body. At first she thought it was her blood and that maybe she had been decapitated, but what she was feeling was very different. It almost felt like her suit.
That’s when her senses went crazy. She heard Kensai jumping towards them. She could smell Donny all around her. She had no idea what was going on but she remembered she had to fight. She knew she was holding onto a wall so she had let go. For a brief moment she felt her arms feel very heavy, but than that weight was gone. It was like she had tripled or even quadrupled her weight class somehow. And when she landed on the ground, this extra weight didn’t seem to bother her. It was a very strange feeling but she wasn’t going to question it now.
”Donny I don’t know what you did, but this isn't too bad. I think we can fight him like this.”Yukari shifted into her fighting stance. It almost felt like she was flying. While her leg hurt, she wasn’t putting any weight on it at all so the pain wasn’t as great. In fact it didn’t even feel like she was bleeding.
”Alright. My turn!” Kensai was fast but so far all his attacks were short range; Yukari had to take advantage of her longer reach and quick reflexes to keep him at a distance. She didn’t need to defeat him, just hold out for a minute or two. Long enough for the police to arrive. So Yukari threw a fast flurry of punches at Kensai with one arm, leaving her other back to protect herself.
With each punch thrown Donny would create teeth going up and down the arm to cut up Kensai if he made contact with any part of Yukari’s arm, and included a nasty set of fangs at the knuckles to puncture through Kensai’s flesh if any of Yukari’s punches hit. He created a shield for Yukari too, in the form of a row of ribs tightly packed together covering her other arm. As long as Yukari did the fighting, Donny could focus entirely on manipulating his body to do whatever might be needed.
Looking down at the little girl and her slimeball Kensai was mildly impressed that they managed to dodge his second attack. Her flurry of blows was also rather fast, but she was being too careful. Kensai responded with his own flurry of kicks, but then he felt a slight pain in his foot. Seemed like that slime boy was able to bare his fangs after all, as long as someone else was doing the punching. Kensai still kept kicking but he had to be more careful not to get himself cut again. Then he pushed himself off the wall and back onto the ground. He grinned and charged forward to grab at the arms and slam the both of them around a bit. He wasn’t too worried about the teeth since they seemed rather small; it was a surprise at first but if this was the best Donny could do than Kensai wasn’t worried.
Pulling her fists back after Kensai parried their attacks Yukari needed to keep her guard up. He started charging and she knew that he was going to try to grab for her again; that seemed to have been his previous plan before Donny’s teeth surprised him. But when it came to grappling Yukari couldn’t be beat! Instead of throwing a punch she charged forward too, this time ducking underneath his arms and throwing a uppercut right to his head. But it wasn’t a real punch; it was a feint so she could get her foot between his legs and wrap around his ankle. Donny would then start creating more teeth to bite into Kensai, and then start trying to devour whatever armor he had on him, even eating away at his tough skin. No doubt Kensai was going to try and and kick them off, but this time Yukari wasn’t letting go so easily.
“Ha! Trying to go for my foot? What are you, kindergarteners?” Lifting his foot high into the air Kensai slammed it down into the ground. Even if Yukari could take his attacks, Donny was not nearly as immune to his strikes. But that wasn’t the end of it; with his foot partially buried in the ground with Yukari around it, Kensai got low to the ground and dragged his foot and Yukari through the cement and dirt, going all around him to tear her apart with the friction. Like scraping a bug off of his shoe.
”Oh shit.”Donny blacked out for a moment when his body slammed into the ground. He had tried to counteract it by trying to consume the cement before impact, but he was only able to get a couple of inches before the rest of his body was forced to hit the ground. He tried to hang on as best as he could but he had his lis limit. There was only one thing he could do now before he was gone: save Yukari. He forcefully ejected her out from his body and into the hole that was made, right before Kensai dragged his foot through the ground. Donny’s teeth kept him attacked to Kensai’s foot as he was torn apart by the force of the kick and getting dragged through stone and cement. He left a huge stain in the ground like an oil spill.
”Ugn… That was bad… Donny?”Yukari got out from the ground and tried to get onto her feet. But when she stood on her hurt leg a shock of pain went through her body and she fell onto her knees. The weight on her body was gone yet now her body felt so heavy. Everything hurt. And she could smell something burning. She looked forward and tried to sense Kensai, and then sensed his fist hitting her face and knocking her back. She rolled on the ground and tried to get onto her feet, but all she could manage was to haunch over. She coughed out blood as she was starting to lose consciousness.
”No way… It can’t be over… Yet…” She tried to stand but it was impossible now. Her leg, as she didn’t realize it at the time, now was broken.
”I can still fight!” She screamed as she struggled to her feet. She leaned heavily on her good leg and needed to stretch her hands to the ground to support her weight. She couldn’t fight back in this state. Leg broken, cuts all over her body, her ear was partially ripped. Yukari was a mess.
”As long as I breath, I can fight…” But even breathing was getting harder to do. And at this point all her senses were shot. She couldn’t even hear her own voice and all she could smell was something burning. The pain completely overridden whatever sense of touch she had. And she could taste the blood in her mouth.
”I can… I can still… Fight…”Sirens echoed throughout the city as chaos was descending. Reports of violence was everywhere. Police and heroes alike were in full force now as they patrolled the streets and alleyways for any sign of villain activity. They coordinated their efforts with other heroes in order to deal with the situation better. Soon officers found Yukari in the alley as well as Donny’s wallet and what was left of his body. They found his student ID and contacted Komei about the two students, trying to figure out what had happened and where they should take the children.
Kensai was nowhere to be found. Only the destruction left behind proved that he was here. And while he didn’t get an exciting fight he was hoping for, his curiosity was piqued. He was eager to see how Komei students will shape up after this incident.
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