CONNECTIONS, H. Kazutora

07

It's been a week since you've last went to the beach with your friends, but also been a week since you've last seen Kazu too.. You were worried again, well I mean who wouldn't be worried? He disappeared for 2 weeks, reappeared back acting as if nothing has happened to just disappear again.

It was in the middle of the night when suddenly your phone started ringing, not even bothering to take a glance to see who it was I just picked up the call. "Helloooo??" I greeted the person of the other line "Hey (name)" "Oh Mikey! What's up? Why are you calling me?" I asked Mikey, playing with my fingers as I waited for a response. "Toman's going to have a meeting tonight, wanna come?" He asked me. My eyes lit up in excitement as I stood up and wore my jacket ready to leave the apartment "Mhm! I'll be there at the shrine before you know it!" A small giggle was heard through the phone before I ended it.

Not long after, I arrived and saw Mikey, Draken, Mitsuya, Mucho the 5th division captain of tokyo manji gang, Smiley the 4th division captain of tokyo manji gang and Takemichi? What's he doing here?? I gave them a small smile and waved hello at them. "Let's go?" Mikey asked me. I nodded and we started walking up the stairs. We were greeted by the toman members who were already waiting. I walked behind Mikey and was about to stop and stand with the other toman members but he grabbed wrist gesturing with his freehand for me to keep walking so I did what he wanted me to do and followed him up the short stairs. He stopped for a split second before turning around facing to the toman members, I did the same but I stood behind Mikey not really wanting to be seen.

"We will now begin the Tokyo Manji Gang 3rd squad captain nomination ceremony!" Draken said out loud.

Huh? 3rd squad captain nomination ceremony? Did I hear that right? Wait of course I heard that right, Draken literally said it out loud. I guess I wasn't the only one confused since everyone started whispering to each other asking one another.

"3rd captain squad! Step forward!" Mikey said a few seconds later. It got quiet. All that could be heard were footsteps and people pushing each other.

After 2 minutes of waiting 2 people came out of the crowd, one of them is huge and the other is pretty small. The small one had tanned skin with short hair that was styled a bit similar to Takemichi's and dyed a old shade of yellow, and was wearing glasses. I had to hold in my laugh because his hairline looked like a mcdonald's logo. The 2 guys walked towards the stairs and stopped halfway, the mcdonalds haired guy turned his around and... SAT DOWN FACING HIS BACK TO MIKEY? WHAT THE FUCK??

Everyone started to get mad and yelled at the guy telling him to stop fooling around and blabla. I wasn't mad but... Confused? I tried getting Mikey's attention to ask him a question by poking his shoulder from the back but he just ignored me.

"You guys shut up! This person sitting behind me, he's the new 3rd squad captain! Kisaki Tetta!" The big guy shouted with his arms crossed at the back.

"I've seen him before! Isn't he from Moebius?" One of the guy pointed out causing the others to chant for this Kisaki guy to get out. Damn can they just shut up for a moment? I'm starting to get annoyed.

Draken step forward raising his voice "Shut up it's Mikey's decision!" I guess he got annoyed too since he looks pretty mad right now.

"If you got a problem with that, step forward!" Draken yelled out again, everyone shut their mouths and stood still not making a single noise.

Draken scooted to the side a bit as Mikey walked next to him leaving me alone just standing there.

"Our gang will soon clash with Valhalla! Valhalla is a raising power, way bigger than Moebius ever was. To beat them, Toman will have to be more powerful as well! That's why we have Kisaki here. He's the man in charge of the guys from our generation in Moebius. We need Kisaki to win against Valhalla! The 3rd squad captain is Kisaki Tetta! Remember that! This concludes the 3rd squad captain nomination ceremony." Mikey finished up his words, turned around and walked passed me towards a tree behind us. I just stood there trying to process everything he just said.. Valhalla? Isn't that the gang that Kazu joined? Why are they gonna fight with Valhalla? More and more questions popped up in my mind. I couldn't really hear anything else but saw Kisaki bowing down to Mikey. I tip toed quietly towards Draken to ask him a question, "Draken.. Just what is Mikey thinking?!" I tapped him on the shoulder as I whispered to him. "I don't know too (name)." We both stared at Mikey's figure still walking towards the tree, footsteps started running towards our way. We turned around and saw Takemichi throwing a punch at Kisaki. Well that was unexpected.

"What are you doing?! Takemichi?!" Draken asked with anger as he clenched his fist.

My eyes widened when Mitsuya, Mucho and Smiley started storming towards Takemichi. They look so mad right now. What the hell is going on.

"What do you mean?! Takemichi?!!" Mitsuya shouted as a vein popped out of his head. "Mitsuya calm down real quick—" I said as a sweat dropped from my forehead.

"Hey you... Are you trying to ruin Mikey's reputation right here?" Smiley said as he cracked his knuckles. "Smiley!-" I got cut off by mucho who glared at me making me feel nervous "Don't get involved in this (name)." Mucho told me looking back at Takemichi, I stepped an inch backwards.

"Everyone you got the wrong idea.. I j-just I-" Takemichi looked left and right stuttering with his words.

"Hey, hey what's going on?"

That voice...
Baji?