Soon Tory and one of the girls are up, she's already kicking her ass, already has her arm in a hold, to my surprise the girl breaks out of it and swings for her, Tory dodges it, spins down, sweeps her feet and kicks her in the head as she falls, she stands up and kicks her in the face, I flag it once again, the girl looks up at her
"You chipped my tooth, bitch." Tory shrugs
"You needed braces anyway." I snicker, the girl stands up and eyeballs her, Kreese breaks the tension
"Good job, Nichols." He looks at the girl
"You know the drill. Off the mat." As Tory comes back we do our handshake and smile a bit, Kreese then chooses next
"You. Big boy." Brucks comes into the middle and cheers for himself
"Oh, yeah! All right, who's going down next?" I see Hawk anger rising, Uh oh. He passes me his flags and walks in the middle a bit
"He's mine." I see Kylers face
"Get him, Lip!" I really want to punch his lights out, Hawk continues to give Brucks a dirty look, he walks past him and begins to take his belt off, Brucks talks to his back
"Ok, all right. Let's see if I can fix that lip of yours then-" hawk takes his shirt off revealing the tattoo across his back, which soon makes Brucks shut his mouth, as he turns round I see his face completely change, I'm not liking what I'm seeing, Brucks seems a bit taken back
"Dude!" Kreese looks at me to put the flags down, I nod and put them out, Hawk gets into ready position and looks at Kreese, he bows his head, Hawk jumps forward, spin then turning kicks Brucks in the face, Brucks gets his wits about him, manages to stop one punch before Hawk punches him in the face, then the gut, he lets Brucks go for him, he dodged the stomach attack and drags him back punching him twice in the face, Brucks moves himself over to break out but Hawk elbows him in the face, he's tired already, he shows his back, Hawk grabs him, knees him in the ribs twice and spins him round to face him again
"Wait. Stop." I look at Kreese to see if he's going to stop it, he doesn't care, I groan a bit, Hawk grabs Brucks, flips him down and gets on top of him, before Kreese can even say to finish him Hawk begins to rapidly punch him in the face, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. I see how bad Brucks face is, sure he deserves it but fuck. As hawk gets up and his hands drop his knuckles are all bloody and cut open, he spits in Brucks and comes back to me and Kyler, he eyes Kyler up, which causes him to back off. They don't back off in respect, they back off in fear... Kreese calls
"All right, class. I think we can call it a day. Somebody pick him up." Kyler and a couple of the new ones pick him up and take him out, I quickly grab Hawks blooded hand, he jumps a bit
"What are you doing?" I analyse his hand
"You need to get this cleaned and bandaged, follow me." I let go of his hand and go into the back room to get the medical kit, once I take it down from one of the shelves I see he's just come in, I put the kit on a table, take out antiseptic wipes and a bandage, I lay his hand on my palm and wipe it down, he winced a little, I then wrap it up
"There, don't take that off until it's scabbed over, should be tomorrow morning." I put the rubbish in a small bag and put the kit away
"Why did you do that?" I look at him
"What do you mean?" He looks down for a second then back up
"We broke up, you shouldn't be looking after me." To be honest I don't even know why I'm doing half these things, I look down
"Just because we broke up does not mean I won't be looking out for you. I've known you for a very long time, plus I'm the first-aid for the dojo... kind of one of the reasons I'm here." He nods
