A Future Without You is Soon |Mikey x OC|

Chapter Forty-Five

   Brahman is here for Takemichi? He definitely hadn't expected that one. He points at himself. "Wait, me?" Takemichi asks. But...

   Why him, when Draken is right there?

   "Yeah," he says plainly. He takes a long drag of his cigarette and blows the smoke out away from where Takemichi is standing. "It's you I want."

   "Why?" Takemichi asks. He can't find any reason Brahman would want him. Unless...

   They want to get to Mikey and Shiho?

   "Oi! Oi! Oi!" Someone shouts from the crowd. He steps through and glares at Brahman's leader. "We can't let you do that."

   Takemichi know that scar. "Kaku~Chan?" What is Kakucho doing here? He's wearing Rokuhara Tandai's uniform. Does that mean he's working for South? But...what about Izana? Takemichi knows he's dead, but Kakucho had seemed so loyal to him.

   "So they have their trump card here," the man says. He takes another drag of his cigarette, this one shorter than the first. "Why the hell are you here? I thought you had retired after your 'king' had died."

   "Huh? I don't need to hear that coming from you, Akashi," Kakucho says. "Did you forget about Sano Shinichiro?"

   The man—Akashi, it seems—glares at him. "Hah?"

   "You were both quite the pacifists, weren't ya, Akashi?" Mochizuku says, stepping out into the ring.

   "First generation Black Dragons, Akashi Takeomi," someone new says. Takemichi doesn't recognise him. "It's is I, ninth generation Black Dragon's Captain! Madarame Shion!"

   Well at least Takemichi knows who he is now.

   "Man, I don't care about this whole mess."

   "Guess we have to get involved anyway."

   The Haitani brothers too? Takemichi had never dealt with them personally, but he'd seen them around during the battle with Tenjiku.

"A war is gonna start around here, so why not?" Haitani Ran asks. Ran has long braids and Rindou has long bleached hair styles in a way that's reminiscent of a mullet. Are those two going to keep changing their hair to things that look horrible?

More importantly, all of Tenjiku's members are here. Is Rokuhara Tandai just Tenjiku under a new name? Is there really going to be a war right here? What the hell is Takemichi supposed to do.

"Bunch of blood thirsty people here, huh?" Takeomi asks. "Being young is nice, eh, Senju?"

Senju...?

As if to answer Takemichi's silent confusion, a relatively short looking boy runs through the crowd. He throws an umbrella straight for South. He hits it out of the way just before it makes it to him. He stares at the umbrella for a moment.

In that moment, the boy who threw the umbrella jumps above South. He flips forward and extends his leg. His heel slams against the back of South's neck. He pushes off him, flips once more, and lands on the balls of his feet on the ground.

His jacket looks similar to Takeomi's, but his has much thinner lines, more spread out, and with little Sakura flowers down the sleeve.

"My umbrella..." Senju says. Or at least, that must be Senju. Whoever that is.

"Huh?" Takemichi asks, before quickly realising what he means. "Oh!" Takemichi grabs the small black umbrella by the wooden handle and holds it out to the boy kneeling in front of him. "Here."