Chihiro Hanagaki

Chapter 11 part 1

The two exited the hospital just as Mitsuya rolled up on his motorcycle. Mikey hopped on while Draken told Mitsuya, "Get Pah there tomorrow." Mitsuya agreed, "No sweat. And I'll get Peh too, the warehouse near second M.S. work?" The warehouse would be where the fight with Moebius would take place. In the end, Pah ends up stabbing Osanai. Because of this, Kisaki can set a foothold in the gang by offering to help get Pah out of jail. The situation also leads to a fight between Mikey and Draken.

Draken didn't help Pah escape, which caused a rift between Mikey and him. Mikey's loyalty to his friends and gang was a strength just as much as a weakness. Pah would have been in more trouble if he had run. Not to mention, members of Toman might have ended up getting arrested. There wasn't much she nor Takemichi could do. Nothing Takemichi said prevented the fight with Moebius; Takemichi wasn't an official member until later. So, Chihiro was sure there was nothing she could do to change events as of right now.

"Alright," Draken confirmed. Mitsuya hummed before taking off down the street with Mikey. "See Ya!" Mikey called as they left. Chihiro pulled Takemichi back behind the pillar when Draken turned around. 'I'm still curious if he knew Takemichi had been following the whole time.' Chihiro thought. Once Draken began walking away, the two came out of hiding. "Are we still following him?" Chihiro asks. Her brother shook his head, "We need to go back to the future to find out all we can about Moebius."

Takemichi went to see Naoto, while Chihiro went to Hibiki to go back to the future. Chihiro knocked on the Ito Residences' door. The door was opened by Renji, who had his nose deep in a law book. "Chi's here!" he yelled, not once looking up from his book. She heard the loud thumping of someone running down the hall. Her pink-haired friend all but slammed into her with a hug. "We're going to my room!" Hibiki shouted, pulling Chihiro along.

"Ugh, huh," Renji mumbled. The two went down the hall to Hibiki's room. Her room was a Sanrio-themed room. "What's happening?" Hibiki asked, sitting back on her bed. "I need to go back to the future," Chihiro said, sitting beside her. Hibiki tilted her head to the side, "Okay, and why are you telling me this?" Chihiro explained to Hibiki how she could go forward and back in time. "That makes so much sense. After we high-fived on the day of the fireworks you started acting like the old Chihiro....Well, the Chihiro I grew up with...am growing up with....I'm confused." Hibiki groaned, trying to make sense of things.

Chihiro laughed, "It's okay, I understand what you mean. Now if you don't mind." Chihiro held up her hand, and Hibiki clapped hands with her, and everything shifted once more. She woke up in Naoto's apartment with an IV drip connected to her arm. "Good, you're up," Naoto said, going over to help her with her IV. Takemichi had gotten back first so they were just waiting for her. The three arrived at a construction site where Osanai was supposed to be working. "Do you really think we'll find Osanai here, seriously?" Takemichi asked, Naoto unsure. Naoto huffed, "Like I had the time to do decent research. You guys showed up without warning."

Chihiro thought, 'It's not like we have a way of warning you.' Takemichi apologized, "Yeah, my bad, but this was an emergency." Naoto gasped, "Huh?" Takemichi explained how Naoto gave them bad intel about Mikey and Draken. All of it led to finding Osanai here to get the information to stop the possibility of a battle. Chihiro leaned against a nearby wall while they waited for Osanai to show up. While she waited, she checked her phone.

She oddly had one missed text from a number she didn't recognize. Chihiro brought up the contact to see a text which read: 'Chi, please stay safe.' The text both alarmed and confused her. 'Who is this?' she texted back. A few minutes went by when she received another response. 'It's Kakucho. I'm sorry how we ended our last meeting.' Kakucho was contacting her again.

She wasn't sure how to feel about him contacting her again. Chihiro couldn't shake this unsettling feeling from bubbling in her stomach. She texted: 'How do I know this is really Kakucho?' He replied: 'You flashed our whole second-grade class after you kicked Genji in the face for making Takemichi cry.' Chihiro felt her face heat up. That was probably the most embarrassing thing she experienced in her life. 'God, why did you pick that as proof!' she texted back. "Chi, why are you so red?" Naoto questioned, furrowing his brow.

Chihiro covered her face, "Please don't ask." Takemichi and Naoto shared a confused look. Naoto sighed, "If you say so. We're gonna interview Osanai now, so come on." Chihiro followed them into a cafe near the construction site. Osanai was very reluctant to share anything about that fight. What Osanai did tell them was that Moebius didn't kill Draken, but the incident was a trigger that led to Toman's internal conflicts and all was planned by someone. He seemed too scared to tell them who this person was, but Chihiro already knew. As Osanai was about to return to work he muttered, "If Draken hadn't died that day..then I...." Chihiro would call his current life karma for the terrible things he did in the past.

Still, situations like this make her wonder when a person has suffered enough in their lives for the things in the past. They return to Naoto's apartment where they are met by Hibiki. Naoto had called her to come over since she needed help getting back to the past. "So what do you think?" Takemichi asked. "Osanai was obviously shaken. I doubt that he was lying. And if everything he said was true, then the fight with Moebius was only a catalyst. Whoever was planning it was plotting to set Toman against itself and Osanai just got used." Naoto surmised. Chihiro crossed her arms, "That means whoever this person was, was trying to cause a rift between Mikey and Draken." Hibiki frowned, "If I remember right. One of the guys in Toman ended up in prison during the fight...I think they called him Pah. I think whatever divided them had something to do with that."

"Really?!" Takemichi gasped. "How did you know that?" Chihiro asked. Hibiki pursed her lips in thought, "I think his name was.....Mitsuhashi...that guy we helped get forms for his little sister." Chihiro pinched the bridge of her nose, "Mitsuya." Hibiki's eyes lit up, "Yeah him!" Naoto stood up, "The point is the conflict with Moebius sets it all off." As the conversation went on Chihiro felt her phone buzz. When she looked she had received another text from Kakucho. He texted: 'It was something I knew you'd never forget. Just please be safe. Toman is still after you two.' An uncomfortable chill went down her spine. She didn't feel scared, but she couldn't shake a bad feeling.

Hibiki gained her attention, "Chichi, you ready?" Naoto was holding Takemichi's limp body, telling her that he had already gone back. "Yeah." She high-fived Hibiki and felt everything shift like before. By the time she blinked, she found herself on the back of Hibiki's bike. "Where are we headed?" she asked. "To the warehouse near second M.S. I thought you....wait, you're future Chichi!" she exclaimed. Chihiro grinned, "Guilty." By the time they reached the warehouse, Takemichi was already on the ground with an angry Pah glaring at him.

Hibiki bikes inside stopping beside Takemichi. "Ha, what the hell are you two doing here?!" Pah barked. "Hey, Chichi! Hey Ikki!" Mikey greeted them. Both girls bristled and in unison snapped, "Don't call me that!?" Chihiro's annoyance turned to anger when she noticed Takemichi's injuries, "Who the hell did that?!" She already knew who did it, but it didn't change the fact it pissed her off. "I did! The lot of you should mind your business!" Pah snapped.

Hibiki leaned on her handlebars, sighing, "You want to get your ass kicked before your little fight with Moebius?" Mikey's face still looked uncharacteristically serious, "What do you mean?" Before Hibiki could explain, Chihiro had already moved and delivered a hard right hook to Pah's face. Hibiki pointed at Pah who lay on the ground with a bloody nose, "That's what I mean. I'm sure you know how protective she is of her brother." Chihiro narrowed her eyes at Pah, "I don't give a damn how pissed you are or your reasons no one fucks with my brother and gets away with it!" Takemichi was shocked, he had never seen her look that mad. Draken stood between Chihiro and Pah, "Alright! That's enough!"

Chihiro glared up at him, "Stay out of it!" A vein popped out of Draken's forehead, but he didn't let his anger get the better of him. He looked up at Hibiki silently asking her to do something. Hibiki huffed, getting off her bike, she started pushing her back over to Takemichi. "Come on, you already hit him." she lazily stated. Chihiro still felt wound up, but she had to agree, they were about to have bigger fish to fry. "Get back here!" Pah yelled, getting up ready to fight Chihiro. "Cool down Pah!" Draken warned.

"Sorry to interrupt your little cat fight children! Moebius this. Moebius that. Personally, I'd prefer it if you kept our name out of your mouths you middle school cretins." Everyone fell silent as Osanai entered the warehouse. "Holy crap your, Osanai!" Pah gasped. "Shut your filthy mouth dick cheese!" Osanai cursed. 'Well isn't he pleasant,' Chihiro thought dryly. Osanai focused on her and Hibiki, "Well well. Even you jerk-offs can get your dicks wet." Hibiki shot back, "At least they can get willing bitches. An incest baby like you has to use force."

Everyone, but Chihiro stared at Hibiki in shock at what just came out of her mouth. Chihiro wasn't the least bit shocked at the things her friend said. Several veins popped out on Osanai's face, "Y-You little bitch!!"