Dark Knight

Ambush

It is around midnight, and Rin Nanase drives straight towards downtown. He lives far from the city, so his destination to get to his company would take maybe half an hour or so to get there. It is a smooth drive for him as he drives on an empty road.

All of a sudden, while driving, the back underneath  the vehicle explodes, sending his car flying up as it flips forward. The car lands on its four wheels after being thrown into the air with a flip. Upon landing, Rin grunts in pain as he lands over the steering wheel. Smoke rises from the damaged vehicle as he breathes heavily. As he slowly sits up properly, an unexpected truck, labeled Nanase Corporation on its trailer, appears, driving straight towards his vehicle. Rin immediately opens the door after unbuckling his seatbelt, steps out of his car, and jumps to the side before the truck ends up colliding with the right side of his vehicle. He lands on his front side of his body, watching the truck halt from its tracks.

He stands up slowly, watching four individuals step out of the truck, each carrying a small blade in their hands. Each of them wears a black jacket, black trousers, light sandals, and a hooded cowl, each resembling that of a ninja. Each has a black emblem on their front torso, resembling a thin circle. They all run towards him as Rin takes a step back with his right foot, raising both fists up in front of him in a defensive position.

Rin's nearby opponent, who runs ahead, attempts to leap forward and jab the straight knife against Rin's torso. Rin immediately steps to the side and deflects his arm away with his own arm, only for him to throw a round punch against the opponent. However, the opponent blocks Rin's fist, but Rin follows up by hurling his knee up against the opponent's mid-torso, pushing the enemy back. As the second one came charging at him, Rin swiped his leg across the ground in a 360-degree motion, causing the enemy to fall down. Before Rin could stand up, the third one lunged the knife at Rin's chest. Rin grappled the enemy's arm and swiftly turned around, hurling him toward the other opponent who had run last.

Rin Nanase had been training for the past eight years since he was ten years old. He learned a variety of martial arts for the sole purpose of getting vengeance against a certain individual who had eradicated his family when he was six years old. As he continued to defend himself and fight against the four individuals attacking him, he was swift with his movements, striking at his enemies at the opportune moments. It only took him roughly a few minutes before all of them were lying on the ground.

He stood there, staring at each of them, pondering why he was being ambushed, not to mention that he didn't recognize any of them. However, he heard a familiar voice from a distance behind him.

"It's been quite a long time, my foolish little brother."

Rin's eyelids widened, slowly pivoting around to face someone who wore a similar outfit as the other four that were on the ground, just unmasked this time. It was his older brother, Yuusuke Nanase, the one responsible for eradicating his entire family. Yuusuke is five years older than him, making him 23 years old.

"Yuusuke..." Rin mumbled quietly to himself.

"You've grown so much, Rin. Just as expected, you're able to fight against multiple opponents."

"...—Why?!" Rin growled angrily. "Are you here to eradicate me too like you did to the rest of our family?!"

Yuusuke was silent for a few seconds before his lips parted to speak. "You don't call, you don't message, you don't even look for me. How else was I supposed to get your attention?"

Rin clenched his fists, finding his answer ridiculous and childish. His eyes were full of hate, wanting to eliminate his older brother for so long.

"I'm going to kill you..!! I've waited this long, a long time for this moment, and now it's here!!" Rin yelled out.

Yuusuke smirked. "I wonder if you can take me down. You might've grown, but you still lack the power to kill me."

Rin immediately sprinted towards Yuusuke with a determined yell, balling his fist tightly for him to throw it straight towards Yuusuke's face, which Yuusuke would end up catching it. Rin followed up with an uppercut with his other fist, prompting Yuusuke to evade it by stepping back then hurled his knee up against Rin's mid torso, pushing the air out of his lungs.

"Gghhh...!!" Rin grunted out, attempting to throw his fist across Yuusuke's face, but Yuusuke was swift enough to step forth, blocking his forearm with his arm then pivoted around to elbow against Rin's side of his face.

"Guhh...!!" Rin fell to the side, collapsing onto the ground.

"Is that all you got, my weak little brother?"

Rin grew even more angry, gritting his teeth. He immediately clenched his fist again, getting back up while throwing his fist up towards Yuusuke's lower torso.

"HAVE IT ALL THEN!!!" He yelled out, but Yuusuke caught Rin's wrist, thrusting his knee up against Rin's stomach. This pushed Rin back, coughing once from the heavy blow. Yuusuke's fist had already connected a heavy blow against Rin's side of the face by the time Rin looked up at him. Rin wasn't able to keep up with Yuusuke, only being on the defensive position. In fact, Rin would be taking more heavy punches by Yuusuke at this point while occasionally blocking some of it.

In the end, Rin was kicked far back, hitting the ground and falling over his front side again. He had sustained multiple bruises over his body, including his face as he struggled to get back up.

"Stay down," Yuusuke demanded, walking over towards Rin and planting his foot against his back, pressing Rin against the ground.

"Do you know why you couldn't beat me? It's because you are weak, pathetically weak," Yuusuke spoke calmly.

Rin gritted his teeth, attempting to push himself back up but was unable to due to the sheer physical pain he sustained while being pressed against the concrete ground.

"All these years since our family died, and what do you do? You just focus on inventing toys as a distraction to get past your trauma, but in reality, you can never get rid of it for as long as I'm still alive," Yuusuke stated.

"Damn you..! Get off... me! I'll show you..! I'll kill you for what you've done..!!" Rin spoke angrily.

"Can you now? You're weak beneath my feet." Yuusuke would stomp his feet down against Rin's back, slamming him against the ground as Rin grunted in pain. Yuusuke removed his foot off him and then began to circle around him.

Rin couldn't help but remember what happened the night when Yuusuke massacred the whole family. He used his forearms against the ground to at least slightly push his torso up slowly as he spoke. "I swore to mother and father that... I would... kill you...!"

"How can you kill me... when you're too busy running the company?" Yuusuke asked, which made Rin look up but just right away, Yuusuke had kicked Rin's side of his head, knocking him out unconscious.