A street racer and a cafe

Ch.8 Azuki and Royal's plan

I walked downstairs to the living room when I head a familiar voice at much more hushed whisper tone.

"Hey, Royal, come here a second."

I looked over to see Azuki by the stairs I just came down.

"Yeah, what's up Zuz?" I asked

"Well, you remember that night when I texted you talking about how I was just looking out for Nutz and wanted to make sure she's ready before she starts racing?"

"Yeah, what about it?" I asked

"Well, its just, she's not gonna be able to race if she doesn't have a car right, what was it she wanted again?"

"A 65 Mustang fast back, big beefy engine, supercharger and blower sticking out the hood." I replied.

Azuki's eye's went wide with shock. "She's gonna need a lot of practice to handle that much power especially with the 440 big block those things come with." Azuki worried.

"Yeah, it'll be 8, 9 hundred horse power, somewhere around there."

"It scares me, her behind something so powerful." Azuki said.

"Hey, have some faith in your sister, I believe Coconut can handle it, she just needs practice, that's all." I say

Azuki smirks. "So, you and me gonna go car searching or what?" Azuki asked determined.

"I guess." I reply

"Cool, we'll take my car." Azuki said

"What's wrong with my car?" I asked

"If nine hundred horses scares the hell out of me, your fourteen hundred horse power supra will terrify me."

"Awww, is little Zuzu scared of big engines." I said teasing her and petting her head and ears.

"H-HEY, Stop it! Hmm, mmm, mmm."

"What was that?" I asked

"I-Its how I p-purr." She replied embarrassed.

I followed Azuki out to her RX-7 and got in, Azuki started the car and I heard a loud crank that almost resembled an idle V8. "What's that loud cranking?" I asked

"That's the crank of the tri-rotary, most Mazdas use rotary engines opposed to piston engines."

"Huh, good to know."

"Yeah, i-it is." Azuki said as tears formed in here eye's.

"You alright?" I asked.

"I remember when I got my RX-7 FD, Ox had just shown up around the time and Coconut was much younger, or well she acted younger, see neko don't age like humans, we grow to adults within three years, but our maturity comes later. Nutz looked as she does now, but she didn't mature attitude wise until the past year, but I'm getting side track, back when Ox came to stay I was out working on my RX7 and Nutz comes out and see's me under the car changing out the tri-rotary and she comes over and says, "Hey Azuki-ni, what are you doing?" And I told her I was changing the Rotary disks in the engine, and she said, "The rotary's are backwards, that's why they were grinding." I looked up and sure enough they were backwards and showed scrape marks, i asked her how she knew that and she said, "the 97 Mazda RX-7 FD which features a tri-rotary engine can't have it's rotary backwards otherwise it'll cause grinding, breakage, and worse a replacing of the whole rotary engine." It was as if she read it off a website or straight from a book." She amazed me that day, but what really got me was when she said, "when I get my drivers license I wanna be like you Azu-nyan."

There was a moment of silence as Azuki's grip on the steering wheel tightened. "My little sister's all grown up." She said as more tears came.

"Azuki, you motivate Coconut to want to race, you were what got her interested in the first place, and now she want's to race you so she can prove she's ready to enter the racing scene." I wiped Azuki's tears from her face and petted her once again. "Let's go get Coconut the car she wants." I say.

With a nod Azuki drove down a few blocks to something I didn't know existed, there was an actual dealership that sold classic American muscle cars. My eye's widened as I gazed at 69 charger's, 70 chevell's, early 70's mustangs, mid 70's camaro's, oldschool Pontiac's, and in the far side of the dealership sat a black 65 Mustang fast back looking like it just came off the show room floor.

A sales man soon approached us.

"Well, how can I help you two today?"

"We'd like to purchase this Mustang here." I said.

"Great choice, that'll be $50,000 please, will this be cash or credit?"

"Cash." I heard Azuki say as she reached into her pocket and pulled out stack after stack of cash.

The salesman almost fainted at the amount of cash she was handing him, I couldn't blame him, if I were handed fifty thousand in cash I'd be a bit shocked too.

The man handed us the paper work which we happily filled out and he traded us for the keys, I drove the car back and parked it next to my Supra and covered it with a car cover, little did I know Ox was watching.

"So, you finally got her her car." He said impressed.

"Shhhh!" I said hastily "If they ask, this is a project car your working on, its not ready yet, it needs a lot of after market work."

Ox smirked. "I'll keep quiet." He said.

The next day I took the cover off the car and unbolted the stock hood and sat it gently on the table. "Oh yeah, this will kill the drag strip." I say to myself.

Azuki chipped in and helped over the next few days as we worked on the car, by the end of it there was a car with a big bulge sticking up from the hood as we pit the cover back over it. "She is gonna freak out when she see's this, and when she finds out you helped, I bet all will be forgiven."

Azuki smiled up at me. "Yeah, she'll love it.

A week had past before Azuki and I finished the mustang build and we were ready to show it to coconut, Azuki and I waited for Ox to bring Coconut down to the garage.

"Royal, Azuki, what are you guys having me come down here for all of a sudden?" Coconut asked

"We wanted to give you something." I said gripping one side of the car cover.

"And I want to apologize for everything I'v been saying." Azuki gripped the other side of the cover.

Azuki and Royal: "Welcome to the racing scene." We pulled the cover off of the car only for Coconut to practically burst into tears and hug us both.

"Thank you, thank you both."

"Your welcome Coconut."

"Still want to make me a dot in your rearview?" Azuki asked issuing a friendly challenge.

"Of course I do, Azuki-ni."