Initial D, A Night Kids Love Story *Remastered*

The Mechanic

A/N: hey guys just wanted to say that this pic is what our mechanic looks like but in a jumpsuit. Enjoy.

3th person POV
Saturday night
9:15pm

The battles always start at 10pm on the dot, this race was no exception, but people start crowding in at 8 to do some tailgating. Tonight was no different they were ready to watch the duel between the leader of the Night Kids and the mysterious 8-6 of Akina, that had previously beat the younger brother of the famous Red Suns' Takahashi brothers. Of course now everyone wanted a piece of the panda Trueno, everyone wants a shot at taking him down. This only being the 8-6's second official battle, the question sill remains will he actually show up or not.

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Takeshi Nakazato is set up and ready to race, all he needs now is his opponent to show up. His black GTR R32 is on the line with the engine running to keep it warm and in prime racing condition. Meanwhile he leans on the hood talking with some of the other Night Kids.

Takeshi Nakazato
AKA: The Black Lightning
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 170 lbs/ 77 kg
Age: 22 M

The Night Kids all got along pretty well, with the exception for Shingo Shoji and his small group of followers, he always opposes Takeshi. Shingo wants to be the number one driver, so any point that he thinks he can slide into Takeshi's position, he will try. He's unsatisfied with being number two, he'll do anything to win, even playing dirty, he doesn't care if someone gets hurt. Shingo likes to race on the dangerous side, with his Gumtape death matches.

Shingo Shoji
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 163 lbs/ 74 kg
Age: 20 M

The team continued on with friendly banter until the faint sound of a revving engine can be heard in the distance, causing the crowd of people to start getting restless. With the Akina Speed Stars on the other side of the road the stiff air seemed to vanish with the growing noise of the squealing tires, they were all so nervous and anxious just moments before, however now excitement has taken place. The Night Kids start becoming more serious as the 8-6 came to the top of the course, Takumi pulls the car in back and turns around lining it up with the R32.

Takumi Fujiwara
AKA: Akina's Downhill Specialist
Height: 5'8.5"
Weight: 127 lbs/ 58 kg
Age: 18 M

Takumi stops the car, getting out he looks over at the opposing side, where all the Night Kids seemed to be in shock after seeing the boy who stepped out of the car and how he looks so young. The car following the 8-6 was a 180 and it pulls in front of the Trueno, with three people spilling out almost before the car even stopped. "What's the time?" The passenger, Iketani, asked in an urgent manner, "6 till," an answer came from moving the passenger to the other side of the car to the front of the 8-6.

Koichiro Iketani
Height: 5'8.5"
Weight: 132 lbs / 60 kg
Age: 21 M

On cue the driver of the 8-6 popped the hood of the car, leaving the small figure to open the hood to look in, dressed in the all too familiar, oil stained blue jumpsuit. Chin length blonde hair flows across half their face as they looked into the engine cavity, holding back the falling hair to reveal a mesmerizing set of bright blue eyes. Within a moment, this person had taken over all of Takeshi's sight. He sat on his car in an almost hypnotic state as the person moved around the engine of the 8-6. "It's fine, you can look later," the words of young racer snapped Takeshi out of his trance. "I'm just making sure everything is working properly," the barely audible voice pipes, "I'm almost done anyways." As the two are looking at the engine the blonde immediately sees what needs to be adjusted and bounces onto the front of the car leaning closer into the machines chamber. Moving around inside the engine at an inhuman speed the mechanic quickly hops off the car and shuts the hood, the blonde then nods to the vehicles driver.

The tech now takes their place on the other side of the guardrail with the Speed Stars, looking over to the enemy's side of the road, checking out the beast of a car that the 8-6 is about to face off with. Slowly taking in every detail of the well maintained vehicle, from the recently polished taillights to the cleanly shaped spoiler, the bright rims of the wheels to the defined lines that ran along the body. The mechanics eyes linger at the sight of lightly colored jeans with black and white vans off setting the pants in just the right way, eyes slowly moving upwards, the jeans starts to show a few rips near the knees and in the thighs. Coming to the bottom rim of a dark blue button up short sleeve shirt that gives the depicting outline of toned muscles in the arms of the wearer. Eyes still wondering up, the top two buttons were undone with the collar neatly folded over and pulled outwards, exposing a well defined collarbone and just the start of his chest, where the mechanic stops taking a deep breath before moving his line of sight to the face of the industriously postured man.

The mechanics face is immediately dusted in color when realizing that the man was staring back at them with piercing black eyes, almost as if the opponent could see right into the blondes very being. The mechanics face starts to turn a brighter shade making them look to the ground in an attempt to cool their face while fiddling with the ends of the sleeves. After a few passing moments the tech peeks up once again to where the man had been standing, but he was gone, looking around the car realizing that the man was now inside the R32. Both cars lined up with their engines running, waiting for the count down to start.

"Iketani, we just got the go ahead to start," Kenji yells to the man standing in front of the racers. The leader of the Speed Stars raises his arms, "We go in ten seconds!" The two men start revving their engines, "TEN!" Words of encouragement from both sides can be heard for the respective friends, "SEVEN!" The crowd begins to tense in anticipation, "FIVE! FOUR! THREE!" It's so loud now that Iketani can barely be heard, "GO!!" With the pull down of his arm the vehicles take off down the road, as the cars passed the edge of the guardrail, a white FC comes flying into the street behind the racers. Chatter started with different opinions on what was happening, 'A three way race, to see you is actually the fastest?' 'The Red Suns trying to get revenge?' And so forth.

The mechanic watches them as they disappear around the corner of the pass. "Hey, Kai, what's wrong?" Iketani asked the blonde, whose face was still burning ever so slightly, answering in a whisper, "I-I'm fine, it's just... a bit chilly.. is all," still looking where the cars had taken off, listening to the wheels squealing down the mountainside.

Kailyn Kimura
AKA: Kai, Specialist Mechanic
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 113 lbs/ 51 kg
Age: 20 M

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Time seems to be standing still as the Speed Stars pace around waiting for any news of what was happening on the course, the last bit of information was from the first corner, where all three cars were in a tight pack. The cars are just far enough away now to not be able to hear the tires screeching, static comes through on the walkie talkie, "The eight-six is right on the three-two's tail!" The excitement can be heard as the guy on the other side cuts out to keep watching. "He's really doing it. Takumi's givin' the three-two a run for its money!" Kenji spouts with a big grin on his face, "YESSS!" The shout of exhilaration comes from Itsuki, "Seriously Nakazato's got some mad skills on his own but put Ryosuke behind him and you got yourself a superstar battle royale," he continues to babble on, "And my best friend is racing against both of 'em at the same time! THAT IS SO FREAKIN" SWEEEEET!" His statements Cause the mechanic to give a small huff of a laugh as Iketani answers "I'm with you man, it's pretty exciting, but Ryosuke and his FC aren't actually in the race, they're just following along." The blonde nods along with him, "He's just a spectator with a really sweet view of the action." He sets Itsuke straight, "Yeah. Just Takumi and Takeshi," Kenji adds.

"The three-two has the eight-six at a disadvantage, but I have no doubt that Takumi will find a way to pull through," the mechanic softly inserts. The group looks over to the smaller male and agree with the notion that their friend will come out on top in the end, all excited to hear what else is to come from the walkie.

Itsuki Takeuchi
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 121lbs/ 55kg
Age: 18