Initial D, A Night Kids Love Story *Remastered*

The Fix and EG6

Kailyn

I make my way around the car really taking in the magnitude if the machinery, it breaths street racing, my eyes stop at the rear of the car, the spot that scrapped the guardrail, it's a sad sight to look at, if he hadn't been racing against the eight-six I bet he would have won. I run my hand over it before I put a fine grain sanding pad on the sander, the integrity of the metal is still intact, just needs to be smoothed over. I begin by adding a cover over the taillight to protect it while I work on the body, I nod my head to the beat of my music as I sand down the protruding metal, the area was smaller than I initially thought. It only took a few minutes to finish with the sanding, I move to my workstation to get my laptop out to run a program to find the exact paint color when a shadow is cast over my station, looking up I see Kaito, "Man why are you so fast at your job?" He teases, I fake gasp, "Whatever do you mean? I am the best car painter there is," the sarcasm couldn't be more prominent, and we both laugh. I begin opening the program that I need, "Is there something you need?" I ask still slightly laughing, "Yea I need a second opinion when you get a chance," He throws his thumb up pointing it behind him to the vehicle that he is working on, "Yeah no problem, let start the paint search then I can come right over," I tell him, "Great, thanks," He heads back to his workstation and I input the VIN in the program with a photo of the car. As soon as I see the program start its calibration sequence, I make my way to Kaito.

"What are we looking at?" I ask, he looks over to me, "So the owner brought it in for some replacement sensors," He explains while walking to the car, "However," He opens the car door and gestors for me to look under the steering column , "I found this line, and when I followed it," He walks around the car and I follow him, he points to the wire, it makes its way to the battery and the leads to nothing, the wires cut, " Hmm, that's odd, is there a history report?" He shakes his head, "The lady didn't add one. Just said she bout it from a dealer as is," I nod, "I bet is was just an aftermarket mod that the dealer took out without removing the line," I tell him, "If it doesn't cause issues, I would trim the line, then ask the lady if she wants to leave it or remove it." He nods, "That's what I thought, I just wanted to check since you are more knowledgeable on aftermarket add-ons," I smile, "Of course, it's no problem," I head back to my station to see that paint has been matched and the shop a few blocks away carries it, great it'll be easy to get. I begin the ordering process so I can pick it up at the end of the day, "Kailyn, can you come up here for a moment?" I hear one of the others call me from the front, I nod as I finish sending in my order, as I head to the store front, I make eye contact with Akio, he gives me a signal of silence with a mischievous grin as he creeps closer to Kaito, they are childhood friends. As if on que Kaito turns around and Akio hold a car on forced air under his jumpsuit causing him to jump and spray grease everywhere, including on me, "AKIO!" The culprit just laughs at the mess that was made and I stop walking as I wipe my face, "Kai, are you okay?" Kaito asks, I nod, "Shit, sorry I didn't mean for you to get hit with grease," Akio still laughing, "Do you not have anything better to do?" Kaito yells at him, It's in my hair, ugh, I should to cut it soon, I slip out of the top of my jumpsuit that is now a mess as I make it to the doorway that separates the children and customers.

"Y-you called?" I ask, "What happened to you?" I glance to the two behind me, not needing an explanation the older mechanic pops his head into the garage, I can feel the glare he is giving the others, as he motions for them to get back to work, "You good?" I nod, "Yeah." He walks back over to the counter, "We have another specialty car for you," emphasis on 'specialty,' a word we use for legal reasons, to protect us and the customers, if we don't say it, it's not happening. "Wait, hold up a minute," They guy on the other side of the counter starts, "This little girl is going to be working on my car?" He spat arrogantly, "You have got to be joking!" He turns to the two that were with him, looking just as dismissive, the older technician is dumbfounded at the comment, and I just look to the ground, "Well, if having a girl work on you car is an issue, it's a good thing that Kai is a boy," The boss walks out of his office, "And he happens to be one of my best mechanics," He says, "And he specializes in what your looking to do," He continues, "You can fill out the documents and get the work done or not, that's up to you," He gestures for us to give them the paperwork, the other mechanic slides the papers over, "How many cars?" The guy in front eyes me for a moment, "Just mine," He takes a pen from the counter and fills them out, then tells me what he wants done and hands me his keys, he grumbles as he leaves with the other two, what an ass. After filing the paperwork, I go outside to bring the car around to the garage, it's a red Honda Civic, or as racers call it, an EG6, it seemed to be in good condition, however, I can tell that he drives it roughly. Once it's inside I pop the hood to see what all I'll be doing, okay, okay, I can work with this, it'll be a good few hours to do but that's fine, after analyzing the work I search for some tools to start. "Looks like you have yourself a full plate, need a hand?" Another part timer, Jiro jokingly asks, "Hmm, I uh, I'm good, thanks," I try to be polite as I find what I'm looking for, I try not to interact with him as he tends to harass me whenever he can. Back at the EG6 I start the meticulous tune up, "It's a good thing that its dead week," I whisper to myself.