Shock & Awe

Chapter 8: Homicide

Mikisugi raises his hands defensively, as Ryuko glares harshly at him, seemingly ready t9 decapitate her teacher. "Easy, don't do something crazy..."

"I get the feeling I'm being played here. So why don't you tell me what the deal is with you and Mr. Mohawk?!" Ryuko growls.

"I don't know what you're talking about!" Mikisugi takes a step back.

"You totally know, and I got proof! See? Who's that?! It's you and Mr. Mohawk!"

"Uh, Ryuko." AJ tries to interject.

"W-Where did you get that?" Mikisugi asks.

"Ryuko..." AJ calls her name again.

After AJ fought that guy, I asked Mataro to snoop around and find out about him! That kids pretty connected around here. And he found pics of that guy at a bar with someone who looks a lot like you!"

"Ryuko!" AJ shouts her name.

"What?!" She shouts in frustration.

"You do realize that my brother and I are connected to people around the world? Like that guy over in Kuoh who uses swords as his main weapon." AJ explains to Ryuko.

Thomas scoffs. "Please don't mention him or his sister."

"Well, What am I supposed to do, act like he's part of a separate multiverse?"

"Don't be stupid AJ, Multiverse theory is a lie."

Ryuk glares at the three males in the room with her. "I'm giving you five seconds to tell me what you guys are up to or else!"

Mikisugi removes his glances gaining confidence and suddenly gaining a boastful personality. "The plan was to make the bond between you all and your Kamui's even stronger."

"Uh-huh, Sure." AJ dismisses the comment.

"He is Tsumugu Kinagase. And yes, the two of us are working together. You stood up to him like a champ AJ, and now we can see that you are all true partners! Now that Satsuki Kiriyuin has a Kamui we thought the best way for you to get ready for her was to put you to the test!"

She slams the hilt of the scissor blade into his jaw along with AJ stopping him from stripping. "So after all that double-talking and attempted nipple flashing, you were lying to me! I freaking knew it. That bastard was tryin really hard to kill Senketsu and B.B. So who are you people, huh?! I thought you wanted to take down the Kiriyuin's down! Didn't you say you needed Senketsu for that? What are life fibers? What was my dad researching?! Who are you?!"

AJ rolls his eyes. "Ryuko, we need you to calm down first."

"I promise I'll tell you everything you want to know, I just need to know I can trust you." Mikisugi says from the floor.

"Start talking or start dying."

Mikisugi without warning names his organization. "Nudist beach."

"Say What?" Ryuko asks dumbfounded

Mikisugi leaps to his feet, his shirt entirely removed, and his pants healed up by his Male parts. "We call ourselves... Nudist Beach!"

"Who the hell is "we"?"

"The organization I belong to, nudist beach."

Ryuko looks to the brothers. "Thomas?"

AJ is just as dumbfounded. "We don't know? I could ask father. But..."

"Not happening."

"That. Well, let's go."

The trio make their way to school, where at the school they meet up with Jack & CR4ZY who both roll their eyes at the others' arrival. Outside the front gate however is a sign offering each of them a challenge. AJ reads it. "Challenge to a duel. Attention, Ryuko Matoi, AJ Mankoi, Christian, and Jack Ripcord of Second Year Class K and Thomas Mankoi of Third Year Class D. I will be waiting in the Kendo Club dojo after school." Signed Uzu Sanageyama."