Your Adolescent Street Fighters Ch.12
By Silvercane

“Hey, Fat Boy, c’mon, I want to see you eat off the floor”, the boy kicked Edmund Honda in the back of the knees, causing the poor sumo wrestler to kneel on the ground. “I said, EAT IT! Can’t you hear me, Fatty?, Huh?”

The boy pushed hard at Honda’s back, but the large Japanese fighter wouldn’t budge. Other guys, all rich, preppy spoiled brats, joined in to taunt at the stiff warrior, shouting at him to eat some birdseed that were thrown on the floor. They pushed and shoved, but it was as much use as moving a mountain-and that was Edmund Honda, a gentle , strong and large mountain, whose fierceness only came out in battle. It was recess and Edmund had just wanted to go out into the schoolyard for a breath of fresh air. In Japan, everyone treated Honda deferentially, but America was his temporary home, for now. He came to America for a good education, plus the world’s best sumo coach was here. Suddenly, the immature adolescent, whose pleasure was to bully others, had his head jerked back and he gave out a screech of pain.

“Who the f***, gave you the right to tease other people?”, Chun Li had one hand grabbing the guy’s hair, by the roots, her other arm wrapped around his, pulling it back and her leg was pressed hard against the back of his knee, keeping him bent backwards in agony. With a faint smirk, she repeated the question louder. In sheer desperateness, the youth responded by yelling out an apology. Chun Li let go and looked around at the circle of shocked students. She helped Edmund up and a very large guy approached them.

“I’m Balrog and I hear that you were messing with one o’ my fellas”, Balrog spoke in a deep tone, while looking the innocent-looking Chun Li up and down.

“You know what? I’m not even going to start with you. You’re a waste of my breath.” Chun Li said, while she turned away.

“Hey, don’t leave when I’m talking to you!”, snapped Balrog and he grabbed her shoulder. She spun fast and linked her arm around his, pulled him across her and kicked him on the side of his knee. He got up, huffing, and charged at her. She dodged and snapped out a kick to the small of his back. He got up, this time, extremely angry, and pounced with consecutive boxing punches. She blocked and dodged, blocked and dodged, until, he got fed up with punching and stopped for a millisecond. That one pause gave Chun Li a swift opportunity to flip back and perform her trademark, spinning-bird kick. Thank got she was wearing shorts under her uniform skirt! Phew! Balrog lay on the floor for a while and coughed. He got up silently and walked back into the school, followed by his fellas. Chun Li smiled to herself, while other student were impressed, amazed and stupefied. Chun Li dusted off her uniform skirt, showing off her feminine side and walked off with Honda.

“Hey, so I hear that you’re Edmund Honda, famous junior sumo wrestler. How come you took that sh** from those jerks?” Chun Li asked curiously.

“Call me Honda, that’s what they call me in Japan. I don’t fight people unless I need to protect myself, and competitions, of course, but those guys are nothing to me. I focus my mind somewhere else and think pleasant calm thoughts. Some people just aren’t insecure, that’s why they act that way.”

“Wow, you’re really tolerant, I am so the opposite”

“I must comment that your fighting ability is superb. Where’d you learn to fight like that?”

Chun Li proceeded to Honda about her past training as they walked to class together.

****

“Wow, did you see Chun Li kick *ss before?” Dan asked Ryu in English class.

“Yeah, I knew it all along. I could feel a strong aura within her”, Ryu replied, at the same time, copying down notes.

“So, is she still mad at us, for blowing her date with Vega last Friday?”

“Not from what she told me”

****

“So from what you have told me, Ryu seems to have a significant interest in you”, Honda said, wiping his mouth.

“What? No! Do you think? Really? I don’t know” Chun Li put down her carton of milk.

“It also seems that you have a small interest as well…” Honda said smirking.

“Oh, come on, an aura? A bond? I mean, what was with that?” “An aura can be very strong…and…”

“And what?”

“Well, it’s just that your face becomes slightly incandescent when you speak of Ryu”

“Okay, I have to admit that he really sweet and gentle and has really tight muscl…uh…alright, I’ll talk to him when I get the chance. We should really sort things out. Hey, what about you, don’t you have a thing for Elena? You kept asking me about her all through third period.”

“Don’t change the subject. And don’t give up the opportunity, you guys make and adorable couple”, Honda joked.

“Shut up and eat your sushi!”, Chun Li said jokingly and secretly grinned.

“So, what about that fighting tournament I hear some people whispering about? You going?”

“Nothing could keep me away”, said Chun Li.

****

Ryu stole glances every minute at the table that Honda and Chun Li were sitting at. But the cafeteria was crowded and people kept walking in front of his view. He watched as Chun Li sipped her milk from a straw. Every movement she made fascinated him. “Heloooooo? Ryu, man, wake up”

“What?”, he glared at Ken, sitting across him.

“I said, ‘What are we going to do about this tournament? Are we going to enter or not’?”

“This is Ryu you’re talking about. The day that He hesitates to not enter a fighting tournament is the day that I come out of the closet” Dan joked.

Ken ignored Dan’s pathetic attempt to be funny.

“Yeah, we’re definitely entering”