The Chikamori Selfacy (A Reboot)
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Generation One
Chapter Three - "Seeing in A New Light"
Part Four
This was a side of Haruo that River had only seen once before aimed at VJ Alvi when Haruo had laid him out in the dirt but she could understand it. It was pent up rage at the way that he'd been treated by his mother and that rage needed an outlet.
Little did he know that Ethan, Parker also saw that fight and resolved never to cross Haruo ever again. The sheer violence that Haruo unleashed on Jared Frio, a man older than Haruo by five years and in the physical prime of his life meant that Haruo was more than capable of handling them when it came down to it.
"Well let's go in and eat, said Molly who had just joined them having seen Haruo's dispatching kick and subsequent scrambling of Frio's brain-cells.
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The six now stepped over Jared's prone body, all avoiding Jared's head with the exception of Haruo who delivered a deliberate smack to the side of Jared's head with the instep of his shoe slapping his Jared's brain against the side of his skull knocking him out cold again. It was amazing that Jared hadn't suffered severe brain trauma.
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River and Haruo had meatloaf and ordered milkshakes: River, strawberry and Haruo, chocolate. Fiona had a club sandwich, hold the cold-cuts; Molly had a cheese-burger and fries as did Satoshi. Yasunobu had a teriyaki burger.
At least Emma Hatch was on secondary at the grill since Molly was not on that day and well, Jared having suffered a concussion and would not be finishing his shift, the restaurant was lucky that they had a secondary cook on shift at the diner. Stiles having been at the diner for his nightly french fries, helped Jared to his feet and shuffled him off to the hospital where he would be treated for acute symptoms of concussion which would involve bed-rest for seventy-two hours.
Idle conversation was kept strictly to a minimum while eating and when they were done, it was back to the car and home.
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As they pulled up on their triplex, Fiona wanted to know how Haruo was doing in school; whether he had any aspirations to do something with his life. Haruo had a lot on his mind after the fight with Jared and he didn't have a clue how to answer that kind of question at the moment that Fiona asked him. Of course being rather inclined to concentrate his studies on writing, he did aspire to be a well-respected author. There were a lot of things to talk about and in the late March air, it certainly felt as though they really needed to get inside the house and get warm. Finally Fiona, Satoshi and his dad had already gone into their respective homes. Molly had headed off to work as she had been called in due to a co-worker calling in sick. (:D)
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River talked to him enthusing about how wonderful it would be to graduate and travel the world. After all it was something she really wanted to do. She also enthused about their house and how wonder-ful it was that they were living so close together and were able to see each other every day. After all, they had been together as friends for so long, it just seemed like a natural progression, to have a home that both families owned, enhancing their ability to stay together throughout their last year in high-school.
"I'm so glad it turned out this way..." River said softly as they looked at each other through the shadows of impending nightfall.
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"Me too,". And it was at that very moment that they saw each other in a VERY different light - of course it could have been the dimming light of early evening, but was it something else entirely? And as they gazed at each other the realization of just how important the other was to their lives came over them.
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They were so engrossed in talking about each other. that they lost complete and utter track of time. They talked about the future and Haruo talked about River and her aspirations and River talked of Haruo and HIS aspirations and they both came to a realization that their lives were rich and wonderful because of each other's contribution into each others' lives. They realized just how fortunate that they were in order to have parents willing to do what they had; Mayumi excepted and no matter what, they needed to pursue what their intended line of work was going to be. In the future.
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Of course, all the aspiration talk led to them forgetting about the clock and then realizing that they needed to get to sleep if they were going to be functional the next morning...and Mayumi’s strident call of “Get your rear-end in the house or you’re going to be grounded for the rest of the month.” caused them to hurry inside their respective suites.
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A Week Later
Bebe had come over from her side of the triplex and had hung out with River. And soon enough talk turned to boys...and Torao and Haruo. Bebe asked how Haruo’s ribs were doing as far as them being bruised by Jared’s full-force kick to the chest. Evidently he’d tightened his chest muscles to the consistency of a board and it appeared as though Jared’s kick didn’t do much to him whereas Jared was nursing a full-blown concussion due to his brain being bounced off the inside of his cranium, first from Haruo’s nasty hook-kick to the side of his head which had bruised his brain like the impact of a cauliflower falling off a food cart and the rabbit punches to the skull with the concrete pad backrest when Haruo was using Jared’s head as a speed-bag didn’t do him any favours. More or less, the doctor, knowing Jared’s reputation, told him to stay in bed for 72 hours and ultimately stop ticking people off. Like that was going to happen. Eventually, Jared would pick on the wrong guy and quite possibly end up in a coma. Fiona hoped that it wasn’t Haruo who would end up putting Jared into a coma, but self-defence worked out in mysterious ways.
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“I don’t even know if he likes me in that way.” River protested when Bebe had forced the issue and talked about River always hanging out with Haruo. But to Bebe, her protests sounded feeble and forced. There was that glint in River’s eyes every time she talked about him.
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Bebe smirked at her friend, “Well...if you don’t ask, you won’t know, will you?”
River winced as she said, “But...Bebe...it’s not like that...”
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“Oh...sure it isn’t.” Bebe laughed. “You were talking all about him having taken Jared down and the fact that his fists were like steel hammers. I mean, nobody but your boyfriend takes down an adult, right? At least he’s tough enough to do so and nobody waxes eloquent on someone like that if they aren’t the slightest bit interested in them, right?” she shot River a knowing glance.
“But he’s not my boyfriend...” River rolled her eyes, “I mean...”
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“Not yet, anyway...” Bebe smirked again.
River sounded frustrated, “Will you stop...Bebe, He hasn’t said anything at all...about liking me...”
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“Other than spending every chance he gets with you...” Bebe interjected. “River, honey, you won’t know if you don’t ask...so...ask...him.” she shot River another knowing older more experienced in the world grin. “Besides, he’s a hunk, like his cousin...”
“Yeah, what about you and Torao...” River turned the tables on her friend. “So...what are you doing about your interest in Torao.”
“Well...he did mention that he was interested in me...and...well...” She raised an eyebrow hinting.
River shot her a look, “Oh...really?”
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“Uh...huh...” Bebe nodded then wound up and tossed the million-dollar curveball at River, “So...tell me something...do you love...Haruo...” River’s silence was answer enough for Bebe. “Girl, you need to ask him...”
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Listening to this, unnoticed by the stairs, Fiona reminisced back to when River was a small child playing with her best friend in the whole wide world and recalled just how innocent their play-times were together, playing with blocks or as they aged; playing with a soccer ball or tossing the old pig-skin around.
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Deep down she knew that River was going to eventually develop emotional ties with someone and who better than someone that she’d known for practically all of her life. Fiona took a deep breath...exhaling, silently lifting up a prayer that River, when she fell in love, wouldn’t be hurt emotionally. Despite his deep-seated pain and anger from the abuse delivered by his mother, Fiona knew how protective Haruo was of his best friend. The only times he’d ever lifted a hand in anger was against those who would try to hurt his best friend or his family. Please, let this be a one and done relationship when she falls in love...and let them be together for life, unlike Caeden and me. She’d never truly recovered from the emotional pain that Caeden up and leaving had marked on her soul and she hoped that River would never truly know that kind of pain.
(end Chapter Three)
Generation One
Chapter Three - "Seeing in A New Light"
Part Four
This was a side of Haruo that River had only seen once before aimed at VJ Alvi when Haruo had laid him out in the dirt but she could understand it. It was pent up rage at the way that he'd been treated by his mother and that rage needed an outlet.
Little did he know that Ethan, Parker also saw that fight and resolved never to cross Haruo ever again. The sheer violence that Haruo unleashed on Jared Frio, a man older than Haruo by five years and in the physical prime of his life meant that Haruo was more than capable of handling them when it came down to it.
"Well let's go in and eat, said Molly who had just joined them having seen Haruo's dispatching kick and subsequent scrambling of Frio's brain-cells.
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The six now stepped over Jared's prone body, all avoiding Jared's head with the exception of Haruo who delivered a deliberate smack to the side of Jared's head with the instep of his shoe slapping his Jared's brain against the side of his skull knocking him out cold again. It was amazing that Jared hadn't suffered severe brain trauma.
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River and Haruo had meatloaf and ordered milkshakes: River, strawberry and Haruo, chocolate. Fiona had a club sandwich, hold the cold-cuts; Molly had a cheese-burger and fries as did Satoshi. Yasunobu had a teriyaki burger.
At least Emma Hatch was on secondary at the grill since Molly was not on that day and well, Jared having suffered a concussion and would not be finishing his shift, the restaurant was lucky that they had a secondary cook on shift at the diner. Stiles having been at the diner for his nightly french fries, helped Jared to his feet and shuffled him off to the hospital where he would be treated for acute symptoms of concussion which would involve bed-rest for seventy-two hours.
Idle conversation was kept strictly to a minimum while eating and when they were done, it was back to the car and home.
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As they pulled up on their triplex, Fiona wanted to know how Haruo was doing in school; whether he had any aspirations to do something with his life. Haruo had a lot on his mind after the fight with Jared and he didn't have a clue how to answer that kind of question at the moment that Fiona asked him. Of course being rather inclined to concentrate his studies on writing, he did aspire to be a well-respected author. There were a lot of things to talk about and in the late March air, it certainly felt as though they really needed to get inside the house and get warm. Finally Fiona, Satoshi and his dad had already gone into their respective homes. Molly had headed off to work as she had been called in due to a co-worker calling in sick. (:D)
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River talked to him enthusing about how wonderful it would be to graduate and travel the world. After all it was something she really wanted to do. She also enthused about their house and how wonder-ful it was that they were living so close together and were able to see each other every day. After all, they had been together as friends for so long, it just seemed like a natural progression, to have a home that both families owned, enhancing their ability to stay together throughout their last year in high-school.
"I'm so glad it turned out this way..." River said softly as they looked at each other through the shadows of impending nightfall.
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"Me too,". And it was at that very moment that they saw each other in a VERY different light - of course it could have been the dimming light of early evening, but was it something else entirely? And as they gazed at each other the realization of just how important the other was to their lives came over them.
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They were so engrossed in talking about each other. that they lost complete and utter track of time. They talked about the future and Haruo talked about River and her aspirations and River talked of Haruo and HIS aspirations and they both came to a realization that their lives were rich and wonderful because of each other's contribution into each others' lives. They realized just how fortunate that they were in order to have parents willing to do what they had; Mayumi excepted and no matter what, they needed to pursue what their intended line of work was going to be. In the future.
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Of course, all the aspiration talk led to them forgetting about the clock and then realizing that they needed to get to sleep if they were going to be functional the next morning...and Mayumi’s strident call of “Get your rear-end in the house or you’re going to be grounded for the rest of the month.” caused them to hurry inside their respective suites.
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A Week Later
Bebe had come over from her side of the triplex and had hung out with River. And soon enough talk turned to boys...and Torao and Haruo. Bebe asked how Haruo’s ribs were doing as far as them being bruised by Jared’s full-force kick to the chest. Evidently he’d tightened his chest muscles to the consistency of a board and it appeared as though Jared’s kick didn’t do much to him whereas Jared was nursing a full-blown concussion due to his brain being bounced off the inside of his cranium, first from Haruo’s nasty hook-kick to the side of his head which had bruised his brain like the impact of a cauliflower falling off a food cart and the rabbit punches to the skull with the concrete pad backrest when Haruo was using Jared’s head as a speed-bag didn’t do him any favours. More or less, the doctor, knowing Jared’s reputation, told him to stay in bed for 72 hours and ultimately stop ticking people off. Like that was going to happen. Eventually, Jared would pick on the wrong guy and quite possibly end up in a coma. Fiona hoped that it wasn’t Haruo who would end up putting Jared into a coma, but self-defence worked out in mysterious ways.
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“I don’t even know if he likes me in that way.” River protested when Bebe had forced the issue and talked about River always hanging out with Haruo. But to Bebe, her protests sounded feeble and forced. There was that glint in River’s eyes every time she talked about him.
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Bebe smirked at her friend, “Well...if you don’t ask, you won’t know, will you?”
River winced as she said, “But...Bebe...it’s not like that...”
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“Oh...sure it isn’t.” Bebe laughed. “You were talking all about him having taken Jared down and the fact that his fists were like steel hammers. I mean, nobody but your boyfriend takes down an adult, right? At least he’s tough enough to do so and nobody waxes eloquent on someone like that if they aren’t the slightest bit interested in them, right?” she shot River a knowing glance.
“But he’s not my boyfriend...” River rolled her eyes, “I mean...”
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“Not yet, anyway...” Bebe smirked again.
River sounded frustrated, “Will you stop...Bebe, He hasn’t said anything at all...about liking me...”
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“Other than spending every chance he gets with you...” Bebe interjected. “River, honey, you won’t know if you don’t ask...so...ask...him.” she shot River another knowing older more experienced in the world grin. “Besides, he’s a hunk, like his cousin...”
“Yeah, what about you and Torao...” River turned the tables on her friend. “So...what are you doing about your interest in Torao.”
“Well...he did mention that he was interested in me...and...well...” She raised an eyebrow hinting.
River shot her a look, “Oh...really?”
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“Uh...huh...” Bebe nodded then wound up and tossed the million-dollar curveball at River, “So...tell me something...do you love...Haruo...” River’s silence was answer enough for Bebe. “Girl, you need to ask him...”
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Listening to this, unnoticed by the stairs, Fiona reminisced back to when River was a small child playing with her best friend in the whole wide world and recalled just how innocent their play-times were together, playing with blocks or as they aged; playing with a soccer ball or tossing the old pig-skin around.
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Deep down she knew that River was going to eventually develop emotional ties with someone and who better than someone that she’d known for practically all of her life. Fiona took a deep breath...exhaling, silently lifting up a prayer that River, when she fell in love, wouldn’t be hurt emotionally. Despite his deep-seated pain and anger from the abuse delivered by his mother, Fiona knew how protective Haruo was of his best friend. The only times he’d ever lifted a hand in anger was against those who would try to hurt his best friend or his family. Please, let this be a one and done relationship when she falls in love...and let them be together for life, unlike Caeden and me. She’d never truly recovered from the emotional pain that Caeden up and leaving had marked on her soul and she hoped that River would never truly know that kind of pain.
(end Chapter Three)
