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A Risky Handicap [Completed]
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Post by Yuko Himura on Aug 21, 2019 21:11:27 GMT
It was a quiet, uneventful day at school… or it would have been, but life seemingly never gave Yuko Himura a break. Granted, she was the one causing trouble more often than not, but sometimes trouble found her instead. Case in point, Yuko had been sitting in the schoolyard, listening to her favorite music on her phone, minding her own business, when the sweet sound of indie death metal was disturbed by quite the ruckus going on nearby.
“Where’s my money, nerd?!” Demanded in a nasal voice a jock who clearly had eaten one too many vitamins judging by his size. He and his pose of three other guys were harassing a much scrawnier student.
“W-w-what money? I don’t know what you’re talking about…” The victim of said harassment said, cowering before them.
“Don’t play dumb with me! You’d better pay up!” The jock insisted.
Yuko sighed in exasperation. You’d really think that the faculty would do something about this bullying epidemic, but no, they were apparently too busy loading up children with tons of homework. Putting away her phone and earbuds, she got up and walked up to them. “Oi! What’s your problem?” She called out to the bullies in a rough, unladylike voice.
Turning to the newcomer, the leader of the bullies frowned. “This kid borrowed money from me and hasn’t returned it yet.”
“I’m inclined to believe that you’re talking out of your ass.” Yuko snarked, before popping her bubble gum.
“You’re inclined? Inclined?! Who talks like that?!” The jock spat back.
“I talks like that! I happened to get something called an e-d-u-c-a-t-i-o-n.” Yuko replied, keeping up her snarking streak.
“Education?! Heh, yeah right! Everyone knows you. You’re Kimura Yuko, one of the lousiest students in the 2nd grade!” The jock laughed, and his crownies laughed with him.
The multicolor-haired girl clicked her tongue. “Tch… Whatever! Are we gonna talk, or are we gonna throwdown?” She retorted, spitting out her gum and sticking it behind her ear for safekeeping.
“Throwdown?! You must really like pain! There’s four of us and only one of you.” The jock said, as he and the rest of the guys slowly marched towards her.
“Y-yeah, well… you know…” Yuko stuttered. She felt some cold sweat on her forehead, but she cracked her knuckles regardless and prepared for a fight. As much as it pained her to admit, Mr. Musclehead was right. Why did she keep biting off more than she could chew…?
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Toriya Naoko
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I'm not paid enough to give a damn.
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OOC Name: You know who I am.
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Post by Toriya Naoko on Aug 22, 2019 8:55:17 GMT
If there had been anything Naoko learned over the past year, it's that barring very specific circumstances, school was often the last place anything odd would ever have the chance of happening. It was quiet nowadays, even with the looming threat of outside issues that shall not be mentioned for the moment.
Instead, her focus was within the schoolyard. Naoko had been minding her own business and generally doing her best to stay out of the way of the other students until her next class. At least until a ruckus began to pick up near where she was. Voices both nasally, and unladylike rang out. Seriously, what was the faculty doing? Obviously not enough.
The girl made her way over to the site of this ruckus, and took note of the people present within this altercation. A girl with a -lot- of hair dye on her hands and a fondness for bright pink. A scrawny fellow and three other overbearing jackasses with nothing better to do. And herself, a 180ish centimeter/5'11, blue hair shmuck in a school uniform. What exactly could Naoko bring to this?
"Good grief, ganging up on a girl -and- a guy who're both smaller?" She began, faking a yawn. "You fellas compensating for something?" Proverbial shots to fire, evidently. And in order to really, REALLY seem intimidating, Naoko made sure to stand at her full height.
Granted, she was pretty sure this wasn't gonna end well for anyone involved.
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Post by Yuko Himura on Aug 22, 2019 9:32:17 GMT
Talk about perfect time and leveling the playing field. Another female student had joined the scene, standing up for the bullying victim and the girl that was seconds away from getting her ass kicked. A young woman who thankfully looked taller than Yuko, but not nearly brawny enough to scare the local jocks off, sadly.
“The hell does ‘compensate’ mean?!” The head bully muttered in momentary confusion.
“It means that your brain’s as small as your other body parts!” Yuko yelled back at him.
“Speak for yourself, pipsqueak, I’m huge!” The admittedly oversized teenager said, flexing his arm muscles with manly pride. Basically, the compensation joke had flown right over his thick head.
Yuko groaned at this dude’s consistent idiocy, before turning to the taller girl with a look of genuine gratitude written on her face. “Let’s focus on beating up this guy. We might have a chance if we attack him together. He’s the boss, so if he falls down, his ass-kissers will probably fall with him like the droids at the end of the Phantom Menace.” She whispered to her in strict confidence.
“What the hell are you two whispering about?!” The leader of the bullies yelled at them.
“None of your business!” The multicolor-haired girl yelled back, hunching her shoulders and putting up her fists.
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Toriya Naoko
In-Training
I'm not paid enough to give a damn.
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OOC Name: You know who I am.
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Post by Toriya Naoko on Aug 22, 2019 18:37:30 GMT
"Yeah, you're huge alright." Naoko had the PERFECT retort for this. "A huge dumbass!" It was obvious that for what the student had lacked in evident brawn, she made up for with some scathing remarks. Remarks that were definitely going to fly over heads, but remarks nonetheless. She hadn't been expecting Yuko to turn towards her and present a strategy that one could consider pretty viable for a situation like this.
Cut off the head of the proverbial snake (that being the vitamin-infused moron) and the body (the posse of other idiots) stops working. "Honestly? Worth a shot. It's still four on two, though..." That had been the one bit of reservation that Naoko had about slugging the guy.
Speaking of, the element of surprise would likely aid them in this endeavor. What was the business of these jocks, however, was Naoko suddenly lunging for the leader to throw a punch right at the guy's jaw. If that lands, then boy oh boy, is that going to hurt.
What would Yuko do? And furthermore, what would these Pillar Men-looking dumbasses do next?
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Post by Yuko Himura on Aug 22, 2019 19:50:25 GMT
That last insult definitely did not fly over the roided up jock’s head, who frowned furiously in response, while a bulging vein appeared on his forehead. “Okay, that does it! First you mess with us for no reason, and now you insult us for no reason!”
“Let the kid go!” Yuko demanded, not willing to flinch.
“Not until he gives me my money back!” The head bully said, cracking his own knuckles with a resounding crunching sound.
“Well, there goes my attempt at negotiating. No-one can say I didn’t try.” The punk girl sighed.
Indeed, the time for talking was over, and it was now time for action. The blue-haired girl moved first, lunging straight at the big bad boss for a surprise attack. While her punch landed, it didn’t necessarily have as much of an impact as she would have liked on this ogre of a man. “Gah! You call that a punch?! THIS is a punch!” The guy spit some blood from his injured mouth, before swinging his gorilla-sized arm back at her.
Yuko, in the meantime, also rushed towards Mr. Musclehead, but was stopped by one of his crownies lunging at her, whom she promptly kicked right in the groin. As one would expect, he keeled over in great pain. These guys clearly didn’t fight fair and square, so why should she?
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Toriya Naoko
In-Training
I'm not paid enough to give a damn.
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OOC Name: You know who I am.
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Post by Toriya Naoko on Aug 23, 2019 17:16:41 GMT
"No reason? You're the ones acting like a bunch of jackasses to some kid!" Naoko snapped right back. Was she vexing the guy enough to make him use his singular brain cell or something? Never mind that, the girl's punch didn't seem to do a lot/as much as she was hoping.
Yeah, of course she called that a punch. Unfortunately it was met by a swing of the arm, one that Naoko couldn't quite move out of the way of. She managed to cushion the blow (which, mind you, still hurt like hell), suffering a pretty gnarly bruise under her uniform before she went to throw a kick of her own aimed at Head Gorilla's groin. This was probably bound to be a little more effective than a punch to the face for a number of reasons.
This of course wasn't accounting for the remaining mooks, the hell were they doing in all of this?
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Post by Yuko Himura on Aug 23, 2019 19:21:00 GMT
What the hell were the rest of the mooks doing indeed. A rather valid question. Aside from the one that was now kneeling on the ground, clutching his own crotch with a pained expression, the two remaining mooks concentrated their efforts on Yuko, wanting nothing more than to avenger their ‘fallen’ comrade. Luckily, the girl was no stranger to fist fights, scoring a few decent hits on them. However, the boys still had the numbers advantage in the end, so Yuko got pretty banged up in the process, even though she was technically gaining ground on them. “Ugh! Get out of my way!” She groaned, as she continued to throw punches left and right.
Unluckily, this meant that Yuko’s hands were tied and she couldn’t assist Naoko against the head bully, which was their original plan. The oversized teen smirked wickedly as his punch landed, showing his missing tooth. His happiness was short-lived, since the blue-nette mimicked Yuko’s signature move, kicking him in the groin. “Oumph!” Unlike the prior punch, this did make the jock flinch, slowing him down, but not even that was enough to keep him down for good.
“YOU BITCH, I’LL KILL YOU!!!!” The gorilla-man screamed in a shrill, raspy voice, flailing his simian arms around. With adrenaline fueling him, he ignored the throbbing pain in his lower body. He was like a freight train, and Naoko had just made him angry enough to reach that rampaging state.
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Toriya Naoko
In-Training
I'm not paid enough to give a damn.
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OOC Name: You know who I am.
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Post by Toriya Naoko on Aug 25, 2019 0:20:14 GMT
It was a genuinely good thing that Naoko's one ally in this altercation seemed to know her way around a fistfight a bit more than she did, because Naoko was under the impression that she (as in Naoko herself) was bumbling around like an idiot. Even worse, she was essentially fighting alone against Head Gorilla.
To make matters even worse for Naoko, she had also triggered the proverbial berserk button with that stunt she just pulled, and as she went to follow that up, she got confronted with the senseless flailing of tree trunk arms. So, she had to back away and keep away from that. No, really, as much as she wanted to try finding an opening to clobber that guy with, Naoko just couldn't. She was only human, after all.
And the distinctly inhuman thing she had was certainly not here, either.
"Go ahead and try, clown!" Naoko taunted! She wasn't in any position to retaliate but she was on her toes alright. But, the gorilla had to actually tire out, didn't he?
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Post by Yuko Himura on Aug 25, 2019 10:35:57 GMT
The leader of the school bullies had turned into a full-blown berserker, and that was a sentence that was not said often enough. Wearing a school uniform instead of a magical bear coat enchanted by druids, he charged into battle screaming and roaring. At least, that’s how dramatic it would look to Naoko, who was directly facing him. To the crowds of other students likely observing the battle take place, it would look more like a frothing, huge teenager was throwing the biggest tantrum of his life.
At the same time, Yuko had managed to kick another of the lesser mooks in his weak point for massive damage. It was a tactic that worked and she was sticking with it. That left only one guy for her to deal with, and he was accidentally clobbered on the back of the head by one of the berserk bully’s flailing arms. Part of said arm also brushed against Yuko’s face, knocking her down on her fanny with its sheer brutality.
“Aww, fuc-!” The punk girl grunted in pain, clutching the side of her face that had been hit, while bleeding from a cut somewhere on her head. She really was lucky, since the damage could have been much worse had she received the full brunt of that attack. Yuko struggled to get back on her feet, while the rampaging beast showed no signs of tiring out. At least not quite yet.
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Toriya Naoko
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I'm not paid enough to give a damn.
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OOC Name: You know who I am.
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Post by Toriya Naoko on Aug 27, 2019 3:27:29 GMT
The only times Naoko would truly apply that sentence to anything was certainly not within a schoolyard, that much was for certain. In truth? Yeah. It really was just someone throwing the hugest tantrum ever witnessed, and it was not fortunate for Naoko to be in his path in the slightest.
She couldn't pay too much heed to how Yuko was faring, either, but the noise coming from her end? Also no good. This was a lot of no goods, really. But, Naoko was not one to give up in the face of danger, or the face of death by gorilla arms. Naoko made an effort to avoid the gorilla even further, specifically waiting for him to overextend on a swing of his arms. If, and when he did that (if at all,) she'd lunge in to throw a series of jabs at his abdomen.
This was totally how you do a fistfight, right? It probably wasn't. Plus, she really had to keep the ape away from her downed pal in this confrontation!
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Post by Yuko Himura on Aug 27, 2019 18:15:51 GMT
Naoko wished to get these gorilla hands, and her foolish wish was granted, for the rampaging, steroid-abusing teen soon swung at her with what would have been a devastating clothesline had it actually connected. Instead, the blue-haired student closed the distance between them, surprising the head jock with a series of successive, point-blank punches to this gut. The big bad school bully grunted in pain. He didn’t take these punches quite like a champ, their sheer tenacity managing to shake even his massive frame.
Unfortunately, the blue-nette might have seen a few too many action anime, since she had underestimated the delay between each of her punches, allowing for for the jock to catch up with her in real time and shove her off. He followed up by bringing both his fists together into a brutal axe-handle that could potentially cause some serious head trauma.
“Duck!” Yuko exclaimed, running up to Naoko with the swiftness of a gazelle and tackling her to the ground. Should the latter allow gravity to take control of the situation, they would both topple down and roll on the ground, narrowly avoiding the gorilla boy’s fists. Would they end up awkwardly landing on top of one another in kind of a precarious position? Most likely, yes.
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Toriya Naoko
In-Training
I'm not paid enough to give a damn.
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OOC Name: You know who I am.
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Post by Toriya Naoko on Aug 31, 2019 22:26:55 GMT
There was something quite tragic in Naoko's quickly thought out and honestly way too risk plan. Much of it was derived off of something she had seen in anime or other media before. Real life, unfortunately, was nothing like anime. Her strikes had a delay that she didn't take into account, and that gave the gorilla time to put his hands together to bring them down for what could've done her in if Yuko didn't intervene in time.
The surprise Naoko underwent meant that gravity took the reins here, which left both girls in a precarious position indeed. "...Get off, quick, he's still going!" Naoko uttered, attempting to roll Yuko off of her so she could get up. "S-Shit, we need another damn plan..." There were two of them now and one of him, so what could they do here?
...Naoko was at a loss, sadly. What was attempted earlier didn't seem to work all that well...
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Post by Yuko Himura on Aug 31, 2019 22:59:04 GMT
Yuko’s cheeks flushed a very faint shade of pink when she and Naoko found themselves lying on top of one another. This was definitely not the kind of position she had imagined herself being in when she woke up that morning, let alone being in said position with another girl. However, her moment of embarrassment was very, very brief, due to there being the much more pressing issue of a huge teenager literally trying to kill them.
The time to recover and formulate a new plan would also be naught, since the oversized jock soon caught up to them and raised his massive fists in the air, preparing to deal what would be the finishing blow to both of them.
*Bonk*
Yet, it was him who fell in the end, but not from anything the two girls had managed to throw at him. When his massive body dropped to the ground with a loud thud, it would reveal the nerd he and his pose were harassing earlier having hit him on the back of the head with his schoolbag. Said bag spilled open. Algebra II, Physics II, Geography, Japanese History and a bunch of other textbooks dropped in a pile. A nerd’s schoolbag was clearly a force to be reckoned with. His weaponized workload was heavy enough to knock him out cold!
“I… I… I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to hurt him that bad!” The nerdy youth apologized profusely. He picked up his dropped textbooks in a hurry and promptly scurried off, no doubt fearing the bully’s wrath should he wake up.
Yuko groggily got up and dusted her sailor fuku uniform off. “So… that happened.”
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Toriya Naoko
In-Training
I'm not paid enough to give a damn.
Posts: 0
OOC Name: You know who I am.
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Post by Toriya Naoko on Sept 4, 2019 5:48:16 GMT
So much could change in the span of a moment. At one point there was an angry gorilla of a jock bearing down on Naoko and Yuko and another, this unintentional retelling of David and Goliath had found it's version of the former, with the nerd they were aiming to defend suddenly developing guts and CLOCKING THE GUY WITH HIS SCHOOLBAG FULL OF TEXTBOOKS.
"...Don't be." Naoko told the youth as he picked his stuff up and ran off, before she turned her attention to Yuko. "It did. Admirable as that was...That miiight...uh...not have been the smartest thing to do? Either way, you didn't get hurt too bad, did you? Might need to take a trip to the nurse after all of that."
Adrenaline had been wearing off. Naoko felt like she just ran a marathon! Plus the pain of the blow she suffered earlier.
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Post by Yuko Himura on Sept 4, 2019 8:47:10 GMT
Adrenaline sure was one hell of a drug, and now that its effects were wearing off, Yuko felt a throbbing pain on her… everything. That trail of dried blood on her face from the cut she’d gotten earlier was not a flattering look. Checking herself, she realized that she was also bleeding from her nose after one of the guys’ punches had knocked off her nose ring. “Damn, that stings… Yeah, a trip to the nurse sounds like a good idea right about now.” The delinquent girl said, while wincing in slight pain.
They would have to worry about that later, since the head jock’s huge carcass started to shake, and he groaned lightly while slowly regaining his senses. “Shit, he’s gonna wake up! We’ve gotta bail!” Wasting no time, Yuko grabbed the other girl by the hand and ran off as fast as she could, what with her entire body being in pain. Where was she running off to exactly? Any place far away from that ogre would do.
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