She gasped. Her eyes glowed crimson in the dark as she wiped her forehead. What happened? I was in the forest with big brother and I blacked out. She looked around. She was latched on to someone. Kai? I'm in his room? But how? Damn these blackouts. He was sleeping on his back with his arms crossed. He looks okay, I guess nothing serious happened. Even if anything did, he'd never remember. She stood in her pajamas. It stuck to her skin as she fanned herself. She stared at him. Why do I always find myself beside you after my black outs? His hair soft against her fingers and his skin warm. He flinched when her cold lips touched his cheek.
She left to her room beside his. Inside was disorganized and her things could be found all over the room. She stripped her pajamas and took out some clothes from a briefcase. As she dressed her muscles tensed. She wore a vest over her sports bra, tights, arm and leg attachments, shoes and headgear. She stepped. The floor boards creek. She leaped from her window and landed like a frog in a crater. Dust blew. She stood unharmed.
How could a human survive landing from that height without any injuries and with hefty clothes. Surely no man could survive such a fall let alone your run of the mill teenage girl like Nagisa Yamaguchi. But she wasn't. She and her family, the Yamaguchi Clan, couldn't even be considered humans nor did they consider themselves as such because of their curse.
A curse that makes all Yamaguchi women, by blood or by marriage, into superhuman warriors, granting them special abilities and boundless beauty that's only countered by their ferocity. The men are the opposite, only being blessed with beauty but cursed to be feeble pacifists and die young.
With this curse, the Yamaguchi Clan has established themselves throughout the underworld of human society. They control all of Japan's major criminal activities. From drug manufacturing to trafficking, and distribution, organ harvesting and trafficking, human trafficking, assassination, murder, fraud, money laundering, counterfit money, terrorism funding, terrorist activities, etc. They've done it all and within four generations, have gone on to attain influence on the international stage.
They are one of the four points of the compass that guides humanities underbelly, the Yakuza of the East, the Yamaguchi Clan.
The door slid open behind her. A girl with neck length midnight black hair going crimson at the ends stepped out. She wore glasses and the same clothes as Nagisa, with less attachments. "How much are you wearing Nagisa?"
"Just two tonnes." She moved to the center of the courtyard.
"That's over four thousand pounds. I don't know why you don't leave them downstairs like the rest of us." Said another girl. She sported a black hairband in her curly hair that reached her back. It was the same colours as the others.
"It's weight displacement. Using aura and precise moves, she can make herself lighter." Said the girl in glasses. They stared.
"That's Future Lieutenant for you. Always ten steps ahead." Said the woman from last night. "She's already surpassed me again."
Aunt Kiko has already recovered from her depression last night. Thought Nagisa.
The curly haired girl rests her head in her palm. "Well of course she has, aunt Kiko. You're a Yamaguchi by marriage, she's by blood."
"Maria, you're forgetting that in-laws reach standard warrior strength faster than born clan members. Five years to be exact. While we reach standard strength at age twenty." Said the girl in glasses.
"If that's the case then she's already surpassed the Yamaguchi standard warrior strength before sixteen. That's what you're saying right Akane-chan?" Yawned another girl. Her hair was the same colour as the other girls and curled towards her face. She wore the same clothes as the other girls on her petite body.
The girl in glasses nods. "Yes Kawa."
"Are you guys going to join me, or are you going to stand there gawking?" Nagisa starts doing basic exercises. Her hair and eyes go crimson. Aura burst forth. They followed her lead. The aura shrouded them. They punched and kicked. Each transition stirred the leaves. The aura moved to their legs. They leaped and were above the house. Aura around their fist, they punched. They crashed into the ground. Their bodies shrouded in aura. They gasped. Some hunched over. Others collapsed.
She sighed. None of them are on my level. None could jump as high, punch as hard or control their aura as good as me. Only Aunt Kiko came close but this is the best she can do. Akane-chan is the one with most potential. She's never been able to do a full transformation like the rest of us because she hasn't evolved yet, but she manages to barely keep with everyone.
We Yamaguchi's might look human but we aren't, or it's more accurate to say we're Humans but everyone else isn't. We are the evolved form of humanity. Everyone's heard how the previous humans, the Neanderthals, were wiped out by their evolved form. Those were the Homosapiens that populate the world today. After them there's us.
The Neanderthals -> The Homosapiens -> Lesser Humans -> Mid Humans -> ???
We are the next step in human evolution. The Lesser Humans.
Akane is still a Homosapien and often gets depressed about it, but with a handicap like that, when she finally does evolve, she'll be stronger than the others. "Aunt Kiko, Akane, Maria and Kawa. Next technique. Be ready." Her hands lined with aura. Her hands close, a ball formed the size of a marble. Everyone gasped.
"Wait, Nagisa, that's not the next technique!" Said Kiko.
"That's Phase two Aura Manipulation: Emissions." Said Akane. "We've only started learning Phase one Aura Manipulation: Concentration."
"There's no way we can do that!" Said Maria.
Inside the house, Nagisa's mother rubbed her eyes. "What's going on Sayuri? Who's concentrating that much aura? Is it the turd?!" She rushed to the window.
The woman at the window glared. "You fucking with me aren't you? You already know it's Nagisa! Talking shit, like Kai can even feel aura like everyone else."
She looked at Nagisa. "Tch, got my hopes up for the turd again. Speaking of, he better have breakfast ready." She walked away.
"Aren't you going to watch Nagisa? She might get hurt pulling this stunt." Said Sayuri.
"Oh her? She'll be fine."
Outside, aura flowed through Nagisa's hand into the ball. "Enhance!" It was the size of a gulf ball. Everyone stared.
"Holy shit! She's actually doing it!" Said Kawa.
Kiko stared in dismay. "I'll never get used to how much your personality contradicts your cute looks."
"This isn't fair." Maria pouted her cheeks.
"Yeah it's not..." Akane stared. She grit her teeth. "Tch. Fuck it!" Her aura flowed to her fingers. A spot formed between them. "If Future Lieutenant Nagisa can, so should I! Grrrr!"
Maria followed. "There's no way I'm letting you out do me again Akane!"
"Things are starting to get interesting." Kawa cracked her knuckles. "Last bitch standing washes the first to drop out dirty draws."
"Shouldn't it be the other way around?"
"Does any clan member here knows how to do house hold chores other than Future Clan Leader Kai?" Kawa glared up at her. All three looked at each other. Terrified by the potential of having their favourite underwear ruined by unskilled hands, yet they grinned.
Kiko chuckled. "You kids sure are lively. Makes a girl like myself want to join you." She matched their stance, channeling aura from her hand to form a speck.
Nagisa grinned. Her aura increased. Their doing it? Their actually doing it?! The only way this is possible is with the Clan Leader's ability to increase the combat capabilities of our clan members. But...does that mean it's not my brother, and that it's me-
"Nagisa! What do you think you're doing?! It doesn't suit you at all!"
"M-Mom?" She turned as did everyone. All shocked. Mom?! She actually watched me? S-she actually cared?!
"D-did I interrupt?" Her brother chuckled nervously from a window on the first floor.
"Damn. Kai-chan's imitations are really getting good." Said Sayuri. Everyone stared at him.
"I-I should go..." He closed the windows.
The ball of aura stirred violently in Nagisa's hand. So did the others. Why is it so hard to control all of a sudden?! Is it because big brother left?...then he really is.... The four girls struggle to control their aura. Their hands shaking. "Tch. No time to sulk. Akane, Kiko, Kawa and Maria! Do as I say. Thrust your aura at me." They thrust their arms. The excess aura is released. Nagisa's aura ball becomes a liquid wave. It engulfed their released aura and became a larger ball. It was the size of a football. She sighed. What was I thinking? Big brother is destined to be the Future Clan Leader with the support of Mom and everyone else, and I his Lieutenant, forever in his shadow...the shadow of a weakling...
The ball of aura exploded. "Nagisa! Snap out of it!" Akane knocked her over.
Warm liquid ran down her arm. Her hand ached and stung. She stood. "Thanks Akane." She offered her a hand. "That's it for today." She walked inside. In the bathroom she ran her hand under the faucet. The cool water calmed her burning skin. Third degree burns huh? It'll heal up in a day. She wrapped it in cloth. I should just accept my fate.
As she entered the kitchen, everyone was already seated. He made and delivered breakfast to the other clan members already? That's pretty impressive-
"Heh sorry..." Her brother laughed as he scrached his head.
Oh my god! What the hell is he apologizing for now?! She rolled her eyes.
"Kai's useless, Kai's useless. Useless, he's useless. Kai's useless." Sang twin girls who sat next to Sayuri and Akane.
"If I were you, I'd stop ganging up on my dear grandson." Their Grandmother entered the kitchen. She wore her white robe.
Typical grandma. Always protecting him like he's some sick puppy. And he's going to lead and protect our clan? "Tch. Future Clan Leader my ass. That spineless brother of mine can't even stand up for himself." She muttered and took a seat.
A fork was stabbed into the wooden table. Everyone went silent. "Whether you like it or not Nagisa, your brother will be the one to lead our clan, it's his birth right. As I was warning you all before it would be best to stop bad mouthing him. Especially while my daughter is here." Nagisa's mother removed her fork. Her eyes glowed crimson as she exhaled. Smoke came from her mouth. "She might treat Kai horribly but that's just to toughen him up for the long road ahead. That doesn't mean she'll allow anyone else to bully him. She's a doting mother that way."
"Shut up Mom. You're being a nuisance." She glares at her. "Tch. Like I'd care about what happens to that useless cowardly son of mine. Wished he'd hurry up and knock some girl up then die in five years." She looked away.
Nagisa stared. Could you be anymore obvious?!
"Oh Ren, it's really quite amusing how you're such a Tsundere Mom." She laughs. Everyone stops.
"Mother? Where did you learn that from?"
"From my dear grandson of course. He teaches me all the snazzy new stuff the kids are into these days. Like the latest cartoons or as its called anime now."
"So, tell me Turd, what does Tsundere Mom mean?" She glared.
"A-ah it's nothing really. I-I-it means that you're really strong mom." He gulped.
"You're not lying to me are you Turd?"
He nods. "Ugh! there he goes lying because he's a coward, tsundere actually means someone who behaves violently as means of showing affection because they're too much of a dumbass to express it like a normal person." And to much of a son-con to notice me! Everyone paused. She looked around. Shit, said some of that out loud again didn't I. Whatever, he can take it...His body did reach its limits yesterday though...
"You lied to me. You know better than to lie to me Turd. If there's one thing I can't stand in this world is a liar." She grabbed her bat.
Ah. That's kinda hypocritical since we're literally the criminals.
She stalks towards him. Her bat dragged across the floor. He crossed his arms. She swung. His eyes shut. A metallic ring echoed. He peeked. His Grandmother's cane blocked Ren's strike.
Nagisa rolled her eyes sighing. Expected.
Ren grites her teeth. "Mother, why are you interfering?"
"Kai, leave for school now, else you'll miss the bus." She smiled
"Yes Grandma." He glanced at his Mother and gulped. "I'm sorry if it seemed like I lied to you, I should have explained properly. I love you mom! Have a nice day!" He bowed then dashed.
"Tch. What an idiot." Says Nagisa.
"Everyone. You've long finished your meal. Leave. That includes you Nagisa. The past and present Clan Leaders need to have a talk." Everyone was through the door. Both women had weapons in hand glaring at each other.
_Chapter End_