#rao faction

Chapter 2

~The Next Day~

The sound of flesh hitting could be heard throughout the garage before Kansuke could be seen falling on top of the pile of tires that had been laying around, passed out.

Above him, Magoroku popped his gum before whistling “Damn, Phoenix, thought he was going to get you with that left, but you faked him out with that right.”

He laughs before pointing to Binzo “ You owe me a 1000 Yen.”

Binzo flips the other male off before shoving his hand into his pocket and pulling out 1000 Yen. He walks over to Magoroku, who had his hand out, and slams the money into his hand. He walks back to his normal area mumbling about weak sophomores.

Magoroku smiles as he pops his gum and counts the money.

Rao was sitting in his normal spot which was an old reclining chair near next to his make shift gym in the corner of the garage closest to the entrance. His Faction was in their hangout place which was the schools old garage. The doors of the garage no longer worked leaving the entrance of the school the only way in or out.

Rao, Phoenix and Mercy had found it when they first started at Suzuran years ago and it slowly turned into the hangout spot of the Roah faction once they joined them. Though they all liked to roam and stay in other parts of the school, the place gave them a place to go back to.

Rao looked to his left side towards the floor where Phoenix now laid after the fight, bruised and breathing hard behind the bandana she wore. “Had fun?” He asked her, which she responded with a laugh.

She wore the school uniform (now disheveled and ripped)with a bandana around her face and her hair pulled back in a tight ponytail that had came loose during the fight. Her gender not not noticeable behind the male clothing.

Mercy couldn’t help, but shake his head, smiling, his cigarette hanging between his fingers “You know, he’s going to want a rematch. I don’t think he knew you could fight better than him. Plus, you’re a boxer and he’s a boxer, he’s never going to leave you alone.”

Phoenix looked up at Mercy, her smile obvious in her eyes “Most don’t. Why do you think I’m always the one everyone goes after first.” She laughs “Maybe it’s because I’m short.”

Even though he knew he shouldn’t Rao laughed at this comment while shaking his head. “Alright, that’s enough. Let’s talk about the situation with Oya as we wait for Kansuke to wake up again.” Mercy nod, putting his cigarette out in its bowel as Phoenix sat up. Binzo, Ito, and Magoroku left their position of poking Kansuke to pay attention to what’s going on.

“Ito, tell me what you and Kansuke saw.” The attention was now on Ito.

“Kansuke had to pick up some medicine for his younger sister and asked me to accompany him. The only store that sold it was in Oya district. As we were traveling to the store we passed, what we assumed were multiple factions. All of them had left the school. They were visibly upset and talking about a new student of the name of Fujio Hanaoka. We also passed by a few students doing a type of an exchange further from the school.”

“Redrum.” Mercy states out of nowhere forcing everyone’s attention onto him.

“Isn’t that the drug that S.W.O.R.D got rid of when Kuryu Group fell for a short while?” Magoroku asks, remembering the rumors and whispers from a few years before.

Mercy scoffed, pulling out a cigarette “ They may have thought they got rid of it but it showed back up only months after. It may not be in S.W.O.R.D until now, but it’s definitely in the districts beyond there.”

Binzo added “Kuryu has been trying to get it under control though.” He laughs “ I swear some of them plus one of those guys from that music group grabbed these guys that were on that stuff and causing trouble down the road from my building.”

“Which is weird since it seems like they were once the main contributor of Redrum.” Mercy added, placing the cigarette he had been holding between his lips and lighting it. He inhales some of the smoke before blowing it out. “I suggest for Ito to keep watch on the power shift between the full and part time students. Also, keep on any word of Redrum coming into the school or more into our district.”

Rao nod, taking all the information in. He had to admit this was a cause for concern since he or Phoenix hasn’t seen anyone on anything besides the normal things which they kept away from the kids. The new student didn’t really concern him though besides the possibility of them trying to target them and the possible power shift. After a few minutes of silence, Rao makes his decision.

“This may be a concern. I agree, but we need to take any possible consequences into account as well. For now, Ito just find out any information on that new student. Just who he is, any factions he is connected to, and what seems to be his goal. Phoenix will look into Redrum since most won’t notice her looking around. The rest of you I want you to keep an eye if that comes into the school. Even though the other factions can handle themselves we all know there’s a few dumbasses that would still try.”

The others nod as they heard a groan. They all turned where they left Kansuke and saw he was waking up. They could see him slowly moving where he had been before he got up and made his way to where they were, groaning as he went.

“Hey dumbass!! How was your nap?” Magoroku shouted causing the male to flip him off as he slowly stood, groaning as he went. He slowly made his way to the group, Binzo and Magoroku laughing at him as he came.

Once he made it to them he sat down between Ito and Magoroku, glaring at Phoenix, who only waved at him, smirking under her mask.

“I want a rematch.” Kansuke tells the other, his eyes focused on Phoenix. Phoenix signed to him “Anytime time.”

Rao couldn’t help, but shake his head while smiling “Another time. “ Suddenly older males voice turns serious “But for now let’s get down to business.” His eyes focus on the male.

Kansuke, suddenly aware of everyone’s eyes on him sits up straighter and focuses on hopefully his new leader.

“You are now apart of the faction. That means you are loyal to not just myself, but everyone of us. We are a family.” He looks at everyone before his eyes land on Phoenix, who stood up. “There’s something else you should know.”

Kansuke watched as Phoenix slowly took off their uniform jacket and shirts, revealing she was wearing multiple, his eyes slowly growing bigger as the others tried not to laugh. Finally, she got to her tank top that showed off her more feminine form before she took off her bandana. She smiled at him before waving at him. “It’s nice to finally meet you.”

“W-what?” Kansuke shuttered out causing the others to laugh.

“This is Phoenix, known as my other second along side Mercy to many. Also, known as Suzuran rising Phoenix and our factions Brutal Beast to the rest of the school.” Rao introduces officially, before finally adding “She’s also my little sister.”

“How is she even able to go here?” Kansuke asks finally, not knowing what else to say.

Rao and Phoenix look at each other before shrugging “There’s certain things that allows me to go to this school. It helps that no one ever can tell what I look like so it doesn’t really matter in the end.” Phoenix says, giving a brief explanation, showing she doesn’t want to explain more.

“It’s always a bitch finding out, but nothing is different than before except Phoenix will go between speaking and doing sign language at times.” Magoroku adds in, popping his gum as the others agree.

Kansuke only nods, still trying to process everything going on. Binzo jumps on him, wrapping his arm around the younger male “Plus, she’s always down to fight. Everyone else is so boring when we fight each other.” Binzo adds his own piece, causing the other to shout in disagreement and Phoenix to laugh.