Dankai and Ippo arrived back home. Bruises on their body and face. They enter their home with satisfied faces. Ippo had gotten accepted and Dankai had met the Kamogawa gym members.
They arrived at the front door, taking off their shoes and they walked towards the dining table. On the small table was a neatly prepared dinner for them.
They walked towards the letter on the table and it read a message from their mom. She talked about how to continue doing what teenagers do and hang out. She had cooked dinner and all she asked was to take the containers from the boat back to the garage and load them back up.
They dressed up and washed their hands. Saying a small prayer before eating their dinner, they talked about their respective fights and how they felt during certain moments.
Ippo had stars in his eyes as he heard Dankai's fight, he couldn't believe his brother managed to somewhat fight against a professional.
Dankai let out a small chuckle as he told his brother to continue eating. They finished their food and began to run towards the dock where they found the containers. They each took 6 containers, well 4 for Dankai.
After a while they had all the containers loaded up ready for tomorrow. They washed their body before putting on sleep wear.
"Goodnight, Dankai" Ippo slept as he began to snore. Dankai slowly drifted to sleep as well as he thought about what happened today.
'I managed to get accepted into the kamogawa gym huh... But...' something bothered him. It was a fight he knew he couldn't win against someone like Kimura but... There was a burning feeling in his heart.
He slowly drifted to sleep, his body tired and getting ready for the next day.
**[Sleep]**
Around 4 Am, Dankai woke up. A wonderful tuesday morning. His body felt alive and well. He lifted his body off his futon and went to the garage. He opened the garage door before loading around 6 coolers. As usual he took 2 coolers each run before loading them into the boat.
He left around 12 coolers for Ippo to load. He couldn't let his brother be out of shape after all. He immediately went to the side of their house where his equipment was laid out. There was a home made gym right outside their house now.
Dumbbells ranging from 2kg to 15kg, a run down Hex bar, some truck tires he managed to salvage, a pull up bar and his home made punching bag. It wasn't a full fledged gym but it was good enough for some home workouts.
First and foremost he began his workout with stretches, he made sure to target all his muscles and tendons in order to keep safe. Right after that he did 50 push ups, 70 sit ups and 100 squats. He felt his muscles begin to feel lighter with each exercise he did.
He made sure to help his body by using his breathing technique to recover his stamina. Speeding up his blood slightly gave an increase in his natural healing although it caused his metabolism to eat up his fats like crazy.
After all that he proceeded to his dumbels grabbing 10 kg weights. He did around 30 reps of dumbbell curls. He took a 3 minute break before grabbing 8 kg dumbels and doing 20 reps of lateral raises.
He took another 3 minute rest before going up to the pull up bar and doing 15 slow, full range pull ups. He then took on around 70kg of weight and did 5 full range deadlifts.
He was beginning to get drenched in sweat as he took another break. He was thanking his breathing mastery right now otherwise he would be close to dying of exhaustion.
He then proceeded to wear his gloves and began to use all of his techniques on the punching bag. A mix of jabs, hooks and straight punches. He did this for around 10 minutes before taking yet another rest.
Last but not the least, he activated his shadow fight skill and used his footwork and defense to the best of his abilities. He was trying to last longer than last time which was 3 minutes and 27 seconds.
He dodged, weaved, parried and blocked with all his might yet shadow managed to knock him out after 3 minutes and 49 seconds. At least he improved his time by 22 seconds, He thought.
**Average is 2
Strength: 7.9 -> 8
Agility: 11.3 -> 11.4
Endurance: 11.7 -> 11.9
Intelligience: 7.1**
**Perks:
Eidetic memory
Genius
Makonouchi Genes**
**Skills:
Reading Mastery (100%)
Cooking mastery (27%)
Cleaning mastery (71%)
Study mastery (100%)
Breathing Mastery (27 -> 29%)
Ambidexterous Mastery (51 -> 52%)
Parallel Mind Mastery (13%)
Analyze/Observe Mastery (21 -> 22%)
Shadow Fight Mastery (7 -> 8%)
Leather Processing Mastery (22%)
Craftsmanship Mastery (27%)**
**Boxing Mastery:
Jab Mastery (27 -> 29%)
Footwork Mastery (31 -> 33%)
Defense Mastery (23 -> 25%)
Hook Mastery (19 -> 20%)
Sraight Punch Mastery (17 -> 20%)**
It was a pretty good improvement for one session. He started to cool off before taking a bath and dressing up into his school uniform. He cooked a simple meal for everyone. It was around 5:30 Am now. They should be waking up now.
He set the table, before cleaning what he could in the house. Of course he was extra careful to not ruin his school uniform.
He finished cleaning the area, he gained some mastery percentage in his cleaning skill and was close to maxing it out. He heard the opening of a door as his mother and brother came out.
"Good morning Dankai, you're up earlier than last time." His mother greeted him. He returned the greeting with a smile. Ippo also said his greetings. They all sat around the table as they said their prayers before eating.
They finished eating, having small talk here and there. He could tell Ippo was quite excited. Ippo loaded the final containers, took a bath and changed to his school uniform before me and him began to run towards our school.
He looked deep in thought. Clearly not aware of our surroundings. I saw in my peripheral vision the figures of Aoki and Kimura. A vendor with a basket of vegetables was in our way.
"Wait Ippo!" It was too late however. Ippo punched the air for some odd reason and knocked the vendors basket off. He began to exclaim "SORRY! IM SO SORRY!" repeatedly as he picked up the potatoes on the ground.
Dankai sighed in defeat. Truly his brother was a pain to deal with. He heard the murmurs of Aoki and Kimura wondering what the hell Ippo was doing.
*Skipping the school period*
Truthfully, Dankai has grown bored of the school, he increased his intelligence by .1 and his breathing mastery, Parrallel mind, and ambidexterous and by either 1 or 2%. He could gain more improvement in self practice than in school.
He was walking slowly with Ippo, Ippo was already at the gym door breathing in and out. He was nervous about starting his training. I could see Aoki crouching down behind Ippo with both his pointer fingers together.
He suddenly attacks ippos... Rectum... As Ippo freaks out from the assault. He couldn't hear what they were saying but he just knew Aoki was spouting bull to Ippo.
"You seriously don't know? Even champions use this technique to calm down." The first cohesive words I could hear was Kimura seemingly shocked that Ippo didn't know that the "Assault" was used by champions.
"Eh? Seriously!" Ippo being the naive beginner he believed them immediately. I could only sigh as I internally laughed at this scene. What is the point of joy if you cannot show it out. Life is truly cruel.
"Im Aoki" Aoki proceeds to cover his right eye while slightly looking away from Ippo.
"Im Kimura" he puts his hand into a thinking post as he puts his fist near his chin.
"Aoki-san, Kimura-san, Im sorry I doubted you!" Ippo yells out with so much confidence that youd think he believed that crap. Even worse was that he did.
I could hear Kimura whispering to Aoki in shock at how Ippo believed this bullcrap. I let out a small snigger to try and divert their attention from Ippo. Which was useless as Ippo just opened the door right after.
"Hello!" Ippo greeted, the person in front of the door was Yagi.
"Oh good, you're here." Yagi turns around and walks towards Ippo with a slight smile.
"I'm the Gym's Manager, Yagi."
Ippo bowed, while Dankai nodded in acknowledgement.
"Nice to meet you, Yagi-san." Ippo greeted.
"Yes, nice to meet both of you. ah, regarding your training-" but before he could finish his sentence, he was cut off by a 'serious' faced Aoki.
"Leave it to us..." Aoki said.
"Eh?" Yagi was about to tell them off but.
"Lets go, newbie. Follow us." A silent 'eh?' could be heard from Ippo. Dankai showed no change in expression but he just went with the flow of these 2 seniors.
"Oi, wait you two." Yagi was ignored by the two as they dragged my brother Ippo. Dankai was a little irked at the fact he was ignored but he followed suit of the 3.
"Its alright/Dont worry about it" both Aoki and Kimura calmly said. Yagi, ignored their remarks.
"You cant decide that by yourself!" He tried to stop the two but to no avail.
Aoki opened the door as all of us enter. Ippo confused about his supposed training asked.
"Aoki-san and Kimura-san will be teaching me?" He asked which both of them replied.
"Yeah, we'll teach you all of it from the start." We start to descend the stairs to the gyms basement. You could hear Yagi scream wait, but those were ignored like the last one.
"I see, what will we start with?" Ippo asked curiously with a hint of excitement.
"Lets see... Lets start with the basics." Kimjra suggested.
"Lots of roadwork." Aoki added.
"What about sandbag training?" Ippo asked.
"Sandbag?" Aoki looked at ippo.
"Dont dream about it" kimura said.
"For a newbie like you, it's too soon to put on the gloves." Kimura stated.
Dankai would have agreed, if it weren't for the fact that both of them had a pretty stable foundation to start with jabs and straights. Also the first day at the gym they literally had a spar with gloves. Ehem, anyways.
"Its-" Aoki was going to add more but suddenly a door could be heard opening. At the stairs below was Takamura who looked like he just got dressed in his training wear.
"Ah cheee... Oh! You're here Dankai and Ippo, uhhh... Wait what are you doing." He looked at the two who were leading us to the basement as they both thought. Crap.
"Takamura-kun, stop these two. They wanna take care of the rookies Training." Yagi complained. He finally caught up to us.
"Eh? So the two of you aren't listening to Yagi?" He began to approach the two, Aoki awkwardly looked away as he tried to find an excuse.
"Uh... Thats.."
Yagi sighed as he looked at takamura. "You Saved me Takamura."
"Ah, its no problem. Since I, Takamura, am the one who will take care of the rookies training." He pointed at himself with his thumb. He proudly announced this.
"Eh!" Aoki, Kimura and Yagi reacted the same.
"Wait..." Yagis complaints were not heard while Aoki and Kimura cursed Takamura.
"We should've known..." "I thought so, damn this Gorilla-..."
Aoki would soon regret those words as Takamura put both of them into a chokehold.
"What did you say?! Whose a Gorilla?!" He began shaking both of them furiously.
"T-that's you, Y O U !" Aoki commented.
"Stop thinking things will always go your way!" Kimura retorted.
"Listen you two! I was the one who discovered Ippo." Takamura stated his claim.
"Stop your bullcrap." "All you want is a devoted disciple!"
Dankai had a blanl expression as he felt left out. Ippo patted his brothers back as he felt bad for being forgotten.
'did I not put up a fight against Kimura... Did I not implant myself into your memory by being a good rookie...' Dankai was now questioning his life as he began to ask, what is life.
"Shut up! Your the ones who want a disciple!" Takamura aimed their attack back at them.
"Also, everyone in this gym will be considered my devoted disciple!"
"You damn dumba$$!" "Put your nonsense back in your a$$!"
Takamura's voice grew louder as he screamed. "Shut up slave #1 and slave #2!"
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SLAVE!?" As punches began to be thrown, Ippo was a little uncomfortablr while yagi had the face of viewing monkeys fighting over a banana.
Meanwhile dankai had already gone back up, he didnt wanna deal with these dumba$$es anymore. He needed to train, and train he will.
As he went back up he heard Ippo and Yagi attempts to calm the situation down but all he heard was a loud "SHUT UP!"
Before Dankai could walk up 7 steps he was met with the stern Mr. Kamogawa and his mighty cane as he stared down at the 3 morons on the floor.
He bowed down at him before going up the stairs.
_POV 3rd person, Ippo focused._
"What the hell are you doing?" Kamogawa asked Takamura who was being pinning the other two down.
"Uh, nothing, I was just advising my cute idiotic juniors..." You could smell the lies from a mile away just from the way he began his sentence.
Kamogawa scoffed as he looked at Takamura with a mocking stern expression. "Any advice you give them would end up making them worse."
"What did you say?" Takamura tried to rebuke but was met with a cold "What...?"
"Yay! Yay! The gorilla was told off!" As The duo did an idiotic dance. Takamura was about to punch them but was beaten by the coach who started swinging his cane around.
"ALL OF YOU IDIOTS! Both of you go do your damn stretches! Takamura you rascal I told you to run didnt I?!" As he smacked all of them.
"And you kid!" Kamogawa looked at Ippo as Ippo flinched.
"Kid, I'll take care of your training." He told Ippo. Ippo who was a little frightened still asked.
"W-what about my brother C-coach?" He asked nervously.
The coach sighed as he looked at Ippo. "The kid has 2 years to develop before becoming a boxer, you on the other hand only have less than a year." Kamogawa had seen the two rookies grade levels from asking takamura and he determined the kids time before getting their liscence.
He pointed at the locker room and yelled at him to change quickly.
Back at the ground level, Dankai was dressed in a Black sweat absorbent pants and sleeveless white shirt while wearing his red rubber/tennis shoes.
He was doing some stretches, as 4 meters away from him Kimura and Aoki were doing duo stretches with the other stretching the back of one.
The coach was trying to get a feel of Ipos current level as he touched the visible muscles like legs and biceps.
"Kid, put your gloves on and go in the ring. Were doing some mitt-training." He ordered Ippo.
"E-eh? Really? Gloves on the first day." Ippo was confused, base on his seniors reaction it seemed like gloves werent worn early on.
"If I tell you to put on your damn gloves, you put them on! Understood?!" The coach gave a stern expression as he stared at the kid annoyed.
Kinura and Aoki looked at this scene surprised.
"Eh, Mitt-training already?"
"Hes going to skip the basics?"
Takamura, who hid inside the gym not following his daily run commented quietly.
"Heh, the old geezers planning something."
"The f×ck are you doing here?"
"SHHH, the old geezer might see me!"
Ippo looked around confused, he looked at his brother to see him not bothered by the comotion and continued doing leg stretches.
"Whats the matter? Dont panic, just hit them." The coach holding up his right mitt up as he encourqged Ippo.
"Yeah, but... How should I do it?" Dankai almost face palmed when he heard this. He did not just teach Ippo jabs and straight just for him to ask how to hit mitts.
"Just Hit my hand accurately, Hurry Up!" He swayed his right mitt to show where to hit.
"Yes" Ippo moved forward and threw a right straight as he heard the loud sound of the gloves hitting the mitt, making a sound similar to a drum beat.
"Wow! That feels great!" Ippo held up his hand as he tried to savor the feel of the contact.
The coach lookes at his mitt as he smiled. "Alright now try it with your left hand." He held up the left mitt.
Another pop was heard as the coach ordered jabs and 1-2.
"Wow, those sound powerful, hes got some punch." Aoki commented.
"His tempo is getting better aswell." Kimura added.
"Thats not all." Takamura commented. "The old mans using another technique. Hes using mitts with little filling, remember that!"
Aoki had a moment of realization. "Ah, okay okay, thats why it sounds so good."
Kimura began straightening their backs as he talked. "The sound makes him more confident, while bulding rythm." "I see" Aoki replied.
"Not only that, look at where hes placing the mitts." Takamura added another detail.
Aoki and Kimura observed and realized immedtiely.
"Hes aiming at good places, the KO touch zones." Aoki commented.
"Hes helping him remember the good places by repeatedly hitting them." Kimura added.
"This is the Kamogawa magic!" Takamura announced.
Dankai looked at this scene with a smile. Ippo had gotten a sense of rythm. Unlike the original where Ippo was breathing quick and heavy after one round. His brother was still breathing heavy however he was more composed and breathed in steadily.
"He looks like hes having fun." "He lasted a whole round, quite good for a newbie."
Kamogawa stood over Ippo as he began to explain. "That whole segment was the duration of one round, get your body used to this time quickly."
"Yes sir!" Ippo replied.
Aoki and Kimura doing sit ups were chatting. "He looks pretty confident" Aoki said "Anyway he has finished his training for today." Kimura added.
Before they could get one more rep the coach announced.
"Alright, get ready for the second round." The coach ordered as he went back to position.
"Eh?" "Eh?"
The sounds of 1-2's hitting the mitts could be heard as Ippo began his training again.
"Oi... Oi...." Aoki was surprised, As well as Kimura. "He is also getting into stamina training?"
Takamura smirked as he saw the scene. A voice could be heard as someone arrived.
"Takamura? What are you doing here... Werent you supposed to run today." The new arival was Miyata.
"Are you Skipping training again?" Miyatas tone turned slightly disappointed.
"No!" "Really?"
Miyata opened the door as he saw Ippo doing mitt training. He looked at the side to see another new guy doing endurance training.
"Who is the other guy?" Miyata asked.
"Oh, right, hes the little brother of that rookie." Aoki pointed at ippo.
"He gave Kimura a run for his money yesterday." Aoki had a mischevious look as he said this.
"Oi, he did not give me a run for my money. He simply performed good for a rookie but I still knocked him out cold without sustaining loads of damage." Kimura defended himself.
Miyata looked interested but still went to an area to do his stretches. Kamogawa saw Miyata and had an idea.
"Good work kid! If Miyata were to be hit by ibe of your punches, hed be knocked out cold." The coach commented. Miyatas eyes widened as he heard this.
Ippo looked shy as he denied. "N-no hed dodge it, it's impossible to hit him." Ippo replied.
The coach smirk grew as he had a mock voice. "You dont know what you're tqlking about! Follow my instructions and within 3 months you'll be able to do it without a sweat." He jabbed at Miyata as he continued to guide Ippos punches.
"Stop coach! Everyone can hear you... Even if its a jok- urk!?" He looked at the direction of Miyata giving a mock glare at him.
Dankai muttered out, "The start of a gay couple." Thoughless as he reached 150 sit ups. Aoki with his super hearing when it comes to funny stuff laughed out loud. Kimura and Takamura looked confused.
"Your laughing so hard Aoki? The joke coach said wasnt that funny." Kimura was confused. Aoki whispered something to Kimura and both laughed. Takamura ignored them for now as he Focused on the scene at hand.
Dankai decided to focus on his training for now. Right now the coach should be explaining to Ippo about his ability to throw powerful punches with his stamina. He should be teaching him how one good punch is enough to end him and about his fighting spirit....
He ignored his thoughts as he began to shadow box. With his shadow fight skill on he began to dodge shadows barrage. He followed up with jabs, 1-2s and counter attacks.
He had began to develop some battle IQ as he fought more and more with his shadow. He was skley focused on his shadow box that he lasted around 10 minutes of shadow boxing.
With the usage of his breathing mastery, recovering stamina was simple. Afterall, if he remembered correctly. Yoruichi managed to last for 3 days and nights of non-stop running eith the breathing technique.
He was sadly ignored as all was focused on the coaches blatant taunting. He suddenly felt as if this would be a thing for a while.
Sorry, I was focused on finishing school assignments and exams that I read through novels i missed for a whole month... Anyways heres the promised chapter in may... May 31 oof... Anyways, library, comment and share...
See you next... Uh... Idk