10 10 - Are you nuts?
I did some training with a machine that receives a kick and it returns the punch from the other side, but instead of kicking I was punching the receiver point, and instead of guarding, I tried to punch the counter attack and succeding, some times I dodged and others I tried to parry, I loved this machine.
Also we did some exercises with dumbbells I got the 3kg one and Ippo went with the 10kg, in brute force he was still far, even If I was 5 weight classes over.
Overall we did a lot of training, almost 40 minutes of exercises and the other 20 were the resting periods, at 7 and half, some of the students went to take a shower, and the captain called us over.
"Hey I need your help little bro" kazeo looked at me.
"Doing what?" I asked
He signaled another guy and told me "Well he needs to train his dodging and parry, and I saw your punches, they're fast, you have to work on them still but you're really fast, care to give a hand, or a punch?"
"Yeah sure" I put again my gloves and enter inside the circle designated as a ring, "Hey... is he going to attack?"
He laughed a little "I told him not to, but still be prepared"
"Damn... Ok I got this" I smiled to the guy, he was tall, at least the same as Takamura and he had thick eyebrows, he emanated a lot of pressure.
'BING'
"Well begin" said the captain.
I moved my legs with a step pattern, dancing a little with my footwork, I thow 3 jabs with a clock-wise turn, and he dodged the first two, and holded the third one with his left hand, I backsteped and dashed to the side while throwing another 3 jabs, with a straight at the end, once again he dodged and parried.
Damn he was not easy, I tried to shoot 1-2's but he still dodged them, I smiled. "It's time to go to the next gear", I punched my gloves and dashed to him, I threw a left straight and when he dodged I changed the direction of the punch landing a hit to the temple, he backsteped two times and closed his eyes, 'Bad move' I thought to myself.
I shoot at him a barrage of punches with both hands, he received 3 of them until he put his guard up and started to move to the back, until my punches were outside his range, I went inside with area and continued to punch, I throw a jab, I dodged down and threw a flat straight with my right, I stood up and do a cross with my left, followed by a liver punch.
He dodged the jab, parried the straight, barely dodged the cross, but he was clovered by the liver punch, still he mandaged to jump back and create another rift between us.
"STOP" Kazeo shouted
HAA*
The dude put himself into a pose, with his hands in front of him.
I just swiped my sweat and took a deep breath to recover myself.
"Sho" (Author's Note: It's a command to be at ease)
I felt a hand over my back and shoulder. "Dude you're amazing, that was great, continue like that and you could be an awesome contender"
I smiled "Thanks man, I'll keep it up, you want a spar with Ippo too?"
His smiled faltered a little "You know what, I need to take a shower maybe another day, or maybe never, those punches are scary" he pat me twice in the back and walked to the showers.
I guess Ippo is still scarier than me, I will train to be more amazing than him.
"You two take a shower and go to your class, see you in the afternoon" Kazeo dismissed us.
We both took a shower in the cubicles and put our uniform to start the day.
First class was english, and I was ahead of them all in this, I may try to teach Ippo some english and spanish, I don't want him to have trouble when he starts fighting the ranking stars.
Then we had some history class and Mathematics, history was kinda hard, I didn't have idea about most of them.
We had lunch I sit with him when three goons sat in front of us into a gangster sit.
I gave a glance at him and said "What do you want Umezawa-san?"
He blushed... "Ahm you are idiots!, So tell me, did the big guy took you two under his wing?"
I laughed inward, of course this dude can be like that, but still he was a great friend, how can I keep him out of the bullying business.
"SO?" he shouted while rubbing his head over ippo's cheek.
Ippo said, "Well Kamogawa coach told us to go and train today, so we can go pro..."
"PRO!!!!! you are going pro?, Are you nuts?, dude you're worm guy!"
I couldn't hold it in. "Hahahahaha, Oh dear... that's hilarious, Umezawa let me tell you, I am really good at boxing and still the coach want him more than me, just because he never retaliated, doesn't mean he's a wimpy guy, well... you are wimpy Ippo no offense but you could grow a spine, you have amazing talent, anyway Umezawa and you two, sit down and eat, Ippo's mom gave us a lot for lunch, do you want?"
I hold part of our bento to him, he looked at me with wide eyes, and he took it. "I'll check if it's good, if not I'll throw it"
"If you throw it, you will eat it from the floor just saying" I winked at him.
GULP*
The three idiots started eating.
"Hey Umezawa, what do you like to do?, what is something only you can do, and please don't say have a gopher..." I said after the meal.
"Huh?, what do you care?" He claimed back.
"Well, I guess I'm trying to be friendly, don't you want some pro boxer as friends?" I smiled and raised my eyebrow.
He kept silent for about 2 minutes and then he said "I'm really good at the arcade and well... I draw" he added almost a whisper.
"You draw?, are you good?" I asked back
"Just ordinary stuff, I'm not that great, and also I'm no good at creating a plot" He pouted and turned his head looking away.
Wait... what kind of mangas exist here inside of Hajime no Ippo.
"Wha- ejem... What's your favorite manga?" Ippo said while I was thinking.
"Kamen Rider, or tiger mask, also the new one Doctor K, are really good" Umezawa said with great entusiasm
"Nah Devil man is the best man" Goon 1 said
"Well If we're talking about boxing, Ashita no Joe is a must see" Goon 2 added.
"What about Dragon ball that one is funny right?" I said.
"Dude... What's Dragon Ball?" Umezawa looked at me.
"Yeah man, if you don't know don't enter the conversation" Goon 2 reiterated.
Ippo looked flustered, "Please don't fight, I like Kamen Rider too"
But I was still in shock, there is not dragon ball here?
"Hey Umezawa what are the magazines in charge of manga." I looked at him with haste.
"Well.. There is only Weekly Shonen, they tried to open another magazine but it went bankrupt almost instantly"
Damn... in this era, it would have been Kochikame, Dragon Ball, Dr. Slump, Jojo, Kinnikuman, Capt Tsubasa, holy... no Saint Seiya or that was after 1990, Damn I don't remember.
We continued talking and Umezawa actually was a great guy to talk about, I'll keep on trying to befriend him, maybe I could bring those mangas into this world, hehe make Umezawa a super mangaka of sorts.
'BING'
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