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Thanks guys for waiting for me, I am having a crisis haha, I got no money and I invested a lot in some medals and thropies for a tournament I'm sponsoring, that's why also I have not much time to write, have to balance four jobs, my school, also play with my little son. Still I'm here and I hope you enjoy this chapter.

I saw the poll and I'll do the time skips, but I also want the Mc to meet sendo, not Ippo though.

So I'll do whole Osaka in 1 chapter and then go with the time skips.

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Third person POV.

Sora dashed and went with two jabs, Miyata moved his legs and pivoted to the right, Sora saw this and turned his right leg to go after him, and prepared his right to punch him, when he threw it, Miyata sidestepped and did an Upper, Sora went down, and everyone was amazed.

"Hey who was the one that said that Miyata was not that strong?" Trainee A commented

Miyata went to his corner, but at the number four Sora opened his eyes, and in less than 3 seconds, he raised his body and put his hands up, Miyata smiled and when Kimura said Box, Ichiro started to move his legs with a rhythm. He went another gear and threw some light jabs into a barrage of circles.

Sora put his guard up, and moved his arms to block some of the punches of Ichiro, Miyata senior saw this and smiled. "What a guy!" he said. Ichiro continued but Sora threw a right, which disrupted the timing of the punched and Miyata stopped and opened the distance.

Sora smiled and dashed once again. He threw two jabs, Ichiro smiled and said in his mind ['Fool, the same thing won't work'], Ichiro pivoted to the right, Sora turned his right leg and prepared his right, Miyata sidestepped, and when he threw the upper, Sora moved his head to the side and let the punch pass, Ichiro opened his eyes and tried to recover his arm, but Sora twisted his upper torso and threw a left body with a full force.

Ichiro grunted and his mouth guard flew, but he didn't fell, Sora used the opportunity and threw some other punches, but Ichiro had a lot of experience so a body blow only hindered him a little, but he was still faster than Sora.

The Exchange continued for another second, and the bell sounded.

Both of them went to their corners, Sora was breathing faster but not heavily, he smiled when Kamogawa came to his corner.

"That was impressive, kid; great job standing up after a knockdown, and also, you didn't panic when he started his clock combination" Kamogawa held Sora head while saying this.

Sora smiled and drank some water.

The bell gave the start for the

SECOND ROUND

Sora changed his approach in this round; he wanted to use some of the footwork that he trained, so he threw some jabs after Ichiro when he entered his area. Both of them used his left to maintain the distance; no one got the upper hand at the beginning. After a minute and a half, Ichiro started to pressure Sora, and he went to the defense. He retreated until he touched the ropes; he used them with his back and pushed himself. After he dodged some jabs, he clinched and pushed him to the side. Miyata threw more jabs, but suddenly two jabs connected to his head, and he flinched. He threw a jab, but he received a right cross to the temple, and he fell down.

Miyata did not lose consciousness, but he waited until the number seven to raise his guard. Then he stood up. He was confused about what just happened, but he started his footwork and threw some distance jabs to Sora, but his guard was tough. He received all the jabs and uppercuts with a great defense; finally, the bell sounded and the second round ended.

They went to their corners. Ichiro asked his dad about what happened, and his father gulped a little.

Miyata's Dad looked at the other corner, saying, "He switched his legs; he can take a lefty's stance"

Ichiro raised his hands. "Dad, did that?..." his father interrupted him. "Yes, that's what happened to me. Ichiro, you can't lose this chance to learn; he is going to change his stance on this third round. You need to be cautious"

"Yes dad" Ichiro put his mouth guard and massaged his legs.

In the other corner Sora was controlling himself.

Kamogawa said, "Why did you switch? Don't do that!"

Sora looked at him and said, "Why not?"

The coach sighed loudly. "Because you're a rookie, you are going to develop wrongly; you need to practice only one, and when you master that, just until then, you can proceed to change sides"

Sora smiled. "Haha, but I won't be a leftie; I just wanted to surprise Ichiro, and I also needed a way to disrupt his counter, and… I wanted to send a message to coach Miyata"

Kamogawa was stunned. "A message?"

The bell sounded in that moment, Sora stood up and put his guard Piece, "Just look at this round"

ROUND THREE

Sora started by moving his legs into a rhythm, Ichiro was looking at his feet and when Sora dashed, he moved the same and kept the distance, when Ichiro got the rhythm, he was the one that opened the Round with a fast jab, Sora dodged but he was too slow and got hit one, two and three times.

Sora flinched and back stepped; he threw some lefts in the air, and Ichiro didn't pursue. Sora tried a movement to the left, throwing a one-two, and it was parried. Just as the second punch came back, Ichiro followed and got into close distance. He began to throw some punches at the body, but they were not effective. The difference in weight got a lot of advantage here; with five to eight punches, Sora never wavered; instead, after receiving all of them, he threw a right, but once again was dodged.

Sora smiled and threw a left upper to the guard of Ichiro, and after that, a liver blow. Ichiro flinched and lowered his guard. Sora threw another upper, and it was guarded. Ichiro panicked and lowered his guard to block the body blow to the left, but it didn't come. Instead, he was punched with a body blow to the right; he made the 'ku' face, and Sora took advantage of the moment to throw a hook with his right, but Ichiro saw right through it and hit him in the Jaw his an upper, Sora couldn't follow the hook and put his guard up successfully blocking the right straight.

He slid to the side to make some distance. There were still two minutes left. Ichiro threw some lefts with a cool footwork, Sora was blocking all of them, and looking for an opportunity, but Ichiro was determined not to let him have it. After receiving a body blow, some punches started to slip by his guard, Sora started to sway, and he blocked some and dodged others. Ichiro left started to diminish his speed.

Sora parried to the left and dashed into a tackle. Both of them stopped for a second it was at this moment that Sora changed his stance, Miyata senior looked at it, and for an instant he wanted to shout to his son about it, but he saw the eyes of Sora and knew that it was on purpose; he wanted him to see it.

Ichiro threw a left, and Sora parried with his right hand. He lowered his hips and, with a full twist, threw an upper. Ichiro wanted to move, but the hand was too fast for him. He managed to put his right hand under his chin and take the blunt punch with it, but the strength of someone with a higher weight was too much for him, and he went into the canvas.

(Help me here, people; canvas is the name of the floor of the ring?)

Kimura started to count, but Ichiro raised his body without much difficulty. He put his hands up, but the Bell rang, and the sparring came to an end.

Kamogawa entered the ring and congratulated both of them for a good match. "Kid, did you deliver the message you wanted?"

Sora looked at Miyata's Dad and smiled. "Did I?"

Miyata senior laughed, "You can stop brat, two days have you tried to rile me up, I'm not angry, I understand what you want me to realize, but why do you take this roundabout way?"

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I couldn't tell them the truth; Miyata's was a bad father. I remember that he hit his son when he was little; he was so depressed, and he just gave up. When he saw the light, he didn't guide it; he just let it shine and left it alone. When the light flickered, he just stood at bay without interfering. It was infuriating. Miyata was a genius, and he didn't train him.

I don't know if the future will be the same, but I guess that will be a fixed point in time. Ichiro will fight Randy Boy, Jr.

That fight was brutal, but it helped them grow. I'm just pushing it earlier, and with a bigger rival, I hope Ippo will also become a lot stronger. I want my hero to get into the world, a Ricardo Versus Ippo, would be amazing.

I was silent for about half a minute with a thinking face. I opened my mouth and lied. "You're one of my favorite boxers; I managed to see some of your fights in videos; your counter is amazing; the full-body one was a great arsenal you created."

Miyata said, "The Jolt"

I made a surprised face "Oh so its name is the Jolt; I didn't know that." I lied again. "Well, how come Ichiro doesn't have it? I thought about it, and I concluded something: you never came back, you never tried… they say don't meet your heroes, but I want you to still be my hero, so I tried to help you realize, that it wasn't a lucky punch; Randy did it on purpose... I'm just hoping you will train Ichiro to be better than you, and well, I could also learn something too" I toothy smiled with full honesty at the last comment.

Miyata smiled "Brat…"

Kamogawa hit the back of him and said, "He got you," and started to laugh.

Ichiro had already taken off his gloves, and he raised his hand.

I took it into a handshake, and Ichiro said, "Thanks for the spar, and also, Father has promised to train me… that means next time I will win by knocking you out; today it's your win."

I look at him, surprised. "Did I win?"

Kimura put a hand over me and said, "Well, you got two knockdowns and him only one; by the numbers, you did win"

'DING'

"Well, I know you will grow and be tougher to win next time. I will also lower my body fat to be an even fight because I have the weight advantage," I said

Ichiro smiled "Yes… but you started to train boxing this Monday, and I've years of training"

My eyes moved to see his dad and said "Well… you did train a lot but by yourself, when he finally train you in a correct way, you will improve at a fast rate"

Miyata's Dad sighed and came over "Sorry son, but he is right, I haven't trained you in a correct way, next time will be different, how about another spar in a month to see who will win"

"No" I said

Everyone was stunned, even Takamura made a surprised face.

Ichiro was angry and looking at me he said "Why not?"

I just shrugged and said, "Hmm... I want to spar every week; why should we wait a month? Aren't we all fellow disciples of the Kamogawa Gym? Why should we wait that long? It is sparring with 18-ounce gloves and also these head protectors; do you feel damaged in any way? I didn't punch you with all my strength; I bet we could continue this fight to get more fighting experience"

Kamogawa frowned "No!" he adamantly said. "A sparring is not something you could do easily, also the damage accumulates, and I forbid it"

I looked at the stubborn old man. "That's why I said weekly, not every day coach, we could even put some rules, like not hitting the head, or use only the left, or put under armor to minimize the damage, we can use a lot of stuff, I'll talk to Kazeo to see if they have something that could help us, I know for a fact they do sparring every two days, and they kick themselves"

The coach was angry but he said "I could consider it, but for now I forbid you all, talk with him" He put his hand in his chin and added "Actually, no don't ask him, tell him to talk with me"

My smiled was apparent "Sure coach! Now can I fight with Ippo?"

Kamogawa raised his eyebrow "Are you already recovered?"

I checked my body and actually I felt great so I gave a nod.

Ippo went and grabbed the gloves and his headgear.

Everyone left the ring and Kimura once again was the referee.

The bell sounded.

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ROUND ONE

Ippo was nervous and didn't advance, Sora took advantage and approached him with decision, he threw his initial jab and it connected in his face, Ippo flinched and did a back step, Sora didn't let him recover and threw a right straight to his face, but he raised his hands and barely guarded, Sora moved to the right and threw a body blow, Ippo stammered, and Sora connected another one, Ippo did a back step, Sora threw the third one and it pushed him to the back, Ippo gritted his teeth and with a step in, he threw a right straight directly into the face of Sora.

But it was not that fast, Sora saw his shoulder move before the start of the punch, and calmly put his guard up, Ippo's punch hit Sora's glove and made a great sound, Sora actually slide trough the canvas, he moved more than a meter.

Ippo breathed and saw Sora with his guard up, and frowned, 'I can't hit him' he thought.

Sora moved his hand out of his face and put a knee into the floor, blood was oozing from his mouth, he moved his head side to side with his eyes closed and at the count of five he stood up, he cleaned the line of blood and looked directly at Ippo.

At the sound of 'Box' he dashed in.

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Ichiro POV

I was really happy, got a promised with my dad to train me, also Tsuyoshi wanted to get more sparring for everyone, and I would be lying if I didn't wanted to try to do more fights.

It was then that Sora punched Ippo. That guy was powerful but he had a lot of newbie mistakes.

I thought about it and Sora didn't seemed like an amateur, he could do great combinations, but he only did like three or four, I already saw past him, next time my counter will hit him hard.

He moved to the right and did the body blows, damn that could have been bad news for me, I saw Ippo grit his teeth, and he deliver a telegram punch, with a sway I could do a cross counter and he would be knocked out, Sora put his guard up with confidence, but he flew after the punch.

I opened my eyes in surprise. That punch sounded like a canon, Sora put a knee to the floor and blood fell.

I couldn't help but exclaim. "What the hell?"

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