The Otaku Hooper

"Mid plus mid don't make a difference. Looks like I'm gonna have to kick it into high gear. Trace on."

Kenju's arm began to glow a bright green and a metal coating surrounded it.

He rushed forward and swung his right arm at us.

We swung are left arm right into his fist

*BHHMHMHMHMGMFH*

The force of the punch's colliding pushed us backwards.

"NICEEEEEEEEE. We can get used to this heh heh."

Looks like we got a pretty good power boost.

Kenju immediately tried to follow up his attack and swung his left arm

*shmhhhp*

We side stepped to dodge. We followed up his attack with his right arm.

*hmmmmp*

Dodged. Using the momentum from his swing Kenju spun back and crouched down to do a sweep kick.

*fuuuop*

We jumped over it. Kenju shot up to uppercut us while we were coming back down.

We put our wrist together with our palms facing outwards.

"HJ Sugoi Burst !!"

A pink burst of energy shot out of our hands and blasted Kenju in the face.

"Gyack"

"How do you like them apples heh heh."

Kenju looked pissed

"Hey no fair this is my domain expansion. You can't just start making up your own -"

*DUUUUN*

We had teleported behind Kenju and roundhoused him in the kidney in the blink of an eye. He went flying through the air.

We instantly transmissioned ahead of him and kicked him upwards while doing a backflip.

Kenju went soaring straight up and we instant transmissioned right above him slamming our fist straight into his stomach.

We pummeled him straight to the ground.

"HJ double trouble combo hehe"

The impact created a large crater.

Kenju laid on his back, lifeless.

We heard a whisper.

"Reality…"

"Nani ? Still haven't had enough."

"be rent… synapse…"

His right eye began to glow a golden yellow.

"break… banishment…"

"Hey bro can you speak up. Weeee can't hearrrrr youuuuu heh heh"

"THIS WORLD"

A bright red laser shot out of his eye and his body shot up. The force pushed us back.

"NANI ?"

A massive aura began to surround Kenju. He bit a piece of skin off from his thumb and cast his hand to the right. A giant sword began to form through his blood.

"I AM THE BONE OF MY SWORD. UNKNOWN TO DEATH, NOR KNOWN TO LIFE."

Gyatt damn was that a lot of talking. Talk about a yapaholic.

"UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS"

The entire domain became enveloped by light. The pressure from his aura knocked us back. The light was blinding. Then it was silent.

As I regained my vision I noticed that we were somewhere completely different. It looked like a battlefield, with thousands of different swords sticking out from the ground. I turned over and saw AJ lying on the ground. We must have been knocked out of our fusion.

"I wasn't chosen to be the otaku hooper for nothing ya know."

Skittle…

"So Skittle got to you too huh"

Kenju readied his blood sword.

"It's over overthinking hooper. I can't keep this ability if I don't win."

Kenju…

"So stubborn. Just like always"

I'm sorry you got involved…

"ULTIMATE…"

He held his sword to his side and sprinted toward me.

A tear of blood ran down my eye.

"KENJU"

ban…

He jumped up.

"SLAMMMMMM"

He slashed straight downward.

kai.

His sword snapped in half on contact.

"Nani ?"

The broken piece of sword flew into his body.

"GYAHHHH"

Another sword flew in from behind him.

"SHHHHEEE"

Then another.

Then another.

All of the swords buried in the ground began rise up and fly straight toward Kenju.

*shhhing*

*clooom*

*kliiiiirp"

Thousands of swords pierced through his body, coming from all directions.

Blood began to spurt everywhere.

A stream of bloody tears ran down my face.

The swords continued to fly at Kenju, but the world around us began to fade.

-

*bzzzzzz*

"KYAAAAAA"

Joma tackled me to the ground. She shook me by my shoulders.

"OMETEDOU HAISE KUN. I DIDN'T THINK YOU GUYS WERE GONNA WIN. PHEW CLOSE CALL RIGHT !!"

Nani the hell happened.

AJ walked up to me and stuck out his hand.

"Need upsies?"

"AJ… where's Kenju"

"It's just like what happened to Chrys sensei. There is no Kenju anymore."

Snail tard walked up to us.

"Phew that was a toughie. Gotta a little too close for comfort. Leave it up to old Haise kun to come through for us in the end."

We all left the court to grab something to eat while the next teams played their matches.

I walked alongside AJ.

"Oi AJ. How did you even show up there ?"

He smirked.

"I've gotta a few tricks up my sleeve too. This isn't over yet tho. We still gotta another team to mog before the final match."

His own secrets huh.

It's weird that time still moved forward while we were there. And that we still played ball too. Maybe Kenju's hoopism worked a bit differently. The Otaku hooper huh. Just like ilikeggos ig.

I wish he didn't get caught up in all of this. I never got to say sorry for spilling yogurt all over his Shinji body pillow. I never got to say sorry for a lot of things. Damn you Skittle. How far will you go.

Kenju…

Gomen.

-

The second match was a bunch of pushovers heh. Nothing the ol Haister couldn't handle. Since I actually got to play that time I was able to bring my A game. Just like that we secured our spot in the finals.

But it worried me.

Getting in. Just like that ?

Was he trying to give me a break ? Maybe it was a sorry for using one of my own friends against me. Or maybe it didn't go as planned and he needed time to figure out his next strategy. Whatever it is I'm ready babe.

After the last match finished the gang and I headed over to the gym to scope out who our opponent in the finals was gonna be.

It was already late into the evening. The sky was a dark orange and a few dark clouds passed above. We watched us the other teams were already packing up their stuff to head home. Pfff. Losers.

A slight breeze pushed against us. Perfect weather for winning.

I kicked the gym door wide open.

"OI OI OI. Who's ready to lose"

I looked over.

Hmmmm was looking straight at me, with a devilish grin on his face.

"Ohhhhhh crap."