Delinquents Part 3

"What the hell are you doing here, Chifuyu?"

"That's my line, what're you doing in District 4?"

"You know this chump, Chifuyu?" asks Shinatsu.

"Yeah, we went to the same middle school. Why am I surprised Diego, you moved on from bullying to being a whole gang leader. On top of that, you're probably a high school dropout. Let me guess, it's called the Tokyo Manji Gang?"

"The name doesn't matter, what does is that you beat up my men. As the one in charge here, I can't let this slide."

"Oh, you wanna go at it like old times?"

"Like old times? You never actually fought me like man."

"I guess you're right. The right phrase though would be I never fought you seriously. I'd disrespect you with a few moves then make a run for it."

The rest of Odd Jobs is quietly watching as a reunion of sorts unfolds before them, Kagura finds it rather amusing. In middle school, Chifuyu used to always intervene in Diego's bullying. They had been friends since before elementary school, but things changed with Diego. The two of them along with Dakota and someone else were childhood friends, this was before they met Erika.

"Whatever, Chifuyu. Let's settle the score right now, no running."

"What score? You never landed a single hit on me, it was a blowout to begin with."

"You never cease to piss me off. I see you somehow became a Hunter, good for you. Basketball was too small a dream for you huh?"

"You don't know anything," Chifuyu responds smugly.

"Put that sword down so we can get started."

"You don't have to worry, it can stay by my waist cuz it won't be slowing me down at all."

"Is that so?" Diego casually squares up and makes a beeline for Chifuyu.

"Get 'em, boss!"

"Beat his ass!"

The gang members start cheering for Diego as soon as the fight commences. Odd Jobs does the same.

"Don't lose, Chifuyu!"

"If he beats you, you're buying dinner for all of us."

"Uh, no I'm not," Chifuyu replies as he dodges Diego's punches. Each blow swung by this gang leader is fierce, but the same could be said for the other side. Chifuyu lands the first hit to his left shoulder. It stings, but Diego doesn't stop. He picks up the intensity, delivering jabs that are mostly parried. He's telegraphing his moves though, a clean hit won't come out of these swings. Chifuyu catches Diego's next punch, sweeps his foot knocking him off balance, promptly grabbing him and swinging him to the ground. Not being able to react for a second from the sudden damage, Chifuyu delivers a swift punch to his chest while he's still lying down. He backs away, allowing him to get up and lets out a chuckle. Diego holds in his anger though and gets up. Taking a deep breath to focus more, he charges forward once more and unleashes a furry of blows that are all blocked. Until finally, a hit is connected. A lethal one at that, a swift uppercut gets Chifuyu upside the jaw knocking him back.

"Not bad." Chifuyu quickly stretches his legs in preparation for what's to come. In the blink of an eye, he runs at Diego and kicks him square in the face with a roundhouse, like Iris just did to another delinquent. However, Chifuyu's combo is only beginning. A fury of kicks overcomes the gang leader that he can't block or evade. Next follows another jab to his shoulder and a kick hitting him upside his jaw as payback for the uppercut. Diego falls to his knees, and Chifuyu goes for the finishing blow. Well, he tried to. As Chifuyu was running, he somehow tripped over himself and tried to recover with a front flip.

That's when it happened.

He was almost successful with the flip, he just couldn't stick the landing. This brought him to the position of being right in front of Diego, but facing the same direction he was. Then, the wings he had last night plus the leftovers he finished this morning start to kick in which leads to an inevitable fart blowing right in his old friend's face. And it was a deadly one.

"Hahahaha!" Ariel and Kagura laugh their butts off, Shinatsu looks on utterly disgusted and Iris is covering her nose.

"Chifuyu, you..!" Diego grabs the offender by his collar seething with rage, which is an understandable response.

"Tha-that's my bad.. pff.." Chifuyu tries to hold in his laughter but is unable to. Realizing how dumb this is, Diego throws him to the ground and walks away.

"Haha! Wait, I'm sorry, Diego. Let's finish this. When I win, your gang has to stop promise to stop disturbing other people."

"That's the reason you came here? Tsk. Consider it done, I never wanna see your face again. Let's get out of here guys."

The situation appears to be wrapping up. Diego's storming back to his gang, and Chifuyu gets up still trying to hold in his laughter. From the crowd of delinquents, a single man walks out.

"Hm.. Who are you?" Diego doesn't recognize this person. The air around everyone suddenly changes. Chifuyu observes him as he walks closer. The man is wearing a large coat going down to his knees with a beanie. He looks to be walking toward the gang leader but passes him.

"Hold up, did you not hear me? I asked who the hell are you?" Diego grabs the man's shoulder.

The rest of Odd Jobs probably can't see from where they are, but Chifuyu can. The stranger's eyes are a particular bloody red. This is no man. It's a vampire.

"DIEGO, RUN!"

"What?"

The vamp that was hiding his hands in his pockets shows his claws and attempts to kill Diego, but he dodges in the nick of time.

"Chifuyu!"

Ariel shouts out as she charges towards them, but runs into an invisible wall.

"Agh.. What the.."

"What's going on?"

"It's a vampire!"

"What, a bloodsucker?!"

"Let's get the hell outta here!"

The gang members disperse into disarray leaving their leader for dead.

"Ariel, what is this?"

"Shit. It's either a curse or some sort of artifact. It must be a barrier."

"Chifuyu and that guy are trapped in there!"

To make things worse, a black covering descends on the barrier, making visibility from the outside completely zero. But right before it covers it completely, Chifuyu gives a thumbs up: meaning he'll handle this. More vampires show themselves, numbering a total of 10 including the one inside.

"Do you think you could break it, Ariel?"

"I don't know if I could do so without putting on too much of a show. But I'm not worried about Chifuyu, I know he'll make quick work of that vampire inside with them. So let's worry about the ones out here, and find out which one put the barrier up."

They all unsheathe their blades in synchronization. The situation took a complete 180 but Odd Jobs will take care of it.

From the outside, the barrier is completely black in color. Yet on the inside, it illuminates a faint light so they can see. As soon as Diego evaded a fatal attack, Chifuyu gave Ariel the thumbs up and charged toward the vamp. He evades the slash aimed straight for his neck and backs away.

"Nice reflexes dude."

"Thanks.."

Diego did indeed show an exemplary reaction time. Had he been half a second late, his face would've been torn to pieces.

'Shoyo did warn me that I'd be getting targeted by vampires. This is expected, but I need to make sure people aren't getting dragged into this because of me. That's what the year of intensely harsh training was for. Fighting these 3rd rate vampires at a moment's notice shouldn't be difficult at all.' "Don't worry Diego, I'll protect you. I'm a Hunter after all."

"Ha, that's funny. I never wanted to fight a vamp, but I guess I have no choice here."

"What're you talking about, no matter how strong you think you are there's no way you can take on a vampire."

"You can keep yapping if you want, but it's coming."

Chifuyu turns around and blocks the vamp with his sword. Diego dashes to them and slices it across it's cheek.

"What the, you had a.."

"Pocket knife, yep."

"Ah. Suit yourself, let's go!"