"Don't move," the tattoo artist tells me.

I feel the needle repeatedly poke at my skin. I hiss a little bit, but it doesn't hurt that bad. After about half an hour, I hear the tattoo gun turn off. I turn around to look in the mirror. The guy holds up a mirror.

"Not bad," he says as I check it out.

I got a tattoo of a snake on my upper back.

"Why you getting tattoos at 17 kid? You ain't even out of high school," the guy asks as I slip on my jacket.

I shrug. "They look cool."

He chuckles and I hand him cash. "Thanks again, bye."

I walk out and feel the fresh air hit me in the face. Then I remember today is when they are holding another fight. I start walking over to the usual place. I see it's already really crowded. With my hands in my pockets, I walk over to Akkun and the others. He spots me first and waves at me. I walk over.

"What's up?" I ask.

"They are making Yamamota fight against that big guy, Hana. We need to stop it," Takemichi says taking a step forward.

I hold his arm. He turns around. I can see there are tears in his eyes. "They are going to kill him Hana! I need to take his place."

I shake his head. "Akkun, hold my bag."

I walk down the stands to where the fight is about to start. Yamamoto sees me approach them and his eyes go wide.

"What do you think you're doing?" someone asks trying to hold me back.

"Ya'll want to see a good fight? Put me in," I say.

Everyone goes in silence. I can see Yamamoto shake his head, but I give him a smile. I put a hand on his shoulder.

"Go, don't worry about me," I say.

He sighs and walks away to where our friends are. The smile is wiped off my face and I turn to look at the big guy in front of me. He's at least 3 times the size of Yamamoto, maybe 4 times the size of me. How was that a fair fight? I throw off my jacket and I stretch my arms. Before the fight officially begins, the guy already charges at me. He throws his fist and I move to the side. He throws another one and I dodge it again. I continue dodging and everyone starts laughing.

"Oh you little," he says trying to kick his leg into my stomach.

I hold his foot. His eyes go wide at my strength. I twist it, causing him to hiss in pain. I knee the back of his leg, causing him to fall down in pain. I use my left fist to throw a punch to his jaw and knock him out. He lays on the floor, completely finished. I turn around to face everyone and see they're heads are bowed. My eyebrows furrow in confusion and I turn around and see none other but Mikey and Draken. Mikey is the president of the Tokyo Manji gang, while Draken is like his right hand. They both start making their way to me. I pick up my jacket and throw it over my shoulder. My tank top is splattered with the other guys blood, and my sweatpants are dirty from all the dirt. I cringe. I just did laundry.

"Hana?" Mikey asks.

I nod. "Baji kun told us about this 'fight club'. Who's the organizer?"

Kiyomasa raises his hands. "I am."

He smiles in proudness. Mikey smiles walking up to him. He raises his leg and hits him straight in the side of his face. My mouth parts in shock and everyone gasps.

"If I hear about this pathetic 'club' using Toman's name again, I'll kill you all," Mikey says.

Everyone scatters, except my friends. Mikey walks back over to me. "I've never seen a girl fight and win."

"I've never seen a small guy fight either," I retort, causing him to laugh.

I see Draken crack a small smile.

"I like her Draken, let's be friends," he says holding out a hand.

I scoff. "Do you really think I'm going to be friends with the people that ruined my life? Because of Kiyomasa and your puppets, I'm enslaved to doing whatever they want me to do."

Mikey's smile disappears. "Do you think we are all like that scum?"

I nod. "No one has proven me wrong yet."

Draken walks up to me. "Well, we'll be the first ones to. Also I heard you met Baji. He was the one that told us to shut this down. Said they were hurting a girl. I see he wasn't lying," Draken says, gritting his teeth.

"So what do you say?" Mikey holds out his hand.

I stare at it. Are they really different? They do seem nicer. I turn around.

"When I can tell you guys are different from the other monsters is when I'll be your friend."

I walk away to my friends and they all look at me in shock. "What?"

"You can't just talk to them like that, do you have a death wish?" Akkun says.

I shrug. "I told them what they needed to hear. Now come on, I have rice balls, let's go to my place."

Everyone starts walking to my place and talking about food, but all I can think about is Baji. Why would he help me?