Rock closed his eyes and when he opened them again he was older standing in front of his father.

Growling his father slapped him across his face.

"You've disgraced this family!" His father screamed.

"I don't care! I'd rather die than be like you!" Rock exclaimed before running away

Rock ended up in an alley way beating up a man with his friend trying to stop him. "Stop it man he's had enough." He said.

He heard the sound of sirens and saw their lightd

"Oh crap the cops are here." His friend said running after hearing the sirens. Rock however kept beating the man only to be stopped when the police arrest him.

Rock is sent to juvenile hall where he tries to eat lunch. "How do you expect me to eat this crap?!" Rock exclaimed flipping his tray over.

He gasped waking up

In building 5 morning

"152. 153. 154." Liang counted as he worked out. standing on his left hand using it to lift him up and down.

"Laing do you have to work out in here? Your very grunty." Upa said holding a small cactus.

"Rock beat me again I need to train if I want to ever beat him. I have to groan harder!." He said glaring at the ground"The time we spend outside this cell is not enough!." He said.

"If you want to win that badly, I do know a few performance enhancers of your interest." Qi offered,

"I would never resort to such cowardice." Liang said disgusted by his suggestion while jumping to my feet. "Laing is to smart to start." Upa said.

"i was just trying to help!" Qi defended himself.

"I'm sure" Upa says not believing him

"Hey, Number two's in this cell right?." Inori said walking up to our cell door

"Yes is there something I can do for you Inori?" Liang asked.

"I'm taking you to building 13." He said. "Yeah? What for?" Liang asked. "I'm told Number 69 wanted to see you." He said. "Did he now." He muttered

In the canteens

Aki brought Liang and inori to building 13's canteen

" hi!" Rock greeted with a smile, and Liang just glared " what do you want?"

"Give it a taste." Rock said holding out a slice of pizza to me. "If you brought me here to eat pizza the chef at building five makes that to." Liang stated

"And I'm sure that he does what he can but without a stone oven it just doesn't compare." He said.

"A stone oven." Liang said. "It's what Rock wanted as his prize from the tournament." Jugo said

"Yeah I remember." Liang grumbled. "It took them a hot minute but they finally finished installing it." Uno said.

"Is that so?" The martial artist said.

'So this is what drove him? This is what gave him the strength to defeat me?' Liang thought looking at the pizza.

"This is the first slice of pizza to come out of that stone oven. Your looking at a slice of history man." Rock said. "Shiro was very happy to make it." He said as the ground shook.

Liang stiffener and looked behind to see the giant towering over him

"See look how happy he is." He said.

"Huh I'm glad to hear that he's pleased." He said nervously

"Hurry take a bite while it's still hot." Rock said

They see Inori eating some of the pizza as well

"Wow this is good pizza." Inori said eating the pizza.

"Your eating it?! Inori theis are our rivals!" Liang exclaimed slamming my hand down on the table.

"Yeah but I can't say no to good food." He said. "Haha same here." Rock laughed

"Come on Laing eat some. I mean you came all the way here." Aki said, from the other side of the table, he tried so hard not to blush

"At the very least you can give it a try." Jyugo said

Liang took the slice of pizza from Rock, He took a bite of his slice and gasped. " delicious." Liang said astonished

"Isn't it though pizza from a stone oven has better flavor texture it even smells better. And that's just the start you can cook bread meat anything." Rock said.

Liang hummed nodding. "I've been dreaming about this for ages. I'm glad that they brought you here so I could show you why." He said smiling.

"Hahahah!" Yamato laughed "This is delicious indeed!" He said a slice of pizza in one hand and bowl of rice in the other.

"Why are you eating rice with your pizza?" Inori asked the man as he shoved rice in his face.

"Don't you get it us Japanese eat rice with everything." He said between bites. "I'm from China dude." Inori told him

"Don't be stereotypical Yamamto." Aki told the man as he laughed her off.

"At any rate it's grate that we get to eat food this tasty. Appreciate it Rock." The uno. "No problem." Rock said.

' it really is good, I'm no foodie, but even I can appreciate the the new once's of a well made meal

Library

" geez, I can't believe your inmate tacked on a visiting request to his victory prize" samon said while Hajime went through some making sure they were in order " I'll allow it once" he said

" that's what I was gonna say!" Samon yelled in anger at him

Back with the others

Rock began to rant about the qualities of a stone oven. "Call me crazy but I think Rock wants to be Shiro's apprentice some day." Uno said. "I can definitely see that." Liang said.

"Yeah." Aki said her mouth stuffed with pizza.

Shiro put down a box in front of Liang, When he opened it, there were peach buns in the box!!!

"Are those-?" Liang asked.

"I told Shiro that you were coming over so he learned to make some Chinese food." Rock said.

" they're peach buns..." Liang Picking them up he gave one to Aki and kept the other for himself

Both ate their peach buns together. 'this gives me the strange feeling again.' He thought he gasped

"So good." He said blushing. "It tastes like I'm visiting home." He said happily as Aki smiled at him, which was rare since she never smiles a lot, but nobody noticed for some reason

"Way to go Shiro a Chinese native just praised your cooking." Rock said. "You know I don't think I've ever sat down and enjoyed eating like this unless it was with Yui." Liang said. "Seriously?" Jugo asked. "I've always seen eating as a chore. Something to do to keep a strong training regimen. But taking in the ascetics of a meal enjoying it's aroma and flavor." He said as a cup of tea was poured for him. "It's a nice use of time." He said taking a sip of tea. "I'm glad." Rock said

" huh?"

"I saw that you lost weight the last time me met. It worried me but this should help though." Rock said surprising him.

"All fighting gets you is injuries and people who are pissed at you. I don't know about you but I've had enough of that." He said.

"Oh yeah?" Jyugo asked.

"I did the math and eating is way better. When you eat you get full which is awesome and when you eat something good everyone smiles." He said.

For a moment Jyugo had a small flashback of him and rock when he first broke out with him, and smiled slightly

"We get to eat something tasty every day we should count ourselves lucky." He said.

"Hey Rock..."Liang started

"Huh?"

"I'm sorry about what I said in our fight. I called your dream redculis. I was wrong. Xie xie, the meal it was fantastic, thanks for sharing." He said leaving

" no prob!" Rock called out

"You've changed quite a bit haven't you." Jugo said.

" how so?" rock asked

" you've mellowed out, and I have to say I approve" Jyugo says

Rock puts his hand against his head " I guess I have, part of it is cause the food here is awesome, but it all started when I met you" rock said

"Huh?"

". If it weren't for our first break out I'd doubt I'd change at all." Rock said, talking about the past when they first broke out, rock got punched by one of the guards and thrown back into his fell with an empty stomach, Jyugo offered him some bread but rock refused to eat the " garbage food" somehow, Jyugo broke him out of the chain around his ankle, and I mean literally broke it, and both sat at a fast food

Where rock ate food that tasted better than the food he was given in the prison

" yeh, this change of mine, it's thanks to you" rock said

"Sorry...that isn't ringing any bells." Jugo said " did I do something for you?" which confused akira

"No need to apologie, it wasn't a big deal,
You would forget." Rock said

" okay..." jyugo lowered his head " what's with the long face? You trying to tell me your still hungry?"

" rock..."

Rock put his hand on Jugo's head ruffling his hair " we'll find your favorite food soon." He said smiling " I can feel it"

He grinned which makes Jyugo smile " yeah"

"Shiro did you make anymore of those peach huns?" Uno asked

He nodded "can I have one to go? I wanted to let nico try it" he said

In the infirmary

Nico stared up at the ceiling as he heard the sound of beeping ' the white walls and
Mir silence...I hate it sometimes...it's so lonely...but at least it's not...' he closed his eyes

"Such idiosyncrasies..."

"Your a very valuable specimen..."

" don't do this! Please!" Nico yelled

As he opened his eyes again, tears streamed down " are you in pain 25?" Someone asked, he gasped and looked and saw Kaguya "I'm fine, thanks for asking" he smiles eyes closed

"Doctor otogi walked over " dont worry, we should be done here pretty soon" he said

" huray, I get to see all my friends again" he smiled

Just then the guys poke their head in the doorway, with Aki, who was watching them for hajime

" what up?" Rock " you still at it?" He asked, Uno and Jyugo poked their head out too

" we brought you some snacks from shiro" Uno said waving a stringed box " thank you you guys! these are so kwaii!" He said. eating his snack. "Try not to get him to worked up. I just now finished his danm exam." Doctor Otogi said.

"Someone's more pershniecty than usual." Uno said. "Are you two fighting?" Nico started.

"Again?" Aki finished " how many times have they argued I've lost track already..." she mumbled

"Of course not I'm just giving a doctor's order. Can't I do that without having my mood questioned?" Doctor Otogi asked gumpy.

"Oh yeah he's cranky." Uno said. "Unhappy wife unhappy life." Rock said.

" cranky old man" Aki grumbled which only the my could hear, and held in their laugter

"Wait? What?" Jugo asked.

"Well now that you bring it up the old goat has been down right nasty." Doctor Otogi said.

The wall then exploded and there stood Kaziri with a rocket launcher on her shoulder. "Oh I can show you nasty." She said.

"Oh no. Hi Kaziri." Doctor Otogi said.

"I married a smoker danm it. Your suppose to be dead now you old goat." Kaziri said.

"Excuse me is everything ok here?" Seitarou asked entering the room. "I went out of my way to make you a fried egg! You should be thanking me!" Kaziri screeched.

"You ruined it! I like soy sauce but you used uostershore. Who the hell would eat that?!" Doctor Otogi exclaimed.

"Please use your inside voices." Seitarou said nervously.

"You didn't like it?!" Kaziri shouted. "No!" Doctor Otogi said.

Fine! Then I'll use poison next time how about that?!" She shouted as they continued to fight

"Come on guys stop it." Nico said.

"Fighting in front of their daughter." Rock said disapprovingly. "this is it Kaguya, Try out the line we practiced." Uno said. "Mother father what is a divorce?" Kaguya asked causing Kaziri and doctor Otogi to look at her.

"Do you wish to cut yourselves apart?" She asked

"I guess I'll let you off the hook this once." Kaziri said turning away her arms crossed over her chest.

"Yeah we're cool." Doctor Otogi said. "That was effective." Rock said. "Number 25 I've been working on your prize and you'll be happy to hear that I finished it." Kaziri said.

"You mean it? Yippee!!!" Kazari lead them to a big room filled with lots of video games.

It looked like an arcade".

"Wow! This is a whole lot more than just one console!" Nico wowed.

"Yeah, I was trying to find out which game worked for you, and I got a bit carried away." She chuckled

"I'm so glad you did, this is awesome!"

"I get they are flashy but these are just samples. You're real prize is way more compact." She said

"Thanks you Kazari!"

"I'll give it one last look over and I'll give it to ya. You're welcome to play these while I'm back. But out of curiosity, why did you bring half the prison with you? I only needed No. 25."

"Apologies ma'am, but they said they wanted to see it too," Seitarou said.

"Whatever. But it isn't on me if they end up causing trouble. Right Hajime?"Hajime popped up out of the blue and said sternly, "That's correct ma'am. I'll watch them closely."

" wow...what should I play first!" He then had an idea "jet, hajime, Aki, seitarou, quick question"

" huh?"

"Can you do me one more favour?"

Time skip

Aki going over and bringing over upa

" what the heck? why did they bring me here? I was in the middle of meditating" Upa said complaining

"Master!" Nico yelled excited while he backed up " come on! Let's play some games!"

. "Whoa! Slow it down kid!" Upa exclaimed " I do not recall agreeing to be your master!"." Upa said.

"But you did say you'd think about it if I beat you in the tournament" Nico reminded

. "Yeah well I did think about it." Upa said. " and I decided I do t want to." Upa said. "Huh?!" Nico complained.

"Yeah, I still don't see what your hold up is?" Qi asked.

"Well maybe because your not a qigong master." Upa said.

"Hey, you there, your the guy who slept through the top spinning." Jugo said pointing at Qi.

Which he flinched

"What tag along uninvited just get out of work?" Rock asked.

"Kinda scummy." Uno said. "Why would you call me scummy? You just now met me." Qi asked on the verge of tears.

Meanwhile

" hajime!" Samon growled

" oh you came to" he grumbled " you have no authority to tell my inmates where to go! And the last time this happened you said just this once!" Samon reminded

" yeah you always were a sore loser" hajime said bluntly

Samon growled " this has nothing to do with that! I don't want my inmates hanging out with yours because I have no idea what yours are capable of! Who knows what those freaks of yours might do! Their down right unnatural!" He yelled

" shut your damn mouth! Or I'll gag you with your own tail"hajime threatened

"What did you say to me you stupid gorilla?!" Samon glared

" shut up! Both of you! Cut the crap!" Aki yelled

She then pummelled both into the ground to shut them up, and walks away with kazari

"Atta girl, and watch out for the man you marry one day, or you'll end up like me" she said to the young girl " don't worry bout me kazari, I'll be absolutely fine" she says

As they leave the to men on the ground groaning with bumps on their heads

Back in the arcade room

"Hey Rock! You see what I see?" Uno said

""Ohhh! I used to love that one!" He exclaimed

The two started happily playing it, which was one of those dancing games, which Aki wasn't good at

She looked and saw him not playing anything, just standing there watching, she was about to say something when " aren't ya gonna play something?~"

Both jumped at the familiar voice " mitsuru!"

" don't sneak up on us like that!" Jyugo yelled at him " sorry buddies!" Aki could tell he wasn't sorry one bit, since he was still smiling

" why are you even here dude?" He asked " oh well as the resident expert on video game enthusiasts, I've been helping out kazari with her development process" he said

" I mean whats your job in this prison" Jyugo said, which mitsuru dodged the question " so do you not like games 15?" He asked

" no...that isn't the problem...I just...don't know how..." he muttered with a small blush, which to a surprise, Aki found cute

'Cute?!' She thought

"sounds like you better start learning!" Mitsuru encouraged

" huh?"

" video games are all kinda's fun! Your gonna miss out a lot! If you don't learn how to play!" He ruffles his head " you should play as much as you can while your still young!"

Jyugo knocked his hand off " that's not to convincing coming from the guy who's played through every day of his life

You've make a fair point kid" mitsuru chuckled " anyway, Number 25 is certainly enjoying himself

" hey Jyugo!" Nico got his attention " come over here! I think you might like this one!

"Your friend wants you to play with him" mitsuru said

"I can hear...." Jyugo mumbled, nico pulled him along

"It's this way" Aki just followed

The three of walked over to play a crane game.

They watched while Jyugo failed miserably in getting a prize " you touched it that time" nico said

"You're really trash at everything except jailbreaking!" Uno sighed as Rock laughed.

He growled " step aside" Uno pushed Jyugo out and took the controls and played. He said, "It's all about your angle. U wanna grab the head straight" Uno did so and caught a mini plushie...of Jyugo. It looked so adorable. Jyugo picked up his self-plushie from the dispenser.

"It's pretty easy when you get the hang of it." He then noticed something "oh, found a Nico plushie." He caught the Nico plushie and it slid down the chute dispenser.

Nico grabbed it and wove it around in happiness "woah that's so cool!!"

"Check it out master it's a little tiny me!" Nico said showing Upa the plushie. "Don't be absurd." Upa said. "You should play it's really fun." Nico said. "I don't want to." Upa said childishl

"Aw it'll be fun I promise." Nico said. "Afraid you can't do it?" Uno taunted.

"I could easily do it such a task is beneath me. To easy." He said playing the game. He picked up a plushie but the crain imedently dropped it.

" huh..." nico said

"Ahh!You insult pice of trash!" He shouted trying to destroy the claw machine with his qigong

"Woah man chill!" Rock yelled " you can't!"

" master please!" Nico exclaimed. "Grr I won't underestimate you again." Upa said breaking free from their hold and going to the machine.

"You have to grasp the head at the right angle." He muttered operating the crain. Nico smiled at him.

"What do you find so amusing?!" He asked. "You look like your having fun that's all." Nico said

"Ahh! No I am not remotely enjoying myself I just hate losing okay?!"He exclaimed, the moment he hit the crane again, the plushie fell down the hole

"Wow you got it on your second try!" Nico said happily as Upa held a plushie of himself.

"Master?"

That was...easy.." Aki noticed the look on his face an smiled in the background, nico even smiled

" ahh 25, there you are" kazari appeared, nico turned to her " what's up?" He asked

" here, your console" she hands it to him, which is a one person " it's one of a kind, and contains every game you can play, it uses the high date compact gaming tech in the world, and it's all yours"

She was confused on why he looked disappointed " what's wrong? Did I miss something?" She asked

"No...it's just, games are more fun when you play them with your friends!" He said in a cheerful tone

Aki noticed the look Jyugo had which was the same in the canteen

" you an odd one" kazari chuckled, which nico laughed " well my job was to build the thing, the rest is up to you" she said which he nodded " thanks a bunch kazari!"

" so games huh? You really like em don't you" Jyugo says " what's so fun about them?" He asked

"Their amazing, the first time I played one, I could believe the story could feel so alive" nico said " it went just watching the hero's fight bad guys, I was with them, and they were all so stylish and vibrate and determined, I wish that...I was like them"

" what do you mean?" Jyugo asked

"I wanna be...livelier" nico stated

"Nico...."

" you know your the one who got me started down that path" he said which surprised Aki again ' here too?...'

Nico's past

He lay on a bed, a chain around his arm, he was ready to give up on life, until Jyugo arrived, he opened his shackle, and he was the one who him on manga

" you pretty much gave me a reason to want to live again, you know that Jyugo" he smiled

" I did?" He questioned

" nah! Don't worry about it, forget I said a word" he giggled

Jyugo scratches the side of his face " hey nico, could you teach me how to play video games?" He asked

" sure!"

"Hey game junkies." Hajime said causing them to look at him. "Don't you think your over doing it?" He asked holding a lot of toys and plushies in his hands along with Seitarou.

"And your not?" Aki smirked

Kenshiro and a certain someone were about to walk past the room if Uno hadn't noticed

"Hey you!"

They turned to who he was talking to, and lo and...it's Musashi.

"Musashi..." Jyugo said and Aki

"Is that Jyugo and Aki?" Rock, Nico and Uno stepped forward and got in front to protect

Jyugo told Uno, "It's okay. He isn't dangerous anymore."

" you sure?" Uno asked

Musashi walked up to them and said, "It's strange. You seem different somehow."

"Same to you." Uno held a grudge at him, but Jyugo stopped him.

" chill..." Jyugo said to him

Musashi said, "It's alright. I can hardly blame him for what happened. Seeing after what I did, it's well deserved."

"Then tell him and aki you're sorry. Jyugo and Aki got injured bad because of you."

Rock corrected him, "Well most of it was Hajime, but still..."

"There's no need, I'm over it really," Jyugo told Uno.

"Me too. I'd rather forget about it," aki added

"Oh yeah? Well no one asked if you were over it, because not everything is about you, okay? This is a matter of common courtesy; it's what people do. You'd be aware of that if you had an amount of common sense in you!" He yelled at them

" hey!" She glared

"Uno is starting to sound like a mom!" Nico laughed

Musashi spoke up and bowed down, "Okay, I'm sorry."

"Don't worry about it, the both of us went too far," Jyugo replied. He then put his a hand on akis shoulder

"And we hurt Aki, but we never wanted that right?"

"Yeah, I'm sorry too.... Aki."

"It's fine, I forgive you." Immediately Uno gave a big smile. He was happy that everything was resolved and decided to make friends with Musashi. Before Musashi left, Uno invited him to his game room, which was coming tomorrow.

Aki watched as they left, she hadn't talked to him for so long, that and she didn't even know he was in nanba prison

Time skip

Aki sat alone in the guard room thinking about her encounter with musashi ' I haven't seen him since...' she covered her left eye ' why....why did it have to happen!....' she clenched her fist