In Asta's homeroom
Asta wasn't really paying attention to what the teacher was saying, and to be fair homeroom back at his old school didn't really matter it was more or less a place where kids who didn't do their homework got to work on it and the more likely bit was that they were copying their friends work, so he decided to just zone out. Noelle however, was a little agitated by his presence even if Asta was clocked out, but every now and then during the class she would give him a slight side eye glare of which Asta never really saw, and after a while of him not really acknowledging it, she waved her hand in front of his face which did get his attention, "Huh", Asta broke out his daze and turned to face her, "Oh you", he turned his head back ,"HEY", she got his attention again, "What?", Asta looked back really annoyed, "What do you mean, what?", Noelle felt her head about to explode, "You should be apologizing to me", she told him, "Why?", he asked, "You hit Kiato and it got me detention for the rest of the month", a vein in her head had become visible, "Well he shouldn't have swung at me first", Asta turned his attention to his phone, "You were yelling at me", "Cause you almost smashed my hands", a vein was now popping out of his head, "YOU interrupted my friends and I", she gave him a snark flip of her hair, "Whatever", Asta again went back to his phone, "Ah whatever you too", she turned to face the teacher again
The rest of the period was largely like that Asta and her just inconveniencing each other when they had the chance, but when the bell finally rang Asta shot up out of his seat and left the room, "Finally", he walked away from the class looking at his schedule, "Chemistry with W. Vangeance", he began to walk to class, "Hey you new kid", Asta turned his head to see who was talking to him, it was the nerdy looking guy from earlier with Yuno, "Oh hey you know where Chem with Vangeance is?", Asta walked over to him, "Oh yeah I got that class right now just follow me", Klaus replied, "THANKS MAN", Asta clasped his hands together, "No problem"
In the Halls
the two conversed on the way there, "So what do your parents do?", Klaus asked Asta, "Oh well it's just my mom", Asta scratched the back of his head, "I see......Well, uh what does she do?", "She's an emergency hot line operator", Asta answered, "What?", Klaus was rather confused, "What do you mean what?", "Like a normal job?", "Yeah?", Asta raised his eyebrow, "So how are you paying for it?", he asked Asta, "Oh well we're not paying for it the school is", Asta answered again, "Really?", Klaus wasn't expecting that, well to be honest he wasn't expecting any of what he was saying, "What's wrong?", Asta asked, "So you're here on a scholarship?", Klaus smiled at him, "I'm not gonna lie to you I don't really know", "Huh", "I guess you could call it that, but I'm mostly here to represent the schools kickboxing team", Klaus was also surprised by the answer, I mean having a student get in on fighting alone was unheard of even Mereoleona had to get at least a C average when she attended and even then the school was very unwilling to pay for her attendance, "What happened?", Klaus came with another question, "With what?", Asta wasn't sure what he meant, "How did they get you here?", "Oh I was fighting a lot of underground fights and I guess after I beat Hapass they felt that I could be something here", Asta just shrugged since they never really told him exactly why they wanted him here, "Hapass?", "Yeah that was the guy's name............I think", Asta began to stroke his chin thinking if it was the name, "Hm sounds similar to a guy me and Yuno knew, he was kind of a jerk", Klaus commented as he remembered a scuffle in middle school he had with him, "I don't know not really sure why someone like that would be fighting in the underground", Asta put his hands behind his head, "You fought in the underground?", Klaus was starting to get increasingly worried, "Yeah", "Wait where are you from?", Klaus got to the question Asta was probably most worried about answering, "I'm from uh....................................................................I'm from Hage", Asta nervously scratched his cheek, "WHAT", Klaus again yelled prompting another student to tell him to shut up, "Sorry", Klaus looked at Asta way closer and it made sense he wasn't wearing expensive clothing, he had a really beat up pair of converse, and not that he was looking at him closely his face was also rather tattered, "Is that a problem", Asta looked at him, "No just surprising", Klaus smiled, "I think don't anyone like you has even ever been to the school while I've been here", Klaus smiled at him, "Hey great to know that", Asta smiled and looked ahead, "This is it", Klaus opened the door the only two seats available were in the middle, "Damn", the two sat down
from the moment class started it felt like it was going on forever, "Is this all the classes today?", Asta asked Klaus, "All of what?", Klaus wasn't sure what he meant, "It's just the last class I had it was just a speech and that was it", "Oh yeah that's all today is gonna be", Klaus just gave him a blank look, "Damn", Asta just rested his chin on his palm thinking about detention for the rest of the month
The class wrapped up and third period was about to begin, "Oh wait before you leave can you tell me where, Psychology with D. Unsworth is?", Asta asked Klaus, "Oh yeah it's the sixth floor of HSS building", Klaus waved leaving in the opposite direction, "Ok thanks man", he waved back heading over there, "That was way better than last class", Asta thought as he walked through the halls to the outside before he abruptly stopped, "I don't know where the HSS building is"
Asta had completely forgotten to ask where the building itself was, "Maybe I should've paid attention to the tour more rather than laugh at the guy with the bowl cut", he lamented his lack focus pulling out his phone to check the time, "OH NO NO NO", Asta tugged his hair, "CLASS STARTS IN FIVE MINUTES", he walked in a circle thinking of how to get to class, "You need help?"
"YES, PLEASE THANK YOU", Asta grabbed the guy by the ankle, "Woah chill man", he shook Asta off, "Follow me"
"Y'know everyone's talking about you", the guy suddenly spoke to Asta while they walked, "What?", Asta was puzzled as he had only talked to like four people, "You didn't know?", he gave Asta a bit of a weird look, "Nah I've only spoken to a few people while I've been here so far", the two continued, "Really? That's weird, but yeah people are buzzing about you", the guy kind of gave an awkward smile, "Why's that?", "Oh come on man you know why", he nudged him with his elbow, but Asta couldn't really figure what he was talking about and then it hit him like a ton of bricks, "Mom is so gonna kill me", he thought back to a couple hours earlier where he headbutted Kiato, "Oh yeah", Asta looked down, "Hey man don't feel bad that dudes a total A hole", he finally lead Asta to the HSS building, "Well here you are", he said getting ready to walk away, "Oh wait what's your name?", Asta asked, "Finral", he gave Asta a thumbs up as he left
In Psych class
"Alright class we'll just be going over the syllabus for the class and I'll let you talk amongst yourselves", Ms. Unsworth told her class as she looked at the paper, Asta wasn't very concerned with her he was just worried that his mom was gonna whoop his ass, "Man I really shouldn't have done that", he thought about the altercation, the silver haired girl, Kiato who he didn't even know that he was such a big deal or that people were talking about the incident , Although Asta had been on auto pilot mode knowing that most of today wasn't really that important so maybe they were and he just never noticed, "Ah this is too much for me to think about right now", Asta looked as the class spoke, hearing people talk about how their summers were, what new expensive thing their parents bought them, going to a different country, and then there was Asta someone who had spent the last month of summer grounded for getting caught in the underground, but even before that was more or less just hanging out with his friends which he enjoyed but compared to what the people who were around him it definitely made him feel more out of place than ever, "What's wrong?", Ms. Unsworth tapped Asta on the shoulder, "Oh nothing mam", Asta offered up a pretty weak smile, "I know that's not true young man", she showed her skepticism of that, "It's true", he kept trying to wave her off, "Alright kid, but I still would like to talk to you after class", she gave Asta a pat on the back, "Yes mam", he sighed putting his chin in his palm, "Great", he thought to himself knowing that he was likely to be in trouble
"Alright guys have a good lunch and rest of your day", Ms. Unsworth dismissed her class seeing the students pour out, "Not you Mr. Staria", she called Asta out as he tried to sneak away with the crowd, "Nice try kiddo", she laughed at the attempt, "Sorry it slipped my mind", Asta tried to play it off, "Uh huh", she smiled at her student, "Earlier I asked you if something is wrong and you said no", "Yeah", "Well I'm not gonna lie I don't really believe that", she typed something into her computer, "Why's that?", Asta asked her, "Well in my first class of today I heard students talking about an altercation from earlier with the head of the football team", she turned her computer to Asta showing him the video of him headbutting Kiato, "Yeah I uh-", "Hold on to that thought. So, I decided to go through your record, and I did find some interesting stuff", "Wait-", "Let me finish please, suspension's during middle school and a few during your freshman and sophomore year, a few brushes with law enforcement, and unsanctioned fighting", she looked up at Asta, "I know", he looked away, "Now I don't want your time here to be short neither do I want it to be miserable", Asta was pretty surprised by her statement, "So I was gonna say that I think having weekly meetings to discuss how you feel about your new environment could do you some good", she switched to writing in a notebook, "Our discussions will be between you and me only I won't tell the school, I won't tell your mom, and I won't even tell the alley cat that hangs around the greenhouse", he laughed a little at the last one, "Thank you", "No problem, I want you to succeed while you're here. This IS supposed to be the bestt time of your life", she held out her hand for him to shake, "Thanks Ms. Unsworth", "Please just call me Dorothy", they shook hands, "Now you go and have a great year, ok?", "I will", Asta walked away feeling a lot better than he did when he first talked to her, "Well that went way better than I expected", he began walking to the cafeteria
At the Cafeteria
When he made it there though the line was crazy long, "UHHH", he groaned getting in line, "NEXT", the cooks yelled one after the other before they got to Asta, "What would you like sir?", "You guys got anything high in protein?", "Yeah lemon teriyaki chicken with stir fried vegetables and quinoa", "I'll have that then", "Alright", the cashier held her hand out, "Cash or card?", she looked at the tablet, "Uh card?", Asta handed her his student ID, "Thank you", she scanned it and asked for him to wait eight minutes, he looked at the glass while his food was being cooked which was admittedly cool, "Mr. Staria", he turned his head to see Kira, "Oh hey Kira how've you been?", Asta gave him a nervous look, "I've been fine, but I would like to speak with you in my office", "Oh yeah sure my food is-", "Don't worry Mr. Staria I'll wait", the last five minutes went by really slow, "Alright lets go", Kira motioned Asta after he received his food
In Kira's office
"It seems you've had quite the debut Mr. Staria", Kira bawled his hands together, "Hehe yeah", Asta nervously tried to not make eye contact, "Now I know that Kiato is the one who engaged the encounter, but still it's not a good look for that to be your first day", Kira rearranged some of the papers on his desk, "I know", "It has also come to my attention that Ms. Unsworth has arranged for you two to meet weekly", "Yes", "Ms. Roselei also told you about detention", "Yes", "Now I understand that our school maybe very different from your last one, and I can understand that it may be hard to adjust, but that type of thing can't go unpunished wheater", Kira sifted through the papers, "She also tried to call home, but no one answered", "YES", Asta thought to himself that he got saved from a whooping, "Ok", Asta responded, "So I will be sending a letter home", "NO", Asta thought as he got thrown into the whooping again, "Ok", "I'll have Ms. Roselei give it to you after detention", he began to write on the piece of paper, "I do hope that your future here will be better than today", Kira looked up, "I promise you sir it will", Asta assured him, "Alright you can go", Asta got up to leave, "And Mr. Staria", Kira stopped him, "Yeah?", "I don't want you to feel like I'm or anyone else is attacking you", "I know", "It's just this was a big risk to take, and I want you to do well here", Kira gave him a reassuring smile, "I know and I promise I will try my best", "That is all I ask", Kira gave him one last smile as Asta left the room eating his food
Outside
"I gotta find a place to sit", he went outside with his tray Asta decided to just eat by the fields sitting on the bleachers, "Man this is so good", he almost cried tears of joy at the food he was eating, "Hey", Asta looked up to see Yuno and Klaus, "Oh hey what's up", Asta wiped the sauce off his face, "Mind if we sit with you?", Yuno asked him, "Yeah no problem", "So what did Kira want to talk to you about", Yuno asked, "The incident from earlier", Asta answered, "I never got your name", "Asta", he replied, "Well Asta you've kicked up a hell of a lot of dust", Yuno laughed a bit, "Unfortunately", he slumped down, "You get in trouble?", "Yep, detention for the rest of the month", "Ouch", "Tell me about it", "Klaus told me about you", Yuno looked over to Asta, "Yeah?", "Yeah, said you were here for kickboxing", "Yeah", "Congratulations you are the one of like five other students who are doing a combat sport, these days", "Really?", "Yeah", "Huh", Asta was really shocked to hear that, this was a school built on combat sports so to hear that, "So what do you think so far?", Yuno asked him, "Boring and kind of tense", Asta answered, "Really?", "Yep", "I would've thought that you would've heard about earlier more", Asta thought about it remembering the silver haired girl from earlier, "Hey so that silver haired girl she's Noelle right?", Asta asked, "Yeah why?", "Well her locker said Silva", "Ok?", "And she kinda looks like-", "Acier Silva?", "Yeah", "Yep she's her youngest", Yuno faced the field watching a group of people run laps, "So is she one of the-", "Nope", "Really?", "Yeah she seems more fitted to just be an actor or something, not bad but she isn't as tough as her old lady was", Yuno remarked with a bit of a scough, "Huh guess tough parent doesn't equal tough kid", Asta continued eating before the shadow of someone loomed over him causing him to look up
"I've been looking around for you awhile", the guy told him, "Um ok", Asta just tried to get back to eating, "Well I-", he was interrupted, "Hold on, you see my names Sekke I'm a part of the schools combat sports program", he kept talking, "And I've been hearing about you a lot today", "Apparently everyone has", Asta rolled his eyes, "Yes and I have to say I'm not too impressed y'know with you just cheap shotting a guy who plays football", "Ok well he swung at me first so that sounds like a him problem", Asta grabbed his food and tried to leave before Sekke got in his way, "So I was gonna ask you if some friendly sparring was something you might be interested in?", Sekke asked him, "Sure dude just after school cause-", "Why wait till then, we still have twenty minutes", Sekke gave him a smug look, "Well I was gonna say later so I could finish-", "If you don't want to I understand, I do have a pretty good reputation around here", He pointed to himself proudly, "You saying I'm scared?", Asta began to grit his teeth, "Why else would you not accept?", Yuno cut into the conversation, "Hey man he said he doesn't want to right now so back off", "So he can't-", Sekke seemed like he was gonna tell Yuno something, "Alright then", Asta interrupted, "Good just follow me", Sekke beckoned him. As they walked it was rather quite aside from some of the whispers from other students who were wondering what they were doing before piecing together that they were likely going to fight
In the gym
When they did get to the gym there were a few people in there a guy with red hair who was practicing foot work drills, a tan girl who was running on the treadmill, two people sitting on the ring apron talking, "This is it", "I know I've been in here before", Asta just rolled his eyes, "Really? I haven't seen you before", Sekke didn't try to hide his skepticism, "Yeah during a tour like a month ago", Asta looked at the people who were working out of which they turned their attention to them, "Sekke what are you doing", one of the two talking on the apron asked, "Just looking to spar the new guy", he walked passed them, "I'm gonna go get ready in the locker room you do as you please", Asta just took off his shirt and shoes, "You really gonna fight this tool?", Yuno leaned over to Asta, "It's not fighting he said sparring", Asta made his way to the ring, "I know but he has a reputation for saying that then going as hard as he can", Yuno followed , "Well I'll hit him as hard as he hits me", "Alright dude just don't say I didn't warn you", Yuno put his hands up, "Looks like we have company", Klaus tapped him on the shoulder pointing his thumb back to the entrance as students had begun to come in to watch the two, "Hey I left my gloves in my locker so-", "Use mine", the red haired guy walked up to him, "Really? Thanks", he looked at the gloves
"ARE YOU SURE?", Asta held the pair of Winning gloves, "Yeah go ahead", "MAN THESE ARE SO EXPENSIVE", he put one of them on, "SO COOL", the other guy laughed, "You never seen a pair of gloves before?", he laughed, "Well yeah but not ones these expensive", he marveled at them, "Expensive?", the red head gave Asta a weird look, "Yeah these are like 400-500 yuls", he couldn't believe he was even holding a pair right now, "Huh that's not that much", "NOT MUCH MY ASS", he finally Asta began to one of the gloves with his, "Come on now no need to be afraid", Sekke interrupted the two, "Oh yeah I forgot about you", Asta made his way into the ring while more students began to surround it even some teachers did, "Alright", Asta tried to touch gloves with him, but was laughed away before Sekke got in his face, "You should've really thought this out more, cause now I'm gonna show these people you don't belong here", he pointed to the crowd where he had noticed that Kiato, Noelle, and her friends watching as well as the tan girl who had stopped her work out to see what was going to happen. he also noticed that Kira and some blonde guy were watching, "You got here to try and touch elbows with the elite, but the sad truth is after today you'll be going straight back to the dirty streets you came from so enjoy it while it lasts", Sekke walked to his corner with the sound of the buzzer going off signifying the beginning of the round
Sekke walked forward with a traditional Muay Thai stance, "You ready?", he asked, Asta didn't responded though, he was the first to engage throwing a few jabs to start off the round however, Asta was just leaning back and parrying when necessary, "YOU GOT THIS SEKKE", Asta looked over to the crowd where more than a few people were cheering him on, "DON'T TAKE YOU EYES OFF", Sekke was about to come in with a hook, of which Asta simply leaned out of the way pivoting to get away from the ropes, "Ok you got some pretty ok foot work", Sekke gave him a back handed compliment, still bouncing he tried to throw a straight right which just barely missed Asta who pulled away again, "Come now there's no reason to run", Sekke lifted his arms up and down trying to elicit a response from the crowd, Sekke walked forward throwing a leg kick that was checked, and trying to blitz Asta with a jab straight jab combination, but Asta kept weaving and moving away, "Alright that's starting to get a little annoying", he came forward yet again trying to catch Asta with a round house which again barely missed with Asta getting away, "STOP RUNNING AWAY", Sekke tried to rush in with a heavy hook
He caught him on his way in flatlining him causing the crowd to go silent, "I'm not here to rub elbows with the elite or whatever you said and I'm not here to try and meet the kid of some celebrity, I'm here cause I fought to be and because this school has turned out some of the best fighters in the world which is something I will be some day", Asta told him as his friends tried to pick him up
Kira was impressed to say the least, sure there weren't many students who were apart of the combat sports program, but to take Sekke out with one punch was seriously impressive, "You keep getting emotional and running in with your chin in the air he's gonna find it and take you out" "FRUSTRATE HIM POINT HIM OUT", Kira thought about the man in Asta's corner that day, "I told you he's the real deal", Kira looked over at the blonde man, "I have to say I wasn't sure about him when you first told me but I do have to admit he's impressive"
"Seems like he's not half bad", the tan girl looked over to the red head, "Huh Leo?", "No kidding", Leo smiled watching as the he got out of the ring and handed him his gloves, "Thanks for letting me borrow these", "No problem man", he gave the grey-haired boy a little tap on the arm, "I can't wait to work with you, huh Sol?", "Yeah color me impressed", she gave him a small wave as he returned the gesture and began to walk over to Yuno and Klaus, "Maybe that'll give her some motivation", he looked over to Noelle
"WHAT", Noelle thought to herself as she watched the short guy take off the gloves and hand them to her cousin, "This guy-", she thought about what Kiato said earlier, "You didn't notice it did you?" "Notice what?" "His face" "What about his face?" "It was filled with scars, and his knuckles were an entirely different color than the rest of his hand", it hit her, "Let go" "NO", "HE COULD HAVE HE", Noelle clinched her fists thinking about when she had confronted him
The crowd was very surprised most of them sort of whispering amongst themselves, "Hmm I thought he would be a little bit more of a brawler", Dorothy commented with Ms. Roselei just standing there, "hm", she looked at Asta as he began to get out of the ring
"Looks like you were right about him", Klaus chuckled a bit with Yuno saying nothing only cracking a small smile at him, "What class you guys got after this?", Asta asked the two, "History with Granvorka", Klaus answered, "Sweet we can go together", Asta said while he put his shirt and shoes back on, "Mr. Staria", he saw as Kira came up to them, "What's up Kira?", "I was actually going to ask about the guy in your corner that night", "Oh Yami", "So that's his name? Well yeah", "What about him?", "I was gonna ask if he might be able to come here and train you?", "REALLY?", Asta jumped up, "Yeah I noticed that you took his advice from that night and thought he might be able to help you out if you feel you don't giv with the coaches here", Kira patted him on the back as the bell ring, "Sorry but I have to get to class, I'll ask him though", Asta, Yuno, and Klaus left the gym
In the Halls
"That was a pretty clean knock out", Klaus looked over at Asta, "Thanks", Asta stared at his phone, "What are you looking at?", Yuno asked, "My friends want to hang out Friday", he put his phone back in his pocket, "You guys wanna come?", Klaus and Yuno looked at each other, "Um sure what are you guys going to do?", Yuno asked, "Not sure yet but they want to hang out", "OH THAT'S RIGHT, what's your guys numbers", he took his phone out again, "Here", Klaus took his out and handed it to Asta, "Cool, Yuno?", "Here", he also handed him his phone, "Alright I'll text you guys later when I find out", the trio continued to walk to class, "You guys ever do any martial arts?", Asta asked the two, "Nope", "Oh well I got a few belts in taekwondo", Klaus answered pushing his glasses up, "Yeah when we were like eight", Yuno laughed at him, "HEY I STILL GOT IT", Klaus sarcastically yelled at him, "Plus it really isn't all to applicable", "That's not true", Asta cut in, "Huh?", "It's not useless it's like most martial arts, you need a lot of self-involvement y'know?", "I don't", Yuno gave Asta a blank stare
EXPLANATION
The Legendary Bruce Lee once said, "Absorb what is useful discard what is not and Add what is uniquely your own", meaning that it is up to the individual to find out what works for them. A prime example is Wonder boy Stephen Thompson a Kempo Karate specialist. A form of karate believed to have been long outdated and surpassed by other styles of karate such as Kyokushin-kai or Shotokan, it was also largely believed that it was far worse than other kickboxing styles such as Muay Thai and Dutch Kickboxing, However, Wonder boy had managed to climb to the top of the welterweight division and have very close contests with Tyron Woodley someone who is widely regarded as the fourth greatest welterweight in UFC history, and impressive displays of high level striking against people such as Robert Whittaker, Jeorge Masvidal, Geoff Neal, and Vincente Luque, all through his style of touch and go as well as an emphasis on managing distance with the lead leg side kick utilizing it as a push back and get away tool. And because of this we was able to make what was considered far too traditional to be effective in the highest level of mixed martial arts, uniquely his own work at that level of mixed martial arts. In that same vein Taekwondo has had its high-level representatives such as the current interim UFC feather weight champion Yair "Pantera" Rodruguez and Anthony "Showtime" Pettis who is a former UFC and WEC lightweight champion. So yes, it can be applicable, but it is up to the user to make it such
Klaus and Yuno were pretty surprised by Asta's speech as when they talked to him throughout the day, he didn't seem all that smart, "Couldn't have said it better myself"
the girl from earlier strung her bag with her, "hey you're one of the people who were there before me and Sekke", "Yep names Sol Marron but you can just call me Sol", she pointed her thumb to herself, "I have to say your speech earlier was pretty neat, but I guess you understand more about fighting than I thought", Sol laughed at him, "HUH?", "Calm down dude it was a compliment", she kept pace with the three, "So you're not gonna elaborate?", Asta asked her, "What is there to elaborate on? You pretty much said what I've been thinking", "Really?", "Yeah, so I was pretty happy to see you leave Sekke flat on his face", she laughed, "I thought you guys were friends?", "US NOW WAY! He's a total ass, plus he was saying some pretty similar stuff about taekwondo", she gave Yuno a bit of a glare, "You do taekwondo?", "Nope", "Then why do you care?", "Cause I also think that almost anything can work if applied right", she thought about what he said, "So what do you do then?", Asta asked her, "I do Judo", she proudly announced "So you must be pretty good", "Yep, already got my black belt", she put her hands behind her head, "REALLY", Asta marveled at her, "Yep", she gave them a smug smile, "So have you won anything yet?", Klaus asked, "Um no, but I got eighth at summer regionals", she nervously scratched the back of her head, "That's still pretty cool, I only ever fought in the underground before this", Asta gave her a small bit of reassurance, "Oh yeah I remember Kira told me and Leo about someone like that, I guess that was you?", "Yeah", "Well hate to interrupt but we're here", Yuno told them, "That's fine this is my next class anyways", Sol replied, "Really? Then you can sit with us", Asta offered her, "Sure"
In class
"Classes today, have been boring", Asta groaned as he leaned back in his chair, "The first day is always like this", Yuno leaned his head into his hand, "Sorry guys but tomorrow will be more eventful", Mr. Granvorka patted Yuno on the back, "Your friends decided what to do yet?", Klaus tried to elevate the boredom, "Who's friends?", Sol asked, "Asta's, his friends said they wanted to hang out Friday", Klaus answered, "Nope, but I got an idea of who's going to come", Asta stretched his arms across the table phone in hand, "I see", Sol looked over him, "Wanna come?", Asta asked, "Really?", "Yeah-", "Dude we don't even know her", Yuno commented while returning the glare from earlier, "Hey the more the merrier", Asta turned his attention back to his phone, "And besides I don't know you guys too well and I invited you", Yuno nor Klaus could really deny it, "I'm gonna be in the gym a lot so I'll see her anyway", "YEAH", Sol blew her tongue out at him, "Ok", Yuno just rolled his eyes trying to ignore her, "You know where it's gonna be?", "I'm not sure probably somewhere around where I live", Asta scrolled through his messages, "Where do you live?", Sol asked, "Hage", "Really? I thought you'd live at least at like Kikka", "Nah that's too expensive for my mom to afford", "Hm", Sol looked at him, "How many people are going to be there aside from us?", "Uh like five maybe seven", Asta counted on his fingers, "You still do that", the tension between Klaus, Sol, and Yuno was broken by them laughing at him, "HEY", "Keep it down", "Yes Mr. Granvorka", the four went back to conversing
for Asta history wasn't bad at all, probably because he had a few people to talk to, "Asta you coming to the gym for free period?", Sol asked before the four parted ways, "Free period?", Asta was really confused about what she was talking about, "Check your schedule last class says free period right?", Asta took out his phone to see, "It does", He looked at it, "How did you know?", "All of the combat sports students get the last period free to train", Sol explained to him, "How did I not notice that earlier", "You don't notice a lot of things", Yuno remarked as he walked away, "HEY OH WHATEVER", he yelled at him, "Yeah sure then", "Cool see you later", the four separated, "So this is my last class for today", Asta walked away, "AWWW MATH", he groaned, "Whatever it won't be that bad today, Morgen Faust hm sounds familiar"
In front of the math room
"So, this is it", Asta looked seeing he had actually been the first student there with the teacher sitting at the desk, "Hi", he waved to him, "Hi", Asta passed him not really paying attention while he looked at his phone, "You're rather early", he looked up from his phone
"Most students usually get here as late as they can get away with", Asta shook his head trying to make sure that he wasn't seeing things, "What's wrong?", Mr. Faust asked him, "Nothing I just......Have we met before?", he asked his teacher, "I don't think we have", but Asta was still skeptical of that, "Weird question but do you have a brother?", his teacher seemed to have been a bit bothered by the question, "Why do you ask?", he kept his close eyed smile, "Nah it's just you look exactly like my friend", he began scrolling through his camera roll to find a picture of him, "You sure?", "Yeah I'm positive you look like him", he finally found a picture of the two, "Here", he lifted his phone to him
Morgen opened his eyes wide seeing the picture of the two, "Yes I do", he finally answered the question, "His name Nacht?", "Yes", Morgen clearly seemed a bit sad about the subject, "That's weird he's never mentioned you", "Is that so?", he looked at the ceiling, "Can I ask why?", Asta had become REALLY curious about what happened between them, "I think it's best you ask him yourself it's not my place to say anything about it", Asta nodded and decided to leave it having the two of them remain silent for a while, "So how is he?", Morgen broke the silence, "Huh?", "Nacht how is he?", Morgen clarified, "He's been good", Asta thought about him, "He's got an apartment, a pretty good job, a girlfriend, and he's a really good friend", it made Morgen happy to hear, "That's good", he sat on his thoughts for a few seconds, "What's his girlfriend's name?", "Her names Ichika", Morgen had been caught off guard by the name, "What?", "Nothing it's just I never thought the two would actually get together", Morgen stared at the ground this time with a more soft expression, "I'm glad", he looked back at Asta, "Where does he work?", he couldn't help but ask wanting to find out what his brother had been up to, "He works with my coach at his body shop", Asta thought about the first time they had met when his mom needed work on her car done, "That's right you are one of the combat sports students", Morgen looked at role sheet, "Asta?", "Yes", "Hm. So, what's your coaches names?", "Well his first name is Sukehiro but I just call him Yami", Morgen almost fell over in his chair, "YOU KNOW HIM?", he pulled his chair back, "Yeah I've known him since I was pretty young", "So how's he doing?", Morgen leaned in, "He's cool his shops doing well, likes cars, he's also a great coach", "How do you like the coaches here compared to him?", Morgen asked, "I didn't get to train with any of them, but he's probably going to start coming here so it doesn't really matter", Morgen's eyes seemed to pop out of his head, "WHAT?", Morgen couldn't believe what he was hearing and not to mention he probably still wasn't ready to see him again, "Does Charlotte know?", "Who's Charlotte?", "Ms. Roselei", "Why would she?", Asta was super confused, "Nothing never mind", morgen saw more students began to come in
class went by quickly which made the first day a bit more bearable, "I also want you guys to know that there is tutoring for math on Thursdays", Morgen told the class Asta waved him goodbye started heading to the gym deciding since he had a free period to end the day to take his time checking out the map seeing where things were and after looking at it for a while his head almost overheating from how big the school was he decided to head over
"ASTA YOUR LATE", Sol berated him, "Yeah I know", Asta covered his head as she kept chopping him over the head, "WELL DON'T MAKE IT A HABIT", the other four in the gym looked over at the two, "Hey the guy who let him use his gloves earlier called out to him, "Oh hey I didn't get to thank you for the gloves earlier", Asta shook his hand, "Don't mention it", he laughed, "Well I'm just gonna get to work", Asta placed his bag near the ring, "Wanna do a couple rounds?", the red head asked, "Sure", Asta said as he took his shirt off and was stopped from taking off his shoes, "Sorry I'm no good with kicks", he scratched the back of his head, "Ok", Asta was rather surprised, "Y'know I think I've seen you somewhere", Asta got a closer look at him, "You probably know my siblings Mereoleona and Fuegoleon", he nervously rubbed his arm, "OHH", a light bulb went off in Asta's head, "Yeah but you can just call me Leo", "So you must be a really good fighter", "I'm ok", Leo looked at the floor, "What's up?", "Nothing let's just start", Leo put his gloves on and went into the ring, "What's his problem?", Asta asked Sol, "He's a little self-conscious of his name don't worry", she pushed Asta to the ring, "Ok", Asta went in, "Ready?", Asta extended his hands for a glove touch, "Yep", Leo returned the gesture, "Alright guys", Sol put her hand over the timer, "GO"
Leo started off lightly with a few jabs Asta parried them and tried to throw a straight hand hat Leo weaved to the outside off giving Asta a very solid body shot, "Alright that was good", Asta held his side, "I got ya", Leo laughed a little, the two ended the quick verbal exchange getting back to circling each other. Asta threw a right hand that barely missed him but did open him up for an overhand that Leo blocked trying to catch Asta with an uppercut Asta leaned as far back as he could and stepped out of Leos range
the two went back to circling each other before Leo stopped and got into a stance Asta hadn't seen before
Leo was standing bladed with his back hand facing half to Asta half to himself while it covered a bit of his chin, his lead hand was put across his side with his forearm blocking the sweet spot in-between the rib and abdomen, he also squeezed his head between his lead arms shoulder and his back hand, "What's that?"
EXPLANATION
The philly shell a style popularized in the 1950's and 60's by a man named George Benton one of the greatest middle weights of his time regardless of championships or not, this particular style of boxing would go. However, it had first rose to championship prominence by someone named Bernard Hopkins who displayed the possible excellence that the style of boxing could achieve. But it was shown in its greatest form by the legendary Floyd "Money" Mayweather, a boxer who had a crewed 50 professional wins and 0 losses, and while he may have never claimed undisputed he did go on to beat some of the greatest boxers of our time Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, "Sugar" Shane Mosely, "The Pac man" Manny Pacquaio, "The Hitman" Ricky Hatton, Marcos "El Chino" Maidana and "The Golden Boy" Oscar De La Hoya and in doing so had secured a place in combat sports history and it was largely due to his defensive style of boxing that allowed it, but how?
Asta threw a few jabs that were parried, but as his second jab faded, he tried throwing a lead hook which Leo used the same hand to block the hook and circle away
You see the back hand is used as a guard against jabs and hooks
Asta tried to aim for his body to open him up, but Leo used his elbow to push his body shot down
the lead hand that is covering the body is used to block and prevent body shots and on occasion is used for jabs or quick shots meant to catch your opponent off guard
As his body straight was pushed down, he come over top with an over hand that Leo deflected by rolling his shoulder with the punch while also using it to guard his chin
as for the shoulder and its purpose is to simultaneously to deflect right hand punches and protect the chin should a shot not rollable
Asta quickly pulled away avoiding an upwards jab from Leo's lead arm and geared up for a straight down the pipe
And when all of these things work in tandem, they create unique opportunities
When he threw the straight Leo Rolled and hit him with a clean cross counter snapping his head back a bit causing him to step out of Leo's range once again
So, if this seemingly impenetrable defense is as it seems, why doesn't everyone use it? It's simple it takes a mixture of a high-level understanding of boxing psychology and reaction times to use it properly
Asta kept throwing combinations having each be blocked, rolled, and evaded, "Ok", Asta threw a test jab, having it be parried yet again
But if the user has both what would stop them from being beaten? The answer Lies within two possible counters
It was strange Asta had fought many boxers, well kickboxers who had a larger emphasis on their hands and admittedly none of them really were super defensive or technically sound, "What could I do?", he thought to himself, "Worth a shot", Asta swung trying to get to Leo's back and while he did threw a fake out jab that caused a little bit of a reaction from, "Got you", he swung back with Leo needing to readjust to the which opened him up for a straight to the body making Leo try to circle away which got him caught with another straight this time to the face
Semi advance foot work is the simpler answer, as when doing constant swings and cut offs because of the nature of the philly shell, the user can't always cut off the movement leaving time to try and expose the weak side AKA the back, giving the one swinging an opportunity to hit them since the one shelling needs to constantly readjust leaving them open for a hook or straight when they do. This way was also shown by Mayweather himself in 2005 against Arturo Gatti
However, as the saying goes everything has a weakness, and even this counter to the shell has a counter to it and it is equally as simple, by bending to the waist of your opponent and pivoting to the outside of your opponent's lead hand and circle away
Leo picked up on what he was doing, and when he started to adjust it felt like nothing was getting that close again, in fact nothing did. It seemed like Leo had downloaded him, when he would throw the jab straight it was blocked and rolled, every rear hook got rolled, every standalone jab parried, each combo was stopped and Asta kept getting a counter and would step back, "Hmmm", Asta thought while Leo kept the same smile on his face, "I get it", Asta switched to a southpaw stance, "Huh?", Sol and Leo were really confused by what he was saying
But what was the second counter? Answer the southpaw stance. But what is south paw? It is a stance where your lead hand is your right hand, and you back hand is your left leaving you in a mirrored position from your opponent
Asta began throwing the same combinations that he was throwing when he was in orthodox, but each time the timing was a bit different. While Leo was still mostly deflecting and blocking, it was strange, sometimes when he needed to block the jab he would extend his back hand, "Does he get it?", he thought
But why? Why does this work? Because when your opponent is boxing you in a symmetrical plane, orthodox to orthodox the jab will naturally go towards the back hand negating the most important tool that a boxer has, but when this is flipped it falls apart at a fundamental level suddenly the power shot isn't what is being rolled and since you can't parry the jab cause the lead hand is down you so to make up for it you bring the back hand up for the power, but now that the power shot can't be rolled it leaves you vulnerable, even Mayweather knew this and switched stances when facing southpaws he switched to a more traditional high guard, but this only came with many fights and sparring sessions as well as trial and error with boxers such as Zab Judah, Victor Ortiz and Manny Pacquiao. Meaning if you don't have that experience or an alternative answer you may find yourself in a bad way such was the case for Bernard Hopkins against Joe Calzaghe
Asta launched a rear hook, "It doesn't seem like he learned anything so what's with the confidence?", Leo parried it and prepped a cross counter, but it was interrupted by Asta's jab, "Ok", Leo and Sol were shocked that he managed to get through, Asta threw another jab which Leo got ready to parry this time using his backhand to parry it which he did but Asta swung a power hook right as the jab was parried *BURRRRRRRRRRRR* the alarm to signal the end of the round went off Asta's glove inches away from Leo's face, "THAT WAS AWESOME", Sol yelled as she got in the ring but Leo, well he couldn't believe it, Asta almost did him in it was.......................................................................................................... unasuring, Asta went to go grab a drink of water from the fountain, "That was close huh?", Sol remarked to Leo, "Yeah", he looked over to Asta, "You ready to go again?", he asked causing him to smile, "YEP", he ran back to the ring
The two sparred forever going round after round unfortunately all good things come to an end, "Man that was a great session", Leo and Asta both sat down after the intense session, "Well time to go", Sol grabbed her stuff, "You guys coming with?", she asked the two, "Nah I gotta go home my sisters visiting", Leo replied, "I got detention", Asta put his head down, "Damn maybe next tin", she grabbed her bag and slung it over her shoulder, "well see you guys", she waved, "I should get going too", Leo got up, "Thanks for the work man", he gave Asta a high five and a fist bump, "Yeah man", Asta put his shirt back on, "See you tomorrow", Leo waved as Asta was the only one left in the gym, "UHHHHHHHHH", he groaned getting up, "Welp might as well get this over with", he shut the lights off and headed out
At the detention room
Asta made it outside seeing Noelle was there, "Oh great", he thought to himself, Noelle herself looked up from her phone, "It's you", she glared at him, "WHATEVER", Asta yelled at her, "DON'T YELL AT ME", she got in his face, "I'LL YELL AT YOU ALL I WANT", "OH YEAH?", "YEAH YOU SPOILED BI-", "ENOUGH", the two of them looked over to see Ms. Roselei, "What are you doing?", she watched the two pull away from each other, "Inside now", she unlocked the door opening it for the two of them to walk in
"So, as you know you've got this for the rest of the month", Ms. Roselei looked as the two sat in the two corners of the room furthest of each other, "As such it will be your duty to clean as much as you can in the two hours that you'll be here", "AW WHAT", the two shot out of their seats, "Punishment for Noelle this is the third year in a row that you've caused trouble in the first few weeks let alone the fact this time it was the first day", Noelle slouched back into her chair, "And for Asta it's for first day and you caused quite a stir", Asta sat back down in his chair crossing his arms, "I know you don't want to but it is the consequence of you doing what you both did today", Ms. Roselei left the room and returned quickly with a few rags, sprays, a bucket and mop, and a broom, "You take these clean this room and when your done move onto the next", she left the stuff on the desk and left, "This is all your fault", Noelle leaned back in her chair, "HUH", Asta snapped his head around, "I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THIS LADY BUT YOU AND YOUR BOYFRIEND ARE THE ONES THAT STARTED IT", he yelled at her, "YOU HIT HIM", Noelle got out of her seat and began to walk over to him, "HE SWUNG FIRST HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT", the two of them bawled their fists, "STOP IT", they hear Ms. Roselei call from outside
As the two cleaned it was very quiet as they sprayed and cleaned the desks one by one, well Asta did. Noelle however, she was just sitting down, "Are you seriously not gonna help?", Asta asked her really annoyed, "Do you know who I am?", she looked up at him, "Yeah and I don't care", Noelle felt anger, "Well if you know who I am you should be on your hands and knees begging me to help, hell maybe I'd even give you a shoutout to my follo-", "That's not what I was talking about", he went back to cleaning, "Then how do-", she was interrupted again, "I was talking about your mom", Noelle felt a weird pit form in her stomach, "I'm a...... was a fan of her when she was still kickboxing", she began to quickly tap her foot, "So when I saw your name on the locker when I went on that tour, I assumed that you were one of the combat sports students", she clinched her fists, "And when you gripped my shoulder, I thought you would be smart enough to know that it was a bad idea", blood started dripping from her hand as her nails dug into them, "But I was very wrong and you ended up being a spoiled-", "SHUT UP", she finally exploded, "IT'S NOT MY FAULT SHE NEVER EVEN LET ME TRY"
Flashback
She could remember it clear as day, the day she brought the kickboxing signup sheet to her mom, "No", she told her, "WHAT WHY NOT?", Noelle was confused, "Cause I said so, besides there are plenty of other things that you could do while your there", Noelle was very frustrated, her mom didn't get it. THERE WASN'T, Nebra had tried to get her a position in a music company, but she had no rhythm with an instrument and her vocals were said to be among the top three worst they had ever heard, When Solid tried to get her a modeling gig at the magazine he was writing for she got turned down cause they said she didn't have "It" whatever "it" was, and the most cringe inducing was with Nozel who got her a guest spot on a T.V show he was acting for that ultimately scrapped cause she constantly forgot lines and they said she felt to stiff, so naturally she thought fighting was something she could do, after all she loved her mom's fight career more so than her acting one, and was lucky enough to catch her last few in person as a kid. Yet her mom didn't let her, it didn't help that her best friend and cousin Mimosa's mom had let her start boxing when they entered high school it was it was........................................................................................................................................................Disappointing, her family were famous people who in her eyes were talented enough to get there, and she just settled for what her friends did and became a social media influencer. The least cool or interesting thing someone from her family could be doing was what she was, and it hurt a lot. Cause every time someone drew comparisons to her and her siblings it felt like she was nothing, but when she got compared to her mother for something out of her control it made her feel like less than nothing like she didn't even exist
Back with them
Asta wasn't really all that shocked that she was angry since she was the person that yelled at him for putting his stuff away. So imagine his surprise when he watched her get up and walk over to him, "YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME SO SAY WHATEVER CAUSE I DON'T CARE", he noticed her hands were bleeding, "Are you-", "SHE NEVER EVEN LET ME TRY TO DO IT SO WHAT RIGHT DO YOU HAVE TO COMPARE ME", "I-" *SMACK* she hit him leaving a blood print of her hand on his face, realizing what she had done she braced herself remembering what he did when Kiato missed a punch, but it never came. Because to Asta this time seemed different like she wasn't a normal angry, the best way he could describe it was like.......................................when Rebecca broke up with him, after she did he ran away trying not to cry and in order to not, he began punching a brick wall in an alley to the point where his knuckles were bleeding, he was sad but instead of crying he just let out a bunch of anger, that what he felt like she was doing, "Huh", she opened her eyes to see him seemingly trying to not laugh, "WHAT?", she felt herself heat up again, "HAHAHAHAHAHA DUDE YOU DON'T HIT HARD", he laughed at her causing her to grow red from embarrassment, "So are you done?", he asked her, "With what?", she folded her arms and flipped her hair, "Your tantrum", he said as he grabbed a spray and a rag, "It wasn't a tantrum", "Yeah yeah just help clean already"
Ms. Roselei had finally come back, "YOU TWO", she saw that the room was actually clean, "Oh you guys did it. with no problems?", she looked at the two, "Nope", Noelle looked at him in confusion, "Noelle no problems?", it was her turn to answer, and she thought about it he did hit Kiato sooooooo, "No", she answered looking at him, "Really? I thought you two would try to rip each other's heads off. Alright then onto the next room", Ms. Roselei showed them to the next room
The second one was far more quiet, yet somehow more relaxed, "Why did you do that?", Noelle ended the silence asking Asta, "What do you mean?", Asta looked up, "Why didn't you just get me in trouble?", she asked, "Why didn't you?", "I'm serious", she looked at him "Cause it wouldn't have helped", he went back to cleaning, "What does that mean?", "Nothing", Noelle felt unsatisfied by the answer but decided to end it, "Thank you", "No problem just help clean", Asta waved her gratitude off, "Yeah"
Surprisingly the part of the day that the two of them thought would be the longest actually ended up feeling pretty short, "Alright you two, you did a good job today, so I expect this to be the standard", "Yes mam", the two of them answered, "Ok then go and have a good rest of your day", she dismissed them, "Yeah", the two of them left, unknowingly walking together, "So what did you mean by that?", Noelle finally started talking, "What do you mean?", he asked back, "When you said that it wouldn't have helped, what did you mean by that?", she looked at him, he seemed different he was just blankly staring ahead with a blank face, "Like I said nothing", he finally gave an answer, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOTHING?", she flailed her arms, "Exactly that nothing", the two finally made it to their lockers, "OH YOUR HOPELESS", she opened it getting some of her stuff, "HAHAHAHA CALM DOWN LADY OR YOUR HEADS GONNA POP", he laughed at her, making her go red again, "MY HEADS GONNA POP? YOURS ALMOST DID CAUSE YOUR TOO SHORT TO REACH THE TOP SHELF WITH THE DUSTER", she yelled at him, "Whatever", he walked away, "I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU", she followed him all the way outside
She kept yelling at him, with Asta just ignoring it, "ARE YOU LISTENING", she kept going, "Nope", he began walking away from the parking lot, "WHERE ARE YOU GOING?", "Home", he kept walking, "HEY-", she was stopped by someone
"Are you ok?", she asked as she grabbed her by the elbow, "Oh Mimosa what's up?", she asked her, "What's up? You're literally screaming your head off at that guy", Mimosa looked worried for her as she watched the guy she was yelling at go out of sight, "Him? he's just a jerk", she replied, "Mhm", Mimosa seemed obviously unconvinced, "What?", "Ok. Anyways where's your boyfriend?", Mimosa gave a roll of her eyes at the last part, "Kiato said he had a team meeting", Noelle answered, "Really? Cause I saw David y'know the team center leave just right now", Noelle knew what was coming, "Mimosa", she gave her a side eye, "Noelle I'm telling you he-", she got cut off, "Mimosa, I've already told you you're over thinking it", the two began to walk to Mimosa's car, "I'm just worried that you're gonna get hurt over a guy that isn't really all that great", she tried to reason with her, "Mimosa stop it already ok? I like him and he is great", "So great that people are saying he was with some red-haired hussy when he told you he was with his dad?", "That's just a rumor, you know full well how the people here can be", they made it to the car getting in, "Fine ok whatever", she started the car, "Look he's a good guy you just got to get to know him", "Sure", Mimosa was over the conversation, "Really-", "Ok I get it I'm wrong your right let's just go", Noelle looked at her, "Ok"
"So how was it?", the two drove in silence before then, "How was what?", Noelle wasn't sure what she meant, "Detention with-", Mimosa had a bit of a laugh slip out, cause if it wasn't already clear she HATED Kiato and found it REALLY satisfying to watch him get folded like that, "It was", Noelle thought about it, it started off kinda bad but as it went on it became ok, "Not too bad", Mimosa was made a faked gasp, "BUT I THOUGHT HE HIT YOUR PRECIOUS KIATO", they stopped at a red light, Noelle playfully pushed her, "Yeah but it we did start it", she nervously rubbed the back of her neck, "Ok now you're worrying me", Mimosa looked over to her, "What?", "You literally never admit when your wrong so what's with you?", Mimosa was serious this time, "Maybe...........................................Maybe he wasn't as bad as we thought he was", she leaned overlooking out the window, "WE? I was happy seeing him-", "Ok I get it", she ended it right as her favorite song came on "When you were young" by the killers a band that she listened to only when it was her and Mimosa, who she looked over to seeing she was smiling, "C'MON NOELLE", she nudged her with her elbow, "I don-", "C'MON", Mimosa began to shake her shoulders, and Noelle had to admit it was getting to her, "Ok lemme just- YOU SIT THERE IN YOUR HEART ACHE WAITING ON SOME BEAUTIFUL BOY TO SAVE YOU", the two began to sing along Noelle fully aware she sounded terrible and Mimosa not caring, "TO SAVE YOU FROM YOUR OLD WAYS, YOU PLAY FORGIVENESS WATCH IT NOW HERE HE COMES", she guessed that's why even though they don't hang out at school anymore, they're still close, "HE DOESN'T LOOK A THING LIKE JESUS BUT HE TALKS LIKE A GENTLEMEN JUST LIKE YOU IMAGINED WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG", the two of them went on a Killers binge listening to their music on the way home
Time skip
Asta had finally gotten home feeling good since Ms. Roselei forgot to give him the letter, "Hey guys", he walked in seeing Liebe and Zenon on the sofa playing video games while Vanica was reading a book as she hung upside down from the lounge chair, "What are you reading?", Asta asked Vanica as he put his backpack down, "it's this new manga called White Spade it's about this guy trying to become the head of something called the magic defense force, but the catch is he has no magic", she answered, "Sounds stupid", Zenon said while leaning into Liebe trying to mess him up, "Yeah I mean how are you gonna become the head of something called the magic defense force and have no magic", Liebe added after he pushed Zenon off, "I think that sounds cool", Asta sat next to her as she pulled herself up, "So how was your first day?", she asked, "It was", Asta thought about everything, yeah he had made new friends that seemed cool, but on the other hand he made a fair share of enemies, "Ok", Asta answered seeing that the three of them looked like they were trying not to laugh, "What's up?", "Nothing", a bit of air slipped from Liebes's mouth, "HAHAHAHAHAHA", the three finally cracked, "DUDE THAT'S ONE HELL OF A START", Zenon showed Asta his phone which played a video, the video of him headbutting Kiato, making him cringe, "DUDE IT'S EVERYWHERE, EVEN VANESSA AND LUCK", Asta began blushing, "Awwww c'mon dude it's not that bad", Vanica wrapped her arm around his shoulder, "Plus mom doesn't got social media so she won't whoop you and I deleted the voice mail", Liebe turned his attention back to the T.V, "THANK YOU", Asta slouched back in relief, "Also mom said she and Dante were gonna get pizza on the way home", "YES", All things considered though today was a win for Asta
At the Marron residence
Sol gotten back home a while ago, but was waiting for her mom to come back for dinner, and in that time, she had thought about Asta's invite since as much as she hated to admit it, she didn't really have friends outside of Leo at school, "I'm home", her mom called out
After a while dinner was ready and Sol and her mother sat down, "So how was school?", she asked Sol, "The usual", she answered as she picked at her food, "I made some new friends ", her mom almost spit her food out, "REALLY?", Sol was kind of annoyed by the response but she guessed after two years of her coming home saying she hung out with Leo to now having a few friends was surprising, "Yeah they actually invited me to hang out with them this Friday", her mom this time spit her food out, "SERIOILY", "Yeah", she scratched the back of her head, "That's awesome honey", "Thank you", the two laughed a bit and went back to eating
At the Grinberryal estate
Yuno and Klaus didn't get to see Asta at the end of the day, but he did send them a text saying he had gotten back home, right now though they were at the dinner table with Yuno's parents, "So how was today?", Loyce his mom asked, "It was cool", Yuno responded, "Make any new friends?", Ciel his father asked worried for his son as, since freshman year he hadn't made any friends, "Yeah", his mom and dad were surprised, "Really what's they're name?", his mom asked, "Asta", Yuno gave yet another dry reply, "Where is he from?", his dad asked, "Hage", and hearing that the smile on his moms face go down a bit, "Oh", "Yeah", "Ok", the mood had become a bit awkward, "So what's he like?", Ciel tried to keep the conversation going, "He's a part of the combat sports program", Yuno answered as the help had come with their food, "I see", she could feel he didn't want to talk about it, "He invited Klaus and I to hang out with him Friday", Yuno started to eat, "Are you going to go?", Loyce was seemingly unsure of what he was being told, "Yeah don't see why not", "It's just that Hage is a bad area and I don't-", "Mom", Yuno looked at her, "No it's fine I just don't trust people from there", Loyce tried to make it sound not bad, but it didn't work causing Yuno to grab his plate and leave, "Should I leave?", Klaus broke his silence, "No, sorry you can go eat with him", Klaus got his plate and left
At the Vermillion estate
Leo along with his siblings were enjoying dinner together for the first time in a while, "Leo you ok?", Fuegoleon asked, "Oh yeah why?", "Well usually you eat it in a few bites, but you haven't even touched your food", "Hm", Leo just looked at his food, "If you have something to say then say it", Mereoleona was obviously annoyed, "Are you guys disappointed in me?", Leo asked them, "No of course not why would you think that?", Fuegoleon wasn't sure where this was coming from, "It's just that I haven't got first place in anything in a while so", "Don't think about it too much ok your still young and have time to get better", Mereoleona assured him, "I met a guy who was really good today as well", Leo thought about the hook that almost hit him, "I'm pretty sure if the buzzer didn't go off he would've flatlined me", hearing that his siblings thought he was joking, but Leo's down face said otherwise, "Hey you can use that to get better", Fuegoleon, "AND WHEN YOU SEE HIM NEXT TIME TAKE HIS HEAD OFF", their sister yelled, "I don't know about that, but definitely try to learn from it", his brother went back to eating, "I will", Leo began eating like normal before checking his phone
Sol: Asta wanted to know if you wanted it hang out with us Friday
Me: Really?
Sol: Yeah
Me: I'll see
At the Silva estate
"Are you sure you don't want to spend the night again?", Mimosa asked as Noelle left her car, "It's all good see you tomorrow", she waved at her while she drove away, "Oh boy", she sighed knowing that her mom or brother were going to lecture her when she got inside. That is if they were home
"I'm home", her voice echoed in the seemingly empty mansion, "Of course", she began walking to the stairs passing a whole bunch of rooms, she made it to her room and checked her phone seeing that her text to Kiato had been unread, "Uhhhhh", she groaned, "You ok?", she looked up to see her sister, "Everyone seems to be asking that today", she sat up, "I saw the video", Noelle immediately went back down, "And?", "And I don't think mom's gonna be happy", her sister answered the obviously sarcastic remark, "When is she ever", Noelle turned over to face the window, "Could you blame her? I mean you and-", "OK I GET IT", Noelle yelled at her, "Alright I'll leave", she closed her door. Noelle thought about today it was.......................................Bad she was still sort of angry, "It wouldn't have helped", she thought of, Asta was his name? She thought of what he said before that, how she wasn't like her mother at all. Yeah, like she needed anyone to tell her that, but she guessed he wasn't all that bad, *SMACK*, she also thought about the slap, "HAHAHAHA DUDE YOU DON'T HIT HARD", she turned to face the ceiling, "Not my fault I never got to train so it may not be hard to you", she looked at her hand as she raised it in the air, "Maybe you aren-", her sentence was cut off by her phone buzzing followed by her looking to see who it was
Kiato♥️: Sorry club meeting went longer than I thought it was
Me: Its ok☺
Kiato♥️: I'm tired so I'm going to sleep see you tomorrow
Me: You can't talk for a little longer?
Kiato♥️: I'm sorry I have to get up early for practice
Me: Ok love you Delivered
And it remained like that until she put her phone down, "What was I thinking about?", Noelle's eyelids began to get heavy, "I'm too tired to try and remember", she closed her eyes, "Today was.............................................not too bad", yet she couldn't really figure out why before finally falling asleep
On the next episode of "You clinched my heart"
The week came and went, and it was finally time to hang out, and Asta was really excited, "Hey mom can I borrow the car?", he asked her, "Sure just make sure everyone pitches in for gas", "I will", Asta went to his room, "So, what did she say?", Liebe asked, "She said yeah", "Nice", "OH BUT BEFORE THAT TAKE THE CAR TO YAMI'S THE BREAKS WERE MAKING A WEIRD NOISE", their mom yelled from the kitchen, "Will do", Asta called back
And
"Hmm?", Noelle and Mimosa were driving home, "Leo's gonna hang out with that guy you have detention with", Noelle wasn't as bothered by it as Mimosa thought she was going to be, "Like I said he isn't as bad as I thought so I don't care", the two went back to listening to music before the car stopped, "What happened?", Noelle asked her, "I don't know", Mimosa tried hitting the wheel, "Well that didn't work", Noelle laughed, "YOU DON'T SAY", Mimosa turned to her with the most sarcastic smile she'd ever seen, "Well there's an auto body shop not too far from here we might be able to push it", "You don't have triple A", "It's not that mom said if I get another increased rate they'll take away my car", "Geez", "I know, anyways it's called, Black bulls Auto it's in Kikka", "How far?", "A mile", Noelle winced hearing that part, "Or two", hearing that made her wince even louder, "Please I'll make it up to you", Mimosa begged, "Fine since you need my help", she sarcastically gloated, "Thanks"