The first step

My body was completely tense and every time Yuki passed alcohol on my wound I closed my eyes hard.

“It’s not that much… just hold this bag in your head and you’ll be okay”

“Thanks, Yuki, as expected of a doctor’s son”

“Dude, this is basic, come on, get up man”

I get up of the chair while holding the bag of ice on my head and went to living room

“Is it lucky that your parents aren’t home today, where are they?”

“They went to another trip together”

“Again? Man, even since you enter high school, they have started going off a lot”

“I already told them but they said that I should take it as an opportunity to take care of myself”

“And how is that going?”

I point at the sink full of dirty plays and Yuki sighed.

“I am not helping you with that…”

“I know, I know…”

We took glasses and tea and then went to my room, I put out the boxing book and put a book about the physics and rules of the wind.

“Where do you find that?”

“You know, internet is pretty helpful”

“Right…”

When I opened the book, we both froze and I scratched my head.

“Uhm… you know how to read this?”

“Dude we are on high school, this is like master’s degree problems”

On the page we opened we found a ton of calculations and a ton of words; I closed the book and scratched my head one more time.

“We don’t need this, right?!”

I opened the book of boxing and then saw a few illustrations and I pointed at one.

“Now this is the stuff”

I took my stance and punched the air.

“If I can punch someone like this and then, HUH! Like this, HUUZA! And then ATAH!”

A fist of air went to the wall and made a little crack on it, I froze and Yuki couldn’t help but laugh.

“Relax man, for now before you can even start to make your crazy secret techniques you need to find a way to control your powers, we don’t want the haunting squad to take you down”

“Eh?... you are kidding right? Don’t they have something less powerful to haunt high schoolers?”

“For them all of you are the same”

I looked down and Yuki hit my back.

“Auch!”

“Don’t get gloomy now, get it together”

“Right… thanks”

“For now, let’s just go with information we can process”

Yuki started to look at wind articles and I sat down on the floor.

“Let’s try meditating”

“Hmmm”

I close my eyes and try to feel the flow of the wind. It was hard, I couldn’t feel anything at all, time passed as I tried to feel the wind, be the wind.

“How much has passed?”

“Like a minute”

“WHAT?! SCREW THIS MAN!”

“Seems patience is not really your strong… for now why don’t you try to create a breeze around your body?”

“Like an aura?”

“Exactly”

I took a deep breath and closed my fist in front of me, I let out wind and the things around the room started to get affected.

“Yeah, try to maintain it like that”

“It is not easy…”

“I bet not…”

I could feel how my muscles tense the more I try to hold the wind, it was like doing a plank and holding yourself from peeing, the wind started to get stronger.

“Okay, Ren, stop”

“I…”

The things around the room started to fly, the small desk flew and hit Yuki in the face and I let out a wave of wind hitting things around and making the chair fly out of the window.

“Yuki… are you ok?”

“Yeah…”

Yuki was holding his nose and this one was bleeding; I tried to touch him but he put his hand in front of me.

“I’m okay… I will go to the bathroom until it stops…”

“I’m really sorry, man…”

“It’s okay, I told you… don’t worry”

I look at the things around the room and the window.

“This much power… I really should be careful…”

I started to tidy the room and look at the window. When I finished, Yuki came with a paper in his nose and looked at me.

“Yuki”

“Yeah?”

“How much do you think it cost to fix the window”

Yuki put his hand on my shoulder and smiled at me, I knew what that smile meant and I just looked down.

After we clean the mess outside, we bring the table again to my room and sit down.

“And what was the experience you gained?”

“I was concentrating more than release slowly my power, I felt how my muscles were tensing as I kept going”

“Yeah, that final wave sure was something, for now this could be your first attack, how the fights work in there?”

“I have no idea”

“…”

I laugh nervously as I search for an old disk.

“What are you doing?”

“We might as well watch that fight again; it’s been a while since I watch it”

“How long?”

“Like a month”

“And you didn’t even look at the rules?”

“Hehe…”

“Don’t “hehe” me…”

I put the disk on a DVD player and play the fight, on there was the champion, Ryo Kazama, fighting and struggling against a rock power user, while he was a water one, the fight was bloody, and different types of moves were made, making the ground shake, slippery, punching with their own power, creating and launching their powers and using the other element against the other

“This is way too bloody… I guess the only rule is not to kill your opponent… How does this guy even beat the rock type? It’s being pulverized, his face is completely covered in blood”

“Rock users seems to be the harder ones, but wait until here”

“WHAT IS THAT?! RYO HASN’T BEEN DEFEATED! HE STANDS ONE MORE TIME AND WHAT IS THAT?! HE IS RUNNING TOWARDS RAKAI, IS HE INSANE OR HE HAS A STRATEGY?!"

At that moment, Ryo slide with his power and Rakai made a bunch of rock pillars come out of the ground, Ryo jump over them but Rakai had that prepare, for what he was not prepared was that Ryo hit himself with a power shot that was thrown a few seconds ago, making him fly towards the floor and hit himself, but he slid with his own blood and his legs, he took the neck of Rakai and fly using the water propulsion from his hands and lift him off the ground, throwing it towards his own pillars and making him unconscious.

“Ryo is just so cool…”

I was looking with excitement at the film and when I turned to look at Ren, he looked at me worried but then smiled.

“Is true, this is the most excited I have watch you… it surprises with the time we have been finds that we never watch it together”

“I know right? But I know you don’t like this sort of stuff, so I am not insisting in this”

“Although you don’t shut up about it every time you can mention it”

“That’s for sure”

We both laughed and the fight ended, I saved the disk and sat on my bed.

“I have been training on my own from a month, ever since I discover my powers, I knew what I have to do, but you are right, I cannot just go straight into a match right now, and first we need to know where do they do these fights”

“So, what do you suggest?”

“In the time my parents are not around I will take my house as my gym for my powers, while I train my body, I will also train my powers, and besides of that we would need to do some nocturnal research”

“You don’t mean…”

“Exactly what you are thinking, we are hanging out at night around bad alleys”

“Are you sure you want to do that? Besides, what are we going to ask? Do you know of any fight clubs around?”

“Is that not good?”

“OF COURSE NOT!”

“Then I am out of ideas”

“Training your body is great, that way you will be in shape for the fights but this is a tournament, right? How do they even get to choose for that?”

“We can search on internet too”

“And risk being discovered? They track this stuff, good luck you don’t track our microphones in our devices our we would be dead by now”

“That is true…”

“I guess nocturnal walks would be okay but we won’t be around bad alleys, we should make research around places that look good for information”

“Like a bar?”

“Yeah, like that!”

“But we are not old enough for that”

“We are not entering, man, we would hang out around and eavesdrop some information”

“Oh, that makes sense!”

“Sometimes your boldness surprise, or your stupidity”

We fist bump each other and nodded.

“It’s a plan”