When I entered the room, I could see around six people sitting on the outside part of the mats, and two people fighting inside the mats. One was wearing blue helmet and the other a red one. The scene that blew my mind off was when one of the persons who were fighting suddenly did a fucking jumping turning kick to the other person’s face. I was like.

“Holy fucking shit. That was hellishly cool. I need to learn that shit”

As the person, wearing the blue helmet fell to the ground, possibly knocked the fuck off.

The other person proceeded to take off his helmet. I was surprised to see it was my twin brother jiiro. I totally forgot that he was the team captain of the taekwondo team, I thought to myself. From the entire sports club I could have lied joining, why did it have to be taekwondo.

Jiro was more muscular than I was; he had a big body packed with muscles. He had medium length hair; it was colored red at the middle and black at the sides. He was a total bad ass.

With that in mind, I gave up and started walking out the door. However, when I reached the door, one of the persons on the floor stands and shouts “ey you! What are you doing here?!”

In my reply I said “I got lost, sorry, I’m about to leave”

I might have angered the person. Cause she stood up and went near to me. She was a little smaller than I was. However, I could see that her body was more muscular than mine was. She had long blonde hair and a childish attitude; it was annoying as fuck.

“You want to join the team don’t ya,” she said.

“Nah, I just got lost, bye”

“Hey, you look familiar. Are related to the team Capt.?” 

“Nope, bye now”

I was about to open the door when a helmet flew across the room, hitting the door. Then someone spoke.

“What the fuck are you doing here?!”

I thought to myself “fuck, can’t you give me a break here” as I look at who was the one who spoke.

It was my brother Jiro, still in his armor and looking exhausted.

Then the small girl shouted at him “SIR! HE WANTS TO JOIN THE TAEKWONDO TEAM!”

I quickly faced the small annoying girl and said “what the fuck. I didn’t say anything”

Then my brother started to laugh and smiled a bit.

“You want to join the team eh, then you have to fight me first!” he said.

“No thanks, I’m going to go now”

I was about to open the door, then the small annoying girl blocked it. It deeply annoyed the fuck out of me. 

“Stupid annoying girl, get the fuck of my way”

Then another helmet came flying across the room, this time hitting the head of the annoying girl,

“What the fuck is with you guys and throwing helmets!”

I was a little concerned for the girl so I tried to pick her up.

Then my brother said, “leave Leon, you’re not suited to be in this team, Yankee coward”

I was angered with what he said.

“Who you calling not suited for this team asshole!”

Everyone in the room could feel fire between our eyes, as I looked at the stupid annoying small girl who was hit in the head. I then thought of the girl I liked. Therefore, I quickly let go of the girl I was holding. In addition, said to my brother.

“If it’s a fight you want then I’ll fight you,”

I quickly took the helmet they threw and wore it. Then they threw armor at me and said to wear it. Being the man, I am. I stubbornly refused to wear it. 

I told them “I don’t need any armor”

They told in reply “suit yourself”

As I walk to the middle of the room to start the fight, I could hear my brother tell me, 

“Remember back then in elementary, we were in the judo and karate team. We both were strong back then, I am still strong, what about you? You’re just a shadow of the past life you lived”

I didn’t really pay attention to him, as my mind was filled with the thoughts of the girl, I thought to myself,” I wonder if she is still in school, she might be waiting for me at the gate! I need to finish this quickly”

It was around 4:00 in the afternoon. One the persons in the room told me the rules. “2 mins each round. Naturally there are only 2 rounds each fight, but here we fight for 5 rounds.”

I interrupted him in his long boring ass speech about the stupid rules.

“You don’t have to say the rules, I’ll finish this quickly”

As the fight was going to start, we both bow our heads to each other and bumped fists to show sign of respect towards the opponent,

The fight finally began, I started with a punch, I was able to punch the armor of my brother, but then one of the people who were watching stopped me, they said.

“No punching!”

“Fuck me, No punching? Fuck that, I don’t need to punch anyway.” I said.

The fight proceeded I kicked so much that it began to tire me out, my brother on the other hand was just relaxed, he was able to block or dodge my attacks. I then stopped to catch my breath. However, as I started to catch my breath, my brother kicked me in my solar plexus. 

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I nearly fainted but I was able to withstand the attack. I quickly stood up and protected my stomach area with my fist. My form was kind of like a boxer, with my face behind my arms. I started to kick again, but now I aimed for his face.

“I’m going to let you taste my feet, you bitch!” I shouted.

I gave him a solid roundhouse to the head. The crowd was shocked to see Jiro in his knees, but he was able to quickly recover from that.

“You still have your skills, I can tell you that.” Jiro said to me.

As he stood up, I up my guard again, but before I could do anything, I was quickly distracted on how was my brother was moving. In truth, it was not that fast, but his movement was so agile.

I kicked him with a roundhouse again, but his feet out of nowhere suddenly appeared in front of my face. Then it proceed to the top of my head, the ball of his feet hit my temple.

I was on my knees, I could feel there was blood in my mouth, but I did not spit it out.

I could see Jiro’s face too; it had a little bruise from my roundhouse.

I stood up again but this time my legs were shaking, my stamina lowered. I said to myself” this must be the cigarettes, fuck, I’m weak”

My brother was going to the same thing he did with his opponent before me, he was going to the jumping turning kick to me. 

He was going to jump but suddenly the door opened and the coach shouted 

“STOP THE FIGHT”

I could feel that my life was spared that moment.

“What the hell are you doing Jiro, that’s your brother? You cannot do that move to him yet. He needs to train more” the coach stated.

Jiro then backed off, when he saw the coach and proceed to sit on the mats. Looking exhausted as fuck.

I was still standing on the mats, confused and tired, the coach went near to me and said 

“Hahaha, sorry for that, Jiro likes to scare the new people. Hey aren’t you Leon? His brother. Welcome to the team then”

I was a little happy and mad. I was able to join the team but still confused and tired,

I asked the coach “is this really how you get into the team?”

“What? No? You just have to submit a form to join the team.” He said to me.

Me with a pissed of expression, I sat at the ground, and said, “Why did I have to fight him then?”

“I don’t know why don’t you ask him” coach said to me.

“By the way have the team introduced themselves already?”

“No, not yet”

“You know Jiro right, below him is that small girl. Her name is Anne. Beside her is Addi “the coach said.

I remember him saying more names, but my mind was concentrating on the fact that I was able to join the team.

I said to myself” fuck yeah, that was easier than I thought it would be”

I did not notice the time; it was already 6:00 in the evening, my brother and me was fighting for more than two fucking hours.

They did not really have training today, I was lucky because they were just preparing for a competition that was happening next month.

The coach explained a few things to me, I would have used the information later on, but I was too busy not listening to him.

He then said “ok, your dismiss, training starts the day after tomorrow, see ya “

Jiro went out first with addi; I was still preparing my stuff until that girl from before interrupted me.

She said to me “hey, so you Jiro’s brother?”

“Yeah” I said in reply, I wanted to leave too, but the girl kept asking stupid questions.

“Hey, so uhm thanks for catching me when I was falling.” she said to me.

“No prob, ok, still have anything you have to say to me.”

“No, not really” she said to me.

I quickly shouted and pointed,” Oh look it’s a dinosaur” 

The girl turned back to see. However, there was not a dinosaur, as she looked back, I was not already there.

I was like batman vanishing into thin air like fuck. I could tell that the girl was very annoyed but I did not care, I was already down stairs running towards the gate.

I wanted to see the girl I like waiting for me by the gate, but to my surprise, she was not there.

I was a little saddened but whatever, I did not care, and she is just a girl anyway.

Therefore, I started my walk going home. I was just outside the school. 

I light a cigarette and walk towards home, to my amazement when I passed the shortcut going home; there was a group of students waiting there around 15 of them. I quickly recognize the other ones; they were the ones from early this morning.

I said to myself “Fuck me, not this again.”