Description: After a long respite, Jiro challenges Sakura to a rematch, in the Collosseum! And Sakura gets to see just how much he's learned... (Winner: Sakura)
The Colosseum.
This is the largest amphitheatre in the Roman Empire. THe greatest works of Roman architecture and engineering. Originally, it was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles. Now, although a tourist attraction, it is still the great battle ground for the requested fighters. These are used for the gladiatorial contests between two fighters such as before.
...This is the place where Jiro originally fought Sakura once for the Neo League.
It is funny how the fight should begin once more.
But now? It's a new Jiro that she's fighting. No longer the sullen boy who was cursed with the dark chi. The curse is now honed to his own thing, purged into his blessing.
The attire had changed since she last saw him. Okay, besides the Police Academy where he was dropped like a bad habit for a demonstration. ..He hasn't forgotten about that!
Anyway, Jiro's attire is now with a blue vest jacket and a black t-shirt underneath. The white pants are a bit clean and the red shoes press on the ground. He still has the trenchcoat over most of the attire, but it's more official for his Inspector attire.
Inspector Kasagi. ...That's a strange ring to it. The Interpol officer immediately tosses off his trenchcoat and stretches. "Heh. Time to see what she has been doing."
Jiro is not alone. As it is a public event, a lot of the Italians have came in to spectate the sporting event. Their cheers roar as the fight will be underway.
Sakura has been busy in her own ways over the past few months. Sure, a little part-time with the police department here, a little security detail there. It wouldn't speak well for the young Taiyo graduate if she'd =kept= doing low-grade security consultancies like this, but she's got higher aspirations in life, like, uh, teaching gym class to look forward to.
Which has only some connection to what she's doing here in Rome. The Collosseum has certainly seen better days -- they're not about to replace the entire sand pit floor just for two scrubs duking it out on a personal dispute, so anyone can see where the trap doors and such =would= be. But, just the same, there's a large enough area for the two young fighters to battle.
Much like Jiro, Sakura is showing a change in wardrobe. No longer donning the sailor uniform of Taiyo, the schoolgirl's wearing a more weather-appropriate selection -- a baggy, midnight-blue hoodie and off-white jeans to match. She's still got the red fighting gloves and Chuck Taylors to match, of course, clean as can be expected for a trip through antiquity.
She's also late -- like, five minutes late. But finally she steps out from the back room, sprinting like heck to get out here.
Just to trip on a rock, landing smack on her face. Italians everywhere LAUGH as she picks herself up, spitting out gravel and picking the little rocks and stuff out of her face. "Ugh, terrible! Sorry I'm late!"
Blink. Brushing her hair off to one side, Kasugano smirks. Despite her sloppy entrance, she can still be cocky?! "Well, look who turned out all nice and respectable and stuff! You ready to get those nice clothes all dirty?" Says she with wear marks already growing on those otherwise-clean pants.
COMBATSYS: Sakura has started a fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Jiro has joined the fight here.
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Jiro 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sakura
There is the look that Jiro is giving the young woman as she is arriving into the battlefield. He actually looks amused at Sakura's mannerisms as she is running -late-. He offers a snort, shaking his head while both hands tuck inside his pockets.
The moment she trips, Jiro shuts both of his yes, shaking his head while dismissing her fumbling.
"You're late. As usual."
The smile is actually a lot more benevolent. Then, he cocks his head to the side at the cocky woman. "Yes. I'm still Jiro to you, Inspector Kasagi to others." He offers a grin, "But for now? ..."
The scarlet flames roar to life as he shifts his stance, "It's time to catch up on old times." The flames immediately disappear, then Jiro darts forward towards Sakura, aiming to thrust his body forward for a nice elbow strike towards her gut, his body lowering to remain in position.
COMBATSYS: Sakura blocks Jiro's Medium Punch.
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Jiro 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sakura
"Oh, shut it! It's not like this'll take long!" Kasugano protests, brushing the long tails of her headband back over her shoulder. Though, as is plain to see, she's clearly just talking trash!
But when he fires up -red- flames, the young woman shows a more genuine smile. "Finally picked a =manly= color, didja?" Kasugano's physical response is as quick as her verbal, as she draws back a half step, raising her forearm vertically in a solid guard against the elbow strike, parrying it to one side as she steps to the other.
Her pitch unnaturally high, she quips, "Just don't beat me, Jiro! I don't think my poor heart can take it!" For anyone who knew that Jiro beat her the first time they fought, the comment is much more self-deprecating than it seems!
The Muay Thai knee that swivels up towards Jiro's head, though? That's totally serious, unlike the trash-talking tomboy. "Hyaa!"
COMBATSYS: Sakura successfully hits Jiro with Medium Kick.
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Jiro 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Sakura
If there is one thing to show that Jiro is still... Jiro, there is that feral grin showing up on the Inspector's face. While she connects with her forearm against his elbow strike, the movement is fluid as she parries past him.
He offers a grin at Sakura, snorting as she makes her quip, but the knee strikes up against his head. He grunts in response of the strike, rearing his head back. At the same time, he's sweeping his right foot out against Sakura's ankle.
It is a very quick and precise sweep, aiming to not only regain his footing and forsight, but also take Sakura down quickly.
COMBATSYS: Sakura endures Jiro's Quick Throw.
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Jiro 0/-------/-----==|==-----\-------\0 Sakura
Sakura knows she put herself tremendously off-balance for that last move, but one way, she really doesn't care! She wants to teach him something, and having him pick out openings is lesson one! "Uhhh-yaaa?!"
Lesson two is that just because an opening is =there=, doesn't mean one should take it. By letting her weight buckle, she sets herself up for the fall. But in =falling=, she aims to land the correct way -- twisting as she falls, so as to dissipate the kinetic energy in ways that don't hurt her.
The key here is that =some= of that kinetic energy will instead be channeled to hurt =Jiro=, as in the midst of her fall she aims to crack the back of her foot against his shinbone -- not to take him down, but more to give him a wake up call. That is to say, she can hurt when she's trying to. "Haaa!"
COMBATSYS: Sakura successfully hits Jiro with Fierce Punch.
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Jiro 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Sakura
That is a fun maneuver that Sakura had done. She managed to twist her weight over during the fall to keep herself from getting hurt too bad. That is a bad thing for him, as he's given a nice, powerful strike against the shinbone with her foot.
He grimaces at the foot giving off a piercing strike, then he grits his teeth, offering the woman a snort. "Good, good..." He launches off of the ground, then he utilizes his uninjured leg to plant out towards Sakura's stomach in a stomping motion.
This, in turn, forces the one in pain to act as a cushion.
Damnit.
No pain. No gain.
COMBATSYS: Sakura dodges Jiro's Strong Kick.
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Jiro 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Sakura
That would, indeed, hurt! But Sakura's fully intending to get the heck out of the way after that kick, having only planned to pop him once and scram. So when Jiro's foot comes falling down towards her, the nimble Ansatsuken prodigy straightens herself, log-rolling out of harm's way.
Springing to her feet a few feet back, Kasugano brushes her nose with the back of her hand in a cocky gesture. "Well, yeah, what'd you expect? It's good you're trying throws more, but..."
It ought to be obvious to Jiro what the young woman's planning even before she alludes to it, though, her hands sweeping back in an oft-practiced gesture. The air shifts in a subtle fashion as energies build in her palms, taking form in a brilliant blue light. It all takes place in the fraction of a second, though, long enough time for Kasugano to pause, smirk, and shout, "HADOOOOUKEN!" in the midst of thrusting her hands forward. The cerulean blue energies rippling out towards Jiro ought to act as a sufficient reply.
COMBATSYS: Jiro blocks Sakura's Large Hadouken.
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Jiro 0/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Sakura
Damn. That didn't work so well.
No matter, Jiro had figured that his attempt to actually plant his foot into Sakura's stomach would no had worked. But as the cocky artist immediately gets to her feet and actually draws forth the large hadouken, the man grunts.
He extends both of his hands forward to meet with the sphere, extending both of his hands forward. Soon, the scarlet sphere roars to life and he feels his energy swirl against the fireball, blasting it away.
But then... Jiro grits his teeth and he extends both of his hands back, releasing his aura to explode off against Sakura's form.
"Arrgggh!"
His body is literally an inferno now, and it closes in to wrap around Sakura, especially as Jiro closes in to send the flames running down her form.
COMBATSYS: Jiro successfully hits Sakura with Defiance.
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Jiro 1/------=/=======|=======\-------\0 Sakura
Arrgggh? What kind of silly attack name is that? At least, that's the kind of response Sakura =wants= to say. But while the mind's capable of thinking of a lot of things, it's not always capable of reacting properly.
Especially when she's also being mildly amused by the sheer force of Jiro's will. She'd expected him to either go flying from her Hadouken, or else just throw a weaker version back at her... not immolate himself and give her a big ol' bear hug. Kinda hard to prepare for that, really! Sakura tries, nonetheless, to leap backwards, but fails in this effort as Jiro manages to catch her, and burn!
The inferno's hot enough to scorch Sakura's skin, even through her hoodie, and it's certainly not pleasant! Giving out a brief yelp is about all he'll get from the girl, though, as she staggers backwards from the boy. Gritting her teeth shut, she nods in approval -- even the smartaleck can appreciate a good turnaround! But she's not about to give in either -- as she runs towards him with a good ol' rushing uppercut, hoping to knock the boy's block off! "SHOOOOOU'OOOU KEN!"
COMBATSYS: Jiro endures Sakura's Shou'ou Ken.
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Jiro 1/----===/=======|=======\-------\0 Sakura
It's been a while since Jiro had actually faught Sakura. For the longest time, it actually felt nice to give Sakura a taste of something new. Something very new that he had developed over the time.
He wanted to see all that she had learned.
She's still the same, yet different. Then again, so is he. Even as Sakura takes the incoming blow, then she steps forward to give him the rushing uppercut. Jiro takes a good step into the impacting blow. While he feels the chest cave slightly, it's not as bad as it will be for Sakura, as he tightens his fist to summon forth the burning flames in his grasp.
Grin.
It's not even one second that that flaming fist strikes forth against Sakura, aiming to use the close distance to launch Sakura into the air by launching that fist into her cheek.
Yeah, he's going for that pride again.
COMBATSYS: Sakura blocks Jiro's Scarlet Slaughter.
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Jiro 0/-------/-----==|=======\-------\1 Sakura
Pride? Sakura? NOOOO. That would most assuredly be the way to take her down.
But it's not going to work right this instant. She'd gotten her uppercut in, and due to the nature of her rushing uppercut, she'd already started to turn. So when Jiro's fist closes in, she's already partly out of its path.
But when Sakura realizes the enormous amount of chi closing in behind her, she takes additional measures -- shifting her weight sharply to one side, her form blurring from the sudden motion. Sure, she gets hit -- but it's in the shoulder, rather than the face. She's propelled upwards, her skin searing from the heat, but all things considered, she could've been considerably less lucky than that.
Not that she'll admit that, of course, smirking as she recovers in mid-air, landing on the ground. A hand snaps up to lightly massage her shoulder as she nods back at Jiro. "Eh, so you got a few new moves! Good for you." Her statement may be in jest, but it's =meant= at face value as well.
With an appreciative smile, Kasugano lashes out with a quick punch... and then a rushing Muay Thai knee to the stomach. She's all for changing the battlefield when the situation demands for it!
COMBATSYS: Jiro fails to interrupt Medium Kick from Sakura with Heaven's Diminisher.
- Power fail! -
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Jiro 0/-------/----===|=======\=------\1 Sakura
After the fist launches forth with the flaming glow, Jiro had brought himself to a distance, grinning at Sakura with a more vicious grin. He tightens his fists, looking at her with a bemused grin.
"Yeah, there's plenty more where that came from."
Then, when Sakura launches out a quick punch. He immediately launches his right foot out to release the flames like a mist. A webbing mist, to be exact.
Unfortunately, Jiro is caught up in the punch towards the cheek, then he stumbles back in time to receive another Muay Thai based kick. He grits his teetth, then he grins at Sakura.
"... Learned a bit from Sagat?"
Kasugano's face may have showed a bit of worry when that 'webbing' flew out... but kept on her committed path just the same. When her knee lands, though, she pulls back with a satisfied smile, righting herself.
"Here and there," she acknowledges, stepping in close to Jiro's side.
But then she makes a quick grab for Jiro's jacket, and starts to fall backwards. With his arm grasped like so, she hopes to her her foot as a fulcrum, and toss him back and right over her head! "... Lots of people, really!" she would then add if she gets a chance!
COMBATSYS: Jiro dodges Sakura's Medium Throw.
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Jiro 0/-------/----===|=======\=------\1 Sakura
Although Sakura grips towards Jiro's jacket, he immediately sweeps his right hand out as he steps forward, aiming to wrap the arm along Sakura's grabbing arm and twist it enough to where he can pull her off balance.
He is definately not going to let her get the upper hand on pushing him off of his feet.
Instead, Jiro draws his right fist out to give Sakura a powerful clothesline into the ground.
COMBATSYS: Jiro successfully hits Sakura with Fierce Punch.
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Jiro 0/-------/---====|=======\====---\1 Sakura
Sakura was already a bit off-balance from the attempt -- being 5'2", she's learned to make the most of her tiny frame, and when she's unable to, it backfires. Like so.
Kasugano has been clotheslined before, but never on a diagonal appointment with the ground. But -- that's the way she was falling anyway. Suffice to say, no snappy comments this time! Her shoulders hit the ground hard, but as before, she rolls sharply to one side, curling inward like a wounded animal.
However, most wounded animals don't often glow with blue-white light, nor do they crackle with electricity as they stand back on their feet. That's what Sakura does. And even though she's coughing, and doubled over a bit from that blow... she still manages to hiss out, "Shinkuuuuuu..." She's on camera, don'tcha know.
If she shouts Hadouken, though, it'd be hard to hear from the surge of energy rushing from her hands, threatening to engulf Jiro whole. He may have learned new tricks... but Sakura's =old= tricks are still plenty powerful.
COMBATSYS: Jiro parries Sakura's Shinkuu Hadouken!
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Jiro 0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0 Sakura
There is the fact that Jiro still had the power to overpower Sakura. It's rather funny to see that Jiro still has that power house nature in him. However, he is not going to let it go in gain. Especially considering that he has the power to keep going.
When the youth notices Sakura rolls and curls up, he watches her glowing forth as she is channeling her energy together. His eyes widen when he actually witnesses her energy glowing.
Damnit.
When Sakura unleashes the powerful energy, he is witnessing that massive surge of energy roaring to life in its attempt to consume his entire form. However, Jiro has to adapt to it.
There is the motions that he recalls, at least, something he gained from Hotaru. His stance changes, then he shoots over to the side, drawing his aggressive nature to actually shift from the current position to phase away from the intensified and body consuming energy.
Then, Jiro darts closer, winding his fist back as he feels his fist crackling with energy. That energy fades, but the fist is still there.
"SEI!"
As he closes in on Sakura, Jiro shoots his body forward, adding his weight and the finesse behind his brute strength in a powerful blow towards her stomach.
"DO!"
COMBATSYS: Jiro successfully hits Sakura with Excessive Force EX.
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Jiro 0/-------/--=====|======-\-------\0 Sakura
Jiro... dodged? What? Kasugano eyes him wildly, shaking her head. He can't do that, that's against the rules! ... So she's really rather impressed with that, and nods charitably.
That'd be when Jiro rushes in to make his move, plunging a powerful punch right into her stomach. She's knocked backwards, her back slamming into a supporting structure, breaking the edge right off. So much for preserving the monument's integrity! "Nnngh..."
"Jiro..." she admits, extricating herself from the busted-up stonework, "I'm really glad that wasn't a one-time deal..." There's a faint, but weary smile across her face, honest in her allusion to their first fight -- a major humiliation to her.
"But I can keep this up for a while!" she announces, suddenly bright-eyed as she leaps up into the air, thrusting both palms downwards and unleashing a rapid blast of energy at the young man, propelling herself upwards from the rushing chi. "Hadoooouken!" She -looked- tired just then... and indeed she may still be! But for now, she's airborne...
COMBATSYS: Jiro blocks Sakura's Medium Hadouken EX.
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Jiro 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Sakura
After Jiro had not only dodged the hadouken, but then -darted- towards her with the powerful strike, Jiro launches himself forward with the punch..
Only to see Sakura fly and get herself back up. "...Glad to fight you again." But when she finally releases the rushing chi, Jiro tightens his fist to take the blow. After guarding against the medium sized hadouken, he brings his arms back and tightens his stance as he drops low.
Then, he shoots out towards Sakura with his right fist towards her stomach, aiming to impact against her with an explosion.
COMBATSYS: Sakura has saved the state of this fight.
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Jiro 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Sakura
COMBATSYS: Sakura interrupts My Little Phantom from Jiro with Medium Hadouken.
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Jiro 1/-----==/=======|=====--\-------\0 Sakura
COMBATSYS: Sakura has reached second wind!
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Jiro 1/-----==/=======|=====--\-------\0 Sakura
Really... the reason Sakura's jumping around a bunch like that is because she's been punched, and clotheslined, a lot more than she's used to. It took a lot of wind out of her. And she knows that when she tries -punching- her way out... well, that doesn't work. Especially against Jiro, who's quite a bit stronger than her. Hence, she's falling upon a talent she's arguably much better at -- harnessing chi.
And she's glad to see Jiro doing the same! Kasugano had a great amount of concern for the boy and his numerous exploits, so to see him advance his style in this direction is a good thing. ... Though she probably shouldn't have given him so much benefit of the doubt, she realizes, as the boy's rocketing towards her. Still trying to shake off her weakened body's desire to take a nice long nap, she braces herself for impact. And when Jiro comes in... she slams her hands forward, overwhelming the incoming charge with a wall of concussive force. What, another Hadouken?! Why yes... because really, though she'd =want= to jump into a Shou'ou Ken, she'd probably break something! As it is, the Hadouken is enough to dull much of the impact -- but Jiro with the longer reach is still able to slam her right in the stomach, knocking her back another couple steps.
Clutching her stomach, Kasugano drops to her knees for a moment, eyes squinted shut from the pain. But one eye peeks open, after a moment, as her hand drops to one side. A small breeze kicks through the Collosseum, setting her hair into motion... and Kasugano finds the strength she needs to push back to her feet, weakly. "Surprising, yeah... you've done a lot with your chi!"
And Kasugano lists sharply to one side afterwards. Ugh!
There is the powerful charge that the older Kasagi had been making. This was perhaps one of the more crappier points for him as he is charging right into the enveloping hadouken that is actually forming in place. In a -point- blank range, Jiro's fist is caught and consumed by the well of energy that explodes off.
Blue and scarlet chi start intermingling and crackling against each other, before the explosion occurs. As the explosion was made, it consumes Jiro in the blue light as it wins over. Consumed by the light, Jiro finds himself sailing all the way from the air and he lands right onto the cold earth with a hard skid across the floor.
A bit of char and bruise appear on the other-wise strong youth. He laughs, gritting his teeth before he pulls himself up. He laughs a bit, then he smiles at Sakura, "Thanks." It is then that the wind moves about his hair as fireflies actually flutter along his body. "One more.." He can feel his body weakening, but he'll have to do so.
"Thing to show you.." He grins.
They spiral around him, then they converge at the very center where he's at. Slamming his palm to the ground, Jiro invokes a circle to appear before him, spreading across the ground with a crimson dome of energy coming to life. It starts from the very center and it expands forth, aiming to consume everything in its path as a giant storm of heat, including Sakura.
"Indignation!"
And the explosion grows.
COMBATSYS: Jiro can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Sakura dodges Jiro's Indignation.
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Kasugano nods, with an encouraging smile. As close as Jiro's brought her to the brink in this battle, she can definitely sympathize with Jiro here. She -wants- him to succeed, she wants him to find the best path forward, and improve himself. But she also... doesn't want to just give up so that he can have that. She's still determined to win -- as always.
Her hair ruffles about in the light breeze, as Jiro shows Sakura the fruits of his labor. The tremendous expenditure of energy resonates through Sakura's veins, just moments before the wavefront approaches. She can tell what's going to happen.
She also wants no part of it -- this is one talent that it's better to experience from a distance. Kasugano's still a bit wobbly, and she knows she doesn't have much left in her... but she knows it's now or never. She channels all her energy reserves into one massive leap, carrying her back, over the concrete support structures she'd slammed into earlier, a fair distance away. The firestorm blasts through, charring the sun-bleached concrete in its path before gradually dissipating into nothingness, the volume of energy having expanded past the point of criticality mere feet before reaching Sakura. The heated air, though, continues to expand, kicking Kasugano's hair and headband back from ground zero: a pleasant frame for the warm smile she flashes Jiro.
"Not bad, -Officer- Kasagi," she offers as she pushes back to her feet, hands to either side for balance. "You had me on the ropes there for a minute!" she admits -- and that's not just after-fight make-nice, either!
Sakura curls her hand into a fist, walking back as best she can to Jiro, quite possibly having the temerity to continue -- if he should as well. But that fist unrolls into an open hand, as she offers him a hand back to his feet with a broad smile. "Great fight!"
COMBATSYS: Sakura takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Sakura has ended the fight here.
And the area is in ground Zero...
...As the blast point clears, Jiro is kneeling down on one knee, laughing slightly. "Inspector Kasagi now.." He had actually moved up since Sakura last saw him. Formerly, he was part of the Metro City Department. Now?
He slides the hand to his pocket, then he pulls it out to take Sakura's hand. As if to take the being helped up, the young man nods and he shakes her hand. "Great fight. I missed it."
Pulling the hand back, it reveals the 'Interpol insignia'. "It's good to see you again." He grins.
"Oh, right. I forgot." Kasugano smirks a bit -- maybe she forgot, maybe she didn't! But regardless, she's glad he's on his feet again. It's easier on the medics that way! Speaking of which, those medics are standing by right now, with the loudspeakers making the final announcements to the Italian audience! But it's not like they can see the insignia.
Sakura grins back at Jiro, making sure he's not gonna fall over or anything -- and making sure =she= won't fall over or anything. "Congrats, man! And yeah... it sure did suck not having anyone to push around..." Broad smirk, here, as she walks towards the medics. "And once we're done here... I got just the place in mind for a celebration!" Knowing her appetite, it's not hard to imagine where that'll be...
"Hahhaha. It's not a problem." Even if she did not forget, Jiro doesn't mind it much. It's still good to see her again regardless. When the medics show up, Jiro offers a smirk their way. No point in fighting them to get treated. So, he's more agreeable in them patching them up.
As to make sure Sakura doesn't fall over -herself-, Jiro keeps a good eye on her. Her first joke earns a snort from the young man, "Yeah, just as long as there are no more shock collar involvements. Already took out Alma's head for its recent usage." Mind, half a year ago, but it is still recent enough to hurt Alma over.
"Hrm... sounds good!" He grins, "We'll discuss over what you do now, since you're no longer a student at Taiyo." He laughs, "Looks like the both of us graduated and starting our own lives."
Log created on 23:23:03 11/24/2007 by Sakura, and last modified on 08:15:59 12/01/2007.