Friendship Turns to Love(pt.12 Len Tao)

(Akira)

I think I’ve already had my own fair share of problems but, no, I got to be the luckiest person in the world; stuck in a limo in between Len and Mike the two guys in my life. Everyone was quiet and all you could hear was the radio in the background. Claudia was staring at herself in her little compact mirror checking for any flaws and only looked up to get a glance at Len every few minutes. I was aggravated from that and felt like choking her. We all had been in the damn car for three hours. Finally the car stopped and we were at Red Rocks Arena.

I couldn’t feel my legs as I got out of the car. I was so, exhausted as I looked around. There wasn’t really anyone around. We started walking inside the place that ended up being huge. There had to be at least over a thousand people here.

“Wow” Mike whistled. He walked over to a booth and signed Claudia, Len and me up. He then excused himself since he had to go watch a match.

“Well this wasn’t what I expected”. Looking down at the center of the arena was a huge stadium. People were already fighting and even some were carried of in stretchers.

“Well we have to wait for our name to be called so we might as well get some background information on our opponents” Len said. With that he turned and headed off to talk with some people.

“Yeah” as I was about to go in the other direction Claudia grabbed my arm and dragged me to what I guess was the restroom.

“Hey don’t you think you should just come on out” Claudia said. She let go of my arm and was know staring at me curiously.

“Claudia look I would love to consider you that friend whom I could always go to but, I can’t if you feel that way towards me and no I don’t need to come out of the closest”. As I finished my little declaration I think I struck a nerve.

Claudia was fuming just about attacked except this six foot tall had to be on steroids girl picked Claudia off me. She then grabbed my hand and put me on my feet.

“You okay little one” the big tall person asked. She was tan but, tanner than me and had big chocolate brown eyes with a huge smile to go. She also had huge biceps that weren’t what you could say feminine; which could as I thought before be from steroids.

“Yeah I’m alright, thank you”. You couldn’t help but smile for two reasons. One the person has the friendliest smile ever and two because Claudia was dangling over her shoulder trying to say something.

“By the way girl what’s your name you look familiar” she asked. She put Claudia down who hid behind me.

“My names Akira Kamezakee, what’s yours”.

She looked at me in awe and clasped my hands together in her larger ones. “You mean the singer” she asked. You could only nod. “Well my name is Naomi and I am such a fan and may I have your autograph” before you could respond “Will team destiny come to the stadium”. You gave Naomi an apologetic look and dragged Claudia out and ran.

Len was looking rather impatient. He did a full 360 and turned to me “don’t tell me you two were in the ladies room all this time powdering your noses”. He looked away from me and turned back around. Someone wrapped their arms around me.

“You ready for this” Mike asked. You turned to face him and looked up into those big green eyes.

I shrugged “Yeah” and lightly kissed him on the cheek. He smiled and grabbed the microphone.

“Okay everyone the next fight will be team Destiny versus Team eclipse, so get ready, fighters get into your positions this will be a hand to hand fight so, no weapons or ghosts are allowed for now” Mike said.

A horn was blown to start the match. I looked left and right to see Claudia and Len in fighting stances. I looked forward to see three what I could guess were foot ball players. I took a deep breath and waited for them to make the first move.

In less then a second the one farthest to the right went diagonal and was in a takedown position and before Claudia could move Len got in the way. There was a huge cracking sound. I saw blood coming out of the football guy’s mouth. I couldn’t believe it; Len could’ve killed the guy. I was horrified to think my friend could do that when he was so innocent when we were kids.

I was paying attention to when another guy bolted straight at me. I felt something nudge me but, that was it. Then there was a gasp and then I looked at the guy who tried to tackle me.

“How come you didn’t move” the guy asked. He looked dumbfounded but, I shrugged it off and lifted him and threw him out of the ring. The last guy just surrendered.

After I threw the guy out and told Mike to call me when the next fight started, I went back to the limo and sat there. I didn’t feel like wasting my energy on such weak opponents so I just drifted off into space. I didn’t want to think about the things that could have happened to Len over the past few years. Maybe if I talked to his father I could understand. I hadn’t realized how long I was in the car till someone knocked on the window.

“Hey rock star your team going to be fighting again in about fifteen minutes” it was Naomi. I opened the door and smiled at her and told her “thank you”. We walked together to the stadium. She told me good luck. This time when I looked at the opponents they weren’t just basic fighters, they were real martial artists that I had seen on TV.

“Well finally something worth my attention”. I got into my actual fighting stance and didn’t bother looking for Len or Claudia. All my attention was focused on the three individuals…….To be continued.
(Well this how Len looks at the moment)