Rulers- Chapter 1- "The Start"

My name is Arnold Ryu, I am half-Japanese, half-American. I have black hair, with red eyes, I was 5'10 at 14

years old. In the past, People have freaked out because of my eyes. I lived in America for about 13 years.

In school, I was bullied in schools because of my race. Even though I did not look that much like a Japanese

person, students were blaming me for the incidents such as Pearl Harbor and stuff like that. At the age of 8, I

got into my first fight, 4 kids who constantly bullied me by placing hateful notes in my locker or even stealing

my notebooks.

I never told the teachers at my school of these bullies, since most of them didn't even treat me like a human

being, since I was half-Japanese. After a long day at school, I was going to go to my house like usual, but

then these kids pulled me aside and brought me to the back of the school. One of the kids said, "Hey Arnold,

we don't like how you look, so we are going to teach you a lesson". One of the kids ran up, making a fist

aiming towards my face. I instinctively dodged and came behind him, took his arm, and pulled it back. I held

his arm in a position where I could've broken it, but I didn't want to get into trouble at school so, I kicked his

leg, causing him to faceplant the ground. The other 2 had a scared but prideful look on their face, one of

them runs at me while the other tries to come from behind. I didn't want to extend this fight any longer. So I

remembered that my elbows were one of the strongest points in my body, I rotated

backward, elbowing the kid behind me but made sure to only hid his forehead so he

doesn't sustain any permanent damage. The kid in front of me froze, I went to him

grabbing his collar saying "I will let this go since I have a curfew today but you pull

this again, you might not survive", letting out a cold breath.

While I was walking home, I thought I sounded very cool against those guys.

When I arrived home, I found out that both of my parents had died in a war between

Japanese police and Mitsurin delinquents in Tokyo Japan.

I didn't know what to feel or think, I was crying but didn't know why, my dad never did anything with me and

my mom and always went on "business" trips to Japan. My mom on the other hand was my only friend...

I attended my parent's funeral and paid my respects

The police had told me that I am going to foster care for 2 years, I met abusive parents, jealous siblings,

money-minded parents, etc. After 2 years, I was getting ready to move to Tokyo, Japan where my

grandmother lives. I promised my mom I would never start a fight no matter the circumstances (but I will end it),

I decided I wanted to destroy the old concept of delinquency and start a new era for high school delinquents

when I moved to Tokyo.

When I got to Tokyo I was greeted by my grandmother and she told me I was starting high school in 6

months next week. I knew I had to get stronger to face those delinquents. So I started

taking Shotokan Karate Classes on Monday's, Boxing Classes on Tuesday's, Judo Classes on

Wednesday's, and on

Thursday and Friday's I took Systema Classes. On Monday, my karate sensei examined

me to where I placed in the Karate Belt Rankings. I fought a yellow belt ranked kohai,

where all I had to was punch him in the face and he got knocked out. I did this for

every belt, except when I got to the Brown Belt students, they blocked my punch and

punched me in the Stomach. I was surprised by the way they punched, since they rotated their hips and fist

in one singular motion, adding more impact and power to the strike.

I only saw this once and then when the Brown attacked first using a round-house kick, I

dodged sideways I was about to do a "chop" which I learned in Boxing to his leg, he caught onto this, and

was about to strike me then I blocked his punch and rotated my

hips and fist in a horizontal motion to his stomach. The next second, he was on the ground, crying in pain... I

faced against all the brown belts and beat them all.

Then before I faced the black belts, my sensei stopped me and said, "You are a very good

fighter but you lack experience, and if you face the black belts now, you may get knocked

out in less than a minute", this surprised me since I thought I could beat the black belts

as well but I chose not to fight them...

I started training heavily in Karate and achieved the rank of 1st-degree black belt in 5 months.

Since I caught onto the "kata's" and their defense, offense very quickly and implemented

them.

In Systema I learned how to use many weapons, In boxing, I learned how to use footing and combos, In

judo, I learned throws. I wanted to use all of these moves

in a fight and started to develop my own martial arts. I went to sleep, that day since was going to be my

first day of school tomorrow...