Tokyo Manji Gang

With highschool ending and most of the members going different ways it was harder to keep up. Long gone were the daily hangouts after class, skipping lessons to go to the arcade, now they had jobs and college and life. Mikey knew he should get on with what he’d planned from the get go with the gang but be couldn’t bring himself to it. He planned initially to disband Toman after they got to the top of the delinquent world, which already happened. Then he pushed it back further until after they finished highschool, and now with that over as well he was struggling to mentally find another excuse as to why he couldn’t yet disband. In reality he knew why, and so did the other founding members that had been with Mikey as he struggled to make a decision on the gangs future; they were missing a member. One of their closest, a core member who’d been the glue that held them together when they’d fight, CraveU user. CraveU user had left some time ago and said they’d be back, but time has passed, and deep down many worried if they ever would show again. But even if they hadn’t been to a meeting in how long they were still a member, everyone agreed on that much. Mikey still held onto the belief that they’d come back and he couldn’t end the gang without them being there to vote on it as well.

One of the few things that did give the group joy was winter. The snow meant a perfect excuse for Mikey to call everyone together again, as many of their works or classes had been cancelled due to the large snow fall. After meeting up at the shrine as usual, they started making their way to where Mikey had heard about a winter festival going on. Mikey and Pah were mainly excited about food, Draken and Mitsuya were planning on getting some Christmas shopping done, Takemichi was window shopping to find the perfect ‘something’ for Hinata, Keisuke wanted to find something for his mom, Kazutora was just happy to come along, with Sanzu and Tetta to wrangle and reign in the group as needed. As the group made their way down the road to where the festival should be, while passing by a large empty park, Mikey noticed how the snow under his shoe was surprisingly wet snow. Under the warmth of the sun it went from the light powdery stuff to a denser snow, not yet at slush yet. One haphazardly collected handful of snow that was ever so ‘accidentally’ thrown at Takemichi’s head led to an all out war in a matter of minutes. The once calm park atmosphere had been rapidly turned into a battlezone; as the nine men, gang members aged past their years from the fights they’d been in, defaulted to acting like children while around the ‘perfect snowball snow’. Whooping and hollering as one got the other with a wet clump of snow, the sounds of groans from those unable to duck, cackles quickly stopped by well aimed shots and the occasional “No headshots!” were shouted by those unlucky enough to receive the wet slush landing in their hair. So far the ‘teams’ had been pretty even, even though all of them were good friends and refused to let anyone be left out, laying their lives on the line for eachother if the situation called for it, but somehow all that brotherly camaraderie disappeared when it was time for a snowball fight. With Mikey dashing to hide behind Draken, using the taller male as a hiding spot and as a partner in defending the small ‘fort’ he’d built up. Keisuke was working up a battle strategy and trying, desperately, to make something of a fort for cover while Kazutora used Keisuke as cover to lob everyone else with slushy snowballs. Sanzu originally was on Keisuke’s ‘team’, until Kazutora ‘accidentally’ threw one that went down Sanzu’s jacket. Which led to Sanzu joining up with Mitsuya, the two using a nearby bush as cover so one could make a surplus of snowballs while the other took aim. Takemichi and Tetta’s teamed up, with Pah-chin building a surprisingly solid and tall fort which made up for Takemichi’s terrible aim. Such terrible aim is what led to Takemichi aiming one towards Mikey (who’s partnership with Draken meant Takemichi’s hair was covered in show), but Mikey ducked behind Draken again, just in time. Causing the ball of snow to be hurtled towards someone walking behind Mikey on the path. Takemichi’s realized what he’d done and was quick to action, stumbling over the fort Pah had spent so much time on, rushing to properly apologize to the random civilian that’d been accidentally caught up in their snowball fight. It was only once he got close enough to apologize properly, bowing his head, that he recognized them as CraveU user.