"Fuck, 'cough', what?" Kazuki disoriented muttered with a horsed voice as he groaned feeling pain not only from his shoulder, but also the discomfort that came from the hot sand that surrounded him.
He winced seeing the bright sun shining down over him, causing him to block his eyes with his hand, as he blinked till his eye sight adjusted.
Looking at the calm sea and feeling the nice breeze washed over him he sighed, taking deep breaths to calm his thumping heart.
Luckily the current didn't pull him back in and cause him to drift away and drown or get eaten by a sea beast if his terrible luck got even worse.
"Ugh, ok bad thoughts, where am I?" Kazuki muttered with a grunt as sitting up gritting his teeth at the pain that throbbed throughout his body.
Wincing, he looked around seeing that he was on a really small island with a couple trees and over grown grass that surround a old faded pink house, that looked abandoned.
"Hello! Anyone home?" Kazuki weakly said as he made his way towards the house, he didn't know how long he had been laying there but it must have been for hours at least.
If no one came out just to check so far, then it must have be abandoned.
As he was walked up the steps he noticed that while the paint made the house look old and dismayed, the wood itself didn't look broken apart or corroded from the sea water.
"Hello?" Kazuki said entering the house only to get taken aback as he flenched in dismay, struggling to blink his eyes.
He coughed as the dust hit his face, causing him to wave his hand around him, as it drifted out the door.
"Okay, definitely an abondon house." Kazuki muttered as he walked inside and started inspecting the house.
Though it was a small house, it had a living room with a black box, a empty closet, a low table, and some cushioned seatings. There was a door leading to the kitchen in the back, and to the toilet on the right. On the left side, there were stairs for the second floor, which contained a single bedroom.
Kazuki opened all the windows to let the dust flow out, he then tested the water which came out brown at first but started to become clear as he let it run down the sink.
As he went through the house he marveled at the beautiful and simplicity of it, but he didn't find anything that indicated someone was or had ever lived there previously, except for the couch, rug, a black block in the center living room and bed.
There were no pictures, clothes or anything that showed someone ever lived here.
"This house is like if it was just for show, maybe no one ever lived here, hell it's not even dirty." Kazuki said to himself, from what he knows if it was abandoned there would be trash or furniture out of place. But the house besides being dusty was relatively clean with nothing haphazardly positioned.
Kazuki groaned sitting on the dusty couch causing dust to puff out but he leaned back sipping some water.
"What to do now?" He asked himself as he looked around the room and looked at the black block and noticed the buttons on it.
"What does this do?" He asked curiously as he messed with it pressing the buttons, but nothing happened but suddenly after pressing the last one, a burst of light came out from the front of the block.
Kazuki jumped back in surprise and looked at what seemed like a counted down on the side of the light, causing him to tremble.
"Fuck is it about to explode?" Kazuki looked in disbelief as he leaned back against the couch, at this point there was nothing he could do, he was in such constant pain that he could barely move now.
"What kind of luck to be born with." He said shaking his head and closing his eyes, enjoying the silence even as he awaited his death.
….
"And down we go! Hit them glutes girls! And one, two, one, two, and three!"
Kazuki eyes snapped open looking in confusion as he watched a girl exercise, bending over and stretching with an intense bubbly attitude.
"W-what." Kazuki said looking at the screen, he sat back and watched as the women exercised till it ended and played another women doing a different routine.
"Hello, is this your house." He asked even as the women on the screen kept working out not responding to his call.
"Are you trapped in there?" Kazuki said with a look of wonder as he continued to watch looking intrigued at the screen and the lady, till he fell asleep in exhaustion watching her.
He didn't know what it was, but just hearing another voice apart from his own comforted him, as the sound of the ocean outside was disturbing his mind.
Next morning he woke up to the sound of the ladies on the screen exercising causing him to shake him head, he then got up going to the still dusty kitchen and cleaned his wound.
"Ugh I need a change of clothes, this place has hot water and a shower, just need clothes to not agrrivate my wounds." He muttered when he noticed a bugle in the kitchen floor.
"What is this." Kazuki said with curiosity as he felt the bugle and used his finger to push up revealing a hole in the floor with a ladder going down.
Gulping while looking down at the pitch black hole, he used a metal rod attached to he floors door to hold it up, as he made his way down the ladder.
"It's dark, I can't see anything." Kazuki grumbled when he felt the smooth ground and began feeling around the wall when he felt what seemed like a bottom and pressed it.
Kazuki winced when the ceiling burst into a bright light that illuminated the surrounding around him.
Kazuki blinked till his eyes adjusted to the light and looked around in astonishment as he walked forward and inspected everything.
The basement had concrete walls and floor with a symbol engraved into the floor, there were stacks of boxes and crates lined up against the back wall.
He walked over and opened one of the boxes and crates lined up, as he peered in one box he grinned in excitement.
"Finally I can get out of these rags and finally wear something." Kazuki grinned looking at the orange Gi and pants along with a black sash and black slip on shoes.
Kazuki rushed up stairs and took a shower, making sure to clean the wound on his shoulder with soap he found then wrapped it in gaze he found also in the same box.
He grinned at himself as he looked in the mirror after wiping the dust off of it.
"Hey, hey this is fly." Kazuki grinned as he rushed back down to the basement finding dusty pans along with other cleaning material.
As he carried everything needed to clean up the ladder, he tightened a orange bandana around his mouth.
"Let's get to work!"
He then grabbed a broom and began cleaning the house till the sun was gone and the moon hung high in the night sky.
"Sheesh that was a lot of work, if I was a hundred percent it wouldn't have been that hard, at least I can kinda move my arm now." Kazuki muttered to himself as he winced when he rotated his shoulder.
He then went and got dinner catching a fish and roasting it on the stove after finding pans and preserved seasonings.
"Mmm after dinner I'll go through the other boxes." Kazuki muttered with a full mouth whole chewing as he thought out loud while the exercise program played in the background.
He still didn't understand how it worked but he figured that it must be a den den mushi that one of the merchants talked to him about.
Mushi's are a class of telepathic snails that serves as a means of vocal and/or visual communication across the world. He never seen one but with its hard shell he assumed it must be a tv.
"Thank you Mr. Snail for keeping me company." Kazuki said rubbing the hard shell and accidentally pressed a button, causing it to eject a flimsy black square with a name on it.
Kazuki looked in curiosity at what the snail spitted out, he gently grabbed the black square and looked at the words on it that he never seen before.
"Wait I can read this? R-ro-shi t-tape four." Kazuki said sounding out the words as he stared intensely at the tape. "Roshi tape four." He said saying it fully after practicing.
"In fact I've that lady has been saying a different language then what the merchants taught me?"
"Hold on… there were two other tapes like this in the first box!" Kazuki yelled putting the tape in his hands gently on the ground before rushing to the basement and back up holding two tapes he found looking into another box.
He was sure there were others but decided to take his time watching them… for research.
Kazuki quickly sat down after inserting a random tape as he leaned back on the couch, looking eagerly at the screen.
"Now! Ladies and gentlemen are you ready! That's right people, it's time for the twenty-first world martial arts tournament!"
Kazuki looked in awe as the screen showed colorful fireworks and a variety of different people and creatures in a large crowd.
"With that said let's welcome the estimed director of this tournament, who has a few words of wisdom to start this baby off." The blond announcer said before handing the microphone too a blue dog who wore dark orange monk robes.
"Mmm." The dog monk cleared his throat before looking inentsly at the crowd and camera, causing Kazuki to lean forward eyes wide in anticipation as he gulped.
"Woof, woof."
"Isn't that profound!" The blond announcer yelled after receiving the microphone back.
Kazuki nearly fell out his seat as he stared at the screen in disbelief but shook his head and watched as they introduced the first rounds fighters.
"Hey those boys are wearing the same cloths as me!" Kazuki mumbled seeing the same symbol on them that was on the basement floor basement and on his clothes.
As Kazuki intently watched the bald boy fight he cringed and laughed as the boy fought. "Can people be born without a nose?"
Kazuki cheered when the boy krillen won, then came a young guy in green and orange and a old dude wearing a black/white button up.
"Yamach vs Jackie Chun, let's go!" The announcer yelled before getting off the stage in a hurry.
Yamcha attacked fast and furiously but Jackie Chun dipped and dodged every hit, even when Yamchas speed blurred attacking Jackie, he nimbly swayed and dodged.
Then suddenly Jackie Chun's speed blurred, disappearing from the ring then suddenly appearing in front of Yamcha with his hand held behind his back.
He then he whipped his hands forward blowing Yamcha away with a fierce wind as he sent him flying out the ring, causing him to hit his back against the wall, cracking it.
Kazuki looked in awe holding his fist tight. "What was that! That was awesome!" He said with excitement as he continued eagerly watching another fight after the next, cheering for both boys wearing the same clothes he had on.
"That's fighting dirty!"
"What the hell, he really has a tail?!"
Kazuki looked in bewilderment when suddenly Jackie Chun grabbed the microphone.
"How many of you ladies love me! Dee doo de da de martial artist life is the only life for me." Jackie sang as he danced on stage with Goku, causing Kazuki to laugh as he watched the proformance.
Kazuki then got excited watching as Krillen fought Jackie Chun, their moves blurred as they exchanged fist and kicks while maneuvering and blocking the others hit.
"Wow this is incredible, there moving so fast that I can't even see them!" Kazuki said looking intently at the screen and listened as they both began to explain what happenedz
He suppressed himself from laughing when they explained too much in detail, on what happened after going super faster when fighting.
"KAMEHAMEHAAA!"
Kazuki eyes lit up as he watched Jackie Chun blasted a blue beam out of his hands and clenched his fist in excitement seeing him then suddenly become blur in speed, knocking Krillen out cold with a chop to the neck.
"The last final match is about to began! Goku vs Jackie Chun!"
Kazuki watched gulping, with eyes wide as they both blasted the same blue beam at each other, sending both of them flying back after an intense clash.
He cheered when goku used afterimages to hit Jackie unexpectedly, the techniques used through the fight, made Kazuki's blood pump with excitement.
"Lighting flash surprise!" Jackie Chun yelled, as green lighting coated his hands and then surrounded a surpired Goku.
Goku not succumbing suddenly transformed into a giant ape to Kazuki's bewilderment, then something amazing happened as Jackie Chan then crashed out and destroyed the moon.
To Kazuki astonishment Goku then returned to normal though he was naked and had to change.
Then both Goku and Jackie Chun faced each other in fierce combat as they relentlessly attacked each other in a final battle, tanking the others hits till in the end, Jackie Chun won with a knock out.
The video then ended, ejecting the tape itself as Kazuki sat there in silence still feeling the adrenaline and amazement from watching the video.
"Martial arts? Can I learn it too?" Kazuki questioned himself, clenching his fist in excitement and quickly ran down to the basement.
Kazuki rummaged through the first box finding more tapes and other kind of things, till he finally found what he wanted as he grasped a purple book along with three other thick books.
"Ground breaking science, by Professor Son." Kazuki muttered but before he could open it, a red letter drifted out from the book.
He the bent down and inspected the letter as he read the big font on it.
"Muten Roshi, Turtle hermit school of artial arts master!" Kazuki whispered in excitement holding the letter to the light as he read the title.
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To be continued…