Post by Nakashima Masaki on Aug 12, 2016 2:06:09 GMT -6
Kellar: <Come on Nakashima.>
Naka: <No.>
Kellar nodded to Sean, who put his foot gently on the accelerator as they slowly moved along the road alongside Nakashima, who kept striding ever-forward, hands in pockets, not even turning his head.
Kellar: <This is a chance to resurrect your career>
Naka: <I could do that without my brother. If you really cared, you'd be offering me a singles match>
Kellar: <Get in the car, and we'll talk.>
Naka: <Nothing to talk about.>
Kellar: <What are you going to do with yourself anyway?>
Naka: <None of your business>
Kellar: <So... nothing then>
Naka stopped, and Sean brought the car to a halt alongside him.
Naka: <Why are you doing this? Why are you tormenting me?>
Kellar: <It's what I do, and believe me I am quite content to follow you all the way along every road on this island until you at least talk to me. I guarantee you'll run out of steam before I do.>
Naka: <I'm not interested in teaming with my brother. The Sons of Gold ended when he sided with my father instead of me>
Sean: What's he...?
Kellar: I told you I wasn't the only one who feared Masaki...
Sean: His own son? He turned his own son against his brother...
Kellar: Conversation for another day.
Kellar turned back towards Nakashima
Kellar: <Nakashima, your father is dead, but you know as well as I do that he casts a very long shadow in this country. In America that shadow is a lot shorter.>
Naka: <I'm not even sure I can still wrestle.>
Kellar: <Bullshit! You may have been away for a while, but there's no way that Nakashima Masaki has forgotten how to wrestle>
Sean: What did he even do?
Kellar: Sean, not now.
Naka: <Let me put it another way, I'm not sure I want to wrestle. All that industry has ever brought me is misery and regret... I want nothing to do with it>
Nakashima started walking again. Sean turned the engine on but Kellar stopped him and got out of the car. He followed Nakashima down the road.
Kellar: <Again, I call bullshit. Okay, you've been away for a while. Okay your father was a bastard. But you still want in on this industry. Right now you're too angry to feel it but I know that you, on some level, can't bring yourself to walk away.>
Naka: <What would you know?>
Kellar: <I've been there.>
Naka: <Prison?>
Kellar: <Rehab>
Naka: <Like all the other celebrities. Don't try and empathise with me Kellar, you have no idea what I've been through. You think because you spent a few months in some high price establishment talking about your feelings and shitting out your intestines as you went through withdrawal that you know anything about me? Let me spell it out for you... I hate wrestling. I don't owe you anything, and I certainly don't owe Fuji anything. I'm done, I'm out, wrestling is dead to me. It was dead the moment father disowned me. I never want to go back>
He started to walk away. Kellar folded his arms and smiled.
Kellar: <Then why haven't you changed your name?>
Nakashima stopped.
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A few hours later the three of them were sat at Tokyo International Airport waiting for the check-in desk to open.
Naka: <One match.>
Kellar: <That's all I ask.>
Naka: <One night as a Son of Gold, then you help me build my singles career in Underground Zero. I don't want to work with Fuji ever again>
Kellar: <If that's really what you want>
Naka: <It is.>
Melissa: DADDY!!!
Kellar turned to see a mass of speed and blonde curls heading his way.
Kellar: Hello Monster... raaaaaa!!!
He picked her up and sat her on his lap.
Kellar: Where's Sophia? Did you run away from her again?
Sophia: Yes, she did...
Sophia approached, bag on shoulder
Sophia: But hey, every bit of training helps.
Sophia turned to Nakashima and smiled. She extended her hand.
Sophia: Hello. I'm Sophia...
Nakashima just gazed at her as he took her hand.
Kellar: He doesn't speak English. <This is my niece, Sophia. She's performing at the show too>
Naka: <Hello Sophia.>
Sophia smiled.
Sophia: <You can let go of my hand...>
Nakashima let go of her hand, sheepishly. Sophia just smiled.
Naka: <You speak Japanese?>
Kellar: You speak Japanese?
Sophia: <Some.>
Kellar: You've never shown any interest in working in Japan.
Sophia: Not yet.
Sophia turned to Nakashima with a smile.
Sophia: <But I'm always looking to try new things.>