A small step on Hajime no Ippo

Author notes: I love you all guys, special shout out to: Lorelynf, DaoistzQ90lT, JadeZ1, Theboxer, OussamaHachoum, Boxing78, Tyson66667, Mike65, Daoist3miR9Z, Arthur90.

Truly I can't promise many chapters because I have a baby, and have to manage 4 Taekwondo Schools, (No more American Football for me tho', But a new thing, I got a job in a high school with boxing classes)

So bear with me, but I send you all hugs, truly happy holidays, and a great family gathering without the aunt who asks for "the girlfriend".

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I looked at the board, 'So… x2 shoulder muscles huh?'

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I prepared the board in the blue color, instructions said that was the exercise for the shoulder.

'Well let's go… To start I should do 20 reps'

I activated the item and went for Wide Push-ups, Pike Push-ups, and normal push-ups. After the first set, I checked the time and it was only 3 minutes.

My shoulders had like a shield that protected them I couldn't feel the exercise yet, I started the second set, and I felt the Normal push-ups, the triceps were adding difficulty to the set.

By the fourth set, I dropped the normal push-up and put 30 repetitions on the other two.

I was into the ninth rep, almost half an hour had passed by and the shield started to diminish, I went down to 25 reps and took a rest of 30 seconds between exercises.

The last 10 minutes were hard, I didn't think that 1 hour was that long.

I slumped to the floor, and suddenly all the accumulative workout came by, two hours of optimized shoulder work, I gritted my teeth but it subsided in a few seconds.

I was drenched in sweat but I felt great, it hurts but without the item used, I couldn't do the same workout even in the two hours.

While I was on the floor I made the math 990 push-ups, (4 sets of the first 3, then 5 sets for the second arrangement, and finally 9 sets with the 50 reps.) I was laughing internally and said "I can't let it end in that number" (thanks excel)

I grabbed the board and went for 10 more pikes. My door opened just as I finished and Kazeo was outside, "Hey! Lil bro, damn it reeks here" he went inside and opened the window, "Let some air in here, how many did you manage?" He smiled signaling the board.

"Would you believe me if I said 1 thousand?" I said while standing up.

He laughed "Not in a million times, maybe with triceps push-ups but not the ones you did, what those were for?"

I grabbed my shoulders "For these future guns, I'm going for an arms dealer"

Komi was passing by and started to laugh uncontrollably, "Nii, you're hilarious"

Kazeo grimaced "Yeah well, Komi has a weird sense of humor, and you two lil bro… still can you lend me your board, remember what I told you about natural shoulders, if this thing helps, I would love the guys to try it, ask Takamura if he can get more of them" he went out the room and shouted "AND TAKE A BATH"

I smelled myself "Ew… yeah let's take a rinse and a bath"

After the bath I did my homework and saw the manga that Umezawa lent me, so I read it. Seinen was not something I enjoyed… but a friend lent me, so I will respect it and read it fully.

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Monday came by, and the morning routine was like last week. This time, though, my brother didn't accompany me to Ippo's house. When I reached there, Kitamura was standing on the corner of the street.

He raised a hand "Hey! Tsuyoshi-bro, the captain told me to wait here to help in the mornings this week, would you introduce me?"

I clapped his hand while walking "Sure! Come with me"

He looked at his hand and asked "Why did you clap my hand?"

I made a confused face, "It's… a greeting? Like hi, or cool, or I don't know like Hey bro, something like that, sorry does this offend?"

He smiled "Nah! Feels cool, mind if I borrow the greeting?"

I lifted my shoulders "Suit yourself, man!"

"Cool," he said and walked with me.

I introduced him to Ippo's family and we prepared everything, we ran to the gym and started the morning workout.

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Classes started with Japanese, this was a little hard for me as I was not Japanese in my past world, but I am glad this body remembers most of it, later we had Civics and Mathematics.

During recess, we eat with Umezawa and the dudes.

He leaned near my face "So did you read it?" I pushed him away. "Yeah I did read it, sorry man I don't feel the appeal of medical manga, sure he was cool like a Jojo character. He went from you're already dead, to you're already operated jaja"

Everyone made a weird face, "Tsuyoshi… what the hell is a Jojo? And what that about you're already dead, the dude is a doctor he saves people not kill them"

Ippo also added "Did you read ahead? Does he kill people?"

I gulped and asked "Fist of the north star?"

Everyone shook their heads.

I then looked away and said "Well… maybe it was something I dreamed again" It was a lie, but I didn't have a better one.

Umezawa was munching and drank some juice "So, you didn't like Doctor K, I'll be sure to bring you something you will enjoy asshole"

I deadpanned "Yeah, yeah… I enjoy comedy though also some shonen stuff"

We continued eating after we finished we got to the second term.

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Last week we didn't have sports class, the teacher put us to run 10 laps on the baseball field to get our times, I came in first, it was only one week but we endured the roadwork of the 6-rounders.

I recovered faster from that, and after a week I discovered that it was because of the passive skill of good health I checked my status.

[STATUS] - [HEALTHY 100%]

NAME: Tsuyoshi Sora

AGE: 16

WEIGHT: 72.400 kg (159.6) - Junior Middleweight

HEIGHT: 172 cm (5'8'')

Title: None

STR: 22 → 23

SPD: 28 → 29

INT: 20 → 21

WIT: 22

DEX: 25

VIT: 21

Skill: None

Passive: Box [C-], Cook [E+], Healthy Body [Max], Information Sponge [Max]

Talent: Intermediate [Can Change with training]

I have dropped ½ kg or 1 pound, I noticed the change in three stats, but still no reference.

I wonder if… I turned my head to Ippo and mentally said 'Status', but it opened my own again, I closed it.

'Damn… maybe examine?' and a new window opened.

NAME: Makunouchi Ippo

AGE: 16

STR: 55

SPD: 20

DEX: 20

VIT: 40

I finally have something to compare but… is this guy Min Maxing? 'Holy hell, 55 in Strength, I wonder how much Takamura has, and also why I can't see the other things like height or weight.

The class continued with warm-up exercises, push-ups, sit-ups, crunches, stretches, and soccer, Ippo was defense.

I asked to be also a defense but they put me in the middle for my speed, the match ended in a draw Matsuoka was on our team and he scored a goal, but Suzuki also scored one.

I was trying to learn the names of my classmates. So far, those two made a bigger impression. Aikawa also made a bigger impression, but that was because she's cute and she invited me to Karaoke.

Class ended and we went to the gym to train.

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Kamogawa was out. Ippo was kidnapped by Aoki and Miyata Senior took me in today.

Miyata's training was focused on speed and reaction time, he taught me ways to dodge and block most of the hits, he brought out the stick again and I gulped audibly.

"Don't be nervous, this only hurts when you don't block correctly" he gave me a devil smile.

I put up my guard "Are you sure, you're not angry at me for last week?"

His smile widened "Why would I be angry?" he moved the stick fast.

I blocked the first strike "I don't know, but your smile is scary"

He kept on swinging the damn stick and he struck my torso a lot of times, by the third round I was hurting a lot and sweating buckets. I swear he was laughing but I may be wrong.

I saw the time and the training menu was completed already, I said goodbye to Miyata senior and went to grab my things when Takamura grabbed my shoulder, I winced a little because yesterday's training was almost cured but still hurt a little.

"Hey! Ore-sama needs food, this is almost the last week that I can eat, so pay up" He smiled while hitting my shoulders.

"Huh? What pay?" I moved to dodge his slaps.

His face darkened "What pay? You lost the bet now pay for my food? Also I think I forgot something, what else was on play…" he pondered.

I gulped and remembered the bet 'There was also a week of sparring with him' I started to break out in a cold sweat "Oh! Yeah, the food let's go eat, but I didn't bring money, how about tomorrow?"

He grabbed me by the neck with his whole arm "Nah! You can make a Tab, Aoki open up a tab for Sora! We're doing ramen today!"

He proceeded to grab Aoki too and forcibly tried to go out.

"At least let me rinse myself," I asked.

He smelled me and himself and agreed.

Ippo was there and they also pulled him.

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I didn't want to be part of the penis jokes, but inside the showers, I realized that I can't be bashful or it would mean a whole month of bullying, so I paraded without the towel.

I was not a monster like some of webnovel transmigrators. I haven't measured myself but maybe 17cm on rest mode.

Nobody commented about me, so I continued with the shower, when Ippo was found by Takamura everything happened like in the manga, he tried to escape but Takamura was being an asshole, he threw the towel away and…

"That thing is not normal!" I couldn't stop myself shouting.

Takamura put Ippo on the floor and went away.

So Big Mara was presented to the world… that thing is like 22cm and in rest mode,

(Kumi has left the chat…)

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After the drama we ate with Aoki, he prepared some delicious ramen, Takamura was not a bad guy, he was fun to be around, even if he was mostly a low-key bully.

After that, we hurried to help Ippo's mom with the boat, this time a lot of regulars were in the reserve and we got into the boat, I asked to use the phone and told my family that I had already eaten and that I was going to help with the fish route.

Mom told me it was ok and things went by.

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Those were things I did.

The week was almost the same, I could escape Takamura, and all week we ate in different places, Kitamura was a great help in the mornings and we didn't have any spar on this week.

In the month, the coach finally gave his permission to spar days, it was on Tuesdays and Fridays, Ichiro pounded both of us in the first spar and I managed to get a draw on the second and third one, on the fourth spar at the end of the month I won but not by knock out.

Ippo got a losing streak but managed a draw on the last one, Ichiro was angry but I could see his smile underneath his cool persona.

I got full draw with Ippo all four spars went without a definite winner.

Umezawa opened up more with us this month and we got more interaction with all our classmates, Aikawa kept on inviting us to the gatherings we accepted two outings.

She always sat next to me, if I didn't remember his crush on Ippo, I would think she was onto me. But I discarded that thinking she was too cute… lucky bastard Ippo getting all the ladies and did not take one.

Dad told me that the programmer got stuck in the treadmill and this side job was not in the company standard so they left it forgotten for the moment, I was thinking about how could I manage to give them the blueprint without getting suspicious or something.

I completed some task and used the rewards of some also:

Practice your singing, to impress someone (x5)

002. Go to Maunouchi's Boat Business and Work for a week.

006. Train with Ippo one week in the morning don't be late

009. Do the routine your brother gave you

010. The three muscle heads, train everyday with Kazeo's Team

And I failed one.

Impress the coach more than Makunouchi

The one that impressed the coach was Ichiro, the coach was fuming because he was going to leave the box gym, but he kept on giving us more challenging workouts, telling us that in three months we could defeat that guy.

I went from 72 kg to 69.6 kg in these three weeks I was almost at the Welterweight tops.

I used the x2 calf training for 1 hour, and the x2 muscles for 10 minutes, the training was awesome. I could feel how my muscles were growing.

The second month came by, and the coach forbids again the spar sessions, we trained a lot of neck exercises and speed ones, and the coach was determined to put down the counter.

Ippo got angry at himself because he thought he was avoiding the determination of Ichiro, and he changed his approach and fortified his neck to put the counter out of the commission.

I didn't think that dodging was an insult to the counter dude, so I kept the training menu as it was, and focused more on my rhythm and footwork, Kamogawa scolded me a lot these two months because of my form, he corrected many things like:

The rotation of the axis, the step-in, the wide of my arms with the combinations, the hip movement, he trained me into a lot of stuff. Every day I cursed my last coach.

School went ok, first exams were in, I helped Umezawa and Matsuda with English, and Takemura with math, Ippo was ok with all the classes he was an all-rounder.

I got full marks on both classes but Japanese, History, Geography got an average, I got into the Top 50, but was nowhere near the really top of the school.

Aikawa congratulated me and went for ice cream, this time only the two of us, I may be dense but I think I stole one of the Ippo girls.

Talking about girls, I went on a date with Kumiko, also in those outings I finally remembered who was, she was a reporter and future idol.

I was surprised when she told me, also she told me she was older than me by 3 years, she was the same age as Iimura, I asked her if she knew her, but she pouted and was angry at me for the rest of the date, I scolded myself internally for that.

The third month came and the match was finally with a date, June 12…

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Next Chapter (Maybe next year) – Dream match…. yes

I didn't proff read, I hope it doesn't have a lot of mistakes.

Happy New Year everyone!