Badass Old Man!

"I can't work with it if it's this dirty, so I'll be washing it. Though it will cost ya a little extra got it brat?"

'You fucke-' before I can even finish my thought the old man splashes my face and hair with warm water soaking my hair and starting to clean it with a nice smelling shampoo. "Like this smell I got it strictly for brats like you strawberry scented. Though, I'm pretty sure its for girls, I'm sure a brat like you won't mind right?"

'If I wasn't six I'd fight you!' The man roughly scrubs my head and rinses my soap out before spreading another scent into my head. "This one's conditioner, I can see that you haven't been taking care of your hair, though I guess your doing alright for a brat. Anyway it'll help with that strawberry smell and give it a more natural feel. Why I am I speaking to you? You probably have no idea what I'm talking about."

The old man shakes his head as he gently rinses out my head this time while trying to show out the full volume of my hair. "To explain it in a way you understand it makes that strawberry seem way more fitting for you. Next I'm gonna cut your hair, now you probably didn't notice but your hair automatically stands up and while it isn't bad it can make it pretty hard to work with. But you don't have to worry about that since you've got me!"

The man starts to blow dry my hair and comb it out bring it fully out. "Now I'm gonna trim you down and bring it back some to let your natural accents shine and I'll probably cut you down in the back though you'll probably want it grown out when you get older."

Nodding along I let the man cut my hair trimming it down to something easy and letting my purple streaks flow through my raven black hair. 'I didn't notice but my hair is so fucking cool! Its damn near like Yugi's at least naturally, the only difference is my actually abides to the law of gravity.'

The man continues to cut my hair, moving extremely efficiently and getting my hair to a perfect length. he then lines me up with a sharps as hell razor. 'I'm lowkey scared of this guy who the hell is this efficient at cutting hair?'

"Lastly I'm gonna cut the back of your neck, now you've probably never heard of this but I'm gonna fade you in the back. I'll be a little tickley but don't move." And he does just that fading me in the back and squaring it off before he pulls back and hand me a mirror.

'Ho-ly Shit. This is the best hair cut I've ever gotten, in my past life I got one off those expensive 100 dollar hair cuts that double as a spa but this is the best cut I've ever seen, forget about gotten!...He's probably gonna take all my money.'

My face falls as soon as I think about the price and the old man picks up on it and says with a smile on his face. "This'll be 4000 Yen!" My expression breaks as a look of pure pain goes across my face. 'Damn it! Can I just run away?'

"Don't try running, I may be old but I'm faster than a little child."

'Damn it!' Swallowing hard I reach into my coat pocket and as I do so I pull ou- "I'm joking! A brat like you probably doesn't have that much on ya, you can just keep the 5 Yen ya got. Your hair was satisfying enough to cut anyway."

Letting go of a breath I didn't know I was holding I quickly get up and out of the chair and bow to the man before saying. "Thank you! I'll be leaving now if that's ok!" Turning around before the man can say anything I jog out of his makeshift barber shop and start jogging down the street.

Unaware to me multiple dark hooded figures were around that entered the shop a few minutes after I left.

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[POV (Third Person)]

Three hooded figures enter the small shop and block of its main exit, as they do so the center most one steps up and begins to talk. "Mr. Phoenix you know what we are here for! Give it to us and you won't have to deal with us again."

The old man looks directly at the center most figure and speaks without letting up any ground. "Ah, well I don't really feel like giving them up, especially after all that bullshit you tried to brainwash me with. Maybe you should come back another day."

"Is that so?"

"Indeed it is."

"That is most unfortunite, we'll just need to persuade you more."

"Your light is wicked, yet you can't even see that. Don't worry I'll beat some sense into you."