The Family He Never Had Part 3

Story by Human Kid Jet on SoFurry

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Terk begins to make an attempt to encourage Kenji to play with her and Terk's friends but Kenji feels a bit hesitant for some reason.


Two days have gone by since Kenji settled in the jungle with Tarzan, Jane and everyone else but he was still trying to adjust, he seemed to be keeping to himself mostly which some of the other gorillas felt a bit concerned about. Not many of them ever knew a human or gorilla that kept to themselves and that made them kind of worried. Kenji was sitting down near a tree as he was watching Flynt, Mungo and the others play around. Terk was starting to go over to Kenji as she was growing curious about him even more. Kenji had a few things on his mind that seem to keep him a bit distracted or it felt like his head was up in space.

"Stay out of the dark, stay away from the dark." said a voice in Kenji's head as if he was remembering what someone told him.

"Hey Kenji, anyone home in there?" asked Terk as she broke the silence.

Kenji turned to see Terk and he was blushing deep red when she was next to him as if he was shy around girls.

"How long have you been standing there?" asked Kenji curiously.

"Not too long." answered Terk. "How you doing? Everything okay up stairs?"

"Everything in my head has slowed down and stopped racing." answered Kenji as he was turning his face towards another direction.

Terk was feeling like she could tell something was bothering Kenji but the young male child wasn't saying anything. Terk took a look at her friends than looked back at Kenji.

"Did you wanna play with the others?" asked Terk curiously.

Kenji turned to look at Terk but he seemed nervous and hesitant by the suggestion, he felt a bit uncomfortable like he never played with kids before.

"I don't know if I." said Kenji at first.

"Come on, you know you want to." said Terk placing an arm around him.

"I don't know how." said Kenji sheepishly.

Now Terk really felt a bit surprised, how can a kid not know how to play with others? It's not like it was that hard but Terk had suspected one reason.

"Are you afraid your gonna get hit over the head with a coconut again?" said Terk showing concern.

"I've had worse things like that happening to me before but." said Kenji at first. "It's complicated."

"What's so complicated about it? You can tell me." said Terk showing a reassuring look.

Kenji looked around to make sure that no one was listening from nearby or ease-dropping and he turne his attention to Terk.

"Where I'm from, in human civilization, people noticed I had something that would give me a brighter future." Kenji began. "When some of these people found that out, they immediately wanted to nuture what I had. They kept making all the decisions for me, when ever I would see other kids playing, I wanted to join in but the people who were nuturing this gift I had, they wouldn't let me."

"Why wouldn't they let you?" asked Terk curiously.

"They told me there wasn't time for it. The years went by and I just never got to know what's it like to just be the kid, enjoy growing up and have fun like normal kids do. I never got to learn that." said Kenji blushing. "So when it comes to playing with others, I don't know how."

Kenji was feeling a bit embarrassed to admit what he told Terk. This also was a bit surprising for Terk to hear, she placed an arm around him like a one armed hug while she hugged him with a slightly firm grip and it was quite the firm grip since she was a strong female gorilla.

"So you missed out on being a kid because some bozos wouldn't let you?" said Terk starting to show a look of compassion. "I may not know what human civilization is like but when Jane or her dad told me about it from time to time, I got a good clue to what it's like so maybe we can show you how while your still young. So why not come with me and we'll try your luck with Flynt, Mungo and the others, besides, them bozos you told me about can't tell you what to do now."

Kenji knew that Terk was right but he was a bit nervous about playing with some of the other gorillas who are friends of Terk, he felt her rubbing his shoulder with her big gorilla hand to reassure him.

"I guess your right, I could at least try my luck." said Kenji.

Terk was happy to hear that as she wrapped her other arm around Kenji's body and used both of her arms to hug Kenji closely to her body but her grip was kind of too firm but practically tight on him.

"That's the spirit, little man." said Terk thrilled.

"Terk, your crushing me, can't breathe, too tight." said Kenji weakly.

"Whoops, sorry kiddo." said Terk as she made her grip gentler and loosened it.

After Kenji was able to breathe again from Terk loosening her grip, she helped him up on his feet and both of them started to walk towards Flynt, Mungo and the other gorillas. Terk did have a question or so in mind to ask Kenji.

"Kenji, when we found you, we saw you had some items on you, what were they?" asked Terk curiously.

Kenji remembered he had at least four items on him when they found him and it was a few things to carry around.

"I had one backpack to carry my food in, a water canteen that's probably half full of water and big as your head or your forearm, a musical instrument which I kept in my bag and an extendable knife." said Kenji as he counted them off on his fingers.

"Sounds like you were preparing to travel." said Terk.

"You could say that." said Kenji.

Terk and Kneji arrived and stopped near Flynt, Mungo and the other gorillas as they were about to turn their attention towards them.

"The fun has arrived." said Terk in a sing song voice.

"I see Terk and Kenji decided to join us." said Flynt looking thrilled.

"First off, I'm sorry for throwing the coconut at you Kenji when it hit you over the head and knocked you out, we thought you were a predator." said Mungo kindly.

"It's alright, Mungo. I've had worse happen to me before." said Kenji as he was understanding it was an accident. "So what's the game for today?"

They all knew that once Kenji asked, they only had one thing in mind and it was either something they usually do or something they never done before.

"Wrestling." said Flynt and Mungo in thrilled unison while giving each other a high five.

"Wouldn't that be a bit violent for the kid?" said Terk out of concern for Kenji.

"We could at least try, Terk." said Kenji showing some promise.

"Okay, than whose wrestling who?" asked Terk.

They were all thinking for a bit and at first they had no idea who would go up against who till Flynt had a smug smirk and knew who to pair up with whom.

"How about Kenji and Mungo." suggested Flynt. "No backing out this time."

Flynt gave a little push on Mungo's back and it made him go straight toward Kenji, almost colliding with one of Kenji's legs. Kenji and Mungo looked a bit surprised by this.

"If your coming up with the idea, why don't you wrestle him." said Mungo towards Flynt.

"Rock, paper, scissors on it?" said Flynt holding out a fist.

"Your on, loser wrestles Kenji." said Mungo confidently.

Flynt and Mungo both held out a fist and were going to decide on this by rock, paper, scissors. They shook their fists as they were ready.

"Once, twice, shoot." said Flynt and Mungo.

Flynt and Mungo formed their hands out and Flynt showed two fingers out in the form of scissors but Mungo had his hand in a fist to form a rock. This meant Flynt had to wrestle Kenji and Flynt's face looked surprised.

"Good luck, Flynt." said Mungo with a smug grin.

Flynt started to face Kenji and Kenji face Flynt, but Terk had to say something to Flynt before the wrestling started so she walked over to him.

"Go easy on him." whispered Terk in Flynt's ear.

Flynt gave a wink to show he was listening and both Kenji and Flynt got into a fighting stance, it looked like Terk was going to be the referee as she stood nearby.

"Bring it on." dared Kenji.

Flynt made the first move and charged at him, he was going to try and trip him by using his arm to trip him by the leg but Kenji dodged the move by lifting up the leg Flynt was going for. Flynt missed and he was amazed the kid actually dodged it.

"Try again, Flynt." said Kenji.

Flynt made another move towards him by jumping up after Kenji but than Kenji dodged him again by leaning his back forwards Flynt went clean over him, it seemed Kenji has wrestled before since he was showing signs of experience. Kenji flipped going forwards and landed on his feet. Flynt was looking amazed that he dodged him again.

"You need to be faster than that." said Kenji.

Flynt went towards him again and this time, he went underneath Kenji and went behind him, wrapped his arms around him to hold his arms back in a full nelson hold. Kenji was grunting a bit from the firm grip while Flynt looked like he was gaining the upper hand.

"Try escaping out this." said Flynt with a laugh.

"Now we're talking." said Kenji excited.

Kenji successfully slipped out of Flynt's grip like he had slick all over him but Flynt knew that going easy on him wasn't an option anymore since he knew that Kenji must have done this before somehow, so the gorilla just grabbed onto Kenji's legs with his feet and it stopped him from getting away. Kenji was surprised to see this and Flynt used his feet to try and trip him but as Kenji fell forwards, that's when the thin gorilla jumped clean over him, landed on the ground and pulled Kenji into his arms and held onto him in a firm but non-painful grip.

"I got you, goochi, goochi coo." said Flynt eagerly.

Flynt than went forward and pinned Kenji to his back on the ground, started to tickle his sides and his belly which made Kenji shake and squirm all over, laughing and he was helpless to stop or break free.

"Stop it Flynt, no not there." laughed Kenji.

"Do you give, little man? I'm not going to stop until you do." said Flynt giggling.

Kenji was almost choking from the laughing and endless tickling but he had and idea to make Flynt stop, with his quick thinking, he reached out and placed his hand on Flynt's neck, he firmly but gently grasped what probably was a pressure point on his neck and Flynt's vision got a bit blurry and his body was going limp like a noodle. The tickling stopped but he landed on top of Kenji, he looked to be like he was asleep or knocked out without any pain. Kenji lightly pushed Flynt off him and he got up.

"Winner." said Terk.

The other gorillas cheered and clapped while they were amazed at how Kenji won.

"What did you do?" asked Mungo curiously.

"Where I'm from, I was taught that you can knock someone out without causing them any pain just by pinching a pressure point on their neck. Flynt's going to be alright." explained Kenji. "If you want to wake them up, than I'll just do this."

Kenji picked up Flynt and he was surprisingly strong in the body to actually lift Flynt up a little, he sat the unconsious gorilla up and began to place a hand on Flynt's neck and once he did, his whole hand was starting to glow a bright gold light and Flynt at first wasn't moving but than he moved his belly up and down as he was breathing in and out. This surprised everyone to make them a bit shocked. The gold light that shined all over Kenji's hand eventually disappeared and he removed his hand from Flynt's body and suddenly, the young gorilla woke up like he woke from his sleep.

"Everything alright, Flynt?" asked Kenji.

"I feel incredible, what did I miss?" asked Flynt curiously.

Everyone was a bit stunned at what they just saw happen. Kenji knocked out Flynt without hurting him and now he was suddenly back on his feet like he came out of the best sleep he's had in years. Flynt looked at everyone and knew they saw something he didn't see.

"Why are you guys looking at me like that?" said Flynt looking confused.

"Kenji, what did you just do?" asked Terk scratching her head.

"It's a long story." answered Kenji. "But I rather not talk about it right now."

Terk, Mungo and everyone were curious to what Kenji just did, it looked like a healing power that could heal anyone of anything. They had no clue how he had this mysterious power but they figured as long as Flynt was okay, than they had nothing to worry about. Flynt knew that he may have lost the wrestling match against Kenji by non-painful knockout but he was okay with it, he hugged Kenji for what he did but they all knew two things, one, what was this power that Kenji had and two, what was next they wanted to do for a bit of fun?

"So what's next?" asked Kenji.

To Be Continued