=============================================================== Episode Summaries by Lynne (tougei@hotmail.com) Note from Key 2 Anime: I got these summaries from the RK Archive (http://rka.crosspaths.net/index.html). All these summaries are done by Lynne. If you have any questions of would just like to thank her for her wonderful efforts please email her at tougei@hotmail.com Episodes #12-14 =============================================================== Episode #12 The Birth of A Junior Samurai! First Disciple, Yahiko's Battle. Yahiko is by the river training with his shinai, attempting to hit a board hanging from a tree. He misses, falls down, breaks a shoe, and a young girl fixes it for him. (Ah...........love * - *!!!) Kenshin and company are at the Akabeko eating, and who should come to their table to ask if they need anything?? Yep, the young girl who fixed Yahiko's shoe, Tsubame-chan. When she leaves, Yahiko jumps up to follow, helps her at the well drawing water, and thanks her. (Sano, Kaoru, and Kenshin are around the corner giggling.) Tsubame- chan accepts Yahiko's awkward 'thank you'. She leaves to return to the restaurant and is accosted by some thugs. Tsubame-chan gets backhanded, Yahiko rushes in to save her, Yahiko gets beaten up. Yahiko has decided to 'rescue' Tsubame-chan. He trains with 10 boards hanging from a tree, then talks to Kenshin and learns some new techniques. He wins against the thugs (with some unbeknownst support from Kenshin and Sano). He is Yahiko-chan, Tsubame-chan's hero!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Episode #13 You Can Do It Toramaru! The Dosukoi Journey.... A self-contained episode about Kaoru rescuing an ex-sumo wrestler named Toramaru from committing suicide. She takes him home, dries him off, feeds him, and he LOVES HER COOKING!!, so she decides to keep him and train him in sumo herself. Turns out Toramaru was forced off the sumo team because he was so good, and the top-ranking sumo wrestler felt threatened. It all ends well. Sano gets to beat up some of the sumo hotshots, and Kenshin falls real hard for 200 pounds of rice. (Shinomori rated this episode low, but I liked it. I fell off the couch laughing, both when Kaoru fell off the bridge, and when she pinched Toramaru's butt! GO GIRL!) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Episode #14 To Save a Small Life! Challenge! Doctor Megumi! Dr. Genzai throws his back out. Kaoru and Yahiko go into town to help Megumi at the doctor's clinic. Sano rushes in with one of his friends who has been shot with a wooden cannon by the Hishi Manji Yakuza. Megumi works long and hard into the night and saves Sano's friend. (You can actually see Sano's affection for Megumi grow in this episode!) Megumi begins to build a good reputation around town, but some bad boys set up a patient with a fake illness to discredit her. It works. Another bad boy, Raiko, claims to have received special healing powers from god. The townspeople believe him. It seems this is all part of a plot by the Hishi Manji Yakuza to discredit Megumi. The Hishi Manji plan to make money off the wealthy citizens by claiming Raiko can cure illness. They target one of Megumi's favorite patients, a little girl named Kaede. Megumi and Yahiko try to save Kaede-chan, and Sano comes to the rescue. Yahiko and Sano kick butt. Kenshin intervenes when the Yakuza start using the wooden cannon, Dr. Genzai's back heals, and Kenshin and company return to normal (whatever that is).