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Shaman Rurouni
"What?" Laura questioned suddenly as she set down her bowl of half eaten rice, eyeing Sylvia and Karim suspiciously. Kenshin oro'ed, but listened to the conversation with interest. Yoh paid absolutely no attention to the conversation as he rolled an orange about the table, chanting "Funga fu fu" continuously. The others had left the table when they had learned that the conversation did not involve them
In the background, Laura could hear the movie "The Lion King" playing in the background, with Scar singing "Be Prepared". Laura was quite upset that people were watching the movie without her.
But that wasn't the only thing bugging her. "You're saying," Laura stated, letting the thought sink in. "That Kenshin, Yoh, and I are going to travel several thousand miles to the outback after Kenshin is done with his training, so he can be trained more.... DID I MISS SOMETHING?!" Laura took a deep breath, trying to calm down. "Yoh and I learned most of our skills here at home. Why should Kenshin be any different?"
Sylvia sighed, rubbing his temples. The teenager was quite annoying when she was annoyed. But who wasn't?
"Kenshin is a rare type of shaman, and only they know how to train him," Sylvia's voice could not mask his annoyance. "Kenshin is also the only case of this shaman to be born outside of the tribe. So they have been trained to learn how to teach this form of shaman for the next time on is born."
Now it was Laura's turn to be annoyed. "Why do /I/ have to go?" she demanded. "I mean, I really have no use for this trip what-so-ever, so why?"
Sylvia sighed. "It isn't something I can explain..."
Before Laura could snip at this (which she does quite often, I may add), Kenshin intervened with a question that everyone was suprised the rurouni had not already asked.
"Sessha wonders how we are going to get there, de gozaru na."
The other four blinked, then Sylvia explained before Laura could say something sarcastic. "By plane."
Kenshin oro'ed.
"It's a big metal car with wings and can fly..." Laura sniped again.
Kenshin oro'ed again.
Sylvia became even more flustered. "Laura," he stated with frustration. "If you are going to do nothing than snip, then leave."
Laura stood up, using her crutches. "Fine. I want nothing to do with a conversation that deals with so many flustering topics...." Laura crutched her way out of the room, though a bit slow, leaving a very confused Yoh, an oro-ing rurouni, and flustered Patche Indians.
***
"ASHANTE SANA SQUASH BANNA!! WE WE NUGU MI MI APANA!!" Laura yelled at the top of her lungs, mimicing the mandrill monkey Rafiki in the Lion King movie, causing poor Kenshin oro (as she was busy yelling in his ear.) Kenshin covered his ears in a week attempt to dim the noise the teenager was creating. Anna grabed one of Laura's crutches and swiped it at the sixteen year old. "Shut UP! Will you!" the young itako demanded. Laura dodged the swipe, but hid behind the couch, though very ungracefully, and ended up landing on her butt.
"Gomen-nasi..." Laura whimpered, struggling to get back on the couch over the back of it. Kenshin turned from the movie to watch the teenagers hyper antics, and oro'ed. The girl was less mature than a ten year old. At least, a ten year old from his time. Turning back to the movie, Kenshin watched as the mandrill wacked Simba upside the head with the stick.
"Ouch! What was that for?" the lion cried.
"What does it matter? It's in the past! Heh he hehe!" Laura mocked Rafiki. Kenshin stared at her, a look of slight worryment, then moved over. "Sessha fears for your sanity, de gozaru na..." he stated concernly. Laura just smiled, and continued to watch the movie.
"What's sanity?" she said.
Anna kicked Laura's face. "I said to be quiet..." Laura sweatdropped, her glasses now crooked on her face.
Kenshin oro'ed...
***
Trees passed by as the camper moved by, slowly making it's way back to Tokyo. A day ago, Kenshin had finished everything he had needed to know. His final test? To integrate with a spirit and use it's powers in a fight against Anna. Weather Kenshin won or not was not the matter, but weather or not he had learned what he needed to know. It was to Yohmei's suprise that Kenshin had faired as well as he did, though the rurouni did lose.
Kenshin now slept on the couch in the camper, still worn out from his final test (as his form was not used to that kind of battle.) Ren had commented on how Kenshin would always be inferior to him, only to find himself on the recieving end of Laura's swipe with one of her crutches. The rurouni was understandably tired, and Laura commented on how Ren was probably the same way when he first integrated with his spirit. Ren sulked off.
Laura was busy working at her computer, hacking into the school system that Kenshin would now be going to, putting down every one of his classes: Literature, Drama, Drawing, algebra II, Cooking, english, and spanish I.... Laura smirked evily at the spanish class, then decided to go through with her plan. She changed the spanish to french I, and giggled. Not only that, she made sure he was in every one of her classes (except English I: she had french III, and she was a student aid for French I, but in french one they would still have to deal with each other.) "I feel almost guilty!" the girl smirked.
Even though Kenshin came from his time during spring, now it was mid summer. There was no school. It would be at least two months untill school started. The thought of school made Laura frown. The fact that they were going to Austrailia during their summer vacation made Laura frown. Laura growled, finishing up what she was doing, turned off her laptop, and pulled out a Johnny the Homicidal Maniac comic, all the while listening to the random snores as everyone slept. Life sucked...
Chapter Eight