The year was 1847. An expert killer samurai nicknamed
the Hitokiri Battousai was feared among all the people in Japan because
of his supreme strenght and speed. After killing hundreds of people to
help the government start a new era, he vanished right before his mission
was completed and no one ever heard of him again. Leaving his bloody katana
behind, he became nothing more but a legend amongst the people of Japan…
"Stop!" a
young lady yelled out to the man in front of her. "I said stop!" she yelled
again. But now the red haired man turned around and said "huh?" in a low
voice. "Prepare to die Hitokiri!!!" The girl shouted and swung her wooden
katana on the man. Luckily the man jumped over her and landed on a rooftop
behind the girl. She turned around and ran toward him again but the cheap
roof collapsed and he fell on the floor with wooden boards landing on his
head. "Ouch!" the man yelled, the girl looked at him curiously and asked
"Are you the serial killer who murdered 2 people last night?" The man stood
up putting his hand on his butt and swent all the dust off his white kimono.
He wasn't tall at all and had long red air tied up in a pony tail, two
scars on his right cheek and dark green eyes. "Would I be able to kill
anybody with this?" he pointed his sword sheath to tell her to take out
the katana. The girl slowly took it out and said surprisingly "What the
heck is this? The blade is on the wrong side, and there's not even a scratch
on it". "It's called a sakaba sword, it isn't used to kill people. And
you said there wasn’t a scratch on it so I guess I'm not your killer."
He said with a big smile. " Then what are you?" she said right back. "I'm
a rurouni, (Wandering samurai) I walk town to town and visit places, and
I'll tell you this place isn't close of being my favourite, Hahahahahaha!!!"
He laughed out loud. " You know there's a killer out here and he hunts
people down one by one! Last night he already killed two people so you
better be careful! I'm a master of Kasshin Ryu so I can defend myself,
but you can't so try to leave this place as soon as possible ok?!". " Um….
Can I have my sword back?" the red haired man said. At that moment two
men were screaming "Help! Help!" The girl dropped his katana and ran where
the screams were.
"I….I can't believe this is the legendary hitokiri battousai."
One of the men said. " You guys are so weak!!!" The huge killer said and
killed him with only one swing. " Wait!" the girl said to the killer. "If
you wanna fight go and fight me!" She pulled out her wooden katana. The
huge man swung his sword again and the girl swung back but his real katana
sliced her wooden one in half. She looked at her broken sword for a moment
and the killer just charged at her when she was distracted. He pulled his
sword high in the air and swung it down as fast as he could. The girl moved
away quickly discovering a wound on her right arm, she stared at the masked
killer in fear. "Die!", he shouted doing the same thing he did to her before.
Just at that moment the red haired man ran faster than lightning and grabbed
the girl and took her to safety. The masked killer was wondering where
the girl was. Thinking she disappeared or something. After a couple of
minutes of silence 15 officers ran after the killer. The killer looked
back and ran away by saying "I am the Battousai, Kasshin Ryu's hitokiri
battousai!!" "No! I can't let this guy ruin my dojo!" The girl said desperately
in the rurouni's arms then fell unconcious. "What strong spirit." He said.
The next day early in the morning the girl woke up on her bed. "Ouch, my
arm hurts." She said, then she looked at the wound. It was covered up in
a clean cloth. She could barely remember what happened last night, the
only thing she remembered was the rurouni saving her. "Something smells
good" she said changing subject because she had enough of talking about
the bad things that happened to her.
The rurouni was making soup for breakfast. "Ha! This is
gonna be good!" he said to the two little girls carrying vegetables for
him. "We're gonna help you make breakfast!" they said together. "No, no!
don’t put it in there!" the rurouni said, but it was already too late.
The girls dropped all that they were holding in the pot full of soup.
"Huh? What are you doing here?" The girl asked him. "Oh!
Good morning miss, I'm making breakfast for everyone! Why don't you join
us? And I must say you have adorable little sisters, haha…." He said rubbing
his hand on the back of his head. "call me Kaoru, those two girls are Suzume
and Ayame. Suzume is the older one." "Nice to meet you Kaoru" he answered.
"Sister Kaoru look!" Ayame said holding rice balls in her hand, "have one!
Rurouni-san made it for you." She took one of the rice balls and put it
in her mouth. "It…..it……it tastes so…." "You don't like it?" the rurouni
asked with his eyes wide open. "Your cooking is a little better than mine…"
She answered angrily.
"Hey grandpa?" Kaoru said. "Yes?" he answered while treating
her wound. " That Rurouni is different from other samurai, don't you think?"
she asked while watching the rurouni play with the two girls. "Yeah, that
one is a top notch baby sitter, hahaha! There! All done, it's only a superficial
wound so it'll heal in at least one week."
"Hmmmm…there must be at least one way to punish that fat
battousai." Kaoru was thinking while taking her bath. "I better stop thinking
about it! I gotta cheer up!" she said out loud diving her head in the water
holding her breath. "Rurouni san! I can't hear her anymore!" Suzume said
sticking her ear right next to the bathroom wall. "Oh no! maybe she's!!!"
The rurouni yelled out loud going to the room that Kaoru's in.
Kaoru gasped out for air and said "Now I'm refreshed!"
"Kaoru! Don't do anything stupid! Your life's not worth…" He bashed in
the door and saw Kaoru in the tub looking at him.
"That should teach you to knock before entering!" she
said locking him in the warehouse full of un-useful junk. "Uh-oh….." he
said in a low sad voice. "Kaoru?" The Rurouni said. "Now what is it?" she
answered with an angry tone. "Did you know any of your father's students
who were left handed because he had a dislocated thumb on his right hand?"
he asked. "huh? What are you talking about" " I'm talking about the killer."
"Are you saying the killer learned Kamiya Kasshin Ryu in my father's dojo?!
The style of Kamiya Kasshin Ryu isn't made to kill! I'll restore my father's
honor with my life by defeating the Battousai that uses his style!!!" She
said desperately with tears in her eyes. "Your father wouldn't expect you
to die for his name, I think he just wants you to be happy" The rurouni
told her with a smile. "How can you say that? You didn't
even know him!" She ran back to her room, leaving the
Rurouni locked in the warehouse.
Yah!" the huge killer yelled while breaking five piles
of bricks with only one stroke. "Wow master Gohei, your so powerful, and
that was with your left hand!" One of his men said. "What did you call
me?!" Gohei talked back. "Oh, I'm sorry mister Battousai Gohei." He answered
nervously. "That's better" he grinned. "My men!" he shouted out. "Tonight
we will destroy the Kamiya Kasshin Ryu dojo to fulfill my revenge! I'll
never forgive what the master of the dojo did to me ten years ago, and
that's why we'll have to destroy his home even so he's already dead!" Gohei
lifted his sword and everyone in his group shouted out "Gohei! Gohei! Gohei!"
"I think he just wanted you to be happy…" Kaoru was thinking
of what the Rurouni said. "Maybe I should apologize" She got up her bed
and headed to the locked warehouse. "Uhh…Rurouni? I'm sorry I was a little
rude last time, it's just that I'm not used to talk about my dead father
like that to someone. So I guess I should say sorry to you again." She
said to him but she never got an answer. "Come on, I know you're awake,
why won't you answer me!" She yelled and unlocked the warehouse to see.
She stepped in and the room was all cleaned up with no trace of the rurouni.
The room seemed so lifeless. "I should have asked him for his name… the
rurouni" She thought. A couple of minutes later Kaoru went to the dojo's
library and looked for anyone with a dislocated thumb like the rurouni
said. "Found it! So he was from this dojo, the killer's name is Himura
Gohei…" She said then put back the files in order and headed back to bed
but then she heard a loud crash near the room she was in. When she entered
the room where the crash was she saw the killer with his gang of around
twenty people. "I'm going to destroy you and your
dojo!!!" He yelled out. The girl quickly ran and grabbed
a wooden katana from the shelf. "Hahaha! You think you can defeat me with
that sword of yours?" The Battousai said. Then he quickly tried to hit
the girl with his sword but she ducked and dodged the hit. After the blow
Kaoru swung her katana on Gohei, but sadly he caught the wooden sword in
his palm. "Is that all you've got?" he said. Gohei took the wooden sword
from her hand and hit her with it between her shoulder and her neck. Kaoru
fell on the floor and Gohei grabbed her by the neck and
lifted her
up. "Your father broke my right hand by dislocating my thumb with the same
katana your using. It took me ten whole years to master my killing technique
and my revenge will be complete once I kill you and destroy this puny dojo,
but first I'll let my men have a little taste of you…" He said looking
mad at Kaoru. "Who wants some of her?!" "I do boss!" one of them said.
"Haha! Yeah we all do!" another one said. "I'll….I'll restore my father's
honor…" Kaoru said with tears coming down her eyes. Then one of Gohei's
guard walked slowly at the entrance where they all came through. "Huh?
What is it?" Gohei asked the silent guard. "Str…strong…" The guard said
and fell down straight to the floor with the rurouni right behind him.
"You did this to one of my men?" Gohei asked. The rurouni just stood still
staring at him. "I see your like this little brat here" Gohei said to him,
then the rurouni stepped forward saying "no…" he kept on walking straight
at Gohei. "A sword is meant to kill." Gohei let go of the girl then pulled
his sword out of his sheath. "Fighting techniques are ultimately meant
to kill." He said. " …but dreamers like Kaoru use budo for something else
besides killing. And I'd like to believe to what she believes in." The
rurouni said with a happy voice. "What the hell do you know! Kill this
Smuck!!!" Gohei yelled out to his men. "Back off! …..I don't want to hurt
anyone." He said to the guards while holding his sword sheath. "Ha! The
only one getting hurt will be you!" one of the guards said and every one
charged straight at the rurouni. The Rurouni took out his Sakaba sword
from his sheath and moved so fast to the guards it looked like he disappeared.
All that Kaoru could see was the guards flying everywhere slamming on the
floor and going through the paper walls. "He's…he's reacting before they
move!" Kaoru thought. After a couple of seconds all the guards were unconcious
and the rurouni reappeared right infront of Gohei like magic. "Long red
hair, scars on his cheek, he must be the real Hitokiri Battousai." Gohei
was thinking. "Oh, and one more thing" the rurouni said. "The hitokiri
battousai's style isn't Kamiya Kasshin Ryu or any other styles. It's called
Hiten Mitsuguri Ryu." "Alright…two battousai's can't live in the same world,
and I'm the one that actually deserves the title." Gohei said back. "You
haven't earned it" the rurouni replied. "Prepare to meet your worst!" Gohei
yelled while swinging his sword straight to the rurouni. The rurouni jumped
lightning fast ten feet from the floor and said "I'm up here!" Gohei looked
up in terror, his whole body didn’t move and the rurouni slashed his sakaba
sword straight at Gohei's left hand crushing his fingers for life. He yelled
out in pain and fell on the floor inconscious. "The nickname hitokiri battousai
isn't meant to be used as a tool, and it's even more irritating if someone
like you uses it." He looked at Kaoru and said "I didn't want to hide who
I was from you, but I wouldn't tell you if I didn't have to." Kaoru looked
at him like she couldn't believe it. "So I guess it's goodbye huh?" the
rurouni said and walked slowly away to the exit. "Stupid!!!" Kaoru yelled
out at the rurouni surprising hiim. "You think I'm gonna repair all of
this by myself? And it doesn't look like you can afford a hotel to spend
the night, and plus you saved me so I'll go easy on you, and if your really
gonna leave you have to tell me your real name, not your hitokiri nickname
kinda thing." The rurouni turned back and said 'My name is Himura, Himura
Kenshin, and are you sure you want the Hitokiri to stay here?" "I didn't
say I wanted the hitokiri, I said I wanted to rurouni!" She said without
thinking, then she turned around in shyness. "crap, I talk too much." She
was thinking. After she heard the door close thinking he left but then
again he said "I'm kinda sick of traveling." Kaoru quickly turned around
and Kenshin told her "Being the hitokiri might bring you some trouble."
Then she replied "Don't worry, I'm ready for all sorts." "My cooking isn't
that great" he said back "I'm sure it's better than mine" she answered.
"I might walk in your bath by accident again" "Oh, I'll be ready next time,
because all I have to do is YAH!" Kaoru punched Kenshin right in the face.
"You jerk! Why didn't you dodge my punch!!!" she said to him while he was
on the ground. "What an amazing punch you have…" Kenshin said with his
eyes circling around.
And so on the following days, Kenshin lived in Kaoru's
dojo and he was ready for everything that came up to him. He and Kaoru
repaired the dojo and no one ever knew that Himura Kenshin was the Hitokiri
Battousai, so the legend stayed the same for many years…
"Stop!" a
young lady yelled out to the man in front of her. "I said stop!" she yelled
again. But now the red haired man turned around and said "huh?" in a low
voice. "Prepare to die Hitokiri!!!" The girl shouted and swung her wooden
katana on the man. Luckily the man jumped over her and landed on a rooftop
behind the girl. She turned around and ran toward him again but the cheap
roof collapsed and he fell on the floor with wooden boards landing on his
head. "Ouch!" the man yelled, the girl looked at him curiously and asked
"Are you the serial killer who murdered 2 people last night?" The man stood
up putting his hand on his butt and swent all the dust off his white kimono.
He wasn't tall at all and had long red air tied up in a pony tail, two
scars on his right cheek and dark green eyes. "Would I be able to kill
anybody with this?" he pointed his sword sheath to tell her to take out
the katana. The girl slowly took it out and said surprisingly "What the
heck is this? The blade is on the wrong side, and there's not even a scratch
on it". "It's called a sakaba sword, it isn't used to kill people. And
you said there wasn’t a scratch on it so I guess I'm not your killer."
He said with a big smile. " Then what are you?" she said right back. "I'm
a rurouni, (Wandering samurai) I walk town to town and visit places, and
I'll tell you this place isn't close of being my favourite, Hahahahahaha!!!"
He laughed out loud. " You know there's a killer out here and he hunts
people down one by one! Last night he already killed two people so you
better be careful! I'm a master of Kasshin Ryu so I can defend myself,
but you can't so try to leave this place as soon as possible ok?!". " Um….
Can I have my sword back?" the red haired man said. At that moment two
men were screaming "Help! Help!" The girl dropped his katana and ran where
the screams were.
lifted her
up. "Your father broke my right hand by dislocating my thumb with the same
katana your using. It took me ten whole years to master my killing technique
and my revenge will be complete once I kill you and destroy this puny dojo,
but first I'll let my men have a little taste of you…" He said looking
mad at Kaoru. "Who wants some of her?!" "I do boss!" one of them said.
"Haha! Yeah we all do!" another one said. "I'll….I'll restore my father's
honor…" Kaoru said with tears coming down her eyes. Then one of Gohei's
guard walked slowly at the entrance where they all came through. "Huh?
What is it?" Gohei asked the silent guard. "Str…strong…" The guard said
and fell down straight to the floor with the rurouni right behind him.
"You did this to one of my men?" Gohei asked. The rurouni just stood still
staring at him. "I see your like this little brat here" Gohei said to him,
then the rurouni stepped forward saying "no…" he kept on walking straight
at Gohei. "A sword is meant to kill." Gohei let go of the girl then pulled
his sword out of his sheath. "Fighting techniques are ultimately meant
to kill." He said. " …but dreamers like Kaoru use budo for something else
besides killing. And I'd like to believe to what she believes in." The
rurouni said with a happy voice. "What the hell do you know! Kill this
Smuck!!!" Gohei yelled out to his men. "Back off! …..I don't want to hurt
anyone." He said to the guards while holding his sword sheath. "Ha! The
only one getting hurt will be you!" one of the guards said and every one
charged straight at the rurouni. The Rurouni took out his Sakaba sword
from his sheath and moved so fast to the guards it looked like he disappeared.
All that Kaoru could see was the guards flying everywhere slamming on the
floor and going through the paper walls. "He's…he's reacting before they
move!" Kaoru thought. After a couple of seconds all the guards were unconcious
and the rurouni reappeared right infront of Gohei like magic. "Long red
hair, scars on his cheek, he must be the real Hitokiri Battousai." Gohei
was thinking. "Oh, and one more thing" the rurouni said. "The hitokiri
battousai's style isn't Kamiya Kasshin Ryu or any other styles. It's called
Hiten Mitsuguri Ryu." "Alright…two battousai's can't live in the same world,
and I'm the one that actually deserves the title." Gohei said back. "You
haven't earned it" the rurouni replied. "Prepare to meet your worst!" Gohei
yelled while swinging his sword straight to the rurouni. The rurouni jumped
lightning fast ten feet from the floor and said "I'm up here!" Gohei looked
up in terror, his whole body didn’t move and the rurouni slashed his sakaba
sword straight at Gohei's left hand crushing his fingers for life. He yelled
out in pain and fell on the floor inconscious. "The nickname hitokiri battousai
isn't meant to be used as a tool, and it's even more irritating if someone
like you uses it." He looked at Kaoru and said "I didn't want to hide who
I was from you, but I wouldn't tell you if I didn't have to." Kaoru looked
at him like she couldn't believe it. "So I guess it's goodbye huh?" the
rurouni said and walked slowly away to the exit. "Stupid!!!" Kaoru yelled
out at the rurouni surprising hiim. "You think I'm gonna repair all of
this by myself? And it doesn't look like you can afford a hotel to spend
the night, and plus you saved me so I'll go easy on you, and if your really
gonna leave you have to tell me your real name, not your hitokiri nickname
kinda thing." The rurouni turned back and said 'My name is Himura, Himura
Kenshin, and are you sure you want the Hitokiri to stay here?" "I didn't
say I wanted the hitokiri, I said I wanted to rurouni!" She said without
thinking, then she turned around in shyness. "crap, I talk too much." She
was thinking. After she heard the door close thinking he left but then
again he said "I'm kinda sick of traveling." Kaoru quickly turned around
and Kenshin told her "Being the hitokiri might bring you some trouble."
Then she replied "Don't worry, I'm ready for all sorts." "My cooking isn't
that great" he said back "I'm sure it's better than mine" she answered.
"I might walk in your bath by accident again" "Oh, I'll be ready next time,
because all I have to do is YAH!" Kaoru punched Kenshin right in the face.
"You jerk! Why didn't you dodge my punch!!!" she said to him while he was
on the ground. "What an amazing punch you have…" Kenshin said with his
eyes circling around.
