Disclaimer: the Original Characters are mine. The Shool Rumble characters are not
Chapter 1
It was a typical Wednesday at Yagami High School, and the students of class 1-D were finishing up a math test. When the class ended, two girls began to walk home together; one girl had blond hair tied in to a knot, violet eyes and a warm smile, her name was Sarah Adiemus. The other girl had dark black hair and gorgeous ruby red eyes. She was shy, but to everybody else, she looked like a spring goddess. Her name was Yakumo Tsukamoto. "That math test today was really hard. My brain is still spinning." whined Sarah. "I am sure that you did well, Sarah." Sarah looked back at her best friend and smiled "Thanks, Yakumo. Well I am going to start heading home." Yakumo nodded "Okay. See you later."
Yakumo then went to the supermarket so she could buy some groceries. When she got there, she not only bought food for tonight's dinner, she also bought Tenma's favorite cereal as a way of cheering her up, because she forgot to give Karasuma his favorite curry, and instead gave him sushi. When Yakumo left, she began to notice that the sun was setting; she had to get home soon and start dinner, or Tenma will go hungry. So Yakumo decided to take a shortcut back to her house. When she went down a couple of alleyways, she began to hear voices. Yakumo then noticed in front of her there were several thugs; around 20 in all, and they surrounded one man. Yakumo then got a little closer to see what was going on. When she was 4 feet away from the scene while hiding behind a set of trash cans, she could see and hear what was going on.
The man that was surrounded was tanned skinned like Harima, had an afro hairdo, he also had a slightly buff build, he was also smoking a cigar and he was carrying something in his left hand. Upon further examination Yakumo gasped; the man was holding a sword in his left hand. The sword had a brown handle as well as a brown saya; it also had a square tsuba and a red pendent on the top of the handle that acted as a tassel. One of the thugs took three steps toward the sword wielding man and said "You've got a lot of balls coming on to my territory without paying the toll." The man in question just stood there silent with a scowl on his face while smoking the cigar in his mouth. The leader of the thugs just chuckled and said "You little shit. You think you are so tough. Well let me bring you back to reality! You are surrounded by 20 of my best men, all armed to the teeth."
Yakumo looked at the thugs and noticed that he was right; some of them had baseball bats, crowbars, chains, knives, and some had shirasaya swords. Yakumo was starting to get worried. The leader kept on talking "There no way you are getting out of here alive. So why don't you pay the toll and give me that sword of yours and I might just let you off with a warning." The man still didn't say anything he just stood there unafraid and looked unimpressed at the opposition he was facing. Yakumo didn't know what to do; should she leave and forget she saw this, or try to help the man run away. Just when she was about to make a decision Yakumo's hand slipped and knocked over a trash can.
The leader looked behind him and said to his two henchmen to check out that noise; Yakumo tried to run away but she wasn't quick enough, they were able to capture her and they brought her to their leader. "Hey boss look what we just caught!" the thug said triumphantly. The boss approached Yakumo with a sick perverted smile on his face grabbed her roughly by the chin and said "Well, well, well what do we have here." The leader looked over Yakumo pausing at her legs, hips, and her breasts. Yakumo was deathly afraid; she read the mind of both the leader and the group of thugs behind him, she saw that they were planning to rape her and see could see all the disgusting details on how they were going to do it too. The knowledge of what they were about to do made Yakumo's heart leap from her chest into her throat; the leader of the gang then told her "Don't worry, baby we're going to have a wonderful time together." Then the leader leaned down so he could give Yakumo a kiss.
Yakumo closed her eyes and tried to avoid the kiss. Just then the man with the sword finally spoke "Let her go." The thug just looked at the swordsman and laughed. "Tell you what; considering I am in a good mood, I will let you go. I, on the other hand, am going to enjoy this morsel." When the leader saw that the swordsman wasn't going to move without the girl the leader laughed again and said "Everybody wants to play the hero nowadays. Okay, fine. Musaki, kill him." When the man heard this he just calmly spat out his cigar and got into a drawing stance. Musaki just laughed and said "Check it out, boss. This mothafucka thinks he's a samurai." After that Musaki charged in and raised his sword above his head. But before he could strike, the man quickly drew his sword and cut Musaki in half, with the top part falling backwards, and the legs falling forwards. He was dead before he hit the ground.
Just then three more guys charged at the swordsman. One of them yelled out "YOU SON OF A BITCH! WE'LL KILL YOU FOR THAT!" when the first thug was preparing to hit the swordsman with a downward swing of his baseball bat the swordsmen cut both his arms off with a upward slash from his sword. The then roundhouse kicked the armless man out the way when the second got close the swordsman did a 360 degree spin and cut the thug down with a downward diagonal slash. The swordsman then delivered a powerful kick to the third thug's face effectively smashing the thug's face in. four more thugs then ran up and tried to attack the swordsman from behind but the swordsman did a 180 degree spin and killed all four of them with a horizontal slash from his sword cutting open their bellies with their intestines falling to the ground.
Then two more thugs with shirasaya came up and tried to cut the swordsman's legs; but the swordsman jumped up and decapitated both of them with one slash. The swordsman then ran up to another thug and cut his body right down the middle with a downward slash going from head to toe. The swordsman then ducked under a horizontal slash from a thug who tried to decapitate him; he then turned around and killed the thug using an upwards slash going from his hip to his shoulder, then the swordsman smacked a thug in the check with his saya with such force it broke the thugs neck and sent him flying toward a wall. Three more thugs then ran towards the swordsman to try and kill him; the swordsman got into a stance and threw his saya at the thug like it was a spear. The saya impaled itself in the thug's chest killing him instantly; the swordsman then ran towards the two remaining thugs and cut both of them in half just below the ribs. While he was still running the swordsman then killed another thug by using an upwards slash from the crotch to the head. Another thug tried again to hit him from behind but the swordsman sidestepped to the left and cut the foolish thugs head off. The last thug the swordsman ran up to and cut his head in half. The top part of his head went flying and landed near the leader's and Yakumo's feet. The leader then took out a gun and tried to shoot the swordsman; but the swordsman dodged the bullet, ran up to the leader and cut his arm off. The leader fell down to his knees and screamed in pain. The swordsman then brought his sword over his shoulder and decapitated the leader.
The swordsman then walked back to where his saya was and he sheathed his sword and then pulled it out of the corpse's body; the swordsman then turned around and walked towards Yakumo. Yakumo was afraid; she couldn't read the swordsman's mind and didn't know what the swordsman would do to her. When he was but mere inches away from her the swordsman looked deep into Yakumo's eyes and for some strange reason she felt safe. "Are you alright?" the swordsman asked, Yakumo could only nod yes; the swordsman then gave her a kind and caring smile and replied "That's good to hear." When Yakumo looked behind the swordsmen and saw the mangled corpses of the once recant group of thugs; Yakumo began to feel dizzy and then she fainted.
The swordsman was able to catch her before she hit the ground "I guess you aren't alright." The swordsman replied lamely. He then picked up Yakumo and began to carry her on his back the swordsman then grabbed Yakumo's belongings and began walking "Don't worry miss, I'll take you to the park and I will stay with you until you wake up." The swordsman then began to walk toward his destination. When they finally got to the park the swordsman was able to spot a bench; he then went to the bench and put Yakumo on the bench, then the swordsman then sat next to her and kept her company. Just when he was about to get comfortable Yakumo then slid towards him and rested her head on the swordsman right shoulder. The swordsman blushed at the current situation he was in, but he just smiled and waited for her to wake up.
Yakumo had no idea what was going on but she hoped that what she saw was a bad dream; but she really couldn't say that the entire dream was bad the swordsman that saved her was really kind. Yakumo began to slowly open her eyes and the first thing she noticed was that she was in the Yagami Park near her school. "How did I get here?" Yakumo said to herself "Ah your awake that's good." Then a startled Yakumo turned to her left and she saw the swordsman that saved her form those thugs. Another thing she noticed was that he was sitting very close to her; Yakumo then quickly sat up and moved away from her savior while she was blushing madly.
The swordsman put up his hands as a form of surrender "Hey, hey it's okay; I am not going to hurt you, I promise." The swordsman said in a calm friendly voice. Yakumo couldn't say anything so she just nodded okay. "So are you okay miss…?" Yakumo then responded shyly "My n-n-name is Yakumo Tsukamato, and yes I am okay. Thank you for saving my life." The swordsman just smiled and said "You're welcome Yakumo that is a really pretty name by the way." Yakumo began to blush even more "T-th-thank you, if you don't mind I would like to know your name too." The swordsman smiled and replied "Sure my name is Patrick pleased to meet you." Yakumo tried to read his mind again but all she got was silence just like Harima. Patrick looked at Yakumo with concern written on his face "You okay Yakumo, your face is red are you sick." Patrick then put his hand on Yakumo's forehead to check her temperature; Yakumo face was so red a tomato would be jealous. "Good, you don't have a fever." Patrick then took Yakumo's hand and felt her pulse. One of the things she noticed was that even though his hands were callused his touch was soft and gentle.
Yakumo then pulled her hand away and assured Patrick that she was okay. Just then somebody was calling Patrick's name. "Patrick, so this is where you were." Patrick turned around and saw two people approaching him "Hey Kris and Mike what's up." The one called Kris was 6'2 feet tall, he had a fairly thin build, he wore glasses on his face and he had curly hair; also he was light skinned. The one named Mike was also light skinned; he had light brown hair, he was 5'10 feet tall, the same height as Patrick and he had blue eyes. Yakumo also noticed that they were all foreign and that they all had swords. Kris had two swords strapped to his back; while Mike had a sword with a blue handle with two eyes and two z symbols on the tsuba, strapped to his belt.
Mike was the first to notice Yakumo "So Patrick who is your lovely friend?" both Patrick and Yakumo blushed at Mike's statement "This is Yakumo she was attacked by a group of thugs so I helped her out." Patrick replied. Kris was the first to introduce himself. "Hello Yakumo. My name is Kris, and the person next to me is Mike. It's nice to meet you." Yakumo bowed her head and replied "Nice to meet you all." Kris then turned to Patrick and said "Patrick we might have found a place to stay for the week." Patrick was happy about the news "Really where is this place." Mike then responded "It is an abandoned apartment building that is scheduled for demolishing next Friday." Patrick sighed and said "I guess it will have to do." Yakumo then interjected and said "Excuse me." Patrick then turned towards Yakumo and she said. "If you don't mind you three can come and stay at my house." Patrick was surprised about this "Are you sure; we don't want to intrude." Yakumo shook her head and replied "No its okay. This is my way of thanking you, you and your friends can stay as long as you like until you find a place of your own." Patrick smiled and said "Thank you Yakumo, we are in your debt." Yakumo smiled and began to lead the three swordsmen back to her house.
When they reached her house and went inside they were greeted by another girl with worry written all over her face. "Yakumo, where were you? I was worried something happened to you." Yakumo put her head down in shame "Sorry sis." The girl then looked at the three swordsmen then back to Yakumo "Yakumo who are these people?" Yakumo then introduced them "Tenma these people are Patrick, Kris and Mike; guys this is my big sister Tenma Tsukamato." Yakumo then turned to Tenma and said "Tenma these guys are going to be staying with us for a while" Tenma was shocked "huh why?" Patrick then began to talk "Your sister was attacked by thugs and I saved her. In order to show her thanks Yakumo said that we could stay here because we don't have a place of our own; but if it is going to be trouble then we'll leave." Tenma then replied "Wait if you did save my sister… then you can stay." Tenma then smiled and said "Thank you, for saving my sister." Patrick then bowed and said "No problem."
After that Patrick, Kris, Mike came inside and after a little conversation between Patrick and Tenma she swore that she wouldn't touch any of their swords. After some dinner Tenma, Yakumo, Patrick, Kris, and Mike all went to sleep.
Flashback
Location: Afghanistan
Time: 2:30 AM
"AHHHHHHH! IT'S SO FUCKING COLD!" complained one of the seven in the group. Patrick looked back to the one whining and replied "Oh come on Jake it's not that cold it actually feels refreshing." The one called Jake was 6 feet tall had blond hair; he had a skinny build and was lightly toned. He was also wearing gauntlets attached to chains wrapped around his forearms and the chains were attached to two swords on his back. "Well of course you don't feel anything extreme hot or cold never bothered you; also you love the cold ever since we were kids." The next person to talk responded "You know my brother has a point Patrick you are not really reliable when it comes to temperature changes." Patrick chuckled and said "Yeah, you're probably right Chase." The one known as Chase was 5'12 had dirty blond hair, he too was skinny and lightly toned; he also was holding a Naginata over his shoulders.
"Just be glad you're not freezing your nuts off." Kris just looked at the person behind him and replied "Really Amit…really?"Amit was 5'10, he had dark black hair and beard; he also had dark toned skin, and he had a sword strapped to his back it was a katana with a sai like tsuba. "Yes Kris, I am really freezing my balls off. This is bullshit; I want to get some pussy not have my nuts fall off!" "Enough! Patrick what is the mission that Headquarters had given us." Patrick looked at the person next to him and said "Well Cory, our orders from Langley are to find a terrorist base and kill everyone in it." The one known as Cory was Asian, 5'7 in height, with black eyes and hair; he also had a regular katana strapped to his belt.
"That's it? This mission sounds like something the army or the marines can do. Why would the CIA waste their top seven operatives on a boring mission?" Mike asked. Kris turned to Mike and said "Apparently the top leaders of Taliban are supposed to be there; including Osama Bin Laden." Patrick then added his two cents to the conversation "So that is why we are in the desert walking toward that small village in the distance there will be greeted by top Special Ops troops to provide us with support. You know 'if' we need it." The group laughed at the thought of needing help; all seven them were master swordsmen and martial artists. The seven of them were responsible for the murders of powerful Dictators, slaughtered armies armed with the latest weapons and anything else that got in their way. They were the CIA's top S-class warriors and assassins, code name "The Seven Samurai".
When the group finally reached their destination they were greeted by the man in charge. "So you are Langley's finest. I thought you guys would look more…impressive." Patrick just smirk and replied "And I thought that you black ops guys were supposed to be badass not kids still sucking on their mama's tit." Patrick's group began to chuckle while the Spec Ops Forces were not amused. Patrick then put on serious look while he put a cigar in his mouth; lit it and replied "What's the sit rep soldier?" The leader of the marines looked towards the town and replied "We got Insurgents in the town all armed to the teeth with AK-47's, RPG's M-20's and that is just naming a few, the big cheese is inside that building on the mountain." The leader then turned to Patrick and said "We have a chopper here waiting to take you and you team to the building we will handle everything else." Patrick turned to his team and said "Alright guys you heard the man let go and earn our pay."
Several hours later
"Okay boys we are over the target you know the drill we kill everyone inside. No prisoners, No mercy. After we are done here we get sweet, sweet shore leave." Kris said to the others. They all nodded and began the mission. After slaughtering everyone in the building the seven were finally at the last room where Bin Laden was supposed to be "Okay boys ready one, two, THREE!" On three the open the door and before Bin Laden could do anything Patrick severed his head from his body with one clean cut from his sword. But before the Seven could celebrate Chase checked Patrick's kill "Uh guys this isn't Bin Laden." Patrick looked at the decapitated head and noticed Chase was right. Instead of seeing a man with a large beard and tanned skin, the head was that of a white male who was clean shaven wearing a turban.
Patrick looked at the severed corpse in horror "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!" Cory then field stripped the corpse and found Patrick's answer. "Patrick you're not going to like this. This guy's name is…was John Taylor and he was CIA." Patrick then grabbed the I.D. from Cory's hand and took a look at it for himself Cory was right "What is a CIA agent doing here? We weren't read in about this." "It's because we weren't supposed to know about it." Jake replied and showed Patrick the files that were all over a desk. "These are files on every kill we made since Whitamer became director. According to these files…WE HAVE BEEN KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE."
"WHAT!"Kris yelled, Amit looked at the files too and said "Not only that but John was going to report to the big wigs at Washington about Whitamer's corruption." Patrick was trying to hold back the rage that was building inside of him "Get the 'Director' on the line" Cory was able to find a laptop with a built in webcam. After putting it on the table and getting a feed they were talking to the Director. "What the hell do idiots think you're doing?" Patrick ignored the first question and asked another. "Sir, answer me was our target was a CIA operative." The director laughed and said "of course he was CIA; Agent Taylor had incriminating evidence against me and you seven assholes." Patrick was getting angry "You said the people we killed were enemies of our country; terrorists, gun runners." The director just said "So I lied at least you guys had fun doing it." The Seven were beyond angry, they were out right pissed.
"Now I hope this won't affect our relationship; we do good work together, so why don't you come back and let's celebrate your latest kill or I can make your lives a living hell your choice." Patrick then drew his sword and said only one thing "FUCK YOU!" and cut the computer in half. The others didn't say anything Patrick turned to them and said "Listen up guys we are going to split up, lay low and when the time is right we are going to kill that no good cocksucker" "That isn't going to happen." the rest of them turned to the door and saw the black ops troops. "Your director promised us a lot of money to kill you sloppy shitheads." They all aimed their guns at the Seven "Any last words?" Kris just smiled and said "Yeah just one question." And then Patrick replied "Are you guys afraid of the dark?" Kris then destroyed the lights in the room while Chase threw a flash grenade. No one could tell what was happening in the room but after some brief flashes and lots of screaming Cory then turned on a flashlight and saw that all the black ops guys were dead Jack then check the blue prints of the building they received for the mission and said "There is a hanger with a carrier plane." Patrick then said to the rest of them "Alright guys let's get the fuck out of here."
End flashback
Patrick woke up with a startle grabbed his sword ready for anything. The first thing he knew was that he wasn't on the street he was in someone's room and Kris and Mike were here with him. Patrick then remembered that he saved a girl named Yakumo from some street thugs last night and as thanks she let them stay at her house for as long as they like. Just then Patrick's nose was assaulted by something delicious; the scent was strong enough to awake even Kris and Mike from their sleep "What is that wonderful smell?" Mike asked "That would be the smell of breakfast." Kris replied Mike then got up and walked out the door. Kris on the other hand stayed to check on Patrick; he noticed he didn't look very well. "Patrick, are you okay." Patrick looked at Kris and replied "Just remembering the last day the seven of us were together and I was reminded of our new mission." Kris just nodded and went to check on breakfast. Patrick then got up and went to see about getting some breakfast too.
When Patrick came into the Kitchen he saw Tenma eating some cereal Kris and Mike both got omelets. Patrick then turned to Yakumo who offered him eggs "H-here is your breakfast." Patrick smiled and took the plate and replied "Thank you Yakumo, but you didn't need to do this for us the guys and I could have made our own food." Yakumo then said "No its okay I am glad to cook for you guys; it is also another way for me to say thank you for last night." Patrick then bowed his head and said "We are the ones who are indebted to both you and your sister Yakumo not the other way around." Yakumo just nodded and went to sit down with the others and eat her breakfast.
After breakfast Tenma and Yakumo began to get dressed for school. Patrick and the others were also getting ready for the day ahead. "Hey guys." Both Patrick and Kris turned to Mike "While I was looking for a place to stay I managed to buy these." Mike then brought out three sword bags "Good work Mike, with these we will be able to hide our swords and move freely around the public." Patrick said "Alright then let's get ready for school." Kris look at them in confusion "School?" he asked. "Yeah" Patrick replied "When we came to this country I thought it would be a good idea to go to school, you know try and have a normal life." Kris just looked at them nodding in approval saying "It would be nice to have a normal life." Patrick then got out their school uniforms and handed one to both Kris and Mike. After putting them on Patrick, Kris and Mike were ready to go.
When Tenma and Yakumo came out of their rooms they saw the boys where in very familiar school uniforms. "So what school are you guys going too?" Tenma asked. Patrick looked at them and said "Some place called Yagami High." Both the girls had shocked looks on their faces. Mike looked at the girls confused "You okay you two; is something wrong?" Yakumo was the first to answer "No we're fine it's just that that is the same school me and my sister go too." Tenma then had a big smile on her face and replied happily "That is so cool that we go to the same school what class are you three in." Kris was the one to answer this time "We are in class 2-C" Tenma then ran up to the three swordsmen and shook both their hands while saying "That is the same class that me and my friends are in. I know lets all walk to school together." Yakumo then tried to dissuade her sister from her idea but her mind was already made up.
Tenma, Yakumo, Patrick, Kris and Mike were all walking to school together while Tenma was singing a song out loud. "Sorry about this you guys." Yakumo said "Nonsense; I think it was a good idea to walk together." Patrick said. Yakumo then smiled and said "Okay" when they were half way to school the group encountered three women. One of them was a woman with blond hair tied into pigtails; she had amber eyes and a caring smile on her face. The other woman hand shoulder length blue hair, grey eyes her arms behind her head showing of her amazing chest and she had a warm smile on her face. The last one was a woman with short brown hair, violet eyes and an emotionless expression on her face. Tenma then ran up to these women while saying "Hi guys." When the Patrick, Yakumo, Kris and Mike got close to the group Tenma then began to introduce the women to the three boys. "Guys these are my three best friends; the blond girl is named Eri Sawachika, the one with the blue hair is Mikoto Suou and the one with the brown hair is Akira Takano." Tenma then pointed to the three boys "Guys these guys are Patrick, Kris and Mike."
Once the introductions were out of the way and everyone said hello to one another, another girl began running to the group while yelling out in a happy voice "Hey Yakumo." Yakumo turned around and smiled while replying "Sarah." Once Sarah got to the group she said "Hi everyone nice day isn't….Yakumo who are these three boys?" Sarah asked. Yakumo then introduced the boys. "Sarah this is Patrick, Kris, and Mike; guys this is my friend Sarah Adiemus." After another round of introductions Eri was the first to ask. "So how do you three know Tenma?" Mike responded to her answer "Well we just met Tenma and Yakumo last night."
Mikoto then asked "How did you guys meet?" Patrick then answered this question. "I met Tenma through Yakumo and I met Yakumo after I saved her from a group of thugs." Akira then replied "Thank you for saving Yakumo." Patrick chuckled and said "No problem, anyway after that Yakumo took me and my two brother of the street as a way of thanking me were are in her debt for that." Yakumo then began to blush again after Patrick said those words. Tenma then spoke "Hey that reminds me of something I heard on the news this morning but I can't remember what it was." Kris then replied "If you guys have more questions than we will be happy to answer them on the way to school." With that the group then began to continue to walk to school.