Disclaimer: I do NOT own History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi, nor any of its characters, etc.
Okay, so do you all remember how several times in the manga and anime Thor says something like, "My good friend Siegfried..." or "Siegfried was the only one I trusted in Ragnarok"? Even if you don't, you know now :) Siegfried is also shown that he obviously cares about Thor as a real friend- he (Spoiler for some of you) calls Thor first after waking up from his battle with Berserker.
I think they're both very good characters, and I wanted to expand on that friendship just hinted upon in the series.
And I know this story is rated T, but for those of you who would like a warning before one of those more violent (It's bound to be violent sometimes, I mean, come on- they join a gang, don't they?) chapters. For the chapter ratings, I used Fanfiction's system.
Prologue: Rating: K
And just another little note- This isn't going to be a yaoi fanfic, sorry for all you yaoi fans out there. Not that I hate it- I don't mind it. However, I just feel as if their friendship is purely that, friendship.
The sun shone kindly down upon the clean, neat park walkway bordered by short yet lush grasses. Despite it being such a nice day, this particular walkway was mostly devoid of people, probably due to the motley group having a picnic in the middle of it. There was an odd arrangement of young adults, high schoolers and several multicoloured cats.
The aforementioned cats were currently climbing over a girl with short, spiky red hair and narrow green eyes that seemed rather catlike in themselves. Sitting next to her was a thick, sturdily built teen who looked like he could snap your arm in half.
"Thanks for all these cats, Ukita, where'd you find them all?" The girl said happily, cuddling one against her face.
The boy smiled self-consciously as their eyes met and rubbed the back of his head. "It's no problem, Kisara. I'm friends with the overseer of a cat shelter, so... he let me bring some here to meet you."
Kenichi sat up and yawned, then sat back with his hands behind him, enjoying the feel of the sunlight upon his face. For once, the alien wasn't here. He had taken his ever-faithful non-general status subordinates and gone on some sort of scouting mission. However, Nijima had still managed to ruin it for him somehow. Kenichi had been looking forward to a quiet, romantic picnic with Miu, but when they were walking practically almost all of the others had met up with them and tagged along, claiming that Nijima had told them to meet up there.
Kenichi looked around. It was surprisingly peaceful. Tanimoto-kun was absent, of course, but the others were there. There was Kisara and Ukita sitting together. He wondered to himself when they would ever get together officially. Freya was also missing from the picture, but at least she was friendlier torward them than Tanimoto was. Takeda was leaning against a tree, his sleek blue haired head down and apparently sleeping.
Meanwhile, sitting on the grass by the blanket, were Thor and Siegfried. Kenichi looked at them curiously. Thor had mentioned several times that his only friend in Ragnarok had been Siegfried. It seemed a weird match to him- the easy-natured sumo wrestler and the eccentric 'immortal composer'. Casting a regretful glance at the now-sleeping Miu, he moved over to sit by the two.
"Hey, Thor, hey, Sieg." He greeted them.
"Ah, a new melody has joined our song! Hello, Kenichi-kun!" Siegfried said happily.
"Eh, just Kenichi's fine." Kenichi laughed awkwardly. Thor looked amused.
"Hey there, Kenichi. What's on your mind?"
"I was just wondering..." Kenichi hesitated. "How did you two become friends, anyway?"
Thor glanced at Siegfried, and Siegfried glanced at Thor, then they both looked at Kenichi.
"Should I let you tell this story?" Siegfried asked Thor. "I sense that our dear Kenichi would not want the tale told as a ballad, a beautiful story-song."
The wrestler chuckled. "You're right, as usual. Very well then. But you will have to fill in parts for me that I might have missed. Now, Kenichi... where to begin? Our knowing each other began way back in the first grade..."
There we go: the prologue.
I gotta say I'm not expecting a lot of reviews for this story, since all of the 3 pages of fanfics for History's Strongest Disciple are about either Miu, Kenichi, or Tanimoto. There's a couple including the masters of Ryouzanpaku, but that's it. There's not even a proper character list for this anime/manga :(
But that's okay. I hope I can get more people interested in the less well-known characters.
This story won't be composed entirely of the past. It's going to include the rest of Shinpaku eventually, with, regrettably, a good deal of some of the more popular characters.
Going to update if I see some interest in this story, but if not then I guess I'll just relax my writing pace and work on some other pieces.