Ronin Shiori*
By IBB
*Masterless Samurai Shiori
Me (IBB): This is sort of an Inuyasha + Rurouni Kenshin + Yu Yu Hakusho fic, except it doesn't have any of the characters from any of those shows, just ideas from them. The main character Shiori is based heavily on Himura Kenshin, especially in the way she talks ^_^
animegirl101: You mean she says "that it is" and stuff?
Me: *nods* Yup!
animegirl101: *bursts out laughing*
Me: Yes, I find it quite funny too. That's why she speaks that way, that it is. ^_^ But the thing is... *pauses and grins evilly* Well, you'll have to find out for yourself about that stuff....
animegirl101: *stops laughing and looks expectantly at me* Huh? What were you gonna say?
Me: *still grinning evilly* Oh, nothing. *secretly sets Inuyasha free and lets him walk within viewing range*
animegirl101: *sees Inuyasha* INUYASHA!!! *runs after Inuyasha*
Inuyasha: Eh? *sees animegirl101* Ah! WTF?! *is glomped by animegirl101* Whaddya think you're doing?!
Me: Heh heh heh... *grins evilly* Well, let's get on with chapter one of the story!
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Chapter One: The Wanderer of Legends
((AN: "words" = regular speech, ~words~ = regular thoughts. And double parentheses = author's notes. [animegirl101: and "=" means she's being lazy...] Urusai! *whacks her with a Baka Fan of DOOM!* [animegirl101: *pouts & goes back to hugging Inuyasha*]))
"What are we going to do?!" a young boy exclaimed, pacing back and forth across the dojo floor. He was only fifteen, with short, wild black hair. He wore a navy blue gi. His black eyes were focused on the walls as he viciously practiced with his wooden sword.
A pair of little girls watched him. One had black hair and wore a pink kimono with a red sash. She too had black eyes. The other one had red hair and freckles, and wore a sky blue kimono with a white sash. They watched as the older boy paced and swung.
"Who is she, to come in here claiming to be the legendary Shinimegami Kyosawa?!" he continued. "She is bringing disgrace upon the Kurushima name!" He turned and swung, but this time his sword got lodged in a crack in the wall. "The Kurushima sword style is not meant to kill!" he said as he attempted to pull his practice sword out of the wall. "But she's almost succeeded in killing ten people! And that was just with one small attack!" He managed to pull a little too hard and sent himself stumbling backwards. He ended up falling onto his butt with a loud "oof!" He picked himself up and winced. He glared at the wall where his sword had been lodged. "She even tried to go after poor Sobakasu!" he shouted, gesturing vaguely towards the red-head.
Sobakasu stood up. She appeared to only be about six years old.
"But Komaru-onii-san!" Sobakasu exclaimed. "Ojii-sama protected Sobakasu!"
"Yes, but if ojii-san hadn't been there to protect you, you would have been killed!" Komaru retorted.
The other girl stood up as Sobakasu began to pout. She looked to be about ten.
"What about you? What if you had been in Sobakasu's place?" she retorted.
"I would've stood my ground and fought back, imouto!" Komaru answered, folding his arms over his chest superiorly.
"Yeah, right! I bet you would've run away screaming like a little girl!" she taunted.
"Fat chance, Kya!" Komaru responded, sticking his tongue out at her. "If I could get my hands on that impostor, I'd..."
There was a ring at the gate, signifying that someone had virtually rung the doorbell. Komaru skittered out of the dojo. Kya and Sobakasu exchanged glances, then trailed after him.
Komaru opened the door to find Sobakasu's grandfather standing there.
"Don't mind me, I've just come to collect my granddaughter," he said, smiling. "I also need you to run a little errand for me, Komaru."
"Hai, ojii-san?" Komaru answered as Sobakasu ran over to her grandfather.
"I need you to run to the local market and pick up a few things," was the answer as the old man pulled a small list out of his pocket. He handed it to Komaru, who took it and looked it over. "Do you think you'll be able to get everything delivered before sunset?"
Komaru smirked and held up the list. He pointed to a particular item on it.
"What, are you planning on throwing a party tonight, ojii-san?" he joked. The old man blushed.
"Can you just get them delivered by sunset, Komaru-kun?" the old man asked. Komaru wagged a finger at the old man.
"You know I can't make a promise, 'cause I almost always break 'em. But you know I'll try my hardest to get this stuff to you before then," Komaru answered.
The old man nodded and backed up.
"I trust you, Komaru. Just try not to come too long after sunset, if possible." The old man turned and left, taking Sobakasu with him.
"What was on that list that made you taunt him like that?" Kya asked. Komaru turned and showed it to her. She grinned. "Sake?! With a six year old like Sobakasu in the house?!" Kya laughed.
"Now you see what I was talking about," Komaru answered, grinning again. "Hey, do you think you could watch the dojo while I'm gone?"
Kya nodded, brushing away tears.
"Then ja ne, Kya!" Komaru picked up a bag lying near the gate and then stepped through them, closing them behind him. He then walked down the street, occasionally checking his list.
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~Kuso! Almost sunset! I've gotta hurry!~ Komaru thought, breaking into a run. He had put the things he had found in the bag, and now was trying to run while making sure he didn't lose anything.
"Halt!" a female voice suddenly called out. Komaru and everyone else in the square stopped and looked at the speaker. All except for one person.
The woman who had shouted wore a pink shirt with a forest green vest over it. She had a short, tree-bark brown skirt and wore brown leather boots. She had black gloves and also wore a katana at her waist. Her violet eyes scanned the crowd, and spotted the person who hadn't stopped. "Hey, you!" she called, staring directly at the person. "I said, halt!" The person stopped, but didn't look at her. "Why aren't you looking at me?"
"Well, for starters, all you said was 'halt,' that it was," the person answered. ((Can you guess who this is? ^_~))
The woman glared at the person.
"I also didn't say you could be a smart ass!" she shouted. "Look at me or else!"
Komaru looked at the person who this was being directed at. The person was a woman as well, and she had her back to him. She had long black hair with a ribbon tied at around waist height on her. She wore a black kimono which had a gold dragon printed on the back. She also wore a pair of katanas, one on each side. But her arms seemed to hang loosely at her sides. She seemed to be in no hurry to attack or be attacked.
The woman with the dragon kimono lowered her head slightly.
"I can tell from your attitude that you are not worth the effort it would take to lift my head to look at you," she answered, perfectly calm. "That you aren't."
The other woman growled and then drew her katana.
"Don't you know who I am?!" she shouted. "I am the great Shinimegami Kyosawa!"
To everyone's surprise, the woman with the dragon kimono laughed.
"You? The great killer?" She laughed again and shook her head. "You are naught but a child who wishes to look big, that you are. Kyosawa-san has been missing for ten years. You are too young to have been her." She began to walk away.
"Why youÑ! How dare you insult the great Shinimegami! Omae o koroso!" The woman who claimed to be the legendary Shinimegami lunged at the woman with the dragon kimono.
Just as she was about to bring her katana down on the woman's head, though, the woman with the dragon kimono took out the katana on her left side and blocked the oncoming blow with perfect ease. They stayed like that for a second, but then the other woman found herself being flung right back into the place she had been standing on.
"Let that be a lesson to you: don't attack random people, for you can never tell when they might be very skilled," the woman with the dragon kimono told the other one as she sheathed her katana. "That you can't." She smiled, then continued on her way.
"Whoa..." Komaru breathed. "I wonder who she was?" He then checked the sky. "Gyah! The sun's almost gone!! I gotta get going NOW!!" He then ran as fast as he could towards the old man's house, all thoughts of the brief battle and revenge temporarily pushed to the side.
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((AN: You may skip most of this conversation if you wish; came out a LOT longer than I thought it would.... For my view on what I want in a review, skip to the last paragraph on this page.))
Me: Well, there you have it! Chapter one!
animegirl101: *petting the ears of a very peeved Inuyasha* Ooh! I wonder if Komaru ever makes it in time!
Me: *sweatdrops* Well, you'll get to find out in the next chapter!
animegirl101: Really?! YAY!!
Me: You'll also get to meet Shiori for the first time!
animegirl101: Cool! *pauses* Hey, IBB, what do all those japanese words mean?
Me: Oh! I almost forgot to define those! Thanx for reminding me!
animegirl101: You're welcome!
Me: Let's see... I'll go in order! So... the first word isÑ
animegirl101: Gi! What is that?
Me: A gi is the type of thing japanese guys wear.
Inuyasha: Like this thing. *holds up a sleeve for emphasis*
Me: I believe so, yeah.
animegirl101: Oooh, cool. Okay, then there's, um... oh! Wait! We missed something! Dojo!
Me: Oh! Let's see... uh... a dojo is kind of like a... gym/class-type-place. Yeah. Somethin' like that....
animegirl101: Ooookay... let's see, what else... oh! Shinimegami! That word's used a lot, but what does it mean?
Me: Ah! That's easy! It means "goddess of death."
animegirl101: Ooooh. O.o Really?
Me: *nods* Yep, yep! That it is!
animegirl101: Why do they call her that?
Me: You'll find out next chapter.
animegirl101: Oh! Okay! Hm... what else do we need to define... oh yeah, the names! Kyosawa and Kurushima!
Me: As far as I know they're just nonsense.
animegirl101: *looking disappointed* Oh.
Me: But the next word, Sobakasu, the name of the red-head, means "Freckles."
animegirl101: Oooh! That makes sense, since she has red hair AND freckles!
Me: Yup! Anything else we need to define?
animegirl101: Uh... yeah, Komaru-onii-san! First of all, what does all that mean, and second of all, why didn't she just call him Komaru?
Me: Well, -ko is an honorific usually used for children's names, and -maru is a common suffix for guys' names. Yeah, whenever I can't think of any guy names I take something I know and add -maru to the end of it. ^^;;
Inuyasha: *muttering to himself* I'll bet you do that a lot.
Me: *glares at him* What did you say, dog-boy?
Inuyasha: Feh. *turns head away*
Me: *growls at him but continues* My understanding of onii is that it means, essentially, "someone else's older brother." -San is an honorific used either for someone older than the speaker or for people that the speaker doesn't know very well.
animegirl101: So, which is she using?
Me: The "person I'm talking about/to is older than me" version.
animegirl101: Ooooh.
Me: Anything else?
animegirl101: Um... ojii-sama and ojii-san. What's that all about? Do they mean two different things or something?
Me: No, they both mean "grandfather," it's just that Sobakasu looks up to him more than Komaru, who kind of has this sort of equal relationship with the old man.
animegirl101: Uh... okay... anyway... what does imouto mean?
Me: The opposite of onii in gender, number, and... *realizes she's getting strange looks from the other two* ...uh, oops, wrong language. It means the opposite of onii in gender and age difference.
animegirl101: Which means...?
Me: *rolls eyes* It means little sister.
animegirl101: Oh! Why didn't you say so before?
Me: *popping vein* Let's just move on... hm... okay, let's just do it this way to make it go faster: Hai= yes, yeah, stuff like that Komaru-kun= -kun is a suffix attached to guys' names that tends to indicate that the speaker is pretty familiar with the guy in question, or that the (usually male) speaker is older than the guy in question Sake= rice wine. Very strong stuff, from what I gather Ja ne= an informal way of saying goodbye which indicates that you think you'll be seeing the other person again sometime that day. That's what I think it's used for, anyway... Kuso= normally means "dammit," but is sometimes used to mean "shit." In the place where it's used, it could mean either Kyosawa-san= she's essentially saying "Ms Kyosawa" Omae o koroso= "I'm going to kill you!" Using "omae" with someone you don't know/ know well is considered hostile.
I think that should be it... so, yeah, please review and, please, no flames. Constructive criticism is welcome, but flames are just plain useless, and will probably only result in a very bitchy authoress. So, please, no flames. If you find something wrong, be nice and tell me what it is, and, if you can, tell me what I can do to change it. Thank you.
*Masterless Samurai Shiori
Me (IBB): This is sort of an Inuyasha + Rurouni Kenshin + Yu Yu Hakusho fic, except it doesn't have any of the characters from any of those shows, just ideas from them. The main character Shiori is based heavily on Himura Kenshin, especially in the way she talks ^_^
animegirl101: You mean she says "that it is" and stuff?
Me: *nods* Yup!
animegirl101: *bursts out laughing*
Me: Yes, I find it quite funny too. That's why she speaks that way, that it is. ^_^ But the thing is... *pauses and grins evilly* Well, you'll have to find out for yourself about that stuff....
animegirl101: *stops laughing and looks expectantly at me* Huh? What were you gonna say?
Me: *still grinning evilly* Oh, nothing. *secretly sets Inuyasha free and lets him walk within viewing range*
animegirl101: *sees Inuyasha* INUYASHA!!! *runs after Inuyasha*
Inuyasha: Eh? *sees animegirl101* Ah! WTF?! *is glomped by animegirl101* Whaddya think you're doing?!
Me: Heh heh heh... *grins evilly* Well, let's get on with chapter one of the story!
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Chapter One: The Wanderer of Legends
((AN: "words" = regular speech, ~words~ = regular thoughts. And double parentheses = author's notes. [animegirl101: and "=" means she's being lazy...] Urusai! *whacks her with a Baka Fan of DOOM!* [animegirl101: *pouts & goes back to hugging Inuyasha*]))
"What are we going to do?!" a young boy exclaimed, pacing back and forth across the dojo floor. He was only fifteen, with short, wild black hair. He wore a navy blue gi. His black eyes were focused on the walls as he viciously practiced with his wooden sword.
A pair of little girls watched him. One had black hair and wore a pink kimono with a red sash. She too had black eyes. The other one had red hair and freckles, and wore a sky blue kimono with a white sash. They watched as the older boy paced and swung.
"Who is she, to come in here claiming to be the legendary Shinimegami Kyosawa?!" he continued. "She is bringing disgrace upon the Kurushima name!" He turned and swung, but this time his sword got lodged in a crack in the wall. "The Kurushima sword style is not meant to kill!" he said as he attempted to pull his practice sword out of the wall. "But she's almost succeeded in killing ten people! And that was just with one small attack!" He managed to pull a little too hard and sent himself stumbling backwards. He ended up falling onto his butt with a loud "oof!" He picked himself up and winced. He glared at the wall where his sword had been lodged. "She even tried to go after poor Sobakasu!" he shouted, gesturing vaguely towards the red-head.
Sobakasu stood up. She appeared to only be about six years old.
"But Komaru-onii-san!" Sobakasu exclaimed. "Ojii-sama protected Sobakasu!"
"Yes, but if ojii-san hadn't been there to protect you, you would have been killed!" Komaru retorted.
The other girl stood up as Sobakasu began to pout. She looked to be about ten.
"What about you? What if you had been in Sobakasu's place?" she retorted.
"I would've stood my ground and fought back, imouto!" Komaru answered, folding his arms over his chest superiorly.
"Yeah, right! I bet you would've run away screaming like a little girl!" she taunted.
"Fat chance, Kya!" Komaru responded, sticking his tongue out at her. "If I could get my hands on that impostor, I'd..."
There was a ring at the gate, signifying that someone had virtually rung the doorbell. Komaru skittered out of the dojo. Kya and Sobakasu exchanged glances, then trailed after him.
Komaru opened the door to find Sobakasu's grandfather standing there.
"Don't mind me, I've just come to collect my granddaughter," he said, smiling. "I also need you to run a little errand for me, Komaru."
"Hai, ojii-san?" Komaru answered as Sobakasu ran over to her grandfather.
"I need you to run to the local market and pick up a few things," was the answer as the old man pulled a small list out of his pocket. He handed it to Komaru, who took it and looked it over. "Do you think you'll be able to get everything delivered before sunset?"
Komaru smirked and held up the list. He pointed to a particular item on it.
"What, are you planning on throwing a party tonight, ojii-san?" he joked. The old man blushed.
"Can you just get them delivered by sunset, Komaru-kun?" the old man asked. Komaru wagged a finger at the old man.
"You know I can't make a promise, 'cause I almost always break 'em. But you know I'll try my hardest to get this stuff to you before then," Komaru answered.
The old man nodded and backed up.
"I trust you, Komaru. Just try not to come too long after sunset, if possible." The old man turned and left, taking Sobakasu with him.
"What was on that list that made you taunt him like that?" Kya asked. Komaru turned and showed it to her. She grinned. "Sake?! With a six year old like Sobakasu in the house?!" Kya laughed.
"Now you see what I was talking about," Komaru answered, grinning again. "Hey, do you think you could watch the dojo while I'm gone?"
Kya nodded, brushing away tears.
"Then ja ne, Kya!" Komaru picked up a bag lying near the gate and then stepped through them, closing them behind him. He then walked down the street, occasionally checking his list.
* * * * * * *
~Kuso! Almost sunset! I've gotta hurry!~ Komaru thought, breaking into a run. He had put the things he had found in the bag, and now was trying to run while making sure he didn't lose anything.
"Halt!" a female voice suddenly called out. Komaru and everyone else in the square stopped and looked at the speaker. All except for one person.
The woman who had shouted wore a pink shirt with a forest green vest over it. She had a short, tree-bark brown skirt and wore brown leather boots. She had black gloves and also wore a katana at her waist. Her violet eyes scanned the crowd, and spotted the person who hadn't stopped. "Hey, you!" she called, staring directly at the person. "I said, halt!" The person stopped, but didn't look at her. "Why aren't you looking at me?"
"Well, for starters, all you said was 'halt,' that it was," the person answered. ((Can you guess who this is? ^_~))
The woman glared at the person.
"I also didn't say you could be a smart ass!" she shouted. "Look at me or else!"
Komaru looked at the person who this was being directed at. The person was a woman as well, and she had her back to him. She had long black hair with a ribbon tied at around waist height on her. She wore a black kimono which had a gold dragon printed on the back. She also wore a pair of katanas, one on each side. But her arms seemed to hang loosely at her sides. She seemed to be in no hurry to attack or be attacked.
The woman with the dragon kimono lowered her head slightly.
"I can tell from your attitude that you are not worth the effort it would take to lift my head to look at you," she answered, perfectly calm. "That you aren't."
The other woman growled and then drew her katana.
"Don't you know who I am?!" she shouted. "I am the great Shinimegami Kyosawa!"
To everyone's surprise, the woman with the dragon kimono laughed.
"You? The great killer?" She laughed again and shook her head. "You are naught but a child who wishes to look big, that you are. Kyosawa-san has been missing for ten years. You are too young to have been her." She began to walk away.
"Why youÑ! How dare you insult the great Shinimegami! Omae o koroso!" The woman who claimed to be the legendary Shinimegami lunged at the woman with the dragon kimono.
Just as she was about to bring her katana down on the woman's head, though, the woman with the dragon kimono took out the katana on her left side and blocked the oncoming blow with perfect ease. They stayed like that for a second, but then the other woman found herself being flung right back into the place she had been standing on.
"Let that be a lesson to you: don't attack random people, for you can never tell when they might be very skilled," the woman with the dragon kimono told the other one as she sheathed her katana. "That you can't." She smiled, then continued on her way.
"Whoa..." Komaru breathed. "I wonder who she was?" He then checked the sky. "Gyah! The sun's almost gone!! I gotta get going NOW!!" He then ran as fast as he could towards the old man's house, all thoughts of the brief battle and revenge temporarily pushed to the side.
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((AN: You may skip most of this conversation if you wish; came out a LOT longer than I thought it would.... For my view on what I want in a review, skip to the last paragraph on this page.))
Me: Well, there you have it! Chapter one!
animegirl101: *petting the ears of a very peeved Inuyasha* Ooh! I wonder if Komaru ever makes it in time!
Me: *sweatdrops* Well, you'll get to find out in the next chapter!
animegirl101: Really?! YAY!!
Me: You'll also get to meet Shiori for the first time!
animegirl101: Cool! *pauses* Hey, IBB, what do all those japanese words mean?
Me: Oh! I almost forgot to define those! Thanx for reminding me!
animegirl101: You're welcome!
Me: Let's see... I'll go in order! So... the first word isÑ
animegirl101: Gi! What is that?
Me: A gi is the type of thing japanese guys wear.
Inuyasha: Like this thing. *holds up a sleeve for emphasis*
Me: I believe so, yeah.
animegirl101: Oooh, cool. Okay, then there's, um... oh! Wait! We missed something! Dojo!
Me: Oh! Let's see... uh... a dojo is kind of like a... gym/class-type-place. Yeah. Somethin' like that....
animegirl101: Ooookay... let's see, what else... oh! Shinimegami! That word's used a lot, but what does it mean?
Me: Ah! That's easy! It means "goddess of death."
animegirl101: Ooooh. O.o Really?
Me: *nods* Yep, yep! That it is!
animegirl101: Why do they call her that?
Me: You'll find out next chapter.
animegirl101: Oh! Okay! Hm... what else do we need to define... oh yeah, the names! Kyosawa and Kurushima!
Me: As far as I know they're just nonsense.
animegirl101: *looking disappointed* Oh.
Me: But the next word, Sobakasu, the name of the red-head, means "Freckles."
animegirl101: Oooh! That makes sense, since she has red hair AND freckles!
Me: Yup! Anything else we need to define?
animegirl101: Uh... yeah, Komaru-onii-san! First of all, what does all that mean, and second of all, why didn't she just call him Komaru?
Me: Well, -ko is an honorific usually used for children's names, and -maru is a common suffix for guys' names. Yeah, whenever I can't think of any guy names I take something I know and add -maru to the end of it. ^^;;
Inuyasha: *muttering to himself* I'll bet you do that a lot.
Me: *glares at him* What did you say, dog-boy?
Inuyasha: Feh. *turns head away*
Me: *growls at him but continues* My understanding of onii is that it means, essentially, "someone else's older brother." -San is an honorific used either for someone older than the speaker or for people that the speaker doesn't know very well.
animegirl101: So, which is she using?
Me: The "person I'm talking about/to is older than me" version.
animegirl101: Ooooh.
Me: Anything else?
animegirl101: Um... ojii-sama and ojii-san. What's that all about? Do they mean two different things or something?
Me: No, they both mean "grandfather," it's just that Sobakasu looks up to him more than Komaru, who kind of has this sort of equal relationship with the old man.
animegirl101: Uh... okay... anyway... what does imouto mean?
Me: The opposite of onii in gender, number, and... *realizes she's getting strange looks from the other two* ...uh, oops, wrong language. It means the opposite of onii in gender and age difference.
animegirl101: Which means...?
Me: *rolls eyes* It means little sister.
animegirl101: Oh! Why didn't you say so before?
Me: *popping vein* Let's just move on... hm... okay, let's just do it this way to make it go faster: Hai= yes, yeah, stuff like that Komaru-kun= -kun is a suffix attached to guys' names that tends to indicate that the speaker is pretty familiar with the guy in question, or that the (usually male) speaker is older than the guy in question Sake= rice wine. Very strong stuff, from what I gather Ja ne= an informal way of saying goodbye which indicates that you think you'll be seeing the other person again sometime that day. That's what I think it's used for, anyway... Kuso= normally means "dammit," but is sometimes used to mean "shit." In the place where it's used, it could mean either Kyosawa-san= she's essentially saying "Ms Kyosawa" Omae o koroso= "I'm going to kill you!" Using "omae" with someone you don't know/ know well is considered hostile.
I think that should be it... so, yeah, please review and, please, no flames. Constructive criticism is welcome, but flames are just plain useless, and will probably only result in a very bitchy authoress. So, please, no flames. If you find something wrong, be nice and tell me what it is, and, if you can, tell me what I can do to change it. Thank you.