Kenichi: Not just her disciple
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Where does Kenichi go when Miu won't return his affection? How far will Shigure go to bring him back when she barely realizes her own love? How will he react when the last person he would suspect to be in love with him, finds him? What do his mother and a book have to do with this? Will Shigure get to teach him something? Will he finally get over his rule of not attacking girls?
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AN: Hello readers. This is my second fanfiction. My first story was Familiar Of Zero: Saving grace. I really like the Shigure/Kenichi pair up. So I decided to write a short story where they get together. This story is based off of what I saw in the anime, and it takes place in the middle of episode 19.
Here is a brief list of events that have happed just before my story takes place:
He had his experience at Furinji Island where he learned to overcome fear and Shigure taught him how to swim.
The masters asked him if he wanted to start advanced technique training and he asked to wait a little longer.
He had just learned about Kisara and Ragnarok
He met Kisara and Miu told him that he couldn't beat her at his current skill level.
I will try to update this story at least once a month until it is finished. My main focus right now is on my first story.
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Chapter 1
Where Do I Stand?
After school Wednesday, the masters are having Kenichi just do typical strength training and exercises until they can find out his answer about advanced training.
Kenichi is currently wearing the standard white Karate outfit that he usually wears doing. He is doing pushups with Shigure sitting on his back.
'Ever since Shigure started sitting on my back during pushups, she has never stopped doing it.' Kenichi thinks as he does another pushup.
'This has become quite relaxing. My mind feels at ease while I am sitting on his back.' Shigure thinks while she sits on Kenichi's back.
Sakaki come out from the dojo drinking a beer. His brown open shirt flaps in the wind, showing off his extremely ripped abs.
"Hey shigure! It looks like Kenichi is getting used to you sitting on his back. Maybe you should add more weight." Sakaki says very casually.
Just as he is about to take a swig out of his bottle, it gets cut in half by a shuriken.
"Awe come on! I just opened that!" Sakaki says as he looks over to Shigure.
She has her arms crossed and looking away from him.
"What did I say?" Sakaki asks.
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Apachai slams the punching mitts together.
"It's Apachai's turn!"
Apachai stands there in his usual yellow tank top and red shorts.
'Why is it that I get worried every single time I do training with Apachai?' Kenichi asks himself.
Shigure sits down on the deck. She looks as if she was proud of something.
Kenichi and Apapchai start sparring. The pace is much slower than Apachai's normal speed, but that is because he is trying not to kill Kenichi again.
In sporadic increments, he makes Kenichi dodge one of the mitts.
Kenichi makes jab after jab at the mitts in various combinations.
Apachai takes a swing with one of the mitts.
All of the masters hold their breath.
Kenichi barely dodges the blow as he feels the breeze from Apachai's strike.
'Oh crap. I need to move faster or he will knock my head off.' Kenichi thinks.
Apachai gets a smile on his face.
Kenichi starts jabbing and punching the mitts again.
Akisame sits down next to Shigure, who seems to be intently watching Kenichi. His navy Hakama contrasts nicely with his white keikogi.
"So what seems to have you so worked up, Shigure?" Akisame asks.
Apachai starts having Kenichi pick up the pace.
"Trying . . . to keep . . . Kenichi . . . alive." She responds back to Akisame.
He starts rubbing his chin.
"Oh? And how is that?" He asks her.
She points to a spot behind Kenichi.
Akisame's eyes follow along to where Shigure is pointing to see a net made of strong nylon attached to two trees.
All of a sudden, everyone feels a change in the atmosphere and looks in Apachai's direction.
"That was good Kenichi. Now dodge this."
Apachai's eyes get that white glow to them as he winds in for a full swing.
The mitt makes contact with Kenichi and sends him flying backwards.
Kenichi didn't even have a chance to even get out a yelp.
As Kenichi's body approaches the net at the speed of a rocket, Shigure clenches her fist and gets a hopeful look on her face.
Kenichi flies through the net as if it wasn't even there.
Shigure could swear that she saw the outline of Kenichi's body just before the netting went limp.
He smashes into the wall that surrounds Ryozanpaku.
'Damn.' Shigure thinks in defeat as she runs over to Kenichi with Akisame.
They pull him out of the wall and bring him back into the open.
"Kenichiiiiiiiiiiii!" Miu yells out and starts running towards their location.
"Kensei! We need you!" Sakaki yells out.
Apachai squats in front of Kenichi while holding his head.
"Oh no! I think I did it again. I'm so sorry, Kenichi! Please wake up!" Apachai tries to apologize to an unconscious Kenichi.
Kensei comes running out with a small jar in his hands. The long flaps of his green Chinese uniform flaps about as he runs
"What is that Kensei?" Sakaki cautiously asks.
"You don't want to know?" Kensei responds.
"Is it going to kill him?" Sakaki also asks.
"It can't be any worse than what Apachai did to him." Kensei retorts.
"Oh nooooo. I'm so sorry kenichi." Apachai says as he turns around and sits like he was a child that just got scolded by his father.
"I thought you didn't care about what happens to Kenichi? Akisame says teasingly to Sakaki.
Sakaki crosses his arms and turns his head in a pout.
"I don't. We just can't have anyone dying here." He says in response to Akisame.
"This is serious everyone. Kenichi might die again!" Miu yells out as she waves here arms frantically.
"I don't think he will. He actually seems to be very faintly breathing this time, but it still won't hurt to use this." Kensei says as he starts to turn the lid to the jar he was holding.
He partially lifts the lid up by Kenichi's nose and then quickly closes it again and backs away.
As quickly as Kensei backs away, Kenichi wakes up with his eyes bulging open.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Not again. I'm too young to . . ." Knichi yells out.
He stops as he clenches his nose.
"Om my god! What the heck is that smell!" Kenichi says in a muffled tone.
Kensei smiles as he walks away to put the jar back in it's very safe place.
Apachai hears Kenichi's voice and he jumps up instantly and runs over to Kenichi.
"Yaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy! Kenichi is still alive! Oh thank goodness!" Apachai yells out as he picks Kenichi up and gives him a huge bear hug.
'I think he is about to crush my ribs.' Kenichi thinks.
"Put him down Apachai. You're going to crush the kid and we just got him back." Sakaki interrupts Apachai.
He lets go and drops Kenichi.
"Why . . . . . . . . me?" Kenichi struggles to say.
'Maybe the net did help.' Shigure thinks.
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Everyone sits down for dinner in their usual spots except for one.
Shigure takes a spot next to Kenichi. She is wearing her typical short, pink kimono and purple stockings.
"Hey Shigure! Are you feeling all right? This is the third night in a row you're eating with us instead of eating on the roof." Sakaki says boisterously from the buzz that he has from all the alcohol that he's drank.
"I'm . . . . . . . fine. I . . . want to . . . eat . . . here." Shigure says in response as she elegantly sips her tea.
'Why am I here? Ever since our trip to the Island I have found myself wanting to sit here for dinner.' Shigure wonders.
'That's right. She has sat here next to me for the past three days. It's odd to see her here at the table. She has always eaten her dinner on the roof with her mouse Tochumaru. I have to admit, it is really nice to see her with us. She seems like such a loner.' Kenichi thinks to himself.
Hayato starts to stroke his beard.
"Well now. It is good to see you eating with us, Shigure, no matter what the reason may be." Miu's grandfather says while smiling.
While they eat, Apachai tests Kenichi by stealing some of his food every so often.
"Apa." Apachai says each time.
'Will this ever stop?' Kenichi asks himself in a frustrated voice.
"So, Kenichi, are you ready for advanced training yet?" Akisame asks.
All of the other masters' eyes glow in thought of teaching him.
'Maybe I can teach Kenichi something again.' Shigure thinks to herself.
Kenichi stuffs his mouth full of food.
"Ummmm umum um umm umum um um." Kenichi says through a full mouth.
He claps his hands together in thanks and quickly gets up to take his dishes to the kitchen.
As he is about to enter into the kitchen, Akisame stops him.
"And what are you waiting to find out?" Akisame asks.
'How does he do that? Not only is he a mind reader, but he can understand gibberish.' Kenichi wonders.
"And if you're wondering how I can do that, I've learned how to understand gibberish from people trying to tell me their ailments when they visit the clinic." Akisame explains.
Kenichi's jaw drops.
'He did it again.' Kenichi thinks.
Kensei Ma appears right beside Kenichi.
"What are you waiting for?" Kensei asks.
Kenichi rushes into the kitchen.
Shigure looks kind of slighted after Kenichi exits.
'I was enjoying his company.' She thinks to herself.
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Kenichi climbs up to the roof to clear his mind.
'I wish I could just hop up here like the other masters do.'
Little did Kenichi know, Shigure was also on the roof on the opposite side of the peak.
She hears him come up to the roof, but does not let him know of her presence.
She slinks up her side of the roof and peeks over at Kenichi.
She sees him write in a book with a dragon on the cover for a few minutes. She couldn't tell what he was writing though.
After he finishes writing he lays back with the book sitting on his chest.
He lets out a big sigh and stairs up to the sky.
Shigure watches him intently.
'He reminds me of Akisame when he is thinking so intently.' She thinks to herself.
Thinking that no one is around, Kenichi just starts talking aloud.
"I have read through my books over and over again, but I am still so confused."
'What is he talking about?' Shigure thinks to herself.
"I need to know how Miu feels about me." Kenichi says.
'Oh.'
"I've read my book on how to tell if a girl likes you, but I can't tell how she feels about me. I get mixed reactions from her. One minute it seems like she likes me, but then it seem like she only likes me as a friend in the next. She keeps calling me friend. I am so confused."
'I have seen this too, from all of the times I have observed those two.'
Flashes from all of the ways she has observed them cross through her mind from watching them from the rafters, the rooftops, and the trees.
"I had thought about asking her, but that was never mentioned in the book. I guess it must not be that simple."
'That sounds pretty simple to me.' Shigure thinks.
"I also read my book on how to confess, but the book assumes that you already know if the girl likes you from reading the previous book."
'These books do sound interesting though. Maybe I will read them sometime.'
"All I've wanted to do is date her ever since I met her. She has also been one of the main reasons why I have been able to make it through my training. I don't know where I would be without her." He admits.
Shigure's mood drops a little bit.
'Why do I feel down that he is talking about her?' Shigure wonders.
Kenichi gets a smile on his face.
"Well, I guess I can't say she is the only one."
'Hmm?' Shigure's interest gets peaked again.
"Shigure has been there a lot for me too."
'Me?' Shigure thinks.
"She usually captures me before I can run away. But even outside of that, she usually says something to keep me going."
Shigure blushes very lightly.
"She doesn't talk much, but every word she says is meaningful. She is a beautiful woman too."
Shigure gets a completely shocked look on her face when he says that she is beautiful and then her cheeks really become blushed.
'He thinks of me as a woman? He thinks I'm beautiful?'
He flails his arms in the air for a moment.
"Ahhhhhhhh. Who am I kidding? She is my master. Why would she like me?" Kenichi dismisses.
'Me? Kenichi?' Shigure ponders on that for a moment.
"What am I going to do? They want to know if I want to start the advanced techniques, but what do I do if I find out that Miu doesn't feel the same way for me? Do I stay at Ryozanpaku, or do I leave?"
'He might leave? That simply wouldn't do, but is there anything I could really do to keep him from leaving?'
Various ways of trapping him and keeping him there start running through her head.
'I could dig a giant trench that he can't get out of once he falls inside.'
A vision of her proudly standing by the trap with her hands on her sides appears in her mind.
'Wait. Miu might not like that big of a trench being dug in the yard. I guess he does have school to attend too, but does he really have to go?'
She starts thinking again.
'Maybe I could just line the whole perimeter with traps so that he could never get out.'
Visions of the various traps she could set up start coming to mind.
'Wait. Miu might not like that either. It would make bringing home groceries a little bit more difficult.'
Other ways of keeping him there, including staying near him the whole time so that he can never leave also come across her mind.
Her thoughts pause for a moment.
'I suppose it would be best if I found a way to get him to willingly stay. Yes. Yes it would. This will be tough.' She thinks.
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A/N: Thank you for reading my new fanfiction. I hope you enjoyed the first chapter.
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