Hallo again! This is an old story I wrote forever ago; it's so old, that one of the original lines was "Let's go see the Italian Job!" I think it was influenced on summer boredom, and the fact that I wanted to see that movie.
Anyway, this story doesn't take place in any specific time. It just....takes place. So it has nothing to do with any of my other stories.
/armor bond speak/
Disclaimer: I don't own the Ronin Warriors. Never have, never will
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"Finally! Three day weekend!" Ryo exclaimed happily, slamming his locker shut. "No homework, no recent Dynasty attacks to ruminate upon, and a stocked kitchen," Sage said, pulling a binder out of his locker. "I think we should be completely settled for awhile." Wildfire looked excited enough to jump out of his skin. "C'mon Sage, the others are probably waiting!" he finally exclaimed, running down the halls to the doors that would take him to the outdoor world. "Ryo! Wait up!" Sage shouted, slamming his own locker and running after the hyper warrior.
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"I wonder where Ryo and Sage are," Cye said.
"I dunno, but if they don't hurry up, I'm willing to armor up and fly home!" Rowen burst out. "That would be unethical Rowen," Cye said.
Kento just ignored this little conversation, leaning against the back of the suburban, massaging his temples. I do not need this headache, he thought.
"Kento?" Cye questioned. "You feel okay?"
Hardrock turned his attention to his concerned friend. " 'M okay Cye, it's just a little headache," he assured him, even if it wasn't true.
"Need some medicine?" asked Rowen, taking out a bottle of Advil from his pocket. "That's okay Ro, I think I'll survive."
"Are you sure you're okay?" Cye asked again. He had been observing this odd behavior from Kento all day. Hardrock had fallen asleep during almost every class, except Gym and Chemistry, had been stumbling during the soccer game that had been going on during the gym class, and had not eaten the unusually large amounts of food that he normally did during lunch. In fact, he had barely eaten at all.
"I'm sure Cye, I'm fine," Kento reassured him. He looked off in the distance. "Here they come."
Ryo and Sage finally reached their destination. "Sorry guys, Mrs. Hatsuki wanted to talk to me after class," Ryo said sheepishly. The others looked at Sage. "Yes, my fan club was after me again. I swear, those girls drive me crazy! If it hadn't been for Ryo, I'd still be stuck back there."
Ryo took a heroic stance. "Yes, once again, Ryo of the Wildfire comes to the rescue! Saving people from giant fan clubs everywhere!"
"Hey, big hero of fan clubs," Rowen said. "Let's go home."
Everyone started to pile into the suburban when Cye approached Kento. "Can I drive Kento? You look like you're beat." Kento shook his head. "I'm fine Cye, really I am."
"Please?" Cye asked again, holding his hand out. Hardrock sighed and placed the keys in Cye's hand. "Okay, but just this once." Cye smiled and switched places with Kento...
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"So what do you guys want to do this weekend?" asked Rowen, who had taken the front seat. "We could go see some good movies," Sage suggested. "What do you wanna do Kento?" asked Ryo.
No response came.
"Kento?" Ryo asked again, turning to face the very backseat of the suburban.
"What's wrong?" Cye inquired, who was driving.
"He's asleep," Sage answered, looking back at Kento.
"Wonder how long he's been out," Ryo said. Cye pulled up next to the house, announcing, "We're home."
Everyone piled out of the truck, except Sage, who opened the backseat up and attempted to wake up Hardrock. "Hey buddy, wake up, we're home," Sage said softly, shaking Kento's shoulders a little. Kento moaned sleepily but didn't wake up. "C'mon Ken, you can sleep all you want when we get inside." Kento still didn't awaken.
Sage thought that this was beginning to get annoying. "He won't wake up?" asked Torrent, making his way to the side that Sage had sat on. "No, and I don't know why," Sage answered.
"Let me try," Cye suggested, getting an idea. Sage moved out and Cye poked his head into the truck. "Kento, if you don't wake up and come out this instant, I'll make you eat Rowen's cooking for an entire week."
Kento immediately awoke and jumped outside onto the lawn. "I'm awake, I'm awake!" he exclaimed. "Please don't make me eat the food Ro cooks!!" Everybody laughed at this, except Kento, who was petrified.
"Don't worry, I wouldn't do that to you," Cye said, after he got over his laughing fit. Kento relaxed a little. "C'mon, we've got a three day weekend to start!" Ryo said, leading the way into the house, Hardrock being the last in line. Man, I feel like crap.....
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The boys had changed into regular clothes and were planning their three day weekend in the dining room.
Well, not everybody was present; Kento hadn't been seen since their arrival home.
"Movie night!" Rowen exclaimed. "Now the only question is, what to watch," Ryo said. "Yeah, and what dinner will be," Cye said, sighing.
"What's wrong Cye?" Sage asked. "The stove's on the fritz," Torrent answered. "I can't cook anything, even if I wanted to."
Sage sighed. "Okay, now there's the take out question. Who wants what from where?"
"Wait a second, we can't decide anything with out Kento here," Ryo pointed out. "Speaking of which, where is he?"
The others shrugged. "Last time I saw him, he was going upstairs," Sage said, getting up. "I think I'll go check up on him, just in case."
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When they had gotten home, Kento was exhausted. He had tried to change, but he had only succeeded in taking his shirt off before becoming too tired to try anymore. So, he had just given up, curled up on his bed and had fallen asleep.
Sage peeked into the room. Seeing Kento on his bed, Sage cautiously made his way into the room when he spotted the uniform shirt on the floor. He picked it up, noticing that it was somewhat damp. Upon closer inspection of the person who had worn it, Halo noticed that a light sheen of sweat layered itself upon Kento's body. He realized what this meant.
/Cye, come up here with the thermometer/
/What's wrong Sage?/
/It's Kento, I think he's coming down with something, his uniform shirt is damp and he doesn't look so good /
A few minutes later, Cye, followed by Rowen and Ryo, appeared in the room. "Help me wake him up," Sage said.
But they didn't have to. Kento moaned, rolled over onto his back, and started to wake up. He opened his eyes to be met with one violet one, full of concern. "What's up guys?" Kento asked, sitting himself up. "You feeling okay Kento?" Cye asked. "I feel fine," Hardrock answered. "Why?"
Ryo thrust the thermometer into Kento's mouth, a puzzled look upon the warrior in question's face. "We want to make sure you're okay," Wildfire told him.
When the thermometer beeped, Sage removed the object and inspected what it was telling him. "Whoa, Kento," he awed. "Your temperature is 102.5."
Kento just looked up at him in disbelief. "I feel bad, but I don't feel that bad," he said. "Why didn't you tell us you felt bad?" asked Rowen.
"I...I thought I felt bad cuz I stayed up late studying for the Chemistry test we had today." Kento said. "I didn't realize that I was actually sick, but I didn't want to ruin the weekend-" He was cut off by a coughing fit that seized control. He turned his back on the other Ronins, covering his mouth, attempting to speak while he did. "I'm *cough* sorry..." And the coughing ensued.
Cye walked around to the other side of the bed and sat next to Kento. He patted Hardrock on the back to try and stop the coughing. Kento finally stopped and gasped for air, collapsing onto the bed. "It's okay Kento," Cye told him, helping Kento lay back in the bed. "Everyone has the right to be sick every once in a while, it's not your fault. But you still should've told us that you felt bad. Just rest and try to get rid of this fever so you won't have to be sick for long, okay?"
Kento nodded, too tired to argue. "Ya cold Kento?" asked Rowen. Hardrock nodded as he shivered.
Rowen left the room, saying, "I'll bring you some blankets in a sec." Ryo followed him. "Wait, I'll help you!"
Cye went to Kento's dresser, pulled a drawer open, and took out a pair of soft blue pants and a gray night shirt. He brought them back to Kento. "These will be a lot more comfortable than a uniform, no?" Torrent patted Hardrock on top of the head. "I'll bring you some soup in a little while." With that, he left.
Sage picked up the shirt that had been discarded onto the floor and when Kento had taken them off, Halo took the rest of the uniform. "I'll go dump these in the hamper."
Kento was thus left alone. He pulled on his pajamas and lay back on his bed, pulling the covers with him. He was almost asleep when Rowen and Ryo returned. "Hey buddy, these will help you keep warm," Strata said, unfolding the blankets and covering Kento with them. "Warmer?" Kento nodded, noticing that Ryo was laying a towel next to the bed. "What's that for?" Hardrock asked. "It's just in case you feel really sick and can't get to the bathroom on time," Ryo told him, standing back up. Rowen ruffled Kento's hair. "You get to feeling better, okay? You don't want to miss an entire three day weekend," he said before he and Ryo left.
Sage then returned with a bowl of cold water and a compress. He took a seat next to Kento, putting the objects on the nightstand. He wrung out the compress and laid it across the sick warrior's forehead. "Feel better?" Sage asked. Kento nodded, his eyes only half open. "Rest now Kento. You probably just need a good night's sleep. If you feel better tomorrow, we'll do something fun....."
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Sunlight pouring into the window was what woke Kento up the next morning. He yawned and stretched, sitting up in bed. "Maybe Sage was right about that good night's sleep thing," he thought aloud. "I feel a whole lot better today." He got out of bed and started to get dressed in his favorite orange shirt, a pair of worn out jeans and, of course, his bandanna. As he got dressed, he thought aloud.
"What can I convince the guys to do today? I know! I can persuade them to go to the new arcade that just opened. Yeah, that'll be fun! Now the only question is, what do I say that will want them to go?"
He inspected himself in the mirror and found himself to his liking. "All right! Today's gonna be a great day, I can feel it!" He wandered into the hall, humming to himself. But he realized something was very odd. (Well, as unusual as things get with the Ronins)
It was super quiet around the house.
"I wonder were everyone is?" he thought aloud. Usually someone was up, but he didn't hear any arguing, no talking whatsoever. He shrugged this off and headed downstairs to the kitchen. He peeked into the kitchen, expecting to see Cye making breakfast or something. But what he saw was something that probably-no, was-against any sort of kitchen rule that is or was in existence.
Rowen was cooking scrambled eggs, pancakes, and bacon!
Kento almost fainted when he saw this. He was about to run away and shriek like a little girl in terror, but Rowen saw him and smiled. "Heya buddy, howya feeling this mornin'?" Strata greeted. Kento somehow worked his legs into the kitchen and got his mouth to move in response. "P-pretty good Ro. Are you feeling okay?" Rowen looked at him in confusion. "I guess so. Why?"
"No reason," Kento answered.
This was quite an odd spectacle. Usually when Rowen was ever in the kitchen, he was doing dishes, pulling leftovers out of the fridge, or Cye was teaching him how to cook. Like the one time Cye had left him alone with a simple cake recipe that only required a box of pudding mix, a cake mix, two eggs, some water, and sour cream. In the end, it had somehow turned purple, and couldn't keep its shape in the bunt pan that it was supposed to be cooked in. Basically, this had set the 'No Cooking Duty for Rowen' rule.
Kento watched in amazement as Rowen was flipping pancakes with ease. This was impossible! How could he become such a great cook? Then, Kento got an idea.
Coming around the counter, he tried to steal a piece of bacon.
*WHAP!!!*
"YOW!!!" Kento yelped, holding his injured hand. "You know the rule Kento!" Rowen exclaimed, pointing the wooden spoon in Kento's face. "No food until breakfast! Now get the bloody hell outta my kitchen!" Kento quickly retreated, still nursing his hand. "That was scary," he said to himself. He went to the living room and let out a breath of relief when he found Cye there. But he noticed something was very wrong with this picture.
Cye was reading War and Peace.
Kento once again felt like he was about to faint, but he didn't feel the need to run and scream like a little girl. Cye looked up from his book to Kento. "Hey mate, feeling better this morning?"
Kento came into the room. "Yeah, I think so."
"You sure?" Cye asked. "You still look a little pale." He got up from the couch, making his way to Kento. He placed a hand on Hardrock's forehead. "No fever," Cye finally said, taking his hand away. "That's good." Typical Cye. Still a Mother Hen.
"I, uh, I think I'm gonna go look for the others," Kento said, before rushing out of the room, out the front door, and outside. "Okay, this is weird," he stated aloud. "First, Rowen is cooking with out confusing salt and sugar and with out blowing the house up. Now Cye is reading complicated literature that only Ro is supposed to understand. What next?!" That's when he saw his suburban coming up the road. "Guess one of the guys went to the city."
The truck was pulled up next to the house but the scariest part was the Ronin who came forth from it and what he had.
Ryo emerged from the truck, dressed in a pair of khakis, a crisp, button down shirt, and a blazer, his hair neatly arranged. (You imagine the hairstyle) In his hand was a humongous bag of every hair care product that existed from the store, Hair Today, Styled Tomorrow.
Kento's eyes went wide. "This can't be happening," he said.
"WHITE BLAZE!! GET BACK HERE, YOU STUPID TIGER!!!
Kento looked to another part of the yard to see a soaking wet White Blaze, running away from Sage, who wore a pair of shorts and a T-shirt and who's hair was disheveled. Sage was chasing the tiger until he fell into the mud, and decided to give up. He got up and made his way towards Kento, just as Ryo was.
"Hey buddy, how ya feelin' this fine day?" Sage asked. "Uh, great," Hardrock responded.
Suddenly, sinister laughter was heard. The trio looked at the furthermost point of the yard and saw the four warlords, smiling, but there was a different tone in their laughter.
Kento ran to the door, opened it, and yelled, "Guys! Talpa's attacking, get out here!" Within ten seconds, Cye and Rowen came out of the house and the five armored up.
But when the transformations were complete, Kento, once again, noticed that there was something very, VERY wrong.
Cye donned the Strata armor, Rowen wore Torrent, Ryo the Halo, and Sage the Wildfire. "Today's the day you'll get your butts kicked back to the Nether Realm!" Sage proclaimed, taking out the twin katanas on his back.
"Not today Ronins."
"TALPA!" Indeed, the leader of the Dynasty was standing in front of them. "What brings you to our door step?" asked Ryo.
"There will be no fighting, for today is a happy day," Talpa said, a hint of something new in his voice. It sounded like he was happy and hyper.
"What's the occasion?" asked Rowen, everyone except Kento lowering their weapons.
The Ancient appeared next to Talpa. "We've solved our differences..." Talpa started, the Ancient One taking his hand. "...And we've decided to elope," The old mage finished.
"AAAWWWW, HOW SWEET!!!!" All of the Ronins except Kento proclaimed.
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!?! WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE FIGHTING THE DYNASTY!!!" But no one heard him, because the Ronins were putting a tux on the Ancient and the Warlords were adorning Talpa in a wedding dress, as Kayura put a veil on Talpa's head.
"WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"
"Kento...Kento....Kento......."
Kento bolted upright, breathing like he had just run the Marathon. He found himself back in his own room, safe and sound.
"Finally, you're awake."
Kento looked next to him and saw Cye sitting in a chair next to the bed, the other Ronins gathered behind him. Hardrock yelped and hid under the covers.
"Ken-chan?" Sage asked, lifting away the blankets. "What's wrong buddy? Did you have a bad dream?"
Kento was shaking, pointing to each Ronin as he stated each point in his dream. "You were cooking with out killing anything, you were reading stuff usually only Ro understands, you became the emperor of all that is hair care, and you were the leader. But that's not the scariest part."
"What was the worst part?" asked Ryo.
"TALPA AND THE ANCIENT WERE ELOPING!!!"
The others just stared at him. "Wow," Rowen finally said. Cye was the second one to come out of his shock. "Sounds like you had a whopper of a nightmare," he finally said. "We're glad you finally woke up," Sage said, handing Kento a glass of water that was sitting on the nightstand. Kento gratefully accepted it. "Why?" He gulped down the water, then placed the empty glass back in its place on the nightstand. "I just went to sleep a few hours ago."
"Kento," Cye said. "That was two days ago."
"W-what?"
"Your fever got pretty high the other night," Cye told him. "The next morning it stayed the same, that night it stayed the same, but somewhere around midnight, it got a little higher, reaching its peak, and stayed that way all yesterday. Your fever finally broke last night, which we're all thankful for. If it had gotten any higher, we would've had to have taken you to the hospital."
"How high was it?" asked Kento, somewhat confused.
"It got up to 105.4," Rowen said.
Kento was stunned by this. "I didn't know I was that sick," he said. Hardrock then noticed just how tired the others looked. "You guys have stayed up taking care of me, haven't you?" he asked, suddenly feeling guilty.
Cye smiled a little and nodded. "Why did you guys do that?" Kento asked. "It's a three day weekend, all of you had plans. You guys didn't have to-"
"But we wanted to," Ryo told him, coming to the other side of the bed. He sat next to Kento. "You were really sick buddy, and if we were to just leave you and only watch, we probably would have one less Ronin, just because of neglect. Your fever most likely would've gone through the roof, if we had left you alone. We didn't want that, so we took care of you." He patted Kento on the back. "We just wanted to help."
Hardrock smiled, a look of sadness still in his eyes. "I'm still sorry," he said. "Don't worry about it amigo," Rowen said. "We're just glad you're okay now."
"Okay, now that you're awake, you need to eat," Cye said. "Are you hungry?" Kento nodded. "How does baked potato soup sound?" Kento's eyes lit up. "Sounds great!" Cye laughed, standing up. "I'll go heat some up for you," he said, ruffling Hardrock's hair, then leaving.
Rowen picked up a corner of one of the two blankets that had been added to Kento's bed. "Do you still need these?" Kento shook his head. "Okay then, I'll put these up." Rowen pulled the two blankets off the bed, folded them, venturing into the hall to return them to the closet from which they had come.
Sage gathered up the glass, a bowl, and the compress that had been sitting on Kento's nightstand. "I'll go put these up," he said, leaving the room.
Hardrock smiled a little and yawned. He laid back down, Ryo pulling the covers up. Wildfire then claimed the seat that Cye had been sitting in earlier.
"Kento?"
"Yeah?"
"Did I really become the emperor of all that is hair care?"
"You were dressed like Sage when he goes into town and had a bag full of stuff from that store he likes so much."
The End!!!!
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So...that's it! R&R please =D
P.S. I hope you guys thought it was funny. When I first wrote it, my editor and I couldn't stop laughing. So please leave a review?