For the past one week I have been reading the manga 'The history's mightiest disciple ' , suddenly the plot bunny started to jump about in my head , and the author in me could not ignore this particular challenge , the chapter below is quite small and leaves a lot of question unanswered , have patience they will be answered soon.
The Stranger sighed as he looked at the structure before him, "So this is the place Ryozanpaku a place where heroes gather" he said as he jumped down the pole he was standing on. He landed on the ground soundlessly and started to make his way to the Dojo. The people on the road subconsciously moved aside from his path giving him a huge berth.
"I hope it won't be disappointing, much " He muttered as he closed to his destination.
Ryozanpaku, the home to the strongest and elite masters in the world , each though master in the dojo practiced their own art varying from Muay Thai to karate , they followed the principle of the Katsujinken . In act the dojo is said to be the core members of the Saving fist faction .The Katsujinken or the protecting fist ideology revolves around the usage of the martial arts to defend others. The followers of the Katsujinken vow to never kill their opponent in contrast to their nemesis Satsujinken who brutally kill their opponent.
The Philosophical Jujitsu Master, Kōetsuji Akisame.
The 100-Dan Street Brawler of Karate , Shio Sakaki .
Death God of Muay Thai Underworld, Apachai Hopachai.
The Master of All Chinese Kenpo, Kenshi Ma .
The Prodigy of Swords and Master of all Weaponry, Shigure Kosaka.
The Invincible Superman, Hayato Furinji .
The above listed names are the masters who have made Ryozanpaku their home. Each of the above listed people has earned the title of master in their respective field and is well known throughout the circles of martial artist. So it is not unusual for them to be challenged by martial artist from all over the world.
Kenichi Shirahama the one and only disciple of Ryozanpaku age 17 yrs old ,Second year student at Koryou High school . He is titled the history's strongest disciple taught by the histories strongest masters.
There is nothing special about him, normal guy with average looks, average academics, average in sports all in all another person in the crowd.
He's a total wimp who was bullied throughout the middle school and has no talent in martial arts , he started to learn martial arts to enforce his own justice and fight against the evil from which people avert their eyes .His motivation to fight and to keep going is none other than his own classmate and friend Miu Furinji who is the granddaughter of Hayato Furinji .
But this is not his story, this story focuses on our young weapon mistress Shigure Kosaka. She was the youngest master in the Ryozanpaku dojo. She was rumored to be a prodigy in the arts of weapon handling and has total mastery over them she was infamous in the underworld for defeating various strong men and taking their weapon.
Her father was a master swordsman and a infamous swords smith, he was commissioned by the Yami to forge swords for them, his swords were forged for a single purpose that was slaying men. Seeing that his creations were being used for mass murder, Shigure's father killed himself by Akisame's hand to teach his daughter aka Shigure, what happen to people like him who walk down the evil path ignorant to the suffering they cause to the people around them, at his death bed he passed down the secret of the 'steel' he used in the forging of his blades to Shigure, through the last blade he made.
The blade that was passed to Shigure by her father was not a normal one, normally the swords forged by Shigure's father had no decoration on them depicting that they were tools for killing having no emotions, they were forged only for the purpose of slaying men, but the one he had passed to his daughter had a beautiful design on it, seeing the design carved on the blade Akisame had called it "Awkward love between them "and vowed to protect it till the end of time.
Shigure was named 'Shigure' by master Akisame, since her father never bothered to name her. Even though she wanted herself to be named Akisame, The jujitsu master cleverly avoided the situation and named her after the Autumn rain. Since Akisame who had no experience in raising a child had taken her to his old friend and the head of Kosaka family, where she grew up and learnt to wield weapons after the death of that old man she came to live with Akisame in the Ryozanpaku dojo .
She tends to leave the dojo to hunt for the swords which were forged by her late father. No one knows her motives behind the collection of the swords whether it was due to the anger and hate she felt for him or was it love and dedication to stop her father's creation from being used in death matches.
The story takes place after the defeat and disbanding of Ragnarok gang by the hands of the shimpaku alliance and before the DOfD .
It was a usual day at Ryozanpaku dojo, all the masters were busy doing their own things some were tor-training their favourite and only disciple Kenichi and the other were lying around lazily. Since the underground group of Satsujinken user, Yami had started to move, and their main target was none other than their own disciple, they were training the kid three times the usual intensity.
Appachai was sitting in the garden counting ants "apa hello ant no 1 apa hello ant no 2 apa hello ant no 3….."
Sakaki was drinking beer in the dojo like usual . While Akisame and Kensei were enjoying training Kenichi ,by using a new machine invented by Akisame himself.
The elder was tending to his humongous bonsai tree in the backyard, seriously can anyone have a bonsai tree that huge and even if they have one, could it be classified as bonsai tree anymore. The prodigy of sword and all weapons Shigure was hanging upside down the roof and was cleaning her sword while her pet mouse was busying stealing food from the kitchen, all in all just another normal day at Ryozanpaku.
Another notable feature of the Ryozanpaku dojo, besides the unique collection of masters that lived there, were its gates. The humongous wooden gates of the dojo were notoriously heavy, and hard to open. The first time Kenichi tried to open them, he could not make them even budge an inch from their mean position; anyone without proper training and physical conditioning, didn't have enough raw strength to open the gates of Ryozanpaku.
This made sure that the dojo was not challenged by weaklings and only those above a certain level were able to challenge the masters.
Without any warning the humongous gates of the dojo flew open, sending a huge gust of wind towards the dojo. Hearing the ruckus all the masters turned their head towards the gate .
If anyone would have been present near the Hayato , he or she would have witnessed the rare expression of surprise on the face of the Ryozanpaku elder.
'Amazing, to have lowered his presence to such extent that even I could not sense him, either he is a ghost or a true elite master 'Hayato thought to himself, the thought the a ghost had appeared at the dojo made the elder chuckle, as he cut off another stray branch from the gigantic tree.
Apachai who was outside counting ants jumped to greet the newcomer, He landed in front of the visitor with a crash creating spider cracks on the ground.
"Apa welcome to Ryozanpaku Dojo Apa… My name is Apachai Hopachai, nice to meet you "the 2 meter tall gentle giant spoke in an enthusiastic tone, one that a child uses when he is exited .
Apachai had a tendency to scare off the visitors that visited the dojo, by suddenly appearing in front of them out of no-where, after-all suddenly coming face-to-face with a 2m tall muscular giant would make anyone crap their pants.
"Thank you for the warm welcome Apachai-san it's a pleasure meeting you, I am here to issue a challenge for someone "the unknown guest spoke in a deep voice which was clearly masculine, proving that the unknown guest was a man.
The man was wearing a brown cloak with a hood that hid his facial features; the stranger roughly to reached the crook of the muay thai master's neck indicating that he was quite tall according to normal human standards.
"Ok apa lets go inside "With that Apachai started to lead the stranger into the dojo. As the stranger entered the dojo he was greeted with a strange sight, A sixteen year old boy was running inside a wheel like a rat in a lab .
While a scar faced muscular man was drinking beer and shouting encouragement to him and a man in white hakama was calmly sipping tea, A short man with a hat was poking the kid with a stick.
Without any warning the stranger was attacked by a metal kunai aiming his forehead, the man calmly tilted his head to the right at the last moment allowing the kunai to pass through him, the kunai was followed by a trio of shuriken, the cloaked man jumped in the air to avoid them, the ninja stars embedded themselves in the floor below showing that they were thrown with quite the force.
In mid air he was wrapped around by a chain of a kusarigama.
Seeing the stranger being attacked by Shigure Kenichi started to freak out and began to run much faster while shouting about violence.
"Apa pa stop he is a friend apa " Apachai shouted out drawing away the attention of the masters and their disciple from the cloaked individual.
"He is right I mean no harm" The man said shocking everyone, everyone looked at the chain and found that they were empty and the man was once again standing at his original position.
'fast' Shigure thought to herself as she gritted her teeth .
'To be able to avoid Shigure's surprise attack, he is no normal guy 'the master's thought to themselves, as they prepared themselves to meet the man.
"You wanna piece of me teme "Sakaki the 100th level karate street fighter challenged the stranger.
"Who are you, what is your purpose here at Ryozanpaku "Akisame the resident philosopher jujitsu master asked, acting as a mediator so that the situation could not escalate any further.
The jujitsu master looked at the death god of underworld Muay thai demanding an explanation, feeling the graze of his fellow master on him.
Apachai simply said "Apa pa Apa He is my friend , He said he was here to challenge someone and then play ottelo with me , he is a good guy "
The other master gave him a blank look 'Was that suppose to explain something ' they all thought, the man with the light moustache in white hakama, put his teacup down, and started to move towards the cloaked guy.
"Hello, my name is Kōetsuji Akisame what can I do for you? "The jujitsu master introduced himself with a slight bow .
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki and I am here to challenge Shigure Kosaka the prodigy in swords and all weapons "the man declared
Kenshi ma, the short and balding master of all Chinese kenpo suddenly appeared beside him.
"If you're here to challenge the dojo it will cost you 10,000 yen "Kensei said he even miraculously produced a clipboard and a pen from nowhere. The masked man took out money from his pocket under the cloak and handed it to the kenpo master.
The man removed his hood showing his face to everyone present.
The man was in his mid-twenties, with the deepest blue eyes that Shigure had ever seen, he had spiky blond hair, the man was quite handsome according to Shigure, and the whisker lines on his face gave a feral look to him.
Kenichi knew that the dojo's only female master had a lobby to cut down things; he pictured the man in front of them being sliced like a vegetable by the resident weapon mistress, he started to pray for the man's life .
Shigure who was listening to the conversation never liked to back down from challenge unsheathed the blade on her back and fell into a defensive stance.
He turned his head toward Shigure and gave her a grin which increased his animistic look making him look more like a fox. For a instance Shigure wanted to touch the whisker marks and find out whether they were real.
Naruto turned towards her and smiled,breaking her from her trance the cheeky grin on his face with the whisker marks gave him a foxy look. "Foky-chan "She thought,
"Did you saw something "Naruto asked , "No " Was all she said .
"OK, Only fighting that's so boring let's do something more fun shall we "he said, Naruto scratched his chin in a thoughtful manner.
After thinking for a few seconds he spoke "let's wager something to make this more fun shall we ?"
'Fighting with Shigure fun? What's wrong with him, does he have a death wish'Kenichi thought to himself, signs of panic appeared on his face, as he mentally pictured the blonde fellow in front of him cut and bleeding from various parts of his body, while he begs for forgiveness from Shigure who was going to stab the fallen body of the challenger with a maniacal grin on her face.
'Truly demonic' .
After that bold declaration Naruto took out a sheathed sword and threw it at Shigure who caught it expertly. Carefully she unsheathed the blade and examined it, As soon as her eyes were laid on the blade they widen in surprise.
"Hoho so you recognize the blade, good saves me a lot of trouble"Naruto said with a mischievous smile.
This was something that she would recognize anywhere anytime; She practically grew up watching those blades be forged, when most of the children played with toys she played with those swords after all it was her father who had forged that particular blade it was his legacy. The ability to She was absolutely sure of it, it was one of the blades that her father had forged, the craftsmanship was uncannily his, a simple blade with no decoration forged for the sole reason to cut down men in battle, the very same blades that Shigure had swore to collect to stop them from being used in death matches.
"There are four more swords in my possession "Naruto said, He threw another four towards the young weapon mistress, who caught them skilfully. 'where was he keeping them ' Kenichi thought .
"What do you want "Shigure asked warily, she had a lot of experience in hunting her father's blades, those who kept the sword in their possession did not easily part with it, the blades were forged for a single task and that was to kill, and hence were priceless and quite infamous in the underworld.
The fact that the stranger possessed five of them pointed out that the man in front of them was no one normal man.
"the blades were a pain to track and collect so the price should be high shouldn't it you fight me one on one and if you win then the swords belong to you but if I win then….." Naruto stopped for a dramatic flair, the other inched forward to listen to the demands of the blonde stranger.
"If you lose Shigure Kosaka then you have to marry me and become my wife"Naruto finished his statement.
Naruto's statement left everyone speechless in the dojo, Sakaki spit out his drink; Kensei's hat blew off his bald head as he stood in a shocked posture, even Akisame who was well known for keeping his calm in the most extreme scenario's looked shocked, Kenichi face-fell on the wheel in which he was running .
"Hello everyone, the tea is ready "Miu's voice was heard as she entered the room with a tray of tea and snack, Hearing Miu's voice everyone broke out of their shocked stupor. Feeling everyone's eyes on her Miu started to feel a bit self-conscious.
"Is there something on my face "Miu Asked in a innocent tone, ignorant of the incident that had transpired in the room.
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