Dark Interlude-

This is my very first fanfic, I've had the idea rolling around my head for a while. Though this is just a test fic to get some practise and gauge my level any criticism will be appreciated, hell a few flames wont hurt, i could use a laugh or two. I'll continue this if it get enough good feed back and hopefully get better along the way with your help. I'm Going with both the manga and the anime, so I'll see where i go with this. To be honest your guess is as good as mine.

Remember, nothing is out of reach, for those with long arms. -Some drunk guy

It was a warm an sunny after noon, people could be seen walking around and conversing in the busy streets of Tokyo. One in particular would be, Kietaro Urashima, a nineteen years old, two time Tokyo university failure. At first glance you would not think much of the young man, 5'5 ft, dull clothing, messy brown hear, and glasses as thick as a phone book. Yep he looks just like your average nobody.

Making his way down a familiar street he takes a turn and walks by an ally way, not expecting the hands that shot out from the shadows and yanked him inside. Young Kietaro noticed with some surprise that he was being held against the ally wall by his neck by some apparent Yakuza wanna be, While two of his companions stand behind him, smug grins plastered on there faces.

The apparent leader, who smelt like he could use a bath, or six, sneered arrogantly at Kietaro while addressing his lackeys, " Looky here boys, this nice fellows gonna give us there money, isn't that nice of him" He throws his head back in laughter, soon imitated by his friends. Now normally in a situation like this you would expect the hapless victim to submit to the thugs will obviously so did the leader. So wasn't he surprised when he felt his wrist being twisted painfully, and then when his face met the brick wall, forcing his nose inside out with a satisfying crack that echoed down the ally as he slid down the wall leaving a trial of blood. The other two turned there shocked away from there friends fallen form to the boy he had just been holding, They couldn't help but step back at the twisted grin on his face, one that screamed (I'm gonna hurt you, and every one you love).

Oh i forgot to mention, Kietaro Urashima, despite his appearance and academic stature was a 'Bad Ass' He took shit from no one. Regaining there seances one of the thugs picks up a discarded lead pipe and charges the ronin, the young man grins widely as he easily side steps the swing, Kietaro counters by thrusting his palm into his attackers face, the feel of cartilage submitting to the force of it was amassing. Taking firm hold of the man's face, Kietaro sticks his leg behind his victims and thrusts the man's head down to the cold hard concrete, stumbling over the out stretched leg. A second deafening crack echoes threw the ally as the poor man's head collided with the ground, blood spraying out in all directions, the man coughed up some blood staining the young, Urashima's hand's. The third and last Thug had been sneaking up behind him aiming a strike to the back of the young man's head with another pipe, he was shocked to say the least when The boy caught the thing with out looking, and then proceeded to yank it out of his hand and kick him into a wall with enough force to crack it. Turning to face him Kietaro gave the man a grin that made his blood run cold, Walking lazily over to the man's trembling form, swinging the pipe around at his side he lets of a dark chuckle that almost made the man wet himself.

Putting the pipe under the man's chin forcing the terror-stricken man to look at him, he says

" Hmm, well aren't you lucky, i have about half an hour to kill, so..." he trailed of pushing the pipe into the man's neck, whilst leaning down to his ear and whispering "... I'll just have to take special care of you" The man did wet himself this time.

Screams and other less than pleasant noises where heard from that ally for the next half hour, Kietaro was glad that this part of town was relatively abandoned, he didn't want any one interrupting his, fun. Half an hour later a slightly bloody, but no worse for weir, Kietaro came casually strolling out the ally, a cheerful smile on his face. If you where to look inside the ally, well lets just say that the next person there is going to be hard pressed to keep his stomach contents down.

Continuing on his way, now in a sightly more populated area the young ronin heads to the train station with the intent to visit his grandma. ' I wonder what the old woman wants, i haven't seen her in four years and then just out of the blue she invites me down' he thinks to himself, whilst entering the train station. ' Well ether way, i wonder if she would let me crash there for a wile, those bastard parents of mine are gonna kick me out soon any way might as well get a head start'. He stops in front if the ticket booth and says, "One way ticket to Hinata please".

Hinata sou

"And so I'll be stepping down as manager as of now" Came the voice of an small elderly woman, sitting at a table with four young girls, each one portraying a look of worry on there faces. The brown headed girl stands up, and starts to ask "W..wait a minute, our parents aren't going to allow us to stay here with out a manager, what are we go..." The Small woman silences her with a raised hand. "Now don't you worry dear every things all taken care of." She says with a reassuring smile, the brunet reluctantly stands down not fully convinced.

The small woman hops of her seat and heads to the door picking up her luggage on the way, "well its time for me to go, good luck girls" She says to them heading to the main door. "What? Your leaving now?" the brunet asks, obviously not happy that her ex-manager was just going to up and leave right. The woman smiles and says "I would love to stay but i have a flight to catch. Be sure to give your new manager a warm greeting when they arrive" she turns and walks out.

Soon a tall raven haired girl in a school uniform would head to the door also, the brunet stops her and asks "What? Your leaving to?". The taller girl turns to her and says "I'm sorry, i have a Kendo retreat for the next two weeks so you'll have to deal with it." With that she runs out the door, with what appears to be a fan club of squealing girls running after her.

Out side

"So, are sure sure about this?" Asks a brown haired woman, she was wearing a Pair of brown shorts under a green apron, the words Café Hinata printed on it, and smoking a cigarette hanging from her lips. The old woman sighed lowering her head, a frown accentuating her already wrinkled face, "No, no I'm not, but what ells can we do, unless we do something, that boy is going to get worse and worse. And i do not wish to see my only grandson die before i do".

Throwing down the spent cigarette one the ground and stepping on it, the dark brunet shakes her head, " I know how you feel, but you know just how these girls are like, especially Naru-chan and Motoko-chan. There's only so much i can do to restrain him, if something should happen" she says, her voice sounded bored, but she held the face of total seriousness. Lifting her head the elderly woman gives a calm smile, "Don't worry about it to much dear, if things get to out of hand I'll send Kanako-chan To help out" And then she left, leaving the young woman, alone "I hope your right."

Kanagawa Station

The young male Urashima was just leaving the station, ignoring the odd looks he was receiving, 'probable the blood' he thought absent mindedly, he continued on his way until he came to a bridge, whilst crossing a sudden fog rolled in and an old man wearing robes appeared before him. He remembered these guys from his child hood the town elders, always popping up at random moments and speaking random fortune cookie garbage. He wasn't worded about being bored to death any more though he learned how to handle people like him (Senile old idiots stupid enough to talk to him) a while back.

"Be careful of what yo..." The old fool didn't get to finish as Kietaro's fist impacted to his face, Knocking him over the side of the bridge, The ronin's grin faltered as he lost sight of the old man. 'Damn must have done that creepy disappearing into thin air thing they do. I wonder if i could learn that, Kami that would rock'

Day dreaming about how much damage he could cause with creepy old man disappearing powers, he made his way to the other side of the bridge, but was knocked out of his thoughts when something blue bumped into him and landing on the.

'Grrr this idiot better have a good reason for running in t...' He stopped his chain of thoughts when he looked down to see a teary eyed girl looking up at him.

"I...I'm s..so sorry, i w..wasn't looking where i was . g..going" the young girl stuttered. Great now how was he supposed to hit that, normally he could just pound who ever ran into him and be done with it, but now, 'Grrrr. Ah screw it'

Deciding to to let it go he just grunts in response and continues walking not noticing his wallet witch had fell out of his pocket on collision, but the young blue headed girl did. Picking it up she turns to call out for him but stops when she cant see him.

"I wonder where he went?" She asks herself, and just then one of the village elders climes out of the river, startling her quiet a bit. Panting like a dog the old man huffs out "He... he want to..

H...Hinata-Sou" he drops down face first after talking.

"Hi...Hinata-Sou?" She asks nervously, but the elder had already past out.

Back with Kietaro, he was just climbing the grand stairs of his Oba-sans hotel, he thought for a minuet about paying a visit Haruka in her tea shop, but decided against it, they never really got along any way. Continuing his way up the rest of the steps the roof of the grand building came into view, and then the rest of the building, he took time to admire the majestic building before him. This place held allot of memory's for Kietaro, this was where he spent allot of his child hood, and where he made a promise that up until a few years ago ruled his life,'What a fool i was' he thinks bitterly of those pain filled years of his child hood as he struggled to keep that promise. Now though he does things for him self, he looks out for him and him alone. Shaking his head clear of those thoughts he heads inside, not expecting that, every thing about his life was about to change.

Please R&R, help me to help you.