A.N. disclaimer. In this adventure Kenshin and friends befriend a strange young man from America. But when a evil witch doctor from the same country is hired by a high stakes crimelord to bring down Kenshin their new friend rallies to their aid. Misanagi x the new guy and Kenshin and Kaoru will finaly get it on.

Rurouni Kenshin

Wild Man of the West

Prologue

A fire crackled in the night, providing th only source of ilumanation in a small hut made of animal skins. Surounding the fire were four men wraped in blankets. Three of the men were visibly old with long white hair and many wrinkles on their faces. The fith was young, his hair was long and jet black.

"Do you know why we called you here, my child?" said the old man that sat futhist to the left.

The young man bowed his head as he spoke, "Yes elder. You and the rest of the council are going to ask me to leave our home." As his head rose, his eyes seemed to show great sadness, but at the same time another emotion shone deep within him, pride.

"You are corect." said the elder on the right. "You have a great gift, Thunder Cloud. You are the greatest warrior we have ever known, not just for your skill but the power of your heart and mind is unriveled. You are the strongest and the duty of the strong is to protect the weak."

The young man named Thunder Cloud began to protest but was stopped when the middle elder, who had been silent untill then rised his hand. "I know what it is that you would have of us." The man's voice was weak and raspy as if he was haveing great trouble breathing. "You wish to remain with our people untill the end comes but this must not be." The man's speach was interupted by a fit of coughing. Once he recovered he continued, "If you die here all of the people you would have helped will die in the future."

At this moment the man on the far left removed a small animal bone from inside his blancket. Simultaniusly the man on the right prodused a a small thin bone. At this time the man in the middle also removed a bone that he had hidden. As he as well as the others passed the bones to the young man named Thunder Cloud he whispered something almost to soft to hear. "The spirits have chosen you..."

Thunder Cloud reached into his own blancket and pulled out his own bone that he had hidden and a small knife. He took the knife in his right hand and cut a groove in the palm of his left hand. He then picked up the bones that hd been passed to him by the elders and held them in his now bleeding palm. "If this is the choice of the councile I shall obey with no regrets." Thunder Cloud then dropped the bones that fell to the ground with a soft, "flump."

In the pool of blood the four bones apeared as four, white islands bathed in firelight. All three elders gazed down at the young man's future. Thunder Cloud stood and cast off his blancket, showing his bare chest. As he tuurned to leave he closed his eyes and smiled, mostly to himself. "Japan," was all that he could say as he exited through a flap in the hut into the night.

A.N. Well, there's the prologue. I really like it when people reveiw, good, bad or mixed. As an incentive to get you guys to review tell me which of your stories you'd like me to review and will as soon as I can. I never break promises.