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"All right class, starting today we have two foreign exchange students, please welcome Fūrinji Miu and Shirahama Kenichi." Up in front of the classroom there were two new students, a subtly muscular boy with dark brown hair and a friendly face and a cheerful, well endowed blond girl, both dressed in what was probably the uniform for their original school. Once introduced, they bowed to the class, obviously expecting some sort of greeting, but receiving none. The class was in general disarray; the students were chattering amongst themselves, and the only student who was paying attention was Sam Manson. She looked at the rest of the class and rolled her eyes, (considering this was just homeroom she knew she shouldn't expect any more) then nudged Tucker, and they both rose and bowed in return

"Welcome to Casper high!" Sam called out over the general din. This seemed to raise the exchange students' spirits a little.

"Let me apologize for my students' rudeness. Now you speak English, but not your friend, correct Miss Fūrinji?"

"Hai. I traveled a lot when I was younger so I speak it fairly well, but Kenichi only knows a few phrases."

"Well I'm going to have to ask you to act as translator and help him out quite a bit, normally we'd have a teacher for that, but your transfer was so sudden we don't have any Japanese speaking faculty at the moment." Mr. Lance said apologetically.

"It's ok! I don't mind helping Kenichi out!"

"Excellent. You can take those two seats by Sam Manson and Tucker Foley, the two that bowed to you, but not that seat right next to Miss Manson, that one is assigned to Danny Fenton, whenever he decides to show up..." At that instant footsteps were heard slamming down the hall and a winded Danny Fenton rushed into the room, his eyes closed against the pain of his obvious exhaustion.

"Sorry I'm la-" he ran right into Kenichi, who took a slight stance right before the collision and stood his ground, while Danny "bounced" off of him and stumbled a bit before regaining his footing.

"\\Ow! Watch where you're going! \\" Kenichi said

"\\Ah, I'm sorry, I was a little rushed... ah, who are you? \\" Danny replied sheepishly and then with confusion.

"\\Oh, I'm Shirahama Kenichi, I'll be an exchange student here for a while.\\"

"\\Danny Fenton, Nice to meet you...\\" Danny (Finally) noticed something strange "\\...since when do I speak Japanese!\\"he said in a hushed voice.

"Mr. Fenton, I didn't know you spoke Japanese!" Lancer said, surprised

"I've been taking online classes?" Danny's answer came out as more of a question.

"Well that's impressive and in this instance useful but in the future may I suggest focusing on actually schoolwork? If you have the spare time to learn a new language you have time to finish your homework. Now normally you'd get another detention for being late again but in light of your talent perhaps you can show our new students around town instead. Is that ok with you two?" Lancer addressed Miu and Kenichi

"Hai! I'd love to do a little sightseeing! You don't mind, do you, Danny?"

"\\No, not at all, not that I'm being given a choice.\\" Danny said, though afterwards he seemed startled to have slipped into Japanese again.

"Go sit down you three; homeroom is over in a few minutes." They did as instructed.

"What was that about?" Tucker asked.

"Well I got out of detention but I have to show these two around town."

"Seems an odd punishment, why?" Sam asked

"Because I speak Japanese." Danny said

"I didn't know that! Cool."Tucker said.

"Neither did I—" Danny stated flatly before he caught himself. "—because I've only ever done the online practice work, I've never had a chance to test myself." He turned to Kenichi and Miu "\\and I'm sorry if I don't sound too thrilled by our little up and coming excursion, it's nothing against you I just don't like the prospect of being forced to do so. Oh, and a word of warning, We three are possibly the least popular kids in school, myself especially, so if you happen to be the type to strive for a place in the social food chain I'd advise you dump us as soon as you can. \\" just then the bell rang. "\\Anyway I'll meet up with you guys by the main entrance after school. See you then! \\" he rushed off to the next class, followed by Sam and Tucker.

"\\They seem nice 's in a bit of a bad mood though.\\" Kenichi said as they watched their new "friends" leave

"\\Yeah, and it seems like Apachai was correct about Danny learning Japanese the way he learned English.\\ Miu said.

"\\Yeah, it's creepy, almost. Even seeing it with my own eyes, this stuff is hard to believe, I mean come on, A Reaper? And yet here we are half a world away with the truth staring us in the face.\\"

"\\Wow, Kenichi that's pretty deep thinking\\" Miu smiled, admiring his moment of maturity

"\\Hey, you don't need to sound so surprised!\\" Kenichi slipped back into his usual complaining self in a heartbeat. Miu giggled and headed off to their next class "\\Miu! Wait up! And what's so funny! \\"


"Ok this is seriously weird, why can I suddenly speak Japanese?" Danny, Sam and tucker were discussing recent events in hushed voices at an isolated table during lunch.

"It's not a new ghost power is it? Maybe you can automatically talk to people in their native tongue?" Tucker suggested.

"I'll have to track down Wulf and see if I can speak Esperanto to him." Danny said, grimacing at the prospect of the long search that would entail.

"Well before you do that, try speaking some Japanese now, to see if you actually have to speak to a native speaker" Sam reasoned.

"\\I don't know, Sam, I've never actually tried to speak it before, it just happened without me thinking... \\ oh. I did it again." Danny slammed his head down on the table a started mumbling to himself. Just then Miu and Kenichi came up to the table.

"Hello everybody! Mind if we sit here?"

"\\Sure thing, make yourself comfortable.\\" Danny replied without lifting his head. Miu gave him a questioning look, and then turned to Sam, who gave a dismissive shrug. They sat down

"\\You ok Danny? I was looking forward to having someone else to talk to, I feel stupid being the only one who doesn't understand what's being said.\\" Kenichi spoke in a cheerful tone that Danny would've felt guilty to ignore, so he raised his head and answered

"\\Yeah, I'm fine, so how do you like it in America so far? \\"

"\\Well I guess I like it but I'm kind of disappointed, I come to a town infamous for supernatural activities and I've yet to see a single ghost. Though I must say I never expected to come to America under these circumstances.\\"

"\\Heh, don't worry, a ghost'll show up soon enough, especially if you keep talking like that. What circumstances are those did you not expect sign up for a foreign exchange program? \\"

"\\no, me being in school is really just a side effect of the real reason I'm here, let's just say my masters are here on business and I got dragged along because the alternative would be to be left alone at the dojo with Miu.\\" Kenichi was nearly crying.

"\\Masters? Dojo? So you're a martial artist? Cool.\\" Danny looked surprised "\\Which martial art? What rank are you?\\"

"\\Quite a few actually, I'm studying Karate, jujitsu, Muay Thai, and Kenpo at the moment. As far as rank goes, Ryōzanpaku isn't the type of dojo to give out belts or anything, but I'm at or approaching the lower end of the area between disciple and master.\\"

"\\Huh. I take it that means you're good? \\" Kenichi seemed to get a bit puffed up at that

"\\Yeah I'd say so. I've got a lot to learn though; I can't lay a finger on Miu. What about you? Do you know any martial arts? \\"

"\\My mom is a ninth degree black belt, so I've picked up a few little tricks, but I'm not much of a fighter. I still manage to get my butt kicked by Dash on a daily basis.\\"

"Fenton!"

"\\Well speak of the devil\\ whattaya want, Dash?" Danny looked annoyed, but even more so he looked bored. Kenichi and Miu noted a distinct lack of fear.

"So you really did rope the new kids into the loser brigade. Shame, the chick is hot." Miu looked ready to pounce. "But more importantly, I've got an F to pound into your hide." He threw the test in Danny's face and picked him up with one hand. He threw a punch... only to have it caught an inch from Danny's face.

"No fighting." Kenichi said in heavily accented English as he stared down Dash. He squeezed Dash's fist a bit until Dash winced and let go of Danny.

"I'd be careful if I were you." Danny said, his tone somewhere between wary and smug

"Shut it Fenton. This guy's in for a beating now and it's too late to warn him." Dash lunged at Kenichi only to have Kenichi step behind him an instant before Dash's fist hit his face.

"What makes you think I was talking to him" Danny said, fighting to keep the smugness out of his voice.

"I don't want to fight. You go." Kenichi said. His English was almost comically choppy and accented, but his determined expression was one only an idiot would ignore. Then again no one even claimed Dash to be a genius. By the 5th attempted punch Kenichi was in awe at how weak his opponent was. After Fighting for his life against high level disciples and the occasional master it was almost laughable how sloppy Dash's moves where. I may have backed myself into a corner here. He's not listening to me, so how am I going to get him to stop without hurting him? A careful throw? Lock his limbs? Last time someone without proper training fought me I tore them apart! Maybe I should just avoid getting hit until a teacher comes... He put his hands behind his back so he would be less likely to do anything reflexively and so it would be clearer that he was not trying to fight when the teacher came.

"What, now you think you don't have to fight back! Arrogant bastard! Coward!" Kenichi understood that last word. He stopped dodging and moved is hands to his side. His face became severe and he radiated energy.

"I am not a coward." Dash punched him in the face and Kenichi didn't move an inch. He continued to stare down Dash, who was now holding his hand and trying to hide his pain and surprise. Kenichi took a solid stance in which it would be difficult for any non-master to find a hole. "Attack, if you think you can." Dash finally seemed to get the message and backed away. Kenichi breathed a sigh of relief, bowed to Dash, and sat back down to finish his lunch. Of course Dash wasn't about to take such humiliation so easily, so he attacked Kenichi while he was sitting with his back turned. Kenichi moved over slightly to avoid the attack and shot his elbow back into dash's gut. Dash flew back into the opposite wall and fell unconscious, eyes blank. Kenichi rushed over immediately.

"\\Oh shit! I'm sorry I'm sorry that was just a reflex don't you know you shouldn't attack people from behind like that! \\" He picked Dash up easily. "\\Where is the nurse's office! \\ Doctor!" Danny got up to lead the way, as everyone else was either too shocked, too confused or some combination therein to react.

An hour later dash woke up in the nurse's office, thankfully none the worse for wear, other than some pretty nasty bruising. Lancer was informed and came in to a complete sob story about how he was attacked for no reason. At which Lancer informed him that Tucker Foley had recorded the whole thing, and that Kenichi had obviously not been the instigator and had in fact tried to solve things peacefully three times before he finally attacked by mistake in self defense. Dash was suspended and Kenichi given detention for a week (he had jumped into a fight and knocked someone out after all, so he got off easy.) and by the time all the testimonies were reviewed and the punishments dished out, school was over, and Danny, Sam, Tucker, Kenichi, and Miu headed out for the tour of the town.

"So are you guys interested in seeing anything in particular? There's the mall, the Nasty Burger, the zoo, the library, the movie theater..."Sam asked as Danny translated for Kenichi.

"Oh, are there any local dojos? I want to see where Danny learns to fight."

"Eh? What makes you think I know how to fight?" Danny actually managed to keep the panic out of his voice.

"Well I'll admit it doesn't seem like it at first glance but for some reason you strike me as a fighter. For one thing, Kenichi is a lot sturdier than he looks, yet you took the brunt of a collision with him without comment; during the fight with Dash your eyes followed Kenichi's movements perfectly, even the ones that had Dash turning in circles like an idiot; you sure aren't afraid of Dash."

"Dash is just a muscle bound bully. I live in the most haunted town in America if not the world; I like to keep my priorities straight. If I see a ghost I'm sure as heck gonna run for it, but Dash? He's simpler if I just go with the flow." Danny was pleased with himself. He had answered truthfully and covered for why he'd be gone once a ghost appeared in one fell swoop. Miu translated this time.

"\\Eh? So you don't even want to learn to fight? \\" Kenichi asked, confused. He had at least tried to fight back, back when he was weak.

"\\Like I said: it's simplest to go with the flow. That means appearing to be the weakling everyone thinks I am, and martial arts lessons are not congruent with that endeavored.\\" Danny said dismissively.

"Ah, so you are stronger than you look." Miu said triumphantly with a sly look on her face.

"Not by much. So, you decided where you wanna go yet?" Danny slapped himself mentally and changed the subject.

"Whats this 'Nasty Burger' place? That seems like an odd name for... well anything." Miu said.

"It's the most popular hang out in town. Despite the name, the food there's not that bad, if you don't mind ground up animal carcasses. They have decent salads too." Sam said. Tucker rolled his eyes

"Did we mention Sam here is avid 'ultra recyclo' vegetarian and blasphemer against the delicacy of meat?" Danny actually had to think about translating Tucker's statement. Woah, I actually do remember doing this on an online course. Freaky.

"And Tucker is a ravenous carnivore who enjoys clogging his arteries with the lifeblood of defenseless creatures." Danny decided he needed to defuse the situation before it got worse.

"To the Nasty burger it is, come on, I know a shortcut through the back streets." He rushed them along. They walked easily for several minutes, chatting while the group's locals pointed out noteworthy places on occasion, before Danny started to get a weird feeling. At first he barely noticed it, but it got stronger until it could no longer be ignored. What the heck? This is weird... I feel like I'm in danger, like something wants to attack me... I recognize it, kinda... it's the feeling I get when my ghost sense goes off ...except there's no ghost, no ectoplasmic energy... yet that basic feeling is there, even stronger. He looked at the others. Kenichi was looking around in confusion, like he was lost, while Miu looked around humming happily. Sam and Tucker were just walking along like normal. He walked forward to Sam and Tucker

"Guys, I have a weird feeling, I don't think it's a ghost but something is following us. Be on guard and be ready to cover for me." He backed up and spoke to his new friends.

"\\Don't look, keep calm, but be on guard, it might be nothing but I have the feeling we are being followed.\\" Danny didn't see Miu smile. They went on for another few minutes, a bit faster, and Danny became more and more certain that something was wrong. When they were just two blocks from the main road, something flew out at Danny from the shadows; he dodged the rock by a hairs breadth, then a bottle from another direction, but the shuriken from the third assailant cut off a lock of hair. What the fuck! Tucker and Sam both touched a bracelet on their wrist and a small laser popped out while Danny pulled out a short rod from behind his back and extended it out to a staff crackling with energy. They turned to the individual sources of the attacks and took aim in the shadows. Miu and Kenichi took fighting stances. They were surrounded.

"What do you want? Who are you and why are you attacking me!" Danny said firmly, eyes dashing to his friends to see if they'd been hit.

"\\Oi, oi, Shigure! What's with the shuriken, we're not trying to kill him! \\" a strong, boisterous voice drifted through the streets from nowhere.

"\\Says the man that threw a beer bottle.\\" a calm, contemplative voice cut in.

"\\You heard ... what he saidbefore. If it is not a real threat, he does... nothing.\\" a woman's voice joined them, slow and subtly menacing

"\\Hoho, Shigure has a point! I think we can hold off on the weapons but otherwise lets up the ante! \\" the old man's jovial voice was somehow the scariest. Seconds later the 'unknown' assailants threw even more projectiles at Danny from more places. He ducked and dodged and blocked with the staff, while Sam and Tucker shot into the shadows at what they could best figure to be the locations of the attackers. Two shuriken cut cleanly through the base of the wrist lasers.

"\\Such weapons have no place ... in a battle between martial artists.\\" Danny dodged so many projectiles he lost count, trying the whole while to think of a way out. Then he caught a blur of motion out of the corner of his eyes, heading for Sam and Tucker. In less than an instant he turned the ecto-staff up to maximum power and threw it in between the blur and Sam, running straight after it. Just as the blur came in front of Sam the crackling ecto staff slid between the two and the blur slowed enough to be recognized as a man. He was a short, relatively old, with bushy eyebrows and a bushier mustache, dressed in a long green shirt and black pants, topped off with a flat black hat.

"\\You stay away from Sam!\\" Danny called out as he came up to the man. He attacked with speed that surprised even himself, but it was as if he was moving in slow motion compared to the strange man, who was obviously barely trying. As they fought, five other strange people came calmly out of the shadows to watch, three muscular giants, a somewhat more 'normal' looking man, and a young woman with a sword strapped across her back

"\\ Ha-ha! The runt actually halted Kensei's attack long enough to counter! I like this new disciple! \\" said the 'smallest' of the giants, a man with black hair, tan skin, and a scar across his face.

"\\Very...impressive\\" the woman said, stowing her extra projectiles in her short kimono where they clicked a bit against her chainmail undershirt.

"\\I must study that energized weapon later, it might be useful in some training equipment\\" the scholarly man's pale eyes gleamed with excitement (Kenichi looked frightened)

"\\Apapapapapa!\\" the middle sized giant chattered excitedly, his eyed glowing under light blue hair.

"\\His movements are somewhat sloppy but he has quite the potential. Kensei, why don't you finish up so we can speak with him? \\" at the elderly giant's words, the short man became much more serious and sent Danny to the ground with a single move. Miu came to stand over him, offering a hand to get up.

"Still insist you're not stronger than you look?" She said cheerfully. He grabbed her hand and stood up indignantly.

"\\Are any of you going to explain what the heck is going on and why you're attacking my friends! And how are you so calm Miu! \\"

"\\As the two go hand in hand, would you do the honors Miu? \\" The old giant said.

"Introduction time! The tall man with the long blond hair my Grandfather, Fūrinji Hayato, The Superman with no Equals! The man with the scar across his face is Shio Sakaki, The Hundredth Dan Street Brawler! The man with the blank eyes and the mustache is Kōetsuji Akisame, The Philosophical Jujitsu Master! The swordswoman is Kōsaka Shigure, The Prodigy of Swords and Master of all Weaponry, and Last but not least Hopachai Apachai, the Grim Reaper of Muay Thai! Together they make up the Ryōzanpaku dojo, where Kenichi and I live."

"Great, now we know who to report to the police, but you still haven't explained anything!" Sam spoke with venom in her words.

"Apapa! That will be Apachai's job! When Apachai died, the grim reaper said he would bring Apachai back to like if he agreed to teach Danny Muay Thai and convince the other masters to teach Danny too! So we came to America to find you and bring you back to Ryōzanpaku so I can teach you to kill your opponents with your fists!"

"Died? Reaper? I don't want to join some freaky cult and I don't want to learn to kill people. A little tip? Next time you're trying to recruit someone, try NOT attacking their friends." He turned to walk off, infuriated, senses open for the slightest sign of attack.

"\\So, it is the fact that your friends where put in danger that bothers you more than that you were attacked? Well that's...\\"

"Don't need the psychoanalysis, Lecter." The Elder was shocked to be cut off like that. Just when the Masters really thought that they had screwed up, Apachai's face lit up.

"Oh yeah! Apachai remembered something else the Reaper said! He said, 'When you and the other masters ruin my plans, and Danny starts walking away, tell Danny that the parade has taken a different turn.'" Danny stopped dead in his tracks and did something that shocked everyone. He laughed.

"Ok, now things are making some sense." The others were confused by the cryptic message but glad that Danny didn't seem quite as upset. "That probably explains how I can speak Japanese too, a little twist in time like that is definitely within Clockwork's power. I suppose I gotta go along with it if he orchestrated this, I do still owe him big time..." he turned to Apachai and bowed. "It would be an honor to learn from you, Apachai sensei." He turned to the others. "\\I think you will all understand if I reserve judgment on whether or not I trust you guys, however.\\"

"\\Danny, I realize that perhaps we could have created better circumstances under which to meet for the first time, do you think you could hear me out on the reasoning behind our actions?\\ Danny remained silent. "Good. I'll speak English; your friends look rather confused. As I'm sure you've figured out, our attack was to test you. We apologize if it seemed extreme, but as I'm sure Kenichi will readily tell you, all our training is extreme. \\Isn't all our training extreme?\\" At this Kenichi started crying and nodded emphatically. "If even this was too much for you, your chances of surviving at Ryōzanpaku would be significantly less. And I think we learned some valuable information about you. You fight hardest for your friends! You fight to protect others! This is exactly the beliefs we value at Ryōzanpaku. We follow the way of the 'saving fist', fighting to protect, never to kill. From what we've observed of you, you will uphold these splendidly. Keep it up and you will become a great martial artist or die trying!" The Elder's eyes where shining by the time he was done his little speech, as were the other masters'. Danny felt that same feeling as before, except stronger, and with a smidge less danger and a bit more excitement. It physically blew Sam and Tucker back onto the ground, while Danny and Kenichi took a few steps back and Miu merely secured her footing.

"\\Danny is also pretty good at sensing ki! He felt that you guys were following us only a bit after I did! \\" Miu said happily. So that's what that is! Danny thought. He stood with a contemplative look for what seemed like ages. He then turned to face the masters and bowed.

"\\Masters, you have yourselves a new student.\\" Danny said, to general excitement

"Excellent! Then we should go and tell your parents. We already fabricated a contest to explain why we want to train you, and now that you're in on it there's nothing left but parental consent. After that, we leave for Japan as soon as we are done with the mission we took in order to get here." Now that it was finalized Danny was actually pretty excited.

"What mission is that? How long do you think it will take to finish?" Danny asked.

"Well, it's pretty confidential, but you're our disciple now, so we should be able to trust you. It shouldn't take too long. The mayor hired us to get Danny Phantom out of the town's hair. We get free transport here, a free stay at a swanky hotel, and a cool mil on completion! You're lucky, kid, Ryōzanpaku is usually troubled financially, but you'll be joining in the good times. Sweet, huh Kid? Kid? Danny? What's the matter, you look like you've seen a ghost?" Sakaki's voice changed from jovial and bragging to one of concern. Danny fainted.

AN Wow that was longer than the other chapters. But I'm pleased, it accomplished a lot; all the characters are together, the stage is set, and While Fenton didn't stand a chance against the masters, it'll be interesting to see how Phantom fairs. And how will Jack and Maddie react to the Ryozanpaku masters? ...

REDHERRING1412 IS A MIND READER. Damn you and thanks for reading! (The story, that is. Stay out of my head!)

Come one people, I have one vote on the poll so far! I'd really appreciate the input. It'll get to a point where I won't be able to go any farther without a definite decision.