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Chapter Four
If Saitou thought that with his agreement to accept a student would make the annoying red headed ghost go away he was seriously wrong. It seemed that the ghost was stuck with him until he had completed the boy's training.
"You didn't mention that to me!" He growled giving the rurouni his wolf like glare.
"Ma, ma!" Battousai said flapping his in hands as a sign of peace.
Saitou's eye began to twitch in annoyance, he hated everything about the rurouni and his actions only seemed to annoy him further. He especially hated the Ma, ma action with the flapping hands. That seriously ticked him off. He could not go back on the agreement and he had the funny feeling that the reason Battousai was with him was make sure he didn't destroy the child.
"Enough!" he barked, "I'm going inside."
"Oro?" Battousai said in confusion, "But I can't go in."
Saitou smirked. "I know."
Now, he wondered eagerly, what did his wife cook for dinner?
Sai smiled amused at the teenager's antics. It seemed Touya Akira had quite the temper on him but then he knew that already.
He raised a delicate hand to his lips and chuckled. He was happy, happy that Hikaru had recovered from his depression of his disappearance and had created such a good friendship with Akira. And he was proud, extremely proud how strong Hikaru had become.
His smile saddened. "Hikaru, can you hear me? I'm right here, standing right next to you. Can you hear me?"
And it broke his heart because Hikaru couldn't hear him.
"This is where you went wrong!" Akira snapped pointing to a cluster of black and white stones.
Hikaru made a face, "No I didn't!" he barked. "I was going to take that territory if you hadn't distracted me with that stupid move here!"
"It's not stupid!" Akira yelled.
"Yes it is!"
"Your inability to notice an ingenious move makes you blind to future moves. If you hadn't noticed I would have connected here if you hadn't blocked me and taken over this group."
"I know I'm good."
"Shut up! That's why you lost down here!" And pointed back to where he was pointing before.
"Shut up? Shut up?" Hikaru demanded incredulously, "Why don't you shut up pretty boy?"
Akira immediately stood up, his green eyes flashing dangerously, "Pretty boy?"
Hikaru slapped his hand on the table and stood up as well, glaring at Akira. "Yes, pretty boy."
"I'm not the one who lost bleach head." Akira practically growled.
Hikaru's face got redder, "I'm going home!" He stalked away from the table and to the reception area, ignoring the old men who were playing in the salon and were watching them in avid amusement.
Ichikawa held out his bag for him and he quickly snatched it with a scowl on his face.
As he left however he couldn't help but smile.
He had fun today.
T.B.C
Notes:
"Sessha" literally means "unworthy"a very old way of addressing oneself
"De gozaru" means that it is or it is. It's an extreme polite form of Japanese that's similar to des at the end of a sentence. Now you'll realize if you've watched the anime in the original dub form that Rurouni Kenshin always refers to himself in the third person and devotes extreme respect to other people by lowering him self before them in speech form. The Japanese are very polite people and have many forms and expressions which demonstrating this.
"Sumimasen" a form of apology but not as formal as "Gomen nasai"
"Arigato" A formal version of Thank You.
"Iie" No
"Hai" Yes
"Ahou" Moron / idiot / stupid
"Kami-sama" God (though preferably the Japanese version of a god)
"Ruouni" Wanderer / leaderless samurai