Chapter 8
Stronger Man
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Same boring morning for Dearka and Shinn. They walk together to school together like usual, because their home are near to each other. Like or not, they stuck together when go to school, almost every morning. They walk together in usual route they have while talking about some new games and movie. And then they see Kira was arguing with some thugs, five of them. Shinn and Dearka decided to have a better spot to look what happened.
"Do you want to have some problem, kid?" one of the thugs speak in harsh tone while swinging his small knife around near Kira's face.
Kira just smirk and said back, "Only if you want."
The thugs grow more furious and charge at Kira. Dearka and Shinn was about to help but they stopped by Kira's action. He duck from thug's attack and landed a hard punch on his stomach that make him down. Realized their friend was down and the kid that they face is dangerous, they charged together at him. Kira put a grin and shouted, "ninpo, Kumo Garami! (Spider's Web)" then, they were hanging in alley without even can move. Realized this was over, Dearka and Shinn approached him.
"What happened? This is still morning and you was furious like that until you hang them like that" Shinn asks
"I and Lacus were in the road before they hold us. Their attitude was so bold to her, so I punish them. They deserved it" Kira said while pointed at the thugs that were hanging.
"By the way Kira. If we don't go now, we'll late for sure." Dearka said while stare his watch.
"Ah, you're right! Come on! Where's Lacus?" Shin asked while they prepared to run to school
"She was going ahead." Kira said.
"Very well then…" Shinn said
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PLANT High School
School's Dojo
Class 2-E was get sword art in their P.E. (correct me if I'm wrong, this is physical education, right?) with their sensei Mwu-sensei. This is training for the next P.E. test. So at least Mwu sensei will give the basics for amateur, or maybe I can call weakling? But of course this is not goes for Kira, Athrun, and Cagalli. Knowing them that they're expert in stuff like this. The uniform for this lesson was some light hakama for training. And the weapon in an ordinary shinai. The lesson was begun and the student was given a pair for their combat in front of the rest of the class and Mwu sensei. The lesson was going well for exception the battle was didn't interesting at least until Kira's turn
"Next, Kira Yamato and Yzak Joule. Move to the front." Mwu sensei said. After hearing that, Kira and Yzak stand and move to the front of the rest of the class who watching intensely. Especially Lacus and the other
They were in steady position and bow for salute. After that, Yzak and Kira set a defense easel. Kira realize Yzak is no amateur from his method to grab his shinai and aura that flow from his body. Mwu sensei realizes it too and presumes this is going to be interesting.
"I will not hold back, Kira!" Yzak said
"My pleasure" Kira said while put a grin
"Are you ready? Remember this is freestyle even your weapon is for kendo. Use any technique that you want" Mwu sensei shouts. Kira and Yzak nodded in unison. "Start!"
Yzak charge as soon as he hear the word. He slashes towards Kira in vertical slash. Kira dodge it by move to the left and counter attack him from left. Yzak is still in steady position so he can block it perfectly. Kira pull his shinai and spin his body while perform a sharp tackle with his foot. Yzak almost surprised that Kira would tackle him. But unfortunately Yzak still can evade that by jump and counter attack Kira with heavy slash. Realized Yzak's counter attack, Kira roll back and ready to get up before he know Yzak was in front of him, ready to do a stab attack towards him. Kira roll again to left to evade that. But still his cheek and ear can be touched by Yzak's shinai that cause Kira a red mark. Even for not too deep. Finally Yzak give Kira a time to stand after his succeeding counter attacks
"Looks like you're no amateur, Yzak." Kira said while rub his cheek that has been touched by Yzak's shinai.
The rest that watch it look in awe. Even Athrun and Cagalli still surprised that Kira can be cornered like that.
"You're not bad too. Even you still hold yourself." Yzak said. Kira and the rest of class surprised. Kira surprised that Yzak can know he hold back his power. And the rest of the class surprised that after that amazing fight that not Kira's full power. "Come on. Fight seriously."
Kira put his grin again. "Fine. If that is what you want" Kira back to his defense stance. He changes his easel. Athrun and Cagalli surprised that Kira really want to fight Yzak with his full power. Yzak know he wouldn't stand long against serious Kira. But he wants to try it badly.
"Here I go!" Yzak shouted while charged at Kira. Yzak slash it through his head and face Kira's block. Kira push his sword and make Yzak's body left unguarded. See an opportunity, Kira punched with his elbow. Yzak still can reduced the effect by evade back but it didn't evade the pain that infiltrate his chest from Kira's attack. Yzak's stance becomes awkward from the sudden shock. But before he can recover enough to attack back he see Kira was charge to him. Yzak try his best to block Kira's series slashes. But ended with become more cornered. Yzak try to use Kira's technique to push him back, he dodge one of Kira's slash by duck and try to tackle him. Kira know what will Yzak do so he didn't allow that to happen. Kira jump to Yzak's back and aim his sword to Yzak's neck in flash speed but stopped his sword before the sword can connect to the neck.
"That's enough Kira, Yzak. You two were showing a good fight. Give them some applause, kids!" Mwu said out loud. And the rest of the class gives them a merry applause. Kira stand and offer his hand to Yzak who still sit in defeat. Yzak accepted it and smiled
"Even I use your own technique, you still be able to evade that. damn…" Yzak said
Kira smiled, "only a fool that didn't know the cure for the poison that he created himself"
"Looks like it impossible for me to stand you, Kira." Yzak said
"You're not bad though. If you improve yourself a bit further, I'm sure you'll be able to defeat me." Kira praised him
"Maybe you're right…" he said again while walked to the class line and meet up with Dearka and the others
"That was awesome, man!" Dearka said out loud.
"Thanks" Kira said plainly
"Don't be so surprised, he's an elite ninja after all. The one who make me surprised is Yzak. He can match him like that. Are you some kind of samurai?" Shinn said jokingly. Yzak didn't like his comment so much. But he decided to tell them the truth
"Nope. My family has one of the hardest family rules. 'if you can't stand, it'll be better to die' so you can imagine what my family member trying to do if the rule is like that." Yzak said plainly while stared at Kira
Kira realized Yzak's gazed and know he's up to something, "what?"
Yzak put his serious glare before he speak, "Kira, can you train me?"
Kira couldn't say anything. He didn't expect those words will come out from Yzak's lips. "Can you repeat again?"
Yzak become a bit furious now, "I said, train me! I want to learn ninja's technique from you" Yzak almost shouted
Kira sighed and then said plainly, "I can't"
Before Yzak can ask why, Kira added, "to become a ninja's apprentice, you must past a few rules. First, you must have a lineage from one of ninja clan; second, you must pass a test that…" Kira's sounds become slower now. Yzak and the other arched an eyebrow
"…who's… that…?" after he say that, he fall fainted and revealed an innocent Cagalli with her hand after she knocked Kira out.
"With this, it's concluded. You're now Kira Yamato's apprentice, Yzak Joule. Congratulations." Cagalli said with her sugary voices. Athrun, Yzak and all who saw that sweat dropped
"Are… are you sure he would accept that?" Luna asked stutterly.
Cagalli put her dominance side. She poked her chest and smiled, "if he doesn't, just report that to me. I'll take care of everything."
Yzak's face brightened a bit. But he doesn't really like Cagalli's way. But in order to be stronger, he doesn't have any choices. "Fine. Thanks, Cagalli"
"May I join in?" Dearka ask.
Shinn and Mirrialia shocked to hear that. "What do you mean? You want to take the practice too?" Mirrialia asked
"I can't just leave the old pal have a hard training alone, can I? Besides, I was got interested about 'being stronger' things too" Dearka confidently said
Shinn feel bad to be left alone. So he decided to join in. "I'm in" he said while raised his hand
"Shinn… not you too… you know the training isn't as easy as like usual gym exercise" Luna whined
Shinn looked to her. He smiled at her that make Luna slightly blush, "not everyday you cared about me, Luna…" Shinn said
"Wha… what are you saying! I'm just compared you with Dearka and Yzak that's all. I doubt you ever can stand aside them for three days." Luna said evadingly
Shinn feel like being insulted. Then he decided to take Luna's words "I'll show you what I get!" he shouted
Cagalli never being this excited. "Then it's settled! Yzak will train with Kira, Dearka with me, and Shinn with Athrun. We can start at tomorrow after school. Lacus, you have a small dojo, haven't you?" Cagalli asked. Lacus nodded and that makes Cagalli's smile even wider.
"Okay, tomorrow after school at Lacus's dojo. Don't be late or else!" Cagalli shouted while raising her death fist
Shinn and Yzak just nodded. But Dearka's jaw fell to the ground. He couldn't imagine Cagalli's training menu for him. He bet it'll be the scariest experience he had so far on his life.
"WAAIIIITTT A MINUTE! Why I must with you, Cagalli!" Dearka shouted. The rest of them except fainted Kira will be sighed in relief when knows Dearka is the one who will have a personal VIP Cagalli's Hell training in full course.
"I was said it. There's nothing special with the pair except Kira and Yzak because Yzak maybe have a personal rivalry with Kira after their battle before. So…" Cagalli said calmly. Dearka poked his temple.
"Why? Do you have a problem with that!" Cagalli asked while put her scariest glare.
Checkmate…
"No, ma'am…" Dearka was submit his fate to the almighty God
Athrun feel bad that another poor person was fell to Cagalli's dominance.
After the meeting was over, the bell rang and they go to the next class. Except Athrun and Lacus who bring fainted Kira to the clinic
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Tomorrow after School ended
Clyne's Dojo
"LLLAAATTTEEE!" Cagalli yelled in frustration. Athrun, Kira and Lacus who wait patiently beside her just can close their ears as tight as they can.
After recovering his nerves after have a critical turbulence of hypersonic disturbance, Athrun said, "they're not late yet, Cagalli. They still have 5 minutes before your deadline."
Cagalli still got eaten by her madness. "Whatever! Whenever I feel them late, they are! I can decide it because I'm their tutor!"
Kira had enough of this, so he decided to lecture his sister a bit. "Stop being so childish, Cagalli!" he shouted
Cagalli almost jumped after hear Kira's voice. She nodded and sit back to wait them. She know whenever she make her brother mad, she can't evade the casualties. And sure Kira didn't want to show that side of him in front of Lacus.
Not too long after that, the dojo's door opened revealed the three of them
"You're almost late! What the hell are you doing!" Cagalli shouted out loud. Athrun and Kira just can let out a sigh of a stubbornness of the blond prince
(I forgot to add 'ss'. You can add it by yourselves if you don't agree with me. Cags fans, forgive me…)
Dearka smiled jokingly and put his trademark smile "sorry for that, tutor…"
Cagalli shrugged and crossed her arms on her chest. "whatever… if you're ready then you can change your outfit and we'll give you our menu for you guys"
"Yes. Ma'am…" Dearka said without spirit. The other two joined him to change their outfit too. Not too long after that they were finally done and Cagalli give them the 'menu'
"Here's your daily menu. Be sure you do that or else!" she said raising her shinai to Dearka's neck.
Dearka nodded and Cagalli give him a smile. "good. Now shall we begin?"
All of them raise their weapon and begin practicing with their tutor
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Two Weeks Later
Clyne's Dojo
Two Weeks Later
"Hyaaah…!" Dearka shouted while trying to charge at Cagalli. He slashes it through her head. But Cagalli evade it perfectly and she uses her speed to spin around and pin him to the floor without getting a counter attack
"Damn it…" Dearka said while trying to get up
"Still want to try?" Cagalli said
Before he could answer, the dojo's shoji opened and revealed Lacus and Kira who bring two plates of tea and obagi for all of them. "ara, you should tired after have a spar with Cagalli. Here is some tea. Please enjoy it." Lacus said while serve them the tea
They all agree and have a nice break while talking about their training
"Umm… guys…" Kira suddenly said "to put it blunt, I was surprised that you can develop yourself in such a short time. A common shinobi would have 2-3 years to get your achievement. But you get it for just two weeks. I can tell you posses some talent" Kira praised them.
"Looks like I don't have to mad at Cagalli after all…" Kira mentally said
Dearka and Shinn feel a little proud of themselves. But the different matter goes to Yzak. He felt something that make him unsatisfied
"Being stronger is meaningless if we can't get what we want to get with that power." Yzak whispered to himself
Kira realized what he wanted and he know that between those three, Yzak is the one who have a straight goal for being a stronger man like he wanted to do. "Yzak, I know what you wanted. And I want it too. Having a second chance with you."
Yzak smiled a bit but he trying to hide it when Kira said that. "Who needs your attention?" he said roughly. Kira just chuckled to hear that
"Actually if we can we want to bring you all to training ground at our village…" Athrun got cut off by Shinn
"What do us waiting for?" Shinn ask excitingly
"Let me finish my words, Shinn." Athrun said with his serious tone. Shinn just keep quiet.
"…but the problem is we can't bring some stranger to there. Even I'm sure you'll enjoy it." Athrun finished his sentences
"If only we have an outdoor spot that we can use for a night…" Cagalli wondered for a second
"Outdoor? Do you mean some kind of villa at the middle of mountain?" Lacus questioned.
Kira nodded and Lacus give him an assuring smile. "If that's the case, I think I'll be able to help. Actually a have one villa at the middle of desolate mountain. Even not too desolate like you can imagine. But I think its good enough for shinobi's training."
"That'll work!" Cagalli shout excitedly.
"Well… since tomorrow is weekend, why don't we go then?" Lacus ask
Kira give her a 'thank you' looks that make Lacus blush. And said, "Only if you don't mind."
"That's not a big problem. I'll talk to father about it then." she said while walk away from dojo to main house.
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Tomorrow Morning
Clyne's Villa
Based on yesterday meeting, they grant an acceptance from Siegel to use their Villa for training. and this morning they go to the exact location. For Kira's surprised, it location doesn't too far away from Onogoro. Just have 2 hours in train and they arrived at the gate. The villa was so natural. In the garden they could see a large pond that has been surrounded by many kinds of neat Lake Bush. And a small banyan tree which provided the pond with natural roof. Also large rocks beside it make a nice chair too relax beside pond. The villa has two main houses. One for their dojo which located at the back and the real house is at the front. They connected by a small lane. From there they could hear the sound of small waterfall and river. Kira know it was perfect for their training like Lacus said earlier.
"Sugoi…" Shinn said while look the house in awe.
"…you was said that five times" Athrun said again
Kira look around too and agree with Shinn. But then he see two figure that was amazed with the place like them too. And maybe they'll become an obstacle for their training, Kira thought. "But why they must come along too…?" Kira sighed
"its great, Lacus! Why you don't tell us earlier about this?" Luna shouted out loud
"…and I heard she even have onsen too! It seems Lacus was forgetting about us because she already has lovely Kira beside her…" Milly said while put a joking grin towards Lacus. And as to be expected, she blushed madly and didn't want to take a look to Kira's gaze
Kira sighed again. Because he thought those two will do nothing than interrupted their training program. While he was daydreaming about those two roles, they were arrived at inner side of house. It was pretty wide for a villa. They started with arrange their room before they can use it tonight and prepared for the food since the dinner time will come in next three hours.
"We're done with the room, Lacus." Kira said after they gotten out from their room and Athrun from another room for the girls.
When Lacus was about to say 'thank you', suddenly, "ARRGHHH! Lacus! What the hell…!" Cagalli scream from the top of her lungs from the kitchen.
Kira and the other who still in the main room take a fast pace to the kitchen. There they found Cagalli and Luna's jaws fall to the ground to see the opened refrigerator is EMPTY! They just found some bottle with cold water in it. They have absolutely nothing for dinner. Cagalli and Luna put their empty glare to Lacus who put her trademark smile.
"well you see this, Lacus. What do you suggested?" Cagalli ask with little venom on her sound.
"I can't train with the empty stomach, and I never can!" Cagalli shouted desperately.
"there you go again, sugarcoated everything." Kira sighed
Cagalli divert her glare to her brunette twin, "then what are you suggest? Starving all day?"
Athrun sighed too to see Cagalli's short-minded (little harsh, huh?) so he decided to straight up the things, "that's why we are teaches the survival skill, Cagalli. To face the situation like this."
Cagalli blinked two or three times after Athrun said that. Then, she put her dumb smile and asks for Lacus's apology. And of course she granted her.
"Now what will we do for the dinner, Mr. Smart nerd?" Cagalli ask with her hands are on her hips.
Athrun think about it for a second, "We can search some mushrooms out there. In that woods. Because sure there contain a lot of it" Athrun suggested. Cagalli smile again.
"Ok, then May I and Athrun go to the woods to find our dinner while Lacus, Milly, and Luna prepared the spices and Kira trains our apprentices. We must go now before its getting dark. See ya!" then, she pulled Athrun collar and disappeared from Kira's sight.
"Maybe we can count on them. Now please do what you're assigned to." Kira finally said. Then, he looks to the three apprentices. "Shall we go, then?"
They all nodded and Lacus lead them to the dojo
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Dojo
The three apprentices sit patiently in dojo, waiting for Kira's order. Then, Kira come and with his full equipment. They all become impatient to know what they will do for training today.
"since we now are in open ground, we can use the nature to help with our training today. First, we shall go to waterfall…"
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Waterfall
"We must do the meditation in a place like this? You must be kidding me!" Shinn said almost shouted because the sound of waterfall is too loud.
"Nope, this is perfect. If you want to use a ninjutsu, your mind must pure and clean. Just like the lens. If not, maybe you will be eaten by your ninjutsu. If you do the meditation in a place like waterfall, your body will be trained too. You can kill two birds with one rock" Kira calmly said
Shinn surrendered after Kira said that. Then, they three get in to the waterfall and stand below the waterfall.
"WAA! ITS SO DAMN COLD DOWN HERE!" Dearka shouted. Shinn and Yzak feel it too but they can't do nothing than just stutter.
(they keep like that for the freeze 30 minutes)
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"…And then to the some bamboo woods…"
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Bamboo Woods
Yzak stand still at the middle of the forest while watching his surrounding. He put a steady grab to his shinai and breathed heavily. Twenty minutes survival and that's the longest records. While he was wondering about what will come to his way, he got an answer.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAAAT…!" he shouted while running from a log that swing towards him. Unfortunately the diameter of swing was so big so it can't be fly over that easy. He must run for the next 100 meters straight! He can't dodge it to right or left side because the bamboos give him a scary nature fence. Yzak can't do nothing except just run for the time/log that will caught him
And that's what he got…
"looks like modern physics can be useful for training too…"
"And the last is indoor meditation. Hope you'll like it."
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Dojo
20 minutes of sweats, silent cursing, and disquiet behavior from our apprentice has fully loaded the dojo. mostly because their feet's can't take it any longer from now on.
10 minutes… later
Lacus and Cagalli walked in to dojo. and they found what we called 'after war' where they can see many body lay there that can't move even a bit.
"What kind of scene is this?" Lacus ask hesitantly.
"This is what you get when you force to do the long term meditation while you unprepared or untrained well. My bro sure got a rush here." Cagalli said
"This is… completely torture…" Shinn said weakly while laying in the floor
Lacus decided to bring their object to come there. "By the way, dinner are all prepared now. You must be hungry because the nonstop training." Lacus said with her usual cheerful tone
Kira and Lacus go to the main room while Cagalli try to make them stand in that condition. From the main room Milly and Luna can hear those three's horrify scream.
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20 Minutes Later
Those three finally can change their outfit and have a nice walked to main room. (A/N: if you understand what I mean by 'nice walked') there they can see Kira, Cagalli, and Athrun sit patiently wait for the dinner and them. Of course term 'wait for them' is not affect the Great Cagalli Yula Athha's Stomach.
"hee… those smells good…" Shinn excitedly said
"who is the one who make this mushroom stew?" Yzak said while take a sit
"both of us." Luna cheerfully said while pointing at herself and Milly. "but the one who take the mushrooms is Athrun and Cagalli"
"You can expect the great choices from me!" Cagalli said
"if so… Ittadakimasu!" Dearka said cheerfully while he take the dish
See that, the other join him too and begin to enjoy their dinner
But before Yzak can do it, he noticed something wrong, very wrong…
"Athrun, just what the hell is this mushroom could be? I never saw this kind before" Yzak said while raised his mushroom with his chopsticks
"ah… that's purple mushroom. If it still raw, it poisoned" Athrun said flatly. Yzak and and the other except Athrun, Cagalli, Kira and Dearka still enjoyed their dinner
"hey hey… is this really safe to eat?" Shinn asked hesitantly
"its just like Russian Roulettes Stew for me…" Yzak said while putting down his bowl and begin examined his food
The others do the same. Especially Kira who have a bad thought for it because Cagalli have her hands on it too. But Milly realized something about Dearka, he doesn't scared about it at all. Instead he just smile and sometimes laugh without any proper reasons
"just eat it guys… in fact, I never taste something as this good as this! Ha ha! Here, Yzak, you could have some!" Dearka said while release his 'mushroom' to Yzak's. Kira realized that they have made a mistake about the dishes' ingredients
"hey, that's laughter mushroom! Throw it away!" Kira said while trying to grab Dearka's bowl. But unfortunately Dearka has too much spirit to surrender, so instead of giving it, he run away from him around the room. Of course Kira trying to catch up with it but he must struggling for it. So un-Kira things…
"STOP IT, I SAY!" Kira shouted. But of course Dearka wouldn't listen for his own good.
And the dinner is not anymore silent.
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Kira's Room
Athrun and Kira were about to sleep when Athrun found Kira was move out some katanas from his bag. Athrun easily recognize those and ask Kira, "Kira what are those for?" Athrun ask
Kira put them to the wall and head back to Athrun, "I want to give these to them."
Athrun can't hide his shocked expression. "don't say that you want to…" Kira just nodded before Athrun can finish his sentences
"Kira! Those are our precious legendary katana! And you want to give them to stranger that had no relations with our village? On top of that, how you got those?" Athrun almost shouted
Kira keep silent for a while, "…someone sent it for me few days ago. With a little notes…" Kira pull out some paper from his pocket and give it to Athrun. It read:
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Kira Yamato-san,
I want you to do a favor, please give these to your apprentice immediately. This is for an important matter. And please train them well. They will be a quiet a strong allies in the future. But for that, you have to give these to them. It all depends on you whether you want to follow my advice or not, and which one you want to give for whom. You must be recognizing these katanas. I know if you didn't trust me, but this is for the sake of your master.
Sandal-Hat
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"sandal… hat? Who is this?" Athrun ask
"I don't know for sure, but whether he is up to something or not, he must be having a deep connection with our village. Look at these swords, he can obtained it without problem and give them to me without any concern. You can tell from the way he sent it." Kira simply said
"then what will you do?" Athrun ask again
Kira thought it for a second, "Do you trust me?"
"I trust you, as a Tenchu's heir, and a friend" Athrun said
Kira smiled, "I'll follow his advice"
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Tomorrow Morning
Dojo
"come on… you guys can't do this everyday…" Shinn said. Few minutes ago they have wake up and now prepared to continue their spar training. But of course, woken up so goddamn early in such a cold place like this can't be a more pleasant torture.
"I want to give something to you guys. So if we want the atmosphere match, we should do it right now." Kira said seriously. After Kira sent them to their most serious expressions, Kira went to the hakujiku (hanging scroll) and pull out four katana from it hidden storage behind the hakujiku. Kira put them all in the tatami floor except the green one. He still grabs it and give it to Dearka.
"This is for you. It name is Raijin (God of Thunder). It passed down to Rai clan's successor from my village long ago. It posses incredibly long range jutsu." Kira give it to Dearka who take it and examine his new sword.
While he does so, he feels some jolt of electricity run through his body, even for not too big. But it enough to invited Dearka's curiosity.
'Is this just an ordinary katana?' He thought
After he give Dearka, he back to the remaining three swords and take a pair of blue similar swords. This time is Yzak's.
"and this, Taishaku Kaiten, I'll give these to you. it previous owner is the most deadly Duel Master. So I think it'll match you perfectly. The rumor said it even can control gravitation. But I don't think its possible." Yzak take those two swords and can't hide his happiness even he's trying to
'Duel Master, huh? Guess I owe you one." Yzak thought
And for the last, Kira feel a bit hard to do this, but he must to because its an order from someone. He takes the last red katana and gives it to Shinn.
"Maybe he'll a bit difficult to control, but I'm sure you can. It name is Impulse." Kira said. Just like Yzak, Shinn feel extremely happy. But something he didn't feel right about his new sword.
"Congratulations about your new sword. But I must tell you few things about them. One, we believe every weapons has it own spirit, so treat it nicely. Two, you mustn't try to pull out those sword from it sheaths until I say so. EVER!" Kira almost shouted.
Before one of them can say anything, Kira added, "if one of you want to ask why, I'll give you the answer. That's all because the katana didn't choose its own prey. If its master didn't get enough training yet and doesn't be able to control it yet, it'll eat more blood than enough. For example, it owns master, or… something that actually he want to protect by fighting. Until you got that power, never pull out from its sheath.
All of them can't hide their shocked expressions. Shinn feel he must ask few things about his new sword, so he do so even he still didn't recover from his shocked yet.
"hey, why only my sword has a different type of name from Dearka's and Yzak's? And why you didn't tell me about its previous master?" Shinn finally ask. Kira know it will come soon or later, but he never expect it'll come so sooner.
Kira feel uneasy to tell this, but he doesn't have any choice.
"Actually…" luckily…God still have some mercy to Kira
"Hey… you guys have some power to wake up this early…" Cagalli said between her yawn. She still hasn't change yet. She still wears her kimono for sleep. But because of her bad sleep style, her kimono was loose enough to expose her cleavage that make all of them blush.
Kira run as fast as he can and quickly arrange her kimono back to normal. Cagalli who still half sleepy didn't realize it at all.
"What the hell are you doing, Kira?" Cagalli finally regain her consciousness
Kira take a deep sigh and face her, "you should take a look yourself in the mirror before get up, you know?"
"Many reasons why I can't do that every morning. By the way, did you saw Athrun this morning? He was gone when I look to his room." Cagalli said while trying to look around the dojo.
"I think he go to the waterfall. Just check it out." Kira said
Cagalli just buy it. Then, she quickly retreat from dojo and begin to search for Athrun.
Then not too long after that, Lacus come and see they having their spar again with Shinai even they had a new katana now. Because that morning is still cold, Lacus decided to give them some hot drink. So for that, she return to the main house.
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Kitchen
Lacus try to search something hot for warm them. But she couldn't find any Tea or coffee. When she starting to surrender, she found an unfamiliar bottle that made from ceramics. She try to taste some and found that can warm body a bit. She smiled and decided to serve it for them without knowing how dangerous it was.
Dojo
"hey guys, why don't you take some rest? I bring some warm drink for you." Lacus cheerfully said while she enter the dojo.
"You're our savior, Lacus!" Dearka said cheerfully. all of them grab the glass from Lacus's tray and Lacus served it for them. And of course for Kira and herself too.
"thank you Lacus. Today is indeed cold." Kira said while she sip her drink and Kira join her. But before he could take a gulp, he found that Shinn, Dearka and Yzak fell to the floor. He approached them and he can take one conclusion: THEY WERE DRUNK. But from what? He thought. All he can say is they just take a few sip from drink that Lacus has give them. He take a glance to his glass and sip it a little. And now he knows. it was SAKE. It'll give no effect for him, but of course THEY can't stand it!
"Lacus…!" before he could trying to 'save' Lacus, she was gone from his sight. Then he looked back to the sake bottle to find Lacus who trying to pour more sake on her glass. Of course Kira's reflect lead him to avoid anymore contact between sake and his master.
"aah… Kira… I want more… the taste is good and warm. Why don't… you try it too…?" Lacus said while offering her glass to Kira. Kira grab it and put it somewhere else.
Lacus's face turns to a drunken disappointed expression. "why you must store it there? I want more… so bring that back…!" Lacus shouted.
"I can't. that's dangerous for you, Lacus. You see what happened to Dearka and the others?" Kira said while pointing to the bodies that lay weakly on the ground.
Before Kira can make her understand, Lacus was appeared with dojo's naginata on her hands. Of course this is make Kira shocked "if that's the case, I'll force you to give it back to me…"
"Lacus! That's dangerous!" he shouted. he trying to grab it but ended with the naginata pointed straight at his neck.
"then why don't we try it?" Lacus stepped back and set her easel. Then suddenly she charge to Kira who just can evade from her attack for her safety. Lacus slashed it towards Kira's chest and he dodged it by drop himself to the ground.
Lacus isn't stop that easy, she still try to attack him, for her sake. She change the grip to the edge of the hilt and slash again to defenselessly Kira who still lay on the ground. But unfortunately Kira still had his shunpo. He run towards Lacus's back and knock her hands so she drop her naginata.
"that's enough, Lacus. Please don't do anything stupid again…" said Kira who curious about her and himself. When he turn his gaze, he found Lacus was fell asleep beside him. he smiled the chaos now over. But know he ask himself, how did she can get so strong so suddenly for just a glass of sake? And why he feels so tired after 1 minute battle with her?
'maybe now I have a reason to become stronger once again.' He thought while chuckled a bit. Then after that he fell asleep. Just like the other…
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Organization XIII Base
Gate That Piercing The World
Raww and two other black robe Knights walking steadily to the only gate that connect their place to the common place. Raww was carry the Dem'ix's will well and now they headed towards him. Raww smiled to know that maybe he will got a challenge before he execute his real plan
'the time for the gate to open is near. Soon I'll get back from these illusions to the real world. I'm impressed with you…' Raww said to himself. Then they walked through to the gate…
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ARRGGHH! Finally done! I'm so sorry this time it took 5 or more weeks to post it. I got a new school, and many kinds of new term. It sure got my head ache! And the next chap is nearing the climax of the story. Hope you still keep update with my fic and see ya!
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