History's Strongest Devil Disciple Kenichi

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A/N: Hello again to everyone reading my story, and thank you to the people that have left me reviews.

*Action*

"Dialogue"

'Inner thoughts'

{Phone/Communication Dialogue}

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Chapter Nine

Swordplay

Student council office.

Kenichi is sitting across from Sona as they discuss the Kendo club. Sona is sitting at her desk staring at Kenichi with her fingers laced under her chin.

"So, you are asking me not to handle the situation even though they are completely ignoring your role as part of the student council."

He nods.

"What they are doing isn't right but forcing them won't help anything either."

"You are going to handle this their way?"

He nods again in response to her question.

"How are you going to even learn kendo by the end of the week?"

He scratches the back of his head and nervously smiles.

"More like one night."

"One night?" Sona questions in a more slightly raised tone.

'There's no way.' She also thinks.

"My master's techniques are a little extreme. But, this means that I won't be able to go home with you and have dinner."

She crosses her arms and furrows her eyebrows.

"You are going to eat, right? And, what about your homework?"

"Yes, I will eat, and I will do my homework as soon as I get home."

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In light of his training and time frame, He decided to go out for a light dinner and invited Shigure along. They were waiting for the food they had ordered.

A waitress comes back with some water for them while they wait. She places the glasses down in front of the two of them.

"Is there anything else I can for you?"

She tries to get an answer out of Shigure, but for some reason she seems unresponsive. But, for some reason, she has an unmoving eerie smile across her face.

The waitress looks over to Kenichi for help.

"Um. We are good for now. Thank you."

She bows her head and walks away.

'I wonder what's got her in such a happy mood. I love her smile, but it's almost kind of creepy to see her smiling so much. I wonder what in the world she is thinking.'

'I get to eat dinner with Kenichi all by myself this time. And, I get to train him afterward. Is this what they would call a date? Wait. Could I be dreaming?'

She decides to pinch herself just to make sure. Kenichi scratches his head in wonderment as he sees her do this.

'Good. This is real.' She muses.

"Ummmm. Are you alright Shigure?"

She nods vigorously up and down.

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After eating a light dinner with Shigure, they went to the warehouse to do his training. When they get there, he finds that she had already placed the typical equipment for kendo there including the bogu/armor and the shinai.

Serafall amusingly watches the two of them from a distance after making the outside word unknown to what is happening inside of the warehouse.

'She must have done that while I was finishing up at school. She must have been really eager to do this.'

"What . . do you want . . . to learn?"

She pulls out a wooden spoon from inside of her kimono.

"Shred their clothes?"

"You can shred clothes with just a wooden spoon?" Serafall asks.

Shigure nods her head up and down.

Kenichi shakes his head and smacks his face with his hand.

"I am trying not to show them that I am a pervert. Learning that would have the opposite effect."

She gives a slight frown and looks down to the floor in disappointment.

"But . . . it . . . would work." She says with a slight pout.

'It almost makes me want to say yes just to see her stop pouting, but it is kind of cute though.'

"Besides, I kind of doubt that I could learn that in one night anyways."

She taps her chin and looks up in thought.

"Maybe. . . "

He stops and just stares at her with a dumbfounded look on his face.

'She isn't actually considering it, is she?'

He vigorously shakes his head back and forth.

"No, Shigure. I think that is would be best if you could just teach me some kendo."

"It would probably be easier to teach him something different to fight against someone using kendo, but perhaps he is right. For now."

She gives him a nod and gets into her master mode.

"Very well. Since we only have tonight, then I will only have time to teach you some basics and one technique that you will have to perform flawlessly."

He nods slowly in acknowledgement after taking a big gulp.

"Oooooooooooo. This looks like it is going to be fun. I think that I might have to reevaluate training practices." Serafall muses.

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After they had finished the training and Serafall had left (not before compensating Shigure for her time), Kenichi and Shigure were left alone in the warehouse. She walks over to him with wrapped cloth and holds it out to him. He grabs a hold of it and it conforms to his hands slightly.

"What is this?"

"Open it."

He sits down and places it in his lap and slowly unwraps it. When he finishes unwrapping the item a chain shirt is revealed.

"It's bulletproof."

"Wow. Thanks. Too bad I didn't have this when I fought that rogue devil."

She gives a slight frown.

"It. . . wasn't ready."

He could hear the regret in her voice. So, he stands up and gives her a hug. This is a pleasant surprise to the warrior maiden.

"It's okay, Shigure. You couldn't have known. What made you decide to give this to me anyways?"

"We . . . were planning on . . . giving you . . . . a new gi (uniform). Wanted . . . you . . . to get it . . . before I left."

"Was there a special reason for the new gi, and where are you going?"

She frowns again, and her voice gets soft. She looks pained to say what she is about to say.

"Yomi is coming. They are rivals to Ryozanpaku. They will be coming for you because you are the number one disciple."

His eyes go wide, and he goes into a slight panic from this new development.

"Huh? What do you mean? I thought that I left all of that behind when I left Ryozanpaku."

She shakes her head.

"No."

"No?"

"They already know about you. They will not stop just because you not a part of Ryozanpaku anymore. They are not that kind of a group."

He leans against a pillar and slumps against it. A hefty sigh escapes his mouth.

"I'm . . . sorry . . . . Kenichi."

'This is so unfair. I can't believe that all of this ever stemmed from defeating that guy in the karate club at my other school. This could end up involving people at my new school now. Shit. How the hell am I going to explain this to Sona and Serafall? They might just kill me for good with this kind of trouble. I will just have to hope that they don't start coming to the school, and I will just have to deal with things as they come up. I guess I am stuck riding this train out. All of these problems are my fault. This is what I get for wanting to protect the people I care about?'

He shakes his head from his thoughts.

"How about we switch topics for now. Didn't you say that you are leaving? Where are you going? You always seem to mysteriously leave and then come back just as mysteriously."

"You should ask . . . Akisame. . . . . Tell him . . . . it's okay."

After saying that, she quickly gathers up the equipment.

"Thank you for doing this, Shigure. I hope that I didn't throw off your plans."

She shakes her head.

"It made me . . . happy." She says with a slight smile and a blush on her cheeks.

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After getting through the front gate, Kenichi is slowly making his way to the front door of the mansion.

He checks his cell phone and his eyes go wide at the time. It's now 1 in the morning.

'Crap I can't believe how late it is, and I still have school.'

Then he smacks his forehead.

'Oh, man. I still have homework that needed to get done.'

He continues his trek to the front doors. When he reaches the stairs, the doors burst open. The sudden outburst startles him, but he gets even more startled by who is standing in the arch of the doorway. Sona stands there with her arms crossed as is glaring at him. The maid and the butler standing behind her are equally as startled as he is. She is in her pajamas and she didn't seem to care.

'Oh crap. She looks pissed.'

He takes a big gulp.

She gives him a look over. His clothes are dirty and slightly tattered. she adjusts her glasses and a slight glare comes off of them as she adjusts them.

"Are you alright? Is your state of dress from your training or did you get into a fight?"

"It's from my training."

She then points a finger at him beratingly.

"You never said when you were going to be home. Do you realize what time it is? You could have said something. Have you eaten? You do realize that we have school? Is your homework done?"

He scratches his head.

"Sorry. I know it's really late. I ate dinner, but I am a little hungry after all that training. I . . haven't gotten my homework done yet."

"I will forgive you this time, but if this happens again, then you will receive 1000 magically enhanced spankings."

'A thousand?' He mentally pauses.

"Get inside. You will eat, and you will do your homework. You better not wake up late for school."

'Why me?'

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The next morning, he is walking onto the school grounds with Sona and Tsubaki. He was carrying an extra bag with him that has his karate uniform in it.

He lets out a long yawn as he walks. Sona also lets out a little bit of a yawn.

Tsubaki trails slightly behind with Kenichi. She has her usual stoic look upon her face.

"What were you thinking being out so late? You had Sona pretty worried." The tall, dark-haired girl says to him.

"I had to train and last night was my only chance. Sona was really that worried?"

She nods.

"She cares deeply for everyone in her peerage and that also includes you now."

He scratches the back of his head.

"I am supposed to be the one watching out for her, and here it feels like the opposite."

"The task that her sister put you on is not a simple one. The fact is that she is a capable person and is naturally a motherly figure – the strict kind, that is."

His shoulders slump a little bit.

'I am so tired. It is going to be a really long day.'

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After nearly nodding off several times during the day (which didn't happen thanks to getting a jolt from Sona when he was about to), they finally make it through the school day.

Kenichi makes his way back to the kendo club room.

He knocks on the door several times and Katase had opened the door like she did the last time. After noticing who it was that she opened the door for, she gives a glance back to Murayama. Murayama walks over to them with a cool smirk on her face.

"I see that you already decided to return only after one day. Did you come to concede? I did give you until Friday."

He shakes his head.

"I want to let you know that Sona was going to handle this situation herself . . . "

The faces of the two girls become pale as they realize their mistake.

"But I told her that I still wanted to handle this. You did give me until Friday, but I am ready now."

"It has only been one night." Chimes in Katase.

Murayama puts a hand on her shoulder.

"Are you sure that you are ready for this?"

He nods.

"Trust me, it was beaten into me."

He inwardly cries while he says that as the memories of last night come back to him.

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After changing into his uniform, he is now ready to put on the kendo armor.

"I will help you put on the Kendo bogu." Offers Katase.

He shakes his head.

"That's alright. I will put it on myself."

The declaration startles not only Katase, but Murayama as well as she gives a little pause while putting on her bogu.

"Are you sure? I thought that you didn't know kendo." The pink-haired girl asks reassuringly.

"I do now."

She watches as he begins putting on the armor with nearly perfect accuracy.

The other club members line up along the outskirts of the training area in seiza position. They stay pretty quiet as Kenichi and Murayama get ready.

After they had both put on their bogu, they stand across from each other.

'I can't lose this fight. I need to show her that I am not a threat. This is the only way that she will understand. Why can't the people I meet be able to just talk things out?'

They both bow to each other while holding the shinai at their sides. Then, they take several steps toward each other. Their shinai get shifted to the normal forward position with the bottom part of the hilt in the palm of their left hands. She squats down to the floor and he does as well.

'He really does seem to know his stuff. Did he really learn this overnight? We shall see what his technique is like.'

'I can't see any sign of him being unsure of himself. If anything, he seems as confident as an 8th dan master.' Katase muses.

A couple of the other on-lookers whisper to each other.

The both raise back up. Before she can even give her initial shout, he takes the initiative. He narrows his eyebrows and remembers what Shigure had told him.

'One of the most important things when starting the fight, is the initial shout. It is not only meant to relax the body in prep for the fight, but it also serves the purpose of showing your level of confidence. It is a ki attack.'

They take their stances with the left foot back and at a slight angel, while the right foot is forward.

"Haaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!" He shouts loudly and confidently.

The shout catches Murayama off guard. When she returns the shout, it is not as powerful as his.

With extreme swiftness, he pushes off with his left foot and slides the right foot forward. He raises the shinai up above his head.

She was about to take action against him when he yells out again while making an attack.

"Meeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!" He shouts and swiftly brings his shinai down on to her face mask.

The echo of the bamboo blade hitting the head gear fills up the room while everyone sits in shock. After a moment of silence, everyone claps for Kenichi.

Murayama quickly unties her face mask, takes it off and holds it to her side. Then she gives him a soft smile.

"Alright, Kenichi, you win. We will give you no more trouble. I am sorry I doubted you in the first place."

After a sigh in relief, he takes off his head gear as well.

"We got off to a bad start. You didn't seem like a bad person to me, Murayama. Let's be friends."

"Why not. I feel a lot better about you now that we have had that little match." She says to him even though she is a little put out that she didn't even really get to do anything.

They put down the armor and shake hands.

"I have to ask you something. Did you really just learn kendo overnight? You act like someone whose been doing it for years."

"Actually, I think that I got lucky."

'Of course, She would probably be berating me for even thinking something like that. She would probably say something along the lines that I didn't get lucky. That is was through my training that I was able to beat her. I still think that some of it was luck though.'

"Lucky?"

"Had you been a little quicker I would have lost. My master didn't have enough time to teach me much, so she taught me that one move and made sure that I did it swiftly and accurately. Don't get me wrong though. She drilled everything into me relentlessly."

'I might even be scarred from the experience.' He mentally adds.

"I honestly don't know any other moves other than that though." He sincerely tells her.

'She also got me to figure out how to hold back on that attack as well.'

All of the girls in the room deadpan.

After a few moments to collect herself, Kotose walks up to him.

"Luck or not, it's a shame that you can't join the club. I would like to see what you would be like with some more training."

"The prospect doesn't sound too bad. But even if I could, I don't know how my master would take to someone else training me with weapons."

The sincerity in his voice and his word choice send an odd chill down their spines after he says that.

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A/N: Thank you for reading chapter 9 of my fanfiction.

**New Story**

My 'Teknoman And A Succubus' story is at chapter 1

My 'Kenichi: Not Just Her Disciple' story is at chapter 11 – And Complete

My 'Monster Musume: Drago's Quest' story is at chapter 4 – And Complete

My 'Familiar Of Zero: Saving Grace' story is at Chapter 77