Just a filler chappie here folks, but the real stuff will begin in the next i promise, oh and school has been giving me a drag lately and hampering my progress so i might not be able to update sooner than i want. Then there is procrastination, which is a major in affecting my writing. anyway, Enjoy the chappie!
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Chapter 24: Exploring the city
Amaterasu and I stood in front of a clothes shop, or at least I thought it was a clothes shop.
"Come on!" Ammy said and dragged me into the store. I soon saw a bunch of kimonos hanging on the wall behind the counter, all in different shades of color. Ammy and I removed our sandals and she walked past an old lady at the front desk and into a room with dozens of scrolls and kimonos with a huge white one in front of the wall.
That's when I saw a man wearing a headdress that reminded me of…man; I forgot what it looked like. Anyway, he wore a dark yellow kimono with some designs on the front that I couldn't tell what they were or what they meant. The man looked at me and suddenly began to measure my body, arms, legs, waist, etc.
"Um…what are you doing?" I asked nervously.
"Checking your size, I must know what clothes you must wear since I assume that's why you came here?" the man asked. I looked at Amaterasu with a worried look but she giggled at me, "Don't worry, Mr. Chic is a very well known kimono designer in the city," she waited until Mr. Chic went to another room before she leaned next to me, "I kinda helped him with some designs a while back, but don't tell," she said to me.
Mr. Chic came back with some fabrics in his hands and immediately began to work on designing something for me. It didn't take more than a few minutes for him to be done and showing his work to me. 'Wow, he works fast' I thought as I looked at the pair of clothes I was given.
The clothes looked just like those Kamishimos that samurai wore in the Edo-period, but the jacket was a jade green and the rest were a dark brown color. The symbol was of a three pointed razor spiral like the ones I saw on other kamishimos before.
"Wow…but how?" I asked with awe.
"Just looking at you I knew you had to be a samurai, that and it seemed to compliment the sword you're carrying," Mr. Chic pointed at Howling Scar and Roaring Fang on my belt.
"Oh, right" I scratched the back of my head and chuckled. He showed me to a changing room and I changed into the kamishimo. It actually fit me rather well, plus it felt rather soft along my body and I thought it must've been made with either silk or something.
After I finished putting on the clothes and looking at myself in the mirror (Damn I look good in this) I walked out and showed Amaterasu my outfit.
"It suits you," she said. I paid for the outfit (thankfully killing monsters helped out a lot) and walked out of the store wearing it proudly.
"Wonder where the others are," I wondered.
"Come on, let's go find them," Amaterasu said and took off. I sighed and followed her, that's when I caught a blur of grey from the corner of my eye and stopped, I turned around but nothing was behind me. I shrugged and took one step forward and bumped into something. I got up, brushing the dust off, and turned to see the same old man from Taka Pass. "You! How did you get, wait, are you spying on me?!" I asked.
"Why no! I said I was a traveler, and I was just walking when I bumped into you…strange, you've changed since I saw you last time," the old man said. Before I could ask his name I heard Amaterasu call out my name and turned to see her waiting. I turned to the old man but I saw he was gone. "Come on, we gotta meet the others!" Ammy said and dragged me again.
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We all met at the large torch in the middle of the town, the gang was amazed by my new clothes and Shinji even got some new threads as well. Shinji was now wearing a coat without a shirt underneath that looked like Sanosuke Sagara's outfit, but black and red.
"Man, that Mr. Chic guy was cool; he just knew my outfit just by looking!" Shinji said.
"Hmm, what about that grey wolf you saw?" Ohoyama asked.
"Haven't seen him lately," I said, then my stomach growled loudly and I blushed with embarrassment.
"Sounds like you're hungry, come on," Amaterasu said and went off.
Ohoyama sighed, "I hate it when she gets like this," he muttered.
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I soon found myself, along with the others, inside a restaurant. The smell of various foods filled my nose and I looked at the maid who was giving the foods to the other customers.
"Man, the food smells good," Shinji said with a little drool coming out of his mouth.
"Stop drooling and wait, we'll get our food," Ohoyama said to him. No sooner had he said that, the food was delivered. Amaterasu's dish was Katsudon with pork, Shinji's was some Ramen with chicken and pork in it, Ohoyama's was Karaage with some chicken, pork, beef, and (from what I could see) was either octopus or salmon, and mine was Nikujaga, which was rather good in my opinion.
"Mmm, this is good!" I said and dug right into the food I had. Shinji was the same as me, while Ohoyama and Ammy were both smiling (Ohoyama was grinning as he ate his food while Ammy giggled). I wondered when Waka would join us to eat but my thoughts were interrupted when we heard shouting. A man suddenly showed up, panting for breath, "T-There is a fight going on!" he said.
I looked at the others, who all had the same look as me, and we rushed out of the restaurant and followed the other patrons to where the fight was occurring.
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What is going on? Is there really a fight going on? And between whom? Stay tuned to find out!