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Soujirou : She's a broke student ! *sweatdrop* :)
Soujirou's Dream - chapter 9
That night, Misao silently slid into Soujirou's room. "Soujirou... ?" Soujirou stirred. "...Huh ?"
"I can't sleep." Misao whined. "Keep me company."
Soujirou slowly got up. "What do you wanna do ?" "I don't know. Just keep me company or something."
Soujirou leaned on the wall. Misao leaned next to him. "Have you ever killed alot of people at one shot before ?" she asked.
Soujirou thought for awhile. "There was once Shishio-san asked me and Sawejou-san to raid the Police Department for information for his Kuni-tori. As we'd expected, the Police Department would've been heavily guarded because news of Shishio-san's Kuni-tori had leaked out. Usui-san found the traitor of course, and he was killed. Anyway, we couldn't have got in without injuring or killing any of the men, so we sorta didn't have any choice. Want me to continue ?"
Misao nodded. "So, there were about 50 over men standing guard at the entrance. I used my Shin-ten-satsu, and took about 20 of them all at once. Sawejou-san was on the other side, and took out 15 of them. It was really fast actually, I couldn't even see how many men I killed."
"So what happened after that ?" Misao asked. "Well, I'm sure Hajime-san knows of what happened, but after the Shingetsu episode, and after they caught Sawejou-san, all of them thought it was Usui-san who did it."
"But, didn't he ? There was enough evidence to prove that he did kill Saitou's men." Misao wondered aloud.
"Well techinically, he did kill Hajime-san's men but that was another raid. It seems that our raid went unseen. It was a briliant stroke of luck rather. And I'm awfully lucky not to get caught by the police."
"Well, after we got news of Shishio's death and after Himura was alright, Chou came to visit and told us what happened to the rest of the Juppon Gatana. He said somehow, you'd be able to elude the police."
"Yeah... I've been admired by him for quite awhile actually. I don't know whether he's jealous of me or something. Not only have I got sword skills, I've got this too." Soujirou pointed to his head and smiled. "Enough about me, what do you do in Oniwabanshuu ? I've heard for a long time that you're really good, and Shishio-san didn't expect you to launch a counter-attack on his Kyoto Fire operation. It was so good he gave up hope on it. Even Sadoshima-san didn't encourage him to try again."
"Well... there was once one of our subordinates, the Sanada Ninjas, were up to trouble, so we had to go up to Suwa to check them out. By coincidence, Himura and the rest were up there looking for some Miracle Medicine. I heard from Kaoru-san that the Sanada Ninjas had joined with the Black Knights to look for the medicine. The location of the medicine was supposed to be a secret and most of them protested to working with the Black Knights. Am I confusing you ?"
"Iya, carry on, its very interesting." Soujirou said. "Well, so we had a legend to follow on, because one of the dojo's students came to Tokyo with his doctor friend, and that's how Himura got into it in the first place. There was something about 4 dragons in Suwa, and they figured it was at the Suwa Shrine. Later, there was a 'God crossing the river'. According to the local legend, there was a festival where they celebrated the God crossing to the other side to see his lover. Romantic, ne ?" Misao said dreamily. "So, Yutaro, Kaoru's student, said that the festival was celebrated in winter, so how could they possibly wait until winter ? When they got to the Suwa Shrine, itchy fingered Sano took out one of the rocks near those big 'dragon' rocks, and tons of bugs came out. Then, the river's water level came onto land. Yutaro explained it was because of the moon's gravity. Sano pushed all the rocks, and 4 huge pillars of water erupted from the river. That was '4 dragons climbing the moon'. The water level receeded and a path was revealed at the bottom of the river. We followed the path to an underground path. It was really dark inside."
Soujirou laughed. "Obviously !" "So, we were walking, then Kaoru-san complained that she was tired and leaned on a rock. The rock turned out to be a secret trapdoor, and we were trapped in a pit with a gigantic rock coming at us. As usual, Sano used his Futae no Kiwami, but we found more rocks rushing at us. So Himura used his Do-Ryu-Sen and crushed all the rocks at one go, but in the process made the ceiling crumble. Baka. So we started running and Sano said to follow his instincts and go left. That baka tori-atama, of course in no time we were lost and had not in the slightest idea where to go. We reached a long rock bridge, and Yutaro dropped the stone that his doctor friend gave to him. I ended up saving him, and Yahiko bashed him because he'd rather die than lose the stupid stone. At the end of the bridge was a dead end, and of course everyone was blaming Sano for it. Yutaro found a small stucture that could fit the stone exactly. So we stood there waiting for awhile, but nothing happened. Then Himura noticed that the structure had arms carved in it, and the stone had a head carved in it, and Yutaro turned it to its correct position. Once he turned it, a spark lighted, and the whole room was lit. A shadow of the Goddess of Mercy was cast on the wall, which explained the rest of the legend, 'if you are lost in the darkness, the Goddess of Mercy will point to a road leading to the bottom of Mt. Fuji'."
"Yutaro found the entrance, and he opened it. But the pesky Black Knights were there, with the head of the Sanada Ninja, Misanagi Moriya. She knew the second part of the legend, which we didn't know because some of the ink on the paper had smudged, and we didn't know. It went : 'However, the path is deadly and leads to an abyss.' Sheesh. Imagine, one minute we were standing there, gonna go get the medicine, the next, we fell into that stupid pit. And man did it hurt... alot..." Misao sighed.
"Nani ?! Were you hurt or anything ?" Soujirou asked. "No, I was fine... inside the pit there was some awful smelling substance, and Yutaro said that it was sulfur. Thankfully, I didn't light the fire, if not we could've been blown to pieces. Himura sensed that there was water on the other side of the wall, and Sano punched it so we could get out. Once we escaped, we found one of the Sanada Ninja who had been expelled, and they all thought he was dead. Yutaro said he had to operate on him, and by morning, he woke up. I had a felling we couldn't trust him, because it might've been a trap we were leading ourselves into. But the rest of them trusted him anyway, so I had no choice either. He led us to a secret door where we last stopped and so we could continue on. At the beginning of the 'road' there were 2 people who were blocking us, and we had to get past them to get to the medicine. Himura was having a problem because of the bats which were emitting some supersonic which affected his vision. Later he did something to the bats and caught Ren unexpectedly, so we were ok. By the time we reached the 'garden', Melderz was fighting with Schinder, oh they're 2 of the Black Knights, and it was obvious that they were falling apart. Himura fought with Melderz, but after he used Kuzu-Ryu-Sen on him, he was still standing because that jerk was wearing armour. That damn idiot dragged his weapon on the ground, causing the petroleum reserve to ignite and the garden burst into flames. Himura did his Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki on Melderz, although it didn't hurt him, the vortex created by the move ensured that Melderz would be engulfed in flames."
"Thankfully, we got out of there alive, and with some of the medicine even. Later, we received news that the 2 remaining Black Knights would hand themselves in to the police, and later return to Germany to dismantle the rest of the Black Knights. Yutaro and his doctor friend went back to Germany too, and I also left for Kyoto."
"Whoa.. that was some adventure there." Soujirou exclaimed. "Yeah... I'm kinda sleepy now... and I'm lazy to go back... mind if I stay over tonight ?" Misao asked sleepily. "Huh... ok... if you don't mind..." With that, Misao immediately fell asleep with Soujirou by her side.
Author's Ramblings : Hey minna !! I had such a headache over this chapter... dunno why though... well anyway... I'm gonna hafta think about what happens next... (oh yeah Aoshi's supposed to come back, ne ? Right !!!) I'm gonna hafta work on that... and maybe I'll make Sano come back (on second thought... nah !)and we'll see what other fun things we can get out of this ok ? ^^ That's all for now... cya later !! ;D
Note : Whatever Misao said here isn't made up... it really happened (in the RK series in mean, TV that is.) Hah... stinkin' fillers... ANIMATE JINCHUU !!!!!