Chapter 2
By Crystal
*Screw the disclaimers ^^;; Mina and Ryosuke belong to XenoMark*
"You're kidding, right?" Kenshin asked, looking at the man he detested.
Saitoh snorted, "You think? Anyways, your next class is Kenjitsuu." Saitoh smirked again, "And I'm joining you with Tokio-sensei and Okita-sensei." It was amusing to see the two red heads' eyes widen with shock and disbelief.
"Che, don't you have anything else to do as a principal than watch some new students sword fight. I bet you can't even beat me!" Sano said, puffing out his chest.
Kenshin let out a small chuckle, "You beat Saitoh? Not to offend you or anything, but I think not. I'll be waiting for the next class." Kenshin's eyes had a bit of amber in his eyes and his voice had dropped to an even colder tone. It had been a while since he and Saitoh had a fight, and he was looking forward to it.
"Saitoh-san or Saitoh-sama to you, Batto...Himura. Aku. Soku. Zan." He said and turned around leaving Okita with them.
"See you next class, Himura-san!" He waved and Kenshin muttered a 'Bye Okita.'
"BUSU!" All heads turned around to meet a spiky head kid in the company of another boy and girl. As he reached the big crowd, he said, "Oi, new student?"
Kaoru pinched Yahiko's ear hard, earning a yelp from him, "Have a little respect. This is Himura Kenshin and Himura Mina. This is Myojin Yahiko, loudmouth kid. Yamamoto Tsubame, Shizaku Ryosuke." Just when Yahiko was going to say something, the bell rang. "Let's go! And jogged towards the school dojo." She turned around, seeing the confused look on Kenshin. "There's only one class for Kenjitsuu. Every grade is there, there's only about twenty students though. I'll explain to you on the way there." Kenshin and Mina then followed Kaoru and listened to her explanation.
"There's three groups. The low, medium and high class. Megumi and Tsubame doesn't take it because they don't like it, so they take science and art instead. Sano, Aoshi and Soujiro are in the high class. Misao, Ryosuke, Yahiko and I are in the medium class. Toshiko is the only one in the low class since she doesn't take it too seriously. The teachers will set you up in either group by testing your skills and that's about it. I don't know why both of our other senseis got fired, but I didn't like them much. Okita-sensei sounded nice." Kaoru said, and opened the door to the dojo.
Inside, there was another nine students with Tokio, Saitoh and Okita. "I'm your new sensei at Kenjitsuu, this is Tokio-sensei," Okita pointed at Tokio, "I'm Okita-sensei. Please to meet you. And this is your new principal, Saitoh-san." He pointed at Saitoh and as he caught a glimpse of flaming red hair, he said, "There's two new students in the class, Himura Kenshin and Himura Mina. They'll both be in the high class. Any problems?"
"YES! Usually, we test their skills!" A student shouted.
Saitoh stood up, "Skill testing, eh? You, go fight him." He pointed at the one who shouted. This was bound to be interesting, the poor boy was going to have a major headache when he woke up, Saitoh predicted. Even without any weapon, Battousai could beat him up. And he was right, as the kid rushed at Kenshin with is bokken, a second later, was thrown towards the wall and fell unconscious. "Anyone else?" Saitoh called, passing Kenshin a bokken. "These things are useless." Saitoh said, looking disgusted at the presence of the wooden stick.
Kenshin caught the bokken easily and swung his bag down with a loud clunk. He winced. He looked around and thank the gods that no one had been able to guess what it was, except Aoshi who was staring at him intensely and Soujiro who had a frown on his face. He didn't mind the glare Aoshi gave him much, he was use to the glare people gave him all the time.
Soujiro stood up and felt a tug at his clothes and looked down at Toshiko who shook her head. Kenshin raised his eyebrow, surprised. So her 'little sister' had found someone she liked. Kids in this school wouldn't be too good, he looked at Soujiro who was now standing in front of him, tapping his left foot continuously... And disappeared. Ah yes, usually, he would not use his full strength with boys his age, but he felt a fighting ki in him, therefore, he didn't underestimate him and that's how he beat him easily.
Everyone gasped at the sight of Soujiro falling on the floor, behind hit with a bokken on the back. Soujiro was going to stand up when a voice stopped him, "Stay down. You would have been dead if it was a real sword." He looked at the school's new principal and he walked back to where his friends seated. Next, Aoshi challenged Kenshin, who lost as well. Sanosuke did not even bother, even if his ego was as big as the size of Japan. Beating Soujiro was enough proof to tell him that he was strong, but beating Aoshi too... Sano was not as strong as neither, so when it meant that the both of them were beaten, it was not his place to go up and fight.
"Is the skill testing down?" Kenshin asked innocently. No answer. He was about to sit down when...
"Iie." Saitoh walked to the middle of the floor, signalling Tokio and Okita to clear the way, making the students sit at the very end of the dojo so they have lots of space. Kenshin held up his bokken, ready and Saitoh shook his head. "Himura, you planning on fighting with that piece of shit?" Saitoh gave his wife a glance and Tokio threw him a katana. A little duel wouldn't hurt, as long as the students kept quiet. "Kids, if you ever tell anybody about this fight. You're dead." He said in a cold voice and they all nodded.
"Oi! This isn't fair! Kenshin has to fight you with a bokken?" Sano yelled at the principal.
"Ahou." Was Saitoh's only reply.
"Oi! What did you..." He fell quiet as Kenshin walked over to his bag and took something wrapped from it. He unwrapped it carefully and inside, was a wakizashi and a katana. A daisho. He slid both of them onto his belt and went to a Battou jutsu position. Saitoh went into a Gatotsu.
Akito frowned, "What's the principal's stance and the new student's stance?" He asked.
Aoshi and Soujiro frowned also. It was not common that anyone used these stances anymore. Aoshi opened his mouth, "The principal's stand is the Gatotsu. Used most of the time by the 3rd captain of the Shinsengumi during the war of the Bakumatsu."
"And the Battou jutsu... It was used by Hitokiri Battousai, Hitokiri Kensai and the Tenken during the Meiji era. Also said to have been used by Hitokiri Battousai against the 3rd captain of the Shinsengumi. Although... I don't think he's planning on using it." Soujiro said.
"Bakumatsu? What's that? Akito asked.
All questions were forgotten as Saitoh sped towards Kenshin with his Gatotsu ready and Kenshin dodged. Saitoh swung his sword around and Kenshin blocked it with his katana, pushed until his back was against the wall. Kenshin was about to counter him with his wakizashi when Okita spoke up, "Saitoh-san, Himura-san." He pointed at the students. To have it raining blood in a school dojo was not what parents wanted their children to see.
Most students were shocked at the display. There was no holding back during that Gatotsu their principal did, he knew very well that Kenshin could have blocked it without problem. That Gatotsu had shown the students how strong their principal was with Kenjitsuu, but how strong was their classmate, Himura Kenshin?
Kenshin jumped over Saitoh swiftly and landed with a soft 'thud'. He sheathed his sword while he was still crouching down and then stood up to face Saitoh. Amber eyes met amber eyes and then they both bowed down.
"That's all there is for the little display," Tokio said, "Now, we'll start practicing what the teacher taught us last class. Would anyone please stand up and show me what your last teacher did?" She looked at the students who were still in awe at the duel. "Anyone...?" She said, quietly, then she saw a hand raised up, "Yes... You... Your name?"
"Shizaku Ryosuke..." Ryosuke replied.
"Shizaku-chan. Please come up here and demonstrate last class' lesson." Tokio said nicely, and the rest of the class went like that.
As the bell rang, signalling the end of the second block, everyone rushed out the dojo and into the school cafeteria. The whole bunch of them was sitting together, including Mina and Kenshin who Toshiko dragged along with. Kaoru was stealing glances at Kenshin while talking to Misao and she kept blushing sometimes, it made Mina's blood boil when she saw Kaoru doing that, Kenshin, on the other side, didn't seem to mind. Correct that, he didn't seem to notice her glance. Aoshi the icicle seemed to be eating his lunch while deep in thought, Megumi was trying to teach his dumb boyfriend how to do his math, Yahiko laughed at the sight of Sanosuke and he was chatting with Tsubame and Ryosuke. Ryosuke kept looking at Mina. Toshiko was happily chatting with her boyfriend and kept getting jealous glares, along with all the girl at that table.
Aoshi was voted as the most handsome guy in Tokyo High, even if he was a cold freezing icicle. Soujiro was voted the kindest guy, Sano the guy that knows just what to say. It would not take long for Kenshin to be voted as probably the cutest guy or something. He would probably gain a fan club or something.
Aoshi was thinking about Kenshin. The duel in class. It had shocked him that someone so young was able to do the Battou jutsu, and he thought Soujiro was the only one who could do it. He shouldn't be so surprised, really. He himself was one of the best in school along with Soujiro for Kenjitsuu and Sanosuke was the best for hand combat. Misao was also skilled along with Kaoru. He wondered how well Mina was, the principal putting her in the top class. Probably just as good as his brother, but that would just be weird.
"Halloween's approaching! Want to go Trick-or-Treating?" Kaoru asked, optimistically. All the guys groaned (except Kenshin) and all the girl cheered (except Mina). Both of them didn't know whether to cheer or groan.
"What's so bad about Halloween?" "What's so good about Halloween?" Kenshin and Mina asked their friends.
Soujiro gave a slight smile, "The girls drag us into parties until late at night and they make us go get candy with them..." He said aloud, then whispered into Kenshin's ears, "It's horrible." Kenshin gave a grin, he was not going to go anyways, he heard that Katsura-san had something to be done on Halloween.
While the guys explained things to Kenshin, the guys were explaining things to Mina. "Kenshin..." Mina said, not knowing what to do. This was going to be a hard thing to get away from.
"Come on, Mina! You should come with us and get some candies!" Misao shouted.
"Pfft... I'm not as childish as you to get candy. Then I'd get fat." Mina replied.
Misao stood up, "What did you say?! You called me childish?! Why you little..."
"Everyone, calm down!" Tsubame was always the one quieting down the things, and so was Soujiro.
"Maa, maa, calm down, Misao!" Soujiro said.
Kenshin smiled slightly, his sister was always getting in trouble. "Mina... You should go with them on Halloween."
"What about you then, Kenshin?" Yahiko asked.
"I have something to do." Kenshin replied, his tone signalling that that was the end of the discussion about what he was doing that night. That had gotten Aoshi more suspicious and he caught Soujiro's glance and nodded slightly. So, they were both suspicious...
Xenomark - Thanks, I corrected chapter one, tell me what you think of it. And if there's any mistake or any OOC on this chapter, tell me too so I can correct it.
kawaii sakura-chan - Unfortunately, Mina and Ryosuke's not my character, they're XenoMark's which I borrowed from. Misao and Mina aren't the greatest friends now, and it looks like Mina isn't starting too good with anyone.
C M Howell - Your wish might come true... ^^ We'll just have to see.
omochi - Arigatou!
By Crystal
*Screw the disclaimers ^^;; Mina and Ryosuke belong to XenoMark*
"You're kidding, right?" Kenshin asked, looking at the man he detested.
Saitoh snorted, "You think? Anyways, your next class is Kenjitsuu." Saitoh smirked again, "And I'm joining you with Tokio-sensei and Okita-sensei." It was amusing to see the two red heads' eyes widen with shock and disbelief.
"Che, don't you have anything else to do as a principal than watch some new students sword fight. I bet you can't even beat me!" Sano said, puffing out his chest.
Kenshin let out a small chuckle, "You beat Saitoh? Not to offend you or anything, but I think not. I'll be waiting for the next class." Kenshin's eyes had a bit of amber in his eyes and his voice had dropped to an even colder tone. It had been a while since he and Saitoh had a fight, and he was looking forward to it.
"Saitoh-san or Saitoh-sama to you, Batto...Himura. Aku. Soku. Zan." He said and turned around leaving Okita with them.
"See you next class, Himura-san!" He waved and Kenshin muttered a 'Bye Okita.'
"BUSU!" All heads turned around to meet a spiky head kid in the company of another boy and girl. As he reached the big crowd, he said, "Oi, new student?"
Kaoru pinched Yahiko's ear hard, earning a yelp from him, "Have a little respect. This is Himura Kenshin and Himura Mina. This is Myojin Yahiko, loudmouth kid. Yamamoto Tsubame, Shizaku Ryosuke." Just when Yahiko was going to say something, the bell rang. "Let's go! And jogged towards the school dojo." She turned around, seeing the confused look on Kenshin. "There's only one class for Kenjitsuu. Every grade is there, there's only about twenty students though. I'll explain to you on the way there." Kenshin and Mina then followed Kaoru and listened to her explanation.
"There's three groups. The low, medium and high class. Megumi and Tsubame doesn't take it because they don't like it, so they take science and art instead. Sano, Aoshi and Soujiro are in the high class. Misao, Ryosuke, Yahiko and I are in the medium class. Toshiko is the only one in the low class since she doesn't take it too seriously. The teachers will set you up in either group by testing your skills and that's about it. I don't know why both of our other senseis got fired, but I didn't like them much. Okita-sensei sounded nice." Kaoru said, and opened the door to the dojo.
Inside, there was another nine students with Tokio, Saitoh and Okita. "I'm your new sensei at Kenjitsuu, this is Tokio-sensei," Okita pointed at Tokio, "I'm Okita-sensei. Please to meet you. And this is your new principal, Saitoh-san." He pointed at Saitoh and as he caught a glimpse of flaming red hair, he said, "There's two new students in the class, Himura Kenshin and Himura Mina. They'll both be in the high class. Any problems?"
"YES! Usually, we test their skills!" A student shouted.
Saitoh stood up, "Skill testing, eh? You, go fight him." He pointed at the one who shouted. This was bound to be interesting, the poor boy was going to have a major headache when he woke up, Saitoh predicted. Even without any weapon, Battousai could beat him up. And he was right, as the kid rushed at Kenshin with is bokken, a second later, was thrown towards the wall and fell unconscious. "Anyone else?" Saitoh called, passing Kenshin a bokken. "These things are useless." Saitoh said, looking disgusted at the presence of the wooden stick.
Kenshin caught the bokken easily and swung his bag down with a loud clunk. He winced. He looked around and thank the gods that no one had been able to guess what it was, except Aoshi who was staring at him intensely and Soujiro who had a frown on his face. He didn't mind the glare Aoshi gave him much, he was use to the glare people gave him all the time.
Soujiro stood up and felt a tug at his clothes and looked down at Toshiko who shook her head. Kenshin raised his eyebrow, surprised. So her 'little sister' had found someone she liked. Kids in this school wouldn't be too good, he looked at Soujiro who was now standing in front of him, tapping his left foot continuously... And disappeared. Ah yes, usually, he would not use his full strength with boys his age, but he felt a fighting ki in him, therefore, he didn't underestimate him and that's how he beat him easily.
Everyone gasped at the sight of Soujiro falling on the floor, behind hit with a bokken on the back. Soujiro was going to stand up when a voice stopped him, "Stay down. You would have been dead if it was a real sword." He looked at the school's new principal and he walked back to where his friends seated. Next, Aoshi challenged Kenshin, who lost as well. Sanosuke did not even bother, even if his ego was as big as the size of Japan. Beating Soujiro was enough proof to tell him that he was strong, but beating Aoshi too... Sano was not as strong as neither, so when it meant that the both of them were beaten, it was not his place to go up and fight.
"Is the skill testing down?" Kenshin asked innocently. No answer. He was about to sit down when...
"Iie." Saitoh walked to the middle of the floor, signalling Tokio and Okita to clear the way, making the students sit at the very end of the dojo so they have lots of space. Kenshin held up his bokken, ready and Saitoh shook his head. "Himura, you planning on fighting with that piece of shit?" Saitoh gave his wife a glance and Tokio threw him a katana. A little duel wouldn't hurt, as long as the students kept quiet. "Kids, if you ever tell anybody about this fight. You're dead." He said in a cold voice and they all nodded.
"Oi! This isn't fair! Kenshin has to fight you with a bokken?" Sano yelled at the principal.
"Ahou." Was Saitoh's only reply.
"Oi! What did you..." He fell quiet as Kenshin walked over to his bag and took something wrapped from it. He unwrapped it carefully and inside, was a wakizashi and a katana. A daisho. He slid both of them onto his belt and went to a Battou jutsu position. Saitoh went into a Gatotsu.
Akito frowned, "What's the principal's stance and the new student's stance?" He asked.
Aoshi and Soujiro frowned also. It was not common that anyone used these stances anymore. Aoshi opened his mouth, "The principal's stand is the Gatotsu. Used most of the time by the 3rd captain of the Shinsengumi during the war of the Bakumatsu."
"And the Battou jutsu... It was used by Hitokiri Battousai, Hitokiri Kensai and the Tenken during the Meiji era. Also said to have been used by Hitokiri Battousai against the 3rd captain of the Shinsengumi. Although... I don't think he's planning on using it." Soujiro said.
"Bakumatsu? What's that? Akito asked.
All questions were forgotten as Saitoh sped towards Kenshin with his Gatotsu ready and Kenshin dodged. Saitoh swung his sword around and Kenshin blocked it with his katana, pushed until his back was against the wall. Kenshin was about to counter him with his wakizashi when Okita spoke up, "Saitoh-san, Himura-san." He pointed at the students. To have it raining blood in a school dojo was not what parents wanted their children to see.
Most students were shocked at the display. There was no holding back during that Gatotsu their principal did, he knew very well that Kenshin could have blocked it without problem. That Gatotsu had shown the students how strong their principal was with Kenjitsuu, but how strong was their classmate, Himura Kenshin?
Kenshin jumped over Saitoh swiftly and landed with a soft 'thud'. He sheathed his sword while he was still crouching down and then stood up to face Saitoh. Amber eyes met amber eyes and then they both bowed down.
"That's all there is for the little display," Tokio said, "Now, we'll start practicing what the teacher taught us last class. Would anyone please stand up and show me what your last teacher did?" She looked at the students who were still in awe at the duel. "Anyone...?" She said, quietly, then she saw a hand raised up, "Yes... You... Your name?"
"Shizaku Ryosuke..." Ryosuke replied.
"Shizaku-chan. Please come up here and demonstrate last class' lesson." Tokio said nicely, and the rest of the class went like that.
As the bell rang, signalling the end of the second block, everyone rushed out the dojo and into the school cafeteria. The whole bunch of them was sitting together, including Mina and Kenshin who Toshiko dragged along with. Kaoru was stealing glances at Kenshin while talking to Misao and she kept blushing sometimes, it made Mina's blood boil when she saw Kaoru doing that, Kenshin, on the other side, didn't seem to mind. Correct that, he didn't seem to notice her glance. Aoshi the icicle seemed to be eating his lunch while deep in thought, Megumi was trying to teach his dumb boyfriend how to do his math, Yahiko laughed at the sight of Sanosuke and he was chatting with Tsubame and Ryosuke. Ryosuke kept looking at Mina. Toshiko was happily chatting with her boyfriend and kept getting jealous glares, along with all the girl at that table.
Aoshi was voted as the most handsome guy in Tokyo High, even if he was a cold freezing icicle. Soujiro was voted the kindest guy, Sano the guy that knows just what to say. It would not take long for Kenshin to be voted as probably the cutest guy or something. He would probably gain a fan club or something.
Aoshi was thinking about Kenshin. The duel in class. It had shocked him that someone so young was able to do the Battou jutsu, and he thought Soujiro was the only one who could do it. He shouldn't be so surprised, really. He himself was one of the best in school along with Soujiro for Kenjitsuu and Sanosuke was the best for hand combat. Misao was also skilled along with Kaoru. He wondered how well Mina was, the principal putting her in the top class. Probably just as good as his brother, but that would just be weird.
"Halloween's approaching! Want to go Trick-or-Treating?" Kaoru asked, optimistically. All the guys groaned (except Kenshin) and all the girl cheered (except Mina). Both of them didn't know whether to cheer or groan.
"What's so bad about Halloween?" "What's so good about Halloween?" Kenshin and Mina asked their friends.
Soujiro gave a slight smile, "The girls drag us into parties until late at night and they make us go get candy with them..." He said aloud, then whispered into Kenshin's ears, "It's horrible." Kenshin gave a grin, he was not going to go anyways, he heard that Katsura-san had something to be done on Halloween.
While the guys explained things to Kenshin, the guys were explaining things to Mina. "Kenshin..." Mina said, not knowing what to do. This was going to be a hard thing to get away from.
"Come on, Mina! You should come with us and get some candies!" Misao shouted.
"Pfft... I'm not as childish as you to get candy. Then I'd get fat." Mina replied.
Misao stood up, "What did you say?! You called me childish?! Why you little..."
"Everyone, calm down!" Tsubame was always the one quieting down the things, and so was Soujiro.
"Maa, maa, calm down, Misao!" Soujiro said.
Kenshin smiled slightly, his sister was always getting in trouble. "Mina... You should go with them on Halloween."
"What about you then, Kenshin?" Yahiko asked.
"I have something to do." Kenshin replied, his tone signalling that that was the end of the discussion about what he was doing that night. That had gotten Aoshi more suspicious and he caught Soujiro's glance and nodded slightly. So, they were both suspicious...
Xenomark - Thanks, I corrected chapter one, tell me what you think of it. And if there's any mistake or any OOC on this chapter, tell me too so I can correct it.
kawaii sakura-chan - Unfortunately, Mina and Ryosuke's not my character, they're XenoMark's which I borrowed from. Misao and Mina aren't the greatest friends now, and it looks like Mina isn't starting too good with anyone.
C M Howell - Your wish might come true... ^^ We'll just have to see.
omochi - Arigatou!