For the Future
Chapter 3: The Preparations…
By Tenpou GensuiOK Ok! Sorry guys for the very very very long delay. I was actually on a writer's block and actually I don't have any idea what I would type next. Next time, could you please give me some advice by using your reviews? Please I need it badly. Finally, I came up with an idea. There is a new thing that is been added to this story. Yeah I forgot, these characters are owned by mister Anzai (I think he's the cute coach of Shohoku in Slam Dunk). Anyway, I wish he'd let me lend these very kawaii characters. But, this is fanfiction you know! You could do whatever you want and release your imagination!
( ) – Author's reactions on what he typed.
At Recca's House:
Recca was comfortably sleeping in his big room. It was actually eleven in the morning. Then suddenly, a knock was heard from his door and he was quite disturbed because of that. It was his servant/ maid who was knocking at the door. He was pissed of so he stood up and opened the door.
"Hey, what's the problem don't you see I'm sleeping nicely!!!??" Recca shouted at her.
"Gomen ne Recca-san it's because…" She was cut of when Recca shouted at her again.
"Could you please wake me up after at least 2 hours? You know I'm still sleepy because I slept late coz' we went to the airport to welcome Tokiya and Fuuko." He closed the door and went back to sleep again. Recca now locked the door so that he wouldn't be disturbed again. After few minutes another knock was heard from the door again. This time, he just ignored it and covered his ear with pillows. But the knock was becoming louder and louder. This time he was really angry now so he ran of the door, holding a pillow, planning to smack the one who disturbs him. But suddenly…
"Shut up! How many times I told you that I'm still sleeping and most of all, could you please stop disturbing me!!??" Recca started to smack her but…
"Recca! It's me! How could you do that to me!" He was cut off when he saw Yanagi who was looking at him madly.
"Yanagi… so, it was you. Hehehehe…hehe…he… I'm sorry for doing that to you. I'm glad that I didn't hit you." He moved closely to him in order to kiss her on the lips but…
"Hey knock it of! Your breath!" Yanagi warned him for his morning breath. He was embarrassed for what he did and he went of to the bathroom to arrange his self. Yanagi waited at the living room, reading some of the magazines to entertain her. Minutes later, Recca went to her and ask why she was at his house.
"Hey dear, why are you here? Do we have any plans for today?" Recca asked her. Yanagi was quite mad for forgetting that today will be the day that they will prepare the things for the wedding. He apologized again to her for forgetting that and he blamed himself for nothing. Yanagi just ignored that so they both went to out for some important things that they should arrange immediately.
While at the car, Yanagi suddenly asked her fiancé what would be the name of their baby after they get married.
"Honey, actually I don't have any idea what name will I give to our future baby. I know you're quite excited. But, I'm not sure if our first baby will be a boy or a girl but I'm also sure that when our first child will be a girl, she will be as beautiful as you." He smiled at her and she squeezed her arms.
"Oh Recca Hanabishi, you're awfully sweet. You know that?" He also smiled back to him.
"Please Ms. Yanagi Sakoshita, don't hug my right arm like that. I'm driving you know!" he teased her and she just laughed gently. After a few minutes they just decided to have some lunch first at a five-star restaurant. They stopped there for a while to eat. But suddenly, Recca felt that someone was actually following them. He stood up from the chair and asked permission to Yanagi that he will just buy something nice for them.
'I think someone is following at us… I better go alone so that Yanagi wouldn't notice. I don't want her to be harmed…' Recca said that to himself. He ran of outside the restaurant and he noticed a very familiar figure that was following all along. He quickly ran to an area with no persons around and he just decided to fight that man. Then…
"Teme! I'm pissed this morning and now I'm going to kill you!" Recca jumped high to attack but a very familiar sword, the ensui, suddenly blocks him. "Oh Fuuko it was you! But why is it that you have the ensui? I thought Tokiya owns that?" Recca was surprised for what she did.
"Oh Recca, how foolish. It is just me who was following you all along but you didn't easily notice that I am the one who was actually following you all along! Oh by the way, Honey gave this to me to keep as a treasure from a loved one. Now I realized thi weapon is really hard to master. Look at its blade, it's short as a dagger and not so strong too." Mrs. Mikagami said to him. After that, Recca was quite curious why she did that silly thing. She just reasoned that he wanted to help the couple for their preparations. While they are walking, Recca suddenly asked something.
"Oi Fuuko. Why is Tokiya not with you today? Is it because of a quarrel, huh?" Recca teased her.
"What did you said!? Of course Honey and I would never do that even in a million years! He is just in the house just helping the architects how to rearrange and renovate the house. He's actually good at that you know!" Fuuko replied to him.
"Oh, I see. Sorry for saying such a thing. I also didn't expect that you're coming and help us you know!" Recca chuckled.
"Yeah, yeah!" Fuuko replied. The both of them went back to the restaurant and they saw Yanagi who was quite bored there.
"Recca! Where had you been… oh Fuuko! Why are you here?" She was surprised when she saw Fuuko who was with Recca. Fuuko apologized to her for doing such a thing and after they ate lunch together with Fuuko, they both went to a wedding shop to organize what they need for their big day. They went to the shop where Tokiya and Fuuko arranged and prepared their wedding thingies.
"Welcome! Oh, but miss you're already married!" one of the employees welcomed them but she noticed Fuuko's wedding ring.
"No no no! You're right I'm married but the other two couple beside me are the one who will get married." Fuuko explained to them clearly.
"Oh I see… I'm sorry about what I said." She went to Recca and Yanagi to ask what are the things they will need. After a few hours, Yanagi finally decided the wedding gownshe chose. It was a very beautiful and a gown full of many shining crystals. (Actually, I'm still young and I'm a man so I don't know anything about a woman's wedding gown, ok?) In fact, Fuuko praised Yanagi for choosing a right one. But she decided to not try it on until the wedding day. She just wants to surprise Recca what would she look like on her wedding day. After that, they all went to the jewelry shop to choose their wedding ring. When they arrived there, they saw Kaoru Koganei.
"Oi Kaoru, what are you doing here?" Recca asked him. They were also surprised when they saw Kurei who was also buying some nice necklaces.
"Oi Recca-niichan! I was with Kurei-niichan today. We just decided to buy some cool looking goodies around here." Kaoru replied to him.
They were surprised when they saw Kurei holding a silver necklace. He actually looks like a hippie guy. (Oh God! What I've done to him!)
"Oi Recca you're also here! What's the reason?" Kurei asked him.
*sweatdrops* "Kurei, WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU! YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY WE'RE HERE! YANAGI-CHAN WOULD BE DISAPPOINTED IF YOU EVEN FORGET OUR WEDDING DAY AND I'M GOING TO KILL YOU FOR THAT!" Recca, disrespecting his half-brother.
"Hon, what's the matter with you!? Oh Kurei-san, I have to apologize for his rudeness you know. And by the way… that looks nice on you!"
*Everyone sweat drops* All of the customers on the shop looked at them. Recca was quite embarrassed for doing such a thing that is very unusual for him to do. Yanagi just laughed but everyone can see that she was the one who was actually embarrassed because of her fiancé's fault. But after that, she just ignored what did happen at the past few minutes. Then, they just continued to buy some small brooches as their wedding souvenirs. (Rich aren't they!) And of course, they didn't forgot to buy their lovely wedding ring. It was a small cute golden ring with a very shiny red ruby on top. Then, Recca just decided to use his credit card for paying all of their expenses for today.
Then it was evening. They were all hungry because of the many things that they all need to be finished in a short time. Fuuko invited them to eat at her memorable and favorite five-star restaurant. Recca ordered too many foods and everyone thinks that he couldn't manage to eat all that. Yanagi was quite embarrassed because of his actions and she just kept silent and trying her best to ignore him even for that short time.
"Oi Yanagi-chan! Why aren't you tolerating Recca's bad table manners! It's quite embarrassing!" Fuuko was quite annoyed.
"Hmmm… just ignore him! I think he is just on a bad mood today!" Yanagi laughed playfully.
"Oh, some excuses!"
After they had dinner…
"Oh man, that was wonderful! I'm full now!" Recca was satisfied because of the food.
"Uhhh… burps excuse me, he's actually right, the food here was great! And look at Recca, he looks like he hasn't eaten in months!" Yanagi laughed.
"Yeah, and you could see that it was obvious!" Fuuko said. (Just imagine that he is in SD form and has a huge stomach.)
"Hey Fuuko, I didn't know you had a good taste of choosing a very fine restaurant! How did you know that?!" Kurei praised her.
"Oh it's just nothing! You know, this is the place where Mi-chan proposed to me when he invited me to a date." Fuuko explained to them.
"Kawaiii! How romantic!" Yanagi replied.
They just talked to each other while they are walking. Recca, Kurei and Kaoru suddenly felt that someone was following them and they knew that it was a friend of theirs.
"Kurei, Kaoru, I'll go on ahead. You guys protect Yanagi and Fuuko while I'll find out who's that very annoying freak." Recca said.
"What did you said? I alone can handle alone those bad goons!" Fuuko suddenly went in to their secret talk.
"Fuuko Mikagami, we all have a very different feeling towards that person. I think he's not an ordinary person." Recca explained to her.
"Oh sure! I think its just Mi-cahn!" Fuuko was quite doubtful.
She puts out her celphone and tried to call her husband. She called him to make sure that it was just he fooling around. She quickly dialed his number and she spoke to him.
"Hello? Oh honey, how are you?" It was Tokiya Mikagami, the one who answered the phone.
"Hi dear! Anyway, are you the black person who are following us huh?" Fuuko asked him.
"That's ridiculous! I can't do that stupid thing you know! First of all, I'm the one who comes first when we have any appointments, right?"
"Yeah? And then what's the second?"
"I'm here at the house and taking care some business, remember? And the Ensui is now on your hands." Tokiya clearly explained to her wife.
"Oh I'm so sorry honey, I almost forgot that!" Fuuko apologized to him.
"By the way dear, what's the current situation there? I think you're all panicked." Tokiya asked her.
"I think this is not too serious you know so you don't have too worry okay?" fuuko said.
"Oh well… just take care and don't take it easy ok."
"Bye dear I love you!" Fuuko said.
"Love you too!" Tokiya hung the phone.
"So, is that him?" Recca asked her.
"Negative! He's not that type of person who is very sneaky. At first when we met him, he was very cold but now he's totally different. I know he wouldn't do that again!"
"Perhaps you're right!" Recca replied.
After that, all of them decided to follow that very mysterious person. But some thing happened. A car exploded nearby and Yanagi was quite stunned because of the incident. After that they were surprised again when they heard the mystery person laughed and started to threaten them. Yanagi fainted and Kaoru and Fuuko were forced to take care of her. Luckily, Domon came to the scene and they were glad that he came there even though he just passed by.
"So that was all about… I bet he's not any ordinary person. I think he also has a madougu." Domon said.
"Right, and that was we're trying to say!" Recca reacted to him.
So after that, they were all determined to follow that mysterious person. They all decided to split up in order to find him easily. But they didn't notice that he was the one who was following them and especially Recca.
"Hehehehehehe! Now's my chance to kill you Hanabishi Recca!" He jumped of his back and tried to slash him. Recca still has his ninja instincts so the mysterious man in a black cape was quite surprised.
"I thought you're rusted Hanabishi!" he said.
"What the… hey! How did you find out my name?" Recca was surprised.
"I know everything about you and your friends. Am I right Recca Hanabishi, the seventh generation leader of the Hokage clan!?"
"Hey by the way, what's your name?" Recca asked him.
"Names don't matter to a person. Anyway, you could call me shadow."
"What!? Oh it's just you mother. Could you please stop acting like that. You look childish!" Recca shouted at him.
"Who are you talking to! And I am not Kagero!" Shadow teleported to Recca's back and slashed him. Recca quickly called Saiha and slashed his face directly. That revealed his true identity. It was a man which has a very huge x-mark on his whole face. (Imagine an X-box except make the frame a circular one (X) .) Recca was surprised and started to laugh again because of Shadow's funny face.
"Wahahahahahahaha! You're so funny! Wahahahahahaha!" Recca laughed and laughed.
"What's so funny you idiot!" Shadow shouted at him.
"Your face! That makes me laugh! Wahahahahaha!" Recca was still laughing.
"Now let's get going! Dodge this!" Shadow puts out a sword and started to attack Recca. By using his ninja instincts again and again (man, he's really a ninja. Cool!). Then he unleashed another attack. But this time his attack seems very familiar to Recca Hanabishi, and it was an unexpected one.
"Hyomon ken, Tsurara Mai!" Shadow use one of Tokiya Mikagami's attack. At that time he was hit and was also wounded at his left arm. Luckily, Recca didn't felt any pain because of the frozen temperature from his attack.
"what the… even you know how to use Hyoumon Ken! Are you one of Meguri Kyoza's apprentice? Well any way; let's continue the fight! Homura, Saiha, Nadare!" It was Recca's turn to attack and used his favorite flame dragon combination. But shadow was also quick, he dodged Recca's specialty attack. He counterattacked by using another surprising move. Shadow used Fuuko's Kaze no tsume.
"Again!? How in the hell you could do those tricks! Even you could mimic Fuuko's moves!" Recca was now completely shocked.
"Huh! Do you think that I only have few moves!? Now see this!" He continuously attacked Recca and he was wounded again. But fortunately, Kurei and Domon arrived there to help Recca.
"Oh Shit! Now there are idiots who came here to help! Remember this night Hanabishi, next time we'll meet, I'm gonna kill you and I mean it!" And Shadow was gone in an instant. But he was also wounded because of Recca's flame-sickle attack. Recca's arm was really bleeding and they immediately brought him to Yanagi. When she saw Recca, she ran towards him and hugged him. But she was crying. Crying because of her worries that something bad might happen to them that they don't really understand the situation on which they are in.
"Recca I was worried about you! Don't worry now I'll heal you…" The beautiful healer healed her beloved flame master. (Yeah right, one of the most common things that they always do after a very bloody fight!) Suddenly, Yanagi burst up and hugged Recca tightly. She was really crying.
"Why are you crying like that? Did I do something wrong?" Recca was worried at her fiancé.
"Please don't leave me sob I don't want to you to die!"
"Die!? What are you talking about! My left arm was only injured but… our new enemy… even Kurei doesn't know who he really is."
"Now what's going to happen to us?" Yanagi asked him.
"I don't know… but I'll do my best to stop him no matter what happens to me! As your ninja, I'll protect you with all my life."
"Oh Recca… Thank you! But…"
"But what?" Recca was curious.
"Don't ever call me Hime again understood!" Yanagi shouted at him. She doesn't want to be respected anymore as a princess because she realized that it was embarrassing for to her to be called by that at an old age. (because in my story, they are all 26 except for Tokiya who was a year older than them and Kurei who was four years older than Recca.)
"Alright, alright! Take it easy dear! I understood that already!" Recca comforted Yanagi by hugging her.
"Oh Recca, You're so sweet! That's why I want to be with you forever." Yanagi returning his hug.
"Ok guys, it's time to go now! Stop doing that! You know, that makes me jealous I wish Toki-chan was here!" Fuuko said.
"I think I heard my name. Did someone call me, ne Fuuko?" It was Tokiya Mikagami who surprised them.
"Honey! You're here! By the way… what brings you here?" Fuuko asked him.
"Recca, I heard that you or WE had a new opponent. Do you know who he was?"
"I'm not so sure. I was surprised when he used your technique. Do you have any information about him? I mean, is he the next successor of Hyoumon-ken? No wait…I remember, he also used Fuuko's wind moves!"
"What! He even learned my moves!" Fuuko reacted to what Recca said.
"Absolutely, I have a feeling that he's been observing us for a very long time." Recca added.
"I think it started when the time we formed the Hokage team before the UBS." Kaoru said.
"I don't remember having him as a member of the Uruha…"
"What! Even you Kurei didn't know who really shadow was! Now… we only have one last resort, we have to ask ms. Kagero-sama!" Domon said.
"You're right. I think she knows something about him and we need some information to get rid of him! And we need that quickly."
After that, they decided to consult Recca's mother to ask who's the enemy that they are confronting now. (Ohhh man, now they forgot the marriage thingies. But, don't worry, it's part of the story.) They almost forgot that it was midnight. After some few hours, they arrived at Kagero's secret hideout at the mountains.
"At last were here! Oh boy I'm getting sleepy, Recca-niichan, can I go to sleep at Kagero-sama's house?" Kaoru yawned.
"Sure. But expect me to wake you up sooner because we're not stayin' here for too long."
"I'm glad that Ganko and Kondo are not here. Even Kaoru-chan is sleepy." Yanagi said.
Silence flooded the whole dark forest. The full moon was high and all that they can here was the owl and wolf's howling. All of them were sitting silently on her secret house. They were also listening to Kagero's explanation about Shadow's true identity.
"So mom, how did you found out who shadow really is?" Recca asked her mom.
"Actually, he was Ohka-sama's rival. Like you and Kurei."
"You mean they are also brothers like us!?" Kurei racted.
"No, just take it easy, they're just rivals… arch rivals…"
"We don't have to worry about that, right guys?" Fuuko said. Suddenly, Recca thought about something which was also unbelievable.
"Hey guys, wait. If he was my otou-sama's rival, he should be dead by now…" Recca said.
"So, what's your point dear?" Yanagi asked her.
"If he's here… then… he used the time-controlling technique, which means…"
"He's immortal…" Tokiya added.
"Oh my god! What would we do now! We're now facing a 'very strong' enemy!" Domon said.
"Wait! You're all wrong… that's impossible because he's not a member of Hokage!" Kagero reacted. Than suddenly, a voice came out of nowhere.
"You're right Kagero! I'm not a member of Hokage but I knew the technique which you use to bring Recca and Kurei in this time. I was there and hiding behind you when I observed the process."
"Then I'm right! You're immortal!" Recca said.
"You got me wrong lad, since I'm not a member of the Hokage clan, there's no side effect that can happen to me unlike your mothers'." He explained.
"Hey idiot, I heard that you could mimic our moves. How the hell did you do that!?" Tokiya was relaxed while drinking his cup of tea.
"I told that I could manipulate time! And I was there at the tournament!"
"Hey mom! If he was father's rival then… what is his original power?" Recca asked her.
"Let me tell you, this is my power!" Shadow lets out many fireballs from his arm.
"NO WAY!" Recca and Kurei were surprised seeing Shadow's power. Then suddenly, Recca's whole body began to burn and all of his flame went out of his body forming a dragon.
"Resshin…"
Well guys, what can you say about my story. I know it's quite boring so please criticize me by using you reviews. Well anyway, I was on a slump updating because of the activities and exams at school. Yeah, sorry again for the very long wait. Uh… This story will be a multi-saga story. ( Tinatawagan ko ang lahat ng mga pinoy na mag review naman kayo sa akin dahil ako'y nakikiusap na sa inyo!!!) J