Ryoga Adventures in Kyoto.
By: Daimyo Shi
Disclaimer: Yep Ranma isn't mine Not that I want him. I'll take Nabiki though!
[Thoughts]
Ryoga sat in the restraint eating his rice. [It is nice to have a real meal, rather than those ramen cups I normally have.] Ryoga had found himself in Kyoto, the former capital of Japan, again. [it is strange, I always feel so at home in Kyoto. No place in Japan feels quite as comfortable as Kyoto to me. It seems so familiar, not like I navigate any easier in this city over any other but I find it more easy to be lost in, almost soothing.]
Ryoga left the restaurant after paying for his meal. He turned to his left. Through several hours of walking he found himself in a very old part of the city. The alley he was in seemed very foreboding, much like a memory just at the edge of his mind but not quite there. [It like I have been here before. Not like I got lost and passed here but Like a was here and did something. This area is old, it might even date to the end of the Tokugawa.] Ryoga continue along the alley. A drop of rain alerted Ryoga to the rain to come. He pulled out his umbrella as the a light rain started to fall on Kyoto. He continued walking, he soon found himself facing a graveyard. A very old grave yard. Something compelled him into the graveyard. He walked among the headstones most were very old but still were well care for. He stopped in front of a couple grave stones. These two grave stones were partly moss covered and they had dirt and mud on them. Both were dated to the Meiji Restoration. Both headstones have the Kanji for Shinsengumi.
[poor guys I guess they died so young that they had no one to attend their gravestones.] Ryoga carefully began to remove the moss from the headstones as best as he can with one hand. Ryoga also put down a cup from his back pack where it could collect rain. After removing the moss he cleaned the kanji engraving of the gravestones with a old ball point pen. Ryoga then poured the water from the cup over both gravestones. He then pulled out two ramen cups out of his back pack and placed one on each gravestone. The rain had stopped, so Ryoga put away his umbrella. He clapped his hands twice and prayed. [I hope you next live were full of peace and happiness.]
"Well good bye Taiko-sama and Wanatabe-sama. I can't promise that I will be back for the Bon Festival. I get too lost for that kind of thing. Perhaps my wandering will bring me back here. I hope you both are doing well in what ever lives you have know. I shall try to come back at some time to make sure you gravestones are clean. Good bye."
Ryoga turns around and walks south. The clouds have parted and unveiled a spectacular sun set and rainbow. A ghostly Shinsengumi Outfit enshrouds Ryoga. Near the two gravestones the ghostly form of two young men dressed in Shinsengumi uniforms bow deeply towards Ryoga. A whisper on the Wind seems to say "Domo arigato Taisa-sama."
Aku Soku Zan
Japanese Terms
Tokugawa: the Family Name of the Shogun that were over thrown during the Meiji Restoration.
Shinsengumi: A police type militia in Kyoto during the Japanese Civil War literally New Choice Group
Meiji: Era name of the time the main story of Rurounin Kenshin is set in. The era Name of Tenno Meiji [the Japanese Emperor Meiji] starts in 1868.
Taisa: captain