Disclaimer: Hey I'm back, yea right like you could get rid of me that easily. Give me a break, lol. Ok here it goes, I don't own the characters or rights to the Ronin Warriors. There we go, it's been said. The only characters that are mine are Kaye and Lightning. Email me @ cokeacola_75@hotmail.com.
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Delicious Torment
Ch 1
"Hey, whoa! Nice counter move," Kento said as he was getting up from the floor.
"Thanks Kento, but I can't take all of the credit," a young teenage boy replied with as grin as he held out his hand towards him.
"Where did you learn that, or should I ask who did you learn that counter move from?" Kento asked curiously.
The person that Kento was sparring grinned at his compliment, and then took a quick glance over to the sidelines where the others were watching. "I should have known." Kento said as he smirked.
"What? Why are you looking at me for? I didn't teach him that?" Kaye asked as they were approaching her.
"Yea, sure you didn't." Kento replied as he laid his arm across her shoulders.
"I didn't." Kaye said as she looked at him.
"Uh huh, tell me another one, Kaye," Kento replied as he raised an eyebrow at her. "If you didn't teach him that counter move, then who did?"
"Ah that would have been me, actually." Cye replied with a small smile.
"Cye?" Kento said in amazement as he blinked his eyes in shock.
"Yea, it was uncle Cye," the young teen replied as he nodded. The other guys laughed from the look on Kento's face. Actually, Cye and the other guys are not his real uncles, but he just calls them that because they've treated him like family ever since he came to the center where Kaye works.
"Ok Sian, I think that Kento has had enough humiliation for one day. Why don't you help teach the other kids, while we take care of business around here." Rowen said with a laugh.
"Sure thing uncle Rowen." Sian replied with a grin as he started to walk towards the other kids.
"Hey Sian, later on I want a rematch, and don't think that I'll go easy on you either." Kento called to him.
Sian looked back and grinned at Kento, "whatever you say 'dad.'"
Kento grinned backs at the inside joke, and then joined up with the others at Kaye's office.
"Look who decided to join us?" Sage said sarcastically.
"Funny Sage, keep it up and you'll be the next one eating the floor." Kento replied with a smirk.
Kaye smiled some and then looked over the large pile of bills that were lying on her desk. She sighed, "Kaye?" Ryo asked as he caught her sigh.
The others looked over at her; she looked up and gave a small smile. "Huh, oh sorry Ryo." Kaye replied.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Kento asked as he looked at her in concern.
"It's nothing, it's just that the center has all of these bills, and with money being tight as it is. There's a chance that the center could close. I won't let that happen, if it does, then these kids won't have anywhere to go." Kaye replied as she looked back down again at the large pile of bills.
"How long has this been going on?" Sage asked curiously.
Before Kaye could answer him, the doors flew open and a group of very rough looking people walked on in. Everyone stopped what they were doing, and watched them make their way to Kaye's office. "Oh great, they're back," Kaye, said as she stood up from her desk and crossed her arms. "Hey, I thought that I told you to never come back here."
"Now, now Kaye, is that any way to welcome us?" a man with a very scratchy voice asked.
"Who are you?" Kento demanded as he and the others stood up.
"You must be Mr. Faun," the leader of the group said as he looked Kento over.
"How did you know that?" Ryo asked as he was trying to keep his temper in check.
"That's not important at the moment. As a matter of fact, we know all of you, Mr. Sanada. The one with the blue hair is Mr. Hashiba, the blonde is Mr. Date, and the one with the light brown hair is Mr. Mouri." the leader replied as he looked at each of them. "I also understand that congratulations are in order Kaye, for your marriage to Mr. Faun here."
"I suggest that you all leave, now." Kaye replied coldly.
"You heard the lady." Kento said as he and the others glared at them.
"You can either leave on your own, or you can be escorted out, the choice is yours." Ryo warned.
The leader looked at each one, and he knew that they meant business. He also knew that he and his men were going to have one heck of a fight on their hands. Unfortunately, that's not what he wanted this early in the game. "Very well, we'll leave on our own. But don't forget, we'll be back." the leader replied as they finally left.
"Is everyone ok in here?" Sian asked in concern as he ran into Kaye's office.
"Yea Sian, thanks. Now, would you please go back to the kids and continue their lessons?" Kaye replied as she ushered Sian back out.
"Ok, but only if you're sure 'mom.'" Sian said with a teasing smirk.
"I'm sure, now go before I make ya be on kitchen duty." Kaye replied with that determined look in her eyes. Sian learned about that look of hers when he first came to the center. He knew that when she got that look that she made up her mind and no one could talk her out of anything.
"Kaye, who were those guys?" Sage asked as she kept her gaze towards Sian and the other kids.
"They're a gang called the Illusionists. The leader's name is Jakobe, and the shorter one is named Dante. They go around to places and offer 'protection' to people in different neighborhoods. They tell them that if they don't pay, or go by their so called rules, then they won't be responsible for the 'accidents' that might happen." Kaye replied as she leaned against the doorframe.
"What do you mean by, accidents?" Cye asked in concern.
"Anything from people being hurt, to places being blown up. They don't care who gets hurt just as long as they get what they want." Kaye replied quietly.
"I'm still wondering how they knew about us in the first place." Rowen mused as he leaned against the wall with his arms crossed.
"You give a good point there, Rowen," Sage said as he sat back down. "Kaye, how long has it been since they've set up their 'business'?"
"I would have to say, almost a month." Kaye replied as she began to frown.
"Kaye, have they? Have they, threatened you or the kids?" Kento asked in concern as he went over to her, and held onto her from behind. Kaye gave a small sigh; Kento could tell that she was trying not to shudder from the memory of their last visit. "Kaye?"
"The last time that they were here, they tore the place apart. Tables and chairs were thrown everywhere; glass was all over the floor. Luckily, no one was hurt, but they said that next time something worse could happen," Kaye replied quietly. "Why couldn't it have been Talpa or some other power crazed maniac, trying to take over the world? Why is it them, why?"
The other Ronins looked around at each other, they didn't know how to answer her question. Yea, she did have a point, dealing with Talpa and others like him was one thing, but trying to figure out how to deal with gangs was something else entirely. "Kaye, could you come out here? We need some help with this," a kid yelled to her from the other end of the room.
"Be right there," Kaye called back. "I gotta go, we'll talk later ok." Kaye turned around and gave a quick kiss on Kento's cheek, and then went over to help out the kids that were on the other end of the room.
"Guys, we have to do something about this." Kento said as he watched her.
"We know Kento, and we will. But first things first, we need to figure out how the center is going to pull in enough money by a couple of months." Rowen replied as Kento turned around and faced them.
Sian noticed that Kaye was about to pass him. Just as he was going to say something, he noticed that she looked like something was on her mind, and it wasn't good. Sian frowned, he remembered one other time that she had that look on her face, and he knew that this was definitely serious. "I think that it's time for the two of us to have a talk." Sian thought.
"Sian, hey Sian, what's the deal? Are you going to teach us any more today, or are we done?" one of the students asked as she was pulling on his arm.
"Huh, oh ah yea, sorry. We're done for today. Class is dismissed." Sian announced to the other kids. With a small smile, Sian watched the kids scatter from the training area, and ran towards the different parts of the center. He then looked over to where Kaye was helping a couple of kids finish up a project. She was telling them to go and was up, because it was almost time for dinner. Sian gave a small chuckle, he knew how hard it was sometimes to get the kids to listen, especially if they were major interested in a project that his 'uncles' bring with them every once in a while.
"You know, I thought that uncle Rowen would of learned to never bring that astronomy set with him. Especially since what happened the last time." Sian said with a small smile. Last time that Rowen brought the astronomy set, they had a very hard time making the kids go to bed when they were suppose to. Because they wanted to stay up and look at the different stars and constellations.
"You know Rowen, always wanting to get others interested into star gazing." Kaye replied with a small smile.
"Yea, um Kaye? When you were coming over here, I noticed that you seem to be preoccupied with something. Is everything ok? You know that you can tell me." Sian asked as he looked towards her in concern. Kaye looked at his face; she could see that he knew that something was definitely wrong. There was no way that she or anyone else could ever hide anything from him.
"It's nothing that you have to be concerned about, Sian." Kaye replied as she was trying to reassure him.
"Sorry, but I'm not buying it." Sian replied with a stubborn look of his own.
"Sian..." Kaye started to say.
"Look, whatever is going on, I have the right to know. I'm not a little kid any more. I can help you." Sian replied.
"Yea I can see that, Sian, but..." Kaye tried to explain.
"But nothing Kaye, when I first came to the center, you told me that any time that I need someone to talk to, or if I needed help, all I had to do was ask." Sian said as he was trying to stay calm.
Kaye took a look around before she continued, "ok, you wanna know how you can help, then fine. But I don't want the other kids to know, you got me," Kaye asked as Sian showed that he understood by nodding his head. "All right then, besides the so called 'visit' that we had today, the center...the center." Kaye said as she was fighting the tears that were threatening to fall.
"What about the center?" Sian asked in concern as he laid both of his hands on top of her shoulders.
"The center might have to close." Kaye replied sadly.
"What! Why, when?" Sian asked in surprise.
"If we don't get enough money soon, then the center will close down in a couple of months." Kaye replied as she looked into his eyes.
Sian pulled Kaye into his embrace, "don't worry 'mom,' everything will work out. I promise." Sian said as hugged her tighter.
"Sian." Kaye whispered as she stayed in his embrace. While this was going on, the Ronins were watching them.
"Looks like she told him." Cye said as he sat back down.
"Yea, so now what? We know that Sian is going to want to help, right?" Kento asked as he leaned back onto the desk.
"Knowing that kid, yea." Sage replied as he crossed his arms.
"Hey, don't let him hear you say that he's a kid, remember last time that someone called him that?" Rowen asked with a chuckle. The others grinned in remembrance, because the last time that someone called Sian a kid, that person went head first through a window.
As they were talking, they didn't hear Kaye and Sian approach her office. "Hey, are you guys ready to eat, or are you going to let the kids eat all of the food?" Sian asked with a smirk.
"What! No way! Hey you kids, don't you even think of eating all of that food! Save some for me!" Kento called over as he ran to the kitchen. The others laughed as they watched Kento make a break for it.
"We better get over there, because I have a feeling that if we don't, there won't be any food left for us." Sian said with a laugh as they ran over to the kitchen.
Elsewhere...
"Jakobe, are you sure that it was wise to put in an appearance, especially since the Ronins were there?" Dante asked as he swished his champagne before taking a drink.
"You worry too much, Dante. Actually, I'm surprised by something else." Jakobe replied as he stroked at his shirt, while wiping the dust off.
"Oh, and what's that?" Dante asked as he lifted an eyebrow at him.
"Sian." Jakobe replied.
"What about Sian?" Dante asked.
"I'm trying to figure out why he doesn't remember anything from before?" Jakobe mused.
"Are you telling me that you think that he has amnesia?" Dante asked back.
"It's possible," Jakobe replied. "I don't see any other explanation, do you?"
"No, I suppose not. Then what do we plan to do about this? Are we still going with what we originally planned?" Dante asked curiously.
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Delicious Torment
Ch 1
"Hey, whoa! Nice counter move," Kento said as he was getting up from the floor.
"Thanks Kento, but I can't take all of the credit," a young teenage boy replied with as grin as he held out his hand towards him.
"Where did you learn that, or should I ask who did you learn that counter move from?" Kento asked curiously.
The person that Kento was sparring grinned at his compliment, and then took a quick glance over to the sidelines where the others were watching. "I should have known." Kento said as he smirked.
"What? Why are you looking at me for? I didn't teach him that?" Kaye asked as they were approaching her.
"Yea, sure you didn't." Kento replied as he laid his arm across her shoulders.
"I didn't." Kaye said as she looked at him.
"Uh huh, tell me another one, Kaye," Kento replied as he raised an eyebrow at her. "If you didn't teach him that counter move, then who did?"
"Ah that would have been me, actually." Cye replied with a small smile.
"Cye?" Kento said in amazement as he blinked his eyes in shock.
"Yea, it was uncle Cye," the young teen replied as he nodded. The other guys laughed from the look on Kento's face. Actually, Cye and the other guys are not his real uncles, but he just calls them that because they've treated him like family ever since he came to the center where Kaye works.
"Ok Sian, I think that Kento has had enough humiliation for one day. Why don't you help teach the other kids, while we take care of business around here." Rowen said with a laugh.
"Sure thing uncle Rowen." Sian replied with a grin as he started to walk towards the other kids.
"Hey Sian, later on I want a rematch, and don't think that I'll go easy on you either." Kento called to him.
Sian looked back and grinned at Kento, "whatever you say 'dad.'"
Kento grinned backs at the inside joke, and then joined up with the others at Kaye's office.
"Look who decided to join us?" Sage said sarcastically.
"Funny Sage, keep it up and you'll be the next one eating the floor." Kento replied with a smirk.
Kaye smiled some and then looked over the large pile of bills that were lying on her desk. She sighed, "Kaye?" Ryo asked as he caught her sigh.
The others looked over at her; she looked up and gave a small smile. "Huh, oh sorry Ryo." Kaye replied.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Kento asked as he looked at her in concern.
"It's nothing, it's just that the center has all of these bills, and with money being tight as it is. There's a chance that the center could close. I won't let that happen, if it does, then these kids won't have anywhere to go." Kaye replied as she looked back down again at the large pile of bills.
"How long has this been going on?" Sage asked curiously.
Before Kaye could answer him, the doors flew open and a group of very rough looking people walked on in. Everyone stopped what they were doing, and watched them make their way to Kaye's office. "Oh great, they're back," Kaye, said as she stood up from her desk and crossed her arms. "Hey, I thought that I told you to never come back here."
"Now, now Kaye, is that any way to welcome us?" a man with a very scratchy voice asked.
"Who are you?" Kento demanded as he and the others stood up.
"You must be Mr. Faun," the leader of the group said as he looked Kento over.
"How did you know that?" Ryo asked as he was trying to keep his temper in check.
"That's not important at the moment. As a matter of fact, we know all of you, Mr. Sanada. The one with the blue hair is Mr. Hashiba, the blonde is Mr. Date, and the one with the light brown hair is Mr. Mouri." the leader replied as he looked at each of them. "I also understand that congratulations are in order Kaye, for your marriage to Mr. Faun here."
"I suggest that you all leave, now." Kaye replied coldly.
"You heard the lady." Kento said as he and the others glared at them.
"You can either leave on your own, or you can be escorted out, the choice is yours." Ryo warned.
The leader looked at each one, and he knew that they meant business. He also knew that he and his men were going to have one heck of a fight on their hands. Unfortunately, that's not what he wanted this early in the game. "Very well, we'll leave on our own. But don't forget, we'll be back." the leader replied as they finally left.
"Is everyone ok in here?" Sian asked in concern as he ran into Kaye's office.
"Yea Sian, thanks. Now, would you please go back to the kids and continue their lessons?" Kaye replied as she ushered Sian back out.
"Ok, but only if you're sure 'mom.'" Sian said with a teasing smirk.
"I'm sure, now go before I make ya be on kitchen duty." Kaye replied with that determined look in her eyes. Sian learned about that look of hers when he first came to the center. He knew that when she got that look that she made up her mind and no one could talk her out of anything.
"Kaye, who were those guys?" Sage asked as she kept her gaze towards Sian and the other kids.
"They're a gang called the Illusionists. The leader's name is Jakobe, and the shorter one is named Dante. They go around to places and offer 'protection' to people in different neighborhoods. They tell them that if they don't pay, or go by their so called rules, then they won't be responsible for the 'accidents' that might happen." Kaye replied as she leaned against the doorframe.
"What do you mean by, accidents?" Cye asked in concern.
"Anything from people being hurt, to places being blown up. They don't care who gets hurt just as long as they get what they want." Kaye replied quietly.
"I'm still wondering how they knew about us in the first place." Rowen mused as he leaned against the wall with his arms crossed.
"You give a good point there, Rowen," Sage said as he sat back down. "Kaye, how long has it been since they've set up their 'business'?"
"I would have to say, almost a month." Kaye replied as she began to frown.
"Kaye, have they? Have they, threatened you or the kids?" Kento asked in concern as he went over to her, and held onto her from behind. Kaye gave a small sigh; Kento could tell that she was trying not to shudder from the memory of their last visit. "Kaye?"
"The last time that they were here, they tore the place apart. Tables and chairs were thrown everywhere; glass was all over the floor. Luckily, no one was hurt, but they said that next time something worse could happen," Kaye replied quietly. "Why couldn't it have been Talpa or some other power crazed maniac, trying to take over the world? Why is it them, why?"
The other Ronins looked around at each other, they didn't know how to answer her question. Yea, she did have a point, dealing with Talpa and others like him was one thing, but trying to figure out how to deal with gangs was something else entirely. "Kaye, could you come out here? We need some help with this," a kid yelled to her from the other end of the room.
"Be right there," Kaye called back. "I gotta go, we'll talk later ok." Kaye turned around and gave a quick kiss on Kento's cheek, and then went over to help out the kids that were on the other end of the room.
"Guys, we have to do something about this." Kento said as he watched her.
"We know Kento, and we will. But first things first, we need to figure out how the center is going to pull in enough money by a couple of months." Rowen replied as Kento turned around and faced them.
Sian noticed that Kaye was about to pass him. Just as he was going to say something, he noticed that she looked like something was on her mind, and it wasn't good. Sian frowned, he remembered one other time that she had that look on her face, and he knew that this was definitely serious. "I think that it's time for the two of us to have a talk." Sian thought.
"Sian, hey Sian, what's the deal? Are you going to teach us any more today, or are we done?" one of the students asked as she was pulling on his arm.
"Huh, oh ah yea, sorry. We're done for today. Class is dismissed." Sian announced to the other kids. With a small smile, Sian watched the kids scatter from the training area, and ran towards the different parts of the center. He then looked over to where Kaye was helping a couple of kids finish up a project. She was telling them to go and was up, because it was almost time for dinner. Sian gave a small chuckle, he knew how hard it was sometimes to get the kids to listen, especially if they were major interested in a project that his 'uncles' bring with them every once in a while.
"You know, I thought that uncle Rowen would of learned to never bring that astronomy set with him. Especially since what happened the last time." Sian said with a small smile. Last time that Rowen brought the astronomy set, they had a very hard time making the kids go to bed when they were suppose to. Because they wanted to stay up and look at the different stars and constellations.
"You know Rowen, always wanting to get others interested into star gazing." Kaye replied with a small smile.
"Yea, um Kaye? When you were coming over here, I noticed that you seem to be preoccupied with something. Is everything ok? You know that you can tell me." Sian asked as he looked towards her in concern. Kaye looked at his face; she could see that he knew that something was definitely wrong. There was no way that she or anyone else could ever hide anything from him.
"It's nothing that you have to be concerned about, Sian." Kaye replied as she was trying to reassure him.
"Sorry, but I'm not buying it." Sian replied with a stubborn look of his own.
"Sian..." Kaye started to say.
"Look, whatever is going on, I have the right to know. I'm not a little kid any more. I can help you." Sian replied.
"Yea I can see that, Sian, but..." Kaye tried to explain.
"But nothing Kaye, when I first came to the center, you told me that any time that I need someone to talk to, or if I needed help, all I had to do was ask." Sian said as he was trying to stay calm.
Kaye took a look around before she continued, "ok, you wanna know how you can help, then fine. But I don't want the other kids to know, you got me," Kaye asked as Sian showed that he understood by nodding his head. "All right then, besides the so called 'visit' that we had today, the center...the center." Kaye said as she was fighting the tears that were threatening to fall.
"What about the center?" Sian asked in concern as he laid both of his hands on top of her shoulders.
"The center might have to close." Kaye replied sadly.
"What! Why, when?" Sian asked in surprise.
"If we don't get enough money soon, then the center will close down in a couple of months." Kaye replied as she looked into his eyes.
Sian pulled Kaye into his embrace, "don't worry 'mom,' everything will work out. I promise." Sian said as hugged her tighter.
"Sian." Kaye whispered as she stayed in his embrace. While this was going on, the Ronins were watching them.
"Looks like she told him." Cye said as he sat back down.
"Yea, so now what? We know that Sian is going to want to help, right?" Kento asked as he leaned back onto the desk.
"Knowing that kid, yea." Sage replied as he crossed his arms.
"Hey, don't let him hear you say that he's a kid, remember last time that someone called him that?" Rowen asked with a chuckle. The others grinned in remembrance, because the last time that someone called Sian a kid, that person went head first through a window.
As they were talking, they didn't hear Kaye and Sian approach her office. "Hey, are you guys ready to eat, or are you going to let the kids eat all of the food?" Sian asked with a smirk.
"What! No way! Hey you kids, don't you even think of eating all of that food! Save some for me!" Kento called over as he ran to the kitchen. The others laughed as they watched Kento make a break for it.
"We better get over there, because I have a feeling that if we don't, there won't be any food left for us." Sian said with a laugh as they ran over to the kitchen.
Elsewhere...
"Jakobe, are you sure that it was wise to put in an appearance, especially since the Ronins were there?" Dante asked as he swished his champagne before taking a drink.
"You worry too much, Dante. Actually, I'm surprised by something else." Jakobe replied as he stroked at his shirt, while wiping the dust off.
"Oh, and what's that?" Dante asked as he lifted an eyebrow at him.
"Sian." Jakobe replied.
"What about Sian?" Dante asked.
"I'm trying to figure out why he doesn't remember anything from before?" Jakobe mused.
"Are you telling me that you think that he has amnesia?" Dante asked back.
"It's possible," Jakobe replied. "I don't see any other explanation, do you?"
"No, I suppose not. Then what do we plan to do about this? Are we still going with what we originally planned?" Dante asked curiously.