Well real life has given me a kick in the pants I'm shifting house have two assignments overdue that I haven't started( damn it) and no info sheets to work on them. So being at uni all day with nothing to do I thought I'd better do some fic writing while I have some time given the earlier mentioned preconditions it way be a while before I can update again.
Review thanks :
Enchantress: thanks yes hiko is so cool! As for specific pupils well hiko won't be teaching swordmanship to ANYONE but the will still be plenty of Hiko's Hiten Mitsuryugi slices.
Katrina: no harry wont be a little hiko though harry may get some good advice from him. Kenshin at the moment is happily flashing his magneta gi around Las vegas and enjoying himself he will (or at least I plan him to) come into the fic at a later stage.
Disclaimer : J.K Rowling is female I am male need I say more.
Chapter 2: It had to be a Monday.
Hermione looked at the scene before her. Bodies strewn all over the street, blood flowing down the drains away from the area.
She shook her head it had to be a Monday didn't it, and to think that she had been enjoying herself. Going to the shops for a couple of hours had been great and she'd just been walking home when the deatheaters attacked.
She'd had her wand on her of course after last year she had learnt never to be without it but it was still almost useless.
Hermione had thought that she was alright at duelling and she had found out how wrong she was. Dodging expelliarmus was nothing compared to trying to dodge Cruciatus she'd been amazed that with ten casting it at her that they'd only got one partial hit.
Mind you it wasn't an experience she wanted to repeat just that one hit had been enough for them to disarm her and start the incantation for Avada Kedavra. Looking at the wrong side of that curse was something she never wanted to experience again, mind you not many people ever got the chance to, it wasn't a curse that was often interrupted.
She looked over at the man who had saved her, really seeing him for the first time. He was tall, powerfully built, though his cape hid much of his form. Even at ease he looked liked he could pounce like a great bird of prey, no that wasn't quite right, he looked more like a dragon soaring down to rip his prey to pieces. Hermione wondered where that imagery had come from he was a man not a dragon yet the image in her minds eye had fit so well, oh well she could worry about it later. right now she should be getting her wand off the ground. While Hermione was recovering from the attack Dumbledore proceeded to walk over to the man and start a conversation.
"Hello my name is Albus Dumbledore what is yours?"
"Seijuro Hiko"
"Well Mr Hiko thank you for saving my student Miss Granger"
"Accepted, your student you say is she your apprentice?"
"No I'm the headmaster at a school; she is one of the students."
"I see this would be a school for magic users then."
"Yes it is how did you know?"
"I saw that fight before you came, I watched your arrival, I cannot wield magic the way you or the girl does, but I can recognize it. I was never trained as a mage rather as a swordsman and my magic flows through my sword as I attack instead of through a wand, though it is more a spiritual essence than true magic."
"I see, where is it you come from for no school I know of teaches the use of our ki spirit as a focus for magic, even the eastern schools have not taught such a method for over a hundred years."
"And they were wise for stopping for as it can give great power so also can it cause the wanting of great power which can create tyrants of incredible powers."
"You are right it can but do you not think that such skills should have been continued?"
"Perhaps but there are few now who even know that they exist, fewer still who can control and only two who have mastered such techniques."
"Well then would you tell me then how it is you know of them"
"I suppose I cannot give you the run around twice. I am from Japan and it is over 130 years since I became a master of my technique."
"130 years but you look in your prime how is it that you can be that old?"
"I am older than 130 that is simply how long it has been since I became a master, as to me being in my prime I still am physically and so is my blasted baka deshi, grumble grumble baka deshi grumble, as to the how it is the nature of the technique I mastered. When I mastered it I became in effect a human dragon, untouchable.
That is why I look so young I have effectively became a dragon in human form and the only things that can harm them can harm me extreme old age in the thousands of years or a stronger dragon. Only a more powerful swordsman can kill me and none of them now exist."
"A dragon in human form amazing! I wonder do you know of the killing curse."
"Avada kedavra yes I know of it that was why I interfered in that fight saving others is more my baka deshi's line of work."
"Would it work on you?"
"If it hit maybe, it would depend on the power behind it but I have ways of stopping it from hitting beside raw speed."
"Hmm impressive, you mentioned a baka deshi earlier who is that?"
"That would be my idiot apprentice although I suppose I cannot call him that anymore now he is also a master"
"I see Master Hiko would you be doing much for the next year?"
"Not much why you look like a man who is planning something?"
"So you can read my expression?"
"No your ki changed briefly it is a skill of my technique to be able to read others emotions so as to predict their moves in battle."
"Hmm I see would you mind accompanying Miss Granger and I back to Hogwarts"
"Hogwarts is that the name of the school?"
"Yes it is. Hermione I think it would be best if you came with us for a few days you can still meet up with harry and ron on Wednesday to get your supplies for the year."
"Okay Professor but how did you know? Oh I forgot you always seem to know everything" Hermione answered haltingly at first.
"Well moony whispered in my ear something about a certain harry going to diagon alley. So Master Hiko are you ready to go."
"I suppose though I think I'm going to regret this"
"Nonsense"
And with that Albus extended energy around the three and apparated them to the gates of Hogwarts.
Okay how'd I go next chapter hiko meets snape hmmm this could get interesting and some Snape Hermione interaction
Lets see how distraught I can make him.
