Ok the third chap is up. I promise it is longer and we will see how are Rurouni Kenshin friends are taking this change. Karou/Kenshin here too. Ok now go and read, and remember review.

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The Wandering Heroes

Chapter 3- Rurouni Kenshin

The small dojo, located in a forest area, were the few people left who are interested in learning a style of swordsmanship trained at. The style they taught here was the Kamiya Kasshin Ryu style, the style of the sword that protects, instead of kill. It was run by Kamiya Karou, the assistant master of the Kamiya Kasshin Ryu style, but everyone just calls her Karou. Over the period of time she owned the dojo, she had picked up many free loaders. Each had a bad past. One in particular had a very bad history. Kenshin Himura, also known as the Hitokari Bahtosie(sp?), the man- slayer. Even though now his sword fighting days are over he still carried his reverse-blade sword with him so he could help train Karou's students. The government had become a lot more stable and didn't have to rely on Kenshin's help with rebellions and rogue swordsman assassinating people and rampaging across Japan, anymore. Still the people that came to the dojo in that time stayed after there problems were solved. Karou didn't really mind, but it did bother her at times, like when Yahiko busts in while she's in the bathroom or when Sanosuke's complaining about her cooking. Kenshin, though is really the only one who didn't bother her. He would never really complain about her cooking and would always do his chores. Sometimes he even helped her cook, but it came out just as bad as usual, but it was the help that counts. Sano was still gambling, but wasn't into any other criminal activities and such so he wasn't in to much trouble. Yahiko was still trying to master the style and was actually very close to completing his training. So now Kenshin and the others problems were over or so they thought......

The few past days had been hectic. Everyone had been talking about the demon dog that had made quite the appearance in the market. They at first had been chased down by the people who saw them, Shesso-maru was going to attack, but luckily Kenshin was there to witness it and helped them get away and stopped Shesso-maru from killing them. He brought them away from the market and straight for the dojo. On the way they had seen a few people along path. One of them was so scared of the two dog demons they fell into the river by the road and nearly drowned but was saved by a quick Inuyasha. Along the way they had said nothing, until they came to the dojo.

They all stopped as they approached the dojo. Kenshin and Kagome were huffing and puffing for breathe, while Inuyasha was breathing kind of fast and Shesso-maru was normal as he was full doggie demon and could sustain such a run. After they had all caught there breath they looked around at each other. The first person to talk was Inuyasha who said.

"So where they hell are we?" He asked Kenshin.

"You are at the dojo of the Kamiya Kasshin Ryu swordsmanship style." Kenshin answered.

"Dojo? What part of the world are we in?" Shesso-maru asked.

"I think we should go inside," Kenshin suggested walking toward the Dojo. Inuyasha looked over to Shesso-maru who turned and walked to the dojo. Inuyasha looked to Kagome who shrugged and walked to the dojo as well. Inuyasha sighed heavily and followed the two inside.

Kenshin slid the door open and walked inside. He looked around for anyone and motioned for them to come in. He crept to his room and slid that door open. They all entered and Inuyasha closed the door behind him.

"So could you explain to us where we are?" Inuyasha asked.

"We're in Tokyo, Japan. I'm not sure what happened, but you're not the first group of people to appear here. Actually five others are here right now. It's been a few days since they arrived, but we still have no idea how they got here, that we don't. They told us they had never heard of a place called Japan or any other countries in the world. I expect the same happened to...." Kenshin stated. Inuyasha started to talk and yell at Kenshin for not telling them more, but Kagome stopped him from talking and told Kenshin.

"I'm Kagome, this is my husband Inuyasha," she said motioning at Inuyasha, "And this is Shesso-maru. As you can see they are both dog demons and very powerful ones at that, but they aren't evil, they are good. And yes we have heard of Japan. We are actually from it, well different time periods of it. It's a long story. But if we're in Japan then what year is it?" She said. " Well I am Kenshin Himura and I'm not really sure your from just a different time period....None of the books about the history of Japan mention a demon named Inuyasha or Shesso-maru, and if your as powerful as you say I think they would have you---" But he was interrupted by Karou, the assistant master.

"Oh Miss Karou, I'd like you to meet these lovely guests we have, that we do" he said with one hand behind his head and one motioning toward the three. Karou looked over the three and smiled.

"So we have more guests do we? Well why didn't you come and tell me Kenshin!" As she said Kenshin you could here a slight tone of anger in her voice. Kenshin laughed a little before excusing himself and running to go do some chores before he got hurt by Karou. She walked in with a light purple kimono on. "Well hi everyone. May I ask what your names are? As Kenshin may have told you we do have some others here as well." Karou asked politely. Kagome was about to talk when Inuyasha interrupted her instead,

"Hey we want to know what's going on here. What-" But he was interrupted by Kagome who had knocked him over the head as he fell to the floor. "I'm sorry about my husband he doesn't mind his manners very much." Kagome apologized. "Don't worry, I understand," She said referring to Kenshin. "Oh yes, my name is Kagome, this is my husband Inuyasha and this is Shesso- maru. He's a bit of a quiet one" She whispered the last part to her, but he still heard her and perked an eye up at her, but Kagome just smiled at him.

"Well hello everyone. I'm Kamiya Karou, assistant master of this dojo, but you could just call me Karou." She said as Inuyasha stood up from the wooden floor rubbing his head.

"Hello Karou. I hope we'll be good friends." Kagome told her.

Then Karou left them and made her way to yell at Kenshin. Kagome turned toward the others and looked down toward Inuyasha who was still rubbing his head.

"Oh come on now, I didn't hit you that hard." Kagome yelled at him.

"Yeah you did! And what are were you thinking telling them everything." Inuyasha yelled back.

"Well she seemed very nice, unless you still only like women that look like Kikyo!" She said turning away from.

"Hey I thought we cleared that up!" He said yelling back at her. Shesso- maru then started to chuckle lightly at there argument. "Hey what's so funny?!" Inuyasha yelled at his half-brother.

Not long after that the doors burst open as a Kenshin came running in with a yelling Karou right after him, knocking him over the head with her candle stick. The three stopped the argument and slowly inched out of the room as Kenshin and Karou circled them around and around.

Outside they could still here Karou and Kenshin tearing apart his room. They got away from the door and reached the backside of the dojo which was much larger than the front. Out back was a man with a cowboy looking man leaning against a wood post fence. Then there was a woman with a blue sweater on, on the other side playing with two small girls, one bigger than the other. Kagome looked about and thought to herself, 'These look like nice people. I'll go and introduce myself,' she said walking down the steps and toward the three girls. Inuyasha looked about and sighed seeing nothing of interest, he left and went back inside to see if anyone else was there. Shesso-maru was anticipating his chance to get to the dojo so he could see how these people fought, so he left for there.

As Kagome approached them they stopped playing and Rinoa approached Kagome.

"So we have more guests here. My name is Rinoa." She told her.

"Hello Rinoa, I'm Kagome. And yes I am new here." The two little girls walked up to Kagome and started tugging on her skirt. The bigger one said.

"Did you come to play with us too?" she said and the smaller one peeped in.

"Yeah did you come to play with us?"

Kagome smiled down at them and said. "Sure I'll play with you!" and knelt down and picked her up. She was going to have a good time there.

Inuyasha walked past the room that Karou and Kenshin had been fighting in. He noticed that there were no sounds inside, strangely. As curiosity took him over he opened the door slightly and peeked in. the room was dark, and couldn't see a thing inside, but he could still hear noises inside like the rustling of blankets and clothes. He opened the door a little more and the sunlight shone on the two. Kenshin was on top of Karou on the bed. Karou's Shirt was off and her bra was showing and Kenshin's gi was thrown on the floor. They were making-out right after they were fighting! Inuyasha quickly shut the door as he heard the two getting off the bed and getting there clothes gathered up.

Inuyasha said, "Sorry! Sorry!" while walking away from the door. Karou ran out of the room not long after that, blushing from an extreme embarrassment and ran toward her room to gather her thoughts. Inuyasha had run away and into the front of the Dojo looking for anything there.

Shesso-maru entered the dark dojo. He looked around for anything exciting. Inside was a case full of wooden swords, a closet, nothing special. He walked over to the cabinet and opened it up. He grabbed a candlestick and looked at it for a while. Then he remembered when his father first taught him swordplay.

*Flashback*

There stood a large man in the river, his large dog ears going down his back and his long tail getting wet in the water. In his hands was a small skinny sword. It didn't look like a powerful weapon, just a simple, kind of beat-up Japanese sword. He took his black shirt off and threw it into the wind. He looked over to the small boy also with dog-like ears and a small tail who didn't look a year older than 7. In his hand was a wooden sword.

"Come at me and strike." The man said in a deep voice. The boy did as he was told but was knocked back down into the water. "More power, strike like the son of a god. Do it again, until you can hit me." And so he tried again and again, but couldn't even touch him....

*End Flashback*

Shesso-maru put the wooden sword back and closed the cabinet. He walked to the sliding door and exited to talk with Kenshin.

Kenshin had finally emerged from his room. He made his way out back to see if the others were back from the market. He found Inuyasha sitting on the steps watching everyone else.

Kenshin sat next to him and said, "You should go and talk with them, that you should," Kenshin said to him.

He turned toward the rurouni and said, "I thought there was five other people here, but I've only seen 2. Who are the other 3?" "

Oh yeah I forgot. They are out at the market. I was with them but had wondered of I guess. There's Sano, Yahiko, Megumi, Squall, Seifer, and Selphie." He said counting them off on his fingers.

"Wait that's 6, who are the other three?" Inuyasha said getting impatient.

"Oh yeah, Sano, Yahiko, and Megumi are all guests from this world. Yahiko is training here, Sano is a bit of a bum who just stays here, but he is a good friend to have around, and Megumi is a doctor we helped out. You'll meet them soon." Kenshin said.

"I hope so, because this place is getting boring..."

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Ok that's it for this chap. This one is a lot longer than the others. Next time we introduce the heroes of Final Fantasy 7 and what happens when the rest of the 'guests' get back to the dojo and meet the newcomers. Well now all you have to do is review. See ya next time!