CHAPTER II: SAITOH AND EKA, THE TWO SAMURAI WARRIOR TWINS!
Jonouchi looked across the table and sighed. Everyone else in the restaurant looked over at the figure eating up all the food.
"Will you please stop eating, Niro?" Jonouchi asked.
Niro moved the bowl from in front of his face so he could see his annoyed allies and friends. "Did I do something wrong?" he asked, rice flying from his mouth.
His ghost, Shiroyu leaned over, "I don't think it's proper in Achihar to eat ten rice in a row..."
"You're right!" he slammed his chop-sticks on the table, causing all the people that weren't paying attention anymore look up and some people spit their coffee on themselves. "I should have eaten way more!" Jonouchi and Shiroyu and everyone else in the restaurant fell over. When they got up they both sighed, sweat drops on their heads.
"Do you ever stop eating, Niro I mean it's not very-" Jonouchi's words were cut off by a scream. "What the hell was that!?"
"Why is it any of my business?" Niro asked.
"Do you remember that mission you were supposed to accomplish?" Jonouchi asked.
"Oh yeah!" Niro said, pulling back his blue and brown hair.
"This might be a test of courage! Remember what the ghost said to me?"
"'Hiroshi will put anything she's got in Niro's way!'" Niro mimicked the ghost that warned Jonouchi. "Yeah, yeah! I know the whole stupid story, okay?"
They heard another scream.
"Come on!" Shiroyu said, tugging on his sleeve.
"Not you, too!"
"But we could use the practice for integration."
"Well..." he sighed as he looked at his companion's gleaming faces. "Okay."
They walked out of the now abandoned restaurant to see what all the ruckus was. First they saw all the cars on the street were gone and all the buildings were on fire. Then they saw a huge crowd.
"There are two people in the middle of the crowd!" Shiroyu called down at them.
"How can two people do that much damage?" Jonouchi asked himself.
"They're not ordinary people!" he called, "they have swords!"
"This should be fun!" Niro cried out, both his hands in front of him clutched in fists. He looked into the sky and held up the miniature grave in the sky to summon Shiroyu. Suddenly Shiroyu became a little ghost head with a tiny ghost tail. "INTEGRATE!" Niro called and hit the ghost to his body. Jonouchi's mouth fell open at the thought of re-killing a ghost but soon came aware that Niro was not acting like his normal self anymore.
"There!" boomed a voice similar to Shiroyu's and Niro's fused together. Then Jonouchi understood. They had fused together...almost... "Now let's get 'em!" Niro (or Niroyu as I will now call him) walked into the crowd of people.
When they got to the middle, Jonouchi was aware of the appearance of the two fighters. There was a girl and a boy. The girl had short brown hair that fell to her shoulders; it was part to go down to her face and was tied in a red ribbon that fell to her neck. She had wonderful blue eyes. She wore a vest that was zipped up and had a black belt and sweat pants and had a samurai sword. The boy on the other hand had brown hair that was spiked up a little, kind of like Jonouchi's. He had a fighting band over his head that was tied in the back. He also wore a vest that was not zipped up and did not where a shirt, showing his muscles. He had a much bigger sword than the girl's and wore the same pants and belt.
"Now!" boomed the voice of the boy. "who is brave enough to protect their pathetic town!?"
"I am!" Niroyu called stepping forth. Jonouchi heard a mutter in the crowd behind him.
"HA!" cried the girl, but she took a step back, obviously scared.
"What can you possibly do?" cried the man.
"This!" Niroyu pulled out his sword, a long, broad sword that, to Jonouchi, seemed to have an unknown power to it. It was silver and had two red jewels on it, one at the bottom of the hilt and the top of the hilt. The hilt of the sword was made of pure gold.
The boy pulled out his own sword, a long thin sword, kind of like a samurai's. Jonouchi, of course, did not have any weapon or defense, so he stepped back into the crowd, who were now giving the two fighters space to fight. The girl, too, had stepped back, away from the fight.
"I'm sorry for not properly introducing myself and my sister," the boy's voice boomed across the town, ceasing the moment of silence. "My name is Saitoh! And this is my sister, Eka!" Eka waved at her name. "We come from the continent of Sarachi, home of the samurais!"
"My name is Niro Tashi! My companions" -he pointed at Jonouchi and Shiroyu's grave- "Jonouchi and Shiroyu! I come from the continent of Tiyocoun, home of the Shamans!"
"So you're a Shaman, are you? Then this match should be quite amusing!" -Eka laughed, trying to be brave- "but it shouldn't last long!"
Saitoh charged at Niroyu without another word. He slashed his sword vertically, but Niro quickly dodged, slashing his own sword. Saitoh did a back flip, landing on his feet.
"Quite impressive, shaman, but you're holding back your power. As I am!" Jonouchi felt a surge of energy coming from Saitoh.
"What the-" but Niroyu didn't get to finish his sentence, for Saitoh quickly slashed his sword through Niroyu.
"NIRO!" Jonouchi called but something hit him on the head.
******
"Ugh!" Jonouchi woke up in a white room with white beds and white sheets. "What happened?" he asked himself but was surprised to hear Shiroyu's voice the next bed over.
"We LOST!" he slammed his fists on the bed but his hand went through it. "If only I would have been stronger!" He pointed at the bed he was looking at. Niro was in it, almost dead. He had blood coming from the sides of his mouth and he could see blood under the white sheets. The nurse entered the room, unaware of Shiroyu. She had healing bandages in her hand. She went and started to roll it on Niro's stomach, covering the bandages so he would heal.
Niro started to stir about an hour later. "What happened?" he asked Shiroyu.
"You were hurt...badly."
Niro looked down at his stomach and gasped.
"Yes...it is bad..." Jonouchi sighed.
"Oh well! Not a problem!" Shiroyu and Jonouchi looked at each other in shock.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN "NOT A PROBLEM?"" Jonouchi screamed.
"Didn't I tell you?"
They looked at each other again.
"I can heal myself!" He laughed, sheepishly.
"What?" a confused Shiroyu asked.
"Yup!" Suddenly the room was filled with blue light. It disappeared he got up. "Now! We have a score to settle!"
********
Niro (integrated with Shiroyu) slammed the door to the Roman restaurant. Saitoh and Eka were eating roman in the center of the room. The butler ran out the door screaming.
"I challenge you, Saitoh!" Niroyu's voice echoed through the empty room.
Saitoh slurped the rest of his roman up and spoke, food in his mouth, "ok...meet me," he swallowed the rest, "at the same spot!"
********
At noon they met up at the same place. This time there were no people on the street, they knew that the two fighters needed space to fight. Niro immediately pulled out his sword.
"I'm surprised you can even stand, Niro!" Saitoh cried out.
"Why wouldn't I be back?" Niroyu's voice boomed. "Now let's get the fight ON!" When he said on he charged at Saitoh. Saitoh, not expecting this, nearly dodged and was sliced on the cheek. He jumped back, startled.
"Wow, Shaman! I'm surprised you managed to even lay your rusted blade on me at all!" Saitoh laughed.
"That's not all I can do!" Niroyu said, jumping at him, sword above his head. Saitoh expected this, so he jumped back as the blade hit the ground, sending piles of dust flying in every direction. Saitoh did his share of slashing, all failed attempts, as Niroyu blocked them all with his own movement of his sword until finally when Jonouchi heard the sound of medal and medal colliding, they both jumped back. Saitoh was panting for breath, obvious worn out from their short duel.
"Now tell me, Saitoh!" Niroyu called to him. "Tell me why you are here!"
"I'll never tell you!"
"Wrong answer!" Niroyu called. He charged at him. Jonouchi didn't see the rest, because there was dust flying everywhere. All he could make out was medal and medal. When the dust cleared, Jonouchi saw Saitoh on the ground, struggling to get up, but Niroyu was on top of him. "Now! Why are you here?"
"We-we were hired!" He replied.
"By who?" He asked again.
"Hiro...hiro..." but he didn't finish, for at that time, two daggers flew out of nowhere, nailing him in the neck, killing him.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Eka cried. She ran to her brother's dead body, crying.
"Don't cry, girl," said a voice from where the daggers came from. "Your brother was a traitor!"
Niroyu looked over at the voice.
A man came trotting in, happily. He was wearing similar clothes, obviously from the same clan.
"You monster!" Eka cried through tears. "How could you!"
"Who is he?" Jonouchi asked Niroyu but he shrugged.
"How can you kill your own son?" She cried.
Jonouchi and Niroyu gasped.
DUNNUNNUN!
Jonouchi looked across the table and sighed. Everyone else in the restaurant looked over at the figure eating up all the food.
"Will you please stop eating, Niro?" Jonouchi asked.
Niro moved the bowl from in front of his face so he could see his annoyed allies and friends. "Did I do something wrong?" he asked, rice flying from his mouth.
His ghost, Shiroyu leaned over, "I don't think it's proper in Achihar to eat ten rice in a row..."
"You're right!" he slammed his chop-sticks on the table, causing all the people that weren't paying attention anymore look up and some people spit their coffee on themselves. "I should have eaten way more!" Jonouchi and Shiroyu and everyone else in the restaurant fell over. When they got up they both sighed, sweat drops on their heads.
"Do you ever stop eating, Niro I mean it's not very-" Jonouchi's words were cut off by a scream. "What the hell was that!?"
"Why is it any of my business?" Niro asked.
"Do you remember that mission you were supposed to accomplish?" Jonouchi asked.
"Oh yeah!" Niro said, pulling back his blue and brown hair.
"This might be a test of courage! Remember what the ghost said to me?"
"'Hiroshi will put anything she's got in Niro's way!'" Niro mimicked the ghost that warned Jonouchi. "Yeah, yeah! I know the whole stupid story, okay?"
They heard another scream.
"Come on!" Shiroyu said, tugging on his sleeve.
"Not you, too!"
"But we could use the practice for integration."
"Well..." he sighed as he looked at his companion's gleaming faces. "Okay."
They walked out of the now abandoned restaurant to see what all the ruckus was. First they saw all the cars on the street were gone and all the buildings were on fire. Then they saw a huge crowd.
"There are two people in the middle of the crowd!" Shiroyu called down at them.
"How can two people do that much damage?" Jonouchi asked himself.
"They're not ordinary people!" he called, "they have swords!"
"This should be fun!" Niro cried out, both his hands in front of him clutched in fists. He looked into the sky and held up the miniature grave in the sky to summon Shiroyu. Suddenly Shiroyu became a little ghost head with a tiny ghost tail. "INTEGRATE!" Niro called and hit the ghost to his body. Jonouchi's mouth fell open at the thought of re-killing a ghost but soon came aware that Niro was not acting like his normal self anymore.
"There!" boomed a voice similar to Shiroyu's and Niro's fused together. Then Jonouchi understood. They had fused together...almost... "Now let's get 'em!" Niro (or Niroyu as I will now call him) walked into the crowd of people.
When they got to the middle, Jonouchi was aware of the appearance of the two fighters. There was a girl and a boy. The girl had short brown hair that fell to her shoulders; it was part to go down to her face and was tied in a red ribbon that fell to her neck. She had wonderful blue eyes. She wore a vest that was zipped up and had a black belt and sweat pants and had a samurai sword. The boy on the other hand had brown hair that was spiked up a little, kind of like Jonouchi's. He had a fighting band over his head that was tied in the back. He also wore a vest that was not zipped up and did not where a shirt, showing his muscles. He had a much bigger sword than the girl's and wore the same pants and belt.
"Now!" boomed the voice of the boy. "who is brave enough to protect their pathetic town!?"
"I am!" Niroyu called stepping forth. Jonouchi heard a mutter in the crowd behind him.
"HA!" cried the girl, but she took a step back, obviously scared.
"What can you possibly do?" cried the man.
"This!" Niroyu pulled out his sword, a long, broad sword that, to Jonouchi, seemed to have an unknown power to it. It was silver and had two red jewels on it, one at the bottom of the hilt and the top of the hilt. The hilt of the sword was made of pure gold.
The boy pulled out his own sword, a long thin sword, kind of like a samurai's. Jonouchi, of course, did not have any weapon or defense, so he stepped back into the crowd, who were now giving the two fighters space to fight. The girl, too, had stepped back, away from the fight.
"I'm sorry for not properly introducing myself and my sister," the boy's voice boomed across the town, ceasing the moment of silence. "My name is Saitoh! And this is my sister, Eka!" Eka waved at her name. "We come from the continent of Sarachi, home of the samurais!"
"My name is Niro Tashi! My companions" -he pointed at Jonouchi and Shiroyu's grave- "Jonouchi and Shiroyu! I come from the continent of Tiyocoun, home of the Shamans!"
"So you're a Shaman, are you? Then this match should be quite amusing!" -Eka laughed, trying to be brave- "but it shouldn't last long!"
Saitoh charged at Niroyu without another word. He slashed his sword vertically, but Niro quickly dodged, slashing his own sword. Saitoh did a back flip, landing on his feet.
"Quite impressive, shaman, but you're holding back your power. As I am!" Jonouchi felt a surge of energy coming from Saitoh.
"What the-" but Niroyu didn't get to finish his sentence, for Saitoh quickly slashed his sword through Niroyu.
"NIRO!" Jonouchi called but something hit him on the head.
******
"Ugh!" Jonouchi woke up in a white room with white beds and white sheets. "What happened?" he asked himself but was surprised to hear Shiroyu's voice the next bed over.
"We LOST!" he slammed his fists on the bed but his hand went through it. "If only I would have been stronger!" He pointed at the bed he was looking at. Niro was in it, almost dead. He had blood coming from the sides of his mouth and he could see blood under the white sheets. The nurse entered the room, unaware of Shiroyu. She had healing bandages in her hand. She went and started to roll it on Niro's stomach, covering the bandages so he would heal.
Niro started to stir about an hour later. "What happened?" he asked Shiroyu.
"You were hurt...badly."
Niro looked down at his stomach and gasped.
"Yes...it is bad..." Jonouchi sighed.
"Oh well! Not a problem!" Shiroyu and Jonouchi looked at each other in shock.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN "NOT A PROBLEM?"" Jonouchi screamed.
"Didn't I tell you?"
They looked at each other again.
"I can heal myself!" He laughed, sheepishly.
"What?" a confused Shiroyu asked.
"Yup!" Suddenly the room was filled with blue light. It disappeared he got up. "Now! We have a score to settle!"
********
Niro (integrated with Shiroyu) slammed the door to the Roman restaurant. Saitoh and Eka were eating roman in the center of the room. The butler ran out the door screaming.
"I challenge you, Saitoh!" Niroyu's voice echoed through the empty room.
Saitoh slurped the rest of his roman up and spoke, food in his mouth, "ok...meet me," he swallowed the rest, "at the same spot!"
********
At noon they met up at the same place. This time there were no people on the street, they knew that the two fighters needed space to fight. Niro immediately pulled out his sword.
"I'm surprised you can even stand, Niro!" Saitoh cried out.
"Why wouldn't I be back?" Niroyu's voice boomed. "Now let's get the fight ON!" When he said on he charged at Saitoh. Saitoh, not expecting this, nearly dodged and was sliced on the cheek. He jumped back, startled.
"Wow, Shaman! I'm surprised you managed to even lay your rusted blade on me at all!" Saitoh laughed.
"That's not all I can do!" Niroyu said, jumping at him, sword above his head. Saitoh expected this, so he jumped back as the blade hit the ground, sending piles of dust flying in every direction. Saitoh did his share of slashing, all failed attempts, as Niroyu blocked them all with his own movement of his sword until finally when Jonouchi heard the sound of medal and medal colliding, they both jumped back. Saitoh was panting for breath, obvious worn out from their short duel.
"Now tell me, Saitoh!" Niroyu called to him. "Tell me why you are here!"
"I'll never tell you!"
"Wrong answer!" Niroyu called. He charged at him. Jonouchi didn't see the rest, because there was dust flying everywhere. All he could make out was medal and medal. When the dust cleared, Jonouchi saw Saitoh on the ground, struggling to get up, but Niroyu was on top of him. "Now! Why are you here?"
"We-we were hired!" He replied.
"By who?" He asked again.
"Hiro...hiro..." but he didn't finish, for at that time, two daggers flew out of nowhere, nailing him in the neck, killing him.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Eka cried. She ran to her brother's dead body, crying.
"Don't cry, girl," said a voice from where the daggers came from. "Your brother was a traitor!"
Niroyu looked over at the voice.
A man came trotting in, happily. He was wearing similar clothes, obviously from the same clan.
"You monster!" Eka cried through tears. "How could you!"
"Who is he?" Jonouchi asked Niroyu but he shrugged.
"How can you kill your own son?" She cried.
Jonouchi and Niroyu gasped.
DUNNUNNUN!
