CHAPTER III: THE EUCHIA FAMILY BATTLE!

Note From Author Please excuse the language in this episode! I thought it would be appropriate for this one! -Thank you, Niro

"How could you kill your own son?" Eka cried at the approaching man.

"But your brother...was a traitor to us all!" He said softly as if he didn't care.

"And where did you get the daggers from, father?" She asked.

"I took them from a foolish person in Karana!" He laughed.

"Oh so you killed him and stole from him, did you?"

"Now I'm sorry for interrupting this clearly beautiful reunion..." Jonouchi interrupted.

"HA!" Eka shrieked, "You think I like my father? HELL NO!"

"Err...yes well..." Jonouchi attempted again.

"So how's mother?" Eka inquired.

"Oh...well she died. You know that...don't you?" He answered.

Eka sat there as if she were just struck by lightning. "What..."

"Oh that little b*tch!" He laughed. "She was worthless so I took care of business..." he smiled wickedly and Jonouchi and Niro (now un-integrated) gasped when he cursed.

"How dare you! You bastard!" Eka cried. She pulled out her sword and slashed at her dad a few times (he dodged them all) until he blocked one with his arm. "How dare you!" She whispered. "Now you're my only family member left! Now you will pay!" She put more strength into her sword, which caused her dad jump back in surprise. Eka, not expecting his movements and wanted him sliced in half instead, fell to the ground on her face.

She got up holding her face, crying, but Jonouchi was well aware that she was faking. "He'll never fall for that!" Jonouchi sighed but he was surprised to see her dad walking to her, arm outstretched.

"Oh, are you okay, darling?" He asked in a sweet voice. Eka kept sobbing. But when he got close enough she stopped.

"GOTCHA!" She said as if she had just surprised one of her friends and jumped out of her cake. She quickly stabbed her dad in the arm a few times with her sword, until he jumped back.

"Damn you, girl!" He cursed. "You've gotten better then I remember."

"Oh yes, father, better than you think!" She charged at him again.

During the many furry of slashing from Eka let's see what Niro and Jonouchi are doing shall we?

"Hey Niro," Jonouchi said to his companion, who was not saying anything.

He looked up at his companion and saw why. He was looking at the battle, only looking at Eka.

"NIRO!" he yelled.

"Oh, what?" He answered.

"What are you looking at?"

"Her..." He said, pointing to Eka.

"Oh... I see..." Jonouchi said, "Niro's got a girlfriend!" He chanted over and over again.

"Oh! Wait...er...that's not it at all!" He lied.

"Then what is?"

"I was just thinking of...er...how good she would be on our team."

"Well now!" Shiroyu said, surprising them both. "That's not what I remember you saying when you first saw..."

Niro slapped his hand over Shiroyu's mouth. "Ramen! Yes when I first saw ramen!" He interrupted.

"Uh oh!" Jonouchi said.

They both looked confused but looked where he was facing. They gasped. On the floor was Eka, she was resting, her sword punctured into the ground so it could hold her up. Her dad was slowly approaching her; he now had a sword in his hand.

"NO!" Niro cried. He ran in front of Eka. "Wait! You can't kill her!"

"Why not, might I ask?" He said.

"Because...I'm her...er...bodyguard!" Niro said. "Yeah, yeah! That's it! I'm her bodyguard.

"Really?" Her dad asked, amazed.

"Yes I am!" Niro said happily.

"Well then! I'm her dad!" He said, his arm outstretched to shake. "My name is Hidoi-jin Euchia! (Hidoi-jin = Mean Husband/Father) Who are you?" He asked.

"Niro Tashi! I come from Tyocoun the home of the Shamans!"

"Well, well, well! A shaman! This should be fun!" He said. Jonouchi didn't like the emphasis on should at all.

"Wow, Shiroyu! This fight might need your help!" Jonouchi said. When he didn't hear an answer, he turned around and didn't see him. "Bummer...they already integrated..."

Niroyu (Niro and Shiroyu integrated) already had his sword out and Hidoi- jin had his two swords out. "Hey! That's not fair!" Jonouchi said to himself. "He can't have two swords!"

"JONOUCHI!" Niroyu shouted. "Take Eka out of the battle!"

"Right!" He quickly ran to Eka, carefully picked her up around her shoulder and went out of the battle.

"Here..." Eka said wearily to Jonouchi, "Take Saitoh's sword and help Niro, please! He can't win by himself!"

"You gotta be joking!" He said but Eka interrupted him.

"You must!"

"But I can't fight!"

"You saw what Saitoh was capable of, right?"

"Yes but-"

"My father is ten times stronger than my brother..." She fell into his arms before she could finish. Jonouchi felt her pulse just to make sure she wasn't dead, but she just fainted.

"Should I go and help?" Jonouchi asked himself but he shook his head. "No! Not until I have to!" But the fight already started. Niro charged at him and Hidoi-jin charged at Niro. There was the farmiliar sound of metal and metal. Hidoi-jin had used his two swords to form an 'X' and Niroyu's sword was in the middle of it.

Hidoi-jin whispered something to Niro and they flew apart. Niro charged then there was a flurry of slashes over and over again, Hidoi-jin dodging them all. Hidoi-jin was singing a happy little tune that sounded like "Du du du dud du la lee la!" to the movements of Niro's sword.

Hidoi-jin finally did a back flip and landed on his feet saying "TA-DA!" Niroyu snorted with laughter.

"You find that funny, boy?"

Niroyu kept laughing.

"What's your problem?" Hidoi-jin asked.

"YOU!" he laughed.

"Oh so you think I'm funny do you?" He said putting another annoying emphasis on 'funny.'

"Should I go now?" Jonouchi asked himself again.

Niro seemed to look at Jonouchi, but at that moment, Hidoi-jin charged at Niro and slashed his sword at him. Niro dodged most of the later ones but didn't have much luck.

"Why did Niro look at me like that?" Jonouchi inquired. "Maybe I should help..."

Jonouchi got up, took Saitoh's sword and clutched it in his hands. He decided to practice with it before he went into battle. About thirty minutes later he looked at the battlefield. Niro was panting and Hidoi-jin was looking at Niro with a grin on his face.

"Hidoi-jin!" Jonouchi called. Hidoi-jin and Niro looked over at the approaching Jonouchi. Niro had a look on his face that seemed to say "finally."

"Oh so I have a new challenger awaiting me, do I?" Hidoi-jin asked.

"Yes you do!" A familiar voice said behind him. All three of them looked at Eka approaching them. When she caught up to Jonouchi, they looked at each other and smiled. They walked until they got to Niro, who healed and was standing up.

"Now let's get him!" Niro called. They all charged at him. Hidoi-jin tried his hardest to dodge all the slashing, but failed on most of them.

"Damn you kids!" He yelled at them several times, but neither of the three seemed to take notice.

"Die!" Eka screamed, slashing her sword at his face.

Niro now stepped in and did his share in fighting.

Then after they did another three-on-one-battle, Hidoi-jin once again helpless to the attack. They found out that a one-on-one battle wore them out easier so they decided to keep up the three battle.

When they all were tired and resting, Hidoi-jin was examining his millions of wounds. "This battle is not fair!" He complained. "But I can fix that!" He blew a whistle and the city around them started to shake.

"What the hell?" Jonouchi shouted to Eka and Niro thorough the noise. They both shrugged.

Then two of the buildings in front of them shone white in the middle of, split in half, and then blew up. Smoke surrounded them and they could make out two figures slowly advancing.

"What-or who-are they?" Niro asked.

Then, as the figures grew closer, they could make them out. They were tanks!

"What are tanks doing here?" Eka asked, but no one answered. They were too shocked to see the tanks stop in front of them the tree of them had to step back. The cockpits opened up and two people jumped out, spinning. The two landed on their feet and said "TA-DA!" Just like Hidoi-jin did.

"What are you two doing here?" Eka asked.

"What?" Jonouchi and Niro asked each other. "Who are they?" Jonouchi asked.

"My aunt and uncle," Eka said, embarrassed.

"They are?" Niro asked. The two had the same clothes as Eka did, from the same clan.

"Well you're right!" Said the aunt, "And we've come to fight you!"

"Fine, then! We will!" Niro called.

"I'll take on Hidoi-jin!" Jonouchi said.

"You sure?" Eka asked. Jonouchi nodded.

"Good luck," she said. She leaned over and kissed him.

"HEY!" Niro yelled. "Well...I'll take gramps here!"

"Fine then!" Eka's Aunt said, "We shall fight!"

At that moment everyone there charged at each other. Jonouchi charged at Hidoi-jin, Hidoi-jin charged at Jonouchi. They both clashed their swords together. "You'll never win, boy!"

"That's what you say!"

"And I'm right!" he announced. He quickly took his second sword out and slashed at Jonouchi. But Jonouchi knew this would happen and jumped back.

"Ha! Call that an attack?" Jonouchi called. "Now this is an attack!" He jumped into the air above Hidoi-jin's head and put his sword below him and charged. He almost got Hidoi-jin, but he jumped out of the way. Jonouchi pulled the sword out of the ground and spun around with his sword outstretch. The attack sliced Hidoi-jin's shirt several times, adding on to his cuts. He jumped back.

"Good move, I must admit!" Hidoi-jin said to him. "But you'll never beat this!"

Jonouchi didn't see the next attack, for Hidoi-jin had disappeared and reappeared behind him and slashed his sword at Jonouchi. Jonouchi's shirt was cut in half and it fell to the ground, revealing a cut in Jonouchi's back, which to today is now a scar.

Jonouchi quickly spun around and his sword hit Hidoi-jin's arm, almost cutting it off, until he caught hold of the sword and flung it behind him.

"No!" Jonouchi thought, "I can't beat him without the sword!"

"You can't win!" Hidoi-jin said, almost reading his mind.

Then Jonouchi thought of something in the background that could save his life. Without another word, he flipped into the air, landing behind Hidoi- jin and kicking him in the back, causing him to fall over, flat on his face. Everything happened all at once, it didn't even seem to last a second. He quickly grabbed the sword as Hidoi-jin spun around on his back. Jonouchi stepped on his stomach so he couldn't get up.

"THIS IS FOR SAITOH!" He cried, stabbing Hidoi-jin in the heart, killing him.

He heard clapping. He turned around to see Niro and Eka standing next to the bodies of Eka's family members. Jonouchi smiled, blushing.

"Aw, it was nothing!" he said.

******

They were at the graveyard, standing at Saitoh's grave, praying. But for some strange reason, Eka was not sad.

Jonouchi went to put the sword (along with the sheath) at his grave.

"You can keep it!" Eka said happily.

"You mean it?" He asked.

She nodded.

"ALRIGHT! I GOT A SWORD!" He announced. All the people who were visiting the other graves looked at the boy holding up a sword.

"Wow, Jonouchi, it's a pretty good sword!" Niro congratulated. "Now who wants Ramen?"

******

"So you're joining us?" Jonouchi asked.

"Yup!" She exclaimed.

They were at Roman Ramen (the ramen restaurant.) Eka was just don't telling them that she decided to join them.

"Wow!" Niro said his hand clutched in a fist. "Now we have a new member to our group!"

She smiled.

"And better yet! She's a hot girl!" He was slapped on the face. "What was that for?"

"For being a guy!"

Jonouchi laughed then was slapped.

"What was that for?" He asked.

"For being a guy!"

AND AS WE WERE CHASED AROUND THE RAMEN RESTAURANT, WE COULD HAVE SWORN THAT SAITOH'S GHOST WAS OUTSIDE THE WINDOW, WATCHING...