5)Uneven Can-chan
A/N: finished mai essays!!!!! Yea!!! Ok so now this is prolly gonna b the last chap for the week or so cuz we start school tomorrow *yells* NO YOU CANT MAKE ME!!!!! Ne way here we go.
Disclaimer: Canchan and Ashuli don't own ruroken.
Canchan: well that's ok!! If they were mine I couldn't obsess with them! Loving your own characters is like incest! Your characters are like your children! Ya, I agree with Watase-chan! On to the story!
Kaoru stood in the middle of a clearing in a tiny forest near the Kohaku River her feet protected by her white tabi*. She often visited this area when she wanted to be alone or when she felt the need to train away from the constant criticism of her sempai. This was her special sanctuary and she tolerated others only when they were extremely quiet.
Today she was here to train. Her shinai was tightly gripped in her left hand and she was striking the same spot in the air repeatedly and somewhat viciously. A stubborn determination made her sapphire eyes dazzle.
Kaoru paused, slightly breathless, "Three hundred. Two hundred to go. Men*, men, men," she resumed her kiai*. Beads of sweat made her bangs stick to her forehead in odd clumps and her bicep began to tingle.
(A/N: btw you know if a real person were to try and hit five hundred single handed men they'd sprain their arm. Heck if they tried to hid A Hundred they prolly wouldn't be able to train at all for a month.)
To Kenshin-tachi* whose butts were planted in the grass some twenty feet away on a little hill Kaoru's shinai was a simple blur as she worked herself into a fevered frenzy. Yahiko stared blank-eyed at his sempai.
"What's she doing?" Misao whispered behind her hand to Yahiko rather obviously.
"Training her left arm," he managed.
"Duh," Misao said, "But I mean, have you ever seen her work so hard? It's not like she has any tournaments coming up. Did Megumi offer her something if she got promoted to Ni Dan in the next two months? I personally wouldn't work that hard unless Megumi offered to buy me a new car. Gee, she's not even yelling at me to be quiet!"
A voice interrupted Misao's babbling.
"Kaoru-dono, your kamae is sloppy de gozaru yo," Kenshin said loudly and rather bravely in his opinion.
Kaoru stopped mid swing and slowly turned to the small red haired boy her long black hair catching the wind. Wrath blazed in her eyes as she locked her azure gaze with Kenshin's violet one. Stomping over she raised her shinai menacingly.
"Kenshin, are you criticizing me?! Do you think that you're better than me o mighty.Mighty.!?"
"Oro?!" he yelped, "I didn't mean to criticize its just that bad habits are difficult to break de gozaru!"
"Busu, what are you doing practicing with only your left arm?" Yahiko asked. "Wouldn't it be better if you practiced with both?"
"I know what I'm doing," she snapped back.
"Yeah, Kaoru, what are you doing?" Misao piped up. "Megumi didn't offer to buy you a car did she, a new dress, or maybe," she paused hopefully, "she's going to get me. I mean you a new game boy!"
"No she didn't. It's just that. it's just that." Kaoru, not knowing whether to tell her secret anguish, hesitated before plowing ahead. "My biceps are uneven!" she exclaimed dramatically and burst into tears quite like she had the night she got drunk at Sano's "going away" party last summer. "So are my calves!"
There was a split second of stunned silence as they all stared at Kaoru whose eyes had swollen to five times their normal size and looked like leaking faucets then both Yahiko and Misao exploded into uncontrollable fits of laughter. Even Kenshin had joined in with his Rurouni grin plastered on his face. Kaoru hadn't expected them to be upset by her uneven body but the last thing she expected was for them to laugh at her.
"You crack me up!" Misao stifled another round of laughs.
"That's the last thing you have to worry about, Busu," Yahiko mumbled on the loud side still snorting with laughter.
"You think I'm ugly, you little baka? Well, just imagine what you'll look like after I train you until MY body is evenly proportioned. Get up," Kaoru hauled the struggling boy to his feet by his gi and back to the clearing.
"Aw, I'm still sore from our last training session," he complained but still taking his shinai off his back. "And I'm wearing jeans!"
"Oh, well, we're doing an akuriachi* exercise-easy. Come on, Kamae," Kaoru commanded. Yahiko obliged and fell into stance-right foot in front of left, left heel slightly raised, and shinai pointing to his opponent's throat. "'Kay so the tips of both our shinais are supposed to stay at this distance. Slightly crossed like this and if I take a step back you take a step forward."
"Hurry up, busu. I know all this," Yahiko coughed. "Before we start, I want to see just how uneven your arms really are." His reddish brown eyes were alive with anticipation.
Kaoru laid down her shinai and rolled up her sleeves. When she flexed her muscle it was clear that they were indeed uneven. Her right arm was at least three times larger than her left and quite a deal more defined.
"I guess this is the price you pay for being good," she hiccupped still slightly upset. "This and the callus at the base of your left pinky. And the blisters the size of half dollars on the soles of your feel. And the aching arms the day after. And all the money. And."
"Well, Kenshin's good and his arms are even," Yahiko interrupted.
"Are you sure? Have you ever measured?" Kaoru asked and pulled out a tape measure from the magical fifth dimension. Yahiko shook his head.
"Oi, Kenshin? Kaoru wants to see if your arms are even?" Yahiko yelled back to Kenshin who was trying to stop Misao from Kunai-ing him to death (apparently he had given her braid a sharp tug to make her stop laughing.)
His, "Oro?" was accompanied by screams of, "Don't ever pull my hair again! Or I'll cut off yours!" issuing from Misao's mouth.
"Never mind, Kenshin. Go. go do some laundry!" Kaoru said as a slight blush crept over her cheeks. The tape measure had mysteriously disappeared.
"Happy?" Kaoru asked and picked up her shinai again, "Ikuyo. I'll be leading." Kaoru took a step forward and Yahiko took a step back. She took a step to the right and he took a step to the left. "Look at my eyes not the shinai!" She took one step back and he took one forward.
She took one more step forward, two steps forward, three steps forward, four.
*Splash!!*
Yahiko hit the water. Kaoru had led him right into the Kohaku River.
"That's what you get for calling me ugly!" she shouted quite pleased. Kenshin and Misao had come running at the unanticipated sound.
Reaching down (using her left arm) she tried to pull the spiral-eyed boy out of the knee-deep water. And with an almighty yank Kaoru, too, found herself all wet.
"Got you, busu!" Yahiko said just as happily as Kaoru had sounded a moment earlier.
"Baka, this is my new blouse!" Kaoru roared her face reddening and fists balling.
"Kaoru-dono, sessha wa would appreciate it if you didn't kill." but the rest of the Rurouni's statement was drowned out by the sound of Kaoru beating Yahiko into a bloody pulp. He sighed, "Guess I have laundry to do tonight de gozaru. That was one of my spare gi's and blood doesn't come out easy."
Vocabulary
1. Tabi- Japanese socks. They have firm soles and separate your big toe from the rest. Yea they're around $20 a pair?! What a rip off! Did you notice that Kenshin's tabi always match his gi. Kaoru's are always white.
2. Men- ok we both know that Kaoru is not obsessed with men. maybe Kenshin but not men in general right? Ok so this is the helmet part of the armor.
3. Kiai- it's the yell. You know what I'm talking about right? When you kiai in kendo you have to call the name of the area you're hitting so if you hit kote you have to say kote or if you hit men you have to say men or you don't get a point in a tournament. Karate you say Ai or Ae.
4. Akuriachi- well this is one of the weird ways they walk in kendo. So you walk always with your right leg in front. Both your feet should be facing forward and your right heel should be parallel with your left toes. Left heal should always be raised a quarter inch. Leaves your left calf aching when you first start.
5. Tachi- tachi has two meanings. It can be used to make a singular word plural but it can also be used as Kenshin and others. In this fic I've used it as the second one!!
A/N: hey thanx for reading and reviewin!! And to them peeps who are just reading thanks but I'd loooove if you'd review!!! Even if it just was a "hi read ur fic" review I'd appreciate it! I just wanna know who's out there reading my stuff!! I do believe that this was the first chapter I wrote of this fic. Ok, so you know you really can lead people into things like that. I got lead into a truck! Not a moving one mind you ^_^. And you really do get uneven muscles. *sigh* I don't think my biceps will ever be even ever again! That's ok, it's the price you pay. That and the blisters. I got one right below my pink. and I got one on the tip of my toe. and Inu-sempai had a half dollar sized blister on the sole of his left foot. Sometimes you get blood blisters. Ewwww. But even though they're not good things they're a sign of a good thing-that you're training hard. Poor Kenshin, he probably suffered more than you can imagine to learn hiten mitsurugi ryu. Well just to say, if it seems like this fic isn't going anywhere plot wise just read on!!!! I promise there is a plot! Canchan PS. Review review???
A/N: finished mai essays!!!!! Yea!!! Ok so now this is prolly gonna b the last chap for the week or so cuz we start school tomorrow *yells* NO YOU CANT MAKE ME!!!!! Ne way here we go.
Disclaimer: Canchan and Ashuli don't own ruroken.
Canchan: well that's ok!! If they were mine I couldn't obsess with them! Loving your own characters is like incest! Your characters are like your children! Ya, I agree with Watase-chan! On to the story!
Kaoru stood in the middle of a clearing in a tiny forest near the Kohaku River her feet protected by her white tabi*. She often visited this area when she wanted to be alone or when she felt the need to train away from the constant criticism of her sempai. This was her special sanctuary and she tolerated others only when they were extremely quiet.
Today she was here to train. Her shinai was tightly gripped in her left hand and she was striking the same spot in the air repeatedly and somewhat viciously. A stubborn determination made her sapphire eyes dazzle.
Kaoru paused, slightly breathless, "Three hundred. Two hundred to go. Men*, men, men," she resumed her kiai*. Beads of sweat made her bangs stick to her forehead in odd clumps and her bicep began to tingle.
(A/N: btw you know if a real person were to try and hit five hundred single handed men they'd sprain their arm. Heck if they tried to hid A Hundred they prolly wouldn't be able to train at all for a month.)
To Kenshin-tachi* whose butts were planted in the grass some twenty feet away on a little hill Kaoru's shinai was a simple blur as she worked herself into a fevered frenzy. Yahiko stared blank-eyed at his sempai.
"What's she doing?" Misao whispered behind her hand to Yahiko rather obviously.
"Training her left arm," he managed.
"Duh," Misao said, "But I mean, have you ever seen her work so hard? It's not like she has any tournaments coming up. Did Megumi offer her something if she got promoted to Ni Dan in the next two months? I personally wouldn't work that hard unless Megumi offered to buy me a new car. Gee, she's not even yelling at me to be quiet!"
A voice interrupted Misao's babbling.
"Kaoru-dono, your kamae is sloppy de gozaru yo," Kenshin said loudly and rather bravely in his opinion.
Kaoru stopped mid swing and slowly turned to the small red haired boy her long black hair catching the wind. Wrath blazed in her eyes as she locked her azure gaze with Kenshin's violet one. Stomping over she raised her shinai menacingly.
"Kenshin, are you criticizing me?! Do you think that you're better than me o mighty.Mighty.!?"
"Oro?!" he yelped, "I didn't mean to criticize its just that bad habits are difficult to break de gozaru!"
"Busu, what are you doing practicing with only your left arm?" Yahiko asked. "Wouldn't it be better if you practiced with both?"
"I know what I'm doing," she snapped back.
"Yeah, Kaoru, what are you doing?" Misao piped up. "Megumi didn't offer to buy you a car did she, a new dress, or maybe," she paused hopefully, "she's going to get me. I mean you a new game boy!"
"No she didn't. It's just that. it's just that." Kaoru, not knowing whether to tell her secret anguish, hesitated before plowing ahead. "My biceps are uneven!" she exclaimed dramatically and burst into tears quite like she had the night she got drunk at Sano's "going away" party last summer. "So are my calves!"
There was a split second of stunned silence as they all stared at Kaoru whose eyes had swollen to five times their normal size and looked like leaking faucets then both Yahiko and Misao exploded into uncontrollable fits of laughter. Even Kenshin had joined in with his Rurouni grin plastered on his face. Kaoru hadn't expected them to be upset by her uneven body but the last thing she expected was for them to laugh at her.
"You crack me up!" Misao stifled another round of laughs.
"That's the last thing you have to worry about, Busu," Yahiko mumbled on the loud side still snorting with laughter.
"You think I'm ugly, you little baka? Well, just imagine what you'll look like after I train you until MY body is evenly proportioned. Get up," Kaoru hauled the struggling boy to his feet by his gi and back to the clearing.
"Aw, I'm still sore from our last training session," he complained but still taking his shinai off his back. "And I'm wearing jeans!"
"Oh, well, we're doing an akuriachi* exercise-easy. Come on, Kamae," Kaoru commanded. Yahiko obliged and fell into stance-right foot in front of left, left heel slightly raised, and shinai pointing to his opponent's throat. "'Kay so the tips of both our shinais are supposed to stay at this distance. Slightly crossed like this and if I take a step back you take a step forward."
"Hurry up, busu. I know all this," Yahiko coughed. "Before we start, I want to see just how uneven your arms really are." His reddish brown eyes were alive with anticipation.
Kaoru laid down her shinai and rolled up her sleeves. When she flexed her muscle it was clear that they were indeed uneven. Her right arm was at least three times larger than her left and quite a deal more defined.
"I guess this is the price you pay for being good," she hiccupped still slightly upset. "This and the callus at the base of your left pinky. And the blisters the size of half dollars on the soles of your feel. And the aching arms the day after. And all the money. And."
"Well, Kenshin's good and his arms are even," Yahiko interrupted.
"Are you sure? Have you ever measured?" Kaoru asked and pulled out a tape measure from the magical fifth dimension. Yahiko shook his head.
"Oi, Kenshin? Kaoru wants to see if your arms are even?" Yahiko yelled back to Kenshin who was trying to stop Misao from Kunai-ing him to death (apparently he had given her braid a sharp tug to make her stop laughing.)
His, "Oro?" was accompanied by screams of, "Don't ever pull my hair again! Or I'll cut off yours!" issuing from Misao's mouth.
"Never mind, Kenshin. Go. go do some laundry!" Kaoru said as a slight blush crept over her cheeks. The tape measure had mysteriously disappeared.
"Happy?" Kaoru asked and picked up her shinai again, "Ikuyo. I'll be leading." Kaoru took a step forward and Yahiko took a step back. She took a step to the right and he took a step to the left. "Look at my eyes not the shinai!" She took one step back and he took one forward.
She took one more step forward, two steps forward, three steps forward, four.
*Splash!!*
Yahiko hit the water. Kaoru had led him right into the Kohaku River.
"That's what you get for calling me ugly!" she shouted quite pleased. Kenshin and Misao had come running at the unanticipated sound.
Reaching down (using her left arm) she tried to pull the spiral-eyed boy out of the knee-deep water. And with an almighty yank Kaoru, too, found herself all wet.
"Got you, busu!" Yahiko said just as happily as Kaoru had sounded a moment earlier.
"Baka, this is my new blouse!" Kaoru roared her face reddening and fists balling.
"Kaoru-dono, sessha wa would appreciate it if you didn't kill." but the rest of the Rurouni's statement was drowned out by the sound of Kaoru beating Yahiko into a bloody pulp. He sighed, "Guess I have laundry to do tonight de gozaru. That was one of my spare gi's and blood doesn't come out easy."
Vocabulary
1. Tabi- Japanese socks. They have firm soles and separate your big toe from the rest. Yea they're around $20 a pair?! What a rip off! Did you notice that Kenshin's tabi always match his gi. Kaoru's are always white.
2. Men- ok we both know that Kaoru is not obsessed with men. maybe Kenshin but not men in general right? Ok so this is the helmet part of the armor.
3. Kiai- it's the yell. You know what I'm talking about right? When you kiai in kendo you have to call the name of the area you're hitting so if you hit kote you have to say kote or if you hit men you have to say men or you don't get a point in a tournament. Karate you say Ai or Ae.
4. Akuriachi- well this is one of the weird ways they walk in kendo. So you walk always with your right leg in front. Both your feet should be facing forward and your right heel should be parallel with your left toes. Left heal should always be raised a quarter inch. Leaves your left calf aching when you first start.
5. Tachi- tachi has two meanings. It can be used to make a singular word plural but it can also be used as Kenshin and others. In this fic I've used it as the second one!!
A/N: hey thanx for reading and reviewin!! And to them peeps who are just reading thanks but I'd loooove if you'd review!!! Even if it just was a "hi read ur fic" review I'd appreciate it! I just wanna know who's out there reading my stuff!! I do believe that this was the first chapter I wrote of this fic. Ok, so you know you really can lead people into things like that. I got lead into a truck! Not a moving one mind you ^_^. And you really do get uneven muscles. *sigh* I don't think my biceps will ever be even ever again! That's ok, it's the price you pay. That and the blisters. I got one right below my pink. and I got one on the tip of my toe. and Inu-sempai had a half dollar sized blister on the sole of his left foot. Sometimes you get blood blisters. Ewwww. But even though they're not good things they're a sign of a good thing-that you're training hard. Poor Kenshin, he probably suffered more than you can imagine to learn hiten mitsurugi ryu. Well just to say, if it seems like this fic isn't going anywhere plot wise just read on!!!! I promise there is a plot! Canchan PS. Review review???