Chapter 12! ^-^
Hey People! I know some of you are sorta sad that this story is gunna end, but prolly somtime next month. I'll try to make these last few chapters the best as they can be!
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Aya Kimura: (Okay Okay I Updated, Sheeh! I do have skool ya know! ^^) Quotes SpongeBob Ep: (the one where he takes Pearl to the dance) "Don't cry, don't, do- don't cry, don't cry. Whatever you do, don't- don't Wahhhaaaaaa!
This Chapter: Aoshi and Ryuujin finish their battle but theres something about Ryuujin that shocks every body. Teheheheh! Afterwards we see Hideaki break down about his past and why he's serving Hakaisha when he despises him. Then we finally get a look at Hakaisha...
Disclaimer: Don't ask me no more....
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Hakaisha, the Kaibutsu Toushin
'His skill is nearly the same as mine; he knows all my attacks. He must have knew about me or else he wouldn't be blocking and dodging my moves.' Aoshi thought as he stared at Ryuujin across from him. He'd just tried his Double Kodachii, (the one where he tries to cut the arteries in someone's neck!) but Ryuujin knocked them out of his path but Aoshi had cut his right arm, making it harder for Ryuujin to control his blade.
Ryuujin put his hand over his wound and stared at his blood musingly, then he swated his blood to the dragon-covered floor. The floor was beginning to turn scarlet as drops of blood fell from both of them. And what was strange was, that the dragons seemed to be taking the blood into them.
Aoshi took his eyes off of Ryuujin for a moment and looked at the floor. From his new wounds, dropped blood and when he looked at a certain dragon the blood was drawn to it. "What?"
Ryuujin stared at the dragon on the ground with anger, with that, the dragon cieced to take in blood. "What are you looking at Shinomori?"
Aoshi looked up at him and said, "You aren't human are you?"
"No my name and me are connected," Ryuujin removed some of his armor from his chest and showed a huge dragon there, the same as the one on the door, on his chest down to his V-line. ~~~ (I love V-lines! *smacks myself* AOSHI!)
"I see, you and dragons' are connected," Aoshi threw down his trench coat off and crossed his Kodachiis' in front of him.
Ryuujin did the same, dropping his heavy armor and dropping the top of his gi to his hips exposing the dragon. (THAT GOES DOWN TO HIS V-LINE!) "Shall we take this battle seriously now?" He asked ritorically.
'It's about time,' Aoshi thought and attacked.
"This battle is very boring," Saito exclaimed, sighing.
Sanosuke looked back at him and balled his fist, "At least he can handle a battle by himself, unlike SOMEONE I don't wish to know!"
"First of all, I don't wish to know you either, you were just trash I had to take out before I could destroy the Battousai..."
"TRASH?!" Sanosuke yelled in a pit of rage.
"Yes. And second of all, the Battousai merely interfeared with my battle, once he stepped in, I was nearly up."
"YEAH RIGHT! I saw you! You were still as a stone!"
"Will you two stop fighting and pay attention. You never know if Aoshi might need our help, that you don't!" Kenshin yelled at them but never taking his glare off the two fighters.
Aoshi yelled and struck down with his Kodatchii and managed to knock back Ryuujin's blade, he then brought down his other but before he could strike the spikes from Ryuujins blade extended and stuck itself in Aoshi stomach and he was knocked back.
"Aoshi!" Kenshin and Sanosuke yelled in unison.
Aoshi grabbed his stoamch and felt his blood seeping through his fingers. 'This is becoming much harder than before. Ryuujin is much better in skill now then he was in the beginning of this battle.' Aoshi closed his eyes as he heard Ryuujin calling him, saying, "Get up, and face your death as a worrior."
The faces of his friends at the Aoiya flashed before his eyes. So did past events: the battle at Canryuu's, the Battousai, and everything else that he had done that drove him into madness. 'I let them down. I no longer have the power to protect them...' He then saw visions of Misao: as a baby, a little girl that was training with Henya, and her smiling face when he came back to her after the battle with Shishio, and then... he saw her crying alone in a her room and calling his name, "AOSHI!!!"
Aoshi opened his eyes and sliced Ryuujin's arm off as he was about to strike.
Ryuujin opened his eyes in shock as he saw his arm and sword fly across the room, yet he didn't yell; he just watched the blood fall from his arm.
"What are you; don't you feel any pain?" Aoshi asked with anger. He almost let his friends down; Misao down. He wasn't going to give up. He held his stomach with one hand and rose one of his Kodachiis' with the other.
"Kenshin, what's up with this guy?" Sanosuke asked staring at Ryuujins severed arm.
Kenshin and Saito watched as his arm fused with a dragon on the floor. The dragon's eyes glowed an ominous red and the room began to shake.
Aoshi stared at the area the three were looking at and then back at Ryuujin. "What's the meaning of this?"
Ryuujin closed his eyes and when he reopened them, they turned the same glowing red as the dragon near Kenshin, Sanosuke, and Saito. "My blood has awakened my dragon." He outstreched his other arm and the dragon on the floor turned into a ball of light and then into Ryuujin's chest... and everything stopped.
Kenshin looked at Ryuujin and saw the dragon on his chest glow... and everything shook again.
"I'm Ryuujin, the Dragon God!" It yelled. Ryuujin sprouted huge scally wings, large fangs and claws. Ryuujin was no longer in the form of a man but of a dragon/man something never ever heard of in their time.
Sanosuke hid behind Kenshin, "That can't be real, right?"
Kenshin stared up at it and said, "I've heard of demons before and this can be real, that it can." 'What can we do to stop it?'
Hideaki laughed with glee, "With Ryuujin transformed he can kill them and I'll be free!"
Saito heard this and glared at him from the corner of his eye, 'What is that fool blabbering about?'
Aoshi lifted his Kodachi, unafraid; he was doing this for everyone who needed him, especially Misao. "No matter if you're transformed into some beast, that doesn't mean you will receive victory!" Aoshi ran up to the knew Ryuujin as best as he could with the wound in his stomach and prepared to attack.
Ryuujin turned and flaped his wings, sending a huge gust of wind towards Aoshi, knocking him back.
Aoshi stuck his sword in the ground to stop him, and as he slid back until he stopped Ryuujin yelled a horrible shriek of pain. Aoshi looked down at his sword and where he'd skidded back from the wind. The dragons began to disappear from where they were. "I see." Aoshi smirked and pulled out his Kodachii. "You're weakness is this room. All these dragons'."
Kenshin watched Aoshi as he stuck his Kodachi in the floor and Ryuujin yelled. "The dragon are his life source, that they are!" Kenshin remembered how Ryuujin's blood was fused with the dragon, "it's the only thing that keeps him alive."
Kenshin turned to Saito and Sanosuke saying, "You two work on destroying the ceiling and floor, me and Aoshi will stall Ryuujin."
"What do you mean, why?" Sanosuke asked.
Kenshin turned and said, "Look, just use the Futeanokiwami to destroy the dragons and Saito use the thrust power of your Gatotsu."
Sanosuke scratched his head and Saito nodded, "Let's go Moron."
Kenshin ran to Aoshi and asked, "Are you alright?"
Aoshi held on tighter to his wound and then looked at Kenshin, "I'll be old when I die, not hear, not in battle, it means nothing to me."
"Aoshi," Kenshin said in agreement. He looked up at Ryuujin who was about to attack, "Stand back I'll take it from here."
"Your wounds haven't had time to heal Battousai," Aoshi warned.
"I know that, but I wont be fighting, I'll be stalling." Kenshin gave him a look signaling towards Saito and Sanosuke who were about to start.
Aoshi smirked, "Very cleaver."
Kenshin jumped up and yelled. "Ryu Sen!" He struck the back of Ryuujin's neck but his scally skin was too strong to purge but got his attention. "Now!" Kenshin yelled to Sanosuke and Saito.
"Futeanokiwami!" Sanosuke yelled as he punched and kicked the ceiling. He fell down to the floor but managed to get a 4th of the roof. "Hey my Futeanokiwami is getting stronger."
Saito struck down with his Gatotsu, the floor behind him and in front of him was destroyed. "This is rediculous."
Ryuujin turned and looked at Sanosuke and Saito but Kenshin attacked him from behind with the Kuzu Ryu Sen but Ryuujin didn't turn towards him. Sanosuke noticed his approach and used the Futeanokiwami on the ceiling, but when he noticed him still approaching he did it again but at the same time, so did Saito.
Ryuujin screamed in pain as only a few dragons' were left in the room and his power was growing short. He stopped roaring and his eyes turned a yellow-orange. He opened his mouth and released a wave of fire above him.
Kenshin ran to Ryuujin before they were all killed, "Hiten Mitsuruge Style, Amakakeru Ryu No Hitomeki!"
Ryuujin's wings were knocked off by this attack and he fell on the rest of the dragons' destroying them. He began to roar but then it was nothing but a scream.
Sanosuke was about to destroy the rest on the roof but Kenshin stopped him. Sanosuke nodded and walked over to Saito and Aoshi with Kenshin and looked over Ryuujin. He was screaming but his appearance slowly began to change, his hair turned brown, his body, which was a medium build went as a slender as Kenshin's. (Kenshin is still hot though) When his screaming stopped he opened his eyes and they were no longer hazel but blue, a soft blue that looked of those of a child. His arm was back and the dragon on his chest had disappeared.
"This is way to weird to be real," Sanosuke said, freaking out.
"This is the way he used to look before he took the power of the Dragon God..." Hideaki began walking up to them. "...The man you saw before was the Dragon God's human form, in order to get it it needed to fuse with that of a human. This man you see now was once a poor swordsman with no skill, that was beaten and battered, excepted no where. Then he came to us and asked for a way to become stronger. So we put him through test and realized how weak he really was so we used the demon spirits of this mountain to test him and Ryuujin was the best choice for him because he had so much determination and the fire within him would no burn out. So he went through weeks of torture fusing with the spirit of the Ryuujin. Then he finally fused and Ryuujin was born into a man. We didn't need to teach him anything, he knew everything that would defeat an enemy. But because he was half human he needed souls of dragons to maintain his form. So Hakaisha created this room for him so that he could survive here without losing his form. But now you have destroyed him and now he's nothing but a poor begger who was called Kursuchan."
Kenshin looked at the man named Kursuchan and watched as tears began to fall from his face. "Is all that true?"
He looked up at him and then to Hideaki and nodded.
Sanosuke was about to hit him for being stupid but realized that wouldn't help, "You idiot! How could you let yourself be used by these evil guys!"
Kursuchan looked down at his hands and said this and only this, "I had no choice." The room began to shake and flames errupted from the walls.
Hideaki headed for the door, "We must go, the spirit of the Ryuujin is punishing him for being weak that he had to lose his body. Leave him, if you touch him you'll be burned."
Kenshin tried to bring Kursuchan but before he could grab him he errupted into flames and all Kenshin could hear was his screams and cries of pain.
When they were all out Hideaki closed the door and leaned against it. "It will all end soon, there will be no more pain for that man. Everything will be fine."
Sanosuke punched him in the face and grabbed him by the color, "The hell with "everything will be fine" a man died in there!"
Hideaki breathed and looked down, "We all know the consequences for joining with Hakaisha if we fail, we die. For Kursuchan he knew that if he failed Ryuujin he would lose his life either way. We all have our regrets..." he said sadly.
Saito took him down form Sanosuke grasp and asked, "What are you trying to say?"
Hideaki turned and opened the door. The room wasn't burned at all it was the same as it was when they entered but there was only one dragon on the floor, the very spot Kursuchan was sitting. "He is the first dragon spirit for the next mortal who will endure the power of Ryuujin." He closed the door again and walked passed them.
He took a few steps then stopped, a tear fell and he found himself crying very noticablly. He turned and looked at them all who were giving him questioning looks. Hideaki leaned against the hallway wall and covered his face.
"Sanosuke, take this oppertunity to work on Aoshi's wounds," Kenshin explained. He then walked over in front of Hideaki, "What has Hakaisha done to you?"
He didn't remove his hands from his face, "He took my life away when I was 15. I was almost a man then and I was the father of the family. My mother was cursed with a family sickness and I had to take care of the house and my little sister; she was only 11.
When I was playing with my sister outside we noticed one of the villagers home burning. We went to investigate and found the family slaughtered outside their homes, even my sisters best friend. She started to cry loudly and we heard voices and horses aproaching. I told my sister to run and tell mother to send a telogram to the swordsman in our village who worked as our sherrif.
I went around the house to find their daughter being raped and beaten. I threw up and they caught me. I tried to fight them off but they were to strong and they had swords. I just hoped my sister got away and she wouldn't endure the same fate as her best friends sister.
They dragged me on the back of their horses and beat me for spying on them. Then they stopped at my house. I tried my best to get up and warn my mother and sister to get out but they knocked the breath out of me with their swords.
That was the first time I saw Hakaisha, he had my sickly mother by the throat and was holding my sister by the hair and she was tied up. I called to my mother who seemed to be dead but unconscious. She opened her eyes and right when she did Hakaisha stuck his sword through her back. I felt the hot tears fall from my eyes and end at my lips. I realeased myself form the mens grasps and tried to save my sister and kill Hakaisha but he held his sword to her throat. He told me if I cared about my sister I'd let him have her but if I tried anything, he'd kill her. I looked at my sister who was looking at our dead mother, crying. I had no choice, I gave her to him and he could have killed me but he kept me to arrange his dirty work.
I havent seen my sister in 13 years but I know she's here somewhere but no matter where I look I can never find her. I don't know if she's dead or not but something inside me tells me that she's here. But what kills me is that Hakaisha may be using her as a bed mate. That bastard, tainting my innocent little sister." He finally finished but the tears continued to fall.
Kenshin walked up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder, "If you're telling the truth I'll help find your sister, that I will."
"Kenshin! You can't possibally believe this guy! He was the one who led us through all these battles!" Sanosuke pointed out.
Hideaki looked up and Kenshin noticed the eyes of a child again and he wasn't faking. "You don't even know if she's here. How can you find her?! You have to lose against Hakaisha; that's the only way."
Kenshin smiled and turned his back to him, "There is someone back at my home who I want to save also, so I refuse to die..." Kenshin turned with the same smile on his face, "I'll help you find your sister when I defeat him. I have to stay alive for all those who need me."
Hideaki smiled a little and nodded, "Hakaisha is through that door," he pointed to a door far beyond the hall that looked like a small dot from where they were.
They reached the door after a while and Hideaki stood in front of it. "Be careful, Hakaisha can be very tricky I know he'll have something I and you wont expect."
"I'm prepared for anything beyond this door, that I am," Kenshin assured him.
"We got your back buddy," Sanosuke said patting his back. "This will be a walk through the park, if you could beat someone like Mikoto Shishio then you can defeat a small fry like Hakaisha."
Kenshin showed his appreciation by smiling back at him.
Hideaki opened the door and the room was the peak of the mountain. "This is were it will all end for someone. There shall be one victor." Hideaki put on his image and walked over to a chair that was turned around. "My Lord, our guest our here."
"That took longer than expected, I didn't know they would put up such a good fight. No matter..." The chair turned and there Hakaisha sat. His hair was back in a high ponytail and there was a red headband on his forehead that said his name on it. He stood up and smirked his green eyes glistened with excitement that the Battousai had finally arrived. "Now that I look at you Battousai, you don't look like you were able to defeat my master."
"That was when I was Hitokiri Battousai, I am noting more than Kenshin Himura the wandering samurai." Kenshin replied to his statement.
"No matter who you are, you're still the one who killed my master! Now I'll kill you!" He grabbed the hilt of his sword and got ready to attack. And so did Kenshin.
He stood straight and looked over at Hideaki. "Hideaki, you remembered what I promised you, don't you?"
A drop of sweat fell from his face and he swallowed, "Yes, Master, you promised me my sister."
He smirked and walked to a curtain, "Yes, and after 13 long years, here she is." He pulled down the curtain and a beautiful woman appeared she was wearing a beautiful thick kinomo made of satin and silk. Her face was a ray a light; her complextion wasn't flawed in anyway. She had beautiful ocean green eyes and long curly brown hair.
Hideaki fell to his knees, "Aya."
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That's it people! For this chapter I mean.
I know this was sort of a wack ending but i had to stop it somewhere.
Next chapter: We start off by checking up on Kaoru and how BAD she's doing. Don't take that the wrong way you never know what I might have in store for you all ^.~ Kenshin and Hakaishai discuss their situation and like Hideaki said Hakaisha had some dirty tricks up his sleeve! Tune in, in 2 weeks for the next chapter of Someone Like You!
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Hey People! I know some of you are sorta sad that this story is gunna end, but prolly somtime next month. I'll try to make these last few chapters the best as they can be!
Reviewers:(My responces are for the very ^^' "Interesting" reviews, but I love all of them; I appreciate them!)
Aya Kimura: (Okay Okay I Updated, Sheeh! I do have skool ya know! ^^) Quotes SpongeBob Ep: (the one where he takes Pearl to the dance) "Don't cry, don't, do- don't cry, don't cry. Whatever you do, don't- don't Wahhhaaaaaa!
This Chapter: Aoshi and Ryuujin finish their battle but theres something about Ryuujin that shocks every body. Teheheheh! Afterwards we see Hideaki break down about his past and why he's serving Hakaisha when he despises him. Then we finally get a look at Hakaisha...
Disclaimer: Don't ask me no more....
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Hakaisha, the Kaibutsu Toushin
'His skill is nearly the same as mine; he knows all my attacks. He must have knew about me or else he wouldn't be blocking and dodging my moves.' Aoshi thought as he stared at Ryuujin across from him. He'd just tried his Double Kodachii, (the one where he tries to cut the arteries in someone's neck!) but Ryuujin knocked them out of his path but Aoshi had cut his right arm, making it harder for Ryuujin to control his blade.
Ryuujin put his hand over his wound and stared at his blood musingly, then he swated his blood to the dragon-covered floor. The floor was beginning to turn scarlet as drops of blood fell from both of them. And what was strange was, that the dragons seemed to be taking the blood into them.
Aoshi took his eyes off of Ryuujin for a moment and looked at the floor. From his new wounds, dropped blood and when he looked at a certain dragon the blood was drawn to it. "What?"
Ryuujin stared at the dragon on the ground with anger, with that, the dragon cieced to take in blood. "What are you looking at Shinomori?"
Aoshi looked up at him and said, "You aren't human are you?"
"No my name and me are connected," Ryuujin removed some of his armor from his chest and showed a huge dragon there, the same as the one on the door, on his chest down to his V-line. ~~~ (I love V-lines! *smacks myself* AOSHI!)
"I see, you and dragons' are connected," Aoshi threw down his trench coat off and crossed his Kodachiis' in front of him.
Ryuujin did the same, dropping his heavy armor and dropping the top of his gi to his hips exposing the dragon. (THAT GOES DOWN TO HIS V-LINE!) "Shall we take this battle seriously now?" He asked ritorically.
'It's about time,' Aoshi thought and attacked.
"This battle is very boring," Saito exclaimed, sighing.
Sanosuke looked back at him and balled his fist, "At least he can handle a battle by himself, unlike SOMEONE I don't wish to know!"
"First of all, I don't wish to know you either, you were just trash I had to take out before I could destroy the Battousai..."
"TRASH?!" Sanosuke yelled in a pit of rage.
"Yes. And second of all, the Battousai merely interfeared with my battle, once he stepped in, I was nearly up."
"YEAH RIGHT! I saw you! You were still as a stone!"
"Will you two stop fighting and pay attention. You never know if Aoshi might need our help, that you don't!" Kenshin yelled at them but never taking his glare off the two fighters.
Aoshi yelled and struck down with his Kodatchii and managed to knock back Ryuujin's blade, he then brought down his other but before he could strike the spikes from Ryuujins blade extended and stuck itself in Aoshi stomach and he was knocked back.
"Aoshi!" Kenshin and Sanosuke yelled in unison.
Aoshi grabbed his stoamch and felt his blood seeping through his fingers. 'This is becoming much harder than before. Ryuujin is much better in skill now then he was in the beginning of this battle.' Aoshi closed his eyes as he heard Ryuujin calling him, saying, "Get up, and face your death as a worrior."
The faces of his friends at the Aoiya flashed before his eyes. So did past events: the battle at Canryuu's, the Battousai, and everything else that he had done that drove him into madness. 'I let them down. I no longer have the power to protect them...' He then saw visions of Misao: as a baby, a little girl that was training with Henya, and her smiling face when he came back to her after the battle with Shishio, and then... he saw her crying alone in a her room and calling his name, "AOSHI!!!"
Aoshi opened his eyes and sliced Ryuujin's arm off as he was about to strike.
Ryuujin opened his eyes in shock as he saw his arm and sword fly across the room, yet he didn't yell; he just watched the blood fall from his arm.
"What are you; don't you feel any pain?" Aoshi asked with anger. He almost let his friends down; Misao down. He wasn't going to give up. He held his stomach with one hand and rose one of his Kodachiis' with the other.
"Kenshin, what's up with this guy?" Sanosuke asked staring at Ryuujins severed arm.
Kenshin and Saito watched as his arm fused with a dragon on the floor. The dragon's eyes glowed an ominous red and the room began to shake.
Aoshi stared at the area the three were looking at and then back at Ryuujin. "What's the meaning of this?"
Ryuujin closed his eyes and when he reopened them, they turned the same glowing red as the dragon near Kenshin, Sanosuke, and Saito. "My blood has awakened my dragon." He outstreched his other arm and the dragon on the floor turned into a ball of light and then into Ryuujin's chest... and everything stopped.
Kenshin looked at Ryuujin and saw the dragon on his chest glow... and everything shook again.
"I'm Ryuujin, the Dragon God!" It yelled. Ryuujin sprouted huge scally wings, large fangs and claws. Ryuujin was no longer in the form of a man but of a dragon/man something never ever heard of in their time.
Sanosuke hid behind Kenshin, "That can't be real, right?"
Kenshin stared up at it and said, "I've heard of demons before and this can be real, that it can." 'What can we do to stop it?'
Hideaki laughed with glee, "With Ryuujin transformed he can kill them and I'll be free!"
Saito heard this and glared at him from the corner of his eye, 'What is that fool blabbering about?'
Aoshi lifted his Kodachi, unafraid; he was doing this for everyone who needed him, especially Misao. "No matter if you're transformed into some beast, that doesn't mean you will receive victory!" Aoshi ran up to the knew Ryuujin as best as he could with the wound in his stomach and prepared to attack.
Ryuujin turned and flaped his wings, sending a huge gust of wind towards Aoshi, knocking him back.
Aoshi stuck his sword in the ground to stop him, and as he slid back until he stopped Ryuujin yelled a horrible shriek of pain. Aoshi looked down at his sword and where he'd skidded back from the wind. The dragons began to disappear from where they were. "I see." Aoshi smirked and pulled out his Kodachii. "You're weakness is this room. All these dragons'."
Kenshin watched Aoshi as he stuck his Kodachi in the floor and Ryuujin yelled. "The dragon are his life source, that they are!" Kenshin remembered how Ryuujin's blood was fused with the dragon, "it's the only thing that keeps him alive."
Kenshin turned to Saito and Sanosuke saying, "You two work on destroying the ceiling and floor, me and Aoshi will stall Ryuujin."
"What do you mean, why?" Sanosuke asked.
Kenshin turned and said, "Look, just use the Futeanokiwami to destroy the dragons and Saito use the thrust power of your Gatotsu."
Sanosuke scratched his head and Saito nodded, "Let's go Moron."
Kenshin ran to Aoshi and asked, "Are you alright?"
Aoshi held on tighter to his wound and then looked at Kenshin, "I'll be old when I die, not hear, not in battle, it means nothing to me."
"Aoshi," Kenshin said in agreement. He looked up at Ryuujin who was about to attack, "Stand back I'll take it from here."
"Your wounds haven't had time to heal Battousai," Aoshi warned.
"I know that, but I wont be fighting, I'll be stalling." Kenshin gave him a look signaling towards Saito and Sanosuke who were about to start.
Aoshi smirked, "Very cleaver."
Kenshin jumped up and yelled. "Ryu Sen!" He struck the back of Ryuujin's neck but his scally skin was too strong to purge but got his attention. "Now!" Kenshin yelled to Sanosuke and Saito.
"Futeanokiwami!" Sanosuke yelled as he punched and kicked the ceiling. He fell down to the floor but managed to get a 4th of the roof. "Hey my Futeanokiwami is getting stronger."
Saito struck down with his Gatotsu, the floor behind him and in front of him was destroyed. "This is rediculous."
Ryuujin turned and looked at Sanosuke and Saito but Kenshin attacked him from behind with the Kuzu Ryu Sen but Ryuujin didn't turn towards him. Sanosuke noticed his approach and used the Futeanokiwami on the ceiling, but when he noticed him still approaching he did it again but at the same time, so did Saito.
Ryuujin screamed in pain as only a few dragons' were left in the room and his power was growing short. He stopped roaring and his eyes turned a yellow-orange. He opened his mouth and released a wave of fire above him.
Kenshin ran to Ryuujin before they were all killed, "Hiten Mitsuruge Style, Amakakeru Ryu No Hitomeki!"
Ryuujin's wings were knocked off by this attack and he fell on the rest of the dragons' destroying them. He began to roar but then it was nothing but a scream.
Sanosuke was about to destroy the rest on the roof but Kenshin stopped him. Sanosuke nodded and walked over to Saito and Aoshi with Kenshin and looked over Ryuujin. He was screaming but his appearance slowly began to change, his hair turned brown, his body, which was a medium build went as a slender as Kenshin's. (Kenshin is still hot though) When his screaming stopped he opened his eyes and they were no longer hazel but blue, a soft blue that looked of those of a child. His arm was back and the dragon on his chest had disappeared.
"This is way to weird to be real," Sanosuke said, freaking out.
"This is the way he used to look before he took the power of the Dragon God..." Hideaki began walking up to them. "...The man you saw before was the Dragon God's human form, in order to get it it needed to fuse with that of a human. This man you see now was once a poor swordsman with no skill, that was beaten and battered, excepted no where. Then he came to us and asked for a way to become stronger. So we put him through test and realized how weak he really was so we used the demon spirits of this mountain to test him and Ryuujin was the best choice for him because he had so much determination and the fire within him would no burn out. So he went through weeks of torture fusing with the spirit of the Ryuujin. Then he finally fused and Ryuujin was born into a man. We didn't need to teach him anything, he knew everything that would defeat an enemy. But because he was half human he needed souls of dragons to maintain his form. So Hakaisha created this room for him so that he could survive here without losing his form. But now you have destroyed him and now he's nothing but a poor begger who was called Kursuchan."
Kenshin looked at the man named Kursuchan and watched as tears began to fall from his face. "Is all that true?"
He looked up at him and then to Hideaki and nodded.
Sanosuke was about to hit him for being stupid but realized that wouldn't help, "You idiot! How could you let yourself be used by these evil guys!"
Kursuchan looked down at his hands and said this and only this, "I had no choice." The room began to shake and flames errupted from the walls.
Hideaki headed for the door, "We must go, the spirit of the Ryuujin is punishing him for being weak that he had to lose his body. Leave him, if you touch him you'll be burned."
Kenshin tried to bring Kursuchan but before he could grab him he errupted into flames and all Kenshin could hear was his screams and cries of pain.
When they were all out Hideaki closed the door and leaned against it. "It will all end soon, there will be no more pain for that man. Everything will be fine."
Sanosuke punched him in the face and grabbed him by the color, "The hell with "everything will be fine" a man died in there!"
Hideaki breathed and looked down, "We all know the consequences for joining with Hakaisha if we fail, we die. For Kursuchan he knew that if he failed Ryuujin he would lose his life either way. We all have our regrets..." he said sadly.
Saito took him down form Sanosuke grasp and asked, "What are you trying to say?"
Hideaki turned and opened the door. The room wasn't burned at all it was the same as it was when they entered but there was only one dragon on the floor, the very spot Kursuchan was sitting. "He is the first dragon spirit for the next mortal who will endure the power of Ryuujin." He closed the door again and walked passed them.
He took a few steps then stopped, a tear fell and he found himself crying very noticablly. He turned and looked at them all who were giving him questioning looks. Hideaki leaned against the hallway wall and covered his face.
"Sanosuke, take this oppertunity to work on Aoshi's wounds," Kenshin explained. He then walked over in front of Hideaki, "What has Hakaisha done to you?"
He didn't remove his hands from his face, "He took my life away when I was 15. I was almost a man then and I was the father of the family. My mother was cursed with a family sickness and I had to take care of the house and my little sister; she was only 11.
When I was playing with my sister outside we noticed one of the villagers home burning. We went to investigate and found the family slaughtered outside their homes, even my sisters best friend. She started to cry loudly and we heard voices and horses aproaching. I told my sister to run and tell mother to send a telogram to the swordsman in our village who worked as our sherrif.
I went around the house to find their daughter being raped and beaten. I threw up and they caught me. I tried to fight them off but they were to strong and they had swords. I just hoped my sister got away and she wouldn't endure the same fate as her best friends sister.
They dragged me on the back of their horses and beat me for spying on them. Then they stopped at my house. I tried my best to get up and warn my mother and sister to get out but they knocked the breath out of me with their swords.
That was the first time I saw Hakaisha, he had my sickly mother by the throat and was holding my sister by the hair and she was tied up. I called to my mother who seemed to be dead but unconscious. She opened her eyes and right when she did Hakaisha stuck his sword through her back. I felt the hot tears fall from my eyes and end at my lips. I realeased myself form the mens grasps and tried to save my sister and kill Hakaisha but he held his sword to her throat. He told me if I cared about my sister I'd let him have her but if I tried anything, he'd kill her. I looked at my sister who was looking at our dead mother, crying. I had no choice, I gave her to him and he could have killed me but he kept me to arrange his dirty work.
I havent seen my sister in 13 years but I know she's here somewhere but no matter where I look I can never find her. I don't know if she's dead or not but something inside me tells me that she's here. But what kills me is that Hakaisha may be using her as a bed mate. That bastard, tainting my innocent little sister." He finally finished but the tears continued to fall.
Kenshin walked up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder, "If you're telling the truth I'll help find your sister, that I will."
"Kenshin! You can't possibally believe this guy! He was the one who led us through all these battles!" Sanosuke pointed out.
Hideaki looked up and Kenshin noticed the eyes of a child again and he wasn't faking. "You don't even know if she's here. How can you find her?! You have to lose against Hakaisha; that's the only way."
Kenshin smiled and turned his back to him, "There is someone back at my home who I want to save also, so I refuse to die..." Kenshin turned with the same smile on his face, "I'll help you find your sister when I defeat him. I have to stay alive for all those who need me."
Hideaki smiled a little and nodded, "Hakaisha is through that door," he pointed to a door far beyond the hall that looked like a small dot from where they were.
They reached the door after a while and Hideaki stood in front of it. "Be careful, Hakaisha can be very tricky I know he'll have something I and you wont expect."
"I'm prepared for anything beyond this door, that I am," Kenshin assured him.
"We got your back buddy," Sanosuke said patting his back. "This will be a walk through the park, if you could beat someone like Mikoto Shishio then you can defeat a small fry like Hakaisha."
Kenshin showed his appreciation by smiling back at him.
Hideaki opened the door and the room was the peak of the mountain. "This is were it will all end for someone. There shall be one victor." Hideaki put on his image and walked over to a chair that was turned around. "My Lord, our guest our here."
"That took longer than expected, I didn't know they would put up such a good fight. No matter..." The chair turned and there Hakaisha sat. His hair was back in a high ponytail and there was a red headband on his forehead that said his name on it. He stood up and smirked his green eyes glistened with excitement that the Battousai had finally arrived. "Now that I look at you Battousai, you don't look like you were able to defeat my master."
"That was when I was Hitokiri Battousai, I am noting more than Kenshin Himura the wandering samurai." Kenshin replied to his statement.
"No matter who you are, you're still the one who killed my master! Now I'll kill you!" He grabbed the hilt of his sword and got ready to attack. And so did Kenshin.
He stood straight and looked over at Hideaki. "Hideaki, you remembered what I promised you, don't you?"
A drop of sweat fell from his face and he swallowed, "Yes, Master, you promised me my sister."
He smirked and walked to a curtain, "Yes, and after 13 long years, here she is." He pulled down the curtain and a beautiful woman appeared she was wearing a beautiful thick kinomo made of satin and silk. Her face was a ray a light; her complextion wasn't flawed in anyway. She had beautiful ocean green eyes and long curly brown hair.
Hideaki fell to his knees, "Aya."
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That's it people! For this chapter I mean.
I know this was sort of a wack ending but i had to stop it somewhere.
Next chapter: We start off by checking up on Kaoru and how BAD she's doing. Don't take that the wrong way you never know what I might have in store for you all ^.~ Kenshin and Hakaishai discuss their situation and like Hideaki said Hakaisha had some dirty tricks up his sleeve! Tune in, in 2 weeks for the next chapter of Someone Like You!
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