Episode 2: Kid Samurai
(Our Guest Author this chapter is "misaoshiru". We'd like to thank her for the wonderful poem. Please see the end of this chapter for her contact information.)
"The Bratty Samurai... Why Don't You Become My Student?"
Verily our dearest rurouni
Was up to his neck in bubbles and suds
For he volunteered to do the laundry
And with small girls' help it became a flood.
But a tanuki angers easily
To the red-headed rurouni's woe
And Kaoru-dono was mutt'ring darkly
Complaining about how she didn't know
Why her kendo students had gone away
And hadn't returned after all this time
"That Battousai thing ended!" she'd say
"Kenshin defeated that stupid fat slime!
So why haven't they returned to me yet?"
"Calm down," Kenshin answered, "wait a while.
It will take time, but they'll be back I bet
Then you can restore the Kasshin style."
"And what am I supposed to do 'til then?"
She snapped angrily. "I can't spar with you!
Without students I'll lose skill and can't win!
So what the heck then am I to do?"
Kenshin was at a loss for words to say
In the nick of time Gensai-sensei came
To pick up his granddaughters at midday
And Kaoru made Kenshin buy lunch (how lame!)
On the way to the rest'rant Akabeko
A kid attempted to take Kenshin's cash
But Kaoru got mad (she's Kaoru you know!)
And she wanted dearly to try to mash
The boy's head into the ground as hard as
She could, but Kenshin restrained her and they
Went to the rest'rant, and learned the boy has
Been forced to pick pockets since that sad day
When his mum died and filthy Yakuza
Took advantage of him, made him steal
So Kaoru got mad, calling them losers
And left the place early in the meal
She beat cheaters at gambling, got in a fight,
A jerk tried to kill them, her and the boy
When Kenshin showed up at the shady site
Of the Yakuza's HQ, and, oh joy!
Anticlimactically rescued the kid
(Whose name was Myoujin Yahiko, 'kay?)
And arranged for Yahiko, that he did,
To get trained by Kaoru. Now you might say
That this would solve all the problems they had.
But teacher and apprentice, as was found,
Would fight and make each other mad.
So this was the Kasshin-ryuu's loud sound!
Fighting and cries of "Busu!" would reign
In the dojo 'til the boy would finally
Master the style in which he would train
Relentlessly. (Though not happily!)
Glossary:
1) Tanuki – a raccoon-like animal that Kaoru is often compared to.
2) Busu - hag
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