The Action.

So our heroes; Kenshin, Aoshi, and Sanosuke, walked down the street back to the little café that they first encountered Shishihou.

"So Battousai, your back." A deep voice said behind Kenshin.

"Chou, the sword hunter." Kenshin said.

Chou smirked. "So ya 'member me eh?" He said with an accent.

"How could I forget our fight?" Kenshin asked kindly. "But right now I have no intention of fighting you, I must talk to Shishihou that I must." Kenshin smiled brightly which made Chou explode in rage.

"No way Battousai! You're gonna 'ight me 'irst!"

"Very well.." Kenshin stated confidently, taking a fighting stance about to draw his sword.

"Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu, Ho-- Oro?"

Sojirou removed the tofu basket from Kenshin's head. "If you will follow me, I will bring you to Lord Shishihou."

"Kenshin you moron."

"I thought you were going to be a wanderer Sojirou?"

"After my soul went to hell I joined up with Shishihou again so I could be here today."

"Heh."

Sojirou smiled as usual, making Sano sick to the stomach. "How can that kid kill so many people and still smile like that?" Sano thought to himself.

"Now, wai' jus' a sec boy, I'll be the one 'sponsible for killin' the Battousai." Chou interrupted.

"Not if I have to do anything about it Chou." At that Sojirou appeared behind Chou is a flash of light, blood sprayed the area. Sojirou gave another smile and looked at Chou with his sword through his back. "W...what the.. F...fuck?"

Chou sputtered through harsh bloody coughs.

....and Sojirou just smiled.

Kenshin's eyes widened as Aoshi put a hand on Kenshin's shoulder.

Chou fell to the ground, his eyes filmed over and blood leaking out of his open mouth.

"The matter of who should live, or who should die.. Is never, and never will be your to make!!" Kenshin yelled.

Aoshi tightened his grip on Kenshin's shoulder. "Your offer is intriguing Sojirou, we'll take it."

Sojirou nodded. "Ok then, follow me."

So the group followed Sojirou into a dense forest.

"Where the hell are we going?" Asked Sano who was tired of walked already. "Why, were going to Lord Shishihou's temple." Said Sojirou with another painfully happy smile. Aoshi grabbed Kenshin by the back of the kimono and pulled him off to the side. "Do you think you can re-master the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu? I mean your fighting the successor of Hitokiri Battousai." Aoshi gave Kenshin a grave look. Kenshin looked down on the rough road below him. "I.. don't know, perhaps when we get their we can compromise with Shishihou to hold the fighting for a week or two." Kenshin wondered. "Anything in possible I suppose, but I wouldn't count on the time limit being as long as a week Himura." Aoshi stated.

Sojirou and the rest of the group stood in front of the giant temple, adorn with gold and other shades of red and black. "We're here." Sojirou said happily. "This is where Lord Shishihou is staying, if you like I will guide you in to avoid fights with the rest of the Juppon-Gatana." Kenshin, Sano and Aoshi looked at each other and nodded in unison, "Sounds like a good plan to me."

The group slowly walked through the corridors over the large temple. Every turn was uncovering new passages to the dorm of Shishihou.

"Well if it isn't Himura the Battousai." A voice off in the distance said with a smirk. "Hum... what a pleasant surprise.." Said the other followed by footsteps echoing throughout the halls. The voices were much more higher pitched then a normal man's. Sojirou steped back from the rest of the group. "Hello Yume, hello Kamatari." He said smiling as usual. "Hello Boy." Kamatari and Yume said together.

Yume and Kamatari both had their hair up in a braid with lovly kimono's that matched. "Yume and I were spending some time together but now that Himura is here things may change." Kamatari said seductively. "Oh, and Sagara and Shinomouri also." He said with a sly smirk. "Now things will get inter--" The sound of a sliding door.

"Lord Shishihou!" Kamatari and Yume said suddenly. Shishihou steped out from behind the door. "I believe I have to take care of some business with the Battousai before anything else can happen."

"Shishihou." Kenshin said darkly. Aoshi put his hand on Kenshin's shoulder, "Not now Himura, remember a week to train." Kenshin took a deep breath. "Shishihou, I would like to discuss having extra time to train myself." Shishihou nodded, "Sounds reasonable, I myself would like to train a bit also." Shishihou nodded. "I guess my predecessor can actually have good ideas.." Sano put his fist up. "Hey! Don't say that about Kenshin you fuck head!" Aoshi put his arm in front of Sano's chest. "Not now, how long Shishihou."

Shishihou's eyes widened in anticipation. "Three days." He said coolly.

"Three days?!" The group said, other then Sojirou, Kamatari and Yume.

"Yes, three days to train." He said with a smile. "If you don't like it then I can make it shorter eh?"

Sano, Aoshi and Kenshin shook their heads.

"Good."

With that, the group walked out of the temple, without getting lost.

"Ok, now we need to find a place to train." Sano said walking back into the town in which the other sides lived. "On Nikko-kai road there is an old stadium where we can train." Aoshi said serenely. "Ok, now where is this Nikko-kai?" Kenshin asked. "It's a little south Firefly road then to the right of Bloody Moon path." Sano said. "Well we should hurry, or else were gonna lose time on training, we better be ready for the fight of our lives." Aoshi said and began running at full speed with Kenshin and Sano fast on his trail.

Finally they reached the small stadium.

"So, lets start training." Sano said with a smirk, running his hand into the nearest wall only to watch it shatter into millions of pieces under Sano's great fists.

"Futai no Kiwami."

Kenshin and Aoshi went to separate sides of the stadium, Kenshin drew his sword and began attacking the small plastic dummy. Aoshi looked over at the narrowed-eyed, sweat covered manslayer. "He's really working hard, he must want to finish this once and for all." Aoshi thought you himself as he was about the draw his Kodachi.

Bang.

Kenshin cried out in pain, Sano ran over to the samurai, crushed under the giant rock. Aoshi ran over to help Kenshin who was yelling out. "Kenshin, Kenshin!" Sano screamed as they both worked together to get Kenshin out from under the rock which was yielding to move.

Plastered to the floor Kenshin fell unconscious, and no one could help.

"Come on Aoshi, we have to get this rock off of him!" Sano yelled pushing the rock. "No Sano, that will only make matters worse."

Blood began to flow from under the rock.

"I know!" Sano said and punched the rock once.

Aoshi stared.

"What is that suppo--" Right before the two men's eyes some of the rock shattered.

"Futai no Kiwami.." Sano said with a smirk.

"Well keep punching until we can lift the rock off of Himura." Aoshi suggested. "Right!" Sano yelled, punching the rock over and over again, slowly shattering chunk after chunk off of the gigantic boulder. Soon enough, Sano's blood covered hands punched until they were able to lift the large rock off of Kenshin's back.

All of them sat around the blaring cinders of a fire. Kenshin laid on his back, his ribs cracked, but he was now awake. Sano rolled over on the hard ground and continued to snore. "Aoshi, are you awake?" Kenshin asked weakly. Aoshi opened his marine eyes. "Yeah, I'm awake.." He said with a smile. "Are you feeling better Himura?" Kenshin smiled with lost eyes. "Yes, that I am." He nodded.

Aoshi moved closer to the pained samurai. "What do you think this will do about your fight with Shishihou?" Kenshin sighed. "I don't know."

"Oh." Aoshi looked down.

Kenshin tried to sit up to face Aoshi with pain streaked eyes. "Himura, you shouldn't strain yourself like that." Aoshi crawled along the rocky ground, passing by a sleeping Sanosuke along the way.

Aoshi put a hand on Kenshin's shoulder to calm him. "Does it hurt?" He asked quietly. "No, it doesn't." Kenshin said with a warm smile.

Aoshi leaned in to slightly push Kenshin back on the sleeping bag.

"Oro?!?!"

Aoshi's eyes widened to the extreme, Of coarse nothing compared to our pink wearing, oro eyed samurai in front.

Aoshi's lips brushed past Kenshin's just enough to taste the sweat taste of.. each other?

They stood like that for a while, faces flushed bright red, but not moving. Kenshin felt Aoshi's lips quirk into a slight smile.

Kenshin and Aoshi both pulled back abruptly after that two second motion that seemed like an eternity.

Aoshi couldn't help but to laugh. In an odd twist of fate, he just happened to end up kissing the one Samurai he wanted to kill long ago.

Aoshi tilted his head back and laughed loudly. Kenshin also began to laugh, realizing the humor of it all.

"HAHAHAHA!!"

"Hahahaha!"

"Hahaha."

"Haha.. Ha..."

"Ha.. Ha...?"

".......Erm..." Aoshi said after a short while.

While Kenshin still sat their, unaware of the pain pulsating through his body, stilled utterly oro'd. "I um... hum...sorry about that?" Kenshin said

"That's ok." Aoshi said placing a hand behind his head. "You should lay down now." He said nodding.

Kenshin smiled, "Yeah.." He said weakly before slowly lowering himself to the ground gently.

Aoshi let out a sigh and crawled back over to his sleeping bag to get some sleep, casting evergreen eyes up to the dank sky. "Himura you hide it all behind those purple icy eyes. How long can you?" He asked to himself...

The next morning Sanosuke carved another notch into a rock. "One more day." He said with a sigh.

Kenshin still lay in the sleeping bag into the evening of the next day. "Aoshi.. It's getting worse... I can't move at all..." Kenshin said weakly at Aoshi who was next to him while Sano trained.

"Himura, this really makes me wonder what's going to happen.."

"Only time will tell.." Another day passed... and this, harsh thankless day finally arrived...

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HH: Alrighty then! Another chapter complete! Stay right here for the next episode of Another High School Drama: The Fight.

Review for "The Fight": The time has come, the final battle between the manslayers of the shadow. Can Kenshin overcome the injury from training? Or will Shishihou take advantage of his dominance over Kenshin? Will the Battousai awaken? The fight deepens, as the dust clears... who will be the victor?