Training
Chou walked down the road to the police station, a report in his hands that had just come from Tokyo. He grumbled about being the messenger boy again and how one day he was going to kick his boss in his skinny ass. He slid the door open and yelled in
"Oi boss got the case you wanted!"
"Then give it to me Ahou." Saitou rolled his eyes as he took a drag of his cigarette.
Chou walked over to his boss and gave him the manila file. Saitou's eyes gleamed as he saw the contents. Noticing the look of bloodlust that passed across his bosses face lead Chou to question what was exactly written in the envelope. So he asked.
"Another assassination."
"Any clue as to the fucker that did it?"
"A dead man."
"That don't make sense."
"It said Kage (pronounced KA-GE). The Kage has been dead for about 12 years now."
"So why do they think it was him?"
"Same style and they left that name on the wall in their victims blood."
"This guy sounds a little crazy."
"The Kage(mean's shadow) wasn't crazy and he left no trace hence the name. that's the first clue that it wasn't really him. But as to it being the same style we are going to have a bit of trouble. The real Kage was also faster then your little smiling friend."
"Shit! Faster then the kid?? Whoa those politicians are in some deep shit!"
"I have a clue as to who it is though. The clues don't exactly add up but........."
"But what?"
"The thought of revenge was probably to appesing to the eye for this particular person."
"Who?"
"The Shi no Tenshi." ******************************************************************** Soujiro's POV
Kasoku walked beside me as I made a beeline for the noodle vender. Ochita is crazy if she can go this long without food while having money. I bought some, ate it, helped Kasoku eat it because the little boy couldn't use chopsticks for he had probably eaten fish the majority of his life courtesy of Ochita, and then bought some more and put it in a carry box for Ochita and Kai if he was conscious when I got back.
I then went to a shop that was selling an array of wooden weaponry and bought a shinai. It was a good weapon, light in weight, and sturdy in build. Kasoku took a particular intrest in the object leading me to buy one for the little boy only to have him giggle madly and swing it around.
The kid was so strange. Well he has been living with an enigma and can only say 3 words. I walked forward back to the river where I had left Ochita. She wasn't there.
"Oka!" the little boy giggled and picked up a stone.
"Ara?" What was he doing? Then he ran and picked up another and another. Kasoku ran back and tugged on my dark blue hakama.
"Otou." He beckoned to me.
"Ara?" I asked the little boy.
He just ran off and went on collecting stones leaving me in to follow him. Strangley after a while we met up with Ochita who was with Kai, of whom was cursing colorfully.
"I can't believed you fuckin' kidnapped me!" Kai shouted.
Ochita ignored him and looked at me. Kasoku had a bunch of stones in his hand of which he gave to Ochita. Her lips twitched and she patted the boy on the head then put the stones in her bag. Oh I get it. She left the stones for Kasoku to pick up. How strangely clever. I gave Ochita the shinai who immediately threw it at Kai. It smacked the kid in the head and he fell over.
"Stay and train then defeat your tormentors or go back and get your ass kicked it's up to you." Ochita said daydreamily but oddly swearing didn't seem as odd as it should have coming from her mouth.
Kai looked at his shinai then asked "What kind of training."
"for now we will work up your speed very muchly so." Ochita said still slightly zoned out.
I was curious as to what kind of technice she used for building up speed because she was so fast.
"Seta-san will help very muchly so."
"Mou."
"And so will Kasoku."
"Nani? What do you mean I'm helping?"
"You'll see very muchly so."
"I'd rather be taught by him then an ugly girl like you."
"Really?" Ochita asked and I almost thought I heard amusment in her voice.
"I really can't teach anything very well." I admitted.
"Training commences now very muchly so." Ochita said.
"Fine what do I do?" Kai asked.
"Follow me." Ochita said walking quickly away.
I followed her and Kai did too. He grumbled about following a stupid hag with funny teeth and a weed for a hat. He seemed extremely irritated. He turned to me and stared, sizing me up.
"What's up with you and her anyway? Why are you smiling? Why does she always have that look on her face and why does she talk like that? What is she gonna make me do?"
"I really have no idea what Ochita wants you to do. I am curious myself. I don't know the answers to your other questions." I prayed he didn't remember about asking of my smile. Thankfully he didn't.
We walked towards a roaring river, Ochita wacking her compass against a rock once and then putting it into her gi. She then walked into the river and beckoned us to follow. Kasoku yelped and ran to follow his oka. He had a big grin on his face and walked into the river splashing around. I didn't know if this was a good idea it was pretty cold out.
"Come in."
Kai sighed and walked into the river as did I. This was how I had trained but I didn't see how you could train more like this and become faster then I was. Walking around I watched as Kasoku sped through the water with ease. I had never considered the thought that Ochita had trained the little child as well considering he didn't have a weapon but it did seem to fit that she would make sure he was safe by making him fast enough to get out of tough situations. Kasoku splashed Kai who got mad.
"Why you little brat!" Kai shouted as he tried to run after the little boy. Kasoku moved as if he were on land instead of waist deep in water. Kai was up to his thighs in water and as he tried to strangle the little child he fell into the water as his attempt to lunge failed.
"Your first task is to catch Kasoku." Ochita said. ******************************************************************** Soujiro still had his smile on as he walked towards Ochita. He noted that the fact that she was up to her mid thighs in water didn't hinder her movements in the slightest as where as for Soujiro it at least made him try a little harder and his movements were more forceful. Ochita's fluid movements made him think that she had done something far more intense then walking through water to get her speed.
"You didn't train this way did you?" He called forward to her.
"That is correct very muchly so." She answered.
"Then how did you train."
"Instead of water it was mud."
"Ara? Mud?" Soujiro asked surprised.
Along his journey he had gotten stuck in the mud had yelled for help the whole time because he couldn't move in it and kept slipping and falling deeper into it. Some of the locals finally found him chest deep in mud and had pulled him out.
"Aa." Ochita said snapping Soujiro back to reality.
Soujiro tried to catch up with Ochita's fast pace. He was within arms length of her when Kai pushed him forward in his wild persuit of Kasoku.
"Ararararararararara-mfph!"
Soujiro didn't fall into the river like he had expected but into something almost soft. He opened his eyes and saw black bandages. He realized there was an arm around his shoulders. He couldn't help but inhale the peach and rainwater sent of Ochita. He blushed horribly when he realized where exactly his head had landed. On Ochita's not so flat chest. The bandages gave off an illusion that she was flat but from the feel she definitely was not. Soujiro dug his feet into the bed of the river and Ochita gently pushed him back. She turned around and acted as if the embarrassing, in Soujiro's opinion, event hadn't happened.
Soujiro watched Ochita, her funny toe to heel walk amused him. ~When did I start to ever feel amusment? At least the kind that's for a simple reason and not because I just lopped off a begging politians head?~. Soujiro pondered two of the questions Kai had asked. Why does she always have that look on her face and Why did she speak so strangely? Soujiro had to admit the way she looked at you as if you weren't really there could make you shiver on the warmest of days. Soujiro froze as he realized were he had seen someone stare at him that way. A dead man stared at you like that. Soujiro had looked into the eye's of his victims plenty of times and that is what it resembled. Dead people seemed to look off into the distance, or the world of the dead as did she. Was that her intent?
Soujiro pondered these thoughts as were Ochita's only thought was if this certain river had fish. Ochita could admit that she took on the appearance of a fairly simple person but inside she wasn't simple at all. Her logic was haywire and she felt her life was never supposed to be. She had hated it until Kasoku came along and screwed up her self loathing, mildly suicidal attitude. He needed her.~What is that old saying? Misery enjoys company?~. Ochita watched as Kai fruitlessly attempted to catch Kasoku. Her lips twitched upwards in a feign smile as Kai turned around to glare at her.
"You find this amusing don't you bitch?!"
Ochita just nods.
Kai lunged at her shinai drawn. He tried to hit her but Ochita drew her pole and quickly batted him out of the air and back into the water where he landed with a sploosh. Kai's head popped out of the water panting.
"I actually found that even more amusing very muchly so." ********************************************************************* "I hate you."
"Is that supposed to make me feel hurt?" Ochita asked.
Kai seethed as he dug into his noddles with his chopsticks. He really couldn't stand her. She didn't get mad at him she didn't get annoyed even. All he did was provoke her trying to get the slightest reaction that his words had some effect on her but none of them seemed to.
It was evening and the sun had set. Ochita found a place to camp and Kai and Kasoku as well as Soujiro and herself were wet. Everyone had taken off there gi and hung it up to dry. Ochita had caught fish because she preferred it over noodles which wasn't actually true she just wanted Kasoku and Soujiro to have them.
"So Seta-san why are you a wanderer?" Ochita asked. It was the first conversation she had initiated.
"I am trying to find my truth." Soujiro said, his ever present smile was still plastered to his face.
"Good luck." Kai snorted. Soujiro turned to him and asked "Nani?"
"The truth of the world is easy because there is none. If there was then it would have become wide spread knowledge and even I would know it. But no ones found it so what makes you think you can."
"Where did you come by that strange knowledge?" Ochita asked.
"Some crack pot philosopher came by one day and I listened to him ramble on and on about how he had found the truth. It was a bunch of bull shit about how if you suffer for a greater good you'll feel better about it in the end."
"So what do you think the truth is?" Ochita asked.
"I don't know but that isn't it. You do things for yourself and if it happens to be a group thing that's great. Mom once told me there was some sort of balance in the world and that every thing you do has an effect on it."
"Aa that is true very muchly so." Ochita whispered.
There was something Soujiro still didn't understand. Did the strong still live and the weak still die? The whole wakisashi thing with Shishio proved that to be true but the battle with Himura proved that to be fales. So who was right?
"What about you? What do you think?" Kai asked Kasoku.
"Oka." The little boy looked at his mother.
"That's your answer to everything. I don't see what's so great about her." Kai snorted. "What about you. You know anything at all?"
"Ara? Me?" Soujiro asked.
"Iie. Your Baba-san(grandmother). Who else would I be talking to?"
"Well........." Soujiro hesitated telling them this but decided, why not? "I once believed in the fact that the strong live and the weak die."
"That's a grim outlook." Kai said staring at Soujiro with curiousity. "It's true but still grim."
"Darwens theory." Ochita said softly.
"Ara?"
"That's called Darwen's theory. Survival of the fittest is another way of putting it."
"Do you think its true?" Kai asked.
There was a silence for a while before Ochita answered. "Darwen first discovered it on the Galopagos islands. He was studying turtles when he made his theory." She hesitated for a moment then continued. "I am not a turtle. People aren't animals because we are born with a conciouns. When an animal kills it doesn't feel guilty. It may take a long time for a person to feel guilty about killing but never the less they do. In the end the people that never give up are the people that win."
"So what do you think the truth is." Kai asked casually.
Ochita's lips twitched into a smile then said "It came from France of all places."
Kasoku giggled. "Well what is it?" Kai was impatient.
"They say 'Such is life'. It is true because no matter what you do that is the way your life goes very muchly so."
"Ara?"
"Seta-san when you fall down do you sit there and wonder why you fell?"
"Iie. I get back up."
"Why?"
Soujiro was stumped at that. ~Why do I get back up? Would it make much of a difference if I didn't?~
"Because that's the way life goes. You fall down you get back up. You make a mistake you correct yourself. It doesn't matter how long it takes you but you do it because that's the way life is." Ochita said.
That strangely enough made sense to Soujiro. He could look at his whole 'Bring a reign of chaos about Japan' thing as how he fell. Now all he had to do was get back up and keep on going no matter how much it hurt. The answer would not come for a while but he would be happy with this one until he got it.
Finally Soujiro was getting somewhere.
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Chou walked down the road to the police station, a report in his hands that had just come from Tokyo. He grumbled about being the messenger boy again and how one day he was going to kick his boss in his skinny ass. He slid the door open and yelled in
"Oi boss got the case you wanted!"
"Then give it to me Ahou." Saitou rolled his eyes as he took a drag of his cigarette.
Chou walked over to his boss and gave him the manila file. Saitou's eyes gleamed as he saw the contents. Noticing the look of bloodlust that passed across his bosses face lead Chou to question what was exactly written in the envelope. So he asked.
"Another assassination."
"Any clue as to the fucker that did it?"
"A dead man."
"That don't make sense."
"It said Kage (pronounced KA-GE). The Kage has been dead for about 12 years now."
"So why do they think it was him?"
"Same style and they left that name on the wall in their victims blood."
"This guy sounds a little crazy."
"The Kage(mean's shadow) wasn't crazy and he left no trace hence the name. that's the first clue that it wasn't really him. But as to it being the same style we are going to have a bit of trouble. The real Kage was also faster then your little smiling friend."
"Shit! Faster then the kid?? Whoa those politicians are in some deep shit!"
"I have a clue as to who it is though. The clues don't exactly add up but........."
"But what?"
"The thought of revenge was probably to appesing to the eye for this particular person."
"Who?"
"The Shi no Tenshi." ******************************************************************** Soujiro's POV
Kasoku walked beside me as I made a beeline for the noodle vender. Ochita is crazy if she can go this long without food while having money. I bought some, ate it, helped Kasoku eat it because the little boy couldn't use chopsticks for he had probably eaten fish the majority of his life courtesy of Ochita, and then bought some more and put it in a carry box for Ochita and Kai if he was conscious when I got back.
I then went to a shop that was selling an array of wooden weaponry and bought a shinai. It was a good weapon, light in weight, and sturdy in build. Kasoku took a particular intrest in the object leading me to buy one for the little boy only to have him giggle madly and swing it around.
The kid was so strange. Well he has been living with an enigma and can only say 3 words. I walked forward back to the river where I had left Ochita. She wasn't there.
"Oka!" the little boy giggled and picked up a stone.
"Ara?" What was he doing? Then he ran and picked up another and another. Kasoku ran back and tugged on my dark blue hakama.
"Otou." He beckoned to me.
"Ara?" I asked the little boy.
He just ran off and went on collecting stones leaving me in to follow him. Strangley after a while we met up with Ochita who was with Kai, of whom was cursing colorfully.
"I can't believed you fuckin' kidnapped me!" Kai shouted.
Ochita ignored him and looked at me. Kasoku had a bunch of stones in his hand of which he gave to Ochita. Her lips twitched and she patted the boy on the head then put the stones in her bag. Oh I get it. She left the stones for Kasoku to pick up. How strangely clever. I gave Ochita the shinai who immediately threw it at Kai. It smacked the kid in the head and he fell over.
"Stay and train then defeat your tormentors or go back and get your ass kicked it's up to you." Ochita said daydreamily but oddly swearing didn't seem as odd as it should have coming from her mouth.
Kai looked at his shinai then asked "What kind of training."
"for now we will work up your speed very muchly so." Ochita said still slightly zoned out.
I was curious as to what kind of technice she used for building up speed because she was so fast.
"Seta-san will help very muchly so."
"Mou."
"And so will Kasoku."
"Nani? What do you mean I'm helping?"
"You'll see very muchly so."
"I'd rather be taught by him then an ugly girl like you."
"Really?" Ochita asked and I almost thought I heard amusment in her voice.
"I really can't teach anything very well." I admitted.
"Training commences now very muchly so." Ochita said.
"Fine what do I do?" Kai asked.
"Follow me." Ochita said walking quickly away.
I followed her and Kai did too. He grumbled about following a stupid hag with funny teeth and a weed for a hat. He seemed extremely irritated. He turned to me and stared, sizing me up.
"What's up with you and her anyway? Why are you smiling? Why does she always have that look on her face and why does she talk like that? What is she gonna make me do?"
"I really have no idea what Ochita wants you to do. I am curious myself. I don't know the answers to your other questions." I prayed he didn't remember about asking of my smile. Thankfully he didn't.
We walked towards a roaring river, Ochita wacking her compass against a rock once and then putting it into her gi. She then walked into the river and beckoned us to follow. Kasoku yelped and ran to follow his oka. He had a big grin on his face and walked into the river splashing around. I didn't know if this was a good idea it was pretty cold out.
"Come in."
Kai sighed and walked into the river as did I. This was how I had trained but I didn't see how you could train more like this and become faster then I was. Walking around I watched as Kasoku sped through the water with ease. I had never considered the thought that Ochita had trained the little child as well considering he didn't have a weapon but it did seem to fit that she would make sure he was safe by making him fast enough to get out of tough situations. Kasoku splashed Kai who got mad.
"Why you little brat!" Kai shouted as he tried to run after the little boy. Kasoku moved as if he were on land instead of waist deep in water. Kai was up to his thighs in water and as he tried to strangle the little child he fell into the water as his attempt to lunge failed.
"Your first task is to catch Kasoku." Ochita said. ******************************************************************** Soujiro still had his smile on as he walked towards Ochita. He noted that the fact that she was up to her mid thighs in water didn't hinder her movements in the slightest as where as for Soujiro it at least made him try a little harder and his movements were more forceful. Ochita's fluid movements made him think that she had done something far more intense then walking through water to get her speed.
"You didn't train this way did you?" He called forward to her.
"That is correct very muchly so." She answered.
"Then how did you train."
"Instead of water it was mud."
"Ara? Mud?" Soujiro asked surprised.
Along his journey he had gotten stuck in the mud had yelled for help the whole time because he couldn't move in it and kept slipping and falling deeper into it. Some of the locals finally found him chest deep in mud and had pulled him out.
"Aa." Ochita said snapping Soujiro back to reality.
Soujiro tried to catch up with Ochita's fast pace. He was within arms length of her when Kai pushed him forward in his wild persuit of Kasoku.
"Ararararararararara-mfph!"
Soujiro didn't fall into the river like he had expected but into something almost soft. He opened his eyes and saw black bandages. He realized there was an arm around his shoulders. He couldn't help but inhale the peach and rainwater sent of Ochita. He blushed horribly when he realized where exactly his head had landed. On Ochita's not so flat chest. The bandages gave off an illusion that she was flat but from the feel she definitely was not. Soujiro dug his feet into the bed of the river and Ochita gently pushed him back. She turned around and acted as if the embarrassing, in Soujiro's opinion, event hadn't happened.
Soujiro watched Ochita, her funny toe to heel walk amused him. ~When did I start to ever feel amusment? At least the kind that's for a simple reason and not because I just lopped off a begging politians head?~. Soujiro pondered two of the questions Kai had asked. Why does she always have that look on her face and Why did she speak so strangely? Soujiro had to admit the way she looked at you as if you weren't really there could make you shiver on the warmest of days. Soujiro froze as he realized were he had seen someone stare at him that way. A dead man stared at you like that. Soujiro had looked into the eye's of his victims plenty of times and that is what it resembled. Dead people seemed to look off into the distance, or the world of the dead as did she. Was that her intent?
Soujiro pondered these thoughts as were Ochita's only thought was if this certain river had fish. Ochita could admit that she took on the appearance of a fairly simple person but inside she wasn't simple at all. Her logic was haywire and she felt her life was never supposed to be. She had hated it until Kasoku came along and screwed up her self loathing, mildly suicidal attitude. He needed her.~What is that old saying? Misery enjoys company?~. Ochita watched as Kai fruitlessly attempted to catch Kasoku. Her lips twitched upwards in a feign smile as Kai turned around to glare at her.
"You find this amusing don't you bitch?!"
Ochita just nods.
Kai lunged at her shinai drawn. He tried to hit her but Ochita drew her pole and quickly batted him out of the air and back into the water where he landed with a sploosh. Kai's head popped out of the water panting.
"I actually found that even more amusing very muchly so." ********************************************************************* "I hate you."
"Is that supposed to make me feel hurt?" Ochita asked.
Kai seethed as he dug into his noddles with his chopsticks. He really couldn't stand her. She didn't get mad at him she didn't get annoyed even. All he did was provoke her trying to get the slightest reaction that his words had some effect on her but none of them seemed to.
It was evening and the sun had set. Ochita found a place to camp and Kai and Kasoku as well as Soujiro and herself were wet. Everyone had taken off there gi and hung it up to dry. Ochita had caught fish because she preferred it over noodles which wasn't actually true she just wanted Kasoku and Soujiro to have them.
"So Seta-san why are you a wanderer?" Ochita asked. It was the first conversation she had initiated.
"I am trying to find my truth." Soujiro said, his ever present smile was still plastered to his face.
"Good luck." Kai snorted. Soujiro turned to him and asked "Nani?"
"The truth of the world is easy because there is none. If there was then it would have become wide spread knowledge and even I would know it. But no ones found it so what makes you think you can."
"Where did you come by that strange knowledge?" Ochita asked.
"Some crack pot philosopher came by one day and I listened to him ramble on and on about how he had found the truth. It was a bunch of bull shit about how if you suffer for a greater good you'll feel better about it in the end."
"So what do you think the truth is?" Ochita asked.
"I don't know but that isn't it. You do things for yourself and if it happens to be a group thing that's great. Mom once told me there was some sort of balance in the world and that every thing you do has an effect on it."
"Aa that is true very muchly so." Ochita whispered.
There was something Soujiro still didn't understand. Did the strong still live and the weak still die? The whole wakisashi thing with Shishio proved that to be true but the battle with Himura proved that to be fales. So who was right?
"What about you? What do you think?" Kai asked Kasoku.
"Oka." The little boy looked at his mother.
"That's your answer to everything. I don't see what's so great about her." Kai snorted. "What about you. You know anything at all?"
"Ara? Me?" Soujiro asked.
"Iie. Your Baba-san(grandmother). Who else would I be talking to?"
"Well........." Soujiro hesitated telling them this but decided, why not? "I once believed in the fact that the strong live and the weak die."
"That's a grim outlook." Kai said staring at Soujiro with curiousity. "It's true but still grim."
"Darwens theory." Ochita said softly.
"Ara?"
"That's called Darwen's theory. Survival of the fittest is another way of putting it."
"Do you think its true?" Kai asked.
There was a silence for a while before Ochita answered. "Darwen first discovered it on the Galopagos islands. He was studying turtles when he made his theory." She hesitated for a moment then continued. "I am not a turtle. People aren't animals because we are born with a conciouns. When an animal kills it doesn't feel guilty. It may take a long time for a person to feel guilty about killing but never the less they do. In the end the people that never give up are the people that win."
"So what do you think the truth is." Kai asked casually.
Ochita's lips twitched into a smile then said "It came from France of all places."
Kasoku giggled. "Well what is it?" Kai was impatient.
"They say 'Such is life'. It is true because no matter what you do that is the way your life goes very muchly so."
"Ara?"
"Seta-san when you fall down do you sit there and wonder why you fell?"
"Iie. I get back up."
"Why?"
Soujiro was stumped at that. ~Why do I get back up? Would it make much of a difference if I didn't?~
"Because that's the way life goes. You fall down you get back up. You make a mistake you correct yourself. It doesn't matter how long it takes you but you do it because that's the way life is." Ochita said.
That strangely enough made sense to Soujiro. He could look at his whole 'Bring a reign of chaos about Japan' thing as how he fell. Now all he had to do was get back up and keep on going no matter how much it hurt. The answer would not come for a while but he would be happy with this one until he got it.
Finally Soujiro was getting somewhere.
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