Chapter 4: Shadows of the past....
All right fans (referring to no one) I'm not sure if anyone is reading but eh.... I'll end this quickly so if anyone wants me to extend this review.... I guess (I'm going through that self doubting phase)
"Hello... Hello Kenji..." A soothing voice said, as Kenji floated motion less in a black void. He seemed to glow.
"Kenji... don't forget the shadows of the past...."
A figure, a woman appeared. The figure drifted closer to Kenji, she seemed to glow as well, but more brightly and brilliantly. She was so bright Kenji couldn't make out the detail.
"Kenji... Kenji... Kenji!!!" the voice continued.
Kenji woke up in a cold sweat. It was late after noon. The room was dark as Kenji said, "Strange."
Kenji always woke up in at 6:00 Am. Not a hair of a fraction of a second later. This anomaly occurred multiple times. He didn't know whom he didn't know why, but some one always contacted him right before his brother appeared. Each time he'd be drained spiritually.
The first few times he didn't understand what exactly she meant in the dream. And in these few encounters with Kein, his brother he came closer and closer to death.
He felt tired and sad... drained...because of the spirit contact, or because he knew he would soon have to leave his new home, and new family, even her...
Kenji's thoughts where interrupted, when his door began to slide open. A familiar voice began to hum.
It was Shinobu humming the national anthem. "Oh Kenji," Shinobu eeped out, "I didn't know you were still here."
"Huh?" Kenji said.
"We thought you'd gone to ... eh... that "place"..." Shinobu said.
"You know where... err... that "place" is, so why do you refer it to that "place"?" Kenji joked
"Well... why did you refer to it as that place?" Shinobu answered, with another question.
"Ha, ha, ha, ha," they laughed together. Kenji so loved these moments. His weariness seamed to dissipate, with out him realizing.
"Hmm..." Kenji began to think of his dilemma again.
Shinobu knew the look on his face. All to well. It'd happen around when Keitaro first arrived, she didn't like him much then, but he had the look of having to leave. Leave the ones he loved. Did Kenji have to leave, too? "Kenji, promise me... umm.. Promise me you'll stay for a while?" Shinobu spit out the first thing she could think of.
She then realized of how clingy she sounded and said" oh, no wait.. never mind I have to go..."
She began to pack things up faster, when Kenji put his hand on her shoulder., and said, "Ok I won't leave, that's a promise."
Soon it returned as he remembered he'd have to leave. Or endanger himself and the one he loved.
He stood thinking "I'm gonna definitely..." he then remembered he liked to sleep in his boxers as he stared into Shinobu's red face.
"EEEKKK!" Shinobu screamed.
"Hey what's going on in here?" Motoko asked, with the girls behind her.
"This won't end well," Kenji said as a barrage of girls wielding swords, artifacts, and fists rushed him.
"BBBBBBAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG" Kenji said as he let himself get sent into orbit.
"Oh... Kenji... what are they doing to you..." a mysterious voice sounded from a figure cloaked in shadow
Kenji began to walk down a calm road, with a bandage futilely placed on a huge anime-esk bump.
A shadowed figure stood on a tree limp spying on Kenji, waiting for her moment.
Kenji became aware of this and a serious look spread on his face. He took an unexpected turn into an abandoned alley.
(Like empty alleys exist in real life)
"You can come out know," Kenji said.
"You're not an little boy any more..." A young woman said jumping down from seemingly no where.
"And... Your not a little girl any more, Eleanor," Kenji said eyeing her up.
Eleanor blushed, she was as old as Kenji with similar black hair, but Eleanor wore black cloths, a knee long skirt, with a white shirt almost completely covered by a black coat. She stood upright as rain began to Poor on her, she held her right arm, crossing over her chest to hide things...
Kenji removed the cross from his neck as Eleanor noticed she said," Straight to business, I see."
Shinobu and Su came walking home from school, when Shinobu got a chill. Su seemed to be gone when she came to, "Shinomu look!" Su said.
It's Kenji, and a girl, Su said. Shinobu joined Su at a corner behind Kenji.
"I have no time for an annoyance like you," Kenji said coldly.
This hurt Eleanor severally. "I only came to warn you," she said ignoring what he said.
"That my brother's coming," Kenji said turning around and crossing his arms.
"Yes if you don't come with me he'll kill you. Return home, to Di-kioen and He'll forgive you," she said closing her eyes.
"IS that the only reason you have for me to return?" Kenji said, "That I'm in mortal danger, I can just flee again," he continued.
"Aren't you tiered of running, Though you've gotten good at it, we never would have expected you to come to Japan, so close to Di-kioen. Don't be a fool submit and come with me." Eleanor said.
"This is my home, it has all the people I love," Kenji said defiantly. The words came out slow and cut into Eleanor.
"Fine!" Eleanor screamed with a tear in her eye. She didn't mean to scream, but it was all she could to keep tears inside.
"If you won't come, I'll take you!" she screamed again. She then lunged at Kenji.
Kenji's arms, still holding the cross, weren't actually crossed, he had made it seem this way by turning around, so Eleanor couldn't see. In truth he had his cross cut into his hand again. With the open wound he could draw power from his very soul.
Kenji turned around and ripped the blade from his wound. "Eleanor wielded 3 weapons," Kenji thought to himself. "A seemingly endless supply of Shirukens, 4 metal nails (2 on each hand, clip on's), and a back up half- scythe, a must for a soldier of Kein.
Eleanor skillfully caught Kenji's blade between her middle and pointer fingernails. The metal nails went around the top part of her finger. She then raised a half-balled fist and in a flick of an instance she straightened her hand, summoning up 3 Shirukens from her sleeve. She then trusted them at Kenji's leg.
"Argh!" Kenji cried out loud. The pain was immense but he stood on the leg, not bothering to shift his weight.
Kenji threw Eleanor off, and jumped back. Eleanor then summoned up 6 Shirukens, 3 in each hand. "HA!" she screamed the battle cry, as she let loose the six pins. Eleanor's Shirukens were thinner than most Shirukens. Almost pin like.
Kenji grasped his blade, near the handle, and slashed horizontally trough the air. He made a new wound in his hand, and drew more power. The slash sent out a powerful wave of energy. The Shirukens where deflected. Kenji's strike was powerful, and his blade rested behind him.
Before he had chance to recover he noticed Eleanor right in front of him! She then balled a fist, and let him have it straight in the gut!
Shinobu in the distance almost screamed out seeing Kenji hurt made her feel pain.
"Wow he really sucks at picking up women," Su joked.
"Su!" Shinobu screamed.
"Shiruken-Tai-It-Jitsu!" Eleanor yelled. The punch sent Kenji up and back. As he lay there seemingly Out cold, "An attack you may have learned if you'd stayed," she continued, turning her back to Kenji.
It began to rain hard.
Shiruken- small throwing knife. Tai-it-Jitsu- ninja fast draw style
"You throw the Shirukens as a distraction, and then come in for the kill," Kenji said as he rose, ignoring the rain, and the pain.
"But how," Eleanor asked, "I hit you dead on!"
"Heh, you should know that I'm not the type to go down in one hit," Kenji mocked, as he positioned himself for another wave.
Eleanor sent another barrage of Shirukens at Kenji and Kenji returned fire with the wave. Eleanor appeared once again in front of Kenji then put his palm out toward Eleanor, reviling his wounds, that now formed a cross. He screamed "Ichidou!" and light from his soul burst from his wound!
Ichidou- Japanese for a ray of hope.
The Light Hit Eleanor, and she was thrown back. Her cloths ripped and out of breath she half stood, half kneeled.
"Huff...Huff...What was that?" Eleanor asked.
"It was a blast from my very soul. With it I have two weapons, not only this blade, and things like "Ichidou"," Kenji explained, as he did he sort blushed, and turned away, so that he wasn't looking at her but if she moved in for an attack, he'd know.
"You're a fool to doing this, huh?" His movements puzzled Eleanor. Then she looked down at her torn cloths, and what was showing. There was a huge rip down the front of her chest, but her flesh remained unscathed. (Like that'd happen)
"Err," Eleanor mumbled as she covered up with one hand and drew her half- scythe in the other hand.
(Where did she hide that?)
Kenji took a defensive stance. Eleanor raised her right arm with the scythe and Kenji broke his stance. He could see tears in her eye. He tried to ignore it, and coldly closed his eyes and with his free left hand he grabbed her right wrist. He held it a little in front and above them and, Eleanor crashed into Kenji. Since it was raining, and they were wet, plus her shirt was ripped, they could feel alot of things...
This hurt Shinobu more than seeing Kenji get hit.
Kenji then began to throw her off, by her arm still grasped in his hand. But Eleanor let out a small, "Ohh.."
Her moan distracted Kenji and he let her stay close longer. She closed her eyes, and dreamed of the past, of a simpler time. Kenji on the other hand closed his eyes to try and not remember.
He then coldly threw her off. She fell back into a puddle and dropped her scythe. She looked up at Kenji, in the rain, with tears in her eyes, and let out a small, "no..."
"We should leave..." Shinobu said as she stared at the cold looking Kenji, who couldn't possibly be the same Kenji she had come to know.
He just stood there letting the rain hit him, and he decided, it was time to leave.
Kenji began to walk home, after putting Eleanor in a dry place, out of sight. Kenji began to think of all the memories, he'd made here. With the powerful Motoko, the loserly but funny Keitaro, the hotheaded, but loveable Naru, the mischievous Su, the wise Haruka, and the beautiful Shinobu. He then remembered earlier, his promise. He couldn't leave, now. But then he remembered how drained he was after the contact, and how revived he felt only a few minutes later, I he could find out what triggered it, he'd be set.
"Ah ha!" Kenji said think of his up coming fight.
Later Back at Hintana house, Kenji walked down a hall. He had nothing to do, cause he felt he shouldn't exert himself, and build up his strengths. He figured He'd have a day or two. He was wrong.
He thought about the trigger, that unlocked hidden potential. His thoughts were interrupted by a voice, "Kenji... Your soul will be mine."
"Crap," Kenji said as it was the only thing he cold says, let alone do. Kenji was stricken by a wave of what seems to be shadow. He was sent lying through the air.
Earlier in the bath the group where taking a bath (Duh what else do you do in a bath)
"What saw Kenji fighting with a girl?" Naru screamed.
"Yeah, but they acted like they knew each other, and she fought really good," Shinobu said in defense.
"Yeah, like Motoko good! Uh huh! She did!" Su went on.
"Oh... yeah but then they started hugging! They were all like, hug, hug, and feel, feel, oh and her shirt was ripped open!" Su told.
"What!" everyone, went confused.
"Su!" Shinobu shouted, getting up to chase her.
"Who cares," said Motoko, level headed as always, "It's not any of our business of Kenji's fetishes."
"What?! Of course it is!" Shinobu screamed.
"If it where Keitaro, Motoko would mind," Su mocked.
"What was thaaattt?" motoko asked with a glint in her eye.
"Nya, nya!" Su said.
"Hey Shinobu why you so interested in Kenji, huh? Dose tat mween youse given up on keiwtarooo?" Su asked.
"What?! Err... well..." Shinobu stuttered.
"Oh, that's great, Shinobu it's good to see you meet someone your own age, and someone whose not a thickheaded pervert, idiot, nerd, loser, weakling, did I say pervert, peeping tom, jerk, fuck-nut," Naru said, all in one breath.
Keitaro fell down really hard, dew to a really bad fit of sneezing.
"Oh my, is sempia, really all those things?" Shinobu asked.
"Yup, so do you really like Kenji?" Naru asked.
"Well, I ahh..CRRRAASSHHH!!!" Shinobu was interrupted by Kenji being set fling through the door leading to the Hot Springs.
"Kenji..." the girls asked in unison. This made Kenji cringe.
"Kenji!" Kein said loudly made Kenji cringe more. Kein was Standing in the doorway, cloaked in shadow.
"Whose that?" the Su asked.
"EEKKK!!!" Pervert!" Shinobu screamed and the girls began to throw things.
The things (soap, buckets, and artifacts) hit Kein, but didn't even phase him.
"Foolish Mortals! Do you know who I am!? Do you know what I can do!?" Kein Shouted, releasing a wave of dark Energy. "I am the living Shadow, the King of the serpent!" Kein continued.
"King?" Kenji asked.
"Yes, I saw that father was... weak, so I relived him of power, and the daily turmoil of existing," Kein calmly stated the gruesome fate of their father.
"You bastard," Kenji said, gripping his cross. His face held that expression, of years of rage. Shinobu knew this face from before and it hurt her a little.
"Still wielding that power channeler?" Kein mocked, "Can't believe you still need it..." Kein mumbled to himself.
Kenji stabbed the cross into his hand again and collapsed from loss of blood. Oh wait no, he drew his blade again. This time because he was in the water his battle aroura was more noticeable. the water rippled around him.
"Why don't you step outside?" Kenji mockingly.
Kein then stepped out from the shadow. Not saying anything. His hair was pitch black, and it was styled up ward. He wore Black Samurai Pants, with a Black and Grey Ninja vest, Over that he had a more modern Black over coat. His Hands where in his pockets, and his eyes where bright yellow. He looked down on everyone, because of his height.
"That's your bro?" Su asked.
"How? How can you be out in the light, the sun, even!" Kenji screamed, his brother's power had grown since last they met.
Kein closed his eyes and remained silent, then he raised his hands like he was holding some thing long horizontally. His battle aroura appeared, unlike Kenji's and Motoko's it was of a blackish color, and instead of lighting him up, it seemed to drape him in shadow.
The shadows spread from where shadows were (behind rocks, in corners, etc.) toward Kein. From the floor to his head the shadow in gulped him, the shadows danced around his shoulders and his hair looked like it was on fire, except it was black. The shadows reached his hands they jumped up and formed two balls.
He moved his hands, dragging the energy orbs with them. He brought them so that he was about to grasp a weapon, vertically.
"You don't even need your channeling handle anymore, do you?" Kenji said as he watched his brothers display of benevolence.
Kein then grasped the orbs, squeezing them and forcing them to expand. They flickered and took the form of a full-fledged Scythe! Made from dark shadow. (By the way I think the old way he summoned his scythe was cooler But the only way you'll see him use it is when he's younger, those few times, Kenji didn't understand the dream)
"Aauuuu..." Kein hissed. Kenji noticed he his legs were combined in shadow, and it looked like he was about to fall, when he took a step, if he needed to take a step.
"Kenji, your potential is great. Your soul, your spirit is great, if only your weak mind could tap into it. I can't let that potential go to waste. I must have your soul..." He hissed again.
"You know it's creepy when you talk like this" Kenji hissed back, "so why do you do it."
"Heh, heh..." Shinobu and a few others giggled.
Kein, frowned, but it was hard to tell, cause the shadow.
"Wait a darn minute! What's going on here!" Kitsune said.
"That's my brother and, he wants to kill me," Kenji recapped, "Eleanor was that girl, who I fought, and she was a spy who Kein sent to track me, cause Kein was to lazy."
"I never expected her to betray me like that...." Kenji said disappointedly.
"You fool what did you expect, you left her, because you were to coward to fight in the war!" Kein scolded.
"I was to scared to kill innocent people!" Kenji yelled at Kein, "Under your legion, no one was safe, women, children, all were... were... food for you! Those innocent souls, you ate them like some demon!"
"So you have a backbone now? Lets not say eat... let's say "absorbed" Kein finished.
"Besides, she didn't betray you," She didn't have a choice. But she always searches for you where you wouldn't be like in the middle of the dessert. It was only by fluke or by fate... that she found you. She probably thought you wouldn't be stupid enough to hide in Japan, so close to home.
A 15-pound weight fell on Kenji's head.
Kenji was dumbfounded at what he heard, Eleanor had protected him, and despite the way he treated her.
Kenji whispered under his breath, "I'm sorry..." He drew his sword from his hand again, and moved into a defensive position.
"So you're ready to surrender?" Kein said. Raising his scythe, his battle aroura rising like dark flame. His entire body cloaked in shadow.
"I'm ready to fight," Kenji said, his battle aroura rising equally to Kein's. The water around his feat rippled and the leafs begun to flow and fly around and his fist tightened around his sword.
In the next instant the two charged to flash of shadow toward the flash of light!
Well this is it! The Battle, the end of a bitter brotherly rivalry! A battle in the Hot Springs of Hintana surrounded by all his friends, who just happen to be wearing nothing but towels! Which brother will come out on top! And finally a part with Shinobu coming up! Sorry for the cliffhanger, but I got save something for chapter 5! And so sorry it took so long cause of all my school stuff!
Next chapter!: Pawns!
Kenji and Kein face off! But Kenji's too weak! Shinobu's big part comes to play, and we learn of Kenji's mysterious past, and a bitter war behind the scenes for control of the throne of a small back world country! It all comes down to this! But dose it matter when we're all just pawns?
All right fans (referring to no one) I'm not sure if anyone is reading but eh.... I'll end this quickly so if anyone wants me to extend this review.... I guess (I'm going through that self doubting phase)
"Hello... Hello Kenji..." A soothing voice said, as Kenji floated motion less in a black void. He seemed to glow.
"Kenji... don't forget the shadows of the past...."
A figure, a woman appeared. The figure drifted closer to Kenji, she seemed to glow as well, but more brightly and brilliantly. She was so bright Kenji couldn't make out the detail.
"Kenji... Kenji... Kenji!!!" the voice continued.
Kenji woke up in a cold sweat. It was late after noon. The room was dark as Kenji said, "Strange."
Kenji always woke up in at 6:00 Am. Not a hair of a fraction of a second later. This anomaly occurred multiple times. He didn't know whom he didn't know why, but some one always contacted him right before his brother appeared. Each time he'd be drained spiritually.
The first few times he didn't understand what exactly she meant in the dream. And in these few encounters with Kein, his brother he came closer and closer to death.
He felt tired and sad... drained...because of the spirit contact, or because he knew he would soon have to leave his new home, and new family, even her...
Kenji's thoughts where interrupted, when his door began to slide open. A familiar voice began to hum.
It was Shinobu humming the national anthem. "Oh Kenji," Shinobu eeped out, "I didn't know you were still here."
"Huh?" Kenji said.
"We thought you'd gone to ... eh... that "place"..." Shinobu said.
"You know where... err... that "place" is, so why do you refer it to that "place"?" Kenji joked
"Well... why did you refer to it as that place?" Shinobu answered, with another question.
"Ha, ha, ha, ha," they laughed together. Kenji so loved these moments. His weariness seamed to dissipate, with out him realizing.
"Hmm..." Kenji began to think of his dilemma again.
Shinobu knew the look on his face. All to well. It'd happen around when Keitaro first arrived, she didn't like him much then, but he had the look of having to leave. Leave the ones he loved. Did Kenji have to leave, too? "Kenji, promise me... umm.. Promise me you'll stay for a while?" Shinobu spit out the first thing she could think of.
She then realized of how clingy she sounded and said" oh, no wait.. never mind I have to go..."
She began to pack things up faster, when Kenji put his hand on her shoulder., and said, "Ok I won't leave, that's a promise."
Soon it returned as he remembered he'd have to leave. Or endanger himself and the one he loved.
He stood thinking "I'm gonna definitely..." he then remembered he liked to sleep in his boxers as he stared into Shinobu's red face.
"EEEKKK!" Shinobu screamed.
"Hey what's going on in here?" Motoko asked, with the girls behind her.
"This won't end well," Kenji said as a barrage of girls wielding swords, artifacts, and fists rushed him.
"BBBBBBAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG" Kenji said as he let himself get sent into orbit.
"Oh... Kenji... what are they doing to you..." a mysterious voice sounded from a figure cloaked in shadow
Kenji began to walk down a calm road, with a bandage futilely placed on a huge anime-esk bump.
A shadowed figure stood on a tree limp spying on Kenji, waiting for her moment.
Kenji became aware of this and a serious look spread on his face. He took an unexpected turn into an abandoned alley.
(Like empty alleys exist in real life)
"You can come out know," Kenji said.
"You're not an little boy any more..." A young woman said jumping down from seemingly no where.
"And... Your not a little girl any more, Eleanor," Kenji said eyeing her up.
Eleanor blushed, she was as old as Kenji with similar black hair, but Eleanor wore black cloths, a knee long skirt, with a white shirt almost completely covered by a black coat. She stood upright as rain began to Poor on her, she held her right arm, crossing over her chest to hide things...
Kenji removed the cross from his neck as Eleanor noticed she said," Straight to business, I see."
Shinobu and Su came walking home from school, when Shinobu got a chill. Su seemed to be gone when she came to, "Shinomu look!" Su said.
It's Kenji, and a girl, Su said. Shinobu joined Su at a corner behind Kenji.
"I have no time for an annoyance like you," Kenji said coldly.
This hurt Eleanor severally. "I only came to warn you," she said ignoring what he said.
"That my brother's coming," Kenji said turning around and crossing his arms.
"Yes if you don't come with me he'll kill you. Return home, to Di-kioen and He'll forgive you," she said closing her eyes.
"IS that the only reason you have for me to return?" Kenji said, "That I'm in mortal danger, I can just flee again," he continued.
"Aren't you tiered of running, Though you've gotten good at it, we never would have expected you to come to Japan, so close to Di-kioen. Don't be a fool submit and come with me." Eleanor said.
"This is my home, it has all the people I love," Kenji said defiantly. The words came out slow and cut into Eleanor.
"Fine!" Eleanor screamed with a tear in her eye. She didn't mean to scream, but it was all she could to keep tears inside.
"If you won't come, I'll take you!" she screamed again. She then lunged at Kenji.
Kenji's arms, still holding the cross, weren't actually crossed, he had made it seem this way by turning around, so Eleanor couldn't see. In truth he had his cross cut into his hand again. With the open wound he could draw power from his very soul.
Kenji turned around and ripped the blade from his wound. "Eleanor wielded 3 weapons," Kenji thought to himself. "A seemingly endless supply of Shirukens, 4 metal nails (2 on each hand, clip on's), and a back up half- scythe, a must for a soldier of Kein.
Eleanor skillfully caught Kenji's blade between her middle and pointer fingernails. The metal nails went around the top part of her finger. She then raised a half-balled fist and in a flick of an instance she straightened her hand, summoning up 3 Shirukens from her sleeve. She then trusted them at Kenji's leg.
"Argh!" Kenji cried out loud. The pain was immense but he stood on the leg, not bothering to shift his weight.
Kenji threw Eleanor off, and jumped back. Eleanor then summoned up 6 Shirukens, 3 in each hand. "HA!" she screamed the battle cry, as she let loose the six pins. Eleanor's Shirukens were thinner than most Shirukens. Almost pin like.
Kenji grasped his blade, near the handle, and slashed horizontally trough the air. He made a new wound in his hand, and drew more power. The slash sent out a powerful wave of energy. The Shirukens where deflected. Kenji's strike was powerful, and his blade rested behind him.
Before he had chance to recover he noticed Eleanor right in front of him! She then balled a fist, and let him have it straight in the gut!
Shinobu in the distance almost screamed out seeing Kenji hurt made her feel pain.
"Wow he really sucks at picking up women," Su joked.
"Su!" Shinobu screamed.
"Shiruken-Tai-It-Jitsu!" Eleanor yelled. The punch sent Kenji up and back. As he lay there seemingly Out cold, "An attack you may have learned if you'd stayed," she continued, turning her back to Kenji.
It began to rain hard.
Shiruken- small throwing knife. Tai-it-Jitsu- ninja fast draw style
"You throw the Shirukens as a distraction, and then come in for the kill," Kenji said as he rose, ignoring the rain, and the pain.
"But how," Eleanor asked, "I hit you dead on!"
"Heh, you should know that I'm not the type to go down in one hit," Kenji mocked, as he positioned himself for another wave.
Eleanor sent another barrage of Shirukens at Kenji and Kenji returned fire with the wave. Eleanor appeared once again in front of Kenji then put his palm out toward Eleanor, reviling his wounds, that now formed a cross. He screamed "Ichidou!" and light from his soul burst from his wound!
Ichidou- Japanese for a ray of hope.
The Light Hit Eleanor, and she was thrown back. Her cloths ripped and out of breath she half stood, half kneeled.
"Huff...Huff...What was that?" Eleanor asked.
"It was a blast from my very soul. With it I have two weapons, not only this blade, and things like "Ichidou"," Kenji explained, as he did he sort blushed, and turned away, so that he wasn't looking at her but if she moved in for an attack, he'd know.
"You're a fool to doing this, huh?" His movements puzzled Eleanor. Then she looked down at her torn cloths, and what was showing. There was a huge rip down the front of her chest, but her flesh remained unscathed. (Like that'd happen)
"Err," Eleanor mumbled as she covered up with one hand and drew her half- scythe in the other hand.
(Where did she hide that?)
Kenji took a defensive stance. Eleanor raised her right arm with the scythe and Kenji broke his stance. He could see tears in her eye. He tried to ignore it, and coldly closed his eyes and with his free left hand he grabbed her right wrist. He held it a little in front and above them and, Eleanor crashed into Kenji. Since it was raining, and they were wet, plus her shirt was ripped, they could feel alot of things...
This hurt Shinobu more than seeing Kenji get hit.
Kenji then began to throw her off, by her arm still grasped in his hand. But Eleanor let out a small, "Ohh.."
Her moan distracted Kenji and he let her stay close longer. She closed her eyes, and dreamed of the past, of a simpler time. Kenji on the other hand closed his eyes to try and not remember.
He then coldly threw her off. She fell back into a puddle and dropped her scythe. She looked up at Kenji, in the rain, with tears in her eyes, and let out a small, "no..."
"We should leave..." Shinobu said as she stared at the cold looking Kenji, who couldn't possibly be the same Kenji she had come to know.
He just stood there letting the rain hit him, and he decided, it was time to leave.
Kenji began to walk home, after putting Eleanor in a dry place, out of sight. Kenji began to think of all the memories, he'd made here. With the powerful Motoko, the loserly but funny Keitaro, the hotheaded, but loveable Naru, the mischievous Su, the wise Haruka, and the beautiful Shinobu. He then remembered earlier, his promise. He couldn't leave, now. But then he remembered how drained he was after the contact, and how revived he felt only a few minutes later, I he could find out what triggered it, he'd be set.
"Ah ha!" Kenji said think of his up coming fight.
Later Back at Hintana house, Kenji walked down a hall. He had nothing to do, cause he felt he shouldn't exert himself, and build up his strengths. He figured He'd have a day or two. He was wrong.
He thought about the trigger, that unlocked hidden potential. His thoughts were interrupted by a voice, "Kenji... Your soul will be mine."
"Crap," Kenji said as it was the only thing he cold says, let alone do. Kenji was stricken by a wave of what seems to be shadow. He was sent lying through the air.
Earlier in the bath the group where taking a bath (Duh what else do you do in a bath)
"What saw Kenji fighting with a girl?" Naru screamed.
"Yeah, but they acted like they knew each other, and she fought really good," Shinobu said in defense.
"Yeah, like Motoko good! Uh huh! She did!" Su went on.
"Oh... yeah but then they started hugging! They were all like, hug, hug, and feel, feel, oh and her shirt was ripped open!" Su told.
"What!" everyone, went confused.
"Su!" Shinobu shouted, getting up to chase her.
"Who cares," said Motoko, level headed as always, "It's not any of our business of Kenji's fetishes."
"What?! Of course it is!" Shinobu screamed.
"If it where Keitaro, Motoko would mind," Su mocked.
"What was thaaattt?" motoko asked with a glint in her eye.
"Nya, nya!" Su said.
"Hey Shinobu why you so interested in Kenji, huh? Dose tat mween youse given up on keiwtarooo?" Su asked.
"What?! Err... well..." Shinobu stuttered.
"Oh, that's great, Shinobu it's good to see you meet someone your own age, and someone whose not a thickheaded pervert, idiot, nerd, loser, weakling, did I say pervert, peeping tom, jerk, fuck-nut," Naru said, all in one breath.
Keitaro fell down really hard, dew to a really bad fit of sneezing.
"Oh my, is sempia, really all those things?" Shinobu asked.
"Yup, so do you really like Kenji?" Naru asked.
"Well, I ahh..CRRRAASSHHH!!!" Shinobu was interrupted by Kenji being set fling through the door leading to the Hot Springs.
"Kenji..." the girls asked in unison. This made Kenji cringe.
"Kenji!" Kein said loudly made Kenji cringe more. Kein was Standing in the doorway, cloaked in shadow.
"Whose that?" the Su asked.
"EEKKK!!!" Pervert!" Shinobu screamed and the girls began to throw things.
The things (soap, buckets, and artifacts) hit Kein, but didn't even phase him.
"Foolish Mortals! Do you know who I am!? Do you know what I can do!?" Kein Shouted, releasing a wave of dark Energy. "I am the living Shadow, the King of the serpent!" Kein continued.
"King?" Kenji asked.
"Yes, I saw that father was... weak, so I relived him of power, and the daily turmoil of existing," Kein calmly stated the gruesome fate of their father.
"You bastard," Kenji said, gripping his cross. His face held that expression, of years of rage. Shinobu knew this face from before and it hurt her a little.
"Still wielding that power channeler?" Kein mocked, "Can't believe you still need it..." Kein mumbled to himself.
Kenji stabbed the cross into his hand again and collapsed from loss of blood. Oh wait no, he drew his blade again. This time because he was in the water his battle aroura was more noticeable. the water rippled around him.
"Why don't you step outside?" Kenji mockingly.
Kein then stepped out from the shadow. Not saying anything. His hair was pitch black, and it was styled up ward. He wore Black Samurai Pants, with a Black and Grey Ninja vest, Over that he had a more modern Black over coat. His Hands where in his pockets, and his eyes where bright yellow. He looked down on everyone, because of his height.
"That's your bro?" Su asked.
"How? How can you be out in the light, the sun, even!" Kenji screamed, his brother's power had grown since last they met.
Kein closed his eyes and remained silent, then he raised his hands like he was holding some thing long horizontally. His battle aroura appeared, unlike Kenji's and Motoko's it was of a blackish color, and instead of lighting him up, it seemed to drape him in shadow.
The shadows spread from where shadows were (behind rocks, in corners, etc.) toward Kein. From the floor to his head the shadow in gulped him, the shadows danced around his shoulders and his hair looked like it was on fire, except it was black. The shadows reached his hands they jumped up and formed two balls.
He moved his hands, dragging the energy orbs with them. He brought them so that he was about to grasp a weapon, vertically.
"You don't even need your channeling handle anymore, do you?" Kenji said as he watched his brothers display of benevolence.
Kein then grasped the orbs, squeezing them and forcing them to expand. They flickered and took the form of a full-fledged Scythe! Made from dark shadow. (By the way I think the old way he summoned his scythe was cooler But the only way you'll see him use it is when he's younger, those few times, Kenji didn't understand the dream)
"Aauuuu..." Kein hissed. Kenji noticed he his legs were combined in shadow, and it looked like he was about to fall, when he took a step, if he needed to take a step.
"Kenji, your potential is great. Your soul, your spirit is great, if only your weak mind could tap into it. I can't let that potential go to waste. I must have your soul..." He hissed again.
"You know it's creepy when you talk like this" Kenji hissed back, "so why do you do it."
"Heh, heh..." Shinobu and a few others giggled.
Kein, frowned, but it was hard to tell, cause the shadow.
"Wait a darn minute! What's going on here!" Kitsune said.
"That's my brother and, he wants to kill me," Kenji recapped, "Eleanor was that girl, who I fought, and she was a spy who Kein sent to track me, cause Kein was to lazy."
"I never expected her to betray me like that...." Kenji said disappointedly.
"You fool what did you expect, you left her, because you were to coward to fight in the war!" Kein scolded.
"I was to scared to kill innocent people!" Kenji yelled at Kein, "Under your legion, no one was safe, women, children, all were... were... food for you! Those innocent souls, you ate them like some demon!"
"So you have a backbone now? Lets not say eat... let's say "absorbed" Kein finished.
"Besides, she didn't betray you," She didn't have a choice. But she always searches for you where you wouldn't be like in the middle of the dessert. It was only by fluke or by fate... that she found you. She probably thought you wouldn't be stupid enough to hide in Japan, so close to home.
A 15-pound weight fell on Kenji's head.
Kenji was dumbfounded at what he heard, Eleanor had protected him, and despite the way he treated her.
Kenji whispered under his breath, "I'm sorry..." He drew his sword from his hand again, and moved into a defensive position.
"So you're ready to surrender?" Kein said. Raising his scythe, his battle aroura rising like dark flame. His entire body cloaked in shadow.
"I'm ready to fight," Kenji said, his battle aroura rising equally to Kein's. The water around his feat rippled and the leafs begun to flow and fly around and his fist tightened around his sword.
In the next instant the two charged to flash of shadow toward the flash of light!
Well this is it! The Battle, the end of a bitter brotherly rivalry! A battle in the Hot Springs of Hintana surrounded by all his friends, who just happen to be wearing nothing but towels! Which brother will come out on top! And finally a part with Shinobu coming up! Sorry for the cliffhanger, but I got save something for chapter 5! And so sorry it took so long cause of all my school stuff!
Next chapter!: Pawns!
Kenji and Kein face off! But Kenji's too weak! Shinobu's big part comes to play, and we learn of Kenji's mysterious past, and a bitter war behind the scenes for control of the throne of a small back world country! It all comes down to this! But dose it matter when we're all just pawns?