Disclaimer:"...................................!", Thank you Rude for doing the disclaimer!

A/N: My number of review keeps going up! Soon I'll be strong enough to rule the world! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! (realizes he just said his plan out loud)..uhh...anyways I would once again like to thank my reviewers. First one up would be..*drumroll*..AnnatheAncinet! Next up is silvawolf who reviewed chapters 6, 7, and 8! (oh and by the way, you can go ahead and used the "Truck" summon for your fic) Also I have another new reviewer...Cloti81953! thanks for reviewing my first two chapters. Oh and The Omnipotent reviewed again. That reminds me I'M REALLY SORRY FOR MISSPELLING YOUR NAME LAST TIME I THANKED YOU FOR A REVIEW! Well now that I got that done, on with the the show! (show? I thought this was a fic? *shrugs* oh well)

Story: Swordsman Torunament (does anyone think I need to come up with a better title? If you do, leave suggestions in reviews please!)

Chapter Nine: Knives is out! and Hojo comes up with a new scheme?

"OWWIEEE!" the Great Sephiroth was yelling with teary eyes, as Aeris bandaged up his head (in case your forgot from last chapter, Sephiroth+Boulder=OUCH!). Nearby Vincent and Inuyasha were also getting bandaged up. "You just couldn't stop, could you?" Vincent said in an irritated voice to Inuyasha. "What do you mean?" Inuyasha replied, with a slight edge to his voice. "Oh lets see, how about you getting us beat up!!" Vincent yelled at him. Inuyasha started to think about this, and it caused a flashback (the following flashback is from between chapters activity so please don't go looking for it......I like donuts!)

**Flashback**

Cloud had caught up to Inuyasha and Vincent with a mad glare in his eye (remember, he was chasing them at the end of the last chapter) and he was about to beat them over the head with a large stick he found (and by large I mean a really big stick that could probably be used as a staff) when Vincent tired to reason with him. "Come on Cloud, calm down!" Vincent said, then continued "We only said those things so you'd get mad and OMNISLASH that Jenova thing" Vincent said in his cold and calm voice. "Oh, so thats why you kept saying all that bad stuff about me, and why he (Cloud pointed at Inuyasha) called Tifa a wench" Cloud said, seemingly calm. "NO! I called her a wench because she is one, and judging by how unaffective that attack was, shes an idiot too!" Inuyasha yelled, worried that if they thought he hadn't meant it they would think he was soft. Unfortunaley this ticked Cloud off again, and before Vincent could shut up Inuyasha or get out of the way, Cloud had used the stick to OMNISLASH both of them leaving many bruises on the poor duo.

**End Flashback**

"Wasn't my fault!" Inuyasha yelled and he and Vincent got into an argument. During this time, an evil plan was being made. A plan to trick Vash the Stampede, to free his evil brother and....uh....well.....actually they didn't plan anything past that, but still it was a diabolical and..ah who am I kidding? Hojo and Legato came up with a completly simple plan that any normal idiot would be able to see through. Unfortunatly, as we all know (or at least those of us that watch "Trigun") Vash isn't your normal kind of idiot. So as Vash was sitting in his seat next to Knives, and the insurances girls were off doing....something that girls do, the evil duo of Hojo and Legato began their plan. Which consisted of a box of donuts tied to a string attached to a fishing rod. So they threw the box of donuts as far as they could, while making sure it went in front of Vash's face. Being who he is, Vash started to chase after the donuts, leaving Knives unattended. Legato snuck up and started to release Knives, while Hojo kept Vash busy with the box of donuts. Although they managed to free Knives from his constraints, he still had on the shock collar. Thinking quickly (OWWW!) Legato put a dummy that was supposed to look like Knives in his former seat. Unfortunatly, SUPPOSED to look like and looking like are to very diffent things. In actuallity, it was a straw dummy with only a shirt on that had "Knives" written on it to. The handwriting was also very bad and the "K" was facing the wrong way. Then the three villians ran off, after letting go of the fishing pole, allowing Vash to get to the donuts.

Vash returned to his seat, with a new box of donuts. He noticed "Knives" and after saying a quick hello went to eating his donuts (I know Vash is supposed to be really smart, but sometimes he acts like a complete idiot). When Meryl and Milly got back, they immediatly noticed that "Knives" was a fake. Meryl asked (a.k.a. yelled at) Vash were Knives was. When Vash told her he was right next to him, she had to resist the strong urge to strangle the sometimes idiotic hero. When she tried to convince Vash that that wasn't Knives (once again yelling) Vash didn't believe her. So she proved it the only way she could. She ripped the shirt off of the Knives dummy. Vash was about to yell at her till he looked at the dummy and exclaimed "THAT'S NOT KNIVES!!!" and everyone facefell. Meanwhile, Knives was getting intoduced to his new ally and planning on hiring some more villians to help him to destroy all the spiders (which the villians were to dumb to realize, included them). While Knives was off making some phone calls, Hojo prepared for his next plan to kill Aeris. He decided to use one of his secret weapons. Actually, it wasn't so secret. Hojo stole a helicopter (Rufus' since he is there) and flew to Midgar. There he got the Sister Ray ready to fire (he seems to have forgoten to warn his "allies" about this attack). Unfortunatly for Hojo, and fortunatly for everyone else because everyone hates Hojo, the Sister Ray explodes if fired more than once with all of those Mako Reactors. Oddly enough, no one at the arena noticed the green mushroom cloud (an actually cloud, not the character) in the distance. Then Hojo landed in the center of the ring when Aeris was about to announce the final fight of the first round. Since everyone hates Hojo, especially Vincent and Sephiroth and their Aeris' bodyguards, they dragged him off and eveyone else ignored the horrible screams of pain Hojo was soon uh..screaming. Anyway, Aeris annoucned the final fight between Agrias and Squall. The two new fighters walked onto the ring and prepared to face off with one another...

Priview for Next Chapter:

Agrias and Squall fight! Will this new evil trio be able to recruit more allies (think other villians from other FF's and possibly other Animes)? What will Vash do now that he has realized Knives is gone? Will I ever get back to the FF7 crew and the Turks? To find out stay tuned for..(notices something) RAMEN! (eats ramen) the next exciting episode of "Swordsman Tournament" (seriously, if anyone has any ideas for a better title, I'm all for it)

A/N: Man it took me a while to update again! Anyway, I want to thank my reviewers and hopefully I'll be able to update faster thanks to break. Oh and I didn't say anything during the fic, but the characters will win something. I never annoucned it because I want it to be a suprise. Oh and silvawolf had the idea that Hojo should try to take over the fic. I think this is a good idea, but I can't think of a way to put it in, mostly because I'm trying to avoid a self-insert. So if anyone has any ideas on how Hojo can try to take over the fic, I'm all for them. Oh and if you want me to insert myself, tell me or I'll assume you don't want me to. Anyway, review please and until next time Bye!