Ronin Goonies Chapter One Disclaimer: as I said before I own nothing! Rated PG-13 due to Rowen's strange habits:P
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The Ronin Goonies
Chapter One:
I'm a little Teapot
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In a little suburb called Ronin Goondock, an ageing white house sat on top of a hill gazing down at the other houses below it. Inside this very house was a young boy with auburn hair and sea-green eyes. He had on a plain white shirt, blue jeans, white sneakers and a blue jean jacket. The fourteen-year-old boy was currently sitting on the couch in the living room reading a magazine, occasionally brushing a few bangs out of his eyes. All was good until he heard the most horrifying voice.
"Hey Cye." The evil voice said from behind the couch. Before Cye could react a large blue object tackled him off the couch and onto the floor. Cye struggle but to no avail as the person pinned his arms behind his back.
"Rowen get off!" Cye yelled trying to push the bigger boy off of him.
"Hey there Tensile Teeth. How's it going?" Seventeen-year-old Rowen Hashiba said grinning mischievously. He was a tall boy, with short blue hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a blue sweatshirt, jeans and black high tops. A blue headband, which he never took off, was failing to keep that one lock of hair from falling into his eyes.
"Rowen, let go. Mom told you to stop calling me that." Cye said. Since Cye got his retainer, Rowen had been pestering him a lot more because of it.
"No, YOUR mom said not to call you that. But she's upstairs right now so she can't hear me now can she?" Rowen explained.
The younger boy sighed and gave up. "What do you want?" Cye asked in defeat.
"I need to borrow your Marine Biology book for a project I'm working on." Rowen said.
"What's in it for me?" Cye asked.
Rowen pushed Cye's arms up his back causing the boy to bite back the pain. "I'll let you live a little longer." Rowen said reasonably.
"Fair enough, now let me up." Cye said.
"Thanks Tensile Teeth." Rowen said sarcastically while getting up to leave. As soon as he was free, Cye jumped up and tackled Rowen in attempt to get back at him. The two boys scuffle for a bit when a voice stopped them from the doorway.
"Rowen Touma Hashiba. Cye Shin Mouri-Hashiba, stop that at once." The voice scolded. The two boys stop and looked to see a woman with curly auburn hair and green eyes staring down at them. Helen Mouri-Hashiba sighed at the two. It had been nearly six years since she had married Rowen's father and the two boys still refused to be nice to each other.
"Sorry mom." Cye said getting up from the floor.
"Yeah sorry ma'am." Rowen said. That was another thing Helen notice, Rowen never called her mom, and probably never will. Cye had no problems calling Mr. Hashiba dad since he never really had one, his father had died when Cye was two. She shook her head and frowned at the two. "Now I don't care who started it, I want you two to apologize to each other." She ordered.
Cye looked like he was going to refuse but thought better of it. "Sorry Rowen." He mumbled.
Rowen remained silent. "Rowen, apologize to your brother." Helen said sternly.
"Step brother." Rowen said softly so she didn't hear. "Sorry." Helen was about to say more when the doorbell rang.
"Got it!" Both boys shouted racing to the door. Helen just sighed and went into the kitchen. Rowen and Cye were running down the hall trying not to trip on the many boxes in the hallway. They were about halfway there when Cye stuck his foot out and tripped Rowen. Rowen fell and was about to swear at Cye when he remembered Cye's mom was probably still in earshot. Cye smirked at him and opened the door to reveal a blond haired, violet-eyed boy, wearing a dark green polo shirt, kaki pants and brown shoes.
"Oh, hey Sage." Cye greeted a bit disappointed since it wasn't his friend Kento.
"Hey Squirt. Where's Rowen?" Sage asked ruffling Cye's hair up as he walked in.
"On the floor." Cye said trying to smooth his hair back.
Rowen got up and walked over. "Hey Sage. What brings ya here?" Rowen asked.
"Dad's handy work. You won't believe what he did this time." Sage said.
"Let me guess, he busted a water pipe and flooded the house." Rowen said.
"How'd you figure it out?" Sage asked surprised.
"Your shoes are wet." Cye observed pointing at the water tracks Sage left on the hardwood floor.
"And since it hasn't rained in a while I figured it had something to do with water." Rowen explained.
Sage shook his head. "Sorry about that. The house is completely flooded. Dad was going to call a professional this time, but since the house will be torn down in two days why waste the money?" Sage said. "You don't suppose I could stay here for the night?"
"Don't know, I'll ask." Rowen said before turning down the hall. "Hey Cye's Mom." He shouted down the hall.
"Yes Rowen?" Mrs. Mouri-Hasiba said from the kitchen.
"Can Sage stay the night? His plumbing's on the fritz." Rowen asked.
"That's fine dear." She answered.
"Cool, come on Sage. I got this new computer game you gotta try. I haven't packed it yet." Rowen said leading Sage to his room. Cye watched them leave then went to the kitchen. His mother was sitting at the table writing a list. Cye sat down at the other end of the table.
"Mom you said Kento could come over tonight." Cye said.
"He can still come. Rowen is so quiet and shy, it's about time he started asking friends over." Mrs. Mouri-Hashiba said, not looking up from her list.
"But mom, Rowen and Sage will bother us." Cye complained.
"Honey I don't have time for this. There's still a lot to pack up before we move. I need to go to the grocery. Also do you know Miss Chung?" She asked.
"The history teacher?" Cye asked taking a cookie from the plate in the center of the table and eating it.
"Yes, her mother is coming over today to help me pack. She doesn't speak Japanese so I was wondering if Kento could translate for me." Mrs. Mouri-Hashiba said getting up and sticking the list in her purse.
"I'll ask him when he gets here." Cye said.
"Thank you. I'm going to pick up Mrs. Chung. Be back in half an hour. Bye Sweetie." Mrs. Mouri-Hashiba said leaving.
Cye, having nothing better to do went into the living room to see if he could find his magazine he was reading earlier. Rowen and Sage were coming down the steps as he entered the room.
"Hey where'd your mom go?" Rowen asked.
"She went to pick up someone. She'll back in a little while." Cye said picking up his magazine from the floor and flipping through it.
"Really." Rowen said a evil gleam in his eye. Cye didn't like that one bit but before he could do anything, Rowen pinned him up against the wall.
"Come on Rowen, let him go. He's just a kid." Sage said coming to Cye's defense.
"Consider this payback for tripping me earlier." Rowen said. However before he could do anything they heard a voice shouting from outside. "Hey Cye! Come out and open the Gate!"
"That's Kento." Cye said jerking out of Rowen's grip to answer the door.
"Kento? As in 'Big Dumb Chinese Boy'. Kento Rei Fuan?" Sage asked.
"Don't call him that." Cye said walking over to the front door.
"Hold on a second. I got an idea." Sage said grinning slightly.
Cye gave him a curious look. "What?" He asked.
Rowen suddenly grabbed him by the collar of his jacket and shoved him into the hall closet, locking the door. "Chill out Tensile Teeth. We'll handle this." Rowen said chuckling wickedly as he and Sage went out the door.
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Kento stood by the gate of the white fence that surrounded the front yard. He was about to yell again when the front door opened. Rowen came outside, since he did live there Kento expected see, however the other person he saw come out was someone he didn't expect to see nor wanted to.
"Why the hell are YOU here?" Kento yelled at Sage.
"I was invited." Sage said simply.
"So was I. Now open up." Kento yelled shaking the door a little.
"First you have to pass a test before we let you in." Rowen said sitting on the railing of the porch.
"What kind of test?" Kento asked skeptically, knowing it would be something he didn't like.
"You have to stand on that stump and sing 'I'm a little Teapot' real loud." Sage told him.
Rowen laughed. "Yeah and do the hand positions too." He added.
"Hell no! I'll break the door down before I do that!" Kento shouted shaking the door violently as if he was going to do just that.
"You do and Cye's mom will have a fit." Rowen warned.
Kento stopped shaking the door and tried to think of another way. He contemplated jumping over the fence, but last time he did that he didn't make it all the way and broke part the fence down and also ripped his jeans. Both his mom and Cye's mom really got onto him about that so he decided against it. See no other way out of this he finally went over to the stump grumbling all the way. Climbing on top of the stump he prayed no one else was in earshot. Taking the dreaded teapot position he began to sing.
"I'm a Little Teapot….
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Cye banged on the door several times but no one could hear him. If it was left up to Rowen, he would leave Cye in there all day. He tried the doorknob but that didn't work either. Desperately he shove his shoulder into the door. It took a few tries until finally he broke the lock and the door flew open spilling Cye onto the floor. Picking himself up and rubbing the sore spot on his shoulder where he landed Cye opened the front door and looked outside.
Rowen and Sage were laughing their heads off at Kento, who from the looks of it was singing the Little Teapot song. Biting back a chuckle, Cye ran outside to the gate. Kento immediately jumped off the stump and ran to the now opened gate.
"Hey Kento what's going on?" Cye asked.
"What's going on? I'll tell ya what's going on. I'm gonna kill that blue haired stepbrother of yours and that blond haired pretty boy. That's what's going on." Kento half yelled walking up the steps of the porch. Both Sage and Rowen had stopped laughing and watch as the two younger boys came towards them.
"What did you do that for Cye? We were having a good time." Rowen said chuckling.
"I'll show ya a good time jerk. I'll beat ya to a pulp." Kento growled.
"You and what army?" Sage asked.
"This army." Kento said putting his fists up.
"Oh we're shaking in our shoes." Rowen said sarcastically.
"You better be. I'll take you and Pretty boy on." Kento shot back.
"Kento don't start a fight." Cye said trying to get Kento to calm down.
"Yeah you should listen him Kento." Sage said.
"What's the matter? Little Prissy boy afraid of messing his hair up?" Kento taunted.
Sage glared at him. "Why you over grown…"
"Excuse me boys but could I have a word with you?" A very nasally voice interrupted Sage. The four boys look down to see a very skinny and pale man with beady eyes and a thin long mustache, wearing a brown business suit and caring a briefcase. "Hello I'm Mr. Banamon." The man said. "Is Mr. Hashiba home?"
"No he will not be home until later tonight." Rowen answered.
"Is your mommy home then?" Mr. Banamon asked.
"No as a matter of fact she's out buying pampers for us kids." Rowen snapped. The others snickered behind him. Mr. Banamon was less than amused as he pulled out a letter from his briefcase.
"Could you give this to Mr. Hashiba when he comes home, that is if you allowed to stay up past nine." Mr. Banamon said smugly.
Rowen frowned and took the letter from the man. "Yeah whatever." He said looking the letter over.
"Thank you. Good bye Children." Mr. Banamon said turning on his heels and leaving. Rowen flipped him off and went inside followed by the others.
"What is it Rowen?" Cye asked trying to see what the letter said.
"Dad's business." Rowen said taking it into the kitchen and setting it on the counter.
"It's from Sarenbo, isn't it? My dad got one yesterday." Sage commented.
"What's it for?" Kento asked sitting at the table while grabbing a few cookies.
"A simple statement say that if you're not out of your house by noon tomorrow, you'll be arrested for trespassing." Sage said frowning.
"They can't do that. Dad hasn't sign the papers over Sarenbo yet." Cye protested.
"Doesn't matter Tensile Teeth. Unless dad can come up with the money to pay off Sarenbo this land is as good as his." Rowen explained.
"Man this sucks, we've lived here since we were kids." Kento commented eating another cookie. All was quiet inside the house, thunder could be heard in the distance.
"Sounds like we'll finally get some rain." Sage commented changing the subject. They heard more thunder only louder and closer this time.
"Damn. That's one hell of a storm coming." Rowen said.
"Actually, that sounded more like a roar." Cye said. The others look at him funny.
"A roar?" Kento asked.
"Yeah like from a lion or something." Cye answered.
Sage shook his head. "Your nuts Squirt." He said.
"ROOOAAARRR!"
Everyone nearly fell out of their seat when they heard that, and it was a lot closer. "Hey doesn't Ryo Sanada have a pet tiger or something?" Kento asked no one in particular.
"He does. His name's White Blaze. Ryo brought him over one time. Mom nearly had a heart attack.." Cye said getting up and walking over to the back door and opening it. "Yeah it's Blaze alright and they're heading this way."
The other three rush over to the door. They saw a huge white tiger running up the road dragging his owner along. They could hear Ryo cursing the tiger while holding onto the leash, trying his best to stay on his roller blades. White Blaze saw the back door open and ran for it.
"Move out of the way unless you want to get trampled on!" Ryo shouted in warning.
The four boys quickly jumped out of the way as White Blazed leaped onto the porch and slid inside the door. Poor Ryo was dragged up the stairs behind him. White Blaze finally stopped at the far wall knocking several pictures off the wall but was unhurt. Ryo was unlucky as he crashed headfirst underneath the table.
"Ryo, hey are you okay?" Cye asked as he and Kento helped their friend out from under the table.
"Yeah I'm fine. Stupid tiger." Ryo said glaring daggers at the tiger that decided to take a nap on the kitchen floor.
"What made him go berserk like that?" Kento asked.
Ryo sighed. "You think a cat his size would not be afraid of needles. But no, one little shot and he takes off dragging me clear across town." Ryo explained taking his roller blades off and pulling his sneakers out of his black backpack and putting them on.
"Well you better get him out of the house before Cye's mom comes home." Rowen commented.
"If you can get him to move, go right ahead." Ryo said gesturing to the napping tiger.
"Hey I got an idea." Kento said grabbing the last cookie from the table. "Hey White Blaze, wanna cookie?" He asked. White Blaze's ears perked up at the word cookie, he stood up and walked over to Kento. "That's it. Good boy. Now fetch." Kento said throwing the cookie into the backyard.
White Blaze leaped out after the cookie, unfortunately Ryo was still holding the leash so he too was dragged outside.
"AHHH! Kento you Baka." Ryo yelled as he landed on the ground.
"You're the Baka. You should have let go." Sage said as he and the others went out to help. White Blaze ate his cookie happily while Kento and Cye tied him to the tree.
"If your done flying around Ryo, you better go back in and clean up the mess." Rowen said.
"What happened in here? Rowen! Cye!" A voice yelled from inside. Both boys winced when their name was called.
"Too late." Cye commented as they all trotted back inside. There was Mrs. Mouri-Hashiba standing at the doorway along with a short plumped Chinese woman over looking the mess.
"What happened in here?" Mrs. Mouri-Hashiba repeated when the boys came inside.
"It's my fault Mrs. H, White Blaze kind of got away from me." Ryo admitted.
"Good heavens that tiger isn't in the house is he?" Mrs. Mouri-Hashiba asked glancing around nervously. She wasn't sure how Mrs. Chug would react to that.
"No ma'am we tied him up out back." Ryo told her.
"Thank you Ryo. Boys could you clean up this mess for me please? Oh and Kento could you do me a favor?" Mrs. Mouri-Hashiba asked.
"Ma'am?" Kento said curious.
"Mrs. Chung can't speak Japanese only Chinese, so could you translate for me?" She asked. Kento was about to answer when he over heard Rowen and Sage whispering to each other.
"Kento a translator? The world must be coming to and end." Rowen whispered to Sage both boys chuckling softly.
Kento was about to tell them off when an idea hit him. "Of course Mrs. H. I'd be glad to help out." He said enthusiastically. Both Ryo and Cye looked up at him from their spot cleaning the broken glass from the pictures.
"Thank you Kento." Mrs. Mouri-Hashiba said as she, Mrs. Chung and Kento left the room.
Ryo looked over at Cye. "Was it just me or did he seemed too enthused about that?" He asked.
Rowen and Sage had snuck off somewhere leaving him and Cye to clean up.
"With Kento. Who knows what goes through his head other than food." Cye answered as they continued to clean.
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Mrs. Mouri-Hashiba lead the other two through the house explaining what need to be done and Kento translated it to Mrs. Chung. "This is Rowen's room. All the clothes in the drawers can go into boxes. Now there are some sheets in the bottom drawer so I would like them to be laid out and I'll tend to them later. Rowen is supposed to pack all his projects and books so you don't have to worry about that. Kento could you tell her that please?" She asked him.
"No problem Mrs. H." Kento said grinning before turning to Mrs. Chung.(This is Rowen's room. Now all his sex toys are in the top drawer, they can go into the boxes. Now the bottom drawer is where he keeps his porn that must be handled carefully aright? Rowen is suppose to pack his chains and leather so don't worry about that.)" Kento translated walking out of the room. Mrs. Chung followed him wide eyed.
"Now this is the attic. The boys are not allowed up there so make sure this stays closed until we have the people from the museum come and take the stuff up there back." Mrs. Mouri-Hashiba said shutting the door leading to the attic.
Kento looked up at the door and smiled wickedly before turning to Mrs. Chung to translate."(This is Rowen's sex and torture room. This is where he takes his victims and does weird things to them and video tapes it. If he says anything to you just run okay?)" Kento said trying to keep a straight face when he saw how scared Mrs. Chung was getting. Mrs. Chung nodded fearfully and followed Kento down the stairs.
"This is the last room. You'll find all the cleaning supplies in here. If possible I would like to have the house spotless before they tear it down. Okay." Mrs. Mouri-Hashiba said waiting for Kento to translate.
"(If you ever upset Rowen he'll lock you in here for six days without food or water.)" Kento translated. Mrs. Chung was about to have a heart attack as they left the room and went into the kitchen.
"(I'm in a crazy house.)" She said to herself.
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Cye and Ryo were sitting at the table when the three walked in .Kento, grinning wildly, sat down at the table. His friends gave him an odd look.
"Thank you so much for translating Kento." Mrs. Mouri-Hashiba said while picking her purse back up.
"No problem Mrs. H it was fun." Kento answered while Ryo and Cye gave him confused looks.
"Cye, I'm going to the grocery now so could you get the roast out of the freezer and thaw it out for me. Ryo, you're welcomed to stay for dinner if you want." Mrs. Mouri-Hashiba said while grabbing her coat and car keys.
"Thank you Mrs. H" Ryo said politely.
"I should be back in a couple of hours so don't go outside Cye, it looks like it's going to rain. You can put your tiger in the garage if it does Ryo. Bye." Mrs. Mouri-Hashiba said as she and Mrs. Chung was leaving.
"Bye mom." Cye said.
"Bye Mrs. H." Both Ryo and Kento said.
"(Say bye to Rowen Mrs. Chung. He's the one with blue hair.)"Kento added laughingly as she shuddered and walked out.
"Alright spill it Kento. What's so funny?" Ryo asked.
Kento laughed. "You guys wait till you hear this." He said and went on to tell them what happened.
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Sage and Rowen were lounging in the living room when Mrs. Mouri-Hashiba and Mrs. Chung came into the room. "Rowen, while I'm gone would you make sure Cye and the others stay inside the house in case it rains?" She asked him.
"Can I lock them in the basement?" Rowen asked while reading Cye's magazine.
"No you can't, just try not to kill them while I'm gone. Sage could you make sure he does so." She asked the other boy.
"Of course Mrs. H." Sage said while flipping through channels on the television. Laughter was heard in the kitchen but was ignored.
"Thank You Sage. I'll be back in two hours. Bye." She said walking out the door. The two barely noticed her leave. Rowen continued to reading but then felt somebody watching him. He looked up to see Mrs. Chung staring at him oddly. Rowen gave her a funny look.
"What?" He asked.
Mrs. Chung yelped and jumped before running out the door.
Sage looked from the front door to Rowen. "What'd you do to her?" He asked.
Rowen shrugged. "Beats me." He said going back to reading.