Disclaimer: Nope, don't own either anime that this story mixes together, so don't waste time trying to sue me, it'd be a waste of money. trust me!
Neon Genesis Champloo.
Part 2.
And then there was three… maybe.
"Didja hear?" were the girl's words as she stood straight up, glancing over at the pompous ass buffoon (her thoughts and ours, I'm sure) before grinning from ear to ear.
"Oh yeah, those idiots look weak! Maybe you should've spent more money on your bodyguards then that crap blade of yours!"
The men watched as their leader twitched, taking his blade and setting it down at his side before ordering his men to engage the girl.
"Yer dead, little girl" the men all seemed to chant in unison, drawing their blades as they went towards where she stood.
Without warning, one of the men came up to her left, swinging his blade at neck level, hoping to cut her head off in one stroke. That didn't happen, however, as the girl ducked, standing back up and launching her foot at his jaw and while grabbing his wrist, ensuring that he wouldn't retaliate.
After sending the first man to the land of nod, the girl pulled him in front of her, using him as a shield as another man thrust his katana in the girl's direction, killing his own ally and then being sent off himself as the girl drew her blade and cut him at the waist.
"Nothing but morons here!" she growled lowly, looking up with a sardonic grin as she centered her vision on the bleach blonde who was now rethinking his endeavors across the room and behind his table.
"G-G-GO KILL HER!"
The men followed their master's order, entering their stances as the prepared to face this wild woman in front of them. Suddenly, once again without warning, the girl flipped the table nearest to her up, directing it towards the samurai in front of her and vaulting off one of the samurais' head, landing behind the scattered posse and right directly in front of the leader.
"Don't let her kill the master!" one of the samurai hollered, causing one of the men to rush to engage the redhead.
"Fools rush in, buddy!" she retorted as the man swiped at her twice, once downwards and then a follow-up upwards. After the man finished the last swipe of his sword, his life came to an abrupt end as the girl ran him through the neck with her blade, which had been sheathed before she flipped the table up.
"Dang… did that hurt?" she asked sarcastically, watching as the man's lifeless corpse slid off her blade and onto the floor.
"R-R-Ryujiro! Protect me, goddamn it!" the magistrates son panicked, watching as the girl turned her attention to the advancing man behind her.
"Heheheheheh! I can't wait for this! I can't wait to see what you look like all sliced up, little girl!" the man called Ryujiro spoke, raising his blade above his head and swinging it downwards, once again missing the unpredictable girl, but only by mere inches as she rolled to the side to avoid his wrath.
"You really like pissing me off, don't you, little girl?"
The redhead recovered from the man's initial attack, she stood up, ran over towards the wall as the man followed suit, keeping close to her as she reached what he called her 'dead end'.
However, the man watched in stunned awe as she, without stopping to regain her traction, leapt towards the wall, vaulting off it and swinging her leg around to hit the surprised man in the face, knocking him to his right before drawing her blade, swinging it down towards the man.
He moved to avoid it, but lost his right arm as he chose the wrong direction to flee in.
"My name is not 'little girl', got it?" she menaced, watching as the man cowered before her, covering his stump of an arm with what remain of his sleeve and shaking his head violently up and down, letting the girl know he understood her words.
"Good"
The girl flicked her blade, whipping the blood off it before sheathing it again and turning her attention to the man currently crawling on hands and knees to get out of the diner in one piece.
"Where the hell do you think you're going?" the girl growled, pinning the young ass against the wall, eliciting words of all sorts from the man.
"C-Come on, p-please? I-I could give y-you lots of money if y-you let me go! My f-father is the loc-cal magistrate and he'd pay big to get me back unharmed!" the young man sniveled as the girl moved a little closer to him, grinning wider (if that was possible) at the man's hurried words, laughing in his face as she chose now to speak.
"Oh, big money, huh? Loads of cash, huh?" the girl spoke slowly, lulling the man into a false sense of security, "Not interested" she deadpanned, watching his face turn to one of shock at the sound of her words.
The man thought quickly as she grabbed her blade, realizing that none of his men could even think of taking the redhead on in a fight, he decided to resort to a bluff.
"If I die, then my dad would send a really strong samurai that would utterly destroy you, girl! But he wouldn't do that before having some fun-"
"Why the hell do people keep saying that to me?" the young woman screamed in frustration, scaring the man she currently held by the collar.
"Okay, your dad has some real warriors, does he? Then send'em all, I want a challenge!" she growled with, what Shinji assumed was, ecstasy.
The girl turned her attention to the remaining people in the diner; Ryujiro and two other samurai.
"You three have exactly" she looked at the blonde man's fingers before turning her head to face the three again, "ten minutes to get that 'super' bodyguard you've been squawking about before I let loose and kill this obnoxious moron, got it?"
The men ran out after watching the girl bend one of the blonde's fingers back, snapping it like a twig before looking back, watching them as they ran out.
"You better hope they get back in time!" she sang, laughing as the other occupants watched on.
"She's insane! But, she does look kinda…"
Shinji was brought out of his thoughts by the girl calling out to him, demanding that he repay her for what she had done for the diner. "Hey, buddy! Get yer ass over here with some dumplings! And make it quick!" she spat, causing Shinji to jump a few inches into the air before running into the back, presumably to grab some dumplings.
The room was filled with the snapping of four more fingers as the redhead waited impatiently for the men to return.
"Doesn't look like you've got many loyal followers, huh buddy?"
As Shinji returned to the dining area, the entire room was brought to a silence as another person entered from out front, her light blue hair contrasted with her red eyes and pale skin.
"Wha… she's… cute" shinji whispered, watching as the girl raised her head, standing straight up before inquiring as to what was going on in the eatery.
"Is there…a problem?" the young girl asked, looking over at the redhead to gain insight as to the reason why the place looked like a war zone.
"Hey, are you the warrior that was supposed to come face me?" the redhead asked roughly, glaring and smiling all at the same time.
"Hm, as to your first question; yes, I am a warrior, a ronin to be exact. Second; I do not have any desire to start any unnecessary battles with a disgraceful samurai such as yourself, if you could even be called that" the blue haired girl spoke calmly, keeping her eyes downcast as to not make eye contact with the redhead.
"W-W-WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?" the redhead yelled, inadvertently breaking the blonde's mans' hand before releasing him.
The pale girl remained silent as the more brash girl drew her blade, rushing towards the blue haired samurai with her grin plastered almost permanently to her face.
"I don't care whether or not you are the guy I'm supposed to face, I'm taking you down!" the redhead shouted, swinging her blade, hitting the blue haired girl's blade, which was drawn in response to the redhead's unprovoked attack.
As the redhead jumped backwards, the pale girl lunged at her with three quick swipes, one to each side and then finishing with a downward slice, barely missing the redhead as she went on the offensive, bringing her foot around to hit the other girl but missing.
However, the redhead's plan worked as the blue haired girl dodged the leg, moving back and to the side and giving the redhead an opening to attack with her sword, just barely blocking the violent girl's swings as she tried to regain her footing.
"Heh, you're good, lady" the redhead growled, jumping back to assess her opponent before trying to attack again.
"As are you… I was somewhat wrong, I must say… and that makes you my sworn enemy, after all of this" The blue haired girl whispered just barely loud enough for the other girl to hear.
"Same here! But, before I kill you, tell me your name" she spoke, watching as the other girl returned her face to a more impassive one before answering.
"Ayanami Rei, and yours?"
"Asuka, and don't forget it" the girl now known as Asuka growled.
Shinji, who had been sitting quietly by the wayside for a while now, chose that moment to speak up.
"And I'm Shinji I…ka…ri?" the boy slowed to a stop as he realized that neither of them were paying attention to him.
"I'm nothing to those two, aren't I?"
The girls once again attacked one another, clashing blades as they struggled to gain the upper hand against the other.
Asuka turned to run, with Ayanami close behind, towards the wall vaulting off it and leaping over the blue haired girl, swinging the blade in her hand towards Rei's back, missing as the blue haired girl rolled forwards, with Rei turning around in doing so.
"You aren't fighting with any known style after all, are you?" the pale girl questioned, watching Asuka as she went on the defense.
"My style isn't any of your business!" Asuka spoke through clenched teeth, attacking the other girl with blows to her blade in an effort to knock her off balance. "Damn you! Stop blocking!"
The blue haired girl followed the other's orders and swung at Asuka, cutting the girl's gi slightly, giving it a little slit in the front before jumping up into the air to avoid the other girl's foot coming at her from down below in an effort to trip her.
As the blue haired girl landed she immediately went on the defensive as the redhead started swinging her blade, hitting the other girl's katana repeatedly in an attempt to knock it out of Rei's hands.
The girls fought for a few minutes longer, running allover the diner's front, Asuka leaping from table to table as she parried the other's swings with her geta's metal strapped to the underside.
As the redhead leapt from the table, the two engaged in further sword play, stopping suddenly when they heard a voice call out from the entrance.
"Y-You'll pay for this arm, bitch!" Ryujiro shouted, lighting up what Asuka assumed was something flammable, and tossed into the eatery.
It was at that time that the occupants realized that the man had spilt fuel around the floor near where he stood and upon the tables near the entranceway.
"SHI-"
Asuka couldn't even get that word out as she watched the entrance go up in flames, the fire reaching the roof rather quickly, by Asuka and Rei's estimations.
Shinji and his guardians, however, had made it out the back way before the place was consumed by flames.
"The-They left us, those bast-"
And with that, the scene went black as the sound of the roof collapsed, with the sound of blades clashing fading out slowly.
"AH! AH! WHERE AM I? WHY THE HELL IS EVERYTHING ON FIRE?" the redhead panicked, looking around the room as she realized that it was the eatery, and that her hands were bound by some unseen object.
"Where the hell-" the girl started to growl, but stopped as she looked to her side.
There to her right sat a tub of water, and inside this water sat a young, blue haired woman with what appeared to be…
"Wake up!"
"Huh?"
"Wake up, goddamn it! Get up or ELSE!"
The redhead stirred as the owner of the voice slapped her across the face, making sure to bruise her cheek in the process.
"Good, you're up" the man snickered, looking over at the blue haired girl who was bound by the wrists to a wooden support beam overhead, as was Asuka.
"Yer execution is set for tomorrow, but don't despair! We won't be leaving you alone for long, just need to get the torture racks ready…" the man said before walking out, leaving the girls in silence.
"H-hey, you! Yeah you over there… got one question" Asuka spoke, "Well, actually two questions."
Ayanami remained motionless, but Asuka continued.
"One; did they… you know… 'take' us?"
Ayanami looked over towards he girl, shook her head, and returned to 'hanging' around.
"Okay, two; Was that just a dream?"
Ayanami spoke, surprising the other girl.
"No"
Asuka now had a face of mild amusement, and horror as she proceeded onwards.
"So, you were really taking a bath in the middle of a fire with your dick hanging out?"
The other girl's eye twitched slightly before she spoke.
"That was a dream."
The girls, dressed in their original clothes, sat silently as they awaited their fate.
A/N: Wow, I did not expect for this to be recieved well, honestly! I have to say that I'm surprised! However, for the length of the chapters, I will start making them longer, but will not make each episode into one or two chapters, but into as many as needed in order to keep up a steady update and story.
After the first episode is finished is when they will start to get longer, but I need to update my knowledge of both series' so that I don't screw everything up and make people mad because I forgot certain things, so sorry!
Also, I don't have as much of a script for further episodes as I'd hoped, so I need to work on that as well.
Well, anyways... See ya!
