Brothers of Old
(Hello Everybody! Sorry for not updating for a long while. I was busy writing my new fic and also the fact that I was stuck on how to further the story. But none the less, Enjoy!)
Previously:
"Whoohoo! Rei, be ready to make a lot of food because this causes for a celebration!" Her grandfather said as he walked back into the house.
"There's no way I'll accept those two staying here!" Rei said.
"Come on Rei! Your having two hotties staying with you! Frankly we're all jealous of you!" Minako said as everyone else nodded in unison.
"Oh do what you want!" Rei said hotly and walked in to the house to make dinner.
Chapter 6: The Visit to the Shrine Part 2
In the kitchen all the girls were helping prepare dinner while the Men started to set the table. Everyone was busy with something. Nodoka watched the hustle and bustle to prepare a big dinner for the guests that were staying over.
"Mrs. Abarai."
"Please call me auntie. Mrs. makes me feel so old," Nodoka said with a smile, "And what did you want Rei-san?"
"Well, I wanted your opinion on this new recipe of mine, could yousample some before I put it out for the rest of us to eat?" Rei asked.
"Sure," Nodoka said as she took her chopsticks and picked up a piece of the food and put it in her mouth, "My! This is delicious! With this kind of cooking you would make a good wife to the lucky man that marries you."
This statement made Rei blush, "Well I guess that's all the items for tonight's dinner. Usagi, help me carry them into the dining room."
"Ok, what should I car"
"C-C-C-CAT!" They heard from the dining room. Everyone that was in the kitchen ran in to see what it was going on. What they saw was a Ranma shivering in fright holding on to the ceiling with ki and a kyo shaking his head slowly with his hand slapped over his face, and the culprit to this was…, "LUNA!" Usagi shouted as she ran over and picked up the strange black cat with a cresent mark on her forehead.
"Geeze Ranma, I would have thought that learning the true neko-ken would help you with your fears of cats." Kyo said.
"WHAT! Genma actually taught that accursed thing to poor Ranma!" Rei's Grandfather shouted going pale with fright and then flushing red with anger.
"Umm, what's neko-ken?" everyone except Nodoka asked.
"It is a forbidden art that was created for the sole purpose of creating a perfect and invincible fighter." Kyo and Mr. Hikawa explained at the same time.
"SO what was wrong with it?" Ami asked intrigued by the prospect of the invincible fighter.
"May I Mr. Hikawa?" Kyo asked respectfully.
"Go right ahead my boy," He answered.
"Well the training actually violent and very grueling but it did produce invincible fighters," Kyo said.
"And what is the training method?" Ami asked thinking of using the training as a way to make the scouts stronger.
"Well, even if I said it produced invincible fighters, these fighters were very few and used in the front lines as berserkers." Kyo said. This confused Ami.
"But wouldn't you use those few invincible fighters as a last resort?" Ami asked.
"No, mainly because the neko-ken practitioners were a danger to the village and anyone that got near them in general." He replied.
"Why were they?" Ami asked dreading the answer.
"When I said that the training was grueling and violent, I was being subtle. You see, to learn the neko-ken you must be at a young age around the age of 10 and below. The actually preparation time actually takes longer than the actual training it's self and was banned from practice from the high mortality rates. But not only from physical pain and stress but from the Mental stress to."
"So what is the training method?" Ami said a little pale from the explanation.
"Well, first you dig a hole in the ground that is very deep and can't be escaped by the practitioner. Then you fill the hole with cats and let them starve for a while." Kyo explained As the faces of the listeners paled and was almost sheet white.
"Then what?" Everyone asked but dreaded the response.
"The Teacher will tie up the practitioner in a way that wouldn't let the practitioner escape with fish products, then you take the poor soul and toss him/her into the pit of starving cats and cover the hole and seal it only letting the student out once he mastered the neko-ken." Kyo finished. He looked to see everyone sickly pale in the face with tears falling out of their eyes.
"So you're telling us that that's the only way to learn neko-ken?" Ami asked
"Well back then yes, but they created a more safer way of teaching it without the nasty side-effect of going insane. I'm even amazed Ranma is sane even after all the trauma of being beaten severely by the horrible training methods of that bastard, and on top of that being beaten by an angry ex- fiancée that beat him for things he didn't commit." Kyo said rubbing the back of his head. This made almost everyone lose their appetites for dinner but was forced by Nodoka and Mr. Hikawa.
"Hey Ranma," Kyo said as he cleaned up his plates and started standing up from the table.
"Yeah"
"Do you want to spar again?"
"Sure why not."
"Can we watch?" The girls asked.
"I just want to make sure you don't destroy anything!" Rei said glaring daggers at Ranma. They all started to walk outside to watch the two males spar.
To be continued…