Hey there! So here's chapter 5. Sorry about the long wait. Please read and review! I love to get comments on my works and I want to know what you think of it since this is really my first true fan fiction. Oh and I redesigned Kaitie's outfit a little. Actually the only change really is that the sleeves aren't as big like they are in the first drawing, but you can still look at the drawing of her. It's on my profile.

And thank you to the people who have reviewed my story and left such nice comments! I really appreciate it!

Disclaimer: All I own is Kaitie.

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Kaitie woke up as she felt the sun's light through the screen door shining on her. She sat up and stretched. She felt much better after a night long rest. She looked around the room she was in. The only thing in that room that was familiar to her was her backpack.

"I still can't believe what happened to me yesterday…," she thought "I wonder if my family has noticed I'm gone. If they have, I hope they don't think I ran away or was kidnapped…"

But what else would her family think if they found out she was missing. Unless the videogame was still turned on and they could see her through the TV screen, those are the things they possibly might think to explain why she is gone.

"I sure hope that they can still see me through the TV," she thought "I don't want people thinking I ran away or was kidnapped."

She sighed. There wasn't much she could do about it now if that did happen. If she were to find a way to get back, she would have to deal with it then.

She got up from the futon and started to dress in her new outfit she had just gotten yesterday. When she was finished, she went to the screen doors that were at the back of the room. "I wonder what's on the other side of this screen door," she thought.

She opened it and saw the garden that was in the back. There were many different plants like flowers and bushes. A small koi pond was over on the side, where a fish came to the surface and then back down with a tiny splash. There were a few trees here and there.

Kaitie stepped out from her room and onto the porch. She then sat at the edge of it and gazed out at the sky.

It was a beautiful day out. Sunny with hardly any clouds in the sky. The temperature was not too hot or too cold. She sighed. It sure was peaceful today.

She noticed that the other rooms that were around her had doors leading out to this garden as well. Right as she noticed this, she noticed something else.

She saw someone else in the garden. She hadn't noticed them before because they were sort of hidden in one of the areas that had quite a few trees and bushes around it. She took a good look, squinting her eyes to try and see who it was.

It was Musashi. He seemed to be practicing with his swords.

Kaitie slid herself off from where she was sitting on the porch and walked over. She stood in a spot where she could watch him practice, but was also at a safe distance.

The way he handled his blades truly amazed Kaitie. Seeing Musashi actually wielding his swords in person was more astonishing than what she had seen in the game.

"He handles his sword with great skill. He's also very quick with his movements," she thought "I can also see the concentration he has. He looks so focused in his training."

She watched for a little bit longer until Musashi happened to turn towards her direction while he was doing another sword technique. He almost jumped a little when he noticed she was there.

"Kaitie?" he asked, surprised she was there "How long have you been there?"

"Oh, I kind of just got here," she answered a little shyly walking a little closer "I saw you training and…. I watched because I was amazed by your skill.."

Musashi put one of his swords on his shoulder. "Thanks," he said "I still have a ways to go yet before I can master the sword completely though…."

Kaitie nodded. Musashi then remembered something.

"Alright. If you are going to be hanging around with me, you'll have to learn how to fight," he said "I'll teach you that."

"I have to learn to fight?" Kaitie asked.

"Yeah, if you want to defend yourself," Musashi replied "But if you're not willing to learn, I'm not going to teach you."

"No! No! It's not like that," Kaitie said "I… I understand. I'm willing to learn."

"Okay, then I'm willing to teach you," Musashi said "First thing I want to know, will this be your first time learning how to fight or anything like that?"

"Well, if you mean with the sword, yes it will be my first time learning how to handle one," Kaitie answered "But I had been taking a self defense class at my school. I've only had it for a few months though."

Musashi nodded. "I guess it might help out a little with your training," he said as he put both his swords in their sheaths. He then turned back to Kaitie.

"I have to go do something quick," he said "Meet me in front of the inn in about an hour and take your things with you."

Kaitie nodded her head and Musashi left for whatever he had to do.

An hour passes……

Kaitie was waiting outside the inn, waiting for Musashi to return. She was leaning against a wall and her backpack sat next to her. Some people still were staring at her as they walked by. She sighed.

"Even though I'm no longer in my clothes from my time, I'm still getting stares from people," she thought "It might be because of my backpack. They are probably wondering what it is. Or maybe…"

She sighed again. "Oh well… whatever," she thought. She looked around.

Where was Musashi?

Suddenly she saw him coming. He was holding something. He finally came up to her.

"Hey, have you been waiting long?" he asked. Kaitie shook her head.

"Not too long. It's fine," she replied. She looked down at what Musashi was holding.

Bokkens. Wooden swords.

Musashi noticed she was looking at the bokkens. "They're for your training," he said "Come on and follow me. We're going to start your training and then we need to continue on traveling."

Kaitie nodded. She picked up her backpack, slung it on her back, and followed Musashi.

As she walked with him, she noticed he had a small bag tied to his waist with his swords. She wondered what was in it, but decided to shrug it off.

They walked out of the village and continued walking down a path. After walking for awhile, Musashi stopped.

"Alright, let's stop here," he said "I'll now start by teaching you some basic stuff." He handed Kaitie a bokken. She held it in her hands.

"First thing, when you're holding your bokken, hold it as if it were a real sword," Musashi said.

Kaitie looked down at how she was holding it. She was holding it sideways with one hand on the hilt and the other holding what was supposed to be the blade part of it.

"Oh! S-sorry!" she apologized, her face red with embarrassment as she fixed it so she held it with both hands on the hilt.

"Okay now get into a ready position. Follow what I do," Musashi continued. He put his right foot out in front of him and held the sword out in front of him with his arms straight. His sword was tilted up a little.

Kaitie tried to copy that. Musashi looked over to see how it looked.

"Have the sword tilt up a little," he said "Keep your body squared, so be facing forward, and keep your back straight. Also have your feet shoulder width apart."

When Musashi was satisfied with her stance, he went back into the stance as well.

"Now follow this," he said. He raised the sword up above his head. He took a step with his right foot and made a downward cut. He did it fast the first time, then he did it a gain a bit slower so Kaitie could see how to do it.

Kaitie tried it. It didn't work out to well.

"Don't swing it down all the way to the ground," Musashi corrected "Swing it down to your center like this." He showed her again and Kaitie did her best to copy him.

"Now when lifting up your sword, don't tilt it backwards. When it's over your head, keep it straight up. And don't step with you foot that is behind you. Take a step with the one in front." He did it again and Kaitie tried to copy his movements.

After awhile, it seemed like she was starting to kind of get how to do the basic cut.

"Alright, now keep doing that," Musashi said "If you keep doing that over and over, you'll start to get the hang of it. I'll tell you when to stop."

Kaitie did what he said and kept on doing the downward cut Musashi had shown her to do. After what seem like a long time, Musashi finally told her to stop.

Kaitie's arm were starting to ache. She shook them out a little bit.

"Your arms getting tired?" Musashi asked. Kaitie nodded.

"A little," she answered.

"You'll get used to it after awhile. Someday it may not hurt anymore." He took his bokken again. "Now I'll show you another cut."

So then the rest of the morning and a bit of the afternoon, Musashi was showing Kaitie the basic moves of using a sword. He taught basic cuts and how to properly handle a sword. By the time Musashi said it was enough, Kaitie's arms were aching more and she was tired.

"Why don't we just relax now for a moment before we head out," Musashi said "You look like you need a break."

"Okay," Kaitie agreed.

The two sat underneath a tree that was nearby. Kaitie sighed as she sat down and leaned against the tree. The shade was cool and relaxing. Musashi sat down and leaned against the tree as well. He then picked up the bag that Kaitie noticed earlier.

"That bag. I wonder if I'm going to see what is in it…,"

Musashi reached in it and pulled out a rice ball. He held it out to her. "Hungry?" he asked as he pulled out another one that was for himself.

"Oh, thank you Musashi-san," Kaitie said as she took the rice ball.

"You know….," Musashi began to say "I appreciate you being polite and all, but you don't really need to do that."

Kaitie looked confused. "Do what?" she asked.

"You don't have to use san after my name," Musashi answered "Thanks for being polite, but it's okay if you don't use it."

"Alright," Kaitie said.

Musashi turned his head, looking forward, and took a bite out of his rice ball. Kaitie looked down at hers. Musashi swallowed and looked back over at her.

"Don't you like those?" he asked. Kaitie shook her head.

"It's not like that. I've just… never had one of these before. I've seen them, but never actually got to try it."

"Well, go ahead. Try it."

Kaitie looked at it and then took a bite. She chewed it for a moment and then swallowed.

"Well?" Musashi asked.

"This is a really good!" Kaitie said with a smile. She took another bite.

"Heh, glad you like it," Musashi said. He continued to eat his own. The two ate in silence for a moment. Musashi was finishing his rice ball up. He ate the rest and then licked his fingers to get the rice that had stuck to them.

"So…. What is it like?" Musashi suddenly asked, breaking the silence.

Kaitie stopped eating and looked over at him. "What's what like?" she asked.

"Where you come from. You know, the future," Musashi said "What's it like?"

Kaitie thought for a moment about what she should say while she finished the last bite of her rice ball. "Well.. umm… what do you want to know?" Kaitie asked "I'm just kind of unsure where to start."

Musashi thought for a moment. "You said you weren't from Japan right?" he asked. Kaitie nodded. "Have you ever been there? Not including right now, but like in your time." Kaitie shook her head.

"No I haven't," she answered "But I had always wanted to. It sounded like a neat place to go to. For a long time I've been so interested in Japan's culture and history. I think it's really cool that I'm getting to see it right now. I still can't believe that I'm actually here and that I'm meeting people I've heard about in history." She was smiling as she spoke. Suddenly Kaitie stopped and blushed a little bit.

"Sorry. I just kept talking," she apologized.

"Don't apologize. I'm glad to hear you like our culture so much," Musashi said. He smiled a little bit at her.

Now that really made her blush. "Oh jeez! He's smiling at me! Oh my gosh!" she thought, going all fangirly inside.

"Something wrong?" Musashi asked. Kaitie shook her head quickly.

"No! No! It's nothing, don't worry!" she replied quickly.

Musashi stared at her for a moment with a sort of puzzled look on his face. Kaitie tried her best not to look too embarrassed.

Musashi then kind of just shrugged it off. "Okay," he said. On the inside Kaitie was sighing in relief.

"That was close…. It would be way to weird if he found out that I was like a fan girl and stuff…."

"So what's in that bag you carry around?" Musashi continued "What did you call it again? A… backpack or something?"

"Oh this?" Kaitie asked while picking up her backpack and putting it between them "It's to carry my stuff for when I go to school. Like my books, pencils and pens, paper, homework, and stuff."

She opened it up and Musashi decided to take a peek. It was filled with some big book and there was some paper sticking out from some of the books. "Is it alright if I look at some stuff?" he asked.

"I don't mind. Go ahead," Kaitie replied.

Musashi took out one of the big books. It was a pretty heavy book. He opened it a flipped through the pages. It had lots of words and weird symbols he could not read and understand. "What's this supposed to be?" he asked.

"Oh that's my math book," Kaitie answered.

"What language is this in? I can't read anything at all," Musashi said.

"It's English," Kaitie said.

"So what are those other books for?"

"Oh, they're for my history class, science class, and English class. Then some other books have paper in it so I can write stuff on it."

Musashi looked in her backpack again. This time he found some things that looked really odd to him. "What are these?" he asked, taking them out. It was an I-pod, a camera, and a cell phone.

Kaitie did her best to explain to Musashi what they were used for. "This thing plays music?" Musashi asked, looking at the I-pod "How?"

Kaitie turned it on and looked through her songs. When she choose one, she pushed play and put a headphone on one of Musashi's ears. "Whoa… weird…," he said. That made Kaitie giggle a little bit. She took the headphone of his ear.

"And this thing can let you talk to people who are far away?" Musashi asked looking at the cell phone. Kaitie nodded her head.

"Yes, but I can't show you how it works since no one else would have one of those here," she said. Musashi looked as if he understood that, then he turned his attention to the camera.

"What did this do again?" he asked. Kaitie took it from him.

"Here. I can show you," she said. She turned the camera on and pointed it at him. She clicked the button and the clicking noise was made.

"What was that?" Musashi asked.

"I just took a picture of you," Kaitie replied. Musashi looked confused.

"Huh?"

"Here, look at this." Kaitie pushed a button and it showed the picture she just took. It was a picture of Musashi sitting there with a curious look on his face. She showed it to Musashi.

"What? It's me?" Musashi asked.

"Yes. It's a picture of you. This thing can make pictures just by pointing this part-" she pointed at the lens as she said this" at whatever you want to have picture of and pushing this button right here." She pointed at the button that she had pushed.

"Let me see that picture of me again," Musashi said. Kaitie showed it to him again. Musashi looked at it for a moment. Then suddenly a small smile came to his face. Then started to laugh a little bit.

"What's up with my face there?" he laughed. Kaitie couldn't help, but start to laugh a bit with him as well. Suddenly the two were just laughing together. If anyone would have passed by might think the two were good friends chatting and laughing with each other.

Suddenly Musashi stopped laughing. This made Kaitie stop laughing as well. "Is something wrong?" she asked.

Musashi was looking away. He almost looked embarrassed. "Sorry about that," he apologized. Kaitie looked at him confused.

"Is he embarrassed because he was laughing? I guess he's usually a more serious type of person. But why would he be embarrassed?"

Kaitie thought some more. "Was it something I did? Did I make him embarrassed?" This was confusing to Kaitie.

Suddenly the two heard someone running down the path, opposite from the way they came. "Help! Oh someone please help!" the person shouted.

Musashi and Kaitie looked in the direction of the person. They stood up and went over to the person. The person fell to their hands and knees, trying to catch his breath.

"What happened?" Musashi questioned the person. It was a man. He looked like a peasant.

"O-our village! It's being attacked by bandits!" the peasant man exclaimed "Please! We need help!"

Musashi didn't hesitate. He quickly grabbed his swords and without saying anything he ran off in the direction that the man came from.

"Musashi! Wait!" Kaitie called out, but he didn't stop. But she heard him call out something.

"You stay here! Don't follow me!"

That was all he said before he ran off, leaving Kaitie and the peasant man behind.

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Yay! I finally got chapter 5 done! Sorry for the long time of no updating. I hadn't had much time to work on it, but now I found some time. Also about the part with Musashi teaching Kaitie to fight with swords, I take Aikido, which is a form of martial arts, and one of the things we do is learn is how to fight with weapons like swords and other stuff. But I'm still a white belt (basically I'm still a beginner) and I've only worked with the bokkens(wooden swords) like three times. So I'm not sure if everything was correct about the sword fighting part, but I did my best to remember what I had learned in my classes. Plus I was looking up stuff on the internet about sword fighting. So if I'm incorrect about something, I apologize. I'm still a beginner and if any of you are more of an expert with that stuff, feel free to correct me and I will edit what I wrote.

Thank you for reading! Please leave me some reviews!