Kono-kun here! Hay people of cyber space! Sorry this took so long. (Four months!) See what happened was my cat knocked my laptop onto the floor and the flash drive I had plugged in saved the computer from certain doom but the flash drive got destroyed! And I didn't save the work I had done on the computer, only the flash drive! (Boy am I dumb.) So I had to rewrite the whole thing! But I did it! YAY! Now Onto the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or Rurouni Kenshin. I do however own, Shima and Kiru.
It was morning and everyone was standing outside by the front gate. They had decided that Sanosuke, Ichigo, Kenshin, Renji, and Uryuu should go and get the next letter but Yahiko apparently didn't hear them. "All right lets go!" Yahiko said happily walking away from the house. Renji grabbed the back of his shirt and pulled him back.
"Where do you think your going kid?"
"I'm going too! And I'm not a kid!" Yahiko yelled trying to get Renji to let go of his shirt.
"No, your going to stay here." Renji told him.
"Yahiko." Ichigo called. He was holding Kon by his arm. "If you leave then Kon will have no one to play with. Isn't that right Kon?"
The small stuffed animal shook his head. "No. I-I-I'll be fine. Really."
Yahiko grabbed Kon away from Ichigo. "I guess I could stay here." Yahiko said. Kon started to cry. He really didn't like the way Yahiko was looking at him.
Everyone said their goodbyes and left. Kaoru, Orihime, Chad, Yahiko, and Kon all went inside. While Renji, Sanosuke, Ichigo, Kenshin, and Uryuu went to go find the next letter.
(Day 1- 10:00 AM)
"Are you sure were going the right way?" Ichigo asked.
"Yes." Uryuu said looking at the map.
(Day 1- 12:00 PM)
Haven't we passed that tree before?" Ichigo asked worried.
"No." Sanosuke said.
Ichigo took the map from Uryuu. "Shouldn't we have turned left and the river?" Ichigo asked pointing at the map.
"Ichigo, your holding the map upside down." Uryuu said taking the map back.
"Fine. But your sure were going the right way?" Ichigo asked.
"Yes." Uryuu sighed.
(Day 1- 2:00 PM)
"Are you positive were going the right…" Ichigo started to ask
Sanosuke cut him off "Yes. Were going the right way. And we'll still be going the right way two hours from now when you ask again!"
Ichigo sighed.
(Day 1- 5:30 PM)
It was starting to get dark out so everyone stopped and got some wood for a fire. Ichigo wanted to start the fire. No one objected.
An hour later Renji walked over and saw Ichigo struggling to get the fire going. "Ichigo do you want some help?"
"No. I can. Get it." Ichigo said. He was rubbing two sticks together.
"You sure?" Renji asked again. "Because I have a…"
"I can do this!" Ichigo snapped cutting Renji off.
"Alright." Renji said walking away.
(Day 1- 7:00 Pm)
"WHY WON"T THIS LIGHT!" Ichigo yelled throwing the sticks on the ground.
"You want me to try?" Renji asked.
"Fine!" Ichigo said walking towards Kenshin, Uryuu and Sanosuke.
Two minutes later Renji walked over. "Fire's done." Everyone looked over to see a large fire going.
"How did you do that!?" Ichigo asked pointing at the fire.
Renji pulled out a small blue lighter from his pocket. "I just used this."
"WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY YOU HAD THAT EARLIER!" Ichigo yelled.
"I TRIED! BUT YOU WERE TO BUSY PLAYING BOYSCOUT!" Renji yelled back.
"SO IT'S MY FAULT!?" Ichigo snapped.
"TECNICLY YES, IT IS YOUR FAULT!" Renji shouted.
Sanosuke, Kenshin, and Uryuu stood around the fire trying to ignore the two fighting behind them. A few minutes later and it was quiet. Ichigo and Renji both looked beat up and tired. Soon everyone fell asleep around the fire.
(Day 2 -8:00 AM)
The fire had gone out sometime during the night and the sun was already up. Ichigo woke up and rubbed the sleep from his eyes. He looked around the campsite and saw something small and brown. It was a small bear cub. Then Ichigo noticed that the cub had something in it's mouth.
"The map!" Ichigo yelled jumping up waking everyone else.
"Ichigo, shut up." Sanosuke said still half asleep.
"Alright, I guess we should just let the fuzz ball eat the map." Ichigo said calmly.
"Whatever, just let me sleep." Sanosuke said laying back down.
"WHAT!" Everyone but Ichigo yelled. They all looked over at the small bear cub was walking away with the map in it's mouth.
"Hay! Get back here!" Renji yelled. Everyone got up and ran after the small bear.
They chased the bear for two hours through the forest. It was pretty fast for a cub. Finally it stopped near a small river. They all hid behind a bush and watched as the cub put the map on the ground and fell asleep next to it.
"Now what?" Ichigo asked.
"All we have to do is walk over there and get it. Right?" Sanosuke asked.
"Yeah, but what if the cub wakes up and takes the map again?" Uryuu pointed out.
"So we just have to be quiet." Renji explained.
"So who's going to go?" Kenshin asked. Everyone looked at one another.
"Here. We'll draw sticks." Ichigo said picking up five sticks off the ground. "Shortest goes." Everyone took a stick and looked at it. Renji sighed. He got the shortest one.
Renji walked slowly towards the bear cub. He tried not to make a sound, he was even holding his breath. He took another step and then another, the cub didn't move. Renji was just three feet away from the sleeping cub. Another step, and then another. He thought he was going to make it. He was only two feet away, but he took another step and landed on a twig. It snapped and the cub woke up. Renji ran and grabbed the map from the cub. He turned around was about to go back but then saw everyone's faces.
Renji looked behind him and saw a large bear standing on the other side of the river. He guessed it was the mother of the cub. He was right. The large bear started to run straight at him. Renji ran back towards the bush were everyone else was and they all got out of there not even wanting to look back.
(Day 2- 12:30 pm) (Back at the Dojo.)
Orihime and Kaoru were in the kitchen cooking who knows what while Rukia, Chad, Yahiko, and Kon sat outside. Yahiko sighed. "This is boring!" Yahiko looked at Kon. The small stuffed animal thought about running but didn't get the chance. Yahiko grabbed him and jumped of the deck.
"Yahiko" Rukia said stopping him. Hope started to fill the small stuffed toy. Rukia was going to save him from the evil little boy. "Don't go to far." She said simply. Kon sighed and fell forward. All hope of a rescue was lost.
"Whatever." Yahiko said and ran from the dojo swinging Kon by his leg.
"Ahhhhhhhhh! Are you trying to rip my leg off!" The stuffed animal yelled. Yahiko continued to swing Kon in circles when suddenly Kon flew from his hands and landed in the river. The small toy was quickly swept away In the current.
"Oops." Yahiko said and ran back to the dojo.
Kon was lying facedown on the riverbank. He looked up and found himself some where deep in the forest. "W-Where am I!?" Kon asked himself jumping to his feet. The mod soul started to panic when he heard a noise to his right. He looked over at the bush and saw a dog. Uh. Hi?" Kon said waving his hand. The dog wagged his tail and ran at Kon picking him up in his mouth. "Hay! Let go of me you flee-bitten mutt!" Kon yelled, but the dog continued to carry his away.
Back at the Dojo Yahiko ran inside and ran right into Kaoru and Orihime making them drop all the food they made on his head. "Oh! I'm so sorry Yahiko." Orihime apologized.
"Yahiko, what are you doing?" Kaoru asked annoyed.
"Um…"
"Yahiko." Rukia said coming inside after hearing the loud crash. Chad came out from the next room. "What are you doing back so soon? Where's Kon?" Rukia asked looking around.
"Well, see, Kon." Yahiko started. "Kon…Kongotwasheddowntheriver!" Yahiko said quickly.
"Kon got washed down the river?" Orihime asked repeating what Yahiko had just said.
"Yes. Didn't I just say that?" Yahiko asked looking at Orihime annoyed.
"Oh. Sorry." Orihime said.
Rukia sighed. "I guess we should go look for him."
Kon had given up on trying to get away from the dog. But the small stuffed toy still wondered what a dog was doing out here in the woods in the first place. The dog finally dropped him and Kon landed face first on the ground.
"What's that?" a voice asked.
Kon felt something poking him. He looked up and a stick poked him in the head. "Hay!" Kon yelled jumping up.
"Oh it's just that toy thing."
Kon stopped yelling and looked up at the person in front of him. It was Kiru.
"Hay Shima." Kiru called. "Don't you think we should quit this game? You know, before someone get's seriously hurt?" Kiru asked in a bored tone.
Shima walked over and picked Kon off the ground. "Nooooo, not yet. I'm having fun." Shima wined. "just a bit longer?" Shima asked then zapped the dog back to where ever it came from.
Kiru sighed. "you sound like a three year old." He told her.
Shima apparently didn't hear him, She was to busy throwing Kon into the air.
"Kon!" A voice yelled from some where in the forest. "KON!"
Kon smiled, it was his friends. "I'm over here! Haaaaay!" The small stuffed toy yelled waving his arms.
"There you are Kon." Rukia said. She stopped when she saw Kiru and Shima. Yahiko, Chad, Kaoru, and Orihime were right behind her.
"Finally you're here." Shima said smiling. "I have a message for you all." She threw Kon over to Kiru.
"Give Kon back." Yahiko demanded.
"You can have him back after I tell you what I need to tell you." Shima smiled.
"Fine." Yahiko crossed his arms.
"Your friends are dead." Shima said simply.
"What?!" Everyone asked
"No. there not dead. That was a lie." Shima laughed. "But they are all most to the village, and it might be the last thing they see." Then Shima and Kiru disappeared and Kon fell to the ground.
"That can't be good." Rukia said. Everyone agreed.
(Day 3- 9:00 AM) (Back with Ichigo and the others)
They had finally made it to the end of their trip. The village shown in the map was just below them now.
"So we have to search through that place?" Renji asked.
"Yup." Sanosuke said.
Just then there was a sound. A building exploded and caught fire. The fire started to spread to the other buildings in the village. "Wonder what that was?" Ichigo asked.
"I'm not sure, but I suggest we hurry and find the letter before it is burned" Kenshin said. Everyone agreed.
They had decided to split up into two groups. Ichigo and Sanosuke went and looked on the right side of the small village and Renji, Uryuu, and Kenshin went to look on the left. They had to hurry because the fire was getting worse.
"It's not in here." Renji said coming out of an empty house. Uryuu and Kenshin had no luck either.
"Wait." Kenshin said stopping. Renji and Uryuu stopped and looked at him.
"What's wrong?" Renji asked. Then in an instant Kenshin managed to block an oncoming attack. A bight blue katana blade was held back by Kenshin's reverse blade.
"Your pretty fast." Kiru said not letting up on his attack. "I guess I can't expect any less of the infamous Battosai."
"I have no attachments to that name." Kenshin said simply and pushed Kiru back.
"Fine then." Kiru sighed. "I guess you don't want this as well." He held up a small neatly folded paper. "Shima wanted to wait to give this to you, but seeing how she accidentally set off one of the traps and she is now unconscious. I guess you can have it." Kiru threw the paper towards Kenshin who caught it without a problem.
"Why can't you just send us home?" Uryuu asked obviously annoyed with Shima's game.
Kiru looked at him. "Because, I don't have Shima's power to transport people and things threw space and time." Kiru said annoyed. Then he disappeared along with the village. Kenshin, Renji, Uryuu, Ichigo, and Sanosuke were left standing in a open field.
(Back at the Dojo three days later)
Uryuu unfolded the paper, everyone crowded around the small paper.
Wel li tlook slik eyo uhuman smanage dt ofin danothe rlette rjus ton emor ean dyo uca nal lg ohom ethe nm ygam ewil lb eove r ihop eyou rhapp yanywa yt ofin dth elas tan dfina llette ral lyo uhav et od oi scom et oth erive rtomorro wan d iwil lexplai nth erule sse eyo usoo n.
"Think you can figure this one out?" Sanosuke asked.
"Probably." Uryuu said taking out another piece of paper and writing some things down. Everyone left the room and wandered around the dojo.
"Hay Rukia?" Ichigo asked catching the female soul reaper just as she was about to go outside. "Have you seen my bag?" Ichigo asked.
Rukia nodded. "Yeah, I believe it's upstairs sitting in the corner, why?"
"I have to look up something in my history book." Ichigo said running upstairs. Rukia followed him.
"what do you need to look up?" She asked curious.
Ichigo was going through his bag throwing things around the room. "When we got to the village we met Kiru. He called Kenshin some name, I can't quite remember what Renji told me though. GOT IT!" He yelled holding the think history book in his hands.
Rukia watched as Ichigo flipped through the pages. He stopped when he reached the Meiji era chapter. Ichigo skimmed through the words on the pages.
"Here!." Ichigo said. There was a picture of Kenshin with the name Battosai the manslayer underneath it.
"Wow, That really is Kenshin." Rukia said taking the book from Ichigo. "Apparently he was an assassin during the war, but he disappeared one day and the name Battosai the manslayer became a legend." Rukia read.
"Wait, if he really is this Battosai person he could really help us, right?" Ichigo asked Rukia. "So then we could just go in and beat Shima and then she would have no choice but to send us back."
"That could be the plan, but I don't think Kenshin would do it. Apparently he pretty much quit being an assassin." Rukia told him. Ichigo sighed.
Just then the Chad walked in. "Uryuu is done with the letter." Chad told them.
Everyone gathered in the room to hear what the new letter said.
Well it looks like you humans managed to find another letter. Just one more and you can all go home. Then my game will be over. I hope your happy. Anyway to find the last and final letter all you have to do is come to the river tomorrow and I will explain the rules. See you soon.
"It's almost over." Ichigo said smiling.
A/N: Kono-kun here! Hello people of cyber space, did you miss me? Sorry this took so long. I already explained what happened at the top of the page so if you didn't read it then do so if you fell like it. But I'll just say this. It was my cat's fault. He accidentally knocked my computer onto the floor killing the flash drive which had the document to the story.
Now please tell me what you think of this chapter and I am sorry again that it took me Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (An hour later) ooooooooooooooooooooo LONG to update this! Please try not to be too mad.
Also I want to thank everyone for there reviews so far! YAY! Now I have to go or I will die. Well not really, I'm just hungry. Anyway, until the next chapter. See ya!