Here's another quick update. Next week and so on will be busy so the update will probably be delayed.
Hiro had just talk some senses or so it may seem to Takeru. Right now, both are walking back to the mansion through a path surrounded by trees. One may scream in fear because the rustling trees at night gave the creepy idea that someone is following you from behind.
However, if one is not alone, then he/she would not be scared. Hiro can get scared of the dark too sometimes but that will not happen with Takeru by his side. "Hey, Takeru-san. Why you are willing to share your secrets with me?" Hiro asked while walking.
"Who knows?" Takeru shrugged. "I also don't understand why I wanted to share secrets with you. Maybe because I feel right to talk about it to you compare to the rest" he admitted. "Well, don't worry about your secrets. I won't reveal to anyone else" Hiro assured him.
"I just hope you'll forget it the sooner you tried to reveal my secrets" Takeru said bluntly. There is a hint of sarcasm or perhaps distrust would be more appropriate. "There you go again, with that rude attitude again" Hiro sighed.
"But thanks to you, I think I'm calm again, except...I still don't know what I can or should do" Takeru admitted. "Don't force it. Takes one step at a time to solve for one problem. We got tons of them occurring at the same time" Hiro advised.
Suddenly, Hiro's Knuckle Riser rang, which interrupted the mood as they noticed. "Excuse me for a while" Hiro pardoned and Takeru does not mind by responding with a nod. The bluenette then walks some distance away from the lord and stood behind a nearby tree to get some privacy.
Hiro raised up his left hand to the level of his shoulder while clenching it to a fist. Then, a virtual image, with same exact colour and everything of his mother in her lab coat appeared standing on the blue gem of Hiro's Knuckle Riser. The exception in his mother is that she did not wore her glasses.
"Mom!" Hiro exclaimed, excited to see his mother. "Hiro, can you hear me?" Haruka asked. "Yes! Loud and clear" Hiro answered confidently. "Are you okay?" Haruka asked concernedly. "Yes" Hiro answered again.
"Thank goodness, you're all right" Haruka sighed in relief. "I keep trying to reach you ever since you went missing but I failed many times. I couldn't even reach Ran-chan and the others. Where are you right now?" she asked. "The past, perhaps?" Hiro guessed. "But more importantly, I have something urgent to explain" he said.
Afterwards, Hiro began to explain to Haruka about what happened, particularly the part where Ran and the rest were manipulated by Corroder. "I see... Ran-chan and the others are manipulated to fight you...This is truly shocking" Haruka commented worriedly after hearing the full story.
"Not only that, Mom. In my view, everyone is individually very much stronger than me. I can tell from the damage I received. All of them were fortified with evil powers. Even I fight them one by one, I may not win, not as a GranSazer. Not with who I am now. I sadly had to admit that I am too weak to get them back" Hiro reluctantly acknowledged.
"Don't be so down, Hiro. I'm sure there's something you can do" Haruka assured her son. "But I don't know what I should do. I am too weak" Hiro argued panicky. "For now, calm down. Panic won't take you anywhere, dear. I can't help much even if I wanted to. And try to look the problem again but from a new angle. I'm sure you'll be able to find something" Haruka advised. "All right, Mom..." Hiro sighed.
"Cool yourself down for now. I'll try what I can to help you. Excuse me..." Haruka concluded before her virtual image disappears, hence ending the call. What I can do right now? This burden is too much for me to handle.Hiro thought as he sadly put his hand down.
"Nice...being able to tell your problems to your biological parents...I can't do that anymore..." Takeru mumbled. Hearing the voice, Hiro turned and saw Takeru stood just besides him, which surprises the former. "Takeru-san?! Were you eavesdropping on me?" Hiro asked.
"Not really at first but your voice is too loud. I can hear it from where I stood before. So, I cannot help myself but to eavesdrop on you" Takeru retorted. "Sorry, for being loud..." Hiro grumbled.
"More importantly, I heard some things or two about your problems. If you can't get back your friends as a GranSazer, then you had to try as something else to save them" Takeru explained. "Something else? Like what?" Hiro asked.
"You have to fight as a Shinkenger" Takeru answered. The wind began to blow, making the leaves on the trees nearby to rustle across the atmosphere.
Meanwhile within the Sanzu River...
Shitari is measuring the river's water level using a bamboo stick from the interior deck and the Gedo was surprised. "This is...Sanzu's water level is increasing much more than how we send an Ayakashi" Shitari muttered. "Is it true?" Dokoku asked.
The general himself is leaning against the wall inside the deck while looking at his underling who was the brain of Gedoshu. Akumaro is not present but Corroder stood on the other end, which is the opposite side from where Dokoku sat.
"Yes" Shitari answered. "What's your impression on this news, Dokoku?" Corroder asked. "I had to admit a few things. I hate the Shiba family and seeing Shinken Red is an eyesore, even though he fell into Gedo. I prefer chop that Shinken Red's disgusting replica of yours rather than using him" Dokoku acknowledged. "The same goes for those other 11 brain whacks you had in your possession"
"Think what you want. Right now, the last GranSazer that I didn't capture, Sazer Tarious is nowhere as powerful as those 11 puppets I manipulated. Because they were powered up from the property of Sanzu River. Plus, I still have more surprises for you guys and those Shinkengers" Corroder elucidated.
A few months later during the day...
In one of Japan's city, the gang of Nanashi and group of LBXs are rampaging. The civilians are running away from this danger. A few Kuroko of Shiba house helped to evacuate the people. The attacking LBXs and Nanashi were suddenly ambushed by the 5 totem origamis and Optimus Saber.
In a flash, some of the Nanashi fell while all the LBXs were destroyed. The other Nanashi were confused about what just happened that is until they heard the gong like sound of a drum being battered repeatedly, which had their attentions.
They turned to the direction of the sound and finds a few white flags, each printed with the Shiba family symbol followed by a long slide of white banners with the same crest. Those holding them were the Kuroko and they were some distance away from the Nanashi on the same ground.
The Gedoshu knew that behind those curtains were the Shinkengers set up by the Kuroko. This is due to the banner that they saw began to slide away towards the left side. Then, the samurais were revealed to stand behind it.
Behind the samurais were the banners just like the ones in front before. The Nanashi were shocked, not because their sworn enemies had arrived but because there is another person wearing white kendogi and blue hakama other than the usual six. That same person would make the team as the 7th Shinkenger.
That person is Oozora Hiro and he alongside the rest glared at the Nanashi with a stern look. The bluenette stood right next to Kotoha. "That's as far as you go, Gedoshu!" Takeru declared. "We won't allow you to cause any more trouble" Hiro pronounced.
(Play music: Shinkenger OST 'With these brushes, we report to the Emperor [Ippitsu Sojo]')
"Shodophone!" "Sushi Changer!" They brought out and had their transformation phones active, with the Shodophones set to brush mode. "Ippitsu Sojo!" "Ikkan Kenjo!" Takeru and the others each wrote their inherited characters, except Genta who uses his Sushi Changer.
Hiro's inherited character is fire, just like Takeru. Pressing the blue button on the Shodophone, each of them undergoes a series of transformation and they transformed into Shinkengers. There are two Shinken Reds but the shorter one is Hiro.
"Shinken Red! Shiba Takeru!" Takeru draws out his Shinkenmaru and pierce it forward while bending. Afterwards, he stood straight and single-handily rested his sword on his right shoulder.
"The same! Blue! Ikenami Ryunosuke!" Ryunosuke draws out his Shinkenmaru and slashed forward. He turns his head to the right before looking forward again. While doing that, he had his left palm extended forward before pulling it near to his face.
"The same! Pink!" Shiraishi Mako!" Mako draws her out her Shinkenmaru and gracefully placed the sword on her right shoulder while her body is facing slightly to the left.
"The same! Green! Tani Chiaki!" Chiaki draws out his Shinkenmaru and hold it behind his waist. Then he brought it forward while sliding his left fingers under the tip of the sword.
"The same! Yellow! Hanaori Kotoha!" Kotoha draws out her Shinkenmaru and points it forward. She lowers her body and the sword down a bit before standing straight while holding the straight part of weapon on her left palm.
"The same! Gold! Umemori Genta!" Genta pulls out his Sakanamaru together with the sheath behind his waist. He draws his sword and does a spin jump before putting the weapon back into the sheath with another spin.
Shinken Red (Hiro) opens his buckle and takes the black Common disc before closing it. Like all disc, it is circular but with an octagonal hole in the middle. He equips the disc into the hilt of Shinkenmaru. The disc acts like a guard of the Shinkenmaru.
"The same! Red! Oozora Hiro!" Hiro pulls out his Shinkenmaru and makes an uppercut slash. Then like Takeru, Hiro rested the sword on his right shoulder, except he makes a forward punch with his left fist.
Shinken Red (Takeru) turns his sword, with the tip facing to right the side. The other Shinkengers each wield their sword in their left hand and genuflect before putting their weapons at their backs.
"The Samurai Sentai authorised by Providence!" Takeru slide his left fingers under the Shinkenmaru until it reaches the tip and flipped the sword, making the tip facing upwards.
The other Shinkengers then quickly stood up, with Genta taking off his sword from the sheath and slashed their swords forward at the same time with Shinken Red (Takeru). "Shinkenger!"
"Going forth!" Then they look forward and performed their respective usual pose. Shinken Red's (Hiro) pose is holding the Shinkenmaru behind his neck while his left palm is extending and facing forward.
Then the Shinkengers charged towards the gang of Nanashi and began slaying them. The Nanashi are many but they proved to be no match for the Shinkengers and their swordsmanship. As for Shinken Red (Hiro), he began to remember something while slaying several Nanashi.
(Multiple Flashbacks)
Flashback 1
The scene took place at the place where Takeru mentioned that Hiro should fight as a Shinkenger. The bluenette was surprised upon hearing this. "I have to fight as a Shinkenger? Is that even possible? I thought you said that not just anyone can be a samurai" Hiro argued.
"Anyone can fight as a samurai if they had proper training but not just anyone can be a Shinkenger. To be a Shinkenger, they must have that same training too but the difference is that they must be capable to produce Mojikara since it is needed to combat the Gedoshu" Takeru explained. "You had the potential to produce Mojikara"
"How can you tell?" Hiro asked. "I can feel it and your inherited element character is fire, just like me" Takeru explained. "Does that mean I can become Shinken Red as well?" Hiro guessed and Takeru nodded.
"But! Let me get a few things clear from the start" Takeru warned. "First, you need to undergo proper training before becoming a Shinkenger, at least for a month. Second, considering that your main intention is to get your friends back to your senses, I assumed you were already aware about what Ryunosuke and the rest told you before. You will either killed your friends or be killed by them. Knowing the possible nightmare that shall befall them or yourself, will you try to fight them as a Shinkenger and carry this burden?" he questioned.
The way Takeru speak was indeed strict and serious. Of course, Hiro knew Ryunosuke and the others spoke about before. Infusing humans with Mojikara had a high probability of them being dead rather than alive. Though, Hiro did not respond and remain silent.
His friends' lives may be taken away by his hands or vice versa. Of course, he was afraid and wanted to run away from this burden. He never faced a burden such that it was arranged this way. Finally getting the words, Hiro hesitantly muttered, "I... don't know if I can handle such burden..."
Takeru then took out his Shodophone, which Hiro noticed and the former wrote the character, '纸' near his palm. Afterwards, a blank paper appeared out of the written character. Takeru then folded it accordingly, turning it into a paper plane and held in his right hand.
"Be strong...Hiro" Takeru motivated. "This might be your first time to handle such burden but everyone cannot run from every burden. Don't run away without even confronting it. You'll never know what happen. Continue to carry the burden no matter how heavy it is" Takeru then threw the paper plane into the air, which soon fly per the direction of the blowing wind.
Hiro then stared at the flying paper plane. "Don't fall, keep flying. My late Dad told me that when I was given the burden to be the 18th Shiba head except I add some of my own thoughts" Takeru concluded. Surprisingly, the paper plane that Takeru threw had yet to fall, which does not sound so logical.
Usually, a paper plane can only fly for a short period but this one was slightly longer and continues to fly circularly. Soon, the paper plane fall but not to the ground as Hiro catches it. Staring at just a paper plane, Hiro then remembered the advices given by other people, from his mother and friends when he was down.
Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath before letting it out, Hiro then threw the paper plane into the air with his eyes open. The paper plane began to fly, heading towards a certain direction, in which Hiro does not even know if it was free. Takeru also followed the bluenette's gaze until the latter looked at him.
"Takeru-san! I…wanted to try to fight as a Shinkenger!" Hiro announced. "No matter how worse things might be or how long it takes, I am prepared and willing to undertake them" he explained. Takeru stared into the eyes of Hiro and somehow like it.
He can tell the bluenette was resolute in his decision to train himself and be a Shinkenger. "Let's go!" Takeru proclaimed and began walking to the direction of his home. "Yes!" Hiro responded and follows Takeru back to the mansion.
Flashback 2
The scene is inside the mansion. Hiro and Takeru decided to see Hikoma in private. In one of the tatami rooms, there were Hiro, Takeru and Hikoma, each sat in SEIZA style. Takeru had informed Hikoma about what he was planning to do.
Hikoma was surprised and somehow against this. "Lord, doing this is completely…" Hikoma trailed but Takeru interrupted, "I know. Per the law, there cannot be two Shinken Reds in the team simultaneously"
"But! This situation is grave for me. Gedoshu is using a Shinken Red and Hiro's friends to fight us. There will be consequences if we do that but this is what I think I'm capable of doing for now. Please…" he pleaded. Closing his eyes and thought about it deeply while quickly, Hikoma replied, "All right...Let's try it"
Flashback 3
After the day Hikoma approved Takeru's decision to train Hiro as a Shinkenger or more appropriate Shinken Red, Hiro began to undergo various trainings with guidance from Takeru and his friends along with Hikoma himself. Sometimes at the mansion and sometimes a different place, per the likings of Takeru and the others.
From day to night, he learnt to write the basic and important characters properly on papers in the correct strokes, which will be needed to combat the Gedoshu. Although reading old records with characters is not as important as combat, he still undergo it even though not as much as the other trainings.
One can say Hiro uses the method of Active Learning, where it is a student self-centred learning because he tries his best to understand the things he need to learn first on his own before being teach by the instructors. That way, he can see what his doubts are and ask the questions needed to understand faster.
As for kendo, Takeru and the others become his sparring partners. Out of the five samurais, he spent most of his Kendo sparring against Ryunosuke or Kotoha. The same goes for practicing his Mojikara. He uses a special brush that can use Mojikara and like that of Shodophone.
Although the bluenette ended up exhausting himself from drawing out too much Mojikara or training in kendo, Hiro still proceeded. As much as Genta wanted to help Hiro in his training, the former himself is not a thoroughbred samurai and had not receive any proper samurai trainings so he did not assist the bluenette.
To compensate for that, Genta prepared sushi for Hiro to eat but the latter always commented the same thing again and again, "It's bland. The taste is so plain" much to the former's dismay.
Facing the challenging trainings through blood-wrenching hard work for quite a period, Hiro had finished his required trainings to be a Shinkenger. Right now, he is the common room with Takeru and the others. Hikoma and Genta are there as well.
The bluenette himself had worn different gear. He wore a black long sleeve shirt inside a sleeveless red jacket, grey pants and white socks. The jacket itself had the crests of Shiba clan in grey colour, each at the back and left side of the jacket.
The one at the back is naturally larger while the one at the chest is around a badge size. Everyone else stood while Hiro genuflect on the floor. The Shinkengers' leader then took out something from his pocket, which was soon revealed to be a Shodophone. Takeru then lend it to Hiro.
"Starting today, you are a Shinkenger. Like me, Shinken Red" Takeru proclaimed. Hiro then accepted the transformation phone and held in his hand but not before replying, "Yes!"
(Flashback ends)
After slaying the Nanashi around him, Shinken Red (Hiro) noticed another bunch coming towards him from a distant. He then spun the secret disc equipped on his Shinkenmaru.
With the sword glowing in red, Shinken Red (Hiro) pierce it forward while bending before he stood and had the sword's tip to point slightly backward and upward. "Rekka Daizantou!" Hiro's Shinkenmaru transformed into a large red zanbato. There is a '火' in red colour at the end of the Rekka Daizantou.
Shinken Red (Hiro) took out the Shishi Disc from his buckler and equipped in on the designated holder. Afterwards, he confronted the Nanashi and began slaying them with this big sword. For every swing using the Rekka Daizantou, it was followed by a barrage of flames and burned the Nanashi in contact.
"Water Arrow!" Ryunosuke pulled the trigger of his blue bow, launching a few blue energy arrows. "Heaven Fan!" Mako swiped her pink fan around, unleashing a gust of wind for each swipe. "Wood Spear!" Chiaki swung his Japanese spear around the Nanashi. "Land Slicer!" Kotoha threw her large three-blade shuriken like a boomerang.
As for Shinken Red (Takeru), he also uses Rekka Daizantou as well except he equips the Lightning Disc since the other Shinken Red (Hiro) uses the Shishi Disc. His swings releases lightning instead of flames. Shinken Gold uses his Sakanamaru and performed fast slashes on the Nanashi around. Their attacks slaughtered every one and the Nanashi exploded. Though many more bunch of Nanashi continued to appear and the Shinkengers regrouped. "This is endless!" Chiaki whined. His tone is telling everyone that he is getting tired.
"Finish them in one go!" Takeru ordered. "Hiro!" he called out. "Yes!" Hiro responded and without even asking, he knew what to do. Both Shinken Reds, who each still had their Rekka Daizantou in hand took out the disc they equipped.
"Ryunosuke-san! The Kajiki disc" said Hiro. "Chiaki! The Kabuto disc!" Takeru ordered. "Yes" "Okay!" Ryunosuke and Chiaki responded respectively and then, they each took out their other Secret disc from their bucklers. Shinken Blue and Shinken Green gave their Kajiki and Kabuto disc respectively to Hiro and Takeru.
The two Shinken Reds each equipped their respective given disc on their Rekka Daizantou. Afterwards, everyone make room for the two as they began to swing their large swords once. Their swings were accompanied by flowing flames and they concentrated on the secret discs. "Rekka Daizantou! Oozutsu Mode (Bazooka Mode)!"
Each Rekka Daizantou then transformed into a gun-like mode. "DaiGoyo!" Genta called out and his blue lantern appeared out of nowhere. "Yes, Boss?" DaiGoyo responded. "We need discs" Genta ordered. "Roger!" DaiGoyo responded. The lantern then brought out five exact discs and Shinken Red (Takeru) loaded them onto his Rekka Daizantou. As for the other Rekka Daizantou, it was loaded with the five origami discs.
"Kabuto!" "Kajiki!" "Go Rin Dan (Five Rings Bullet/Five Discs Shot)!" Each Shinken Red lifts up and aimed their bazookas at the Nanashi. The other Shinkengers genuflect and watch from behind. "Seibai (Judgement)!" both Shinken Red presses the trigger and push the wedge forward.
The discs began to spin fast like a wheel and then accelerate forward from each Rekka Daizantou together. Each five discs then consumed the energy form of an animal. One transformed into a light blue swordfish while the other one transformed into an orange Kabutomushi.
The energy animals then collided with the Nanashi, causing a big explosion and destroyed every single one of them. Afterwards, no more Nanashi appeared from the crevices, much to the other Shinkengers' relief as they stood up. "Yeah! We did it!" Chiaki cheered. "Not bad, Hiro. You can produce more than twice of your current Mojikara" Ryunosuke praised, giving a pat on Shinken Red's (Hiro) right shoulder.
"That was amazing" Kotoha complimented. "Thank you" Hiro thanked. "To be honest, I can get confuse which one Shinken Red is Take-chan" Genta admitted. "No need to confuse. The spoiled Shinken Red is definitely not me" Takeru retorted. "Sorry for being a spoiled Shinkenger!" Hiro pouted and the others began to laugh.
"Anyway, let's go to my cart and have Sushi. I'm treating" Genta abruptly suggested and everyone else cheered by the thought of getting free food. "Yeah" Takeru concurred and all the Shinkengers reverted to their human form. Afterwards, everyone began to walk their way to Genta's sushi cart.
Upon reaching there, everyone else takes a seat while Genta prepared the sushi for them. As for Hiro, he stood some distance away from the cart while is staring at his Shodophone with a smile. I did it. I finally become a Shinkenger. Wait for me, Ran-san, everyone. With this power, I will definitely save you all.Hiro vowed.
The other Shinkengers who already began eating after their foods had been served, noticed that Hiro was daydreaming. "Hey, Hiro!" Chiaki yelled and the bluenette turned. "Come here and eat before all sushi are finished" he invited. "How's the taste?" Hiro asked upon approaching the cart and takes a seat.
"Like always, plain!" Chiaki answered confidently. "Plain, you say?!" Genta echoed angrily. "Don't you have anything else to comment?!" he berated. "Anyway, plain is plain!" Ryunosuke claimed. "Kotoha-chan, how does it taste for you?" Genta questioned panicky, hoping Kotoha would answered differently.
"Sorry, Gen-san" Kotoha pardoned. "It tastes plain" she commented. "Kotoha-chan too…" Genta sighed. "Why everyone commented my sushi are plain so frivolously?" he whined. "Boss, don't you take Hiro's advice to improve your sushi?" DaiGoyo suggested and Hiro nodded.
The sushi seller then prepared more sushi, this time taking Hiro's advice into consideration. "Very well…here are my improved sushi" said Genta as he served another kind of Sushi each for the others. Everyone then tried dipped their sushi in hand with soy sauce before eating them.
Upon swallowing the sushi, Hiro and Ryunosuke reacted by having their eyes widen and lips tighten in surprised. "T-This is…." Hiro and Ryunosuke trailed in unison. "It's plain, right?" Takeru guessed bluntly while nodding. Everyone else also agreed too, much to Genta's dismay. The taste of his sushi had yet to improve. "No way…" Genta sighed and everyone else laughed as they continued to finish their sushi together.
That's it for this chapter. I hope everyone like the idea of Hiro being Shinken Red. I like him to become that since I like the weapon Rekka Daizantou. Anyway, please leave a review. See you