Kenichi: Not just her disciple

I do not own Kenichi.

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AN: Hello readers. Thank you for waiting for another chapter. It is my regret to say that this is going to be the last chapter of this story. I really enjoyed writing this story

There are some scenes that occur in this story that occurred in the anime as well. So, I will only mention them to let you know that they occurred. The episodes that the scenes came from are episodes 19 and 20 of the anime.

Thank to everyone that has been reading my story and to everyone that has left me reviews.

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Chapter 11

Fighting Girls

Thursday, after school.

Takeda is in the boxing club room punching away at the workout bag when he hears Niijima in the hallway.

He steps away and stands in the doorway of the room.

When Niijima sees him, he slithers over to the sweaty boxer and hands him a copy of the school paper that he created.

"You know, Takeda, you are a lucky man."

As Niijima is saying that to him, he reads the headline of the paper.

'Kenichi challenges the 8th deadly fist.'

His eyes go wide while reading the headline.

"He challenged her to keep you out of trouble." Niijima tells him.

"Niiiiiiiijiiiiiiiiimaaaaaa!" Comes Kenichi's voice from down the hallway.

"Uh-oh. Better go." He says to Takeda and then barrels down the hallway to get away from Kenichi.

Kenichi wizzes by after him.

Miu stops next to the doorway as she watches the two of them run.

"Is this true, Miu?" He asks the blond girl in hopes that it isn't true.

She nods.

"I was there when he did it."

He walks back into the club room in bewilderment as he reads the headline over, and over again.

He begins having flashbacks of how his arm originally got injured from trying to help out one of his friends.

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Later, during his appointment at Akisame's clinic, Takeda had questioned Akisame about some life question. So, he decided to bring Takeda to the dojo to watch Kenichi train. The stand just outside of the main training room. They managed to watch Kenichi take hit after hit from Sakaki, Apachai, and then Shigure without him noticing.

"Why does he do it? Why does he take on such training?" Asks Takeda.

"To keep people, like you, safe."

"That doesn't make any sense." Takeda replies in a flustered tone.

Akisame crosses his arms, and tucks them inside of his white keikogi.

"You know, he's an interesting guy. He comes off as cowardly, but then he'll turn around and surprise you by doing something amazingly brave. He seems as timid as a mouse, but then he'll suddenly turn around and take a stand. At first, I didn't know what to make of him. But now I think I've finally figured out what makes him tick."

Still slightly confused by everything, Takeda interjects.

"And, just what would that be?"

"Simply put, Kenichi Shirahama will do anything, dare anything, even risk his life to protect the lives of the people he cares about. It doesn't matter if you are male or female."

Takeda turns away from him and begins to start walking away.

"Leaving?" Questions Akisame.

Without turning back, Takeda raises a hand in the air and waves.

"Thanks, I really needed to hear that, but I have to get going now." He replies nonchalantly.

Under his calm outside, Takeda's mind is going a mile a second in thought.

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That night.

He is lying awake in his bed. Shigure is also with him. She is lying by his side with her head on his chest. Her hair gently lays over his shoulder. Her hand is also laying across his stomach. He is only wearing some shorts. She was still in her kimono.

He lets out a hefty sigh.

"Worried?" She asks softly.

"Yeah. Luckily, I know that the whole school won't be there. I got word where I am supposed to fight Kisara from one of the members of Ragnarok. I didn't tell anyone else where is was going to be at."

"Just remember your training."

"That's it?"

She gives a very light nod into his chest.

Then she lifts her head up and looks at him stoically.

"What?" He asks.

"Should we do more training?"

He pauses for a moment as he wonders if she is being serious or joking, but then he sees a slight curl at the end of her mouth.

She leans over and gives him a soft kiss.

The kiss seams to melt away at some of the fatigue of his tired boy.

"Don't stress, only do."

He nods.

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After school, the following day.

Kenichi was putting up his straw hat as he gets ready to leave the gardening club.

Izumi could feel the tension coming from him as he quietly leaves.

'I know he told me not to worry, but I can't help but worry.' The bespectacled girl thinks to herself.

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He walks through some streets and through some alleys as he travels to his destination. Little does he know he is also being trailed by Miu, but he is also being separately trailed by Shigure.

He walks into the area where he was supposed to be at. It was a little grungy. There was a wall along one side of the area and walls of the backs of some buildings on another side, leaving very few ways of escape.

Hermit, the fifth deadly fist of Ragnarok, is watching from atop a pole in the distance.

Kisara was standing on top of the edge of a wall, staring down at Kenichi. She is wearing her signature red shirt that says valkiria and her pants that are missing one leg.

"Kenichi Shirahama." She coldly calls out to him.

"Kisara." He says back with determined eyes.

"I am surprised you even showed up. I couldn't believe you actually issued this challenge. I thought that you didn't fight girls?"

"I have changed my mind since then. I still prefer not to, but there wasn't much choice in this matter."

'It was also kind of forced on me as well.' He mentally adds.

"I am glad to see that you are going to fight me seriously then." She says honestly to him.

Just as she says that to Kenichi, Takeda comes out from around a corner.

Kisara is the first to notice him considering that Kenichi's back was toward him.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't Takeda." She says loudly enough for him to hear and with a grin.

"Hey gorgeous. Long time no see." He says in response to her with a wink.

"The name is Kisara, you gutless traitor." She replies snarkly.

Kenichi turns around in surprise and stares at his friend.

"Takeda! What are you doing here?"

"I couldn't let you handle all the fun by yourself. This is my fight after all."

"Awe. How touching." She says with a slightly bored tone and a lot of sarcasm."

"How did you even find out that the fight was here?" Asks Kenichi.

"Not that I care, but that is a good question." Adds Kisara.

All of a sudden, they hear a lot of footsteps coming.

Koga the kicker, part of the takedown trio with Takeda and Ukita, jumps out and appears before them.

"That would be my doing." He says to the three of them with his screechy and high pitch voice.

Kisara gives him a very annoyed look.

Nearly 20 Ragnarok goons come out from either side of them. Some of them have bats.

"I couldn't stand the idea of not getting my revenge on Takeda for leaving and I wanted to make sure Kenichi gets a real good beat down too. So, I added onto your fight."

Kisara grits her teeth and scowls at the 5'4'' kid.

"So, while you're fighting Kenichi, we'll take care of Takeda." Koga adds.

Ukita appears out from the shadows as well. He is easy to spot, as he towers over everyone. He is wearing his signature white button up shirt and shades.

"Let me be the first to get a piece of him." Ukita says as he gets next to Koga.

"Um, okay." Koga says in a slightly confused but complying tone.

"So that's how it's going to be." Says Takeda while he raises his fists while getting into a boxing stance.

Ukita, the thrower, starts cracking his knuckles.

"You've been a wierdo for as long as I've known you. You comfort your opponents after a fight. You'd also chew me out if I fought unfairly. Sure, they called us the takedown trio. But you were a sportsman and we were a couple of thugs. Man, did I hate you."

"That's a shame, because I never hated you." Takeda replies back to Ukita.

For a moment, Ukita looks pissed, but then he gets a huge smile on his face. He picks up Koga by the collar and the back of his shirt, lifts him above his head, and starts laughing.

Koga starts flailing about with his arms and legs.

"Ukita, what are you doing?" Screeches out Koga.

With a big grin, Ukita flails Koga into a couple of the Ragnarok goons and then throws him in Kisara's direction. She easily dodges Koga's body as he flies past her.

"What's wrong with you?" She says angrily to Ukita.

He points at her.

"As of this moment, I, Ukita the thrower, resign from Ragnarok."

Koga sluggishly climbs back over the wall that he was thrown over.

"I am going to pay you back for that. How dare you throw me around like that."

Ukita as Takeda get back to back as the goons begin surrounding them.

"Takeda!" Kenichi shouts.

He was about to step in their direction, but Kisara jumps in front of him.

"Your opponent is me, Kenichi Shirahama." She says sternly to him.

"But."

"I will deal with that situation after we finish our little fight."

Mui jumps off the top of a short building. Kisara and Kenichi see her jump over them and near where Ukita and Takeda are.

"Don't worry, Kenichi. I will take care of this. You just focus on your fight with Kisara."

Kenichi looks back to Kisara and gets into a karate fighting stance.

"Are you sure that you still want to do this?"

With a look of conviction on his face, he gives her his reply.

"Yes."

She gives him a smirk.

"Good."

As the fight begins between everyone else, their fight begins for them.

Shigure still watches from out of sight with hope and worry for her lover.

'I know that I wore down his rule in training, but can he still keep that in this fight against this girl.' The weapons master thinks to herself.

At first, neither of them move.

Kenichi could feel himself hesitate. Part of him still doesn't want to fight a girl.

With a tsk, Kisara decides to lash out first at her opponent.

Her leg swings around at his left side.

He shifts his arm to block the hit just time as it slams into him. The hard hit makes his arm ache just from the first blow.

'Damn. She's fast and she hits hard too.'

He waits, again, for her move.

She lifts up her other leg and sends a flurry of kicks at his face. His arms take all four blows that she sent at him as he crosses his arms to block her.

She plants her foot back down.

Now, both of his arms feel the ache from all of the kicks.

"Is that all that you know how to do?" She asks.

He makes a half attempt to raise a fist and throw a punch in her direction. She raises her leg and stops his fist with her foot. His fist slams into the bottom of her boot.

"You're really starting to piss me off." She says to him angrily

She kicks his fist away.

"When are you going to attack me?!" She shouts at him.

She swings her leg around again. In the middle of trying to dodge her blow, she shifts position half way through and raises her leg in the air. She brings her boot down right onto his head.

He starts to get dizzy and his vision blurs.

She gives him a smirk of victory.

"How does it feel to receive a blow from the 8th fist?"

He loses his balance and begins falling toward the ground.

'Kenichi!' He hears in his head as he imagines Shigure saying that to him.

'What are you fighting for?' An imaginary Akisame says to him.

All of his training flashes through his mind in a brief instant.

'I am fighting to protect.' He answers back as a flash of Takeda also goes through his head.

'When are you going to attack.' He hears as he also flashes back to Kisara's words.

Just before falling to the ground, he stomps a foot down to brace himself.

The 8th fist looks in shock when she sees that he didn't go down from her powerful blow.

He shakes his head and comes back to reality.

"Well now. Congratulations. You have survived longer than everyone else that's fought against me."

He looks up at her and gets back into a fighting stance.

She could tell that something seems different about him.

Shigure gets a happy smile on her face from where she is watching him when she notices his aura change.

'Now, he is into this battle.'

He throws another punch at her, but this time it has intent and force behind it.

She backflips to evade.

'At least he's taking me seriously now.

With another kick at him, he uses the trick that Sakaki taught him and blocks her foot downward, but then he realizes that he can't connect with his wrist because of the length of her leg. She jumps into the air and twirls around for another kick to his face. He shifts his head back to evade most of the blow, but he gets a cut across his cheek.

He takes a step back to recover.

"Hmph." She mutters out.

'I have to get past the reach of her legs to get a good hit. I have to figure out something though.'

After taking a couple more blows from her powerful kicks, he sees her coming in for another overhead attack. As her foot comes down, he shifts himself sideways. He raises is right hand up against the thigh of her leg. Then, he grabs the ankle of that leg with his other hand and attempts to throw her with a jujitsu technique. This works to no avail as she flips mid-air and lands on her feet.

She comes at him again with another frontal attack. He uses a technique that he learned from Kensei this time. As her foot comes forward, he steps toward her and throws his arms to the left. The action with his arms also deflects her kick away. While he is leaning forward, his head is put in position right by her stomach.

He then remembers the second part of that move and instinctively does it as he twirls his head around. This action causes the top of his head to brush against her chest area.

She blushes and gets a pissed off look on her face.

"What the hell are you doing, you damn pervert?" She shouts at him.

It dawns on him what he was doing, and he loses his footing. They both fall to the ground.

"I'm sorry. please forgive me. It was my master's training." He says pleadingly to her.

While on the ground he tries to swing an elbow at her, but she twirls her legs around and doges it in the process. Then she uses the momentum and flips back up onto her feet.

"What kind of a master teaches you that?"

'A very perverted one.' He thinks as he sweat drops.

She angrily jumps up into the air and comes down with both of her feet aimed at him for a very powerful blow.

He kneels up and barely step out of the way of the attack. She ends up within inches of him.

'Now is my chance. She's close enough for this to work.'

Before she can fully recover from the landing, he makes a downward chop at her with his right hand. With such close proximity, she is forced to raise her right arm to block the hit. When she does this, he takes his left fist and slams it into her left side. While she winces from the hit, he takes the hand that had raise to block the chop and twists it. For the next part of the combo, he knees her in the stomach and makes a chop at her back at the same time as he pulls her in by the twisted hand.

He quickly moves on to the next step before she can recover and steps between her legs. She gets flipped over as he pivots and throws her over his shoulder. This comes quite easy to him after dealing with all of Akisame's statues. They are much heavier than her light frame. He quickly steps over her and kneels down, trapping her hand and one of her legs.

The combo gets finished as he slams his hand right next to her face.

Her eyes, which were shut from receiving all of his blows, shoot open after hearing the loud smack against the pavement. She sees his hand right next to her face.

"It's over!" He shouts at her.

She gets a pissed off look on her face as he releases her and stands up.

He offers his hand to her to help her up.

"Why didn't you deal that last blow? Is it because I am a girl? And who says this is over?"

She feels the ache from each blow that he had made as she stands up on her own.

"Would you have preferred that I slammed my fist into the back of your head." He says to her slightly sarcastically.

Miu steps close to them.

"It's not because you are a girl, that is just how he is."

Kenichi and Kisara look around and finally observe their surroundings. They see that all of the Ragnarok members were on the ground. Miu seemed fine. Ukita and Takeda were battered, but they were also both managing to stand.

Takeda decides to chime in.

"She's right. That is just how he is. He is like that with everyone. He was even like that with me when we fought. He did everything he had to do to win, but nothing more."

"If there is another way out, he will find it." Miu adds.

A group of people is heard walking in their direction. One of them is wielding a flag that says Shinpaku alliance.

Kisara's lieutenant, Shiratori, walks up to her.

"Kisara, let us retreat."

Kisara grits her teeth and growls over the situation.

"This isn't over, Kenichi. And with you too, dairy cow." She says to Kenichi and Miu.

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After a checkup at Akisame's clinic, Kenichi had eventually made it back to Ryuzanpaku.

He is lying in bed with his lover after she had looked over his injuries as well.

She curls up next to him.

"You did well."

"Thanks, Shigure."

"No regrets?" She asks.

He shakes his head.

"None."

Then he looks over at her and looks at her seriously.

"About anything." He adds.

She smiles at her disciple and lover. They lean into each other and share a very passionate kiss as their lips make contact with each other and their tongues intertwine.

When they finish, they stay in each other's arms and go to sleep.

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A/N: Thank you for reading the final chapter of this story.

Have no fear if you want to read more Kenichi. I have started to write a crossover story involving Kenichi that I may turn into a long story if I get a good amount of feedback on it to keep it going. It is a crossover between Kenichi and High School DXD. It is called 'History's Strongest Devil Disciple Kenichi'. I have posted the first chapter of it already for your viewing pleasure.

My 'Monster Musume: Drago's Quest' story is up to chapter 4 - Complete

My 'Familiar Of Zero: Saving Grace' story is up to Chapter 69

My 'History's Strongest Devil Disciple Kenichi' story is at chapter 1