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Authors Notes: I wont lie to you, I will be updateing at a very slow pace through out this fic's life, it's mainly due to a hectic life, the fact that I suffer greatly from the affliction called writer's block and i constantly keep changing my mind on where i want this fic to go.
That being said I hope you enjoy and review please.
'Japan is facing one of its darkest hours, the Government has become corrupted and the sudden increase of crime in Japan has made it possible for even small crime lords to take full control of entire towns, Japan has now gone back to the way it was during the Tokugawa Shogunate, were the common people have no choice but to be suppressed and controlled by the government through force and fear. There is only one way to end this and it is the same way as it was ended the last time, it will be ended by the tip of a sword, the sword of a Samurai!'
October 1999
The light breeze blew through the trees as a young man made his way up the steps to the Hinata inn. He had been traveling across the country for a year and had received a message from his grandmother, who he had only met once when he was very young.
He wore black Gi pants and a white Hakama, slung over his shoulder was a rucksack, on his belt that held up his Gi pants was a Katana with a black scabbard, he had short brown hair with a kind and calming face, a face that looked like it didn't have a care in the world, with big chocolate brown eyes, he radiated a welcoming spirit and his appearance and mannerisms showed the same the only thing that showed any sort of sinister side to him was a scar across his right eye.
This very scar made people wary of him and with his garb (which was that of a samurai) and the weapon on his hip and mixed with a lot of young men, who had read to many mangas and watched to many animes, spreading rumors about him while he traveled. Every time he came to a new village he would hear a new tale involving many colorful and gruesome narratives involving him and lots of blood soaked adventures, which many people believed, which caused them to give him a wide berth, though all these rumors were very gruesome none were as gruesome as the truth of his past.
But this did not disheartened him because after people got around his scar they found out how friendly he was, he made many friends in his journeys and helped them with their problems, being as small of a tasks such as fixing roofs and other menial tasks, though with the scar and sword he could scare away a lot of unwanted gangs as well, but if you asked none of the people that he made friends with all would tell you that they had never seen him use it. He never stayed in one place for more than a week or two always-moving going were ever he wanted, he had kept this life style up for a year.
Then a young man who apparently had been trailing him for a year with a message from his grandmother had approached him. His grandmother had apparently paid the young man handsomely to find her grandson, but on finding the scared man he had stated that the money she had paid him was not worth the 'shit' he had been through on trying to find him, which lead to were our young man is now.
He reached the top of the stairs and took in the sight that was Hinata inn, it was bigger than he remembered, he smiled as memories of a small child with no worries and no scar used to run around this very building playing and getting into trouble with faceless friends.
He knocked on the front door but received no answer, he opened the door and made his way into the entrance hall.
"Hello grandma it's your grandson Keitaro" his voice echoed through the foyer no one answered.
"HELLO" Keitaro shouted again, but yet again no answer.
Keitaro slowly made his way into the inn and instinctively began to sweep the area with his sharp eyes, it was habit he had when entering a place that was unfamiliar, after a visual sweep he had already learned a lot about the people who were staying, one seemed to eat a lot of bananas by the amount of blackened skins that were spread across the room, another had to be a middle aged out of work bum because their was empty bottles and cans of booze on the coffee table in front of the TV, which was accompanied by at least two dozen betting tickets for horses, another had to be at college or at least trying because their was a not so neat pile of books next to an arm chair that seemed intentionally pointed away from the Television.
The biggest thing he learnt from his observations was that the people he lived here had hygiene issues, though not very serious though not very presentable for an inn; he couldn't work out why Grandma hadn't cleaned it up or even any of her employees.
"It's a wonder how she gets any one to stay here," he said out loud to himself.
Keitaro moved further into the inn having completed his sweep and judging the area being safe, he made his way up to the manager's room. Knowing that his Grandmother wasn't there seeing as he hadn't felt her.
The young man who had found him had told him that if she weren't their he would find something in her room explaining what she wants.
He found her room on the second floor and entered, the room looked bear as if no one had been their for months, their was a fine layer of dust on the surfaces 'Who ever she has got as the cleaner should be fired' he said out loud to himself.
He scanned the room and saw an envelope on the table with his name on it. He made is way across and sat down removing the sword from his belt and lying down besides him on his left hand side.
He took out a tanto from inside his sleeve and cut the envelope open, he removed the letter and began to read.
Dear Keitaro
I Know of what you are and what you have done, I do not hold that against you and as your aunt will tell you, I was young once and I to fell for the tempting lure of dreams and passions without giving a second thought to the consequences, though you have shown inner strength by being able to turn you back on it. With you walking away from that life and trying to start a new I have a already covered it for you, in the envelope that this letter came in their should be the deed for the Hinata apartments, it is now in your name and you are now the manager of the apartments…
Keitaro stopped reading and looked in the envelope and as she said their it was the deed he looked back at the letter.
…Here are some of the jobs you will be attending to while in this position…
The letter folded out another two foot in length listing the jobs 'Holy Shit' Keitaro exclaimed.
Five minutes ago
Naru sat in her room studying her eyes hidden behind her Glasses, she had been at it for five hours now and her head was killing her, she finally gave into her throbbing head and got up and made her way across to the piece of plywood over the hole that separated her room and the managers room. She remembered that granny Hina kept some pain killers in her room it saved her walking all the way to the downstairs bathroom, were they kept the pain killer pad locked so as Su doesn't mistake them for sweets, though like most children the minute she was propitiated she had to have them so she tried anything she could to get to them, on one occasion after foiling one off Su's attempts Kitsune had said 'Its like living with one of Ocean's Elevens'.
Naru had just removed the board and was about to climb down when she saw someone sitting at Granny's table.
"What the" Naru breathed, who ever it was it was male, she had first thought it was Motoko with the person wearing a Hakama and Gi, but then she noticed the short brown hair, she then noticed he had a knife in his hand and a sword to his left.
"Holy Shit" the man suddenly exclaimed
Naru's mind went into over drive of thousands of equations of jumping to stupid conclusion's, the biggest one being, so he came here to rape us and then do away with us when he's done, well he has another thing coming.
What must have been no more than five seconds Naru jumped down next to the man and preformed a roundhouse kick, that would make Chuck Norris proud, sending the man into earths lower orbit.
"There that showed him," she concluded clapping her hands together.
Two Minutes ago
Keitaro had skipped the list deciding to read it later and read the small section at the end.
P.S Ow and Keitaro one last thing, the Inn is no longer an inn it is now an all Girls Dormitory, you should make your presence known because if you don't…
Next thing Keitaro knows he hears a battle cry from behind him and watches in slow motion as a young woman, with long brown hair, jumped down with amazing grace and performed a devastating roundhouse kick on him.
The kick hit him in the side of the head and sent him rocketing off into earths lower orbit straight through the wall leaving a Keitaro shaped hole
The letter fell to the ground of manager's room the last line said:
…There will be sever consequences from certain members over reacting to the presence of a male.
All my love your Grandmother Hina.
The outskirts of Hinata
"There finished," said a man as he stepped back from the shed he had just finished building.
He stood with his hands on his hips as he observed his work, he had a smile on his face, he turned around 'Hey honey come out and see I' finished'.
"LOOK OUT BELLOW" came a voice from above; the man 's head jerked up and saw something coming with great speed towards the earth.
With a great whistling sound that only came from something traveling at great speeds the object, came crashing into the shed decimating it.
The man stood there speechless he couldn't, his eye twitched slightly.
"I thought you said you were done" his wife said from behind with a very disapproving look "you have been working on that for months and you haven't got anywhere, Idiot" and with that she turned around and walked back into the house, the man jerked his head around in the direction of his wife that a resounding crack came from his neck.
"AWWWWW SHIT" the man yelled in pain as he stumbled around the garden in agony kicking anything hat got in his way.
Keitaro, who had been the object, slowly got out from the wreckage and jumped over the fence before the man had spotted him, he had heard the mans wife and the mans reaction and he realized that with out his sword he should make a speedy get away.
Amazingly Keitaro looked almost unharmed, he had a few cuts and bruises but not much more his Hakama and Gi looked a bit tattered but they always did, the only thing that showed any sign of harm was the big red mark where the girl had Kicked him.
"What on earth was her problem she just attacked me, god what a hot head" Keitaro moaned to himself as he rubbed the red mark on his face, he began the long walk back to the inn.
Back at the Inn
The whole Hinata crew came crashing into the manager's room, Motoko with her sword drawn, closely followed by Su who held some kind of contraption that sort of resembled a gun, Kitsune was behind her with an empty sake bottle in hand ready to hit anyone who got in her way and behind her was Shinobu clutching a frying pan close to her chest.
"What is it Naru?" asked Motoko in a rush as she began to shifting her body ready to release an attack on any body stupid enough to attack.
Naru looked at her friends astonished at how quick they were to react, "err I was just getting rid of a pervert" she replied while pointing at the hole that was now in the side of the room and inn.
Every one eyed the hole that had very distinctive shape, then Kitsune smiled "I See Naru hasn't lost her touch and I thought with you failing the Entrance exam that you had lost your touch, my mistake it seems' she said clapping her hand on Naru's back.
"Hey what do you mean touch are you calling me some kind of tomboy" Naru asked angrily.
"Well if the shoe fits" Kitsune shot back with a devilish smile. Naru immediately started ranting at Kitsune, who just stood their laughing.
Every one seemed to loosen up after this and began to watch the theatrics. Motoko sheathed her sword in a fluid motion, she looked around the room and saw a katana lying beside the table in the center of the room, and she walked over to it, picked it up and began to study it.
The sword seemed to weigh a lot more than hers, it had a black sheath and an equally black hand grip and hand guard, she placed her hand on the grip and pulled, the sword slowly slid out of the sheath and revealed a beautiful blade, it looked flawless with an edge that caught the light and dazzled Motoko, which shocked her seeing as there wasn't much light in the room.
"Cewl sword Motoko can I have it pwease" asked Su as she came bounding up to Motoko, who reluctantly sheathed the sword and held it in her right hand.
"Were did that come from," asked Kitsune who had a big red mark on her forehead after Naru had thrown a book at her.
"That pervert had it," said Naru who still looked agitated from Kitsune 'and he had a knife, which he was using to open a letter'.
"A Knife?" Motoko said
"Fuck the knife, lets look at this letter" said Kitsune with another devilish grin, If it was in here it must be a letter of grannies so it has to be juicy, she thought a small gleam in her eyes.
"Is this it" said Shinobu as she picked p a piece of paper of the floor, before she could read it Kitsune snatched it from her and began to read, first Kitsune's face looked annoyed, then confused, then worried and slightly angry, then finally a devilish smile came across her face.
All of the other house mates, except Su who was still bugging Motoko for the sword, recoiled as they new that that face meant a whole world of trouble was coming.
"What does the letter say?" asked Naru who edged forwards.
"What letter" said Kitsune still holding the smile?
"That one in your hand" said Naru sounding irritated at her friend again.
"Oh this isn't a letter," replied Kitsune.
"Then what is it?" asked Motoko looking at the piece of paper with interest.
If it was possible Kitsune's got even more mischievous "Ow this, its just a simple document" she replied mysteriously.
"What is it a document for Mitsune?" Motoko repeated putting a special meaning on the last word.
Kitsune flinched slightly at the mention of her first name "aww you're no fun" she pouted, the she began to read in a formal manner "Real estate deed of ownership land and buildings, name: Hotel Hinata House, Location 1 Hinata st., Hinata City, Kanagawa Prefecture…" she stopped and took a breath, the rest of the house mates, except Su, listened waiting all knowing that what she was going to say next was going to be big.
"…Buildings: Main building-Nort…" all of the house mates, except Su face faulted, Kitsune grinned as all of the house mates picked them self's up.
"Would you actually tell us what is so important, because you wouldn't be grinning like you are because of that" Motoko said irritably, starring daggers at the fox girl.
"Oh all right where is it…" she said more to her self than the others "aha here it is" she cleared her throat dramatically "Owner: Keitaro Urashima twenty three" she finished off and looked up at the other house mates and she looked like she was about to explode with laughter at the other house mates.
Naru looked like her brain had just gone into melt down, Shinobu had gone slightly pale and had dropped her frying pan and Motoko's left eye was twitching so and her face was unreadable, the Su piped up:
"Wot's a Kreitawo does it taste good" she asked, this was enough for Kitsune she went on to her knees clutching her sides through the pain of the laughter.
A few hours later
Night was falling outside but none of the housemates were going to get any sleep tonight.
"We cannot accept him" declared Naru, she had concluded that the pervert she had hit was the new manager "Grandma must be going senile in her old age, I cant believe she would do something like this in a straight frame of mind, hell no one would do this in a straight frame of mind and another thing…" she ranted.
None of the housemates were actually listing, they to were making random conclusions on the matter and planning what tey would do with the news:
Well if he's cute and with him owning this place I could get quite a nice little package deal with this, Kitsune thought to her self with the ever constant foxy grin on her face.
Well if he's nice I cant see any problem, Shinobu thought.
If this man commits one perverted act, I will bring the force of the entire heavens upon him, Motoko thought with a grave look, it was common knowledge that she despised the other sex, or the idea of living under a roof with one seemed to push her too new level of hate and contempt, so much that she had forgot the sword that now was in her belt at her right side opposite to her own.
Only one thought was going through Su's mind, I wonder if anyone will play with me.
Meanwhile
Just outside a van pulled up at the bottom of the stairs, at the back off the van five men dressed all in black jumped out of the back doors, the from the passenger another man dressed all in black gets out and then one from the driver side gets out, all of the men had katanas at their sides.
The man who got out of the passenger side, who seemed bigger than the rest, looked up at the inn "lets go and have some fun" he said with a gruff voice, then all of the men bounded up the stairs to the Inn
Inside the Inn
Naru seemed to be almost shouting that what ever she was saying could not be understood or even worth understanding.
Then all the lights went out, Naru stopped in mid sentence "hey who turned the lights off?" she asked.
Motoko went into her stance and began to reach out with her senses she could sense intruders, they were men and they were in the room.
"SHOW YOURSELF YOU COWARDS" she shouted, and then a resounding thud came from behind her she turned around and could just make out Naru sprawled across the ground with a dark figure standing over her, his sword unsheathed but he had used the hand grip to knock her out.
With a great war cry Motoko leapt forwards with a two handed over head strike on the man, the man raised his blade putting his hand on the blunt side of the blade to fully stop the attack, the two blades collided, but the mans blade didn't budge.
Motoko gritted her teeth together, then she heard a muffled scream behind her she looked around and saw Kitsune, Shinobu and even Su being restrained by other men in black, though it took two for both Kitsune and Su, they were all bound, with blindfolds and gagged with rags stuffed down their throats, Motoko could see tears begin to wet the blindfold, then the they all suddenly went limp.
She turned back around to her opponent and released the lock they were in, she looked around and saw six more men in the same color, the one, who seemed bigger than the rest, stepped forward "Come now we don't want to hurt you permanently, not any of your friends neither, so come now like a nice girl" he said with a cold voice.
"NEVER" she shouted and rushed forward sword risen, the man moved fast and punched Motoko in the gut driving the wind out of her, but her sword still remained in her grasp, she saw that the man had exposed his back, she brought up her sword and shouted 'DIE' but before she could bring her sword all of the way down another man caught her arm and was able to remove the sword from her iron like grip.
Then another man came and restrained her other arm and stuffed a rag down her throat and blindfolded her, Motoko had a funny taste in her mouth, she then started to feel drowsy, anesthetic, she thought, so that's why the others went limp, unlike the others she could resist the anesthetic better, "well might as well start with you" said the leader he began to take of her Gi pants, taking the sword she had found earlier and throwing it in the direction of the entrance not caring were it landed, he continued to take the pants off revealing Motoko's panties, when he suddenly noticed something.
He looked up at the other men "Did anyone hear that sword land" he asked, at first the men looked confused then they too thought about it and had not heard a sound. One of the men got out a flashlight and switched it on pointing it in the direction of the entrance.
There stood Keitaro clutching the sword with his left arm ought stretched were he had caught it, nothing looked out of place except his eyes, which were terrifying, they were like icy steel holding no emotion, even from their positions the men dressed in black all recoiled with fear at the sinister gleam in the man's eyes.
The leader got up from over Motoko and let one of his men bind her.
"You have no business here friend, so if you know what's good for you, you will know to piss off" the leader said standing as straight as he could to make himself look bigger, but even though the leader was substantially bigger than Keitaro, as he walked towards the men, letting the sword clutching hand fall to his side, the leader seemed to lose all his courage in the face of this man.
"Friend." came a cold reply colder than any of the men had heard before "…I would never consider you or any of your band of scum friends, now let me reply, you have no business here, so unless you want to meet the devil and ask him how bad this idea was, then I would leave immediately" Keitaro said every word dripping with venom.
Motoko laid there listening to the conversation, she to had felt fear shoot up and down here spine at the sound of the new mans voice, the anesthetic was beginning to get to her, but she still held on.
At the end off Keitaro's threat all of the black garbed men drew their swords, they all had a mixture of different sizes swords and some even wielded two, they all circled Keitaro, who just stood there not taking any stance up, the men in black looked confused they could not decide what to do next, what this man was doing was suicide, yet he came across as a man who had probably done this many times before.
One of the men too Keitaro's left, armed with two short swords, lunged forwards with his swords, with a flash Keitaro stepped back from the man in blacks lunge and brought his still sheathed blade up in a fast motion, striking the man in the chin with the hand grip. The man in black fell to the floor with a thud and was out cold.
Motoko heard the thud, but now she was having trouble staying awake, she barley had a grasp of what was happening.
At the sign of their fallen comrade the other men in black, except the leader ran forwards, Keitaro moved faster than anyone the leader had ever seen, with his still sheathed blade he dispersed two men with one swing of his sword, smacking one across the chest so hard that he flew back taking one of his comrades down with him.
Another came from Keitaro's right, the Keitaro just side stepped and spun on the ball of his foot, swinging his still sheathed blade around and striking the man in black across the small of his back, sending him flying yet again into another comrade who didn't get up after,
Only one remained he came running at Keitaro with his Katana raised above his head, Keitaro side stepped again and placed his sheathed blade behind the mans legs, bringing the blade from behind at such a fast motion it swept the mans legs from under him and for the briefest second the man in black seemed suspended in mid air as Keitaro raised his sheathed blade above his head and struck down hard sending the man crashing to the ground, dispersing what ever oxygen that was in his lungs.
The leader took in the sight of his men lying around so easily dispersed, he looked at Keitaro and drew his sword "I see that you are very adamant on not killing us, as you first made out, worried about staining the carpet" the leader mocked.
"No" came a reply "I learnt a long time ago that if you are trying to kill a beast don't strike the body as it is fruitless, but just remove the head" Keitaro said with even more venom dripping from the words.
Motoko, Could hear voices still but couldn't work out what was happening, all she wanted was to go to sleep, but she new that she had no chance if she did.
The leader came running forwards with a great war cry, Keitaro calmly went into a stance that his body and cloths seemed used to, his legs were spaced out and he was slightly crouching with his sword now in his belt again, his left hand on the sheath just under the hand guard his thumb poised to move for the given moment and so was his right hand that was hovering over the hand grip.
The leader just kept on running until he was about three feet away when he brought his blade down at a colossal speed.
The Thumb didn't push forward, but the right hand drew, but with the Sheath still on the blade, the speed so fast that the sound of sheathed sword striking the leader was not heard until the strike was complete, the strike had hit across the leaders chest, the strike was so hard that all air was driven from the leader body, he dropped his sword and went onto his hands and knees, spitting up blood from the strike to his lungs, Keitaro, spun on the on the ball of his foot and out of the leaders lunge and now stood at the side of the leader as he spat up blood, Keitaro brought up his sheathed blade above his head and brought it down in a tremendous force with two hands, dealing a tremendous strike on the back of the leader, successfully breaking his back but not his spine.
The Keitaro looked down at the man he had just paralyzed, he lay their unconscious for now not knowing that he probably would never use his legs again, the man stood their holding his sheathed sword
Then Keitaro looked around at the girl he had just saved from being raped, he made his way quickly across to her and was just about to untie her when he heard grunt from behind him, he looked around and saw a girl with long brown hair getting up off the ground, with a hand on her head, the brown hair seemed familiar to Keitaro.
Naru woke up and got up her head felt like a monkey had gone at it with rock she looked around and saw Motoko with just her Gi pants off and her panties showing, she was still tied up and knelling over her was a man, she couldn't make out the mans features through the dark, but she didn't care 'You swine' she said with venom dripping from each word, she walked towards the man.
"Err" Keitaro whimpered, Keitaro looked worried at Naru who edged dangerously towards him, he took a step back, but tripped over Motoko's Gi, that was lying on the floor and fell over on top off Motoko, She's so soft, Keitaro thought, which caused his face to go red and a drop of blood to appear at one nostril.
This was all that Naru needed to push her over "YOU PERVERTED BASTARD" she screamed and leapt forward faster than Keitaro had ever seen anyone move, laying one of the most powerful punches he had ever received on his face almost exactly were she had hit him before causing more pain, the blow sent him crashing through the ceiling and into earths lower orbit again.
His sword fell to the ground next to Motoko.
"Well that's the last we will be seeing of him" Naru concluded clapping her hands together, she looked over at Motoko, who she noticed was tied up with a rag down her throat and blindfold around her eyes 'Motoko' she said worried, she failed to see the faint blush on Motoko's face.
Motoko, who had lost all resilience to the anesthetic, had suddenly felt a warmth and security she had never felt before, if the rag had not been in her mouth she would have been smiling, the it suddenly left, just when it left she finally lost consciousness.
The outskirts of Hinata
"…And then bang something just flies straight into my shed and destroys it when I had just finished" the man, who's shed had been destroyed, told his friend the story of what happened while he was round his friends house.
"Shit man you have been working on that for awhile I just finished mine today as well, wanna see" they both got up and walked to the back garden "There she is" he said proudly.
"That's great man" the other replied the they heard a whistling sound they both looked up and saw an object coming fast to the earth "Holy shit not again the owner of the other shed said, the object came crashing into the shed decimating it leaving nothing but wood lying around.
The owner of the shed began swearing and kicking anything that got in his way; "Now you know how I feel" the other man said not seeing Keitaro make another quick get away.
Authors notes: well comment on what you think so far and what you think of the combination, I like it, but what the fuck do I know lol and as always be gentle.