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Singaporean RK fans RPG Game.

CHAPTER ONE

~ Pan
In the 11th year after the Meiji Restoration, a red-haired girl? boy?
was
walking along the streets of Tokyo when...

~ Rurouni
... a...

~ Poping
... kodachi...

~ Rurouni
... hit him at the back of his head...

~ Poping
... shaving a bit of his hair.

~ Rurouni
"ORORO..."
"Hey!..."

~ Poping
"... Battousai!"

~ Rurouni
Someone slapped his back causing him to topple over.

~ Poping
"Where do you think you are going?" It was Aoshi! Kenshin turned around
to
see his ice cold eyes hiding behind his hair.

~ Sano
<SD kawaii picture of Kenshin with 'oro' looking eyes...
"Shinomori Aoshi! Err... hello... um... where's Misao?" Aoshi advances.

~ Pan
"Battousai. I'm not happy with your hair. It's longer than mine! Draw
your
sword! I'm gonna shave it all off!"
Aoshi charged while Kenshin O-Ox does not move.

~ Rurouni
As quick as lightning, Kenshin dodges Aoshi's attack by squatting down
and
covering his eyes... "Nobody asked you to cut your hair..."
Aoshi stopped short, "Soka... never mind, any reason to pit my skills
against yours..."
"Ahh... Shishou! Help!"

~ Poping
"Yes, my stupid disciple, you called?" Hiko appeared holding a bottle of
sake. "I was just combing my beautiful hair..."

~ Rurouni, Pan and Sano
Hiko strikes his genius pose.

~ Poping
Kenshin and Aoshi fell down instantly.

~ Sano
"Orooo..."
They pick themselves off the floor.
"Since your hair is so long, I must cut it too!" Aoshi cried. Hiko yanks
his
katana out of his sheath.
"Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu..."

~ Pan
Hiko put his right leg forward into a battou-jutsu and resheaths his
sword.
"Ougi!"
... ~ Shishou ~ ...
Hiko looked down on his feet. "Baka deshi. What are you doing under my
feet?"

~ Rurouni
"Shishou... I'm scared... Aoshi's scary..."
"Baka! You're supposed to be the legendary Hitokiri Battousai. Stop
quivering at my feet. You're hampering my beautiful pose. Scoot!" Hiko
boots
Kenshin away and continues posing for the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu Ougi...

~ Poping
Hiko looks up, "Hmm, where is Aoshi?" Aoshi is already behind him
holding a
kodachi to his neck.
"See, you baka, look what you've done again!"

~ Rurouni, Sano and Pan
Hiko turned around and carefully, tenderly removed the kodachi from
Aoshi's
hands. "Little children cannot play with knives. It's dangerous!"

~ Poping
(Kenshin gives a stupid face...)

~ Sano
He begins backing away into a dark alleyway.
"Shishou... for all that you have done for me, I'm eternally grateful...
but
I'm only 28, I'm not married yet, I don't have a married life like
Saitoh, I
haven't struck it rich... so... farewell! I'll repay you in my next
life."
Kenshin runs!
"Matte! If you run, I'll tell Kaoru that you wet your bed when you
were..."
"Shishou!!!"

~ Pan
Hiko turned around to look for Aoshi, but he was already rolling on the
floor laughing out so loud the police started coming.
"Oei, Shinomori, stop laughing or you'll face my gatotsu." Saitou told
Aoshi.`
But Aoshi just couldn't stop laughing.

~ Rurouni
"Shinomori Aoshi! You're spoiling your cool emotionless facade that
Watsuki-sensei so painstakingly created for you. What about all your
fans..." Aoshi struggles desperately to regain his composure... but in
vain...
"BWAHAHAHAHAHAH... !!"

~ Poping
"We, the Shinsengumi, go by Aku, Soku, Zan..." Saitou says while looking
at
the sky.

~ Rurouni, Sano and Pan
"And this horrible noise pollution you're creating is Aku. So I must
Soku,
Zan you."

~ Poping
"So, I shall give you a taste of my gatotsu!" He gets ready the pose,
but
finds the three of them sitting down, drinking sake.

~ Sano
"Hey! Don't waste my effort! Making me look bad in front of my men.
Leave
some sake for me!"
Saitoh walks over and sits down with them.
"Ao-sama! Ao-sama!"

~ Pan
Aoshi's hair stood on ends as he quickly staggered to his feet. "Misao!
It's
Misao! I have to go now. Think I forgot to close the windows. Battousai,
and
that weird man in a large red and white raincoat! I'll be back to claim
your
hair!" And his disappeared into the moonlight.

~ Rurouni
"What did he just call my...a large red and white raincoat?! Why you
little...don't you know the importance, the significance of this mantle?
It
has been handed down from generation to generation of the Hiten
Mitsurugi
Ryuu..."
"No wonder it looks so old..." Saitou commented.
"That's partly why I didn't want to accept it." Kenshin whispered.
Hiko continued, "...only a selected few can wear this mantle...the
elite,
the
Hiko Seijuurous...namely...me..." Once again, Hiko struck his infamous
genius pose.

~ Poping
Kenshin starts to tiptoe away,to avoid having to wear that dreaded coat.
"Stop there!It is important that you carry on our proud tradition by
receiving this coat...." Hiko shouts at Kenshin.
Kenshin loses his balance,and lands on a poor innocent cat walking on
the road.
"Meowwww!"
"Gomen,gomen...." Kenshin quickly apologizes to the cat.
(What did I do to deserve such a disciple like this?)Hiko thinks to
himself
while putting his thumb and forefinger on his chin.

~ Sano
(A cloud of dust is formed. The cat has not forgiven Kenshin...)
"Ororo..."
"After all these years of training, of wasting my money feeding you, you
dare lose to a...a...a CAT!! You have disgraced the disciples of the
Hiten
Mitsurugi Ryuu! To atone for this horrible sin, you must become the next
inheritor of this stylish manto and become a Hiko Seijuurou!"
"Shishou...please...no...."
"Back off old man, Kenshin's my girlfriend!" A tall young man stepped
forth
from the shadows. The Kanji word 'evil' was plastered across the back of
his
shirt.
"Oro!!"

~ Pan
A tall, young man appeared from the darkness, his hands stuck inside the
slits of his trousers as usual.

~ Wisely
(Kenshin raises his eyebrows at the notion) "Oro?
Sano?"
(Kenshin assumes the village idiot pose, scratching the back of his head
and grinning sheepishly) "Didn't Tae Sekihara keep you back at the Beef
hotbot restaurant to work off your debt? Better not let her catch you
lazing off."

~ Pan
Sanosuke opened his mouth to say something when a
shinai thwacked him on the back of his head.
"YOUR GIRLFRIEND?!?! You mean *my* Kenshin!"
A girl holding a shinai walked forward.
Hiko stood up and Saitou followed suit. Kenshin turned his head around
continuously to look at the four people surrounding him.
"K-Kaoru-dono... Sanosuke... Shishou... Saitou..." He stammered, at a
total
loss.
"He's mine!" Kaoru yelled.
"NO! MINE!" Sano countered.
"Battousai's life belongs to me!" Saitou prepared his gatotsu.
"Hey hey hey! I brought him up!" Hiko swung his sake bottle at everyone.
Everyone stared at Kenshin.
"CHOOSE, KENSHIN!"

~ Rurouni
"Here Kitty Kitty Kitty. Nice Kitty."
"Put that kuroi neko[black cat] down!" commanded Hiko.
"It will do you little good to use it as a shield against my beautiful
Gatotsu..."
"All of you back off! Before Himura clears his debt with Okina. He
belongs
to me!" Misao finally managed to tear herself away from Aoshi.
"Soka." Aoshi finally managed to regain his composure.
"Uhm...I think you all got it wrong, sessha belongs to no one but
myself."
Kenshin smiles sweetly at them all. They return his smile with looks
that
could kill. "Myself and Watsuki-sensei I mean..." Kenshin smiles
again...uneasily.

~ Poping
Kenshin puts the cat down slowly,which quickly scrambles away from the
messy crowd.
Kenshin raises a finger and starts "As I was saying,....."
Everyone runs fiercely toward him,shouting in unison,
"He's mine!"
"Oro!!"(He looks very suprised)
Nobody listens to him,all tugging at him,threatening to tear his limbs
apart.
Kenshin manages to climb out of the mess,with his clothes torn and
tattered.....
Kaoru grabs him and knocks him continuously on the head with her wooden
sword
"Kenshin baka!How can we go to the beef hotpot restaurant later when
your clothes are so dirty?"

~ Sano
"Miss, do you know what time it is now??? Tae and Tsebame are probably
sleeping at home! Beside if we go, I'll have to pay off my debt..."
"About time... One of the most important laws of the the Shinsengumi is,
'Never owe anyone money.'"
"Y-you..." Sano begins spluttering.

~ Wisely
        Sano attempts to throw Saitoh a punch but the latter neatly
dodges his
thrust. Smiling grimly, he said "You should've learned defense as I told
you before." before uppercutting him in the jaw. A fight erupts between
the
two and everyone starts taking sides to Saitoh and Sano...
        "Mae mae..." Kenshin desperately trying to calm the raging mob
that was
about to break into a fight.
Realising the action was futile, he grabbed Kaoru by the hand, fleeing
by a
back alley in the midst of the confusion.
"Phew, that was close." said Kenshin.
        Just then, a flash of light in the dark alley caught Kenshin's
attention.
        A robed man wearing a straw hat stepped out of the shadows and
into the
light. "Where'd you think you're going?", he grinned evilly, drawing out
a
katana from his side.
        The wind chose to whip around, drawing the stranger's robe up
slightly to
reveal a heavily bandaged body....

~ Pan

The expression revolving around Kenshin's features spelt more than shock
or
disbelief, but absolute fear... was that who he thought it was? But he
only
had to ask to know... all his senses numbed with the icy effect of the
winds
as he could only mutter two words...
"You are..."
Behind him, footsteps were heard abruptly coming to a stop as a voice
decked
with effectively more shock than Kenshin sounded out.
"Shishio-sama!?"
Kenshin turned around to the girlish voice and found himself face to
face
with a young... boy? girl? with features of who looked like...
"Okita Souji?!" Now things were getting confusing. The young boy looked
at
Kenshin and smiled warmly while scratching his hair. "Iie! Iie!" 

~ Rurouni

"Okita Souji? Demo Himura-san, watashi no namae wa Okita Souji dewa
arimasen. Watashi wa Seta Soujirou desu."
"Speak English!" Kaoru made a swipe at him with her shinai but missed as
he
artfully stepped aside.
"Gomen gomen. But Himura-san, my name is not Okita Souji. I am Seta
Soujirou. Or have you forgotten?"
*Shishio Makoto... Seta Soujirou... Can I take both of them on at the
same
time while protecting Kaoru?* Kenshin gripped his sakabatou with fierce
determination. Sounds of a heated battle ensuing between Saitou and
Sanosuke
could be heard in the distance. 

~ Poping
"Ummpphhh!"Sano lets out as he takes yet another punch in the face from
Saitou.He stays firm on his feet,and looks very frustrated.He punches
his knuckles together and exclaims,
"Saitou,I will show you with my fists that I am not easy to be messed
with!"
A little laughter emits from Saitou,whose self-conceited expression
reveals his utter disregard for Sano.
Beside them,Aoshi and Hiko watch the fight closely,while Misao dances
around Aoshi,trying to attract his attention with her cute expressions.
"What's with young people nowadays....."Hiko steals a glance,not amused
at all.
Suddenly,a voice sounds from afar.Everyone stops what they were
doing.....
"Yamaro!!Yamaro!!"A figure of a young boy slowly emerges.....

~ Sano

"Saitou-san, Tokio-san wants you back for supper. She asked you to buy
some
tofu on your way home. She wants you to invite your friends home too,
especially the young fighter you keep mentioning." 
"Eiji!!!" Misao gave a delighted squeal and wrapped her arms around his
neck, choking him in the process.
"Tofu? At this hour?" Saitou slid out of his Gatotsu pose. "Invite
everyone
home?" *I hope she's not thinking of holding a party...*
"What about our rematch, Crab-head?! Who's Tokio anyway?" 
"We'll have to forfeit it. Tokio is my...ahem...wife..."

~ Pan

Saitou looks around for all his friends and foes but gets a cloud of
dust
instead. "What're you all doing on the floor? Get up? We have to hurry
or
Tokio'll start blaming me for being late for dinner again..."
He swings his nihontou at his men. "Get lost and tell HQ nothing's
happening. There's no noise pollution whatsoever." His men faithfully
obeyed. "Eh, Aho, get some tofu for me. And as for..." He looked around
to
hear an evil laughter coming forth from a dark back alley. "...
Battousai..." He finished his words in absolute shock.
"In the back alley! With Kaoru and..." Sano shouted while everyone ran
to
the squeezy spot revolving the two souls of shadowed Bakumatsu...

~ Rurouni

"KENSHIN!!!" Sanosuke called out as he veered into the alley only to be
stopped by Seta Soujirou.
"Wow! What a lot of people...at this time of the night too...can't allow
you
to spoil Shishio-sama's fun..." Soujirou smiled.
"Why you!" Sanosuke cracked his knuckles.
Saitou caught his shoulder. "Wait. Let this play itself out."
"Hmm... whoever that mummified person is, he is strong... not as strong
as I
am of course, but enough to give my baka deshi a good workout..." Hiko
mused, then proceeded to watch the 2 kenkakus in silence.

~ Poping

Kenshin takes a step forward,but Sano says,"Kenshin,let me take care of
this!" All eyes are on Sano,while Soujirou continues to grin and remain
steady in the heat of the moment.A horn sounds,and Soujirou's mouth
becomes wide open.
"Ah,it is my signal.I hope I can stay,but I guess I will have to catch
up with you some other time...."Soujirou slowly walks off into the
darkness,leaving Shishio standing there.Everyone seems puzzled,why did
Soujirou leave Shishio standing there so quietly?Suddenly,Kenshin's eyes
light up!
"We've been tricked!Everyone take cover!"He grabs Kaoru by the waist,and
throw themselves onto the ground while the rest of the people around
take protective measures as well."Shishio" blows up in a bright burst of
flames...as though he has been set on fire again....

~ Sano

"Why that dirty lil'... When I get my hands on him, I'll tear him from limb
to limb!" Sanosuke snarled.
"Is everyone alright?" Kenshin's large violet eyes were clouded with worry.
There were no serious injuries, which was a great relief, but one thing kept
bothering Kenshin. 
A steady hand landed on Kenshin's shoulder.
"Kenshin."
"Oro?"
"You have to be careful, baka deshi. For yourself and for the safety of the
people you want to protect. I sensed a dangerous presence when you were
facing off with the fake Shishio. From what you've told me about him,
Soujirou isn't the kind who would plot something like this. Someone is
pulling his strings, probably the same person who sounded the horn. That
person was watching your every move just now. Tonight's incident was just a
warning, the next time he attacks, someone could be seriously hurt." 
"Shishou..." 

END CHAPTER ONE