[fic] DC/Yaiba: Swordsmen
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ickaimpPlunnie we've been meaning to do for a while, finally got around to it because we caught Case Closed last night just as Conan pulls out a video game and starts to play it... the game being 'Yaiba' #^^# Laughed when Onimaru blew him up, causing him to loose the game. (Onimaru = the guy with horns and large armour... looks like an oni... ¬_¬;;)
For the newbies and the confused, Yaiba is Gosho's previous series, kinda like DBZ with Swords. There's also a lot of Japanese Mythology mixed in. (And they not only blow up Tokyo Tower, but the Moon as well and turn Japan and it's residents into a giant flying hydra as well!!! ^__^ Great fun)
Toriyama World has scanlations for the first 4 volumes and a group called RiceBox is slowly subbing the anime.
Which still confuses me about Kamen Yaiba (a popular TV series in DC), because Kamen Yaiba fights bare handed. o_O (He's a food vendor in the park, but when ever trouble arises, he runs off and turns into Kamen Yaiba, much to the confusion of his girlfriend, Natsumi Rei. His younger sister was killed when he was younger, so he fights for Justice, so that sort of thing doesn't happen again. ... Yaiba's sister is alive and well, and heckling their father.)
'Yaiba' means 'Iron', BTW. In Conan vs Kid vs Yaiba, the Shonen Tantei tease him over his name, because they think he's calling himself after Kamen Yaiba. Yaiba gets annoyed, insists it is his real name, then asks what Kamen Yaiba is. The Shonen Tantei fall over. Hee hee hee. (Course, Yaiba keeps calling Kid 'Kanchou Kid'... *snickers*)
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"Oi, Hattori!" The friendly cry made Heiji turn, searching the crowd for the familiar voice calling his name. He grinned as he spotted his rival, waving his un-sword laden hand, trademark Shinsengumi haori and ponytail waving in the breeze as he ran.
"Oi, Okita!" He waved back, grinning. He and the sixth generation Okita Soushi may have been rivals in their school and other kendo tournaments, but it was hard to dislike the laid backed Kyoto swordsman. "I didn't know ya were here!" He exclaimed as the other teen approached.
Okita laughed, rolling his eyes. "Grandfather wanted me to check out the competition, see if there was anyone worthwhile to fight against."
"Ya find any?"
An easy shrug was his primary answer. "Eh, Onimaru was slaughterin' everyone as usual. He's still obsessed with Kurogane and there ain't many around up to that level."
That was true. He and Okita were in the small elite group that managed to hold their own against Ekoda High's Onimaru Takashi and even then they had to work for it. Onimaru fought like a deamon possessed, although he had mellowed slightly since Heiji had first fought him. Slightly. At least his bokken was no longer glowing...
"Oi." A wicked grin spread across Okita's face as he nudged Heiji with an elbow. "Whadda say to stop blowin' off Kendo for that detective stuff and give us a real run for our money?"
Heiji chuckled. Okita was still annoyed at him for blowing off their last scheduled fight, not that he'd hold it against him. Too much, anyway. "What? And become the Worlds Best Swordsman?"
"You'd have to fight me for it." Okita warned playfully. "But why not? Ya got the talent. And it's gotta beat following dead bodies around."
"Heh." He scratched the side of a cheek in a slightly nervous gesture. That was one way to put it... "Ya hear the latest on our current number one Samurai?"
"Kurogane?" Okita straightened as interest sparked. "Don't think so."
"He showed up at Ekoda a few months back, smashed in through a window. Third story window."
The resulting expression was one of pure disbelief. "You're kiddin'."
"Nope." A friend of Ran's had a friend who was in the same classroom this had happened in and had seen it. Ran had told Kazuha, who had then passed it on to Heiji. Heiji wasn't one to believe in random gossip, especially the 'friend of a friend of a friend' kind of information, so had checked with an acquaintance who went to Ekoda as well, who had verified it. "Turned out to be the same classroom his girlfriend was in."
"Wait..." Okita frowned thoughtfully. "Blond with a headband, or brunette with a ponytail?"
"Ponytail, I think." That fit the description he'd gotten. "Mine Sayaka."
"Ah, okay." Okita nodded. "Saw her when I first met Kurogane. Think the blond turned out to be his sister or somethin'..."
Heiji shrugged. He hadn't kept track of the small spiky haired samurai's life all that much. "Anyway. He comes crashing through the window, flies across the room and she goes running towards him. They make the discovery that he's now taller than her-"
"How tall were his geta?" Okita interrupted with a snicker.
"He'd grown." Heiji corrected. How many times was Okita going to interrupt? "He rambled on about fightin' some fierce deamon with lots of eyes and teeth with an Old man and a Tiger, then asked if she wanted to join him. She agreed, he grabbed her hand and leapt out the window, haulin' her with him."
"-Out the third story window..."
"On to a flyin' sword." He agreed.
Eyebrows rose skeptically. "Flyin' sword?"
"Flyin' sword."
Okita looked at his own ever-present katana, as if trying to figure out just how would ride on a sword that flew. "Did they sit on it sideways? Like witches on a broomstick?"
"Evidently, more like a skateboard." He admitted. "From what I understand, he stood on the hilt, she grabbed on to him and just kinda got dragged along as they rocketed off. That's the last anyone at Ekoda has seen of them."
Okita stared at him wide-eyed for a moment before scrunching his face up in a reproving frown. "Tell me you're jokin'."
"Swear on my honour that is what I've heard." Heiji held his hands up in innocence. That was exactly what he had heard. Okita could track it down and authenticate it for himself.
"If this was to distract me from heckling you about focusing more on kendo, it's not working." Okita finally came up with.
"Actually, it was to illustrate my point." Heiji smirked.
"Which would be?"
"The better the swordsman, the more weird shit that happens to them."
The Kyoto swordsman opened his mouth, paused, then shut it again. He looked thoughtful for a moment as he mulled the conversation over. "And fallin' dead bodies doesn't count?" Okita finally asked, a skeptical expression on his face.
Heiji shrugged. "At least they're not magic."
"Point."
-fin-
haori = over coat
geta = Japanese sandals. The wood ones that the guys wear. Look really hard to balance in but really aren't. (have a pair)
*Hattori fought Onimaru in Yaiba Vol 24. Okita fought Kurogane Yaiba, who went on to fight Onimaru in a burning building. o_O;; (yes, his bokken glowed. Later in the volume, his shinnai did not. Think it only glows for Yaiba. Take the sword puns as you will)
*Hattori and Okita were supposed to fight each other in DC vol 31, but Heiji blew it off in favour if figure out what was going on with the disappearing/reappearing corpse that was wandering around. "Won the battle, but lost the war."
*Ran's friend, of course, is Nakamori Aoko, from Magic Kaito. (Yaiba and MK take place at the same High School) Aoko's friend Momoi Keiko (or at least someone who looks disturbingly like her) sits next to Sayaka in class. Heiji asked Kuroba. Muwahahahahaa.
The flying sword's name is Kusanagi by the way. You get virtual pocky of you get the reference. ^___^ (toldja there was a lot of mythology references)
For the newbies and the confused, Yaiba is Gosho's previous series, kinda like DBZ with Swords. There's also a lot of Japanese Mythology mixed in. (And they not only blow up Tokyo Tower, but the Moon as well and turn Japan and it's residents into a giant flying hydra as well!!! ^__^ Great fun)
Toriyama World has scanlations for the first 4 volumes and a group called RiceBox is slowly subbing the anime.
Which still confuses me about Kamen Yaiba (a popular TV series in DC), because Kamen Yaiba fights bare handed. o_O (He's a food vendor in the park, but when ever trouble arises, he runs off and turns into Kamen Yaiba, much to the confusion of his girlfriend, Natsumi Rei. His younger sister was killed when he was younger, so he fights for Justice, so that sort of thing doesn't happen again. ... Yaiba's sister is alive and well, and heckling their father.)
'Yaiba' means 'Iron', BTW. In Conan vs Kid vs Yaiba, the Shonen Tantei tease him over his name, because they think he's calling himself after Kamen Yaiba. Yaiba gets annoyed, insists it is his real name, then asks what Kamen Yaiba is. The Shonen Tantei fall over. Hee hee hee. (Course, Yaiba keeps calling Kid 'Kanchou Kid'... *snickers*)
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"Oi, Hattori!" The friendly cry made Heiji turn, searching the crowd for the familiar voice calling his name. He grinned as he spotted his rival, waving his un-sword laden hand, trademark Shinsengumi haori and ponytail waving in the breeze as he ran.
"Oi, Okita!" He waved back, grinning. He and the sixth generation Okita Soushi may have been rivals in their school and other kendo tournaments, but it was hard to dislike the laid backed Kyoto swordsman. "I didn't know ya were here!" He exclaimed as the other teen approached.
Okita laughed, rolling his eyes. "Grandfather wanted me to check out the competition, see if there was anyone worthwhile to fight against."
"Ya find any?"
An easy shrug was his primary answer. "Eh, Onimaru was slaughterin' everyone as usual. He's still obsessed with Kurogane and there ain't many around up to that level."
That was true. He and Okita were in the small elite group that managed to hold their own against Ekoda High's Onimaru Takashi and even then they had to work for it. Onimaru fought like a deamon possessed, although he had mellowed slightly since Heiji had first fought him. Slightly. At least his bokken was no longer glowing...
"Oi." A wicked grin spread across Okita's face as he nudged Heiji with an elbow. "Whadda say to stop blowin' off Kendo for that detective stuff and give us a real run for our money?"
Heiji chuckled. Okita was still annoyed at him for blowing off their last scheduled fight, not that he'd hold it against him. Too much, anyway. "What? And become the Worlds Best Swordsman?"
"You'd have to fight me for it." Okita warned playfully. "But why not? Ya got the talent. And it's gotta beat following dead bodies around."
"Heh." He scratched the side of a cheek in a slightly nervous gesture. That was one way to put it... "Ya hear the latest on our current number one Samurai?"
"Kurogane?" Okita straightened as interest sparked. "Don't think so."
"He showed up at Ekoda a few months back, smashed in through a window. Third story window."
The resulting expression was one of pure disbelief. "You're kiddin'."
"Nope." A friend of Ran's had a friend who was in the same classroom this had happened in and had seen it. Ran had told Kazuha, who had then passed it on to Heiji. Heiji wasn't one to believe in random gossip, especially the 'friend of a friend of a friend' kind of information, so had checked with an acquaintance who went to Ekoda as well, who had verified it. "Turned out to be the same classroom his girlfriend was in."
"Wait..." Okita frowned thoughtfully. "Blond with a headband, or brunette with a ponytail?"
"Ponytail, I think." That fit the description he'd gotten. "Mine Sayaka."
"Ah, okay." Okita nodded. "Saw her when I first met Kurogane. Think the blond turned out to be his sister or somethin'..."
Heiji shrugged. He hadn't kept track of the small spiky haired samurai's life all that much. "Anyway. He comes crashing through the window, flies across the room and she goes running towards him. They make the discovery that he's now taller than her-"
"How tall were his geta?" Okita interrupted with a snicker.
"He'd grown." Heiji corrected. How many times was Okita going to interrupt? "He rambled on about fightin' some fierce deamon with lots of eyes and teeth with an Old man and a Tiger, then asked if she wanted to join him. She agreed, he grabbed her hand and leapt out the window, haulin' her with him."
"-Out the third story window..."
"On to a flyin' sword." He agreed.
Eyebrows rose skeptically. "Flyin' sword?"
"Flyin' sword."
Okita looked at his own ever-present katana, as if trying to figure out just how would ride on a sword that flew. "Did they sit on it sideways? Like witches on a broomstick?"
"Evidently, more like a skateboard." He admitted. "From what I understand, he stood on the hilt, she grabbed on to him and just kinda got dragged along as they rocketed off. That's the last anyone at Ekoda has seen of them."
Okita stared at him wide-eyed for a moment before scrunching his face up in a reproving frown. "Tell me you're jokin'."
"Swear on my honour that is what I've heard." Heiji held his hands up in innocence. That was exactly what he had heard. Okita could track it down and authenticate it for himself.
"If this was to distract me from heckling you about focusing more on kendo, it's not working." Okita finally came up with.
"Actually, it was to illustrate my point." Heiji smirked.
"Which would be?"
"The better the swordsman, the more weird shit that happens to them."
The Kyoto swordsman opened his mouth, paused, then shut it again. He looked thoughtful for a moment as he mulled the conversation over. "And fallin' dead bodies doesn't count?" Okita finally asked, a skeptical expression on his face.
Heiji shrugged. "At least they're not magic."
"Point."
-fin-
haori = over coat
geta = Japanese sandals. The wood ones that the guys wear. Look really hard to balance in but really aren't. (have a pair)
*Hattori fought Onimaru in Yaiba Vol 24. Okita fought Kurogane Yaiba, who went on to fight Onimaru in a burning building. o_O;; (yes, his bokken glowed. Later in the volume, his shinnai did not. Think it only glows for Yaiba. Take the sword puns as you will)
*Hattori and Okita were supposed to fight each other in DC vol 31, but Heiji blew it off in favour if figure out what was going on with the disappearing/reappearing corpse that was wandering around. "Won the battle, but lost the war."
*Ran's friend, of course, is Nakamori Aoko, from Magic Kaito. (Yaiba and MK take place at the same High School) Aoko's friend Momoi Keiko (or at least someone who looks disturbingly like her) sits next to Sayaka in class. Heiji asked Kuroba. Muwahahahahaa.
The flying sword's name is Kusanagi by the way. You get virtual pocky of you get the reference. ^___^ (toldja there was a lot of mythology references)
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Date: 2004-08-27 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-27 03:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-27 03:59 pm (UTC)One of the 3 treasures of Japan, along with the Orb and the Mirror. ^_______^
Whoo-hooo!!! *hands out virtual pockey!*
*hands out virtual pockey*
Date: 2004-08-27 04:00 pm (UTC)Need to see more of that series, was a fun one.
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Date: 2004-08-27 04:22 pm (UTC)*More Virtual Pocky*
Date: 2004-08-27 04:27 pm (UTC)I'm pretty sure that Kusanagi is also the same sword that Orochimaru from Naurto is supposed to be pulling out of his throat.
Which brings around the mental comment of 'Grass in the Snake' every time he does that. ^^;;
Re: *More Virtual Pocky*
Date: 2004-08-27 04:32 pm (UTC)XD I know all about that legend, cause I have this half-finished King of Fighters fic based off it... ::gigantic dork::
For your Information:
Date: 2004-08-27 04:48 pm (UTC)In Taiwan, the anime version of Yaiba was called Jiu Longzhu, while Dragonball is Qi Longzhu-- "Jiu" is 9, while "Qi" is 7. Figures.
Correcting your mistakes:
Date: 2004-08-27 05:01 pm (UTC)No, "Yaiba" means "blade." It's his surname "Kurogane" that meant "Iron." Putting all together, We got Mr Iron Blade. ^^;
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Date: 2004-08-27 05:02 pm (UTC)Psychic Heiji: (glances around nervously) Hush Franky.
Good one, Icka.
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Date: 2004-08-27 06:15 pm (UTC)Re: For your Information:
Date: 2004-08-27 06:17 pm (UTC)Of course, I was the one trying to brainwash them by telling them that the manga had a different name. xD
*snerk*
Date: 2004-08-29 08:07 pm (UTC)Re: *snerk*
Date: 2004-08-30 04:39 pm (UTC)Re: Correcting your mistakes: Thanks!
Date: 2004-08-30 05:12 pm (UTC)Because that would mean that "Kamen Yaiba' means 'Masked Blade', yet he fights bare handed.... @_@;;
Thanks for the correction! XD
Re: *snerk*
Date: 2004-08-30 05:15 pm (UTC)