Legend: normal text - actual translation italic text -thoughts/not spoken out loud [text] - I wasn't sure about the translation (name) - spoken in a flashback Pg 5 Domon: Hanabishi---Today I'll beat you!! Recca: All right, easy fight!! Pg 6 Chapter One: The Ninja and the Princess (Hime) Pg 7 Pg 8 Recca: Uootsu Same idiot power as usual, huh, Domon. Domon: [Stop talking and come!!] Come on, you bastard--- Are you a monkey!!? Recca: No, no. I am a ninja! Pg 9 Domon: Chiiii!!! Recca: !! Domon: You use the same attack every time, stupid!! Pg 10 Domon: Using a pit-fall is sneaky, Hanabishi!! Recca: It's not sneaky. Using it names me the winner. Domon: Damn it---! Recca: [A ninja is always prepared for what may happen in the future.] Domon: What is that ninja stuff, bastard---!! [Get back to this century!!!] Recca: Don't be making fun of the ninja. Domon: Achi...Hey, weren't you taught that you shouldn't throw firecrackers on people? Recca: Just try to beat me. If you do, I'll become your ninja! Domon: Tomorrow we fight at school---ah-ah-ah Pg 11 Recca: I'm home, Oyajii! Oyajii: Oh, Recca. Welcome home! Pg 12 Oyajii: [What are you kicking your father for?] Recca: Don't be smoking while making fireworks!!! Oyajii: I get it. I get it. Recca: Don't just throw it away!! Hanabishi Recca, that's my name.. Pg 13 Recca: The ninja are my obsession. In the times of war and in the shadows of necessity there were the ninja. [It is this fleeting moment in time that is my obsession.] Pg 14 Oyajii: Recca! You were fighting with gunpowder again? Bingo, huh? The smell of burnt gunpowder is on you. Recca: A threatening person got a jump on me! (a little lie.) The ninja were specialists in gunpowder. And, I am a ninja. Pg 15 Oyajii: Gunpowder isn't for child's play!! [Don't use it in that way again!!!] Recca: Sorry.... Oyajii: Glad you understand! By the way, there isn't any lunch!!! Recca: [Within the word ninja is the character "shinobu" (to endure)...] [A ninja must be able to endure!] Pg 16 Guy: Hey, here she comes!! Miss Sakoshita. Pg 17 Pretty Boy: The number one beauty on the earth. [???] Guy: She's one hard to get girl~~~ [Don't think I can win her over with 1000 yen (about $10).] Pretty Boy: Sakoshita-san!! [How could she not shiver over me?] Yanagi: A date, you say, What's that? Pretty Boy: [How innocent!!!] [How could a high school girl not know that these days!!] Anyway, come here! Yanagi: Um...that kind of hurts... Pg 18 Yanagi: Please let go...!! I-it hurts... Pretty Boy: Uuo, that hurt just now!! Guy: What are you doing, bastard!! I can see you. I can see you. Arrow: [Camouflage] Pg 19 Yanagi: Ah Recca: Here to assist you! What kind of things were you doing to this frail girl, idiots!!! I, Hanabishi Recca, am her "companion"!!! Pretty Boy: Hanabishi? Guy: What--you're that famous ninja fool from these parts. Pg 20 Recca: (Yanagi:) Recca... (Yanagi:) You saved me. (Yanagi:) Without you, I would not be here. (Yanagi:) Let me express my gratitude. (Yanagi:) [Say the word, and it's yours.] I desire to be your ninja... Pg 21 Recca: Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wah!! Yanagi: Kyaa. For saving me before, thank you very much. Hanabishi Recca. I'm Sakoshita, Sakoshita Yanagi. Pg 22 Yanagi: ...? Is there something on my face? Recca: No, no. You just look like a princess from my dream. Kind of Deja vu. Damn it! [If only I could've used gunpowder!] [It's Oyajii's fault.] [I couldn't beat those four guys with will power alone...] H...huh? It doesn't hurt... Pg 23 Yanagi: I'm pretty strange, huh--- The first time I knew I could do it...a long time ago, a parakeet was dying... As I held it, I was sad and crying. I though, "please be well." Recca: And the parakeet got better. Yanagi: Yes. But I kept it as a secret since people would think I was strange. I, today...was strange, huh. This is the first time I've talked to somebody I just met. Recca: That uniform---you go to the same school as me. This is the first I've heard of you! Yanagi: It's because...I don't really stand out... But, Hanabishi-kun, I... Girl: Oh, yuck! What is that!! Recca: Huh? Sakoshita!! Pg 24 Yanagi: Please move! Recca: Sako..shita... ... Girls: What's with her? How filthy Yanagi: He's okay. See... Pg 25 Recca: You're still... ... Yosha, it's decided! Yanagi: ?! Recca: A ninja respectfully serves the orders of his master!!! I, Hanabishi Recca, will from now on be your ninja!!! Pg 26 Recca: Do as you like. Hime!! Yanagi: ... I'm not Hime. It's Yanagi. Recca: You are---Hime-sama!! Be with me a moment. I want to show you something neat. Pg 27 Yanagi: It's pitch black here. Recca: It's too bright outside right now! Otherwise, this place wouldn't be needed... Yanagi: Aren't those firecrackers!! Huh? Are these yours! Recca: It's because my home is a fireworks store! Now! Watch this! The skill of Hanabishi Recca, which no other possesses. Pg 28 Recca: Here! A firecracker I made with my own hands!! Yanagi: Ah... Pg 29 Yanagi: Wah... Pretty... Recca: I think Hime is a lot prettier... [I better stop having suspicious thoughts.] We were both born under the same strange star, huh? Yanagi: ... Recca: Isn't being born with this ability strange? Just by rubbing my hands together roughly. I haven't told Oyajii. Pg 30 Yanagi: Since we told each other our secret, We'll be great friends. Recca: Y...yeah. But! Yanagi is "Hime," and I am "ninja"--not just friends. Yanagi: Okay. Voice: ...found... I've...found you... Pg 31 Voice: ...I've found you... I've found you... I've found you... I've found you... Pg 32 Woman: I've found you...after an eternity of wandering... Boy of the present. I will kill you, boy. Recca: I am Hanabishi Recca. I am the ninja who follows the orders of his princess. It's no good, Hime. [This person got me.] Yanagi: Don't release your flame. Recca: [This isn't a ninja's desire.] Pg 33 Narration: Hanabishi Recca. He desires to be a ninja, and is the soul child in a fireworks store. [He has the ability to release flame from his arm. For the sake of Yanagi, he became her "ninja".] Sakoshita Yanagi. [Not even knowing she was from the same school, Recca protected her...and she became his princess.] [She has the ability to heal. Because of her ability, they met.] Woman: I--have--found--you... Narration: And then, before his eyes--- Pg 34 Chapter Two: Kagehoushi Narration: At this moment, she came out of the shadows. Pg 35 Recca: Granny, who are you? Yanagi: Don't---don't say it like that, Hanabishi-kun. You'll get the dark lady upset. Recca: Yeah, that's right. Does Neesan want to play with the firecrackers, too? Woman: Release your flame now, boy. Pg 36 Woman: Should I ask nicely, boy... The "Granny" wants to see one more time... Your flame, please. Recca: !!?? Yanagi: ?!! Pg 37 Recca: Wait a...sec. What was that you said, Granny? For me to release my flame? Yanagi: Hanabishi-kun, you said "Granny," again... Recca: [Is this what you wanted to see?] Hime, it's our secret. Yanagi: Hai. Woman: Hanabishi Recca--- A sixteen year ago high school freshman, a fireworks maker, Hanabishi Shigeo's only son. [Desires to become a ninja. And also....] [Has an ability that nobody else possesses.] Pg 38 Pg 39 Woman: That's the flame!!! Recca: [That was nice, bitch!!!] [???] Pg 40 Woman: There it is. "I wish to kill you"...that's right, boy. Recca: ... ... ... Anyway, I don't want to try talking to you. Not with a person who cut me---so we're going home. [I don't know what's been happening up to now, but I know you're human.] Pg 41 Woman: Smoke screen... Recca: Run, Hime!! Yanagi: Ha, hai. Recca: Guah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah. Woman: I don't want you to go home just now... Pg 42 Woman: It's useless to call for help. It's isolated here...no one would come. Recca: Hime, don't heal the wound!! [No matter what.] Yanagi: But, Hanabishi-kun. Your leg... Recca: What do you want, bitch!! Woman: Didn't I tell you? I wish for death. That's what I want you to grant me. [That's the only thing I request of you.] Pg 43 Woman: [Therefore, it's useless for you to try to leave together.] Yanagi: ... Hanabishi-kun Recca: [It doesn't matter what you say.] I have sworn!! A ninja and his princess won't be separated!!! Pg 44 Recca: [You don't have good looks---You don't want us to leave? No way, Weirdo!] Woman: Yes...this "Old Lady" understands. Recca: Damn it. Even saying that, with this leg... [I have to at least make it so that Hime can escape...!!] Pg 45 Recca: Hime!!? Yanagi: Uh...Neesan...I don't understand your reasoning... Does it make you happy to pick on weak people!? Arrow: Weak person Yanagi: Please don't pick on Hanabishi-kun! He's wounded! He needs to get to the hospital quickly!! Um...and so... Woman: What about your healing powers? Hime-sama. You were able to heal that dog's wounds. Yanagi: eh.... Pg 46 Recca: Himeeeeee!!! Woman: Well,well. She can't heal her own wounds? [She was your weakness, boy...Too bad I had to give her an unpleasant experience.] Come at me, Recca!! Pg 47 Recca: Hime! It's a shallow wound!! Get a hold of yourself!! I'll get you to the hospital!! Yanagi: Sorry...sorry, Hanabishi-kun... [Because of me, your leg got hurt...] [If you were alone, you could've escaped.] [Now I can't stand up...sorry...] Recca: !! My leg wound... Yanagi: I'm okay. So...run...away. Recca: ... ...just wait a moment... I'm going to get serious with this bitch. Pg 48 Woman: Again with the smoke screen. It won't work, boy. I can clearly see you... The "Utsusemi no Jyutsu" ("discarded skin technique") Pg 49 Woman: !! Blasting power...!!! Recca: I know what you said you wanted to see. Here it is... My Flame!!! [Want to know what will happen if it catches fire with this blasting powder?] I don't know if I'd be able to stop you! But! [I'll do whatever it takes to save Hime!!] I will protect Hime, even with my life!! This is loyalty! This is "Ninja"!! Pg 50 Woman: An admirable ninja... It would be a terrible thing if you died now, boy. For today, let's leave each other in one piece. But...in the future, it won't be as easy as this fight... As for saying "mercy" and "I can't do it"... The next time we meet, you will give me proof--- Pg 51 Recca: Who...are you?!! Woman: "Kagehoushi." It was pleasant, my dear Recca... This time, you got a little bit better. [Otherwise, the girl's wound may have been worse...] Pg 52 Yanagi: Un... Wah... Recca: Ah, you're awake. All the hospitals were closed---. [So I wrapped your cut up myself.] Yanagi: Hanabishi-kun...That woman for before? Recca: He-he. I chased her away!! Yanagi: Thank goodness. Hanabishi-kun, you're...safe... Since I was so worried, tears are... Sorry, I got snot on you. Recca: I am--- Pg 53 Recca: You are not to call me Hanabishi. From now on, it's Recca! [I was definitely made for her.] [From the moment she put her body in the way to save me...] [I knew I would risk my life for her.] (Kagehoushi:) [This time, you got a little bit better.] (Kagehoushi:) [Otherwise, the girl's wound may have been worse...] [That woman may take Hime from me---] Yanagi: Recca!!...san... Recca: Not with the "san"! [For the sake of my princess, I will be her ninja---] Narration: On that day...Hanabishi Recca met Sakoshita Yanagi. Also--- His door of density has opened. Chapters 3-4 To translation page [1]