.: Rekka no Honoo :. Rekka no Honoo [Flame of Recca] :: Anzai Nobuyuki VOLUME 17 :: translated by kamiya shuusai :: :: volume 16 :: CH 1 :: CH 2 :: CH 3 :: CH 4 :: CH 5 :: CH 6 :: CH 7 :: CH 8 :: CH 9 :: CH 10 :: volume 18 :: Aoi Honoo volume 17 chapter 01 text : ---the third ura butou satsujin is over--- through the long and difficult battles, the hokage was victorious. ...however, everything is not over yet. fate has invited them back into the battlefield------ a new chapter has begun--- Volume 17 Chapter 1 : Haven of School (in the hanabishi house, the alarm sounds in the morning, recca beats it up in his sleep and goes back to sleep as if nothing happened...) recca : [ju...st... 5 minutes...] (...... before he knows it, his bed is flipped over and kaoru has jumped him...) kaoru : phoenix splash----!! (V) hey, good morning. recca nii-chan. (recca looks at him sleepily and then goes off) recca : oh...... got it, koganei... errr... who are we up against today? kaoru : ah! wake up, wake up! kagero (enters holding a frying pan) : hey recca, get hold of yourself! kaoru-chan would laugh at you. recca (still @.@) : oh~~...... got it, kaa-chan. huh? what about mikagami, domon and fuuko? still sleeping? can't help it. kaoru : ah! wake up, wake up!! (later...) recca : ...... oh, I forgot. (eating breakfast) kogahei will de shtaying wit us hor awhile. (koganei will be staying with us for awhile, yeah, he's chewing...) kagero : [look at you! no manners.] hanabishi (reading a paper) : he's such a better kid than you!! recca (glare) : oh yeah...... (kaoru enters wearing a school uniform that is 3 sizes bigger...) recca (laughing like crazy) : it sure suits you!! [it's not suppose to be for winter.] kaoru : that's mean!! kagero : this use to be fuuko's brother's uniform. kaoru-chan is going to be in high school from now on. recca : EH!? he's not in elementary school!? kaoru : that's mean!! hanabishi : get out, shut up!! (even later... in the building with a sign that says advanced high school... class 1-A the door is flung open---) recca (enters) : chee-----se! (all the girls looks happy and his whole class comes over and starts to beat him up) classmates : RECCA----! you're alive, you bastard!! girl : what the hell--- we were so bored, hanabishi~~~! you didn't even call---! guy : hey!! in the ball game before, I lost to you!! I've been waiting for you ever since! punk (grab his shirt... recca's getting more and more sweatdrops) : without you who's always getting red marks...... the rest of us became targets!! more classmates : [look! isn't that recca!] (their teacher comes in) tatesako : oh! hanabishi!! what's wrong? (recca looks like he's got a headache...) text (around school) : ...somehow... this feels strange... yesterday was still in the satsujin dome--- all the fighting seems to be unreal... the school, the class room, the classmates. teacher : ...... hey--- somebody!! (vein, glares at the napping recca) beat up that idiot!! (the whole class turns and looks at him...) text : the peace...... (later) yanagi : then, let's go! (starts to tell her story with her childish drawings... pathetic...) yanagi : recca-man finally fights the dark demon! he can't lose! he must win!! BANGBANGBANGBANG----!! fire dragon attack----- (poor domon and fuuko... who are her audience) ...and to be continued, until next week! "burning flames" of recca-man 6 by rose yanagi!! (fuuko and domon looks very lost) a---h, that's mean!! (sob angrily) are my comic that boring? fuuko (they immediately start to clap T.T) : ah! very interesting!! domon : just now, I suddenly found it interesting!! fuuko : oh~~~ I'm just acting a little strange today. domon : me too! I'm not use to going back to normal life! fuuko : it's like...... a very strange experience---. I have a serious lack of sleep today. (ganko's face pops up) the moment I got back, ganko's been bothering me so I couldn't sleep at all. I was planning to sleep in school, and that was ruined by those guys in class. domon : listen to me... (T.T) I got beaten up by my mom when I got home. she's stronger than noroi...... and when I returned to school, since I cut all the time anyway, nobody tells me "long time no see"... recca (appears, carrying lots of food) : hey, princess!! your ninja has brought you bakery bread!! (yanagi immediately looks very happy) there! the three flavors and curry and etc...... yanagi : recca-kun will eat the pork one. fuuko (sweatdrop) : errr... he sure turned back into a normal student fast... [very high adaptability---.] yanagi (holding a bread) : [I'm happy... I'm really happy. I've always... always been waiting for this... god, please. let this moment----- continue forever......] recca : so, dumbass! where's mikagami? domon (vein) : don't call me dumbass!! didn't see him today! I don't know about the second year class. fuuko : yeah, didn't see him. yesterday, he said he's "going somewhere"... I wonder where he went? (somewhere in the unknown mountains, mikagami enters a ruined old house, the place is really messed up... holes in the wall etc.) tokiya : [...what... exactly happened...? master, meguri kyouza--- where are you now and what......?] (meet the bad guys now...) mori koran : ...... it's time. it's time for us to move to the top of the world...... (he's sitting in his throne, giving orders to a new group, the ura uruha) for that, we must carry out our plan in order. first... the strongest madougu that's slumbering in "their land", tendou jigoku!! I will go search for it along with renge. second... make sure whether kurei is alive or dead------ find him!! I won't rest in peace until I see his corpse! third! watch the hokage healing girl. heheheh... even if kurei is still alive, he can't do anything. his uruha has no one remaining. the ex-jyusshinshuu, rasen, is now the leader of I, mori koran's ura uruha------ rasen, you're smart...... staying loyal to kurei will only make you lose your life. mark the hokage!! find a chance and kill them one by one!! (rasen, the white hair man with no emotions just looks at mori koran with his dead eyes.) end of volume 17 chapter 1 translator's note : if you have the manga in front of you, or, if you are interested... I'd tell you that mori koran was talking to five people... of course they are not all there is to the ura uruha... in fact, I'd say that there's a lot more... especially important are the shishiten who works directly under rasen. but these five people there were : rasen, kirin, soukakusai, gaou and kamui... rasen, kirin and kamui have pictures in the adoption center if you are wondering who they are... well, I believe I mentioned that rasen and kirin are also on the opening page... ^^;; top volume 17 chapter 02 Volume 17 Chapter 2 : Those Other Shinobis (recca running home...) text : we've returned to normal life for a few days already. we're use to the way things use to be--- kagero (sees recca waving) : oh, welcome back. we'll be eating soon. recca (running up stairs) : gotcha. sign : recca's room (recca opens the door and gets hit in the face by a doll...) kaoru : ah. (the people who threw the doll? a few girls, kaoru's friends) sorry, recca nii-chan. (as recca's looking at them wide eyed, the girls are looking at him curiously) girl 1 : [that's kaoru-kun's onii-san?] girl 2 : [they do look a little alike...] recca (drag kaoru to the side) : hey. koganei. you're pretty popular... kaoru : eh? n... no, because they wanted to play with me......!! recca : wahahah!! that's why I said you were popular!! heheh--- one guy among all the girls!! (next thing he knows, he's getting beaten up by the girls...) girl 1 (cracking her knuckles) : making fun of kaoru-kun--- girl 2 : we won't forgive you even if you are his onii-chan. sign : personal guardians recca (getting up) : those~~~ stupid~~~ bitch~~~ kaoru (trying to calm him down ^^;;) : s... sorry... (then gets serious) oh yeah... you should watch out, recca nii-chan. something's weird lately. (recca looks a little surprised) recca : weird... what? kaoru : uh. since about two days ago, I felt like somebody was watching me. recca : ...watching...? (meanwhile, the 5 ura uruha people are all gathered together, a little meeting with mokuren.) kirin (the girl with the sunglasses) : well! finally, the five of us are gathered here. aren't we all troublesome folks. soukakusai... (the man carrying a big pot, wearing a black cloak) kamui... (this typical punk look alike) gaou---- (some guy with long hair...) and... our leader--- rasen!! soukakusai : look who's talking? you're calling us troublesome, kirin! [heheh...] gaou : where are the other ura uruha? like aoi... those weirdoes? kirin (casually) : they went to search for kurei and the other traitors. kamui : traitors? ...oh, you mean those three ninja group... it's fine to just leave them. come on, they don't mean anything in the ura uruha anyway. they're not important. mokuren (still all bandaged up...) : anyway, your target is the hokage! so move it!! how much longer are you gonna fool around!! (rasen looks at him with *that* dead look) mokuren (scared, backing away) : EH!!? w... what!! kirin : watch your language, mokuren. you don't have to tell us that "it is time"... (and with that, the five of them disappears... leaving mokuren... now... fuuko is alone on the streets, licking her ice cream cone, and soukakusai appears quietly behind her, completely unnoticed... in an old abandoned building, domon just finished beating up some punks) domon : who did you think I am, idiots~~~. remember me. you have to bow from now on when you walk pass me!! (he stops when he hears somebody clapping behind him) I see--- (crack knuckles) that I still missed somebody. (gaou is behind him, chewing on a piece of chocolate, he's holding something like a staff. meanwhile, kaoru's walking on the streets accompanied by his three loyal supporters... and he suddenly looks alarmed) kaoru : everyone... run. girls : eh? what? kaoru : HURRY!!! (wipe out his kougon anki which he's always been carrying around) [no good...... it's too late!!] (before him, standing on top of a power line pole, kamui smiles... same time, in school) yanagi : sorry, recca-kun! I was too into making my drawings. but I'm glad you came to pick me up! text : we've returned to normal life for a few days already. recca : it's dark here, I thought princess might get lost. (^.^) yanagi : ah!! that's mean!! (suddenly stops talking and looks the other way, recca also) ! text : we're already use to the way things use to be. (two people approaching from the shadows down the hall...) recca : ...who's there? text : until... they came--- end of volume 17 chapter 2 top volume 17 chapter 03 Volume 17 Chapter 3 : Rasen And Kirin (two people approach recca and yanagi...) yanagi : um... recca : don't get close, princess! text : watch out, I felt like somebody was watching me. recca (stare at them) : who are you. (rasen and kirin... of course, rasen's eyes as dead as always) yanagi : errr... um... recca (step in front of her) : I don't know why you are still in school at a time like this... but we're going home. move. kirin : isn't the moon pretty tonight. we meet in such a romantic mood. it's too bad if you just leave like this. chat with me a little longer! hanabishi recca-kun. recca : ! (kirin attacks first by throwing sharp spear looking thingies at recca, and he destroys all of them with nadare...) recca : NADARE! (the remains of the spears falls and turns into ashes) kirin (clapping) : WOW---- amazing!! you got all of them!! so you didn't forget how to fight yet... (sees her finger bleeding, ah, taihen...) noooo, I got cut!! miss calculation!! recca (sweatdrops) : ...... kirin : ......! (turns around and looks back at rasen) I know, about that! just a small failure! (seeing recca and yanagi walking outta there probably thinking they're some weirdo) don't run away!! (puts on the cool smile again) you have no where to run. the other hokage people right now are also... invited to this moonlight night's dance party. (that got recca's attention... meanwhile, domon is getting beaten up...) gaou : hey yo. you're ishijima... domon, right? are you gonna be serious? domon : [I beat that noroi in the ura butou...... this guy's not simple!!] who are you!! gaou : gaou. I am a little related to you. (meanwhile, the three girls with kaoru are trembling against the wall) kaoru (lifted up by kamui) : uh...... kamui : sorry, but I have no weaknesses. these girls are affecting you, so you can't concentrate? I can tell from your increasing body temperature and sweating rate. your small, but pretty chivalrous--- I used that against you~~~ girls : stop! how cruel!! if you hurt koganei-kun, take us instead!! kamui (looking at kaoru through his computer vision) : nope... i... (licks kaoru... nasty T.T) like this boy. (back to school) kirin : ... we are--- the ura uruha! though we used to be uruha's inside assassination group, now we surface as mori koran's organization. recca : mori... koran? [these people... didn't they work for kurei!?] kirin (surprising recca by answering) : kurei's uruha has been eliminated. that's the truth. kurei---- (broken mask pieces) has died. (recca looks shocked... and even yanagi) yanagi : eh... kirin : he died. (takes out a madougu... some weird thing around her hand) he fell into the ocean after being wounded all over the body. but because the corpse hasn't surfaced yet, we don't know the actual details...... with the holes that penetrated his body, plus the salt in the water, he's most likely dead. recca (shocked) : [l... lying! that... kurei......!!] kirin (finished putting on her madougu) : alright, let's use this today. and I wasn't---- "lying". (attack) HAHOO!!! (the thing around her arm suddenly shoots out, it's connected to her hand by a long wire... recca sees it coming but I think he's still too shocked to move, yanagi jumps into the picture and pushes recca aside, so kirin misses) kirin (looked as if she'd die) : AHHH!! miss calculation again!! I forgot about the healing girl!! yanagi (shaking recca) : run, recca-kun! get up! recca : y... yes ma'am!!! (thinking as they are running away) princess, that was cool... (so they both run down the hall...) recca (looking back) : [yes... fighting in such a closed area, flying fire sparks will get on princess! and the enemy's power is also unknown... for the sake of princess, we have to get out of here!!] (kirin and rasen are still there... not really in a hurry to pursue them) kirin (cute smile) : those two are so cute. both worrying about each other! (rasen looks at her) I... I'm sorry... hn, I wasn't fooling around. I'm sorry... don't be angry, rasen... (leans close against him) I'll be serious this time. I won't miss again... (meanwhile, recca tries to open a locked door...) recca : damn!! this way's no good too!! no matter how I try, it won't open! yanagi : rather than going up, why don't we go down from the window. recca (looks embarrassed) : princess!! good idea!! [didn't even think of it.] text : ...i don't believe that kurei's dead! that stupid dumbass who doesn't know anything... he won't die so easily!! voice (suddenly in his head) : ~I said I wasn't lying, aren't you stubborn... kirin doesn't lie!~ recca : [wha...!? (kirin appears with her madougu right behind them) this woman...i've been wondering since before... could it be-----] kirin (smile) : yes, that "could it be". end of volume 17 chapter 3 top volume 17 chapter 04 Volume 17 Chapter 4 : Temporary Retreat (recca jumped up just in time to avoid another attack from kirin's madougu...) recca (vein) : grr!! (pulling yanagi) let's run, princess!! yanagi : ah. (they run up stairs) kirin (not chasing them) : hmph. (she's having fun ^.^) (recca and yanagi got to the roof) recca : damn it... this is in school! those bastards can't pick a place! yanagi (sweatdrop) : hey, those are bad guys? recca (>.<) : of course!! good people don't try to kill the moment they see you!! [they said they weren't kurei's uruha, but mori koran's ura uruha... their target is the hokage--- so fuuko and domon people are also...] (suddenly turns around, rasen is there...) recca (summons saiha) : you bastard... you think I'm always gonna run away? don't underestimate me, you white hair asshole!! (rasen still has the same look, recca gets really pissed off) say something! yo!! voice : impossible... for some reason, rasen... is someone who lost his expression and words...... however he is not a lonely person who cannot express his thoughts... yanagi (trembling) : what... this voice...? it's directly in my head...... voice : he has someone who understands him---- someone to be his mouth, his expressions, and his heart... kirin (appears behind rasen) : shingan--- kirin. (raise her hand and showed them a ring on her finger) with this madougu shingan, I can read people's hearts, and let them read mine. recca-kun seems to have realized that along the way--- you're pretty good, though our information had you as "stupid"!! recca (>.<) : WHO!? WHO SAID THAT!! (he blocks in front of yanagi) ......stay back, princess. hey, you said you're kirin? don't think we were being chased on to the roof. this is the most spacious place in the school--- we're fighting over here! kirin : that was cool------- then, recca-kun!! can you take my houkishin now!? HAAAA!! (kirin blasts off houkishin again, recca slashes it in half with saiha) recca : leader of the hokage ninjas, hanabishi recca!! at your service!! (switch over to kaoru and kamui...) kamui : well then. koganei-kun, shall I ask you once again? I just can't kill you since you're so cute. therefore... join us ura uruha!! you're a traitor anyway. kaoru (in a small voice) : I am...... kamui (lean over) : hn? speak up. kaoru : I said, "I am a hokage". you got it? hentai bastard. (smile) kamui (pause for a second, then raise his weapon) : ...looks like you need a few more lessons. it's alright, koganei-kun. you're just as cute without a hand. girls : s... STOPPPPP----! (suddenly, ensui penetrates kamui's body from behind) kamui : t... that's right. there's one more hokage...... that would be you...... (tokiya is standing behind him... meanwhile, recca and kirin's fight continues...) kirin (dodging an attack) : grr!!! [that man... he sure is strong!! but......] that just makes this more exciting!! I've still got a few more houkishin's balls... (suddenly fall down, foot in the air) WAH. recca (just summoned kokuu ^^;;) : kokuu yanagi (also in shock) : wa... hey---, recca-kun! kokuu... the flame enough to destroy the dome against a girl!!? recca (he looks really, really pissed off ^.^) : I had enough. have some sense, idiot!! I'll hit you if you don't disappear!!! (very suddenly and quietly, rasen appears next to him) !! (rasen slaps recca) gaa...! voice : "let me introduce myself, hanabishi recca-kun." (rasen looks down at recca coldly) "I am rasen of the ura uruha." recca : [......w, when did he come up next to me......!? I completely... completely didn't feel it!!] kirin : "it is easy to kill you. but I'll leave that to the next opportunity." (rasen stepped back and let her do all the talking) "although it was an order, I don't agree with such tactics. I'll fight you in another place." recca : ...couldn't tell he's also a gentleman. when and where? better not be in school. kirin : "you will know soon enough. a place that you must come." ......the above were rasen's words, spoken by I, kirin. (turns around and looks at rasen) got it. (smiles) (at the same time...) kamui (hears something) : ......! yeah, got it, kirin!! (tokiya looks at him, kamui smiles) see you both next time. especially koganei-kun. I love you. (so he disappears, dropping tokiya's ensui, the girls jump over to hug kaoru) girl : KOGANEI-KUN------!!! tokiya (picked up his ensui) : [he didn't seem painful at all. that man... who is he?] (meanwhile....) gaou : WHAT!!? (he looks really pissed off) what do you mean "retreat", kirin!? I'm so close to killing him!! let me kill him!! I will... (suddenly he stops dead) !! (and he starts to sweat) i... I understand... I do as I'm told...... tell rasen that... (disappears from the unconscious domon) ishijima domon--- you'll die next time!!! voice : a place that you must come...... the hint is... kirin (disappearing with rasen, waving back at them) : tendou jigoku!! your mom probably knows the meaning. see ya. voice : until we meet again--- hokage! end of volume 17 chapter 4 top volume 17 chapter 05 Volume 17 Chapter 5 : The Two Craftsmen (in a traditional japanese house...) label : hokage's hidden house. fuuko : that's --- why---, who the hell...... are those people!! (she's fuming, literally, everyone else stares at her with sweatdrops except tokiya who's sleeping) kaoru : ura uruha... they said so. fuuko (screaming) : then they're enemies!? I'm so fucking pissed! (trembling with anger) last night... (fuuko suddenly turned around, soukakusai jumps back) fuuko : who are you, I have no time for perverts. soukakusai : my name is soukakusai--- you felt my presence so easily... you're amazing, kirisawa fuuko. (licking her ice cream) good work, heheheh...... fuuko (her face changed drastically ^.^) : AH!!? that's fuuko-chan's ice cream... damn you!! (punch) soukakusai (dodge) : hehehe, it's an indirect kiss, next time I'll really kiss your lips...... my prediction, next time we meet, you will completely be mine. (disappear) fuuko (now, >.<;;) : ...and so that's what happened, everyone. [uh--- and I feel sick everytime I think about it (sweatdrop)] recca (getting slapped as soon as he said that) : it's alright. it's only indirect... fuuko (slap, slap, slap) : I dare you to say that again, monkey!! (then jump over and kicks tokiya) fuck--- asshole!! stop sleeping! mi-bou!! (new name for tokiya ^^;;) kagero (sweatdrops) : ah, she's gone insane... fuuko. fuuko (calming down) : no doubt, kagero! I hate being treated like a stupid woman... (and she stops... as the old man kokuu suddenly appears and wraps his arms around her... you can imagine what happens next... then he gets slapped away when he tries to jump kagero, and then gets punched by recca when he tries to jump yanagi... etc. and he ignores ganko) arrow (pointed to ganko) : children not included. (later) kokuu (still bleeding) : nice to see you all--- long time no see, everyone!! fuuko : there's nothing nice about seeing you, stupid old man!! kagero : you pull that again next time, I'll kill you. recca (eyes bulging) : aren't you also one of the eight dragons!! how come you can leave the seal anytime you want!! kokuu (Y.Y) : that's my own super wonderful power!! ...anyway, yesterday when recca called me out... that girl named kirin was also cute... no, pretty strong--- and the other... he's called rasen? he is--- not simple. (everyone sits and listens solemnly) kokuu : truthfully even I get a chill down the spine. he's different from kurei who's always giving out a deadly aura! he has not aura. nor power...... nor anger...... I can't feel any life... it's like he's a puppet. yanagi : didn't she say he lost his emotions... and voice. recca (nod) : hn, hn. that girl who reads hearts was speaking for him. something about the place we all have to go to. the hint was--- tendou jigoku. (kagero and kokuu both have a very strange/shocked look) domon (drool): t... tendon jigoku!! (he's thinking of food, tendon is a rice dish) fuuko (somewhat in disbelief) : you can go eat alone. ganko : ba--ka. recca : what, you know something, kaa-chan? kagero (a little strange) : i... I don't know a lot... but--- kokuu (suddenly stand up) : tendou jigoku. that is--- the strongest and evilest madougu!! long ago...... (in the hokage village) text : when the hokage was only a young ninja group--- there were two genius weapon masters. the weapons they created were... the hokage madougu!! they were both competing for the same goal. "I am the strongest madougu maker"... but there was a decisive difference between them!! one of them--- argues "I make weapons not to kill but to protect people's lives". the other---- "for murder." he said, "don't say such pretty words. a weapon is used to kill people! I make weapons to kill!!" one made the shiki gami (paper) and the other made the shiki gami (hair)--- one made tetsugan, the other made sekichuu to rival. two have these two born in the same era, fate... with the two people competing to make the "strongest madougu"---- of course their skills are bettered to perfection. domon : I see! they become more skilled with the rivalry. fuuko : therefore some madougus are really similar. like ensui and hyoumaen. kokuu : yeah. using their abilities as an example--- something like ensui which has no evil was made by the former... and hyoumaen which is more deadly and harmful is the work of the latter!! and... the one who "creates for killing" 's final work is... tendou jigoku... kagero : and of the madougus that the hokage people guards for generations--- tendou jigoku is the only one that's seen as dangerous! it's somewhere in this country...... sealed in a place no one can reach. recca (glare at kokuu) : where...... is that, old man. kokuu (laugh) : I don't know!! hahahahahaha!! tokiya (sits up from his sleep) : ......... recca. when those two, rasen and kirin appeared before you--- why do you think they didn't attack yanagi-san? though we don't know what they're thinking...... they did say that kurei "was killed by mori". so mori doesn't need kurei anymore--- why do you think it's so? could it be that he knows the existence of an even higher power? (ever so calmly) the conclusion is, mori wants tendou jigoku. and he has already found the seal's location! recca (remembers mori's ugly face) : ......!! don't be stupid!! h... him getting it is the worst that can happen!! tokiya : and kokuu, you seems to know where it is. though you're trying to hide it, your face has it all. (everyone looks at kokuu) kokuu (shaking) : I can't... that place... only that place, you can't go there!! it's too dangerous...!! (sweating) I can't tell you!!! recca (jump kokuu) : damn you--- so you do know!! where is it!! kokuu : I CAN'T!! voice (from outside) : better--- think it through. if mori-san gets his hands on tendou--- that'll be the real problem. domon : ! fuuko (turn toward the door) : WHO'S THERE!!? domon : that was a kansai accent...... could it be... (@.@) (the door opens, a man in t-shirt/shorts, and three braids smiles at them with a fang showing ^^;;. he's wearing a baseball cap that's covering half of his face, carrying a long bundle and a big bag ^.^) mysterious man with the cap ^.^ : allow me--- to tell you. end of volume 17 chapter 5 top volume 17 chapter 06 (at the hokage house) mysterious man with the braids : hello, everyone! how are you all feeling!! Volume 17 Chapter 6 : Returns To The Battlefield mysterious man with the fangs : I went through a lot of trouble trying to find you. (the whole room of people looks at him curiously... *I don't think any of them recognizes him*) ganko : ? tokiya : [......! he is...] recca (cracking his knuckles) : who are you, damn it? one of rasen's!? mysterious man with the kansai accent ^^;; (who is about to fall over... *I can't believe they didn't recognize him*) : w... who? you forgot me? (VEIN POPS) look at me! it's me, JOKER!! text : ......processing... (recca looks at joker for ...... and then the image of joker in the black and white suit comes back...) recca (with the biggest bulging eyes I've ever seen) : JO... JOKER---------!? joker (grrrr) : ah!! look at that doubtful look! you don't believe me!? (zoom out) wait one second! (zoom back, with the joker hat on) there! fuuko (getting up) : ok, so we know you are joker... domon : what are you doing here!? joker : ...what I'm doing... didn't I say. I'm here to tell you where tendou jigoku sleeps. (smile) kokuu : ! how do you know. joker (sitting down) : oh! you're the old man who appeared in the dome. (kagero serves him a drink) ah! thank you madam, for the drink (meaning liquor T.T)! kagero : [it's water.] joker (drinking) : ...i saw that mori-san was moving around strangely. so~~~ I just did a little spying. he was with a girl I've never seen before, and went to a certain place! probably where that tendou was hidden... recca : I don't believe you!! you are the enemy!! what do you have planned!! fuuko : that's true. domon : he did lie about being kurei's people. (tokiya doesn't speak) joker : ...... (not as if he cares) whether you believe me or not is your freedom. I, myself, haven't really expected you to "take in my teachings". whatever, I kinda liked you people, plus this is something interesting, so I thought I'd help. you'd call this "helping the enemy"? recca (glare) : grr... grrrrr... kaoru : joker!! joker : ! kaoru (wink) : I believe you!! joker (blushing a little ^^;;) : koganei-kun...... kaoru : though joker is uruha's member, I don't think you're a that bad. [doesn't mean you're a good guy.] that's how I feel after fighting you. of course, if you lied, I'll give you another sixth form. joker (sweatdrop) : t... that's alright... (recca first glares at him, then he looks like he's reached a decision) recca : old man! I am going to tendou jigoku's place. even you, who's always fooling around, turns serious to stop me--- I know it's really dangerous... and that you're worried. but--- if that crazy bastard gets his hands on tendou jigoku---- princes... and all of us will face an even greater danger!! fuuko : we have to find the strongest madougu before mori... and destroy it!! domon (cracking knuckles) : so this is a contesting battle! kokuu (glare at all of them) : ............ DO WHATEVER!!! I don't know nothing!! the one time--- I felt like being serious, nobody listens!! hmph!! (his hand went on kagero's butt) kagero (jump) : YAA!! kokuu : go with your heart! (turning back into the dragon) that's a place where the hokage people don't even want to go! your enemies--- are not only the ura uruha!! (flies back into recca's arm) joker : ...so you've decided. then, let's start moving. recca : before that, joker, please tell me something if you know. kurei's... dead? (everyone pauses... joker pulls his cap a little lower *as if it's not low enough already*) joker : right now... the organization called uruha with kurei-san as the heart... has nothing left. in the urabutou, kai, genjurou, jishou, and noroi...... four of the ten gods died. raiha-san disappeared during the final batle--- neon-san tried to save kurei-san and fell into the ocean. the soldiers led by mokuren all joined the ura uruha. and the worst is--- of the two jyushinshuu that hasn't appeared yet, one of them... reigns supreme as the leader of the ura uruha! text : that man's name is--- RASEN!! recca : [that guy... he's one of the jyushinshuu!?] joker (he's suddenly holding his fist) : I don't really know about rasen. he's the mystery man. although kurei lost uruha... but... (sudden outburst) HE WON'T LOSE HIS LIFE!! THAT GUY WOULDN'T DIE SO EASILY!! (calm down, domon's giving him a funny look, sweatdrop) w... what the hell~~~ does that have to do with me anyway... (turn around) hn~~~ well, whether he's alive or dead, we'll find out. recca (smile) : [you're right...... that idiot, a strong body is the only thing he's got.] fuuko (knock recca on the head) : hey. don't you feel something tickling? just something? probably we like this excitement? domon : looks like we've got no luck--- with peaceful normal life. kaoru : me too, like this better than holding a pencil. fuuko (gives tokiya a mischievous glare) : mi-chan too, come on!! tokiya (sweating) : d... didn't say I wouldn't go... [why only me...... (sweatdrop)] yanagi : ? (looking at ganko) ganko (thinking T.T) : n... not again... again...... I have to wait for fuuko alone for a long time again...... recca (big smile) : ...alright. LET'S GO, HOKAGE!! text : the hokage ninjas head for the battlefield once more--- their goal... to destroy tendou jigoku!! end of volume 17 chapter 6 translator's note : alright! so you've got a summary of the jyushinshuu in this chapter... there was also a chart which I didn't describe, but it had 4 of the people labeled as dead, 3 (raiha and neon... and mikoto) as missing and of course we know what's going on with joker and rasen... as for the last member which is still a "?", I believe most people already knows who he is at this point... it was told in volume 23. mikoto will appear soon enough, I believe it's common knowledge that she joined the ura uruha, I believe she died in vol 26, rasen hasn't appeared since, after vol 21, dunno if he'll be back... raiha will be back in vol 20, the famous effort for saving his fuuko-san, then he hasn't appeared since 23, joker also... will be in vol 21 and 23 but disappears afterwards... we do know that those two are with kurei though. neon who's still missing at this point will be back... in the next few chapters... ^.^ and she has been fighting in the last few volumes that came out... (at this point, I'm just babbling about the recent whereabouts of all the jyushinshuu) anyway, so after some brief summary the only jyushinshuu who are really gonna count are raiha, joker and neon (on the good side), rasen may be back, genjurou will die again, and meguri kyouza will be there for the final fight. (at this rate, it's not gonna end at 30, because of all this crap that's been taking up time lately) top volume 17 chapter 07 Volume 17 Chapter 7 : Resurrection of Kurei (First Chapter) text : recca and co. of the hokage is heading into a new battlefield to destroy tendou jigoku... ...and on the other hand...... (...... renge and kurenai... they do look very alike...) text : kurei... kurei... rei... i...chan... nii... chan... onii-chan... (replay of kurei getting hurt, and mori's ugly face) everything you have... I will take away!! random words : you use to be so arrogant, now you're nothing but an insect. renge. your double. tendou jigoku. clone with a mixture of kurenai's cells. your mother turned into pieces of flesh. to assassinate kurei. onii-chan, ONII-CHAN. kurei (waking up from his nightmare) : WAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH (then he catch his breath) neon : ...kurei-sama......... (smiling with tears, holding a bowl of water, she rushes to hug him) kurei : neon...? neon (crying) : I'm glad... I'm glad... I was afraid... you wouldn't open your eyes anymore... kurei : ......... (look around) ...this place is......? (they're in an old church) neon (helping him wrap his wound) : this place is--- an abandoned building that no one comes to. since that time... (when they jumped off the cliff) we've floated to an unknown beach. for ten days, you've been unconscious. I was going to bring you to the hospital... but I was afraid to run into mori's people. in a place like this, I couldn't even really treat your wounds--- please forgive me... kurei (lying in bed) : neon... you seem slender? and you don't look well... neon (smiles, crying a little) : I can't take your kind words... I am... happy to just be of your service. (night time) masakari : I smell it...... I can smell it~~~ (he's an ugly and fat and stupid looking man, with some sort of weapon around his ten fingers) kurei's scent. (food and water on a table) neon : water--- and some food. kurei : it's alright... you eat it. you haven't eaten anything either. neon (in a lecturing manner) : it's alright!! [I'm on a diet.] but you can't be picky! (then she starts to giggle) kurei : what's wrong? neon : just now... I've begun to think about some memorable past moments. when I was working for kurei-sama as a maid---- (ah, the good old days) I was very happy every single day. (feeding kurei... ^.^ waaaahhhhh, the first chibi kurei picture *.*, he's blushing a little, being fed) at that time too, kurei-sama's stubbornness caused me a lot of trouble. kurei (he looks so cute *.*) : r... really? sorry for the trouble...... (he suddenly stops as images of mori, renge and his mother flashes back to him) GAA... (coughing out the food) neon (the plate is forgotten on the floor) : kurei-sama!! kurei : stop... stop!!! GAAAA!! neon : kurei-sama!! (hugs him gently) it's alright... it's alright... don't be scared... there's nothing to be scared of here... kurei (he's still shaking, with tears, sweat and a very crazy look) : no... I don't want to fight anymore......... everyone is gone... I lost everyone......!! neon (with a very sad and gentle look) : ......... then don't fight anymore. you have so many... many wounds. battle only brings you tragic memories... it's enough already--- have a peaceful life from now on. no one will blame you... (smile) if you don't mind, I'll be with you until the very end. the two of us can run to someplace no one knows... kurei : everyone... disappeared... disappeared... (he suddenly pushed neon on to the bed, she was first surprised and then looked at him with that gentle look...) text : ...don't be scared... I... will not disappear... (neon kisses kurei) I will always be at your side--- kurei-sama...... (scene fades out...) (AHEM... leaving those two alone ^^;; later, outside, kurei getting some time alone) neon : [have a peaceful life from now on... the two of us can run to someplace no one knows...] kurei (smile to himself) : [that's really...... not bad...] (suddenly) !! masakari (appears) : heheheh. label : ura uruha - masakari masakari : found you! found you! kurei, I~~ found~~ you~~. ma-kun's got the big fish~~~. neon (still asleep) : I love you... kurei-sama... (suddenly she wakes up) ! (masakari's beating up kurei...) kurei (barely standing) : ura uruha... mori's people...? masakari : so what if I am, loser!! I will get a lot of money when I kill you. although we were told to report directly to kirin once we find you! ma-kun alone is enough against a wounded man. screw it, screw it!! the honor's all mine!! neon (running over) : kurei-sama!! kurei : ! don't come over! neon!! masakari (sees neon) : hn~~~? (that pathetic idiot slaps neon, poor fool, he doesn't know what's coming... as for kurei who's watching all this) text (mori koran's ugly face) : everything you have--- I will take away!! take away... take away...! TAKE AWAY!!! kurei (trembling with anger) : you've... gotta... be joking... masakari (stepping on neon) : what was she doing, this woman? how dare she oppose ma-kun! I'll punish you. die!! kurei (calmly) : move your dirty foot, pig... if you can understand human words. masakari (turn around) : WHAT!? text (recca's determined face appears before kurei's eyes) : I fight to protect!! kurei : although I'm not too happy about this... but I can understand that guy's words a little bit now. (his cruel smiles returns and he raised his flaming hand) I knew I just couldn't--- be allowed to have a peaceful life. end of volume 17 chapter 7 top volume 17 chapter 08 Volume 17 Chapter 8 : Resurrection of Kurei (Second Chapter) (kurei looks at masakari coldly, his flame is back ^.^ masakari moves his foot off of neon...) masakari (sweating) : w, what's this~~~. even the flame came out, don't be so pissed. ma-kun was only joking... (suddenly attack) that was a lie---!! I'M REALLY, REALLY GONNA KILL YOU!! (next... you should see the way his arm and leg are flying off...) masakari (falls) : a... AHHHHHHHHH GAAA! ahhhhhhhh---!! my arm!! my leg!? kurei (put a hand on him) : your choice---- masakari : ! kurei : medium... raw, well done--- how would you like it cooked?(^_____________^;;) masakari : the steak? (humming) o... oh right--- ma-kun likes to eat anything... just right will be fine...... ................................................. ......................... (suddenly realize) you don't mean to...... (and kurei toasts him...) YAAAAAAAAAAA GAAAAAAAAA (then he picks up neon, she's a little out cold) neon : kurei... kurei-sama... [I'll be with you until the very end. the two of us can run to someplace no one knows......] kurei : [......forgive me... neon... I will never forget you---- goodbye...... (he looks down at neon... later... neon wakes up...) neon : ...... (she's lying on a bed in a hospital) ...this place is? doctor : oh! you're awake, miss. it's alright, don't worry anymore. this is a clinic in a small town. usually only some old men and woman come... I'm glad to see a young face. neon : kurei-sama... where's kurei-sama!? doctor : the man with a burnt mark on his face? he left already. he had a gentle... and beautiful look...... he was worried, always looking at you... he had a message he wanted to tell you. "even if you're left alone"---- "you have to be happy"...... (neon was crying unstoppably in her bed... meanwhile, it looks like kurei's got his mask back...) label : tsuki no miya men : EMERGENCY!! all the soldiers assemble at the gate!! IT'S KUREI!! (if you look closely, you'd see the new mark on his mask, the hokage symbol, but it's too early for that) men : I knew it... he's still alive!! mori-sama was right!! if he's still alive, he'd come here for his adopted mother!! man 1 : hey... tsukino-sama is... man 2 : don't tell!! don't worry!! we have a strong advocate! makiya (some other pathetic fool) : well, kurei. (holds out his weird looking madougu) if you're looking for remaining pieces, there might still be some left. you see? nice to meet you. I am ura uruha's makiya. is your head alright, to drag your beaten body back here? you would've liked to know that I was here. (no reaction from kurei ^.^) I will show you---- (the madougu glows) the power of my madougu. (next thing, kurei waves his hand and makiya's been cut in half ^______^) kurei : mori koran--- where is he? men (running away) : makiya-san in one hit...!!! WAAA! run!! text : afterwards... all the people in tsuki no miya lost their lives--- the remaining "human" left his heart with a woman... that man turns once more into a "demon"---- the fallen angel in charge of death, kurei has resurrected. end of volume 17 chapter 8 top volume 17 chapter 09 Volume 17 Chapter 9 : The Underground World (somewhere deep in the mountains, the hokage comes upon a giant tree) everyone : wow---... that's some tree!! domon (looking around) : ...but where are mori's gang? recca : hey---, joker! tendou jigoku's really in this mountain? joker (sitting on the side) : to be exact, we're not there yet. please just wait--- a little longer. recca : what are you playing at. (the grrr look) yanagi : hey, hey, everyone, (^.^ pointing at a little flower) look. that's a pretty flower! recca (immediately jump over) : ah----, you're right, princess--- domon (look at the happy two) : we're not here for hiking. (vein) we're going in to enemy territory...... why did we have to bring yanagi along. [it's dangerous.] tokiya (on the side) : you're wrong, gorilla. don't forget that mori koran's still after yanagi-san. doesn't matter whether he takes tendou jigoku or we destroy it... he'll move on to yanagi-san next. so we have to keep her close, so it's easier to protect her, gorilla. you got that? gorilla. (^^;; he kept on repeating gorilla...) domon (vein, T.T) : you... got beep with me? fuuko (sweatdrop) : you don't have to cry...... (joker looks at his watch... and gets up) joker : it's time--- (to fuuko) fuuko-san. please lend me a crystal to any madougu. fuuko (suspiciously) : hn? I'll kill you if you steal it. [I'll cement you.] (hand him the oni no tsume crystal) joker : thanks---a lot. (taking it and walking over to the tree) recca : ? (joker puts the crystal in a specific spot on the tree trunk and he screams............) joker (pointing to the cliff) : OPEN!!! OPEN THE DOOR!! (................................................................ no reaction ^^;;) recca (step on joker) : nothing happened, you bastard. joker : kyaa---!! h... how could that be!? (sweatdrops, with two big bumps on his head, T.T) I really saw it~~~. mori-san put a madougu's crystal into this place on the tree! he was also looking at the time...... and at this time, the moment he put it in... the cliff over there---- BOOM--- opened up a cave! yanagi (feeling the cliff wall) : ? fuuko : maybe you need a special madougu? like a madougu key. domon (@.@) : then we can't go in!!? (recca glares at the wall, suddenly, a voice surprise him) kokuu : oh come on, guess I have no choice. since I really didn't want you to go in, I didn't tell you... he wasn't wrong!! supposedly any madougu that proves to be hokage should work. recca (yelling at his own arm ^^;;) : then why didn't it open, old man!! kokuu : there's another necessary means------ light...!! recca (calling domon over) : hey domon, gimme your flashlight---! kokuu (vein) : idiot! not that light!! wait for it...... the light of the night--- will show you the way!! (the clouds move out of the way... and the moon appears, the light reflects through the madougu crystal and shines on the opposite cliff wall, a big cave opens up) fuuko : a... a cave----- appeared!! joker (jump up in accusation, vein) : see!! I didn't lie!! I got kicked for nothing!! kaoru (sweatdrops, backing away) : s... sorry, joker, come on, recca nii-chan is simple minded... (sweatdrop) fuuko (joker whistling on the side) : so it didn't open because the clouds were covering the moon! well, at least we've found the entrance... you guys. (smile) are you prepared? tokiya : what kind of preparation? I don't plan on dying yet. (domon thinks about gaou for a moment and then looks up determinedly, kaoru has a short flashback) text : that bastard was only a weirdo. don't bother with him, kaoru-kun! yeah! forget the bad things with something happy!! sunday, let's all go to the zoo! we'll make you lunch! kaoru-kun will be the judge of who's the best! kaoru : [look at me... for the first time I've got friends of the same age......] (smile, fang showing) of course--- it's the preparation to live. fuuko nee-chan. recca (smiles at yanagi) : don't worry! nobody's taking my princess!! yanagi (smiles back) : hn... recca : then... LET'S GO, YO!! domon : gotcha!! (and they all head into the cave... ........) kirin : .......... 1, 2, 3... 4... 5, 6 people. I can feel their minds. so they did come, the hokages. (smile, they're in a cave, the ura uruha people all there, with rasen sitting in the center) as long as it makes you happy, rasen. (meanwhile, the hokage are moving further into the cave) recca : this place... is like an underground world. the lower you go, the bigger it is. (him and fuuko are pinned to the wall by some traps of shooting rock cones, he looks blue) I wish my house was this big~~~ fuuko (sweatdrop, squashed between two spears) : eh----- fuuko-chan doesn't want a house with this kind of security! domon (hanging on the edge of a pit from falling on to the sharp things below) : well, to get to "treasure" deep inside... tokiya (him and kaoru are in better condition ^^;; destroying everything that tries to fall on them) : you have to pass rounds of obstacles. fuuko : isn't it exciting. (at least I think fuuko said this... can't really tell) text : hokage ninjas + princess has successfully sneaked into the sealed land--- right now, their position is 30m from the entrance. battling with the traps. end of volume 17 chapter 9 top volume 17 chapter 10 Volume 17 Chapter 10 : Curse of Tendou Jigoku (finally after they're through with the traps...) recca : geez----- finally------ no more traps. nobody got lost or anything? (big happy face) do a count!! 1 yanagi (also kiddy happy) : 2!! domon (looks pissed) : 3 fuuko : 4! tokiya (as he is always) : 5... kaoru (happy face too) : 6 recca (looks at kaoru) : ........ (round eyes, very round eyes) ...what about joker? kaoru : oh yeah, didn't anyone see him? domon : don't tell me--- he didn't come in since the beginning... recca : that guy's personality's just that nobody can make him do anything he doesn't want. (joker's funny smile flashes before all of them) just forget it. domon : but, hanabishi... what kinda madougu is tendou jigoku!? everyone says it's the worst, evilest madougu, but how? what kinda power does it have, doesn't anybody know? recca : ...i don't know either. just that even kokuu feared it so... (somebody's approaching) fuuko : who's there!!? (a few -three to be exact- ugly, nasty, zombie looking people appear... they look half dead, basically, and all the hokage people stare at them in horror) zombies : g... gaaaa... k... kaaaa.... yanagi (probably) : kyaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh fuuko (run up) : WHAT THE HELL!? THESE ZOMBIES!! domon : monsters who protect the sealed land!? fuuko (jump up to attack) : out of the way!! zombies : ................. (they open their mouth to say something...) fuuko : !? (she suddenly stopped) kaoru : ? recca : what's wrong? fuuko... fuuko (turn around) : these people... are not enemies----- zombies : k... kill......... please... kill us... (sometime later, these people tells their story) zombies : we...... use to be bandits...... although right now... we look like ugly monsters...... we use to be normal human beings...... domon (sweat) : you're kidding...? recca : what turned into this? zombie : tendou jigoku... in the deepest part of this sealed land sleeps that madougu that cursed...... us with no death. recca (surprise) : [no... death!?] zombie : we don't know how much time really past...... but we came here a long, long time ago... text : in the time when we were still humans, there was a ninja army called "hokage"... they had a kind of mysterious weapon with magical power called "madougu". that brought disaster to the hokage, as the general, oda nobunaga destroyed them------ those madougus were hidden in various lands. when we learned that the strongest of those madougus, tendou jigoku was hidden here, the twenty one of us bandits------ came here to get it. one... after another...... (all caught in the traps) died. like protecting a treasure, the natural guardian showed its fangs at us------ until only us three remained... finally------ we found tendou jigoku!!! (a bright flash of light) but the moment we touched it... bandits : AHHH!? ahhhhh, hot! hooooooooot!!my body... is burning!! WAHHH!! text : and a voice spoke in our heads--- tendou jigoku : foolish humans... you are not qualified to take me!! only the one I have chosen can have all of my power! fools, who doesn't know your place, I bestow upon you the pains of hell. I... CURSE YOU... zombies : ...and so, our right to die with passing time was taken away... the entrance was closed, we even forgot light... how we envy the companions who died... many times we tried to die... tried committing suicide... but no matter how the body is hurt, our soul wouldn't leave----- only the pain remains... thirst... hunger... (everyone listens with a solemn expression) even so......... we can't die... recca (he's already trembling with rage) : tendou jigoku's...... fault......... [this place too...... (think about his mother)] text : "for 400 years... I walked through the darkness alone..." (kagero's crying) "kill me... recca......" recca (his fist's shaking too) : [this place too...... has people who lives in hell and can't even die.........] (with their story... yanagi looks so sad... she goes up to one of them) zombie : ! yanagi : ...all this time... wasn't it sad...... wasn't it painful...... (crying) but... I can't... do anything...... so pathetic... aren't I...... zombies (crying also) : ...... you... you'd hug us... stinking and dirty.........? for this monster... you'd cry......? such a gentle heart... such a warm heart...... oh... like I thought......... being human is good... (one of them sees fuujin on fuuko's hand) you guys are carrying madougus? please... use the power of those madougus------ and give us happiness...... we understand that if it difficult for you people who are still young...... however---- we want the freedom to die!! with a madougu's power, surely you can break a madougu's curse...... please!! kill us!!! yanagi (crying, turns to recca) : recca-kun...... recca (thinking about kagero, and he looks sad and angry) : [I understand their pain...... how much it hurts...... but... but...... it's so cruel...... I can't... doesn't matter the reason, I can't kill somebody----- plus I am the descendant of the ninjas who did this to them...!!] (suddenly... tokiya steps up with his ensui) tokiya : move, recca. recca : !! stop!! STOP IT, MIKAGAMI!! (but tokiya ignored him and waved his ensui... all three zombies were frozen in solid ice) recca : hyoumon ken... absolute zero----- *zettai reido* tokiya : they can forget pain for a short period, and fall asleep...... (he almost looked gentle ^^;;) if we can destroy tendou jigoku----- then their curse will be broken. domon : ......... I see...! like menou's dad who also returned to normal after mugen was broken!! recca (touch the ice) : ......just a little... just bear with it a little longer...... I promise--- I will cleanse your souls... (he looks up... and had a furious look in his eyes) I will--------- destroy tendou jigoku!! (somewhere... in some deep darkness) tendou jigoku : ...... ...... I can feel it......... the qualified one I have chosen has come!! one who can receive my power!!! end of volume 17 chapter 10 top :: volume 16 :: volume 18 ::