[Image][Image] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RECCA NO HONOO [FLAME OF RECCA] By Anzai Nobuyuki Volume 1 Chapter 1: Ninja and the Princess Translated by Kamiya Shuusai / Edited by Willow [ Chapter Index | Next Chapter ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign: Personal Property! No trespassing! Domon: Hanabishi, I’ll definitely defeat you today! Recca: (smirk) Just come and attack me! Volume 1 Chapter 1 : The Ninja and the Princess (Domon punches and misses, breaking the ground next to Recca. Recca jumps onto the fence surrounding them.) Recca: Whoa! Your physical strength remains the same, Domon. Domon: (fuming) Shit! You're pretty quick! (Get the hell down here!) What are you, a monkey? Recca: (taking out marbles) Wrong, wrong, wrong! Listen carefully: I am - a Ninja. (Recca throws the marbles at Domon. They explode around him.) Recca: Hey! Here it comes again! (Domon evades the attack) Recca: ! Domon: (Mwahahaha!!) You use this trick every time! Do you think I’d still fall for it? (Domon then steps on a rope and falls into a trap) Domon: (very loud) Fuck! You actually resorted to digging a trap! That’s so cheap! Recca: (kneeling to one side of the hole, looking down at Domon) It has nothing to do with being cheap! This is a special trick I prepared beforehand so I could win! Domon: (still screaming) You asshole! Recca: That’s called foresight. It’s a skill the ninja must have! Domon: (with THE finger) Fuck this ninja crap; what year do you think it is right now? Recca: (very offended, holding a firecracker above the hole) Don’t underestimate the ninja’s revenge. Domon: AAAH! Hot, hot, hot! Didn’t your teacher in elementary school teach you not to do such dangerous things to other people? Recca: (walking away, smiling) When you win, I’ll do anything you say. How’s that? Domon: (voice only) All right! Tomorrow at school, we’ll do it again! WAAA - (Someone’s watching as Recca gets home. There are boxes all over the place, and many of those explosive marbles that he threw at Domon in the yard.) Recca: (opens the door) Hey, pop! I’m home. Hanabishi: (cigarette in mouth) Hey! Recca, you’re back. (Recca kicks Hanabishi in the head) Hanabishi: (still smoking) How dare you attack me without any warning? I AM still your father! Recca: How can you smoke while making fireworks?! Hanabishi: Dangerous, isn’t it? Fine! (He throws the cigarette away carelessly. Recca hurries to catch it.) Recca: It’s even more dangerous throwing it away like that! Text: Hanabishi Recca, that’s my name. (Recca enters his room. It’s full of ninja stuff, books, etc.) Text: My dream is to become a ninja! Because they're the nameless heroes who lived during the time of the warring states; not for money, fame, or power - just to serve their one lord, don’t act to please, as if they don’t exist in this reality... (While Recca is holding a sword in his room, Hanabishi surprises him.) Hanabishi: Recca! Tell me the truth! Did you take my fireworks and use them to fight people again? Recca: (swallows hard) And i-- am a ninja, so... Hanabishi: (very scary look) My fireworks are not your toys! They're not for you to play with and waste! Recca: (sweating) Sorry... Hanabishi: (funny face) It’s ok as long as you learn your lesson! No dinner today! [Mwahahaha!] (He leaves.) Text: The word nin *in ninja* is a blade on top of a heart... so a ninja is to endure what others cannot. (Yanagi’s walking through the park. There are a few guys secretly observing her.) Idiot #1: (for lack of a better description) Hey! That’s her! Idiot #2: The Sakoshita girl. Idiot leader: The prettiest girl around here! Even a playboy like me is falling for her... Idiot #1: But that chick’s hard to get... [I’ll bet a thousand bucks you can’t get her.] Idiot leader: Sakoshita! (The guy bows, like to a dancing partner.) Text: Would you please go out on a date with me? Yanagi: (lost look) Excuse me - what does "date" mean? Idiot leader: (facefault) Stop acting! All high school girls date these days! (starts to pull Yanagi) Anyway, just come with me! Idiot #1: Isn’t this called kidnapping? Yanagi: Ah... my hand hurts... Let go! My hand hurts... (Recca jumps in and kicks the guy out of the way.) Idiot leader: That hurts! What happened? Idiot #1 & 2: Who are you? (Recca stands in front of a tree, hiding behind a picture of a tree trunk.) Text: Vanishing Act. Idiot #2: You an ostrich? Recca: I'm here to help you! Yanagi: Huh? Recca: What kind of man are you, picking on little girls? If you wanna fight, I, Hanabishi Recca, am your opponent! (The guy he kicked earlier gets up. There are many people standing behind him, all looking scary.) Random guy: Hanabishi? Idiot #2: So, you're that famous stupid ninja guy? Recca: (close up, sweaty, and scary): "Stupid"? ------ Text: Recca... thank you for saving me. If it wasn't for you, I would've been dead... Please let me repay you. Recca... (Recca is sleeping on Yanagi's lap, and in his dream he sees a princess that looks exactly like Yanagi speaking to him. He's kneeling in front of her.) Recca: [D... don't be so formal...] (still dreaming) It's my duty to protect the princess... (He wakes up and finds his head on her lap. He jumps up, embarrassed.) Recca: WAAAA-- Yanagi: Ah! (Yanagi bows her head; Recca's heart is beating very fast.) Yanagi: Thank you for saving me, Hanabishi-san. My name is Sakoshita Yanagi - just call me Yanagi. (Recca stares at her in surprise. Yanagi is just confused) Yanagi: [?] Do I have something on my face? Recca: No, no! I just think you look like the princess in my dream! No wonder I feel like I've seen you before! (talking to himself) Damn, if I had the firecrackers with me, I wouldn't have been beaten up so badly! [All 'cause pop was so unreasonable!] There were only four, and I... (stares at his hand) Huh? It doesn't hurt anymore... (Yanagi is holding his hand, Recca's heart is beating loudly. On the back of his hand there is a wound. Yanagi puts her hand on top of it, and the wound begins to heal itself. Recca stares at her with surprise; Yanagi just keeps on smiling.) Yanagi: I'm weird, right? The first time I discovered that I had this power was a long time ago when my parrot was dying... I was so sad, I just held it and cried, praying "Please get better!"... Recca: And he really did get better? Yanagi: Hn... this is a secret, because I don't want to be treated like a weirdo. But... I feel so strange today... Why am I saying so much to someone I just met? Recca: From your uniform, you should be from my school! How come I've never heard of you? Yanagi: Maybe it's because I don't attract much attention... but, about your stories, I... Stranger: Ah! Gross! What the hell is this? (A dog is lying in the middle of the path. A few girls look at it with disgust. Yanagi runs up to it.) Recca: Hey! Hey! What's wrong? (Yanagi pushes the girl aside.) Yanagi: Get out of my way! (She hugs the dog. The girls stare at her. Recca looks shocked.) Recca: Sako... shita... Girl #1: What's the problem with that bitch? Girl #2: Uh~ disgusting. (Yanagi is holding the dog, which is now fine. She has tears in her eyes. Recca watches, looking very amazed.) Yanagi: He's fine now! Look... (But there is now blood all over her. Recca keeps staring.) Recca: [a princess covered with blood...] ... (determined) I've made up my mind! Yanagi: !? Recca: You are the only one who can be the master that I will protect! I, Hanabishi Recca, will follow your every wish from now on! I really like you! Princess! Yanagi ...My name's Yanagi, not princess. [?] Recca: It doesn't matter. You are my princess! Come with me - I wanna show you something! (Recca pulls Yanagi to an abandoned factory building. They go inside - it's really dark.) Yanagi: This place is creepy. Recca: I can't help it; it's too bright outside. If I don't find a dark place... then you can't see anything! (Recca takes out a lot of different fireworks.) Yanagi: (cute smile) Ah! they sell firecrackers at this season? Recca: (funny laugh) It's my dad's job! (holds up one finger) Okay! Watch carefully! This is the real... (serious) ...power of Hanabishi Recca. (He holds up his hand and a flame appears. Yanagi looks frightened. Recca uses the fire dancing on his finger to light the firecracker, and hands it to Yanagi.) Recca: Here! Hanabishi's special firecracker! Yanagi: Ah... (holds the firecracker) waaa... so pretty... Text: (Recca, with a funny face on) Not as pretty as you... although Recca couldn't bring himself to say it. Recca: Somehow, when my fingers create friction, a flame appears from them. Even my dad can't do it. I'm probably just some weirdo. (Yanagi extends her pinky and hooks Recca's finger.) Yanagi: Now we both know each other's secret! This way... we'll become really good friends? Recca: (surprised) Ah... of... of course! But, you're the princess! So we have a princess-and-ninja sort of friendship, right? Yanagi: (totally lost) Huh... [?] Text: ...found... I... found you... (Something strange is happening; the shadows deep in the darkness are changing form.) Voice: (Hahaha... Finally... I've found you... Good...) (A person is emerging from the shadows - a woman.) Kage Hoshi: I've finally found you! It's been so long in the passage of time... Finally, I've found that child from so long ago... in this world -- the only one who can kill me... (Yanagi is playing with the firecrackers. She and Recca are totally unaware of the shadow.) Text: I, Hanabishi Recca, will become a ninja who will even risk his life to protect his princess -- Recca: [Hey! Princess, this is too dangerous!] Yanagi: (holding a firecracker) [But it's not even burning...] Text: This is my only dream in life! 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