A samurai's life is one of discipline, property, and challenge.

Samurai must train constantly in order to hone their skills

It was early in the morning when the Shinkengers, sans Chiaki, were training at the training yard. Mako and Ryuunosuke were training with dummy's while Kaoru and Kotoha were sparring with each other.

Her favorite training partners were Kotoha and Ryuunosuke, she didn't like to train with Mako since she didn't like the way the older woman tried to analyze her...and well, Chiaki wasn't exactly the best at swordsmanship so training with him was a waste of time...for her, Kotoha was his training partner if Kaoru was training with Ryuunosuke.

Jii was observing them while being sat on the porch as he wanted to be sure about their abilities before giving them more advanced training and he had to admit that it was true that having the retainers in the mansion was kind of holding the princess back in some ways but giving her a little more time to develop her skills as a leader.

He remembered how hard was it to Lord Masataka to learn to lead his retainers into battle...but he had no say about that since he was not the Shiba caretaker at the time.

The old man was looking at them with pride as they had been getting better during the few weeks they had stayed at the mansion, then he noticed that one of the retainers was missing.

"Where is Chiaki?" Jii asked one of the kuroko who was preparing the tea.

The kuroko explained that the Green samurai overslept again and was soon to be taken to the training yard.

The man sighed, he didn't remember Tani Kurando being like that during his tenure as Shinken Green but then again, Chiaki's father was not as young as his son was at the moment.

He then looked at the other retainers and felt a little glimmer of hope.

But it was shattered when the Green samurai was carried by four kuroko while still sleeping and left on the ground while yawning.

"Idiot" Kaoru muttered while giving Chiaki a quick glance, the boy just rolled his eyes and yawned again while he picked up a training sword and walked towards a training dummy.

"Chiaki..." Ryuunosuke started to say in a scolding tone "You can't be this irresponsible! A samurai must be always ready for battle!"

Jii chuckled lightly and walked into the training yard and said "Ryuunosuke...you shouldn't talk" Then motioned a kuroko to give the Blue samurai a pair of hakama since the young man was using his pajama pants.

"I'm so sorry!" The man said while blushing and started changing his clothes in front of all of them which made the other cringe.

"Kotoha..." Jii said "Go train with the others, Chiaki you'll train with hime-sama"

"Eh?" Chiaki and Kaoru said at the same time.

"Okay" Kotoha simply said and went with Ryuunosuke who had finally changed his pants and Mako who was watching with a curious look.

"It's not fair" Chiaki mumbled "I just got up..."

Kaoru just resigned with a huff and told him "Let's just to this"

They both got into defensive position and suddenly Chiaki lunged forward but Kaoru quickly blocked the hit, then she hit him on the leg and then another hit on the back making him fall.

"That hurts!" He protested.

"You didn't even try to block" She simply said and was about to ask Ryuunosuke to train with her but Chiaki stood up and said "Let's do this"

Both samurai got again into position, this time Chiaki waited a little longer to attack but when he lunged forward he left his left side unprotected and so Kaoru hit him there.

"It's not fair" He complained and rubbed his side.

"Battle isn't fair" Kaoru said while a kuroko offered her a tea, which she received and then she hit Chiaki once more.

"Are you going to keep hitting me?"

"Are you going to keep not dodging the hits?"

"It's imposible"

Kaoru sighed and suddenly turned to Kotoha, who was focused on the dummy, and tried to hit her with the sword but the Yellow samurai blocked it.

"How?"

"Your teammates take their training seriously" Jii said hitting him with a some papers and stood by the young samurai side while saying in a serious tone "Chiaki...we can't have you slacking in your training..."

"I try my best!" Chiaki protested and gave him a dirty look.

"But you are still behind in training" He said "You'll writte 500 kanji by this afternoon"

"That's too much!" Chiaki complaines ans then he looked at his teammates whilr saying "Why aren't they doing the same?"

"They already know their characters" Jii said "Though Hime-sama has neglected her calligraphy as of late"

Kaoru snapped her head up and muttered "What?"

Jii gave her a look and she realized what he really meant, then the black haired girl nodded and sighed.

"Kotoha, Ryuunosuke and Mako can practice their mojikara after lunch"

It was going to be a long afternoon.


*Later, at the main room*

Jii had left some paper and a guide book, Chiaki had been scratching his head for the last hour while Kaoru had been focusedon writting her own characters.

Sometimes she wondered why bothered on giving her this menial training, she had already learnt this.

Then she saw a few new ones after she had written around 150.

That made sense, she guessed as some were ones that they had agreed she wouldn't be using...yet

She had been so focused on writting correctly the new ones that she didn't notice that the Green samurai had left the room.

"Where is he?" She asked to a kuroko that was passing by. The kuroko simply informed her that Chiaki had left a few moments ago.

That meant that he left long ago.

She stood up and walked over to see if he had at least written some characters so that Jii didn't flip out. He had only written some chracters that she had some trouble reading and then she read on the second page "500 characters"

"Idiot" She muttered and decided to go find him so her caretaker didn't notice the Green samurai was missing but then she heard Jii crying out "Chiaki!"

Too late for that then.

Plan B: All of them had to go find him and drag him back to finish the 500 characters.


*At the arcade*

Chiaki decided he needed a break when he noticed that Jii wasn't observing him and that the others were so focused on their own activities. It wasn't like the princess, Jii and Ryuunosuke would go after him.

Right?, Mako and Kotoha didn't seem the type to snitch and they probably would know that he wouls eventually go back to the Shiba Manor.

He just needed a break from all that period drama that his life had become.

Luckily, he knew where to go.

The arcades.

He loved that place and his friends Kouji and Masato were there, they kew how to make someone feel home.

They had been happy to see him, Masato mentioned that they had been worried about him since he disappeared just before graduation and that his fatherhad said something about him staying at some special place.

Chiaki just thought "Thanks dad for making it even weirder"

"After all the studying we did for the university entrance exam you dropped out" Kouji said while clutching his soda.

"We were supposed to go to the same university" Masato added giving a bite to his burger.

Chiaki felt a pang of guilt, he couldn't exactly tell them about him being a Shinkenger so he simply complained "I'm in a weird place right now...with this old man always annoying me by saying my calligraphy is sloppy, this dramatic guy and this princess..."

"What?" Both of his friends asked at the same time in a very surprised tone.

"Is it like a university prep school?" Masato asked.

"Something like that" Chiaki said, then he noticed that his friends were giving him weird looks he smiled and said "Nevermind"

"You know you can tell us" Kouji said.

Chiaki shrugged and took a sip of his soda, they wouldn't understand and he couldn't exactly tell them what he was feeling at the moment or ever.

"Chiaki!" He heard a voice say. He turned to see who the person was and saw Kaoru, who was a few meters away and had a serious face.

"Why is she following me?" He thought in annoyance and said "Hey!"

"Who is her?" Masato asked "Is she with you at that school?"

"Sorta, she keeps hitting me" He said and asked "Why are you here?"

"We have to get back to-" She started to say as she made a sign to Ryuusosuke who was around to let him know that she had found Chiaki.

"I know I have to go back!" He interrupted her and muttered "It's not like I have any other option..."

She was a about to say something when an Ayakashi got out from a space between the tiles on the floor, it was Rokuneri.

The Ayakashi quickly punched a man who had been sat on a planter and then attacked the rest of the people in the food court.

"What the-" Chiaki's friends started to aske at the same time.

"Gedoushuu" Both samurai interrupted them and then took out their shodophones "Ippitsu Soujo!"

"We have to-" Shinken Red started to explain her plan to her retairner.

"I can handle this" Shinken Green interrupted and lunged forward.

Rokuneri just laughed and punched the floor as his fists moved through the ground and hit both Shinkenger, the Shinken Blue tried to slash the Ayakashi.

"What happened to always be on alert?" Shinken Green asked rather haughty.

"Focus" The Red samurai snapped as she dodged a punch from the Ayakashi.

"I got this!" He said as he jumped towards a building and the got hit again.

"What an idiot, my fist always hit their mark" Rokuneri boasted after a laugh.

Meanwhile Shinken Red tried to attack Rokuneri with the help of Shinken Blue. A few moments later Shinken Yellow and Shinken Pink arrived to the scene just before the Ayakashi hit Masato and Kouji with its fist when the two boys tried to go help their friend.

"You were supposed to be on alert!" Shinken Red reprimanded as she blocked a hit supposed to be for Shinken Green.

"I had everything under control!" He complained.

As Shinken Pink and Shinken Yellow helped the injured civilians, Shinken Blue used his ShinkenMaru to create a water screen that would let then retreat from the battle.

"Oh, well" Rokuneri said pleased with himself "I need to head back before I dry out anyway"


**Back at the Shiba Manor*

Mako and Kotoha decided to accompain the kuroko who were taking Chiaki's friends to the hospital. Both boys had been seriously injured and the doctors stimated that they wouldn't be leaving for a week or two,it depended on how fast theirinjuries healed.

Meanwhile Kaoru, Chiaki and Ryuunosuke headed back to the mansion, Jii had been worried and didn't hesitate to give them all a lecture as they hadn't really nformed him about going out to search for the Green smaurai and he gave an special lecture to Chiaki as he hadn't written the 500 characters.

"Did you think you could win by yourself?!" Jii reprimanded Chiaki as the Blue samurai treated the scrape the young boy had on his forehead.

"At least admit you were wrong" Ryuunosuke said, the kabuki actor sounded more as a dissapointed father than a concerned teammate.

"You know this is your fault" Kaoru said trying not to raise her eyes from the tea cup she was drinking. She knew that Jii would give a very long lecture later and more training hours, what she has done was reckless and since she had been reckless...two civilians and her retainer were hurt.

"I know it!" He responded in a low tone and grabbed his head with his hands "I wasn't strong enough..."

"Wrong!" Jii said strongly "It's because you went to see them"

Chiaki snapped his head up and Kaoru just turned her head, she knew where this was going. They couldn't have attachments to people beacuse if they did...they could get hurt or even worse, they could die.

They were safer without them.

She didn't hear what Jii was saying but they had to figure out Rokuneri's technique.

"Quit being a samurai" Jii said.

"What?" Chiaki asked offended.

"I have to agree, you are too far behind in your training" Ryuunosuke said looking down "We can't have you slacking..."

Chiaki looked at Kaoru for a second as if looking for some support as Kotoha and Mako entered the room. The Red samurai simply said "Just..."

"I knew it" He said as he stormed out.

"Damn it" Kaoru muttered and then told Jii and the others "Don't call him yet, he will come back"

As he said, he had to.

Then she added "Everyone, figure out his technique...or else"


*Later, at the Arcades*

Chiaki had gone to the hospital to visit hia friends, he had tried to go inside but their parents were there and he didn't have enough courage to face them.

They didn't know that it was his fault but still.

After that he went to his favorite arcade as he thought about how to defeat the Ayakashi.

Suddenly, he got an idea as he picked up a tree branch.


*Meanwhile at the Shiba Manor*

Kaoru had decided to have her dinner at her room.

She felt that both Jii and Ryuunosuke had overruled her on the situation, she was only going to tell Chiaki to finish his task and give him some training hours.

And maybe tell him to figure out Rokuneri's technique, not that she actually thought he could do it as soon as they needed it.

She sat outside of her room with a training sword in her hand.

Then she realized something


*The next day, at a square*

Rokuneri had gotten back to the Human World and this time it got an army of Nanashi to lead. They were attacking some civilians that had been there when they got out of the spaces between tiles on the floor.

"What about Chiaki?" Kotoha asked.

"He'll come...eventually" Kaoru said calmly and took out her Shodophone "Ippitso Soujo"

They all transformed into their Shinkenger forms and when they were about lunging forward to attack the Gedoushu, Chiaki jumped right in front of them.

He didn't turn to see them and just said "From now on I fight on my own" and took out his Shodophone to transform "Shinken Gree, Tani Chiaki"

He then went forward to attack the Ayakashi who was laughing at him and Shiken Blue just looked down to the side and muttered "What is that fool doing?!"

"It doesn't matter" Shinken Red said.

"But..." Shinken Pink started to say.

"Let's move" Shinken Red responded and they all started to fight the Nanashi while Shinken Green fought a Nanashi while trying to get near Rokuneri.

The other four Shinkengers used their ShinkenMarus to use their special attacks to clear the field and then Shinken Red used and special disk to use a special attack with lightening.

Menawhile, Shinken Green had finally reached Rokuneri and was fighting him.

"I gues you haven't had enough of my technique" The Aykashi boasted as it hit the floor with its fist "Extended arms!"

"If you thinkk you can catch me, bring it on!"

"You are wasting your time if your plan is to run away"

Shinken Green kept running as the arms were chasing him through a few buildings, at one moment the Shinkenger was back in front of the Ayakashi who said "Stop wriggling around!"

A fist almost hit him when Shinken Red blocked it and then Rokuneri said "I have more than one arm!"

The Red samurai dodged it as it hit directly the wall while Shinken Green protested "I already told you that this guy is mine!"

"Focus!" She said as she rubbed her side, despite not being hit she had gotten hurt by the rubble created by the hit.

The Green samurai lunged forward and tried to slash the Ayakashi who in turn tried to attack him with its fist but its arms were tangled between the pilars of the building.

"That happens when you are too cocky" Shinken Green scolded Rokuneri and used his special attack with his ShinkenMaru finishing it. Shinken Green walked over to Shinken Red and asked "What about now?"

The other three Shinkengers went to them, Shinken Yellow complimented her teammate "You did great, Chiaki!"

He rubbed his neck and was about to say something when Shinken Blue said "I don't know what to say about your swordsmanship and fighting skills"

Shinken Green was about to start a fight with him but Shinken Pink got in the middle and said "Stop, the Ayakashi wans't fighting fair. It's fine" then looked at Shinken Red "Isn't it?"

"I suppose" She said and looked up while saying "The second life"

"I can handle this too!" Shinken Green said as he got Kuma Origami out but Shinken Red stopped him and said "We need Samurai Gattai for this"

"Wait-"

"Let's do this!"

The other Shinkengers out out their Origami and then they formed Samurai Gattai while Shinken Green kept complaining.

"You can't make us combine liked that" Shinken Green started to yell "I said that I-"

"Silence" Shinken Red said cuttingly.

"Don't silence me"

"Silence"

"Chiaki" Shinken Pink called him out "We are in the middle of a battle"

"Honestly-" Shinken Blue started to berate the Green smurai.

"You too, silence" Shinken Red said "Focus on the battle"

"Why are we standing still? We should move or you are trying to give it a target?" Shinken Green asked.

"We have to feel the attack then dodge" Shinken Red explained.

They waited for a while as the Ayakashi's arms traveled through the ground and then doged the hit when it came trhough a building, then the Gattai slashed the arms with its katana and then they finished Rokuneri with the Samurai Giri.


*Later, at the Shiba Manor*

Chiaki had decided to go to the Shiba Manor and remain a Shinkenger, he didn't exactly use the words Ryuunosuke wanted to hear but for Kaoru it was sufficient to have her team complete.

Still, Jii decided to have them both finish their calligraphy practice.

They were practicing when suddenly Chiaki asked "You knew what I was trying to do, right?"

Kaoru kept writing her new characters without giving any sign that she was hearing, the Green samurai continued "You helped me...I didn't beat the Ayakashi on my own" Then he added "My plan just worked beacuse you distracted it"

She still didn't acknowledge him, she wanted to hear what he was going to say.

"I'm not quitting"

The Red samurai didn't say anything but then stood up and went to where he was sitting and said "You won't beat anyone if you don't train more seriously"

"What?"

"Just keep working on that" And started to walk out "Also, I never said that you should quit"


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