hey there here I am with part 1 of the first chapter. enjoy...
The two appeared in a large white room with many gears and pieces moving around. The two teenagers aren't even sure if they're on the planet anymore.
"Well... this is new" Niijima says scratching his head in confusion.
"Where are we?" Kenichi said when the portal opened revealing their saviour.
"Not where. More like when" said a tall being in a well-dressed suit and cane. He had nice hair and wore glasses.
"And to answer think of this place as the eye of the storm, if time was a hurricane" the stranger says.
"Who are you?" the lone disciple asks.
"Ah, where are my manners I am Tavus Lizium Thundravaule Kylos VIII. But you can call me Tav and I am a Chronoserver" the stranger introduced himself.
"Chronoserver?" Niijima asks confused.
"We are a secret order that has observed many worlds and recording the tales of those who've changed that world. So, far I've seen worlds like one where a boy becomes an assassin to overthrow a corrupt empire. Then there was that one where a girl had a uniform that turns into skimpy armor. But one of my personal favorites is the one where boy saved the world several times through a popular trading card game" he tells them.
"But anyway, on to the point of why I brought you here. I've seen you have encountered the Triumvirate" Tav says getting confused looks from the two boys.
"The people you were fighting that was killing everyone!" he says.
"Oh" they replied solemnly the memory still fresh in their heads.
"They are a group that was sealed in a prison we call the Silo in deep space centuries ago. Now they have escaped into your world."
"Why. What do they want?" Kenichi asks.
"I don't know, but it would seem they are trying to disrupt the timeline for some reason hence why the attacked and tried to kill you all. But not to worry I'm here to help" Tav says.
"Great So you can just make them go away and fix everything. Then I can back to conqu- I mean saving the world" the alien said quickly correcting that last part.
"Unfortunately, it's not that easy, one of the rules is to never fully intervene in the timeline. Which I did in order to save you; so, now as punishment I've been stripped of my status and my powers will deteriorate over time until I am mortal like you" the Chronoserver explains.
"So, there's nothing you can do?" Kenichi asks.
"There is... I can send you both back into the past. I will send you to a time before the events that happened transpire, build up your strength, gain allies that were originally dead, and find a way to stop the Triumvirate" Tavus replies.
"You mean back to when Miu was first transferred to our school?" Kenichi says.
"Even further, that way you'll start developing more at a young age, and Niijima will make an even better Shinpaku Alliance" he answers making the alien do a devilish grin.
"But I must warn you that we must be careful as to not stray history too far and I will be there to help you at certain moments" Tavus says as taps his cane and a swirling vortex appeared under the two's feet.
"Wait ho-" Kenichi couldn't finish his question as he and Niijima were sent through the vortex.
In the past we see a young Kenichi probably a decade younger then he currently was playing at the playground. It would have been sweet if not for the instant shock his head received and fell off the swing set in pain. The boy currently laid motionless for a few minutes until he slowly opened his eyes and saw his surroundings.
"I'm back home that's- wait... why is everything taller, and why is my voice higher?" he says looking at himself to see that he was smaller. He quickly rushed to the nearest newspaper stand to look at the date printed on it.
"Holy- I've been sent a decade into the past. This is awesome! Hey Niijima ar- Niijima?" he asked looking for the wierdo and didn't see him anywhere.
"Oh, that's right we haven't met yet. We'll Tavus gave me a second chance so I guess I'll have do this myself until we meet each other... again" he said as looked out into the city with his hands on his hips.
"Well Kenichi Shimihara ready to become History's Mightiest Disciple again... I sure am" He says to himself luckily there were no kids there or they'd thought he's gone crazy.
A couple of weeks after Kenichi arrived, he made sure to keep himself in tip top shape. Still holding the yin-yang button from that fateful day he met Miu, he promised that he would get stronger and that this time he will protect her from THEM.
Which brings us to today where a festival was being held in the city and the entire Shiraharma Family was attending. The two siblings soon came across another pair that looked foreign and yet Kenichi could have sworn he's seen them before.
"Come on Rachel don't be rude" the male sibling says which jogs the boy's memory. These were the Stanley Twins of Yomi. Ethan Stanley: Disciple of the Fist of Brahman, Cyril Rahman and Rachel Stanley: Disciple of the Smiling Steel/ Angry Iron Fist, Diego Carlo.
"Fine, hello" the female spoke in Japanese.
"Hello, I'm Kenichi Shimihara and this is my sister Honoka" he introduced himself and his sister to which the female twin couldn't help but gush at how cute she is.
"EEEEEEE!" she squeals pinching the little girl's cheeks.
"Rachel" the male twin groans at her sister's behavior wondering how is it that maturity is based on whose born first.
"Come on let's go have some fun!" the blonde girl exclaims as she drags the child to the nearest booth with the two brothers following them closely. The rest of the day was nothing but eating, playing games, doing activities, and dancing.
When it was almost over the two parents found their children along with some unknown faces.
"Oh, my you two made new friends already?" Saori Shirahama says as the parents approached them when two other adults came as well. Kenichi turned and nearly screamed for here were the twins' masters in civilian clothing.
Cyril had on robes while Diego was in casual clothing but had sunglasses on instead of his mask.
"Rachel. Ethan. It's time to go" the kalarippayattu master says with calmness as their disciples turned to them.
"It's nice to meet you, are you these children fathers" Kenichi's father says, but Kenichi knew who they truly are and how dangerous they are.
"We're their guardians amigo. We took in these poor souls after their parents had very tragic and serious… Accident" he says in his usual exuberant voice. The mom and dad simply looked at them weirdly wondering how these two could be guardians to these kids but decided not to dwell on it.
"Well come on Kenichi, Honoka, we're leaving" the mother said as they were bringing their children when the female twin stopped them to give something to Kenichi. It was a toy mask he won for her at one of the booths only she broke it in two.
"Here" she says giving him one half of the mask.
"Uhhh… thanks, but why?" he questions.
"So, that we can never forget what happen today and… a promise to meet each other again someday" she says smiling making the young boy blush.
"This never happened before, oohhh I wish Tavus was here to explain what's going on" Kenichi thinks to himself as he just smiles and nods. The two then separated as he returned to his family while she returned to her brother and masters.
"Kenichi and Rachel sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G" the little shimihara teased.
"Now Honoka stop teasing your brother he is simply going through something that all men face which is called courting a female" the patriarch of the family says boldly proud that his son managed to bag him a nice girl.
However, his wife simply slapped him upside the head.
"Dear Kenichi, is still too young to know all of that now" she said mildly aggravated as the family continued walking away.
"Haha excellent my disciple has found her hombre, has she?!" Diego says to which all he got was a dreamy sigh and nod from the girl.
"Yes, feed off that passion, let it drive you to your fullest when you train mi novia. I hope this chico when you meet him again is top notch Diego Quality!" the luchador exclaims making his fellow Yami master wonder whatever did he do to be paired with this loudmouth.
That night Kenichi was about to go to bed when an astral form of the Chronoserver appeared.
"Hello there Kenichi, enjoyed the fair?" he asked.
"Wait… that was you who brought the twins to the fair" Kenichi says having a feeling he had something to do with it.
"In a way, I secretly had a flyer sent to Rachel's room and knew she would like to go there" the man says.
"How is this helping?" Kenichi asks the time observer; to which the man's only reply was that all things will come in good time.
"That's not really an answer you know" the boy deadpans.
"Moving on… here I want you to start training here" Tavus gave the young boy a paper that had a name, title, and address.
"What is this place?" he asks.
"Iwasaki's Gym. Here you can learn the basics of a few fighting styles that I think will help you before you join Ryozanpaku" Tavus says before he disappears leaving the boy even more confused.
The next day he arrives at the gym to see very few people training and exercising here. He walks around to find the owner seeing the man over by the punching bags.
"Ummm... excuse me are you Iwasaki?" Kenichi asks.
"Yeah what's it to ya kid" said the man with shaggy hair.
"I was wondering if you could teach me how to fight" he asks, and the man turns to get a look at the boy. He seems average for a fighter and even if he did train, he would still be a muscular meatbag to be punched and kicked at.
"Alright. So, answer me this... why do you want to fight? Do you want to be rich or famous? or is it to beat up other people?" Iwasaki questions the young man.
"I made a promise to someone I care about and I couldn't keep it. I want to make up for it, and I won't let anything stop me" the boy declares making the trainer look him deep in the eyes to find any deception. After a while he let's out a deep breath and stands back up.
"Get signed permission from your folks and (whatever the equivalent of $25 in yen is) for the fee. You come in the afternoon afterschool and in the morning on weekends" the gruff figure says as he turns his attention back the workout equipment.
Kenichi then thanks him while doing a small bow and quickly runs out of the gym.
"hmph... scrawny little kid" Iwasaki says to himself.
Since then for the past two years Kenichi has been training at the gym learning the basics of several styles from Iwasaki ranging from: Streetfighting, wrestling, to even submissions. He even combined them into a Hybrid art style he calls: Mighty Fist Style.
One day he was practicing in the gym after coming from school when he heard they had a new student. And for some reason Kenichi can't shake this uneasy feeling when he heard a voice.
"Ready to conquer the world through Shinpaku once more Kenichi."
Kenichi turned around to see the alien himself Niijima Haruno himself with the dark smirk on his face. Only to receive a punch to the gut from the disciple and then a quick hug.
"That was weird" Niijima says.
"Look who's talking. When did you get 'back'?" Kenichi asked.
"Same time as you though while you have been practicing your fists. I have been building up our power base" the alien says.
"How?" though somehow Kenichi was gonna regret asking that.
"Oh, the lottery, stock investments, and consulting for local businesses" he replied.
"Aren't you barely a teen?!" the disciple questions.
"All through my parents I assure you dear Kenichi. So, anything different happen?" Niijima asks.
"Yeah I met the Stanley twins and their masters much earlier. Luckily, they didn't recognize me, so I guess we're the only ones who know what happened" Kenichi explains.
"Excellent which means we have the upper hand against Ragnarok and Yomi" the creep drumming his fingers together like a mad genius.
"Hey squirt!" Iwasaki calls out to the boy getting both their attention as he approached them with a couple of people.
"Who's this freakazoid?" the trainer asks getting a glare from the boy.
"This is my... friend Niijima Haruno" Kenichi replies.
"Well anyway... these are some friends I met in my younger days. This is Eto Meiji, he runs a Taekwondo Dojo in another part of town" he says as the older bald man bowed before the disciple.
"And this is my old sparring partner, Danki Kugatachi" Iwasaki announces getting the boys attention, and if he was here then that would mean...
"Pleasure to meet you boys this is one of my top disciples, Kisara Nanjo" Master Eto introduces a redhead girl with cat-like eyes in training gi.
"And this is both my disciple and granddaughter, Kaname" Danki says reveling a girl two years older than them with dark skin and brown hair.
Here were the two fists of Ragnarok, Freya and Valkyrie right in front of them. Kenichi was about to ask Niijima what he should do when he felt a gust of wind and saw that the alien boy had dashed out of the gym.
"NIIJIMA!" he shouted.
"Hey how about spar between our disciples" Eto suggests.
"That sound's wonderful" the elder Kugatachi says.
"Why me?" Kenichi despairs.
(insert spar scene because I'm not that good at fight at fight scenes)
Once the three recovered they were talking while the three adults were having a conversation of their own in the office.
"It' s hard to believe this is the delinquent Kisara, me and Miu encountered in the previous timeline" Kenichi thought to himself as he was actually enjoying the conversation of the two girls.
Kisara had to admit that while wouldn't hit her due to being a girl which somewhat pissed her off, he still treated her as an equal in a fight with his submission techniques.
"He was able to wear down my legs and get me to tap out. This kid is something else and I must admit a bit cute too..." the redhead thought.
"It was almost like he knew how I fought and when to counter. If only we could use weapons, I know I could've beaten him with my staff. Still he's someone to think about at least" Kaname says as she and Kisara listen to Kenichi tell his story of how he stood up for his sister that one time.
When it was closing time, the group was about to split when Kisara says something unexpected.
"Promise me we'll have a real fight someday Kenichi" she says staring at him with those mesmerizing cat eyes making the rub his head nervously.
"Sure, thing Kisara, but I'm still not breaking my code" he says.
"I know as long as you fight the same as you did with everything you got" the redhead replies.
"Same here Shimihara, though next time I'll be using my staff and you won't able to get close to me to use your submissions" she says giving a light smirk.
"You're on Kaname" Kenichi retorted. And so, the group splits with Kenichi heading in a different direction all by himself. He eventually met up with Niijima just to give him another punch to the gut for leaving him, before they started discussing on what they were gonna do.
Since that day the two decided to keep their knowledge of the future to themselves for now and continue to see where the other members of the Shinpaku Alliance is or a better way to recruit them when they're in High School.
Kenichi continues to train at Iwasaki's gym until one day the trainer closes it down saying that he's gonna travel for a bit for some unknown reason. He tells the young lad that he's a good student... for a runt and that he should keep practicing having a feeling that he'll do great someday.
With that Kenichi just exercises at home whenever he can or at the school gym when it wasn't being used.
Soon he meets another person close to him that died when he and his family were going out to eat. The Shirahama family was out walking when they found themselves in the the busy streets of Chinatown. Kenichi remebers when he first came here while searching for Sensei Ma, and while he knew that the Kenpo master was probably still in china, he decided to visit a place he knows.
"How about we eat there!" he points to the familiar restaurant of Hakubi Ma.
"I don't see why not" Saori says as the family enters the nice establishment. Once inside they were shown their menus and were left to see what they wanted.
"Nice to see this place is here" Kenichi says looking around as this was the place, he met a certain master's daughter. Though he wouldn't call it a meeting, more like being used as a scapegoat while his sensei ran out to avoid her.
"Are you all enjoying your evening?" said a voice and the disciple looks up to see the owner himself at the table still looking the same he did in the future only his beard is shorter.
"We are, thank you. You must be the owner?" his father asks.
"Hakubi Ma at your service, and what nice children you have" Hakubi says looking at Honoka and Kenichi.
"Why your son is around the age of my grandniece who's currently visiting for the month" he says making the boys eyes widen.
"Wait he can't mean-" Kenichi thoughts were interrupted by a girl's voice. Approaching the table was Renka Ma, daughter of Kensei Ma and one of the last people to die in front of Kenichi as he was unable to save her. She was around the same age as him and was wearing a smaller more appropriate dress.
"Grand uncle the head chef needs a word with you" Renka says.
"Of course, I shall head there immediately, in the meantime why don't you keep this nice family company during their time here" the elder Ma says before turning around and leaving. Renka grabs a chair and sits with the family.
"My what an adorable little girl, you're visiting here all by yourself?" Saori asks.
"Yeah my parents have a lot of responsibilities at their school" the bluenette answers.
"School... they're headmasters?" Motosugu questions.
"You can say that" she half answers, but Kenichi knew about the Pheonix Alliance that Sensei Ma leads and asks himself what separates himself from those one thousand students. Eventually they decided to order with Renka making some recommendations.
"Soon they were enjoying a meal of (look up Super Deluxe Seafood course from Dragonball Z Kakarot) fish, tofu, rice balls, pasta, and fruit gelatin. As they were eating Renka notices something about Kenichi.
"Do you know martial arts?" she asked getting the boy's attention.
"How can you tell?" he asks nervously.
"I honestly don't know I just have a feeling you know how to fight" she replied.
"Just some stuff like wrestling, streetfighting, and submissions. I'm not a chinese kenpo fighter like you" he says.
"How do you know I studied Chinese Kenpo?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Uhhhh... lucky guess?" he answers as he went back to eating avoiding the girl's gaze.
After the dinner Renka decided to spend time with Kenichi during her stay. Most of the time they simply spar or hung out around Chinatown. Renka had to admit that she enjoyed the young boy's company making her feel like a normal girl and not the daughter of one of the greatest Kenpo masters who ever lived.
When it was her final day in japan Renka decided to give a little parting away gift to the young disciple.
"I really had a fun time with you Kenichi; I wish you could come with me to China and meet my family" she says as the boy simply chuckled nervously.
"I think I'll be meeting your family sooner or later" he says remembering what training with Sensei Ma was like. He was so distracted that he didn't notice the chinese girl moving in close to him before it was too late and giving him a quick peck on the cheek.
His face was as red as her future Qipao as she just giggles and turns around leave the awestruck boy to himself.
Another year has pass and Kenichi still grows stronger; he knew it would still be a while until that day when Miu would be transferred to his school and that's when everything started. He still had to prepare by learning and even helping Niijima with the Shinpaku alliance.
He was currently on a camping trip with his family and decided to go with Honoka to explore the surrounding areas. What the siblings didn't notice that atop the cliff was mysterious four figures watching over them.
Will have Part 2 to you soon. SEE YA