Crossover DP/ Kenichi. Apachai made a deal with a "Grim Reaper" to come back from the dead. What does this have to do with Danny? Danny is NOT going to like the answer to that question.

Throughout the story the speech will be in either English or Japanese. One will be the primary language, which will be written normally, while the secondary will be secondary, which is denoted by being written within \\example\\ It should be pretty easy to tell which is which. The primary language in this chapter is Japanese.

I don't own Danny Phantom or History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi

I used the spellings of the names from Wikipedia. Some of these names use spellings with accented letters that, I found out upon reading this from my cell earlier today, don't always show up. So, for the convenience all and any mobile readers:

Kōetsuji = Koetsuji

Fūrinji = Furinji

Kōsaka = Kosaka

Ryōzanpaku = Ryozanpaku

" ...I am sorry Apachai I think I misheard you. You are going where to do what?" Kōetsuji Akisame looked up from the fire he was fanning to give his large friend a puzzled look (which is really saying something considering his usually neutral facial expression).

"Apa! Sorry! Apachai said he has to go to America to pick up the disciple the Grim Reaper told him to teach! I'm supposed to try to get you guys to teach him too!" Hopachai Apachai said as he packed up his suitcase, wearing a vacantly cheerful smile that gave no indication that the statement was in any way as strange as it was. Yet it was true; the previous year Apachai had died when a rival Muay Thai boxer punched a hole in him, but he came back to life just in time to save Kenichi from another master martial artist.

"Haha I almost forgot about that! So that's the reaper's condition for bringing you back to life, what a relief, I was afraid you sold your soul or something." Sakaki Shio laughed as he chopped to neck off another bottle of beer. His words seemed carefree but his friends could see that his concern was genuine.

"Hoho, this is news even to me," The Elder, FūrinjiHayato, said with a good natured chuckle and a stroke of his beard. "Why haven't you brought this up before now?"

"Apa! Apachai is sorry, Apachai forgot all about the deal up until a dream I had last night when the Reaper reminded me and said it was time to go get the boy." He said, now trying desperately to get the suitcase closed, which would be easy except he actually had the forethought not to risk breaking it by forcing it shut.

"But Apachai, surely you don't plan on going to America all by yourself. For one thing you can't speak English. "

"\\Actually, I can! Apachai doesn't know how, but ever since the dream last night Apachai remembers learning English, even though Apachai remembers not learning English, too!\\" Apachai spoke with a tone of wonder, though it was more the wonder of a child looking at a shiny new toy than that of someone who just went through a miraculous supernatural encounter. "And our new disciple will be made to know how to speak Japanese the same way so that the language barriers don't create a plot hole!" At this the other masters just stare at him.

"Plot... hole?" Kōsaka Shigure asked slowly, hanging from the ceiling for no discernable reason (she then sent a shuriken into the rafters where it broke the camera lens of one Ma Kensei. He jumped to the ground where it was safer.) Apachai panicked and looked around with a thin mask of a blank smile

"Apa! Apachai didn't break the forth wall! Apachai knows nothing!"

". . ."

The other masters decided to drop it.

"That still doesn't answer how you plan on getting there." Kensei said, deciding to sit upside down to read his porno.

"Apaaa..."

"Ah, we'll figure out a way, worse comes to worse we'll take the boat, I'm more interested in this new disciple! He's not as worthless as our current problem is he?" Sakaki said, the beer finally getting to him a bit.

"Yes, it might be interesting to train someone with some actual talent" Kensei said pensively.

"Oh come on! How many times do I have to ask you guys not to talk about me like I'm not here! And come on master Sakaki, even freaks like you couldn't use a man powered paddleboat to cross the pacific! And what about international laws?" The masters looked over at Shirahama Kenichi with mild surprise, as if they hadn't notices him flailing back and forth, suspended over a massive fire, throughout the entire conversation. The 'surprise' quickly shifted to annoyance.

"Less mouthing off, more 'Dancing Squid'!" Akisame resumed fanning the flames beneath Kenichi with renewed vigor and Kenichi continued working out his abdominal and back muscles while crying bloody murder. Fūrinji Miu came out with tea and snacks, seemingly unfazed by the questionable morality of the torturous training method, although her eyes did linger Kenichi himself, admiring his... 'Progress', let's go with that.

"It's going to be tight, fitting a trip like that into our budget, but Sakaki's right, we'll find a way. Apachai can't exactly back out of a deal with a Reaper."

"Alright, then, but what do you do once you get to America?" Akisame said.

"Easy! Apachai goes to the house with the flying saucer on the top, knocks on the door and I say \\Hello! I am Apachai! I come to take Danny to Japan to teach him to kill his opponents with his fists!\\" Apachai smiled like an idiot and everyone else sweat-dropped. Even Kenichi knew enough English to understand "kill" and could see the problems in going up to someone's house talking about killing.

"I think at least one of us will be coming with you." Akisame said.

"So your disciple to be is named Danny, is he? Did the Reaper tell you anything else about him?" Sakaki said.

"Nope! Apachai just knows that his name is Danny Fenton and he lives in Amity Park in the house that says Fenton Works!"

"Hmm... well that's not much to go by. Niijima, perhaps you can do a little research?" the Elder said as he sipped his tea, allowing a hint of smugness to enter his voice. Farther out in the yard, Haruo Niijima shivered slightly before stepping out from behind the tree he was 'hiding' behind. The strange looking boy walked towards the group gathered at the doorway, eying Shigure warily, already pulling out his PDA and accessing the internet.

"Ok, let's start with the town; a general search will work better. ... Oho, Interesting! Amity Park is actually fairly well known. It seems it is a hotspot for supposed supernatural activity, although it started shortly before a billionaire by the name of Vladmir Masters used the ghost attacks as the foundation of his campaign for mayor, so my first guess would be hoax... though perhaps not, it seems he did work on ghosts in college. Oh, and look who his research partners are, Jack Fenton and Madeline Fenton! It seems it will be easier to find your new apprentice than you thought, Fenton Works is the Lab owned and run by Jack and Madeline Fenton, as well as their home, and they are now the primary ghost hunters in Amity Park, along with an unknown individual known as the Red Huntress and a few others. One of the ghosts is also a ghost hunter, arguably the 'hero' of the town, known as ... Invis-o-bill?" (The polyglots in the group groaned at the bad pun) "Oh wait that's an old news report, his "Phan" club website says he's called Danny Phantom..." Niijima seemed to be interested by the ghost news as he stopped relaying the info out loud and stared intently at the screen, an intent and faintly disturbing look falling across his alien features. A small clearing of the throat from the Elder was enough to get him back on track, and he gained a disturbing amount of information with inhuman speed. "Anyway, Daniel Fenton, age 16, son of Jack and Madeline Fenton, has a sister, Jasmine 'Jazz' Fenton, age 18, who will be starting in Yale in the fall with a major in psychology. He was a smart kid in middle school but his grades have been slipping ever since the beginning of high school, and he is the victim of almost as much bullying as weak legs here used to get, back when weak legs was actually an appropriate name. All and all, he's a loser, only has two friends and everyone else basically thinks nothing of him, the general consensus on facebook and the like is that he has a thing for his friend Samantha Manson... eh irrelevant for your purposes. He's good in a pinch though, he led a group of teenagers in an attack against ... a ghost ship that had kidnapped every single adult in Amity Park? If this is a hoax it's a damn elaborate one, all the records actually report every adult in Amity Park as missing for a short period of time, and a large portion of the city budget is designated for repairs, presumably from the ghost attacks... though that could be embezzlement ... the more I read the harder it is to believe there's anything about him that would warrant special interest from a Reaper. Very curious. "

"Aww man, so we're stuck with another weakling? I'd have liked if we at least found someone with some meat on his bones." Sakaki was looking at picture of a scrawny looking teenager with ice blue eyes and raven black hair. He then did a double take. "Huh, there's something about him, though," the slur in his speech from his beer almost discredited the observation, but now that they looked the other masters could see something too.

"I'll try to find a video file for us to observe his movements with." Niijima also wanted to scan him with his alien powers, but he wasn't getting a clear reading from the photos. It actually took a few minutes but Niijima found a YouTube video of a field day held by the school. The first event that caught their attention was dodge ball.

"It's hard to tell... can you increase the definition... yes! He's tracking the balls with his eyes, and his arm keeps twitching like he's fighting a reflexive block." Kensei said, surprised. The next event was the tug of war.

"He's not a very good actor. He's obviously not trying at all..." Akisame observed pensively. By now everyone, even Kenichi, was circled around Niijima viewing the small screen over his shoulders.

"Hoho, he seems to be expressing quite a bit of self control concerning the blond fellow..." The elder commented as an athletic teenager started to taunt Danny, only to have Danny shake with anger for a bit before his friend Sam put a hand on his shoulder and he took a deep breath and walked off. Niijima's eyes widened until they had consumed every human feature of his face.

"Niijima scan! Yes, I can't quite place it but he's far too advanced to be an ordinary student, yet other than his mannerisms in a few visuals there is nothing to suggest that he isn't. Maybe there isn't, and the Reaper just sees potential... oh, who cares, just thing what having a soldier handpicked by death himself will do to the ranks of the Shinpaku Alliance! AHAHAHAHA!" Niijima was very excited and let out a positively demonic cackle, which Kenichi cut short with a whack to the head.

"I hope for his sake that he's got something special about him, or he's going to die. Does he even know that a Reaper has arranged training for him? And why are we assuming this arrangement is made for a good reason, couldn't this be a plan to raise a killer or simply kill the guy off?"

"Why are you so cynical, Ken chan? We should count our blessings and worry about problems like that when they come up. And as Miu said, Apachai can't exactly back out of a deal with a Reaper. Do you want to argue with Miu?" Elder said. Kenichi shook his head back and forth emphatically and stuttered apologies to Miu.

"Right, now the more pressing matter is to get to America and to think up a valid excuse as to why a total stranger would want to take a 15 year old boy to train in a foreign country." Akisame mused

"We should say he won a contest!" Miu said.

"Yes, something along those lines is most likely our best bet. Niijima, will you do the honors of fabricating the online aspects? I'll paint the paper certificate when you're done, make it look official." Niijima was trying to snake away while everyone was distracted an assumed he was still unconscious from Kenichi's hit.

"Right, will do." He seemed annoyed at having to do what the masters said but one could almost see him reminding himself of Death's Warrior and his effects on Shinpaku's ranks.

"The Reaper said we should tell the truth and Danny will come around eventually. It's his parents that we need to fool! They don't know what about Danny makes him special to the reaper" Apachai said.

"Well that solves the problem of having Daniel win a contest he never entered, although that raises even more questions about Danny himself." Akisame stated.

"... so wait, do you know what makes Danny special to the Reaper or don't you?" Kenichi was confused

"No, Apachai just knows that he is special and we need to prepare him for what is to come." The phone rang and Sakaki, being closest, answered it.

"We still need to figure out how we're going to get there."

"Maybe we should just take the boat like Sakaki said. I'd like to see how much more power Kenichi could muster after over a year" Kenichi nearly fainted at Kensei's comment.

"No, Kenichi actually did have a point with the legalities using that for international travel..." Akisame said.

"We're just going to have to rearrange the budget a bit, maybe cut back on the sake, or maybe you could take a job on a ship to get there..." as Miu pondered the financial aspects of this, Sakaki came back into the room with a big smile on his face.

"I think all our problems just solved themselves, that Billionaire mayor just called. It turns out that Danny Phantom ain't such a hero, he's robbed, held people hostage, you name it! Vlad Masters just hired us to get this ghost boy out of his hair, and is giving all of us first class transportation to Amity Park, accomodations once there, and a Million US dollars upon completion. What a lucky coincidence!"

AN. Hehe, this is going to be interesting. I've wanted to do a Danny phantom and Kenichi crossover for a while, but I couldn't think of a valid reason for Danny to train at Ryōzanpaku. Then I thought of Apachai's little mishap (ya gotta love a character that's badass enough to treat their own death as a "little mishap") and the logistics of what it would take to make a deal with a reaper, and it kinda clicked.