It hadn't taken long for Ranma to figure out what it was despite that. "It's a dojo!"
"Nyuu?" asked Hotaru.
Ranma looked around, having some familiarity even at his tender age with them. "Yeah. This building was the dojo. See, that's where they had wooden practice swords hanging from pegs. That's where the names of the students woulda been hung on some plaques. This is where they practiced."
"ooooo," said Hotaru. "Sworrrds?"
"Yeah, probably bamboo," said Ranma. He'd seen similar dojo before - except this was really old.
Hotaru sniffed and leapt and sniffed some more, finally sneezing from some dust up her nose. "Dojo?"
"Yeah," said Ranma. He could picture it somehow. "Oh wow. Look. Sword marks in the walls and timbers. They musta gotten some action. Sword fights with real swords!"
Hotaru nodded, looking in all directions that she could. Maybe she could find an old sword? She could be Samurai Neko!
Ranma started describing it, he could just see it. Ancient times, this dojo would have had a young maiden - the daughter of the sensei and maybe a young wandering ronin who came by. Naturally he'd be handsome but scarred by his battles and came with a tragic past pursuing him. They'd collect a small group of heroes and have fought their enemies with honor and special manuevers!
Hotaru nodded, her ears twitching. She could almost picture it as Ranma described it.
Ranma went on to describe what he could picture the place looked like when it was younger.
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