Drama- Fire Scene

After a battle, three compatriots sit around a fire and reflect on their backstories (class assignment- from a script)

Transcript

22. Dialog ATSUKO: You're so
23. Dialog ATSUKO: tender with her.
24. Dialog ATSUKO cntnd: It seems caring for a child comes as naturally to you as swordplay.
25. Dialog ATSUKO cntnd: It seems caring for a child comes as naturally to you as swordplay.
26. Dialog YOJIRO: She is unusually well behaved
27. Dialog YOJIRO: And I have some experience
28. Dialog YOJIRO cntnd: with children
30. Dialog ATSUKO: Experience?
34. Dialog ATSUKO: *coughs*
35. Dialog YOJIRO: *chuckles*
42. Dialog YOJIRO: I was an orphan.
47. Dialog YOJIRO: I spent my youth in the streets of kyoto.
48. Dialog YOJIRO: I took it upon myself to feed and protect
49. Dialog YOJIRO cntnd: the younger ones.
52. Dialog ATSUKO: You were an orphan...
54. Dialog ATSUKO: *cough* But *cough*
55. Dialog ATSUKO: How-
56. Dialog YOJIRO: How did I become a samurai and
57. Dialog YOJIRO: master swordsman in one of the most
58. Dialog YOJIRO: powerful houses in the shogunate?
61. Dialog YOJIRO: Like all boys, we'd often play swordsman in the streets.
62. Dialog YOJIRO: We'd fashion swords from bamboo
63. Dialog YOJIRO: and tree branches.
67. Dialog YOJIRO: I was 5 years old when I discovered that I could
68. Dialog YOJIRO: see between the moments.
69. Dialog YOJIRO: I could predict my opponent's movements and thus move and
70. Dialog YOJIRO: strike before they could even react.
74. Dialog YOJIRO: When I was 7, I discovered I could earn money by challenging the older boys to duels
75. Dialog YOJIRO: When I was 15, I was going to Sake houses and market places
76. Dialog YOJIRO: and challenging adults, winning yen, food, whatever I could to keep the neighborhood kids
77. Dialog YOJIRO: fed
78. Dialog YOJIRO: Unfortunately, I earned a
79. Dialog YOJIRO: reputation.
80. Dialog YOJIRO: One day, a very rich, very
81. Dialog YOJIRO: arrogant young samurai in training challenged me.
82. Dialog YOJIRO: offering a bag of gold.
83. Dialog YOJIRO: When I beat him, he became enraged,
84. Dialog YOJIRO: dropped his stick, pulled his sword,
85. Dialog YOJIRO: and attacked.
86. Dialog YOJIRO: and attacked.
87. Dialog YOJIRO: and attacked.
101. Dialog YOJIRO: I easily disarmed him,
102. Dialog YOJIRO: broke his nose and shattered his collarbone
103. Dialog YOJIRO: His father, a high-ranking noble demanded that I be put to
104. Dialog YOJIRO: death
105. Dialog YOJIRO: However, the young man's sensei
106. Dialog YOJIRO: Grandmaster Shogo Miyagi offered an alternative.
107. Dialog YOJIRO: I was to become his apprentice.
108. Dialog YOJIRO: I cooked his meals
109. Dialog YOJIRO: laundered his clothes
110. Dialog YOJIRO: cleaned his dojo, and learned the way of the
111. Dialog YOJIRO: sword
112. Dialog YOJIRO: When I was 18, he presented me with
113. Dialog YOJIRO: these swords, and told me there was nothing more he could teach me.
114. Dialog YOJIRO: For the next 45 years
115. Dialog YOJIRO: They were my only friends.
116. Dialog YOJIRO:
117. Dialog YOJIRO: I dedicated my life to instructing soldiers
118. Dialog YOJIRO: in the way of the sword.
119. Dialog YOJIRO:then came the meiji restoration.
120. Dialog YOJIRO: I saw the world change around me,
121. Dialog YOJIRO: much of it for the better
122. Dialog YOJIRO: but in this world
123. Dialog YOJIRO: swords are banned
124. Dialog YOJIRO: I was on orphan once again
125. Dialog YOJIRO: I concealed my swords and wandered
126. Dialog YOJIRO: a master-less Ronin.
127. Dialog YOJIRO: It’s a terrible thing, to have no
128. Dialog YOJIRO: purpose.
129. Dialog YOJIRO: Then one day I stumbled into that restaurant
130. Dialog YOJIRO: That is my place in this new world.
131. Dialog YOJIRO: serving Katsudon, Donkatsu
132. Dialog YOJIRO: and udon
133. Dialog YOJIRO: This is why I tell you to abandon this way of life.
134. Dialog YOJIRO: It will do nothing but bring you pain,
135. Dialog YOJIRO:and then leave you with heartache-