Chi-Tsuki POV

The midnight air felt cool yet unsettling as I walked down the unfamiliarKyoto Streets.

"Arghhhh Chizuru! Where the hell are you?!" I silently screamed in my head.

Suddenly I heard the footsteps of two...wait no three people. I hid behind a corner and waited. Three ronin walked by yelling boisterously and I could tell that they were utterly drunk. Suddenly a stray cat ran past me and I fell backward due to my surprise! Suddenly their footsteps grew louder and louder till they stopped right in front of me.

"Hey look over there Kotaro! There's a stray boy!" One of the ronin laughed.

My instincts kicked in and I screamed," Stay away from me! I if must I WILL use my katana to fight you!"

I then grabbed the katana at my waist and then got into a ready stance. Why were there always interruptions for my search for Chizuru?! My mother really was right….I am truly a pitiful and ugly cursed girl.

Suddenly all three ronin scream a battle cry and lunge at me. Wow they really are slow! Gaining my composure, I perform a sword play routine that consists of a crouch, sidekick, and then a side lunge. Within thirty seconds all three ronin lay on the floor dead and I'm covered in their sickly blood. I'm about to sheath my katana when I hear someone shout.

"Heh thanks for finishing our jobs for us!"

I quickly look to my side and see a man with green eyes and reddish brown hair with a creepy smirk on his face and to his right I see another man with long hair swept to the side in a dark purple hue with and austere and cold face. Then I look to their powder blue haori and I mentaly gasp! It had the Shinsengumi's symbol on it! Crap, now it is truly confirmed that I am a cursed girl!

"You will follow us if you truly know what's good for you" says the sadistic looking man named Okita Soji.

Mustering up my sass and courage I calmly say, "I have done nothing wrong. The act of violence that I've committed was only because of self defense. Because of that I have nothing to do with you. Please have a good evening."

I sigh and then spin to my side and was about to walk when I say one of the two men move and then something hard hit my gut. The next thing I saw was darkness…