Can't Stop Loving You
...Can't Stop Loving You...
Ok, well, I don't own Rurouni Kenshin, but this fic came from me. At very late hours in the night. Yeah... So, now that that's said, on to the first chapter!
...Can't Stop Loving You...
Chapter 1 - Everywhere but Here
This is a story of love and loss.
Of innocence and desire.
Secrets and betrayals.
There is no hero, but the villain is Separation and Loneliness.
This, sadly, is my story.
...Can't Stop Loving You...
My name is Makimachi Misao. I am a modern day ninja. Keyword being modern. Second is ninja. Well, maybe ninja should be first, seeing as it covers the main ideas.
Espionage, stealth, blending in to the surroundings and crowds, combat...things ninja do. I know all of this. That's ninja.
Modern day ninja know these things and more. With all of the technological advances, we've adapted. Among other small time things, we are pretty good at computer hacking. If information was on a computer, we can find it.
We hire out to some of the higher powers. It's how we live, how we survive.
As modern day ninja, we kinda live double lives. I go to school, hand out with friends, go shopping, see movies. The older ninja have jobs like an normal person.
Maybe this information is irrelevant, but I think it lays out the reason that this story is. It also shows a little of what I know, so you know what I'm capable of.
To start off this story, I should probably start at the beginning. How I got wrapped into this.
Well, my parents were at least slightly involved with the ninja group in my area. The Oniwabanshu. Shortly after I was born, my parents died. Now, I don't know the details, just that they died, but I digress.
I was taken in by Okina's group, which consisted of several other ninja in training, including the prodigy Shinomori Aoshi. I mention this because it must be known. Aoshi practically raised me. Well, until he left.
That was the point in time where I found out what it was to be a ninja and to be hired out.
I was six, in the height of my training. A small skirmish broke out, and the Oniwabanshu were requested as spies. I didn't really understand, being six, just that, one morning, I woke up and Aoshi and the rest were gone.
I was alone for a year, waiting. Alone but for Jiya. That's what I call Okina.
I started school like I was supposed to, but I wasn't in it to make friends. It was just my mission.
During the summer, the skirmish ended. Aoshi and the rest (those that survived) came home.
Aoshi declared that there was no need for an entire group of ninja in today's society, so those that could, left. Pretty much everyone was able to move on, take up the jobs they used for cover as full time jobs. But, there were those of us who couldn't. Those of us who had nothing else. Han'nya, Beshimi, Hyottoko, Shikijo. Aoshi and I. We were all that stayed.
During that summer, we trained continuously. I knew there was no need for me to learn the skills, but it was so much fun! When school started back up, I joined in the training after I finished my homework.
One day, I came home, and Aoshi had a letter in his hands. For some reason, Okina told me to skip homework. Aoshi let us have a fun lesson. We tried to keep a paper ball in the air. Aoshi tucked me in that night. We all had breakfast the next day. Aoshi even walked me to school.
And when I got home, he was gone. The other four were too, but what affected me the most was that Aoshi was gone.
That's the distant past. Well, not a far distant past, but the past is the past.
Now, I am sixteen. I'm short and underdeveloped, but I've learned to let that go.
I hang out with a small group of friends. We all enjoy fighting in our own ways. Call us old fashioned, but it's true.
My best friend is Kamiya Kaoru. We met in junior high, and we clicked instantly. Kaoru can be violent at times, but she's usually well controlled. Against her, you have to dodge a boken, basically a wooden sword. Usually one of us has to stop the other from doing something stupid. It's stuff like that that makes us best friends.
Then, there's Takani Megumi. Megumi is older than Kaoru and me, so she adds an older woman's outlook to our group. She often says harsh things, but it always seems to be true. Megumi actually doesn't fight (not technically) but she's training to be a doctor, so she helps us out that way.
Since we're in high school, it's not hard to believe that they're seeing a couple of guys.
Kaoru is dating a guy with red hair. It's so red, that that's the first thing I can think about. The next is that he's kinda girly, but not really. The next is that he's strong. The guy's name is Himura Kenshin. His personality is a little off. There are moments where he gets broody and really serious. He's scary like that. But, normally he's kind and good natured. And he disappears sometimes. I can't even find out where he goes, which is pretty good on his part.
Megumi's boyfriend is way weirder though. I heard tell that he was in a gang until Kenshin beat the shit out of him, then the two became friends. Sagara Sanosuke, aka bird head, because of his hair. He's a tough one, all brawn, little brains. He thinks with his stomach, his fists, then his balls, in that order.
As for me, I'm still single. With the way I've always heard love described, there's only one man for me. I've looked, I've thought of dating, but none of the guys I meet are right for me.
Only Aoshi, and I haven't seen him in ten years. I wish I could see him again. It would be easier for me to find out how I feel if I could be around him. I know I love him, but it might just be the way a sister feels towards her older brother.