The officer turned to Yamagata, "Have you decided yet on our plan of action, sir?"
The other man turned to face him, "I believe I have. It's a rather delicate situation, and we can't afford to make any mistakes." Turning to the rest of the officers in the room, he continued, "Listen carefully. This is top-secret government information. If any of it is leaked, then the plan will fail and the one responsible will be…punished accordingly. What you are about to be instructed should never be repeated, even after the plan has been carried out and especially if it successful. Our comrade cannot know of our plot of his return or it would be the ruin of us all. Now let's begin…"
In the corner of the room, a tall officer with golden eyes grunted as he blew out smoke from his cigarette.
"Do you have a problem, Officer Fujita?"
Fujita stepped forward from the shadows; "You think that you can trick him into working for you? Your little scheme won't work. If you want him here then you're going to have to come up with something better than that."
"And what exactly would you suggest?"
"Use something real. Faking that girl's death would certainly do the trick, but it wouldn't take long for him to figure it out. However, he is technically a fugitive from the government, is he not?"
Yamagata thought for a moment, "And she is breaking the law by knowingly harboring a criminal." Saito gave a slight smirk in acknowledgment. Yamagata turned to his officers again, "A change of plans, fellas."
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"Come on, Yahiko. You need to concentrate harder than that," Kaoru repeated to her pupil.
"It's hard to concentrate with your ugly face in front of me," the boy grunted in reply.
"What was that?" she shrieked back.
Kenshin sat on the steps watching the whole scene and bit back a laugh. Kaoru and Yahiko fought every day; it was a usual start to the morning.
"Kenshin?" Kenshin was pulled from his reverie as he turned to Kaoru.
"Huh?"
"Would you mind running to town and getting some more tofu? I was thinking of trying to make dinner tonight," Kaoru smiled, as Yahiko practiced his strokes.
Yahiko suddenly stopped mid-swing, "Y-you're going to make dinner tonight?"
Kaoru rounded on him, "You have a problem with that, brat?"
As they started bickering again, Kenshin simply smiled, saying, "Now, now, Kaoru-dono's cooking isn't that bad…"
Kaoru stopped beating her student and wheeled on the unsuspecting rurouni, "Not that bad? Fine, then maybe you can just go find your own food!"
Kenshin slowly started to inch towards the gate; "I'll just go buy the tofu now."
Please review this for me! I'm not sure if I should continue or not, so your input would be really helpful.
Also, one of the reviews brought up a good point about how Kenshin would be considered a criminal. He really isn't, but the government just wants to use him as their assassin, so they're going to claim that he is in this story. I don't own Rurouni Kenshin, and I just thought it'd be an interesting story. Sorry for any confusion! And thanks :)