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warning: this will have Kenshin and Saito together in the future, it is my only warning to you :3 enjoy. Also it is a slight AU so bare with me, please?
Everything was fading now, and swaying in his vision. The loud sound of screaming and the stench of roasting flesh were beginning to fade, pulling away from his sense and diluting themselves into the void that was reality to him. He swayed once more, and then he was falling, the moist air becoming dry as fire began to suck the memories of rain away. the whole world had stopped then and there for him, and all he knew was blackness, and the lingering heaviness that was defeat and loss in his young heart.
"Taichou! We found another one!" A man called over his shoulder and across the burnt wreckage of wha had once been a beautiful little village. He was dressed in a uniform similar to that of an officers, though the fabric was shade of dark grey instead of blue, and the stiff collar that would normally be there was instead loose and folded down. "It's just a kid, I think he's alive though!" The man he'd been adressing was finally headed his way, heavy footfalls sounded with the thud of his black shoes. he came to stand a few feet behind his suubordinate. Etching out a very tall form against the brightening sky, clouds still lingered from the night before, but all traces of smoke had left. And the pale shade of crimson across the underbellies of those clouds seemed to be paying homage to the lives that had been lost only hours earlier.
Saito, Hajime was indeed a tall man, with very angular features and hollow cheeks, he had the eyes of a predatory wolf, and it was with those eyes that he gazed down past his subboridnate to the boy stren out on the ground. He pulled a cigarette up from a pocket and lit the end with a match, takign a puff he let the smoke dissipitate into the air, his silence being a moment of contemplation. "a boy...and you say he survived?" He quirked a thin brow, the large coat he wore off his shoulders bilowing just the slightest bit in a breeze that had begun to stir, throwing tendrills of ash into the air. "Was he injured at all?"
Upon hearing the request, that was more like a demand, the male moved shaking arms to shift the boy onto his stomache. He was indeed young, lookign to be about ten or eleven, he was thin and lanky, reminding the wolf of a certain red-headed commrade who'd be waiting for them in the village. Saito's sharp eyes had caught the hint of red on an otherwise powdery blue yukata, apparently at the same time his man had. "hajime-taichou, he appears to had a deep gash across his chest here...it looks like falling into the mud like that helped to clot it up. But if it's not cleaned it'll become infected."
Saito nodded at this, takign another drag on the cigarette, exhaling the smoke he dropped the half finished butt to the ground, stamping it down with his foot "Verywell, if he's still breathing he might be worth my time. Get him back to Shioriosu...have the vixen look at his wounds." he turned away then, leaving the man to lift the boy and begin the long trek back to the aforementioned village.
Tell me what you think for a prologue, is it aweful? I hope not x.x gomen if it is
please R&R I'd appreciate it so much!