Love for the Sword

I don't own Rurouni Kenshin

A young girl limped down a dirt road at night with the wind blowing sakura blossom petals around her face. She wore a regular red kimono with a blue ribbon around her waste and had a small pack around her hip. Her hair was brown and about waste length, though any one on the streets that night could tell that this girl needed help. A dark red blotch was growing bigger and bigger on her stomach as she struggled to keep her crystal blue eyes open, while her face and cloths were caked with dirt and dried blood. As she continued to struggle a full moon was revealed, hidden by a cloud only a few moments ago, making her eyes look unreal.

"I need to find a place to rest," she gasped as she looked down the road and saw some warm sort of light from a window or door of what seemed like a school.

Seeing the light, her spirits lifted and the pain in her side seemed to disappear as she limped along in the moon light.

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"Hay!! That was mine!!!" yelled Yahiko angrily at Sanosuke who had the last piece of pork in his chopsticks.

"Who said?" retorted Sanosuke.

Every body is having a good time, thought Yahiko. Kenshin, Sanosuke, Kaoru, Megumi, and himself all seemed happy in there party, but some thing was bothering him. He had this weird feeling, like someone was hurt, or in danger. He had mentioned it to Kenshin and he said that it was something that swordsmen got over time.

BAM!!!!!!!!

Every body turned stiff as a board, not even daring to breathe till Kenshin got up. Wait this is a chance I can prove myself!!!! Thought Yahiko as he hastily got up and walked with Kenshin to the door, wooden sword in hand.

"Yahiko!!! Stop!!" whispered Kaoru as she made a grab for his shirt, but missed.

"No way!!" Yahiko whispered back. "I'll be fine."

Kaoru started to get up but Sanosuke pulled her back down.

"Don't worry. He'll be fine" he reassured her.

As Kenshin opened the door all they could see was darkness as a cloud covered the moon once again. When Yahiko stepped out side there was a nagging feeling in his chest.

"Kenshin I got that feeling again." Yahiko said as he saw Kenshin looking left to right.

"Do you know why?" Kenshin asked with one of his weird smiles.

Yahiko shook his head; he never really thought about it that much till it finally drove him nuts.

"As your skills get better in swordsmanship you start to notice things like when someone is behind you or when some one attacks. It's almost like a warning system." He explained.

Yahiko nodded his head as he stepped further into the darkness. Finally as the moon reappeared what the both saw shocked them.

A young girl, about Yahiko's age, was bleeding very severely; dried blood caked her face, though he could see clearly that a wound near her stomach was still bleeding freely. Even her brown hair seemed to be dirtied with dirt and blood. As she looked straight at Yahiko he nearly lost his breath. Her eyes where like two pools of blue crystals, and with the moon light upon them, they looked unreal. But it only lasted a second for the she passed out while Kenshin yelled for Megumi.

As Shizuka closed her eyes all she could see was a boy, about her age, with a wooden sword in his hands and more people running out to treat her. Then…….all went black.