HELLO EVERYONE! WELCOME TO THE REVISED STORY Battousai!!! I am so GLAD I FINALLY got my Word back! I've been wanting to update SO bad!! I'm sorry all you loyal fans who've been waiting for a new chapter. I will update soon but first I want to revise all 5 chapters. Don't worry! It won't take long!!

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
that word is love.

- Sophocles –

...

Hitokiri Battousai was walking calmly through the dark, wet streets. He looked around pondering what he should do to find some food and shelter. He already knew that no one would take him in... being him and all. He gave up on the search, and continued on, not once flinching from the rain that started pouring on his silky red hair. He didn't flinch at all when the bitter coldness reached his skin. No, Hitokiri Battousai was invincible. He did not care, or feel for anyone. Why would he? He didn't have time to get to know the dead because that's what would happen if someone got in his way.

He continued walking as a beggar crawled on his hands and knees to him. The man was sobbing from the freezing rain, and the pain in his stomach we all know as hunger. The man, not knowing that Battousai wouldn't help him, kept crawling towards him.

"Please sir... take pity on this old soul," He said, his voice following Battousai.

Battousai just kept walking, his eyes a cold ember, with no emotions swirling in it. Finally, he came to an unruly bar, full of prostitutes and drunken men. He walked inside and was greeted, almost at once, by a swarm of women.

"Why, hello there," One woman said seductively in an irritating high voice. She wore a loose black silk kimono with a tight obi. She had long flowing light brown hair, but the turn off about her was her dull brown. Most men thought these women were beautiful, but they did not realize these women had no spirit. And hell knows how Battousai likes his woman spirited.

"Go away, whore," Battousai said in an emotionless voice.

"But how bout' I justa' take yeah upstairs there, and I'll fuck yeah," She said, complaining.

" Save yourself some dignity, and leave, then maybe I'll think about not killing you," He said a little more forced. If it's one thing Battousai can't stand... it's annoying women.

The woman just gasped in fury and stomped away.

Battousai walked more into the bar, shoving the prostitutes aside. As he sat at the bar, he smelt the best thing in his life. The smell of innocence. Then, he heard a terrible scream. It seemed it echo across the room, and even though he showed no outward sign of it, he was disturbed. He had never heard of such a pain filled, innocent scream.

He stood up, and looked around the room. Everyone was looking at two people fighting. He slowly walked toward the circle everyone was making around the two people and pushed his way to the front. There he saw a very amusing sight indeed. A woman and man were fighting. The woman looked very pained, and the man was cackling evilly. He seemed to be trying to force this weird kind of necklace on her. The woman let out another pain filled scream, and Battousai new that she wasn't going to win, but something intriguing about this woman kept him watching her. Her eyes, he had NEVER in his life seen the most piercing blue eyes she had. And right now, her eyes were pilled with pain and terror, but... they were filled with other things too. Pride, faith, hope, and something else... A kind of blue fire, emitting blood cold fury. Rage that is just waiting to be unleashed.

Battousai was snapped out of his thoughts by a sword unleashed by the man. His eyes widened at the thought of this spirited young woman's eyes blank with death. He was just about to step in, when they woman got angry. She got so angry that her face was the color of Battousai's hair and her eyes were nothing but fire. She was pissed. She punched him in the face then kneed him in the groin, and with quick agility she took out a Bokken, and jabbed it into the back of his head, knocking the man out.

Battousai grinned a small grin. He walked into the circle and before the woman knew it, she was slung over Battousai's shoulder.

"What the hell?!" The woman screamed in protest.

"....," Battousai didn't say anything, he just tightened his grip a little.

"PUT ME DOWN!" She screamed in his ear. Battousai didn't do anything, but go to the bar counter, grab his glass, and walk out the door. He was smelling that smell again. He smelt it ever since he saw the woman. Now that he was close to her, his senses were going berserk. It took all his will power not to throw her on the ground and take her so she couldn't walk for a week, but, of course, he was the great Battousai. He took pride in having self-control.

Battousai was snapped out of his thoughts, with a knee in his face,

She had kneed Hitokiri Battousai in the face!!

"What is your name," It wasn't a question.

"Kaoru," She said, there was something in her voice that told him she was going to pounce any second.

"Oh. I am Hitokiri Battousai," Battousai grinned evilly ready to hear her shocked gasp, or immediate tension. Instead she just scoffed at him in a taunting way, and swung her hair behind her back. Her hair tickled Battousai's chest.

"If I set you down now, will you run away?" Battousai asked quietly.

"Yes," She said honestly.

"Then I warn you, I like to keep what belongs to me," He stated.

WHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKK

Battousai glared at Kaoru as a large lump sprouted out of the top of his head.

"I belong to no one!" Kaoru said defiantly. Three seconds later she was pinned to a tree. She winced in pan as she heard a crack where she hit the tree.

"That's right.. you belong to no one. No one but me," Battousai said in a very dangerous voice.

Kaoru showed no fear on the outside, but inside, her heart was thundering against her rib cage. She new if she kept getting this scared, she'd only have 10 more years or so to live.

Battousai saw through her little mask, but sort of admired her for her courage. As soon as the admiration came, it was gone.

"Where are we going?" Kaoru asked as Battousai set her down.

"We are going, where ever we are needed."

This is the revised 1st chapter!

Hope you enjoy!