Hi, this is Candi here. This is a new fanfic I'm working on. (BTW: If you are reading my two other fanfiction, I want you to know I'm still working on.)

Anyway I hope you will like it. Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Rurouni Kenshin. If I did, well let's just say that I'll use them to destroy the world o.e [It's suppose to be a joke I guess? Idk o_o]

Prologue

Snowflakes started falling down to Earth. It as if the Earth's tear were joy of happiness and not filled with sorrow. As people walked around in the town at night, thinking that nothing was wrong, a girl laid in a deep burrow. Shivering, cold, and frighten, that was all in the little girl's head. She wanted to someone to notice her, but they were all hurry up to go home, due that it was Christmas.

"Dare ka!" The girl struggled for her voice to be heard. However, the people were chattering out too loud, as if there was no starving child crying out for help. A man heard it but choose to torture instead of help. He kicked the girl with all his might, and the girl screamed out in pain. Several people turned to look, but they just shrugged it off, thinking it wasn't a big deal to what was happening.

"S-Stop," the girl whimpered as the man pulled her by the hair. He finally got a glimpse view of how she looked like. The girl was probably around seven years old, crying her eyes out. There was smoke chalk around her, and the man furiously threw her across the place.

The girl again screamed out loud in pain, and people finally took noticed of the action. They started crowing around the tall man and the strange little girl. She was like a rag doll, and people waited for more action to come by.

"Poor little girl," one muttered. That person got slapped in the arm and received a death glare.

"She deserves it. You know that people with blue eyes are considered a disgrace to the emperor." Another person whispered harshly. The girl's heart felt like it was broken to pieces, and she tried to get away from the crowd. But the people kept following her, chasing her down.

"Leave me alone!" The girl screamed. She didn't care anymore; she now knew she couldn't trust these people. People with blue eyes are traitors to the emperor, no matter how innocent the person is.

A boy around nine years old was walking around town with his master. The master was carrying a jar of sake and happily drank it. "So boy, do you want anything for Christmas?"

The boy frowned at his master with a growl. "Master, it's already Christmas. You should have thought earlier and bought something!" The older man frowned and bopped him in the head harshly.

"You idiot! I was busy teaching an idiot how to use a sword! You wouldn't let me go get a present, remember?" The boy wanted to protest, but he knew it was true. It was finally the month where he gets to learn how to use Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu, his master's technique. It was also one of the most powerful sword techniques known to the world, but people don't know about it as much as before, believing the sword has die.

"Old man…" The boy snickered under his breath and the master of his bopped him again.

"Bakadeshi. I don't even know why I picked you up from the trash…" The master sighed and looked up at the sky. "The snow is really falling down hard." He muttered under his breath. The older man grabbed the boy's hand and pulled him inside the shop.

"Welcome Hiko," a lady greeted and led them to a table. She placed two menus on the table and hurried back in the kitchen.

"Master, why are we here?" The boy whispered.

"It's for your Christmas present, so don't complain." The master said as he picked up the menu. "Boy, why do you want?" He asked.

"Why don't you call me Kenshin? It doesn't make sense! You gave me that name…"

"Shut up. Now, what do you want? The lady is about to come over here…"

"I'll get the ramen noodle, number-" The boy stopped when he heard someone screamed. The noise was piercing into everyone's ears, and suddenly all of the people in the restaurant started charging at the door. They all wanted to see what the ruckus was.

Kenshin, the boy, immediately looked over to Hiko with concerns. "Master, should we go see it?" His master, however, didn't reply and stood up from his seat. Making his way to the front, Kenshin followed him eagerly.

When they reached outside, the cold temperature started hugging the two figures. Kenshin wrapped his arm around himself and shivered slightly. Surely though, people were yelling and throwing at any objects that was seen.

"Get out, Blue eye!" The crowd kept yelling, and Kenshin saw a girl around his age escaped from the crowd. She thrown with a bark stick, but she ignored the pain that was spreading throughout the body. Anybody couldn't be stupid to see that. He realized that the girl had sapphire blue eyes and looked up at him. The girl quickly diverts her eyes to something else and ran into an alley.

"Yeah! Good job, everyone!" The crowd gave each other high fives before they went back to doing their normal routine, as if nothing happened.

"Master!" Kenshin tugged on his Master's scarf. "Master!" Hiko finally looked at his apprentice.

"What is it-baka?" Hiko asked, irritated by the boy. Kenshin kept jumping around and tugged harder on his scarf. The more he tugged, the more the master felt like he was going to get killed.

"Why don't we follow that girl?" Kenshin suggested. He saw his master froze, having a grimace expression on.

"Stop being so naïve boy. We can't help a person with blue eyes. But for all I care, I don't deal with situation that isn't mine deal with." Hiko was about to head back into the restaurant, but his student made a grabbed for his pants. Rip!

Kenshin's eyes were large, his mouth hanging open in shock. "S-Sorry!" He yelled as he tried to flee from his master. Hiko was faster than him and grabbed him by the collar. "Let go of me!" Kenshin struggled and tried to land punches on his master.

"Let go of you?" Hiko asked in disbelief. "Bahaa!" He burst out laughing and slowly wiped a tear from his eyes. "Are you kidding me?" The master didn't wait for the student's answer. "Because you aren't going anywhere until I'll get you kill," the voice in a serious tone. Kenshin's eyes widen even more in fear and gulped nervously.

"If you rip my cloak too, I swear you will get twice the death you deserve. Because of you, we are going to skip your present!"

"Wait, what?" Kenshin screamed as he was pulled by Hiko. "No! Wait! I just want to check on that girl!" He admitted, and finally Hiko released his collar.

"Kenshin, I don't deal with situation that doesn't need me involved. However, you have a nose that likes to stick into things. I'll let you see her, consider it as your birthday present." A smile curled on Kenshin's lip.

"Shall we go?" His master already started walking towards the alley.

When the two figures reached in the alley, the air started around them started getting colder. In between the alley, there was a house. The house was pretty loud, and several shadows were cast shoji window.

"I guess it's a big party they got…" Kenshin muttered and heard soft footsteps in front of them. He caught glimpse of a shadow before it melted into the darkness. "She's over there!" He whispered loudly and started matching towards the darkness.

"Ouch!" A girl yelped and glared towards at him. "Watch where you are going!"

"Sorry, I didn't mean to step on your foot…" Kenshin said as he stared at her feet. There were many scars, cut, and bruise marks on it.

"Did you came here to treat me like those other people?" The girl snapped at him. Her eyes wilding with fire as she stared at him. "Go ahead; kill me right on the spot! I'm a blue eye, the traitors to the emperor." She yelled and did a kick with all her might to him.

Kenshin noticed it was coming, but he stood still. The kick was barely a kick at all. It was really weak, but he assumed it was because she just in a weak condition.

"I want to help you," was all he could say to bring the blue eyes up to meet his lavender. "I want to help you," he repeated.

Hiko, behind him, snickered and stopped when Kenshin glared at him. "Where are your parents?" The kid asked.

"They are at home…" She looked over to a house that was behind the party house.

"Do they live over there?" Kenshin asked and finally got her eyes to look at him again.

"Hai."

"Can I come with you?" The girl looked at him, nothing expressed in her eyes now.

"Naze?" Kenshin stopped and looked at his master for help. The master responded to his look and walked closer to the girl.

"No reason. It wouldn't do well for a person with blue-eyes to walk around all alone…" The girl hesitated to say something and turned around. "You are also injury as well, so boy, go and help her!" Kenshin immediately obey his command and grabbed the girl's arm. Her arm hung over his neck, and Kenshin was pulled by Hiko. The three headed towards to her house.

When they arrived the house, they found two middle-age people in the front, sitting in a very formal posture. The girl quickly rushed to the two people and hugged them tightly.

"Kaoru, are you okay?" The woman asked, alarmed by the cuts and bruises on her arm and face. "What happened to you!"

"When I went to go buy something, I fell to the ground because I was weak. I asked someone for help, but the village people just threw punches at me." Kaoru replied.

"Who are they?" The man asked, voice harsh.

"These two helped me made my way over here…" The man nodded and looked at the two people.

"Thank you for helping my daughter," he said with a bow. Hiko smiled and nudged Kenshin to do the same.

"I'll be taking my leave, so good-"

"Wait!" The woman called. Hiko looked over to her, who was still holding onto Kaoru tightly. "Can you take care of our daughter?" The question strike against Hiko's chest. "Please, I beg you!" The woman pleaded with tears coming out of her azure eyes.

"Honey!" Her husband yelled. The woman ignored him.

"Please take care of her! I know who you are, and I know you live in the mountains. You can take Kaoru away from the emperor, allowing her to have peace. Please I beg you!" Kaoru's mother bowed with more tears coming out.

Hiko understand why she asked him. Sooner or later, the emperor will command to kill all blue-eye people. He would have rejected immediately but seeing a woman cry cracks his stone heart. "Fine," he finally agreed. "I will take care of her; however, I need something in return."

The woman got up, her face brightened. Then she immediately grabbed her husband's hand and dragged him to the inside of the house. There were a few noises in back, and the couple came back. In their hands, there laid a sword in a sheath.

"We would like you to take this…" The lady offered the sword to the man. Hiko hesitantly took it and tested out the weight. It was heavy, not extremely, and he slid the katana out of its sheath.

"The blades are reverse…" Hiko said in amusement. "It's the Sakabato sword…How did you ever get your hands on one of this?" Hiko asked, shocked by the fact that they own one. There were only few of them that existed in the world, causing them to be very valuable.

"I'm Kamiya Arai," the man answered. Hiko stared in shock at the man before him. He is the person who forges a lot of weapons, all them being successful and used by great swordsman.

"Arai…" Hiko went up to the man and hugged him tightly. "How have you been doing?" He could hardly recognize his old friend and the person who forge his sword.

"Hiko, it's been a while. You looked the same as always…" Arai smiled calmly and looked over to his daughter. "Kaoru, you must go…"

"No…" She went over to her mom again and hugged her even harder. "I'm not going…"

"Kaoru, don't be foolish. Go with them…" The mother said as she pulled Kaoru away from her.

"Okay…" She gave in and went over to the two men. "I'll go with you guys…" Tears spring out of her eyes, and the girl quickly wiped them away. "Goodbye Mom and Dad. I'll miss you guys…When can I see you guys?" She asked softly.

The mother and father exchange looks before looking back at her again. "Never…" That was their last words, and the next Kaoru knew she was already dragged away from her house.

A/N:

I hope you like the story so far. This is just a prologue. The next chapter maybe a prologue as well since it doesn't get to the real story. Anyway, this story was based on a song called karakuri burst [the title, ahem]. It's really good, and the song is from vocaloid singer, Rin and Len. Now, I just use some part of the story, so don't go assuming this person dies or that person dies to give you a heads up. Anyway, Tenshi Guardian High is being work on [lost my interest in it, but I'm still working on so don't worry] Angel Knows, Devil kidnaps is definitely still being work on. I hoe you will give this story a chance and review it as well!

Translation:

Dare ka- Somebody

BakaDeshi- Idiot apprentice

Baka- Idiot

Sabakato- Reverse Blade Sword