(Disclaimer I do not own Hakuoki or any of the characters all rights go to respectful owners) A/N I could never figure out if the lesser soldiers knew if chizuru was a girl or not so I'm making it so that they do know. Sorry about the spelling. and a shout out to Ashleygrusz who was kind enough to help edit my story thanks :)

Chizuru POV

The next day when Chizuru woke up to see Sanosuke holding her in his arms she just smiled at him. Then the events of yesterday hit her like a giant wave. She saw that Sanosuke was awake.

"How are you feeling chizuru?"

She looks at him sadly. "I'm doing okay but I'm still scared."

Sanoske stood up and held his hand out to help her up. "Come on Yamazaki needs to make sure that you're okay."

They head out the door to the common room where everyone was waiting for them. As they walked into the room, everyone looked up at them. "Chizuru, if would come with me, I can give you a check up"

Chizuru pauses for a minute then says "Um, can Sanosuke come with me?" At Yamazaki's confused look, she said, "It's not that I don't trust you Yamazaki. I'm just still scared."

He smiles at her and nods. Chizuru and Sanosuke follow him to their room where they all sit down. "Now Chizuru do you feel pain anywhere?"

Chizuru looked at him with a troubled look on her face. "Well I tried to struggle at first and I was bruised." She rolled up her sleeve to reveal some big black and blue marks on her wrist where it was clear that he had held down her arms.

At seeing them, rage filled Sanosuke but he kept calm for her sake. Yamazaki looked at the marks and also felt anger then asked "Is there any other pain?"

"Well-"

Yamazaki knew what she meant and cut her off. "I understand. You don't have to say anything but you should take it easy and rest."

After saying that, he left and Sanosuke spoke up. "Hey you should go rest. I'm gonna go on patrol and look for that bastard."

Chizuru shook her head. "I'm coming with you. I know you want me to stay here but I want see him suffer."

Sanoske just looked at the once cheerful girl in front of him, he would do anything to make her happy. "Okay, but don't leave my side at all."

Before they left, Sanosuke gave the orders to his men, "Remember that her safety is important now. We are looking for a man with long purple hair, a black shirt and he carries a western revolver, so if you see him come alert me as soon as possible. I will take two men with me, the rest of you will split up into two groups."

They all said at the same time "Yes, sir."

"Good, move out." Then Sanosuke looked at Chizuru. "Remember to stay close to me." She nodded and they started to walk the streets of Kyoto.

Ten minutes later, they were asking around and so far no luck. Then chizuru heard a familiar voice say, "Chizuru-chan."

She looked over and saw Sen-chan coming over to her. "How are you? I haven't seen you in a long time."

But Chizuru didn't say anything, instead she looked at the ground. Sen knew that something was wrong. She saw that Sanosuke was there as well and said, "I know, why don't we go get some dango?"

Sanosuke told his men to keep looking and they went off to search. Meanwhile, at a little tea shop the three sat at a table and Sen was the first to speak. "So Chizuru-chan, what's wrong?"

She instead of answering, she gave Sanosuke a look. He understood and started to speak for her, "You know that devil Shiranui that hangs out with Kazama. Well there's no easy way to say this, he raped Chizuru."

That's when tears started to roll down Chizuru's face and Sanosuke just held her. Then Sen spoke up, "And you're looking for him."

He nodded. "I'll help. Chizuru-chan is my friend and he has disgraced our kind. I'll have Kimigiku start tracking him. Kazama may know where he is as well. In the meantime, if it's okay with the Shinsengumi, I would like to stay with you for a little while to be there for Chizuru-chan."

At that comment Chizuru finally spoke up. "Oh no, you don't have to do that. I don't want to burden you."

Sen just looked at her and smiled, "Nonsense. We're friends and us girls need to stick together."

They left the tea shop and parted ways after Sen explained how she had to talk to Kimigiku and get some information as well. She planned to meet up with them in a week, so Sanosuke and Chizuru started to head back to HQ. Back at the Shinsengumi base, Chizuru and Sanosuke were having a meeting with Kondou and the rest of the captains to discuss what everyone had found, which was nothing.

Chizuru was the first to speak up. "I just want to thank all of you for everything you're doing for me."

Everyone looked at her with stange looks on their faces for a moment. Then Kondou and everyone else had big smiles on their faces after the shock had left them and Kondou said, "What are you talking about Chizuru-chan, you're a part of the Shinsengumi now which means that you're a part of this little family, and we protect each other."

Chizuru looked at everyone with surprise, "But I'm not-"

Sanosuke cut her off by putting his arm around her shoulders and looked into her eyes. "Listen, no one here would ever say that you're not a part of the Shinsengumi." Everyone in the room nodded their heads in agreement chizuru was happy and tears were forming in her eyes.

"Also, Chizuru, Sanosuke, it will be fine for Sen-chan to stay here for a little while. Toshi and I think it will be best for you to have some support here and by support, I mean someone other than a bunch of men."

Chizuru bowed. "Thank you, Kondou-san, Hijikata-san."

Later that night after an eventful dinner, Chizuru and Sanosuke went outside to the cherry blossom trees. They held hands as they walked under the moon. Then they sat on a bench under one of the trees.

"Chizuru, what did you want to talk about?"

"Well, before we parted ways with Sen-chan, she told me that when she comes she can help me unlock my full devil powers and that she'll help me learn to fight with them. She said that Shiranui is not a full blooded devil and that if I could use my powers, then I could beat him. I wanted to tell you that I'm gonna take her up on it."

Sanosuke just smiled. "I think that's a great idea, but when we find him, I want to be the one that kills him. You're not a killer and I don't want you to become one, okay?"

Chizuru agreed even though she wasn't sure about that. "Okay, but you know every girl can be a killer if someone hurts her."

She gave him a look that she's never made before. It was a look of hatred. Sanosuke was so scared for her but thought that it was as good of a time as any for what he was about to do.

"Chizuru, I will never love anyone more than I love you. You're the bravest girl that I've ever known. You're not afraid to stand up for what's right even though you might get hurt and i want to protect you no matter what. So I guess what I'm trying to say is, would you do me the honor of being my wife?"

Chizuru gave him a puzzled look before putting her head down, and said in a heart breaking tone, "But I'm not pure. That day, before Shiranui left, he said that now no one will want me, that I'm a piece of trash, that i'm worthless. Why would you want me?"

At this point she was crying. Sanosuke couldn't believe what he had just heard, that bastard had the nerve to tell her that. He put his hands on her shoulders.

"Chizuru, listen to me. You are more important to me than anything. You're not worthless, okay? And you're definitely not a piece of trash, so please don't let anyone make you think otherwise."

She was still crying, so Sanosuke did the only thing he could think of: he kissed her with a deep passion. After he was done kissing her, he said, "Now do you believe that you're perfect just the way you are?"

Chizuru didn't know what to say, so she kissed him back. "Then, in that case, I will be your wife with all my heart no matter how wrong a union between a devil and human might be."

Sanosuke stood up and held out his hand for her. Then they started to walk back to their room hand in hand.

"When do you think we should tell the others?" he asked.

Chizuru thought about it for a minute. "Well, how about when Sen-chan gets here in a few days. That way, she can find out at the same time as everyone else."

"Okay, but you know that once Souji finds out, he's gonna mock us and I may just hit him once or twice so don't try and stop me."

Chizuru just laughed, "Okay, but only once."

"Deal."

They went to bed waiting for the day when they could tell the others and Chizuru was happy for the first time since her incident.

A/N Well the second chapter is complete. Thanks for reading and please review. If anyone is upset about what I did to Chizuru, I'm sorry, but it's a topic I'm quite familiar with and that's all I will say. Sorry.