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A/N: Okay I'm not sure why but seems to despise the 'tab' button and therefore does not allow me to have any spaces before my paragraphs. So if this annoys you, I'm sorry. I swear that it's on the original copy but gets lost somewhere along the way onto the website.
Chapter three:
Kit's eyes fluttered open and she groggily looked at the wood grain ceiling while her eyes adjusted to the light of the room. This was an annoyingly slow process and during that time she did a mental check of her aches and pains, which matched how she felt from the last time she woke up. Groaning Kit sat up and closed her eyes resting her head in her hands waiting for the room to decide to stop spinning. Do I have to wake up feeling like shit every morning? This is getting to be ridiculous. Looking up and around her Kit saw the wood walls and floors her eyes narrowed in confusion; Wood floors? Since when are there wood floors in any place that I would sleep? In an instant the memories from the previous day's strange events came back to her.Ah yes. I've gone crazy and somehow ended up in Tokyo, Japan. And even though it pains me to admit it, I think I've somehow been transported to the Rurouni Kenshin world. How? I wish I knew; but that's not really important now. The faster I accept what has happened the faster I can move on and try to figure out a solution.
Kit looked at the door as she heard footsteps approaching and sure enough the shoji door slid open and Kaoru walked in with a bowl of water and cloth resting on the lip of the bowl. When she saw Kit sitting up, looking alert and fully functional a smile lit up her face and she called out the door, "Kenshin! She's awake!" She scuttled in and sat to Kit's left while the others were trying to get into the room. Yet the doorframe wasn't big enough for all of them to fit through at once. "How are you feeling? You gave us quite a scare fainting like that."
Kit sat watching the others somehow manage to fit through the door and sit around her. Kit looked at Kaoru confusion written on her face, "…I'm fine… Why am I here? Why did you bring me here where should I make good on my threats I could easily do it?" Kit asked and even though she herself knew that she wouldn't hurt these people, they didn't know that. And if this really was the Rurouni Kenshin universe they should know better than to blindly trust anyone.
"Well, you're Kenshin's li-" Kaoru was cut off by Kenshin's hand over her mouth.
Kenshin smiled nervously, "What Kaoru-dono meant was that we could not leave a young woman in the woods unconscious no matter the situation"
Kit found this very suspicious and was about to pursue said suspicion but Kaoru must have gotten the unspoken message because she changed the subject before Kit could speak. "So ano, where are you from? Your accent isn't anything I recognize, and your clothes are made of such a strange material."
Kit knowing that she was changing the subject on purpose decided to let it go… for now anyway. "Well. If my logic is correct I'm not even from this universe, but in my world –I guess you could call it a world… or would it be reality? - Anyway I'm from America in 2006."
Yahiko looked at her as if she was insane, "2006? Are you sure you're feeling okay? It's only 1877. And you were telling us we weren't real back in the woods and now you're telling us that you're from the future? It's not possible."
Kit directed a death glare in his direction which made him start to sweat a little, "I really don't appreciate being called a liar when I can prove it."
Sanosuke scoffed, "How are you going to prove to us that we aren't real?"
"I'm not saying that you aren't real in this reality. I'm saying that you aren't real in my reality and since my stuff is from my reality it should still work on that reality's wavelength… oh my god. What the hell am I saying?" Kit groaned and grabbed her head, "Now my head hurts, this is just too confusing."
Kaoru worriedly put her hand on Kit's back rubbing gentle, soothing circles, "Are you okay? Do we need to get the doctor?" the raw concern in her voice gave Kit a warm feeling in her chest.
Gathering herself together Kit sat up straight, "Did you guys grab my stuff?"
Kenshin nodded, "Yes we did. It is over in that closet, that it is." Kit's face lit up in happiness and she bounced over to the closet and found her backpack laying there. Picking it up, she hugged it to her chest. Going back to the futon she sat back down on it and placing her bag in front of her proceeded to dig around in it. Pulling out a Rurouni Kenshin manga she tossed it to Sanosuke. "I know you won't be able to read it since it's in English but you can look at the pictures and get the basic idea of what's going on." Putting her hand back into her bag she pulled out her black and red laptop. The cover had various band stickers and other stuff on it, Kit's hand froze in midair. Wait a minute… if this is the RK world then everyone should be speaking Japanese. How do I understand them? And visa-versa? Last time I checked the show never mentioned anything about any of them knowing English.
When Kit hadn't moved for more than five minutes Kenshin started to get worried, "Kit-dono?" When she didn't respond he reached out to touch her shoulder, he had barely touched her when her hand flashed up to catch his wrist not even two centimeters above her shoulder.
That woke her up; Kit looked at her hand covering his confusedly. Then quickly she dropped it, "Oh! I'm sorry! I honestly didn't mean to grab your hand like that." Kit blushed a little from her habitual reaction to some one reaching out to her. Her mind was still whirling with the newfound realization that some how they were all speaking the same language. She was unsure of how to approach the subject but decided it had to be done; she had to know whether she was somehow speaking Japanese or they had the hidden talent of speaking English that was never breached in the anime. "Ano… How are we communicating?" At their confused looks she tried to explain the question better, "I don't speak Japanese and if this is indeed Japan then you speak Japanese and I shouldn't be able to understand you and you shouldn't be able to understand me…"
Kenshin and Karou looked at Kit in confusion while Sanosuke paused in his flipping through the pages of her RK manga to look up at her briefly and Yahiko looked at her incredulously, "How can that be? You are speaking to us in perfect Japanese right now. You may have a strong accent from your English but other than that your Japanese is flawless," Kaoru stated.
Kit looked down at the laptop sitting in her hands, her face troubled, "That can't be. From the anime I watch I've picked up a few words but beyond that I don't know anything. How can I be speaking flawlessly now?" she muttered more to herself than anyone else. Deciding to run a test she flipped open the laptop and pressed the power button. The machine started up with a whirr of the fan, the windows startup music blasted through the built in speakers. Everyone in the room other than Kit jumped at the sound; she glanced up at them and muttered a soft "Sorry" before becoming absorbed in watching her profile load at least that was what she seemed to be doing. In reality she was thinking more about their magically breeched language barrier.
The group looked at each other before shrugging and shifting over so that they could see what she was staring so intently at. They stared at the screen in a mixture of fascination and confusion. Suddenly Kit started moving, her hand started moving around the touchpad and the group watched as windows started popping up and closing, then she stopped as Windows Media Player started playing one of her 'Naruto' fan subs. Now I know for a fact this is in Japanese if I can understand this then that proves that somehow when I hit my head I somehow managed to randomly learn Japanese… Or does it expand to other languages as well? –Mental slap- No! Not important right now.
Swallowing nervously Kit slowly pressed the play button silently praying for the familiar "We are Fighting Dreamers Takami wo mezashite, Fighting Dreamers Narifuri kamawazu, Fighting Dreamers Shinjiru ga mama ni" Please let it be normal. Please let it be normal. PLEASE let it be normal. "We are Fighting Dreamers aiming high, Fighting Dreamers not caring for our appearance, Fighting Dreamers believing in our way, Ol-" Kit cut it off by closing the window. What the hell is happening to me? What else has happened that I am not aware of? Am I going to sprout wings and a tail next? This is becoming ridiculous…
"Kit-dono… are you feeling well? You are suddenly very pale, that you are" Kenshin asked worriedly from her side, his hand twitched as though it wanted to reach out to her but he didn't let it. Probably from the last time he reached out to me when I was lost in my thoughts.
Kit nodded, "Yea, I'm fine. Sorry if I worried you."
Yahiko reached out and used one finger to poke the laptop tentatively before asking, "What is this thing? It makes a lot of noise for something so small."
Small? Kit looked down at her laptop then realized that while in her world her laptop may be considered a bit large, here it was probably the exact opposite. "Uh… This is a computer, it's um… wow. How do you explain something like this? It's sort of like a really smart book, but has the ability to continue learning, and can connect to other computers around the world almost instantaneously. That's about the best I can explain it to you, there's nothing in your world even remotely close to this that I can compare it to." Looking to Sanosuke she almost laughed at the look of shock and disbelief on his face, "I suppose I've proved my point?" she directed the question at him.
He looked up and seeing the look of satisfaction on her face he scoffed, "Fine, I believe you. Happy now?"
"Well I don't believe you. Talking to people around the world with a book? That's impossible, no matter when you say you're from." Yahiko crossed his arms stubbornly.
Kit snickered quietly, "I am not going to get into this with you because even if I explained the mechanics to you, you wouldn't understand a word I was saying. Therefore it would be a pointless waste of time." The computer suddenly made a knocking sound and Kit looked down and was surprised to find an IM window pop up. So I get internet here too? The group once again looked at the laptop in fascination even Yahiko was leaning closer trying to see.
STARTING IM CONVERSATION::
WaterWolf86: Hey Kit
BlackFireKitsune: -glomp- hey chris
WaterWolf86: -ish glomped- lol so sup?
BlackFireKitsune: nm just umm… hanging around
WaterWolf86: Cool. Same here. Hey you wanna check out that new movie we were talking about last week? I got it out from the library so we can hang at my house on Friday night and pig out on popcorn.
BlackFireKitsune: o0o0o0o sounds tempting but sadly I'll have to decline, I'm a bit… pre-occupied for an unknown amount of time at this point.
WaterWolf86: oooooo -chanting- SOME ONE'S GOT A BOYFRIEND SOME ONE'S GOT A BOYFRIEND!!!
BlackFireKitsune: -red- I DO NOT!!
WaterWolf86: -giggles- Kit's got a bf Kit's got a bf.
BlackFireKitsune: grrr if you don't stop saying that I'll spam your diary all over the net -evil grin-
WaterWolf86: -smug smirk- you don't kno my password so its no use making empty threats.
BlackFireKitsune: are you willing to bet on that?
WaterWolf86: umm… yes.
BlackFireKitsune: Kurama's a$$ is like ir0n
WaterWolf86: -BLUSH- h-h-how did you find that out?!!?!?
BlackFireKitsune: -looks at nails- my sources are classified
WaterWolf86: the only people who know that are me and Ni-
WaterWolf86: OMG NICK GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE!!!
BlackFireKitsune: ummm… I'll be leaving now… later!
-----------BlackFireKitsune has signed off-----------
End IM Conversation::
Kit laughed nervously rubbing the back of her head, "I don't think I'll be signing on for a while…"
The others looked at her strangely and Kit realized they couldn't read what was on the screen because it was in English. "What is wrong Kit-dono?" Kenshin asked looking confusedly at the now empty screen.
Kit smiled sheepishly, "I just kind of made a friend from home really mad… Like mad enough she might just attack me the next time she sees me. Or maybe I'll get lucky and she'll cool down after killing her brother…"
"What did you do to make her so mad?" Kaoru asked worried about what kind of friends she had that she would think they would kill their own family (note: Kit is exaggerating but they are taking her seriously).
"Well, I… um, threatened to make it so that everyone in the world with a computer could see her diary because she was annoying me about something, and in the process revealed the fact that her brother cracked and gave me the password to her diary. So… yea… she's kinda pissed at both of us right now."
"Well maybe you should not have threatened her. Then she would not have gotten mad, that she would not." Kenshin reprimanded gently, shaking his head.
Kit's eyes narrowed slightly, "This is how I am with my friends, there's nothing wrong with it. They all know that I would take a bullet for them without a second thought. And that I'd never hurt any of them intentionally; the reason she's mad is not because I threatened her but because I have information that she would rather I not have. She knows I would never do that especially not over something as stupid and trivial as this" Kit's eyes had taken on a cold sheen at the serious turn in the conversation, and her anger at Kenshin's reprimand.
Kaoru sensing the growing icy thickness in the air stood up suddenly, "Okay everyone. Out, out!" She proceeded to push everyone that wasn't moving fast enough out of the room. "Kit, you get dressed and I'll be back to get you in a few minutes."
Kit sat watching until everyone was out of the room, sighing in frustration she dug through her bag once again this time pulling out clothes. Standing up she pulled on some baggy black Tripp pants. They had multiple chains hanging from the loops scattered over the pants. Some detachable others fixed. Next she pulled on a black baby doll tee with red stitching and red lettering, "God's busy. Can I help you?" with a picture of a chibi devil underneath. She finger combed her long hair into some semblance of neatness. Lastly she pulled on her knee high steel plated combat boots. Just as she finished zippering the boots Kaoru walked back in and looked at her in something akin to horror.
"Oh. I'm sorry I forgot that you're not from this time, wait right here, I'll get you one of my kimonos. It might be a little small but it'll have to do until we get you some of your own clothes." Before Kit could decline Kaoru had whooshed off to get her a dress… Yea that's not happening.
Kaoru walked back in a few minutes later with a dark blue kimono peppered with red flower petals in hand. It really was a beautiful kimono, but Kit really wasn't one for dresses unless absolutely necessary. "Ano… that's a beautiful Kimono but I'm perfectly happy with my own clothes."
"You cannot possibly go out like that. There are no such clothes here," Kaoru attempted to reason with her but Kit was steadfast in her decision.
"I'm not changing."
"Yes, you are."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes, you are." Kaoru lunged at Kit, deciding she was tired of arguing resorted to force to get her to wear the Kimono. Before Kaoru had even touched her Kit spun and ducked out of her path and Kaoru's lunge turned into a stumble trying to get her balance back.
During the time it took for Kaoru to regain her balance Kit had already stood up and sprinted out the door and down the hallway, Kaoru only caught a glimpse of her when she got to the door frame. Kit was running at a controlled almost full speed run taking mental notes of all the hallways and doors she went by, when she passed Kenshin and the others on the porch of the dojo. She jumped down the steps and while airborne she switched gears and hit the ground running full speed. She was almost to the gate when she somehow managed to miss seeing the wooden bucket in her path. Tripping over the offending object she started to fall face first to the ground, acting purely on instinct her arms came up to shield her head while her body twisted and she landed hard on her shoulder.
Kit just laid there gasping for the air that her lungs just didn't want to hold. "Kit-dono!" Kenshin yelled when he saw her fall. Kenshin and the rest of the group quickly made their way to the yard. Deciding she had had enough time to recover Kit stumbled into a standing position and tried to start moving forward again but was restrained by Kenshin who had grabbed hold of her wrist. "You cannot walk around like that Kit-dono, that you cannot."
Kit shook her head with a stubborn expression on her face "Let me rephrase my decline. You have a better chance of getting both Saitou and Aoshi into kimonos, than getting me in one. At least under these circumstances, do you understand that?"
"Kid, girls don't dress like that around here. Just please the missy and put on the kimono." Sanosuke tried in his own way to reason with her.
Getting annoyed at everyone's insistence she looked him up and down and shot back, "Oh really? I thought they did since my clothes are similar to yours." She said this with an innocent expression but the coldness of her eyes told them that the remark was anything but innocent.
Before Sanosuke could attack her Kenshin stepped in between the two, "Sano was just trying to help."
"I know girls don't dress or act like me in this era… world… universe thing but I'm not from here and I see no harm in me walking around like this, other than a few strange stares its not going to hurt anybody." Kit was glowering now, Kaoru opened her mouth to protest again, but Kit beat her to it. "Ok, fine, how about this," she reached out and grabbed Kenshin's sword before anyone could realize what she was doing, and bent over her long hair falling forward. Grasping her hair in her fist she used the sword and sliced right through the hair above her fist.
Standing up straight she slipped Kenshin's sword back into its sheath, calmly she stated, "There, now I'm a boy and there's nothing wrong with how I dress."
The whole group looked at Kit in horror Kaoru and Kenshin even more so than Yahiko and Sanosuke, it seemed that even the nearby birds stopped chirping to stare. Running her fingers through her now neck length layered hair nervously, she muttered, "Didn't any one ever tell you it's not polite to stare…"
"Yo-you cut your hair o-off!" Kaoru stuttered in horror.
Kit looked at her from the corner of her eyes (like this: ¬.¬) "Your Point?" Shrugging she continued, "I've been meaning to cut it for a while, no big deal it's hair it'll grow back" The others were still in a state of semi-shock but slowly they were getting over the shock. Leading the way Kaoru and company walked sort of zombie-like out of the dojo grounds, Kit followed slowly behind everyone.
A/N: Yay, chapter three is done. Happy Holidays everyone consider this an early present and have a good time wherever you may be.
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