Kryptonite
(Red Rivers)
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shadow61x
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TITLE CHANGE!
If anyone reads.
A/N: welcome to Chapter 4! Wow I really got it this far! I'm having so much fun on this. I really hope to continue to have more fun. And just as a thank you I'm going to list all the people who have reviewed so far. I hope you can look at some of their works, so here they areBradybunch4529, gaby (hyatt, InkblotsAnonymous Wolf and my good friend Ian, who doesn't have an account, but will soon if I have my way. (Damn good writer he is.) Special thanks to Brandybunch4529 for reviewing more then one chapter. Thanks a million. PS forget about formatting.
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Chapter 4
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A Good Look Around
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Darkness sounded the boy as the flash of a sword contained to ignite in the quiet of a small garden. A light rain fell from the clouded sky and plastered his hair to his head. The teens own heavy breathing echoed in his brain, all his attention was focused on the thrill of the training. A curved katana rested in his slender hands as if he was born with it. Red hair flowed out behind him as his 'quicker then the eye could follow' movements slashed the air. The sword rung with a music of its own and Kenshin grasped it with a quick eagerness.
"Baka deshi!!!!!!!" yelled a loud, low, and powerful voice. The sword's song was cut short as Kenshin was rudely knocked out of his glorious trance. "Dim-wit, you'll catch a bloody cold!"
Rolling his amber eyes, Kenshin turned to his master with an exasperate sigh, letting the katana's sharp tip dig into the mud.
"It's only a little rain!" he yelled back. "Not like it's going to kill me."
"Just get your ass back in here boy!" yelled the older man.
"You always spoil all my fun." Kenshin said glaring at his master. None the less he thrust the sword back into its sheath and walked back to the large white house where a tall figure stood glowering back at him. Shoving past the man he started climbing a tall spiral staircase before he was again yelled at. A yell he didn't chose to hear.
"Oh shut up Sensei!" Kenshin yelled running up the stairs. "I'm going out for a while. Going to go see if I can study with Sano or some one."
"Kenshin, it's already eleven!" said Hiko after the red head.
"Who cares, not like I'm going to pass high school anyway." He yelled, never pausing in his ascending.
"Come back!" Hiko yelled, but Kenshin had already reached the top, and was suddenly gone.
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"Ahhh! That blasted boy!" yelled Hiko slamming his fist on a large red wood desk. "How is a nit-wit like that going to run the fuckin' business!" he gave another yell of anger and with a thump bashed a crack in the red wood table.
"Master Hiko!" came a stern feminine voice. "I never have liked shopping for new tables." Hiko turned to the slender lady behind him, his face fierce and eyes narrowed.
"What do you want women!!" he yelled. She gave a fake gasp and narrowed her own eyes.
"Hiko Seijuro how are you ever going to raise that young man if you keep bickering with him?!" the women said defiantly, not a shred of fear in her brown eyes. "He would take more interest in school if you helped him with it!"
"But Tae, I'm his teacher!" Hiko's large hands pointed at himself and his eyes glared with a strange rage.
"Yes, you are! And as one, your obligation is to help all the students you came across, even if they are living in your home, and even if they happen to be you adopted son!" Tae yelled making gestures of her own.
"But I'm only an English teacher, not a geometry or history!"
"Damn it man! You lived the history! You're better then any mathematics teacher. Hell, you run an engineering plant!"
"Why can't he like life as it is?" Hiko asked his fuse was getting dangerously short. "He gets everything he ever asks for!"
Tae raised an accusing finger. "Except for the affection of his father."
"I give him plenty. I could have hired a trainer to teach him swordsmanship, but I taught him my own technique. I even made him my heir. What more dose he want."
"Money can't buy happiness, moron!" Tae spat, placing her hands on her hips.
"Then what can!"
"Simplicity can sometimes do it. Love might! Does anyone really know?' she said with a small laugh. "If you think money brings happiness then you're going to live a very dull life."
"What does a maid know about love?!" he yelled.
"More then you apparently." She said with a sniff.
"Whatever." He said turning his back on the woman.
"Kenshin's a bright kid Hiko even if his grades don't show it, but he will turn to something or one else to find his own happiness. However sometimes it is not the best. If you want him to turn out bad then pay no real attention to him. If you don't want that then straighten your ways." With that last comment she marched out of the room.
Silence surrounded Hiko and he slowly sat down in his black chair. The man's eyes grew ice cold as he watched the woman walk down the hall.
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"Karou. Your first assignment is going to be at this address. Could be considered easy to a girl of your skill, but it must be carried out to the last letter, no witnesses. Convey the 7Seals warning and get out." said Javelin, giving the girl a folded paper. She nodded and slowly opened it. In black strokes was written:
Sagara Sozo
116 Sunset Dr., Kyoto
"Where the hell is Sunset?" asked the boy, reading over Karou's shoulder with some difficulty, being a few inches shorter then her. "And who's 'Sagara Sozo'?
"Yahiko!" said Karou with a growl, pushing him away from her. "You reek."
"What do you think ugly? Where am I supposed to take a bath if I don't live any where?"
"Shut up, both of you. Karou's got a job to do." said Javelin.
"Does that mean I have to put up with this Bitch for the rest of the night?"
"Yes, unfortunately it does. Now, please shut up brat."
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"Sano! Open the damn door!" yelled Kenshin banging angrily on the hard wood. "I know your home!" he yelled again. Taking another deep breath he readied himself for another bellow.
"Sagara Sanosuk........." he was suddenly cut off when a pissed, tired and tall shirtless teenager wrenched open the door.
"Kenshin what the hell do you think your doing here? Normal people use this time to sleep." Sano ran a hand through his unruly black hair, his face twisted as he gave a huge yawn.
"I thought we could go to the club tonight?" said Kenshin hanging head.
"Kenshin, you crazy!? We've gone there almost every night this week! Besides its raining." Sanosuke turned to go back in before his friend could protest.
"But Sano." Kenshin wined.
"No buts. I'm going to bed." The teen said slamming the door in Kenshin's face. "You should too, Kenshin!" he yelled through the door.
The red head heaved a sigh as he quietly gazed at the closed door. A light wind swept long red strands hair across his face and the light scent of lavenders stirred his sprits. His keen senses felt another presence behind him, like a thin wraith waiting in the shadows.
"Who is it?" he said uncertainly. Sano was the superstitious one, not the fearless Himura Kenshin. The tall teen knew more about sprits then he did about math. Still he had a feeling someone was out there. It grew stronger and soon a small drop of sweat ran down his face. 'Get a grip of yourself Himura. You're captain of the Kendo Club at school, who could hurt you?' however despite all he did or thought the feeling was still there. And with a last shiver the red head turned and walked down the road taking quick looks behind him.
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Karou looked up at the sign above her, it read Redwood.
"Damn." She said to herself angrily. Getting lost was not one of the highlights of her first assignment. She now knew where every street, well not all of them but it felt like it, in the bloody city except Sunset. Hanging her head in despair she started walking again. Down another street and up another, she was soon hopelessly lost. With a sigh of defeat she turned around and went back to where she started.
Then suddenly her head impacted with another warm body. Looking up she saw that it was a male teenager with startling red hair and deep violet eyes.
"I'm so sorry." She said placing a hand over her mouth. "I should have watched where I was going."
The boy gave a laugh.
"No it was all my fault." He said, "My mind wasn't on my direction." He smiled a small smile that lit up Karou's heart. With a formal bow he left her standing in the soft yellow light of a street lamp. She watched him walk down a street that was labeled Sunset.
Karou smiled and followed him silently. With the agility of a cat she made her way behind the young man careful to keep out of sight and hearing.
He stopped in front of a small blue house with a white sport car in the drive way, marked 612. The man went up to the white door and gave a loud knock. He waited for a few seconds before ramming his fist into it and yelling an indistinguishable name. Another taller teenager came to the door. Karou hoped that it wasn't the guy on her assignment, it would be so hard. He was shirtless and had a chest that would turn on any girl, with the exception of Javelin. Karou held her breath as the two hansom men conversed. She was split between which one she liked more. However she did settle on the short one, he was cuter. (Rambling huh?)
However the red head had the door shut in his face, he looked down and sighed. Suddenly he spun around and called out.
Karou's heart thumped as she waited for the teen to turn and go. It took him a while but he did eventually leave. She heaved a sigh of relief and walked up to the house. Peering into the large window to the left of the door she glanced around the inside. A piano was right across from her and at it was a large white cat. She smiled and slowly eased open the window.
"Shit." She said silently. "locked." She then jumped the fence and ran to the back. Glancing around the yard she saw that it was clean cut and well trimmed, with bushes lining the fence. Near the far end of the enclosure she noticed a strange looking shrine and paused to look at it. Being from America the only shrine she ever saw was at 7Seals, and that was a Church.
"And you are?" came a masculine voice from behind her. Spinning around she saw a slender man who looked to be about in his late twenties. Around his forehead was a long red bandana and black hair coving half of his face and one eye.
"Sagara Sozo I presume." said Karou looking into his hard brown eyes.
"Yes." He said evenly. Karou's face grimaced as she gazed at the man she was to convey a message. It was going to be harder then she thought.
"I bring a message from Lord Shishio and 7Seals. They would like to express the warning with the bringing of this act. Take a long look around you Captain Sagara; it may be your last." Karou reached one her back and grasped the hilt of a sword. Sagara's eyes went wide at the name of Shishio and 7Seals, and then grew amused when he was the girl pull out a sword.
"He sends a girl." He said with a smile. "Strange, but I shall play his game." Karou lunged at the man and slashed at thin air. She swerved around and met with a silver blade wielded by the Captain's skilled arm. She turned and with speed Sagara had not expected slashed at his face. The older man was barely able to evade the cut and was rewarded with a small cut under his right eye. Blood leaked from the small wound and dribbled down his face.
"You have teeth, don't you girl." He said lifting a hand to wipe at the cut. "I must be careful." He suddenly lunged at her and with a graceful leap she soared out of his range. She smiled and attacked. She drove him with a series of quick slashes as he struggled to parry her sword. He lost his smile as the wooden wall of the shrine pressed against his back. She was better then he assumed and he was trapped in his own mistake. With a huge smile Karou pushed all her force into one powerful slash that knocked the sword out of the surprised captain's hands.
"Shishio sends his greetings, Captain." Karou said saluting to the former 7Seal agent. "Take a good look." With that she slashed her sword at his face cutting deep into his eye sockets. However the man's reaction was a second late, but early at the same time. By turning his head only one of his eyes were sacrificed to the girl.
With a scream of pain Sozo clutched at his bleeding face and pressed his palm against the wound.
"Sozo!" yelled a horrified voice from his home. Karou spun to meet the wide eyes of the red head's friend.
Javelin's words echoed in her mind, 'no witnesses'. Karou grimaced at the thought of what she had to do.
"No." she said lightly to herself shutting her eyes to reality. She heard running feet and leaped out of the way as the tall boy ran at her in a frenzy of rage.
"Sano, no!" yelled the blind man. Karou slashed at the boy, Sano, giving him a gash to remember her by. Then without a sound she vaulted herself out of the yard.
She heard voices yelling from the yard and could make out the word police from the yelling. No, she couldn't get caught. It would never be right, so she ran for her life away from the home of Captain Sagara Sozo.
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End of Chapter 4
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AN- I did it! This one is done; the story is finally living up to the Action/Adventure category it was placed in. I had a lot of fun with this fight, however it was very hard to decide what would happen the Captain Sagara, and I hope I chose right. I'm trying to keep him in the story longer then I should, but I think some of you will like it. Just please don't hurt me for making Sozo lose an eye, it was really hard to write. Any way I'm going to try updating every week now. It might be hard but I will try. And by the way the Sagara home is modeled after a friend of mine's, Maggie, the address and everything except it's in Gallup not Kyoto. Tae is so OOC but I feel she has a brave person somewhere inside her. Brave enough to stand up to Hiko, wow I must be dreaming. (he he This is so fun.)So yah hope you liked it.
Title change!!! Now Kryptonite- if you want to know why then check out my bio. Entry 11/12/04
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