Omake 2!

Time frame: a bit before Chapter 9

Requested/Idea by: Aen Silver Fire

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In a small dry farm field, Saburo was dressed in ragged clothes, digging up dirt to make a human grave with the rusted shovel. The sunray burned his skin, but he will not rest. He definitely will not rest. Absolutely not! For today was the day his mother was selling his sister away to a stranger who laid his eyes on his sister just yesterday. That was why Saburo was digging, a grave for that very man who would take his sister away.

"I will not allow you to sell our daughter to that playboy!" Sanosuke raised his voice to his wife.

Sitting on the chair in the kitchen, Yumeko was calm and simply stared at him. Sanosuke was furious because Yumeko did the 'marriage arrangement' behind his back. "But darling, we cannot pay for last month's fee," she reasoned, staring blankly. "And I'm doing this for Kanon's own good."

"How is forcing our daughter to marry, her own good?" Sanosuke demanded, slamming his hand on the table to his left.

Yumeko chuckled, "For one, the man's rich. She'll live a good life. Believe me."

"But he's a playboy!"

"Is that your only comeback?"

Ayumu entered into the kitchen while his sister and her husband were still arguing as if he was not here. Grabbing a bottle of sake by the stove, Ayumu walked out the back door causally and went to meet up with his brother, Kyou. They both stood under the shades of a tall tree. "Here," Ayumu handed the bottle to Kyou.

With a smirk, Kyou's eyes were gazing over to Saburo, who was on the other side of the field. Kyou took the bottle from Ayumu while he asked, "What do you think our nephew's doing?"

"Something immature, I'm sure," Ayumu said indifferently, rubbing the sweat behind his neck.

Kyou snickered, taking a gulp of sake and let out a happy sigh. Wiping his mouth with a grin, he glanced to Ayumu curiously. "What do you think of our niece getting married off today, eh?" he inquired. Ayumu had not expressed his opinions on it, even if everything was just decided yesterday.

"It'll be good for us," Ayumu nodded without any eye contact. "She's too loud because she's always playing with Saburo. …What great relief it would be when she's gone."

Laughing a little, Kyou gazed back to Saburo. "Aren't we a loving family?" he joked with a smirk. "Oh." Kyou caught sight of the groom in refined clothes coming up on the hill of their farm. "Looks like he's here early."

When Ayumu finally looked over, Saburo had charged with his rusted shovel while screaming, "Okita Souji, DIEEEEEEE!"

When the shovel was swung to Souji's face, he simply bowed forward to dodge it. Saburo had used a lot of force, so he fell forward and landed on his face. Souji smirked and continued walking toward the house. "Hey~!" Souji happily called out. "I'm here for my wife!"

Ayumu turned to walk toward a barn further back. Kyou heard Sanosuke's angry voice and he was not able to see Souji, who must have walked into the house. Drinking more sake, Kyou made his way to the front of the house, hoping to stop Saburo from attacking Souji again.

In the house, Yumeko was holding Sanosuke back with ropes tied around his ankles. He was on his stomach and she was sitting on top of him. Souji had gone through the hall in the house and he was humming with a smirk. Yumeko tied the powerless Sanosuke's wrists together behind him and kept him locked on the ground. "Darling, stop resisting," Yumeko patted on his head, flattening her face to him. "Okita-sama had already paid for Kanon."

"You can't be doing this to our daughter, Yumeko!" Sanosuke retorted, panicking and kicking around. The rope around his feet slowly loosened.

When Souji came back out, he was carrying Kanon on his right shoulder. A rope was tied her from her neck to her ankles and a piece of cloth was in her mouth to prevent her from screaming. Souji waved goodbye when he exited the front door. "Alright, I'll bring the woman over once we get marry and have kids!" he lightly laughed, throwing his head back.

Sanosuke looked up and saw the tears in Kanon's eyes, begging for help. "KANON!" Sanosuke yelled in agony. And in that split second, Sanosuke roughly moved to the side to get the heavy Yumeko off of him. She fell on her side with a loud thud and Sanosuke got up on his feet while his wrists were still bounded to his back. Sanosuke rushed out the door, but then a foot came out of nowhere and Sanosuke tripped on it, falling down on his stomach.

"Sorry, Harada," Kyou smirked, throwing the emptied bottle to the side. "But we already accepted the money and we can't go back on our words."

"You too, brother-in-law?!" Sanosuke shot a glare at him, getting up.

As the two men started to get into a fistfight, Saburo had run with the shovel in his hands again. "Let my sister go!" Saburo exclaimed with a fierce look, charging rather blindly.

Souji turned his body to the left a bit and Kanon's legs hit Saburo's face first. He fell on his back and instantly fell unconscious. Kanon made loud noises, angrily moving about. Souji held her legs in place and soon Ayumu greeted him, bringing a white horse with behind him. "Oh, why thank you," Souji smirked, throwing Kanon on the horse first.

At the same time as Kanon glared at her uncle, Ayumu, he did not seem to care about the tears in her eyes. "Have fun, Kanon," Ayumu patted on her head roughly. "May happiness be with you."

She wanted to bite his hand off so much and then she screamed through the cloth when Souji moved to sit on the horse with her in front of him. He patted on her back and his eyes gazed over to Sanosuke, who was being held back by Kyou and Yumeko. "It's been fun meeting all of you!" Souji grinned, turning the horse and begun going away.

"Come back here, you bastard!" Sanosuke shouted. Kyou was holding both of his arms from the back and Yumeko was pushing against Sanosuke's chest. "Don't you dare take her away!"

The horse started to gallop and the cold wind filled with Souji's laughter.

The cold wind? Was it not summer?

Souji's head bobbed down and he opened his sleepy eyes. He realized he was sitting with his back against the cabin where Ayumu, Yumeko, and Kanon were in. To his left slept Saburo. After completely grasping his surroundings, Souji slowly looked up and squinted his eyes. '…What in the world did I just dreamed?' he asked himself.

Author's note: I am sure a lot of them were out of character here, but some dreams do that. Hopefully this was somewhat satisfying to read because I lost inspiration at the end… and I didn't want this to be too long. 8D

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