For a Favor

By Charmed Wolf

The disclaimer says I do not own Rurouni Kenshin in any way, and includes the gorgessness that is Shinomori Aoshi. They will stay with their well respected creators; I'm just borrowing the characters for this story. All I own is one OVA DVD, one profile book and all the manga, and you can't sue me for the story or the characters of Rurouni Kenshin, I'm a poor writer with no life…

Aoshi took off his shirt in the middle of the spar; Suki saw all the scars on his brother's scarred chest. 'I know better than to ask,' Suki thought as he stood in his kempo stance, Aoshi continued the spar with his bother as Misao came in with the babies and Amazu. Aoshi smiled after the sparring match as he went to his wife, daughter and sons, Hannya was quiet as asleep while Shikijo was quite the oppose of Hannya. "Aoshi, I'm going to say that Hannya is your son," Misao said as she giggled, and then Hannya woke up with a yawn to see his father chuckle at what Misao said.

Aoshi gently took Hannya into his arms and held him, to Aoshi, his pride and joy was his family. "This is what it means to be a father, Suki," Aoshi said with a small smile to his lips, Misao was enjoying her life as Aoshi's wife and the mother of three wonderful children.

Amazu was ready for her first lesson in kempo; she liked it when her father would teach her the arts of being a shinobi. 'So, this is what it means to have a family,' Suki thought as he watched his brother, both brothers left with Misao and the kids. Amazu went out to chase a butterfly, Aoshi stayed to watch of his daughter play until it was that time to go in and to take a bath and go for bed down.

"Aoshi, I think that your daughter is kind of like you," Hiro said as he started to chuckle at the memory, Aoshi just smiled as he looked at his daughter sleep in her futon with the covers up over.

Amazu had copied how her father had once slept as child and young adult, which dawn, Aoshi couldn't sleep as he was worried about the attack and what strategy to use against the Tora ninja. 'After all these years, I thought I would never see them for the first time,' Aoshi thought as he sat as his desk, soon there was a loud crash as Aoshi went to see what the crash all about. Okon had dropped a plate by accident; the Tora hadn't showed up in any way, to Aoshi's relief.

"Aoshi, you should be sleeping," Misao said finding her husband up and over by the twins quietly, Misao was worried about her husband not getting any sleep. Aoshi knew that Misao was right and was worried, he really should be sleeping instead of being up and around like a normal person.

"Misao, I not able to sleep like I should," Aoshi said as he touched Misao's cheek, and Misao couldn't resist Aoshi's touch as she knew it was gentle and also very loving, especially when kissed.

After awhile, Misao had finally got her husband to go to bed as the wolves lay down with the twins to protect them; Aoshi walked past his father's room and just chuckled at the way his father was sleeping. 'Finally, Aoshi is sleeping, good time to help the others in the Aoiya,' Misao thought as she got ready to help serve guests, Aoshi was in an uneasy sleep thinking that the wolves would come to their aid when the Tora come to attack. He knew that his wife would have her kunai on her; Suki was sleeping thinking about that girl he met the other night in the market on the way to the Aoiya.

"Marina, it's the evening, go wake Aoshi and Suki up for their sparring match," Hiro said as he got dressed in his gi, Marina sighed and went to go wake her brothers up get them ready for their sparring match. Aoshi and Suki were already up and getting dressed for the spar. Aoshi went out to the dojo to meet his brother; wolves came in time to aid the Oniwabanshu against the Tora "Oh, Suki, you scared me there," Misao said as she picked up Hannya into her arms, Amazu was helping her mother with the twins when the Tora attacked the Aoiya with such speed and fierceness. Wolves ran to the twins' nursery to protect the kids, especially one black wolf making strives to see that Aoshi and Misao's children are safe and unharmed, there was no way that Misao was going to fight alone.

"Hiro, Aoshi is wounded and he's still fighting," Shiro said to get Hiro's attention to Aoshi's injury, a member of the Tora went up to the up the nursery where Misao and the kids were. His intention was to kill Misao and the children, knowing that's the strong point for Aoshi, yet the member was met with the point of a very sharp katana in the familiar colors of Hijikata Toshizo.

'There is no way that Aoshi will lose his wife and children, no way,' Hijikata thought as the fight progressed, to Misao's point of view, it looked like that Hijikata had the advantage.

With in moments, the member of the Tora was dead with Hijikata with only a scratch, Aoshi was trying to reach his wife as yet the wound to his chest and shoulder protested that he shouldn't move at all. Misao stayed with the kids knowing something was wrong with Aoshi; Hiro was trying to find his son and to get the wound fixed up and bandaged up as quickly as possible before something happened. "Aoshi, hold on, son," Hiro said as he found his son on the stairs unconscious, Kenshin had also lent Aoshi his strength to fight the Tora and to get rid of the threat from the Shinomori.

Marina was trying to fight off the Tora the best she could, until Suki came running to help his sister to free her. "Marina, Aoshi is wounded and father is gone to find him," Suki said as the Tora began to retreat with over half their strength gone and out of fear of Himura Kenshin.

Sanosuke had to go get Megumi to go tend to Aoshi; Misao was by Aoshi's side with Aoshi unconscious. "I need light so I can examine the wound," Megumi said as she started to set up to treat Aoshi, and then she noticed the scratch on Hijikata's on his face. And yet Aoshi was more important to treat because of the wound, hours went by as Megumi treated the wound as bad as it was.

"Now he should be able to rest now, everyone," Megumi said cleaning up her things from Aoshi's room, now it looked like Aoshi was asleep in his futon and neatly bandaged.

Suki and Misao were taking care of Aoshi with help from Hiro, Marina was still jealous of Aoshi because of all the attention he was receiving. "Amazu, could you go get the clean bandages for me, please?" Misao asked her daughter sweetly, the little girl ran to get the bandages for Misao.

Suki helped Misao with the bandage changing as Hiro took care of the twins, Okon and Omasu prayed that Aoshi would wake up soon. "Misao, I love you," came Aoshi's voice as he spoke quietly, Misao just smiled and looked into Aoshi's icy blue eyes. Suki was glad that his older brother awake and went to go tell everyone, Hiro was glad that Aoshi was awake from being unconscious.

"Otou-san, I'm glad that you're awake," Amazu said gently hugging Aoshi, Misao just smiled seeing her husband and daughter together. Aoshi was being careful with his wound as he lay back down; Misao didn't want the wound to reopen for Megumi to come back to tend to the wound again.

"Okaa-san, when is otou-san going to be able to teach me?" Amazu asked Misao in a quiet voice, Misao just giggled as she went to go check on her sons. Suki gently took Amazu to the dojo to continue what Aoshi was teaching her, Hiro was trying to talk to Marina until there was a knock on the door. It was Tenshiko from the marketplace; she was the daughter of a shop owner. "I'm looking for Suki, sir," Tenshiko said trying to hide the fact she was shy, Hiro smiled and took Tenshiko to the dojo where Suki was teaching his niece. There was a giggle from Amazu as Suki was looking at Tenshiko, to Suki; Tenshiko was an angel because she was beautiful. Hiro was pleased that his son has met a beautiful girl; Tenshiko's father was talking to Hiro about marrying Suki and Tenshiko together.

"I got to tell your brother that you have a found a good girl, Suki," Hiro said as he went to go tell Aoshi, Misao was watching her husband sleep as Hiro started up the stairs. Hiro knew Aoshi was going to heal quickly; there was talk between Hiroshi-sama and Aoshi about the future of the Shinomori family two years after Amazu's birth and before the birth of the twin boys. "Sorry, Hiro-san, Aoshi is still asleep right now," Misao said smiling as she strokes her husband's hair, Hiro bowed saying that he perfectly understood what Misao said and politely left to let his son rest.

Suki was back to teaching his niece as Hiro came back to the dojo, Tenshiko was watching the class session go on. "Aoshi is sleeping right now, Suki," Hiro said as he sat down to watch, Amazu was learning fast making her father and the rest of Oniwabanshu proud of her. Aoshi was awake later in the evening; the bandages fell of revealing a well healed scar before Aoshi changed into his clean gi.

"Aoshi, you're handsome as over," Misao said blushing some, Aoshi and Misao decided to wait before going to have more children. But that didn't stop Aoshi from kissing his wife on the lips, it made Misao smile as Aoshi held his wife close to his chest like he always done before.

"Aoshi, are you feeling alright?" Suki said as he was holding Tenshiko close, Aoshi pleasantly surprised to find out that his brother had been starting to court the daughter of the store owner. Hiro and Aoshi had the girls to plan a party for Suki and Tenshiko; Suki had bought a ring for Tenshiko to purpose to her. 'I wonder what Suki has in store,' Tenshiko thought when she saw Suki got on his knees, the ring box was opened to her as Suki looked up to her with a small smile.

The Aoiya was quiet as they were giving Suki time to purpose, Amazu was being quiet and that wasn't easy for a 4 year old. "Tenshiko, our fathers wanted to arrange for us to marry, but I have other plans," Suki said before continuing, "Will you marry me, Tenshiko?" Everyone was quiet waiting for an answer from Tenshiko; Misao was hoping that Tenshiko would give Suki an answer.

"Yes, Suki, I will marry you," Tenshiko said with a good surprise on her face, Suki slides the beautiful ring onto Tenshiko's finger. Aoshi was proud of his brother for finding a fine bride; Hiro was going to be a proud father with two sons now married and with a family growing in power and grace.

"Suki, we are all proud of you since now you are going to be married," Hiro said as Marina stayed quiet, Aoshi holding Hannya as Misao held Shikijo watching his brother with sheer joy.

Hehe, now I have Suki getting married, Aoshi is proud of his twin brother as he holding one of his precious baby boys.

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