Mirai
Disclaimer: Sessha does not own the anime rurouni kenshin or any of it's character.
'Although it would be nice too....* sniff sniff *'
They all belong to the great Watsuki Nobuhiro.
Lost
Dinner that night went better expected. Sanosuke did not mind Soujirou staying around for a
while. Kaoru did not mind either. It was not that bad, at least if Soujirou stays, there
would be someone to look after Kenji while she was teaching her students, and Kenshin out
practicing or getting some groceries.
The only person who did not really agree or object to the other boy staying was Yahiko.
Soujirou knew that Yahiko could not bring himself to trust him, but he didn't mind. Most
people don't anyway.
At dinner, Kenshin and Soujirou found out Saitoh had already passed the rumors among the
people. It caused many people to stay indoors, even if a festival was going on.
"So, what do you intend to do? Go along with that wolf?" Sanosuke placed his bowl and
chopsticks down. 'I'd rather follow what the smiley-face boy then that man.'
He was not one to like being told what to do. If it was Kenshin, he wouldn't mind. But, it
was that Mibu Wolf.
"We don't have any other choice now. Saitoh has everything planned out. I know it. I don't
like working with that man as much as you do, but we have to." Kenshin reached to pick up
his own bowl to eat.
He has been feeding Kenji all the time. Kenji now stayed snuggled to his chest, using his
tiny hands to encircle his father's body as much as he could.
Soujirou watched on as the 'family' before begin debating on what do to. Then, he looked at
the boy cuddled on Kenshin.
'Both of them look so much alike. I can't see much of his mother in him. Must have gotten
his personality from his mother then.' He turned and looked at the girl who was sitting
beside Kenshin. She was a year younger then him, and she has already found her family. Then,
Kaoru started shouting, something about doing what would be too risky, or something like
that.. 'Yep, he must have gotten his personality from his mother.'
"Soujirou, you agree with me right?" Yahiko turned too looked at the dazed and confused boy.
"Are?" Soujirou snapped back into reality when he felt something connect with his head. 'That's
the third time today. Someone up there really does not like me...'
"Oi! Smiley-face boy. Weren't you listening at all?" Yahiko snapped at the poor boy across
the table.
'Smiley-face boy?'
Soujirou laughed. "Aa...gomen gomen, I guess my mind kind of dozed off for awhile." He
placed a hand behind his head before laughing once again, secretly rubbing the spot in
which the boy had hit him.
Everyone sweatdrops, not knowing what to do.
"I think we all should turn in. It's getting late." Kenshin made the first move.
He stood up, carrying his red-head son in his arms, before turning to walk out of the room.
"Aa, he's right. I should be going back too, before it gets to dark to see anything. Ja ne!"
The former Zanza stood up and waved a single time before following his red-hair friend.
"Fine!" With one word, Yahiko moved towards the door and stomped out of the room.
"Gomen, it has been very tensed nowadays." Kaoru picked up the dishes one by one, stacking
them on each other.
"Ano, Kaoru-san, let me help you." Soujirou reached out to stack up his own pile of dishes.
"Arigatou." She stood up gracefully, as she balanced the trays and dishes with her hands.
Both walked in silence to the kitchen.
"You can leave them here, arigatou." Kaoru placed some of the dirty dishes into the sink,
and was about to start washing them when Soujirou cut in.
"Leave them to me, it's the least I can do." Soujirou gently pushed the surprised girl out
of his way, and then started cleaning the plates first.
Kaoru, a little happy that she did not have to clean up tonight, thanked the boy one more
time before 'bouncing' out of the kitchen, leaving Soujirou alone to clean up.
Soujirou was done in no time, after he had cleaned up and had taken a bath, he walked
slowly to his room. He placed his katana beside him on the ground, before unfolding his
futon.
He slowly slid under the cover and hoped that sleep would come soon. The boy knew that he
needed all the rest he could get, before tomorrow when he had to look after Kenji again.
Yahiko had gotten up early the next morning, he had a bad feeling about something, but he
just can't place his finger on it.
'I know it's not about Soujirou this time, but something else." He got out of bed and wrote
a note, before leaving for the Akebeko.
As expected, the restaurant was not open yet. So, the boy slid his note under the door, and
made his way back to the dojo.
By the time he had reached the dojo, everyone was awake. Kaoru was busy running around the
house, trying to catch her red-headed hyperactive son.
Soujirou then appeared from the bathroom. His hair was wet, the water was dripping onto his
gi. As soon as he noticed it, he lifted a towel to dry it a little to at least stop it from
dripping.
"Aa, Yahiko-kun, Ohayo." The former tenken was the first to notice him.
"Hai, Ohayo." Yahiko greeted him back, a little guilty from the way he had been treating
the other boy. 'Come to think of him, he is a little like Kenshin. Both used to be killers
and have incredible sword skills. Both also had very tragic past. I guess I should be nicer
to him.'
Yahiko then walked into the room in which the meal was laid out.
Soujirou smiled, than bent down to catch the runaway boy. Kenji begins struggling in the
boy's arms.
"Kenji!" Kaoru reached out her hands to take her son.
Soujirou gladly returned the boy to his mother before following Yahiko into the room.
Kenshin followed Soujirou into the room. He placed the recently made onigiri in front of
the two boys.
"Yahiko, ohayo. What are you doing here? I thought you already left to the Akebeko." Kenshin
asked as he sat down.
"Ohayo. Yes, I just came back from there. I left Tae and Tsubame a note saying that I won't
be going today." Yahiko said.
Just a few seconds later, Kenji came running into the room with a white towel on his head.
He ran to Soujirou and pounced on him.
"Ah...Kenji. Mattaku." Kaoru came into the room, giving up on catching the little imp.
"Ohayo!"
They all turned towards the direction of the voice, and saw that it was Sanosuke.
"Yare yare." Kenshin whispered under his breathe, before greeting the other man.
"You don't sound happy to see me. Anything bad happen?"
"Ohayo Sanosuke-san." Soujirou greeted the man, and received a nod.
"Call me Sano. You don't have to be so formal all the time."
"Hai." The boy smiled and nodded.
"Hai hai, itadakimasu." Yahiko then begin to stuff all his food into his mouth.
Kenji, seeing this, got off Soujirou and walked towards his own food. He looked at it for a
while before imitating Yahiko.
"Yahiko, don't set a bad example." Kaoru nagged at her former student.
"It's not my fault he wants to copy me is it, busu." Yahiko mumbled through the food in his
mouth.
"Nani!" Kaoru went to reach for her boken, but was stopped by Kenshin.
"Hm!" The girl picked up her son who was choking a little from the food he was trying to
stuff down his throat a minute ago. Kaoru patted him softly on the back before feeding him,
to make sure he does not try the same thing again.
Yahiko stuck his tongue at her. He then started laughing.
That was the last straw that Kaoru could take. She reached for her boken again, but as she
expected, Kenshin stopped her again. Needing to vent her anger, she had pushed the now
oroing (??) man aside and reached for her boken.
With it in hand, she went up to Yahiko who had his own shinai drawn.
"Maa maa, Kaoru-san. Yahiko was only..." * whack * The former tenken fell to the floor with
a lump on his head.
"Jou-chan..."
Kaoru shot Sanosuke a death glare, before turning back to her former student to attack him.
Sanosuke, who was either smart, or just plain scared of getting involved, stayed out of the
way.
Both Yahiko and Kaoru started exchanging hits. First block, attack, block, attack, attack.
Yahiko kept his pace in mind, as anger boiled up in Kaoru.
Kaoru stopped attacking when she felt something tug at her hakama. She looked down,
intending to swat away whatever was there. She lifted her boken to attack once again, but
stopped when she saw Kenji standing there, face scrunched up.
"What's wrong?" Kaoru, worried, bent down to talk face to face with the smaller boy.
The boy did not say anything, but just started doing a dance around the floor. His face
showing his urgency.
"I see, let's go." Kaoru walked out of the room, towards the toilet.
"Oi Busu. What about..."
* WHACK *
Kaoru walked away, hand in hand with her son. All the male in room except Sanosuke laid on
the floor with lumps on their head.
Kenshin was the to recover, being used to having head hit so hard that he could feel his
brain vibrating in his skull.
"Sano..." He whispered before falling back on the floor.
The rest of the day went rather smoothly, the former Zanza was nowhere in sight. If that
was not good, then no one knows what is.
Yahiko asked Kaoru to include him in the lesson. Both he and the girl 'danced' while the
rest of the students just stood by and watched as they defended each others attack.
The match ended when both admitted that they were exhausted. Kaoru then asked Kenshin to
take over. The poor samurai had no other choice. So, he went through the basics, pretending
that he didn't know anything else.
"Ahahahaha..." The little red-headed boy laughed as Soujirou tickled him.
"That is for chewing on my hair." The former tenken fell over to his side. He lay beside
the little red-headed boy, panting and chocking back his laughter.
Soujirou was getting very attached to the boy. Even if being with the little boy would cost
him his hair, he didn't really mind.
Suddenly, the thought of him bold crept into his mind.
'Then again, maybe not.' Soujirou laughed, but stopped as he felt some one else's presence
in the room.
"Kenji...Kenji..." When no answer came, Soujirou turned his head to find the boy gone. All
that was left was a note, which was on the very same spot that the little boy had been just
a few minutes ago.
"KENJI!!"
All the occupants of the Kamiya dojo turned to the direction of the voice. They all could
not believe their ears when they heard Soujirou's voice.
Dismissing the students, Kenshin ran towards the room in which Soujirou was supposed to be
with Kenji. Kenshin was the first to reach Soujirou.
"What's wrong?" Kenshin took a deep breath before scanning the area before him.
Soujirou was crotched over on the floor, tears forming in his eyes. The older man feared
the worst when he spotted a note on the floor.
"Oi, whats the big idea shouting like that..." Yahiko paused mid-sentence as he looked
around the room, only to notice that a certain little someone was missing, and was nowhere
in sight.
"Soujirou, where's Kenji?" Yahiko looked at the boy on the floor, who turned to smile at
the two men at the door. His eyes, not showing his feeling again, as tears slid down his
cheek.
Kenshin did not say anything. Instead, he walked towards the note on the floor and picked
it up. As he brought it closer to read, he realized that tears had stained the once white
paper. He didn't need to guess whose it was.
"They took him." Soujirou managed to say as he stopped his tears, and wiped his cheeks.
"Who is 'they'?" Yahiko went up to the blue clad boy, shinai in hand, ready to beat Soujirou
to a pulp if he did not get an answer soon.
"Hijikata has him." Kenshin said loud enough for the two boys in the room, but not for
Kaoru who was standing at the door, drying her hair.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Ahh...there, I kind of redid chapter 5 a little...*only the ending though*...I found this
chapter kind of short, so I had to do add something to it...hehe...anyway...on to the next
chapter...*for me*...pls r&r ne? Arigatou!!!
Disclaimer: Sessha does not own the anime rurouni kenshin or any of it's character.
'Although it would be nice too....* sniff sniff *'
They all belong to the great Watsuki Nobuhiro.
Lost
Dinner that night went better expected. Sanosuke did not mind Soujirou staying around for a
while. Kaoru did not mind either. It was not that bad, at least if Soujirou stays, there
would be someone to look after Kenji while she was teaching her students, and Kenshin out
practicing or getting some groceries.
The only person who did not really agree or object to the other boy staying was Yahiko.
Soujirou knew that Yahiko could not bring himself to trust him, but he didn't mind. Most
people don't anyway.
At dinner, Kenshin and Soujirou found out Saitoh had already passed the rumors among the
people. It caused many people to stay indoors, even if a festival was going on.
"So, what do you intend to do? Go along with that wolf?" Sanosuke placed his bowl and
chopsticks down. 'I'd rather follow what the smiley-face boy then that man.'
He was not one to like being told what to do. If it was Kenshin, he wouldn't mind. But, it
was that Mibu Wolf.
"We don't have any other choice now. Saitoh has everything planned out. I know it. I don't
like working with that man as much as you do, but we have to." Kenshin reached to pick up
his own bowl to eat.
He has been feeding Kenji all the time. Kenji now stayed snuggled to his chest, using his
tiny hands to encircle his father's body as much as he could.
Soujirou watched on as the 'family' before begin debating on what do to. Then, he looked at
the boy cuddled on Kenshin.
'Both of them look so much alike. I can't see much of his mother in him. Must have gotten
his personality from his mother then.' He turned and looked at the girl who was sitting
beside Kenshin. She was a year younger then him, and she has already found her family. Then,
Kaoru started shouting, something about doing what would be too risky, or something like
that.. 'Yep, he must have gotten his personality from his mother.'
"Soujirou, you agree with me right?" Yahiko turned too looked at the dazed and confused boy.
"Are?" Soujirou snapped back into reality when he felt something connect with his head. 'That's
the third time today. Someone up there really does not like me...'
"Oi! Smiley-face boy. Weren't you listening at all?" Yahiko snapped at the poor boy across
the table.
'Smiley-face boy?'
Soujirou laughed. "Aa...gomen gomen, I guess my mind kind of dozed off for awhile." He
placed a hand behind his head before laughing once again, secretly rubbing the spot in
which the boy had hit him.
Everyone sweatdrops, not knowing what to do.
"I think we all should turn in. It's getting late." Kenshin made the first move.
He stood up, carrying his red-head son in his arms, before turning to walk out of the room.
"Aa, he's right. I should be going back too, before it gets to dark to see anything. Ja ne!"
The former Zanza stood up and waved a single time before following his red-hair friend.
"Fine!" With one word, Yahiko moved towards the door and stomped out of the room.
"Gomen, it has been very tensed nowadays." Kaoru picked up the dishes one by one, stacking
them on each other.
"Ano, Kaoru-san, let me help you." Soujirou reached out to stack up his own pile of dishes.
"Arigatou." She stood up gracefully, as she balanced the trays and dishes with her hands.
Both walked in silence to the kitchen.
"You can leave them here, arigatou." Kaoru placed some of the dirty dishes into the sink,
and was about to start washing them when Soujirou cut in.
"Leave them to me, it's the least I can do." Soujirou gently pushed the surprised girl out
of his way, and then started cleaning the plates first.
Kaoru, a little happy that she did not have to clean up tonight, thanked the boy one more
time before 'bouncing' out of the kitchen, leaving Soujirou alone to clean up.
Soujirou was done in no time, after he had cleaned up and had taken a bath, he walked
slowly to his room. He placed his katana beside him on the ground, before unfolding his
futon.
He slowly slid under the cover and hoped that sleep would come soon. The boy knew that he
needed all the rest he could get, before tomorrow when he had to look after Kenji again.
Yahiko had gotten up early the next morning, he had a bad feeling about something, but he
just can't place his finger on it.
'I know it's not about Soujirou this time, but something else." He got out of bed and wrote
a note, before leaving for the Akebeko.
As expected, the restaurant was not open yet. So, the boy slid his note under the door, and
made his way back to the dojo.
By the time he had reached the dojo, everyone was awake. Kaoru was busy running around the
house, trying to catch her red-headed hyperactive son.
Soujirou then appeared from the bathroom. His hair was wet, the water was dripping onto his
gi. As soon as he noticed it, he lifted a towel to dry it a little to at least stop it from
dripping.
"Aa, Yahiko-kun, Ohayo." The former tenken was the first to notice him.
"Hai, Ohayo." Yahiko greeted him back, a little guilty from the way he had been treating
the other boy. 'Come to think of him, he is a little like Kenshin. Both used to be killers
and have incredible sword skills. Both also had very tragic past. I guess I should be nicer
to him.'
Yahiko then walked into the room in which the meal was laid out.
Soujirou smiled, than bent down to catch the runaway boy. Kenji begins struggling in the
boy's arms.
"Kenji!" Kaoru reached out her hands to take her son.
Soujirou gladly returned the boy to his mother before following Yahiko into the room.
Kenshin followed Soujirou into the room. He placed the recently made onigiri in front of
the two boys.
"Yahiko, ohayo. What are you doing here? I thought you already left to the Akebeko." Kenshin
asked as he sat down.
"Ohayo. Yes, I just came back from there. I left Tae and Tsubame a note saying that I won't
be going today." Yahiko said.
Just a few seconds later, Kenji came running into the room with a white towel on his head.
He ran to Soujirou and pounced on him.
"Ah...Kenji. Mattaku." Kaoru came into the room, giving up on catching the little imp.
"Ohayo!"
They all turned towards the direction of the voice, and saw that it was Sanosuke.
"Yare yare." Kenshin whispered under his breathe, before greeting the other man.
"You don't sound happy to see me. Anything bad happen?"
"Ohayo Sanosuke-san." Soujirou greeted the man, and received a nod.
"Call me Sano. You don't have to be so formal all the time."
"Hai." The boy smiled and nodded.
"Hai hai, itadakimasu." Yahiko then begin to stuff all his food into his mouth.
Kenji, seeing this, got off Soujirou and walked towards his own food. He looked at it for a
while before imitating Yahiko.
"Yahiko, don't set a bad example." Kaoru nagged at her former student.
"It's not my fault he wants to copy me is it, busu." Yahiko mumbled through the food in his
mouth.
"Nani!" Kaoru went to reach for her boken, but was stopped by Kenshin.
"Hm!" The girl picked up her son who was choking a little from the food he was trying to
stuff down his throat a minute ago. Kaoru patted him softly on the back before feeding him,
to make sure he does not try the same thing again.
Yahiko stuck his tongue at her. He then started laughing.
That was the last straw that Kaoru could take. She reached for her boken again, but as she
expected, Kenshin stopped her again. Needing to vent her anger, she had pushed the now
oroing (??) man aside and reached for her boken.
With it in hand, she went up to Yahiko who had his own shinai drawn.
"Maa maa, Kaoru-san. Yahiko was only..." * whack * The former tenken fell to the floor with
a lump on his head.
"Jou-chan..."
Kaoru shot Sanosuke a death glare, before turning back to her former student to attack him.
Sanosuke, who was either smart, or just plain scared of getting involved, stayed out of the
way.
Both Yahiko and Kaoru started exchanging hits. First block, attack, block, attack, attack.
Yahiko kept his pace in mind, as anger boiled up in Kaoru.
Kaoru stopped attacking when she felt something tug at her hakama. She looked down,
intending to swat away whatever was there. She lifted her boken to attack once again, but
stopped when she saw Kenji standing there, face scrunched up.
"What's wrong?" Kaoru, worried, bent down to talk face to face with the smaller boy.
The boy did not say anything, but just started doing a dance around the floor. His face
showing his urgency.
"I see, let's go." Kaoru walked out of the room, towards the toilet.
"Oi Busu. What about..."
* WHACK *
Kaoru walked away, hand in hand with her son. All the male in room except Sanosuke laid on
the floor with lumps on their head.
Kenshin was the to recover, being used to having head hit so hard that he could feel his
brain vibrating in his skull.
"Sano..." He whispered before falling back on the floor.
The rest of the day went rather smoothly, the former Zanza was nowhere in sight. If that
was not good, then no one knows what is.
Yahiko asked Kaoru to include him in the lesson. Both he and the girl 'danced' while the
rest of the students just stood by and watched as they defended each others attack.
The match ended when both admitted that they were exhausted. Kaoru then asked Kenshin to
take over. The poor samurai had no other choice. So, he went through the basics, pretending
that he didn't know anything else.
"Ahahahaha..." The little red-headed boy laughed as Soujirou tickled him.
"That is for chewing on my hair." The former tenken fell over to his side. He lay beside
the little red-headed boy, panting and chocking back his laughter.
Soujirou was getting very attached to the boy. Even if being with the little boy would cost
him his hair, he didn't really mind.
Suddenly, the thought of him bold crept into his mind.
'Then again, maybe not.' Soujirou laughed, but stopped as he felt some one else's presence
in the room.
"Kenji...Kenji..." When no answer came, Soujirou turned his head to find the boy gone. All
that was left was a note, which was on the very same spot that the little boy had been just
a few minutes ago.
"KENJI!!"
All the occupants of the Kamiya dojo turned to the direction of the voice. They all could
not believe their ears when they heard Soujirou's voice.
Dismissing the students, Kenshin ran towards the room in which Soujirou was supposed to be
with Kenji. Kenshin was the first to reach Soujirou.
"What's wrong?" Kenshin took a deep breath before scanning the area before him.
Soujirou was crotched over on the floor, tears forming in his eyes. The older man feared
the worst when he spotted a note on the floor.
"Oi, whats the big idea shouting like that..." Yahiko paused mid-sentence as he looked
around the room, only to notice that a certain little someone was missing, and was nowhere
in sight.
"Soujirou, where's Kenji?" Yahiko looked at the boy on the floor, who turned to smile at
the two men at the door. His eyes, not showing his feeling again, as tears slid down his
cheek.
Kenshin did not say anything. Instead, he walked towards the note on the floor and picked
it up. As he brought it closer to read, he realized that tears had stained the once white
paper. He didn't need to guess whose it was.
"They took him." Soujirou managed to say as he stopped his tears, and wiped his cheeks.
"Who is 'they'?" Yahiko went up to the blue clad boy, shinai in hand, ready to beat Soujirou
to a pulp if he did not get an answer soon.
"Hijikata has him." Kenshin said loud enough for the two boys in the room, but not for
Kaoru who was standing at the door, drying her hair.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Ahh...there, I kind of redid chapter 5 a little...*only the ending though*...I found this
chapter kind of short, so I had to do add something to it...hehe...anyway...on to the next
chapter...*for me*...pls r&r ne? Arigatou!!!
