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Soujirou's Dream - Chapter 13

"He is coming around, Misao!"

"Yes, he is! Morning Aoshi-sama."

"Ouch, my head hurts."

"Be careful or your stitches might break and my hard work will go to waste just like it did with that stupid chicken-head." grumbled Megumi.

"I will, Megumi," said Aoshi rubbing his head. "So you are up, Aoshi-san." Came a cold voice from behind him. Aoshi slowly and painfully turned his head back to face Soujirou. "Hai, do you all mind to leave me alone for a moment." Everyone got up and walk toward the door. "Rest well, Aoshi-sama." Chirped a happy Misao before she went out.

"Wait, Misao and Soujirou. I need to talk to you. Soujirou you can come in after Misao goes out." Soujirou sighed and walked out, and Misao sat next to Aoshi. "Yes Aoshi-sama ?"

Aoshi gulped. "I'm sorry about leaving you before, I do still love you, but I think of you more as a little sister." Misao smiled slightly, her head bowed. "I take it that I'm forgiven ?" Aoshi asked with a hint of amusement in his voice. Misao smiled and nodded vigourously. "There's another thing.... nevermind..." Aoshi was silent for a moment. "You can call Soujirou in now." Misao walked out and called for Soujirou to enter.

"What do you want?" Soujirou asked a bit irritatedly.

"I need to talk to you about-"

"About Misao ?"

"No. What is it about Misao anyway ?"

"Er... Nothing"

"Can I continue ?"

"Sure, go ahead."

"Did you have a dream about you nearly taken away by Death?" "What! How do you know?" Soujirou remembered his dream when death wanted to take his life. "You see, my life too was nearly taken away." Aoshi began telling Soujirou about Death and his name next on the clipboard also how he tricked Death into taking some imaginary guy's life. "That was naughty of you to trick death, but thanks for saving my life Shinomori-san."

"So now I am warning you to be on your guard in the future or else you will just you-know-what. "

"Thanks for warning me, Shinomori-san."

"You're welcome. I am going back to Kyoto tomorrow since the matter is over." Aoshi said.

"What about Misao?" Soujirou asked enthusiasticly.

"She can follow you."

"Really?"

"Yes but don't tell her that I am going back tomorrow."

"Okay, I'll keep it a secret."

"Now leave me alone." With that Soujirou got up and walked away.

~~**The next day...**~~

"Aoshi-sama, where are you?"

"Misao, there is a letter for you and I think its from Aoshi-san." Tsubame handed over the letter to Misao "Thanks Tsubame." Tsubame smiled shyly and went out of the room. Misao opened the letter and read it. "Misao-chan, I am sorry that I left without informing you or saying gooodbye to you again, please forgive me. By the time, you read this letter, I would have paid my respects to the graves of Hannya, Hyottoko, Beshimi and Shikijyo. And now I'm on my way back to Kyoto so I want you to enjoy your trip with Soujirou. Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. -Aoshi"

Misao took the letter and crushed it hard.

"That baka !" snarled Misao as she tear the crumpled letter up into pieces, into tiny pieces into tinier pieces into even tinier pieces and finally into atoms (Just imagine how small the pieces are! Don't worry the word 'atoms' was just to describe how small she managed to tear the letter into. LoL.) Kaoru knocked on the shouji. "Can I come in?"

"No and stay out!" Kaoru quickly went away, grumbling "I am kind enough to knock before coming in and she just shouted angrily at me! What is her problem ?" "What's wrong, Kaoru-san?" asked Soujirou as she passed by him. "What's wrong? You go and find what is wrong with Misao then you come back and tell me." Kaoru stormed off to the kitchen to leash out her anger on Kenshin. (Poor Kenshin) Soujirou slowly got up and headed toward the room.

"Misao-chan, do you mind if I come in?" At the sound of Soujirou's voice, Misao quickly wiped her tears away. "Hai." Soujirou opened the shouji and walked in. "Do you mind closing the shouji behind you?" Soujirou closed it. "Misao-chan, what was the problem that a strong and confident girl like you had to cry?" he said gently.

"How do you know I was crying?" Misao asked angrily. "By the wetness on your face." Soujirou pointed and sat down in front of her and began to gently stroke her cheeks "Soujirou." Misao grab his hand. "Enough or I will kick you out." Soujirou quickly put his hand back down to avoid getting one of Misao's kicks. "Do you mind telling me why you were crying?"

"The reason why I was crying is that Aoshi just left without telling me again but only this time he wrote a letter that he is going back Kyoto." Misao thought back to how Aoshi had left her without saying a word at all.

"Demo..." Soujirou wanted to say that Aoshi had told him yesterday that he was going back. "But what?" Suddenly, he remembered that the promise he had made to Aoshi. "Iya, its nothing."

"I know you have something to say but you just don't want to say. In that case you can leave the room this very second. Spit it out Soujirou." threatened Misao.

"Okay I'll tell..." 'Sorry Shinomori-san.' He apologised silently and began to tell how Aoshi had asked Misao to follow him (Soujirou) and that he was going back to Kyoto the next day.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier!" Misao exploded and kicked Soujirou out of room, and onto Kenshin's potted plants. "Soujirou!" Misao run to Soujirou's side "Go... gomenasai, I didn't mean to kick you so hard." Soujirou just went, "Where am I? Who are you? Who am I?"

"Oh no, Soujirou, are you alright? Come let me help you." Misao took Soujirou and pulled him up; Soujirou took a shaky step forward and fell onto Misao. "What do you think you guys are doing? Why can't you adults do it in the room? Nowadays adults have no sense of shame, they can even do it in broad daylight and the worst part is that they are doing it outdoors!" Both of them looked up to see Yahiko all bandaged up. "I still have not forgiven you after what you did to me three nights ago, Soujirou! Aren't you guys uncomfortable in that position?" Yahiko sniggerd. Both Soujirou and Misao rolled away from each other, stood up and blushed deeply. "Hey Kaoru, we have two tomatoes back here." Yahiko shouted toward the kitchen. "Shut up you idiot."

"Now that the bad image is cleared away from this place, Soujirou, do you mind not hitting me so hard the next time we fight each other. I am hungry so goodbye see you two later." Yahiko began to walk away. Misao took Soujirou by the ear and dragged him away to her room again.

~~**In Misao's room....**~~

Soujirou and Misao sat facing each other "So what are we going to do now, Misao?"

Misao shrugged. "I don't know."

"I'm sorry that I didn't tell you that Aoshi was leaving today." Both of them remained silent for a few minutes before Misao broke the iceberg that was separating them by saying, "Why don't we go after Aoshi-sama?"

"I was thinking that we should go Nagasaki or Osaka."

"Kyoto is a nice place!"

"I've been there my whole life and besides... it brings back a lot of... unpleasent memories..."

"I'm sorry Soujirou... I forgot... why don't we go our separate ways."

"Go our separate ways? What are you thinking? Shinomori-san himself said that you could follow me and I prefer it that way. "

"Misao..." Soujirou reached for her hands and put them in his. " I was jealous when you said that you loved Aoshi."

"Oh, Soujirou! I didn't know you like me."

"The fact is I don't like you."

"What do you mean you don't like me?"

"I love you!" Soujirou said and hugged Misao.

'I love you!' those word echoed within Misao's head... just these three words from Soujirou and it seemed like music to her ears. "I don't... know what to say...." Misao stammered.

"You don't have to say anything at all." Soujirou leaned in close to her and kissed her lightly. He was just about to deepen the kiss when he heard some footsteps approaching and quickly pulled away from Misao and left the room, leaving a shocked and red-faced Misao behind.

~~**~~

That evening, Misao received a letter from Soujirou.

"Dear Misao, I hope you understand how I feel about you and hope that you too, later in the future will have feelings for me. I know this may all sound dumb to you but I truly love you. I am going to Mount Fuji tomorrow so maybe you could come along but its alright that you don't want to so that you can see Shinomori-san as soon as possible. Hope to see you at my side –Soujirou"

~~**In Soujirou's room...**~~

Soujirou sneezed violently. 'Somebody is thinking about me... I hope it is Misao but that's possible because she's probably thinking of ways to kill me.' he thought, amused. As if his feelings were connected to nature, the weather changed and it began to rain. 'Even Mother Nature understands how I feel but there's always one thing I hate about rainy days...' Soujirou sighed sadly and remembered that fateful day when he killed his whole foster family. He stood there in the rain... the rain running down his face... mingling with his tears....

"Forget the past, Soujirou." Soujirou look up to see Misao at the door, smiling. "Misao!" he exclaimed in shock.

Immediately the rain stopped and the sun came out and the birds began to sing merrily. "What strange weather..." Soujirou wondered aloud. "Hai!"

"Now that the sun is up, why don't we go for a walk?"

"Ok, the weather is beautiful now, let's go."

"Soujirou, are we going to Mount Fuji tomorrow? "

"No."

"Huh ? Why not?"

"Because...." he leaned his face closer to Misao's. "Because... I know that you love me too... and..." his speech was cut off when Misao reached up and kissed him deeply.

Author's ramblings : Grrrr....... this chapter was waaaay

delayed.... !!!!!!! Well anyway, this was a really long awaited chapter in my fic... so sorry guys ! The main storyline for this chapter was written by Aoshi, and the other minor parts edited by me.

(K'Dash !!!!) Well, I wanna wanna wanna finish and close up this

fic !!!!!! Man... this is such a horrible feeling.... oh well, I am sooo lazy.... haha sorry.... well, wait for the next chapter then ! Ja !