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A/N: Well now my story will get interesting…I hope. Anyway, I'm tired to spacing after every character's dialogue, so I did this in a different format. It's just a teeny-weeny change so I hope you don't mind. Also I changed the pov of the story from 3rd person to Tokio's pov. I dunno but I just felt writing in Tokio's pov would be more effective for the story. hope ish not too much of a change ^^
Wolf Tears Flowing into Rushing Waters
By: fUsHiChOu
~Chapter 4~
River Flowing
Right beside me I heard Kondou Isami-san speak in his authoritative tone, "As I said, many of us are being injured due to the many Ishin assassins that have been attacking our fellow Shinsengumi. Not many people are able to care for them and treat them, so Tokio-san is here to nurse the wounded. Not many women are passionate enough to offer their service to us, but Tokio-san has offered her services so I expect all of you to treat her with utmost gentlemanly respect."
I couldn't keep my hands from shaking. I was so nervous. I've never had so many men look at me before. Their eyes scanned me as if I were some high-class geisha that stood before them. But there was one pair of eyes that I was particularly interested in seaching for. I don't know why I was so desperately looking for his eyes. I guess you could say he made an impression on me even though he was rather grunt in our last encounter. But he was the one to give me this idea. A person didn't have to fight in order to show honor during this time of war. Hajime-san may have his katana but I have my caring hands.
My eyes circles around the room once more looking for those amber eyes. I finally caught sight of them. There he was, Saitoh Hajime standing unassumingly near the corner of the room. He wasn't even looking at me. His eyes looked like they were drifting off somewhere else. To the ground probably. Quikly his eyes darted straight at mine. I tried to move my eyes to a different direction but somehow his eyes had a magnetic effect on mine. I finally got over this trance and slightly bowed my head while I smirked at him. I didn't mean to be so disrespectful to him at first, but with thought of me proving him wrong I just couldn't help it. He said the only way I, a woman could honor my family was to marry some well-to-do man but by helping the Shinsengumi out I could perfom an act of honor that not many women of my "class" would even dream of. When he saw my smirk, he grunted and looked another way.
Isami-san went on talking on and on about how they should all treat me and so on and so forth. I just let my mind drift like my eyes were doing at the moment. My eyes were drifting around the room looking at all the men around me. At some point I would probably meet every one of them so I wanted to get a feel for their overall personality as a group. As I was going to take in what I saw, Isami-san gave a little rough cough to show he was done. He then nodded his head to dismiss the men. They all left orderly to their assignments. Their blue kimono jackets created a river that flowed pass me. I looked to see if Hajime-san would wait until everyone left to scowl at me or something, but instead I saw him flow with the rest of the river of blue.
A/N :: yeah that was a very short chapter. I guess you can call it a filler chapter. So do you like it better in Tokio's pov?? I dunno but I feel better writing from Tokio's pov than from a 3rd person pov. Feel free to give me your comments coz I'm sorta stuck in what writing style to use. Arigato for reading! ^^