Love and Pride
Chapter 5

Kenshin and Sano sat down next to the river and thought. What could this
all mean? Who or what were these five kings that they needed to find.
Both of them at no idea what they were going to do.

"Well it says something about a moon right?" Sano asked.

"Yes it does..."

"Well the next full moon is a week from now... so we have to figure this
out in a week i'm guessing." Sano said as he dug his foot into the
ground.

"Yes that would make sense, but we have to find this Orion... but the
kings, that's throwing me off completely." Kenshin said as he read the
note yet another time.

"Maybe they're dead or something..."

"Sano! Yes, that's it! The Five kings wait here. Dead kings wait
forever!" Kenshin said as he nodded to himself.

"Uh.. Kenshin?"

"Yeah?"

"Are there any graves around here?"

"Umm... I really don't know." Both of them sat there in thought for a
minute.

"Who would know about graves?" Sano asked.

"Uh... I really don't know," Kenshin then thought about it for a long
time," Maybe... maybe Governor Yamagata knows something about graves.
He's so involved with the government, maybe he has some answers."
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Kaoru was sitting rubbing her side. She has no idea what time of day
it was, though is was getting quite tired. Kaoru then sighed.

//I wonder what Kenshin is doing? I wonder if he's even back yet...
Maybe he doesn't know i'm gone... Oh Kenshin...\\

Kaoru sat up slowly and took another sip from her cup. She wasn't
worried about her safety anymore. She was more worried about Kenshin
at this point. He's been through so much, and now he has to save her...
again. From some crazy person.

The door opened after a while. Chiaki walked in and sat down next to
Kaoru. Kaoru looked at her curiously. The girl smiled back at smiled
back at her.

"So, you're name is Chiaki?" Kaoru asked after a long period of silence.

"Hai!" She said happily,"My mom gave me that name! Said it just sounded
like it be a name for me... well atleast that's what my dad told me...
she died shortly after i was born..."

"Oh, i'm so sorry..."

"Oh don't be! I never knew her anyway. I'm happy living with my dad.
Though he's been acting kinda strange lately." Chiaki's smile faded
slightly,"He's been so uptight about finding Battousai and said that
he had to make him suffer!"

Kaoru looked at her strangely,"Why does your dad have to make him
suffer? He's already been through a lot."

"Dad doesn't care... for what he... did..." Chiaki then stood up slowly
and ran out of the room...
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