Disclaimer: I do not own Rurouni Kenshin nor did I have a hand in its
success. I just own his fan fiction and the characters M.H and A.S (not
Aoshi).
Destiny
Chapter 9
"Aoshi........ can I ask you a question?" Mai watched Aoshi sit quietly at his desk.
Aoshi concentration broke from the scroll he was reading and to Mai.
"This woman you're sending out you're men to retrieve.........Why is she so important to you?" Mai struggled for words.
"Kanryu needs her for his company to survive" Nothing less but a straight answer from the leader of the Owiwanbanshu.
"Why is she so important to this Mr. Kanryu? What kind of business does he run anyway?" Mai curiously asked another question.
"She makes opium" Another short straight answered from Aoshi.
Once those words process into Mai's head she felt her whole body in shock. "Mr. Kanryu is a.................. drug dealer?" Mai shaking asked.
"You seem shocked by that" Aoshi asked very coldly.
"How can you work for him? Did you know he was one before you took this job?" Mai shouted with all her might.
Aoshi nodded as he stood up.
"How could you? You.......... work for a person......... Whose job is to kill innocent people?" Tears started to drown Mai's eyes.
"It's their own fault if they take the drug" Aoshi saw the sun beginning to set through the window behind Mai.
Mai stood up and stormed out the room.
"Mai wait" Aoshi tried to grabbed her wrist before she got out the door, but she was too quick.
Mai tornado into her room and threw off the clothes she had on which Aoshi had brought her. She took her foreign clothes out and put them on quickly as possible.
"Mai.........." Aoshi shocked to see Mai in the clothes she was in when she was forced to his time. "What are you..........."
"I cannot stay in the house of the man whose job is the kill people for money, nor wear the clothes his servant has bought for me" Mai head was faced towards the floor, but Aoshi can see very clearly she was deeply hurt.
"I don't understand Mai" Aoshi had no light of understanding in his head; he had no idea why she was so hurt by this.
"My brother, my mother, and my father were all victims of this kind of murders........... They were normal happy people that I loved.......... they were all killed by people like your boss!" Mai once again rained out of her room and like wildfire out the house.
"Mai! Don't go!" Aoshi tried to run after her, but he noticed Beshimi coming over the fence with a woman on his back. He had no choice but to watch her leave his life.
Aoshi immediately called the worthless bodyguards of Kanryu to guard the gate as he knew the Battousai will be coming to save her.
"I can't believe this.......... Aoshi works for a criminal!" Mai walked through the dark streets where food and restaurant were all over the place yelling and completion for customers.
"Aoshi......... he reminds me of my brother" Mai thinking of his dead brother and how things used to be.
"You, Mai Himura, You are the mistake" Mai repeated to herself as she fell to her knees.
"The Battousai will be defeated" Aoshi spoke to Kanryu as he was very slightly amused with Hannya trying to hurt him.
"Commander........." Hannya let go of Kanryu
"Nothing less from the Commander" The drug dealer was actually glad to see Aoshi.
"However, it's not for you sake. It is proof that we, the Oniwanbanshu group, are the strongest. Aoshi's face was cold as ever.
"What are you saying" Kanryu questioned.
"The money-hungry will never understand" Aoshi spoke as he remembered Mai and her objections to Kanryu and his work.
"I'm the mistake" Mai convinced herself there was no point in living.
"Even the mistake of ones life can be a blessing to another" A strange but warming voice ranged in Mai's ear.
"Who are you?" Mai recognized the figure as the one who sent her here with Aoshi.
"Because you were the mistake in you're time, doesn't mean you have to make yourself the mistake in Aoshi's time" He said again without answering her question.
"Where are Kanryu and Miss Megumi?" The same man with the cross shape scare on his cheek asked Aoshi.
"If you want to know where the two of them are.... Ask with you're reverse blade sword, Himura Battousai......I will answer with this" Aoshi lifted his Trent coat to reveal his Kodachi.
"I don't understand" Mai still in confusion.
"When your mother and father died were you there to help them?" The dark man asked.
"No........" Mai wondering why he asked that.
"When your brother died were you there to help him?" He asked a similar question
"No........." Mai was still wondering.
"If you were there, would you have saved them?" The man questioned Mai.
"Of course! Their family! They took me in! They took care of me and gave me all my needs!" Mai shouted.
"Kenshin!"
"It's impossible to penetrate my defenses........ Stand Battousai" Aoshi didn't even smile when he had the advantage over Kenshin.
"I finally found a way to avoid that Kodachi that I did" Kenshin stood up.
"Now, Mai Himura, When Aoshi's army dies and you're not there to save them. What do you think Aoshi will say to you?" The man spoke more forward now.
"He'll never want to talk to me again" Mai predicted.
"You broke your vow didn't you Mai Himura?" He got closer as Mai was on her knees crying.
"What?" Mai didn't know what he was talking about now.
"You vow to never love again, but you broke that and you fell in love with Aoshi didn't you?" He was right in front of Mai now.
Mai didn't speak for a moment.
"Which is worst? To let a loved one die or to know a loved one is alive and will never speak to you again? And die unloved?" The man asked questions which pierced Mai's heart and soul.
"I do love Aoshi" Mai finally admitted to herself.
"Then you don't have much time" The man disappeared into thin air leaving Mai in shock and tears.
"Aoshi!" Mai cried out and ran back to the mansion where she would hopefully find her love and his friends alive.
Mai ran as fast as she could, she jumped over tons of obsolesces and she even fell into the river. Mai was soaking wet and covered in dirt when she reached to mansion so see hundreds of fallen men on the floor in pain.
"I can't waste my energy of them, I might not have enough to save Aoshi and the rest" Mai said to herself.
"Please help" She heard one voice come out of the pile of men.
"Their bodyguards of Kanryu........ They also kill!" Mai quietly said to herself as she stood in the middle of the chaos.
"I can't........ they'll just kill again" Mai's focus was cut off as she heard thousands and thousand of bullets being fired.
"Oh No!" Mai ran into the mansion following the sound. She could still hear the bullets being fired one after another in a continuous lighting speed. She went through every corridor, but she couldn't seem to find her way around the house. Suddenly the gun firing stopped abruptly.
"No! Aoshi!" She saw more fallen men beginning at the bottom of the stairways. Which lead to a room upstairs, the doors were opening and she could see some movement.
"That has to be where he is!" She forced her slender legs to run.
"Aoshi!" Mai ran into the lifeless room and into the injured Aoshi's arms.
"Mai........." Aoshi said quietly.
"I'm so sorry, I broke my vow Aoshi" Mai wrapped her arms around Aoshi's back and faced Aoshi's chest.
"Please help them" Aoshi pleaded
"Aoshi, I'm so sorry but I Love You!" Mai said as a white aura surrounded her body. Aoshi didn't know what she was doing until he saw her wounds were quickly disappearing like they were never there. Aoshi looked around and saw that his fallen friends were slowly trying to get up.
"Mai..............Thank you" Aoshi didn't know how to react to the last comment.
"Shikijou.......... Hyottoko......... Beshimi......... Hannya........... Aoshi......... you will still be in pain for a little while....... I have never been able to heal so many without leaving behind some scars and pain for a little while" Mai said without looking up for where she was and still holding on to Aoshi.
Aoshi wrapped his arms around Mai and leaned close to her. "Mai........."
"Aoshi....... I know how much the title of the strongest means to you....... I know I'm not as strong as my brother....... But I will die trying!" Mai got up and walked to her room to get her sword she had left behind.
© 2002 Duckie4rmabove
A Duckie4rmabove Production
Destiny
Chapter 9
"Aoshi........ can I ask you a question?" Mai watched Aoshi sit quietly at his desk.
Aoshi concentration broke from the scroll he was reading and to Mai.
"This woman you're sending out you're men to retrieve.........Why is she so important to you?" Mai struggled for words.
"Kanryu needs her for his company to survive" Nothing less but a straight answer from the leader of the Owiwanbanshu.
"Why is she so important to this Mr. Kanryu? What kind of business does he run anyway?" Mai curiously asked another question.
"She makes opium" Another short straight answered from Aoshi.
Once those words process into Mai's head she felt her whole body in shock. "Mr. Kanryu is a.................. drug dealer?" Mai shaking asked.
"You seem shocked by that" Aoshi asked very coldly.
"How can you work for him? Did you know he was one before you took this job?" Mai shouted with all her might.
Aoshi nodded as he stood up.
"How could you? You.......... work for a person......... Whose job is to kill innocent people?" Tears started to drown Mai's eyes.
"It's their own fault if they take the drug" Aoshi saw the sun beginning to set through the window behind Mai.
Mai stood up and stormed out the room.
"Mai wait" Aoshi tried to grabbed her wrist before she got out the door, but she was too quick.
Mai tornado into her room and threw off the clothes she had on which Aoshi had brought her. She took her foreign clothes out and put them on quickly as possible.
"Mai.........." Aoshi shocked to see Mai in the clothes she was in when she was forced to his time. "What are you..........."
"I cannot stay in the house of the man whose job is the kill people for money, nor wear the clothes his servant has bought for me" Mai head was faced towards the floor, but Aoshi can see very clearly she was deeply hurt.
"I don't understand Mai" Aoshi had no light of understanding in his head; he had no idea why she was so hurt by this.
"My brother, my mother, and my father were all victims of this kind of murders........... They were normal happy people that I loved.......... they were all killed by people like your boss!" Mai once again rained out of her room and like wildfire out the house.
"Mai! Don't go!" Aoshi tried to run after her, but he noticed Beshimi coming over the fence with a woman on his back. He had no choice but to watch her leave his life.
Aoshi immediately called the worthless bodyguards of Kanryu to guard the gate as he knew the Battousai will be coming to save her.
"I can't believe this.......... Aoshi works for a criminal!" Mai walked through the dark streets where food and restaurant were all over the place yelling and completion for customers.
"Aoshi......... he reminds me of my brother" Mai thinking of his dead brother and how things used to be.
"You, Mai Himura, You are the mistake" Mai repeated to herself as she fell to her knees.
"The Battousai will be defeated" Aoshi spoke to Kanryu as he was very slightly amused with Hannya trying to hurt him.
"Commander........." Hannya let go of Kanryu
"Nothing less from the Commander" The drug dealer was actually glad to see Aoshi.
"However, it's not for you sake. It is proof that we, the Oniwanbanshu group, are the strongest. Aoshi's face was cold as ever.
"What are you saying" Kanryu questioned.
"The money-hungry will never understand" Aoshi spoke as he remembered Mai and her objections to Kanryu and his work.
"I'm the mistake" Mai convinced herself there was no point in living.
"Even the mistake of ones life can be a blessing to another" A strange but warming voice ranged in Mai's ear.
"Who are you?" Mai recognized the figure as the one who sent her here with Aoshi.
"Because you were the mistake in you're time, doesn't mean you have to make yourself the mistake in Aoshi's time" He said again without answering her question.
"Where are Kanryu and Miss Megumi?" The same man with the cross shape scare on his cheek asked Aoshi.
"If you want to know where the two of them are.... Ask with you're reverse blade sword, Himura Battousai......I will answer with this" Aoshi lifted his Trent coat to reveal his Kodachi.
"I don't understand" Mai still in confusion.
"When your mother and father died were you there to help them?" The dark man asked.
"No........" Mai wondering why he asked that.
"When your brother died were you there to help him?" He asked a similar question
"No........." Mai was still wondering.
"If you were there, would you have saved them?" The man questioned Mai.
"Of course! Their family! They took me in! They took care of me and gave me all my needs!" Mai shouted.
"Kenshin!"
"It's impossible to penetrate my defenses........ Stand Battousai" Aoshi didn't even smile when he had the advantage over Kenshin.
"I finally found a way to avoid that Kodachi that I did" Kenshin stood up.
"Now, Mai Himura, When Aoshi's army dies and you're not there to save them. What do you think Aoshi will say to you?" The man spoke more forward now.
"He'll never want to talk to me again" Mai predicted.
"You broke your vow didn't you Mai Himura?" He got closer as Mai was on her knees crying.
"What?" Mai didn't know what he was talking about now.
"You vow to never love again, but you broke that and you fell in love with Aoshi didn't you?" He was right in front of Mai now.
Mai didn't speak for a moment.
"Which is worst? To let a loved one die or to know a loved one is alive and will never speak to you again? And die unloved?" The man asked questions which pierced Mai's heart and soul.
"I do love Aoshi" Mai finally admitted to herself.
"Then you don't have much time" The man disappeared into thin air leaving Mai in shock and tears.
"Aoshi!" Mai cried out and ran back to the mansion where she would hopefully find her love and his friends alive.
Mai ran as fast as she could, she jumped over tons of obsolesces and she even fell into the river. Mai was soaking wet and covered in dirt when she reached to mansion so see hundreds of fallen men on the floor in pain.
"I can't waste my energy of them, I might not have enough to save Aoshi and the rest" Mai said to herself.
"Please help" She heard one voice come out of the pile of men.
"Their bodyguards of Kanryu........ They also kill!" Mai quietly said to herself as she stood in the middle of the chaos.
"I can't........ they'll just kill again" Mai's focus was cut off as she heard thousands and thousand of bullets being fired.
"Oh No!" Mai ran into the mansion following the sound. She could still hear the bullets being fired one after another in a continuous lighting speed. She went through every corridor, but she couldn't seem to find her way around the house. Suddenly the gun firing stopped abruptly.
"No! Aoshi!" She saw more fallen men beginning at the bottom of the stairways. Which lead to a room upstairs, the doors were opening and she could see some movement.
"That has to be where he is!" She forced her slender legs to run.
"Aoshi!" Mai ran into the lifeless room and into the injured Aoshi's arms.
"Mai........." Aoshi said quietly.
"I'm so sorry, I broke my vow Aoshi" Mai wrapped her arms around Aoshi's back and faced Aoshi's chest.
"Please help them" Aoshi pleaded
"Aoshi, I'm so sorry but I Love You!" Mai said as a white aura surrounded her body. Aoshi didn't know what she was doing until he saw her wounds were quickly disappearing like they were never there. Aoshi looked around and saw that his fallen friends were slowly trying to get up.
"Mai..............Thank you" Aoshi didn't know how to react to the last comment.
"Shikijou.......... Hyottoko......... Beshimi......... Hannya........... Aoshi......... you will still be in pain for a little while....... I have never been able to heal so many without leaving behind some scars and pain for a little while" Mai said without looking up for where she was and still holding on to Aoshi.
Aoshi wrapped his arms around Mai and leaned close to her. "Mai........."
"Aoshi....... I know how much the title of the strongest means to you....... I know I'm not as strong as my brother....... But I will die trying!" Mai got up and walked to her room to get her sword she had left behind.
© 2002 Duckie4rmabove
A Duckie4rmabove Production