Ch. 7
*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*Sanso's point of view*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^
I was waiting in the checkout line in the grocery store as I was carrying my seven year old daughter.
"Sweetie you don't pull mommy's hair- ow!"
She just giggled and looked at me as if she did nothing. I rocked her back and forth trying to calm her down. A boy looked around 15 who was infront of me turned around and looked
at her and said, "She is cute!"
I smiled at him and said, "Thankyou, did you hear that?" I said, saying it to her, "He like ya! He thinks your cute!"
He smiled and carried on with what he was doing. I have totally moved on with my life. My aunt has gave me a promotion and now we share the Silky Flower. I had ideas that we get
more women sew kimonos then just my aunt and we would have a better selection, and now it one of the best known kimono shops in Japan.
I also got married, to a man by the name of Rasiko Zekizuki, and now I am Mrs. Sanso Rasiko Zekizuki. He is a merchant, I was engaged to him a year after Aiiku was born. She refers
him as her daddy, and I am perfectly fine with that. You could say it was love at first sight, but it doesn't burn in my heart as it did for Kenshin. But I feel that he isnt worthy of Aiiku.
Why? Kenshin never came back. You would've thought he would, from what I have heard he became a wanderer, but I don't know if that is true or not.
"Your next ma'am," Said the cashier, he looked at the items I had and quickly added the amount of yen that I owed him in his head.
"That would be 90 yen please." I pulled out my wallet and handed him the yen.
"Your change…" He said handing it to me.
"Thankyou," I grabbed the bag of my food as Aiiku was pulling at my kimono.
"Ma ma!" Aiiku became so beautiful past the years, she had light brown hair and-
violet eyes…
The same violet eyes that I loved so much. The same violet eys that brought me back so much pain…
But I wasn't going to think about that, too many memories.
"Yes?"
"That man reached over to me and touched my cheek."
"Huh?" I turned aroound and there was nothing there.
"It was probably an accident."
"No! He walked past us and he reached out and touched my cheek with his hands!"
"It was probably nothing…" I ignored her wines and just kept walking back home, she kept describing him saying he was wearing a big straw hat and other nonsense until she finally
said, "and he had a scar on his cheek!"
I stopped, and I said harshly, "You are making a big deal out of nothing."
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He was in the edge of an alley watching her being carried away from him. This is the first time he has gotten to see his daughter in 7 years. And he didn't even get to hold her like he
wanted to. And the funniest thing about it is:
He didn't even know her name.
He knew that was her, he would recognise Sanso anywhere and it was obvioulsy his for the fact she didn't have anytother children with her. He lifted his hat a bit to get a better view of
her.
She looks like her mother… he thought, but she has my eyes…. Sanso was married now, he knew that for the fact that once before he saw her walking down the street. He was goint to
greet her but a man came out and kissed her, he examined her hands and noticed that she had a ring on her finger, and that she was married.
"Kenshin!" A young boy cried with very tan skin and black hair, "There you are! Where were you we were looking for you!"
"I- I was just taking a walk that's all, and decided to stop for a break."
"Well, geez Kenshin, Why did you run ahead of us like that…?"
"No reason, I just thought I saw someone I knew, but it turned out to be someone else, that's all."
"O, okay… well c'mon lets go! We are going to go have some beef stew!" the boy grabbed Kenshin's sleeve and pulled him to go catch up with the others. Keshin ran to keep up with
him. Him and the boy went inside the restaurant to find all of his friends waiting at a table.
"Yahiko, Kenshin, what were you two doing?" Said a young girl with black hair with shimmers of green in it.
"Sorry Kaoru, I was trying to find Kenshin, Kenshin on the other hand thought he saw a friend so that's why he ran ahead of us!"
"Who was the friend Kensh'?" Said a tall man with brown hair.
"Just a person I fought in the Revolution with, Sanosuke."
"One of your Imperialist buddies?"
"No. Well, lets not talk about that, lets eat! I am starving!" he said with a smile on his face.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Later*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
As they were walking back over the bridge back to a school that Ms. Kaoru family owns. Kaoru has noticed, though, that Kenshin has just been so… odd. He barely laughed when her
and Yahiko would start a fight. Kenshin had deep thoughts of his own, he knows that Sanso lives near here, but… does he have the nerve of returning after 7 years…?
"Kenshin? Are you okay? You have been so quiet," Said Kaoru.
"Yeah really! More quieter the usual!"
"I just been having thoughts, that's all, indeed it was."
"You know what Kenshin," Sanosuke started out, "You think too much! You need to talk more!"
Kenshinis eyes got big as he sayed, "But I have really nothing to say!"
When they got back to the dojo, Kenshin went strait to his room. It was late anyway, he didn't think anybody else would stay up either, from what he has heard from Sanosuke and
Yahiko's yawns.
When he has gotten to his room, he took off his outer kimono and decided to sleep with what he had on.
"Kenshin?" he heard from behind his door. It was Ms. Kaoru.
"Yes?"
"May I talk to you?"
"Ofcourse, come inside if you wish!"
She opened the slide door and looked at him, "Is everything alright?"
"Yes. Why?"
"Well, you just haven't been acting yourself lately that's all."
"How am I not acting myself?" It took her a while to answer that.
"It's just that," She sat next to him on his bed, "If you have anything you want to talk about, please tell me. I know so little about your past, I know that battousai isnt all that you were."
He tilted his head to the side and said, "It is just something from the past that walked right passed me."
"Huh?" She said very confused.
"Nevermind, I will tell you tomorrow."
"Do you promise?"
He said nothing.
"Kenshin? KENSHIN!" She hit him over the head with her right hand. His eyes became swirly as he knocked himself out of it and said, "Maybe."
She knew she wouldn't get anymore out of him. And Left she left.
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"I don't know why you are so obsessed about Kenshin's past Kaoru, it is not like he had a kid or something when he was younger," Sanosuke said, biting into an apple.
"Please!" Yahiko said, "Kenshin, Mr. Perfect giving up his virginity? Yeah right!"
Yahiko and Sanosuke laughed togther as Kenshin walked in.
"What's so funny you guys?"
Yahiko and Sanosuke were still laughing, Kaoru didn't see what was so funny.
"Just that-" she was interupted by their laughing, "I just wanted to know, or we wanted to know I a little bit more about your past since you are our friend and we feel that it is important."
"There isn't very much to say about my past really, just I was Battousai, nothing more, nothing less."
"But didn't you say that something walked right passed you or something like that?"
"Well, something did, but it is nothing to waiste time about," he was about to walk out of the room until Sanosuke said,"Kaoru just leave the poor guy alone!" he started, "Like I said
before, it is not like he had a kid or something!"
Kenshin stopped dead in in his tracks. They stared.
"Umm… Kenshin…?" Yahiko said.
"KENSHIN I DON'T BELIEVE YOU! YOU'RE A DAD AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN TELL US!" Kaoru yelled.
"Ms. Kaoru! I am biologically her father, the woman I once loved, she told me not to return until I was worthy being called her father or something like that, and since I became a
wanderer, I tried to leave my past behind me, to let her move on with her life, I am just interference…
"She has a different father I would presume, Mrs. Sanso, the woman I once loved is now married."
"To who?"
"A friend of mine, Rasiko Zekizuki, I was talking to him not too long ago, he told me that he was married to her and that she had a little girl, who is my little girl, and that she was already
accustomed into calling him Daddy, so I will just let that be, she is in the past now and I don't want my future anywhere to touch hers…"
There was a moment of silence and Kaoru said, "Kenshin…"
He ignored what she has said and he said himself, "It haunts eveyday knowing that I have a part of me out there, and to think…." He turned around with his eyes closed and a smile on
his face, "That I actually had a part in creating her, knowing that I helped put her on this world makes me feel as if I were… well, blessed."
"But don't you ever want to see her?" Sanosuke asked.
"Well, I am not saying that I don't, but for now, I just want to be another stranger walking down the street."
*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*3rd person*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*
A police man he was, walking down the street with a friendly smile on his face. He believed in justice, and the rights of people, but he couldn't help but have a crave for blood.
"Mommy!" he heard a young voice cry, a small child was running across the street to a very beautiful young woman, he couldn't believe it. God dammit it couldn't be… He thought,
Well, well look what we have here, Sanso… O he remembered her, and who could that child be? Hmmm… she sure didn't look like him, she definitely had her mothers face and hair,
as the child ran into her arms she opened her eyes and he saw a glimpse of violet, and well, there are not that many people with purple eyes running around.
Battousai… damn him… he was the one who brought this god damn era, but he wondered how much his daughter might mean to him…
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*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*Sanso's point of view*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^
I was waiting in the checkout line in the grocery store as I was carrying my seven year old daughter.
"Sweetie you don't pull mommy's hair- ow!"
She just giggled and looked at me as if she did nothing. I rocked her back and forth trying to calm her down. A boy looked around 15 who was infront of me turned around and looked
at her and said, "She is cute!"
I smiled at him and said, "Thankyou, did you hear that?" I said, saying it to her, "He like ya! He thinks your cute!"
He smiled and carried on with what he was doing. I have totally moved on with my life. My aunt has gave me a promotion and now we share the Silky Flower. I had ideas that we get
more women sew kimonos then just my aunt and we would have a better selection, and now it one of the best known kimono shops in Japan.
I also got married, to a man by the name of Rasiko Zekizuki, and now I am Mrs. Sanso Rasiko Zekizuki. He is a merchant, I was engaged to him a year after Aiiku was born. She refers
him as her daddy, and I am perfectly fine with that. You could say it was love at first sight, but it doesn't burn in my heart as it did for Kenshin. But I feel that he isnt worthy of Aiiku.
Why? Kenshin never came back. You would've thought he would, from what I have heard he became a wanderer, but I don't know if that is true or not.
"Your next ma'am," Said the cashier, he looked at the items I had and quickly added the amount of yen that I owed him in his head.
"That would be 90 yen please." I pulled out my wallet and handed him the yen.
"Your change…" He said handing it to me.
"Thankyou," I grabbed the bag of my food as Aiiku was pulling at my kimono.
"Ma ma!" Aiiku became so beautiful past the years, she had light brown hair and-
violet eyes…
The same violet eyes that I loved so much. The same violet eys that brought me back so much pain…
But I wasn't going to think about that, too many memories.
"Yes?"
"That man reached over to me and touched my cheek."
"Huh?" I turned aroound and there was nothing there.
"It was probably an accident."
"No! He walked past us and he reached out and touched my cheek with his hands!"
"It was probably nothing…" I ignored her wines and just kept walking back home, she kept describing him saying he was wearing a big straw hat and other nonsense until she finally
said, "and he had a scar on his cheek!"
I stopped, and I said harshly, "You are making a big deal out of nothing."
*^~*^~*^~*^~*^~*^~*^~*^3rd person*^~*^~*^~*^~*^~*^~*^~*^
He was in the edge of an alley watching her being carried away from him. This is the first time he has gotten to see his daughter in 7 years. And he didn't even get to hold her like he
wanted to. And the funniest thing about it is:
He didn't even know her name.
He knew that was her, he would recognise Sanso anywhere and it was obvioulsy his for the fact she didn't have anytother children with her. He lifted his hat a bit to get a better view of
her.
She looks like her mother… he thought, but she has my eyes…. Sanso was married now, he knew that for the fact that once before he saw her walking down the street. He was goint to
greet her but a man came out and kissed her, he examined her hands and noticed that she had a ring on her finger, and that she was married.
"Kenshin!" A young boy cried with very tan skin and black hair, "There you are! Where were you we were looking for you!"
"I- I was just taking a walk that's all, and decided to stop for a break."
"Well, geez Kenshin, Why did you run ahead of us like that…?"
"No reason, I just thought I saw someone I knew, but it turned out to be someone else, that's all."
"O, okay… well c'mon lets go! We are going to go have some beef stew!" the boy grabbed Kenshin's sleeve and pulled him to go catch up with the others. Keshin ran to keep up with
him. Him and the boy went inside the restaurant to find all of his friends waiting at a table.
"Yahiko, Kenshin, what were you two doing?" Said a young girl with black hair with shimmers of green in it.
"Sorry Kaoru, I was trying to find Kenshin, Kenshin on the other hand thought he saw a friend so that's why he ran ahead of us!"
"Who was the friend Kensh'?" Said a tall man with brown hair.
"Just a person I fought in the Revolution with, Sanosuke."
"One of your Imperialist buddies?"
"No. Well, lets not talk about that, lets eat! I am starving!" he said with a smile on his face.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Later*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
As they were walking back over the bridge back to a school that Ms. Kaoru family owns. Kaoru has noticed, though, that Kenshin has just been so… odd. He barely laughed when her
and Yahiko would start a fight. Kenshin had deep thoughts of his own, he knows that Sanso lives near here, but… does he have the nerve of returning after 7 years…?
"Kenshin? Are you okay? You have been so quiet," Said Kaoru.
"Yeah really! More quieter the usual!"
"I just been having thoughts, that's all, indeed it was."
"You know what Kenshin," Sanosuke started out, "You think too much! You need to talk more!"
Kenshinis eyes got big as he sayed, "But I have really nothing to say!"
When they got back to the dojo, Kenshin went strait to his room. It was late anyway, he didn't think anybody else would stay up either, from what he has heard from Sanosuke and
Yahiko's yawns.
When he has gotten to his room, he took off his outer kimono and decided to sleep with what he had on.
"Kenshin?" he heard from behind his door. It was Ms. Kaoru.
"Yes?"
"May I talk to you?"
"Ofcourse, come inside if you wish!"
She opened the slide door and looked at him, "Is everything alright?"
"Yes. Why?"
"Well, you just haven't been acting yourself lately that's all."
"How am I not acting myself?" It took her a while to answer that.
"It's just that," She sat next to him on his bed, "If you have anything you want to talk about, please tell me. I know so little about your past, I know that battousai isnt all that you were."
He tilted his head to the side and said, "It is just something from the past that walked right passed me."
"Huh?" She said very confused.
"Nevermind, I will tell you tomorrow."
"Do you promise?"
He said nothing.
"Kenshin? KENSHIN!" She hit him over the head with her right hand. His eyes became swirly as he knocked himself out of it and said, "Maybe."
She knew she wouldn't get anymore out of him. And Left she left.
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"I don't know why you are so obsessed about Kenshin's past Kaoru, it is not like he had a kid or something when he was younger," Sanosuke said, biting into an apple.
"Please!" Yahiko said, "Kenshin, Mr. Perfect giving up his virginity? Yeah right!"
Yahiko and Sanosuke laughed togther as Kenshin walked in.
"What's so funny you guys?"
Yahiko and Sanosuke were still laughing, Kaoru didn't see what was so funny.
"Just that-" she was interupted by their laughing, "I just wanted to know, or we wanted to know I a little bit more about your past since you are our friend and we feel that it is important."
"There isn't very much to say about my past really, just I was Battousai, nothing more, nothing less."
"But didn't you say that something walked right passed you or something like that?"
"Well, something did, but it is nothing to waiste time about," he was about to walk out of the room until Sanosuke said,"Kaoru just leave the poor guy alone!" he started, "Like I said
before, it is not like he had a kid or something!"
Kenshin stopped dead in in his tracks. They stared.
"Umm… Kenshin…?" Yahiko said.
"KENSHIN I DON'T BELIEVE YOU! YOU'RE A DAD AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN TELL US!" Kaoru yelled.
"Ms. Kaoru! I am biologically her father, the woman I once loved, she told me not to return until I was worthy being called her father or something like that, and since I became a
wanderer, I tried to leave my past behind me, to let her move on with her life, I am just interference…
"She has a different father I would presume, Mrs. Sanso, the woman I once loved is now married."
"To who?"
"A friend of mine, Rasiko Zekizuki, I was talking to him not too long ago, he told me that he was married to her and that she had a little girl, who is my little girl, and that she was already
accustomed into calling him Daddy, so I will just let that be, she is in the past now and I don't want my future anywhere to touch hers…"
There was a moment of silence and Kaoru said, "Kenshin…"
He ignored what she has said and he said himself, "It haunts eveyday knowing that I have a part of me out there, and to think…." He turned around with his eyes closed and a smile on
his face, "That I actually had a part in creating her, knowing that I helped put her on this world makes me feel as if I were… well, blessed."
"But don't you ever want to see her?" Sanosuke asked.
"Well, I am not saying that I don't, but for now, I just want to be another stranger walking down the street."
*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*3rd person*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*
A police man he was, walking down the street with a friendly smile on his face. He believed in justice, and the rights of people, but he couldn't help but have a crave for blood.
"Mommy!" he heard a young voice cry, a small child was running across the street to a very beautiful young woman, he couldn't believe it. God dammit it couldn't be… He thought,
Well, well look what we have here, Sanso… O he remembered her, and who could that child be? Hmmm… she sure didn't look like him, she definitely had her mothers face and hair,
as the child ran into her arms she opened her eyes and he saw a glimpse of violet, and well, there are not that many people with purple eyes running around.
Battousai… damn him… he was the one who brought this god damn era, but he wondered how much his daughter might mean to him…
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*A/N*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
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