Authors Note: Hey! I'm back from Youth Conference, but I'm still recovering from the party. ******************

Chapter eight- Girl Talk

Kaoru looked at the happy scene. Kenshin and Usagi were washing and hanging cloths together. Like a happy couple, that's what disturbed her. Megumi walked up to the distraught girl, looking at the ex-man-slayers.

"They make a cute couple" she said

Kaoru's body stiffened at the comment. It was true that they looked like, they would belong together. Laughter of little girls reached their ears, as they wrapped their small arms around Usagi's neck. Kenshin smiled at the scene.

"Hey. Don't look so glum ok?" Megumi said

Yahiko ran up to them in the middle of the court. His stomach growled loudly, as he stopped by them. The doctor just stared at him. The boy's stomach reacted like he hasn't be feed in three weeks. Yahiko looked embarrassed and try to cover it up.

"Missy, where is that breakfast?" a voice asked.

The three looked at him with disgust and sighed. Sanouske will never changed he still is the same person they met so long ago.

"He is still a freeloader" Yahiko mumbled.

The three laughed at him as a fish bone hung from his mouth. Unfortunately he didn't see a circular object above his head that was coming right for him. Sanouske fell to the ground, swirls in his eyes.

"Sorry, I guess I threw it a little too hard" Usagi yelled.

Kaoru blinked at the small girl. She threw that? She threw an ordinary ball that made the freeloader fall unconscious. She growled in frustration. Usagi could do anything better then her, and that was driving her crazy.

"Aoshi" she said.

The group looked to see the leader of ninja group. He stood there looking better and more alive then he did when they last saw him. When they saved Megumi but he wasn't looking at Kenshin more like the girl that stood beside him.

"Usagi, still beating up guys I see" he said.

That caused the whole group to fall over. They would never have thought the new girl, would ever beat up guys. Not for fun anyways. Usagi just laughed slightly, she picked up a rock and threw it at him.

"He's pulling your leg" she said.

"Am I?"

"I wouldn't put it pass you"

Kenshin looked on in fascination. All this time, they thought Usagi couldn't hurt a fly. But one would wonder where she met Aoshi.

Like the wind he was gone. Leaving the group in bewilderment, what person doesn't tell you he is leaving? Then again he wasn't much for the chit- chat. Usagi frowned slightly as she saw a white flower fall into her hands, tears brimming at her eyes.

"Tomoe-san" she whispered.

She could still see her face. The one that she thought killed her aunt didn't which she was thankful for and always will be. Now there was a bigger problem. She found herself falling in love with him, she could never tell him.

*** All of the choices I had made,

Believing them to be the ones,

To have the power to make the future change. ***

There! All done and written, so how you like?