*dodges assorted rotten vegetables* I am sooooooooo sorry for not updating sooner! last week chewed me up and
spit me back out, i didn't have much time to write. but here i am, back with another chapter!

disclaimer~ i don't own Rurouni Kenshin

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Jade awoke the next morning to a kimono being tossed into her face and a voice shouting from the doorway.

"Wake up lazy girl," her loving (*cough*not*cough*) mother Damasu roared impatiently. "You already overslept,
you will never get any work done if you lay in bed all day! UP NOW!"

Damasu slammed the door shut again and stalked away. Jade sat up grogily and fastened the too-small, dingy
kimono around herself. She sighed as she ran a brush through her flame colored hair. Setting the brush down,
Jade turned to face the door. It seemed like it was mocking her. Once she opened that door, that meant that
this was real, and that she would never return to the dojo. Time to face her new life.
~*~dojo~*~
"Kenshin, you already killed to save Jade," Sano roared. "How can you give up so easily? At least put up
put up a fight! She is your daughter for crying out loud!"

"I have no intention of giving up without a fight Sanosuke," Kenshin explained, far to calm for a man who had
just the day before let his only daughter (though after this Jade fiasco we can only hope) leave with an
obvoiusly unstable (and crazy, and a baka, and psycotic and i'll shut up now) woman whom the child had never
met. Not to metion that Kenshin hadn't seen Damasu in ten years.

"Then-," Sano was cut off by the door he had been leaning on sliding open, causing him to fall backwards, and
thus, getting his poor head trampled by Yahiko, carring Kenji, as he came barreled into the room.

"Kenshin, Kaoru's gone," the distrested teenager cried to the flustered rurouni.

"Gone?!" Kenshin jumped up, his voice full of concern.

"Gone Dadda," Kenji responded. "Mama take your sword an go. Say go fight bad lady!"

Kenshin's hand flew to his side, feeling for the reverse blade sword. It wasn't there.

"Let's go Kenshin, Yahiko," said Sano after pulling himself off the floor.

"Wait, Kenji," Yahiko reminded him. He handed the toddler to Sanosuke and raced out the door after Kenshin,
who was already gone, leaving Sano behind with Kenji.

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there you go. next chapter soon, i promise.
Ja'ne!