Chapter 10- Due to the overwhelming great reviews we received, two chapters in one day. We have another person aboard the favorites list. "The best Rurouni Kenshin fan fic yet." Well we thank you, dragonfury! Back to the action.

"Hurry up Yahiko! If we don't catch up to Kenshin we could lose him forever!" shouted Kaoru as they headed out of the inn. Yahiko was hopping on one leg holding his sword in one hand and trying to put on his sandal with the other.
Kaoru flagged down a carriage and they headed north, towards Sendai.

Earlier that night. "Sano, if you insist on staying with me I will be more than happy to have you as a fellow rurouni but its just that. . .you are what, nineteen?"
"Yeah so?"
"You still have a lot to do in your life, get a job, a family anything besides being a rurouni. (If you haven't found out, rurouni means: wanderer)"
"No Kenshin, I need action to survive! If I was a farmer I think I would die!"
"Not a farmer, maybe a policeman?"
"No."
"A politician?"
"Never was good at hard questions."
"Teacher?"
"Not too smart neither."
Sigh. "Fine. If I cant make you change your mind I will just give up being a rurouni. Go back to the Kamiya Kasshin dojo, anything than have you waste your life."
The door flung open, a man in a black uniform stood at the other side. "You must be the great Battousai the Manslayer, eh?"
"I don't go by that name, no."
"Don't try to fool me!" He pulled down his mask. "I am Kogoru Katsura. . . your old boss. Now in this day and age I am an assassin, using my power for money. Now, I'm using that power to get money for your head!" He looked older, now had a growing beard and his hair had grown considerably long. He wasn't in his glory days, that's for sure.
"But, I thought you died!" said Kenshin. Sweat was dripping down his neck. "Shishio. . . he killed you! You're a dead man!"
"Kenshin, don't tell me your actually afraid of this guy. . ." said Sano.
"I'm not. Its just. . ."
"What?" said Katsura.
"Your dead. . ."
"I am alive, Kenshin. And now I'm going to kill you, and get my money!"
"Who do you work for?"
"Why should I tell you, a dead man."
He charged Kenshin. Kenshin quickly pulled out his blade and blocked it. Kenshin pushed Katsura's sword towards him and pushed him away. "If we have to fight, let it be outside, where no one will get hurt." Kenshin lied about this but if he was cornered, he'd be done. Outside he could go pretty much anywhere.
"Fine for me, you die either way."
Outside it was at least one, and you couldn't see much. Kenshin stood in front of a dieing tree while Katsura stood in a meadow of grass. "Kenshin. When you left he Cho Choshu we were friends, and hell we still are. But I need to kill you, it's a job."
"Why would you take a job that would kill a friend?"
"Because it's a job."
"And jobs could even mean killing your wife?"
". . .it could be yes."
"You have grown into a greedy bastard. I don't even know why I'm fighting you, Katsura, we aren't friends any more."
"What does that matter! I have my money!!!" (Getting a Kanryuu flash back? Anyone? Come on.)
Katsura charged Kenshin. Kenshin easily moved out of the way and blocked a lone strike from Katsura. He was now slower and looked as if he hadn't even learned a sword technique.
Kenshin jumped around him and accidentally flipped his blade and sliced Katsura in half. Kenshin's eyes were now amber, he looked mad, and evil perhaps. "K-Kenshin!?" shouted Sano. "What the hell did you do!?" Sanosake couldn't see the amber in his eyes, since it was nighttime, though he could almost say that they glowed.

"I killed him, he tired to kill me. The strongest are all that survive."
"Come on! Now your starting to sound like Shishio!"
"Maybe he was right, now move." Kenshin had broken his oath, again. Four times. . . he had to stop this. As a hitoriki he had killed over one hundred people in a month. Now all those kills were showing up again. Kenshin walked off into the distance, Sano followed him at a distance.

Kaoru arrived in the village Kenshin and Sanosake were in earlier that night. Kaoru walked over to an inn. "Augh! Yahiko! Look at this!" She pointed to Katsura's dead body. . .er. . .parts.
"Man. . .even in the Meji Era people are still killing people like this."
"Do you think it was Kenshin?!"
"No way! Why would Kenshin do anything like that!?"
"I don't know. . . but we need to look at all the possibilities!" Kaoru looked at the body one last time. Kenshin. . . she thought. Where are you?

Irony. Two words. Irony.