Ok, so here's what's happening.. After Kenshin and Sano brought Hito back to the Kamiya Dojo, Hito and Sano seem to be getting along QUITE well, whereas Kaoru and Yahiko seem none too thrilled to have met her. Out of nowhere, a Silly Little Frenchman shows up outside the gates.

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**************************************************************************** ******************************** "Non de l'oh! Je suis perdu!" the Silly Little Frenchman cried out in his desperation. "Comment est-ce que j'ai obtenu ici? Et où est 'ici?'" He shook his head at himself and continued towards the gate to the Kamiya Dojo. **************************************************************************** ******************************** Sighing with contentment, Hito settled back into Sano's arms. She felt safe wrapped up in his embrace. 'I just met him, but I'm in love with him,' she realized. It seemed insanely ironic. Everything was happening just as her mother had told her long ago it. "Hito," she could still hear Maladria's voice echo in the deep recesses of her mind, "You will fall in love one day." "I know, mother, I know." She had replied arrogantly. The look on her mother's face was still imprinted in her mind as she lay there, slowly dying from the disease that had struck the rest of her mother's family. Yeah, she was normal. Sure, she wasn't different from the other kids. That's what her adoptive parents had told her. But strange things started happening to her when she was eight. She noticed one night as she was brushing her teeth, that her canines were a little too long and pointy. Of course, she had rushed out to tell her 'parents' what she had discovered.

Her thoughts were interrupted by Sanosuke's gentle touch along her arm. "Hey, you ok?" he asked, seeing the troubled look in her eyes. He looked at her through the flimsy material of her nightgown. He nonchalantly noted, "You're cold. Here, lemme warm you up.." Wrapping her up in his arms once more, he drew Hito close and gently kissed her. She trembled at his touch, he knew what she wanted from him. 'I can't,' Sano struggled internally, 'She's Kenshin's daughter! What kind of guy would I be, sleeping with my best friend's little girl? I admit,' he looked at Hitokiri and smiled, 'She is very pretty. EXTRAORDINARILY pretty. But, despite the fact that I want her too, I can't have her.. not yet.' **************************************************************************** ******************************** "Oro..?" Kenshin murmured sleepily as he sat up, listening closely to the sounds of the night. There was the sound of Kaoru's gently breathing, and somewhere in the Dojo he heard Yahiko snoring. He smiled and started to lie back down when he heard the sound again. Stretching as he stood, he walked over and picked up his Sakabatou, moving towards the exit of the Dojo itself.

He gasped as the first blast of cold night air hit him in the face, blowing back his long, scarlet hair. "Kami must be angry," he muttered, his voice still thick with sleep. What in the world WAS making that noise? He stopped and cocked his head back to stare at the stars. "They're beautiful," he said, "Just like my Kaoru-dono.." He loved her, more than anything. But he was too scared to confess his feelings to her for fear she would reject him. Deep in his heart, he knew that she felt the same way about him. That thought comforted Kenshin and he smiled. **************************************************************************** ******************************** The gate swung open and the Silly Little Frenchman stood there, looking about in wide-eyed wonder at his surroundings. "Oh mon Deiu," he gasped, seeing the red haired man with a sword staring up at the sky. Suddenly, the man's head snapped over in the direction of where the Frenchman was standing, 'Uh oh,' he thought, shaking thoroughly as the man approached him.

"I'm going to ask you politely, who are you?" the scarlet haired man said in a calm, cool voice. Studying Kenshin more closely, he noted the scar on his left cheek.

The Frenchman shook his head. "Je ne parle pas Anglais," he said, hoping that the man would understand him. "Mais, je m'appelle Claude-Pierre."

Kenshin stood, baffled by what the man had just said. "I'm sorry, my friend, but I don't understand you, that I don't. My name," he continued, slowly so the man might grasp what he was saying, "Is Kenshin. Ken-shin."

"Kenshin," Claude-Pierre stumbled over the unfamiliar sounding name, speaking it with a heavy accent. Well, at any rate, he knew his companion's name. "Kenshin.." he repeated. Then suddenly, he pointed to himself. "Claude-Pierre. Clohd-Pee-AIR."

The Rurouni nodded; he understood the man this time. His name was Claude- Pierre. He had to find someone who was good with languages, someone who delt with all sorts of people. Then it hit him.. Miss Megumi! She was a doctor, so naturally she met a lot of interesting people in her time. Grabbing the scared man's hand, Kenshin pointed to the Dojo. "Come with me," he said, pointing to himself. The man nodded, and he and Kenshin made their way to Megumi's room. **************************************************************************** ******************************** A/N: I hope I cleared things up at little for you! Reviews are welcome, you know! And next installment, you'll actually LEARN what the man was saying! ::gasps with big, anime-like eyes:: ^_^x JA NE!!!!!!