Note: -.-zZzZz huh? Oh, sorry. I know the stuff is sorta crappy and lame in my story. Like I said before, I only have an ounce of this 'creativity' stuff.By the way in this chapter is a bit different than the rest. Ages for this chapter after the four years stuff: Kiruchi-12 1/2, Misao-14 ½, Yahiko- 12, Soujiro-13

Warning: My stupidity might be spreaded over this story so watch out. x.X

Chapter 5

(Four years pass...Ages^)

"Kiruchi get up already!!!" Kiruchi opened a lazy eye and turned over. She didn't feel like doing chores. The only time that was relaxing to Kiruchi was when she was asleep. (Sleeping rules! o.O I'll stop.) "Kiruchi get up already! Today's your big day!" Kiruchi opened her eyes and thought for a few seconds. Oh yea, today's the annual tournament against the Ushoiya Dojo from across Tokyo.

She threw her covers up and sat up in her blankets. The ground was littered with her dirty clothes, books, and other junk. She heard Mishonu coming down the hall and threw her dirty clothes into the basket in the corner. "I'm up!" Mishonu's footsteps stopped. "Okay then. That took awhile, now get ready. It's already about 8:30. So get down!" Kiruchi sighed heavily and dragged her feet to the bathroom by her room. She brushed her teeth and washed her face. Why do I even have to do this? She went back into her room and grabbed the dark blue ribbon she always used. I'm gonna do a ponytail this time. She tied the ribbon tightly around her long ponytail.

Kiruchi walked lazily into her closet and pushed the doors aside. Inside on the hangers were the clean clothes, but most of the clothes were filthy and laying on the ground. She dragged the clothes out and piled them on to the other basket. Mishonu knew that Kiruchi usually dumps out her dirty clothes once every other day. She looked at her robes and settled on that robe she has always wanted to wear the black robe with the blue dragon. She carefully slipped it on and walked downstairs.

(3 minutes later.Wow, I'm getting lazier every chapter. X]

"Good morning Shikono, Mishonu." They nodded back at her. She sat in her seat and started wolfing down the dumplings on her plate. Shikono looked up from reading the newspaper. "You should slow down before you start choking." Kiruchi apparently didn't hear because she started coughing and grasping her neck. Shikono sighed. "You should always listen to your elders." Mishonu handed her a cup of water and glared at Shikono. "Like you do." She gulped down the tea and ran outside to do her chores.

Her chores were still the same but Shikono and Mishonu have given her more chores to do. She told them that it was torture, but all they did was glowered at her and gave her the worst chore, (prepare yourself. Drum tap) scrubbing the scum off the floor with a tiny brush. Kiruchi had to do this once every other week until the floor was sparkling. Shikono had to shield his eyes from the sparkles. "At least it's clean."

(One hour later..)

Kiruchi brushed the dirt of her robes and walked inside. She didn't hear Yahiko and Soujiro fighting over the last cookie and walked up to her room. She wasn't used to competition. But she wanted to win. The winner would receive a honorable mention in the newspaper, receive a 5,000 yen scholarship, and get a katana or a wakizashi of their choice.

She took off her robe and placed it into the bag. She walked into the closet and closed the door behind her. Kiruchi had developed personal space in her life so that she could keep secrets to herself. From inside she heard her door opening. "Great, Soujiro and Yahiko had come to raid my room again." And indeed they did. Soujiro smirked as he started looking through her photo album while Yahiko was pulling down some hidden food Kiruchi hid by her dresser. She sighed and put on a navy blue gi shirt and shorts with the white words Kamiya printed on top. She picked out a black obi and ribbon. She tied the obi on to her waist and tied the ribbon around her head. She was about to open the door when the door had opened by itself.

Yahiko had decided to leave the stale crackers and decided to look for the cupcakes Kiruchi was talking about. Kiruchi blushed for a slight second and pounded Yahiko on the head. "Your lucky I was just finished changing. You're such a moron! No wonder Kaoru had to make you stop looking at porn!" Anime fall over. Kiruchi left him on the floor and picked up her bag full of her robe, some crackers, and her lucky chain which had a tiger engraved on it. Soujiro, Misao, and Yahiko had given it to her for her 12th birthday.

Soujiro handed her a small package and looked up at her. "This is for you. Yahiko and I thought you might need it." Anime blush. "Thanks." She opened the package slowly. Inside was a preserved water lily. Kiruchi took it out. "What's this?" Yahiko rubbed his head as he got up. "This was the first flower to bloom in the creek." She smiled and hugged both of them. They were shocked but they hugged back.

(5 minutes later.)

"C'mon! We're gonna be late for attendance." The three of them were running on top of the roofs and taking a short cut. "I told you not to eat more crackers, but you wouldn't listen." "Hey, I can't help myself!" Soujiro was trying to run with a cracker in his hand. "This way!" Kiruchi was a better navigator than they were since she went on a walk every other day. She saw Narumi waving at her, telling them to hurry up.

She saw a hanging willow branch and swung down on it. Yahiko swung down but he was too afraid to jump down so he decided slide down slowly. Soujiro was still on the roof nibbling at his cookie. "Hurry up, Soujiro!" He smiled and threw the rest of the cracker into his mouth and swung down as well. They ran into the Dojo where some Kenshin was walking over to the students practicing budo(martial arts) and Iaido. He checked them off and went on. They ran in, panting and started stretching.

(3 minutes later.my stupidity is spreading! X] Hooray!)

Kenshin walked over to their group and smiled. "I hope you all will do your best today." They nodded. He checked them off and turned to the class. "Everyone!!!" All the students stopped what they were doing and turned towards Kenshin. "We'll be boarding the bus now. Be sure to have all your stuff ready." Everyone formed and single file line and started boarding the bus. Sano was in charge of the students in the back. Sano was hugging Megumi before he hurried on to the bus.

(10 minutes later.My stupidity will fade when school starts!)

The students were getting off the bus when two tall men with black hair greeted Kenshin and Sano. Kiruchi squinted at the one that was slightly shorter. "Hey, that's the guy from the Aoiya two years ago. I wonder why he's here." Yahiko shrugged. "C'mon. We better get inside." Kiruchi stepped off the bus. "Hold on. I forgot something." She ran inside and got her bag. She was about to get off when she saw something different about her bag. Someone had tied a braided red ribbon around the handle. Who gave me this? She heard Soujiro shouting to her from outside and she ran out the bus. The students from Ushoyia were standing in a straight line along the wall. Kiruchi set her bag down and went to line up.

"Everyone." Shikono was standing on a platform by the arena. (He was chosen to be the announcer if you can't tell.) Everyone went silent. "Welcome to our annual spar with the Kamiya Dojo and the Ushiya Dojo. Please welcome the judges." Kiruchi glanced at the judges as Shikono announced their names. There was Kenshin, Sanosuke, a black haired man named Saitoh, a tall man with glasses was Enishi, the man she saw was Aoshi, and sitting next to him was..Misao? ***** If you didn't know(cuz I didn't tell you), Misao went off to Kyoto after Kiruchi's 12th birthday. They never knew she came back. I'm gonna watch tv. I'll update later.

To be continued.