Summary: Sano went out for a walk one day and finds himself saving an innocent girl from some thugs. When he takes her back to dojo, Kenshin has a weird feeling about the girl. Where did he see her before? Sano/OC

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The Importance of Life

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Sano walked towards the woods. He ignored his stomach rumbling and just walked on. When he was deep in the forest, he started punching the trees. In a way he felt angry with himself. After a while he stopped. After long thinking he thought that she wasn't so important. He didn't need to stop eating because he lost her. Now that he thought about it, he felt happy for the doctor. She found someone who would be able to take care of her. Besides, there would be no more nagging from her. "Yeah, maybe the fact that she found someone better is a good thing," he said to himself.

He kept thinking about the good and bad times he had with her. After about three hours of thinking, he decided to walk back to the dojo. 'The gang is probably worried where I went for such a long time,' he thought to himself.

Sano stood up and started walking back to the dojo, when he heard a women scream. The screams didn't seem to far a way, and it sounded like it was coming right towards him. Sano turned around and started running toward the screams. It seemed to get louder and louder as he went north. All the sudden, a girl about 18 years old bumped into him and fell onto the floor. Sano first looked at the girl, then to the five thugs chasing her.

"Hey buddy, we saw the girl first," said one of the thugs.

"So, I don't care," was his reply.

The poor girl just looked at both Sano and the thugs. She thought that one of them were going to hurt her. So she tried to crawl away.

"Hey, the girl is trying to escape," said another thug.

"Don't worry; she won't go far, after we finish with this punk, we can catch the girl."

The thugs pulled out knives and went to attack Sano. Sano was able to dodge the first attacker and punch him in the stomach. The second guy cut his arm. Sano kicked him and he went flying into the others. When they got up, they ran away.

"Are you okay?" Sano asked.

"I'm fine thanks. Oh, you got cut." "Don't worry about, he doesn't hurt that much."

"I don't care. You got hurt because of me. I should help you."

"Don't worry about it."

"I'll take you back to my house. There I can look at that cut of yours."

"I said forget about it, I'm fine."

"I don't care, you're coming with me." With that said, she grabbed his unhurt arm, and led the way to her house.

"Thanks for saving me. My name is Tella, what's yours?"

"Sano."

"Well Sano, thank you."

"Don't need to thank me several times. One thank you is enough."

"Okay, so where did you learn how to fight like that?"

"I learned during the revolution, to fight, after a while, I just got better at it."

"Oh. That's not what I was looking for an answer but it works. Oh here we are,"

Tella's house wasn't very big. It looked like it had one or two rooms, a kitchen, and a living room. Tella led Sano to the kitchen where she sat him down in one of the chairs. She got a wet towel and started to clean the cut. "Well, it's not a deep cut," said Tella.

"See, you didn't even need to go through this trouble," said Sano.

"Oh, shut up."

So, Tella cleaned the cut. The cut wasn't deep, but it was pretty big. Tella got something from a box and started putting it on Sano's arm.

"Ow, what the hell is that?"

"It's a medicine. It won't let your cut get infected."

"How do you know about medicines?"

"My mom was a doctor and she taught me some important things like how to cure a cut, how to cure a burn. Injuries that can happen to me." "Okay, so are you going to become like your mother?"

"Hell no. I get sick if I see a lot of blood."

"There all done."

"Thanks, but you really didn't need to do that."

"Its okay. Are you hungry?'

"A little, but I really need to get back, my friends are probably worried about me."

"How 'bout I cook something first, then you can go?"

Before Sano could answer, Tella got a pan out and started cooking something. While she was cooking, Sano couldn't take his eyes of her. She wasn't like other women he met in the past. She had brown hair that passed her shoulders by three inches which was rare for women to have short hair. She was wearing a white kimono with red flowers on it. But what surprised him the most was her eyes. Her eyes were green, a light green. He never saw anyone with those colors of eyes before.

"All done." Tella put the plate down on the mat where Sano went to join her to eat.

"I hope you like teriyaki chicken."

Sano just smiled and just stuffed his mouth with food. Tella was just watching him eat like a pig. She has never seen anyone eat like that. In less than 20 min., Sano finished three plates.

"I guess you were hungry."

"I guess so. The food was great."

"Thank you. Would you like dessert?"

"Ye-," Sano was about to answer when he looked outside to see that the sun was able to set. "Hey, I have to go."

"But-,"

"Thanks for the food!" Sano said and ran towards the dojo. 'Oh God, Missy is going to kill me.'

Well that's it for the second chapter. Please read and review.