Ch. 3
A/N: If you listen to 'Departure' and read this, they will go perfectly together. To listen to Departure go to this address. www.ichigosmusic.com, or don't, it is your choice. O yeah, and the link you click on is 'midi', the other two are sheet music. *~*~*
"Scars. They never heal; they only go deeper into your skin, until they become memories." -quote from Shensuke Zekizuki
Kenshin held his son in one arm and a stuffed bear in the other as the burning wood that was once a home turned into ashes. He covered his baby's mouth so that he would not breathe in the smoke that would harm his lungs. Systematically he walked further away from the ardent burning, walking and burning away his past at once. Blood was dripping down Kenshin's cheek, he stuffed the bear further up his arm, and he tried to wipe it away, but it just oozed again, until it was at the point where it trickled down his neck.
As soon as he was far enough to where the smoke would not reach, he removed his hand from the infant's mouth and looked at him. It was hard to believe that he brought something so pure upon this planet. Babies must be the purest thing that person could ever lay there eyes upon. There is no sin that a baby neither had nor can cause, because they are dependent, as Kenshin thought of it. Because of there dependency, they let there forebear's sin for them. However, you must sin to bear a child, so children are nothing but walking sins? Then again, whose fault can you lay that upon?
The hand that was supporting the baby's side slid upon the child's face and Kenshin stroked the child's delicate skin that he hoped would never have any scars upon it. When he stopped stroking him, a smear of blood showed on the child's cheek. Kenshin's eyes widened, he had already stained his son with blood, but only, it was Kenshin's blood, the same blood that runs through this child's body.
Seeing through his sons eyes, he never wanted his son to cover himself with blood. Kenshin could not be his father. The only way that you corrupt a heart is learning the evil itself. Moreover, to think that the people who cause evil in this world were once babies.
He carried on with his walk, to where? Lucky for him he knew, but he was not going to like it. ~*
He looked up at the building and gave a heavy sigh. When he entered, he saw a very slim woman at a desk, filling out paperwork. He walked up to her and just stared down at her, she looked up at him with her eyes looking above her glasses.
"May I help you?" She said. He said nothing and held out the baby to her. The woman laughed slightly and said, "I am sorry, sir, but we just don't take babies like that, unless they are abandoned, you have to fill out forms."
He raised one of his eyebrows and said, "I do not fill out forms," he said very flatly, but the woman only shook her head, "Not unless you want to leave your child in the streets." Kenshin glared at the woman, shook his head, and sat down on a chair that was tucked under the desk. The woman had gotten up and left the room to go get the forms.
The child opened his eyes and stared at Kenshin, releasing his arms from the blanket that he was wrapped in, and clutching onto his Kenshin's kimono, just awakening. Kenshin gave a faint smile. He has never noticed how Kianu was such an attractive baby, especially his eyes. Kianu's eyes were the first thing that Kenshin noticed when he first laid eyes upon him. Piercing violet eyes, like Kenshin.
Kianu looked nothing like Tomoe, but he did act like her. She never smiled and was very preserved. This child never cried, but slept, and when he did cry it was usually because he was hungry. Also like Tomoe, he liked being by the people that he knew. For example, Kianu seemed to like it when Kenshin or Tomoe held him, but would fidget whenever anyone else would. He remembered when Tomoe said he could do more for Kianu, though she only said that out of frustration of something that Kenshin could not remember and was not acting herself. He had now realized, that this was as much as he could do for Kianu, give him a new life.
He looked down at him and whispered in the baby's ear, "Please, try not to forget me. I know this is ridiculous to say, but try to remember me. I want my face to stick in your mind until we meet again someday. Remember me."
The woman came back with a stack of forms that was as long as Kenshin's forearm.
"You really don't need to fill all of this up," the woman started out, tucking in her chair, "Just fill in the first page and I will do the rest, if you want I will take your baby for you, so you have empty hands."
Kenshin did not know whether he could let Kianu go. Kianu was his one sliver of hope that there was something worth living for. However, in this time of Japan, Kenshin wanted nothing more but a better future for his son. He rested the baby in the palm of his hands and handed him over to the clerk. The clerk took Kianu into her arms and cradled him in her arms, cooing, and making baby noises to entertain him. Kenshin would look up from the paperwork and was starting to get very annoyed for how she was acting so motherly towards him.
Kenshin knew that he had to get over it, because Kianu would not be his much longer. ~*~*~*
Kenshin opened his eyes slightly and so he would not let too much of the sunlight go into his eyes. He shook his head a few times and set his head against the tree that he was leaning on. He watched Kianu play a game of 'tag' with about twelve other children. He smiled as he saw Kianu beat one of the children that were 'it' to a tree, which was obviously the 'base'.
"You didn't get to base first! I got you first! Toshi you're a liar!" Cried the boy who was 'it'. He seemed to be having a hard time believing that Toshi had gotten to the base first. Toshi looked very handsome; he was wearing a dark red gi that tucked into beige pants.
"I don't lie, Ishori, you just have a hard time believing things!" Toshi yelled back. Ishori made fists and shook them with anger.
"You are 'it' Toshi and you know it! You are just being baby!"
Toshi's eyebrows crinkled in the middle as he said, "You are the one who is being a baby! Who cares whose 'it'? I sure don't! If it matters so much to you then fine, I'll be 'it!" Toshi crossed his arms very furious as Ishori smiled with pride. However, Toshi seemed to have something else on his mind. Toshi put his hand on Ishori's left shoulder and said, "Your 'it'," and ran away from Ishori as fast as he could. Ishori ran as fast as his legs could carry him to Toshi.
Kenshin could not help but to laugh; to a boy Toshi's age, Toshi could argue very well, but to Kenshin, well, Kenshin thought that it was cute. It was cute for the fact that Toshi seemed so determined to prove his point and how he was not going to let anyone tell him otherwise.
He relaxed after laughing, but tensed up when he heard, "Hey Kenshin!" He looked behind him and saw Sano walking towards him with a hand in the air, waving hello.
"O, hello Sano!" Kenshin said with a smile. Sano stopped, crossed his arms, and joined Kenshin under the tree.
"Watchin' the kids huh? Yeah, so was I, somethin' to do around here. Came over here to say hi to Toshi, that little red head over there," he said pointing to Toshi, "But he seemed pretty entertained, arguin'."
Kenshin looked away from Sano and looked back at Toshi smiled. Then something happened that Kenshin was not planning; Toshi looked right at him and was walking towards him. Kenshin's stomach began to tie in a knot; it churned an uneasy state. Kenshin did not know what he was going to say to him.
"Hi Sano!" said Toshi, who had walked right passed Kenshin and looked up at Sano. Kenshin's heart dropped.
"Hey there kiddo! I see you still look the same as ever!" Sano said. He picked up Toshi and set him back down, just to be a nice person.
"That's not true Sano! I grew three inches!" He said, with his fingers held out with the number three.
"Well, to me kid, you still look as tiny as you did the last time I saw you. Hey Tosh' you wouldn't mind me askin' if any of your sisters are single? Can you tell me about Ichigo, the really cute one?" Sano knelt down so he could look Toshi in the eye. He looked very pathetic and desperate, but Toshi was not going to be easy on him.
"I hate ta tellya, but my sister is twenty-eight, you're nineteen, she doesn't date men that are younger then she is," he said, patting Sano on the head. Kenshin laughed, as Sano looked very disappointed.
"But- she went out with me before!"
"That's 'cause you looked desperate! So was she when she went out with you, and she wouldn't go out with you even if you were her age 'cause she is still upset about her last boyfriend!" Sano lowered his head in disappointment.
"Okay fine! Well anyway, may I say you are quite the little adamant, you sure did show that kid over there who is boss!" Sano lightly punched Toshi in the shoulder.
"Well, Sano, my dad is a lawyer; it kinda runs in the family."
Sano slapped his own face lightly and said, "Of course! How stupid of me to forget, are you gonna be a lawyer like your dad?" Toshi took a moment to think about it, but shrugged his shoulders.
"I see," Sano started out, "well anyway kiddo, let me introduce you to a friend of mine." Sano raised his hand and pointed at Kenshin. He stood up and put his hand on Kenshin's shoulder.
"This is Kenshin Himura, and Kenshin, as you know, this is Toshi." Kenshin gave a smile towards Toshi. Toshi only stared at Kenshin, "You look familiar." As Toshi said those words, starting out with 'you', Kenshin felt shivers run up and down his spine.
"Toshi!" Kenshin looked back and saw that it was a boy who was playing tag with the other children, "hurry up!"
Toshi looked at Kenshin and smiled, "I got to go and play with my friends! Maybe we'll see each other again." Toshi ran off to go continue the game, as Kenshin thought that he just lost everything again. *~*~*~
A/N: Choppy kinda? I don't wanna make the chapters too long because sometimes the readers lose interest. Unless you already did lose interest, *pulls collar* but that's okay. I give you credit for actually reading this!
I am going to have to allow flames, but if you are going to flame me, please tell me why it isn't any good. That is all I ask. Because it will tell me why and future reviewers a good reason of not reading it. And don't even think about flaming me about the idea, if you don't like the idea, then SCREW YOU!
Sorry, anyhow, feel free to criticize me about my grammar, spelling, or OOC that you feel I should look at. The whole Tomoe scene, in the beginning of the second chapter, I apologize, I just don't like it when women are nothing but housewives, I am kinda of a feminist, so yes. All in all, I will keep her in character, and I kinda got that idea off the manga, though I have no idea what they were saying because it was in Japanese. But it looked like she was yelling at him.
And Sano, I could imagine him trying to hook up on a little boys older sisters. But that is my personal opinion.
I know I hate these long A/N's too, I salute you if you read this.
~*Lots o' smiles*~ ^_^ CTC
A/N: If you listen to 'Departure' and read this, they will go perfectly together. To listen to Departure go to this address. www.ichigosmusic.com, or don't, it is your choice. O yeah, and the link you click on is 'midi', the other two are sheet music. *~*~*
"Scars. They never heal; they only go deeper into your skin, until they become memories." -quote from Shensuke Zekizuki
Kenshin held his son in one arm and a stuffed bear in the other as the burning wood that was once a home turned into ashes. He covered his baby's mouth so that he would not breathe in the smoke that would harm his lungs. Systematically he walked further away from the ardent burning, walking and burning away his past at once. Blood was dripping down Kenshin's cheek, he stuffed the bear further up his arm, and he tried to wipe it away, but it just oozed again, until it was at the point where it trickled down his neck.
As soon as he was far enough to where the smoke would not reach, he removed his hand from the infant's mouth and looked at him. It was hard to believe that he brought something so pure upon this planet. Babies must be the purest thing that person could ever lay there eyes upon. There is no sin that a baby neither had nor can cause, because they are dependent, as Kenshin thought of it. Because of there dependency, they let there forebear's sin for them. However, you must sin to bear a child, so children are nothing but walking sins? Then again, whose fault can you lay that upon?
The hand that was supporting the baby's side slid upon the child's face and Kenshin stroked the child's delicate skin that he hoped would never have any scars upon it. When he stopped stroking him, a smear of blood showed on the child's cheek. Kenshin's eyes widened, he had already stained his son with blood, but only, it was Kenshin's blood, the same blood that runs through this child's body.
Seeing through his sons eyes, he never wanted his son to cover himself with blood. Kenshin could not be his father. The only way that you corrupt a heart is learning the evil itself. Moreover, to think that the people who cause evil in this world were once babies.
He carried on with his walk, to where? Lucky for him he knew, but he was not going to like it. ~*
He looked up at the building and gave a heavy sigh. When he entered, he saw a very slim woman at a desk, filling out paperwork. He walked up to her and just stared down at her, she looked up at him with her eyes looking above her glasses.
"May I help you?" She said. He said nothing and held out the baby to her. The woman laughed slightly and said, "I am sorry, sir, but we just don't take babies like that, unless they are abandoned, you have to fill out forms."
He raised one of his eyebrows and said, "I do not fill out forms," he said very flatly, but the woman only shook her head, "Not unless you want to leave your child in the streets." Kenshin glared at the woman, shook his head, and sat down on a chair that was tucked under the desk. The woman had gotten up and left the room to go get the forms.
The child opened his eyes and stared at Kenshin, releasing his arms from the blanket that he was wrapped in, and clutching onto his Kenshin's kimono, just awakening. Kenshin gave a faint smile. He has never noticed how Kianu was such an attractive baby, especially his eyes. Kianu's eyes were the first thing that Kenshin noticed when he first laid eyes upon him. Piercing violet eyes, like Kenshin.
Kianu looked nothing like Tomoe, but he did act like her. She never smiled and was very preserved. This child never cried, but slept, and when he did cry it was usually because he was hungry. Also like Tomoe, he liked being by the people that he knew. For example, Kianu seemed to like it when Kenshin or Tomoe held him, but would fidget whenever anyone else would. He remembered when Tomoe said he could do more for Kianu, though she only said that out of frustration of something that Kenshin could not remember and was not acting herself. He had now realized, that this was as much as he could do for Kianu, give him a new life.
He looked down at him and whispered in the baby's ear, "Please, try not to forget me. I know this is ridiculous to say, but try to remember me. I want my face to stick in your mind until we meet again someday. Remember me."
The woman came back with a stack of forms that was as long as Kenshin's forearm.
"You really don't need to fill all of this up," the woman started out, tucking in her chair, "Just fill in the first page and I will do the rest, if you want I will take your baby for you, so you have empty hands."
Kenshin did not know whether he could let Kianu go. Kianu was his one sliver of hope that there was something worth living for. However, in this time of Japan, Kenshin wanted nothing more but a better future for his son. He rested the baby in the palm of his hands and handed him over to the clerk. The clerk took Kianu into her arms and cradled him in her arms, cooing, and making baby noises to entertain him. Kenshin would look up from the paperwork and was starting to get very annoyed for how she was acting so motherly towards him.
Kenshin knew that he had to get over it, because Kianu would not be his much longer. ~*~*~*
Kenshin opened his eyes slightly and so he would not let too much of the sunlight go into his eyes. He shook his head a few times and set his head against the tree that he was leaning on. He watched Kianu play a game of 'tag' with about twelve other children. He smiled as he saw Kianu beat one of the children that were 'it' to a tree, which was obviously the 'base'.
"You didn't get to base first! I got you first! Toshi you're a liar!" Cried the boy who was 'it'. He seemed to be having a hard time believing that Toshi had gotten to the base first. Toshi looked very handsome; he was wearing a dark red gi that tucked into beige pants.
"I don't lie, Ishori, you just have a hard time believing things!" Toshi yelled back. Ishori made fists and shook them with anger.
"You are 'it' Toshi and you know it! You are just being baby!"
Toshi's eyebrows crinkled in the middle as he said, "You are the one who is being a baby! Who cares whose 'it'? I sure don't! If it matters so much to you then fine, I'll be 'it!" Toshi crossed his arms very furious as Ishori smiled with pride. However, Toshi seemed to have something else on his mind. Toshi put his hand on Ishori's left shoulder and said, "Your 'it'," and ran away from Ishori as fast as he could. Ishori ran as fast as his legs could carry him to Toshi.
Kenshin could not help but to laugh; to a boy Toshi's age, Toshi could argue very well, but to Kenshin, well, Kenshin thought that it was cute. It was cute for the fact that Toshi seemed so determined to prove his point and how he was not going to let anyone tell him otherwise.
He relaxed after laughing, but tensed up when he heard, "Hey Kenshin!" He looked behind him and saw Sano walking towards him with a hand in the air, waving hello.
"O, hello Sano!" Kenshin said with a smile. Sano stopped, crossed his arms, and joined Kenshin under the tree.
"Watchin' the kids huh? Yeah, so was I, somethin' to do around here. Came over here to say hi to Toshi, that little red head over there," he said pointing to Toshi, "But he seemed pretty entertained, arguin'."
Kenshin looked away from Sano and looked back at Toshi smiled. Then something happened that Kenshin was not planning; Toshi looked right at him and was walking towards him. Kenshin's stomach began to tie in a knot; it churned an uneasy state. Kenshin did not know what he was going to say to him.
"Hi Sano!" said Toshi, who had walked right passed Kenshin and looked up at Sano. Kenshin's heart dropped.
"Hey there kiddo! I see you still look the same as ever!" Sano said. He picked up Toshi and set him back down, just to be a nice person.
"That's not true Sano! I grew three inches!" He said, with his fingers held out with the number three.
"Well, to me kid, you still look as tiny as you did the last time I saw you. Hey Tosh' you wouldn't mind me askin' if any of your sisters are single? Can you tell me about Ichigo, the really cute one?" Sano knelt down so he could look Toshi in the eye. He looked very pathetic and desperate, but Toshi was not going to be easy on him.
"I hate ta tellya, but my sister is twenty-eight, you're nineteen, she doesn't date men that are younger then she is," he said, patting Sano on the head. Kenshin laughed, as Sano looked very disappointed.
"But- she went out with me before!"
"That's 'cause you looked desperate! So was she when she went out with you, and she wouldn't go out with you even if you were her age 'cause she is still upset about her last boyfriend!" Sano lowered his head in disappointment.
"Okay fine! Well anyway, may I say you are quite the little adamant, you sure did show that kid over there who is boss!" Sano lightly punched Toshi in the shoulder.
"Well, Sano, my dad is a lawyer; it kinda runs in the family."
Sano slapped his own face lightly and said, "Of course! How stupid of me to forget, are you gonna be a lawyer like your dad?" Toshi took a moment to think about it, but shrugged his shoulders.
"I see," Sano started out, "well anyway kiddo, let me introduce you to a friend of mine." Sano raised his hand and pointed at Kenshin. He stood up and put his hand on Kenshin's shoulder.
"This is Kenshin Himura, and Kenshin, as you know, this is Toshi." Kenshin gave a smile towards Toshi. Toshi only stared at Kenshin, "You look familiar." As Toshi said those words, starting out with 'you', Kenshin felt shivers run up and down his spine.
"Toshi!" Kenshin looked back and saw that it was a boy who was playing tag with the other children, "hurry up!"
Toshi looked at Kenshin and smiled, "I got to go and play with my friends! Maybe we'll see each other again." Toshi ran off to go continue the game, as Kenshin thought that he just lost everything again. *~*~*~
A/N: Choppy kinda? I don't wanna make the chapters too long because sometimes the readers lose interest. Unless you already did lose interest, *pulls collar* but that's okay. I give you credit for actually reading this!
I am going to have to allow flames, but if you are going to flame me, please tell me why it isn't any good. That is all I ask. Because it will tell me why and future reviewers a good reason of not reading it. And don't even think about flaming me about the idea, if you don't like the idea, then SCREW YOU!
Sorry, anyhow, feel free to criticize me about my grammar, spelling, or OOC that you feel I should look at. The whole Tomoe scene, in the beginning of the second chapter, I apologize, I just don't like it when women are nothing but housewives, I am kinda of a feminist, so yes. All in all, I will keep her in character, and I kinda got that idea off the manga, though I have no idea what they were saying because it was in Japanese. But it looked like she was yelling at him.
And Sano, I could imagine him trying to hook up on a little boys older sisters. But that is my personal opinion.
I know I hate these long A/N's too, I salute you if you read this.
~*Lots o' smiles*~ ^_^ CTC