" So now they want you to kill him," he said he only got a nod from Misao who was on the verge of tears remembering her horrible past. "Ok well were here," he said stopping at this huge house.
"This is it its huge its like 3 of my houses" she said with her mouth gaping open.
"Yeah but im warning you that my house is a little dirty" he said opening the door for the still shocked Misao. She walked in and she amine dropped. The house was a pigsty.
"Ok lets get started," she said. About 3 hours past and they were finished cleaning the house. "Ok now it looks like a house," she said proud of her work. "Alright what is your sisters name? How old is she? Dose she go to school? Dose she have as many problems as you? And were is she?" Misao asked.
" Her name is Tae she is 5 years old. She goes to yellow star school she's in 1st grade no she doesn't have problems and neither do I! And I have no idea were she is" he said.
" Ok im going to go look for her here hold Hiko and make sure he is alright" she said walking upstairs. She checked every room upstairs and found no sign of Tae looked down stairs any Tae she wasn't even in the basement.
"Sano I can't find her is she at school?" she yelled from downstairs.
" Yeah maybe" he said.
Tae walked in and said "sano im home ".
"Tae hey Misao get up here! (Misao ran to where they were) Tae this is Misao, Misao this is Tae" Sano introduced them.
"Hey sano this isn't another one of your air-headed girl-friends is it?" Tae asked. Misao shook her hand. Her eyebrow was twitching but she let it go.
"No of course not im doing a project with your brother and I thought I could come over and help you guys out" she said.
"Yea that's how it always starts out." Tae said. "My, my aren't we observant and such a big vocabulary for a 5 year old" Misao said a little ticked off. Her words were dripping with sarcasm.
" Well you should be grateful Misao helped me clean the house for 3 hours and she wants to help you and me and mom with any of our problems" sano said trying to lighten the mood.
" Yes by the way who takes you to school tae?" Misao asked with a little concern in her voice. But she was still as mad as hell luckily she can control her cold, heartless, mean, and blood-thirsty side which was just dieing to kill this little girl.
" Um sometimes sano will walk me but this year he has to take zero-hour (my high school has that) so I walk by myself" Tae said.
'Good maybe one day some one will kidnap you' Misao (the evil side) thought. " Well do you have any friends around here who can walk with you?" Misao asked. Sano decided to go play some video games this conversation was getting pretty boring.
" Yes I have a few friends but their moms drive them " tae said. "Ok well lets call their moms and ask if they can drive you to so nothing happens to you ok?" Misao said holding the young girls hand while walking to the phone. They called a few girls moms and finally found someone who could take her to school.
"Ok well you go upstairs and do your homework ok?" Misao said to Tae who flew upstairs happy that sano finally brought home a girl who was fun and who liked tae. Misao walked around trying to find sano. She found him in his room playing a game. "Hey what's up sano sorry I had to find someone who could drive your little sister to school" Misao said.
"Hmmmmm" he said.
"Yeah and I just decided she could find some gang to take her to school then she could visit the crack house and fill up her supply" she said.
"Hmmm" he said still absorbed in his game.
"Ya know sano your so hot I just want to kiss you all day," she said.
"Hmmm" he said.
"Sano I know your not listening," she said.
"Hmmm" he said.
She was getting fed up. She walked over to where he was sitting and walked in front of his view. He just moved so she decided to do the unexpected thing she just sat there and watched him play. Now this is what made sano a little uneasy usually she'd be hitting him on the head with her bokken or unplugging the controller but she just sat down.
"Misao there isn't anything wrong is there?" sano asked. He half hoped she'd say no so he could get on with his life but he knew he should help her out if there was something the matter.
"No. I'm just trying to figure out what im going to do about Aoshi I know I cant beat him but I know I have to try and what if he kills me? Or if his back up, if he has any that is, what if they kill me? Sano I just realized I could die. All I thought about was what I'd do if he died but I could die," she said.
"You just realized this Misao in your business you could die sitting here with me because some one shot you for killing some one they knew" he said a little shocked.
"Sano you and I both know that wont happen only if they caught me off guard and well I don't exactly kill I assassinate" she said.
"Misao I think you should tell Aoshi that you have to kill him, he'll know what to do" sano said.
"Well I guess that what I SHOULD do but it's hard ya know, well no you wouldn't know now would you because your not an assassin you don't have to kill a minimum of 1 person a month! For crying out loud," she said getting really frustrated. Sano threw a controller at her she caught it with ease (unlike me!).
"What's this for?" she asked. Misao looked confused but soon realized he wanted to play and get her to shut up. "Oh so that's how it is. Huh you want me to shut up so you through me a controller so I can beat you ok ill play along with your little game" she said smiling as the game began.
"No I plan to beat you and I was hoping that it would calm your nerves by just letting go of this whole case for 5 min." he said. The game began. It was a racing game and sano had the advantage seeing as he knew how to work the controller. 'Damn controller I hate these games' Misao thought as she finished last. "Lets play a different game I hate racing games," she said.
"Alright fine do you want a fig- I mean no, no fighting games you would defiantly beat me at those. (She just smiled) lets see who can get more rings?" he said. "Ok bring it on!" she said. The screen light up and they began. Misaos character jumped all over the place with grace and poise. Now sanos on the other hand, was running from place to place falling off of things and looking as clumsy as sano is (some times, at times he can be pretty grace full). The score Sano: 56 Misao: 132.
"Winner, winner, winner" the T.V said.
"Alright cool I won!" Misao said jumping up and down. Suddenly the downstairs door flung open.
"Get ready for this one" sano said plugging his ears and closing his eyes for the initial shock. Misao was confused and was laughing at sanos face when she heard this
"Sano! Tae! Get down here! Who cleaned the house!" Misao jumped into the air she landed flat on her butt. She stood up dusted herself off and hit sano on the head for laughing.
"So let me guess. Mama's home" Misao said sarcastically knowing the answer was yes.
"Yup that's her, now, stay a few feet away from me but not so far that my mom can single you out and possibly throw something at you" sano said.
"Ok drill sergeant Sir." She said. She followed about 5 steps behind him. She met his mom at the bottom of the staircase looking right through sano to her.
" And who is this tell me its not another one of your sluttish girlfriends" his mom asked slurring her words a little from being drunk.
"No mom she's a friend of mine and were doing a project together" he said.
"Yea that's how they all start out," his mom said. ' God are they all alike yea that's how they all start out geez sano get a hobby' Misao thought. 'This will be a big job looks like its Drill Sergeant Mama' Misao thought. This will be harder than she thought.
"Hello my name is Misao I'm glad to meet you." Misao said putting on her friendliest smile and extending her hand to the woman.
"Oh well hello Misao. Finally sano you brought home a girl who is polite," his mother said. Misao sweat dropped. Sano walked upstairs leaving Misao to her work. Misao started off telling his mom about the project then telling her about trust and helping each other out she left out the assassin part so she wouldn't alarm his mom then she eased into the drinking subject. She then asked her if she wanted to quit when his mom said yes Misao got interested. 'Then It will be a lot easier with her cooperation' Misao thought. It was pretty easy Misao told her to try to stop drinking by reducing the amount of alcohol she takes in and eventually just stop all together. Then his mom asked her who cleaned the house for real?
"Well I told him I would help him out with his family life when I got into your house I had to do something so me and sano cleaned for 3 hours and finally got it to my liking" she said. "Well I should really go see how sanos doing" she said walking up the stairs. (I was going to make his mom more difficult but my hand hurts and im tired give me a break)
" ok take care Misao," his mom said. Misao found sano taking a shower in his room (there's a bathroom in there). 'Ok so the sleep over is done with and sanos problems are fixed and we only have 2 more days with this kid' she thought. 'Things are going pretty good considering my circumstances' she thought. She lay down on his bed feeling content, well as content as an assassin can feel. She heard the door to the bathroom open. She decided not to open her eyes just in case. He saw her lying on the bed and thought ' ok ill get dressed then jump on her and scare the crap out of her' he got dressed then snuck up as quietly as possible trying not to wake her. She kept her eyes closed feeling content and she was getting tired so she kept them closed when she suddenly got the feeling some one was watching her. She flickered her eyes open adjusting to the light when she saw some one she didn't recognize well she didn't think she recognized him her vision was still blurry. She blinked trying to see well. There was sano flying in the air almost hovering over her. That didn't last long. THUD. He landed on her and the bed almost broke.
"Sano" she whispered he knocked the air out of her. She was gasping for the much needed air. He lay there waiting till she had enough air then rubbed his wet hair against her. Everywhere her arms her legs (well he got her with a cup of water on the legs) her tummy her chest and her face. She was soaked. He continued to drench her in water from the sink when she walked into the bathroom started to fill up the tub and as soon as it was full enough then she pushed him in.
"That's what you get," she said. "No, sano no don't even think about it, no!" she said as he pulled her in with him. She got out of the tub soaking wet just like him." I hate you. Um sano" she said looking down. "Yea" he said smiling. Can I borrow a shirt? She was wearing a white shirt, not good. He could see right through her shirt. He just stood there knowing that would bother her. "Sano if you don't get one for me I will" she said. He left to get one. Sano got the smallest shirt tae had. Misao just looked at it. She glared at him she went into the bathroom and tried it on it was tight, I mean really tight. You could see every curve. 'Sano is sick' she thought. The shirt went about 2 and a half inches above her belly button.' Great' she thought. "Sano im going to kill you, you, you perverted little freak" she said walking out of the bathroom. Every thing was soaked except for her shirt. "Sano im going home ill take the kid tonight you take it tomorrow" she said. "Ill return the shirt tomorrow" she said.
"Ok " was all sano could say. He was just about drooling. He had never fully seen so many curves (Misao was becoming quite the young beauty). She walked out of the house with many whistles from the neighbor boys. She winked at a few just for fun. She couldn't believe all the attention she was getting. She decided to walk through the park completely forgetting about the short reviling shirt. (Did I mention the shirt was pink and it had a heart right on the front and the neckline went really low, no im sorry) She got a few looks. She walked past a couple, wait no that was kenshin and Kaoru. ' I have so much to tell Kaoru'. She even got a glance from Kenshin luckily Kaoru didn't see. "Hello Kaoru how are you? Finally got together with kenshin huh?" Misao said.
"Misao hey. Im fine and yea I guess we did finally get together. What's with the shirt?" kaoru asked. "Oh well I was at sanos and he splashed me with water and I pushed him in the tub and you know sano he just pulled me in with him (she scratched the back of her head smiling with a little blush) and when I realized my shirt was white I asked for a shirt and this is all I got" Misao said.
"Well if it were a little longer it would look perfect on you" kaoru said. "Well thank you I guess. Well ill let you two get on with your date" she said walking away not wanting to see if kaoru would blush or hit her for saying that. Misao walked past them and further into the park towards the dark part of the park. She had to if she was going to get home.
The next dayMisao woke up looking around. Wait were was she? Oh of course she remembered what happened that night in the park.
Flash back
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Misao was peacefully walking trough the park. Not the best idea but she wanted to see the park. She hadn't been there in a while. She started to get the feeling she was being followed. She looked through her backpack to find her black cloak, which she wore when she had an assignment. She slipped it on not knowing that the cloak was what gave her away.
"That's her the cloak is a dead give away," said a voice to himself. She began to walk faster holding the hilt of her sword. Suddenly she stopped sensing some one come close. She saw a blur then a boy stood in front of her.
"Umm hello well its late I should be going" she said getting worried.
"Oh no you don't your not going anywhere except with me" he said.
"Hmm well now what if I don't want to go with you?" she said. Suddenly he smiled. 'Well that's interesting' she thought. (Guess who, yup yahiko, he is the tenkin instead of soujiro) suddenly she saw black. About 1 hour later she awoke in this tiny room. All that was in it was a chair a futon mattress and a table there was one lamp and a million guards outside her door. 'Well I'm tired so ill sleep some more and figure out how to get out of here in the morning. She fell fast asleep. End Flash back
Misao just lay there. 'Well the sun I assume is just rising so its early. Lets figure out how to get out' she thought. She looked around. Hey she still had her cloak on so dose that mean they were careless enough to forget to check for a. she reached to her side. Yes they forgot to search for weapons. She had a sword with her. She jumped up on the table and cut away some of the ceiling she set it aside. She jumped up and made sure not to make any noise. 'Crap they took my back pack that had a flash light in it' she thought. She started to crawl around she heard a voice. She looked down and saw the same boy who kidnapped her. She listened. "Yahiko go check on the girl make sure she is comfortable," a voice said. 'Hey ill go back and see if they'll tell me what's going on' she thought heading back to her room. She slipped in and covered the hole and sat down right as he walked in.
"Hello Misao im glad your up. Im here to make sure your comfortable" he said smiling (yahiko is really nice in this one).
'I wish Aoshi would smile like that every once and a while' she thought. "Yes Yahiko im fine but I would like to know if you could tell me why the hell im here" she said smiling in a sickingly sweet voice.
"Well if you really want to know you're here so we can kill you for killing our top assassin" he said matching her sweet voice with one of his own.
"Oh well that's lovely." She said dismissing him. She jumped up as soon as the door closed. 'I knew he was up to something but who could be that smiley all the time' she thought crawling thought the ceiling. She passed many rooms but found none that looked like they could help her. Finally she saw the hallway she jumped out with her sword ready to fight. She looked around the corner by then some guards had seen her she ran as fast as she could dodging one bullet killing that man instantly. The other one shot once and the bullet grazed her cheek. She started to bleed but had to kill this man so he didn't alert another group of people. She ran for the exit. A group of 6 men surrounded her. 'Shit what should I do?' she thought. 'Should I go for it? Yes I will' she thought. She spun around in a circle confusing the men then crouched low to the ground and stuck out her leg and turned causing all the men to fall to the ground she slit two of their throats then grabbed one of the men's guns and shot 3 of the other men. Only 1 left she ran up to him and their swords clashed. Then she crouched down then jumped up surprising the man then hit him on the head with her sword knocking him out. She ran for the exit. More guards. Now there were roughly 6, no now there were 60! She couldn't go for this one. They moved in closer. "Drop your weapons!" one shouted. Misao saw men falling in pain around the out side of the circle they kept falling like someone was saving her. Ok she would go for it she dropped her weapon then pretended to faint one man reached out to catch her. She opened her eyes and punched him square in the nose. She grabbed her gunshot a few men grabbed the sword and began to fight getting scratched here and there but nothing serious. Then a man stuck his sword in her side she fell to her knees in pain. She slowly stood not giving up then she was shot in the right arm so she couldn't use her sword. "Ahhh" she screamed. She jumped up and began to punch men left and right with her good arm. Tears of pain were streaming down her face. Only a few men were left when she blacked out. She opened her eyes a few hours later. 'Where am I? White walls big window some flowers and im lying in a bed. Hmm were ever I am this is kind of nice. Wait what's this? An I.V? Ok, well I must be in a hospital. But who exactly brought me here?' she thought. All the sudden the memories came flooding back to her. Yahiko capturing her all the way up to when she blacked out. She looked around no one was in the room except a person sleeping in a chair. She looked back at that person he looked like he visited the hospital to he was wrapped up also." ouch awe man give me some more scars why don't ya" she said to the ceiling. (Pretending to talk to god). She grabbed her right arm with her left. It was bandaged but it still hurt like hell and moving didn't help. She decided not to get up she knew when some one came in they'd only scold her saying you need your rest. But she was wide-awake. How long had she been out and who was that person. Judging by was the sun was in the sky it was about noon. She heard the door open suddenly. She jumped then grabbed her right arm and her side at the same time (with one arm I don't even know if that's possible). Kaoru, Kenshin, Soujiro, and Sano walked in all of them had coffee in their hands.
" Gasp Misao your up. How are you feeling? What happened? Who did this to you?" kaoru said almost spilling her coffee while running to her friends side.
"One question at a time please." Misao said happy with all the attention she was getting.
"Ok what happened?" sano asked.
"Well I was walking through the park and after I passed kaoru and kenshin I got into the more dark side of the park then yahiko, some kid, came up and knocked me unconscious I woke up in a room these people tried to kill me for witnessing the death of their top assassin a couple of months ago and I tried to escape but I was surrounded by 60 or so men some one helped me defeat them all, well tell you the truth it was more like I helped him or her who because I think I only took out 10 at the most I fainted from blood loss and woke up here so how did your guys night go?" she asked jokingly.
"Just fine but seriously how are you feeling?" soujiro and kaoru asked.
"Well im confused as to who that is (pointing to the supposed sleeping thing on the chair in the corner) and my arm and side hurt a little so long as I don't move," she said.
"Ok well that's good. Kenshin why don't you go get the nurse and tell her Misao is up? And that man in the corner is Aoshi he saved your life apparently he saw you being hurt by that kid in the park and saved you. Or at least that's his story" kaoru said.
Misao suddenly felt empty. 'Great that makes my job ten times worse' she thought. Now he was sitting up and looking at her trying to figure out what she had done to get the tenkin so mad.
He stood up and winced from the pain, but no one saw that.
"Hey Aoshi so you saw the tenkin beat me up" she said smiling. He looked at her.
"Misao what did you do?" he asked coldly.
"Well I killed I mean I witnessed some one who killed the tenkins bosses top assassin so they wanted me dead" she said putting a hand to her mouth at the word killed. Kenshin came in with the nurse. Every one looked at Misao very skeptically she just sweat dropped and smiled the same sickeningly sweet smile she gave the tenkin. The nurse checked Misao out and said she could leave the hospital if the doctor said she could. The doctor came in soon after ward checked Misaos wounds and said she was healing splendidly. He showed her how to change the bandages and let her go home. Every one was waiting out side. She was able to walk but she was in excruciating pain. She hoped into kaorus car and was driven home. She hobbled up to her room after explaining everything to Okon. He called her boss and told her, her boss postponed her assignment till 2 weeks from now. She had a good sleep happy that sano took the kid for the night. The next morning the alarm went off. Being the top assassin she heals quickly if she could walk yesterday then the injuries weren't bad. She was stiff but had started to heal already. She woke up and walked down stairs. Forgot to get dressed so went back up stairs got dressed came down made a lunch and breakfast ate breakfast grabbed her backpack and her skateboard and headed off to school. Now being challenged with excruciating pain every second made their simple tasks extremely difficult. She was skateboarding to school when she came upon a group of other skaters. Now she didn't care too much that they took up the whole sidewalk she just skated around them on the street. Of course the group held soujiro, sano, kenshin, and Aoshi. She didn't mind them she just wanted to get to school with out any interruptions. She successfully skated around them, or so she thought. One boy didn't see her and sped up. He hit the back of her skateboard causing her to fly off her skateboard. 'No way this is really going to hurt' she thought in the air. She closed her eyes and waited for the contact that surprisingly didn't come. The group of skaters slowed down. Once everyone saw whom it was they were surprised some one would be dumb enough to make her fall but they also were surprised she could still skate so fast for being so hurt. Aoshi caught her and set her on her skateboard.
"Ok why didn't I hit the ground?" she said slowly opening her eyes. The first thing she saw was Aoshi's blue eyes.
"Hey guys we should leave them alone" kenshin whispered to the rest of the group. They all nodded their heads and slowly skated away trying not to ruin the moment they were having.
"Um well thanks" she said unable to look away from him.
"Your welcome" he said letting her go. Deep down inside neither of them wanted him to let go.