"What took you so long?" he asked them.
"Shut it Shishio (she went to far on that comment but all she got was a glare) im here to challenge you so I can be the new leader of the Oniwabann group" The Black Fox said in a cold sharp voice. And if looks could kill Shishio would be dead long before this conversation started.
"I don't think your challenging me just to be the leader. It's Aoshi isn't it?" Shishio asked. Misao and the Black fox weren't in the mood for this.
"Maybe it is but Misao and I aren't in the mood for your sass so shut up and fight!" she yelled.
'Who is this me and Misao?' soujiro thought.
'Oh crap I said Misao and I that's going to cost me' she thought. Her and Shishio rushed each other swords clashing (her sword was thrown to her by soujiro and she is really good like she wouldn't stand a chance against him in the show but she is good in this) about 5 min. passed and they both had a few scratches but nothing that either of them felt. They charged again but this time Misao threw her sword to her left hand at the last second and cut him deep in the right arm but that cost her to she was cut on the shoulder. She took a few steppes back and clutched her shoulder.
'That's it im going to give myself up to the Black fox I have to if I stay half way in control I'll never win' she thought as she spun around knowing Shishio might hit her but might not that's the chance she had to take. " Soujiro through me my cloak" she said coldly closing her eyes a little upset by her decision but her mind was made up. He threw her, her cloak with out question. She threw it on and the Black fox was in complete and total control. Her wounds disappeared and new scars appeared. (They are almost two different people, different battle wounds and everything).
" Yes! Complete and total control oh it feels nice, soujiro your friend Misao is thick she gave me the power and could very well disappeared all together" the Black Fox said. They began to fight again Misao err the Black Fox is much stronger. They started to fight again getting scratches and cuts here and there. They separated and he had cut her on her cheek. The crimson liquid began to flow out of the wound. Kenshin burst into the room with a hint of Amber in his once kind eyes.
"Kaoru said you needed help," he said.
"No! Im fine leave" she said her voice cold. All the sudden she falls to her knees and grabbed her head and screams in frustration. "AHHHHHHH! No Misao. Stay away you gave me the power, No I need to tell him something incase I disappear!" she was arguing with her self. Her voice was now calm and her eyes hinted hurt and shame yet there was a certain sparkle in her eyes.
"Kenshin listen this is Misao the black fox is taking over but I'm willing to let her if every thing goes as planed. Kenshin take care of Kaoru and Sano and Migume and soujiro. And soujiro don't give up hope on breaking the black foxes heart" and with that Misao was gone for now. Kenshin walked out calmly. They began to fight continuously. Then The black fox wanted to get rid of him once and for all she whipped out her gun and shot him in the chest right were his heart should be but he only has a black hole he's to heart-less to have a heart. He was laying there dieing she didn't want to hear him any more she walk over to him and slit his throat. Yes the legendary Black Fox was a bloodthirsty ruthless killer and she was impatient to boot. Soujiro just stood there his mouth open.
"Soujiro, why did I kill him?" she asked.
"Oh um because you didn't want to kill Aoshi" he said.
"That's all well I killed a pretty decent fighter for nothing," she said. Soujiro sweat dropped. ' Wait when Misao said don't give up hope on breaking the Black Foxes heart whet did she mean by that? Maybe she wants me to get her to let Misao take over' soujiro thought. She was walking out of the room heading towards the control room. She opened the door to see kaoru burning the last tape with evidence that they were there.
"Ready" The Black Fox asked (she is going to be BF ok?). Kaoru looked up with tears in her eyes she missed Misao already.
"Yea but I haven't gotten to the secretaries file on our appointment yet." Kaoru said.
"Ill get it on the way out tell sano we're ready" BF said. Every one left and sat in the car waiting for her. She grabbed the paper that held today's schedule on it. She took off her cloak and grabbed a lighter. She lit the paper on fire and watched it burn.
"You can come out now, you aren't going to find Misao she's long gone but ill tell her you said hi if you don't want to tell her your self" BF said. Aoshi stepped out of the shadow he was positive she couldn't see him but by what she said Misao obviously gave in and finally let BF take over.
"Your willing to give up the power so Misao can be happy," he said.
"Look, she's the only one who ever listens to me she lets me take half control sometimes and if that means I have to let her take control im willing to take that risk because unlike her I don't have stress in my life who ever causes me stress I just kill them so if the stress drives her insane im here to take over" she said half sinking back into Misao.
" So why did you come here?" Misao fox said (that's a mix between Misao and the Black fox).
"I thought you could be in trouble but I think you have it under control." Aoshi said.
"Well im fine so you can go back to completely ignoring me again, no I mean you can go home knowing that I'm fine and ill live another day" said the Black Fox. She walked away from him dropping the small burning piece of paper. She walked out side and into the car.
"Who was that?" Sano asked. "That would be Aoshi, Misaos crush now drive I need to get home and sort my thoughts" said BF.
"Wait a second I thought you were Misao, we picked up a stranger" sano said in a joking voice.
"Would some one please explain to the rooster-head what happened," BF said.
"It's the assassin side of her sano it's the Black Fox" said Kenshin. The rest of the car ride was silent. The next morning she didn't wake up. Knock, knock.
"Kenshin, kenshin im at Misaos house and she wont wake up please come over here as fast as you can she wont wake up. Call Migume please hurry" kaoru said into the phone at Misaos house. She ran up to her and shook her. "Misao, Misao wake up Misao" Kaoru said she was practically hysterical. Kenshin came in with Migume. She checked Misao out and said that she needed at least a day to sort out her thoughts like who would take control and things like that. Soon they left. Kaoru stayed as long as she could but had to leave eventually. Some one was waiting out side her window though. He watched her sleep. She stirred he held his breath.
' Me, no me, no me, please you'll ruin my life, no you have done that for yourself, wait some one is watching us' she thought. She opened her eyes. She sat up and looked around. She went up to her window and opened it
"Come in" she said.
"It depends is this Misao or Black Fox" Aoshi asked.
"Its umm…. Misao" she said sounding extremely unsure. But despite that he knew it was she. He climbed in she sat back down on her futon not facing him.
"How long have I been out and how long have you been there?" she asked.
"You've been out for only today and I just got here," he said.
"I thought I was going to have to kill you," she said turning fully around so he could only see her back and couldn't see the tears streaming down her face. She was crying because she thought she would have to kill her true love and she was right before he doesn't care and she knew it. She also felt so vulnerable she gave in so easily.
"Aoshi please leave me. Why do you stay with some one who gives in so easily? I'm so weak." She said.
"Misao, its you right now isn't it you who weakened Black Fox Misao you aren't weak your confused" and with that he was gone. Misao fell asleep and woke up the next morning at about 4 in the morning. She went to train in the dojo. She trained for 4 hours strait so she could clear her mind. 'Screw it' she thought. She sat there and started to meditate like Aoshi taught her how to only 2 weeks ago. She sat like that for a while. She got up and walked to Kaorus house. "Kaoru im all better every thing is sorted out I want to take you out for some tea or something" she yelled looking for Kaoru. She walked into Kaorus room were she saw her and kenshin cuddled up sleeping together on her futon. 'Awe its so cute ill make them some breakfast' she thought. She made them some breakfast and they woke up right on time. "Hey guys I made you some breakfast. Sorry Kaoru I know I shouldn't have just made your food but you two looked so cute together and I didn't want to disturb you so I made breakfast" Misao said to the blushing couple. "Well here you go," she said putting the food down on the table. Misao told them she would leave them alone because she felt like a third wheel. Misao left and went to soujiro house she rang the doorbell and he opened it up. "Soujiro I just came by for a short visit I just wanted to thank you for being there for me it means a lot to me and im sorry if the Black Fox offended you in any way" she said puling him into a hug. They talked for a few min. but Misao decided she should go apologize to sano before he blew a gasket when he remembered her calling him rooster head. She walked to his house and knocked on the door.
"Hello I didn't expect to see you again," Tae said.
"Is sano home?" she asked.
"Yea, SANO!" tae screamed. Sano came down stairs and invited her in.
"What are you doing here?" he asked.
"Well I wanted to apologize for what The Black Fox said I was half in control after all," she said. Misao sweat dropped. They talked for a while she was trying to paint a picture to sano about what it was like fighting with herself. He started to feel really bad. It seemed very painful having the feeling of being ripped in half.
He leaned in and kissed her and pulled away and said, "I just wanted to remember what it felt like". They burst into laughter. She hadn't laughed like that in a while. "Ok so all you have to do now is get Aoshi to say he loves you and your list of problems err. Situations will be complete," he said mocking his teacher's assignment.
"Very funny" Misao said.
"Hm.. Well, I guess I should get going I want to practice a little more because I need to stay alert incase some one from the Oniwabann decides to sneak up on me" she said with a wink.
"Now we wouldn't want that, would we?" Sano said.
"If some one from the Oniwabann killed me I'd drag your sorry ass down to hell with me" Misao said triumphantly. "Didn't you say you had to go somewhere?" Sano said.
"Yea I have to go. Good bye Sano." Misao said. She walked down stairs and out of his house. As she was walking down the street this thought popped into her head. 'Hey I never got to kill houji. Oh well if I didn't kill him Kenshin or Kaoru did. At least he's dead' she thought. Misao hates that guy (so do I. I hate him with a burning passion. And he really is dead he's not going to like pop out of nowhere or anything). She reached her house in no time. She was about to change into her ninja outfit but she had a feeling like, I don't know, like some one was watching her. That happened a lot lately. She just didn't feel like it anymore. She shrugged off the I'm-watching-you feeling and decided not to train but to just sit in her room watch T.V and listen to music for her last day of the weekend. 'Finally I can do normal teenage girl things instead of having to kill someone or watch my back every three seconds' Misao thought. She just lay there having a lot of fun she hadn't seen her anime shows in like forever and a day. She just sat there enjoying the moment when SLAM! Some one bust open her door.
"Misao clean this room it's a mess," said her gramps. Misao got up and decided if she wasn't going to train and she couldn't watch T.V or listen to music why not put on some more comfortable clothes and clean her room then she could go to the skate park for a little while. She slipped on a pair of short shorts with kitties on them and a long tee shirt that went down a little lower than her shorts. The tee shirt had Tigger on it. She began to clean up her room. It was a miracle that she could even get in her room let alone see the floor. She barley even remembered what color her carpet was. "Ah, yes the carpet is blue I remember" she said jokingly to herself. Once she was done with that she put on a different shirt and a pair of tight, now when I say tight I mean super tight, dark blue jeans. Her shirt was a belly button shirt so she thought she would wear a belly button ring. She wore one with 3 sapphires in it. Her shirt was blue, her favorite color. She grabbed her board and helmet. She skated to the park. Not many people were there.
"Hmm… lets see," she said. She was observing everyone there like she always dose. 'Lets see (these are nick names im just trying to take up space and show you how many people there are at the park) sticky is here and bouncer is here and grinder and air and let's see' she thought. She squinted trying to figure out who the other skater was. "Impossible" she said. (Guess who??). She skated around for a while trying to avoid him a little yet trying to get closer. She remembered what had happened to her in the past two months since she first saw him. 'Her hitting him with a bat, her becoming friends with him, well to state the obvious her falling madly in love with him, and him walking her home, her kissing him on the cheek, oh and lets not forget him saving your life by killing about 50 men while you were being gunned down' she thought. 'Wait a second that's what I can say to him I can thank him for saving my life' she thought. She skated up to him and waited till he realized she was there.
"Oh hello Misao" he said.
"Aoshi. Good morning are you enjoying your day off of school?" she asked.
"Ah" he said.
'Of course what did I expect a full elaborate essay about his day off. No at the most ill get a yes im having a good day and you? No I wont even get that' she thought. "Ok Aoshi I wanted to talk to you about something. Skate with me (she began to skate with him next to her). Well I wanted to thank you," she said.
"What for?" he asked.
"Well when I was trapped in yahiko's hide out and I was being gunned down I was positive I was going to die but you saved me, now I know it was you because I saw you standing there and I saw your icy blue eyes" she said. 'That I would have fallen deep into had I not had 60 men, witling down, about to shot me into a million pieces' she mentally added. "And I want to thank you for being there for me in the hospital even if you did kind of disappear when I wasn't looking but thank you any way" she said. She was practically pouring her heart out now if she could just say she loved him and if he would go on a date with her or something this moment would be priceless.
"…." He said kind of.
"Wow you have a lot to say," she said accidentally.
"Excuse me?" he said.
'Oh crap this really sucks' she thought. "Oh im sorry I didn't mean to say that really im sorry," She said. She just about thought she would die right then. She would rather crawl in a hole and wait to die than be there making fun of her beloved Aoshi. They skated right on out of the park she had been skating and cleaning and watching T.V all day so the sun was starting to set. They were skating some were she wasn't sure where she was kind of following Aoshi and he was kind of following her so you could say they were lost. 'Great just great im lost with my beloved Aoshi and I just made fun of him and im not as fast as him so if he decides to kill me im dead' she thought.
'She's bold not many girls would still be next to me after saying something like that' he thought. He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye. She's the picture of beauty. She was skate boarding her helmet under her arm because it was uncomfortable on her head and orange, red, and yellow was the back round and the colors were seeping through her long raven black hair. She had to keep her hair down on account of the helmet that wont fit around her braid. Her eyes were a beautiful shade of sea-foam green (can you believe I just used beautiful and sea-foam in the same sentence?). Her lips, he was just dieing to taste them. They were pink and her cheeks were a little pink from the on coming cold. He wanted to tell her he was in love with her; he had a heated argument with the mirror yesterday about his feelings toward her, the mirror won. The image he saw in the mirror convinced him he loved her with a deep passion and he wanted to have her as his own forever. But now he didn't know if she loved him back. He didn't realize he was staring at her until she looked at him with a confused look.
"Aoshi is there something on my face or something?" she asked.
"No" he said. He smiled on the inside. 'She was so; well young wait a second he's her age. No she's not just young, she's cute.' He thought. They were skating up a hill the sun was beginning its slow decent under the earth.
"Oh, Aoshi can we stop here and watch the sun set then we can go home and ill stop bothering you" Misao said already stopping her skateboard and sitting on a green spot of grass. She patted the spot next to her before Aoshi could respond.
He walked slowly to the spot she had made for him and sat down. He thought he shouldn't comment on what she said because she wouldn't listen. He didn't see what was so great about a sun set the sun did this every day yet every one always wanted to watch it. He was watching the suns decent behind the earth when her hair caught his eye. She had flipped her hair trying to get it out of her eyes. She hated it down but he seemed to like it better that way. He looked at her. The orange, red, and yellow was shinning on her face she looked absolutely radiant. His attention was brought back to the sunset. It was beautiful even though he only saw a sliver of the sun that soon slipped beneath the earth not to come up until the morning. He wanted this moment to last forever. Looking at the sun set with the most beautiful girl smiling like it was the last sunset she would ever see. He then realized that you don't want something until you cant have it. That was the flaw in human D.N.A. Humans deny the thing they want the most until its unreachable, then they strive to get it back. For example, Aoshi didn't believe he loved Misao until he thought he couldn't have her when ever he wanted her, once she started to hang around other guys he felt he couldn't have her anymore so that made him want her even more. And now that he knew what he wanted he was going to go for it, if he could still have it. He looked to her for an answer a question anything to break the silence. Her eyes told him she was happy to be there next to him but he wanted more. He felt he would only be happy if he got the kiss he'd been longing for. But he didn't feel he could do it for the fear of rejection of her pulling back with a look of dissatisfaction. He did know how to kiss he'd had experience but did she. In the midst of his thinking her eyes turned from pure joy of the moment to, almost pouting for him not kissing her. He didn't notice because he was so deep in thought. But soon the pouting turned to lust. She was going to get what she wanted like it or not. She leaned in and before he could realize it she was right in front of his face. By the time he realized it, it was to late to react. Their lips touched and electricity surged through them both. She didn't care she was wrapped up in the moment but Aoshi's mind was buzzing. She deepened the kiss and he didn't seem to notice all he was able to do was wrap his arms around her and close his eyes. She pulled back confused.
"Aoshi is there a problem?" she asked.
"No, no I was just confused for a min. keep going" he said. She was about to protest but he shut her up by catching her lips in another passionate kiss. They separated realizing the moon was bright and the streetlights at the bottom of the hill were coming on.
"Well we better get home we wouldn't want to worry anybody would we?' she asked.
"Misao, I love you. " Aoshi said.
" I love you too." Misao said happily walking next to her beloved Aoshi back into town were she would live the rest of her life in the care of her dear Aoshi.
THE END