Author's Note: Another chapter. I wanted to get two chapters up, since I had delayed for so long. Please forgive my absence, my internet was dying on me.

Disclaimer: I do not own Rurouni Kenshin or any of its characters

Chapter Four: New Living Arrangements

The four assassins stared at the girl on the couch.

"Where does she sleep?" asked Sanosuke suddenly.

"I'll be happy to share my bed," said Takasugi grinning devilishly, as he sat up straight.

The other three glared at him, he gulped and sat in his chair with a huff.

"She could use my bed, I hardly even sleep in it," said Kenshin as he looked at her beautiful, slender, innocent, young form again.

"How long do you think she'll stay?" asked Sanosuke.

"I'll ask Katsura to place her in a safe house. It will better if she wasn't in an apartment with four 28-year-old men. We don't have clothes for her either," said Enishi.

"Isn't that a good thing?" asked Takasugi grinning.

Sanosuke hit him upside the head, and said, "She's only 20, and the cousin of one the most feared leaders in Japan. Don't try anything Takasugi. I don't want to get dragged into something that you caused because of your lack to control your hormones."

Takasugi rolled his eyes, and looked away.

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"It's already 8:00P.M., and we still haven't found her," said Soujiro pounding a fist on the table.

He wasn't allowed to go out and search because of his arm, and Misao had come back and told him the news. His features lit up when she told him that Saitoh and Jineh had agreed to help.

"You shouldn't pound your hand so hard. Otherwise you won't be able to use that hand either," said Misao sarcastically, trying to lighten his mood.

Soujiro smiled at her, Misao was always the one to keep her spirits up.

"I'm just afraid; she didn't take her pills. I don't know why, but I feel like it was because of me that she left. Maybe if I had convinced..." began Soujiro.

"Regretting and blaming yourself won't help us find her. There were no killings which meant that somehow she had gotten her pills. If she didn't, then attacks of people dying suddenly would be all over the news. Don't worry, we'll find her," said Misao determined.

Soujiro smiled and nodded.

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"Well Aoshi, it's now final. The J.A.B. and the Oniwanbanshu group are finally a team. What will be our first order of business against the Bafuko?" asked Katsura, as Aoshi handed him the signed contract, they were in the office where Hiko was working.

"I don't plan to do much until my cousin is found," said Aoshi, as he stood up.

"Why is it so important to find her? She could just be gone for a bit of alone time," said Hiko.

"She has a rare problem with her body; she wouldn't leave without taking a certain number of pills. I fear that she has been kidnapped," said Aoshi darkly with concern.

"What problem is that?" asked Katsura, pretending not to know.

"Something that not even her medical files show. It's that secret," said Aoshi as he left.

Katsura narrowed his eyes at the back of the Leader.

"Maybe it wasn't such a good idea," said Hiko as Aoshi was out of ear shot.

"Her files said that she gets stronger; we need to find out more about this. Maybe something besides her growth in strength happens. Messenger!" yelled Katsura.

"Yes sir?" asked the same messenger as last night.

"Get Megumi. If Enishi or any of the four come, give them the bag of clothes. Tell them that I will talk to them about this later, and the girl is to stay with them and not be harmed in any way," said Katsura with a dismissive hand, he had planned out the whole thing.

"Yes sir," said the man and he quickly left.

"This isn't going to be pretty," said Hiko shaking his head, he wasn't sure about this plan.

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Kaoru slowly woke up, and held her head. She still felt the pain from her close encounter with the after effects of the toxic waste. Hoping that it was a dream, she scanned the place that she was at. She groaned as she saw the same three characters at the table, Enishi had left.

She slowly sat up right, and looked for her medicine bottle.

"Looking for something?" asked Takasugi waving the bottle in front of her.

"Give it back please. You don't know what will happen if I don't get them," said Kaoru almost in a whisper, she felt a bit weak.

"The bottle says one a day, and we already gave you one. So just relax. Now answer me this; what will happen if you don't get this? You crept us all out when you started going all crazy like that. I will hold onto them so you won't escape. If you go, then no more medicine," said Takasugi waving the bottle at her.

"I won't be the one to get injured," said Kaoru in an almost whisper.

"Meaning?" asked Sanosuke, he had heard her with his assassin keen ears.

"You don't want to know," said Kaoru grimly.

"Well if you die on us, then we want to know ahead of time. Since there are only seven little pills left, and so we want to stay clear of you if you die. I don't want to be convicted of killing the Leader of the Oniwanbanshu group's cousin," said Takasugi.

"If you know who I am, then let me go," snapped Kaoru angrily.

"Can't do that Missy, we've got orders," said Sanosuke.

"You...I have one week to keep my insanity. Please you need to let me go home. I need my pills, or I'll..." started Kaoru as she shook her head in fear.

The three looked at her seriously. They had seen what happened to her. If they hadn't given her that pill on time, she could of still been kicking and punching them crazily. In reality, none of them wanted to see the outcome of what would happen.

"Will you die? was the question," said Kenshin.

"No, but those around me will," said Kaoru in cold whisper, as she looked at her hands.

"Okay, now she's officially freaking me out," said Takasugi.

Sano and Kenshin exchanged looks, then looked back at the silent Kaoru.

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Enishi drove silently home in his white BMW, his meeting with Katsura hadn't gone so well. In fact, he didn't even get a chance to see him. A Tommy Hilfiger bag was on the passenger seat, with black attire in it to last a whole week. He cursed as he remembered what happened.

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Enishi is waiting outside of the Katsura's office, when the messenger walks out with a bag.

"Ty! When can I meet Katsura? I need to talk to him about one of the missions," said Enishi standing; the messenger only shoved the bag in his hands.

"Katsura has ordered you not to harm that girl in any way. Those are her new clothes. That's all he said, and he will not speak to you yet. Now I must get going, I need to get Megumi," said Ty, as he walked to the elevator, and pushed the down button.

"What does he want with the doctor? Could it be that she's going to have something to do with the girl's strange sickness?" asked Enishi to himself in a whisper.

He stared at the door, he was about ready to knock it down, and demand that the girl be put in a safe house. The last thing he wanted was for her to die on them and he get blamed.

Cursing, he left the building with the bag in his hand.

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He slowly went to the elevator, and got in hitting the top floor botton. When he got out and started looking for his keys, he noticed that no noise was coming from the apartment.

He didn't even hear Takasugi or Sano talking or arguing as they always did.

Thinking of the worst, he quickly flung open the door. Every one stared at him in shock, as a wave of embarrassment and shock engulfed him. They were all being quiet for once.

"What's the big deal Enishi. What do you have there?" asked Sano, as he looked at the bag.

"She's staying with us. I didn't even get to talk with Katsura. Here you are, these are your clothes for the week," said Enishi, as he threw her the bag, and sat down exasperated that he would have to deal with another person now in the apartment.

Kaoru caught the bag easily, and looked through them with her eyes. At least they were giving her formal clothing. Her attire was simple; black shirts, black sweaters, and black pants. She was even giving black Victoria Secret's underwear and bras.

"It might now be good if I stayed on the last day with my medicine," said Kaoru in a whisper.

"Explain to us again what in the world happens when you don't have your pills?" asked Takasugi her replies were all strange and he really didn't know.

Kaoru bit her lower lip, and just stared at the pills in his hands, as he tossed into the air, and caught it. He was bored, and kept on doing his little movements.

"I change into a whole different person," said Kaoru in a low whisper.

"Are you bipolar? Do these pills keep you from changing into a whole different personality; like from making you talk with yourself? So these pills keep you as one person instead of two all the time. That would explain things," said Sanosuke.

The other three stared at him, surprised that he even knew what he was talking about.

"What!? I read medical conditions in the paper. You guys act like I don't know anything, just because I have a thug type life," said Sanosuke rolling his eyes.

"Y-you could say that. But I won't be able to come out and control it. It'll just be my other side, and I won't be fighting or talking to it," explained Kaoru.

Sano rubbed his chin, he never knew anything like that. Where you just change because you don't have pills. Even if they did, they'd change right back.

"Hold up. How long will this other side stay out?" asked Sano.

"I don't know," said Kaoru almost inaudibly.

"You don't know!?" asked Takasugi in shock, as he sat up straight.

"It's never happened before, but once. I don't even remember it happening, Aoshi and Soujiro... explained to me. Though I didn't change back until I got my pill. But I got my pill in a day after I changed. So it'll last at least a day. I'm not sure," said Kaoru truthfully.

The others' face faulted. They weren't getting anywhere. They didn't even know what the other personality was. She was just luring them in a circle. Now all they wanted was to bring her back home, so they wouldn't have to deal with it. Though they knew that Katsura would yell their heads off if they did. They had no choice but to wait and see what happens.

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A tall woman with long black hair walked into Katsura's office. She bowed to him and Hiko, and sat down across from them. The woman had black eyes, and a serious face.

"Megumi. We want you to look at this," said Katsura handing over Kaoru's medical folders.

She scanned the pages, and were in shock when she found a column that read:

At age five, Kaoru was in a car accident. She had damaged herself in some way, and now something is wrong with her. But all readings show that she is perfectly normal. Even better than most healthy people in the world. She now has abnormal strength, and has proven to be as strong as ten grown men. Her eyes changed to amber. After medical pills, she has recovered; but the car accident has a life lasting condition on her.

"What's wrong with her?" asked Megumi, as she flipped through more pages.

"You tell us what you think," said Katsura with a grin.

"It says that she changed. Is it bipolar, where her medicine stops one side from existing completely? Though abnormal strength is... well abnormal," said Megumi.

"No it's not bipolar, but something more. Read her medications and tell us," said Katsura.

Megumi carefully read the little note, but it was so blurred that she couldn't read it.

"Someone tried to get rid of the medical pill's ingredients. I'll have to get a better copy of the medication," said Megumi, as she handed them back the file.

"We want you to be her doctor. She is at the assassin quarters at the top floor. Her pills are there, so you can have a look at it," said Hiko.

"You left her to stay with those four?" asked Megumi in shock, she had had encounters with them all, since she was one of the few doctors for the board.

"Yes," said Katsura calmly.

"Well then I better go now," said Megumi as she stood up.

"Be her doctor and friend Megumi. We need her to trust us. Another thing, she might need counseling on her other side. We want you to make her feel safe, and to trust the Japan Assassination Board," said Hiko seriously.

"Yes sir," said Megumi, and she walked out of the room, locking it behind her.

"What if she decides to help her escape?" asked Hiko when she was gone.

"Well doctors do intend to get close to their clients, and try to help them in anyway that they can. That's why she'll gain Kaoru's trust. Then when her other side comes out, it'll be easier to manipulate her to work for us," said Katsura with a wide grin.

"You've thought of everything," said Hiko.

Katsura only smirked at the comment, and looked out the window to Tokyo.

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"What!? You want me to sleep with..." began Kaoru angrily.

"No! I'll be sleeping out here, while you sleep in there alone," explained Kenshin.

Kaoru sighed, and blushed a bit at her mistake.

"But you can sleep with me," said Takasugi as he flashed her a seductive look.

"You pervert!" yelled Kaoru, as she threw a pillow right into his face.

"Good throw Missy, right in the head," said Sanosuke with his cocky grin on.

"Who are you people?" asked Kaoru suddenly, as she remembered that she hadn't gotten their names yet, and that they were all too busy asking her questions.

"Well I'm..." began Sanosuke, when a knock came at the door.

Enishi walked over and opened the door, to invite Megumi in.

Sano rolled his eyes as he saw her, and began again. "As I was saying, I am..."

"The big rooster head. Kaoru, I am Megumi, your new doctor, and I need to see your medicine bottle," said Megumi walking over to her, ignoring Sano's glares.

"I don't have them," said Kaoru flatly.

"What!?" asked Megumi in shock, as she sat next to the patient.

"Because I do," said Takasugi, as he threw her the blue bottle.

Megumi caught it, and looked at it carefully. Her eyes widened as she saw the context.

"This... this is to cure and stop the flow of toxins. Why would they give that to you? It could dissolve your... or stop the flow of your blood. I don't understand how you can still be alive after taking these for 15 years," said Megumi shocked.

Kaoru kept her eyes on the fabric of the couch. While the others stared at her in shock.

"What!?" asked Sano, voicing all the others.

"I know that you get abnormal strength, but toxins can't do that. They are suppose to give you cancer and other bad things. Yet your files say that you are perfectly normal and very healthy, in fact healthier than most people. Though these pills should not be doing that," said Megumi in disbelief, this was defying all the logic that she knew.

"The pills stop it, it's the toxic fumes in my body that is doing that," said Kaoru in a whisper.

"Then the fumes should have escaped your body," said Megumi.

"I was exposed to it for too long, so it will forever remain with me. That's why I need to get home and get my pills. Without them, I lose control," said Kaoru as fear enveloped her.

"I'll have to tell Katsura," said Megumi standing.

"Hold up kitsune. You're her doctor, now help her," said Sanosuke, as he stood in front of her.

"I'll try to get my hands on your medication, though the government will be tough to talk to, to get them. I must go and get more. It's just too dangerous if you only have seven pills, I've read what she did when she was but five. Now she's 20, that means triple the strength," said Megumi as she walked over to the door.

"That's why it was so tough to pin her down, and make her take the pill," said Takasugi.

"Wait! My pills," said Kaoru, as she realized that Megumi had them still.

"I'm going to use it to get more. I'll come by tomorrow and pick you up for tests. This is very serious," said Megumi, as she opened the door.

"Before sunset please," said Takasugi, not wanting to deal with it again.

"I'll come at breakfast," said Megumi and left.

"Now that she's gone. Let's begin where I left off. I am Sanosuke, he's Takasugi, Enishi, and the one over there is the Hitokiri Battousai, but we call him Kenshin," said Sano grinning.

Kaoru looked at the red-head, she couldn't help but seem drawn to him. Even if he was shorter than most men, he had a strong and mysterious aura around him.

"It's already 10:00, time goes by when you're in a tight predicament. Your room Kaoru, is the one all the way down the hallway to your right," said Enishi.

Kaoru nodded, and grabbed the bag and went to the room. She closed and locked the door, she didn't trust the men outside. They seemed all too dangerous, behind their masks.

She could only hope that somehow she can get out of here soon, before the end of the week.

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AN: Hope you enjoyed and I'd love some suggestions on this. Please review. The longer the better. I just love reading them.