Meiji: Guten Tag! Ich heiβe Sakuya No Baka! Wie heiβt du? Sakuya ist dreizehn Jahre alt. Wie alt bist du? Prima! Heheh, I'm practicing for my German quiz, I better ace it 'cause this year, I'm going to be in distinguished honors no matter what anyone says! b^_^d XD, Hahaha…haha…ha…ha…k, enough about me, let's get to the story…
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Chapter Four: Sitting with Kenshin
Kenshin gave a surprised look at Soujiro's friend, who was Misao. "Yes Soujiro, I know Miss Misao here. So you're friends with Miss Misao Soujiro? That's nice. You two can sit with my friends and me today at lunch. Our table is over there," Kenshin said politely and pointed one of the tables outside. Even though Misao was very mean to him and Kaoru yesterday morning, Kenshin didn't care because it would be rude to tell someone that they can't sit with them because they didn't like they're friends and besides Kenshin was a nice and polite student. He would even invite his enemies to lunch with him.
Misao on the other hand couldn't believe that Soujiro had made friends with Himura Kenshin. Out of all people does it have to be him? Not that Himura ever treated her bad. It's just that Himura just annoys her of how polite he acts. Misao looked away with a frown.
"Well, I'm sitting with my friends today. Soujiro, u can sit with Himura for all I care," Misao said with a little bit of hatred in her voice.
Soujiro smiled and said, "Ok Misao, I'll see you after lunch then."
"And I'll see you around Miss Misao." Kenshin said with a smile and then Misao left the two boys to themselves.
"Here, follow me Soujiro, the table is this way." Kenshin gave a smile to Soujiro and Soujiro gave a smile back and began to follow Kenshin while holding onto his lunch. The table wasn't far from the main doors to cafeteria. As Soujiro got closer to the table, he saw the people that were sitting there. There were sitting two girls and a guy.
"Hello everyone. This here is Seta Soujiro and he's new here. I invited him to sit here today if that's alright." Everyone else at the table smiled at him and greeted him with "hi's" and "hello's" and "yeah, of course he can sit here."
"Soujiro this is Kamiya Kaoru." Kenshin said as he introduced a girl with really dark blue hair that was tied into a ponytail and eyes that were blue as her the color of her uniform. She gave a bright, warming smile and greeted Soujiro. "Good to have you here Soujiro. I hope you like it here." ^_^
"Thank you Miss Kaoru." Soujiro thanked her back.
Kaoru smile and said to Kenshin, "Hey Kenshin, he's just as polite as you. You guys seem like brothers the way you act."
Kenshin smiled sheepishly and went on the next person next to Kaoru. "This here Soujiro is Takani Megumi." This girl had dark green hair and dark chocolate colored eyes.
"Nice to meet you Soujiro." She smiled at him.
Soujiro smiled back and said the same as Kaoru. "Thank you Miss Megumi."
"This here is Sagara Sanosuke. Sano for short." The boy had spiky brown hair and a red bandana and the same color eyes as Megumi except that it was lighter.
Sanosuke gave grin and a small wave.
"Thank you too Mr. Sanosuke." Soujiro said back.
"Just Sanosuke or Sano, kid. Mr. makes me sound like one of the old teachers around here."
Soujiro smiled and nodded as he sat down next to Kaoru and Kenshin. Kenshin and Kaoru gave a chuckled but Megumi just looked away as if she was trying to ignore him.
Kaoru was the first to start a conversation with Soujiro. "So Soujiro, what was your last school that you were in?"
"Oh, I didn't go to school. I was home schooled by my um…maid. H—she was the family maid and also my mentor. She also teaches me Swordsmanship with my step-father, Mr. Shishio."
Kaoru gave an astonished look. "Oh wow! I never heard of anyone that was home schooled before."
Now everyone else was getting more interested and Sanosuke started to ask his questions and then Megumi and Kaoru and Kenshin. Everyone knew a lot about Soujiro and Soujiro got to know more about them too. Soujiro was joyful to meet such interesting friends.
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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T SIT HERE?" And over rage Misao screamed at Saka. "I'm sorry Misao but everyone seat is taken here. There's no more room."
"Well then throw someone off then!"
Saka gave a sigh and said, "Why don't you go sit with the kid that you were with. It seems like you two were becoming good friends. Saka gave a grin.
Misao calmed down. She was going to argue back and said that Soujiro was not her friend but she knew it was useless as having a paper without a pencil during a test. Misao gritted her teeth and pressed against her fist and walked away struggling the handle of her lunch.
Then she stopped as she saw Soujiro smiling brightly at the Kenshin-gumi table. She had no choice but to take Kenshin's offer and sit there. She gave a heavy sigh and got ready for her humiliation as she walked over.
No one notice her as she got closer but Soujiro did and stared at her then gave a smile to welcome her. Misao sat down across from Soujiro and next to Sanosuke. Kenshin gave as surprising expression. "Miss Misao," Kenshin smiled, "I see that you have decided to join us."
"What's weasel girl doing here, Kenshin?" Sanosuke asked.
Misao didn't like to be called 'weasel girl' and it would just really piss her when someone calls her that. Misao stood up with a scary face and smacked Sanosuke. "Never call me a weasel!"
Megumi giggled but Kaoru didn't want Misao to be there. "What is she doing here Kenshin?" Kaoru gave angry scowl. "Don't tell me you invited her after what she did to us yesterday."
"Well…Miss Kaoru, I think Misao doesn't have a place to sit so I think we should let her sit here since we have a lot of room." ^_^' Kenshin tried to explain.
Kaoru turned to Misao and said, "Well she can stay here but that doesn't mean that I'm going to be friends with her from now on or be nice to her either."
Misao gave a scowl back and said, "The same here. And don't worry I'm not going to stay here tomorrow or the day after or the day after that day. I'm going back to my old table. You know, where the people are actually higher than you low lives."
"Misao that wasn't very nice. Everyone here welcomes you." Soujiro said to her.
Misao was about to yell at smiley boy there to shut the hell up but then she looked into his eyes and saw his expression and for some reason she hesitated to and turned away and said, "Sorry." Everyone was surprise to hear Misao say that and Misao was surprise of herself too. Did I say that? What's wrong today? Everything is so weird…Is it because of Soujiro, what effect does this kid have on me?
The whole lunch period was almost silence for Misao as she sat uncomfortable to a place she thought she would never be in but Soujiro saw that she was feeling out of place so he included her in the conversations. At first Misao would just say a couple few sentences but then she got into the conversation. Mostly arguing with Sanosuke but at the end of the period she felt like she wanted to stay there every lunch period but Misao thought she was just hallucinating and shook the very thought away.
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Misao walked home by herself. Saka had kendo practice today since it was Friday and she would have it every single Friday. She would have Mr. Kyoshi to drive her home but she felt like walking today for some unknown reason. Misao sighed to herself as she walked. Today was a sort of hectic day for her. It was very different. She had never sat at the Kenshin-gumi table before and she met Soujiro. She was glad that it was a Friday and she didn't have to go back to school until Monday.
Then she stopped as she saw a huge mansion in front of her. It had a main gate and a high wall surrounding the large house. Misao thought to herself that some rich family probably just moved in previously. She gazed admiringly at the beautiful and wished that if only her mansion was like this. It looked almost like the kind of Japanese Style houses back in the 1800's. She came closer and looked through the gate. There was a lovely garden in front of the house with two Sakura trees. One planted on the right and the other on the left. The trees were so beautiful since the blossom petals were falling swiftly to the ground. It was nearly fall so all of the Sakura blossoms were shedding its petals. Misao always wish that she had a Sakura tree in her home but her brother, Aoshi would never allowed it for he was allergic to it.
"Wow…" Misao stared in awe.
Then a sudden noise awake from her astonished daze. It was the sound of a sword slashing and slicing into the air. And there was a voice that was companying the sword. Every three seconds there would always be a "Hya!"
Misao was amazed by swordsmanship and was wondering who it was that was doing that. She saw that the walls had bumps big enough for her feet to climb. She was sure that she wasn't going to get caught just taking a peek. No one will notice her if she stay very cautious. So she left her backpack on the ground and climbed up the bumps of the wall.
Once she got up the top she saw a woman with short, purple hair in jeans and a white t-shirt. Misao heard her as she shouted, "You're doing great Soujiro!" Waitaminute. Soujiro? He lives here? Then Misao looked to the right of the woman and saw Soujiro practicing his sword moves.
"Why is it that I always run into him?" Misao whispered to herself but unfortunately the woman had heard it and turned around and yelled out, "Who's there?!"
It startled Misao and she lost her balance, trying to duck down to be hidden. Her feet were trying to find a balance of one of the bumps on the wall but it wouldn't stay there without slipping. Misao couldn't hold on anymore that she fell down on the other side of where the mansion stood.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Misao thought that this was the end but then as she hit the ground, she felt a soft object below her. She didn't open her eyes for she still thought she was dead.
"What the hell?! Get the heck off of me!" Misao could still hear people yelling but she still thought that she was dead and did not move until something grabbed her soothingly and that's when Misao opened her eyes. She saw that her face was against someone's chest and she was grabbing the clothing of it. She looked up and saw Soujiro with a worried face asking her if she was okay.
"Argh! Who is she Soujiro? Do you know her or something?"
Misao turned to face the voice that was talking. It was the purple hair woman that she saw earlier and she was rubbing her head.
"Yes, Miss Kamatari. She's from my school. Her name's Misao."
Misao realized that she was still in Soujiro's arms and her face blushed extremely bright red and she quickly got off of him and let go of his shirt. It took her a couple of seconds to realize that the soft object below her was that same purple haired woman whose name was Kamatari.
"Oh um…Sorry Miss…Kamatari." Misao said as she rubbed her left wrist. When she had fallen he wrist had collide into a sharp rock on the ground. She saw that it was bleeding.
"Well, what were you doing, spying on us or something?"
"That's enough Miss Kamatari, I'm sure Misao has a good explanation but right now she's hurt. Go get Mr. Anji please." Soujiro said as if he was her master or something.
As Kamatari walked away, Misao looked up and suddenly Soujiro was over her head, holding her injured hand. "Here let me see that." And Misao did. His hand was soothing and made the pain a little easier. "It's a little deep. Don't worry, Anji can handle this. What were you doing up there though?"
Misao looked at her wound. Should she tell him the truth? But that would be embarrassing. Maybe she should lie that her backpack was accidentally thrown up there and she had to climb up and get it. Yeah, that's good enough story. Misao thought.
"My backpack got caught up here and I climbed up to retrieve it." Misao said looking away at her wound. It was really painful to bear.
Before Soujiro could say anything back, Anji and Kamatari came out along with another woman that Misao doesn't know.
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Meiji: Sorry if there's a lot of spelling mistake or errors. I did this when I was sick. ~_~
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