Midori looked down at her feet. "Well..." She started, but looked off for a minute."Well let's see I am part of the Ishida clan and the Iijima clan is after my clan. They want this old scripture that somehow is a key to a great amount of power. It has been placed in my hands, because everyone is growing very old in my clan. I don't know much about the scripture and I'm sure you don't want to get involved, so I'll just leave tomorrow." Midori said looking down at her knees.

"We'll help!" Kaoru said. "We've been through a lot."

"Yeah, it will be like when we helped Megumi." Yahiko said

"I'll be alright." Midori said, she didn't sound very convincing though.

"We can do it; we were the one that put sisshio out of power." Kaoru said. "Well it was more like Kenshin and Saito; anyhow Kenshin took a vow to protect people."

"Hai Kaoru-Dono." Kenshin responded.

"Well I umm guess I can but you have to let me fight too! I refuse to be the weak one." Midori said jumping up and doing a hero-like pose and falling flat on her face.

"You in too Sano-san?" Kenshin asked.

"Alright, I haven't had a good fight in a while." Sano said smiling.

"NANI? Haven't had a good fight in a while, what a weird guy. Oh well. They really are nice people, but what if they come here? They seem strong.but.wait is Kenshin battsoui?" Midori thought.

"Kenshin, umm.." Midori said nervously "Hai, Midori-san?" Kenshin asked.

"Are you well.you know..the." Midori was too embarrassed to finish asking.

"I am the battsoui de gozaru, well formally." Kenshin responded, Midori just blinked and seemed a little surprised, there was a long puase but, it was not long before they decided to get to work.

"Well now that is done discussing let's work on this dojo! Kenshin and I will work on the gate and you three can work inside, and I'll be keeping an eye on you two so you better not slack off!" Kaoru said, pointing to Yahiko and Sanosuke.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Kaoru looked up athe afternoon sky, with it's many white fluffy coulds against the light blue backround. She then sighed, she didn't really want to work.

"Hey Kenshin, why don't we take break and go on a walk?" Kaoru asked cheerfully

"Oro?" Kenshin responded.

"The walk we were supposed to go last night!" Kaoru said.

"But Kaoru-dono, we have to do our work." Kenshin said

"They'll never know, there probably fooling off anyhow, so let's go!" She said cheerfully as she grabbed his arm.

"But Kaoru-Dono.." Kenshin began.

"No one will know!" She said winking at him as she opening the gate.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Hey Kaoru hasn't checked on us at all." Yahiko said.

"Hmm strange, I expected to here more noise from them, I mean Jou-chan is pretty loud" Sano said. Midori looked out the window.

"Hey their not there!" Midori said looking surprised as leaned out the open window childisly kicking her legs behind her, she then stood up and grinned "Well I guess they wanted to be alone."

"Yeah, go somewhere more personal, I didn't know Kenshin had it in him." Sano said smiling

"What are you guys talking about?" Yahiko asked, walking over to them, looking confused.

"Oh crap! I forgot about him!" Midori thought "Oh Nothing!" She said waving her hand at him and grinning at Sano.

"C'mon tell me!" Yahiko said.

"No, really it's nothing." Sano said grinning at Midori, causing her to blush a bit.

"TELL ME!" Yahiko yelled.

"Well Sano-san would you like to explain?" Midori asked laughing nervously.

"No way!" Sano said blushing a little. "Hey, since Kaoru and Kenshin aren't here why don't we have a party?"

"A party with three people? That would be lame." Yahiko said. "Now tell me." Sanosuke sighed and turned to Midori. "Will you tell him Midori?"

"NO! Have some male bonding time or something." Midori said looking
startled, crossing her arms over her chest.

"What the hell is that suppposed to mean?" Sano asked nearly yelling.

"TELL ME!" Yahiko said jumping on Sano's back, while hitting his head.

"Well, it looks like we are not getting out of this. We can err. both.
'explain.'" Midori said turnind a little red. After that little "talk"
Yahiko's face was rather red and he got up and quickly said: "I have to go outside."

"Well that was interesting." Midori said.

"It was kinda funny." Sano said.

"Yeah I guess so." Midori said smiling.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Kenshin and Kaoru had walked over to river near all the blooming sukura trees, a few were fluttering about, slowly falling to the ground

"Isn't it nice down here with the Sakura petals in bloom?" Kaoru asked.

"Yes it is." Kenshin said smiling as he looked over at the trees. A petal floated on to Kenshin's head."Oh there seems to be a petal on my head." Kenshin said chuckling.

"Let me get it." Kaoru said as she carefully flicked it off his head.

"Thank-you Kaoru-Dono." Kenshin said. All of the sudden Kaoru hugged him. "Kenshin, were helping someone again...don't go away again, it was hard enough on us the first time.." She said "Especially for me." She thought.

"Oro?" Kenshin said blushing. "Well at least let us come with you." Kaoru said hugging him tighter.

"Of course." He said putting his arms around her.

"Well we should go home now." Kaoru said smiling.

"Alright Kaoru-Dono." Kenshin said.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

They soon arrived home and when they said hello to Yahiko he blushed and ran inside.

"Looks like Kenshin and Kaoru are here, I'm gonna go talk to them." Sano said. As he left a little piece of paper fell out of his pocket. Midori watched him go out side, he grabbed Kenshin around the neck and he seemed to be teasing Kenshin about his little walk with Kaoru,

"What's this?" Midori asked her self as she picked it up. There was writing on the back. It said smiply "Sayo." She flipped it over there was a picture of a happy and friendly looking woman. "Who's this?" Midori asked her self. "Is it Sano's?"

Notes: OMG! I wrote K/K fluff! OMG! AGGGHH! (altough I 3 k/k) Oh well, it was only a tad fluffy, but I almost never write fluff. In case anyone doesn't who Sayo is it was Sano's lover who was only in a few episodes or something like that, and then she dies, she was kinda crapful anyways (hah hah I am mean!) any how R+R!