"Kenshin, how are we going to get that picture of Sayo?" Kaoru asked.
"Kaoru-dono, are you sure it's such a good idea to take that picture from Sano-san?" Kenshin asked.
"Well, I don't know but we have to get that picture for Midori," Kaoru said. "Then maybe we can have another little couple around here," she said, hugging Kenshin.
"Oro?" Kenshin asked. "There's a couple around here?"
"You and me, you BAKA!" she said, whacking him over the head.
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Midori sighed as she lay down. She was still tired and she wanted to go back to sleep, but she figured she shouldn't. As she looked down at her red gi-like outfit, her hair fell in front of her eyes. She hadn't done anything with it today, she just felt to lazy to do much. The sky was gray, and it looked like it was going to rain.
"Oi! Minna!" Sano yelled as he entered the dojo.
"Midori looked up. "Hmm… looks like Sano is here," she thought as she got up and went inside. She noticed that Yahiko, of course, couldn't stop grinning when Midori and Sano were in the same room so Midori took Yahiko into the other room and told him not to say anything, (she threatened to beat him up if he did) but he didn't really listen.
Soon, Kaoru called them out for breakfast and Midori sat next to Sano. (^_~) Of course, Yahiko snickered at this. It began to pour hard and it continued to be like that all day, and when it became night a storm started up.
"Well, I should probably go home now," Sano said.
"In this weather?" Midori asked.
"Yeah," he said, looking at her like she was odd.
"Well, you should stay a while longer…!" she said, blushing.
"It's MY place to say who can say!" Kaoru said, getting slightly angry eyes.
"Oh, heh, heh… sorry," Midori said, waving her hands in front of her with a slightly nervous expression.
"Well… see you guys later!" Sano said, getting up, and headed out the door.
"Bye, Sano-san! Be careful!" Midori called after him. He just kind of waved at her without looking back.
Kaoru, Kenshin, and Yahiko all were staring at Midori.
"STOP THAT!" she yelled.
"Wow, you know he'd be alright in the storm, he's a tough guy, but you asked him to stay later. Heh. You wanted him to stay the NIGHT, and you wanted him to sleep right next to you!" Yahiko said as he began to laugh.
"No! That's not true you BRAT!" Midori said, getting the angry eyes.
"Heh, heh. Yeah, I guess so!" Kaoru said. She looked down at the floor and saw that Sano had dropped his picture of Sayo again. "Oi, Midori! Come see what Sano left!" she said cheerfully. Midori was looking very angry with Yahiko, she had little fire things in her eyes.
"Nani?" Midori asked, beginning to calm down a little.
"Looks like luck is on our side! Sano left his picture of Sayo here again," Kaoru said.
"Oh. Well, let's make sure he doesn't find out I have it. I'd rather not see him angry, but thanks," Midori said. "I think I'll go start the painting right now." She walked off into the next room. "I really hope he'll appreciate this painting," she thought. She didn't' really work on it for long, because she soon became tired and went to bed, though that night she did not have very peaceful sleep.
"Mother! Mother!" a little girl yelled. "Don't die!" she screamed.
"Don't worry… she'll be alright, and so will you," a young man said as he tried to fend off the many people fighting with him.
"Big brother…" she said, trailing off. She looked down at her
mother. She was bleeding. Soaked, pretty much. "Mother…" she said,
hugging her and crying. All of a sudden, she heard a man scream. She
looked up, and her brother fell right next to her.
"BROTHER!" she wailed, crying even more.
"Midori-chan, be strong… protect the scripture…" he said.
"I don't care about that! I want you to stay alive!" she yelled.
He didn't really say anything.
"You, too…" she said, hugging him and crying.
A man approached her, but another man saved her. He walked away
before she could say much.
"Why didn't you save them?!" she screamed at the man as he continued
to walk. "NAZE?" she screamed and sobbed. "NAZE?"
With that, Midori woke up screaming, which woke everyone else. Then she began to cry, and she couldn't stop.
"Midori?" Kaoru asked.
"I wonder what's wrong…" Kenshin said.
She soon cried herself back to sleep, but everyone was so worried about her that they just figured they'd see if she was alright in the morning.
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"Midori's sleeping later than usual," Yahiko said.
"We should let her sleep some more," Kaoru said, looking worried. "I hope she'll be alright."
"What's wrong?" Sano asked with a fish bone in his teeth.
"It's Midori…" Kaoru said.
"Well what happened?!" Sano asked.
"Last night.. she woke up screaming and then she started crying and couldn't stop. I think she must have remembered something about her mother's or brother's death. I remember she said something about that, de gozaru," Kenshin said.
Midori stirred a bit and slowly got up. She rubbed her head and looked up at everyone.
"What's wrong?" she asked sleepily as she rubbed her eyes.
"You don't remember?" Yahiko asked.
"No… wait, did I…" she trailed off, kind of staring into space. They explained what had happened to her.
"We were all really worried," Kaoru told her.
"I'm sorry… Sometimes it happens, as I told you. Sometimes I get really bad flashbacks of mother's and brother's deaths. They died when I was very young… And I guess I get a little unstable," Midori said softly.
"Well, I'm sorry to hear that, de gozaru," Kenshin said.
"It's alright," she said, looking a little sad. It seemed to be bugging her a little still.
"Well, I'm going to get dressed, so I'll see you in a little. I probably slept through breakfast. Oh well," she said as she went into the next room. Everyone was just kind of silent for a while, but continued to do what they were doing earlier. At lunch time, Midori looked really tired and a little distant. They all kind of stared at her. She wasn't touching her food, and she normally ate a lot.
"Oi, Midori," Sano said.
"Hai?"
"You're not eating," he said.
"Oh, do you want it?" she asked, smiling.
"No, it's just that you normally eat your food…" he said, looking confused.
"Oh," she said, beginning to eat her food slowly. She finished later than everyone else.
"I'm going to go paint now," she said when she finished, with a weak smile.
"Midori's been acting strange," Sano commented.
"Yeah. I guess what happened last night really upset her, Kaoru said. It became later and Sano left, of course Midori came out to say goodbye to him, but she painted until it was time to go to bed, and she showed Kenshin, Kaoru, and Yahiko the painting.
"Oh, it's nice!" Kaoru said.
"Yes it is," Kenshin said, looking surprised.
"It's not finished. Hopefully, it will be soon," she said. They all soon went to sleep and Midori slept a little better that night.
Notes: Aww…poor Midori, anyhow be nice and REVIEW!