Chapter 13

"Why couldn't you save them too? Naze? NAZE?"

Midori woke up. "Not that dream again." She thought. A memory of the man who saved her drifted back to her. She never really saw who he was. "Who was that?" She thought to herself. She sighed. "Better not dwell on it to much." She slowly got up and folded her beddings carefully, yet clumsily at the same time. "Maybe I'll go visit Sano today." She got walked sleepily towards the door as she looked over to Kenshin and Kaoru asleep. They were cuddling each other, smiling, they looked very cute together, she smiled, happy that they were together. So she got dressed sleepily and left a note saying were she was going out.

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Sanouske opened his eyes slightly and looked up at the ceiling. He shook his head and looked slightly irritated. "Now why the hell I am I recently thinking of someone I've know for about four months now? Why am I thinking of Midori so often?" He thought to himself. "And why all of the sudden?" He shook his head and tried to go back to sleep, but he couldn't. So he just decided to get up and go to the dojo

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No matter what, Midori kept on wondering about the man that had saved her as a child. She was so off in her thoughts that she aimlessly walked into someone, causing her to fall and to drift back to reality.

"I'm such a klutz! Gomenasai!" She said rubbing her side.

"Yeah, you are a klutz." A familiar voice said.

"Hey! That's not very nice!" She said, getting up and brushing her self off, as she looked up at the grinning Sanosuke.

"What are you doing out here?" He asked, helping her back up.

"I uhh came to.ummm, well err go on walk! Yeah! That's it!" She said blushing a slightly.

"You sure are strange sometimes Midori." Sanosuke said, shaking his head
at her.

"Well so are you!" She teased. "Any way, where are you headed?"

"I'm just goin' to the Dojo." He said

"Well I guess I'll head back with you." Midori she said cheerfully as she followed close behind him. She drifted back to the memory of the man who save her..he had a high ponytail.and red hair.. "Sounds almost like Kenshin." She thought as her ice-blue eyes widened in suprise"But it can't be.or could it? I have to find out!" She brust into a sprint and began to run back to the dojo.

"Oi! Midori!" Sanosuke yelled after her.

"Gotta get to the dojo quick!" She yelled, Sanosuke stood there for a few seconds and looked surprised, but then he ran after her.

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"I wonder how long Midori will be gone for." Kaoru said.

"Well she went to visit Sanosuke right?" Yahiko asked grinning. "She'll
be a while." Just as Yahiko had finished talking, Midori threw open the
door, panting, with Sano right behind her panting a bit too. "Well looks
like you two were pretty rough with each other." Yahiko said grinning.

"Keep your dirty thoughts to your self Boy-Chan!" She yelled, getting him punches from both Sano and Midori.

"You know, we never really should have had that talk with Yahiko." Midori said quietly to Sanosuke.

"Yeah, I know." He said.

"Why are you back so early?" Kaoru questioned her.

"I have something to tell all of you!" She said, almost gravely. "Now lets all sit down." They all scrambled to sit down, due to the serious tone, and looked at her waiting for her to speak.

"Well...it's about the scripture." She said, her face downcast. "I never really told you much about it, but I think now is the time, anyhow, the scripture tells how to obtain some kind of treasure the two clans have been fighting over for hundreds of years, supposedly, it belonged to one of our clans, and they are still fighting about it. It used to be for the treasure, but I think it's just turned into one senseless fight! I know the Iimjia clan will stop at nothing to get this, they'll kill my clan and even all of you! I want to leave you all out of this." She said quietly "I don't know what to do."

"Don't be a baka!" Sanosuke yelled "Don't you know how powerful Kenshin is? He'll be able to defeat any of those guys."

Midori looked up at Sanosuke, a little dumbstruck. "Well I." she mumbled, turning her head to the side. "You don't know how powerful they are!"

"You need to have more confidence in Kenshin, Midori." Kaoru said calmly, patting her on the shoulder.

"I know they are very powerful, de gozaru." Kenshin said. "I once battle many of Turo's underlings." Kenshin said.

Midori looked shocked. "So you're the one that saved me as a child?" She asked with awe (even though she thought it could have been him, it still shocked her to know this.) in her voice as Kenshin nodded. "Anyhow, I don't really think Turo is after the treasure..and I intend to find out what exactly he is after, de gozaru." Kenshin said solemnly. "They are very powerful, so we do need to be careful."

"Of course we are all coming too!" Yahiko said. Kenshin nodded. Midori just sat there, staring of into space, so much had happened to her in the last few months. She didn't know what to think of all this.

"See! We're all here to protect you, so you've got nothing to worry about now!" Sanosuke said folding his arms over his chest.

"Yeah." Midori said quietly, looking up to his dark brown eyes, which seemed be a bit irated with her as well. The day went and nothing much happened.. but Midori was still very worried for her friends. Sanosuke left soon after dinner, and was on his way to his own home, thinking about Midori again, but he didn't know why.

Notes: Woo-hoo! This fanfic is the longest one I've ever written so uhh yay! Any how please review! I need feed back! Constructive criticism is welcome too