Karta: THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! I got forty reviews!!! Thank you SO much!!! I could just give you all big hugs! Because of my wonderful reviews I got my rear in gear and wrote another chapter sooner than a month after my last one. Yay! I better give the disclaimer and a warning now so we can get started. . .
DISCLAIMER: Look, I can cook soup in a microwave and I can do algebra. I can NOT write an anime. Well. . . I can. . . But it wouldn't be at a Rurouni Kenshin level. So really, don't even imply that I own the show.
Warning: Same as the last chapter, I suppose. Oh, I do want to tell you that in the next two chapters there's going to be a lot of OOC on Saitoh's part, because I'm a mean, mean spirited person.
I really hope you enjoy this chapter! If you do please review!
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Tae squeezed her eyes shut, hoping that something would get rid of the horrible sun and it's infernal light. Of course her wish was not granted, in fact the situation became slightly worse.
"Gah!" The waitress flinched at the sound of a door being slid open. Risking the light she glanced up, "What happened to your face?!"
Sano sat down with a thud, glaring at nothing in particular. It was difficult to tell with his swollen eye, but he seemed ready to start whining at any second.
"Officer Hugglebees is feeling testy." The fighter mumbled crossing his arms.
"Oh." Knowing she would get no information from Sano, Tae stood up with some hesitation. She took a few wobbly steps towards the door, hoping that Sano wouldn't accompany her. This time she was lucky.
Back on the front porch of Karou's humble home Tae found Katana, who was leaning against a support beam with a smile of contentment.
"Hello Katana." Tae greeted sitting beside the red head, "Um could you tell me something?"
"What would you like to know?" Katana asked politely.
"About earlier. . ." The waitress paused, "What happened after I fainted? Do you know?"
"Oh yes." Katana nodded, not bothered at all by the blunt inquiry, "I was there."
"Um, could you tell me?" Tae specified, when the red head made no move to continue.
"Yes!" She clasped her hands together, "It was really something!"
~Version#1: Kenshin's View~
Sano stepped back from Saitoh with a loving look in his eyes.
"Oh Saitoh! I just love you SO much!" The gangster batted his eyelashes in a becoming manner, "Let's run away together, just you and ME."
"I would love to, my darling Sano, but alas, I still have feelings for my sweet Tokio." Saitoh replied in a remorseful tone, "She is my wife, now and forever! I could not bring myself to break her fragile little heart any more than I already have."
"But my darling-!"
"No buts! My love for you must remain as the cherry blossoms!" Saitoh interrupted, sighing in a long suffering fashion.
"Oh- Wait. What?" Sano asked with much confusion.
"Cherry blossoms, my sweet, cherry blossoms!"
"Right! Cherry blossoms!" Sano agreed (Although he still did not get it), "But please, honey, just one more kiss?"
"Of course, my pretty baby."
"Wait!" Karou ran forward, sobbing into her kimono, "I can't take it anymore! I've watched as my beautiful Sano fell in love with another but this is far more than I can stand!"
"Jo-chan. . ."
"No. Don't say anything!" Tears ran down her face in streams, "If you speak I won't be able to do what I must!" Karou ran forward clutching one of her many bokken.
"What are you doing, Karou?" Sano asked in a tone of misery.
"Something I should have done a long time ago!" She screamed, "DIE SAITOH!"
Just as Karou's wooden sword was about to make it's mark on the police officer, Sano stepped foreword. The swordswoman had only enough time before the impact to realize that she couldn't stop her bokken quickly enough to save Sano.
"NOOOOOOOO! Oh why do we hurt the one's we love!!!!" Karou screamed at seeing Sano fall to the ground, "Oooohhh WHHHHYYYY?!"
~End: Version One~
"Now wasn't that romantic Tae-dono?" Katana sighed dreamily, "Tae-dono?"
Tae had managed to scramble away a long while before the end of the tale. She then attempted to find someone who could tell her what really happened. The someone who appeared was a Miss Karou Kamiya.
"Oh, hello there, Tae. Are you feeling better?" Karou inquired, slightly worried by the disturbed look of her friend.
"Yes. I was, anyway. . ." She muttered, "Hey, could you tell me what happened after I passed out?"
"Well, er, sure thing!" Karou crossed her fingers inconspicuously, "Let me see. . ."
~Version #2: Karou's View~
Sano stepped back from Saitoh with a dull look in his eyes.
"Gwarsh, Mister Police Man. I sure am sorry." Sano scratched his head and chuckled slightly, "I am just too clumsy. I ain't cut out fer any a this dancin' business."
". . . . ." The police officer said nothing, choosing to light himself a cigarette instead.
"Ahhh! Fire! Stop, drop and roll. STOP, DROP, AND ROLL!" Sano lunged at Saitoh knocking him to the ground, "Golly, you plumb near caught fire!" Saitoh made a point of spiting out his, now unlit, cigarette, before pushing the gangster away.
"Never touch me again." He mumbled, giving up on trying to smoke.
"Well, jeez. Ya try ter save another livin' creature and it hollers at ya." Sano sighed, "Well, I'm about as plumb tuckered out as that little ol' gal over thar." He pointed in Tae's direction, "I think I'll go get some shut eye."
Sano began walking towards the dojo exit, tripping over his own feet in the process. With a thud he slammed into Saitoh, taking the taller man down with him.
~End: Version #2~
"And then Saitoh attacked him, screaming like a mad school girl." Karou finished, smiling at Tae, who looked genuinely horrified.
"You know what? I need to get back to the Akabecko. Yeah." The woman nodded quickly, "I bet um, that girl. . ."
"Tsubame?"
"Yeah her. She's um, probably lonely. Bye Karou!" Tae quickly abandoned her search for the truth, as well as Karou's company. The former of the two is not very easy to give up on.
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Next Chapter: Tae goes back to the restaurant, only to hear two more versions of the "Saitoh/ Sano Incident".