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Chapter 4
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Saitou walked down the halls of the school, the bell had rung for the first class of the day and he was late. He walked calmly, he didn't really care if he was late or not, he was so damn tired from training yesterday.
He walked up to his locker and pulled out the books for his first class, Algebra, then he closed his locker and walked to his classroom.
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He opened the door and walked into class, and the teacher who was reading something to the class stopped reading and looked at him seriously. The algebra teacher hates him it seems, because he's always trying to bust Saitou's ass for anything, like now.
"Hajime, you're late... again." He said in a serious tone of voice
"Yeah, so? Your point is?"
" My point, Hajime, is that you try to arrive earlier. Am I clear?"
" Yes."
"Take your seat."
"I was going to do that when you stopped me to tell me I was late... I knew that already, you didn't have to repeat it to me again, sir." He grinned and began to walk to the back of the class when he saw---
"He does have a point there. Don't you think so?"
That voice belonged none other than to his friend Aoshi Shinomori
" Don't make me give you detention again Shinomori, Hajime."
Saitou sat down and looked at the teacher straight in the eye." That's supposed to be a threat to me?" he grinned again
" Be quiet and sit down!" in a loud tone of voice
"I'm already sitting down." he smart assed
" I don't have time for this..."
" You don't have time for this? But you did have time to stop what you were saying to the class to say: ' Hajime your late... again.' " Smart assed Aoshi
The class began to laugh at the last part of Aoshi's comment. And Saitou grinned
" You keep quiet Shinomori."
That's the last thing the teacher said, when he continued to give the class again.
Saitou sat next to Aoshi and pulled out his Algebra book.
"Long time no see."
"Same here." Answered back Aoshi.
"You were moved from class B to class C I see..."
" My grades were lowering so I was moved, the teachers couldn't take my attitude up there anyway."
"Oh."
Saitou looked across the room to see Tokio who was looking at him, Saitou made no regard to this and looked away from her.
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It was lunchtime and Saitou was outside where he always was, under the tree with his eyes closed. He was meditating.
Saitou sat there for a while, clearing his mind, until he felt someone near him, he opened his eyes to see it was Tokio looking at him.
"What?" he asked her bitterly
" You want tutoring today?"
"Yes. I told you before."
" I was simply making sure, didn't mean to bother you."
"Hm." He closed his eyes again and rested his head against the trunk of the tree.
" Maybe after school you can walk with me to my house, so that way it's easier for you."
" Fine."
She turned around and began to walk away and Saitou went back to meditating.
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The bell rung and school was over for the day. Saitou walked out and leaned against the wall waiting for any sign of Tokio to show up.
He looked up at the sky, looking at the clouds, the wind blew slightly but gently... Saitou was snapped out of his thoughts when Tokio tapped him on the shoulder.
Saitou looked at her and she smiled slightly.
" We will have to stop by my house to get my chemistry book, I seem to have left it at my home." Saitou said in a cold voice
" No problem with me, that's fine."
Saitou began to walk signaling for Tokio to follow him.
They walked down the sidewalk in silence, no words or looks were exchanged between them at all, of course Saitou was a quiet person, Tokio and him never said much to each other at all.
They arrived at his house quickly than expected, and Saitou and Tokio walked up the steps to his house and Saitou opened the door. And Tokio stood outside not daring to come in.
" You can come in you know."
"Yes."
She stepped in and looked around, the place looked old fashioned or in between, it had old style furniture in it, the house looked very big. She looked at a wall where there were many swords that hung from it. It looked very nice and sort of creepy. In fact there were many pieces of furniture that looked rare and expensive.
"You have a nice house..."
"Hm." Was his reply
Then there was a tall man, with light brown hair tied back into a high ponytail and chocolate colored eyes who walked into the room, it was Saitou's master.
" Saitou, I need you to--- oh, I didn't know you brought someone, who is she?"
" Tokio Tagaki." She said and bowed slightly
" Oh. I am Yasuo Huang, pleased to meet you ma'm." he bowed and shook her hand. She shook it and blushed furiously she wasn't used to be treated that nicely before. Huang noticed this and he couldn't help but smile at her.
" Master, I came to get some things and ill be out for a while."
"Where may I ask?"
" At her house for some- project were working on for school. I need to get my chemistry book..." he said hoping his master would believe his lie
" Fine with me, you may go. It was nice meeting you Tokio." He walked away leaving them behind.
Saitou began to walk to his room and he opened the door, Tokio followed and stepped in and waited at the door.
His room was small, not too big, he had a twin bed mattress over by the left wall, and a bookshelf in the right corner of his room where there was desk that had lots of junk on it. He had a rack of swords on the opposite wall next to his bed. His room was quite plain, the only thing on the wall was that rack of swords.
There were books scattered across the floor in various places and his closet door was open, where you could see his clothes hanging and a hakama and gi hanging from the closet door. She noticed there were some red spots on it, blood perhaps?
She looked and next to the closet door there was a bulletin board, which was the other only thing on his room wall. It had many places marked and circled, some places were crossed out, she looked at it curiously wondering what it was for.
Saitou walked around his room looking through the books on the floor, tossing them aside, until he found the right one and he walked up to her. She continued to look around his room and she saw some bottles of beer in the trashcan and some cigarette boxes in the trash too. She was snapped out of her thought when Saitou said:
"Lets go."
She followed behind him and he closed the door and they both walked down the hallway to the entrance of the house.
Huang stood in front of Saitou and whispered something in Saitou's ear that Tokio couldn't hear at all.
" Understood?"
Saitou nodded " yes master." And they continued to walk out the door.
They walked down the sidewalk in silence for a while and Tokio led the way to her house. Then Tokio broke the silence between them when she asked him a question.
" Was than man your father?"
"No."
"Oh. I didn't think he was your father because of the way you called him 'master'."
' then why the hell did you ask me if he was my father or not if you knew he wasn't... how dumb.' Thought saitou
"He is your master in what?"
" He teaches me sword arts."
"Oh... he seems very nice."
" He is not nice, when it comes to training, its hell when that time comes, he's a very strict person."
After that she remained silent and asked no questions until they arrived at her house. They walked up the steps and up to the door where she looked in her pocket and took out a key and opened the door. Saitou followed close behind her and entered the house.
He looked around, she had an average sized house, it was big but Saitou's house was much bigger. Her house looked very modern unlike his, which looked more traditional, and old style.
"Do you want anything to drink, water, soda......beer?"
'Shit beer.... I can't help myself when they offer me beer... one beer won't hurt will it?'
"The last one you said." He said
"Fine then, Come on." She said walking to the kitchen
She walked in the kitchen and went to the refrigerator. She opened the refrigerator and he saw loads of beer and wine inside, of all kinds that you could imagine, vodka, rum, Bacardi, and some Wisky in there too. She moved out of the way.
"Take your pick, beer only."
'Damn that is a lot of beer, shit.' He thought
" You drink?" he asked as he walked over to the refrigerator and looked to see what he could pick.
"No." she said
"I see." he said in sort of a taunting voice.
" Well, I drink but only when I go to a party or something like that, but that's hardly never."
"Hm." He said still looking to see which one he could pick
" How much do you drink?" she asked him
" A whole lot more than you do... but not as much as you think." He said taking a beer out and placing it on the counter.
"Oh." She walked over to the cupboard and took out a glass
" do you need a glass?"
"no."
She put the glass away and walked over to him
"We'll have to work in the living room, since the dining room table has my dads work on it and I'm not allowed to touch it."
He said nothing but nodded and followed her from the kitchen to the living room. It wasn't very big but it had enough space for anyone to be comfortable in it. She settled her things on the floor and sat down in front of a small table that was in the middle of the living room and put the beer she had on top of the table.
"Come on sit." She patted the place signaling for him to sit down.
He did as she said and put his book on the small table and put his beer on the table.
She opened his book " Where was it that you had trouble?"
He passed through the pages in the book and found the page he was looking for and pointed "Here"
"Oh, okay, so what you need to do here is ..............."
And she began to explain to him what the things he needed to know were...
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2 hours went by while she was explaining to saitou what is it that he needed to know. Saitou didn't say much while she was explaining, he would nod or ask a very short question and explain what he understood to her.
"Exactly. You get it." She said to him
He looked at a clock on the wall it read 9:04 p.m.
" I guess now that were finished I better get going..." he said as he began to stand up
" Wait, you can't go now." She said as she put her hand on his arm, and there was the sound of lightning
"Why not?"
"Can't you see? There's a down pour out there, and there's a lightning storm."
"So?"
"Please stay here... ad least until the rain subsides a little, its dangerous out there."
" A little rain dosen't do anything to me."
"Please." Her hand still on his arm
He nodded, " Fine, ill wait a while." He sat back down.
They remained in silence for a while, Then Tokio asked him a question.
"Saitou? Why did you tell your master you were coming over to work on a project?"
"No reason."
"Oh."
' He's ashamed to tell him... I can see it in his eyes..."
"Are you ashamed to tell him because you think its embarrassing and your afraid what he will think of you?"
"I am not afraid of anything." He said as he looked up into her eyes, and his amber eyes faced her green ones
She looked down. And he looked down as well and they remained in silence.
After a while of silence between the two, Saitou looked at his watch and it read 9:36 p.m. and the rain still hadn't subsided, it was worse.
"I guess the rain is worse now..." Tokio said as she stood up and looked out the window
The road was beginning to fill with water and the water was reaching her front lawn and there was lightning.
" The road and sidewalks have begun to fill with water." She said and Saitou stood up to look out the window
"Yes it appears so. I won't be able to leave I guess." He was now standing next to her.
" Well you could stay here. I have no problem with it."
"Here?"
"Yes, I wouldn't mind."
"Where?"
" Since I have no guest rooms and well I have an extra mattress in my room you could stay there if you like" ( I'm so evil, they have to stay in the same room together. ^.^)
"Fine, but where will you sleep?" he asked her
" You chose." She said to him
" This not my house, so I suggest you sleep in your own bed."
"Ok then but won't your master get worried?"
"No"
"Alright." She said as she walked up the stairs to her room.
She opened the door to her room and she walked in and Saitou stood at the entrance her room was big, a lot bigger than his, she had a lot of space in there. She had a full sized bed that was against the right side of the wall, she had lots of books on her shelves, her desk was full of papers and junk and she had posters and pictures on her walls, her room was clean while his was always full of junk.
She went over to her bed and looked under it and she pulled out a mattress.
"There."
Then she stood up and walked past Saitou and he saw that she went over to a closet and she took out some sheets and some blankets, and a pillow.
"Here. Since your going to sleep in your bed you might as well make it don't you think so?" she said smartly
He looked at her and walked over to his mattress/bed and he kneeled down and stared to put the sheets on it .....With Tokio's help of course...
"Okay um... so lets go down stairs I want something to drink..."
He followed her down stairs " Why don't you just say you want to go down stairs, to not be in here, ill understand." He said sarcastically taunting her.
"Hey I just wanted to be polite."
" Well here's being polite, offering me something to drink how's that?"
She smiled "okay, Saitou do you want something to drink?"
They walked to the kitchen and Tokio opened the refrigerator and took out a beer
"Here." She gave it to him
He took it and opened it.
"Why don't you drink one?"
"No, I can't drink."
"Why not?"
"Well..."
"Well..?" he said mocking her
"Well, I start to act a little bit fuzzy when I drink and when I start I can't stop..." she said embarrassed
"Don't worry I'll stop you from drinking I won't let you drink too much..."he said
'One beer can't hurt hmm?' she thought as she went over to the refrigerator and took one out.
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It was 11:20 p.m. and Saitou and Tokio were asleep (no hentai please. They were separate...well they will be for a while... oh gosh I just spoiled it for all of you!! I'm so evil!! LoL)
They were up for a while and well you could say they were a bit drunk or ad least tokio was. she was right about when she said that she starts to act fuzzy and she can't stop one she starts drinking.
~^~^~ Tokio was quite drunk for only 2 bottles of beer, she was acting fuzzy... Saitou had 2 beers too but he wasn't like tokio.
Tokio was leaning on the back board of her bed while sitting down and Saitou was lying down with his hands under his head for support on her bed. Saitou was attepting to take the third bottle of beer she is about to drink from her hand.
"I think you should stop now. You can't drink that much." Holding on to the bottle.
" Well I guess you are right..." holing on to the bottle too, but lets it go
'yeah if she drinks any more she'll go crazy. Look at her only 2 beers and she's acting like a nut already.' And he placed the bottle on her bed side table.
" Ok when was the last time you got your ass whopped?" asked Tokio
" I don't remember."
"Yeah really?"
"Yes." He answered back
" That was a lame excuse."
"Really? When was your last time you got in a fight?"
"Never"
"Bullshit."
"Shut up."
"Make me." He said to her
" You can do that yourself."
"Then why are you telling me?"
" 'Cause I want you to."
"Why don't you make me?"
" You know Saitou, you can be an annoying asshole sometimes you know that?"
"Really when?"
"Umm let me think...right now?"
" Right."
"Why don't you keep quiet?"
"Why?" he asked her
"You should know that" she answered
"Right when was the last time you beat the crap outta someone?" she asked him
"Three months ago."
" Who?"
"Himura."
"Oh, man I'm tired." She said as she looked at her watch, which read 10:41p.m. "lets rest and ill see you in the morning." She said
He got up and went to his mattress /slash/ bed and lyed down.
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***(Dream...)
'I killed him... I killed him...' thought a nine year old boy that stood over a puddle of blood...
With a sword in his blood covered hand, that was also drenched in blood...
perhaps the same blood of the person that lay before him.? Dead....
Saitou had killed a man for the first time in his life. He was 9, and he had stained his hands with the blood of another...
Okita and Saitou looked around at all the dead bodies that were around them. Saitou looked around for any sign of his father. His mother was gone, so was his little sister Kailana. He had no one left except for his father. He looked around but there was no sign of him at all.
Then he spotted him, he was fighting a man. Wait, that was same man who slaughtered his mother and little sister, but he saw something he never expected to see...his father was stabbed in the chest by that mans sword he took out the sword and looked over at Saitou and Okita, he grinned and he began to run off.
"NO!!!" he yelled he was going to run after him, but Okita stopped him
"No Saitou, we can't, he's too much, you'll get killed."
"No.! He slaughtered my family!!......He slaughtered every single one of them!" he looked at his friend and tears began to pour out of his eyes and he fell to his knees.
Saitou looked down then he looked up and he stood up
"Saitou-" Okita called out but he notice Saitou had walked away from him.
Saitou was walking over to his father's body and he looked down at his lifeless form...
"Father. Ill get my revenge..... I swear it."
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"Saitou I'm asking you to join this group as my student and as a hired assassin" said a man that was dressed in a dark black and blue hakama and gi facing Saitou...looking at him with a determined face.
" A hired assassin?" asked the 13 year old boy
The man nodded
"With your knowledge, and skill you are capable of doing anything..."
"What am I to do?" asked the boy
(" You are to......")
Saitou looked at the group of 20 men surrounding him with his cold amber eyes...
("slaughter...")
They stared at him, and he stared at them
"I suggest you drop your sword if you do not want to die tonight." Said a young man to their leader in a cold voice
"We'll see 'bout that." answered the man as he signaled to his men to attack the young boy.
The men charged at him and the leader stood firm in his position, watching... waiting...for the young boys death.
(" and kill any who are in your path...")
He stood in gatotsu stance and charged at them with incredible speed, he stabbed a man, and slashed the other, the men's blood spraying on his clothes.
With out a bit of mercy, he slaughtered them all. one by one died by his sword, one by one fell at his feet, their blood covering the ground... until they were all dead....
("any man that is trying to come between you and your assignment...")
He stared at the man with cold amber eyes, he looked at him, reading his gatotsu stance. He charged at the man and fought him...Till one of them were to die...
He executed a move and the other man was deemed dead that night... his body lay on the ground drenched in blood.
Saitou walked up to the mans body and looked at him...
(" and our code of 'Kill-Evil-Instantly' for a better Japan.")
"W-w-who are you?" asked the half-dead man in a raspy, horrified voice
"..."
"You are...nothing but a mere boy... a young boy... that is a cold blooded murderer..."
"Quiet." He stabbed the man through the heart-
the dream went n blank and he heard a soft voice...
"Saitou... wake up... Saitou."
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Tokio awoke and turned around to look at the clock beside her bed 4:07 a.m. She turned around to look at the ceiling. She suddenly heard the ruffling of sheets.
'Huh? What is that?'
She looked down at Saitou, she saw he was tossing and turning on the matress/bed, he was breathing heavily, and he was mumbling some things.
'He's having a bad dream...' she looked at him some more and then decided to go over to him
She knelt beside him and shook him gently
"Saitou. Wake up. Saitou..."
She continued to shake him gently until he opened his eyes and looked around a bit and he looked at Tokio, he stared at he like if she was an angel...he kept on staring at her and then he did something totally unexpected to her, he hugged her.
"Tokio..." he breathed as he lay his head on her shoulder.
Tokio looked down at him and placed her arms around his form, he placed his head on her chest and she stroked his hair gently. He was still breathing heavily. And she was wispering soothing words to him calm him down, She caressed his face.
" Saitou, what did you dream?"
He closed his eyes and remained silent for a while until he answered
" A memory of my past..."
She looked at his face, he looked peaceful with his eyes closed like that. She rested her back against the bottom of the bed that was behind her.
" A dream that has haunted me...for a long time..." he said with his eyes still closed.
"Do you want to tell me?" she asked in a sweet low voice that Saitou found soothing and she caressed his face and he grabbed her hand and opened his eyes and looked up at her.
"No."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
He closed his eyes once more and Tokio stroked his hair...
'What's going on why is he acting like this?' she thought
After a while Saitou had fallen asleep...
'He's asleep, but if I move he'll wake up... what do I do? Should I stay here with him? Or move away?'
And so had Tokio...
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Tokio opened her eyes and noticed she was asleep on her bed not on the mattress anymore, she sat up and looked around and saw that Saitou wasn't in her room and the mattress/ bed was with out its covers and sheets, they were nicely folded and placed on top of the mattress/bed. She blushed as she remembered what happened the day before. She looked at the clock it was 8:45 a.m
'Thank goodness it's the weekend, if not I would have missed school.' She stood up from the bed and walked down stairs.
She saw Saitou standing in the living room looking out the window. He looked like he was in deep thought. Seems that he didn't even notice Tokio had walked into the room.
She looked at him and then began to walk towards the kitchen, she didn't want to disturb his thoughts...
" You don't have to leave." He said in a low voice to her.
So he did notice she was in the room...
"I don't want to disturb you." she turned around
" You are not bothering anyone." He said as he turned around to face her, and he looked into her eyes.
"Um. I'm making break fast...um. Do you want any?" she said quite nervous.
" No." he walked over to the little table and grabbed his chemistry book "I have to go." He walked over to the door and Tokio followed him and unlocked the door for him and he opened it.
" Thank you." he said without turning his back to face her. He walked out the door and Tokio closed it behind her...
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Saitou was on his way home. He was thinking about the dream he had the night before. Memories of the past... that still haunt him ever since he was a little boy.
'I keep on having these damn dreams, why the hell do I keep on having them?" he was still tired from yesterday, after falling asleep on Tokio's chest some memories kept on playing in his head over and over so he didn't get a good sleep.
'Why did I do that?' he thought
This was like the time he almost punched Kenshin in the face, then he didn't know why he did it.
He arrived at the steps of his house and he opened the door. He closed it behind him and went over to the kitchen, and he saw his master in his room working on some papers he had in his hand, he looked up at Saitou, he stood up and walked over to him.
"Here, your next assignment in three weeks, I would of given you one for tonight but okita requested it for some reason." He shoved some papers into Saito's hands
"Three weeks? Who is it?"
"Read them, why do you think I gave you these papers?"
"Yes, sorry master."
"That's quite alright. I am not going to ask why you were out, because it was due to the rain, it was a bad evening yesterday..." he said "so... nothing happened right?"
"Master!" he said in an angry voice.
"thought so. Saitou I was only joking. Besides if you would have done something me and Okita would have noticed." He chuckled
"Master.." he said through gritted teeth
"Okay, so since you missed training yesterday you will have to train for three to four hours today."
Saitou bowed "yes sir." He walked back to his room to get some rest.
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That's the end of chapter four! I hope you enjoyed it!
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Next Chapter: We will learn more about Saitou's "Assignments" and a little more about his past and what he does for a part time job (LoL well it is in a way.). And Tokio will see something that will leave her traumatized for a while.(P.s its something about Saitou.)
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And the rest of you here comes chapter 4 of EVERYONE HAS A HEART enjoy!!!!
Disclaimer: Hey all, I said it once and I'll say it again RK ain't mine...
Love, Peace and Chicken Grease!!!
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Chapter 4
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Saitou walked down the halls of the school, the bell had rung for the first class of the day and he was late. He walked calmly, he didn't really care if he was late or not, he was so damn tired from training yesterday.
He walked up to his locker and pulled out the books for his first class, Algebra, then he closed his locker and walked to his classroom.
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He opened the door and walked into class, and the teacher who was reading something to the class stopped reading and looked at him seriously. The algebra teacher hates him it seems, because he's always trying to bust Saitou's ass for anything, like now.
"Hajime, you're late... again." He said in a serious tone of voice
"Yeah, so? Your point is?"
" My point, Hajime, is that you try to arrive earlier. Am I clear?"
" Yes."
"Take your seat."
"I was going to do that when you stopped me to tell me I was late... I knew that already, you didn't have to repeat it to me again, sir." He grinned and began to walk to the back of the class when he saw---
"He does have a point there. Don't you think so?"
That voice belonged none other than to his friend Aoshi Shinomori
" Don't make me give you detention again Shinomori, Hajime."
Saitou sat down and looked at the teacher straight in the eye." That's supposed to be a threat to me?" he grinned again
" Be quiet and sit down!" in a loud tone of voice
"I'm already sitting down." he smart assed
" I don't have time for this..."
" You don't have time for this? But you did have time to stop what you were saying to the class to say: ' Hajime your late... again.' " Smart assed Aoshi
The class began to laugh at the last part of Aoshi's comment. And Saitou grinned
" You keep quiet Shinomori."
That's the last thing the teacher said, when he continued to give the class again.
Saitou sat next to Aoshi and pulled out his Algebra book.
"Long time no see."
"Same here." Answered back Aoshi.
"You were moved from class B to class C I see..."
" My grades were lowering so I was moved, the teachers couldn't take my attitude up there anyway."
"Oh."
Saitou looked across the room to see Tokio who was looking at him, Saitou made no regard to this and looked away from her.
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It was lunchtime and Saitou was outside where he always was, under the tree with his eyes closed. He was meditating.
Saitou sat there for a while, clearing his mind, until he felt someone near him, he opened his eyes to see it was Tokio looking at him.
"What?" he asked her bitterly
" You want tutoring today?"
"Yes. I told you before."
" I was simply making sure, didn't mean to bother you."
"Hm." He closed his eyes again and rested his head against the trunk of the tree.
" Maybe after school you can walk with me to my house, so that way it's easier for you."
" Fine."
She turned around and began to walk away and Saitou went back to meditating.
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The bell rung and school was over for the day. Saitou walked out and leaned against the wall waiting for any sign of Tokio to show up.
He looked up at the sky, looking at the clouds, the wind blew slightly but gently... Saitou was snapped out of his thoughts when Tokio tapped him on the shoulder.
Saitou looked at her and she smiled slightly.
" We will have to stop by my house to get my chemistry book, I seem to have left it at my home." Saitou said in a cold voice
" No problem with me, that's fine."
Saitou began to walk signaling for Tokio to follow him.
They walked down the sidewalk in silence, no words or looks were exchanged between them at all, of course Saitou was a quiet person, Tokio and him never said much to each other at all.
They arrived at his house quickly than expected, and Saitou and Tokio walked up the steps to his house and Saitou opened the door. And Tokio stood outside not daring to come in.
" You can come in you know."
"Yes."
She stepped in and looked around, the place looked old fashioned or in between, it had old style furniture in it, the house looked very big. She looked at a wall where there were many swords that hung from it. It looked very nice and sort of creepy. In fact there were many pieces of furniture that looked rare and expensive.
"You have a nice house..."
"Hm." Was his reply
Then there was a tall man, with light brown hair tied back into a high ponytail and chocolate colored eyes who walked into the room, it was Saitou's master.
" Saitou, I need you to--- oh, I didn't know you brought someone, who is she?"
" Tokio Tagaki." She said and bowed slightly
" Oh. I am Yasuo Huang, pleased to meet you ma'm." he bowed and shook her hand. She shook it and blushed furiously she wasn't used to be treated that nicely before. Huang noticed this and he couldn't help but smile at her.
" Master, I came to get some things and ill be out for a while."
"Where may I ask?"
" At her house for some- project were working on for school. I need to get my chemistry book..." he said hoping his master would believe his lie
" Fine with me, you may go. It was nice meeting you Tokio." He walked away leaving them behind.
Saitou began to walk to his room and he opened the door, Tokio followed and stepped in and waited at the door.
His room was small, not too big, he had a twin bed mattress over by the left wall, and a bookshelf in the right corner of his room where there was desk that had lots of junk on it. He had a rack of swords on the opposite wall next to his bed. His room was quite plain, the only thing on the wall was that rack of swords.
There were books scattered across the floor in various places and his closet door was open, where you could see his clothes hanging and a hakama and gi hanging from the closet door. She noticed there were some red spots on it, blood perhaps?
She looked and next to the closet door there was a bulletin board, which was the other only thing on his room wall. It had many places marked and circled, some places were crossed out, she looked at it curiously wondering what it was for.
Saitou walked around his room looking through the books on the floor, tossing them aside, until he found the right one and he walked up to her. She continued to look around his room and she saw some bottles of beer in the trashcan and some cigarette boxes in the trash too. She was snapped out of her thought when Saitou said:
"Lets go."
She followed behind him and he closed the door and they both walked down the hallway to the entrance of the house.
Huang stood in front of Saitou and whispered something in Saitou's ear that Tokio couldn't hear at all.
" Understood?"
Saitou nodded " yes master." And they continued to walk out the door.
They walked down the sidewalk in silence for a while and Tokio led the way to her house. Then Tokio broke the silence between them when she asked him a question.
" Was than man your father?"
"No."
"Oh. I didn't think he was your father because of the way you called him 'master'."
' then why the hell did you ask me if he was my father or not if you knew he wasn't... how dumb.' Thought saitou
"He is your master in what?"
" He teaches me sword arts."
"Oh... he seems very nice."
" He is not nice, when it comes to training, its hell when that time comes, he's a very strict person."
After that she remained silent and asked no questions until they arrived at her house. They walked up the steps and up to the door where she looked in her pocket and took out a key and opened the door. Saitou followed close behind her and entered the house.
He looked around, she had an average sized house, it was big but Saitou's house was much bigger. Her house looked very modern unlike his, which looked more traditional, and old style.
"Do you want anything to drink, water, soda......beer?"
'Shit beer.... I can't help myself when they offer me beer... one beer won't hurt will it?'
"The last one you said." He said
"Fine then, Come on." She said walking to the kitchen
She walked in the kitchen and went to the refrigerator. She opened the refrigerator and he saw loads of beer and wine inside, of all kinds that you could imagine, vodka, rum, Bacardi, and some Wisky in there too. She moved out of the way.
"Take your pick, beer only."
'Damn that is a lot of beer, shit.' He thought
" You drink?" he asked as he walked over to the refrigerator and looked to see what he could pick.
"No." she said
"I see." he said in sort of a taunting voice.
" Well, I drink but only when I go to a party or something like that, but that's hardly never."
"Hm." He said still looking to see which one he could pick
" How much do you drink?" she asked him
" A whole lot more than you do... but not as much as you think." He said taking a beer out and placing it on the counter.
"Oh." She walked over to the cupboard and took out a glass
" do you need a glass?"
"no."
She put the glass away and walked over to him
"We'll have to work in the living room, since the dining room table has my dads work on it and I'm not allowed to touch it."
He said nothing but nodded and followed her from the kitchen to the living room. It wasn't very big but it had enough space for anyone to be comfortable in it. She settled her things on the floor and sat down in front of a small table that was in the middle of the living room and put the beer she had on top of the table.
"Come on sit." She patted the place signaling for him to sit down.
He did as she said and put his book on the small table and put his beer on the table.
She opened his book " Where was it that you had trouble?"
He passed through the pages in the book and found the page he was looking for and pointed "Here"
"Oh, okay, so what you need to do here is ..............."
And she began to explain to him what the things he needed to know were...
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2 hours went by while she was explaining to saitou what is it that he needed to know. Saitou didn't say much while she was explaining, he would nod or ask a very short question and explain what he understood to her.
"Exactly. You get it." She said to him
He looked at a clock on the wall it read 9:04 p.m.
" I guess now that were finished I better get going..." he said as he began to stand up
" Wait, you can't go now." She said as she put her hand on his arm, and there was the sound of lightning
"Why not?"
"Can't you see? There's a down pour out there, and there's a lightning storm."
"So?"
"Please stay here... ad least until the rain subsides a little, its dangerous out there."
" A little rain dosen't do anything to me."
"Please." Her hand still on his arm
He nodded, " Fine, ill wait a while." He sat back down.
They remained in silence for a while, Then Tokio asked him a question.
"Saitou? Why did you tell your master you were coming over to work on a project?"
"No reason."
"Oh."
' He's ashamed to tell him... I can see it in his eyes..."
"Are you ashamed to tell him because you think its embarrassing and your afraid what he will think of you?"
"I am not afraid of anything." He said as he looked up into her eyes, and his amber eyes faced her green ones
She looked down. And he looked down as well and they remained in silence.
After a while of silence between the two, Saitou looked at his watch and it read 9:36 p.m. and the rain still hadn't subsided, it was worse.
"I guess the rain is worse now..." Tokio said as she stood up and looked out the window
The road was beginning to fill with water and the water was reaching her front lawn and there was lightning.
" The road and sidewalks have begun to fill with water." She said and Saitou stood up to look out the window
"Yes it appears so. I won't be able to leave I guess." He was now standing next to her.
" Well you could stay here. I have no problem with it."
"Here?"
"Yes, I wouldn't mind."
"Where?"
" Since I have no guest rooms and well I have an extra mattress in my room you could stay there if you like" ( I'm so evil, they have to stay in the same room together. ^.^)
"Fine, but where will you sleep?" he asked her
" You chose." She said to him
" This not my house, so I suggest you sleep in your own bed."
"Ok then but won't your master get worried?"
"No"
"Alright." She said as she walked up the stairs to her room.
She opened the door to her room and she walked in and Saitou stood at the entrance her room was big, a lot bigger than his, she had a lot of space in there. She had a full sized bed that was against the right side of the wall, she had lots of books on her shelves, her desk was full of papers and junk and she had posters and pictures on her walls, her room was clean while his was always full of junk.
She went over to her bed and looked under it and she pulled out a mattress.
"There."
Then she stood up and walked past Saitou and he saw that she went over to a closet and she took out some sheets and some blankets, and a pillow.
"Here. Since your going to sleep in your bed you might as well make it don't you think so?" she said smartly
He looked at her and walked over to his mattress/bed and he kneeled down and stared to put the sheets on it .....With Tokio's help of course...
"Okay um... so lets go down stairs I want something to drink..."
He followed her down stairs " Why don't you just say you want to go down stairs, to not be in here, ill understand." He said sarcastically taunting her.
"Hey I just wanted to be polite."
" Well here's being polite, offering me something to drink how's that?"
She smiled "okay, Saitou do you want something to drink?"
They walked to the kitchen and Tokio opened the refrigerator and took out a beer
"Here." She gave it to him
He took it and opened it.
"Why don't you drink one?"
"No, I can't drink."
"Why not?"
"Well..."
"Well..?" he said mocking her
"Well, I start to act a little bit fuzzy when I drink and when I start I can't stop..." she said embarrassed
"Don't worry I'll stop you from drinking I won't let you drink too much..."he said
'One beer can't hurt hmm?' she thought as she went over to the refrigerator and took one out.
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It was 11:20 p.m. and Saitou and Tokio were asleep (no hentai please. They were separate...well they will be for a while... oh gosh I just spoiled it for all of you!! I'm so evil!! LoL)
They were up for a while and well you could say they were a bit drunk or ad least tokio was. she was right about when she said that she starts to act fuzzy and she can't stop one she starts drinking.
~^~^~ Tokio was quite drunk for only 2 bottles of beer, she was acting fuzzy... Saitou had 2 beers too but he wasn't like tokio.
Tokio was leaning on the back board of her bed while sitting down and Saitou was lying down with his hands under his head for support on her bed. Saitou was attepting to take the third bottle of beer she is about to drink from her hand.
"I think you should stop now. You can't drink that much." Holding on to the bottle.
" Well I guess you are right..." holing on to the bottle too, but lets it go
'yeah if she drinks any more she'll go crazy. Look at her only 2 beers and she's acting like a nut already.' And he placed the bottle on her bed side table.
" Ok when was the last time you got your ass whopped?" asked Tokio
" I don't remember."
"Yeah really?"
"Yes." He answered back
" That was a lame excuse."
"Really? When was your last time you got in a fight?"
"Never"
"Bullshit."
"Shut up."
"Make me." He said to her
" You can do that yourself."
"Then why are you telling me?"
" 'Cause I want you to."
"Why don't you make me?"
" You know Saitou, you can be an annoying asshole sometimes you know that?"
"Really when?"
"Umm let me think...right now?"
" Right."
"Why don't you keep quiet?"
"Why?" he asked her
"You should know that" she answered
"Right when was the last time you beat the crap outta someone?" she asked him
"Three months ago."
" Who?"
"Himura."
"Oh, man I'm tired." She said as she looked at her watch, which read 10:41p.m. "lets rest and ill see you in the morning." She said
He got up and went to his mattress /slash/ bed and lyed down.
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***(Dream...)
'I killed him... I killed him...' thought a nine year old boy that stood over a puddle of blood...
With a sword in his blood covered hand, that was also drenched in blood...
perhaps the same blood of the person that lay before him.? Dead....
Saitou had killed a man for the first time in his life. He was 9, and he had stained his hands with the blood of another...
Okita and Saitou looked around at all the dead bodies that were around them. Saitou looked around for any sign of his father. His mother was gone, so was his little sister Kailana. He had no one left except for his father. He looked around but there was no sign of him at all.
Then he spotted him, he was fighting a man. Wait, that was same man who slaughtered his mother and little sister, but he saw something he never expected to see...his father was stabbed in the chest by that mans sword he took out the sword and looked over at Saitou and Okita, he grinned and he began to run off.
"NO!!!" he yelled he was going to run after him, but Okita stopped him
"No Saitou, we can't, he's too much, you'll get killed."
"No.! He slaughtered my family!!......He slaughtered every single one of them!" he looked at his friend and tears began to pour out of his eyes and he fell to his knees.
Saitou looked down then he looked up and he stood up
"Saitou-" Okita called out but he notice Saitou had walked away from him.
Saitou was walking over to his father's body and he looked down at his lifeless form...
"Father. Ill get my revenge..... I swear it."
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"Saitou I'm asking you to join this group as my student and as a hired assassin" said a man that was dressed in a dark black and blue hakama and gi facing Saitou...looking at him with a determined face.
" A hired assassin?" asked the 13 year old boy
The man nodded
"With your knowledge, and skill you are capable of doing anything..."
"What am I to do?" asked the boy
(" You are to......")
Saitou looked at the group of 20 men surrounding him with his cold amber eyes...
("slaughter...")
They stared at him, and he stared at them
"I suggest you drop your sword if you do not want to die tonight." Said a young man to their leader in a cold voice
"We'll see 'bout that." answered the man as he signaled to his men to attack the young boy.
The men charged at him and the leader stood firm in his position, watching... waiting...for the young boys death.
(" and kill any who are in your path...")
He stood in gatotsu stance and charged at them with incredible speed, he stabbed a man, and slashed the other, the men's blood spraying on his clothes.
With out a bit of mercy, he slaughtered them all. one by one died by his sword, one by one fell at his feet, their blood covering the ground... until they were all dead....
("any man that is trying to come between you and your assignment...")
He stared at the man with cold amber eyes, he looked at him, reading his gatotsu stance. He charged at the man and fought him...Till one of them were to die...
He executed a move and the other man was deemed dead that night... his body lay on the ground drenched in blood.
Saitou walked up to the mans body and looked at him...
(" and our code of 'Kill-Evil-Instantly' for a better Japan.")
"W-w-who are you?" asked the half-dead man in a raspy, horrified voice
"..."
"You are...nothing but a mere boy... a young boy... that is a cold blooded murderer..."
"Quiet." He stabbed the man through the heart-
the dream went n blank and he heard a soft voice...
"Saitou... wake up... Saitou."
*** (Dream)
Tokio awoke and turned around to look at the clock beside her bed 4:07 a.m. She turned around to look at the ceiling. She suddenly heard the ruffling of sheets.
'Huh? What is that?'
She looked down at Saitou, she saw he was tossing and turning on the matress/bed, he was breathing heavily, and he was mumbling some things.
'He's having a bad dream...' she looked at him some more and then decided to go over to him
She knelt beside him and shook him gently
"Saitou. Wake up. Saitou..."
She continued to shake him gently until he opened his eyes and looked around a bit and he looked at Tokio, he stared at he like if she was an angel...he kept on staring at her and then he did something totally unexpected to her, he hugged her.
"Tokio..." he breathed as he lay his head on her shoulder.
Tokio looked down at him and placed her arms around his form, he placed his head on her chest and she stroked his hair gently. He was still breathing heavily. And she was wispering soothing words to him calm him down, She caressed his face.
" Saitou, what did you dream?"
He closed his eyes and remained silent for a while until he answered
" A memory of my past..."
She looked at his face, he looked peaceful with his eyes closed like that. She rested her back against the bottom of the bed that was behind her.
" A dream that has haunted me...for a long time..." he said with his eyes still closed.
"Do you want to tell me?" she asked in a sweet low voice that Saitou found soothing and she caressed his face and he grabbed her hand and opened his eyes and looked up at her.
"No."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
He closed his eyes once more and Tokio stroked his hair...
'What's going on why is he acting like this?' she thought
After a while Saitou had fallen asleep...
'He's asleep, but if I move he'll wake up... what do I do? Should I stay here with him? Or move away?'
And so had Tokio...
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Tokio opened her eyes and noticed she was asleep on her bed not on the mattress anymore, she sat up and looked around and saw that Saitou wasn't in her room and the mattress/ bed was with out its covers and sheets, they were nicely folded and placed on top of the mattress/bed. She blushed as she remembered what happened the day before. She looked at the clock it was 8:45 a.m
'Thank goodness it's the weekend, if not I would have missed school.' She stood up from the bed and walked down stairs.
She saw Saitou standing in the living room looking out the window. He looked like he was in deep thought. Seems that he didn't even notice Tokio had walked into the room.
She looked at him and then began to walk towards the kitchen, she didn't want to disturb his thoughts...
" You don't have to leave." He said in a low voice to her.
So he did notice she was in the room...
"I don't want to disturb you." she turned around
" You are not bothering anyone." He said as he turned around to face her, and he looked into her eyes.
"Um. I'm making break fast...um. Do you want any?" she said quite nervous.
" No." he walked over to the little table and grabbed his chemistry book "I have to go." He walked over to the door and Tokio followed him and unlocked the door for him and he opened it.
" Thank you." he said without turning his back to face her. He walked out the door and Tokio closed it behind her...
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Saitou was on his way home. He was thinking about the dream he had the night before. Memories of the past... that still haunt him ever since he was a little boy.
'I keep on having these damn dreams, why the hell do I keep on having them?" he was still tired from yesterday, after falling asleep on Tokio's chest some memories kept on playing in his head over and over so he didn't get a good sleep.
'Why did I do that?' he thought
This was like the time he almost punched Kenshin in the face, then he didn't know why he did it.
He arrived at the steps of his house and he opened the door. He closed it behind him and went over to the kitchen, and he saw his master in his room working on some papers he had in his hand, he looked up at Saitou, he stood up and walked over to him.
"Here, your next assignment in three weeks, I would of given you one for tonight but okita requested it for some reason." He shoved some papers into Saito's hands
"Three weeks? Who is it?"
"Read them, why do you think I gave you these papers?"
"Yes, sorry master."
"That's quite alright. I am not going to ask why you were out, because it was due to the rain, it was a bad evening yesterday..." he said "so... nothing happened right?"
"Master!" he said in an angry voice.
"thought so. Saitou I was only joking. Besides if you would have done something me and Okita would have noticed." He chuckled
"Master.." he said through gritted teeth
"Okay, so since you missed training yesterday you will have to train for three to four hours today."
Saitou bowed "yes sir." He walked back to his room to get some rest.
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That's the end of chapter four! I hope you enjoyed it!
PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!!! It will make me very happy if you people do...
Next Chapter: We will learn more about Saitou's "Assignments" and a little more about his past and what he does for a part time job (LoL well it is in a way.). And Tokio will see something that will leave her traumatized for a while.(P.s its something about Saitou.)
I will post the 5th chapter after I get 10 reviews... joking I'll publish it wether or not I get reviews I know some ppl like it...
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