:: Hey all what's up. I know I said it before and I'll say it again. I have too many damn stories. But I guess it just happens. I really hope you all enjoy this one. I don't own anything of Kenshin; well none of the people that is I have the first two episodes of Samurai X and its sound track. ^_____________^JM::

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1. Bandits in the night

The crystal clear night was broken by shouts of men and metal hitting metal. The Kyoto Police were once again chasing after the night bandit. They have been after him for the past few years, but never seem to be getting anywhere with the case. They have never seen the bandit's face, nor is there any leads to whom it could be.

Out of the moonlight a glimpse of a human shadow, appears in a dark alley. A few of the Police ran past the same Alley, never aware that the bandit they were after was so close.

"He, he, he the fools." A woman's voice laughed. "They've been after me for years, but yet they haven't even seen my face." She grinned as she once again jumped onto the rooftops and disappeared into the shadows.

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The Police continued into the night, searching for the bandit, but once again never reaching their goal. So like always they returned to headquarters empty handed.

"So let me guess? Didn't get him?" The Chief of the Kyoto Police asked.

"No sir we didn't?" Answered a young rookie just fresh on the case.

"Then we have no other chose." The Chief replied as he paused and wrote something on a small piece of paper. "Here take this to Tokyo." He finished and handed it to the rookie.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~ The next morning.

"Kikia, Kikia dear are you up yet?" A voice questioned.

The door opened up and an old woman about mid 50's walked into the room and looked around. The woman had her grayish blonde hair into a bun and was wearing her full dressed kimono.

She glanced around the room, scanning over dirty cloths, books, drawings and other things littered all over the floor. She continued this until she found what she was looking for. She shook her head and carefully walked over the mess to the middle of the room.

"Come, come child you're almost 25 years of age and you still sleep till noon? And your room, in all of my life I had never seen a room this messy. Even your younger sister's room isn't even this messy and she's 17." The woman scolded as she picked up some paper and found her eldest daughter under it all.

"Five more minutes." Kikia yawed as she rolled over and fell back to sleep.

"Let me guess, you were out late again weren't ya? Her mother snapped as she hacked Kikia's covers to reveal Kikia's very well blessed body and messy solid black hair with a green tint. "Euk, child put some cloths on." She finished and stormed out of the room.

Kikia pulled the covers back over her head and fell back to sleep.

An hour of so later Kikia's younger sister, Emiko, walked into the room and jerked back in shock to see that her eldest sister was still in bed.

"Oh Kikia... and you wander why you're still in this place?" Emiko remarked as she walked over to her sister's bedside.

"Leave me alone Emiko." Kikia muttered as she opened one of her eyes ocean blue eyes and stared into Emiko's golden brown ones.

"Okasan is getting very upset with you." Emiko replied.

"So?" Kikia snapped.

"Well get up and dressed. Okasan is having another guy over for you to meet in a few hours. So hurry up." Emiko finished and left the room.

Kikia sat up and yawned.

"Great another one..what is it Okasan and these guys?" Kikia questioned as she stood up and began to dress.

A half an hour later.

Kikia opened the back door and snuck into the shadows of the Alley of Kyoto. Kikia dodged her Okasan's window and disappeared into the busy streets.

Kikia took in a deep breath and let out a satisfaction sigh as she pasted by the noisy merchants.

Suddenly Kikia stopped dead in her tracks and ducked into the shadows. She looked out into the street and watched as five Police officers marched by.

She wasn't hiding from them in fear, no she was hiding because she didn't want them to see her smiles and hear her laughing at them. They have been after her for years and never once had they seen her face, nor got any leads. For she was dodging them at night and laughing at them by day.

"Hey you there....girl?"

Kikia whorled around to see a tall man in a Police uniform walking up behind her.

"Ye-yes sir?" Kikia chocked.

"What do you think you're doing?"

"What do you mean sir?"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH."

Kikia and the officer looked down the street and watched as a man run past them.

"Someone please stop him, he just robbed me." A woman's voice echoed down the street.

"Stop you stop." The officer screamed and chased after him.

Kikia sighed in relief as she smirked a little and walked into the busy street.

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::Hey all what's up, sorry for not saying to much up top, but I didn't want to give anything away. Oh if any of you have read my Inuyasha story, then you know that I used the same name. But I'm sorry for this, but I couldn't think of anything. I mean I have to have Emiko and Katie help me with this one. Also if any one doesn't know Okasan mean mom in Japanese. Got to go JM::