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Chapter 17

A light breeze came through the window waking him and bringing the ever present scent of sakura with it. His eyes fluttered open and he sat up. Someone next to him drew in a breath to speak but when he turned to see who it was the breath died in the person's throat.

Kat watched as Vash woke up thinking of what to say. He had been asleep for the last few days from the loss of energy he had suffered. She tried to speak again but when his unusually cold eyes met with hers, words failed her once again.

His face contorted into a glare and it made Kat cringe, "I'm so sorry!" She leaned forward and hugged him.

Vash instantly stiffened and hissed in pain and disgust, "Get off me you filthy human."

Kat let go instantly and stared in shock at him, "What?"

His glare turned colder and she swore the man sitting in front of her was his brother, Knives. Kat got fed up and her eyes glimmered gold with hatred. They locked gazes and

Kat was a bit surprised to see that his eyes had begun to glow an eerie blue, "What do you have against me?" Her voice came out as if it hadn't been used in ages. It was hoarse, rough and…bitter.

His eyes narrowed and he continued to glare at her, asking the same question, "What do you have against me?"

Kat's eyes flashed amber again, "I have nothing against you but what I can't understand is why you hate me so much all of the sudden."

"I don't hate you, I loath you and your kind," he hissed.

"What did I ever do to you?" she hissed back. He looked as she had just slapped him. He grew angrier and Kat's anger seemed to rise with it. "What happened to you?" her voice softened a bit as she gazed into his eyes again.

"What happened to me? What happened to me?! You happened to me! You and your race killed off all of us! You despise us, you torture us!" he yelled.

She backed away and anger quickly turned to fear, "You can't judge the human race on a handful of people! What happened to sweet Vash? Why are you acting like Knives? Surely you don't think I'd ever hurt you?!"

He stood up, anger washing away the pain. Kat backed up a bit before she was slammed against the wall. "You have no idea what I've been through so stop acting like you do you filthy wench!" He pressed harder on her shoulders and Kat was smashed against the wall.

She met his eyes and they flickered an emotion unrecognizable to him, "But I do know what you've been through."

He snarled at her, "I want some answers and I want them now!" He released his grip and Kat slumped to the floor. Tears began to flow and it only managed to anger him further, "Stop crying! Your pain is no where close to mine!"

She doubled over in pain when his foot collided with her ribs. Kat's eyes instantly took on a golden hue and she wheezed. Her image flickered a moment before fading to nothing. Before he knew what had happened, he was pinned to the floor staring up at a golden eyed very pissed female battousai, "No I don't think you understand." Her voice was filled with hatred and pain, "I've suffered plenty over the past few years! You have no idea! You didn't even stop to consider that I can feel pain too! Do you have any idea what I went through when I was whisked back to the future 6 years ago?! Do you have any idea what I had to go through to raise a fatherless son?! Do you have any idea what pain I went through when Kenshin was put into a coma? Did you even stop to think of the pain you brought me when you of all people showed up?! I'm stuck in a never ending loop of pain! I'm married to a vegetable, have to care for a fatherless son, and on top of that…on top of that I have to deal with you and your problems!" She exploded and spat at him.

His back throbbed with pain and his ears rung from her screaming. He tried to push her off but it proved pointless.

"FINE!" she screeched, "You want answers you got em! The reason I know so much about you? You're an animated character! Nothing but ink on paper! You being here was nothing but pure accident, a wish orb landed on a DVD case and that's why you're here. Gunsmoke doesn't exist and neither do you! Who's Kenshin? My fiancé! Why haven't I married him? He's in a coma! Who's Mayonaka? My son! Who's Inuyasha? Another fictional ink on paper character just like you and Kenshin! And me? Why am I here? Because…" She trialed off in mid sentence.

Her eyes glowed their haunting golden color, crystalline tears staining her cheeks, "Because I wished to be here. I wished to meet the man of my dreams. But then why am I still here? Have I not met him yet? But then why would I have met Kenshin?  It doesn't make sense does it? You guys are real. You bleed, you love, and you breathe. Nothing makes sense anymore. Do you understand the depth of my pain now? I feel pain every time I think of you not being real, every time I see the color red because it reminds me of Kenshin, every time I see Mayonaka because he looks so much like his father and every time I wonder what would have happened if this never happened." 

Her tears dripped onto his face as she hovered over him. Sobs racked her body and her eyes returned back to emerald. Her hair draped over her shoulders and pooled on the ground beside him.

His hand came up and cupped her cheek. She flinched at the contact. His thumbs attempted to wipe away the tears but more just kept flowing.

'A devil from the deepest parts of hell but at the same time…an angel from the highest heaven.'   

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