Saito burst out of his mental cage, immediately taking over his body. Battousai ran at him, screaming at the top of his lungs.

"I WANT MY DINNER!" Battousai yelled. "BECAUSE I'M HUNGRY!"

"WHY ARE YOU HUNGRY?" Saito yelled back, attacking with his Gatotsu.

"BECAUSE MY TUMMY IS MAKING A FUNNY RUMBLING NOISE THAT MEANS THAT I'M HUNGRY!" Battousai screamed. Their swords clashed.

"Maybe we'd better hurry and get dinner," Kaoru whispered to Yahiko, who still had a sweatdrop clinging to his face.

"How do I get this thing off?" Yahiko asked, pointing to the sweatdrop. Kaoru shrugged.

"I dunno," Kaoru said. "But I'm going to knock at Tokio's door........." She walked away.

"Hey, sweatdrop," Yahiko said to the sweatdrop. "I'll pay you a dollar if you get off of my face." The sweatdrop scratched its.........uh......... top, and then replied with a 'no'. How Yahiko understood that is something that I don't know.

"What about five dollars?" Yahiko asked. The sweatdrop looked at him with a skeptical look that seemed to say: 'You gotta be kidding. You can't pay me off of you!' Yahiko sighed.

"What about one hundred dollars? I'll give you one hundred dollars if you get off of me," the sweatdrop thought for a moment, then nodded (a/n: Can sweatdrops nod? I wonder.........). Yahiko sighed. Unfortunately, he didn't HAVE one hundred dollars.

"Hey, Sano?" Yahiko asked. Rooster head turned around.

"Yup?"

"Can I borrow one hundred dollars?" Yahiko asked.

"Sure, buddy!" Sano said. He dug into his pocket, but found nothing because Sano's broke. "Whoops, don't have any. Sorry, pal, but you can go over there to the Akabeko and get the money from Tae. Just put it on my tab." He turned his head to watch the battle. Yahiko grinned.

"Okay! Thanks, Sano!" he ran off toward the Akabeko, hoping to get one hundred dollars. Sano stared at the two whizzing fighters. They were going so fast that not even he could see them.

"GIVE ME MY DINNER!" Battousai yelled.

"I DON'T HAVE YOUR DINNER, MORON!" Saito shouted. Battousai snorted, then coughed again because he wasn't good at it. Then, the meaning of the words fully sank into his mind and he stopped short.

"You don't?" Battousai asked. "Oh, well, then there's no real reason to fight anymore. Even throughout the Bakumatsu, I was only fighting you because I thought you stole my dinner. Oh well. I really didn't mean to attack you, I'm terribly sorry." He stopped and sheathed his sword.

"Ahou," Saito said. He also sheathed his sword. Battousai grinned.

"So then I've got to find the real person who took my dinner," Battousai muttered. Then, Kaoru came out of Tokio's house holding a bento box.

"Himura-san!" Kaoru yelled. Battousai looked at her, then spotted the bento box in her hands.

"YOU STOLE MY DINNER!" Battousai cried. He unsheathed his sword and attacked with a Ryu-something-or-other right at Kaoru. She screamed and dropped the bento box, running around in circles trying to get away from Battousai. He chucked his sheath at her head and she got hit, falling over.

:: Gasp! :: Kenshin gasped from his mental cage. :: You hurt Kaoru-dono! You have to give up control of my body as said in the first part of the story! :: Battousai picked up the bento box and walked into the mental cage where Kenshin shut him up tight.

(Yummy,) Battousai mumbled. (Dinner.) Kenshin sweatdropped, then popped into the real world.

"Kaoru-dono!" Kenshin yelled. He ran over to her, but tripped over her leg and fell on the floor.

"OUCH!" Kaoru yelled. "You big jerk!" She smacked him hard. Kenshin's eyes bugged out, and he oro-ed. Kaoru gasped, then grinned. "Kenshin!" She grabbed him and squeezed him hard. He turned blue, coughing and oro-ing.

"Hn........." Saito muttered. "It looks like all is back to normal. I'll be going home now." He walked off toward his house and disappeared inside it. Sano shrugged and walked toward the dojo, Kenshin oro-ed again, Kaoru continued to squeeze the life out of our poor rurouni, Yahiko never got one hundred dollars, so he lived the rest of his life with a blue sweatdrop on his cheek, Goro Fujita came back out and the wolf returned to his mental cage, and Tokio forever wondered who the heck that really tall man with the fake mustache was. And you might think that that's the end.........

BUT............................................................

Soujirou walked down the road, a sakabatou on his hip. He sat down under a tree to contemplate the truths in life when an old samurai walked up to him.

"Hello, my laddie!" the samurai greeted the boy. "I see you are a samurai!"

"No, no more," Soujirou replied, giving a smile. "I'm a mere.........uh......... rurouni now." The samurai sat down and looked the boy over.

"Rurouni, eh? Well, you don't have ANY makings of a rurouni yet. Here," the man gave Soujirou a pink......... er MAGENTA gi.

"What's this for?" Soujirou asked. The gi was torn and tattered.

"If you want to look like a rurouni, wear this. If you want to sound like a rurouni, say "that it is, that it isn't that I am etc." at the end of each sentence, address yourself as "this one" and say "oro" when you're surprised or hurt or stuff like that. OKAY?" the old samurai said.

"OKAY!" Soujirou grinned. He quickly changed into the MAGENTA gi. "Uh......... this one will make a great rurouni......... uh......... that I will!" The samurai smiled.

"Great! Now go start a life!" he punched the air.

"OKAY!" Soujirou laughed. He ran off, practicing his "oros," "this ones," and "that it is, that you shoulds etc."

And the only problem was the crazed Tenken in a mental cage in the back of Soujirou's mind yelling and screaming to be let out.

======= the end =======

A/N: I shortened it, okay? I just had to end it, but I will do another one that will be in this same story. I think it'll be called: "When Kenshin rules the world" or something like that. Anyway, thanks for all of you kind reviewers who reviewed my story!

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Sailor-Earth13: Exactly! Sorry it was so confusing. I was experiencing some difficulties with my brain. Hope you liked my story! I'll be updating it again soon, but I'll be starting a new story. Thanks for reviewing!