THIS IS THE FINAL CHAPTER 5!!!!!! THE OTHER WASN'T COMPLETE SINCE IT MESSED UP WHEN I POSTED! *smacks self* BAD Author!

Disclaimers: How many times to I have to tell you I don't own Rurouni Kenshin? Hmm? How many?

Author's notes: Ever since I said that Kujiro smelled like vanilla I wanted every thing that smelled vanilla! And we were taking a Spanish midterm today and I had the urge to write Kujiro on the front of the paper when I was putting my name in... maybe it's because I have been writing her name too much? But we might not have school tomorrow! YAY! But the school website isn't promising any closings yet but if we get the snow we are supposed to then *starts to sing "No school Tomorrow!" ^_^ Here is the chapter...

"Another Chance at Life" By Weasel (rokinevilweasel1029@hotmail.com)

*****Chapter 5 ~ The letter*****

Ajisai walked in the kitchen at the moment Kujiro flinched, "What's wrong Kujiro?"

"Nothing, it's nothing. My muscles just sorta freaked out on me that's all." Kujiro smiled to reassure Ajisai that she was fine. 'Why the hell was her master in Ningenkai of ALL places!? He rarely comes here; I need to think of a way to excuse myself without causing suspicion...' Kujiro sat up and went to leave,

"Kujiro where are you going?"

'Damn Ajisai! Always the curious one, great.' Kujiro turned around to reply, "Oh I am going to train and then take a bath!"

"Oh, did you make breakfast," Ajisai inquired.

"Hai, now if you will excuse me," Kujiro, once out of sight silently began to run to the forest to greet her master.

"Konichi-wa Shishou!"

"Konichi-wa Deshi. I have something for you," Her master then took out a sealed note.

Kujiro just looked at it, "Who is it from?"

Nagasaki smirked a little before replying, "It's from Sagara Souzou."

Kujiro froze. Why would he write a note and why would her master be the delivery boy?

"Ano, Shishou why are you delivering this?"

"Because I was coming here on business of the Head Quarters and Souzou-san asked me if I could give this to you since he couldn't come back yet."

"Come back yet?!"

"Hai, a spirit can only visit once in every few days. He has used that yesterday and can't come back for a while, I was going to drop it in your room but your ki sensing skills obviously improved to know I was here. I must go now deshi. Ja ne."

"Ja ne," Kujiro was a little surprised from her master's sudden arrival and this letter from Souzou. She figured she would read it while she bathed after training.

~*~

After breakfast Ajisai went out to walk around to find Kenshin doing... THE LAUNDRY?! Whoa!

"Ano Kenshin-san? Why are YOU doing the laundry?!"

"Oro? Sessha is doing the laundry because it needs to be done."

"But, why doesn't Kaoru-san do it? Why you?!"

"Sessha doesn't mind doing the laundry; Sessha actually likes it a little."

"NANI?!"

Kenshin smiled his famous rurouni smile at her, "Hai I find it relaxing."

Ajisai just starred at him and muttered, "Whatever. I don't think I will ever get how you can find that relaxing, especially with your past and all."

"Oro?"

Ajisai rolled her eyes, was he really this clueless all the time, "The red hair, and the scar. I have heard of the hitokiri battousai as being a legend from the revolution, his only distinguishing marks would be his hair and his scar."

Kenshin wondered, 'Why does my past always come back to haunt me? Why can't I just have black hair or brown hair like ever one else?' (A/N: But then you wouldn't be you, Kenshin!!) 'Then you wouldn't be you no baka.'

Ajisai watched Kenshin waiting for his response. She became bored and went to rest in a tree.

"Oh hey Kujiro, are you training?"

"What does it look like I'm doing? Picking flowers for a bouquet?!"

Ajisai replied sarcastically, "I never knew that you picked flowers with katana's."

"I'm training no baka."

"I know THAT," Ajisai then spotted an addressed letter a few feet from Kujiro, and it had her FULL name on it! "What the hell?! Why would Kujiro get mail? Not many people know that Kujiro is her real name. Ajisai quickly ran to fetch it before Kujiro could stop her. She said in the most annoying and mocking innocent voice possible, "My, my, my! Who on earth would write to you? I mean not many people know you real name. Is it you BOYFRIEND?!"

Kujiro froze when Ajisai said that. Kujiro soon felt her body heat with anger and annoyance at Ajisai's mocking. "I do not have a boyfriend," her reply was smothered with venom.

"OOOOHH! Touchy eh? I guess it really is from your boyfriend," Ajisai laughed maniacally.

It just pissed Kujiro off even more, "I have no clue what is inside that letter Ajisai, give it back." She wasn't really pissed off anymore; more like anxious to get the letter back before Ajisai could read any of it. It wouldn't be good when she read that it was from Souzou. She played Ajisai's reactions in her head, one thing would be for Ajisai to taunt her forever about it and never let her go one day with out hearing the contents of the letter recited to her, or Ajisai would just stand there and laugh her head off. But the more Kujiro thought about it, the two possibilities would most likely happen. Great.

"You don't know?! Well let's read it aloud and find out!" With that Ajisai ran off before Kujiro could stop her.

"No! Ajisai get back here! Give me the damn letter!"

"Never! Let's start to read it..."

Kujiro bolted off to chase after her and try to stop her from reading it.

"Dear Kujiro-san... ooooOOOooohhh!"

"AJISAI!"

"I just wanted to say that I am sorry from staring at you yesterday during my visit to ningenkai," Ajisai stopped running when she read that line and burst out laughing.

'I knew it. She would never let me live this one down.' Kujiro was at her side shortly after Ajisai stopped running and snatched the letter from Ajisai's grasp,

"Dear Kujiro-san,

I am sorry for staring at you yesterday during my stay at ningenkai. I realize how rude my acts were and I hope you can forgive me. I just wanted to see Sanosuke; I hope that I haven't made a bad impression on you. Maybe we shall see each other again in Nochinoyo.

Ja ne Kujiro-san,
Sagara Souzou.

"One question, is Souzou your boyfriend?!"

"NO! I don't have a boyfriend no baka! I just was introduced to him by my master!"

"Then why did he say he is sorry for STARRING AT YOU, if you met him through your master? Any way is that the same guy that was starring at you and you went to Nochinoyo to find out who he was?!"

"Hai," Kujiro knew what was coming next. She would never go a day with out hearing this.

Ajisai just fell down laughing hysterically. She was laughing so hard she couldn't talk or breathe and after a while had to stop for a breather, "I think... someone likes... you!"

"Urusai! I don't know him! How could anyone like each other in 5 minutes flat?!"

Ajisai just smiled at her friend's stupidity.

Kujiro just walked off winding in and out of the trees moving towards the bath house. She read the letter over to try and find any hint of what Ajisai accused. She couldn't even relax in the bath which was the only thing relatively close that gave her the closer the garden gave her. To try and relax after her bath she got her new sketch book that she hid in the folds of her clothes, and went down to the river to sketch it. She couldn't get the image of Souzou out of her head so she decided to draw him to hopefully get rid of it. It turned out better than her scene of the river. She decided then to draw all of her new friends, and old ones. By the time she was done it was evening and she had a view of the sunset and drew it. (A/N: Is that right?! I haven't a clue! It doesn't sound grammatically correct!)

~*~

"Kaoru, do you know where Yahiko is? I haven't seen him all day," Kenshin calmly asked.

"Oh after training he went to help at the Akabeko," Kaoru replied.

"Is there something bothering you Kaoru-dono?"

Kaoru was a little troubled. It was the two new editions to her home, Kujiro and Ajisai. She didn't know if she could trust them, "Kenshin, do you think that we can trust those two?"

Kenshin sighed and replied, "I questioned them and I could tell they weren't lying."

"So who were those men in the alleyway?!"

"Ajisai and Kujiro used to assassinate all the people on foreign boats trying to trade with Japan-"

"THEY WHAT?!"

"Please Kaoru-dono, they told them they would be protecting their country from drastic un-wanted change. And when Japan was forced to open its ports to America they just checked the boats to inspect them. But Kujiro cut off one mans hand because he inappropriately touched her. She was fired and Ajisai quit after Kujiro was fired."

"I still don't know Kenshin, I mean they are violent! Kujiro cut off the man's hand!"

"Do you have some thing against assassins?"

Kaoru's mouth gaped open, "Oh no! Of course not Kenshin!"

Author's notes: hehe, the irony huh? Kaoru not trusting people because they used to be assassins. Hypocrite maybe? Hehe. Any way that is the chapter. Review please, make me be motivated, even if it is a bad review about how you hate my story it still motivates me... I know I am a weird person.

Ja ne!

Weasel ^_^