Disclaimer: I don't own RK!!!
Sorry for the amazingly late update ( that rhymed!!). But I'll try to make it up! My floppy disk wouldn't cooperate with me so I terminated it! So I asked my brother for his floppy disk and he let me keep it! Hehehe, hope you like it!!! Just to let you know, Misao and Aoshi aren't in the Oniwabanshu!! k ? gotcha. *clicks tongue* To the story!!!
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Recap of last chapter:
'I just hope Kaoru would be able to heal Soujiro's wounds. I feel so sad for him. He shouldn't have lost his girlfriend.' Shishio thought to himself then got up and left for his room again.
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Chapter Nine:
Unknown New Arrivals
Kaoru and Soujiro arrived at Kaoru's room. And the doors, well, you already know. Wood. Again. 'I wonder how many doors there are? Why do they have these many doors anyway?' Kaoru thought. She noticed the strange pattern on the doors. There were two swords. One sword on each door, engraved. "Hmm. Soujiro? Why do all the doors look the same?" she asked.
Soujiro just answered with a small reply. "Oh! Those swords? Those swords means that the person inside here would, could, and should not get hurt. If they did, then Imperialists would hunt down that person for entering, breaking, or spying inside the room. But unless you want to commit suicide-" Soujiro was cut off.
"Okay I get your point baka." She playfully slapped Soujiro behind the head. She looked down at herself and noticed that she didn't have a spare change of clothes.
Soujiro caught her act and said, "It's okay Miss Kaoru. They have the clothes in there already."
Kaoru smiled. "Thanks for telling me Soujiro." She said.
"It's alright Kaoru. I'm supposed to be your bodyguard until who know when." He informed her and smiled warmly at her. Apparently he was struggling with his mixed up emotions like too much friendliness. 'I'm not supposed to have these emotions right now! Not after Melshi died.' He thought to himself and silently opened the doors to Kaoru's room.
Kaoru took in the sight before her. It was completely breathtaking! Mostly everything was wood (YET AGAIN!!! ARGGGH!!! -_-;). She sighed. 'Why don't they have anything else besides wood?!' she questioned herself. "Thank you again Soujiro!"
The room had wood furniture and a beautiful lightly painted violet walls. (What is Kaoru's favorite color? I'm guessing from what my cousin told me purple because Kaoru's favorite sash is colored purple! Someone tell me!! Then I'll give a special thanks to that person!!!!!) The room wasn't at all too crowded. Just enough room to move around. The bed was facing to the door and there were those three faced windows behind the bed. The curtains were colored light purple and so were the sheets of the bed. There was a dresser to the left of the door with a pretty mirror and a small closet with kimonos in it. Kaoru had her own private bathroom to the door on the left of the dresser.
"Uncle must've paid a lot to get a bed instead of a futon!" Kaoru exclaimed. 'He must have a lot of money! Ooolala!! I can use some money to buy some new kimonos for…….(Myself!! Naw!! This is the author! Don't worry!! ^^;) Christmas!! Of course for all of the girls here and some katanas for the men!'
"My pleasure Miss Kaoru." He said and was about to go out of the room when he had a question. "Have you ever heard of the Battousai Miss Kaoru?" he asked.
"Well, I've heard rumors, but I never thought them to be true." She said.
"Oh. Do you think he's real now?"
Kaoru put her index finger to her mouth and thought then answered, "Well, Kenshin told me about Battousai. He told me that Battousai is working here for my uncle. Is that true?" she questioned Soujiro this time.
"No. He does not work here." Soujiro lied. "Maybe you should stay away from Kenshin. He's been known here for starting silly rumors that most likely spread out through the whole group." Soujiro said while scratching his head. "Oh! And to answer your question, he didn't pay a lot for that bed! Just 500 yen!"
Kaoru nearly fell down. She didn't have that much money! 'Why didn't uncle donate?' she thought. "Okay! I'll prepare some dinner later on! What time does dinner start?"
"Umm, actually no one has a dinner time! We all eat somewhere else! But you can make some if you want!!" Soujiro offered.
"Okay. See you later!" she said. 'I'll make something at 6:00!' she thought.
Then Soujiro left.
Meanwhile…
"Please welcome these new members for our group Mr. Shishio!" Megumi said. Behind her were some people. There were two little girls, a young lady, and two men. (You should know who these people are!)
Shishio eyed the group before saying, "Good job there Megumi. The girls can stay with the lady over there" he pointed to the young lady. "And these two men can stay with me as my bodyguards. Remember what happened to the other two?"
Megumi cringed at what happened to the last bodyguards of Shishio. Shishio killed them for not protecting him when he was alone. Which caused a fire and burnt most of Shshio. But what the new group didn't know was that Megumi's boyfriend was in there. "Yes. I understand." She bowed and left the room with the rest of the new members.
When they were outside of the room, they walked down a few halls and then Megumi said, "I'll show you to your rooms. But first tell me your names." She said. The group nodded then one of them opened their mouth.
"Hello! My name is-"
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yay!!!!!! A cliffe!!!! You'll have to find out!!!!! Review review review!!!! Then you'll see the next chapter!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry if it's short!!!!
BlackFrost