The 12th Street Apartment
11/17/2003
Disclaimer: Yup... I know, and so do you.
Hi! Okay... I was thinking about making a Thanksgiving special... but then I realized that Thanksgiving is only an AMERICAN holiday, so there will probably be a holiday special... if I can write one in time...
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Recap: Gina and Kaoru become friends. Kaoru talked about Enishin. They meet up with Jin... that was fun. Kenshin goes to Aoshi for advice... that didn't work. Gina is trying to get answers out of Yumi as to what happened at Megumi and Sano's home.
+Review responses+
MissBehavin: Kill Jin? I actually like Jin... j/k... I don't really know how Gina will be able to take Jin along... hm... that got me thinking again... maybe Gina won't die...
Unique-Starfish: Thanks for reading though!!
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"You know... they live is such a horrible place! It's the SLUMS!" Yumi yelled through her tears. It had been half an hour since the women had sat down to talk. Yumi held up her façade for the first ten minutes and then cracked. All Yumi talked about though was the couple's living conditions.
Gina raised an eyebrow, "Megumi's still working right?" Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to talk to Yumi so soon.
"Yeah... but that good for nothing jerk is going to get her KILLED!"
"Yumi. He's not that bad..."
"You don't know him!"
"Neither do you." Gina pointed out. She received a wet towel in her face. When she had removed the offending towel, Yumi had already disappeared into the kitchen and it was Kenshin who had taken her place, slumping over the table.
(A/N: I'm not doing much so far concerning Megumi and Sano... not until later... I have something for them a little later.)
"Hi Kenshin... can I help you with something?" Gina grimaced, already knowing what he was going to talk about.
Kenshin lifted his head, "Yeah... have you ever meet a person who when you look at her, you know she's the one?"
"Um... no..."
"Didn't think so... no one likes you." Kenshin teased, eyes laughing. He received the rag in his mouth. He spat it out. "Gross Gina. Grow up."
"You," She replied.
Kenshin nodded, slumping his head on the table again.
"So..." Gina folded her arms. Fun... she was going to here the Kaoru Kenshin mess again.
She was half listening as Kenshin retold the story of him and Kaoru meeting, and Enishin. She noticed Kaoru enter the café. Kaoru seemed agitated. She stopped as she reached the sibling's table.
Gina got up, "I should go... let you guys talk." She saw Misao also come into the café and tried to wave her off.
"No, wait. Gina, Misao I think you should all here this. Please sit down." Kaoru said softly.
Misao slid into a smooth seat, but Gina remained standing. Kenshin looked at Kaoru, who just looked at her shoes.
Kaoru looked up, talking to everyone, but focusing her attention on Kenshin.
"I'm marrying Enishin. We're moving to New York, in a week." She turned and ran.
***
"Misao... go after her." Gina instructed, "Tell Kaoru I need to speak to her tomorrow, same place same time."
Misao look confused, but left anyways.
"Kenshin?" Gina waved a hand.
Kenshin angrily slapped Gina's hand away, "Get away!" He snarled.
Gina took a step back when she saw his eyes. They were no longer the tender soft yellow eyes but a brilliant steel hard golden color. His red hair seemed to flame with anger and sorrow. He stepped past her and threw the café door open, stepping into the night. The glass door threatened to shatter, startling many patrons.
Gina's own eyes flashed. If Kenshin was going to play evil eye, so could she. She narrowed the golden eyes to make her eyes a deadly piercing deep gold. She grabbed his arm roughly. She didn't want him doing something he was later going to regret. He had done that on numerous occasions, involving woman.
He shoved her into the wall; slamming her head against it, "Stay out of my way." He hissed in her ear.
"Make me." She growled back, kicking him in the shins, hard. She ran as fast as she could in the opposite direction of Kaoru. Hopefully she distracted Kenshin more than the Kaoru issue did. She observed him run the way Kaoru and Misao had gone. This was more serious than she thought; then again, Kenshin did believe Kaoru was THE ONE.
She ran after Kenshin, dialing the speed dial 1 on her cell phone. "Aoshi... it's happened again... but this time he's after Kaoru... he's headed towards the park... meet me there."
She found Kaoru and Misao cornered, their backs to the lake. Misao was standing protectively in front of a sobbing Kaoru.
Misao was brave, but she had not ever dealt with a crazed Kenshin before. Gina knew either Kaoru or Misao would end up in the hospital if Kenshin did attack them.
Weaponless, Gina picked up her sneaker and hurled it at Kenshin's head. He ducked, and it nearly hit Misao. Gina had expected Kenshin to take the hit like a gentleman, but she wasn't surprised when he ducked. Lucky she fired the other one a split second after the first, this time lower. It hit Kenshin square in the head.
He whirled around with a roar. "RUN!" Gina yelled just as Kenshin jumped her.
She easily hopped away from his grasped. Kenshin was much fast than her, but she was more skillful at reading her opponent, especially when Kenshin wasn't think straight. She was also more lithe and smaller than her older brother.
Gina managed to evade her brother for sometime. She glanced to her back, making sure Kaoru and Misao had gotten away. They had and she breathed a sigh of relief. Her lack of concentration on Kenshin was her fatal mistake.
She spun around to see him jump towards her. He tackled her down, her head smashed against the grass. He began to slam punches on her. Most did not have an effect on her; she was use to harsh training exercises set by her brothers, father and uncle, but this was different. Kenshin punched like he meant every one, and he did.
Gina didn't know how much she could take before she snapped and harm Kenshin out of resentment. She hoped Aoshi would come in time.
(A/N: I considered Gina going into coma here... but found it too unrealistic... at least for these persons.)
"Leave her alone jerk!" A shoe flew at Kenshin, hitting him the head. He got up, infuriated. Another one flew at him then followed by a couple rocks.
Misao and Kaoru had taken off their own shoes and had found Gina's and began pounding Kenshin with the shoes and rocks on the ground. Kenshin glared at them in annoyance and astonishment. This was the moment Gina had been waiting for; she got up, whirled her dominant left foot around and slammed Kenshin in the stomach area. He fell brutally to the ground.
Aoshi jogged up, "Sorry I'm late..."
Gina got up, brushing the dirt and leaves from her, "Yeah... and I almost got pummeled."
"He hit you that bad?" Aoshi pulled a couple of leave from his sister's hair.
"I'm sore all over, I have a bruises all over. I have one black eyes... what do you think? I'm okay." She said, "at least no one was hurt."
"You were." Kaoru said whimpering.
Gina felt bad for Kaoru, "No... no... I know what I'm doing... I'll be fine... At least Kenshin won't be SO sorry about it... when he stops being a baby about it."
Misao looked at Kenshin's fallen form, "Will he be okay?"
Aoshi hauled his collapsed brother up, "Yeah... soon..."
"I suggest you guys stay with another friend or something... Kenshin is VERY hard to watch." Gina said.
"No." Kaoru said, "I'm not running away."
Gina nodded, "But still Kaoru, meet me same place same time... tomorrow...Misao you are welcome to come along." She followed Aoshi to his car.
***
"How is he?" Gina asked as Tokio handed her a cup of warm water.
"Still asleep,"
"OY!! WHAT IS THAT BOY DOING?" Grandmother's shrill voice rang through the apartment.
"Shhh." Aoshi said, "Grandmother, Kenshin's had a rough night."
"She's here... I forgot... I'm leaving." Gina snuck out. Just as she was about the close the door, her Grandmother stopped her.
"Where are YOU going?"
"My room Grandmother."
"Child... you grow uglier by the day... why is your face all like that?"
Gina just ignored the old woman and closed the door. She wasn't in the mood. Grandmother turned to Aoshi, "See that your sister is taught some respect... slap it into her if you have to."
Aoshi nodded, rolling his eyes when she turned her back. "Mother... are you going to need some help with Kenshin?"
Tokio looked at her oldest son, "Of course not. Your father will be home shortly. We can handle Kenshin... maybe not your grandmother... but Kenshin indeed."
Aoshi smiled, "If you say so Mother. I can stay... if you insist"
Tokio smiled for the first time in days at her oldest son, "Go catch a movie tonight Aoshi... you look overworked."
Saitou stalked into the house, "So Kenshin's gone mad again."
"Hajime." Tokio scolded, "That's your son."
"Hn. You boy." He pointed to Aoshi, who gulped nervously. Saitou smirked; it was nice to see his son feared and respected him still, "Get some rest." He barked the order. Aoshi nodded hurriedly and scampered away.
(A/N: I cannot see that happening... but oh well...)
Tokio glanced at her husband, "Hajime. You'll frighten your child to death."
"If I did he would have been already dead by now. What is Kenshin so riled up about that cause Gina to look like that?" Hajime's voice tried to stay calm, but Tokio knew her apathetic husband was worried about their children.
"It's..."
"It better not be a girl... not again..."
"It is." Tokio left a few tears drop from her eyes.
Saitou was a little surprised; his wife did not cry over trivial matters, "What's wrong?"
"Kenshin... if Kaoru is the one... will never have the love... we share."
Saitou hugged his wife. He agreed with her, but did have another point, "That boy though... has a temper... look how he treats his own sister..."
"I think he treats her the way she should be treated!" Grandmother hobbled into the room, much to Saitou's disgust. He released his wife.
Saitou clenched his fist. His wife put her hands lightly on his and he relaxed him slightly, twitching in anger ever so slightly, "What do you..."
"Hajime..." Tokio warned. She loved her mother, she did. But lately her mother had been a grump, finding fault in her not-so-perfect husband and children. Her mother had become unbearable. Tokio remembered her mother to be understanding of children, of her. Then she remembered why that all changed; she married Hajime Saitou.
Hajime Saitou was a well-known cop at that time, the deadliest on the streets. "Trigger-happy man" some called him, other though found a more frightening name for him, "The Wolf." With that name Saitou's fame grew, and then the attacks on his family started.
Tokio had been frightened in the beginning, but then came to accept it as a way of life, an understanding cop's wife.
"No Tokio. I want to here what your husband has to say."
"I've got TWO words for you." Saitou snapped.
"HAJIME!" Tokio tapped his arm impatiently, "We haven't even discussed this through yet."
"NURSING HOME." Saitou spat at his mother-in-law.
(A/N: Who collapsed in shock and died. I think MissBehavin will be cheering if I wrote that...)
He was slapped in the face, "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" Yelled his mother-in- law. Tokio made no move to stop her mother or her husband. She seemed astounded.
"It's not your house." He said with a smirked, "But I'll leave anyways."
He had his hand on the door when Tokio ran and stopped him, "Don't leave. I'm sorry about my mother."
"I'll be back." He whispered as he kissed her cheek lightly. "Just watch Kenshin and make sure he doesn't do anything he will regret later."
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Aww... some cute Saitou and Tokio moments... I cut this chapter short... so I can post this...
I think I will probably had a more humorous chapter next... I need a few laughs... this story is going WAY too serious...
Sorry about Kenshin going crazy... I think I would to... but not THAT crazy... some of it was exaggerated... if anyone didn't like that Kenshin punched Gina... I'm sorry... I apologize for my mind... just imagine Kenshin in Battousai mode... that what he pretty much was in.
Um... well... please review...
This is one chapter in which I am considering to revise... tell me what you think. Also, tell me how you would react if I had Jin kill Gina... I could have Gina die that way...
But Gina might not die...I'll see...
Next on the 12th Street Apartment: Saitou doesn't want to face his mother- in-law tonight, so he decides to crash some homes. (Note: Subject to change)
11/17/2003
Disclaimer: Yup... I know, and so do you.
Hi! Okay... I was thinking about making a Thanksgiving special... but then I realized that Thanksgiving is only an AMERICAN holiday, so there will probably be a holiday special... if I can write one in time...
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Recap: Gina and Kaoru become friends. Kaoru talked about Enishin. They meet up with Jin... that was fun. Kenshin goes to Aoshi for advice... that didn't work. Gina is trying to get answers out of Yumi as to what happened at Megumi and Sano's home.
+Review responses+
MissBehavin: Kill Jin? I actually like Jin... j/k... I don't really know how Gina will be able to take Jin along... hm... that got me thinking again... maybe Gina won't die...
Unique-Starfish: Thanks for reading though!!
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"You know... they live is such a horrible place! It's the SLUMS!" Yumi yelled through her tears. It had been half an hour since the women had sat down to talk. Yumi held up her façade for the first ten minutes and then cracked. All Yumi talked about though was the couple's living conditions.
Gina raised an eyebrow, "Megumi's still working right?" Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to talk to Yumi so soon.
"Yeah... but that good for nothing jerk is going to get her KILLED!"
"Yumi. He's not that bad..."
"You don't know him!"
"Neither do you." Gina pointed out. She received a wet towel in her face. When she had removed the offending towel, Yumi had already disappeared into the kitchen and it was Kenshin who had taken her place, slumping over the table.
(A/N: I'm not doing much so far concerning Megumi and Sano... not until later... I have something for them a little later.)
"Hi Kenshin... can I help you with something?" Gina grimaced, already knowing what he was going to talk about.
Kenshin lifted his head, "Yeah... have you ever meet a person who when you look at her, you know she's the one?"
"Um... no..."
"Didn't think so... no one likes you." Kenshin teased, eyes laughing. He received the rag in his mouth. He spat it out. "Gross Gina. Grow up."
"You," She replied.
Kenshin nodded, slumping his head on the table again.
"So..." Gina folded her arms. Fun... she was going to here the Kaoru Kenshin mess again.
She was half listening as Kenshin retold the story of him and Kaoru meeting, and Enishin. She noticed Kaoru enter the café. Kaoru seemed agitated. She stopped as she reached the sibling's table.
Gina got up, "I should go... let you guys talk." She saw Misao also come into the café and tried to wave her off.
"No, wait. Gina, Misao I think you should all here this. Please sit down." Kaoru said softly.
Misao slid into a smooth seat, but Gina remained standing. Kenshin looked at Kaoru, who just looked at her shoes.
Kaoru looked up, talking to everyone, but focusing her attention on Kenshin.
"I'm marrying Enishin. We're moving to New York, in a week." She turned and ran.
***
"Misao... go after her." Gina instructed, "Tell Kaoru I need to speak to her tomorrow, same place same time."
Misao look confused, but left anyways.
"Kenshin?" Gina waved a hand.
Kenshin angrily slapped Gina's hand away, "Get away!" He snarled.
Gina took a step back when she saw his eyes. They were no longer the tender soft yellow eyes but a brilliant steel hard golden color. His red hair seemed to flame with anger and sorrow. He stepped past her and threw the café door open, stepping into the night. The glass door threatened to shatter, startling many patrons.
Gina's own eyes flashed. If Kenshin was going to play evil eye, so could she. She narrowed the golden eyes to make her eyes a deadly piercing deep gold. She grabbed his arm roughly. She didn't want him doing something he was later going to regret. He had done that on numerous occasions, involving woman.
He shoved her into the wall; slamming her head against it, "Stay out of my way." He hissed in her ear.
"Make me." She growled back, kicking him in the shins, hard. She ran as fast as she could in the opposite direction of Kaoru. Hopefully she distracted Kenshin more than the Kaoru issue did. She observed him run the way Kaoru and Misao had gone. This was more serious than she thought; then again, Kenshin did believe Kaoru was THE ONE.
She ran after Kenshin, dialing the speed dial 1 on her cell phone. "Aoshi... it's happened again... but this time he's after Kaoru... he's headed towards the park... meet me there."
She found Kaoru and Misao cornered, their backs to the lake. Misao was standing protectively in front of a sobbing Kaoru.
Misao was brave, but she had not ever dealt with a crazed Kenshin before. Gina knew either Kaoru or Misao would end up in the hospital if Kenshin did attack them.
Weaponless, Gina picked up her sneaker and hurled it at Kenshin's head. He ducked, and it nearly hit Misao. Gina had expected Kenshin to take the hit like a gentleman, but she wasn't surprised when he ducked. Lucky she fired the other one a split second after the first, this time lower. It hit Kenshin square in the head.
He whirled around with a roar. "RUN!" Gina yelled just as Kenshin jumped her.
She easily hopped away from his grasped. Kenshin was much fast than her, but she was more skillful at reading her opponent, especially when Kenshin wasn't think straight. She was also more lithe and smaller than her older brother.
Gina managed to evade her brother for sometime. She glanced to her back, making sure Kaoru and Misao had gotten away. They had and she breathed a sigh of relief. Her lack of concentration on Kenshin was her fatal mistake.
She spun around to see him jump towards her. He tackled her down, her head smashed against the grass. He began to slam punches on her. Most did not have an effect on her; she was use to harsh training exercises set by her brothers, father and uncle, but this was different. Kenshin punched like he meant every one, and he did.
Gina didn't know how much she could take before she snapped and harm Kenshin out of resentment. She hoped Aoshi would come in time.
(A/N: I considered Gina going into coma here... but found it too unrealistic... at least for these persons.)
"Leave her alone jerk!" A shoe flew at Kenshin, hitting him the head. He got up, infuriated. Another one flew at him then followed by a couple rocks.
Misao and Kaoru had taken off their own shoes and had found Gina's and began pounding Kenshin with the shoes and rocks on the ground. Kenshin glared at them in annoyance and astonishment. This was the moment Gina had been waiting for; she got up, whirled her dominant left foot around and slammed Kenshin in the stomach area. He fell brutally to the ground.
Aoshi jogged up, "Sorry I'm late..."
Gina got up, brushing the dirt and leaves from her, "Yeah... and I almost got pummeled."
"He hit you that bad?" Aoshi pulled a couple of leave from his sister's hair.
"I'm sore all over, I have a bruises all over. I have one black eyes... what do you think? I'm okay." She said, "at least no one was hurt."
"You were." Kaoru said whimpering.
Gina felt bad for Kaoru, "No... no... I know what I'm doing... I'll be fine... At least Kenshin won't be SO sorry about it... when he stops being a baby about it."
Misao looked at Kenshin's fallen form, "Will he be okay?"
Aoshi hauled his collapsed brother up, "Yeah... soon..."
"I suggest you guys stay with another friend or something... Kenshin is VERY hard to watch." Gina said.
"No." Kaoru said, "I'm not running away."
Gina nodded, "But still Kaoru, meet me same place same time... tomorrow...Misao you are welcome to come along." She followed Aoshi to his car.
***
"How is he?" Gina asked as Tokio handed her a cup of warm water.
"Still asleep,"
"OY!! WHAT IS THAT BOY DOING?" Grandmother's shrill voice rang through the apartment.
"Shhh." Aoshi said, "Grandmother, Kenshin's had a rough night."
"She's here... I forgot... I'm leaving." Gina snuck out. Just as she was about the close the door, her Grandmother stopped her.
"Where are YOU going?"
"My room Grandmother."
"Child... you grow uglier by the day... why is your face all like that?"
Gina just ignored the old woman and closed the door. She wasn't in the mood. Grandmother turned to Aoshi, "See that your sister is taught some respect... slap it into her if you have to."
Aoshi nodded, rolling his eyes when she turned her back. "Mother... are you going to need some help with Kenshin?"
Tokio looked at her oldest son, "Of course not. Your father will be home shortly. We can handle Kenshin... maybe not your grandmother... but Kenshin indeed."
Aoshi smiled, "If you say so Mother. I can stay... if you insist"
Tokio smiled for the first time in days at her oldest son, "Go catch a movie tonight Aoshi... you look overworked."
Saitou stalked into the house, "So Kenshin's gone mad again."
"Hajime." Tokio scolded, "That's your son."
"Hn. You boy." He pointed to Aoshi, who gulped nervously. Saitou smirked; it was nice to see his son feared and respected him still, "Get some rest." He barked the order. Aoshi nodded hurriedly and scampered away.
(A/N: I cannot see that happening... but oh well...)
Tokio glanced at her husband, "Hajime. You'll frighten your child to death."
"If I did he would have been already dead by now. What is Kenshin so riled up about that cause Gina to look like that?" Hajime's voice tried to stay calm, but Tokio knew her apathetic husband was worried about their children.
"It's..."
"It better not be a girl... not again..."
"It is." Tokio left a few tears drop from her eyes.
Saitou was a little surprised; his wife did not cry over trivial matters, "What's wrong?"
"Kenshin... if Kaoru is the one... will never have the love... we share."
Saitou hugged his wife. He agreed with her, but did have another point, "That boy though... has a temper... look how he treats his own sister..."
"I think he treats her the way she should be treated!" Grandmother hobbled into the room, much to Saitou's disgust. He released his wife.
Saitou clenched his fist. His wife put her hands lightly on his and he relaxed him slightly, twitching in anger ever so slightly, "What do you..."
"Hajime..." Tokio warned. She loved her mother, she did. But lately her mother had been a grump, finding fault in her not-so-perfect husband and children. Her mother had become unbearable. Tokio remembered her mother to be understanding of children, of her. Then she remembered why that all changed; she married Hajime Saitou.
Hajime Saitou was a well-known cop at that time, the deadliest on the streets. "Trigger-happy man" some called him, other though found a more frightening name for him, "The Wolf." With that name Saitou's fame grew, and then the attacks on his family started.
Tokio had been frightened in the beginning, but then came to accept it as a way of life, an understanding cop's wife.
"No Tokio. I want to here what your husband has to say."
"I've got TWO words for you." Saitou snapped.
"HAJIME!" Tokio tapped his arm impatiently, "We haven't even discussed this through yet."
"NURSING HOME." Saitou spat at his mother-in-law.
(A/N: Who collapsed in shock and died. I think MissBehavin will be cheering if I wrote that...)
He was slapped in the face, "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" Yelled his mother-in- law. Tokio made no move to stop her mother or her husband. She seemed astounded.
"It's not your house." He said with a smirked, "But I'll leave anyways."
He had his hand on the door when Tokio ran and stopped him, "Don't leave. I'm sorry about my mother."
"I'll be back." He whispered as he kissed her cheek lightly. "Just watch Kenshin and make sure he doesn't do anything he will regret later."
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Aww... some cute Saitou and Tokio moments... I cut this chapter short... so I can post this...
I think I will probably had a more humorous chapter next... I need a few laughs... this story is going WAY too serious...
Sorry about Kenshin going crazy... I think I would to... but not THAT crazy... some of it was exaggerated... if anyone didn't like that Kenshin punched Gina... I'm sorry... I apologize for my mind... just imagine Kenshin in Battousai mode... that what he pretty much was in.
Um... well... please review...
This is one chapter in which I am considering to revise... tell me what you think. Also, tell me how you would react if I had Jin kill Gina... I could have Gina die that way...
But Gina might not die...I'll see...
Next on the 12th Street Apartment: Saitou doesn't want to face his mother- in-law tonight, so he decides to crash some homes. (Note: Subject to change)