Chapter 4: The Untimely Meeting
Kaoru stopped suddenly. She had heard something nearby in the woods. Tamahome looked at her, "Something wrong?" "I thought I heard something…" she said, "did you hear anything?" "No," Tamahome said looking at her as if she was going crazy. Kaoru shrugged her shoulders as they resumed walking.
Kenshin looked at the nearby woods searchingly. Sano and Miaka looked at him questioningly. "Did you see something, Kenshin?" Sano asked. "I thought I did, but I guess not." Kenshin replied shaking his head to clear it. He could have sworn he heard Kaoru's voice. `I'm just imagining things, I miss her so much…` Kenshin was suddenly deep in thought. `I wish I could have been there, if I was, then none of this would have happened. I'm just counting on me finding her, when I do, I won't ever let this happen again, not ever…`"Hey Kenshin, Keeeeeennnsshhhhhhiiiiiiiinnnnnn!!!!! " Sanosuke yelled, quickly getting frustrated. Until finally, he whacked Kenshin upside the head screaming, "HEY KENSHIN, ANYONE HOME!?!" "Orororororororororororororo…" Kenshin said as he fell swirly eyed to the ground. Miaka giggled as Sanosuke became even more frustrated by Kenshin's reaction, "Don't you oro me buster! You should be telling us which way to go!!" Sano yelled at Keshin, his head becoming unusually large and he seemed to have fangs instead of teeth. Kenshin suddenly recovered and turned his left and right and then left again. "Oh my!" he exclaimed. "I do believe we are going the wrong way, we are going and complete opposite direction!" Sano gave a wonderful anime face fault flop as Miaka sweat dropped. Kenshin didn't seem at all pleased by the news either. `Nnnnnoooooooo!!!!!! Now it'll take longer to find Kaoru!…` Kenshin made a complete turn and headed in that direction. Miaka followed him as Sanosuke recovered. "Hey wait up you guys!" he said as he scrambled to his feet. Sano soon reached them and said, "So Kenshin, we are going the right way now, right?" "I believe we are Sano" Sanosuke gave a sigh of relief. "Excuse me, Kyoyama-san (AN: I wanted to put in an honorific but I'm sure I did something wrong, please tell what I did wrong), do you know the way to Kyoto?" Kenshin asked thinking. "Um, yes, yes I do, and please call me Miaka." "All right, but why didn't you tell Sano he was going in the wrong direction?"
"Oh, um, I thought that that rooster-head knew a shortcut or something because he told me earlier he had already been to Kyoto!" "WHAT!?! Don't call me rooster head!" Miaka looked at Sano, "I'll put that on my to do list, Rooster-head." "HEY!!! Don't call me Rooster-head, ya pelican!" (AN: I needed an animal name, if anyone has something better, tell me!) Miaka was appalled, "M-me? A pelican?" Kenshin looked at Sanosuke, "A pelican?" Sano shrugged. Miaka wasn't going to back down though. "Don't you call me a pelican, you rooster!" "WHAT!?!" "You're a deaf rooster too!" (AN: I know, Kaoru said that, geniuses think alike, again) "Why you, you, spaghetti eating pelican!" (AN: My sister and made it up, don't ask) "WHAT!?! You idiotic rooster that has no sense of direction!" "I am not a rooster! And I do too have a sense of direction!" "Oh really? Then show me! Which way is west?" "Its…" Sano turned around and pointed to the left of him, "That's west!" Miaka started laughing, "No, you buffoon! That's east!" Kenshin stepped between them, "Actually, that's north." Miaka and Sano both did an anime face fault flop.
Kaoru heard that noise again. She stopped and turned to look at Tamahome, "Did you hear that?" Tamahome nodded. Both of them thought that the voices sounded familiar. Kaoru could have sworn it sounded like Kenshin and Sano, and Tamahome thought the female voice sounded like…Miaka.
Sano recovered from his anime face fault flop instantly, but Miaka did not. Kenshin Leaned over her, "Miaka, are you okay?" She groaned and shifted her head. Sano saw the sharp rock that was hidden slightly by her hair. He bent down to pick it up and showed it to Kenshin. Kenshin immediately bent down to see if Miaka was bleeding. "Miaka Miaka MIAKA!!!!" Both Kenshin and Sano began to panic.
Both Kaoru and Tamahome heard the yells. They ran in the direction of the familiar voices. They made a turn and they saw two people crouched over someone who wasn't moving, One had red Hair and was looking at the lying person's head while the other spiky-haired man kept on yelling, "MIAKA! Are you okay?" Tamahome ran over yelling, "MIAKA!?!" Kaoru stood there rooted to the spot, "Kenshin?"
AN: Wow, I've written a lot of notes. And I'm sorry I took so long to write this chapter. And forget everything I said about knowing where this is going. I'm just gonna write what comes to mind. About the pelican, if anyone has a better suggestion, please, spread your knowledge. Please review!