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Kitty: rolls eyes what now?

KatDrama: I've been thinking....

Kitty: NOOOOOOOOOO! Quick, evacuate the system!!!! Women and kittens first!!!!

KatDrama: Whoa, easy there. I was just saying that I was thinking of writing fic staring us.

Kitty: Really?

Rurouni KatDrama: bows I would be honored.

Kitty: skeptically we should let the readers decide....

Kat: I plan to! So listen up, all those who are reading this out there! If you think you'd like to read a story staring us drop us your opinion!

Rurouni KatDrama: now keep that in mind as you read this next chapter, that you should.

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Whispering Sunshine

Chapter Seven

Anger Management

"So, what do you think, Sachi?" Kaoru gleefully asked, her eyes dancing with pride at her excellent fashion sense. She had matched the blonde haired Sachi with a royal blue hakama and a slightly pinkish gi. Sachi didn't know what to do, she stood, modeling the clothes Kaoru had given her. "Sooo?" The eager girl pressed. Sachi flexed her arms a little, then reaching up she grabbed hold of the ridiculously large sleeves that were popular of modern Japanese garb and ripped them clean off.

Kaoru stopped, mouth agape. "Wha...wha...wha....wha...." She muttered google eyed. Sachi just smiled as she felt her slightly tan and muscular shoulders. She tossed the torn sleeves to the astonished Kaoru. Finally, the silence snapped. "What'd you do that for? If you wanted torn off sleeves you could have just worn the old gi of mine that you ruined!!!!!!!" Kaoru yelled.

"Oro?" Kenshin's head snapped up in the courtyard. "I wonder what that sound was."

"Probably Sachi's cries of pain from Kaoru's torturing." Yahiko mumbled.

"Yahiko, Kaoru would never hurt Sachi, that she would not." The warrior chastised the young student.

"It was a figure of speech. I meant she was torturing her with clothes just like how she traumatized Sanosuke. Poor guy. Who knows if he'll ever find the therapy required." Yahiko sadly shook his head.

"Now you're going to work for pay for that!!!!!" Sachi sprinted out of the dojo, followed closely by a raging Kaoru. Not knowing where she was going because she couldn't see, Sachi didn't get to run very far. She misjudged the edge of the veranda and fell while running from it to the ground. Kenshin was immediately at her side holding back the red-faced girl that he had almost brought his heart to love.

Sachi cringed as she lay still on the ground, as if she was bracing herself for the blows that never came. Finally, as Kaoru's rage ceased, Kenshin kneeled down beside and tenderly touched her back.

"Sachi, it's okay. Kaoru wasn't going to hurt you, that I am sure she was not." He spoke in a smooth and calm voice. At least I hope not. Kenshin told himself. "Now, are you okay?"

Sachi pushed herself away from the concerned rurouni. Kenshin looked up at Kaoru, rage and desperation pierced her soul from his glaring eyes. Sachi began to blindly feel about for something to pull herself up with.

"Here, need at hand?" Yahiko handed her the end of his shinai and she gratefully accepted it. Slowly she stood up and began to walk in the direction that she hoped was the gate.

"Thump!"

She bumped into the washbasin and for a split second flapped her arms in the air before crashing into the sudsy water.

"Sachi!" Kenshin grabbed her wrist and quickly pulled her out.

"Great! First she ruins a new shirt and now she's already gotten the outfit dirty!" Kaoru threw up her arms in despair.

"Kaoru! Enough! Can't you see that Sachi needs our help, not our criticism, that she does!!" Kenshin scolded the dumbfounded raven-haired teen.

Sachi whimpered a bit as the soaked blindfold slipped from beneath her golden hair and from her eyes. Reacting to the bright sunlight her hand automatically went to cover her sensitive eyes.

"Kaoru, please help me. No doubt she doesn't want my help in changing into dry clothes, that she does not." Kenshin pulled one of Sachi's arms over his shoulder as he prepared to guide her back to her room.

"Hm." Sachi gasped as she stepped forward and fell to her knees. She felt an immense, sharp pain pulsating up from her ankle.

"Sachi? Sachi what's wrong?!" Kenshin kneeled with her and the girl leaned her head unto his shoulder and began to cry from the pain. "Here." Kenshin swung her awkwardly up into his arms and hurried into the house.

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Sachi held tightly on to Kenshin's hand, she was not about to let him go.

"Does it hurt when I do this?" Megumi gently pulled Sachi's foot in different directions.

Sachi bit her lip and nodded as she felt the pain surge up through her left ankle again. Megumi released a sigh of relief. "It's just a sprang. True, it is a bad one, but at least it is not broken."

"That is fortunate, that it is." Kenshin tried to reassure Sachi. Sachi gritted her teeth as Megumi bound her ankle up tight.

"Now, just stay off of it until you can stand to put some weight on it." Megumi patted Sachi's now nearly mummified foot.

Sachi nodded her head with understanding. Kenshin squeezed her hand warmly before releasing it. "I must go now, food does not cook itself, that it does not." Sachi sighed as Kenshin slid the door of her room open and then took his leave.

"You wanna know something?" Megumi met him outside the room.

"What is it, Megumi-san?" Kenshin's violet eyes questioned along with his voice.

"I really think that she can talk, it's almost like she's afraid to. It seems to me that maybe something in her past has scared her so badly that she if afraid to speak, that she is dumbfounded. I think that if there's someway of coaxing it out of her that she might be able to talk." She confided in him.

"It's worth a try." Kenshin nodded his red head.

"But let her rest today, she seems awfully stressed out already..." Megumi instructed.

"Yes, indeed..." Kenshin's eyes flared with anger at the thought of the un- helpful Kaoru-dono.

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KatDrama: Oooooh, the plot thickens, eh?

Kitty: More possibilities.

Rurouni KatDrama: That there are.

KatDrama: Anywhoo- just a preview about the next chapter. Let's just say that a little bit of Sachi's past will be revealed.

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