Disclaimer: Rurouni Kenshin is not mine . . . and I hate it, hate it, hate it .. ^_^
~ A Memory Forgotten ~
Chapter 8
Previously at Dr. Shigeru's office
Sano looked at Yahiko thoughtfully and put one of his hands on the boy's shoulders. Yahiko looked up at Sano as he began to speak. "You're right. I think Kaoru was here before."
Sanosuke handed the papers that he had found earlier over to young boy.
Yahiko gasped.
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As the bullet blasted out of the gun, Kaoru with a burst of speed pushed Soujiro out of the way.
The sound of the bullet hitting flesh was painful. The boy was in shock, he hadn't sensed that man. He looked over to Kaoru, she was slumped on the floor in pain.
Aarggh . .. What's wrong with me? How come I didn't see that coming?, he thought. Soujiro had never felt this much anguish and hatred since he was young.
She was protecting me . . . and she got hurt, Soujiro thought angrily.
Soujiro quickly looked behind him and saw the man who was holding the weapon. While unsheathing his katana, he dashed over to the attacker's side and thrust his sword into his target. The guard didn't have time to react as in the blink of an eye the boy had disappeared and reappeared right in front of him. The man had a sickening smile plastered on his face as blood gurgled up from his throat and a small river of red dripped from his mouth. Soujiro, instead of the usual placid smile on his face, had a scowl as he none to gently pulled his katana out of the man's stomach.
He quickly flicked the blood off of the sword and sheathed it. He turned around and saw Kaoru's limp body on the ground, a small pool of red was forming around her shoulders.
He ran over to her side and got on his knees while turning her body over to face him. Kaoru's eyes were flickering because of the pain and shock of everything that had happened thus far. As her vision began to focus she saw Soujiro's face, but it was his eyes that struck her the most. His blue eyes were full of concern and warmth as he checked her wound. As he propped her head up with his hand, her blue ribbon became undone and her hair came loose.
He let out a sigh of relief after he checked where the bullet had penetrated into her skin.
The wound was not serious. Luckily the bullet had only hit her in her upper right shoulder, nowhere near any of her vital organs. He looked into her eyes and smiled warmly as he lightly touched her cheek with his fingers.
"Kamiya-san, onegai .. look at me. You're going to be fine. I'll take care of you," Soujiro said with sincere compassion.
Kaoru's lips curled up a little in her attempt to smile back at him, but then she winced in pain from the wound in her shoulder. He untied the cloth from her mouth and the bindings on her hands in a hurry and with one quick swoop carried her body and dashed out of the room and into the night. The only remnants of Kaoru being there was her favorite blue ribbon, half of it soaked with her blood on the wooden floor.
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Yahiko was speechless. His big brown eyes turned up towards Sano disbelievingly. Please tell me this is not true, his eyes were pleading to the ex-gangster.
Sanosuke could only gaze at the boy sadly. He opened his mouth to say something that would ease the boy's tension, but no words could come.
Yahiko noticed his friend's inability to reply and only looked back down at the paper.
Patient: No name
Sex: Female
Description: Young woman. Age about 18-20. Blue eyes with raven-black hair. Wearing a dark purple kimono with silver butterflies on it.
Came in during the night with a young man carrying her. No serious wounds except for a dart that had hit the back of her neck. When she woke up, she couldn't remember anything, not even her name. I am keeping her here for the night, but I am returning her with to the man that brought her in here tomorrow since she has no serious conditions that need to be treated.
Her case of amnesia is due to the serum from the dart that had penetrated her cerebral fluids. I'm not sure how long it will take for her to retrieve all of her memory (In other such cases, it has taken from weeks to months to even years).
Yahiko gulped. Kaoru has amnesia? Then he looked back up at Sanosuke whose eyes were glazed over. Yahiko said in a soft voice, "What should we do now?"
Sano snapped out of his daze when he heard Yahiko's voice. "Let's go see Megumi and report this to Saitou." As they started to exit the room, Sano noticed how depressed Yahiko looked and ruffled the boy's spiky hair. He added, "Don't worry Yahiko-chan, we'll find our Jou-chan." Yahiko smiled at him. He had needed to hear that.
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It was nighttime by the time they arrived at the police station again. Sano strutted over to Saitou's office without announcing his presence to the police officer at the desk.
"Hey! Hey!! Hey you!!" yelled the police officer who Sano had passed. "Where are you going?!?!"
Sano and Yahiko ignored the officer's outbursts and pushed open Saitou's door.
"Saitou!" Sano commanded.
Saitou turned around in his chair pausing in the middle of his paperwork. He was pissed. Because of this entire ordeal with his old acquaintance Fujimoto Akane, he was not able to have dinner with his wife, Tokio as he had promised. Out of frustration and annoyance from the two unwelcome visitors, he snapped his pen in half.
"Watch your tone, ahou! Do you know who you're talking to?" Saitou asked curtly.
Then all of a sudden the police officer ran into Saitou's office. "Sorry Captain Fujita, sir. These people came running in here and I couldn't stop them. What do you want me to do with them?" he asked as he peered up at Sano's tall figure, a little intimidated.
Saitou snarled at the police officer, glaring his yellow wolf-like eyes at him. The young officer gulped. "Uh . . . sir?" he said shakily.
"Ahou," he started while taking a puff of his cigarette as he watched the officer, "the next time you make such a mistake, you're fired." Then he added, "Leave."
"H . h . .hai, Captain Fujita sir" the officer said stumbling over his own words. He was scared and glancing back at Sano's figure, he quickly rushed out of the room while closing the door behind him.
"This better be good ahous," Saitou remarked at the two who were left standing in his room.
The ex-gangster walked over to Saitou and slammed the papers that he found at the doctor's office on Saitou's desk. Saitou glared at him then looked down at the papers. He was none too surprised to see splatters of blood on them. He read through the papers. His expression as calm as possible. Then he looked up at the two visitors again as he began to speak.
"So Kamiya can't remember anything, eh?" Saitou commented as he smirked.
Sano and Yahiko were boiling in their anger at Saitou's indifference towards their situation, but tried to keep as calm as possible because they knew that only Saitou could help them find her.
"Yes. When we got there the doctor, Dr. Shiraku, was already slain. Did you find out any more information about her whereabouts or what this Fujimoto guy wants with our Jou-chan?" Sano stammered.
Saitou just glanced back up at Sanosuke sincerely annoyed. He turned back to his paperwork let out a sigh and said, "Nothing so far. Those two ahous in the cell don't know anything else."
Sanosuke and Yahiko looked at one another, they decided it would be best to go back since Saitou obviously didn't have any other useful information for them.
"If you find out any information, you better tell us," Sano remarked as they left the room.
"Ahou," Saitou replied under his breath without looking up. Damn paperwork!, he thought in disgust as he started on another cigarette.
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It was late afternoon when Kaoru started to wake up. She wanted to get up from her futon and stretch, but while getting up she realized a sharp pain in her right shoulder.
"Itai!" she exclaimed as she gently touched her shoulder.
Then she heard a door slide open. She looked to the side.
"Kamiya-san, please lie down. Your wound hasn't healed yet," said Soujiro.
"I don't remember what happened Soujiro. Can you tell me?" asked Kaoru weakly as she was lying back down onto the futon with Soujiro's help. When she was fully rested on the blankets, Soujiro related to her the whole story even what he had heard the boss say about Kaoru's father. She tried to piece together all the information she learned like putting together pieces of a puzzle, but she couldn't because she didn't have all the pieces in the first place. There were lots of holes in the story. She muttered to herself how confusing this all was to her. Her head started to ache from all the thinking. Soujiro noticed this and told her to get some more rest while he would make some dinner. As he left, Kaoru's eyes started to drift close and she fell into a deep sleep.
While Soujiro was preparing the miso soup, he was pondering about what to do next.
I'm glad that her wound is healing very rapidly. It's good that I didn't take her to another doctor, if I did that guy might find her again and this time I might not be so lucky in finding her, he thought with a grim expression on his face. He took out a knife and started cutting up more of the carrots in monotonous succession. Soujiro looked around the kitchen of the house that he had found while he was leaving the hideout the past night. The house on top of the small in the outskirts of Tokyo seemed to be abandoned so he thought it would be safe to stay there the night.
Hmm . . .Kamiya-san is so different from the other people that I have met. She pushed me out of the way of the bullet without even knowing much about me, she risked her life. All I know is that I will use my life to protect her no matter what. Who would want to hurt her? She's like an angel, so beautiful. Remembering how she felt in his arms, he smiled. She smells like jasmin . . . eck, what's that smell?
His thoughts were abandoned when he saw that some of the fish was burning. Oh no!
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Kaoru was in a restless nap. Her head kept moving to the left and right, she was having a bombardment of images coming into her head. But none of those images were clear, they were too blurry to be recognizable. The sounds were faint and she couldn't make out the voices exactly.
Flashes of a tall man who was smiling at her while handing her a bokken. A dojo. A bridge. The word "Evil". A short boy with spiky hair. Yellow eyes. And the most intriguing of all, red hair.
She woke up from her sleep and shook her head as to gather her thoughts from her dreams. "Eh?" she asked aloud as she looked around the room. Where am I?, she thought, but then remembered how Soujiro had saved her and tended to her wound in her arm. She let out a sigh and tried to get up. Using her better arm, she pulled herself up and started stumbling over to the shoji door to look for her friend.
When she left the room, she smelled food burning. Kaoru wrinkled her nose up at the unwelcome scent. As she made her way to the kitchen she saw the figure before her working on some miso soup. Her eyes were frozen on the spot as her mouth dropped open in an "o".
The man in front of her had long red hair and was wearing a magenta gi.
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- To be continued
Random Omake:
"This better be good ahous," Saitou remarked at the two who were left standing in his room.
The ex-gangster walked over to Saitou and slammed the papers that he found at the doctor's office on Saitou's desk. The desk broke in two. Sano looked at Saitou in fear, Saitou's left eye started twitching.
"Umm . . sorry?" said sheepishly. Before Saitou could look up at Sano, Sano yells frantically out to the author, "Could we do that over again?"
Author's Notes:
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Also, I was thinking of starting another fic (after I'm done with this one of course). But it'll be a Inuyasha/RK cross over ^_^ hehe .. except Kaoru will be in Inuyasha's world. Etc etc. .
I was wondering if any of you could suggest some titles for the chapters that I have up already? I have trouble coming up with them.
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