Author's note: It's official, you all hate me, but I owe it to the friends
I met because of this fanfic to finish it and no one's gonna stop me!
Last 2 or 3 remaining reviewers: . . .
Me: BE QUIET! . -cries-
Last 2 or 3 reviewers: -walk away-
Me: WAAA!!!

Chapter 15: Happy 4th of July or is it?

I should probably do a meeting . . . Yahiko's been doing pretty well manner
wise, Sano doesn't need and more meets till the train ride in 3 days- wait!
I know! We should all go to the fireworks tonight! It's the forth of July,
so the show should . . . cause Sano to scare others with his screaming . .
. Maybe not such a good Idea. Maybe we can see the fireworks from the
roof? But still the fireworks aren't for a few hours; I should have a
meeting with Kenshin right before the fireworks.

Suddenly Gwen interrupted my thoughts by pointing out that the stir-fry I
was making was burning. 00 "No! Darn it!" I yelled as I pull the pan off the stove. "Oh and Leslie, the door bell just rang." Gwen said.

"Why don't you get it? Can't you see I'm cooking?"

She shrugged and went to get the door and I when back to tried to salvage
the remains of the stir-fry. Suddenly I got a strange feeling. I turned
around to the doorway of the kitchen just in time to see, just like you
would a dead guy from the 6th sense, a balloon float by the doorway.
"EEEEK!" I yelled when I jumped. Gwen walked back in. "Yeah, it says happy 4th of July on it but doesn't
have a tag." "But it.. It just. . . "I stuttered looking from Gwen to the door and back
again. --;; "Really Leslie, just cause that one balloon was evil doesn't mean
they all are. . ." Gwen said rolling her eyes. I sweat dropped. Just then from the other side of the house I heard Yahiko say "Wha? A
balloon?" "See! How'd it get all the way over there by itself?!?" I asked Gwen.
She replied, "Um. . ." I grinned. "There, now there's proof its an evil
balloon." Kaoru walked in & Yahiko walked in. "An evil what?" Kaoru asked.

"Balloon." Gwen answered for me.

"It's not just one evil balloon, balloons are evil in general." I said.

"They are not!" Gwen countered.

"What's wrong with balloons?" Kaoru asked.

"Well, a while back I got a balloon and it stalked me and Gwen through the
house for 2 days."

"How come you didn't just pop it?" Yahiko asked looking a little confused
as to how a balloon could stalk someone.

"Well, if it was stalking us it must have had some kind of a soul right?
;;;; I didn't wanna kill it." I said.

"Basically," Gwen said. "She was having to much fun wanted know what it
would do next."

Yahiko sweat dropped.

"well. . . I did eventually have to kill it unfortunately but it was by
accident."

"Accident?" Kaoru asked.

"Well, my sword wasn't really doing any damage cause it's so blunt but I
guess I somehow cut it open" :-/ "I was gonna burry it but I forgot and I
think Gwen threw it out by accent."

"Hey Leslie, so you're afraid of balloons?" Yahiko asked.

"Well kinda, but only if I don't have my wooden sword or katana handy." I
answered.

"Oh well you should know that there's a balloon right behind you." Yahiko
said.

O.O "There's a what?" I said turning around quickly to find myself face to
face with the forth of July balloon. "IIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!"

Gwen screamed too, fallowed by Kenshin running in holding his sword eyes
wide in surprise with Sanosuke right behind him. Then Megumi peeked in.
"what's going on???" She asked in surprise.

I grabbed Yahiko's wooden sword from him and smacked the balloon across the
kitchen with it. The balloon twirled in mid air before floating out the
window. It then hit the wind chime then lodged itself between to branches
in the tree outside.

Everyone stared at the balloon for a minute. "Can I have my sword
back now?" Yahiko asked sounding kind of annoyed.

"Umm. . . Yeah sorry Yahiko, I'm gonna go get my own sword in case it
comes back." I said handing him back his sword.

"You really think that things is going to come back?" Sano asked nervously.

"Yep, It'll only be in that tree for a while." Most everyone in the room
had no idea what was going on so they didn't say anything.

"Hey Gwen get your wooden sword too."

"Okay."

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Author's note:
Okay everyone! A couple things.

1) I've given up on trying to gain you reviewers back, I' thinking I'm not
going to get more than 10 reviews in the remainder of this fic.

2) I am deeply considering the deletion of my other fanfics. Yes that right
they suck, I know it, and I've given up on them.

3) I'm sorry about the long wait for updates but I badly needed a break
from vacation. I was in Japan a week back in June and I was also up in
Michigan on a church trip. I also was working on a few projects like summer
homework and a competition to make the best anime music video with 2 of my
friends, I'll have you all know that competition didn't end well. My movie
maker program broke down and there are no downloads for it anywhere on the
web. Trust me, I've been searching for a download for 2 weeks almost
everyday. TT It's so not fair!! –cries miserably-

4) I just turned 154 on the 27th! I got concert tickets to an
evanescence concert =.=

Updates on my stasis as a Rurouni Kenshin fan
Well I was a TomoeXKenshin fan for a while, but I'm back to K&K which made
updating easier. I'm also about to buy a samurai X box set to see exactly
what happened to Kenshin in his years as an assassin. Yes before now I was
living in the dark, mostly off of the few video clips I've found (basically
just 3 or 4) and a few spoilers for episodes.

My favorite RK theme song is now 1/3 my true feelings, It's so much fun to
sing!

Rurouni Kenshin is officially back to being my favorite anime of all time!!
=.= Yeah, for a while it was a cross between Trigun, FLCL, Case Closed,
and .hackSIGN. Well for the few who still care enough to review my last
chapter, here are some thank yous

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Thank you Koneko maiden, trueyamigirlfriend, Trio the sohma family penguin,
cincygurl222, & Emerald31 for reviewing my fic in the last two chapters.
Extra special Thanks to Choas Babe, Neko=Miko-Kagome, Dark Yukina,
trueyamigirlfriend, cynical feline, Ivy Raine, knshn4eva, Wave-Master-Alex,
Trio the sohma family penguin, Rissi-Sama, psychopenguinjedi23, dark-luv-
dove, Emerald31, Master of Time and Space, FoxyFireDemon, Mistaken Otaku,
bsdisaster, & reuka for having me on they're favorite author's lists.

NEXT CHAPTER: Who sent the balloon? A Kenshin meeting maybe? Review or I'll
be heart broken and maybe forgot to add the new chapter to
after I'm done writing it! ;;