A/N: Konnichiwa minna!!! Hhhmmmm.........yup...my angsty/violence ficcie really is turning into a humor ficcie............and they're mostly er………..."special" jokes that elementary kiddies won't get...especially this chapter…….so if you're really that young...........dont read……...but i think you ppl should be able to understand it…....
Disclaimer: I don't own RK yadda yadda…..….
From Nightmares to a Prank
"Oi, BITCH!! How come you wasted our money and bought more rice than necessary?" Her step-uncle roared.
Toko was trembling with fear.
"Oi, uncle, she's just the bastard child from our dad....of course she's too stupid to know these things." Shiku said with a sneer.
"Still, she needs to be taught a lesson." Hajita said.
The four men took out bamboo sticks.
Toko then ran for her life.
"Tasukete!!!!! (Help!!) She yelled frantically. She looked back, the men were gaining on her.
She ran and ran until she was running through a hill. There, she saw Soujiro.
"SOUJIRO!! Help!!!" She cried desperately.
Soujiro just smiled, and the more Toko ran towards him, the farther he seemed to be.
He was slowly disappearing.
"Soujiro!! Don't leave me!!!!!" She shouted.
Then, Soujiro had disappeared completely. In his place was....Juro.
"You're tainted" He sneered, and the four other men had caught up to her.
"You're unpure, tainted……..you need to be gotten rid of from this world." They all said as they crept up on her.
Toko covered her ears, refusing to listen.
"YAMETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (STOP!!)" She yelled in pain and sheer terror.
"YAMETE!!!!!!!!!!! (STOP!)" Soujiro bolted from his own nightmare and sat up, startled.
He saw Toko, shivering and crying beside him.
She has nightmares too? He wondered.
"Toko-chan.....?" Soujiro hesitantly said as he put his arms around her, like Toko did to him whenever he had a nightmare.
"Soujiro...dont leave me.......SOUJIRO!!!!!! YAMETE!!!!!!! (Stop)" Toko said, shaking her head.
Soujiro's head spun with thoughts.
Me? Leave her? What is she thinking about?!?! Soujiro thought again.
Without thinking, Soujiro bent down and bit Toko right where he bit her last time.
Toko's eyes blinked wide open and she yelled "ITAI-yo!!!!" She was still shivering in fright from the nightmare.
"There, you woke up." Soujiro said in a calm voice and his little smile.
"Aa....arigatou...demo..... you didnt have to bite me again..." Toko complained.
"It was the only way i could get you to wake up..." Soujiro said again with a smile.
Toko put her head on Soujiro's shoulder.
"Are you feeling better?" Soujiro softly said.
"Iie..." Toko said...then.......
She pulled Soujiro's sleeping robe off his shoulder, making his eyes wide as a plate (anime style!!) and she bit HIS shoulder. Soujiro winced.
"NOW i feel better" Toko said triumphantly.
Kenshin's room
Kenshin was just about to doze off when.
"SOUJIRO!!!!!!!!!" A tiny bit of shaking/rustling. (Soujiro was shaking Toko's shoulders to get her to wake up.
"Daijobu?" came Soujiro's pained voice.
Silence....
Later....
"Feeling better now?...." "Iie..." A bit of rustling.
"NOW i feel better."
Kenshins eyes went wide.
Sou-chan and Toko's room
"Oro?!"
Soujiro and Toko both heard Kenshin say.
"Was Kenshin eavesdropping on us?" Toko whispered.
"I think so" Soujiro said cheerfully.
Toko's eyes widened.
"Kami-sama....I wonder what he was thinking...." Toko said.
Soujro thought about what they said…..suddenly…...everything seemed…..so…....wrong.
Toko seemed to have noticed too.
Then she gave a mischievous grin at Soujiro.
She tiptoed over to the wall near Kenshin and said.
"Sou-chan....can you do that again?" She heard Kenshin jerk.
Soujiro seemed to have go the idea. Moving near the wall next to Toko, he said cheerfully.
"Aa...as many times as you want."
This time, Kenshin seemed to roll off his futon.
Toko gasped,
"Sou-chan!!! I never knew you could do that!!" Soujiro then said,
"And what can you do?" "Many things." "Show me"
Now they heard Kenshin walk near their wall, totally eavesdropping.
"Sou-chan...." Toko whispered right into the wall.
"Toko-chan...." Soujiro did the same.
"Sou-chan...." "Toko-chan......koishii" Soujiro said absentmindly, then froze.
Did i just call her koishii?! Demo....i said it as a joke right? I was reserving that to say it to someone i loved..... He thought disappointedly, but at the same time glad. That made him confused.
Toko froze. Koishii?!?! That's a bit.....over the edge...i never knew Sou-chan would be so into this little prank..... Toko thought as her heart beat faster and heat rushed to her faces.
Then.
"OrrRrOoOoOoOoooooooo......" The sound of thumping could be heard.
Soujiro smiled.
"Iku (Let's go)" He said.
The two went and slid Kenshin's door open.
They found the swirly eyed ex-rurouni fainted.
Kenshin dizzily got up.
"Toko-dono...Soujiro!!" He stuttered.
"YOU EAVESDROPPER!!" The smiling Toko said and she launched what seemed like hundreds of mini shurikens at Kenshin.
"That prank we pulled on you should teach you a lesson..." Soujiro commented.
"Oro? Prank?" Kenshin said..still confused.
Weren't they just doing something?? Oi...prank?? Kenshin thought.
Toko walked up to Kenshin, who was still stuck on the wall.
"Kenshin...I never knew you were such a hentai......we told you we were just friends...but you didnt believe us...and now you eavesdropped?? Tsk tsk...." Toko joked at Kenshin.
"OoOrRrOoOo..." Was all Kenshin managed to stutter.
Morning
"Ohaiyo minna!!" Soujiro said cheerfully.
"Ohaiyo...Eavesdropper-san" Toko winked at Kenshin.
Kenshin flushed with embarassment.
"Sessha didnt mean to eavesdrop" he defended.
Toko rolled her eyes.
Sano looked at Kenshin.
Eavesdropping? HIM?? Sano thought amazedly.
Then.
"OHAIYO!!" Kaoru walked out of the room.
Then she noticed Kenshin blushing. "Eh? Kenshin...are you sick...you seem awfully red...." She said worriedly.
Kenshin blinked.
He blinked again.
"Sessha has something to do in the kitchen de gozaru yo" He hurriedly said as he ran to the kitchen.
Kaoru looked at the rest of the people with confused eyes.
She saw Yahiko's confused face, Sano's snickering face, and as usual, Soujiro's and Toko's smile.
Later
"Breakfast is served, de gozaru" Kenshin announced as he brought the food over.
"Kenshin-san...." Toko said slyly as she walked behind Soujiro and leaned on his back. She winked at Kenshin.
Soujiro just kept smiling and eating as Kenshin fainted.
"Ma, ma......Toko-chan…....you should stop teasing Kenshin-san….fainting so much isn't good for him" Soujiro said cheerfuly, although his grin seemed bigger than usual and he was choking down a laugh.
"Mou!! It's so fun though!" Toko retorted jokingly.
The rest of the Kenshin-gumi just looked at them with blank faces.
Toko and Soujiro burst out laughing ......then........
"Oi, Toko-san, Soujiro-kun....what are those red marks on your necks??" Kaoru asked.
Soujiro was still dressed in his sleeping robe, as he was going to take a bath right after he ate, and Toko was wearing her usual strange clothes.
Sanosuke choked on his rice.
Toko and Soujiro both had red marks on their left shoulders.
"What kind of bug bit you?" Yahiko said worriedly.
Sano then said "Its not a bug bite"
"What is it?" Kaoru questioned.
"Hmm..this is what the foreigners call it...a "Love bite" (In japanese they say something liek Luv-u bite-o or sumthin...too hard to spell out...)"
"EH???????????" Everyone yelled as Soujiro and Toko fell to the floor.
"ITS NOT A LOVE BITE!!!!" Toko said angrily, bonking Sano on the head with the hilt of her dagger, though her smile remained on her face.
"What's a love bite?" Yahiko asked.
"I'll tell you when you're older." Kaoru said amazedly.
So that's why Toko wanted to stay in Soujiro's room....
Then, Soujiro said "Kaoru-san, Toko-chan and I are going to move to the empty room next to our room ok? Kenshin seems to be…....disturbed when we are around." Soujiro said cheerfully.
Kenshin choked.
Kaoru looked confused, but she said.
"ok..."
Kaoru-san is so much like Yumi-san....Although Kaoru-san is a bit more immature and childish, as well as more violent and energetic...she still cares for me like Yumi-san did....like the mother or sister i never had... Soujiro though wistfully, reminding himself of how much he wanted a real family.
Soujiro then looked at Toko.
I guess Toko-chan can be my sister too....but for some reason......it feels so wrong........like she should be someone else in my life....not just a sister......... He thought confusedly.
Then a memory popped out of his mind
koishii....... Soujiro blinked, and shook his head.
When he looked up, he saw everyone staring at him.
"Na........nani-ka??" He said in his chibi form with a cute lil smile on his face.
I could've sworn i just heard him mouth 'koishii' to himself Kaoru observed.
Kaoru walked up to Soujiro.
"Oi....Soujiro-kun..........really....how did you get that red mark though....." She asked.
Now Toko and Soujiro froze.
"Red...mark on the neck?? Eh........................" Toko said with a sweatdrop.
She looked at Soujiro's neck...and the mark was there.
She pressed down gently on the mark.
Soujiro winced, but tried to make it look like he was just laughing really hard.
For once that didnt fool anyone.
Soujiro then stood up.
"Im going to take a bath" He announced as he hurriedly put his dishes into the kitchen and ran to the bath house.
"Im going to finish making my new clothes" Toko said right after Soujiro left.
"They are SO up to something" grinned Sanosuke.
Kenshin just said..."Oro?"
Toko began to move her and Soujiro's stuff to her old room.
They didnt have that much stuff, so it took her less than half an hour to move everything.
Then she sat down and began thinking.
Why did i get embarassed when Kaoru-san and the others were talking about me and Soujiro? I cant possibly love him.....if i did....then i could never tell him. It might ruin our friendship and he's the only friend i have......
Suddenly, she heard voices.
She walked out and saw a man smoking a cigarette.
Hes the police officer Soujiro and I saw when we went to the market!!
"Battousai, i need to speak with you" Saito said calmly.
"what is it, Saitoh......" Kenshin said, his eyes narrowed.
"It's about that fugitive, Tenken." Saito said again.
Toko's eyes widened.
"He's been spotted around Tokyo, and i want you to catch him and bring him back to the police so he can be properly tried and executed." Saito continued.
"What do you mean executed?!? Soujiro's changed!! He's not like he used to be!!" Toko blurted out.
Saitoh's gaze turned from Kenshin to her.
"And who may you be......." Saito said, he then thought, (with the little thought bubble when he first saw Misao)
MegumiFox KaoruRaccoon MisaoWeasel This new girl....................
"Chipmunk" He said thoughtfully.
Veins popped out of Toko's head as she gave him a scary smile.
"Chi.....Chipmunk?!?!" She said eerily at Saitoh, giving him shivers.
"Her name is Toko-dono de gozaru yo " Kenshin replied, going between them and popping their glaring contest.
"Chipmunk, Toko-san, same thing...." Saito replied, ignoring Toko's glares, "Anyway, what do you know about Tenken no Soujiro?"
"He's a lot better than you" Toko's teeth gritted.
"Answer my question. What is your relationship between you and Tenken." Saito said seriously.
Toko looked away and refused to answer, hatred burning through her eyes, but her smile still on her face.
Her fist was clenched tightly, so tightly her fists were shaking. Everyone watched as she struggled to unclench them.
Her hair shielded her face, so noone knew what was going on.
Suddenly, Toko looked up.
Her face was bright and smiling. Her tone was cheery as she said "I have to go somewhere, minna, ja...." she bowed as she practically skipped out of the dojo, humming like a carefree girl.
Everyone's eyes were wide with surprise at Toko's sudden change of atittude.
"She's very.....polite and happy today....." Yahiko stated.
"She's just like him. Like Tenken......." Saito murmured.
Hiding their emotions under a smile, becoming even happier than before after almost having their emotions broken, so happy one cannot tell what emotions are going on through their eyes Saito thought with narrowed eyes, what is her relationship with Tenken, i must find out.
Toko skipped to the side of the dojo, then hopped up the wall and climbed back in.
She then curled herself up near a tree and started crying.
She sobbed in frustration.
Kuso....that man keeps insulting Soujiro like that, he doesn't know that Soujiro has changed, he doesn't know that Soujiro and I are tormented by nightmares each night. He doesn't know anything, yet he is still accusing Soujiro of cold blooded murder and acting like he knows it all
Suddenly, she tensed as someone placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Daijobu, Toko-chan?" A soothing and familiar voice asked.
Toko relaxed her shoulders and put a smile on her face, even though she was still crying.
Soujiro had just walked out of the bathhouse when he heard crying. He heard it come from behind a tree. Looking behind the tree, he saw a familiar figure, sobbing. His face clouded over with worry and concern for a second before being replaced with a smile.
He placed a hand on her shoulder, awkwardly trying to comfort her. His heart wrenched with pain and sorrow as he saw her tense. "Daijobu, Toko-chan?" He said softly, not knowing what else to say.
Toko looked up and she relaxed.
"Daijobu. Sou-chan." She said with a smile, even though her face was streaked with tears.
"Then why are you crying?" He asked.
He sat knelt down in front of her, putting both hands on her shoulders, looking her in the eye.
Something must be really troubling her........ he thought, I have never seen her emotions look this concealed before
"I.............I was just.........." Toko was speechless.
She wanted to say "I was just so happy to have you as my friend" but she couldnt bring herself to lie. She couldnt lie to him.
I am happy that he is my friend.......but that wasn't why i was crying..... She thought.
She couldnt think of anything to do, so she suddenly fell towards him and gave him a big hug.
He was apparently surprised, but he slowly and unsurely put his arms around her.
"What was that for?" The smiling rurouni asked.
Toko kept her arms around him, and said,
"Metsuni...(Nothing.....)" She put her head on his shoulder, and leaned closer to him to cry over his shoulder, making sure her tears dropped on the ground and not on his gi.
Soujiro just embraced her patiently as she silently sobbed.
He was aware that she was crying, he could feel her shoulders tremble.
What happened? He thought.
Later
Toko had felt better after crying and now just closed her eyes, feeling comfort by being next her friend.
Reluctant to let go, but she did anyway, she stood up.
Soujiro just stood up next to her, looking at her, as if asking her what she wanted to do now.
"Let's go to the market" Toko declared.
Putting on an even bigger smile she grabbed Soujiro's hand and quickly dragged him out the dojo, making sure Saito wasn't there.
Meanwhile
"Battousai, i want you to find out the relationship between the chipmunk and Tenken." Saito said.
"Chotto matte!! (wait...) Why do you want to find out anyway??" Kaoru demanded angrly.
"Tanuki...(raccoon) you stay out of this" Saitoh gravely said.
Kaoru had several veins pop on her head as Sanosuke and Yahiko held on to her to prevent her from attempting to kill Saitoh with a tea kettle.
"Let me inform you on what Tenken had been accused of. Villagers had stated that he had killed and murdered many these years......bloody bodies, often headless or decapitated, were found everywhere. All the witnesses claimed it was done by a smiling boy." Saitoh continued, "I will send someone over tommorow to make sure you do your job."
And with that, he left.
"That giant pain in the........"Sano gritted his teeth.
Saitoh turned around.
"Oi, aho (moron) I heard that." And he continued walking.
Veins popped out of Sano's head.
"AHO?!?!? AHO JA NAI YOU ANTENNA MAN!! (A/N: referring to Saitoh's hair er...wats left of his bangs...i saw it in a "kenshin outtake" once...it was funni...)
Saitoh ignored him and walked out of the dojo.
2 hours later
"WAI! KAWAII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Toko squealed as she went to each and every one of the stalls, eyes shining as she looked at shiny trinkets.
Soujiro followed her with his normal smiling face.
But inside, he was in turmoil.
I know Toko is just acting, I've done that myself.......the more emotional i become, the happier i get to cover it up. Soujiro thought. what happened while i was gone?!? She won't tell me.....
Toko was staring at a pretty pin with little beads and a glass flower. The man said it was a rare and beatiful pin made in a place called China (A/N:Don't know if China was there back then....im just sticking things in so they make sense.......0)
She thought to herself, while pretended to look at more pins Should i tell Soujiro about what Saitoh said? I want to.....but im scared my emotions might break down........I know that he's worried, he may be smiling, but he's tense......
She finished looking at all the stalls.
She skipped back to Soujiro, suddenly becoming a hyper, happy-go-lucky girl (A/N: kind of like Misao?? Lol....)
"Where to now?" She asked Soujiro.
Soujiro was about to reply when.............
"Toko-san!! Soujiro-san!!!!!" They both turned around and saw Yahiko running at them.
"There you are!! I found you guys!! We thought you probably left or something........." Yahiko said breathlessly from running to much.
"Is.........Is Saitoh gone?" Toko hesitantly asked. Her too-cheerful smile faltering just a bit, so short of a time that noone but someone like her would notice. Soujiro noticed.
He was surprised.
Saitoh?! What did he do to her to make her this.....emotionally upset......what did he do to make her bottle up all her emotions so strongly?! Temme.......if i find out you've been harming Toko-chan.....you'll die......... Soujiro thought to Saitoh, his head tilted down so noone could see his mad glare.
"He's gone. Lets go back" Yahiko said. Just as he turned around, he was knocked over by a girl.
"Itai........" The girl commented. She clutched a small pouch of money in her hands. She had blonde hair and blue eyes that flickered green........like a green fire twisting to the wind in a clear blue sky. She was about Yahiko's age.
"GAKI!! (brat) GET BACK HERE WITH MY MONEY!!!!" Angry voices shouted.
The girl scrambled up and ran.
Soujiro, Yahiko, and Toko followed.
The followed them into a street with the reputation of many cutthroats and robbers. The girl ducked behind a door.
"Boss, please help me...........i got the money like you wanted me to.........demo......the men are chasing after me!!!!!" The girl pleaded.
"The Boss" frowned.
"AHO!! You just lead them into our hideaway!!" The gang member snarled.
The men rushed into the room.
"You'll get your punishment later" The 'boss' sneered at the girl.
He walked up to the men.
"Good day, gentlemen." He smiled.
"GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK" the 'gentleman' yelled.
"I cant do that" 'boss' said.
He snapped his fingers and 10 big looking guys came.
The 'gentlemen' yelped but before they could run out of the house their necks were snapped like twigs.
"Now......Hikari.....what did i tell you? Never let ANYONE find our hideaway? Do we have to brand those words on you? Hmm?" The 'boss' viciously said as he kicked the Hikari.
The girl whimpered and tried to back away. She glared at them.
"Hiro-san (A/N: HA! That's my cousins name!! Too bad hes a bad guy in my ficcie....).....how much more did my father owe you?" She spat out.
The two figures and the little kid peered through a hole in the wall, watching the scene.
That Hikari.......she's being forced to pick pocket too.......just like me!!! Yahiko remembered as his memory of his "pickpocketting days" came to a close thanks to Kenshin.
"He owes us a lot more......." Hiro-san grinned. (A/N: i feel so sorry for my cousin.....hes a nice guy.....didnt mean to put him as a villain...but i ran out of names.......0)
"URUSAI! (er..shut up...i cant spell....T-T)" A voice shouted.
The men looked at the door. There stood a young spiky haired boy.
He's the one i ran into !! Hikari thought.
"Yahiko-kun!!!" Toko said desperately to stop him as Yahiko boldly stood up and challenged the gang.
"If i....If i beat all of you, will you let go of the girl?" Yahiko said savagely.
"You ?? Beat us??" One of the men sneered.
"We'll use bokkens." Yahiko said, drawing his out.
Hiro nodded.
"Agreed."
One of the men ran up to Yahiko, and Yahiko prepared to block, when suddenly, his eyes shot wide open.
The man had stripped off the wood cover of the "bokken" and it revealed a long and sharp metal blade.
"We lied." Hiro said nonchalantly.
The man slashed Yahiko's bokken in half and kicked him down.
"You....cheaters" Yahiko said in disgust.
"So??" The man laughed, then suddenly his eyes bulged and he started bleeding through the mouth.
"N...nani??" He said in surprise as he saw a blade come out from his chest.
He grunted and died as the blade twisted and savagely tore out of him.
As the man fell down, there the gang members saw a young boy, with a young girl next to him. They both wore polite little smiles.
"Temme (You bastard 'in a bad way').............you killed one of my men. I'll have to teach you a lesson." Hiro yelled angrily.
The men lunged at the two "genki" (happy) (A/N: ...eto.....they're not really that happy.....hence the quotations) people.
Soujiro immediately sprung into action, hacking at the men, but for some reason, the men kept moving towards the back of the room, as if retreating. Once they were in the very back of the room, blocked Soujiro from going back to the front of the room.
"You fell right into my trap, boy." Hiro laughed, "look what happened to your friend."
He pointed at Toko.
Yahiko had gotten Hikari and they had ran out of the dojo, but Toko.......
She was surrounded into a corner, and she was unable to use her mini shurikens because she was too close to the target and the shurikens wouldnt gain enough speed to cut through flesh. She had her straight sword and dagger out, but against the big humongous muscular men, her weak strength couldn't do much.
Soujiro's eyes widened. "TOKO!!!!!" he shouted, forgetting all suffixes.
His voice was torn with desperation and pain as the men pounced on him, covering his view from what was happening to Toko.
Toko was surrounded by the group of smelly guys. She wrinkled her nose in distaste.
Alcoholics... She thought disgustedly.
She was bleeding in some places, as she was totally outnumbered from 5 to 1.
"Let's have some fun with her." A man suggested.
"What about the boy she was with?" Another man asked.
"He's probably dead by now" Someone assured.
Then Toko had an idea, she was happy she decided to attach steel blade tips to her waragi (japanese sandal things). She front sweeped, cutting many of the men's ankles. After yelling several profanities, the men took a step back. Then, using her leg strength and flexibility, she kicked several other in the shin, gashing them. She did a handspring and the blades on her feet slightly made a gash from a man's stomach to his chin. He stumbled down.
Unfortunately, Toko was beginning to tire, she can't keep using her feet to fight..............
Soujiro was mad. He was beyond the point of sanity.
For some reason, after he saw Toko cornered, something inside him snapped.
A feeling of possessiveness and concern broke through his smile.
His pupils dilated as he staggered back, holding his head for a moment.
The men looked at him, not knowing what was going on.
Soujiro was not smiling now. He was glaring, with hard, cold eyes as he said in a deadly voice,
"I will kill you all now, there will be no mercy. My Shun Ten Satsu will kill all of you immediately. You won't even know you're dead."
Some men laughed nervously, obviusly scared by his tone, others backed away warily, then they all suddenly attacked all at once.
The massacre began.
The men made a dive for Soujiro, then all of the sudden, he wasn't there anymore. The men looked around in confusion , the in horror as one of their men made a guttural scream as he was brutally sliced in half. Another man screamed as he looked down and noticed his leg was missing, a few milliseconds later, that man's head was gone too.
All of the men looked around in fear.
"It's a ghost!! A vengeful mononoke!!!" They screamed.
"No!! It's a youkai (demon!!)" Another yelled. They ran, trying to get out of the house.
One man who was running suddenly had his face gouged out by a blade, then another man had his brains splattered on the floor. (A/N: EeEeEeEeWwWw...im grossing myself out while typing this....)
The men's limbs were flying everywhere.
Hiro backed away from the cyclone of blood.
He stumbled and his hand landed on something.....warm.
He looked down and saw a man's head staring back at him in fright.
"AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!" he screamed.
He shut his eyes tightly, then opened them.
He saw the room painted with blood, some parts of the floor decorated with limbs, bones, and intestines.
He saw another figure, looking down on him.
"Please.......spare me......anything you want.....anything...." Hiro blubbered.
Soujiro lowered his sword, his nihontou nicking the mans neck.
"what.....are you" Hiro asked frighteningly.
"Someone you shoudlnt have messed with" The infuriated boy said stonily.
Hiro just stared at him as Soujiro turned around.
Hiro stayed there for a few seconds, before his body fell to perfectly cut pieces. (A/N: EEEWWWWW!!! Gross gross gross gross.....oish..i got that from resident evil 1...you know..when the lasers cut the guy to pieces? Eeeeww...i am scaring myself....O.o)
Toko was breathing hard, she was too weak...the only thing she could do now is block and defend herself from being beaten. A man lunged at her, she closed her eyes and blocked with her hands. This might be it....I'm going to die She thought fearfully.
Then something hit her hand. It was..............a finger.......a decapitated bloody finger.
Toko looked up. The man who had been lunging at her was nowhere to be seen. Only a splash of blood on the ceiling told her what had happened to the man.
She looked around her, horrified.
There were bits and pieces of bodies everywhere....several heads there, a limb here, bones there....unidentifiable deformed chunks of flesh......blood.......
The stench..............
The room reeked of it….....
Her breathing was faster than before, the room started to spin..............
She fainted just as a swirly of bloody blue caught her.
She turned her head away.
The stench of blood She thought again right before she totally blacked out.
Soujiro saw Toko look around, her breathing becoming abnormal, she looked like she was about to panic. Her pupils dilated and she seemed to be suffocating, as if trying to block noxious gas. Her smile was not there. She swayed, then fell.
Soujiro used Shukuchi to catch her. Toko automatically turned her head away from him.
He carried her out of the room. Using Shukuchi again. He ran until he saw a a stream. He placed her under the shade of a tree. He sat down.
He still wasn't smiling.
Suddenly, a light broke upon his face as he had just realized what he had just done. He remembered with gruesome detail as he killed each and every one of the men there with no mercy. Even as they went on their knees and begged.
The lives he had taken seemed to weigh heavily upon him just then.
His guilt was suffocating him.
He stared at his hands and his nihontou. They were red with blood and the stench began to take him over.
He remembered the day he killed his family.....the day he lost his innocence.
There was so much blood.....but now......there was more blood....
He grabbed his head, walking backwards in circles, he banged his head back on a tree.
What have i done?? He muttered to himself.
Without thinking, he jumped into the stream.
Must clean the blood off...too much blood..... he thought madly, scrubbing himself everywhere.
He scrubbed his clothes, his face, his hair...........
Everything looks clean.....but the stench......the stench of blood is still there...i still feel the wetness of the blood on my hands He though in a daze.
Must keep, scrubbing
A/N: That's it for now!! YAWN......so sleepy.....i'm waiting for Ragnarok since the server is down.....but itll be up at 3am......but its only 1:30 and im already so sleepy......yawn Thats what i get for waking up too early.......sigh
Uh oh.......Sou-chan is turning mad........what now what now?? Stay tuned!! Hehehehehe I feel like im doing a commercial........0
R&R!
NO FLAMES!! You dun like.....you go away......keep your nasty and mean comments to yourself.
Disclaimer: I don't own RK yadda yadda…..….
From Nightmares to a Prank
"Oi, BITCH!! How come you wasted our money and bought more rice than necessary?" Her step-uncle roared.
Toko was trembling with fear.
"Oi, uncle, she's just the bastard child from our dad....of course she's too stupid to know these things." Shiku said with a sneer.
"Still, she needs to be taught a lesson." Hajita said.
The four men took out bamboo sticks.
Toko then ran for her life.
"Tasukete!!!!! (Help!!) She yelled frantically. She looked back, the men were gaining on her.
She ran and ran until she was running through a hill. There, she saw Soujiro.
"SOUJIRO!! Help!!!" She cried desperately.
Soujiro just smiled, and the more Toko ran towards him, the farther he seemed to be.
He was slowly disappearing.
"Soujiro!! Don't leave me!!!!!" She shouted.
Then, Soujiro had disappeared completely. In his place was....Juro.
"You're tainted" He sneered, and the four other men had caught up to her.
"You're unpure, tainted……..you need to be gotten rid of from this world." They all said as they crept up on her.
Toko covered her ears, refusing to listen.
"YAMETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (STOP!!)" She yelled in pain and sheer terror.
"YAMETE!!!!!!!!!!! (STOP!)" Soujiro bolted from his own nightmare and sat up, startled.
He saw Toko, shivering and crying beside him.
She has nightmares too? He wondered.
"Toko-chan.....?" Soujiro hesitantly said as he put his arms around her, like Toko did to him whenever he had a nightmare.
"Soujiro...dont leave me.......SOUJIRO!!!!!! YAMETE!!!!!!! (Stop)" Toko said, shaking her head.
Soujiro's head spun with thoughts.
Me? Leave her? What is she thinking about?!?! Soujiro thought again.
Without thinking, Soujiro bent down and bit Toko right where he bit her last time.
Toko's eyes blinked wide open and she yelled "ITAI-yo!!!!" She was still shivering in fright from the nightmare.
"There, you woke up." Soujiro said in a calm voice and his little smile.
"Aa....arigatou...demo..... you didnt have to bite me again..." Toko complained.
"It was the only way i could get you to wake up..." Soujiro said again with a smile.
Toko put her head on Soujiro's shoulder.
"Are you feeling better?" Soujiro softly said.
"Iie..." Toko said...then.......
She pulled Soujiro's sleeping robe off his shoulder, making his eyes wide as a plate (anime style!!) and she bit HIS shoulder. Soujiro winced.
"NOW i feel better" Toko said triumphantly.
Kenshin's room
Kenshin was just about to doze off when.
"SOUJIRO!!!!!!!!!" A tiny bit of shaking/rustling. (Soujiro was shaking Toko's shoulders to get her to wake up.
"Daijobu?" came Soujiro's pained voice.
Silence....
Later....
"Feeling better now?...." "Iie..." A bit of rustling.
"NOW i feel better."
Kenshins eyes went wide.
Sou-chan and Toko's room
"Oro?!"
Soujiro and Toko both heard Kenshin say.
"Was Kenshin eavesdropping on us?" Toko whispered.
"I think so" Soujiro said cheerfully.
Toko's eyes widened.
"Kami-sama....I wonder what he was thinking...." Toko said.
Soujro thought about what they said…..suddenly…...everything seemed…..so…....wrong.
Toko seemed to have noticed too.
Then she gave a mischievous grin at Soujiro.
She tiptoed over to the wall near Kenshin and said.
"Sou-chan....can you do that again?" She heard Kenshin jerk.
Soujiro seemed to have go the idea. Moving near the wall next to Toko, he said cheerfully.
"Aa...as many times as you want."
This time, Kenshin seemed to roll off his futon.
Toko gasped,
"Sou-chan!!! I never knew you could do that!!" Soujiro then said,
"And what can you do?" "Many things." "Show me"
Now they heard Kenshin walk near their wall, totally eavesdropping.
"Sou-chan...." Toko whispered right into the wall.
"Toko-chan...." Soujiro did the same.
"Sou-chan...." "Toko-chan......koishii" Soujiro said absentmindly, then froze.
Did i just call her koishii?! Demo....i said it as a joke right? I was reserving that to say it to someone i loved..... He thought disappointedly, but at the same time glad. That made him confused.
Toko froze. Koishii?!?! That's a bit.....over the edge...i never knew Sou-chan would be so into this little prank..... Toko thought as her heart beat faster and heat rushed to her faces.
Then.
"OrrRrOoOoOoOoooooooo......" The sound of thumping could be heard.
Soujiro smiled.
"Iku (Let's go)" He said.
The two went and slid Kenshin's door open.
They found the swirly eyed ex-rurouni fainted.
Kenshin dizzily got up.
"Toko-dono...Soujiro!!" He stuttered.
"YOU EAVESDROPPER!!" The smiling Toko said and she launched what seemed like hundreds of mini shurikens at Kenshin.
"That prank we pulled on you should teach you a lesson..." Soujiro commented.
"Oro? Prank?" Kenshin said..still confused.
Weren't they just doing something?? Oi...prank?? Kenshin thought.
Toko walked up to Kenshin, who was still stuck on the wall.
"Kenshin...I never knew you were such a hentai......we told you we were just friends...but you didnt believe us...and now you eavesdropped?? Tsk tsk...." Toko joked at Kenshin.
"OoOrRrOoOo..." Was all Kenshin managed to stutter.
Morning
"Ohaiyo minna!!" Soujiro said cheerfully.
"Ohaiyo...Eavesdropper-san" Toko winked at Kenshin.
Kenshin flushed with embarassment.
"Sessha didnt mean to eavesdrop" he defended.
Toko rolled her eyes.
Sano looked at Kenshin.
Eavesdropping? HIM?? Sano thought amazedly.
Then.
"OHAIYO!!" Kaoru walked out of the room.
Then she noticed Kenshin blushing. "Eh? Kenshin...are you sick...you seem awfully red...." She said worriedly.
Kenshin blinked.
He blinked again.
"Sessha has something to do in the kitchen de gozaru yo" He hurriedly said as he ran to the kitchen.
Kaoru looked at the rest of the people with confused eyes.
She saw Yahiko's confused face, Sano's snickering face, and as usual, Soujiro's and Toko's smile.
Later
"Breakfast is served, de gozaru" Kenshin announced as he brought the food over.
"Kenshin-san...." Toko said slyly as she walked behind Soujiro and leaned on his back. She winked at Kenshin.
Soujiro just kept smiling and eating as Kenshin fainted.
"Ma, ma......Toko-chan…....you should stop teasing Kenshin-san….fainting so much isn't good for him" Soujiro said cheerfuly, although his grin seemed bigger than usual and he was choking down a laugh.
"Mou!! It's so fun though!" Toko retorted jokingly.
The rest of the Kenshin-gumi just looked at them with blank faces.
Toko and Soujiro burst out laughing ......then........
"Oi, Toko-san, Soujiro-kun....what are those red marks on your necks??" Kaoru asked.
Soujiro was still dressed in his sleeping robe, as he was going to take a bath right after he ate, and Toko was wearing her usual strange clothes.
Sanosuke choked on his rice.
Toko and Soujiro both had red marks on their left shoulders.
"What kind of bug bit you?" Yahiko said worriedly.
Sano then said "Its not a bug bite"
"What is it?" Kaoru questioned.
"Hmm..this is what the foreigners call it...a "Love bite" (In japanese they say something liek Luv-u bite-o or sumthin...too hard to spell out...)"
"EH???????????" Everyone yelled as Soujiro and Toko fell to the floor.
"ITS NOT A LOVE BITE!!!!" Toko said angrily, bonking Sano on the head with the hilt of her dagger, though her smile remained on her face.
"What's a love bite?" Yahiko asked.
"I'll tell you when you're older." Kaoru said amazedly.
So that's why Toko wanted to stay in Soujiro's room....
Then, Soujiro said "Kaoru-san, Toko-chan and I are going to move to the empty room next to our room ok? Kenshin seems to be…....disturbed when we are around." Soujiro said cheerfully.
Kenshin choked.
Kaoru looked confused, but she said.
"ok..."
Kaoru-san is so much like Yumi-san....Although Kaoru-san is a bit more immature and childish, as well as more violent and energetic...she still cares for me like Yumi-san did....like the mother or sister i never had... Soujiro though wistfully, reminding himself of how much he wanted a real family.
Soujiro then looked at Toko.
I guess Toko-chan can be my sister too....but for some reason......it feels so wrong........like she should be someone else in my life....not just a sister......... He thought confusedly.
Then a memory popped out of his mind
koishii....... Soujiro blinked, and shook his head.
When he looked up, he saw everyone staring at him.
"Na........nani-ka??" He said in his chibi form with a cute lil smile on his face.
I could've sworn i just heard him mouth 'koishii' to himself Kaoru observed.
Kaoru walked up to Soujiro.
"Oi....Soujiro-kun..........really....how did you get that red mark though....." She asked.
Now Toko and Soujiro froze.
"Red...mark on the neck?? Eh........................" Toko said with a sweatdrop.
She looked at Soujiro's neck...and the mark was there.
She pressed down gently on the mark.
Soujiro winced, but tried to make it look like he was just laughing really hard.
For once that didnt fool anyone.
Soujiro then stood up.
"Im going to take a bath" He announced as he hurriedly put his dishes into the kitchen and ran to the bath house.
"Im going to finish making my new clothes" Toko said right after Soujiro left.
"They are SO up to something" grinned Sanosuke.
Kenshin just said..."Oro?"
Toko began to move her and Soujiro's stuff to her old room.
They didnt have that much stuff, so it took her less than half an hour to move everything.
Then she sat down and began thinking.
Why did i get embarassed when Kaoru-san and the others were talking about me and Soujiro? I cant possibly love him.....if i did....then i could never tell him. It might ruin our friendship and he's the only friend i have......
Suddenly, she heard voices.
She walked out and saw a man smoking a cigarette.
Hes the police officer Soujiro and I saw when we went to the market!!
"Battousai, i need to speak with you" Saito said calmly.
"what is it, Saitoh......" Kenshin said, his eyes narrowed.
"It's about that fugitive, Tenken." Saito said again.
Toko's eyes widened.
"He's been spotted around Tokyo, and i want you to catch him and bring him back to the police so he can be properly tried and executed." Saito continued.
"What do you mean executed?!? Soujiro's changed!! He's not like he used to be!!" Toko blurted out.
Saitoh's gaze turned from Kenshin to her.
"And who may you be......." Saito said, he then thought, (with the little thought bubble when he first saw Misao)
MegumiFox KaoruRaccoon MisaoWeasel This new girl....................
"Chipmunk" He said thoughtfully.
Veins popped out of Toko's head as she gave him a scary smile.
"Chi.....Chipmunk?!?!" She said eerily at Saitoh, giving him shivers.
"Her name is Toko-dono de gozaru yo " Kenshin replied, going between them and popping their glaring contest.
"Chipmunk, Toko-san, same thing...." Saito replied, ignoring Toko's glares, "Anyway, what do you know about Tenken no Soujiro?"
"He's a lot better than you" Toko's teeth gritted.
"Answer my question. What is your relationship between you and Tenken." Saito said seriously.
Toko looked away and refused to answer, hatred burning through her eyes, but her smile still on her face.
Her fist was clenched tightly, so tightly her fists were shaking. Everyone watched as she struggled to unclench them.
Her hair shielded her face, so noone knew what was going on.
Suddenly, Toko looked up.
Her face was bright and smiling. Her tone was cheery as she said "I have to go somewhere, minna, ja...." she bowed as she practically skipped out of the dojo, humming like a carefree girl.
Everyone's eyes were wide with surprise at Toko's sudden change of atittude.
"She's very.....polite and happy today....." Yahiko stated.
"She's just like him. Like Tenken......." Saito murmured.
Hiding their emotions under a smile, becoming even happier than before after almost having their emotions broken, so happy one cannot tell what emotions are going on through their eyes Saito thought with narrowed eyes, what is her relationship with Tenken, i must find out.
Toko skipped to the side of the dojo, then hopped up the wall and climbed back in.
She then curled herself up near a tree and started crying.
She sobbed in frustration.
Kuso....that man keeps insulting Soujiro like that, he doesn't know that Soujiro has changed, he doesn't know that Soujiro and I are tormented by nightmares each night. He doesn't know anything, yet he is still accusing Soujiro of cold blooded murder and acting like he knows it all
Suddenly, she tensed as someone placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Daijobu, Toko-chan?" A soothing and familiar voice asked.
Toko relaxed her shoulders and put a smile on her face, even though she was still crying.
Soujiro had just walked out of the bathhouse when he heard crying. He heard it come from behind a tree. Looking behind the tree, he saw a familiar figure, sobbing. His face clouded over with worry and concern for a second before being replaced with a smile.
He placed a hand on her shoulder, awkwardly trying to comfort her. His heart wrenched with pain and sorrow as he saw her tense. "Daijobu, Toko-chan?" He said softly, not knowing what else to say.
Toko looked up and she relaxed.
"Daijobu. Sou-chan." She said with a smile, even though her face was streaked with tears.
"Then why are you crying?" He asked.
He sat knelt down in front of her, putting both hands on her shoulders, looking her in the eye.
Something must be really troubling her........ he thought, I have never seen her emotions look this concealed before
"I.............I was just.........." Toko was speechless.
She wanted to say "I was just so happy to have you as my friend" but she couldnt bring herself to lie. She couldnt lie to him.
I am happy that he is my friend.......but that wasn't why i was crying..... She thought.
She couldnt think of anything to do, so she suddenly fell towards him and gave him a big hug.
He was apparently surprised, but he slowly and unsurely put his arms around her.
"What was that for?" The smiling rurouni asked.
Toko kept her arms around him, and said,
"Metsuni...(Nothing.....)" She put her head on his shoulder, and leaned closer to him to cry over his shoulder, making sure her tears dropped on the ground and not on his gi.
Soujiro just embraced her patiently as she silently sobbed.
He was aware that she was crying, he could feel her shoulders tremble.
What happened? He thought.
Later
Toko had felt better after crying and now just closed her eyes, feeling comfort by being next her friend.
Reluctant to let go, but she did anyway, she stood up.
Soujiro just stood up next to her, looking at her, as if asking her what she wanted to do now.
"Let's go to the market" Toko declared.
Putting on an even bigger smile she grabbed Soujiro's hand and quickly dragged him out the dojo, making sure Saito wasn't there.
Meanwhile
"Battousai, i want you to find out the relationship between the chipmunk and Tenken." Saito said.
"Chotto matte!! (wait...) Why do you want to find out anyway??" Kaoru demanded angrly.
"Tanuki...(raccoon) you stay out of this" Saitoh gravely said.
Kaoru had several veins pop on her head as Sanosuke and Yahiko held on to her to prevent her from attempting to kill Saitoh with a tea kettle.
"Let me inform you on what Tenken had been accused of. Villagers had stated that he had killed and murdered many these years......bloody bodies, often headless or decapitated, were found everywhere. All the witnesses claimed it was done by a smiling boy." Saitoh continued, "I will send someone over tommorow to make sure you do your job."
And with that, he left.
"That giant pain in the........"Sano gritted his teeth.
Saitoh turned around.
"Oi, aho (moron) I heard that." And he continued walking.
Veins popped out of Sano's head.
"AHO?!?!? AHO JA NAI YOU ANTENNA MAN!! (A/N: referring to Saitoh's hair er...wats left of his bangs...i saw it in a "kenshin outtake" once...it was funni...)
Saitoh ignored him and walked out of the dojo.
2 hours later
"WAI! KAWAII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Toko squealed as she went to each and every one of the stalls, eyes shining as she looked at shiny trinkets.
Soujiro followed her with his normal smiling face.
But inside, he was in turmoil.
I know Toko is just acting, I've done that myself.......the more emotional i become, the happier i get to cover it up. Soujiro thought. what happened while i was gone?!? She won't tell me.....
Toko was staring at a pretty pin with little beads and a glass flower. The man said it was a rare and beatiful pin made in a place called China (A/N:Don't know if China was there back then....im just sticking things in so they make sense.......0)
She thought to herself, while pretended to look at more pins Should i tell Soujiro about what Saitoh said? I want to.....but im scared my emotions might break down........I know that he's worried, he may be smiling, but he's tense......
She finished looking at all the stalls.
She skipped back to Soujiro, suddenly becoming a hyper, happy-go-lucky girl (A/N: kind of like Misao?? Lol....)
"Where to now?" She asked Soujiro.
Soujiro was about to reply when.............
"Toko-san!! Soujiro-san!!!!!" They both turned around and saw Yahiko running at them.
"There you are!! I found you guys!! We thought you probably left or something........." Yahiko said breathlessly from running to much.
"Is.........Is Saitoh gone?" Toko hesitantly asked. Her too-cheerful smile faltering just a bit, so short of a time that noone but someone like her would notice. Soujiro noticed.
He was surprised.
Saitoh?! What did he do to her to make her this.....emotionally upset......what did he do to make her bottle up all her emotions so strongly?! Temme.......if i find out you've been harming Toko-chan.....you'll die......... Soujiro thought to Saitoh, his head tilted down so noone could see his mad glare.
"He's gone. Lets go back" Yahiko said. Just as he turned around, he was knocked over by a girl.
"Itai........" The girl commented. She clutched a small pouch of money in her hands. She had blonde hair and blue eyes that flickered green........like a green fire twisting to the wind in a clear blue sky. She was about Yahiko's age.
"GAKI!! (brat) GET BACK HERE WITH MY MONEY!!!!" Angry voices shouted.
The girl scrambled up and ran.
Soujiro, Yahiko, and Toko followed.
The followed them into a street with the reputation of many cutthroats and robbers. The girl ducked behind a door.
"Boss, please help me...........i got the money like you wanted me to.........demo......the men are chasing after me!!!!!" The girl pleaded.
"The Boss" frowned.
"AHO!! You just lead them into our hideaway!!" The gang member snarled.
The men rushed into the room.
"You'll get your punishment later" The 'boss' sneered at the girl.
He walked up to the men.
"Good day, gentlemen." He smiled.
"GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK" the 'gentleman' yelled.
"I cant do that" 'boss' said.
He snapped his fingers and 10 big looking guys came.
The 'gentlemen' yelped but before they could run out of the house their necks were snapped like twigs.
"Now......Hikari.....what did i tell you? Never let ANYONE find our hideaway? Do we have to brand those words on you? Hmm?" The 'boss' viciously said as he kicked the Hikari.
The girl whimpered and tried to back away. She glared at them.
"Hiro-san (A/N: HA! That's my cousins name!! Too bad hes a bad guy in my ficcie....).....how much more did my father owe you?" She spat out.
The two figures and the little kid peered through a hole in the wall, watching the scene.
That Hikari.......she's being forced to pick pocket too.......just like me!!! Yahiko remembered as his memory of his "pickpocketting days" came to a close thanks to Kenshin.
"He owes us a lot more......." Hiro-san grinned. (A/N: i feel so sorry for my cousin.....hes a nice guy.....didnt mean to put him as a villain...but i ran out of names.......0)
"URUSAI! (er..shut up...i cant spell....T-T)" A voice shouted.
The men looked at the door. There stood a young spiky haired boy.
He's the one i ran into !! Hikari thought.
"Yahiko-kun!!!" Toko said desperately to stop him as Yahiko boldly stood up and challenged the gang.
"If i....If i beat all of you, will you let go of the girl?" Yahiko said savagely.
"You ?? Beat us??" One of the men sneered.
"We'll use bokkens." Yahiko said, drawing his out.
Hiro nodded.
"Agreed."
One of the men ran up to Yahiko, and Yahiko prepared to block, when suddenly, his eyes shot wide open.
The man had stripped off the wood cover of the "bokken" and it revealed a long and sharp metal blade.
"We lied." Hiro said nonchalantly.
The man slashed Yahiko's bokken in half and kicked him down.
"You....cheaters" Yahiko said in disgust.
"So??" The man laughed, then suddenly his eyes bulged and he started bleeding through the mouth.
"N...nani??" He said in surprise as he saw a blade come out from his chest.
He grunted and died as the blade twisted and savagely tore out of him.
As the man fell down, there the gang members saw a young boy, with a young girl next to him. They both wore polite little smiles.
"Temme (You bastard 'in a bad way').............you killed one of my men. I'll have to teach you a lesson." Hiro yelled angrily.
The men lunged at the two "genki" (happy) (A/N: ...eto.....they're not really that happy.....hence the quotations) people.
Soujiro immediately sprung into action, hacking at the men, but for some reason, the men kept moving towards the back of the room, as if retreating. Once they were in the very back of the room, blocked Soujiro from going back to the front of the room.
"You fell right into my trap, boy." Hiro laughed, "look what happened to your friend."
He pointed at Toko.
Yahiko had gotten Hikari and they had ran out of the dojo, but Toko.......
She was surrounded into a corner, and she was unable to use her mini shurikens because she was too close to the target and the shurikens wouldnt gain enough speed to cut through flesh. She had her straight sword and dagger out, but against the big humongous muscular men, her weak strength couldn't do much.
Soujiro's eyes widened. "TOKO!!!!!" he shouted, forgetting all suffixes.
His voice was torn with desperation and pain as the men pounced on him, covering his view from what was happening to Toko.
Toko was surrounded by the group of smelly guys. She wrinkled her nose in distaste.
Alcoholics... She thought disgustedly.
She was bleeding in some places, as she was totally outnumbered from 5 to 1.
"Let's have some fun with her." A man suggested.
"What about the boy she was with?" Another man asked.
"He's probably dead by now" Someone assured.
Then Toko had an idea, she was happy she decided to attach steel blade tips to her waragi (japanese sandal things). She front sweeped, cutting many of the men's ankles. After yelling several profanities, the men took a step back. Then, using her leg strength and flexibility, she kicked several other in the shin, gashing them. She did a handspring and the blades on her feet slightly made a gash from a man's stomach to his chin. He stumbled down.
Unfortunately, Toko was beginning to tire, she can't keep using her feet to fight..............
Soujiro was mad. He was beyond the point of sanity.
For some reason, after he saw Toko cornered, something inside him snapped.
A feeling of possessiveness and concern broke through his smile.
His pupils dilated as he staggered back, holding his head for a moment.
The men looked at him, not knowing what was going on.
Soujiro was not smiling now. He was glaring, with hard, cold eyes as he said in a deadly voice,
"I will kill you all now, there will be no mercy. My Shun Ten Satsu will kill all of you immediately. You won't even know you're dead."
Some men laughed nervously, obviusly scared by his tone, others backed away warily, then they all suddenly attacked all at once.
The massacre began.
The men made a dive for Soujiro, then all of the sudden, he wasn't there anymore. The men looked around in confusion , the in horror as one of their men made a guttural scream as he was brutally sliced in half. Another man screamed as he looked down and noticed his leg was missing, a few milliseconds later, that man's head was gone too.
All of the men looked around in fear.
"It's a ghost!! A vengeful mononoke!!!" They screamed.
"No!! It's a youkai (demon!!)" Another yelled. They ran, trying to get out of the house.
One man who was running suddenly had his face gouged out by a blade, then another man had his brains splattered on the floor. (A/N: EeEeEeEeWwWw...im grossing myself out while typing this....)
The men's limbs were flying everywhere.
Hiro backed away from the cyclone of blood.
He stumbled and his hand landed on something.....warm.
He looked down and saw a man's head staring back at him in fright.
"AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!" he screamed.
He shut his eyes tightly, then opened them.
He saw the room painted with blood, some parts of the floor decorated with limbs, bones, and intestines.
He saw another figure, looking down on him.
"Please.......spare me......anything you want.....anything...." Hiro blubbered.
Soujiro lowered his sword, his nihontou nicking the mans neck.
"what.....are you" Hiro asked frighteningly.
"Someone you shoudlnt have messed with" The infuriated boy said stonily.
Hiro just stared at him as Soujiro turned around.
Hiro stayed there for a few seconds, before his body fell to perfectly cut pieces. (A/N: EEEWWWWW!!! Gross gross gross gross.....oish..i got that from resident evil 1...you know..when the lasers cut the guy to pieces? Eeeeww...i am scaring myself....O.o)
Toko was breathing hard, she was too weak...the only thing she could do now is block and defend herself from being beaten. A man lunged at her, she closed her eyes and blocked with her hands. This might be it....I'm going to die She thought fearfully.
Then something hit her hand. It was..............a finger.......a decapitated bloody finger.
Toko looked up. The man who had been lunging at her was nowhere to be seen. Only a splash of blood on the ceiling told her what had happened to the man.
She looked around her, horrified.
There were bits and pieces of bodies everywhere....several heads there, a limb here, bones there....unidentifiable deformed chunks of flesh......blood.......
The stench..............
The room reeked of it….....
Her breathing was faster than before, the room started to spin..............
She fainted just as a swirly of bloody blue caught her.
She turned her head away.
The stench of blood She thought again right before she totally blacked out.
Soujiro saw Toko look around, her breathing becoming abnormal, she looked like she was about to panic. Her pupils dilated and she seemed to be suffocating, as if trying to block noxious gas. Her smile was not there. She swayed, then fell.
Soujiro used Shukuchi to catch her. Toko automatically turned her head away from him.
He carried her out of the room. Using Shukuchi again. He ran until he saw a a stream. He placed her under the shade of a tree. He sat down.
He still wasn't smiling.
Suddenly, a light broke upon his face as he had just realized what he had just done. He remembered with gruesome detail as he killed each and every one of the men there with no mercy. Even as they went on their knees and begged.
The lives he had taken seemed to weigh heavily upon him just then.
His guilt was suffocating him.
He stared at his hands and his nihontou. They were red with blood and the stench began to take him over.
He remembered the day he killed his family.....the day he lost his innocence.
There was so much blood.....but now......there was more blood....
He grabbed his head, walking backwards in circles, he banged his head back on a tree.
What have i done?? He muttered to himself.
Without thinking, he jumped into the stream.
Must clean the blood off...too much blood..... he thought madly, scrubbing himself everywhere.
He scrubbed his clothes, his face, his hair...........
Everything looks clean.....but the stench......the stench of blood is still there...i still feel the wetness of the blood on my hands He though in a daze.
Must keep, scrubbing
A/N: That's it for now!! YAWN......so sleepy.....i'm waiting for Ragnarok since the server is down.....but itll be up at 3am......but its only 1:30 and im already so sleepy......yawn Thats what i get for waking up too early.......sigh
Uh oh.......Sou-chan is turning mad........what now what now?? Stay tuned!! Hehehehehe I feel like im doing a commercial........0
R&R!
NO FLAMES!! You dun like.....you go away......keep your nasty and mean comments to yourself.
