Chapter five
Mizu slowly opened her eyes to a tiny ray of sun peeking through a window in her room. She bolted into an upright position, noticing someone was in there with her. She turned to her left and noticed some one sitting next to her.
"Yeigu!!" She cried, embracing him.
"Get off me! You know I won't allow anyone to hug me."
"How did you... get in here?"
He nodded to the ceiling where Mizu noticed a piece of it was lopsided where he had come through. She laughed, always like him to make an interesting entrance.
Yeigu's Spiky hair stuck up nearly straight. It was singed on the tips from god knows what. His tiny frame prevented him from really mastering any sword technique. Plus, any person he would battle would be almost a foot taller than himself, putting him at a disadvantage. Though he did teach Mizu most of her techniques, He still was too small to battle most people.
"Mizu..." he said, "Have you found Battousai?"
"No," she replied, "But he's in Tokyo. He's near here I can tell."
"Yes," Yeigu nodded, "What is your mission when you find him?"
"Kill him." She replied shortly.
"Why?" he asked
"I must kill him for revenge. For my family."
"Good," He replied before swinging back up into the ceiling and moving the tile back into place.
"Humph," she muttered as he left, "I will find you Battousai. And when I do, you'll be sorry."
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Mizu entered he kitchen wearing one of Kaoru's training gi's. She smiled at every one and got a very warm welcome from every one. She set down next to Yahiko.
"Good morning Yahiko-kun! Did you sleep well last night?" she asked
"Yeah. Hey you didn't call me chan!" he exclaimed happily.
"Chan?" she asked, "Oh I never call any one over eight 'chan'."
"Maybe you guys could learn a few things from Mizu here." Said Yahiko.
"Mizu, um, after breakfast, I need to have a talk with you okay?" asked Sano.
"Okay." She said she looked over at Kenshin, who hadn't said anything. She noticed he had a square bandage over his left cheek.
"Kenshin? What happened to you?" she asked
"Hm? Oh well this one fell in the woods and got cut." He replied
"Okay," Mizu said. She stuffed a rice ball into her mouth. "Delishoush."
"Why thank you Miss Mizu!" said Kenshin.
Mizu ate two more rice balls and she drank some tea. Then She stood up and announced to the group that she was going to the woods to train some. She grabbed her katana and made her way to the door.
As soon as she was gone, Kaoru spoke up, "Do you think she still wants revenge?"
"I'll talk to her," said Sano as he picked up two rice balls. "I'll see you later okay?"
"Right."
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"Whoo whoo whoo," Mizu breathed harder. "Three hundred more swings Mizu you can do it." She started swinging across.
When Sano appeared, she was well into her two hundredth swing.
"Brought you a snack." He said handing her a rice ball. She devoured it hungrily.
"Listen Mizu," he started, "What if I told you that Kenshin was the Battousai. Would you still want to kill him?"
"Well for one thing, Kenshin can't be the Battousai. Battousai has a scar on his left cheek. For another, Kenshin is a nice guy And-"
Suddenly Kenshin stepped out of the bushes, his hair was in a high ponytail and you could see his cross-shaped scar plainly on his face. His eyes were narrowed into his 'death glare'.
"Battousai." Mizu stood up. "Draw your sword and come at me Battousai."
"No. I cannot do that Miss Mizu." He said. He took down his hair and pulled it into a low ponytail. His eyes took on the normal form and he was once again, rurouni Kenshin.
"K-K-Ken...shin?" She stuttered. "K-Kenshin is Th-The... B-Battousai?! But how?"
"He's not the Battousai anymore. He's different now, he won't kill anymore. Ever," Explained Sano.
"Miss Mizu," said Kenshin, he sat down near her. "I am so very sorry about your sister. But it is not as it seems. You see, another man wounded her. She was suffering and I put her out of her misery. And I know you would have done the same. Am I right?"
"Yes." She sighed. "I thought that you had just killed her. I'm sorry I said all those things. And Well I-"
"No offense was meant towards you, Kenshin." She finished up.
"And no offense is taken," he comforted her by patting her shoulder.
"But if you really mean it," said Sano, "You've gotta promise to drop your anger. You can't go off and try to kill Kenshin or anything okay?"
"Um... Okay," She said. "I'll try."
No. Whispered Yeigu from a tree. "My plan is coming apart. Surely, Mizu can't give up so easily. She won't. I'll make sure of it..."
(A/N: Okay pleee... (3000 e's later) ...eeease don't ask who Yeigu is. I'll get to that later on in the story. He's supposed to look somewhat like Beshimi from the oniwanbashu. I hope I did a good job.)
