ARG!

I still don't frikkn own Rorouni Kenshin or any other anime mentioned in this story.

DO YOU HAVE TO KEEP REMINDING ME MY LIFE IS SO UTTERLY MEANINGLESS!
Curse you evil lawyers………o.0…….
lallalalalallaallalalala ok, Tanis will start the second chapter. I have no frikkn idea if anybody's liking this……….gimme some response, ne?

They had all come to the conclusion that the person following themis not the escaping murderer. Three sets of footprintsalong the path all indicatedthatthree individuals had disappeared inside the giant cherry trees. Kaoru scrunches up her face in concentration,

"It's strange how the murderer stayed on the path the entire time. Why didn't he try to elude Kenshin and Sanoske better?"

"Hey, Ugly, Kenshin and Sano are way to smart to fall into a trap THIS obvious. They know what they're doing. I say we follow them."

"I wanna go back."

Kaoru glares down Megumi's cowardice,

"You'll be traveling through the woods alone. I won't let you go back by yourself, so the only way to go is forward."

"You two talk all night about this if you want. I'm helping Kenshin and Sano."

He sucks in what would seem like his last breath of air.Kaoru has a hold of Megumi's sleeve. The boygazes up intothe strange carving of the eye,

"Whoa…"

Yahiko touches the portal's surface and his hand become enveloped in the mirage of tree bark.Two women shriek.Yahiko yells too, his shock keeling him off balance.The boy falls into thetree,landing inside the twin trunks. Kaoru and Megumi watch in horror as most of the body of theirfriend disappears into the bark with a yelp.

"Yahiko?"

They bawl in unison. Yahiko's left arm and leg are the only visible parts of him still visible. They willingly pursue the rest of himselfinto the red portal, his fingers signal for them to follow.

"Yahiko? Are you all right?...Yahiko, can you hear me?"

No voice answers Kaoru's plea…….

Yahiko's eyes widen. That final breath of air rushes out in a gust of tightthroated desperation. Landing yet again on his sore posterior, the infantile samurai gasps at the immensegouge taken from the skin of the earth.This hole in the ground is immense. The lack of geography in the surrounding countryside increases the hole's irregularity. Following the grassy, smooth surface of the bowl with his eyes, Yahiko discovers two figures standing in the bottom, barely visible in the moonlight. He rolls himself forward to get a better view of the might-be Kenshin and Sano….But these two are neither companion. No. There is no man hunt in progress in the bottom of the hole. It is a training session. The taller of the two peoples is the pupil. Itis obvious by how he reacts to the inaudible words uttered by the much shorter (and rounder) master.The student walks nearly across the entirefloor of the bowl. Yahiko's mind works furiously to determine which fighting form these two are taking, but it evades him completely. Neither furnishes any visible weapon. The pupil catches Yahiko's attention when he raises his arms, clasping them above his head. A HUGE BEAM OF LIGHT ERUPTS FROM THE STUDENT'S UPRAISED FINGERS INTO THE NIGHT SKY ABOVE HIM! Yahiko cries out and crouches down. Sorcery! These two were practicing sorcery!
Just then,a hand reaches out of the boulder behind him, clutching his shoulder tightly.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"

Kaoru and Megumi step out of the boulder, scowling in surprise at their surroundings.The beam that continues to rise to the heavens from the youth in the bowl catches their eyes imediately.

"Baka onna Ugly! You nearly gave me a-"

"Shut up, Yahiko!"

They sit on the edge of the bowl, hiding themselves in the shadows of the immense boulders. These big rockspreside alongthe outside of the hole like hanusly grown teeth.

"We'll wait until these two leave, and then we can sneak off after Kenshin."

Ya, sorry this story is taking a lot of time to write.

Reviews are still nice………….please………….

laterz

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Tanis