Ha! Happy hour has arrived! I get to add Chapter 4!!!!!!!!!!!! weeeeeeeeeeeee......

Let's see, what a good title....hahahha, I'm coming up with this stuff at the top of my head. Dang..........erm............gotta think about what happens in the chapter........ arg. I always forget to do this till the frikk'n end. Ok.

Hm.

I don't own Kenshin. There. I don't own anything that deals with Kenshin. Except this story. This story is frikk'n mine. YOU HEAR THAT! HAHHAHA MINE!!!!!!!!!!!

Never mind.

Ok, Rand, if you ever read this story, which I hope you do eventually, I want you to know I wrote it w/ you in mind, cuz you are the major inspiration in my life.

Heheheehhe

Ok

No more mushy crap.........ONWARD!!!!!!!

(Does a title really have to deal with the chapter? I'm having a severe brain fart so I think Tanis will just be freakishly random...:)

There's Olive oil, right? It's made by crushing olives.....Ok, so what's Baby oil made from????????

"Sano, breathe thru your hakama sleeve."

"That doesn't help. This air is too thick....is it just me or is it getting darker?"

"It's a good sign."

Kenshin plows ahead. Sano can't see his friend, but uses his other senses to keep close. The street fighter trusts the samurai enough to know they are not traveling in circles, though Sanoske himself is hopelessly lost. All light vanishes. This couple of hunters are bathed in sightless, solid darkness. Sano thinks to himself, "How the heck can this be a sign of things getting better?" Out loud, he mutters,

"Who blew out the candle?"

The voice is barley audible at first, and the redhead has to silence Sano to hear it better. Its echoes resonate around them, eerie and threatening. Straining ears catch only glimpses of the mysterious speaker of the blackness,

"...entered the realm of the Gods......vanished and.....broken hearts drift alone........ everlasting ...... let no word be heard but this........................Sanity........."

"Who is there." Kenshin is not asking questions, "Show yourself immediately."

"SILENCE THE MORTALS! THEY HAVE DISTURBED THE SPHERE OF THE GODS!"

"We follow an opponent."

This eye that has thrived and guided them along their man-hunt rises from the blackness like a shimmering, scarlet wraith. The ornate malevolence of it broadens to fill the blood red fog with unholy light of the damned. Kenshin's blade is drawn, while Sanoske shields his eyes against the expanding phenomenon. Sinking into the depths of the men's skulls is the voice, deafening and painful,

"THEY DEFILE THIS PLACE WITH THEIR PRESENCE.....THEIR INTENTIONS ARE IMMORAL.....THEY HUNT ME AS THOUGH THEY HAVE BASIS........"

"We have basis!" Kenshin recognized the speaker, "You slaughtered our comrade. Show your face and cease cowering behind childish enchantments."

The pain heightens. Sanoske screams out, hands clutching his head, trying to squeeze the pain out between his white knuckled fingers. The once-battosai's eyes gleam in the crimson light. With a shimmering disappearance, ignoring his throbbing temples, Kenshin attacks. Twice he slashes crosswise through the wicked, sinister eye, but, the adversary wisps about his blade along with the blood-ruby mists surrounding them. Kenshin stands in battojetsu form, observing his ethereal opponent. The immense eye drifts into oblivion, floating backwards into the night fog.

"Follow me, they will."

"Come Sano, we'll follow it."

"Out of the frying pan, into the fire, Kenshin?"

The once battosai grins without humor,

"Perhaps, old friend. Very Possible."

Sano pauses, scratching his head mentally.........then grins in return.

"Just like always."

"The air is so thick!"

Megumi's outcry voices the irony they all struggle with. Kaoru puts her sleeve to her face. It does little to help. The unearthly mists roll around them like a live creature, waiting for them to leave the portal and come into its depths so it can feed. Kaoru shrugs the thought away by swinging her bokun into the darkness before her, swirling the black curls with the wind of her confidence.

"Come on. Kenshin is in there."

"How do you know, Busu?"

Kaoru twists his hearing appendage,

"Because he's not out here with US now, is he???"

In no mood for more argumentations, the girl grabs Megumi and stalks ahead into the fog. Yahiko stutters, rubbing his aggrieved cranium. He trails the females into the dark. The three are blinded. Kaoru and Megumi are only inches away from Yahiko, but they'd never know it.

"KENSHIN!!!!?"

Kaoru's cry dies at the tip of her tongue. Yahiko can barely make it out. There is no earthly way the rurouni will hear that. In vain, Kaoru yells again.

This wail brings the red eye. It hovers before them, lighting the vapor with a hellish scarlet smolder. Megumi screams, then seeks protection from the phantom behind two who brandish weapons. The muted voice pierces through them. All though it is hardly audible, the broken speech is able to dig craters of fear into their already crumbling reserve,

"...entered the realm of the Gods......vanished and.....broken hearts drift alone........ everlasting ...... let no word be heard but this........................Sanity........."

Kaoru whispers,

"Did you two hear that?"

Her voice arouses the outcry,

"SILENCE THE MORTALS! THEY HAVE DISTURBED THE SPHERE OF THE GODS!"

"Please, we seek friends. They passed this way not to long before us. Can you tell me which way they went?"

"THEY DEFILE THIS HOLY GROUND WITH THEIR PRESENCE. THEY MUST BE REMOVED."

Yahiko scrunches up his face,

"Removed?"

Kaoru tries again,

"Show us where are friends are....or at lease let us know where they are."

By now, the three are shielding their eyes from the heightening light emanating from the ever largening eye before them. Megumi whimpers, unable to contain the fear welling up inside her. The eye draws closer. Kaoru clutches her head and screams out in pain. Megumi collapses in like fashion. The boy chokes down his agony, then strikes out at the charging opponent. When bokun connects with apparition, yellow sparks engulf the dojo's occupants.

And all they know is no more.

evil music plays

hahahhahahhaahahha I KILLED KENSHIN AND ALL HIS HOMIES!!!!!!!! Um, no. that's not funny.

Arg. Sorry it took so freaking long to get this chapter up, but since no one is freaking reading this freaking ingénius story, i guess it doesn't freaking matter.

Thanks guys.

WILL SOMEONE FREAKING READ AND REVIEW!!!!!!!???????!!!!!!!!!!

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Tanis Ryuu........:(