A.N.: Here we go with the seriousness, sorta.... I finally updated, but the
next one will be a longer wait. Sorry. But after the next chappie, I'm
totally lost. So, I know you must hate it when I repeat and repeat and
repeat myself, but bear with me. For all of you who reviewed: I love ya
guys to pieces. ::Squeezes reviewers until they bust:: Oops....
Really, I have nothing much to say but, THANK GOD SCHOOL'S OVER!! Hallelujah!!!! Freshman year is such a pain in the ass!! ::dances around in a little circle:: ....Curse ff.net for getting rid of all the faces and symbols. Whaaaa!
OH! After you're done reading, check out my bio for a list of the best online anime/manga/video games and all fluff that goes along with it! Seriously, where else can you get Inuyasha Boxed Sets for only 32.99, Yu Yu Hakusho big Boxed Sets for the same, AND every Kenshin episode (all 95) for only 99.99...and I was not paid to say that---I am not soliciting. Don't get mad at me. This is my own opinion!
Disclaimer: See chapters ahead!!!!
Warped Reality: Chapter 5
For the longest time, Kaoru couldn't, make sense of anything at all. The speed ...her eyes weren't used to it, so they registered was dark blurs.
She was being carried, she knew that. When she glanced to the right, she could see the blue wrist and hand coverers (aw, poo! For the life of me, and that of KC we can't think of what they're called, soooooo....if you do, then you can tell me. Otherwise I don't give a rat's ass......) ...and the dainty fingers of her captor.
Kaoru had been kidnapped many a time before, but never as someone else. And, she normally knew her captor and could guess their motives...but this person...he had called her Megumi; he had wanted Megumi.
Kaoru recalled the incident.
-----------Flashback-------------
"...Be quiet now. Someone's coming," the stranger giggled.
"Why, you..." Kaoru hissed, but a foot was placed firmly but lightly on her back as she lay, face down in the dirt.
"Jou-chan! Jou-chan! Can you hear me?" She could hear Sanosukes's voice approaching fast.
"San—" Kaoru began, but a tap from her attacker filled her mouth with dust.
"I said, be quiet, and I wouldn't have had to do that," the boy scolded, just as Sano came into view.
"Jou-chan! Kaoru! What in the hell?!" Sanosuke skidded to a halt just four feet away, as a fleeting look of surprise flashed across his face. "It's YOU!"
"So it is," the boy grinned. "I'm so pleased that you remembered. You were the big dumb one with Himura-san, weren't you?"
"I'll show you big and dumb!! Get your foot off her!!" Sano pulled back his fist, and in half a second was less than half a foot away from the boy.
Then...the strangest thing happened.
Flash! Thud! Thud! Thud! Flash!
Kaoru felt the weight on her back shift and disappear, but only for a moment. At the same time, the boy blinked in and out of vision.
She shifted her gaze to Sanosuke. He gave a gagging scream, and tipped forward, his left leg giving way. As he fell on his face, blood sprayed from his nose and mouth, soaking into the aku jacket. He hi the ground hard, less than a foot in front of Megumi/Kaoru's face.
"Ah!" she yelped, as the boy picked her up around her waist .She was dumbfounded: This squeaky, annoying bastard had taken down Sanosuke, and she hadn't even seen him move.
"Sanosuke...!" she screamed as everything blurred and went dark....
------------End of Flashback-----------
Megumi/Kaoru slumped and a couple of tears escaped her eyes. "Damn this stupid bastard! And damn my own self for my weakness! It's all my fault!" she cried in her mind.
The two passed through a cold film, which chilled Kaoru to the bone, sending her shivering away. "Brrr," he captor muttered, which was the only thing he had spoken in the past hour.
The soft blurs began to come into focus again. So, Kaoru could tell they were somewhere in the mountains, and that snow was falling. Somewhere that was far away from Tokyo.
Their speed decreased further, until Kaoru could see they were approaching a small notch in a mountainside. A cave...one that was disguised at a first glance by snowdrifts and rocky outcroppings.
Her captor was no more than jogging now, leaping gracefully over a snowdrift and skidding to a stop inside the warm shelter of the cave. Ice sparkled off the walls of the entrance, glistening down a deep, narrow tunnel that dug its way into the mountain.
Bep...beep...bep...beep...bep....
Some unidentified presence settled in on Kaoru's mind. It was kind of a feeling that the cave emitted, which sat just outside her conscious mind. The sensation was so faint; in fact that Megumi/Kaoru barely took notice of it.
When Kaoru's captor had descended into the cave far enough that the already itty-bitty opening had shrunk to a pinpoint, he set Kaoru down gently. The tops of the walls were lined with glowing lanterns, which cast a gloomy blue light across the place.
"...Tenken?...Is that you?...Have you retrieved my...prize? Hoo hoo hoo hoo...." Someone chuckled. Megumi/Kaoru stiffened. She knew that voice. She knew that laugh.
'Shit. Shitshitshitshitshitshit,' she thought. It was starting to make sense now. But one thing she couldn't make sense of was: why would Takaeda Kanryu want anything to do with her? Oh...wait.
She was Megumi.
Bep...beep...bep...beep...bep....
Megumi—of course! Megumi: The main instigator for Kanryu's arrest, his loss of power, his loss of WEALTH. The first and foremost person that he'd want dead if he ever got out.
And, apparently, he was out, and in full power.
"Hai, I have her, Takaeda-san," Soujirou said, edging Megumi/Kaoru into the cave.
"Seriously, Tenken, is that any way to treat a prisoner? With gentle prodding?" Kanryu laughed. Suddenly a bright light flashed in Kaoru's head as Kanryu stepped forward and backhanded her. She hit her chin along the ground hard.
Megumi/Kaoru was quickly back on her hands and knees glaring daggers though Kanryu. She opened her mouth wide, popping her jaw back into place.
"You dirty..." she muttered.
"Now, you don't talk to ME!" Kanryu yelled, kicking Megumi/Kaoru low in the gut, sending her rolling along the cold floor. When she rolled onto her feet, he laughed. "Don't worry dear, it's going to get much worse soon."
"How comforting," Megumi/Kaoru muttered, taking a brave step forward. Kaoru was going to be damned is she was gonna let herself get used like this. She knew the Kamiya Kasshin Ryu, and she was gonna put it to use!
However, that would be harder to accomplish with out a bokken, shinai, or anything at all.
"I see you've never lost that feisty personality of yours, Takani Megumi. I do find it rather entertaining."
"WHY?" Megumi/Kaoru demanded.
"Why what?" Kanryu stepped closer, motioning for the boy Tenken to follow him. "You'll have to be more specific. Why the cave, or the Tenken, or your torture? Don't worry, my dear, you'll find out in good time."
Kaoru raised her fists and charged right at Kanryu. "Stop calling me Megumi!!!!"
Kanryu flinched and closed his eyes. He'd never had had time to react. But...someone did....
Bep...beep...bep...beep...bep....
Soujirou moved so quickly, Kaoru didn't even register it until blood began to drip off her fingers. He had used the tip of his sword to slash the muscles on the back of her wrists, then came back up to hit her with the back of the sword, crushing the delicate bones in her hand.
"Aieeee!" Kaoru wailed, dropping to her knees, holding her mutilated hand in front of her face. The tiny cracks from the bones echoed off the icy walls, as did her scream.
Eyes full of unfiltered pain and rage and sorrow stared holes through Soujirou. "Why????" she gasped through clenched teeth.
He just stared back. Even though he had that same smile plastered on his face, his eyes were full of sorrow, longing.
He was only a pawn in this game.
"I knew you would try to fight, Megumi-san. I must say, I am surprised that you didn't try to pull that knife on me again. Back then, I had hoped that you would've used it on your own sweet neck...but now I'm rather glad you didn't."
He snapped his fingers and Soujirou withdrew a few feet. He reached into his pocket and withdrew something. "Really, it's kind of ironic that after you betrayed me and ran away, trying to be a good girl, what's going to happen to you now...."
'Nani? What's he talking about? What is he going to do?' she leaned backwards.
Kanryu showed Megumi/Kaoru what was in his hand: A little triangle-shaped folded scrap of leather. Even Kaoru knew what that was.
"Do you remember what this is, wench? Do you remember what it does to people?"
'Oh, dear Kami-sama, he...wouldn't,' Kaoru panicked as she fell back on one hand, trying to squirm away. 'Ada, Kenshin! Help me! Yahiko! Even Megumi! Sano---oh, Sano! I'm sorry! You can't come...you're dead and its all my fault!' A small crystal liquid tear escaped one of her tightly -shut eyes, rolling slowly down her cheek.
"Ah, you DO remember! Well, you'll remember everything, ever dirty little aspect of this drug, till you die from torture!!" he laughed. Laughed like a psycho. Laughed at her weakness.
'Opium....'
Bep...beep...bep...beep...bep....
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A.N.: And so that's it for this chappie. See what I mean...it can be serious, even with writing it! ::blows nose::
I will update as soon as possible, but that might be a couple a weeks. Gomen nasi. I must go now. Our whole damn house, and I'm drinking a coke. Now Mt. Dew...Coke. That and the fact that my mom has this huge, unopened giant Easter bunny sitting in the kitchen is driving me insaaaaaane!
VolleyPickle16: 'Driving?' as in, past tense. You're already crazy!
RestOfFriends/Readers: ::Nods::
GCN anime dragon: Oh, shut up!
Really, I have nothing much to say but, THANK GOD SCHOOL'S OVER!! Hallelujah!!!! Freshman year is such a pain in the ass!! ::dances around in a little circle:: ....Curse ff.net for getting rid of all the faces and symbols. Whaaaa!
OH! After you're done reading, check out my bio for a list of the best online anime/manga/video games and all fluff that goes along with it! Seriously, where else can you get Inuyasha Boxed Sets for only 32.99, Yu Yu Hakusho big Boxed Sets for the same, AND every Kenshin episode (all 95) for only 99.99...and I was not paid to say that---I am not soliciting. Don't get mad at me. This is my own opinion!
Disclaimer: See chapters ahead!!!!
Warped Reality: Chapter 5
For the longest time, Kaoru couldn't, make sense of anything at all. The speed ...her eyes weren't used to it, so they registered was dark blurs.
She was being carried, she knew that. When she glanced to the right, she could see the blue wrist and hand coverers (aw, poo! For the life of me, and that of KC we can't think of what they're called, soooooo....if you do, then you can tell me. Otherwise I don't give a rat's ass......) ...and the dainty fingers of her captor.
Kaoru had been kidnapped many a time before, but never as someone else. And, she normally knew her captor and could guess their motives...but this person...he had called her Megumi; he had wanted Megumi.
Kaoru recalled the incident.
-----------Flashback-------------
"...Be quiet now. Someone's coming," the stranger giggled.
"Why, you..." Kaoru hissed, but a foot was placed firmly but lightly on her back as she lay, face down in the dirt.
"Jou-chan! Jou-chan! Can you hear me?" She could hear Sanosukes's voice approaching fast.
"San—" Kaoru began, but a tap from her attacker filled her mouth with dust.
"I said, be quiet, and I wouldn't have had to do that," the boy scolded, just as Sano came into view.
"Jou-chan! Kaoru! What in the hell?!" Sanosuke skidded to a halt just four feet away, as a fleeting look of surprise flashed across his face. "It's YOU!"
"So it is," the boy grinned. "I'm so pleased that you remembered. You were the big dumb one with Himura-san, weren't you?"
"I'll show you big and dumb!! Get your foot off her!!" Sano pulled back his fist, and in half a second was less than half a foot away from the boy.
Then...the strangest thing happened.
Flash! Thud! Thud! Thud! Flash!
Kaoru felt the weight on her back shift and disappear, but only for a moment. At the same time, the boy blinked in and out of vision.
She shifted her gaze to Sanosuke. He gave a gagging scream, and tipped forward, his left leg giving way. As he fell on his face, blood sprayed from his nose and mouth, soaking into the aku jacket. He hi the ground hard, less than a foot in front of Megumi/Kaoru's face.
"Ah!" she yelped, as the boy picked her up around her waist .She was dumbfounded: This squeaky, annoying bastard had taken down Sanosuke, and she hadn't even seen him move.
"Sanosuke...!" she screamed as everything blurred and went dark....
------------End of Flashback-----------
Megumi/Kaoru slumped and a couple of tears escaped her eyes. "Damn this stupid bastard! And damn my own self for my weakness! It's all my fault!" she cried in her mind.
The two passed through a cold film, which chilled Kaoru to the bone, sending her shivering away. "Brrr," he captor muttered, which was the only thing he had spoken in the past hour.
The soft blurs began to come into focus again. So, Kaoru could tell they were somewhere in the mountains, and that snow was falling. Somewhere that was far away from Tokyo.
Their speed decreased further, until Kaoru could see they were approaching a small notch in a mountainside. A cave...one that was disguised at a first glance by snowdrifts and rocky outcroppings.
Her captor was no more than jogging now, leaping gracefully over a snowdrift and skidding to a stop inside the warm shelter of the cave. Ice sparkled off the walls of the entrance, glistening down a deep, narrow tunnel that dug its way into the mountain.
Bep...beep...bep...beep...bep....
Some unidentified presence settled in on Kaoru's mind. It was kind of a feeling that the cave emitted, which sat just outside her conscious mind. The sensation was so faint; in fact that Megumi/Kaoru barely took notice of it.
When Kaoru's captor had descended into the cave far enough that the already itty-bitty opening had shrunk to a pinpoint, he set Kaoru down gently. The tops of the walls were lined with glowing lanterns, which cast a gloomy blue light across the place.
"...Tenken?...Is that you?...Have you retrieved my...prize? Hoo hoo hoo hoo...." Someone chuckled. Megumi/Kaoru stiffened. She knew that voice. She knew that laugh.
'Shit. Shitshitshitshitshitshit,' she thought. It was starting to make sense now. But one thing she couldn't make sense of was: why would Takaeda Kanryu want anything to do with her? Oh...wait.
She was Megumi.
Bep...beep...bep...beep...bep....
Megumi—of course! Megumi: The main instigator for Kanryu's arrest, his loss of power, his loss of WEALTH. The first and foremost person that he'd want dead if he ever got out.
And, apparently, he was out, and in full power.
"Hai, I have her, Takaeda-san," Soujirou said, edging Megumi/Kaoru into the cave.
"Seriously, Tenken, is that any way to treat a prisoner? With gentle prodding?" Kanryu laughed. Suddenly a bright light flashed in Kaoru's head as Kanryu stepped forward and backhanded her. She hit her chin along the ground hard.
Megumi/Kaoru was quickly back on her hands and knees glaring daggers though Kanryu. She opened her mouth wide, popping her jaw back into place.
"You dirty..." she muttered.
"Now, you don't talk to ME!" Kanryu yelled, kicking Megumi/Kaoru low in the gut, sending her rolling along the cold floor. When she rolled onto her feet, he laughed. "Don't worry dear, it's going to get much worse soon."
"How comforting," Megumi/Kaoru muttered, taking a brave step forward. Kaoru was going to be damned is she was gonna let herself get used like this. She knew the Kamiya Kasshin Ryu, and she was gonna put it to use!
However, that would be harder to accomplish with out a bokken, shinai, or anything at all.
"I see you've never lost that feisty personality of yours, Takani Megumi. I do find it rather entertaining."
"WHY?" Megumi/Kaoru demanded.
"Why what?" Kanryu stepped closer, motioning for the boy Tenken to follow him. "You'll have to be more specific. Why the cave, or the Tenken, or your torture? Don't worry, my dear, you'll find out in good time."
Kaoru raised her fists and charged right at Kanryu. "Stop calling me Megumi!!!!"
Kanryu flinched and closed his eyes. He'd never had had time to react. But...someone did....
Bep...beep...bep...beep...bep....
Soujirou moved so quickly, Kaoru didn't even register it until blood began to drip off her fingers. He had used the tip of his sword to slash the muscles on the back of her wrists, then came back up to hit her with the back of the sword, crushing the delicate bones in her hand.
"Aieeee!" Kaoru wailed, dropping to her knees, holding her mutilated hand in front of her face. The tiny cracks from the bones echoed off the icy walls, as did her scream.
Eyes full of unfiltered pain and rage and sorrow stared holes through Soujirou. "Why????" she gasped through clenched teeth.
He just stared back. Even though he had that same smile plastered on his face, his eyes were full of sorrow, longing.
He was only a pawn in this game.
"I knew you would try to fight, Megumi-san. I must say, I am surprised that you didn't try to pull that knife on me again. Back then, I had hoped that you would've used it on your own sweet neck...but now I'm rather glad you didn't."
He snapped his fingers and Soujirou withdrew a few feet. He reached into his pocket and withdrew something. "Really, it's kind of ironic that after you betrayed me and ran away, trying to be a good girl, what's going to happen to you now...."
'Nani? What's he talking about? What is he going to do?' she leaned backwards.
Kanryu showed Megumi/Kaoru what was in his hand: A little triangle-shaped folded scrap of leather. Even Kaoru knew what that was.
"Do you remember what this is, wench? Do you remember what it does to people?"
'Oh, dear Kami-sama, he...wouldn't,' Kaoru panicked as she fell back on one hand, trying to squirm away. 'Ada, Kenshin! Help me! Yahiko! Even Megumi! Sano---oh, Sano! I'm sorry! You can't come...you're dead and its all my fault!' A small crystal liquid tear escaped one of her tightly -shut eyes, rolling slowly down her cheek.
"Ah, you DO remember! Well, you'll remember everything, ever dirty little aspect of this drug, till you die from torture!!" he laughed. Laughed like a psycho. Laughed at her weakness.
'Opium....'
Bep...beep...bep...beep...bep....
-----------------------------------------------------------------
A.N.: And so that's it for this chappie. See what I mean...it can be serious, even with writing it! ::blows nose::
I will update as soon as possible, but that might be a couple a weeks. Gomen nasi. I must go now. Our whole damn house, and I'm drinking a coke. Now Mt. Dew...Coke. That and the fact that my mom has this huge, unopened giant Easter bunny sitting in the kitchen is driving me insaaaaaane!
VolleyPickle16: 'Driving?' as in, past tense. You're already crazy!
RestOfFriends/Readers: ::Nods::
GCN anime dragon: Oh, shut up!