Sweet Madness
~Fhb~
PG. 13
Chapter 3-
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"RUN OKITA---THEY'RE COMING!" Kaoru screamed hysterically loud in his ear.
'Great Kaoru, burst my ear-drum---it's not like I need to hear or anything' thought Okita sarcastically.
"I would figure that from your scream" he spoke lowly…
"Listen man, I do not want to get killed. I am way to beautiful to die----I haven't flirted with enough guys yet…" she whispered the ending…
"Oh boy, why do I even bother" he muttered… and with that he began his unnecessary lecture.
"Okita" she tried to cut in, but he wouldn't give her a chance…
"Really, I don't know why I place myself for these sort of situations…it's not like--" he trailed off…
"Um…hehe, Okita?" she called…
"Do I deserve this? No---I don't think so…then why--" he kept babbling
"You-whoo, I'm still hanging here. Would you shut up and listen to me?" she barked.
"Well what do you have to say that's so important?" he asked…
"I-----I---I forgot" she scratched her head.
Okita face-faulted. "Okay now I remember" she spoke as if she were in horror…
"What is it?" he asked
"They coming at us, real fast" she pointed behind her showing him a few Ishinshishi approaching them.
'Wow'
"Um Okita…" Kaoru called in horror…
"What?" he asked angrily…
"Why are those men killing daddy's men?" she asked
"Coz they are sicko's that's why" he lead her away.
"Oh---well then, RUN FASTER BUDDY!" she screamed angrily.
"Halt Shinsen" spoke the adversary to them, the Ishinshin.
Okita had to oblige one way or another.
"What you stop for?" whispered Kaoru fiercely…
"Well take a good guess" he mused at her
Five Ishinshin came in for the kill, yet there in Okita's arms was what seem to look like a little boy, but watching carefully at the small buddle, they saw it was a little girl who beacon so much fright. The Ishinshin were in deep query, should they kill the girl? If they did kill the girl, then Katsura would deal with them personally. Yet many things clouded that idea, for one thing, she was wearing the official Shinsen-gumi outfit, it signified their antagonist, it symbolized the wolf clan, it symbolized--well everything the Ishinshin didn't like. They finalized, they'd kill her…
"Okita…" Kaoru whispered fearfully…
Okita looked at his blades and remembered: Don't dare let her see red
Okita shrugged a bit and then began formulating a plan in his head.
"Oh kami" whispered Okita. He looked at the men and then at his only set back, Kaoru. She fearfully watched on, biting at her nails with thick intensity. Her watched her harder and longer, contemplating ever so deeply as to what to do with her.
Kaoru saw Okita looking at her strangely, "what? I don't have coodies you know, so stop looking at me like that." she said matter of flatly.
A smirk broke his features, "Okay, now you're scaring me…" Kaoru whispered.
"I have an idea" he mused…
"That's suppose to be a good thing or bad thing?" she asked
"Both" he muttered.
"Ahh---what's idea by the way?" she questioned…
"To use you as my weapon…" he spoke softly…
"Oh really, that's so cool----wait a minute, did you just say to use me as your weapon, are you out of your idiotic mind. I happen to be a girl, a very BEA-UU-TIFUL girl if I may add, and I for one do not see myself a weapon---" she screamed…
"You talk to much" he blandly spoke
"Go figures" she muttered.
"Well come get me you stupid Ishinshin" Okita provoked the Ishinshin…
"What? Are you crazy? We're talking like 5 against 1--I mean sorta 2, but hey, I'm no fighter, so it's one. Arggh--are you mad by chance?" Kaoru asked in dread…
"Relax Kao" he endeared her name and with that man [1] came in. Okita lifted Kaoru by her waist and spun her around so her feet would lash him back. One down, four to go.
"GET 'EM" shouted the man and with that they began running into them…
Placing her against the wall, he gave her his sword and whispered in her ear, "use it when you feel intimidated"
"You want me to poke someone in their guts? ---Cool" she mused.
Okita waited for them and with that side-stepped them. A man who Okita hadn't see, manage to get hold of Kaoru…
"What a cute chick, what don't you give daddy some love" the man placed his hand under her chin…
"Excuse me? I believe you need to lie down" she blinked back and with that gave the man a knee up his groin and pushed him back…
'Go kao!' Okita cheered and with that two men were on his back, he ran up the wall and in style spin-kicked one of the men in their face. The other guy approached and with that Okita pulled at the man's gi and tripped him. One more person was missing, seeing him holding Kaoru with a sword pressed close to her neck, he warned Okita if he came closer she was dead…
The man were about to escape with Kaoru when she by all odds bit his arm and squirmed out his hold. She ran to Okita's side and Okita took his sword from her. Unsheathing it, in one powerful and almost god-like movement, Okita broke the man's sword and looked at him dangerously. Hoisting his sword in the air, it caught the sunlight which blinded the man…
"I swear if you do this again Ishinshin, you will die" Okita knocked the man unconscious…and went to Kaoru…
"You killed him?" she asked innocently
"Th-yeah right" 'You want your dad to kill me?' he spoke and with that they got back to base…
After some 2 tense hours the Shinsen members finally came home. Saito ordered the bloodied men to be taken to the back and nursed to health. Kaoru saw her father and then ran forth to him.
"Father, you're alright" she buried her small face into his chest and cried…
"Hai! I'm very happy you're okay Kao…" he pulled back slowly and wiped her tears away…
"I was so worried…" she cried a bit more…
"It's okay Kao, daddy's okie-dokie." he hugged her and pet her head… [u don't see that everyday. Lol]
"Who were those bad men daddy?" she asked confused
"The Ishinshin…the men who are keeping us back from keeping our government" he spoke…
"Stupid men…" she whispered coldly…
"Yes they are" and with that they were taken inside and began speaking. Kaoru hadn't seen Okita, so she went looking for him. She could hear what seem to be a faint coughing. She followed it until the sound increased. There in the distance she could see him coughing with both his knees on the floor. Whatever he was coughing was dark, very dark. From the bottom of her soul she never felt so scared…
"Okita" she called, her voice soft, yet cracking down the middle with worry…
He wiped his mouth and slightly rose his head…
"Okita-chan" she called for the first time…
His breathing was raged and suddenly he turned to her…
She could see the dark substance that was smudged across his face…
"Blood" she whispered…
"I'm not well…" he went to the dojo step and sat…
Kaoru rubbed his back and looked at him, "what's the matter?" she asked worriedly…
"I---I'm dying Kaoru" he whispered his eyes weak and sorrowful…
"Huh? Okita?? No--no, what are you saying---Okita, I don't understand" her eyes began watering…
"I --I have Tuberculosis…" he whispered pausing for a few moments… "and Japanese don't know how to deal with it yet, so it's basically my downfall…" he whispered expecting to see sadness in her eyes, yet there in bold blue was hope…
"I don't think so…" she whispered into the night…
"Hmm?" he looked at her…her face was to the sky, while her hair caught the icy breath of nigh.
"Tuberculosis is caused when one has been in dirty areas. Wherever you may have dwell was pretty dirty. But it can be cured…" she spoke seeing hope in his eyes…
"It can?" he asked
"Yes, you take antibiotics or--- what do we say, special things which can become in a favor of an antibiotic" she whispered…
"How?" he asked… "wait a minute, how do you know so much?" he mused
"I went to one of the best Academy's for girls in England. Japanese may not always know what to do, but they sure do know how to listen and become better at a next man's education. Although I act like a twit and seem the type never to listen, I'm sorry to say I wasn't like that in England, I had to be very receptive in school…mainly because my mother is very strict…" she whispered…
"Ahh…I see" he whispered…
"How about we take a walk and see if we could get some of the things to cure you Okita-chan?" she asked…
"Alright Kao" he whispered and with that she looped her arm into his and went into the city getting stuff. It was night, most places were closed, and even if they were two retards walking in the night, they enjoyed the lights and beauty of the night…
Everything was weighed in beauty. Midnight blue, the colour of her hair blended into the atmosphere. Kaoru soon let go of Okita's hand and ran into the distance, her soul being lit with fire-flies, and he in his own shock saw a new best friend. Kaoru spun around and the earth was not his enemy but his home, and that girl, was his hope to life---and if she could make him live, she was his god…forever and ever.
"Okita!" she called angrily…
"What?" he asked in a what-have-I-done-this-time voice.
"Get your hinny here, I don't know Japan moron. For all I know I could go spinning into some ditch" she spoke…
I ran to her, and she took my hand and together we chased the moonlight and fireflies which embraced as best friends…as friends. 'But I am this blue warrior, who can not offer her any such friendship, I can only offer her tears…' his thoughts sailed from one to another. In this regime, a sword was the only thing that accounted for understanding. Other languages were neglected and so did anything that came to the side of it. But he didn't have to be those people who understood one language, he would be her best friend, as long as time let them…
On their way home, Okita and Kaoru discovered many things, like for instance a Japanese herb shop which was surprisingly opened. [An: you see if I were Japanese I would be able to name herbs, unfortunately I can't]. Kaoru and Okita mused the place, taking certain herbs which would become part of the antibiotic…
After a few minutes she bought what she needed and proceeded home. Okita and Kaoru traveled on the stretch of moonlight, happy for the moment…
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"Where were you two?" asked Saito leaning over both…
"He made me come" Kaoru pointed fingers…
'Oh yeah, she's the best. Best friend I ever had. How can she be totally innocent yet evil at the same time?'
"Okita I am waiting for the excuse" Saito spoke…
"Heeheh" Okita scratched the back his head while sweat-dropping.
"Um, well, we went out to get herbs" he spoke…
"Herbs?" Saito asked, "why?"
"Because we're gonna cure Okita-sama" Kaoru hugged Okita tightly and Saito seem confused…
"Kaoru, sweetheart let him go and tell me what that means" Saito paced the floor…
"Well Okity is sickie-wickie, and Kao make Okity feels betters. He's no be's sickie…he fell betters coz of Kao's" she spoke like a baby…
"I see…are you a doctor?" he asked
"No…not yet" she was interjected by Saito, "then that settles it, you can't go prescribing something to somebody if you are not a doctor" he spoke
"Well whatever" and with that she got up and pulled at Okita's arm.
"Good night to you too Kaoru" Saito spoke…
Kaoru stuck out her tongue at him and went away. Saito could only smirk…
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"What are you gonna do?" Okita asked
"I'm not listening to him. I never do" she whispered angrily…
"But Kao, he's your dad" Okita spoke
"Yeh, I know. But he knows I won't listen. It's like he's actually saying to go ahead with whatever I am doing" Kaoru spoke…
Okita dropped to the floor, "you must be joking?" he got up
"Yeh, I am. But I really want to help you and when I set my mind to something, I'm sorry I don't give up like that. Besides, I can't let you die Okita…I'll cry…" she sounded so small…
"But we're-----I--what are we Kaoru?" he mused into her eyes…
She allowed her crystal eyes to soak him, "I think you are my new bestest friend" she smiled weakly, "only if you want me too" her smile soon died when she saw Okita swallow.
"Sure thing Kao" he smiled at her. With that she gave him a large hug.
"Thanks Okita…you're the bestest" she smiled… [An: bestest is not a word]
"Okay, that's nice, now let go, you're choking me" he toyed and with that she let him go.
"Alright baka I'm letting you go. Let the experiments begin. MWHAHAHAHA!" lightning flashed behind her…
'How does she do that?' Okita wondered.
"First we add some of this, a few leaves of this stuff" dumping everything into a cauldron. She opened her luggage and took out a some spoons, a few stone plates, a brown sack and then a stone??…
"I understand everything but the bag and stone…what are they for?" he asked
"The bag has my chemicals" she opened the small brown pouch and showed him the bottles of funny-colored tube liquids.
"And the stone?" he asked…
"To kill someone when I'm angry" she grinned. Okita looked at her in shock.
"Oh I'm kidding Okita…sheesh, I won't kill them---just hurt them pretty bad, that's all. Okay, there we go again, I use it for pounding herbs and---- other stuff. ----Like flesh" she laughed seeing Okita swallow hard…
She pounded some of the herbs and then added some of her liquid which made a puff of hazy grey smoke. "Wow, that nearly took my bangs off, could you imagine me without bangs?" she asked and Okita laughed.
"That's not funny man" she spoke flatly…
"Well it is to me" he wiped his tears…
"Uh-huh, careful I kill you with Mr. Stone here" Kaoru warned and with that Okita stopped.
"Good, now take this" she poured the white looking concoction into a wooden cup.
"Eww, it looks nasty" he spoke…
"Yah, but it should work" she spoke and with that he took the first sip and then held his nose. Drinking down all he made a distasteful face…
"How was it?" she asked
"Kao--ACK--" he started holding his throat and began falling to his knees.
"Oh migod, he's dying---OMIGOSH!" she screamed seeing him holding himself and panicking for air. He feel on the floor and her door soon opened…
"What's going on?" asked Saito seeing Okita on the floor…
"I killed Okita…" she whispered in horror
"WHAT?" asked Saito entering…
Kaoru sobbed on the side, holding Okita's head in her lap, "poor Okita, I'm so sorry…why did I have to be so stupid?" she cried…
"Hmm, well I don't know" he opened his eyes and began laughing. Kaoru nearly fainted…
"You idiot you were alive…?" she shouted
"Well yes I was---oh Kaoru, you should have seen your face" he laughed and with that the Shinsen laughed…
"Aghh!! You're so gonna die" she picked up her stone and Okita ducked behind Saito. Kaoru giggled while placing down the stone…
"Hey daddy, wanna move so I can kill Okita---for real this time?" she blinked her eyes innocently.
"No killing for you, besides its time for bed. Go wash up" he spoke
"Aww---you're no fun." she muttered…
"What was that?" asked Saito
"Nothing sir" she took up her nightgown and toothbrush and was out her room glaring Okita daggers…
She made a slit throat in reference that Okita was dead.
"You saved me master Saito…she's some girl" Okita smiled…
"Yes she is…" Saito walked out the room and so did his men.
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[Next Morning]
"I'M SOOOOOO BEAUUTIFULLLLLLL" Kaoru sang in the bathhouse for over two hours. Everyone wanted to take a mornings bath and there she was taking her jolly-ole time to get out.
*Knock knock*
"Kaoru would you please hurry up" Okita banged on the door. Behind him were ten men.
"Just now, here comes the best part in the song. I'M SO BEAUTIFUL THAT YOU CAN'T RESIST ME BABY---YOU CAN'T RESIST ME----I'M SOOOOO SO SO SO, BEAUTIFUL--- SHUBBO-DUBBA…SHUBBY-DUBBY---LALA---OH YEAH BABY…" she sang and with that she heard more groaning from outside…
"You guys actually like my singing? You make me feel so special, that I wanna cry. So--I'll dedicate this next song to you guys… It's called, I can't helping falling in love with you… FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOU, MAKES ME WEAK, MAKES THE HEART HURT AND BEAT TO FINALLY----CLAIM YOU AS MINE. FALL---IN----LOVE---WITH----ME…JUST ONE, LASTTTTTT TIME….PLEASE---DON'T LET ME GO." Okita shut his ears and so did his colleagues…
"KAORU WOULD YOU PLEASE COME OUT BEFORE WE BREAK THIS DOOR DOWN…" Okita shouted.
"Okay okay, no need to get your shorts wet. You men are so impatient." she spoke disgusted.
With that she wiped up and placed on her pearl-blue looking kimono. The small flowers of stray sakura petals were randomly arranged on the outfit. She kicked open the door and she smiled at everybody.
They all gasped.
"Yes, I know I'm beautiful…no need to utter another word" she smiled goofily
One of the men whispered to Okita, "does she know her kimono is open?"
"Nah-uh, but look at it from this way, you get to see some legs" and with that they all laughed.
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"But daddy I didn't thief any candy…" Kaoru spoke very innocently
"Open your hands…" Saito spoke…
She did and all the candy fell out. She gasped, "now how did that get there. Okita---that greedy boy" she looked at him with a face of disbelief.
"Nah-uh, no calling names missy." Saito affirmed.
"Oh come on dad, it was only a few pieces--it's not like I took the whole box of candy" she spoke…
"That is besides the point Kaoru. Why are you behaving so naughty?" he asked
"Coz Kao wants some love?" she pouted her cheeks…
"Dismissed" he sighed outwardly.
"You mean you not gonna punish me?" she asked curiously…
"Oh, thank you for reminding me" Saito mused
"Me and my big mouth" she flatly spoke
"I want you to scrub the dojo floor 3 times" he spoke…
"You must be joking. I'm not doing that" she spoke flatly and then saw Saito's amber eyes flicker some more. "But if it's for you daddy, I'll do with everything I got---hehhee---good day" she was scared and out his door…
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"Stinking Okita didn't even get punished, no but I did--and here I am scrubbing for the last 3 hours. Talk about injustice." she shoved her hand into the bucket of soap solution.
"Heard my name, can't get enough of it aye baby?" Okita asked
"Oh pu-lez, give me a break." she rolled her eyes and scrubbed at the floor.
"Well okay. Um Kao?" he called…
"What you moron?? She asked sarcastically
"You missed a spot" with that he was out the door…
"AGHH---MORON" she screamed.
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Female Hitokiri Battousai Notes:
I updated. I hope you didn't beat the guy luvsdog. Thanks to all of you who kept the story in mind.
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