Disclaimer- I, The Great Kato Shingetsu, does not own Rurouni Kenshin or An X-mas Carol. Oh I also do not own Trigun or Vash

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Act three: The ghost of X-mas past

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Kenshin was having a bad dream. It was about then time where Hiko made him sleep in a bed of snakes. Kenshin woke up screaming: " NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!". After Kenshin calmed down, he saw a person floating over him. T'was Megumi Takani in an elegant purple robe. Megumi then proceeded to choke hug Kenshin.

" Sir Ken your awake!" Megumi said joyfully

" . Oro...Megumi what are you doing here?" Kenshin asked the floating Megumi

"I'm the ghost of X-mas past." Megumi said, "Follow me."

Kenshin is draged out of bed as Megumi takes him flying in the air over Tokyo....or in this case, London.

Kenshin screamed like a little girl and clutched onto Megumi out of fear of falling to a painfull death.

"Don't worry Sir Ken" Megumi said calmly, " You are now a ghost, you cannot be harmed by the physical limitations of earth"

" Ooohh good" Kenshin said and calmed down.

" I'm gonna punch it!!" Megumi said and then while holding Kenshin's hand, flew faster to the east sky. A light appeared where the two where flying, and Kenshin....screamed again ( this time not like a little girl).

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When Megumi and Kenshin come out of the light, they were elsewhere.

" Where are we?" Kenshin asked

" In your past" Megumi answered

Kenshin and Megumi were in a schoolyard. The two saw boys running around and playing games.

" This is not my past, that it is not" Kenshin said to Megumi

" Yes it is" Megumi said

"No it's not!!" Kenshin said

" For the play it is." Megumi finally stated

"Good" Kenshin said with a sigh of relief, " I won't have to see Hiko."

Megumi and Kenshin fazed inside to the school. They see a Chibi Kenshin talking non-other then Sensei Hiko.

"Go sit in the snake room." Sensei Hiko said to the Chibi Kenshin in a commanding tone

" Dude, wrong lines" a stage hand said

"Fine!" Hiko said and took out reading glasses and the script "ahem!. Kenshin "Scrooge" Himura, your doing very well in your studies-" Hiko said but the stoped and turned to the stage hand "Do I have to read anymore of this sap?" Hiko asked

"No" The stage hand said

" Ok, go sit in the snake room" Hiko said again to Chibi Kenshin

" NUUUUUUUU!!!!!" Chibi Kenshin shouted and he ran around the room like a chicken with it's head cut off.

"NUUUU! I had to re-live that. The pain!!!" Older Kenshin shouted and...preceded to run around the room like a chicken with it's head cut off.....so folks we've got two Kenshin's ( one 30 and one at 8) running around like mad.....O.o....yeah I know.

"There's more" Megumi said

There was a flash of light and Kenshin now saw himself as a 16 year old with a 16 year old Sanoske and Vash the stampede

"Sano, Vash and I are going to open a doughnut shop, that we are." The 16 old Kenshin said

The 16 year old Sanoske jumped up saying: " YAYY!!" while Vash shouted " I LOVE DOUGHNUTS!"

"Oh yeah I remeber that. On X-mas when I was about 16, we started our doughnut factory." Kenshin reminisced.

" Fast foreward five years" Megumi said dully

Five years later Vash left for Trigun and Sanoske "died" ( notice the nifty finger quotes)

" Bah!!.." the 21 year old Kenshin shouted but then looked at the stage hands board. Because Kenshin could not read the board ( he must need glasses) all he could make out of the letters were "...h-hot dog?"

" That's it!!!" The stage hand said " I give up!"

" I've learned nothing from this" The current Kenshin said as everything faded

" Oh well.... how about comming to my place" Megumi said in a sly tone

" O.O!!!!"'s Kenshin's facial expression

The clock chimed 11:00 p.m and Megumi begins to fade.

" NUUUU my plan to get Sir Ken has failed!!!" Megumi pouted as she faded into the dark.

Kenshin looks around, he was still in the air. Because Megumi's magic was no longer in effect, our poor Kenshin began to plummit to the ground.

" 0.0!! OOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRROOOOOO!" Kenshin screamed as he fell

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