Chapter 3: To train is to learn
Shizuka awoken early that next day and she looked around for Saitou. He was not in the room. She walked gently and silently to the door and opened it. There he was cigarette in hand. He sat there on the cold, stone steps as he took a puff. "Uncle Saitou... Will you teach me how to hold the sword and fight with it properly?" she had asked him. "Yes, I might as well. Let me just finish this," he said and with that, he burned the cigarette out on the back of his hand. He did not winch or feel pain. He then stood, looking down at her. His sword was at his side, as it usually is. "Well... Shizuka, you go over there," he instructed her to go past the fourth tree. Therefore, she did. He went to the same post but on the opposing side. Shizuka and Saitou both unsheathed their blades and stood in a pose. They began. In addition, they fought for hours on end. However, in then end, a surprise, Shizuka won the fight. Saitou looked at her as he stood up. He smiled "Nice fight and congratulations," he said as he popped his back. She smiled as she and Saitou walked into the hut. Aoshi looked towards them. "Hell, nice little... loss... Saitou," he said as he looked out the window. "Hide the girl," he said strictly. Shizuka dove beneath the bed and the door was shattered opened. There stood two men. A bandaged one and a young one, approximately the age of 30.