Yahiko's Kidnapping

Chapter Two

"Noo!" Kaoru screamed as she thrust her sword at the man with the gun.

The thug flew across the room and hit the floor. Kenshin flew backwards and landed on the floor at the surprise from Kaoru suddenly coming in, making the bullet barely go past him.

"What the heck were you doing in a thug hangout, you idiot!" Kaoru yelled at Kenshin, "You would have been dead if I didn't follow you!"

"How'd you get Sano to let you leave the house?" Kenshin asked, but just as he said it Sano came bouncing in on a chair that he was tied to and gagged.

"I did that," Kaoru laughed.

Sano finally chewed through the gag and said, "You IDIOT why did you tie me to a chair, I said you could go help him!"

"Oh yeah, you did. Well it was fun at least. " Kaoru replied sticking her tongue out childishly.

"Go back. Both of you. I am rescuing Yahiko on my own. That I am" Kenshin said to Kaoru and Sano.

After very much arguing and Kenshin getting hit by Kaoru, the two of them agreed to let Kenshin go alone.

Kenshin looked around the town he was in for an Inn to stay in. He eventually found an old Inn that many people said was haunted, but he went there because no other Inns had any rooms left. He went up to the reception desk where a very old woman was getting ready to go to sleep for the night.

"Do you have any rooms left?" Kenshin asked her.

"What!" She turned around and was very surprised to actually have a customer, "Oh um yes we do I have a room left." She turned around and found a key, "Here is the key to your room, and here are your bathroom tokens," she handed him a key with a skull engraved on it and bath tokens with a ghost on each.

"Thank you miss. I am very grateful that you are letting me stay here. That I am," Kenshin turned to walk to the room number that it said on his key and heard a noise behind him. He turned around, and the lady was gone. He thought that she went to bed and continued to his own room. When he got to his room he opened the door and a cool chill suddenly came over him.

"brr, it's cold in here"

Kenshin walked to his bed and went to sleep. At 4 A.M. he heard glass shattering and he turned to where his window was. He looked and saw a bloodstained note lying in the window. He picked up the note and it said:

Dear Hotikiri Batosai

I have the boy, Yahiko, that you are looking for.

I also have the old woman who worked at that

inn and will have her death blamed on you if

you don't meet me at the (Random Japanese

symbols) café in Tokyo with 1,500,000¥ at 5:00

P.M. today.

From,

(the rest of the letter was to smudged by blood to read)

Kenshin grabbed his sword and went to find the café. He went around and asked where it was, but everyone told him it closed years ago. After a while someone told him where it was and he went there. When it was 4:45 a mysterious cloaked man walked in the doorway, and sat at a table. Kenshin walked over and sat down by him. "Give me Yahiko and the woman" he Insisted

"Where is my yen?" The cloaked figure asked.

"I don't have any yen. Now give me the two of them before I have to fight you!" Kenshin pounded on the table attracting much attention.

"Just as I expected this would happen," he replied.

Suddenly a mysterious figure at one of the tables came out from under a cloak and threw a knife at Kenshin. Kenshin grabbed the table they were sitting at, and held it up. The knife went into the table and Kenshin hurled the tabletop at the man who threw the knife and knocked him unconscious. Suddenly everything disappeared and Kenshin was in an old café that thugs used as a hangout.

"what?! Where am I" Kenshin asked the cloaked man while holding the knife that was thrown at him to his neck.

Suddenly a man came out from behind the broken bar, "You are in a café I used mind tricks to make you think it was real. Just like my father who you made commit hari-kari (sp?). I have come to avenge him. Now that I have perfected my father's techniques I can finish you off!"

Kenshin drew his sword and ran towards him but he become frozen in place, "Your father was the only man who almost made me become a Hari-kari again. But I can see that you have mastered the powers much more than he, but you still cannot use them properly at all.," Kenshin said.

The man drew his sword and swung it at Kenshin's head, but Kenshin broke free of the curse just in time and jumped over his sword striking him with the blade of it. He fell down unconscious and Kenshin heard a scream in the kitchen. He walked back into it and there was a fire in the back. He ran into the fire and saw Yahiko lying there…Dead. (To be continued)