Yes, Chapter 3, I'd like to thank all my reviewers, y'all mean so much to me! –sniff-
Summary: Sanosuke's having a hard time, what will he do? His squirrel's not doing quite well, and even though most of the last chapter was a flashback, you probably got the idea that he's having mixed feelings about Sagara and Kenshin.
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It was days later, and the squirrel was getting better and better. Sanosuke kept thinking about Sagara and Kenshin kept visiting him, way more then he used to.
Kaoru was being her normal bitchy self. "Kenshin! I thought I told you to do the laundry!"
"......" The place was quiet.
"KEEEEENSHIN!!! Where did you go?!" But Kaoru couldn't find him. "Hmm... I wonder where he went to."
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Shimoni was off in the distance playing with some of her other squirrel friends, while Kenshin and Sanosuke were sitting in the grass, happy to be away from the dojo.
"Kenshin... I was just wondering." Sanosuke was about to ask a question.
"Yes?"
"Ummm... why do you like Ka..." His words trailed off, afraid to finish his sentence.
"Oro?" Kenshin was confused.
"Oh, it's nothing. Just forget about it." Kenshin just shrugged and shook it off.
-Sagara, why do I like him so much?- Sanosuke was dazing off again into his little dream world.
"Sano-kun?" Kenshin asked.
"Huh? Oh... what did you say, I wasn't paying attention."
"I was just wondering. Why do you love Sagara-taichou?"
-Wait, why's Kenshin asking me this?- "Hmmm... he took care of me when I was sick, he gave me a home, he was just like a father, except more." Sanosuke's eyes were full of glee.
"Kenshin, why do you want to know?" He was curious.
"Just wondering. You do know what curiosity does to cats, do you not?"
"I'd say the same for you." Sanosuke smiled.
-I'm happier around Kenshin. I don't miss Sagara as much.-
Shimoni ran over to Sanosuke and jumped into his lap. Kenshin started to pet her.
"If I didn't know any better, it was this squirrel that we're here. I don't think I could take any more of Kaoru's nagging!" Sanosuke stated.
Later that day, after Sanosuke and Kenshin returned back to the dojo, a slight disturbance was coming from the squirrel named Shimoni.
"What's going on?!" Sanosuke had come home to find his house all wrecked.
Shimoni was lying on her bed that he had made and was starting to glow. Sanosuke just stood, paralyzed with fear at what was going on.
The glowing continued and she got brighter until a giant flash lit the whole room. Sanosuke's stance hadn't changed, mouth agape.
When the flash had stopped, there was a beautiful woman standing in the place where Shimoni originally was. She had really long flowing silver hair and giant amber eyes, she looked almost translucent, not to mention she was taller then Kenshin and Kaoru.
"Sanosuke." Her voice was mysterious, like it echoed.
Sanosuke still couldn't move, way too paralyzed from the fact that the little squirrel friend is now a beautiful woman.
"You have helped me, and given me enough care that I have taken my true form. A spell was put on me, so I was turned into a squirrel. The spell could only have been broken when a person, not just any person, a depressed person, would take care of me and give me a home."
"Shimoni... I think... why was it me? And are you still the Shimoni that I know?" Sanosuke felt like saying oro right now.
"Yes, I'm still Shimoni. But now you may call me Kinoshi."
"Okay, Kinoshi, why was it me that was the one to take care of you? Why not someone else?" Sanosuke... someday his curiosity's going to get the best of him.
"You were the most depressed person I've seen. I felt bad for you, and I wanted to help you. If I was stuck as a squirrel forever, I at least wanted to be happy that I helped someone along the way."
"And you did that by luring me and Kenshin together. Wow..." Sanosuke looked really dazed, more than before, if that's possible.
"Yes, you looked most happy around him. Who is this Sagara person you kept talking to anyway?"
Sanosuke blushed (A-N: rare (and beautiful) sight!), "Sagara was my former captain. We used to go around and try to make Japan a better place, but then the Imperialist government..." his eyes grew very dark (think of when you're mad), "... told them we were liars, so that they'd look good and people would trust THEM! So they went ahead and tried to kill us! The bastards missed him enough the first time, so that he was still alive, but then they saw me dragging him away, and they killed him, right after he saved my life by pushing me off a cliff into the water. I got my revenge after that by being a fighter for higher, until I met Kenshin."
"So you loved this Sagara person, did you not?"
"Yes, he's practically all I think about now. That is, until you came."
"I see you have suffered a terrible childhood. Your only loved one dead, left you to move around like an emotionless zombie (a lot like Sojirou) until you met Kenshin."
"Yes." Sanosuke didn't know what to say. This is the only time, besides with Kenshin, that he's blurted out his past like that. What was it about her that hypnotized him, to make him tell her everything?
After a bit of awkward silence, Kinoshi spoke, "Sanosuke, I thank you again for taking care of me. I want to grant you a single wish, I can do many types of wishes, even some genies can't."
"Ummm... yes, I'd need to think about this, for I'm not sure what matters most to me at this moment." -It's either Kenshin or Sagara.-
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Kenshin is washing some dishes, being forced by Kaoru.
"KENSHIN! You're not doing it fast enough!" Kaoru nagged.
"Slave driver..." Kenshin mumbled under his breath.
"What was that?!"
"Oro?" It was the only word that popped into his head at the moment.
"I know you said something, Kenshin, and I want to know what it was!"
"I honestly don't know what you're talking about Miss Kaoru, that I don't." Kenshin had an innocent look on his face.
"That you don't, huh?" then Kaoru took out an empty rice bucket and chucked it at Kenshin's head.
"Oro?!" Kenshin's normal eyes turned into the Battosai eyes. After that happened, he chucked the bucket back at Kaoru and took off to the direction of Sanosuke's house.
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Sanosuke was sitting at the beach yet again. Just thinking of who he REALLY wants, he's never had to of made a decision this hard before. If anyone, besides Kinoshi had asked him who he liked more, he'd punch their brains out, there's just NO WAY to decide.
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Kenshin was running now, to Sanosuke's house. When he got there, he saw the beautiful woman with long silver hair.
The first words to come out of his mouth were, "Where's Sanosuke!! I need to talk to him, NOW!"
Kinoshi just calmly pointed towards the direction of the beach, but before she could say anything, Kenshin no Battousai had already left.
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-How the hell am I going to decide?!-
Sanosuke was going to drive himself crazy with this question. But something distracted him for a second, "Who's here?!"
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Sanosuke and Kenshin, or Sanosuke and Sigara? Review or you'll never find out!!! Muhahahaha!