I'm soooo tired, I've pretty much been typing this all throughout the day with major gaps between each section, about 3 to 5 hours.
Disclaimer: I do not own Rurouni Kenshin or any of the characters. But I do own Rurouni Kenshin stuff... mostly dvds. I got the entire box set I love it so much.
NOTES: (AN) Authors notes, 'thoughts'-actions!Flashback, and the fic is AU or alternate universe.
Last time on 'Do You Love Me?':
A man walked up to Kenshin. He wore, black pants and shirt, a long red coat, black hair with a red bandanna tied in it and brown eyes, "You must be Kenshin."
"Wh... who are you?" Kenshin stammered. 'He wears the Sekihotai bandanna!'
"My name is not important right now. I can tell you one thing, I am here for the sake of Sanosuke, to rescue him." He said it in a casual tone.
"Yes. Well, I am going as well, that I am. We can work together to get him out then. But I would really appreciate it if you gave me your name." Kenshin was starting to be more formal to him.
"You will find that out later. For now, we just have to get into the building. It was very smart of them not to have the guards on the outside, it would have looked suspicious." The man stated.
"You must be a man of knowledge,to have known that, that you must." Kenshin said with dignity.
"Well, why don't we go in then." The brunette started walking towards the door.
"Sanosuke!" Erica was yelling just about as loud as she could.
In front of her was an rather empty bleak room, with a giant hole punched through the wall. Sanosuke had escaped.
"YAHH! I'm starting to get sick of this damn place already!" Sanosuke swore to no one in particular. "I need to get out of here, but how?"
Then an idea hit him, 'Why hadn't I thought of this before!' He thought to himself.
Sanosuke started to laugh to himself as he began to massage his hand muscles for the Futai No Kiwami. (Yes, you should know what's going to happen now. -smirk-)
He raised his arm ready to strike the wall (Hehe) when someone came knocking on the door. (They ruined my... er... Sanosuke's moment. -tear-)
Sanosuke stopped abruptly and asked in a casual, boring tone, "Who is it?"
"My name is Hikama, I am here to bring you your food." It was a girl's soft voice, and even better, carrying food with her!
Sanosuke's stomach started to growl as if on cue, so Sano decided to take the food off the carrying cart. The girl had short blue hair, wearing a light blue long dress. She stood out from the rest of the black. 'I never knew how annoying a simple color like black can be,' thought Sano.
"Ummm... Hikama, right?" Hikama nodded and Sanosuke continued, "Well, what would you do if you were in my situation? I mean, stuck like this waiting for someone to wake up."
"I'm not really sure. I guess I'd have to be there to know." She answered with a smile and slowly walked out of the door with the cart.
Sanosuke got a weird feeling in the pit of his stomach, he knew something important was happening and he had to be there, so he continued with what he was doing before and punched the hole through the wall.
"Why are there so many guards?" Sanosuke was muttering to himself hiding behind a corner as to not be seen.
The guards were standing casually in front of a door talking. Waiting for something interesting to happen.
Another ninja came running up to them and shouted at them, "Come quick! There has been a sighting of the Battousai, he was last seen wandering around the premises!"
'Kenshin!' Sanosuke gasped, thinking to himself.
So the new guard took them off to where the red head was last seen, making Sanosuke's get away much easier.
Sano crept over to the door that they had been guarding and snuck out. The place that Sanosuke came out of looked much like the hut that Kenshin and the mysterious man had snuck into.
Sanosuke wasn't about to wait for someone to notice that he was missing by now and ran off into the woods hoping to find Kenshin, knowing that he was around.
Kenshin and the black haired man were going though out the building in the same fashion as Sanosuke.
They ran across Erica talking to some men in the hallway outside Sanosuke's now torn down room. She didn't realize that two men were deciding to listen in on their conversation.
Kenshin and the raven haired man couldn't hear everything, but they caught some of it, this is whatthey heard, "Sanosuke broke out..." "...hole in the wall!" and "if I ever get my hands on him..."
The two men gasped and looked at eachother, knowing that Sanosuke must have punched a hole in the wall, and if they don't find him, he's going to be in trouble.
They ran towards the direction of the front door, and ran quickly hid behind some trees, seeing all the ninja's running about.
"Oh, I hope Sano's alright in there," Kenshin thought aloud.
Someone came behind them and poked Kenshin in the back. Kenshin let out a little 'oro.'
When he turned around he saw Sano, standing there as proud as ever. "SANO!" Kenshin shouted out a little louder then he should have, he was just to happy to see his friend.
"Yeah, it's nice to see..." Sano stopped as he saw who was standing next to Kenshin.
"Is... is... that really, really you?" Sanosuke asked bending down to inspect him more.
"Yes, Sanosuke, it's me. It's been a while." Sagara said with his kind voice.
"You know him Sano? Well, can you tellme his name then?" Kenshin was curious to know after all this time.
"Yes, it's my captain, Souzou Sagara." Sanosuke sat down on a tree that had fallen over, smiling.
Kenshin's eyes almost seemed to pop out of his head, "But, isn't he supposed to be dead!"
"I guess I have to explain that now. While I was walking though the forest on my free time and I ran into this girl who seemed to float. She had long silver hair and wonderful eyes."
"Kinoshi..." Sanosuke mumbled.
"Huh? Oh well, as I was saying, I saw this girl and she told me...
!Flashback!
Sagara, in the past, has met up with Kinoshi and they start talking.
"Well, I've heard so much about you, it's great to finally see you." Kinoshi greeted him so openly.
"If you don't mind my rudeness, who are you exactly?" Sagara wondered.
"Oh, sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Kinoshi. In the future I have been helping a Sanosuke Sagara -"
'So, he did take my name after all,' Souzou realized.
"- the whole time he's talked about you and how he misses you so much. So I went out of my way to get you and bring a part of you to the future, we can't just take all of you, for then you wouldn't be in the past and when you mess with the past, bad things happen." Kinoshi said all of this with a smile.
"Well then, I guess you can take part of me, but how would you do that?" curiouser and curiouser.
"We would split all the aspects of you in half I guess. I'm not completely sure how it's done myself, all I know is how to do it." Her silver hair seemed to flow in the breeze, but there was no breeze to be felt.
"That's all the questions I have. Thank you and I don't see any harm in going I guess, so you have my permission," Sagara mostly wanted to find out what lies ahead in the future, what had changed, how Sanosuke has changed.
!End Flashback!
"The last thing I saw was a bright blue light and then I ended up in this forest, the same forest that I had been wandering years ago," Sagara finished his story.
"Wow, so Kinoshi wanted to help me all she could," Sanosuke was in awe at what just happened.
A loud "KEEENNSHIN!" could be heard in the distance.
"Oro? It must be Karou looking for me. I'll let you two have your time alone, I'm sure you'll want it," and Kenshin wandered off towards the voice.
"Captain Sagara... I've missed you so much," Sanosuke began.
"Please, call me Souzou now. Who was that? I think his name was Kenshin," Sagara pondered.
"Yeah,he was the Battousai. He decided to change his ways and became a rurouni," Sanosuke explained.
"THE Battousai! He has great power, but if you say that he has changed for the better, then I believe you. You seem to like him."
"Wh... how can you tell?" Sanosuke was confused.
"Well, every time you say his name, your face lights up. I'm glad you found someone in your era now. Maybe you won't be needing me after all," Sagara winked.
"What! Of course I still need you! You just barely got here and now you want to leave?" Sanosuke was basically begging.
"Ok then, I'll stay. It seems that I don't live this long, so it would be nice to know what the future would be like. What happened to the Sekihotai after all?"
"I think that'll be better for you to find out for yourself." Sanosuke suggested.
Well... that's all for now, until next time!
Sanosuke-begging- Save me!
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