Strangers at our door

written by: inuschopstiks

"speaking"

'thinking'

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Kenshin grinned happily at the white cloth in front of him "Perfect! White as snow!" It was then that he caught the sound of a faint knock at the gate door. At first he thought he had imagined it, but then it came again, fainter than before.

He shot up and ran towards the gate, freezing for a second, a couple off feet away from the door as the scent of blood hit his sensitive nose. He raced the last couple of feet and thru open the door.

A young girl, looking about the age of fifteen stood there, shivering despite the heat, staring at him with chocolate brown eyes that were glazed over with fever. It was only then that he noticed that she had a badly bleeding cut. It ran through her shoulder and he could tell that it was serious. It was bleeding heavily.

She looked up at him "I-Inuyasha…is…he here?…where is he…."

And she fainted right into his arms.

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CHAPTER One

The first thing she felt when she woke up was the searing pain in her shoulder. Normally it would have been enough to send her back into unconsciousness but she couldn't 'inuyasha…'

She sat up suddenly, scaring the hell out of the young woman who had just begun to doze beside her.

The young woman looked up in a flash. She had arctic blue eyes that shone with worry, and her dark hair that was pulled into a high ponytail with a large ribbon, swished at her sudden movement.

"y-you scared me! You shouldn't sit up yet, your shoulder is very bad…." She made eye contact with the wounded girl in front of her, silently asking her for her name

"kagome" kagome whispered "Inuyasha…is he here?"

Kaoru looked away "I'm sorry…I don't know who he is…my name is Kaoru and this is the Kamiya dojo."

Then to Kaoru's shock the girl, Kagome, turned as white as a sheet and fainted.

She gasped and immediately went to check the girls wound. It had reopened a little but that could be fixed.

"Kaoru-dono?"

She looked up, having just finished re-bandaging Kagome, to see a familiar face, one she could never get enough of.

"I brought you some supper Kaoru-dono. You look exhausted, this one will watch over the girl for a while"

Kaoru started to protest as Kenshin sat down beside her but he cut her off

"It is alright Kaoru-dono, this one will come get you if she awakens"

Kaoru smiled at him and took the tray off food "she woke for a second Kenshin…she said her name was Kagome…and she was looking for the Inuyasha she mentioned earlier…I hope this man is alright, for her sake."

Himura nodded "I know Kaoru-dono…this one hopes as well"

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He had been sitting beside the girl for a good couple of hours, changing the cloth on her for head once in a while to dip it in water to try and reduce her fever. So he nearly jumped when she cried out in her sleep.

"Inuyasha! Don't go Inuyasha…you belong here!" tears began to run down the girls face as she reached out in the air "Inuyasha….you didn't force me to be….I wanted to stay with you!"

Kenshin's mouth hung open slightly…this conversation sounded a little familiar…But the next thing the girl said made him gasp

"Inuyasha…your not Hitokiri anymore…"

'Hitokiri? This Inuyasha is a turned assassin as well as this one? Why did he leave this girl? An assassin…' Kenshin shifted slightly, this was not what he had expected.

This girl, from what he had heard form her mumbling reminded him of Kaoru.

'I don't care about peoples past' He remembered her words exactly and from what this girl Kagome had said '"Don't go Inuyasha…you belong here" and "you didn't force me to be….I wanted to stay with you!" It sounds like this girl cares a lot for this…Inuyasha'

Kenshin shook his head, this reminded him to much of the time he had left for Kyoto, leaving Kaoru and the others behind.

-The next morning-

Kenshin sat, leaning against the gate. Kaoru had ushered him out, she was changing the girls bandages and considering they were the only top the girl wore…

Kenshin rolled his eyes. He was not perverted, unlike some mad gambler called Sanosuke…

It made him jump to his feet when he heard shouting just a little ways away from the gate. Leaping nimbly over the gate he landed a couple of meters away from and old man and another man, looking in his twenties.

The younger man was shouting at the older man. "You said you saw a girl with raven hair wearing miko clothing! You said she was badly wounded! Where is she old man! Why didn't you help her?"

The first thing Kenshin had noticed was that the boy had a sword at his side. But the slightly vague description of the girl Kagome who now lay in the dojo pulled him out of his trance.

"a wounded Miko?"

The angry younger man looked up, causing his waist length black hair to whip around, his violet eyes flashed "You've seen her?"

Kenshin gazed at him for a moment, the older, grey haired man, happy to have been forgotten took off.

Kenshin lowered his head in a half bow "This one would like to know first, are you Inuyasha?"

The boy froze "why?"

'he isn't very trusting, that he isn't' "You must answer first" Kenshin watched carefully, noticing that the mans hand went to the hilt of his blade, he placed his hand against his sakabato in a non threatening maner.

He knew the other man had seen him do it.

"yes, I am Inuyasha, now have you seen Kagome? Where is she?"

"follow this one Inuyasha" And, keeping his hand on his sword, Kenshin lead the younger man into the dojo.