Disclaimer: I do not own Rurouni Kenshin or Code Lyoko

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AN: this story might have some ooc-ness in it but please no flames, my changes are to add to the depth of the story.

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Getting Home

Aelita stepped up behind Yumi very little fear in her heart she knew she was in safe hands.

"Jeremy, something doesn't feel right… this is insane, Xana is guarding this tower too well," Yumi said

"Yeah, you've got a point over 18 monsters for one tower, that's a bit too much, he's got something planned" Jeremy replied

"Yeah, I think so too" Yumi finally got Aelita to the tower. She went inside and the truth came out, there was never an activated tower. Then suddenly a white light surrounded her and the next thing she knew she was falling, she could feel the wind and smell things. Then Aelita hit the ground she heard a sickening crack and felt a sharp pain run through her left arm from the mid forearm to the shoulder, she had just broken her arm, she winced, her elbow giving under her weight. Jeremy saw a weird icon appear on his computer screen, he clicked on it and heard a tiny crack and a soft cry of pain, but none of it was very decipherable, it was far too soft for his ears. He e-mailed it to Kaitlin, if anyone could decipher what he had just heard it would be her, her exceptional hearing and sound processing technology would make short work of figuring out that sound.

"What the…" Kaitlin wondered aloud, she opened the sound file listening with her headphones. She listened carefully, closing her eyes to shut out any visual distractions. Kaitlin then heard the hard crack of bone breaking and a soft cry of pain that could have only came from Aelita, she replayed it to make sure she'd heard it right. Kaitlin then read the message text that came along with it and gasped in horror. She pulled out her cell phone and called Jeremy.

"Jeremy, are you sitting down?" she asked

"Yes, why?"

"I've got some bad news, I have a feeling Aelita might have been transferred to the real word"

"Really, great, can you tell where?"

"No, not yet, but I'll tell you this much, I think she has a broken bone"

"What?"

Meanwhile, Aelita lay motionless, her back resting against a tree, her left arm bent so it rested at her torso, it felt better there than anywhere else. She then heard footsteps headed her way and hoped for a familiar person, but it didn't end up that way. A strange red-haired man came down the pathway, Aelita wanted to move to where he couldn't see her, but she was in too much pain from her scrapped palms and broken arm to move.

Kenshin looked around, he knew he'd sensed someone nearby, but couldn't seem to find him or her. Aelita had mixed emotions as to whether or not she wanted him finding her, but then he found her, quickly making eye contact and seeing the pain in her eyes.

'Poor thing, she's hurt bad, that she is' he thought, he immediately decided he'd help this strange girl because, he figured that, if he didn't no one else would. He approached her trying his best not to frighten her, she was a pretty girl, he had to admit that much, but she was defiantly scared.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you" he purposely changed his way of saying things so he didn't seem strange to her. She allowed him to get really close to her, but he could still see a lot of fear in her green eyes and her pain and fear troubled Kenshin because in truth he meant her no harm. He began to use small talk to try and calm the young girl down enough to, at the very least, get her name.

Kenshin finally managed to gain benefit of Aelita's doubt, for now, that would have to be sufficient. However, he did manage to get her name.

"Let me take a look at that arm" he said.

Aelita hesitantly let him do so. As soon as he touched her arm he realized it was broken and needed to be set properly, and he had to do so, he'd learned to set a broken arm during his 10 years of traveling the countryside. He also knew that setting a broken bone was a painful but necessary procedure to take because if a broken bone wasn't set within a certain length of time it wouldn't heal properly.

"Aelita, I'm afraid I'm going to have to try and get this set so it will heal properly, unfortunately, this can be rather painful, that it can" he tried his best to keep her informed

"Okay, if it's for the best" she whispered in pain.

He tried to calm her down so that she'd loosen up which would make his job easier. He managed to set it and used a bit of twine he had used to hold a packet closed but was no longer necessary and a straight piece of would he'd found to brace the brake so it remained properly placed. They then headed on the short distance to Kamaya Dojo, he knew that Megumi was there and he'd have her take care of the girl's palms and properly brace her arm.

To Be Continued…