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Chapter 2

Misao cheerfully replied, "Makimachi Misao...what's your name?"

Kenshin and Aoshi quickly got up and walked over to Misao who was waiting for a response.

Kaoru looked a bit startled and slowly got up paying for her tea.

"Miss...you haven't told me your name yet!" Misao said as she struggled to get loose from Aoshi's strong grasp.

Kaoru averted her gaze to Kenshin who was smiling a rurouni smile. "I suppose if you people will not leave me be...I shall tell you my name...Kaoru."

Kaoru was about to walk out when Kenshin said, "Kaoru-dono please may my friends and I explain... Misao-chan was just trying to make friends and well I think she has quite an idea if she went up to a sorceress that has not bothered anyone...right Misao?"

Kenshin asked as he turned to his friend and his eyes changed to golden amber. Misao smiled sheepishly as she got out of Aoshi's grasp and walked over to Kaoru who had stopped to listen to what Kenshin had to say.

"Kaoru-san we are in need of a powerful sorceress in our group and let me show you this is our group---

Misao pointed to Sano, Yahiko, and Megumi who where still seated down and to Kenshin and Aoshi. Kaoru tilted her head and was thinking to herself, "What in the world! I don't even no these people and they're asking me to join their little group!"

---well how would you like to join our group?"

Kaoru's face changed completely and she said, "I hardly know you and---

"Okay! You're in our group let us head of on a quest to slay the mighty Dragon King Slane!" Misao cried out as she pointed to the door so they could leave.

Everyone's eyes went out of their sockets expect Kaoru's and cried out, "SLANE!"

All the customers started muttering under there breath annoyed of the entire racket.

Kaoru shook her head and put her hand on her head as she muttered curses of an early death.

Megumi got up and walked over to Kaoru and smirked as she said, "I see we have not properly introduced ourselves...my name is Takani Megumi...I have no skill with weaponry but I am somewhat of a doctor...if we are going to be comrades in fighting the great Dragon King...then I suppose that we should become friends."

Yahiko "Friends! Ha, that's a laugh to be heard! We hardly now this sorceress and were expecting her like we've known her for a long time...I mean if Kenshin's true lo—

Sanosuke quickly covered Yahiko's mouth and laughed hard as he said, "Oh don't worry about Yahiko here...the names Sanosuke Sagara...nice to meet you jou-chan."

Aoshi closed his eyes and said, "Shinomori Aoshi..."

Kenshin was the last to say his name but had Kaoru's full attention...her eyes where like pools of sorrow...that Kenshin noticed immediately and he said it softly, "Himura Kenshin..."

Kaoru eyes widened and then smiled weakly as she looked at what she had gotten herself into. Then the piercing scream of a young girl was heard.

Kaoru turned around and saw the corpse of a young boy that lay in the middle of the dirt road and was being cradled by the young girl. Kaoru immediately walked over to the young girl and crouched down to examine the boy whose face seemed pale.

"What has happened here girl?" Kaoru asked passively

The girl calmed down on her sobbing and spoke, "My elder brother...he accidentally bumped in to an old woman who seemed worried yet angry...he was about to say sorry when the old woman said something under her breath...I think she was a witch..."

Kaoru clenched her wooden staff and got up as she asked, "Where were you when all this happened...?"

"I was lost in the heavy crowd but saw my elder brother bump into the old woman and bow down to say sorry but I saw him being surrounded in a flashing light..." The young girl said as she kept on sobbing and muttered her brother's name.

The people that where surrounding the small group where the Kenshin-gumi and other people.

"Where did this old witch go?" Kaoru asked coldly

"That way..." The girl pointed toward the end of the village.

Kaoru turned around and headed toward the direction where the witch went. Kenshin and the others where about to follow when Misao said, "Hey this can be some kind of test lets see how strong she really is...and actually no if we can defeat the Dragon King."

Kenshin's eyes averted his gaze a disappearing figure and quickly replied, "Fine but lets hurry up or will miss what you want to watch Misao-chan."

They all nodded and ran to the pointed direction of where Kaoru went.

Kaoru was dead angry she was set on finding that old witch and killing her...or maybe send her to another dimension...

Kaoru sensed a familiar aura and stopped in her tracks before she stepped on the circle that contained the language of Demonic Power.

"What...this circle has demonic language on it...only meaning...damn..."

The old witch stepped out of her hiding place and laughed cold-heartedly as she spoke, "Well sorceress you do know your magic...tell me...how are you going to protect your little slayer friends from a summoning spell that brings demons from hell here to earth...heh..."

Kaoru stepped away from the circle and said, "...I will avenge the death of the young boy...for his sister suffers greatly..."

Elder brother...

Kaoru's ruby orb that was on top of her wooden staff began glowing brightly as she said, "I summon the light that was created to defend innocence from demon's from hell...Darkness into Light, Light into Darkness Cano Shan Ja Non...."

The Kenshin-gumi's eyes went wide open for what they saw was not what they had expected. The demon portal that opened from the old witch's circle conceived five large demons their teeth where razor sharp there claws where like knives and they produced powerful ki...meaning they where skilled.

Kaoru's ruby orb glowed like a bright star in the evening sky and then there was a blinding flash of light that made everyone close there eyes expect Kaoru who covered her eyes with her black cloak. The demon's separated themselves into five coroners and used black magic against the light that was prevailing over them. Kaoru held her ground and stabbed the ground with the tip of her wooden staff, as she with her other hand produced a blue energy ball. The demon's not taking notice in what Kaoru did to distract them created black orbs of black magic and shot it to the blinding light.

The old witch saw what Kaoru was doing cried out, "Fools! Don't get distracted by the light!"

Kaoru "Sapphire Icicles!"

Approximately six icicles pierced to each demon's hearts and even the witch's as she desperately tried to run.

The demons screamed in pain as they slowly turned to dust and the old witch fell to the ground as they bright light faded. Kaoru stood there with no emotion what so ever as she walked over to the witch and said, "Any last words old witch before you die and rot in hell?"

The old witch turned her head toward Kaoru and said utterly bitter; "...I will be waiting for you in hell as well young sorceress..."

Kaoru's eyes twinkled with amusement as she unsheathed her katana and brought it down in a horizontal slash making it a quick kill as Kaoru whispered for only the witch to hear, "...Will see..."

The witches head dropped as her eyes rolled back showing that she was dead. The Kenshin-gumi eyes where wide and the gaped at the sight. Misao was the first to recover as she smiled widely and said, "Oh yea she is totally in our group she is way powerful! Kaoru-san you where great you have to show me some magic better yet what's your secret?"

Misao kept on babbling on as she walked over to Kaoru and pulled her arm so they could leave. Kaoru sighed in annoyance as she muttered, "Why me...I don't even want to go...with you all."

Kenshin smiled inwardly but thought sadly, "She hides something painful and I plan to get to now her and find out."

Yahiko "Hey weasel let the poor woman go!"

"Shut-up my name is not weasel!" Misao angrily said as she threw kunai's at Yahiko who barely dodged them.

Though this shall be interesting...

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