Disclaimer: Me no own RK, me not Watsuki-san T.T

A/N: Woot BC is updating another story!! I am leaving for the weekend, this story isn't well edited Please forgive me ;.; if it is too intolerable tell me and I will edit it again as soon as I get home. (I know this chapter is a little boring and slow moving, please forgive me, it will get better I promise)


Kenshin was walking back to the dojo, he couldn't stand by and do nothing any longer, and he knew he would find himself more trouble than either he or Kaoru needed if he went down to her. He also knew that Kaoru would be ok, if anything if people tried to get to her Enishi was there. He shuddered at the thought, it almost made him sick to think that he was entrusting Enishi of all people, but he had witnessed for himself that he would protect Kaoru, even if it was unintentional.

One of the more drunken men from the town had tried to get to Kaoru acting in a provocative manner, Kenshin was barely to his feet when he saw Enishi's reaction, pulling out his new sword and saying 'leave you are disturbing the quiet.' The problem was Kenshin didn't know what disturbed him more that Enishi was entrusted with keeping his lover safe, or that he had a new wattou that seemed to be in better condition than his old one.

When he entered the Dojo Aoshi was sitting in the training hall meditating. "I've been waiting for you." He said as Kenshin entered the hall.

"Have you?" The serious strain on Kenshin's patients has made him a little more irritable, almost like his former self was bubbling to the surface wanting some fresh air.

"Yes, I have found out what has happened." Aoshi sipped on the tea that was in front of him

Kenshin didn't answer he just looked at Aoshi trying to form an opinion of the man sitting in the full lotus position in front of him.

"Sit" He offered, and Kenshin slid down against the wall resting his sakabatou against his shoulder and listened to Aoshi talk.

"It wasn't hard to figure out that Kaoru was attacked by three of Subaru's men, but the hard part was to figure out what happened to your son, but I believe I have it figured out. Your son was-"

"Kidnapped," Saitou walked into the dojo finishing Aoshi's sentence.

"And what gives you the authority to enter my home unannounced?" Kenshin said darkly.

"Do you want to know what happened or not?" Saitou said leering, he knew he held some power over Kenshin at that moment and he was enjoying it, "I am surprised you don't know, but then again you haven't always been to bright now have you?"

Kenshin didn't answer he knew he wouldn't get any answers if he retorted.

"Subaru staged your son's death, that is what your dearly beloved wife thinks right now, she is also convinced it was her fault for not protecting him, You know how it is to feel like that right? His men set it up well, one of his idiot followers fed her a story of how your child met his end. Actually it is a very good one but I doubt you would want to hear it, I know she didn't."

Saitou was starting to irk Kenshin, he was very tempted to let himself go and try to kill the cop standing in front of him, but he just kept telling himself he would never get answers if he did that.

Saitou lit a cigarette and continued talking, "Now Subaru has your child, his plans are nearly complete. Though actually they will never be fully complete, that brother of Kaoru's made sure of that. To bad he had to die, he would have saved us more than a measly year before Subaru rebelled."

"How do you know all this?" Misao asked peaking her head in the hall she and Yahiko had obviously been eavesdropping.

"That is on a need to know bases, weasel."

"Well I need to know!" She retorted.

"That's too bad." He carelessly flicked the smoldering butt of his cigarette into her hair making her curse as she brushed it out.

"What do you mean Kenji would have been able to stop Subaru's rebellion and what is Subaru rebelling against anyway?" Yahiko asked looking at the Mibu wolf seriously.

"The raccoons brother was an officer in the police, he was one of the special agents sent out to investigate things, he was there to retrieve information-"

"So he was like your spy that we aren't supposed to know about?" Misao asked still mad about the cigarette butt.

"No, he didn't go undercover, that is how I knew exactly what happened to the Raccoon one of my men happened to be there, under cover. Her brother was hired to lurk in the shadows, I have a feeling not even his sister knows am I right?"

'She would have defiantly mentioned something, that she would have.' Kenshin nodded and Saitou went on.

"Subaru is rebelling against the government, he like a lot of people have a problem with the way things are run and he plans to overtake the current government and establish a new one with similar principles that Makoto Shisho had." Saitou saw the clueless look on Yahiko and Misao's faces and inwardly sighed in exasperation; "He wants to build a government based on the ideals of the strong will rule over the weak. And in his opinion he is the strongest, if he can overthrow the current government."

"So what your saying is that, he's like ol' crispy except he has more people, and he's not so crispy right?" Sanosuke asked trying to comprehend everything

Saitou shook his head in disdain "Moron."

"What!?"

Saitou ignored him. "But he won't be making any movements until March, so you have a while. And I would suggest you do not try to rescue your son until then, we have him on a tight watch and if you blindly go in there you will ruin thirteen years of police work, and all the advancements the raccoons brother made."

Kenshin and the other's agreed reluctantly not to do anything until March. 'How can I just sit by for three month's while my son is in the hands of that man? What about Kaoru? She thinks he is dead, this is all my fault,' Kenshin became deathly recluse within the next few days refusing to leave his room for anything, he was lost in his own blame once again.

One day someone ventured towards Kenshin's room, "Ken-san?" It was Megumi, she had come all the way from Aizu to support her friends. Well she was mainly there out of concern for Kaoru, she was ready to help her if she ever came back.

Kenshin didn't answer he just sat against the wall of his room his eye's covered by his crimson bangs. He had been mentally reprimanding himself for ever letting this happen. How could he have been so blind? Why did he let this happen, this was all his fault. He was inches from losing everything he had gained in the last four years and he could do nothing.

"Are you ok? Sano told me what happened." She said sounding sympathetic.

Kenshin looked up at the fox woman, the look he gave her made her gasp, cold amber eye's were staring back at her, they where full of regret and self-hatred.

"I am happy to see you Miss Megumi but at the moment I would like to be left alone." Kenshin said trying to sound like his rurouni self but it wasn't working.

"Of course Ken-san..." Megumi left the room shaking off the feeling that she had in the pit of her stomach at the sight of him. How a person could say so much without saying anything at all was something Megumi was still amazed to see, she walked down to the Kitchen. She didn't try to push Kenshin she knew it was useless in the state he was in.

"Well I've tried, the only thing we can do now is wait for Kaoru to come back." Megumi said sitting down and drank some tea that Aoshi had left unattended.

"Fat chance of that happening." Yahiko said dimly

Misao slapped Yahiko on the back of the head. "Don't say that!"

Then Sanosuke hit him too, "Yeah don't say that!" Even though they themselves were thinking the same thing.

To be continued...


A/N: I had some people ask me,Why did I put Kenshin into his 'Battousai' state? It's hard to explain but I am going to take the Kurogasa episodes as an example of why I did this, Kenshin was put into so much of a mental and emotional stress that some how his barriers failed and he let his other side ::cough:: out to play so to speak. Same idea here, his anger/hatred towards himself and Subaru, and his helplessness put him back to his old self (sounds fun ne?) But like the Kurogasa eps there is only one way to have our loveably not so wandering rurouni back. ::winks::

Yahiko: -.-;; you know I think you really are scarier than busu at times.

BC: Only at times?

Yahiko: No I was just trying to be nice.

BC: ::Snorts:: yeah that'll be the day...