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A/N: Wow I didn't think I would finish this chapter so soon! (well relatively, I started this chapter after I updated the last chapter for bitter cold)
Thank you to every one who has reviewed for this story! Now without further ado the next chapter to Lost:
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Silently he made his way into the police station, and into his office with little disturbance. Last night had been a long one for Saitou Hajime. Subaru's stupidity still ceased to amaze the mibu wolf. Quietly he took a short sigh to calm his enraged nerves, there had been more information on what Subaru was planning to do, and needless to say the information was far from good.
Saitou glared towards his door as he felt a familiar ki come closer, 'That idiot...' He thought as the door swung open to reveal Chou standing in the door way looking a little disheveled.
"Why the hell did you send me to that damned place if you were just going to find out the information on your own anyway?" His temper was getting the better of him, he was forgetting his place and to whom he spoke to.
"I sent you to keep a watch on the Himura child; I never told you that your job was reconnaissance." Saitou shot back before lighting a cigarette; he really needed it to calm his nerves. "How is the child?"
"It's fine, Subaru won't do anything to it, yet. That child is his trump card, and he knows when to play it as well." Chou's anger had calmed for the moment. "Does that fool really think he can over power the Meiji government though?"
"Yes." Saitou took another puff from his cigarette. "And he is crazed enough to shake the government at its core."
"It's a wonder that the press has yet to get word of any of this." Chou said off handedly.
"Oh they know about it, it is costing the government a hefty price to keep them quiet though." Again Saitou inhaled the toxic smoke. "Shouldn't you be doing your job?"
"I was just leaving." Chou waved the mibu wolf off as he exited the office.
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Kenshin was preparing lunch in the kitchen, his head still pounding from the beating he had gotten by a certain foxy doctor. He sighed, it had almost been worth it too... If only she would have been a few minuets later then he may have been able to agree that he deserved the concussion he received.
He expertly sliced the fish he intended to use in his sushi as he hummed a mindless tune, completely oblivious to the young girl staring at him incredulously.
"Himura, singing to the fish is not going to make it taste better." Misao said finally getting tired of listening to the red-head hum.
"Oro?" Kenshin blinked turning around, 'I didn't even notice her ki... all these happenings lately have sure taken a toll on my senses... and my libido...' Half of him reprimanded his last thought, he should not be thinking that way right now!
"Good afternoon Miss Misao!" Kenshin said with a rurouni grin. "Kaoru is feeling very awake today that she is, I know she would appreciate it if you visited her."
'Bout time Himura, you worry wart.' Misao thought exasperated. "I think I just might do that." Misao walked down towards her friend's room and entered without even knocking.
"MISAO!!!" Kaoru shouted very surprised to see her young friend. ((A/N: Remember poor Kaoru has been oblivious to her and Aoshi even being at the dojo for the past few weeks)) She immediately swooped her friend into a giant bear hug.
"Mmph..." Misao said against her friends shoulder before she struggled to shift her face. "Kaoru... can't...breathe..."
Kaoru blushed and dropped her friend unceremoniously. "Misao what are you doing here? When did you get here?"
"I have been here for a few weeks, and Aoshi-sama and I followed Kenshin here when he returned." Misao explained quickly.
"Oh-" Kaoru's face fell a little, she knew why they were here, and though she was grateful it still didn't help that it reminded her of what happened.
"Kaoru..." Misao said looking sadly at her friend, Misao clasped her friends hands in her own "I promise you that we are going to get your son back if it's the last thing I do."
Kaoru smiled at her friends promise. "Thank you Misao, you don't know how much that means to me."
"Now that you know how determined I am, lets change this depressing subject... I heard Megumi yelling at you and Kenshin... So what exactly did she walk in on?"
Kaoru's face turned a very beautiful shade of red as she mumbled something incomprehensible feeling very embarrassed by the mornings events.
Misao smiled to see her friend distracted, she started to tease her about that mornings events. Misao hated to see Kaoru so sad, it just didn't fit her.
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The days dwindled by slowly; Kaoru was soon on her feet again. Ignoring her husbands protest as she resigned to training with Yahiko daily now. She had never drilled the poor boy so hard. Even though he was now an assistant master, and lead most of the lower classes he still had a lot to learn, as he soon found out.
"Yahiko, how many times do I have to tell you not to leave your left side open like that?!" Kaoru yelled as she jabbed her bokken into the poor boy's side. "Do it again, and this time concentrate! If I had been holding a katana just now you would have been dead, is that what you want?!" She reprimanded him.
Yahiko flinched as he grabbed his abused side, he almost had it in him to yell at her and call her 'Busu' but thought against it. Ever since Kaoru had started to train him again she had turned furiously serious. She was hell-bent on making sure he got it ingrained in his mind to perform every kata with pinpoint accuracy.
"Yahiko I want you to practice the new swing 1000 times!" She instructed after he failed once again to guard his left side, "And when you are done with that come get me and we will spar again." She said as she walked out of the dojo.
"You're going harder on him than usual." Kenshin said pointedly as he scrubbed Kaoru's rust colored training gi in the soapy water.
"I know, but he is older now, and he should be able to handle it, my father trained me like that when I was seven, I am sure he can handle it as a teenager."
He smiled at her, "Yes, but if you are not careful he just might beat you while sparing someday soon." He knew that would be a major blow to her pride.
"I hope he does." Kaoru said thoughtfully, taking her husband aback with her confession. "I hope he finds the strength to defeat his teacher someday. I want him to become stronger than me, if he doesn't, I have failed him."
"Is that so?" Kenshin said curiously, just because he was a master of swordsmanship it didn't exactly make him the master of teaching it.
"Yes, you may not realize it, but that is the wish of every teacher, to see there student surpass them, that way they can teach the next generation to be stronger than there own." Kaoru smiled looking down at him, "That is what Hiko wished for you when he taught you, is it not?"
He had never looked at it that way, but Kaoru did make sense. "You are very right that you are my love."
Kaoru blushed lightly at the endearment; it was amazing to her how he can still get her to blush even after being married. It was as if she still had a crush on the man.
"Please stop, all this love is sickening." Said a very abrupt voice.
"Hello Sanosuke." Kaoru said a little miffed at his intrusion.
"I was on my way back..."
"From gambling no doubt," Kaoru said rolling her eyes, Kenshin had to fight his urge to snicker at her distaste for their friends old habits.
"From work, if you must know Miss Smarty Pants." Sano replied shaking his head at his friend's skeptical look. "Now as I was saying. I was on my way back from work when I noticed something a little odd."
"Yes we're listening." Kenshin said as he pulled away from his laundry.
"It seems that Tokyo is starting to fill up with some interesting new figures." Sano said looking around.
Kenshin looked at Kaoru and she nodded thinking along the same track as him.
"Subaru." Kaoru subconsciously gripped her bokken even tighter as she said this aloud.
"Very good guess, Tanuki," Stated a drawling voice.
To be continued...
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A/N: sorry for such a sucky, short chapter (and the cliff hanger) but the next part has too much in it to let it go on in this chapter... (I sowee ;.;)
Yahiko: You're not sorry! Admit it you couldn't think of anything else to write!
BC: What the hell do you know Yahiko-chan?!
Kenshin: Do you guys have to fight every time you speak to each other?
Yahiko and BC: YES!!!
Kenshin: oro
BC: See ya next time! ::waves::
