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A/N: Let's not go into how horrible my updatingthese stories has been lately, senior year is frustratingto say the least, and lets not evengo into my midterm for english and c.n. bio that looms over my head.
The plot is about to thicken mwahahahaha!
He sat staring out the window drinking his morning serving of Chinese black tea.
'Fools' he thought looking down at the letter he held in his other hand. So the governments army thought it could take him on? How sorely mistaken they would find themselves to be.
"Sir?"
'Ah the broom headed Osakan has finally decided to grace me with his presence.' Subaru didn't even spare the man a glance, "What do you want?"
"The Himura child, sir," Chou hated playing submissively towards a pompous man like Subaru, he would rather slit the man's throat, but if he did that, he was sure Saitou would slit his.
"What about the brat?" As far as he knew the kid should be safe and sound on the fifth floor...
"He's gone."
Subaru just stared at Chou for a minuet without saying a word, "Gone?" He asked finally, his voice sounding amused.
"Yes, kidnapped sir." Chou didn't like the tone of Subaru's voice.
"Kidnapped, you say?" Subaru replied calmly, he approached Chou until they were face to face, "Tell me, how is it that you lose a kid who has twelve bodyguards, and two nannies taking care of him?"
"I don't know sir," Chou replied taking a step back, there was something about this man that gave off an aura of choking insanity. "I just know that he is gone."
"Well," Subaru said still too calmly, "I suggest that you find the whelp before I decide which testicle of yours I should mount on my fireplace."
Chou said nothing, he just stared at the man, it was official, he was defiantly insane.
"I also suggest that you leave now, otherwise I will take both of them, you do have two do you not?"
Chou balled his fist but bowed and left the room without another word. He much liked his anatomy the way it was, thank you very much.
As soon as the broom head closed the door behind him, Subaru flung his half filled teacup at the stone wall. "Damn it!" he hissed; now he had to refigure his plans, and that would take time that he just didn't have at the moment. He had enough to worry about, Chou was a traitor, there was no doubt about that, but there was another. Someone was leaking information to his enemy, and once he found out who the serpent was, he would be sure to cut off his head.
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Saitou leaned against a tree waiting for Chou, the man had better have some substantial information this time. He took a long drag from his cigarette to calm his nerves. "It took you long enough," He stated flatly as the broom-head approached him from behind.
"Yeah well I had to deal with a few death threats before I could grace you with my presence."
Saitou didn't respond, he didn't feel like having small talk with the man.
"The Himura child has been kidnapped." Chou was to the point, better to say it now it might be less painful that way.
Saitou stopped mid-inhale of his cigarette, "kidnapped?" The wolf rounded on the blonde man, "What do you mean kidnapped? I know it doesn't mean that you failed your job watching the brat."
"Actually..."
"You had better find him soon, or whatever death threats you received earlier will look like heaven compared to what I will do to you." Saitou turned to walk off, "and if that doesn't suffice I am quite sure Battousai or his wife could think up something better to do with you."
Chou cringed at the thought, the Himura's, when provoked, are the scariest creatures known to man.
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The trek had been a long and arduous one, but all the while Seiju's brother, whose name was Yuji, tried his best to tell them what he knew. "Captain Fujita has Subaru's land staked out, and is waiting for you before he does anything."
"What are we some kind of distraction?" Kaoru said rolling her eyes, 'Typical Saitou, the baka would do that wouldn't he?' She knew a little better than that however.
Kenshin held in a snort of laughter, He knew as well as Kaoru did, that Saitou would never use them as a distraction. The wolf hated to ask for their help in general, that just meant that he needed their help worse than he probably really wanted to admit.
"Yuji?" Kaoru asked, trying to fill the silence with conversation, "You are a police officer for the government right? Then why is your brother a follower of Subaru? I would think he would have more respect for his family than that."
"It is quite the opposite, actually." Yuji smiled, "I am the family traitor. My brother and my parents were all followers of Subaru, I guess you could call me a free thinker, or whatever, but I couldn't stand letting someone else control my life. I sought Captain Fujita offering my assistance and he made me a spy for him."
"Does your brother know about this?" Kaoru asked.
"No he never knew." Yuji frowned "My brother was asked by Subaru to infiltrate your dojo, and well you know what happened from there. When Seiju came back Subaru wasn't too happy that he had failed. Subaru determined that Seiju was too weak and he killed my brother."
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Saitou grumbled to himself as he waited for Yuji to return with them. If the raccoon messed this up and had followers he would lose it. And Saitou never loses it, not willingly at least. 'Damn them! If it weren't for them I wouldn't be here, and damn that stupid Subaru, I hope Battousai forgets his vow and kills the bastard.' Today was not a good day. All Saitou wanted to do was go home to his wife and maybe even spend some quality time with his boys, how he missed them.
That thought just reminded him of the brat that had gone missing. He would need a lot of cigarettes today.
'About time they got here.' He thought lighting up a cigarette and taking in the smoke.
"Yuji, leave us."
"Yes Captain." The young officer left Kenshin and Kaoru to face Saitou, alone.
"Good job raccoon, it looks like you did well on getting battousai here without being followed..."
"How is my son?" Kaoru cut his insult short. To have her son, that was the only real reason she was there after all.
"To the point aren't you?" The mibu wolf took another long puff, "There is someone handling the situation as we speak."
"Situation!" This time both Kenshin and Kaoru spoke. Whenever someone like Saitou said that word, it was never a good thing.
"When you say situation you mean you have some undercover person looking after Kenji right?" Kaoru had a sinking feeling that that was not what he meant.
"No, there has been an unexpected turn of events..."
"Don't skirt around the subject, just get to the goddamn point!" Kaoru yelled, her husband took a step back, she could handle this herself, and he really didn't feel like being an innocent casualty to her anger.
"The brats gone missing."
"Missing!"
"Is there an echo out here?"
Kaoru snapped, she stomped up to the wolf and grabbed the cigarette out of his mouth and snapped it in two; her blind rage blocking what small piece of logic she ever had. "How the hell did you manage to lose him!"
"I was not the one who lost him in the first place."
"Don't blame Kaoru," This was getting a little to far out of hand. "Who was in charge of our sons care?"
"Chou-"
"You left the sword hunter in charge of my child!"
"Our child, Kaoru," Kenshin corrected her under his breath.
Kaoru shot him a death glare.
"Right got it." Kenshin replied meekly, there's only one word for the rurouni in that moment, whipped.
"I have him looking for the mini battousai as we speak."
"I resent that," Kenshin muttered defensively.
"You have a different task however." Saitou turned towards Kenshin directly getting down to business, as it were. "The army is preparing to attack the front gates of the mansion, when they do that I expect you to take the back way into the mansion and subdue Subaru yourself."
Kaoru coughed feeling a little left out of the conversation.
"You" Saitou didn't spare her a glance but still it was her he was speaking to, "Will be staying here raccoon, and if I find out that you have moved I will deal with you personally."
Kaoru went to knock the wolf upside the head but Kenshin did his best to hold back the fiery woman.
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Subaru paced his office lazily sipping his chardonnay, as he noticed the march of the government's seemingly sparse regiment coming closer. "Ah so the fools think that they will be able to attack me in a full frontal battle." Opening the office door he faced a young guard, "Kyo there is to be an assault on my mansion, make sure that they don't get past the front gate."
"Sir!" And the guard named Kyo ran off down the hall to call the alarm.
Subaru smirked looking out his office window sipping his wine, "Here the sun will start to rise anew."
To be continued...
A/N: The real fun begins next chapter, Special prize: A bag of cookies if you can guess what happens to, or who has Kenji!
