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Summery: After Kenshin dies; someone shows up to kill everyone at Kamiya Dojo, but finds themself unable to harm anyone. Is it Kaoru's guardian angel.... or Kenshin's dying wish?

A/N: I've been stuck watching an Inuyasha music video called "Now or Never". I actually didn't feel like writing this until I heard it again! If you all want, I'll post the web address on my bio page. Just tell me you want it in a review.

Now, for the reviewer responses! You're all the only reason I keep updating this!

XxSilentxDreamerxX: I'll check out that story whenever I get the time, it sounds really good! And your other stories are good too. Are you ever going to update them or are you stuck with Writer's Block? (glares at the evil block right next to her, which in turn blows a raspberry) O.o Who ever knew those things had mouths?!

Firegal777: I'm glad your happy, and here's the next part!

arisu-twilight: YOU BETTER UPDATE YOUR HARRY POTTER STORY BECAUSE I'M NOT GOING TO UPDATE THIS AGAIN UNTIL YOU DO! But of course I'll keep writing this for the other nice people that have reviewed so I can do a major update for them. You know I'm subborn enough to keep that promise....

-Chapter 5-

Kaoru sat in the mud paralyzed with fear at what she had just seen, but after a few seconds when nobody came out of the forest, she relaxed and took several deep breaths before attempting to stand up.

"What was that?" she thought before noticing her kimono, which was now covered in fresh mud, "Why'd I have to fall there?" Kaoru then looked up in the sky and saw that, if it was possible, the rain was pounding even harder and faster to the ground then before.

"Damn it!" shouted the woman before running towards her dojo.

Kenshin, however, stayed behind and continued looking in the forest. "That looked like Saitoh...." he whispered before a strange noise met his ears. It sounded like a small child shouting as loud as they could (which wasn't very loud because of the rain) and it was coming from the middle of the forest. Being the helpful man he was Kenshin flew towards the sound after one last look at where Kaoru had ran.

The crying grew increasingly louder as he approached. A clearing came into view and there were two figures unrecognizable in the rain. One was very tall and lying eagle-spread on their stomach on the ground while the other was noticeably smaller and sitting by a tree.

On closer inspection the figure on the ground was revealed to be Sanosuke and the person by the tree was the girl Kaoru had met at the market, Chika. However, there was also a lot of blood covering both of them.

Kenshin drifted over quickly and looked hard at his tall friend trying to find any injuries or movements with his eyes. He let out the breath he hadn't realized he was holding when he saw that Sanosuke's chest was still rising and falling with his rough breathing. The redheaded samurai then looked over at the girl and was shocked to see that her eyes didn't have a thin film on them, and she was looking straight at him.

"You were with that lady, weren't you? Kamiya Kaoru?" she asked with her big brown eyes looked directly at his face before she wiped some tears away from her eyes, "How come you don't touch the ground? And why does the rain go through you?" Chika was about to ask another question but a lightening bolt ripped across the sky and interrupted her. When the following thunder arrived the girl jumped up and ran right at Kenshin but she didn't go through him. Chika latched herself onto his waist and was shaking uncontrollably from fright, not from touching Kenshin.

The man's eyes grew wide as he stared at the young girl. "How can you touch me?" he asked in awe, "Nobody can touch me…. I'm dead…."

Chika then shouted over the wind that had been slowly picking up speed, "You are?! What's that?!"

"Well....It's kind of like...When your body stops working...." stuttered Kenshin, not exactly sure if he should tell the little girl what death really was. Then he remembered that both she and Sanosuke were covered in blood and he yelled, "Why is so much blood on you both?! Who injured you?!"

Chika just blinked. "Both?" she asked innocently, "Who's the other person?"

"The man lying down right next to us!" he shouted back, confused that she couldn't see the person that was obviously there.

"I don't see anything but you!"

"Nothing?!"

"No! Well, I did see some other people before, but they all said that they were this 'dead' thing too!"

"So you can see dead people?!"

"That's what you said you are!"

-End Chapter 5-

A/N: I tried to make it a little longer for all you wonderful reviewers! And if you want, you can go to Arisu's home page and check out some of her stuff too! Just make sure you tell her to go and update her Harry Potter fanfic so I update this one.

Sayonara!