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Nanakiyoda: If you write fanfics that I read then you should know by now that I despise cliffhangers.
Tealraptor: Yet you almost always leave one for our readers.
Nanakiyoda: That's why I'm typing this one up so fast.
Tealraptor: Okay.
BTW: Milli-seconds later
I smiled at all of the men who now had their guns pointed at me. Yeah...see, I don't think I can make it out of this one.
"Drop the katana!" The closest one yelled out at me. One, two, three...how many were there again? I tightened my grip on Shinta's katana even more. A bead of sweat formed above my brow. Wait, am I actually afraid? No! I refuse fear! I am Kaoru Kamiya, the woman who says goodbye as easy as most tell a lie, the one who does or dies. Right. My face fell back to the cold blank stare it had a decade ago. The sweat disappeared.
"Run." Was my only warning. They shot at me. I ducked and charged forth, slicing the end of the gun the first officer had off. I felt a pain jab into my side and fell to the ground clutching it. I saw a blur fly by. A red one. A second passed by and I felt myself being picked up bridal style and carried off. Then, just as everything had started up, it slowed down. I was beside a river.
"Do you always have to pick a fight?" I heard Shinta asked me. What does he know?
"Feh..." I muttered out. He ripped up strips from his haori and kneeled beside me, pulling out a knife. He's seriously not thinking that he's going to do what he thinks he is going to do.
"I'm not being perverted or anything but open up your gi. I need to remove that bullet." He directed, confirming my suspicions. Arg...I have to stall him somehow.
"Here?" I asked, doubtfully.
"It's quite, secluded and no where near the town." He reasoned. I sighed and reluctantly rmoved my gi. He looked over the linen wraps that covered my chest then moved to the wound. It was just below my rib cage. I looked away as he cut the wound open more, and removed the bullet. I gritted my teeth at the pain, clentching my fist tightly. I felt cold water hit the wound and gasped at the chill. He then started to stitch up the wound, which resulted in more teeth gritting, gasps and fist cletching. When it was over, he walked to the river and washed off the knife as I replaced my gi.
"Thanks for saving my ass." I managed to say. He only nodded and walked back to me. Holding his hand out, he helped me up.
"I am not going to allow you to move around much until that heals you hear?" He said and assisted me and we made our way back to the dojo. He then lead me to my room.
"Thanks. Now you can let me continue on my own, I think I can make it." I said to him sarcastically. He glared at me.
"I mean it. You leave this room once for something other than food and hygiene, and I'll hold you down for the remander of the time myself." He challenged.
"Is that a promise?" I asked, sarcastically again.
Five days later...
I was throughly bored. Feeling really annoyied, I walked to the door and opened it. He was standing there. What the fu-
"You don't look hungry, smell bad or have to piss." He warned.
"I do to have to go." I protested.
"You went five minutes ago." He responded, seeing through my lie.
"I'm like a little kid on long trip. I need to go every five minutes." I reasoned. He smirked and stepped closer to me. He knows I'm lying...
"Your lying. What's the real reason you want out?" He asked.
"Come on dammit. I'm frickin bored! Let me through!" I protested. He shook his head sternly.
"You aren't healed enough yet." He said. I threw off my gi and showed him the the wound was healed pretty well enough.
"Nice linens. What do you look like without them smashing your chest?" He said, making my face flush up. Oh this boy is asking for it!
"Like you! Let me through!" I yelled out. He laughed and stepped aside. I took the chance and tried to run out but he wrapped his arms around me and held me tight to him.
"Tricked you. Now...we are going to sit here for the next two days like this and I dare you to try to get out. You know full well when you try to, you'll rip that wound open again. You don't want to go through another week of being stuck in here do you?" He whispered into my ear. I gritted my teeth and growled at him. Frickin basturd.
"Asshole." I muttered out as he shut the door with his foot and dragged me over to my futon. We sat down, him still holding me tightly to him.
"I know. At least I'm not trying to kill you like that Hirosha basturd." He reasoned.
"Or everybody else." I pouted. He chuckled at this and nuzzeled his head close to mine.
"You know, this is the closest I have eve been to a woman friend wise." He muttered, almost sadly. We're friends? Since when bub?
"Not the closest you have been with a woman though. You did have a wife after all." I said and he stiffened, as if pained by the very memory.
"It would never have worked out. She wasn't my type." He said. I rolled my eyes.
"Yeah right, I've met her. She's beautiful for a woman and is very intelligent. A perfect match for you." I stated in response. He stifeled a laugh.
"So are you. Thing is, beauty and brain don't mix well." He said and I stiffened up a bit. Uh...me? Beautiful? Right...I'm about the least feminine woman around here.
"Feh..." I managed to say.
"You are. That's why you are always in trouble. You're so smart you can think of ways to get out of trouble so you challenge yourself by getting into more trouble. Which is stupid because all you have to do is wink and the guy who wants to kill you just wants to romance you. It's all too easy for you, thus more trouble and a neverending cycle until one day you're dead." He said. Uh...yeah buddy, likely.
"Feh..." I repeated.
"Fine, don't believe me. Maybe this will change your mind." He said and started to gently kiss my neck.
OWARI
Nanakiyoda: Heehee. Sorry, couldn't resist another cliffhanger.
Tealraptor: Feh...
Nanakiyoda: Are you trying to be like Kaoru now?
Tealraptor: No...just out of thing to say.
Nanakiyoda: Holy flying cows Batman! It's a miracle.
