A/N: Hi everyone. Yes, I'm finally back. Sorry about the delay, it took forever to finish this chapter. During the time that it took me to finish this chapter, I bought both the Trust and Betrayal DVD's, which I thought were great except during the first scenes because I wasn't expecting so much blood (thanks to the editing people at Cartoon Network) but I got over it. I'm recommending these movies to anyone who thinks Kenshin is girly because he wears pink. I also got the first three copies of the Rurouni Kenshin manga which are great and are helping a lot in this story.

Reminders/Changes: Okay the whole italics representing stuff said in English and the brackets for peoples thoughts was beginning to annoy me so I changed it:

Words in English = {English}

Peoples thoughts = Italics

There, that makes more sense. Now that's finished, on with the story.

Disclaimer: "I don't own any of the characters of Rurouni Kenshin because I'm poor but I do own Sarah, Ken, Adam, Mikey, and all the other original characters in this story. This means no lawsuits."

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Chapter 4

The people on the patio looked at Sarah like she was crazy. They couldn't believe what they were hearing. Shinomori? Sagara? Myojin? Were these people related to them in some way? And if so, what would they have to protect Kenji from? Why had that man tried to kill Kenji? Millions of questions were running through their heads and no one knew what to ask first. It was Sarah who broke the silence.

"Now that we're all acquainted I can tell you why we're here. May we all please go inside?

Kenshin touched the hilt of his sword in unease but Kaoru nodded and ushered them into the Kamiya dojo followed closely by the others. She didn't no why but for some strange reason she trusted these people.

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As Kenshin took a seat opposite Sarah along with Aoshi, Yahiko, Krista and Ken he noticed that most members of the newly arrived group carried a weapon with them.

Adam stood against the wall with what looked like two kodachi, one looking fairly new and the other looked, well, ancient. Kenshin was positive it was more then a hundred years old and yet it seemed vaguely familiar to him. Kenny carried both a long and a short sword. Mike, Yancy, and Sunny all carried daggers but Kenshin noted that Mikey was idly twirling a kunai with his fingers and Yancy also had a sword. Sarah carried a sword and a strange type of bag shaped like a sausage. Krista carried a thin case made of what looked to be like black leather and Megan carried a square white case that had red colored symbol on it which resembled a Christian cross.

Sarah looked up at them and began thinking that she had to tell them sooner or later.

"Alright then, I'm going to be brief, Kenji is in great danger, but since you probably know that, I'm going to explain why. You see, about one hundred twenty years from now, a man named Yukio Matshiro will take control of Japan. He will do this by convincing the Japanese people that they should return to the traditional way of living, as it was before the Meiji Era. He leads them to believe that the ways of the Western world are 'impure' and that the only way to cleanse themselves is to attack its source."

"In other words, the United States of America and almost every other western civilization with relations to them." Ken interjected

Sarah nodded. "Matshiro is using Japans influence in the technological industry to gain power and so far his plan has been successful. He has already gained power over China, the Pacific Islands, and parts of Northeast Asia. Unfortunately, most of the world is unaware of this crisis and he has also begun sending faulty and rather destructive products to the more unsuspecting countries."

Sarah paused. She looked at each of their faces and then continued.

"Judging by the looks on some of your faces I'm guessing that all of this means nothing to you. Since that seems to be the case, I'll just move on to why Kenji's in danger but before I do that I must first tell you who we are and what we are doing here. You see, we're from the future. The year 2007 to be exact and this may come as a bit of a shock for all of you but each of my comrades are in fact descendants of you who are present here."

Sarah finished here, closing her eyes, bracing herself for the reaction but none came. Upon opening her eyes, she found that they were all staring at her.

Sure, they had all imagined that they would be hearing something strange but none of them had expected this and now they sat waiting for someone to jump up and yell "Surprise!"

"Look, I know it sounds absolutely nuts but it's all true." They all turned to look at the boy named Kenny "We are from the future, and we're all related. Aoshi-san, believe it or not, but Mike and Adam over there are really your great-great-great-grandchildren and it's the same for the rest of you." at this point Kenny looked rather flustered.

After about thirty seconds passed Kenshin decided to speak.

"Do you have any proof?"

"I'm glad you asked, Kenshin-san. Aoshi-san, would you please be so kind as to place one of your kodachi on the table please."

Aoshi looked at Sarah for a moment more before placing his visible kodachi on the table. At least he would have the concealed one to use if these 'visitors' tried something funny.

"Adam."

The elder brother removed the older of his two weapons and placed it besides Aoshi's and said

"Go ahead Aoshi-sama, pick it up."

Aoshi picked up the kodachi and examined it. His eyes widened. Then he picked up his own kodachi and examined it as well.

"They're both the same." he exclaimed in a whisper

He looked up "They're both the same. I know it. They even feel the same. The only differences are that this one," he indicated to the one belonging to Adam "has aged and been used more judging by the looks of it."

No one said anything, they just stared at him.

"They're both mine."

So that's why it looked so familiar, thought Kenshin. It's the same one Aoshi tried to kill me with. Twice.

Yahiko had been sitting silently until now, absorbing all of this. He just couldn't understand it. It sounded so absurd. The future, ha! This had to some weird joke. He wasn't even married.

Then why did it all sound so convincing.

"Let me get this straight, your from the future, we're all your great grandparents or something like that and you're here to protect Kenji from...........?"

At this moment the child in Krista's arms began to stir.

Saitou had been eyeing the child for some time now, wondering whether she was actually related to him in some weird way or if it was just some trick concocted to confuse the Battousai and the other idiots. The child did have high cheek bones similar to his but not as pronounced, more like Tokio's. Other than that, the child didn't look anything like him but then again, if these people were telling the truth then there was at least a hundred year gap between him and this child so they wouldn't be twins or anything like that.

Then the child opened her eyes and he saw that they were the same amber color as his.

Tracey yawned, and then hopped into Sarah's arms.

{"Mommy, can we go home now?"}

{"Soon but first Mommy's got to finish talking to these nice people."}

Tracey turned her head and examined them with a look of curiosity in her eyes. When she reached Saitou she looked at him for a good minute before turning back to Sarah.

{"Okay."}

She then proceeded in burying her face into her mothers' neck and falling asleep once again.

Sarah watched the child do this and then acknowledged the rest of them.

"Why don't we just wait until tomorrow to explain the rest? I think we should all get some rest seeing as today was a rather busy day."

Even though they all wanted to hear more, they decided that it would be best if they had more time to think about and process what they had just heard.

The newcomers rose and began to leave when Kenny turned around.

"Me and Sarah will come back tomorrow around noon. There are some things you should see."

Kenshin nodded and watched as the strange group left the yard of the Kamiya dojo.

"Let's get some rest."

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{"Think they believed us?"}

Sarah looked at the red-head.

{"For their sakes, let's hope they did."}

Kenny looked at the stars above him for a moment and then spun around to face his best friend, a shocked look on his face.

{"Oh shit! I forgot to study for the math test tomorrow. If I fail again, I'll lose credit, and if I don't get credit, I won't be able to graduate and if I don't graduate I'll probably end up pumping gas for a living. Not to mention Mom'll kill me."}

Sarah rolled her eyes.

{"Calm down dummy. First off, you've only failed once and you haven't been absent long enough to lose credit, secondly, I highly doubt you'll ever end up pumping gas for a living because you can't even pump your own gas without spilling it, and third, you've got a hundred years to study. We're in the Meiji Era, remember?"}

She knew for a fact that Kenny was really a very smart person, who knew very well what time period he was in but was always willing to act dumb just to make people laugh.

He gave her a confused look which quickly changed to exasperated one.

{"C'mon Sarah. You've got to stop worrying so much. Tomorrow we show them the base, they understand, we give them a day to pack and then we bring them to a safe place where they can stay until Matshiro's stopped and then we can all go home. End of story."}

Sarah thought about this. Kenny did have a knack about being right about things like this. After puzzling over it for a bit more she held out her pinky finger.

{"Promise?"}

Kenny took her finger in his.

{"Promise."}

{"And if anything goes wrong, not only will I make your life a living hell, you'll have to wash my car for a year, go to school in a pink bunny suit for a day and hop around the entire soccer field ten times, in front of the whole team during practice."}

She then let go of his finger and walked off to join the rest of the group, leaving a very confused Kenny behind.

{"Wait... what?"}

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A/N: Thank God! I finally posted. I know you all want an explanation to why this chapter took so long and here it is. Technically, I had finished this part of the story about seven months ago (before the first marking period ended) but since I wanted to end this chapter at a certain place I kept working on it. But I've finally realized that it would take me forever and it was unfair to all the readers of this story and to all my wonderful reviewers. So, I've decided to simply cut my huge chapter (which was 14 pages long) into smaller chapters. As far as this chapter goes, I know the details around Matshiro are a bit flaky but I'll tell you more about him and how he took over those countries in coming chapters.

To the reviewers:

Mango: That's a good question but you're just going to have to keep reading to find out since I don't want to spoil anything. I'll tell you this though, one of the brothers are going to tell Aoshi something that'll rock his world, but that's much later on in the story.

BabyKaoru-Sama: Oh no! Don't die on me now! Hehe! Thank you for your review and the e-mail. The Kenshin animation was so cute! You deserve another thank you because you were the first person to compliment my writing, ever. Sorry I made you wait so long for this chapter.

Draculina Van Hellsing: Yes I know the dumb rule. Grr... Thanks for the review. Alucard should make more cookies, they tasted yummy!

Mayako: I'm glad you liked my idea. There's a lot more to come, I can promise that.

Okay! That's it for the reviewers! Before I leave you I have to tell you one more thing. In the beginning of this chapter I said that I'd use italics for character thoughts but for some reason they aren't showing up when I post so you might not see them in this chapter. I've written to the FFNET people about this and I hope they fix it. Sorry!

Review please! If you don't, I'll ask Kenny to... umm... loan you his bunny suit. I accept flames to since I don't mind people criticizing me unless the only thing they say is fuck you.

P.S.: I have absolutely nothing against people who pump gas for a living, I know a bunch of people who do, and I think the state of New Jersey wouldn't be the same without them. (That was not meant to offend anyone from Jersey. It's an inside joke between some friends.)