Shadow Light

Hiya everybody! My update-speed is slowing down. I had plenty of work to do for school and when I was working on fics, then I was working on 'Rurouni Kenshin Songs', my newest fic n.n But hey, this is Shadow Light, and here comes chapter twenty-three but first… reviews!

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And here is chapter twenty-three! Hope you like it!

Prev: They all walked in the mountain Hieï. Before Sora closed the door, she looked outside. "I know you're there somewhere and I know that I can't defeat you. But I know I'll get my revenge. I don't care how and when. But I'll get it Himura. I'll get it."

The sun shone trough the window on Sora's sleeping face. She turned away and laid her arm before her eyes to block the sunlight. She immediately laid her arm back down again and opened her eyes.

"There's no way I can fall back asleep now… I better get up."

Sora got out her bed and dressed herself.

"Two days have passed since the Rengoku. Today is the day where I was waiting for from the day that Battousai killed my mother. Getting revenge for her death."

She walked to the eating room, placed herself on her seat and started to eat from the things that were standing on the table. Suddenly the door went open and Sora could hear footsteps approaching the table. The footsteps stopped and she could hear the person laying something on the ground. The person sighed and sat across Sora.

"I don't know if you had a good night, but I surely didn't have…" Kamatari's voice said.

"How come?" Sora asked looking at the cross dresser.

Kamatari nodded at his scythe that was lying next to his seat. "My scythe killed my arms yesterday. Walking around the whole day with such thing takes a lot of you…"

He smiled and took a plate with food on. "But hey, I'm 'The Deathly Scythe' for something huh?"

Sora smiled back at Kamatari and took another bite of her breakfast.

On the same moment that Kamatari finished his breakfast, the door opened again and Sojiro walked in.

"Good morning Sora, Kamatari-san." He greeted. "Shishio-san asked me to gather all the Juppongatana in the headroom."

Kamatari nodded and stood up.

"C'mon Sora-chan! Shishio-sama is waiting for us. We can't let him wait."

He took his scythe of the ground and walked to the door. Sora followed him and Sojiro too the headroom where the rest of the Juppongatana were waiting. They all stood in one row and Sora took place next to Kamatari.

"The duel will begin soon." Shishio explained. "But first I have to tell you about the Rengoku."

"I wanted to ask something about that too." Usui interrupted Shishio. "The Big Kyoto Fire was just something to get all the attention. We were just peons?"

"Yes, what's with that Shishio-sama?" Saizuchi asked scratching his chin.

"I apologize." Shishio continued. "Actually I wanted to sail to Tokyo with all of you on the Rengoku." He looked at Houji. "But Houji said that we would get discovered then and he changed the plans on the last moment."

Sora looked at Houji. His lips were trembling heavy and he looked very nervous.

"What's wrong with him?" Sora thought.

"Isn't it Houji?" Shishio asked.

It took a while before Houji finally answered. "Y-yes…"

"It's all my fault." Houji said looking at his knees. "I'm sorry, please forgive me."

Sora thoughts were interrupted when Kamatari clapped in his hands.

"Ah, I get it!" He said smiling. "I was worried because I thought Shishio-sama had let us down. What a relief!"

Sora smiled. It was so obvious that Kamatari loved Shishio. She looked at Shishio. Did he actually know? It would be weird if he didn't. Every time Kamatari was talking about Shishio, he acted like Shishio was a god or something.
Usui walked to Houji, who was still on the ground, and kneeled down before him. Almost everyone looked curious at Usui, wondering what he was doing.

"You're lying aren't you? Tell us the truth" Usui asked.

Houji raised his head surprised but quickly looked at his knees again. "I don't know what you're talking about…"

"It's hopeless to lie to my Heart of The Eye." He laid his finger on Houji's hand an began to stroke it lightly.

"What the hell is he doing?" Thought Sora looking at the weird sight before her.

"If you are telling the truth, you won't feel pain."

He grabbed Houji's finger. Just when Sora realised what Usui was doing, a loud 'crack' could be heard. Yumi turned her head away with an "Oh!", Iwanbo's face turned in another colour and Kamatari putted his hand for his mouth. Sora on her turn muttered an "Oh my god".

Houji clenched his teeth on each other and held his broken finger in his other hand.

"Do you want to tell the truth now?" Usui asked like nothing happened.

"I-I only speak the truth." Houji whispered.

Usui raised an eyebrow and stood up again.

"I decided to betray the seven Juppongatana." Houji continued raising his voice. He grabbed something out his jacket that Sora recognized as a knife. "That's what I wanted to do!"

He drove the knife trough his own hand and Sora gasped. Sojiro on the other hand, was smiling like it was very normal that somebody slammed a knife in his own hand.

Shishio turned to the other Juppongatana.

"These are my orders! Sojiro, Usui and Anji, you three stay here! For everybody else, I want you to go to the Aoiya and chop everybody's head of!"

Before Sora knew what happened, Kamatari pulled her with him to the exit, followed by Saizuchi, Henya and Iwanbo.

"Chopping everybody's head of? I can't wait!" He smiled brightly while Henya closed the door behind him.

"Why do we have to kill the people in that Aoiya-thing?" Sora asked looking at Kamatari.

"The people who are there are friends of Himura Battousai." Kamatari explained. "Killing his friends and beloved ones makes Himura suffer more then when Shishio-sama only kills him."

Sora looked forward again, all kind of thoughts spinning trough her head.

"Shishio-sama is going to kill Himura… I wanted to kill him… But… He killed my beloved one too… Maybe my revenge will be complete when I kill his beloved ones…"

When they came outside, Sora gasped. Fuji, the giant of the Juppongatana, was waiting outside. Sora had never seen someone like him and couldn't help looking at him with big eyes. Suddenly Kamatari pulled her arm again.

"C'mon Sora-chan! We have heads to chop of, didn't you hear Shishio-sama?"

"Are you going ahead with Fuji Saizuchi?" Henya asked the little yellow-teethed man.

"Yes, we'll show the people of Kyoto something they've never seen before!"

Fuji lowered his hand and Saizuchi jumped on it and sat down.

"Let go Fuji! We have a city to destroy!"

With much noise, the two Juppongatana disappeared out of sight.

"Well let's get going then!" Kamatari said walking further into the forest.

With one last look on mountain Hieï, Sora turned around and followed Kamatari and the rest to Kyoto.

Sora M: "OMG, I know, this is really short! And nothing really happened. But I think that the next chapter will be a very long one!"

Shishio: "Sure. After every chapter you say you're going to make the next one longer. And they are only getting shorter!"

Sora M: (Sob eyes) "I know…I'm so sorry…!"

Shishio: (Snorts)

Sora M: "Shut up Shish… Or I hug you…"

Shishio: "Puh! Like you dare!"

Sora M: (Hugs Shishio) "Oeh! Hot, hot, hot!" (Pokes Shishio) "What a muscles!" n.n

Shishio: "What the…!" O.O

Sora M: "Mwehe!" (Let's go of Shishio and turns to reader) "Like I said before, I'm really sorry! I hope you liked it anyway. Till the next long chapter!"

Shishio: "Woooeeeh!" n.n

Sora M: "Woop!" n.n