Shadow Light
Okay people, I promised that this was going to be a longer chapter! So go to the toilet, get something to drink, maybe some chips, cause you're going to sit on your chair to read this for a long time! n.n
A little bit overreacted, but anyway, it will be longer! n.n
But first reviews!
Daydreamer: Hehe, yeah n.n Fighting is good!
Another Baka: (Grins back)
Snowwhite: (Sob) I-I… I can explain! (Starts crying and falls at Snowwhite's feet) I don't want to break my promises, I really don't! But it's like I explained to Chibi-Flamer in the preview chapter: I always stop on a point where everybody thinks: "What's going to happen?" Sometimes it's really soon and i know it must be irritating for the readers. But this one is going to be a long one, not super long, but longer! Please! Forgive poor, young and reckless Sora-chan! n.n
Kenshin's lover 101: Thank you n.n Well… In the episodes, Kamatari gets defeated by Misao and Kaoru, and Henya gets defeated by Yahiko (What the crap…? That's just stupid if you ask me…). Iwanbo bounces away (Yes…bounces n.n). And then everybody thinks: "Oh we did it!" But then Fuji and Saizuchi show up, slashing the Aoiya in two pieces. Fuji wants to hit Yahiko but then suddenly…tun, tun, TUN! Kenshin's master Hiko Seijuro shows up! They fight and Hiko defeats Fuji, who falls over and lands on Saizuchi. That's how the Aoiya fight ends. I thought it was too cliché with the 'good-guys-always-win-thing'. I mean… Henya gets defeated by Yahiko! C'mon? How stupid is that? Kamatari gets defeated by two girls' cause his scythe breaks of thanks to a stupid little knife and a boken! Like is said, very cliché, but good episodes anyway n.n
Okay and here comes chapter twenty-four! Have fun people!
Prev: "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.
Leaves were being crushed under the feet of the four Juppongatana members who were walking trough the forest. They all travelled in silence, looking forward, and waiting till they would reach their destination. They were walking for some hours now. They couldn't run cause of Kamatari's scythe. He could run, but if they would arrive in Kyoto then, he would probably be exhausted and wouldn't be able to fight on his maximum strength.
"Himura must already be in mountain Hieï now." Kamatari said suddenly. He grinned. "He won't be in Kyoto to protect his friends. Victory is already ours."
"Ehee!" Iwanbo laughed with his stupid grin on his face.
"Really?" Sora thought. "Would he already be fighting Shishio-sama? There's no way that he'll win. Shishio-sama is much stronger then Himura… Victory is indeed already ours…"
"We're almost in Kyoto." Henya said. "I'm sure that Saizuchi and Fuji have arrived already."
"Probably." Kamatari replied. "We'll join them soon."
And indeed. A half hour later, the group of fighters had arrived in Kyoto. There was already heavy damage on some houses, probably caused by Saizuchi and Fuji. A group of policemen appeared between the burning buildings.
"You!" One of them yelled. "Stay where you are!"
"Oh my, policemen…" Kamatari said sarcastically.
Sora could see Kamatari tighten his grip on his scythe so he would be ready to attack. Sora slowly reached at her katanas. The policemen started to surround them, some of the policemen had scarred looks on their face. Henya started to count the policemen with his eyes.
"...five…ten…fifteen…twenty…" He counted. "That's five for each of us."
"Wow Henya, you sure are a genius!" Kamatari said teasing. "But you're right. We'll have them killed in no time if we only have to kill five each."
The policemen only got more scared and some of them were looking around nervous. Nobody moved, only the flames of the building could be heard around them. The wind played with their hair like it was playing with toys. Kamatari sighed.
"C'mon people. What are you waiting for? The fight won't start itself you know?"
They pulled out their swords quickly, but still they didn't attack. Kamatari tapped impatiently with his foot on the ground.
"Well, well… Sorry guys but we can't lose more time." He turned his head to Henya. "Henya, do you mind?"
Henya nodded. His hand disappeared under his dark jacket. Some policemen took a step back, afraid of what would happen next. Henya's hand appeared back holding some dynamite. He looked around and saw a man in the circle who was shaking on his legs from fear. He lightened the dynamite and waited some seconds. When the fire almost touched the dynamite, Henya threw it to the scared man.
"Catch."
The dynamite landed at the man's feet. The man looked at it with an open mouth. Before the man could scream, the dynamite exploded. He flew trough the air, blood flying at all possible directions. At the moment were the man hit the ground, Kamatari attacked two men who were looking with big eyes at their dead partner. Just when they turned around again, Kamatari swung with his scythe, chopping their heads of in the process.
This was Sora's start sign to fight. She pulled her katanas in a quick move and ran at three policemen. She threw one of her katanas, hitting one man in his chest. Just before the man fell on his knees, Sora pulled her katana out of the man's chest. One of the other policemen saw this as a good chance to attack Sora. He tried to hit Sora with his sword, but she blocked the hit with her other katana. She then slashed the man in his stomach. The man screamed and dropped his sword on the ground. Sora quickly turned around to attack the third one and pushed her sword trough his throat. The katana went trough the flesh like it was butter. The man coughed out blood, some of it landing on Sora's face. She pushed against the man's chest, who fell on his back.
Iwanbo started to fight too. He got some sort of claws and placed them on his hands. Four policemen tried to attack the giant and ran to him with their swords raised. With a quick move, Iwanbo scratched one of the men in his face. The men fell backwards, falling against another policeman who walked behind him.
"MY EYES!" Screamed the man hysterically. He held his hands for his face and his hands were soon covered in blood of his own.
"Get of me!" Yelled the other one, trying to push the wounded man away.
Henya took another piece of dynamite and lighted it. He threw it at the two men who were still on the ground. The dynamite landed on the wounded man, who was still screaming loudly. The man underneath him froze.
"THROW IT AWAY!"
"I CAN'T SEE! MY EYES!"
The dynamite exploded, tearing the two men into pieces. The two other men, who attacked Iwanbo, were furiously hitting him with their swords. It didn't have any effect on him and he smiled stupidly. He grabbed one of them at his head and broke his neck. He let the body fall on the ground and scratched the other one's throat open with his claw.
Somebody tried to attack Kamatari in the back. Kamatari, who was quicker, turned around and his iron chain hit the man in his stomach. The man flew away thanks too the speed of the iron chain, and landed in one of the burning houses. He screamed loudly when the flames surrounded him and burned his flesh.
This lasted till every policeman was dead. Kamatari walked to one of the bodies and kneeled down still with his scythe in his hands. He cleaned his scythe with the corps's uniform and stood up again.
"That surely was a waste of time and dynamite." Henya said softly. "We've could found Fuji and Saizuchi by now."
"Ehee!" Iwanbo laughed scratching his head.
"We don't have time left to search them." Kamatari said leaning on his scythe. "It's better if we just go to the Aoiya and kill everybody who's there. Wouldn't you agree Sora-chan?"
"Yes, maybe it would be best to get rid of them as soon as possible." Sora replied as she whipped the blood of her face with the backside of her hand.
"Right!" Kamatari smiled happy. "Let's go then!"
He lifted his scythe in his neck and walked further. Sora followed next to him. She had to admit that she felt friendship for the cross dresser. His optimism and sarcasm reminded her of Kazumi, her best friends in the fighting arena. She also had respect for him. Not the same like she had for Shishio, she had respect for Shishio because he gave her a place to live and because he was so powerful and smart. She had respect for Kamatari because he wasn't ashamed to tell everyone that he's a homosexual cross dresser. You could be killed for that, homosexual were bad people, they weren't normal. Though, Sora thought, Kamatari wasn't the type that you simply kill. He was a skilled fighter. He fought for the one he loved.
More burned houses and destroyed things crossed their way, definitely a sign that Fuji and Saizuchi were been here. They could hear something heavy walking. The Juppongatana members looked up as they stood before the giant Fuji.
"Having fun Saizuchi?" Kamatari asked to the figure in Fuji's hand.
Saizuchi laughed loudly. "Yes, we have, don't we Fuji?"
"We have to go to the Aoiya." Henya said trough his mask. "We've lost enough time already, we don't need to lose more."
"We'll come later," Saizuchi said. "We're having too much fun in destroying everything here. We'll catch up with you later."
Henya mumbled darkly behind his mask.
"O yes! Before I forget!" Saizuchi said raising his hand. "Shishio send some soldiers of his at the Aoiya too to be sure that nobody escapes. They are waiting at the Aoiya."
Kamatari nodded. "Thanks to inform us Saizuchi."
Saizuchi nodded back and Fuji walked away, destroying some houses on his path.
"Looks like we have to handle them alone for a time." Sora said looking at Fuji who finally disappeared out of sight.
"We'll be fine." Kamatari said smiling. "They don't have a chance against us, we're much stronger then they are."
He lifted his scythe again and they continued their trip to the Aoiya. When they arrived in the street were the Aoiya was, some soldiers of Shishio ran at them and joined them. Now, with all the soldiers included, they were with thirty-four people. Iwanbo grinned as they approached the Aoiya. The soldiers made a half circle before the entrance and the Juppongatana members stood before the building.
"Aoiya people! Come out to play!" Kamatari yelled leaning on his scythe.
Immediately some figures appeared behind the window. The window went open, revealing an old man, a young boy, two young women and four other people in a ninja uniform.
"I could have known that Shishio would send some people of his." Said the old man, also known as Okina. He looked pretty hurt already as his head was half covered in bandages. "I guess we have to fight them."
One of the young women took some little daggers and placed them between her fingers.
"We won't lose from them grandpa!" She said.
Sora saw that she was the same age like she was. But she had black hair and green eyes.
"Be careful Misao… we don't know these people's strength." Okina said.
"Don't worry. If Yahiko and Kaoru will fight with us we'll be just fine." Misao said giving a wink to Okina.
The other young woman and the young boy nodded smiling and they both took a boken.
"A boken?" Sora thought surprised. "How do they think they're going to win with such a weapon?"
Misao, Kaoru, Yahiko and the other four people in their ninja uniform, jumped out the window and landed on the ground. They all looked at each other silently until Kamatari broke the silence.
"We've got the order to kill you all while Shishio-sama is killing you're beloved Himura. So, let's fight shall we?"
"You'll not kill us nor will Shishio kill Kenshin. Kenshin will defeat Shishio and he'll come back!" Said Kaoru while she looked Kamatari in the eyes.
"No he won't."
Kaoru, and even Kamatari, looked up surprised at Sora.
"What?" Kaoru asked.
"Battousai won't defeat Shishio-sama. He'll die, likes he deserves to." Sora said to Kaoru.
"How dare you to say such a thing?" Yelled Misao, shaking with her fist in the air. "Himura will kick that fake mummy's ass!"
"How did you call Shishio-sama?" Kamatari growled at Misao.
"How old are you? You look young, something like Misao's age I think." Kaoru asked still looking at Sora.
"Why do you ask such a stupid question?" Sora asked back.
"Because I'm surprised that somebody as young as you could be a killer. That you would throw your life away like this, fighting for an evil man like Shishio."
Sora snorted. "What do you think you know about me? Meeting Shishio-sama was one of the best things that happened in my life for years. Yes I killed, a lot of times. Does it matter if I'm young or not?" She made fists of her hands. "Battousai is a killer too, but I don't hear you complain about him!"
"Kenshin isn't a killer anymore." Kaoru said.
"I don't care what he is or was. The only thing I care about is that he dies."
"I don't know what you're reasons are to want Kenshin dead, but I'm certain that he'll come back as the winner."
"It wouldn't surprise me if Shishio-sama has killed him already…"
"I don't even think he would get to Shishio-sama in the first place." Said Kamatari, getting himself in the conversation too.
Sora looked at the cross dresser with a questioning look. "What do you mean Kamatari?"
"Don't you remember that Shishio-sama said that we had to go to this place? But he asked Anji, Usui and Sojiro to stay? Himura and his two friends are fighting them now, before they can get to Shishio-sama. I think that Himura would fight Sojiro. Why else would Shishio-sama ask Usui, Anji and Sojiro to stay?"
Sora looked at Kamatari with big eyes. "Sojiro… Sojiro is fighting Battousai?"
Kamatari looked at the girl surprised. "Yes, I just told you Sora-chan."
"Sojiro…" Sora thought still staring at Kamatari. "He's fighting Battousai… It's so stupid of me that I didn't realize that Shishio-sama held him there to fight Himura… But what if… what if this woman lied? What if Battousai still kills?... That means he could… Battousai could…"
"Battousai could kill Sojiro." Sora said suddenly to everyone's surprise.
"What are you talking about Sora-chan?"
Sora walked to Kamatari and grabbed his arm.
"Kamatari! I have to go to Sojiro! You said it would be easy to defeat this people! I bet you will still win when I'm gone… I just… I just have to go to Sojiro!"
Sora let go of Kamatari's arm quickly, who looked at her with a questioning look, and she ran to the circle pushing some soldiers away to get trough. She ran trough Kyoto quickly and it didn't took long before she was at the place where they had fought with the policemen. Sora ran into the woods, jumping over branches and slamming leaves away from her face.
"Sojiro! I have to get to him! I won't let Battousai kill another one I love! Not Sojiro! I don't care what that Kaoru-person said. What if she lied? I can't trust her!"
She kept running, the same thought spinning trough her mind:
"I won't let him kill Sojiro! I just won't!"
Okay! This is the end of chapter twenty four! It's as good as six pages in Words! That's good n.n It certainly is longer! I think this fic is almost finished now… maybe three more chapters or something. Well anyway, I hoped you liked it! Till the next chapter!