"What are you doing?" Yahiko asked.
"I want to know what they're saying," I whispered back.
I landed on the ground without a sound and Yahiko followed me. We crept to the building beside them, climbed on some boxes and looked around the wall at them.
"See that temple over there?" one man asked pointing at the temple.
The other nodded.
"The master just sent an invitation there to the Battousai. The only problem is we only want the woman to go with him and there are two pesky little children there. I want you to bind them, gag them, whatever you please and put them somewhere where they won't find there way back easily. Do you think you can do that, Kinormar?" the man asked.
The other man nodded again.
"Good. Once the children are eliminated then there will only be the woman and we can get rid of her easily. Then it will only-" the second man, obviously Kinomar stopped him from talking.
He looked in our direction and we pulled back behind the wall. We held our breath.
"I thought I heard something," Kinomar said.
The boxes weren't exactly sturdy and mine tipped over, sending me past the wall out into the street. Both the men saw me.
"Oops," I said.
Yahiko ran out and grabbed my arm and we fled back to the temple. The two men followed us. We ran to the front of the temple and ran into the yard. We ran straight into Kenshin.
"What's the problem?" he asked.
"Two men were talking in an alley," I said.
We were both out of breath so talking was hard.
I tried to finish, "They said they were going to kidnap us so we didn't go with you to that-"
Suddenly a sword shot out and hit me in the side. I yelled in pain and fell to the ground. The sword missed Kenshin by an inch and got stuck in one of the porch poles.
"Who's there?" Yahiko yelled, as he drew his sword.
No one answered. I put my hand over the wound. I pulled back because it hurt when I touched it. My hand was covered in blood.
"Great," I muttered. Kenshin helped me up.
We walked into the temple. Kenshin called for Karou and Megumi. While Megumi patched up my side Kenshin talked to Karou. I couldn't hear them well enough to make out what they were saying but I did hear my name and Yahiko once or twice.