"K-Keori…How could you?" Karou asked.
"Get the keys, someone, release Yahiko," I said.
I couldn't take myself; I walked across the room and out the open door.
"Keori where are you going?" Kenshin asked.
He followed me outside.
"Don't worry about me. I never want to get people I care for in trouble like this again. I'm leaving," I said.
Kenshin stopped at the staircase and I kept walking into the forest. I don't know where I was going but I didn't care. I walked back to the temple and went inside.
I packed my stuff and put it in a nearby tree. I then pulled myself up onto the roof and laid down, looking up at the sky. It had rained yesterday so the trees were soaking wet. Rain dripped off the tree above me and onto my face.
I closed my eyes. I had killed someone. I didn't deserve to put the people I care about in danger like that. I killed someone for it and I would never live it down. The only thing I could do was leave. I ended someone's life.
Yahiko came running down the road and into the yard of the temple shouting my name.
"Keori! Where are you?"
Yahiko ran inside just as I thought he would. He went in only to find my stuff gone. A minute later he came back out. He sank to the ground.
"Keori, where are you? We can fix this. We don't hate you. You can't run away from your problems," Yahiko yelled.
He didn't think to look on the roof where I was laying even though it was the spot I was always at when I wanted to think. Kenshin, Karou, and Sanoske rounded the corner into the temple yard.