Disclaimer: I don't own the Battousai, Saitou or Okita. I also don't own the Shinsengumi and Ishin Shishi groups. But I own the characters Raiden and Sajin Kousotsu, and Korosu Iikagen. Sorry to those of you who wanted to see Katsura in my story I don't know that much about the OVA's so I'm trying to wing it by adding some of my own characters instead. I'm truly sorry.

Chapter 2: Plans Revealed

Saitou could hear voices around him, but couldn't distinguish what they were saying, but he just wished they would be quiet and leave him alone.

Kondou came to check in on Saitou. "So how is he?"

The doctor who had been working on Saitou stopped to address Kondou. "Kondou-sama, his fever has gone down considerably but I don't know what kind of poison was used so I don't know how he truly is?"

Kondou gulped. That wasn't a good sign. All of a sudden he heard arguing outside.

"Okita-san," one of the nurses said, "your arm is injured, come back here so I can bandage you up."

"Stay away from me woman, I would rather have an Ishin bandage me up than you." Okita yelled back.

Kondou stepped out of Saitou's makeshift room and stood in Okita's way.

"Okita-kun, go get bandaged up or I will take you up on your offer." Kondou said pointing in the nurse's direction.

Okita, with his head hanging low muttered, "I only wanted to see Saitou."

Kondou smirked "Here's the deal, there's a doctor in there tending to Saitou right now, go in there and have him bandage you up, at the same time you will have to help that doctor with anything he needs."

Okita nodded his head with glee.

All of a sudden Okita remembered, pulling out the sword that had been used against Saitou and gave it to Kondou. Okita had made sure that it was properly covered with some cloth.

"I figured this would help the doctors with what poison it is." Okita said.

Kondou shook his head in amusement, "You don't want him to die do you?"

"No sir, even though he was a little late in getting in the battle." Okita replied.

Kondou's smile vanished, "I will have to talk to him about that."

Okita looked dismayed, "You won't have to kill him will you?"

Kondou shook his head and put a reassuring hand on Okita's shoulder, "No Okita, I just want to know what's going on with him, he just hasn't been himself lately."

Okita nodded in agreement.

"Well you better get going and give that to the doctor." Kondou said while pointing to the covered-up sword he had just handed back to Okita.

Without further encouragement Okita slipped into Saitou's makeshift room. In the room there was only a table with the doctor's surgical supplies sitting on it. The only other thing in the room was a futon with Saitou in it and a spare futon that the doctor was going to sleep on for it was night-time, it had taken all day for the doctor to take care of Saitou because he had been trying to get Saitou's fever to come down. And as a reward to the doctor's efforts Saitou's fever had gone down considerably.

"So, how is he?" Okita asked looking at Saitou's face, which was still glistening with sweat, and not up at the doctor.

"I'll tell you what I told Kondou, his fever has gone down but I can't do anything for him until I find out what kind of poison was used." The doctor said without looking up from his patient.

"I brought the sword that was used against Saitou, I thought that it might help." Okita said presenting the sword to the doctor.

The doctor looked up and took the sword out of Okita's hands. He then moved his surgical supplies and laid the sword on the table carefully uncovering it.

The doctor immediately noticed at how well the blade was constructed. It wasn't a katana liked the samurais used here in Japan. It was a scimitar. The doctor looked deeper into the curved blade as it shimmered in the reflected light of the candles. The doctor's jaw dropped, "I've never seen a sword such as this."

Okita hissed, his cheery mood changed with impatience, "I didn't bring the sword just to have you see at how pretty it looks in the light, just do what you have to do and be done with it."

"Ok, ok, fine." And with that the doctor proceeded to look at the poison on the blade. Fortunately the doctor was very skilled in poisons.

Finally after two grueling hours of looking at the poison, the doctor finally came to the conclusion that the poison wasn't too dangerous, that is it was only meant to make Saitou sick for a few days.

"It's really quite simple, really it is, you're just making it too hard." The doctor tried to explain to a confused Okita.

"It is supposed to make the person who ingested it to be sick."

"But why would they want to ingest it?" Okita asked confused.

"For medicinal purposes." Doctor replied and when he looked up and saw that Okita was giving him a blank stare he almost laughed out of annoyance.

"Don't worry about it." The doctor said flatly.

Okita was about to leave Saitou's room when the doctor stopped him, "Okita, I do believe that you had a wound that needed to be bandaged, am I right?" The doctor asked with cleaning his surgical kit.

Okita gulped. He hated doctors and their sugical kits.

The doctor looked up and smiled. "Don't worry it won't hurt too much."

Okita's mouth dropped open, "What do you mean?" He asked.

The doctor simply smiled, "You do need stitches don't you?"

Okita's mouth formed a silent "oh" and he just nodded his head.

"Good, well we better take a look at it." The doctor said motioning with his hand to Okita's left arm.

Okita obediently sat on the spare futon that the doctor had laid out for during the night, the doctor started to check out a nasty cut that was on his left arm.

After he was done cleaning, stitching and bandaging Okita's arm he took out a knife and started to toss it up in the air and catch it by the handle.

"What are you doing?" Okita asked nervously.

"Oh, me nothing, I do this when I'm bored." The doctor said and he grinned devilishly. The doctor then threw kunai blades at Okita pinning his legs to the ground.

In a blink of an eye, Okita found he couldn't move, his legs were pinned to the ground via kunai. 'Where did they come from, I never saw them or heard them come at me.'

"This won't hurt a bit." The doctor muttered under his breath, loud enough for Okita to hear as he advanced on Okita getting ready to kill him.

Okita suddenly realized that the doctor was really an Ishin spy.

Okita closed his eyes and waited to feel the knife bite into his throat or any other vital areas and rob him of his life's essence, his blood.

'Wait why am I waiting for him to come to me?' Okita began to try and pull the knives out of the ground.

While he was trying to pull the knives out Okita could hear a tussle going on between the doctor and Okita's unknown savior. The tussle stopped and was followed by a deep guttural growl and the doctor's gasp of pain.

Okita finally got the last blade out of the ground and looked up to see Saitou with the doctor's knife pressed against the doctor's throat, poised to take the final blow that would end the doctor's life.

To Okita's surprise, the spy wasn't frightened at all, he was actually laughing. Saitou silenced him by bringing the knife closer to his throat, pressing it until a thin red line appeared.

Saitou in a low, dangerous voice whispered into the spy's ear, "You better start explaining what you are doing here."

Okita added, "Start with you name."

The spy snorted. "Why, after I'm done telling you all that you want, you'll just kill me anyway."

Okita promised to the spy that he wouldn't be killed and Saitou also said that he would make sure nobody killed him.

The spy snorted again almost not believing that Saitou would agree to just a thing.

"My name is Kousotsu Sajin." The spy finally said.

Saitou growled, deep in his throat as he remembered something about that name, it sounded so familiar, but why?

Sajin noticing that Saitou recognized his last name said "Ah, I see that you remember my name."

Saitou grunted in response.

"Well, I hope that you learn to fear it, the name Kousotsu, I hope you learn to fear us, my twin brother and me."

Saitou just rolled his eyes.

"Just get on with it, tell us why you are here." Saitou growled impatiently.

"Well, then when should I start?" Sajin asked his voice dripping with hatred.

Okita scratched his head confused, "Saitou, you sure have a lot of enemies."

Saitou shrugged, "I can't help it, I'm just doing my job."

Sajin spit at Saitou's feet, "Just as I thought you don't care about the people's lives you destroyed, all those women you left alone by killing their husbands. You left so many children fatherless."

"Stop changing the subject." Saitou growled annoyed that Sajin wouldn't answer his questions.

"Looks like I'm making the wolf restless." Sajin smiled evilly.

"You better tell me why you were going to kill Okita now, before I go back on my promise about not killing you." Saitou said his anger burning. He so wanted to just kill the man now and not worry about anything, but he knew that somehow he would regret it.

"Well, ok, I guess I'll tell you." Sajin said as though he had a choice in the matter even though he knew that he didn't. Sajin was silent for a few minutes, wanting to choose his words carefully.

"We wanted to kill those that were closest to you, to make you suffer like we did. My job was to kill Okita." Sajin said.

Okita and Saitou exchanged glances while Sajin continued. "I was about to kill him when that baka, Hijikata I think was his name, got in the way, I waited half an hour for him to make a move, he finally saw me and attacked me. To make my escape I slashed him in the arm to destract him, but I also got hit with his blade in the chest." And with that Sajin ran his left hand across his chest exactly where he had been slashed.

"So when the Ishins retreated I found a secluded place and changed into these clothes." Sajin said while pointing to the doctor's clothes he was wearing.

Okita silent through the whole thing piped up and said, "I should take Sajin to Kondou."

"I'm going with you." Saitou stated.

"But you still need to rest up," Okita argued.

Saitou glared at Okita, and Okita knew to argue further would be pointless. So they went out of the infirmary tent with Sajin between them both. As Saitou and Okita walked by Shinsengumi members turned their heads toward Saitou, who was in a navy blue yukata. Some Shinsengumi members' mouths were wide open.

"What are you lot staring at, get back to work, or whatever you were doing." Saitou growled. The Shinsengumi members immediately complied, and acted as if nothing had ever happened.

After a short walk through camp, they made it to Kondou's tent. Hijikata was standing outside.

"We have an Ishin prisoner. He has some information for Kondou." Saitou stated.

"Okita can go through, you," Hijikata said pointing at Saitou, "are going back to bed."

"Sorry sir, but I just can't do that." Saitou said without batting an eyelash.

"Ah, so he also loves to disobey orders." Sajin said.

Okita elbowed Sajin in the stomach to silence him.

Just then Kondou's deep, rich voice could be heard from inside the tent. "Let them in Hijikata."

Hijikata rolled his eyes and pulled back the tent flap admitting both Saitou and Okita in with their prisoner.

"Raiden," the Battousai said, "the Shinsengumi has your brother."

"Yes I know." Raiden answered calmly.

"You mean you don't care?" Battousai asked confused.

Raiden was a strange man. He insisted on wearing the Seikihotai's uniform, even though they had been classified as a false army and executed a few months ago. Battousai was actually afraid of Raiden. When he looked into Raiden's ice blue catlike eyes, he could see the hatred that was burning deep inside his soul.

Also Raiden hardly ever smiled and when standing next to the Battousai, he easily dwarfed the Battousai.

Raiden's hair was as white as snow, short, and unkept, giving Raiden an untamed, wild look. One time an Ishin asked about why he didn't keep his hair nice. Raiden's lip curved up slightly and said, "No matter how hard I try, it remains untamed." Soon after that short conversation, Raiden's version of a smile was erased from his face and replaced with a frown.

Raiden snorted, "Sajin can take care of himself, just continue watching." When the Battousai left Raiden put his hand up to his chin in thought "This can still be used to my advantage." Raiden said out loud.

"He'll probably tell Saitou about your plan for revenge." A voice said.

Raiden turned around and was confronted withan Ishin Captain named Korosu Iikagen.

"Your brother will be watched and if needs be we will have to eliminate him."Korosu said.

Raiden shook his head, "No, he's the only person I have how, leave it all to me."

Korosubowed, "I will leave it all to you, but"Korosu warned, "if it gets out of hand we will kill your brother."

Raiden nodded in understanding.

Kondou listened as Sajin told him Raiden's plan.

"Hijikata, take Saitou back to the infirmary where he will rest until he is better."

Saitou started to protest as Hijikata started to push him out of the tent. Okita smiled, he knew Saitou hated to rest, in his opinion it was "boring." Sajin also laughed maniacally at Saitou's sudden helplessness.

After seeing that Saitou had no intentions of going back to the infirmary Hijikata then said, "I'm sorry to have to do this to you Saitou but it's for your own good."

Saitou turned around, a confused look in his eyes. Hijikata then, without drawing his sword from its sheath, hit Saitou in between the eyes with the sword handle. The force to Saitou's head knocked him out and his limp body fell on Hijikata.

Hijikata grunted. "He sure is heavy."

Kondou hid his smile as Okita took charge, "Ok Hijikata let's do this like last time. I'll take his legs and you take his upper body."

"That's not fair. You get the easier part." Hijikata complained.

As soon as they were gone Kondou had one of his personal guards come into the tent. "Take this Ishin spy to the prisoner tent and make sure to treat him like a guest."

Sajin's mouth dropped wide open, "Why would you do this, I just tried to kill your first captain."

"I know, but I'm not the type of person to beat on prisoners." Kondou said smiling he watched Sajin be lead to the prisoner's tent.

Two Days Later. . . . . .

"I hate this. I hate his so much." Saitou grumbled as he leaned his body against the wall, his legs covered by a futon.

A nurse came in and told Saitou to let her check on his wound and make sure that infection hadn't set in. Saitou was about to retort when the nurse added "Kondou's orders."

Grumbling Saitou stiffly took his left arm out of his yukata. The nurse none too gently took the bandage off and made sure that there was no infection, she then got some new bandages and re bandaged his wound, making sure that the bandage was nice and tight on his arm. After that she slapped him on his wound and said, "You are free to move around just as long as you don't strain your left arm. . . . . that means no Gatotsu practice until it heals completely."

Saitou cringed slightly from the slap and groaned. The nurse smiled happily as she saw his disappointment.

"Nurse, would you excuse us for a second." Okita suddenly appeared behind the nurse, startling her.

After the nurse left mumbling about why had she wanted to be a nurse for Shinsengumi, all they did was scare you or glare at you, well at least that's what one Captain did anyway. Saitou, not paying any attention to the nurse's rambling, thanked Okita. "You saved me from an unknown torment of that nurse."

Okita smiled knowingly, "I know what you mean."

"So what did you want to talk to me about?" Saitou asked, getting up from off the futon.

"Oh, oh yeah, um, Kondou wanted to talk to the both of us in his tent." Okita said trying to remember the message he was supposed to give Saitou.

"Ok then let's get going." Saitou said making his way toward the tent flap.

"Um, Saitou don't you think you should change back into your Shinsengumi uniform, it would be more appropriate." Okita stated.

Saitou cursed himself for forgetting that he wasn't in uniform.

Okita called for the nurse to bring Saitou another uniform, after she did that, Saitou quickly got changed out of his navy blue yukata and into his uniform. After that they made their way to Kondou's tent.

When they got there, they were greeted by Hijikata, "It's good to so you up and about Saitou."

Saitou just grunted in reply missing the smile that crept onto Hijikata's face.

Once inside Kondou's office Kondou acknowledged him, "It is good to see you up and around again, Saitou."

"I'm just glad it's over." Saitou mumbled.

"Unfortunately it is far from over. I received orders from the Shogunate saying that we are needed in Kyoto again." Kondou said.

"This is pointless, why didn't they just leave us there?" Saitou asked annoyed.

"I don't know, but Saitou, you and Okita can't be left alone anymore, you and Okita will always be accompanied by either myself or Hijikata, do you understand?" Kondou asked.

Both Okita and Saitou just nodded.

'This is going to be an interesting walk back to Kyoto.' Saitou thought to himself.

'Maybe I'll be able to see that Tokio girl again.' Saitou thought to himself, a smile creeping to his lips. 'What am I thinking about her for and at a time like this?'

"Saitou, let me ask you a question." Kondou asked.

"Sure what is it?" Saitou asked

"Why are you smiling?" Kondou asked back.

"..." Saitou couldn't answer the question.

Okita just laughed, "Maybe he has a girl that he has that has been waiting for him in Kyoto."

"I don't have a girl waiting for me." Saitou defended himself.

"Sure." Okita continued to tease him.

Saitou just growled and Okita.

Kondou then brought them back to attention, "We need to get everybody ready within two hours then we depart for Kyoto."

Two Hours Later. . . . . .

"All right, it's time to go." Kondou yelled as the whole Shinsengumi army marched out of the clearing and was on their way to Kyoto.

Saitou couldn't help but feel a little excited because he might see that girl again, Tokio. He then shook his head trying to get her out of his head.

They were on their way to Kyoto to protect all of Japan not just one silly little girl.

And with that last thought he marched up in the front with Okita, Hijikata, and Kondou, they were on their way to Kyoto that was all that mattered for the time being.