1Disclaimer: the characters in this fanfic (except for Yamisha) do not belong to me. They belong to the great mind of Nobuhiro Watsuki. E-mail me if you want to use Yamisha in your own fanfiction story at Need I say more?

Desperate Searching

Yamisha jumped to the left, and then in the middle of the men. They surrounded her once again in a circle.

"Hiten-Mitsurugi-Ryu; Ryutsuisen, Doryusen!" she yelled.

The men all looked at one another with confused faces asking each other if that was supposed to mean something.

Yamisha jumped high in the air and seemed to float upon it.

She then dove downwards headfirst, but at the last second, stuck her sword out and struck the ground with a tremendous force.

All of the men fell into a huge crater created from the entity that was her blow.

The energy from her strike into the ground emanated from her blade and caused the earth around it to shatter.

In the end, all of the men were unconscious; laying in the huge depression. As said before, if she was not in a good mood, they would all be dead and sliced to pieces. In other words, this fic would go from PG, to PG-13 real fast-like.

She picked up her bucket of miscellaneous contents and skipped merrily along the road, which seemed to end at... a large mountain?

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Kenshin, Kaoru, and Yahiko neared Kyoto around 6:05 PM and started running towards the Aoi-ya.

Kenshin thought as he ran. 'I don't think she would go for the Aoi-ya because she has grown quite fond of Misao-dono, de gozaru. Poor Hiko...he's in for a surprise.'

As they rounded the corner, Okina came into view; sweeping the porch.

"Okina, have you seen Yamisha pass by here?"Kaoru asked in a somewhat worried voice.

"No, she hasn't. Is there something wrong? Is she missing?" Okina asked; it was now his turn to be worried.

"Not exactly..." Kenshin said. He scratched the back of his head and plastered on his 'Rurouni Grin ®' to assure him that everything was alright.

"We must be going now; in a hurry! We'll stop back later!" he yelled as he grabbed Yahiko and Kaoru and started running, full speed, down the road leaving a trail of dust in his path.

Okina watched them disappear and sighed a mushroom-cloud puff of smoke.