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Misao, our Okashira

Aoshi woke to a kind of contentment, when he opened his eyes he saw his beautiful Misao's sleeping face above him; Wait a minute! Aoshi sat up quickly, waking Misao up in the process. He had slept with his head in her lap, when did THAT happen? He thought as he tried to remember last night.

Misao, meanwhile had started to get up and went over to the fire, "the poison seems to be gone now" Poison Aoshi thought, then he remembered the dart and how he had began to feel dizzy, so they had stopped for the night. Then he suddenly blacked out and could remember nothing past that.

Misao watched him his thinking is still foggy, what does he remember? She finishes making the tea and hands him a cup. After not noticing it for a moment, he took it.

He drank the cup and studied Misao; she was acting odd, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. She was distant, that's it she hadn't been near him since he awoke, she should be bouncing around him checking his temperature and chatting nonstop but right now she seemed confused, even skittish.

"Aoshi-sama, what do you remember about last night?" She was staring at her cup, almostas if it would run away if she didn't keep a close eye on it.

This doesn't bode well Aoshi thought as he told her. She just looked at her cup and said "oh". he doesn't remember, not that I expected him to she thought bitterly.

Aoshi also was thinking; "oh"? now he may be sluggish but not that slow, Misao is usually way more talkative than that, "Misao did we get attacked or something while I was unconscious?"

"...no, nothing, save me making a fire and falling asleep, happened while you were asleep" she said this with a smile that did not reach her eyes.

He knows Misao thinks he has to, he always does

"Misao…"

"we'd better be going" she interrupted him

"…" Aoshi just nodded and began packing up the camp with her, moving slower than usual from the after affects of the poison. Then they proceeded to Kyoto. They had been at the Himuras' for the last few weeks; Misao to help Kaoru baby-sit Kenji, and Aoshi to help Kenshin retain his sanity (he finally stopped calling him Battousi after a BIG lecture from Misao). And Misao was anxious to get home, now so was Aoshi, he was in no shape to help should a battle occur.

When they got to the Aoiya Misao bounded inside, yelling at the top of her lungs. A second later Omasu and Kuro came outside to drag Aoshi inside to push soup down his throat and put him to bed.

Aoshi resigned himself to their treatment knowing he would get an earful from Misao if he didn't. The past two years Misao had gradually taken over control of the group, even going so far as to contact Omayu, the chief intelligence agent and the best they ever had.

However this did not stop her from screeching her head off every time someone wouldn't get treatment for any sort of injury. She was just too protective of the members of the group. Then again I was very protective of her when she was growing up too so it makes sense he thought as he finally fell asleep.

this will be an on-going story

Omayu is a character i've made up for another story i've yet to post, i'll use her a lot in my AM storied