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Gone Away

When she woke up next morning, Misao got dressed. She had just began to braid her hair when a kunai whirled towards her. She caught it as it passed her, saving the paper wall from mutilation. There was a note attached to it and she read it to herself:

To the Makimachi clan,

We will have our revenge completed, the Makimachi clan ends with you

The Caeku-shu

She went white as she remembered the Caeku-shu, those who had killed her parents and many Oniwanban-shu in the process. Then she realized that her hair had come totally undone in this mental chaos, "Drat!"

After re-braiding her hair she went to the training hall. That's where she was when Aoshi woke up.

After dressing he had gone looking for her, and he found her trying to, in his opinion, train herself to death in the shortest possible time, killing the dojo in the process.

Then he realized two very important facts, first of which was Misao was blindfolded, which wasn't unusual since no one ever moved anything here unless they had to, and then they put it back.

The second crucial detail is that instinctively Aoshi had hid his chi when he entered the dojo, not wanting to interrupt the training and out of habit, however Misao wasn't concentrating on anything save her training, and Aoshi was in the way.

Uh-oh was his last thought before she collided with him at full speed.

When she collided with him she immediately tried to back up but over balanced and would have fallen on a rack of training weapons had Aoshi not caught her at the last second. As soon as he had one hand securely under her he released his chi, once she felt that she relaxed. He then used his other hand to remove the blindfold, she looked up and stared into his gorgeous blue-green eyes and froze.

"Are you alright Misao" Aoshi said breaking the silence. She just nodded her head, her eyes still wide. Aoshi gently put her down on her feet, as she regained control of her tongue.

"Thanks, I'm sorry for running into you", Aoshi assured her that he was fine just concerned, "Misao is anything wrong" Aoshi was still had his hand on her back so he felt her heart speed up and her body tense, "Nothing" she said firmly. Before Aoshi could dispute this, Ochika (she has two names so e-mail me the name you prefer) called them for breakfast.

Misao ate quickly and went upstairs to her room. A few minutes later they heard something thud up there, Aoshi immediately felt for Misao's chi but it wasn't there.

He ran up the stairs after a moment the others followed him . There was nothing extraordinary in her room save three notes; one to Okina, one to Aoshi, and one to the rest of the Oniwanban-shu. They all read their note quickly, Omasu reading the group's. They all said the same thing; Misao was gone. The wind had knocked some books from their position balancing precariously on the edge of the shelf.

"Misao has left the Oniwanban-shu in Aoshi and my hands, here she states details of all the missions and states that she'll be in touch and not to come after her." Omasu and Aoshi told him that that was pretty much what the others said besides a plea not to worry.

Okina sighed and said "Very well, Aoshi we had better begin today's assignments, everyone else get back to their individual jobs" and with that every one went back to their work.

Does any one want more details in the letters?