Can Our Love Endure?
A/N: I want to know how many people reading this story would like to read a lemon/lime? I have had the idea for a long time but I did not know for certain if I should go ahead and put it up. Please help me! There is a little umm…lime? on here. Sorry this is going to be a short chapter. I have finals and stuff at the college for the next month. . Next semester won't really help me none either because I am taking 17 units.
Chapter 11 Previously…She turned back around and slowly opened her window. The cold night breeze sent slight goosebumps around her arms. She leapt on to a near by tree and the jumped to the ground. She looked around the Aoiya's yard and sensed Sanosuke was behind her, but she pretended not to know that he was there.
Sanosuke wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her back against him as he lowered his head and whispered in her ear. "Told ya you couldn't stay away from me." He began to slowly nibble on her ear lobe and Taeya tried not to giggle.
"I just thought…that you would…get l-lonely out here by…yourself," she said quietly as she gave herself over to Sanosuke. She turned around slowly and wrapped her arms around his neck, pressing their bodies closer together in the process. "You missed me tori?"
"Always kirei," whispered Sanosuke lightly as he pressed his lips lightly against hers.
After a few moments, Sano put more pressure into their kiss and slowly eased his tongue into her warm mouth. Taeya let out a small moan as her tongue brushed against hers and she pulled him closer to her.
The two became lost in their passionate kiss as their tongues continued to explore one another's mouths. They both came up for air and tried to slow down their harsh breathing.
Sanosuke lifted Taeya up and pushed her back up against the tree trunk that she had climbed down from. Another moan accidentally escaped her lips and she let out a small gasp as she felt Sano's lips at her throat. She unconsciously wrapped her arms around his neck and her fingers entangled themselves in his smooth hair.
"Sano…" she groaned and wrapped her legs around his hips and smiled when Sano let out a small moan as he continued to attack her neck mercilessly.
"Gods woman…how do you…manage to do…this to…me?" he said in between his kisses. Lost in their moment of passion, the two did not notice two strangers dressed in black make their way into the Aoiya until they heard a door sliding closed as quietly as possible.
Both of their heads snapped up and they looked around cautiously. "Something is not right. I can feel it," said Taeya after a few moments of silence as she looked around.
"Maybe we should go inside the Aoiya to make sure it just wasn't Misao and Aoshi trying to make some, ne?" he asked with a smirk.
Taeya hit Sanosuke on his arm, "Watch what you say you hentai!" Taeya followed Sano towards the Aoiya's front door slowly.
Aoshi's eyes snapped open and when he felt an unfamiliar chi inside the Aoiya and hurriedly, but silently, made his way to Misao's room. He slid open the door to Misao's room, silently closed the door behind him, and turned around to see Misao's fist coming closer and closer to his face.
"Aoshi," hissed Misao as she ceased her attack and her fist stopped a mere half and inch in front of his face. "You cared the shit out of me baka! I thought you were an intruder or something."
"Gomen nasai Misao, I did not mean to startle you but we need to get out of the Aoiya right now." Aoshi grabbed Misao's hand and turned towards the door to lead her out.
"Matte…Aoshi, shouldn't we go get Kaoru and Yahiko to safety before we just leave?"
"Iie, I am sure that Himura already sensed that something was out of place and got them to safety by now. Besides Misao, you are my top priority, not them."
Misao smiled at his kind words and nodded her head, "You're right. So…which way are we taking to get out of my room?"
"Depends," said Aoshi as he turned around when he heard her door slide open slowly, "on them."
In front of the door stood two masked ninjas dressed in black and yellow uniforms. "Ohayo…Shinamori Aoshi."
Aoshi glared at the two men, "You mean to say okashira."
"You are no longer our okashira, Shinamori," they replied in unison. "We are not Oniwabanshu, we work for Nukasa-sama. Nukasa-sama wants the okashira of the Oniwabanshu dead."
Aoshi moved protectively in front of Misao and unsheathed the kudachis that he had brought with him when he left his room. "What do we have here?" asked Sanosuke as he came ups behind the two ninjas that stood in Misao's doorway. The two ninjas looked back behind them to come face to face with Taeya and Sanosuke and then turned around to face Misao and Aoshi who stood ready to fight.
"You are clearly out numbered. I am afraid that you will not be able to kill me tonight," replied Aoshi calmly as he glared heatedly at the ninjas. His eyes slightly widened as they began to chuckle.
"He he he he…Why, Aoshi, you know full well that you are not the okashira of the Oniwabanshu anymore. Misao-sama is the okashira."
Everyone's eyes went wide at the ninja's statement. How the hell had they known that Misao was the leader of the Oniwabanshu?
"Humph, I challenge the okashira of the Oniwabanshu to a one on one duel," said the taller ninja as he stepped forward.
"I accept your challenge," replied Misao quickly as she stepped in front of Aoshi. "We shall fight outside of the Aoiya, in the garden." The ninja nodded his consent and everyone followed Misao to the Aoiya's garden.
The warm breeze in the night air blew the trees branches and flowers slightly and then disappeared as Aoshi put a hand on Misao's shoulder. "Misao, are you sure you want to do this?"
"Hai," said Misao as she looked up at him and smiled, then bowed her head and took another step. Silence swept over the garden as they waited for someone to attempt to make the first move.
Misao, being the inpatient one, decided to start the fight with a series of strong kicks and punches. Misao was a lot faster than she use to be; she had been practicing her kenpo and kunai techniques every day for as long as she was able to.
The opposing ninja was having great trouble merely dodging her attacks; it seems that he had not suspected Misao to be this strong at all. Misao was doing a great job in keeping him on the defensive and not giving him a chance to switch to the offensive.
Taeya watched Misao through her slightly narrowed emerald eyes with great attention. Sanosuke looked down at Taeya, "Having fun watching the weasel? She's gotten way stronger than when we fought against Shishio and the Jupongottena." (sp?)
Taeya nodded her head, but her eyes never left Misao's form, "She has gotten better. She has gotten stronger, but it doesn't change the fact that there will always be someone stronger than her out there somewhere."
"But you do know that Misao will win this fight with no problem, right?"
"Of course I know that she is going to win, but it won't stop me from worrying about her safety. The same thing goes for you, tori-atama…and everyone else in the Aoiya."
Silence over took the small area of the garden once more as Aoshi, Taeya, and Sanosuke watched Misao fight against the ninja intently. It was quite obvious that Aoshi and Taeya were having slight difficulties watching the fight from the sidelines, after all, they both loved Misao dearly and it was they who usually did the fighting. Both of them wanted to jump in and help Misao, even though she did not need any help, but they respected her and her decision so they stayed standing where they were.
Misao dodged the ninja's attacks easily and she decided that she had enough of playing around with him. She brought her knee up as she grabbed a hold of his right hand and broke his nose when his face made contact with her knee. She then flipped him over on to his back and twisted his arm until it broke in more than one place.
The man that now lay on the floor yelled out, "Aaaah!" as he rolled around on the floor while he cradled around against his chest. "Damn you!" he yelled out as he looked at the sympathetic look she gave him.
"This was your fault. You were the one who broke into my home, you were the one that threatened me and my friends, and you were the one who challenged me to this duel. Did you think that I, Okashira of the Oniwabanshu would let you get away with that?"
Misao picked up the ninja by the collar of his uniform and her sea green eyes pierced themselves into his brown ones. "If you want to live, you will leave here immediately," she said venomously. She let go of the ninja and started walking back to her comrades, but then stopped when she felt another energy coming up behind her.
The other ninja whom had been watching his comrade fight against Misao from a safe distance, leapt at Misao, sword at hand, ready to kill Misao for disgracing them the way she did. She disgraced them in battle with out even the slightest effort.
Misao quickly turned around and with a quick flick of her wrist sent four kunai flying through the air at the ninja. Two kunai pierced themselves into one of his arms and the other two flew by both sides of his face. After the two kunais past his face, he thought that Misao had bad aim, but then a cut on both sides of his face proved that Misao could have killed him right then and there if she had really wanted to.
Misao's eyes narrowed for what seemed like the fourth time that night, "Take him and leave now. I will not give you another chance."
The ninja immediately ran to his fallen comrade, picked him up and ran off in the direction that lead away from the Aoiya, looking back every once in a while to see if Misao was following him or not.
I am sooo sorry that this chapter is short but errrr…I am working on 4 other stories right now and I have to type them up too so I am sorry!