Chapter 3:
That night everyone worked as hard as they could to help Dr. Genzai and Megumi with the girl's wounds. The two toiled deep into the night to stop the bleeding while Kaoru, Sano, Yahiko, and Kenshin could only wait outside impatiently for what news they would bring.
Yahiko was sitting on the porch swinging his foot back and forth, barely touching the blades of grass below. Hesitantly, he asked, "Is she gonna be okay?" He sounded worried. Yahiko hadn't seen the girl, but saw the excessive blood on Sanosuke's white shirt.
Sanosuke chose not to reply and just sat there chewing a strand of wheat, and looked at the stars. He shivered a little either from seeing so much blood, or the fact he didn't have any shirt on since it was being washed. Kaoru turned towards Yahiko looking worried, but gave a brave face, "I'm… I'm sure she'll be fine, Dr. Genzai and Megumi are wonderful doctors. Right Kenshin?" she turned to look at Kenshin.
He was standing still, leaning against the wall and staring directly ahead. His eyes seemed to be glittering in the light of the moon. A dangerously cold glitter.
Kaoru said again tentatively, "K- …Kenshin?"
He suddenly snapped out of his reverie and reverted to his normal face when he turned to Kaoru, "Oh yes, I'm sure Dr. Genzai and Megumi will do just fine." Then facing back towards the sky, he gave a little chuckle that sounded tense even when he was trying to keep the worry out of his voice, "Of course, I didn't see how badly injured the young lady was, nor did I see who she was…" He trailed off, not knowing what else to say, "…I'm sure she'll be fine."
Kenshin went quiet again looking off into the distance.
Kaoru stared at Kenshin for a while longer, feeling that something was not quite right about his demeanor.
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In the room, Dr. Genzai had finally managed to stop most of the bleeding and bandage up the wounds that weren't so deep while Megumi was stitching up the wound near her abdomen.
"Almost there…" murmured Megumi.
Dr. Genzai didn't reply and simply sat down, taking a cloth to wipe off the perspiration that beaded the young girl's forehead. He cringed inwardly at the world that could hurt a young child like that. 'It's evidently the handiwork of a sword, but…' Dr. Genzai thought, 'this injury had the full intention of killing her…' He shook his head, dispersing the thoughts, he'd find out later anyway.
Megumi stepped away from the girl when she finished stitching of the wound and exhaled a big sigh of relief, "She'll make it."
Dr. Genzai nodded slightly. His gaze lingered on the girl as he was still wiping off the sweat. She was starting to stir, and her muttering could be heard. Suddenly, she gave a small scream, and started tossing and turning, threatening to open her wounds again. Alarmed, Megumi and Dr. Genzai tried to hold her down, but instead of calming down, she struggled even harder, and called out in a frenzied shout, "Come back!"
Her breathing grew ragged and coarse, "NO! You can't….! Can't—leave, you can't! Don't! I—don't go! Kill—must! COME BACK!"
Megumi and Dr. Genzai were slightly alarmed at hearing her incoherent speech but held her down firmly. Her thrashing was getting wilder to the point that it became too hard for even both Megumi and Dr. Genzai to handle. As blood droplets started hitting the ground, Megumi realized that she was opening up some of her wounds again, "K-Kenshin! Sanosuke! Quick!" she shouted in alarm.
In no time the two ran into the room followed by Kaoru and Yahiko, looking extremely worried. Sanosuke and Kenshin slowed down, startled by the scene before them and at lost of what to do.
Megumi shouted over the girl's screaming, "Hold her down! I need to get something to calm her down!"
Sanosuke leapt into action, successfully pinning down her thrashing legs under his own. Just then the girl jerked her arm throwing Dr. Genzai off, and scratching Sanos's face in the process. Three lines of red appeared on his cheek where she had scratched him. He gave a small tsk and shouted for Kenshin, "C'mon, Kenshin! Get over here and hold her arms down."
No one came forward.
Sano looked back towards him, "Kenshin?"
He was staring at the girl with a half horrified, half surprised look on his face, and he didn't budge.
"Shit…" Sano muttered, "Someone get over here!"
Yahiko was just about to start forward when he heard Kenshin speak.
"Y— …"
"Did you call me?" Yahiko asked inquisitively.
Kenshin seemed flustered when he answered Yahiko, "Huh? No… sorry, it's nothing."
Suddenly, the girl's thrashing seemed to calm before Megumi even found the sedative. Sano tentatively let go of his hold on her and she was still calm. He sighed a breath of relief and said, "Hey, Kenshin, what was with that? I needed backup."
"Oh, um…"
Before he could answer, he was saved the task of doing so when the girl began to stir. Alarmed, everyone was prepared to hold her down again, but this time, she was actually waking up. Her eyes seemed strangely… blank, but still her brown eyes were cold…
"Where… where am I?" The girl looked around at her surroundings, but nothing looked familiar, nobody looked familiar, in fact…
"You're in Kamiya Dojo," Kaoru answered warmly, "My name's Kamiya Kaoru. What's yours?"
"My… name?" She looked around again, and her eyes fell onto the katana with the crimson lotus… "That's mines," she said, pointing at the sword, "but…my name… I… I don't remember." She winced at a sudden pain at her side.
Sanosuke winced slightly when he saw her wince, "So uh… what happened to you?"
The girl looked up at him inquisitively and his heart skipped a little, "You were… quite… injured, to put it nicely. But thanks to Dr. Genzai and Megumi," jerking his thumb towards the two, "you're still here."
Yahiko chipped in, "So where you from? How old are you? Are you sure you don't remember your name? OW!"
Kaoru had interrupted Yahiko by bashing him on his head, "Stop asking questions. It's rude."
But the girl had heard the words clearly, and it was visibly torturing her that she couldn't remember her name. "Well… I'm… twenty four years old…"
"WHAAAAAT!"
Everyone shouted simultaneously and soon the room was in an uproar of noise.
(Kaoru) "No way! You look younger than me!"
(Yahiko) "I thought you were the same age as me!"
(Sanosuke) "Wow she aged well."
"But…" she said quietly, "what's my name?" Then a bit more frantically, "I don't remember my name!"
All this time Kenshin had been unusually silent, but he started towards the door, and before he left, he said quietly, "Her name's Yukari." Then slammed the sliding door and left.
The room was quiet. Every face turned towards the door wonderingly.
Kaoru was utterly surprised, "…Kenshin?"
The girl slowly pronounced the name, testing its sound on her tongue, "Yu…ka..ri…. Yukari… that sounds… familiar… somehow."
ohohoho… I'm updating it Dx nobody's gonna review it I bet xD but I might as well finsih xD