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The shouji slid open, letting it a bright blaze of morning sun right into the face of one sleeping Yahiko. He turned over on his futon, planting his face in the pillow.

"Ugh… 5 more minutes…" he mumbled out by reflex, attempting to regain his precious slumber. In response, the blankets were torn away from his body as well as the very futon from underneath him.
"H-hey!" the boy sat up, looking into the face of his rather amused sensei.
"What in the hell did you do THAT for, busu?" the name earned him a whack on the head.
"You're so lazy, Yahiko! Do you even know what time it is?" The tanuki chaimed in before he had a chance to respond. He simply looked at her as if he were trying to burn holes through her head. Kaoru sighed with exasperation. She took that as a 'no'.
"Listen, It's almost seven and you aren't even dresses yet! Kenshin's already done making breakfast Sano's invited himself over to eat before we set off, so you're not gonna eat unless you get up NOW, ok?"

Her words seemed to snap him back to reality, and he immediately jumped up, Pushing the girl out of his room in a frantic rush, saying something about getting dressed.

The door slid behind her. Kaoru just sighed again, walking back towards the kitchen. They were running late already…
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"Ano…Sano…" the rurouni began, looking down at the fighters plate in dismay, "You'll have leave some for the rest of us, de gozaru yo…"
Sanosuke paused for a moment from stuffing his face, taking one huge gulp to finish down his current mouthful of breakfast. He looked up at the rurouni with a skeptical determination and pointed a finger at him.
"Hey, this breakfast is the LEAST you can do for me. I mean, jus' taking off, the three of you an' leaving me with nothing to do! I mean, I could understand not inviting; me if it were just you and Jou-chan, but you're taking the pipsqueak too!"

"I heard that, rooster head!" Yahiko appeared in the doorway, just in time to throw himself at the source of the comment, gnawing at Sano's head… honestly, none of them were ever going to figure out exactly why he did that…

"Yahiko, just sit down and eat your breakfast." Kaoru billowed from outside the kitchen, joining the rest of them at the table.

"Yeah, or I else I can eat it for ya!" the fighter teased, his own plate already cleared.

"You will not!" Yahiko dived at his plate before anyone could get in another word.

"Yeesh, I was jus' kiddin, ya know." Sano arched an eyebrow at the boy.

"Demo…Sano, you HAVE eaten Yahiko's share in the past, de gozaru yo." The rurouni chimed in faintly. Indeed, there had been several occasions in which Sano had had emptied his own portions and simply moved onto the next person's plate.

"Well what am I supposed to do, just watch well you all eat and I have nothing'?" he protested, clearly not having eaten his fill.

"We didn't tell you to start without out us Sanosuke, so that's your problem!" The tanuki asserted forcefully, starting on her own plate
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After breakfast had been completed ( not hardly 3 minutes later) Sano had left the trio, though not before asserting more complaints on his part.

"Come on, Yahiko, we should have left by now, what are you doing?" Kaoru and Kenshin had already been standing at the gate for almost five minutes.

"Ano…He's packing, I believe." the rurouni commented with a faint smile. It wasn't as if anyone had many things to bring, but on occasion it could take Yahiko a while to tie up his belongings.

" I told him to pack last night…" the tanuki mused with another sigh. " I didn't want to have to wait to set out…" As if he'd heard the complaint, Yahiko came running out to the gate, his belongings tied in a cloth on the end of his shinai.
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A/N: I was going to sent them on a trip…and then I realized… I have no idea what the specific towns and cities were like back then …oh boy…so, sorry once again for the mini-chapter!