Okay I'm proud to present to you a revised Chapter 3! It's a little longer now, and a few small elements that I added might be useful to the overall plot. (I think.) Well enjoy!

Oh yeah, i forgot about this before. Sorry.

Disclaimer: I don't own Rurouni Kenshin. ):

Chapter 3 – Amber Eyes

"Kaoru, I'm ready," Ishizu's smooth voice brought her out of her reverie.

"Took you long enough. Okay anyway about the mission…"

They spent the whole day talking. Finally at sunset, Kaoru got up. "Come on," she said. "Let's go get ready." Ishizu nodded and got up as well. Boy, was this going to be one mission full of surprises for them, although they didn't know it.

Kaoru and Ishizu picked up their sword's and made their way to the main office so Youji could give them all of the location information.

"Ah, Kamiya-san, right on time as usual. I see you have chosen Saromi-san to accompany you. We'll get down to business then." He gave them both a look and when they stared back at him, he continued.

"Here is the location map. As you can see the underground chamber is quite large, but as you long as you can calculate if you entered from north, west, east or south, you should be alright. Retrieve the documents before anything else, and then get out of there. If you can get out unnoticed, then try to pull it off, but if you don't just kill everyone who gets in your way. But only the ones who are part of Hishimanji-Guren, got it?"

"Alright, but why would there be anybody else besides Hishimanji thugs there?" asked Ishizu curiously.

"I'm just saying," said Youji.

Kaoru and Ishizu both exchanged a look, but made no comment. "Alright sir," said Kaoru. She picked up the map, and then she and Ishizu left without another word to him.

"What was that all about?" asked Ishizu quietly while they were making their way toward the destination.

"I'm not sure…but we might as well do as he says. I mean, it's not like we are going to find anyone that isn't a part of Hishimanji anyway, right?"

How very wrong she was.

"This is the place?" whispered Kaoru, upon sight of their destination. "Not to shabby…"

"I thought we were dealing with yakuza," Ishizu whispered back. Where in seven hells did they get all of this money?" Their eyes had fallen on a…well…castle. A fairly large one at that. "Not to be pessimistic or anything but fat chance of us getting out of there unnoticed…they must have men stationed everywhere."

"Then we might as well get started," whispered Kaoru. She was about to leap over the gate when she suddenly turned around and glared into the dark of the forest behind them.

"What is it?" Ishizu asked.

"I just picked up some fighting ki…" said Kaoru, still looking behind her. "Suppressed, but it was still there, all the same…"

"Well it's gone now yeah? Forget it. It's probably just some violent squirrel."

"Hmm..." said Kaoru. But she was feeling suspicious. What are you doing? she thought, shaking herself mentally. You've got a mission here girl…get to it!

"Okay, Ishizu. Let's go." Kaoru stepped back about two paces and then made quite a leap over the stone wall surrounding the fortress.

She landed right in the shadow of a large and thorny bush on her right side. Allowing herself a little sigh of relief, Kaoru felt grateful that she hadn't jumped a little to the right. If she had…well, there went her sword arm.

"Ishizu. Ishizu!" she whispered urgently.

"What?" came Ishizu's voice on the other side of the wall.

"Jump from the area that you here three knocks, okay? There's a bush over here; if you land on it you'll get injured."

"Okay."

Two minutes later, Ishizu was over the gate and the two where searching the fortress' walls, looking of a way to gain entry.

After searching extensively to no avail, both of them looked at each other.

"Guess the only way in is the front door, huh?" said Kaoru.

"Well, we could try one more thing…why don't we knock on the walls and see if any section is hollow?" Ishizu suggested. "There might be a door, but it's probably hidden. If there's nothing, then front entrance it is."

"Good idea," said Kaoru, nodding thoughtfully. "Come on, let's get this over with. I feel uneasy."

Ishizu eyed Kaoru carefully, but said nothing. The thought that the ever vigilant Kaoru felt uneasy was enough to make her feel nervous. She decided to ignore it though.

After a while, Kaoru made a signal to Ishizu with two of her fingers.

"What is it," whispered Ishizu.

"This portion of wall," muttered Kaoru. "It sounds different than the rest."

"Let me see."

Ishizu knocked tentatively on the wall, and her mouth quirked up in a slight smirk. "Looks like you found it, Kaoru," she said. "Now start looking for the edges of the door so we can take it out."

When this piece of labor had been done, Kaoru and Ishizu kneeled down, panting. "Damn Oyadama," muttered Kaoru. "Would it have killed him to tell us about this?"

Ishizu nodded exasperatedly in reply, and then turned her gaze toward the opening. "Let's go."

The two slipped inside the building cautiously. Vision was a little better than outside, due to the fact that there were small lamps hanging about. Kaoru grabbed one of these and said, "At least we have a map of the basement area. Now we have to find the closest flight of stairs. What side did we enter on, do you know?"

"It was east, I think," said Ishizu, fumbling with another lamp.

"East. Right." After consulting the map Kaoru said, "Then in that case, there should be a stairway right near us. Come on."

The stairway was damp and creaky. Both took care to step with extreme caution as to not make a racket. They had to be as quiet as possible. It was just a slight drawback that the staircase was so very long. Kaoru felt that the steps just went on forever and was feeling very frustrated until she saw a light some ways down.

"Ishizu, look. Think that's it?"

Ishizu peered at the map in the dim light and then raised her head. "The next door to the right when we reach the landing," she said.

Kaoru nodded. "Right."

Before anyone could've blinked they were both standing in front of the door. Kaoru tested it cautiously and found to her surprise that it was not locked. After sweeping the surrounding door frame quickly with her eyes, she determined that there were no traps set, and pushed open the door half way, so that she and Ishizu could slip through.

The papers were lying on a desk that was in a corner of room. Picking them up, Kaoru quickly hefted through them, and after determining that they were all there, she said, "It seems to be in order."

Ishizu seemed relieved. "Come on then. Let's scram."

After carefully folding the papers and tucking them into the front of her gi, Kaoru led the way out of the basement and back into the courtyard.

"Phew, I'm so glad that's over."

"I know. We actually pulled this off! Not bad Kaoru, even for us."

Kaoru was about to nod, when suddenly she saw something out of the corner of her eye.

The courtyard was filled with men from the gang.

Kaoru could not figure out how they had been alerted to herself and Ishizu's presence. No time to think about that now…How could this have happened? I didn't see any alarms!

Unfortunately, the men chose this moment to turn around and spot them.

To Kaoru's surprise however, they didn't attempt to slaughter Ishizu and herself immediately.

One of them said "Hey look! They must be those girls that the boss said he was gonna send down for us!"

"Yeah!" said another one. "Wow they're real lookers huh?" All the men started crowding closer, with perverted looks on their faces.

"Excuse me…" said Ishizu, who by this time was really pissed off.

"What, want a room? started one unfortunate man. "No sweat sexy….GYAAAHHH!" Ishizu had just slashed him in the stomach. All the men roared with rage and started to lumber toward them. "Looks like we're not gonna get out unnoticed, huh Kaoru?"

"Yes, I can see that," said Kaoru. A grin of bloodlust began to form on her face. She ran forward and before the men could even draw their weapons, they were dead. She and Ishizu ran through the men like they weren't even there. Suddenly Kaoru felt something. "Ishizu!"

"What?" Ishizu yelled back after cutting off a man's head.

"It's that fighting ki again! I know it! It's not some squirrel, it's…OY! DUCK!

Ishizu didn't hesitate. She immediately rolled at from under the man that had just jumped at her, did a back flip and landed some feet to the right of where she had been. But when she looked around, it was clear that the person who had just flown over her was not trying to kill her, but the men around them.

Kaoru was given no time to think about it because the rest of the gang inside the fortress had heard the commotion and come outside to see what was going on. The saw their fallen comrades and jumped to attack the girls.

"Hmf," said Kaoru. "Fools! Don't wave around a sword when you don't even know how to use one! " She raised her sword to begin an attack, but before she could land a hit, someone else's sword came down and slashed three men at once, causing her to lose her balance. "What the…Ishizu what the hell are you doing?"

It was then she looked up and stared into the glowing amber eyes of someone who was definitely not Ishizu.

Oooohhhh Cliffie! Wahaha. Now this story's going places. REVISED:)

Sano: Again with capitalized revised!

Sey: Shut up.

Kenshin: So Sey-Chan, who is this mysterious amber eyed guy?

Sey: As if you didn't know.

Sano: And may I ask why I have not yet shown up to save the day?

Sey: I couldn't find anywhere to put you in.

Sano: -glares-

Sey: What? I'm still trying to work out where you are going to make your unfortunate presence known.

Sano: Wait, WHAT? You haven't even started making a scene for me yet?

Sey: No.

Sano: WHY YOU!

Ishizu: Well it's not really her fault…I mean it is you isn't it? I'm surprised she's even including you in here.

Sey: DAMN STRAIGHT!

Sano: I hate you all.

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