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By: Kelli St. Pierre……………sadly I do not own Rurouni Kenshin….

Chapter 3: "Friends……"

Darkness swamped the sand and area as the tides came crashing into the sand. The sun was just barely visible to see, just seconds of being hidden by the sea. Shadows were seen walking along the beach as tents were seen as well, with numbers on them. The shadows, one by one, went into the tents as some kept walking on. One of those shadows was Misao, whom had her shoulders hanging down as well as her head, looking as though she could collapse at any minute.

'Jesus Christ,' Misao thought, 'I've been walking down this path for about a half an hour already. God, curse those tents and their stupid numbers…..'

Misao continued to walk, or drag herself in her opinion, as she looked at the tents she went back. Their numbers were 278, 279, and so on as Misao smiled.

'Ah, now that's more like it, almost there finally.'

Misao then saw a pretty big looking tent straight ahead of her. But she couldn't have cared less about the size of it; she wouldn't have cared if it was a mansion.

'Okay, maybe I would of care if it was a mansion.'

Whatever, the point was that it had a number on it, and not just any old number.

'It's my number! I have finally made threw that living hell of walking, which oddly felt like way back at school track. But that's not the point! The point here is that now I'm here and nothing can stop me!'

Just as Misao finished that thought, right in front of the tent was none other than captain Saito himself. Her captain, that she oh-so loved.

'Or, maybe not.'

He locked eyes with her as she proceeded confidently while locking her eyes with his as well. When she came to about a foot away she stopped and stared at him. He just simply took out a cigarette and lit it up. He leaned slightly to the side as he blew a smoke bomb right in her face.

"Now, what do we have here?" Saito stated calmly. Misao could tell he wasn't going to let her in easily, no of course not, because that would be too easy.

"Excuse me sire, but this is my tent I am supposed to be at." Misao replied confidently as she could. Saito on the other hand took his cigarette out of his mouth and asked her curtly…..

"Aren't weasels supposed to be outside the tent?"

If you were to say that Misao was angry, that was an understatement. Misao was boiling to the point where steam could possibly be seen coming out of her ears. She could tell threw her fury eyes that he was enjoying this.

"Well, if you haven't noticed sir…..I am a human being" Misao said threw clenched teeth.

"Really, I didn't notice"

"That's it! You call me a weasel one more time and I'm going to knock you in the middle of next week!" Misao roared as she had her fists up.

"And then I'll kick your sorry ass on Thursday. So I suggest you enter the tent before you get hurt," Saito said smoothly.

'That was exactly what I wanted to do in the first place….' Misao thought, 'God, I'm just not going to win with this guy am I.'

Before Misao knew it, she saw him walking away towards to who knows where. But while he continued to walk, he whispered so only she could hear…..

"Weasel…"

He had to say it didn't he, he just couldn't have shut his mouth and kept walking. But of course not, cause that would be to easy as usual. With a sigh, Misao entered the tent. She noticed that it was bigger inside that it looked outside. She noticed that there were about five other people in there, but that wasn't what shocked her. What shocked her was that there was a girl in there as well.

'Finally, someone I can actually talk to here'.

Misao dropped her things inside and saw to her left that there were three guys in a circle, betting and gambling money. They all looked like in there late thirties, ages were Misao wasn't really comfortable with. So she went over to the girl who were currently playing cards with a boy her age to. She sat down next to them, as the girl looked over at her and smiled at her.

"Oh, well, hello," the girl greeted herself kindly. Though the boy didn't even notice Misao, he looked at his hand closely as he started to sweat. The girl glared at the boy as she grabbed his ear while yelling…..

"Sanosuke! Don't be so rude, can't you see we have a visitor here!" the girl yelled as the boy named sanosuke was yelping and groaning from the girl pinching his ear.

"Ouch! Ouch! Hey knock it off Missy!" Sanosuke yelled. From the other side of the tent, the men who were gambling stopped and looked at us. The three of us sweat dropped as we whispered our apologies. The girl let go of Sanosuke's ear as she said to Misao…..

"I'm sorry about him, he's just an idiot roster head. But my names Karou Kamiya, and he's Sanosuke Sagara."

"Hi, my name's Misao Makimachi," Misao said cheerfully.

"So, what's a weasel like you doing in a place like this?" Sanosuke asked. Misao then had her famous furious face on.

"That's it! I give up, why do people keep calling me a weasel", Misao yelled out," I mean come on, what part of me looks like a weasel to you!"

While Misao was yelling, Karou and Sano were both cracking up laughing since Misao looked like a water buffalo. Voices came from the other side of the tent, which were the males who were gambling.

"Hey! Keep it down, would you!" One of the men said.

"Yea! Can't you see were trying to play a game here!"

"Hey, shut up you old farts!" Misao yelled at them back. The men looked at one another and quickly turned around as if nothing happened. Misao lifted her head up proudly and looked back at Karou and Sano, who both had stunned looks.

"So, um, what you guys playing there", Misao asked weakly, trying to change the subject.

"It's just Gold fish, and I would of won if you didn't barge in here", Sano replied, while he chewed a piece of stick.

"Idiot, I have twelve matches and you only have two", Karou said angrily.

Misao smiled at them, as it reminded her when her and Jiya used to fight like that. Of course she would always beat him, there was no way that old pervert would defeat an innocent girl like Misao.

'Hmmm, well, maybe not innocent.'

But back to the point, she would basically beat him at just about anything and he would complain about it. That's just Jiya, acting like a little kid as usual.

"So Misao, do you want to play," Karou asked.

"Sure, I'd love to, besides what choice do I have," Misao said cheerfully.

"I can't believe it, even the weasel beat me," Sano said furiously. Just as he said, Misao did. Karou came in first with eight matches, Misao came in second with five matches, and Sano came in last with only a match.

"Well, that just goes to show you how well you suck at cards" Misao said sweetly.

"Shut up you weasel, besides, I only put in half of my strength since I'm going to bed."

"Sure", Karou and Misao said at the same time. They all put the cards away as they all went and said there good nights and blew out the lamp. Misao lay in her blanket and looked up at the tent as sleep slowly claimed her.

A morning breeze was all that it took to shake Misao away from sleep, as she got up and looked around. Everyone was sleeping and by the looks of it, it appeared to be almost dawn. Misao sat up as she rubbed sleepy dust out of her eyes and just as she was going to go back to sleep, she was interrupted by……….

"ALRIGHT, WAKE UP", a man came in and yelled. Sano jolted from the yell, as the same as Karou. All the men in the tent also jumped and quickly got out, Sano and Karou quickly followed behind them. This left Misao still sitting on the ground with big eyes, not believing that just two seconds ago everything was calm.

"Hey! What the hell are you just sitting there for!"

Misao growled as she got up and got out off the tent as she saw out on the beach, that many soldiers were out and boarding on jets. Her jaw came open as she just stared out at the jets. But Misao was soon to meet sand in her mouth as the soldier that yelled shoved her to the ground.

"Let's go! What the hell are standing there for, this isn't a walk on the beach!"

'Once again, I'm shoved to the ground', Misao thought, 'Oh well, it's not like this is the first time it happened.'

Misao quickly got up and ran before the guy could bother her anymore. She really wasn't even sure where she was going, no one told her to go on a specific jet. Actually, no one even told her there were jets. So she just raced on until she came in contact with one of the jet doors and jumped in quickly. Misao then got in a seat, no even noticing her surroundings, and buckled herself in. She lifted her head up as she felt the jet leaving off the ground and onto who knows where. It was a bit bumpy and shaking at first, but after ten minutes there was nothing.

This was when she actually noticed her surroundings a bit. There were about ten other people in there, whom were all guys this time. There was a guy on the right of her that was sleeping and two to the left of her that were talking. So basically she just closed her eyes to see if she could fall asleep as well.

"Excuse me, are you alright miss?"

Misao opened her eyes and met a pair of icy blue ones. The man she saw looked just as tired as she did, as his black bangs covered most of his eyes. Misao basically, was breathless………

Well, im srry it want as long as I wanted it. But I thought it was a good place to end it. I also might changed the rating of this story, just to let you know. And I also deman that I get at least 15 reviews people cause its depressing when you don't get any review, not that in not complaining with the reviews I got….;)