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

Chapter 8: "Trouble sweeps in"

"Oh my god"!

"What happened"!

'Grrr, can't you people shut up I'm trying to sleep here!' Misao thought to herself as she rolled over her bed, trying to block out the yells and commotion. She grabbed her pillow and shoved it towards her ears to block it out, but it was no use. Misao frustrated, she rubbed her eyes to get all of the sleepy stuff out and looked around in her cabin. She noticed that no one was in the room at all as all the beds and blankets were messed up. The commotion was still going on as Misao climbed down the ladder.

'If you can't beat them, join them I guess' Misao thought angrily as she opened the door.

She was welcomed by the sun hitting on her face and the local yelling at she pinpointed the whole commotion group. She ran over and tried to move past people, but they just shoved her back to the ground.

'Well, so much for having manners'

Misao then tried to jump and see over the people's heads. All she was able to see was three people carrying what looked to be a person, but couldn't make out who as they were a little to far away. But she did notice that Saito was one of the people maybe not carrying them, but the person who was standing right in front of the crowd.

"Alright listen up" Saito spoke sternly," There's no need to worry, he'll be fine in a couple of days so get lost and get back to work."

Then Saito smiled and added…..

"And that goes for weasels to"

Everyone was confused with what he meant but walked away anyway. But as for Misao, she was just shaking in anger and was just about to stomp right towards him until someone bumped into her. She fell to the ground once again for the billionth time since she went into this thing and was welcomed by a hand. She looked up to see that it was just another ordinary guy but instead of being rude, he held his hand out to her.

'Finally, someone with some manners here'

She reluctantly grabbed his hand as he pulled her up in no problem. Misao was wiping the dust from her uniform while she was saying………

"Thank you so much, I actually thought there was no one in this stupid place that had manners."

"That's alright" the man said as he looked to see if she was alright.

"God, talk about a commotion uh. Man I wonder what happened to him" Misao said mainly to herself than the guy.

"Hmm, well, I really don't know the guy, but I do know that he was one of the lookouts last night and that early morning he stepped on a bomb"

"That's terrible" Misao said sadly," Do you think it was those…um….um…."

"Iraqis"

"Yea, that's it, do you think they were responsible for this?"

The man looked at Misao blankly but replied…..

"Of course, they are known for mainly there mine bombs and some other sneaky shit"

Misao then cringed a little at hearing that. She never knew that these people called Iraqis were some bomb like people. She didn't even know there were hidden bombs here or around here. What happens if she stepped on one?

'Alright Misao, lets not go there…'

"Oh is that right, well, that's not cool", Misao replied back.

"Yea, poor fellow, he looked so young to and probably didn't even know", the man replied with a little sorrow in his voice.

"Really", Misao asked curious.

"Yea, I couldn't get much of his looks, all I saw was that he had brown hair and kind of a tall form, if you ask me, he kind of looked like a rooster head"

"Oh well tha-" Misao stopped short as her brain processed what he said.

'Wait a minute; I know a rooster head……SANO!'

Misao then ran off towards where they were carrying him as the man she was talking to just ignored it and walked away. Misao ran as fast as she could as she came to a stop at a small looking building. She marched on the steps and stormed right threw the door, surprising the entire look like doctors in the room. The only person who didn't jump was the man sitting in a chair with a cigarette to his lips.

'Figures you'd be here'

"Didn't I make it clear that people and weasels were to go away" Saito said coolly as he smoked his cigarette and blew it in her face, which made her angrier.

"Listen captain Saito, I just want to see if this person is who I think it is" Misao said, trying to say it the most politely she could. This only made Saito's smile larger as he took the cigarette out of his mouth and replied back…..

"And if it is? What will you do about it?"

"I would hope you would let me stay for a bit to look after him" Misao said threw clenched teeth.

"Tell me weasel, is the person you think it is rooster head by any chance", Saito said smoothly as Misao had her mouth open though no words coming out. Saito took joy in this as she continued to look appalled.

'It….it is Sano….'

Misao gulped as she closed her eyes and said slowly….

"Can…I see him"

Saito thought about this for a moment and looked back at the body that was on the table with a sheet over him. He then looked back at her and could tell she was thinking, no, knowing he was going to say no to her. This brought a smile to his face once more as he replied coolly…..

"Fine"

Big huge blue eyes were looking extremely shocked at Saito as he just calmly smoked his cigarette. Misao just opened her mouth back and forth, trying to form words and only capable of saying……

"…Thanks…"

She'll never know why he was nice to her then. Maybe he was planning a surprise for her she didn't see coming, or maybe he just wanted to be unpredictable, or maybe he just wants to be friends with her….

'Okay, now there's a scary thought…'

Whatever the god known reason may be, she walked over to the covered body on the table and slightly pulled it down so she could see his face. Luck was on her side today as she didn't see any form of injuries on his face. She just saw his calm face as he was now in slumber. She pulled the blanket down lower to see his chest and now was when luck left her. There were huge burn marks all over his chest, some were even black. She fought her best not to cry as she didn't want to show Saito how much of a baby she was when seeing this type of thing. No, she must be strong; if not for her then for Sano.

Once she calmed herself down, she then had enough of this blanket as she ripped it off his body with one pull and saw that he was missing a piece of his right leg as there was a lot of dried blood there with a bandage on it. But that's not all she noticed, with a shriek she threw the blanket back on him and turned around glaring daggers at Saito as he smirked.

'He knew the whole time, so he was planning a trap!'

"Saito, he's naked!" Misao yelled at him with an accusing finger pointed at him.

"And, I see nothing wrong with it"

"Nothing wrong with it!"

Saito continued to smirk as he then had an evil glint in his eyes. He got up and walked over to her, which scared the creeps out of Misao.

"You know weasel, you always complain about everything" Saito started," And so, I have decided that since one of my lookouts is out for awhile that maybe…"

'Oh no, he can't possibly thinking what I'm thinking'

"From now on, you replace his position until he is able to come back", Saito finished with an evil smile as Misao was horrified.

"Oh god no, please Saito, you can't make me do this", Misao wailed.

"I see why not"

"Well I do, there's animals out there that poisonous. And also….there are bomb's out there…and….what about my beauty sleep!"

"Well that is not in your hands weasel, you are to keep lookout from 8:00 to 12:00." Saito replied with his arms folded on top of one another.

"God, and I though you couldn't be any more evil" Misao replied angrily.

"You better suck it up, and by the way, do not both with Shinomori's patrol weasel"

Misao went to open her mouth to protest, but Saito put his two fingers on her lips and turned her around to face the door. He put his mouth to her ear as he whispered his final words…..

"Better start moving weasel, because today for you is going to be a long one"

It was late afternoon as Misao was heading towards her lunch bench with her so called supper in her hands. She sat were she was yesterday as she began to blow on her soup. She looked ahead to see that Aoshi wasn't there were he usually was.

"Misao"

Misao looked up to actually see Aoshi standing above her with his own soup. Misao looked puzzled to see him here and it seemed Aoshi saw this.

"I was wondering where I should sit since you were the one who invited me" Aoshi said smoothly.

'I crap I forgot about that'

"Oh yea, I'm so sorry it's just there's been a lot on my mind" Misao breathed out.

"Really, care to tell"

" Sure well-" But Misao was cut off as she heard her name being called.

"Misao!"

Misao turned around to meet Karou and saw that her eyes were wet from crying. Misao got up and rapped her in a huge hug as Karou hugged her back tightly, as Aoshi just stared at them blankly. They both sat down as Aoshi had sat across from Misao.

"Now do you care to tell me what's going on?" Aoshi asked quietly.

"Well, basically Sano, the rooster head, stepped on a bomb when he was on patrol" Misao said quietly back as Karou had her head down.

"Oh, so that was the person from this morning then" Aoshi asked.

"Yea, so Karou, how did you ever find out?"

Karou sniffed her stuffy nose and brought her head to reply slowly…..

"Well, when I got up I didn't see him in the cabin and I heard the commotion going on but ignored it. During the day we usually work together, but today he wasn't there at all and I didn't see him all day. And just an hour later, I heard people talking and they said that the person looked like a rooster head and all and that's when I figured it out."

Misao patted Karou on the back as she started to shake uncontrollably. Aoshi watched with saddened eyes as he tried to think of something to do.

"There, there Karou, he's okay I saw him today," Misao said. Right when she said that though Karou's face was up in a second with hope in her eyes.

"You were…..how is he?" Karou asked.

"The doctors say he's fine and that it'll take awhile to heal. Also, he did get seriously burned on his chest and lost a little of his right leg. But his face has no injuries at all, so he still has that rooster head face."

Karou laughed at the last part as the bell rang throughout the camp. Misao and them got up and said there good bye's to each other.

"Karou you take care of yourself and maybe I'll be able to ask Saito if I can bring you with me since he and I made a deal" Misao said to Karou.

Karou made a puzzled face at the 'deal' part but ignored it and walked away as she waved. Misao waved back at Karou as she turned to face Aoshi.

"So, shall we go to our cabin now" Aoshi asked.

"Well actually I can't go to the cabin since Saito gave me position of lookout in Sano's place" Misao said angrily.

"Really, well it so happens that Saito actually resigned me from lookout just today, so I guess we kind of switch spots don't we." Aoshi said.

"Yea……we do.." Misao said angrily. That was when she and Aoshi went there own ways as he went into the cabin and as Misao walked on to where Saito told her to go. Once she was there, she just stood and just watched out……which was really boring. All she saw was desert as it was dark out.

And that wasn't what was on her mind, it was the fact that Saito purposely told Aoshi to not patrol just because she was.

"And do not bother Shinomori's patrol weasel"

God, the words echoed in her head over and over again as she felt like she wanted to break something. Forgot the favor he gave her, he was down right evil. She wouldn't be surprised if he were the devil, at least it would make sense. But at least she got to make a deal with him that she told about to Karou. Basically if she was to do this patrol thing that she was to visit Sano anytime she wanted which was great. Saito also gave some cool stuff for patrolling like binoculars and a pocket knife. But it still wasn't worth standing out here in the cold with nothing to do but look.

'This is going to be a long night'

Well, that's for this chapter. Poor Sano I know but it had to be someone and I thought it was for the best. I'm sorry this chapter took so long, it's just that summer's coming and I'm more busy than usual so they might take longer than they usual do. So please read and review……AND THANK YOU TO ALL MY REVIEWERS!