Yep! My first real story! I don't own the OC Kenshin characters, but Yeshi is mine. DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH HER! grrrr hahaha… SHHH! It's starting…
"Hey! Leave her alone!" The young boy threw his fist at the other boy's face, defending a little girl who was on the ground, whimpering & bruised. She shook as she watched them fight. He dragged her away from them & he turned to glare at them.
"You OK?"
The girl sniffled & grabbed him & hugged him.
"Sano, I swear that you won't ever have to defend me again!"
"It's OK Yeshi, I don't mind..."
Capt. Sagara came over & saw his daughter's bruises.
"Did those boys beat you up again?" She nodded, her head hung in shame. He took her chin in his hand & lifted her head up. "It's OK." He smiled.
Sano beamed at the captain. He could tell that he was proud of him for saving Yeshi again.
About a year later...
"Sano? What's everyone doing? Why are you crying? What's over-"
"Yeshi, I can't let you see this..."
"My father is the captain! I should be allowed to know what happens in-"
She gasped as she stared at her father's head. His glassy eyes looked back at her, lacking the life that they always had. She turned & ran out, crying hysterically.
Sano fell onto the bars that separated him from his captain's lifeless body that was on display. He cried harder, his heart knowing that he wasn't able to save her from this...
3 months later...
"I don't wanna read his will!"
"But-" One of the soldiers stumbled.
"He had nothing to give except his love & now it's gone!"
"He gave you his consent."
Yeshi sat up, unable to process what she was hearing. "Wha-?"
"To Sano. It says that he would never think about having you marry anyone but him."
Sano walked in. "How about it? Few more years?"
Yeshi smiled at him & nodded. "When your 18"
"Promise?"
She nodded.
6 months later...
"Hah! Hahhah!"
"YESHI! YOU'RE GONNA HIT ME WITH THAT THING!" Sano fell back, still not used to the weight of the Zabato, panting.
Yeshi threw her Zabato aside with ease, "Sorry! Hey! I wanna show you something! What would you do if someone did a side slash with a Zabato?"
"Jump on the blade. It's too heavy to do anything else!"
" Here! Put two hundred pounds of weights onto my Zabato!"
Sano looked at her like she was crazy, and she probably was!
Once all of the weight was put on it, she swiftly raised it above her head, turned it, & slammed it down onto the ground, crushing the weights.
Yeshi swung her Zabato over her shoulder, "It would kill, but it's kill or be killed, right?"
Sano stared in amazement & finally he looked at her & just smiled.
Sano: 15 Yeshi: 12
"Yeshi... I have to go..."
"But Sano! Our wedding-"
"Is in three years, I know, but I have to do something about your father's death... It has been bugging me ever since his anniversary yesterday..."
She ran up & hugged him, "Then I'll-"
"Yeshi, this is something I must do alone."
He cupped her chin in his hands, as her father had once done, and (unlike her father hahaha) gently kissed her. It was passionate & long. Tears started to roll down Yeshi's face, & when those tears hit Sano, he walked away, with his Zabato in hand, not looking back, with tears staining his tanned face. The mark of evil on his back waved goodbye to Yeshi in the wind as he disappeared from sight.
Yeshi, knowing she must do something, ran to get her Zabato & tried running after him. She searched hard, but couldn't find him... She sat down & cried, throwing her Zabato aside.
"HEY! What the hell are you doing throwing that thing around!" A man shouted at her, coming from the shadows with a sword in his hand.
Yeshi gasped, she knew exactly who he was. He was part of the group that had killed her father! In a blink of an eye, she ran over & got her Zabato & faced the man in a stand off...