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Chapter 7: And why are you here?

"So… Why are you here, exactly?" Megumi asked Sano as they exited the train. As the two of them began to walk, Sano opened his mouth to respond but none of the many excuses that flooded his brain seemed possible, "I came to get my photo taken. My grandma's sick, even though she died when I was 8. I've found a job. I love train rides…" Megumi's eyebrow raised suspicious of his silence, "So tell me Sano, the answer to the age old question, why did the rooster cross the road?" Sano smiled, his devilishly handsome smile, to try and distract her while he thought of a reasonable excuse, though it seemed to do little distraction and only seemed to add more suspicion. "Should have known the Fox wouldn't fall for that…" Even the truth seemed farfetched, "Well, ya see Megumi. I went on the train to save you from the evil ghosts that wanted to put you in the sewers." No, no, that wouldn't work at all. Thinking about what to say Sano noticed a shop filled with paintings. Suddenly a brilliant idea formed in his cute little rooster brain. "I heard my friend Katsu was in town." Megumi pondered this for a moment, "Katsu? I don't believe I've heard of him. But knowing your friends I'm sure it's no loss on my part." Sano jaw dropped insulted, "Hey! What do you mean by that? I'm friends with Kenshin, Yahiko, and the little missy! Heck I'm even friends with you." Megumi looked up at him questionably, "Even,friends with me? What do you mean by that?" Sano smiled down at her, "Well you don't consider yourself to be a boring, do you? Besides, all my friends and I have been through a lot. Haven't we been through a lot?" Megumi sighed defeated, "Fine, fine. So just who is this Katsu? Is he cute?" Quickly answering her with a jealous, "No…" he continued, "Well Katsu and I kinda grew up together. Both us were taken in by Sagara Souzou. Now he's taken up painting, not to bad at it either. Although he gave it up and began his own newspaper." Megumi looked up at the adorable rooster head as he spoke of his old friend. Smiling she wished that she had had a childhood friend, instead of the haunting memories of her past. Seeing that Megumi had suddenly zoned out, Sano began to worry, bending over to see her eye to eye, he asked, "Hey Fox, you ok?" Megumi suddenly came out of her little bubble of concentration, "Ah… Oh yes, I, I'm fine." Seeing that something still seemed to be on her mind Sano decided to ask what was on his, "So… Fox, what are you doing here?" Megumi smug smile returned at his curiosity, "And why would I want to tell a rooster head like you?" Determined to get it out of her he retaliated, "Well that's no fair fox. I tell you why I came all the way here and you don't even bother giving me a reason." With her mind too much on other things she didn't really feel like playing around, and she knew that look in his eyes meant he wasn't going to give up, so she decided to give in early. But that didn't mean she couldn't be the fox that she always was, so with a flick of her beautiful long green hair, she gave him a short, to the point answer, "I'm here to respond to a letter I got the other day." Jealousy instantly kicked in, and Sano's muscles tensed at the thought of some guy hitting on his fox. "Oh really…?" Sano said with a new, even more determined, look than before.

Megumi smiled once again. She never really knew how he could do this to her. No matter what seemed to be the problem, no matter when she seemed to have one, ever since the day she meet him, he was always there making her smile. He could always make her forget about the problems and worries of the day, sometimes just by giving her that goofy rooster head grin of his. Why she didn't know, even when she was in trouble, there he was, right in front of her, protecting or standing up for her. He was one of the only people she could really call her friend. But she never really knew why, she had done so many terrible things in her past, why would he consider her his friend.

"Megumi, Oh Megumi, is anyone home?" realizing that she had zoned out again, she quickly regained her composition, "What do you mean is anyone home? Of course there is, I'm a fox not a rooster like you." Sano smiled seeing that she was back from where ever she had gone, then realized she had insulted him, "Hey, I don't zone like that!" But of course Megumi being Megumi had a comeback, "Well, only a rooster head would be afraid of trains being controlled by ghosts." By now they had walked all the way to the middle of the market place, and just as Sano was about to respond, lo and behold, what other person could have come around the corner just then, "Katzu! What are you doing here?" a very startled Sano wondered out loud. At this Megumi looked at Katzu and then turned her gaze back at Sano, "But I thought that's why you said you were here in the first place?" Sano quickly trying to think of something spit out the first thing that came to his head, "Ya, but I didn't really think he was going to be here!"

Oh no! How will Sano get himself out of this one! Well I'll guess you'll just have to wait until next Friday! BWHAHAHAHA! I'm so evil. REVIEW FOR THE EVIL ONE! Please….