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Sobakasu

part 2

--"Oh... and no, you're not dreaming. See?" And with that, she took a tight pinch to the hand she was holding.

"OW!"

"Told you so..."---

"Wha... who... how... ah..." Kenshin jerked his hand away and sat there staring at the girl, his mouth wide open. He tried to talk, but all he could get out were small parts of words that sounded more like nonsense than speech.

"Don't worry, it's really me, I'm here. Kinda dead, though..." And with that she stretched out a faintly glowing wing from behind her back, shrugging her shoulders like she'd done it a thousand times. "Heh..."

Kenshin stared for a few more seconds, then sank back against the wall and closed his eyes, and for a second she thought he had fainted. "Umm... Shinta?" She started to crawl forward and shake him again, but then somethng unexpected happened. ...He was laughing.

"Heh... ha... hahaha... ahahahahaha..." He just sat there against the wall, laughing like he was insane.

"Ummm... Shintaa..." Oh boy, what do I do now, she thought, puzzling over the situation. Although I'm not really surprised... I'm supposed to be dead. I am dead. ...And I've been that way for 18 years... Maybe this wasn't the best way to do this. God, he's probably crapped his pants...

"Well, it would seem that this one has finally lost his mind." Kenshin said as he sat up and looked forward at his visitor, surprising her with his sudden change in character. "Although... it is nice to see you again, ne-chan." He wore his famous rurouni smile on his face and seemed quite content, not insane at all. "But... this one must wonder..." He trailed off in the middle of his sentence, gazing at his supposed sister. She has the same eyes, same hair, same laugh... even the same freckles on her face. It really is her. But why? Why am I seeing her like this? She died right after mother and father, but here she is now right in front of me, wering white robes and angel's wings. I'm very sure I haven't lost my mind, and I would've woken up by now if it was a dream... so what...?

It was the angel girl who broke the silence first, letting out a sigh. "I told you, you're not dreaming. And you're not crazy either, unless you've managed to get that way in the past couple of minutes, and I wouldn't blame you if you did. I'm here for a reason, to help you. See, I did something really stupid yesterday, and as your guardian angel-" Not to mention because it's my fault anyways...

"Oro? Guardian angel...?"

"Yes, your guardian angel. I've been watching over you ever since... well, you know... What, you think that when you die you just sit around doing nothing all the time?" She looked up at him with questioning eyes, but he didn't answer so she continued on. "When someone dies, it's their responsibility to watch over their loved ones who are still alive. They make sure that that person is happy and has a good life until they pass on, and so on and so fourth... it's a continual process, really. Anyways, something happened that wasn't supposed to happen, and I have to fix it, 'cuz well, it's kinda my fault."

This put a whole new batch of questions in Kenshin's head. 'Her fault', she says? But what? Nothing bad happeded yesterday, in fact, it was unusually nice... He pulled himself out of his thoughts and responded to her explanation. "But this one doesn't understand: What did you do that was so bad that you had to come here? Everything's going fine, this one is very happy with his life here at the dojo..."

"Ah, but that's because you didn't know what was going to happen, you just thought it was a regular old day like any other." Rolling her eyes, she looked at him and smiled as if saying, 'oh boy, I'm an idiot'. "I'll tell you but uh, ...promise you won't be mad?"

"This one won't get angry with you." Now this really got him wondering.

"Okay, I warned you..."

end pt.2

(A/N) Yup, forgot this last time, so here you go:

ne-chan: short for 'one-chan', this is what you call your older sister. True, Satsuki's in a fourteen-year-old body, but when she died, she was older than Kenshin. So she's 'big sister', not 'little sister'.

sobakasu: 'freckles'. Also, the RK opening theme song, but translated, it means 'freckles'.

oro: An exclamation. Kenshin's own word, doesn't really mean anything. He says it in suprise, confusion, stuff like that. Kinda means 'huh?' or 'yikes'

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