Disclaimer: Okay, Watsuki-sensei, I just need to keep you locked up in my closet a weeee little bit longer...
Sobakasu
part 7
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Kenshin was awoken by a ray of sunlight shining on his face. Sitting up, rubbing his eyes, he looked around. With dismay, he noticed that Satsuki was nowhere to be seen. Not for long, anyways.
"MORNING, SHINTAAAA!", yelled Satsuki, flinging open the shoji and tromping inside. "C'mon, get up. We have stuff to do, yup."
"Oro... Keep it down, ne-chan, you-" But then he remembered that no one else but he could hear her. Lucky, lucky Kenshin. "...What 'stuff'?"
Satsuki rolled her eyes and let out a sigh. "That was a dumb question, Shinta. So I'll just ignore it, I think. Mmmm-hmm. Come on, up up up!" She then ran out of the room with that odd half-skip of hers, leaving Kenshin by himself again.
By the time Satsuki reappeared, it was well into the day and Kenshin was out doing his second bucket of laundry, since yesterday's had been missed. "Hey Shinta."
"And where have you been all day, if it's any of this one's business?"
"Shinta, everything I do is your business. Uhmm... ...Or was it everything you do is my business..? ...In any case- Recon! Observation! Scoping things out, plotting, planning! Aaaannnd..."
"And? What is this wonderous plan you've come up for this one to humiliate himself with?"
"...I dunno." Satsuki slid down on the ground leaning on the laundry bucket, playing in the water with her fingers.
Kenshin smiled slightly and continued scrubbing at the fabric. "This one was right after all. You really have no idea what you're doing, do you ne-chan?"
"Mmmmm... Hey, look, there's Kaoru. Go tell her she's pretty."
"Oro. Is that the best you can come up with?"
"No, I'm serious, she's standing right behind you. Better stop talking to yourself."
"ORO!" Kenshin whirled around, only to see Kaoru still a good distance away, but still walking straight towards him. "Ne-chan, you said she was right behind me...", he whispered out of the corner of his mouth.
"Really? My depth perception must be a bit off... hehehe... scared ya."
Kaoru had her training clothes on, and a bokken slung over her shoulder. "Kenshin, have you seen Yahiko? This is the third day in a row he's skipped out on his lessons... Ooh I'm gonna belt him a good one..." Kaoru did look 'pretty', there's no doubt about that, but then again, Kenshin always thought she looked beautiful. So of course, it would have been no chore to tell her so... normally. But, seeing as how Kaoru was in such a bad mood, not to mention this wasn't the most ideal moment anyways...
-poke- "Shintaaa... Go on, tell her." -poke-... -poke-...
Ignoring his 'older' sister, Kenshin focused his attention on Kaoru. "No, sorry Kaoru-dono, this one has not-"
"SHINTAAAAaaa..." -poke-
"-seen Yahiko since this morning."
-poke- -poke- "Shinta, would you listen to me? Will you just-"
"This one would assume he is at the-"
"-make a move already and get this over with?"
"-Akabeko with Tsubame-dono, though." Then he added in a quiet but harsh whisper through his teeth, "Ne-chan, stop it!"
... ...-poke-
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Kaoru had gone to train by herself and, in her words, to get a good warmup for the 'spar' she and Yahiko would be having when he finally showed up.
Satsuki had gotten a push into the laundry bucket. Kenshin had gotten drenched as well when she shook her wings in an attempt to dry them. Basically- by the time everything was all said and done, the yard was just one big muddy mess. All in all, it had not been a very productive day.
"Hey. Shinta." Satsuki was perched on a tree branch, watching over her shoulder as Kenshin re-washed the laundry (which had been thouroughly muddied after she had dumped it over Kenshin's head). There was currently a peace treaty between the two. For now. "...I'm bored..."
"Don't be! It's dangerous when you are bored, it is..." Kenshin was trying his best to get out a dirt-stain in one of Kaoru's kimonos.
"Hey Shinta, sing with me! It'll make your work go faster..."
"Oro. This one does not sing, ne-chan. Can't you do it by yourself..?"
"Pllleeeeassse?"
"Ne-chan... why don't you just help this one with the washing? It's kind of your fault anyways."
Satsuki frowned, leaning backwards so she could hang upside down in the tree. "...But I need a backup voiiiice...Mleahhh...", she stuck her tounge out at Kenshin. After a few moments of swinging back and fourth, her face lit up as she remembered a game they would play when they were little. And, with a grin, she began in a singsong voice-"Mr. Rurouni, Mr. Rurouni, won't you sing with me somehow?"
Kenshin sighed and sang back- "No, I can't. I'm doing laundry now."
-"What have you got washing there?"-
-"Kaoru-dono's underwear."- ...Oro! Just had to rhyme, didn't you?
"Haha... -You're turning redder than your hair."-
It was at this point that Kenshin gave up. "Ne- chaaaan..."
"Okay, for real this time. Come on, sing!"
So Kenshin and Satsuki both began to sing. It was really too bad that they were the only ones that could hear the duet, as they sounded quite good, but anyone who happened to pick it up, they would only hear Kenshin. Which was how Kaoru found him, singing away at an old children's song that anyone who grew up in Japan would have known.
"Hey Ken-", but she she fell silent as she heard what he was doing. Wow... he has such a beautiful singing voice. She stood there for a moment listening to him, then approached as he stopped and stood up, (finally) finished with the laundry. "Kenshin! You've got such a great voice, why don't you ever sing at all?"
"Oro?" Kenshin turned around surprised. How had he not noticed her standing there?
"Your voice.", she explained, blushing. "I really like it, why don't you sing more often?"
She likes it... when I sing... Kenshin smiled. "Well, if it makes you happy Kaoru-dono... This one will sing for you more."
They both stood there looking into each other's eyes as the sun set behind them. Meanwhile, a certain angel was still hanging upside down in a certain tree. Ha. ,She thought with a smirk, Who says Satsuki doesn't know what she's doing?
-end pt. 7-
(A/N) Hm. Oh, just in case you're wondering, that song that Kenshin and Satsuki were singing (Mr. Rurouni, Mr. Rurouni...)
comes from and old song that people would sing to tanukis and... Eh, I really don't wanna get into it, but... If you've ever seen the move 'Pom Poko', it's at the beginning and it goes like this-
"Mr. Racoon, Mr. Racoon, won't you play with me somehow?"
"No I can't, I'm eating dinner now."
"What's for dinner? I want some."
"I am eating pickled plums."
"Can I have one little plum?"
"No you can't you greedy bum."...
-and there's a bunch of other different versions, and... Yeah, I'll shut up now. ;;;
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