hey chappie 4 is up yay

im so lovin da tatsu joke in here but yeah ya no

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Chapter 4

"Miss Akita I see your back"

I looked up and saw Souji leaning against the wall, as usual he was holding that cute little pig. Not that I would ever admit to saying it.

"Yes Souji I'm back"

"Did anything happen while you were out?"

Oh crap oh crap. Nervously I answered no and hurried inside.

"Hey Akita!"

Damn as if I didn't have a bad enough headache, here comes the great 3-som. Or maybe not.

"What do you want Shinpachi?"

I didn't mean to answer like a bitch it's just, well so much had just happened and I wanted to just be alone. I wanted to get ready to go out watching that night, to see if my fears were correct, that my brother had followed our father and brother's foot steps.

"Well hey don't get all bitchy I just came to give you a message from vice commander Hijikata."

"Sorry Shinpachi, but well I would really like to be alone right now…wait…what does he want"

Suddenly I had gotten nervous, did he find out about Suzu, did he want me to 'take it into my own hands' as he put it once.

"He just wanted you to go to his room, sound a bit sus don't ya think? Hahaha"

"Shut up Shinpachi, by the way, where are Sano and Heisuke? Usually you three are walking around looking sus. What's the deal?"

"Well Sano is 'training' someone (in other words smacking them around in the training hall) and Heisuke is with Mr. Yamanami."

"What ever, well I'd better go, don't want the demon to get up me again."

Before I entered Mr. Hijikata room, I stoped and looked in the mirror. Why do I always do that? I slid open the door, bowed, sat down, bowed again and looked up.

"You wanted to speak with me sir?"

"Yes Kitamura I did, I have a job for you to do."

Yes! I thought to myself, some real work for a change! Maybe it's infiltrate the Choshu camp and…

"Yes kitamura, I need you too…"

Chase down the ronin causing trouble in mibu (hey a girl can have dreams too ya know)

"Look after the brat for tomorrow"

"What did you say?"

Well bye-bye real work.

"What do I look like? A freaking baby sitter? Why do I have to look after the brat, make Shinpachi, or Sano, or Heisuke, or Yamanami, or Souji or…"

"No"

"But"

"No means no, now go help Ayu make dinner or whatever it is you do around here."

I was quiet hurt by what he said

"So do you really not know what it is I do around here when I'm not spying? I mean, I could expect this from the others but, you're the vice commander."

"Are you troubled by this?"

"What?"

"Are you troubled by this, do you care that I don't know what you do around here? Remember I only employ you as a spy; I don't have many dealings with your sort. Now leave. And don't even think about passing the brat off onto anyone else."

I gritted my teeth, your sort. What are we a pack of animals? Damn it.

"Yes, sir"

I got up and left the room. As soon as I was out of sight from anyone, I screamed and took my anger out on the nearest wall. I felt a nudge on my ankle, I looked down and there was Saizo.

"Well hey there little guy, where's your Souji huh?"

"Saizo, there you are! I've been looking everywhere for you, oh miss Akita, how are you? I haven't seen much of you today."

"No Souji you haven't."

"Why the sudden coldness? Did I do something to upset you?"

"What? Oh no Souji, no of course not! It's just I've had a bad day that's all, and I can't see tomorrow being any better either."

"Miss Akita? What happened?"

Damn those eyes, those big beautiful eyes, and the same ones that brought me back from death, well pretty much anyway.

"It's nothing Souji never mind about it."

"I just had the greatest idea! Come miss Akita let's go for a walk, along where that row of cherry blossoms are, it's been over a year since we've been able to talk much I miss talking to you."

"Umm, ok Souji, let's go!"

We walked along that stretch of road, what was it that we were talking about last time we were here, oh that's right.

"Dumplings and candy!"

"What Souji?"

"Dumplings and candy, that's what we talked about last time we were here, it seems so long ago now, so much has changed, and you have to I believe miss Akita, not only have you excelled in being a spy with only minimal training from Miss Ayu, but you've also grown up into a woman, and quiet a nice one at that."

"Souji?"

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't be rambling like this, let's just sit here and enjoy the cherry blossoms."

"It's ok Souji, I guess that in the last two years you've grown as well, except…only in my heart."

Thank god that it's dark and he can't see my face.

"Hehe, thank you, you don't know what that means to someone like me. A demons child. Well enough talking you'd better be getting back, I'm sure Tetsu will be quiet a hand full tomorrow."

And he walked off, just like that

"Hey wait a sec, it was you wasn't it, you told Mr Hijikata that I had to look after the brat!"

"He he, see you back home."

And that was it off he went, damn him, I have to get him back, but some of the things he said, just thinking about them makes my heart melt.

"TETSU YOU LITTLE BRAT GET BACK HERE!"

Damn it, I knew this would happen, a fight had broken out on the street, and naturally Tetsu has run off.

"TETSU WHEN I CATCH YOU, YOU'LL WISH YOU WERE NEVER BORN, NOW GET BACK HERE YOU RUNT!"

I must have chased him around for at least an hour, I was dead, and the thing was still full on energy! Damn it.

"Look Tetsu if I buy you some candy would you just sit there, please?"

"Huh? Yeah sure!"

And we all thought that Tatsunosuke was just paranoid, mental note, no more jokes about Tatsu when he's no there. I walked into the candy shop and brought some hard ginger candy, I can't stand the stuff but if it gets Tetsu to just sit down then….

"Here you go now eat it and shut up."

"Oh wow! Thank you Miss kitamura."

"Err, don't mention it kid"

Geeze its just candy. We sat there watching the children play when Tetsu asked,

"Miss kitamura, is it true what the men were saying the other day, that your father and brother were both in the Choshu, and were both killed? Is it true that Mr. Okta found you walking the streets and you had a go at him, and is it true that Mr. Okita was the one who killed your brother?"

I was taken aback by this statement, I hadn't thought about it in a while.

"Yes Tetsu it's all true."

"Tell me miss kitamura, if it was mr.okita that killed your brother and the shinsengumi was the thing responsible for all of the bad things in your life, then why did you join? Why do you set out to kill your father's comrades? All I can think about is killing the Choshu, I have never thought about joining them."

"Well you see Tetsu, while yes I was full of rage towards the shinsengumi, they welcomed me with open arms, they took me in despite what my family was they said to me "you are not part of the Choshu" everyone helped me get back on my feet after what had happened. They didn't care who I was, they just helped me. I was still of course mad with rage towards them until Souji asked me if I knew anything of the assignment that my brother and father were doing. He sat me down and showed my all the case reports, there were things like: orphanage burning, raid on hospital but the one that hurt me the most, 'Killings of 16 children while attending temple school'. They were innocent children, and they just walked up and started slicing up the place. So after that, I was ashamed of my family."

I looked down to see Tetsu with tears flowing down his cheeks

" Geeze your worse then Souji, come on it's getting late, and I have work to do tonight."

"Oh can I come pleasepleaseplease?"

"No"

"But"

"No means no Tetsu, how would I explain to Tatsu if you got killed?"

Image of Tatsu after being told Tetsu was dead

I shuddered at the thought, we walked home and talked about, yes dumplings and candy.

yeah so that was chapter 4, i havent decided what to writed for chapter 5 yet. so yeah review please