CHAPTER 4: AMARANTE'S EXPLANATION-PART 1
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: me crying
Misao looks confused. "Yeah, I know him. How do you know him?" Amarante looks excited. "DO YOU KNOW WHERE HE IS?" Misao shakes her head. "No, I don't. Sorry." Amarante looks disappointed. "Oh, well. I will see Soujiro again, no matter what!" Misao blinks at how familiar these words sound. Not long ago, she was saying them herself…
Kenshin clears his throat. "Amarante-dono, could you tell us your story now…?" Amarante smiles that weird Soujiro-smile and says, "Sure. Where should I begin…?" Misao threw in, "Start with how you know Seta-san!" Amarante nods. "All right, that's a good enough place to start. It's simple really. Seta Soujiro is my cousin, on my mother's side." "WHAT!" gasped everyone but Sano, who merely said, "Wow, it's a small world, isn't it?" Amarante still didn't look at him. Kenshin prodded her to go on. " I thought he had foster parents?" "Sure, but that doesn't mean he never had real parents." Misao asked her next, "Why are you looking for him?" Amarante smiled again, but rather sadly. "He's all the family I have left." Kaoru said, "Tell us, tell us!"
Amarante took a deep breath, and began. "Okay…where do I begin? Well, my parents are Japanese, but I was born in America, so technically, I'm really an American. We lived in America for a while, but when I was 6, my parents died. I knew enough about whom I was and where I came from to know that I had to get back to Japan and find the rest of my family. All I had to go on was a letter from my aunt, Soujiro's birth mother, and everything that my parents had told me. As far as I knew, I had an aunt and an uncle on my mother's side, and an uncle on my father's side… and, of course, Soujiro.
For two years, I saved up money to go to Japan and find my family. When I was 8, I came over on a ship to find them. I didn't know there was a revolution going on. I could have hardly picked a worse time to come over. I had a hard enough time as it was trying to find a ship going to Japan, because Japan is an isolationist country. So, I come over and find a revolution going on, I don't know what to do. The ship I was on was sunk as well, so I lost most of my belongings too. I found my uncle from my father's side, and lived with him for a while, but… but…" She wipes away some tears and tries to go on. "…he…was decapitated by the revolutionary army. He was on the revolutionary side too! They said it was for 'building false hope in the people'. But it wasn't! Oh, it wasn't that at all!" She broke down, sobbing. "No one ever believes me when I say he wasn't guilty…" "Wait, Amarante" says Sano suddenly. His face was pale. "What was your uncle's name?" She looked up at him. "S-Sagara Sozõ," she whispered, "We have the same name- my name, is Sagara Amarante."
There was complete silence in the room.
Dun dun dun! Who knew that Sagara Sozõ could be related to Seta Soujiro? Very strange… o0
(Weasel Girl-sama: To all those people that read, but don't review: This is the last chapter I'll post, even though the story isn't done. And it's all your fault. You people are worse than flamers; at least flames encourage me to try to improve the story. If I had any flames, that is. I hate you non-reviewers. To those of you who DID review,( which would include all of about ONE person) I'm really sorry for ending it. If I get a good response,(Ha! Fat chance) maybe I'll post again. But, after about mid-June I'll have no more Internet access, so be quick!)