Ok guys! I have finally recovered from my severe writers block! This chapter is short because i'm still sort of recovering, but i hope you still enjoy it. This one has more events than the other 3 so enjoy! and PLEASE R&R!

Midnight Cherry Tree's

Chapter 4: The Dream

..to find that someone was nudging him. He looked at his surroundings, no one there. He got up and slowly drew back the curtain to see if Remiyu was still asleep.

"Remiyu?"

He called out in a soft voice. He heard no reply. He rubbed his eyes squinting hoping to see her small figure of a body lying soundly in her bed. No, there was no figure, there was no sound, only the sound of his heart beating softly and his lungs drawing in air were heard. He plugged his nose just now getting a sniff of the horrifying smell that was in the room. He slid the door open, his dark, but bright, purple blue eyes darted back and forth. (His eyes were only purple blue in the dark) Seeing no one present he stepped out, the stench grew bigger and bigger with each floor creaking step. His pupils shrunk at the sight he saw. There was Remiyu, Hiko and Namika lying there, no, lying everywhere. Their bodies had been slashed to pieces and scattered through out the room. Blood streaked across the walls, horror and disbelief struck him. He suddenly turned around hearing the clicking of a sword. A man, masked, his black attire was now thoroughly stained with the stench and color of blood. Kenshin gasped. The man then drew his sword with another click and clink. To Kenshin's surprise there was no piercing pain running through his neck or abdomen, he was in one piece. The man stood there his sword at his side and his dark green eyes twinkling. Kenshin blinked.

"Aren't you going to kill me?"

He said. The man smirked and took hold of his metal sheath.

"Now, now Kenshin, this is in fact only a dream."

His eyes then sparkled in a familiar way and he cocked his head to the side cracking his neck. He brought up his sheath and knocked it over the back of his head. Kenshin saw everything fall as he did in slow motion, but there was no head throbbing bang to the wooden floor. Instead there was a jerk to his body and he awoke in a sweat. His hair was a snarled mess and it seemed that he had ripped off his gi in his sleep because he was no longer wearing it.

"Kenshin?"

There was Remiyu poking her head around the side of the curtain.

"Thank God you're awake. You've been asleep for days."

"I-I have?"

"Why yes of course, your master figured you were tired because of the butterfly incident so he instructed to let you sleep as long as possible."

"H-How long have I been asleep?"

"Two days."

"Whoa, I never new it was possible to sleep that long."

"Well you proved it to be correct."

He couldn't believe it! Two days!

"Where's my gi?"

"Well I tried to put it back on you, but you kept on thrashing at the slightest touch. But I washed it for you."

"Wash? You wash?"

"Yes I washed it for you would you like me to wash your Hakama's too?"

"No thanks."

"Very well, I'm feeling much better now, I haven't had anything to do because of you! My mom has been making me clean and stuff."

"Clean?"

"Yes, clean Kenshin."

"Okay."

"Anyway we are cleaning a lot because winter is near."

"What! The Sakura's are still in bloom!"

"Yes, they are Kenshin but they bloomed late this year, no cherries will be arriving."

Kenshin moaned. He was really looking forward to those nice cherries! They weren't his favorite, but they were still pretty good!

"Well what can we do in the winter!"

"Nothing, but we've saved enough food for the winter. My mom might send you and Hiko to get some extra deer meat."

Kenshin nodded.

"So for the time being we'll be cleaning and then cooped up inside your house for the winter?"

"Exactly Kenshin, but we can go play out in the snow; I have some extra gi's you can layer up with!"

"Ok then. But why do we have to clean?"

"This is the longest season Kenshin, we need a clean healthy habitat and it gets pretty dirty in the winter."

"Why do I have to clean then?"

"Why do you have to be so stubborn? You are a guest Himura do your part!"

"Well being a guest I shouldn't have to."

"Our idea of guest around here Kenshin is one who is polite enough to help around the house!"

"Really?"

"Yes Kenshin now Hiko doesn't want to leave and I don't think you want to either so get up and start scrubbing!"

After a while of bickering Kenshin found himself with a dirty rag scrubbing the wooden floors muttering to himself angrily.

"Now, now Kenshin I think you can do better than that!"

"No I can't Remiyu! Why do you have to torture me so much!"

"Because you don't know how to clean the floor right! Now I've told you this thousands of times don't scrub up and down scrub in circles!"

Kenshin pulled a face and whined.

"What the heck are you doing besides ordering me around!"

"Why I'm cleaning the cupboards and dishes and rubbing the scum off everything!"

"Why can't I do that?"

"Well I would gladly clean the floors rather than continue with my job!"

Kenshin then rejoiced in his mind and gave Remiyu the cloth that he had been cleaning with. Remiyu strode happily into the kitchen with him and opened up a cupboard.

"Alright Kenshin every cupboard on this side needs to be cleaned! Don't worry about the others these are just the ones that get wet."

"Wet?"

"Yes wet Kenshin take a look"

He stuck his head inside of the fairly large cupboard and there was mildew covering the whole back of it. Kenshin shuddered and began to scrub away.

5 long hours later.

"Alright Remiyu! I'm all finished!"

"Yup Kenshin so am I you did a wonderful job!"

"Thank you"

Namika and Hiko leaned against the wall looking at them both.

"You guys worked hard and we managed to get the job done. But now it's time for sleep."

Said Namika.

"Sleep?"

Said Kenshin.

"I can't sleep! Come on guys I slept for two days that I did! There is no way I can sleep another two minutes!"

"Well you're gonna have to Kenshin. Now get!"

"No!"

Kenshin replied folding his arms in refusal. Remiyu did nothing but giggle wave 3 little fingers at him and went off to their bedroom.

"Come on Kenshin! You have to get to bed!"

"I won't go!"

"And why's that?"

"Because— it's nothing just let me be.."

Kenshin dragged his feet down the hall and into his room.

"You put up quite a fight."

He heard Remiyu say.

"Yeah well I'm not going to bed."

The curtain had been pulled back while they were cleaning and Remiyu watched Kenshin drag his feet over to his bed and sit down. He didn't lay down he just sat there. He grabbed his sword and backed up into the far corner of his side of the room he hugged his sword to his chest leaning on it.

"I'll stay like this all night if I have to."

"I'd like to see that happen."

Kenshin glared at her and watched as she fell into her slumber. He stayed up for about 3 hours after falling completely asleep on his sword. He then heard insane screaming and fluttered his eyes open.

"What is that?"

He thought the screaming ringing through his ears louder than ever. He gripped onto his sword. He smelled the air, the smell of incense. He smiled breathing in the smoky smell into his lungs, he forgot all about the rest of the world when the smell of incense was ruined with the horrid smell of blood. He stood up groggily and pushed up on the handle of his sword with his thumb making a slight click. Wait that click. He looked down at his sword which he thought had made the click, but the blue glare of the blade was still hidden under the black sheath. He then pushed up a little more with his thumb and now the click had occurred. And there it was again another click repeated by another click. He listened closely. There wasn't another click to be heard, that meant that there were three men who all had swords and were about to make there move. He glanced over at Remiyu (which he could do because no one had bothered to draw the curtain back) she was sleeping there, so sound, not even aware of the killers outside of the thin sliding door. He crouched and quickly, but silently, made his way over to Remiyu. He put his hand over her mouth to prevent her from screaming if he startled her. He wrapped his arm around her waist and slid her over to his half of the room. Carefully he drew back the curtain. He then decided to test the killers, he wasn't all that good at fighting yet so he wanted to make sure that they all were planning to strike. He pushed his sword back into its sheath. Click. Nothing was heard; he then pushed it up again with his thumb. Click. He smiled as he heard one more click. There were four. This was it! He was going to fight for the first time with out Hiko. He slid open the door carefully and there they all were masked ninjas! He slashed out clashing with ones sword.

"Four."

He thought.

"There are four of them, listen for any kind of movement other than your opponent."

Just then he had subconsciously slit the throat of his opponent. The man fell to the ground holding his throat coughing in pain.

"Blood."

He thought.

"What a despicable thing to cause, I wonder, are these people innocent. No. If one were innocent there wouldn't be 4 ninjas waiting to attack. But how do I know?"

He slid his sword through ones side. He fell to the ground coughing up blood.

"I want to prevent blood! Why am I doing this?"

He had killed another stabbing his sword straight through his back yanking it out to barely slash the skin of the— green eyed ninja. That same sparkle! The same smirk.

"I know him!"

He thought.

"From a dream."

"Deja vu…"

He said aloud. The green eyed man smirked as if he knew what he was talking about. How?

To be continued...

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