Save Me 3.

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"Sano"

The two men turned their heads to see a fuming Kaoru. She pinched the bridge of her nose to calm down a coming headache. Wondering just when would her friend grow up.

"I don't know or care what you were arguing about, but if you two don't shut up both of you will be sleeping in the snow. Besides there is only one of you I would let stay anyway."

"But Missy"

"Don't Sano"

Silence filled the room as Kaoru stormed back into the kitchen. She didn't need old wounds to reopen. She just needed these two to shut up and so one of them could leave in the morning.

With the way Sano was going on this was going to be a long night. Once he felt someone he cared for was in danger he wouldn't let up until the danger passed. It was just her luck that she was the loved one. Uhhhh.

Finally calming down she notice her food was burning. Debating about her next move a smile bloomed onto her face. This was their punishment for making her break up their fight. If the Battousai thought that beating he got was bad. He'd seen nothing yet.

Battousai sat with a satisfied smile on his face. There was nothing the rooster headed man could say. The war prize may not have been won, but she made it clear that the two had something that ended.

Just the thought of someone having clam on her was enough to boil his blood. It wasn't often a woman colt his eye not since her…. That was over and so was she.

"You must have been thinking of your wife to give you a sour look." Sano laughed at the thought of something up setting the famous manslayer.

"Just losing Kaoru did more than give you a sour face." A bit childish but what the hell after tonight he would be spending his time wooing Kaoru.

"Don't be so sure…" Sano stopped his remark something wasn't right. He didn't know what it was but it was going to bad. He needed to figure out what it was wrong quick or he wouldn't see the coming sunrise.

The Battousai saw the look on the man's face. He knew something was wrong in the kitchen but was her cooking so bad that the thought made others turn white as snow. His answer came when the lady returned with bowls of burnt soup.

Sano jumped up and swore. That answered all the above, even without seeing the food he knew this wasn't something to eat. No debt he owed to this woman was going to get him to eat it. He'd chose his death in the snow over the concoction she had the bowls.

"Oh hell…No I…I'll just walk home in the snow."

"Sano now that's just stupid. If you go out there no one you'll die and no one will be there to watch over little Yahiko. What if something happen to him?"

"Fuck the kid, what about me!"

"You are going to eat this food and stay the night. If the two of you had not been fighting I wouldn't have burned the food. So deal with it."

"I am sorry but nothing is making me eat this." The manslayer turned his cold eyes to the lovely women. She may have had the upper hand on the rooster, but her raised voice meant nothing to him.

"Fine the two of you can starve for all I care." Turning her back to them Kaoru went to turn in for the night. The sooner sunrise came the sooner one of her headaches would be gone.

So she thought but nothing in her life was that simply. The moment she entered her room she felt something was wrong. Running back to check on the guys she saw she wasn't the only one uneasy. Walking into the kitchen once again she retrieve her bokken and prepared for the battle awaiting outside.

AN: Sorry it took so long. Plez R&R!