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Save Me.

Was she trying to mock me? I couldn't think properly at the moment but I think that was the idea. I looked to Kenshin but he face held nothing but joy. So I guess the hussy wasn't lying about the pregnancy. Still her eyes were on me.

I get the strange feeling that I missed something. Bowing my head I opened my mouth.

"Congratulations my Lady."

"I don't think you understand."

I bit my tongue to stop my immediate reply, "You are with child."

"Yes but you have missed my meaning. You are pregnant as well."

She couldn't know that. None of them could know that. I couldn't be but… There was the possibility. I could be and yet. This doesn't solve anything. It only makes this worse.

"I think now you understand why I am having a hard time deciding your fate. I don't care if you have a boy or a girl I simply don't have it in me to kill a child. Nor can I leave one motherless like your elders left me."

I was with child. If true than I would have to protect my child not matter what. I…I couldn't let this touch my child. Not now that I finally had one. There must be…"What if there was another to take my child in? Would you then let me die to end this?"

Tomeo's eye light up with hope that she'd saved her child's life. Surely the demon would agree to this.

"I never wanted it to come to this. However I still wait for your choice."

"I…I'm" My choice…What choice…I don't know what to do.

Kenshin eye's light purple for a moment before he regarded the woman beside him. "Kio may I?"

Nodding her head she answered, "If you must"

"Tomeo once there was a loving person in you. That person was my friend when others feared me. However I can't let past events blind me from here and now. You have used many to gain your heart's desire. Now you must choose for your child and not yourself. We will give you the day. If upon the end you feel you can't let go of your hate then we will act according."

"Yes, thank you my Lord and Lady"

The Blue Rose called for others to come take me to a room instead of a cell. Giving my conditions at least that was what she said. Once I was free from their sight my world went black.

Back in the room

Kaoru raised her hand to hit the man beside her but he caught it placing a sweet kiss on its back. Her face was cherry red and he couldn't help but smile. One day she'd learn how arousing her anger was to him. Though he doubt that would stop her.

"I hadn't realized they asked you to decide her fate."

"You do know she went into shock. They are now carrying her down the stairs."

"So when she wakes up she will what. Want to keep her baby. Do the right thing? Or are you still having a hard time deciding who your heart belongs to?"

"I have already answer that question Kaoru don't think others. And no she will want to talk to her husband. The very one who is destroying everything in his way."

"Why haven't you gone to him?"

"He will come for you not me. Plus I don't trust anyone here better for him to come to me than the other way around, Kio I might kill him."

"Since when have you cared who you kill? Though I am happy you are opposed around doing such things. What are you truly after?"

"What makes you think I am after something?"

"You don't let anyone harm what is yours. SO spill"

The sliding door opened and there stood Kiyosato Akira.

Aoshi and Misao

She was ready to leave the compound when they heard screams. Someone was killing and it wasn't Kaoru Kenshin's Ki would have alerted them of his deeds. So this must have been someone else.

Though both will say they stayed because of the baby in the blue eyed woman's worm the answer was far simpler than that.

Until this mess was resolved they wouldn't be able to leave. It wasn't just duty it was who they were. Seeing as the two acting so quickly as if they were one stopped stray thoughts of doubt in regards of their relationship.

Little things they could get over in the end. One main problem circled them could they truly live with putting their duty before them self. That answer would come in time.

As they reached the room Misao saw shook her. She'd only known two people to kill like this. Maybe there was another manslayer…or someone has just lost their mind.

Kiyosato Akira

None of these fools knew where they'd taken my beloved. She was gone. No one was telling me anything.

My mind ran with possibilities. Most were ones I didn't want to ponder.

Was she dead… could the man slayer be taking his revenge as his evil lover watched. None of these answers were given to me. That could have been because I was looking for the form of a corpse.

After my last kill I saw a room. It had the faint scent of plum. That was Tomeo's favorite. Opening the door I saw them those who'd taken my love away who'd killed her.

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