Ch 3.
A/N I've changed it so that hiko found kenshin when he was 6 not 9 to suit the story better.
Disclaimer: I don't own Rurouni Kenshin. Sucks to be me
FLASH BACK
-0ne month after Hiko took kenshin in-
It was after dinner and kenshin was doing the dishes 'grrrr why do I have to do all the
chores around here, doesn't he ever do anything besides drinking?
" Stop complaining baka deshi" Kenshin nearly jumped out of his skin ' how did he know
what I was thinking?'
"I did take you in and am teaching you the strongest sword style in Japan after all"
kenshin snorted "doesn't mean you cant pick up a dish" kenshin grumbled under his
breath
"What was that?" Hiko said eyes narrowing.
"Nothing shishou."
"Good, come Kensin were going into town to buy more sake, I've run out."
"Big surprise" Kenshin continued to grumble
"What was that?"
"I said, coming shishou."
"Hurry up"
Kenshin was walking back from the sake shop trailing behind his shishou when Hiko
stopped abruptly.
"shishou?" Hiko's eyes narrowed peering at something in the distance.
"come kenshin" Hiko took off running down the road
He stopped running when they came to a carriage that had been half way run off the road
Kenshin not far behind. There were 3 dead bodies, one as the carriage driver who was
lying on the ground in front of the carriage. The other two were a man and a woman
"damn, must have been a robbery" Hiko said. Keshin guessed that the man and woman
were husband and wife by the way that he had fallen on top of her protecting her with his
arms around her. " shishou, look!" kenshin said pointing farther down the road. Hiko
looked to where kenshin was pointing and seeing three men, obviously the idiot bandits,
making their getaway by foot. Hiko took off running after them, easily catching up.
Kenshin watched as his shishou killed the bandits off, much the same way as he had the
night he found kenshin, then bent down over the bandits bodies. Kenshin looked away
when he heard a gurgling noise. He looked around and then down at the bodies when he
heard it again, it seemed to be coming from under the woman. Kenshin bent down and
shifted the woman over slightly and then gasped loudly eyes widening in surprise. There
in the dead woman's arms lay a baby. She couldn't be more than 3 weeks old and she
was just staring up at him gurgling and smiling slightly seemingly undisturbed by the
traumatic events, which had just taken place. "shishou" Kenshin yelled "I think you need
to come back here". Hiko looked up at kenshin and then made his way back to the boy.
"what is it baka deshi?"
"look" said kenshin pointing to where the baby was. Hiko's eyes widened before he bent
down and slowly picked up the baby, holding her rather awkwardly in his arms.
"she's not even crying" said kenshin "what should we do shishou?"
"We should take her into the town" his eyes widening again as her tiny fist came up and
wrapped around one of his fingers, yet his voice remained gruff.
"But shishou it's Friday and the sake shop was just closing when we left,
every thing else will be for sure"
"fine, we'll take her with us until Monday then"
"can't resist a baby, huh shishou?"
"Shut up baka." With that Hiko Seijurou walked off in the direction of their hut still
carrying a baby in his arms.
END FLASH BACK
Kenshin woke up with a start. He sat up from the cold ground shivering lightly. He had
become so used to sleeping in a warm bed while staying at the dojo, that adjusting to cold
nights on hard earth was proving difficult. The remaining dregs of sleep quickly cleared
from his head, the dream he had just had still burning vividly in his mind. He got up and
surveyed his surroundings. It seemed to be very early in the morning, for the sun had not
yet risen, and the fire from the night before had extinguished leaving Kenshin in nearly
complete darkness aside from the full moon which cast eerie shadows along the ground.
'Where did Nisa go?' Kenshin scanned the area once more knowing that the girl was an
expert at hiding in plain sight 'just like me'. His gaze landed on the sword he had noticed
the night before that was still laying by the fire. Walking over he picked it up and
examined it, it felt so wonted in his grasp ' why does she have a sword?' he thought
before a realization struck him ' Hey! She evaded every single one of my questions last
night, I told her all about my wandering and where I traveled to and my vow never to kill
again and about Kaoru-donno and the others and she didn't tell me a damn thing. She's
very good at turning the conversation away from herself that she is.' Kenshin sighed ' we
are very much alike in many ways that we are, and yet very different in others.'
"That's your sword you know" came a voice from behind Kenshin. He turned around to
see Nisa standing there in her black clothes with her hair pulled up in a loose bun that
was tied low on her head.
"My sword?"
Nisa nodded "from your days as a hitokiri"
Kenshin looked down at the sword once more gripping it tightly and then letting it drop
to the forest floor. He looked up at Nisa again, a slight crease in his brow "how did you
get it?"
"After you disappeared from Toba Fushimi Katsura-san delivered it to me."
"And you carry it with you?"
"Yes"
"Why?"
"As a reminder"
The crease in kenshin's brown deepened "of what?"
Nisa's eyes closed briefly before she opened them and a bright smile lit up her face "are
you hungry Kenny? I'll make some breakfast."
And with that she turned and set to the task of lighting the fire once more.
A/N Okay so what do you think? This chapter took me way to long to wright, I was just sitting there staring at the computer screen for like an hour. But I got it done so let's have a party! Okay party's over time to REVIEW.
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