I don't own PMK or any of it's characters, I only own Din, Seimura, and Setsuna.

Thank you for the reviews and I'm sorry this is late. I had issues with my oral surgery but I'm alright now, stupid wisdom teeth but whatever. Anyways! Things are going great now so I'm here updating, I just hope the alert system sends this out, this thing has been messed up for a few days now.

This chapter is mainly a flashback chapter, so when you see 000000000 a flashback as begun and when you see it again, it's ended. There is some sexual things mentioned in this chapter, but nothing over a teen rating. ::giggle::

Enjoy!

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The sun was coming down strongly in the dojo Kondo owned. A nine-year-old Souji was running around in the front when he was supposed to be cleaning the front walkway with the broom Kondo had given him. Hijikata smiled as he saw the sight, and walked down the large hill, back over to the dojo to see Kondo.

"Hijikata-san!" Souji called out with a wave of his right hand. "Hijikata-san! Din-nee! Hijikata-san is back from the market!"

Din stepped out from the large training dojo, and walked over to Souji who pointed her back up to the hill where Hijikata was walking down. She smiled when she saw him, and waved back to him.

Din. Hijikata thought as a small smile crossed his face.

Hijikata finished walking down the hill and back over to the dojo. He met Souji and Din, and took the bag off of his back, lowering it onto the floor.

"You're back a bit late," Din said as she crossed her arms. "What were you doing that took so long?"

"Nothing." Hijikata shrugged.

"You weren't flirting with that woman again were you?" Din asked, narrowing her eyes towards him.

"Why?"

Souji ignored the two older people and peaked into the bag Hijikata had brought down from the market. It was full of potatoes and all kinds of vegetables Souji couldn't recognize.

"Because," Din hissed. "If you want me to be your girlfriend, you've got to stop spreading yourself around."

Hijikata rolled his eyes. "I'm not doing that trust me."

"Fine." Din turned away from him.

Feeling a bit bad for what he had done, he walked over to Din from behind and wrapped his arms around her waist. She squeaked from the surprise and looked to her right as he laid his head on her right shoulder.

"What?" she asked.

"Nothing." He grinned and closed his eyes. "I was just thinkin' about you."

"Oh." She blushed.

"Should you two be doing something like that in front of Souji-kun?" another male voice said from the side. The two turned around to see Yamanami standing there with a bag on his back as well.

"Yamanami-san." Din blinked. "Why is it that you come back so quickly and Toshi takes forever to get back here when you're going to the same place?"

"I don't know." Yamanami laughed nervously. "He took off before me."

Din blinked. "Then he should have gotten back before you."

"Oh…" Yamanami moved his glasses.

"Sannan," Hijikata twitched, "you're not helping my case."

"Sorry." Yamanami hung his head.

"Yamanami-san," Souji said as he gently tugged on him. "Can you spar with me? Kondo-san won't let me spar with him."

"Sure." Yamanami smiled. "Where do you want these vegetables Hinto-san?"

"Just inside near the kitchen." Din moved her left hand back and forth. "Thanks for getting them for me Yamanami-san, I really needed them."

"No problem."

Yamanami was led into the dojo by Souji who had a look of excitement on his face, leaving Din and Hijikata outside. Hijikata took this opportunity of being alone and moved his mouth towards Din's neck.

"Hey I gotta make dinner," she said as she struggled against him. "I can't mess around now."

Hijikata pulled away. "Dinner can wait for a few minutes, no one's going to complain. Why don't you come up with me to the apricot trees?"

"Huh." Din sighed. "Fine, just for a few moments while Yamanami-san and Souji-kun keep Kondo-kun busy."

The two climbed a small hill until they reached the apricot trees. Hijikata was the first to lie down on the ground, and to his surprise, Din hopped on top of him, and moved her legs around his hips.

"What are you doing?" he asked blinking. "I thought you didn't want to mess around."

"I don't know," she confessed with a smile. "Just being up here with you alone gives me ideas."

He moved his legs up to make sure she stayed on his hips, and slipped his shoes off in the process. Din took her shoes off as well, and left them by Hijikata's side.

Hijikata grinned and moved his arms up to her, pulling her down so that he could kiss her. Their lips met, and parted quickly before Hijikata began to kiss her once more, only this time with a bit more passion.

Their kisses lasted for a few more minutes before he began to run his hands up and down her back, tugging at the sash that held her kimono together. She responded by tugging on his kimono, and opening it enough to feel his well-built chest.

The warm wind blew over to the two, sending the smell of apricots over them. Hijikata could smell how strong it was, and soon the smell was imprinted in his mind, and memory of this moment.

"Toshi," Din whimpered once their mouths parted once more.

He sat up with her and pulled her kimono around her legs up a bit so that he could see her bare legs. With that simulation, he began to work at the slash around her hips.

"Don't," she hissed, shoving her neck into Hijikata's face.

"Hold still," he mumbled onto her neck.

His hands left the sash and moved back to her chest where he felt on her breasts. She groaned and moved her head back, allowing Hijikata to kiss it over and over again. He moved further and further down until he began kissing the cleavage his hands were creating by groping her breasts, and pressing them together.

"Toshi…," Din groaned once more as she tried to push down his kimono as well.

The sash around Din's waist was becoming lose because of all the messing around they were doing, and allowing Hijikata to release it with a simple tug.

"Toshi!" Din hissed as she pushed him away from her neck.

He fell back but caught himself with his hands and held himself up with them as he looked back towards her. Her kimono had been opened, and she was now sitting there on his waist with her kimono exposing everything it normally would hide.

Din looked away blushing, her eyes looking for her fallen sash. "I told you not to! I didn't want you to see me yet!"

He didn't respond. All he could do was sit there and stare at the image before him. The woman he had been with for the past three months was sitting on top of him with everything exposed but what her panties kept hidden. Her skin was white and untouched while her upper body was a bit toned from the fieldwork she had been doing. Ignoring all of that, he was just looking at her breasts, surprised that they were a bit smaller then they had looked from the outside.

Din covered herself. "Quit looking!"

"Why?" he asked, regaining himself.

"Because." She blushed heavily.

"Because?"

"It's not fair for me to show everything and you to show nothing," she said, thinking of the only excuse that would come to her so quickly.

"You want to see something?" He grinned. "You should have just said something."

"Really?" She blinked. "I didn't know you were so easy!"

"Easy?" He twitched. "I don't think I'm easy."

Din giggled playfully and looked away. "So what are you going to show me?"

"What do you think?" Hijikata looked at her strangely.

She brought her hand to her face and giggled. "That? I can feel that."

Hijikata's face became white while a blush replaced it. "You can?"

"Yeah." She laughed playfully. "How could I not feel something like that? At least I know you're a healthy young man."

"What do you expect?" Hijikata growled, now very embarrassed. "I'm eighteen years old!"

"I know." Din giggled once more with a heartwarming smile on her face while a strand of undone hair fell in front of her face. "It's just weird."

"Weird?" he repeated.

"I've never messed around with anyone before," she admitted, keeping her grin.

"Really?" He blinked, moving his hands back to her hips.

"I've never had time too!" She twitched. "I know you're a regular bed hopper so you're used to all of this."

Hijikata twitched once more. "Bed hopper?"

"Yeah."

"I'm a virgin," he said as another blush crossed his face.

"Could have fooled me." She moved her hands to Hijikata's face.

"I know you are."

"I know." Din nodded and closed her eyes. "Can you tell?"

She moved down, burying her face in Hijikata's neck once more, only this time it wasn't as sexual as it had been before. He sighed, knowing that the mood was gone, and began to gently pet her.

"A bit," he finally answered. "But that will go away with practice."

"You have a dirty mind," Din whispered as she nibbled on his earlobe.

"I'm an eighteen year old man."

"Quit using that as an excuse."

"Hijikata-kun! Hinto-san!!" Yamanami called from the other side of the hill.

"Shit." Din rolled off of Hijikata and quickly got herself back together as Hijikata watched.

Yamanami came up the side of the hill a bit out of breath. "Hinto-san!" He managed to yell. "Kondo-kun wants me to warn you about dinner!"

"Oh!" Din stood up and slipped her shoes on. "Thank you Yamanami-san!"

Din ran down the front of the hill as Yamanami walked over to Hijikata and sat down beside him. Hijikata sighed loudly as he watched the clouds floating above him, and moved his hand up towards them, as if he wanted to catch them.

"I hope I didn't interrupt anything," Yamanami said, lowering his head a bit.

"Nah." Hijikata closed his eyes. "It's not like we were doing anything anyway."

"Oh." Yamanami scratched the back of his head. "I just thought you would be because you know…you came all the way up here. Besides that, you're reputation caused me to think otherwise."

Hijikata's eyebrow twitched. "Why does everyone keep bothering me about that?"

"Well it's quite well known. You were seen running out of a samurai daughter's house before you began dating Hinto-san, and you always flirt with the women in the market."

"I guess." Hijikata let his hand fall back down to the ground. "I'll have to stop messing around and get rid of that reputation if I'm going to be with Din."

Yamanami smiled and looked out towards the village below.

"You've been here for three months now," Hijikata began, "and Souji-kun trusts you enough to train with you."

Yamanami blinked. "I know."

"I wonder why, he wouldn't train with me for months and I helped to raise the kid." Hijikata grabbed a nearby blade of grass and began chewing on it. "It's just a bit odd to me, that's all."

"Sorry. I don't know what he likes about me."

"Hey, how'd you like to hold my ties?"

Yamanami blinked at the random question and scratched the back of his head once more. "Ties?" he asked.

"Yeah like of what's right, or the ties of humanity. See it like I said before, I can do anything so long as I get results if I join the Roshigumi and go to the capital, who knows what evil things I could do to succeed. But every time I finally reach my goal," Hijikata stood, "or think "look I've made it this far!" I look behind me and…"

Hijikata shook his head. "I'll tell you having regrets is what I hate most. But with your opinions keeping in check, I feel like I won't get too carried away. Kondo-kun doesn't question me at all. That's why…I want you to hold my ties."

"Sure." Yamanami smiled. "I'll always be there to correct you."

"Smart ass." Hijikata grinned and looked back towards him. "If you could do something else for me…"

"What?" Yamanami leaned in.

"Watch over Din for me if something happens to me."

"You're planning on being with her for that long?"

"I don't know." He shrugged. "She's never gonna be something I regret, but I still want you to keep me in check with her."

"Isn't that her job?" Yamanami laughed and turned away from him.

"On a man to man level." He looked over towards Yamanami with a small grin.

"Anything." He grinned.

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Hijikata sat up in his bed with sweat pouring down from his forehead. He looked around his room and saw his bloody kimono sitting in the corner, and he could hear the rain pounding away on his back door.

Shit. He thought as he held his head.

He had long forgotten about that memory, and that time he had always held so close to his heart. He didn't know why it had become forgotten; it just had gone away with everything that had been going on around him lately.

Dammit. Hijikata shook his head. Why the hell is that bothering me? What's all this about Din all of a sudden? Sannan…did you two ever get along together?

Tatsunosuke opened his eyes for a moment and heard rain falling outside of his window. He sat up only to realize that he was sitting in the middle of his workstation with Din by his side, still sleeping.

Din-chan. Tatsunosuke smiled.

"Yamanami…," Din whispered in her sleep, turning Tatsunosuke's smile upside down.

She must miss him. He thought.

Din rolled over, moving closer towards Tatsunosuke and causing a blush to come across his face. The closer and closer she got, the more and more Tatsunosuke tried to move away but he soon stopped. Thinking that he wanted to be closer towards her, he held still and Din moved until she was against his chest.

"Din-chan…," Tatsunosuke whispered.

She moved once more, and he could see a ring fall out of her kimono and hang downwards. He blinked, and gently grabbed it to see what it was. He studied the metal chain necklace only to find that it had a small sliver ring hanging from it, and trapped by the chain.

I wonder what this is. He thought as he looked at the ring. I've never seen her with something like this before. Why would she start wearing this now?

Din moved once more, this time falling back a bit. He looked back to her to see that her kimono had fallen down a bit, and her cleavage was now showing.

….How am I supposed to fix that?! Tatsunosuke pulled away, his blush growing deeper. If I touch her, she'll wake up.

"Tatsu-kun," she whispered once more.

"Me?" he whispered without thinking.

She's dreaming about me. Tatsunosuke shook his head, and gently grabbed her. I wonder what…she's dreaming about.

Tatsunosuke moved and laid down on the floor, moving Din carefully and placing her kimono back on her shoulders. Din moved beside Tatsunosuke, but soon rolled over to his side and rested her head against his shoulder.

He smiled. This is something I could get used to.

Din suddenly groaned a bit and moved her face against his shoulder roughly, and then kept moving her head as if she couldn't get comfortable. Tatsunosuke looked around for something to place underneath her head but couldn't find anything. He could feel her moving around and then looked back at her to see her moving her head further into his chest until she found a soft place.

Din-chan! Tatsunosuke twitched.

A smile crossed her face for a moment before her face returned to the way it was before. Seeing how comfortable she was, he rested back against the floor and sighed happily. He was just so comfortable even though she was on somewhere a bit sensitive. Just hearing her breathing, and sighing in her sleep made a smile cross his face.

I can tell you? Tatsunosuke asked himself.

"Din-chan," he whispered, "there's something I've been wanting to tell you. I…I've got an interest in you. A deep interest."

He shook his head. That's no good! How can she take something like that!? She has no idea what kind of interest I have!

"I," he began once more, "I love you."

He stopped and closed his mouth tightly. He didn't know why he had said something like that, he just couldn't think of anything else that would express his feelings towards her. Those were the only words that crossed his mind, and felt so right crossing his lips. They seemed perfect.

I can't love her. He thought, looking up towards the ceiling. I just can't…

Suzu was sitting on Hikagami's lap, watching his kitten clean themselves. He had grown bored, and Saitou was sitting in front of him with his hands in his lap, and his eyes closed, sitting in silence.

"So how's Din-chan?" Suzu asked, rolling around on Hikagami's lap. "I haven't heard anything too much about her."

"She's coming and going," Saitou answered. "I don't know what or who she's involved with but I think it's something serious."

"Huh." Suzu sighed. "I'll have to find out. How's my Tetsu-chan?"

"Fine." Saitou nodded. "He's growing."

"Good." Suzu stretched his arms outwards, and moved his stomach up as well by arching his back. "I think I'll pay Tetsu-chan a little visit before this week is over." He looked towards Saitou. "Should I give Din-chan a visit too?"

"Perhaps." Saitou opened his eyes back up. "What do you need her for?"

"Yoshida-sama wanted her," Suzu answered, moving his head backwards. "I told her I would see her in six months and take her away but too many things have come up. She looks almost exactly like my Setsuna-chan. The one I miss so much."

"Setsuna-chan…" Saitou blinked as that name triggered something in his mind. He couldn't remember what it was but he remembered that name meant something important.

"You knew her?"

Saitou closed his eyes once more. "No. I have heard of her though."

"Setsuna-chan." Suzu groaned and moved around on Hikagami. "It's been so long since you were murdered…I can't wait to finally find and kill the person who took you away from me and Yoshida-sama. I'll meet you again."

Setsuna-chan… Saitou thought. Why does your name sound so familiar?

Suzu rubbed his face next to his master's skull and groaned. "I'll find those bastards who killed the one you loved and let you watch me kill them. You'll be so proud of me Yoshida-sama! I promise!"

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