Blood Sullied Hands
By: Gothic Lust
Hey this is my first ever Rurouni Kenshin Fic so be nice on my okay.
Sorry about the long wait. I decided to start this one up again… I've read it once more and said… Hey I want to read more, so I sympathized with all my readers and gave into one more chapter. I don't know how long this will go or how frequent I'll be able to update but I'll try.
But you can say for a fact I am going to continue this one, A Love's True Light and I'm currently working on a Kagome/Draco one-shot in the spirit of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie that is coming out on Tuesday, July 10th at Midnight. I'm going to go see it.
I'm dressing up as Hermione. Don't worry I'll take some pictures and post them on Deviantart. I'll be placing the link on my bio for anyone who wants to see them.
Disclaimer: I don't own Rurouni Kenshin though I wish I did.
It's been a few days's since Kenshin brought the mysterious girl into the dojo. He remembered quite well how their first meeting went and how Kaoru took to the older girl immediately.
When Kenshin had pushed the doors open to the Dojo he knew Kaoru was expecting him to be carrying a load of heavy groceries not a girl with bloody hands sleeping soundly on his chest.
She immediately rushed to his side calling Megumi's name at the top of her lungs as she went. Placing a hand on the girls' forehead she checked for a temperature which she said was too high for it to be normal.
Megumi came running from inside the dojo, Sanosuke and Yahiko in tow. She took one look at the small girl in his arms and immediately told him to follow her, then turned to Yahiko and ordered him to get her medicine kit and some cool water.
Kenshin laid her down on a prepared futon just a few moments later. Kaoru, standing not too far away, rocked from foot to foot waiting desperately for something to do, some way to help. He knew that she always felt helpless in these kinds of situations- she never had gentle hands required for medicine.
"Kaoru please put a pot of water to boil." Megumi said as she raised her head to spare the girl one glance before returning to her work of analyzing the wound.
Kaoru took the chance she was given to help immediately and left as fast as her kimono would let her. Kenshin however was now the one sitting beside the injured girl with nothing to do with his hands.
"Will she be okay there missy?" Sanosuke asked from the doorway. His right hand braced himself on the frame while his other rested at his hip.
"She'll be fine, but she's running a high fever and she may be left with scars on her hands." Megumi did not look up from her inspection. She turned the girls' hands gently to get a better look at the sides.
"How could she have done this to herself?" She paused and looked up at Kenshin. "What was she hitting when you found her?"
Kenshin sighed and told her how he found her beating her hands against the bark of a tree. It was then he remembered the groceries he dropped in the clearing.
"Sano, may I ask you a favor?"
Sanosuke looked up, his attention previously trained on the girls face and hands.
"What can I do?"
"Can you gather the groceries from the clearing I mentioned earlier, I'm afraid this one left them in his haste to get her here?"
Sanosuke sighed, turned on his heals so the 'bad' sign on his back faced Kenshin, he then gave him a thumbs up with his right hand and left just as Yahiko rushed in with the medicine kit and water tub Megumi asked for.
It took the girl two days to awake and one more to break the fever. Megumi and Kaoru took shifts watching her the entire night hoping that things wouldn't turn from bad to worse. Sadly in the time that she was awake none of them managed to get any information out of her such as her name or where she lived.
Kenshin now sat cross-legged against the beam outsider her door, his reverse-blade sword resting firmly on his shoulder. One questioned plagued his mind. The one word she spoke as she pounded the tree with her tiny fists. It was the only thing he did not mention to the group as he told the tale of how he came across her.
'Why?'
He clutched his reverse-blade sword tighter. Her eyes swam before his, liquid pools of cloudy silver sapphire. He knew he saw into her soul in that very moment and the story he uncovered haunted him. It answered some of the mystery to her word but it opened many more.
He wanted to know her and why her pain was causing her to destroy herself.
Sorry again for the long wait. I'm taking this off HIATUS but that doesn't mean that I'll be able to post every so often. I got homework for over the summer and it's not just reading two books. Plus I've got this whole other story I've committed myself to and the seventh book of the Harry Potter series is coming out soon and I've placed that at the top of my priority list.
Sorry, I also promised that I would reveal her name today but I didn't. This time for sure for sure, the next chapter will name the girl.
I promise that.
I hope you liked the chapter; it was longer than the other one. I didn't tell you this was going to be a long fic, just a good one. So please review and be patient with me.