After everyone calmed down to be coherent enough to speak a long silence occured. The siblings shared looks that needed no words to be said. "What do we have for munitions?" Ryusuke asked in a whisper. His faced streaked with dried tear trails.
"All our stock and everything we took in our raid. Why?" Maho said in a whisper dosed thickly with suspicion. She had a sneaking thought that her brother wanted revenge but it was a sneaking thought. Ryusuke shook his head tiredly and wearily.
"And my secret stash" Kenshin drawled. Sipping from his mug of tea he leveled a look with Ryusuke. "What's with the third degree nephew?" he asked slowly. Both Kenshin and Maho shared a look that said the exact same thing. Ryusuke only shook his head warily at his uncles and sister upon spoken accusation. "Anyway I heard both of you are expecting" he said with mock in his voice. Maho and Ryusuke blushed heavily asking the other silently if the other told. Kenshin grinned impishly before grabbing a cigarette from inside his pants pocket and lighting it.
"Who told you?!" Ryusuke hissed.
"Does it matter? Remember I have eyes and ears everywhere. I know you love the girl/guy(a/n i only write that b/c it aplies to Maho and Ryusuke, that and I have no quams against gay people) "so I think you're going to need these" Kenshin said tossing Maho and Ryusuke two boxes. Said people only raised an eyebow. "So boys or girls?"
"Girl" Ryusuke replied.
"Girl and Boy" Maho said.
"Maho when we visit again bring Koyuki with you" Kenshin said leaving the room. Present company all had a proverbial question mark above their heads but Mahos was the biggest. Everyone, excluding Kenshin, shrugged and started conversation. Maho and Ryusuke failed to notice TenTen slip out of the room, too involed in their conversation about weapons and destruction.
Outside Kenshin perched himself on the roof overlooking Konoha. Laying on his back his stare strayed towards the stars and the heavens. Foot steps alerted him to someone elses presence on the roof. He sat up partially and craned his head to get a look at the person. Not really bothered by the darkness he took one glance before patting the area bside him before lying on his back again looking at the stars. "Join me will you, TenTen?" he said drumming his claws together silently. TenTen hesitantly strode forward and sat beside him. She pulled her legs to her chest and circled arms around her knees to try and keep somebody body heat.
"Beautiful night" TenTen said loooking out over Konoha.
"I beg to differ" Kenshin said still lying on his back, eyes closed.
"Oh really?" TenTen asked sarcasticly. Kenshin nodded and opened his eyes.
"Yeah" he said looking at her out of the corner of his eyes. "I can think of one thing more beautiful" Kenshin said turning his head to look at her.
"What could be more beautiful than this night?" TenTen asked playing along with Kenshins game. Kenshin chuckled bfore laying back on the roof tiles.
"I'll let you figure that out" Kenshin drawled crypticly before rising to his feet and heading back into the complex. TenTen sighed and laid her forehead against her knees.
"What does he mean?" she asked but recieved no answer. After several minutes of silent pondering it hit her. "He was talking about me!" she said out loud blushing heavily. "But he can't mean that, can he?"she mumbled to herself. She mulled it over in her head for ten minutes or so until a cold draft bothered her enough and her body demanded she go inside. She complied not really wanting to be in the darkness any longer. Working through the maze of halls TenTen let out her hair and mulled over Kenshins words again.
"You look happy" a voice behind TenTen said. Resisting the urge to scream she turned to come face to face with Maho. TenTen nodded absently before resuming her earlier trek.
"I guess you could say that" TenTen said absent mindedly over her shoulder. "Hey Maho, can I ask you a question" she asked stopping in her tracks. Maho quirked an eyebrow but nodded. "Is Kenshin always so cryptic with his questions?" she asked.
"Mostly allthough you get used to it after a while. Why?" Maho replied cocking her head to one side. TenTen only shook her head and chuckled before walking away. "FINALLY! She sees it" Maho exclaimed closing the door to her room.
After reaching her room (a/n TenTen moved into the complex w/ Kenshin Maho and Ryusuke) she dressed into her pjs and climbed into her four poster king size bed and climbed under the satin sheets. Not really ready to fall asleep yet her mind wandered over the implications of Kenshins words. When her mind came up with multiple possible reasons she let out a long yawn. "I'll sort this out later" she mumbled sleepily. Not even five minutes later she was fast asleep holding a Kenshin plushy tightly to her chest. Where she found it is beyond comprehension (as if anyone really cares but, it drew quite a few curious stares).
The next morning she awoke to find weight settled on her chest. TenTen opened her eyes to find fox cubs curled up on her chest sleeping soundly. TenTen scratched behind the fox cubs ears to wake them up. Most of them yawned and jumped onto the floor but one just pushed off her chest and fell back asleep on one of the pillows beside her. She only chucked lightly before dressing. Her clothes consisted of black sweats, a grey shirt had a a skull with a menacing pair of scythes wrapped in red tape around the handles underneath it, the blades facing up and a pair of black felt slippers.
Retreating from her room she trotted at a brisk pace towards the kitchen, the fox cubs following diligently. Upon reaching her desination she fixed breakfast for her and the fox cubs. Eggs for her and pieces of bacon on a paper plates for the foxes. Pouring a cup of coffee she tended to mull over the previous nights thoughts. Engrossed in her own thoughts she failed to notice several other people enter the kitchen. Maho was dressed in a black loose short sleeve shirt, black jeans and black converses(a/n she's not emo black is her favorite color). Around her neck was a cross with a dragon wrapped around it baring its sharp teeth.
Ryusuke wore a red muscle shirt decorated with a crude graphic of several apperitions of death glaring outwards, blue jeans and Nikes. His lwft ring finger had a silver ring decorated with a celtic knot banding around the the outside and a pair of dog tags dangling around his neck. A dragon spiraled around an object engraved into the dog tags. "Morning" he yawned. TenTen only nodded her head in acknowledgement. Kenshin appeared in the kitchen form one of the endless corridors cover in stains and rips in his clothes.
"Tinkering again uncle?" Maho asked noticing the black substance on his tank top and the tears. Looking at him TenTen noticed something she should've noticed before. It was a tatto carved into chest. It was VII with a dragon ensnaring a cross grasping a sword pommel and thrusting it through the numerals menacingly but, on the other side was an angel with one white and one black wing thrusting its own sword forcing the dragons sword to X mark intersecting through the numeral but not ruining it any way, shape or form. Kenshin grunted in acknowledgement of his nieces question pouring a cup of coffee.
A long silence ensued, not one of the three wanting to break it. This continued for a while until TenTen couldn't take it any longer. "What do you want for breakfast?" she asked looking at Kenshin. Kenshin raised he coffee mug and said nothing.