Chapter 11: Home Again
Starlite: Yes! Short chapter today folks! This is a fic that has evolved over a year and a half and now Ryuichi is pregnant! I've been planning this for a while. YAY! Congrats Sano-san and Ryu-chan.
Ryuichi: Cram it...
Starlite: It's the mood swings in a few minutes you'll be just fine.
Ryuichi: Never mind, let me rephrase that. Cram it up your ass...
Starlite: Poor Sano...
----At The Yukimoto's house----
A few more weeks had passed and Sanosuke and Ryuichi were preparing to leave the home of Toba's kind parents. They had given the young couple two horses, some food, a few jugs of water, and some medicine for Ryu's bleeding. They told Sano and Ryu that after the child was born that they should come to see them, because they hadn't had a young child to play with in a long time.
Ryuichi for some reason had started to show her pregnancy early and looked bigger than most women did. Mrs. Yukimoto said that it was probably because it was her first baby and her body was just providing for it. Mr. Yukimoto said it was because she was small and was carrying the baby low. Sanosuke thought it was because she had been fed a little too well and she was gaining weight. Ryuichi assumed it was all of the above and really didn't care.
"Sanosuke, are you ready yet?" Ryuichi griped.
"No not really, considering the fact that I have to pack around all your shit!"
"Sano, don't you love me anymore?" she whimpered.
"Oh yeah. Silly me. I forgot that you're pregnant. (sigh) Two months! Nearly two months from the day we got married and we're already having trouble. Maybe the foxy doctor was a better choice." Ryuichi grabbed the nearest frying pan and bashed Sanosuke in the head with it.
"Fine! You can marry that woman. I don't care." she sniffed.
"You know I was kidding..."
"Yup! I know damn well that men don't leave me for a who...another woman." she smirked.
"(sigh) Come on. I'm ready to go..." Sano yawned.
After the goodbyes were said the set off for home. It was gonna be a long trip but as long as they got home. They knew that Kenshin and Kaoru were going to be worried.
"Sanosuke?" Ryuichi whispered as they entered the edge of the woods.
"Yeah?"
"I..."
She couldn't finish her sentence. Her horse stopped and refused to go any further. The poor stupid animal wouldn't budge.
"Come on, horse! Move dammit!" she yelled
The horse threw it's head and tried to go back. There was something in the woods that was frightening it. Sanosuke got off of his horse and handed the reins to Ryuichi. He walked around to see if he could spot what was scaring their equines.
"Oh my God, Ryuichi! Come here and look at this!" Sanosuke motioned for her to come to him.
She reluctantly dismounted and walked over to Sanosuke. When she saw the look of horror and shock she thought she was going to cry. What Sanosuke saw was the leftovers of the corpse of Torii Yukimoto. The buzzards an who knows what else had been eating him and Ryuichi's sword was still embedded in his skull.
"What in the hell happened here? There's blood everywhere. Is this what Tatsumi sent you to do?"
"Yes. I am ashamed to say I did this. My instincts are going to be hard to preach out of my head. I've always believed that this is the only thing that keeps me mentally stable." She whispered as she walked up to the decaying mound of flesh and bone. She grabbed her sword and pulled it from the place it had been for a while. After re-sheathing it she walked up to Sanosuke. "I am truly sorry."
"Don't worry. We'll get you home and we won't have to worry 'bout stuff like that for a while. Remember, we're gonna be parents."
"Yeah. Parents..." She faked a smile.
"Come on. Kenshin and Jou-chan probably think we're dead too. We'd better start making our way home.
-----Near the Himura Dojo-----
"Hey Sanosuke. It's late. Let's not wake them up yet, okay?"
"Yeah, I'm tired anyway."
"Sanosuke, where are we gonna put these horses?"
"I have absolutely no idea..."
"Can we tie them to the porch?"
"I don't think so...-sweatdrop-"
"Hmmmm....Hey! I got it! You can sell them on your way to town tomorrow! Until then we can tie them to the porch."
"Ok."
"Oh look! We're home! It feels so good to be at our house. -sigh- I missed it."
"Yeah. You've been gone for a long time! I have too. -sweatdrop- Oops..."
"What? You seem worried about something." Ryuichi said as she got off her horse and tied the reins to a post.
"Oh, it's nothing."
"Then why did you go "Oops!"?"
"No reason...."
"You're lying through you're teeth!" she shot back as she slid open the door to their home.
"That is what I'm worried about." he winced.
When she saw the condition he had left their house in she could only think of one word that would do her anger justice...
"SANOSUKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
-----At the Himura Dojo-----
"Kenshin! Kenshin, did you hear that!?"
"Who didn't! That was defiantly Ryuichi-dono! And I think Sano is with her. Grab Kenji and let's go see them!"
"Hai!" she smiled as she grabbed a crying Kenji.
-----At the Sagara's house-----
"Well...So much for the plan of not waking up Kenshin and Kaoru. If they didn't hear you then the have problems..."
"Sanosuke, you don't have time to complain! Get to work! You aren't allowed to eat, sleep, or communicate with the outside world until MY HOUSE IS SPOTLESS!"
"-cries- You don't have to be such a dictator! -sniffle-"
"MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I know I don't have to...BUT I DO ANYWAY!!! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!"
"-sigh-"
"Sanosuke! Ryuichi! You're home safe and sound!" Kaoru squealed.
"Yes, this one is very happy that both of you are ok." Kenshin smiled.
"Goo!" Kenji gurgled.
"Ah! You mean three of us!" Ryuichi corrected.
"Ryuichi! You mean you're...you're...pregnant?! I thought Dr. Genzai said it would be impossible for you to have a child?!"
"No. He told me it would be almost impossible." she smiled.
"I wise person once told me that when you love someone anything is possible." Kenshin said.
"True. Very true." Sano groaned, still picking up trash.
"Gaa!" Kenji gurgled again.
Starlite: YAY! They're home! And Kenshin is still full of boring yet wise advice! Nothing has changed! Anyway, REVIEW! IT MAKES ME SICK TO THINK THAT I HAVE MORE CHAPTERS THAN REVIEWS! -sniffle-