Raya’s Deceptive Looks
Chapter Seven: Soujirou’s Battle
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Soujirou walked up to the Kamiya dojo entrance. He looked at the wooden sign and nodded to himself.
“Yes, I believe this is the place. I have to warn Himura-san!” He raised his hand up and was about to tug at the bell, but stopped as he felt something was amiss.
“I feel, an unwanted presence here--- I’m too late!!“ He narrowed his eyes and was about to jump over the wall, when a man jumped onto the dojo’s fence and ran across the tiled roof to another nearby house. Soujirou stood motionless for a moment as the man jumped from roof to roof.
“He’s carrying Kaoru-san!” Soujirou gasped. He jumped onto the fence and pursued the man at full speed. “He’s pretty fast too…Neko wasn’t kidding…” Soujirou smirked and put on more speed.
He caught up with the man and cut him off on a large, slanted rooftop.
“You’ll stop right there.” Soujirou commanded as he drew out his sword.
The man in black stopped, Kaoru was slung over his shoulder, unconscious. He chuckled under his mask and put his free hand on his hip.
“Little kids shouldn’t be playing with swords… but, I do give you points for catching me. You’re very fast.”
“Save the compliments for later. First, I demand you return that lady to me.”
“I’m sorry but I can’t do that. It’s nothing personal, but I’m under orders from my master.” The man said,
“I know your master! And I’m sure you’ve heard of me! Seta Soujirou.”
The man’s eyes widened. This boy- this…. KID was Seta Soujirou!!
“What are you doing?” The man asked. “I thought that you were working for Nashida-sama.”
&nbps; “I’m sorry to disappoint you—but, I cannot allow your master to take that lady there, and because Himura-san isn’t here right now, I’ll have to be the one to bring her back to him!” Soujirou crouched in his Battou Jutsu style.
The man set Kaoru down carefully. He drew out a pair of scythes and got into a ready stance. “So, if you’re in such a hurry to fight, then you’ll have to beat me before you can take her.”
“KAORU!!” Kenshin burst into the dojo, he looked around frantically. “KAORU! ANSWER ME!”
There was only silence. Kenshin got that same uncomfortable feeling from when they’d visited Megumi’s clinic. He narrowed his eyes and in a lightning fast second, entered into the training hall. Hotaru lay in a crumpled up heap at the far side, uncontious; A trickle of blood running down her forehead. Next, he noticed the three darts sticking out of the wall, they were identical to the one he’d found at Megumi’s clinic.
“Kenshin!” Sano entered in after him, carrying Kaoru’s green ribbon. “I found this on the ground, about ten feet from the entrance.”
Kenshin leaned over Hotaru with a hand to her forehead, he touched her neck and felt a faint pulse.
“She’s still alive, only drugged.”
Sano walked up to him and handed Kenshin the ribbon. Kenshin took it and slowly rose to his feet, his hair concealing his eyes. He stood quietly, not moving. Sano smashed another wall out of anger. “First Megumi, and now Kaoru!! SHIT! SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT!!!” He ran outside, Kenshin heard him screaming out to no one.
&nbps; “DO YOU HEAR ME YOU COWARDLY SON OF A BITCH! COME OUT HERE AND FIGHT MAN TO MAN!”
&nbps; “Kaoru…” Kenshin whispered. How could he have let his enemy take her like that!! He was a failure! “I couldn’t protect you this time, but…” He brought his face up, his eyes burned with anger. “I’ll get you back… I swear.” He bent and picked up Hotaru and walked out of the dojo slowly.
“We need to take her to Dr. Genzai…” He said as Sano tried desperately to control his anger.
&nbps; Then an idea suddenly dawned on Kenshin, he looked at Sano horrified. “ SANO! WE MUST FIND YAHIKO!”
“No way—they couldn’t…” Sano looked over at Kenshin. “They couldn’t have taken him as well!”
“When was the last time Yahiko has ever missed a meal? It’s not like him to leave in the middle of the night, even if he does, he’d come back before we noticed him missing.” Kenshin made a fist, trying desperately to control his anger.
“DAMN IT!, I’M GONNA TURN THE ASS HOLE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS’ GUTS TO POWDER!” Sano hit one of the cherry trees with his fist, it’s trunk turned to dust and wood chips in an instant. He stopped at the overwhelming wail let out by Kenshin, and turned to see the Rurouni on his knees, bent over the still form of Hotaru.
“WHY!” Kenshin screamed out.
“Kenshin! Hey!” Sano jumped over to him and sat across from him, putting one hand on his shoulder. “Hey, stay together now… I’m the one that’s supposed to go berserk and beat up things… Don’t blame yourself. We’ll get them back!”
Kenshin stopped and looked up, A single tear had penetrated his right eye and had slid halfway down his cheek. He wiped it away and slowly nodded.
“Now you’ll know what it feels like—“ Kenshin muttered under his breath.
“Huh?”
“The letter…they’re, kidnapping everyone… just to get to me.”
Soujirou cursed himself for underestimating this ninja all in black. He lunged in with his sword, the man countered easily and brought the other hand around, and the scythe cut his left shoulder. Soujirou winced and jumped back, ignoring the wound. The man stood breathing heavily.
“So, you’re a TenKen as well? Hmmm?” Soujirou said, holding up his sword. “I can tell, you’re very good. But I can do the Shuku-chi also, so that will not help you. My eye can keep up with it. It’s not often that I have so much trouble beating someone…” He grinned “But, you’re no match for the Battousai.”
The man in black snorted and jumped up to the top of the slanted roof.
“But, there are other ways of injuring the Hitokiri Battousai, without fighting him.” He laughed and with a sweep of his scythes, loosened the top tiles, creating a landslide. Soujirou saw it coming and jumped aside. But noticed Kaoru began slipping along with the tiles.
“Kaoru-san!” Soujirou ran faster than god speed and picked her up before she fell over the roof. He jumped to the ground below and set her down a safe distance from the falling tiles.
“Big mistake…” came a voice directly behind him. Soujirou turned around and moved just in time to avoid getting his throat cut open. One of the scythes grazed his neck.
“You were a millimeter away from having your jugular cut…” the man in black said calmly. Soujirou jumped back, he put his sword back into its sheath and stood ready.
“Ok, now I’m going to have to fight you seriously.” He said with an unreadable smile as he put on his usual mask of happiness. Showing no emotions as he readied to attack.
The man readied his stance again, but before Soujirou could attack he jumped back up to the roof, and disappeared.
&nbps; Soujirou could tell he had left for now. He sighed and relaxed his hold on the sword. Then turned to Kaoru, still lying motionless on the ground.
“Kaoru-san!” Soujirou asked as he lifted her head. “Kaoru-san! Can you hear me?”
There was no response.
“She must have been drugged.”He thought. He picked her up and started heading back towards the dojo. “I hope there are people at the dojo that can help her.”
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