Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ flames of a beginning ❯ chapter four ( Chapter 4 )

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Flames of a beginning

Chapter Four (Kenshin's p.o.v.) but I might go third person in it

It has been four days since Miss Kaoru had her accident and she slowly and steadily is regaining her health. She has yet to show any sign of waking up or even moving. The town's people have been very helpful through this terrible ordeal, many have come to bring food and donations since they know it was Kaoru who made the money for those things, and also to pay respects to her and her surrogate family (kind of makes her sound like she's dead those cynical town's people ;-) Yahiko has taken over many responsibilities to take care of Kaoru. This shows he is no little ten-year-old boy. Megumi has come frequently to visit and check how Kaoru's burns are. She says that as long as we keep putting the salves on the burns should heal, but she will have scars. Sano is another story. I have yet to see him, probably drunk himself into a stupor, but he will turn up eventually. Now as to how I'm doing I can not say. I take each day in stride. I have had little or no sleep for the past four days. Each day I go into her room and help Yahiko take care of her, my angel, our savior. I have gotten into the routine of telling Yahiko to go and eat, but I think he knows I want to spend time with my angel alone. As I stare at her sleeping form and look at all the burns and on her I can not help, but feel the Battousi creep up and feel his rage at how stupid the boy was. That if Yahiko had not locked her in that Gods forsaken shed and left the gosh darn lantern there she would not be in this condition and he would be able to see her smile everyday. The Battousi made him feel like beating the crap out someone, someone as in a kid. It is around here I drown out the Battousi's curses; I would NEVER hurt Yahiko he hurts himself enough as it is. He, in some ways, is similar to me trying to atone for past sins committed.

It is now that Yahiko enters the room and says, "Kenshin you can help you self to the food I only ate a little, I wasn't that hungary."

I look at Yahiko and pat him on the shoulders and I exit to get something into my empty stomach. As I sit down to eat I here a knock at the door and then Sano bursts into the kitchen. He shouts, "Yo, Jou-chan, Kenshin are you home. I kind of don't have any food so I wondering if I could bum some off of you."

As Sano was talking I had gotten up and walked towards him with a solemn look. He looks at me and his expression changes to one of worry. He asks, "Kenshin, what's wrong where is Jou-chan."

I close my eyes and take a deep breath and say, "Kaoru is in her room, she has had an accident. She was caught in the shed as it began to catch fire and she just barely managed to escape."

Sano's mouth drops open and closes trying to figure out what to say and then he manages, "How?? Why??"

As I begin to answer Yahiko walks into the room and says with remorse lining his words, " It was my fault. I…. I ….. I locked her in there and……I …..I forgot my lantern and then the storm came and blew the lantern over and the shed caught fire. It…. It was …an accident."

Sano just looks at him and you can see the anger that appears and then he shouts, "AN ACCIDENT!!! WHAT DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING? GOOD GODS I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW IRRESPONSIBLE YOU WERE."

I stepped in there and looked unemotionally at Sano as I say, " Yes Sano, Yahiko knows what he has done. He has been taking responsibility for his actions for four days. I don't think he needs you yelling at him too. He does it enough to himself, that he does."

"FOUR DAYS AGO. GODS WHY DIDN'T ANYBODY TELL ME. LET ME SEE HER NOW."

"SANO WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP YELLING IT IS HELPING NOTHING, YOU HEAR ME NOTHING. KAORU HAS BEEN NEARLY KILLED AND ALL YOU CAN DO IS SCREAM. WELL THIS IS THE WAY THINGS ARE LOVED ONES GET HURT AND THERE IS NOTHING. NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. ALL YOU CAN DO IS TAKE CARE OF THAT PERSON AND WAIT FOR THEM TO GET BETTER. I HATE KAORU BEING HURT MORE THAN ANYONE BUT YOU DO NOT SEE ME LOSING CONTROL, YOU DON'T SEE ME LOSING MYSELF IN MY GRIEF, BECAUSE I MUST TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE HOUSEHOLD AND CAN NOT LOSE CONTROL."

With that said Kenshin made his way to the laundry to try and relieve some tension he had, leaving Sano with his jaw hanging open. Kenshin heard Sano make his way towards Kaoru's room and heard him gasp at the site.

'Why, Why does this always happen to me? Why do my loved ones always get hurt? Damn it. When will the Gods see fit to let my life be more than a miserable pit of never ending despair? When, Gods When? I do not think I can take another tragedy such as this. I will surely crack. I feel like I'm underwater and I can't breathe. I'm drowning and the only way to relieve the pressure is for my angel to awaken and bring me back to the surface.'

Sano came out of Kaoru's room to with a choked up expression on his face. He couldn't believe that Yahiko, YAHIKO of all people caused this to happen. It was like he was in some surreal world where everything was all wrong. He took a glance at the kid and he could see some similarity in Yahiko's eyes and Kenshin's. Now all three men in this dojo have felt the same feeling of helplessness and self- loathing for not being able to help their loved ones. 'Man this sure is one messed up family we got here.'

At this Sano cracked a barely perceptible smirk. He slowly approached Yahiko and put his large hand on his back and said, " The pain dulls in time. Jou-chan will get better and she'll forgive you in an instant. She won't be mad at you."

Yahiko looked up at Sano this was the first time anyone had said anything comforting to him. Sure Kenshin had protected him, but Sano saying that helped ease the worry from him.

Then Sano had to say with a smirk on his face, " And if she does beat the living day-lights out of ya, you can come crash at my place and clean it up a bit."

Yahiko understanding that Sano was saying he would be there for him choked on some tears and cracked a smile saying, "Thanks chicken head."

"Anytime, kid, anytime."

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