Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ Light Behind Darkness ❯ Kenshin's Pain ( Chapter 9 )

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Light Behind Darkness

Disclaimer: I don't own Rurouni Kenshin or any of the characters from Rurouni Kenshin. I only own the characters I created and the storyline to this fanfiction.

Thank you to everyone who has reviewed my story so far and that have liked it. I hope that you will read this chapter and review it as well and also I hope you will like this chapter too. Here is chapter 11.

Chapter 11: Kenshin's Pain

Misao walked down the quiet hallway and the only noise she heard were the sounds of the house and the sound of someone snoring. Misao walked quietly up the stairs and was extra quiet while walking past Battousai's room. She knew if he heard her or even sensed her as an enemy he would attack her no exceptions. So she managed to make it past his room without worrying if she was going to be alive tomorrow.

Misao walked down the hall a few more doors and stopped. Misao had made it to Aoshi's door and she knew that he knew she was there. She didn't have to be a vampire to know that someone else knew she was there. She put her hand on the door knob and just as she did someone put their hand on her shoulder causing her to scream bloody murder.

Every vampire in the mansion came out of their room even some who she had never seen before one of them being Hajime Saitou (I finally brought Saitou into the story.) Misao had stopped screaming by now but that was because there was a hand on her mouth. Kenshin, Kaoru, Fantasia, Fortello, Kamilia, Saitou, and Aoshi were all standing there looking at the person holding Misao hostage.

The person realized he had the wrong girl. "Well looks like my distraction worked." About that time Kaoru was grabbed and started screaming and just as Kenshin turned around he was it by the end of Kamatari's scythe sending him flying back into the wall. Kaoru screamed his name and the two Juppongatana members who were in there mocked him for letting such a pitiful creature call him by his name and not the name every person feared.

Fantasia stood there and looked at Kenshin and she feared the worst. Kamatari looked over at her and said "Your next sweetheart." "I am not your sweetheart darling." Fantasia said throwing her iron pipe she had at him. She knew he would block it but it gave her enough time to see if Kenshin was all right. She got over to him and said "Kenshin are you okay get up you have to save Kaoru!"

He looked up at her and said "I am going to save Kaoru and I am going to save you as well. Because I made a promise to myself that I wouldn't let them take you. I wouldn't let them use you and that I wouldn't let them control you like some animal. I also made a promise to Kaoru that I would always protect her no matter what and I am going to keep both of those promises."

Fantasia looked at him and started crying. Kenshin looked at her and said "stop crying Fantasia no one is going to get hurt I . . . " "Don't promise something you and I both know you can't keep and I don't want you breaking your promise when it is a pointless promise in the first place!" She said as she was now to upset to even think crying. All Kenshin could do was shake his head in agreement to her.

Kenshin stood up and walked over to Chou who had Kaoru in his grip. He though was no longer Kenshin no he was Battousai now and he was very angry. "Put her down or I kill you no exceptions." Battousai said pulling his sword out. "Fine I will put her down just because I want to fight with the legendary Battousai." Chou said also pulling out his sword (the one that you could probably play jump rope with that one. I can't think of the name of it right now but if someone can tell me just write it in a review please.)

Chou threw Kaoru to the side were she was caught by Usui. Kamatari was trying to catch Fantasia which he was doing a bad job of it. Fantasia had managed to dodge the end of his scythe and ended up using the hilt of her sword to knock him back into a wall. Fantasia ran down the stairs and into her room. Sora looked at her and said "what is wrong?" "Sora you have to help Kenshin the mansion is under attack and he could use all the help he can get!" "Fantasia who's all out there and what is going on?" "Well of course I was out there but Kenshin, Kaoru, Misao, Sanosuke, Aoshi, Saitou and all the others are out there fighting off the enemy. They are here to get Kaoru and . . . " "And who? Who else are they coming to get?"

"Well um they have um come to get me and Kamilia." "What! No, I won't let them take you!" "Don't worry they won't get me!" "Okay do you promise?" "Sora I can't promise something that I know will probably happen if given the chance all I can say is I will not let them take me!" "Okay that is good enough for me let's go and help stop the attack!" They ran out of the room and up the stairs and about that time Usui grabbed Fantasia also.

"Sor . . . !" Usui covered her mouth with his hand. Sora turned around and said "Fantasia hold on!" "Stop right there if you make one move toward me I will kill you!" Usui said. Fantasia started to struggle against him and he realized she was going to also be more trouble than she was worth. So he rendered her unconscious as well. Sora stood there and looked that was all he could do. Kamatari had gotten up and was angry that she could knock him back into a wall. He decided that when Shishio wants her dead, he was going to be the one to kill her.

Battousai looked at Sora and realized that Fantasia had also been captured and that angered him even further. Battousai looked at Chou and said to Aoshi with venom coming off of each word "Aoshi you better get Misao out of here she is only a human she will die if they decided to actually go after her." Aoshi agreed and went for Misao. Battousai said to Sanosuke "Get out of here and go to the clinic and get Megumi tell her we are going to need her after this. There will be some injured during this little fight." Sanosuke agreed and looked for a way out without being noticed.

He then said to Saitou "Saitou kill off the enemy all of them but do not hurt any of the people they are holding hostage. Saitou looked at Battousai and said "I will do it but after everything is over with I want my chance to kill you." "You will get your chance at a fight with me after everyone else is safe and the enemy is killed."Saitou agreed with Battousai and decided that his target was Kamatari. Battousai decided that his fight with Chou was over.

Chou swung his sword at Battousai and Battousai dodged it and used his own sword he swung slitting Chou from his heart to his right leg. Chou disappeared into ashes. Battousai looked for Usui who had both Kaoru and Fantasia but he was no where to be found. Henya on the other hand was outside and ready to kill them all off. Once he knew the girls were out of the house he would throw the bombs and kill them all off. Well he knew the Battousai wouldn't die easily but he knew the others would be dead.

Battousai looked around to see if he could spot him but he couldn't then he realized that Kamilia was also gone. Battousai looked around for Sora and found him bleeding. Sora must have fought with Usui to get Fantasia back. Battousai ran up to him and said "Sora you have to hold on!" Sora smiled and said "t-t-this t-time I am n-n-not f-faking this time I am a-a-actually d-dying. H-h-here give this to F-F-Fantasia and tell her not to cry for me. Tell her she has to move on and that I love her." Sora handed Battousai the necklace and then also turned to ashes.

Battousai stood there, he knew she wouldn't be able to handle this. With that act though all of the angry from a few minutes ago was gone Battousai had left and it was Kenshin who was looking at the pile that was his friend. Kenshin knew no matter what he had to get the girls back and give Fantasia this necklace. Fortello came running up to him and said "Kenshin what happened? What is going on and who is the pile of ash?" "It is Sora and I don't know how we are going to tell Fantasia." Kenshin said in response to all of Fortello's questions.

Meanwhile outside Henya seen Usui with the girls and knew it was his time to finish off any vampires that were weak enough to get killed off by the explosion. He light a few sticks of dynamite and threw it at the house. Kenshin and the rest heard the explosions starting at the other end of the house. They decided it was not a good time to stick around the mansion. They ran to the nearest exit and on the top floor of the mansion the only exit was a window.

Kenshin and Fortello were the first to get out of the mansion. Some of the others got out but not many. Kenshin, Fortello, and Saitou watched as the mansion burned up. They looked up to see Henya flying away. "Well there is the person we can blame for the explosion." Fortello said looking back at the mansion. "They meant for it to be this way. They were planning this all along." Saitou said still calm. Fortello couldn't see why he was so calm because he was ready to kick someone's ass for taking his sisters away from him.

Meanwhile Usui had managed to make his way back to the secret place where Shishio hid waiting for him to bring what he needed to rule the world. Usui enter the huge mansion which was hidden from the world and walked to the room where Shishio resided. He walked in and threw all three girls on the ground. Shishio looked at him and said "Where is the rest of the Jupongatana?" "I don't know I don't care." Usui said back to Shishio. "Okay well I have what I want so it doesn't really matter." "Shishio now you are to hold up your part of our deal I am to get the chance to fight you.

This time I will kill you and make you pay for what you did to me!" Usui said to Shishio as he was ready to fight him. "Later Usui right now I need Battousai to take the bait and after I kill him you will get your chance to kill me if you can." Shishio said walking over to the three girls laying on the floor. "Houji take them to a room and Yumi see that they are treated very well while they are here. I have to call a partner of mine to make sure he has held up his part of the deal." Yumi and Houji agreed and did as Shishio had said. Houji took them to the rooms and Yumi waited for each girl to wake up.

Kaoru was the first to wake up since she was the first to be render unconscious. Kaoru looked around the room she was in and saw Yumi and said " Where am I and where is Kenshin?" Yumi looked at her and said "You are in my lord Shishio's mansion and I don't know where your Kenshin is. Who is Kenshin anyway? I thought you were with Battousai." "Kenshin is his real name not Battousai." "Well he is not here and he won't be here for a while. As for you I am to make sure that you and the other two girls are treated very well. So is there anything I can get for you?" "No thank you I just need to think for a bit."

Yumi nodded her head in agreement and left the room to check on the other two girls. Kaoru sat there while she left and said aloud to herself "Kenshin please come for me." Kaoru laid down on the bed she was on and started to cry. Meanwhile Fantasia had started to stir when Yumi walked into her room. Unlike Kaoru though when she was fully awake she was not as forgetful and she had her words "Where am I?!" "You are at Shishio's mansion." "Well Shishio better let me go because I am not staying here and Shishio can't force me too. If he could, he would have come his fucking self to kidnap us so he must not be to damn powerful! I hope Battousai kills him!"

Yumi listened to her words and was angry but she knew she didn't stand a chance against this girl and she knew her words were meant. All Yumi said was "I was told to make sure you were treated very well and if there is anything I can get you just say it and I will." "There is nothing I want so you can just leave!" Yumi did as she said. Fantasia looked at the mirror that was in her room and said "I hope your okay Sora and Keshin protect yourself so you can come and save Kaoru." As she started to cry.

Yumi made it to the third room and hoped she was nothing like her sister. Yumi walked in and saw the girl shake even more when she walked in the room. Kamilia said "W-w-who a-a-are y-y-you a-and w-w-where am I?" "I am Yumi I am here to make sure that all of your needs are met and you are in Shishio's mansion." Yumi said in response to the scared girl's question. Yumi liked her and wished the other two were like her. Yumi smiled at her and said "is there anything I can get you?" Kamilia said "no nothing right now thank you." "Your welcome well if you need anything just call." Yumi left the room.

Kamilia just looked around the room and started to also cry she wanted to go home or anywhere but here. Meanwhile, back at the mansion Kenshin, Fortello, and Saitou had found Kamatari. Kamatari looked up that them from where he was laying on the ground. He had broken his leg jumping from the roof where he had jumped from. He said "what do you want I won't talk I will not go against my lord!" Kenshin said "really what if I was to threaten your life then would you talk?"

"No, I will not go against Lord Shishio!" Kamatari said not meaning to. Kenshin, Fortello, and Saitou looked at him and Fortello said "who is Shishio?" "Shishio is trying to take over all of Japan. The police have been keeping up with his activities but we never thought he would attack this mansion." "If you didn't think he was going to attack the mansion then why were you here. Wait a minute you’re a policeman!" "Yes stupid I am and what are you suppose to be the little girl's body guard you are a bad one if you are."

"No, I am not. I am Fantasia's brother Fortello!" "Stop it you two! Now what is Shishio's plan for the girls?" Kenshin said looking back at Kamatari. "I will not tell you my loyalty is to Lord Shishio only no one else." "Fine then I will have to kill you since you don't want to comply with what I have asked." Kenshin was about to kill Kamatari when Saitou said "Stop Battousai why don't we let him go. He is obviously no help to us." Kenshin looked at Saitou and realized what they were going to do. Kenshin looked over at Fortello and said (do you still have the tracking device you came with that you were going to use on me if I left the mansion?) (How did you know I had one?) (I just knew now do you have it?) (Yeah I still have it why?)

(Help Kamatari up and put it on him we will let him go and then follow him where it leads us.) (Okay.) Fortello walked up to Kamatari and said "here let me help you up." Kamatari looked at him but took his hand he stood up and grabbed his scythe and started to leave but Fortello said "wait I have something to tell you." Fortello walked up to Kamatari and put his hand on his back and said "tell your lord that Battousai has nothing left that he has nothing to worry about." Kamatari looked at Fortello and said "I will tell him but doesn't mean we believe you." Kamatari left.

Fortello pulled a device out of his pocket and turned it on they watch the little red light as it moved. "So where do you think the hide out is Kenshin?" "I don't know that is why we are waiting for the light to stop." "Okay well we better looked to see if there are anymore survivors than the ones that are standing right here with us." Fortello said walking over to the mansion ruins. He looked around and said but I doubt it. About that time out of tree came Hiko. Fortello looked at him and said "well look who finally decided to show up Mr. I think I am too good to help out!"

Hiko looked at him and said "stop yelling I wasn't even at the mansion when this happened. What happened exactly?" "We were attacked and the girls were kidnaped and then the mansion was blown up! What more do you want to know?!" Fortello said yelling still. "Calm down Fortello sensei didn't cause this so you shouldn't be yelling at him." Kenshin said walking up to Hiko. "We have a tracking device on one of the people who attacked up and one was killed the other two got away."

About that time Saitou walked off. Kenshin looked at him and said "where are you going?" "I am going home when you go to get Shishio you can come get me but until then don't bother me unless it is to fight me Battousai." Saitou left Fortello, Hiko, and Kenshin just watched him leave. Fortello and Kenshin looked at Hiko again and Fortello said "so don't one of you know how to stop this Shishio guy?" They both looked at him and said "yeah we do we just have to wait for the right time to use it." Kenshin said "we have to wait for the other to get back so we can tell them what happened. Then we will go after Shishio."

"Okay well then I will just sit here and wait." Fortello said sitting down on the ground. Hiko looked at him and said "why don't we just go to where they are and tell them." Fortello said "that is a great idea let's go!" Meanwhile back at the hidden mansion Shishio was going to visit his prisoners and see how they were feeling. He walked to Kaoru's room to find that all three had found their way to one room. He stopped and listened and he heard all three of them so he waited to listen what they were talking about.

Inside the room "Kaoru calm down Kenshin will be here to get us and then I kill the guy who kidnaped us that is the only person I want to kill." Fantasia said trying to make Kaoru stop crying. Kaoru looked at her and said still sobbing "I-I-I don't w-w-want K-K-Kenshin to kill anyone I just want to go home!" "It is okay we will get out of here we just have to figure a way out." Shishio walked in about that time. Shishio looked at the girls and said "ladies are we not happy here?" Fantasia looked at him and said "have you been listening in on our conversations?!"

"Well I can’t have you three plotting against me now can I?" "Well I guess not but it is not like you can stop us from doing it anyway." "How very true. Now is there anything that you need because if there is Houji will be happy to get it for you." "No we are fine thank you." "Fine then well I will be leaving now but if there is anything any of you need just tell Yumi or Houji one will be happy to get for you." Shishio left the room followed by Houji and Yumi.

"Lord Shishio when are we getting rid of them?" "Soon Yumi soon. My plan will be ready soon and then we will use the power the two half breeds have and then we will kill the Battousai's love where he can watch her suffer by my sword." Shishio began to laugh and so did Yumi and Houji. "Lord Shishio you are a genius." Houji said. Shishio just shook his head in agreement.

Well there is Chapter 11 I am sorry it took so long but I have had a lot to do at school and the homework they have been giving me is going to kill me. Good thing next year I won't have too many classes so not so much homework. Well anyway it is done and I will start working on chapter 12 probably tomorrow.

Preview for Chapter 12: Kenshin, Hiko, and Fortello went to Megumi's and told Sanosuke what was going on and he decided he would also help. They went to find Yahiko so he could know he would have to stay with Megumi because the mansion was no more.

Well I am sorry for any grammar errors or spelling errors I tired to get all of them out of it. I hope that you read and review and I hope that you like this chapter.

Leokia: Yay another chapter done I hope that everyone who reads it likes it.

Sora: I don't you killed me and this time for real I don't like that T-T.

Fortello: I got a bigger part YAY I am happy ^_^.

Leokia: Yeah I gave you a bigger part and I gave him an important part. His part will affect my fanfiction and if I make a sequel to it.

Sora: Why?

Leokia: I can't say because then that would give it away a major part to the plot.

Sora and Fortello: Oh okay.

Well now that that's done, I hope that you like Chapter 11 and will review my story and come back and read chapter 12 and read it too.