Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ The Twisted Rose ❯ Dojo-less? ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2 Title: Who needs Kenshin anyway??

A/N, from Ame to all: Obviously Yahiko does...

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Kenshin awoke the next morning feeling perfectly fine, he looked for Karou and found that she was slumbering peacefully in her room. 'I guess Yahiko and I were not much of a shock to our hostess, that I do.' He smiled at her and then went off to the kitchen to cook breakfast. He carefully chopped what was left of the tofu but couldn't find any spices. Roughly ten minutes into his daily culinary routine, he felt a pulling feeling in his stomach. He ran in search of the bathroom with a pained look on his face.

Karou, by this time, had already awakened and was watching from the hallway. She stared at Kenshin's fleeing form, shocked that he could still stand. `He swallowed sharp metal objects, and all he has is slight digestive problems!' Karou thought, outraged. `Kenshin really is god like,' she muttered in disgust. Kenshin ran to the shack only to find it was locked, in great desperation he ran behind it into the bushes. Disgusted Karou left him to take care of business.

A/N, from Ame to Zan: Ever hear that song, "taking care of business"? Yea kind of reminds me of that...

A/N, from Z to A: [looks at Ame with disgust]

A/N, from A to Z: What?!? It's not that bad.

At least 4 hours later...

Kenshin emerged from the bushes with a look of relief on his face. He went into the dojo, but shortly returned outside with a sign. He hung the sign on the side of the shack, reading out loud: YOU DO NOT WANT TO PASS HERE IF YOU WISH TO RETAIN YOUR SENSE OF SMELL, THAT YOU DON'T! THIS NOTE IS FROM AN ANNOYMOUS PASSERBY, THAT IT IS. Kenshin backed away proudly admiring his handy work and confident that nobody would realize that he was the author of the sign and the one who had done the deed. He returned to the dojo just in time to join Karou, Yahiko, and Sano for an early lunch. He kneeled down at his place at the table, and Yahiko made a face of disgust, while Karou and Sano exchanged looks and laughed openly. "This unworthy one is wondering what is so funny, that he is."

"Nothing," Sano laughed, "it's just that you have this huge brown spot on your kimono!" (ahh what do boys wear? it's definitely not kimonos! Zan help me now! I command you.) Kenshin looked down and turned progressively redder, causing Sano and Karou to laugh even harder.

A/N, from A to Z: I'm not sure our readers are really going to like the whole spot thing.

A/N, from Z to A: What do you mean, its only supposed to be a reminder of the oil mixture he drank.

A/N, from A to Z: Well that's really gross Zan, and you say I have 4th grade humor!

A/N, from Z to A: Look! All I'm saying is that there is a splotch of oil from the gasoline on his clothes.

A/N, from A to Z: Oh you meant that it was oil...whoops...

A/N, from Z to A: [gives Ame an evil glare] I'm not quite sure I want to know what you `thought' the spot was…

Yahiko begin to grow angry in defense of his idol. "STOP LAUGHING YOU UGLIES!"

Karou stopped laughing immediately, "This is my dojo! From now on you are under MY rules if you plan to stay here. Not only that, from this point on, I'm charging a rent fee for room and for lessons. So don't you laugh unless I say so." She turned bright red, and her eyes began to glow. In the backround there was a soft sound of flowing water, and a puddle formed around Kenshin's legs. She whipped out her wooden sword from under the table and pointed it straight at Yahiko.

"This is to intense for me guys...um I'm skipping out. I've got to collect on the other night's winnings, and visit a certain foxy lady to get my wounds tended to." With that Sano left the room. The others sat in silence feeling Karou's battle aura gain strength. After 5 minutes of intense staring with Karou still holding her wooden sword...

A/N, from Ame to Zan: Sounding a bit like DBZ huh? And she's got to have a lot of arm strength for that!

…Sano returned to the room laughing, clutching his sides. "Kenshin there is no WAY that people won't know it's you who wrote that sign. Oh and little missy you won't want to be going around back for a couple weeks." With one last snicker he snuck out of the room just as Yahiko's slipper hit the wall where Sano had been standing a moment before. Yahiko glanced over at Kenshin noticing his became really big eyes and he suddenly possessed a really little mouth.

A/N, from Ame to Zan: Damn Karou's look can do a hell of a lot of damage. Oh and the big eyes little mouth thing is Strong Bad making fun of anime...for any the cheat lovers out there!

Yahiko embraced Kenshin and pulled him to his feet. He shot a look of pure hatred at Karou and walked Kenshin to his room. Karou didn't know what to feel as she watched her little samurai brat of a student help her former love back to their futon. But at that moment she knew she was done with the two of them.

The day went by and nobody spoke another word to each other. The dojo was quiet, except for the rustle of Karou's feet during her angry training. She needed to vent and just imagining hitting those two was a great way to do so. "Damn you Kenshin! And damn you twice Yahiko!! Why did this have to happen to me?? Why does it always happen to me?? KEH-EN-SHINNN!!!" *Kenshin sneezes*

Yahiko covered Kenshin, after hearing him sneeze, with several more blankets. He feared that Karou's masterful battosai look had gotten him sick. He knew that Kenshin's small and battle worn body could take no more torture at this dojo and something had to be done. It was then that Yahiko Myoujin devised his master plan… to get Tsumbame's help!!

A/N, from Zan to readers: Your just gonna have to wait until the next chapter to learn how that turns out (but you can guess it won't be very good!!)

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