Himura Battousia Book 2: Kenshins Past
Copyright© 2007 by Trojan_85
Part 158: The Twin Storms Rage!
Eleven o'clock that night--
(All is quiet in the Kamiya household except for the tick of a clock. Kaoru and Yahiko sleep; Kenshin seems to doze sitting up in the dojo.)
(A figure appears at the gate; Kenshin is instantly alert.)
Kenshin (thinking): They're here!
(Kaoru and Yahiko join Kenshin rushing out to the gate.)
Yahiko: Kenshin!
Kaoru: What was that noise?
Kenshin: Sh. (to the man on the other side of the gate.) Stop right there. Back away slowly.
Voice: Please... open the gate... If you don't, the Maekawa dojo will be...
(It's a man from the dojo. Beaten and bloody, he slumps against the fence.)
Yahiko: What happened? Someone challenged the dojo?
Man: No... this man... meant to kill from the start. I ran... the police can't help... If this goes on, he'll kill them all...
Kaoru: Kenshin--
Yahiko: I'm coming too--
Kenshin: Stay here!
(He says it so fiercely that Yahiko is shocked into silence.)
Kenshin: I'll be back by morning! Bar the door and keep watch!
Kaoru: All right. (thinking) First the Akabeko, now the Maekawa dojo... This is no coincidence. Someone is going after us!
(Fists clenched, Yahiko watches Kenshin disappear into the night.)
Kenshin (thinking): The Maekawa dojo! I was only there once, that time with Raijuuta when Miss Kaoru and Yahiko were training. If they struck there, they've been checking up on me more thoroughly than I thought...
Sanosuke: Hey, Kenshin!
(He sees Sanosuke rounding a corner with some policemen.)
Kenshin: You were keeping watch on the Oguni clinic!
Sanosuke: There's no time for that. Injured started coming in from the Maekawa dojo.
Officer: Are you Mr. Himura? We've heard about you from Chief Uramura.
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