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Himura Battousia Book 2: Kenshins Past

Copyright© 2007 by Trojan_85

Part 225: Just Then, A Gust of Wind

(Tsubame, rushing back to town, trips and falls.)

Tsubame (through her tears): Yahiko... Kenshin...

(The wind picks up, carrying leaves through the air. She looks behind her, and a look of joy spreads across her face.)

(Kuma brings a jug of sake and two cups over to Oibore.)

Kuma: Here. Brought you this. Don't spill it.

Oibore: Ah, thank you, thank you.

(They drink.)

Oibore: That reminds me, Kuma, there's something else I want to thank you for.

Kuma: Yeah?

Oibore: Letting that girl in here. Though I didn't know you had a thing for little girls-- (Kuma splutters.)

Oibore: Am I wrong?

Kuma: Damn right you are! (he settles back) The daughter my wife took with her would be about her age. Guess I felt like being a nice guy for a change.

(A pause.)

Kuma: Anyway, you shouldn't be talking. The perfume. The hairpin. An old man with a taste for women's things isn't something I like to see.

(Oibore takes the hairpin out of his topknot and looks at it for a moment.)

Oibore: Ha ha. Maybe you're right. Thanks for the drink. It's time I got going.

Kuma: Going? Where to?

Oibore: To Kyoto. It's been a while; I miss my daughter.

Kuma: Didn't know you had any family to go back to.

Oibore: No, I'm visiting her grave.

Kuma (surprised): Then that hairpin is your remembrance of her...

(Oibore only smiles.)

Kuma:... Forget it. When are you coming back?

Oibore: Probably be there a while... Big cities always have places for outcasts to go, so they'll look after me.

Kuma: Yeah... Well, you get along with everyone, so wherever you go you'll be fine.

Oibore: Ho ho. Well, I was never much good at anything. That was my only talent.

 
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