Himura_battousai
Copyright© 2011 by Murasame
Chapter 156: 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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