Thaknfully, Kaoru stuck her head out of the house. "You need to find Yahiko, and you're here because of that stunt you pulled in Kyoto with the Yakuza," the kendo instructor reminded. "Now hurry up; your plot device is getting cold."
Embarassed by the reprimand, the ninja ran through the streets in random directions, until she happened upon Yahiko and Tsubame, Yahiko's "girlfriend", who were looking at a covered well in the middle of a forest.
"Yahiko!" Misao shouted as she ran up to the two kids, ignoring the fact that forests didn't often grow in cities. "We were looking all over for you!"
The swordsman-in-training pointed at the wooden well. "We think Kenshin fell down into that well!"
Misao stopped up short from her intent of reprimanding the boy. "Um..." she remarked, looking at the covered well, now noticing the strips of paper that adjoined the top, which she assumed were ofudas. Many of them were placed so that if someone wished to open the well, they would need to break the seals.
Hey, you'd be lost too if an expert swordsman managed to fall down a sealed well.
"Well..." the ninja muttered, "... let's try to get him out." She then proceeded to remove all of the wards, including the one that read in bold calligraphy "HEY! DON'T OPEN THIS YOU IDIOT! NO, I'M SERIOUS!".
Misao, Yahiko, and Tsubame lifted the heavy covering, and looked down the well. Looking down the well, they saw alot of darkness.
"Kenshin!" the child waitress called down. "Are you there?"
A faint voice responded, "Is that you, Miss Tsubame?"
Yahiko leaned over the dark portal. "Sorry Kenshin, we can't hear you!"
Kenshin's voice answered them, much louder, and, evidently, right behind the three. "Can you hear me now?"
It was by luck only that they didn't fall into the well. "Yeargh!" one of them said. Doesn't matter which one, really.
"Good!"
Misao glared at the red-haired swordsman. "Hey, Yahiko said you fell down that well!" she shouted, pointing at the formerly covered well.
"Don't be silly," Kenshin replied, smiling. "No one can fall down a well that's covered. By the way," he added, reaching over and pulling away the two kids, "have fun! Get us some gifts!"
The ninja blinked wice, before being dragged screaming into the well by a multi-armed beast of hell.
The student and the waitress stared at the now occupied well, then looked at the still smiling ex-assasin. "Um... Kenshin? Shouldn't you save her?" Yahiko queried.
"Not really; I'm playing the cat in this story, after all," he responded. He looked around. "Well, let's go find Sanosuke; he got the role of the grandfather."
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"THIS SUCKS!" Misao cried in surprise and astonishment as she was being pulled through a dizzying myriad of lights and colors by some weird freak. This certain freak, however, was sometimes known as...
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