From: The Fox Let's get serious....God, sure the Seventh sense of Kenshin is screaming to him for run for his life. Weelll, I want to join to the Everybody is Crazy about That Pink Samurai!!! Me too !!!!Me tooo !!!! Wai!!!!Wai!!!! (cute Sd kenshin run screaming Orooo!!! with a bunch of girls after him)Arigatou, Erin!!!! About that speech thing, Sano never did used honorifics with Kenshin and neither him with Sano, neeh??(de gozaru??) And about speech thing, somebody can give me some "bitch" synonimous???"wrench" is Ok?? Please somebody answer me...I'm afraid I'm not spellling right in my Saitoh&Yumi One Million Encounter. And finally .... Last night I was very depressed, very very very....so I start looking my painted picture of the kenshingumi in my wall and... dont kill me.... i know is terrible. ........................................................ I don't know why I'm writing this. Its midnigth and i must be studying physiology. But I read some years ago the book "Two minutes before midday" and since some days I can't take off me this idea. I know is sad. I know in terrible.Reading Denny Oneil's Cataclysm isnt better. Forgive me...I'm in really really bad mood tonight. I cried a lot writing this. ................................................................. This story is dedicated to all the people who suffered the grat Kanto effects, and to their families. .................................................................. The Great Kanto. Tokyo,September 1§ 1923. Tokyo is almost destroyed. Two minutes before midday a earthquake turns Tokyo and a big part of our country almost nothing. Two Peaks Tower parts in two: Sagami Bay was under water. A tai-fun was announced. People are dying, and suffering...Since the Corean wars whe didnt suffer the pain and the danger. The streets are full of people crying and asking desperantly for help, of falled houses and buildings, and ashes from the fires. No stars to nigth . Just smoke and clouds...and the light of the flowers of Edo. I'm writing alone in the dojo, thanks to Kamisama it did resist ...in part. The kitchen... I don't need a candle: I can read very well under the ligth of the fires. Half Tokyo is in flames now,and from I'm sitted in the porch the red light ...Edo no hana, the flowers of Edo, as my people always call it. But the Akabeko, oh... poor Tsubame-chan, poor Tsubako. I know Yahiko-chan is destroyed too. But when I saw him coming, pale , dirty with ashes and tears with his young son I begin to cry, but he dry my tears and taking his bokken calls his students: his son Ken, Sano's Shin and Sei, Kaoru's Makoto and Kaworu. He says to me softly :" The Kamiya Kashin Ryuu haves a duty to perform: protect the people. I can't protect to Tsubame-chan or my daugther now, but is other people to help." I was so proud of him ... They are go the streets trying to help. And is the one of morning and they aren't returned yet. Mina-chan is taking care of Ayame. I don't know where she finds the will for do it, with her parents dead in the next room... I know she was crying quietly, but as the first Megumi's student sure she take care of Ayachan. I'm afraid for her injury... the brick hits her head quite hard and she falls inmediately, trying to protect the little Kaoru-chan, the daugther of Makoto. Please neesan, wake up...I need you. We need you so, since Ken-niisan and Kaoru... I sob desperantly . The smell of fire,of blood and destruction in the air is overhelming. Suddenly the front yard and the destroyed kitchen looks so unbereably sad to me. We find them holding one to each other under the ruins. Looks like Ken-neesan tries to protect his wife till the last instant. Surely they dead instantly when the wall falls over them. Their sons and Sano-neesan take them to their room. I know they're there nested peacefully, but all of sudden their warming presence is gone. I feel so vulnerable. So alone. So child again... Kenshin, all his life, all his brilliant flame in a second...gone. His smile, his kindness, like a flower falling in the breeze. He seems always have the sunshine with him, his warmth and light. Without him, our home looks so empty and cold. Kaoru, Kenshin... Sano-neesan looks so stunned. He locks himself alone with them a minutes and then goes straigth to the streets. I've heared the newspapers street are in full fire. I know since Megumi's disease and death Katsu-otousan was a truly support for him . I'm so afraid for him.I just can pray they're okay. Oh, Tatsuya, my husband....for the first time I'm happy because you died all that months ago. You don't have to see this...I just pray for our son in Kyoto with Misao-san and Hikoichi-chan... I can't help but I remeber now seeing the garden,full of bricks and dirt, so different as I always saw it. I can remeber clearly from my childhood Ayame and me playing here with Ken-neesan, Sano-neesan sleeping quietly letting us nest with him at sun for a nap, Kaoru-chan and Yahiko practicing and fighting. Joy...then the wedding of Kenshin and Kaoru, the day Yahiko , Aya and me turns Himuras...the born of Makoto, his fiery temperament, his strong nature...he was born for be what he is :a warrior. When he married Midori-chan everyone was happy for the link between us and Aoshi-san. Sad than the born of Kaoru-chan give us the sorrow of her loss. She was a lovely lady, a calm and collected younggirl with the most perfect beauty I've ever seen....and the sweetest heart. But Kaoru is a little devil so look-alike the great Kaoru and Misao-chan. Oh God...at least she is okey. After Makoto comes Kaworu. He is a sweet boy...and the best Zen teacher after Aoshi-san I know. He studied with him for years, and now works in the dojo. His black hair, his violet eyes...his heritage was the gentle warm of Ken-neesan. And their younger son was Hikoichi.The red-maned little devil who with Sei-chan always covering his steps make this dojo tremble ...he and my son Takashi haves a good resemblance of Yahiko-chan: always adventurer, always unquiet. Then comes surprisengly Mina-chan, their one daughter. So sweet so quiet as Kaworu...but so stubborn as her mother, my God. Sano-san and Megumi-chan married few years after. I know they loves one to each other deeply, although they fight each other till that last day. Shinnosuke, her older son, was always the partner of Makoto and they are responsible of a lot of white hairs in the heads of the dojo's women . But Shin-chan always was a curious thing, always his nose in some place where he didnt need to be. No wonder he becames a reporter with his uncle Katsu. And then Sei-chan...a policeman. This was a down hit for Sano-neesan ...everybody laugh about it for years. Saitoh Eiji takes him under his wing and now we can hear "Inspector Sagara"twelve times a day...I know Megumi was very proud of him. Yahiko-chan married Tsubame-chan very soon - so soon, reproach Megumi- and after Tae-san's death all the Akabeko establishment goes to them. Although Tsuba-chan always take care of it, was more his son Ken, the methodical and practical Ken-chan who take care about. He always was the support of all the family, always taking care of all the material things no anyone seems to bother. Ken...and then his little sister Tsubako.Oh Kamisama, the fire did kill she and her mother . I just hope Yahiko and Ken-chan can affront this... I fall in love with Katsu'son, Tatsuya , when I reached twenty. When we marry, my happiness was perfect...was years of bliss, and when my one son born, Takashi. He is now with Hikoichi in Kyoto working with the Oniwabanshuus...I pray for them, all of them, are well. Then the Corean War come and with it the disease. Almost all of us suffer it, but thanks to Megumi and Mina-chan we can save,except my husband. But Megumi was so tired and exhausted ...than when she finally contagied she can't resist... Mina-chan now take care of the clinic. Her luminous blue eyes and his fiery red strands are conquest Saitoh's younger son, but I know she doesn't think in marriage still. Saitoh's family, well, after his death and Takagi Tokio's, Eiji becomes the Inspector Saitoh. I know she always look at Aya, but he never take the first step. I wait he is okay in this crazy night of destruction. Surely Eiji-chan is out in the streets, as my family... Ken-neesan, Kaoru-chan,I made a bow long ago : I will take care of everyone when you aren't here. We'are a family, thanks that many years ago a girl says a rurouni "stay..." Kamisama have mercy of all of us and protect my loved ones... Himura Suzume. ........................................................... --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- Show your ONElist SPIRIT! http://www.onelist.com/store/tshirts.html With a new ONElist SHIRT available through our website. ------------------------------------------------------------------------