Sorry that I have not updated the story, I will try to be more up to date with it. No excuses, I just got lazy that's all, that and a little writer's block will do you in! So here is the LONG awaited Chapter Four…

Chapter Four

A voice came from the darkness, "Hello Misao," it said. Without much thought she could tell the voice was not coming from a friend. The voice was full of evil.

Misao was scared and had no idea what to do. Finally she built up the courage to ask, "Who are you and what have you done to Aoshi?"

"Misao, my little Misao," said the man ahs he walked into the room and into Misao's sight. He was a tall, skinny man wearing glasses. He looked like a weak, pathetic man. However, Misao sensed danger in every bone in her body.

"Answer me, and I am not your little Misao," she answered back.

"Aoshi should be fine," the man replied, "I had not reason to kill him after I got what I needed, and that is no way to talk to your husband, or should I say fiancée, but we will be married soon enough."

Misao looked at him horrified. "Husband? Fiancée? What on earth is this man talking about? He is not marrying me!" Misao's head was spinning and she was finally able to say, "I am not your fiancée, and I am not marring you. I don't know who you think you are, but I am going to marry…"

"Me," the man whispered coming close to her face and cutting her off. "You are going to marry me, Takeda Kanryu. If you have a problem with that, maybe we will have to discuss this with Aoshi, considering he promised me your hand when you were just a baby."

As if her head was not spinning enough but this new information just made it worse. "Aoshi would never agree to that," Misao exclaimed, "He told me I would be able to choose whom ever I wanted!" Misao became angry. Why was this man, Takeda, lying to her? He had no right to kidnap her and then fill her head with lies. She made up her mind; she would escape and fine Kenshin but how?

Takeda now pulled out a piece of paper and held it in front of Misao so she would be able to read it. It read:

I Aoshi Shinomori will raise Misao Machimaki to the best of my abilities. I will raise her to protect her future husband Takeda Kanryu. I fully understand and will give her over to Takeda Kanryu on her sixteenth birthday.

It was signed by Aoshi and even had his stamp on it proving that is was indeed him who signed the binding contract.

Misao could not help but fall to her knees and cry. He beautiful dream, her perfect life, her entire reality came crashing down on her. "How can this be? How could he do this to me? He lied to me!" Misao's head was racing once again, trying to think of a way for all this to be untrue.

Misao prayed to Kami, begging, pleading that Kenshin would find her. "Kenshin," she thought, "What will he think?"

"Now I assume you are a virgin, if not it does not matter that much anyway," Takeda said breaking through the thoughts in Misao's head. "But I am very curious, and we are getting married." Takeda looked at Misao very suggestively as he walked towards her.

"Get away from me," Misao screamed with fear and hatred in her voice. "He can't honestly be thinking…" Misao thought when she heard him snap his fingers.

Four men walked into the room and Misao knew exactly what was going to happen. Still she managed to bring herself to her feet and readied herself for a fight. Takeda said something to her but she was done listening to him. An order was barked at the men and they started towards Misao. No one could say that Misao did not put up a fight but unfortunately the four men her bigger and tougher, not to mention they out numbered her.

They died her to the bed that she had woken up on and Takeda approached laughing and pulled out a knife. He started to cut her clothes off revealing her untouched, naked body that seemed almost flawless. He then dismissed the men and proceeded to take his clothes off revealing his mature scrawny body. Misao closed her eyes, she did not want to see this.

Misao felt Takeda climb on the bed, and then onto her. "This is going to hurt you more than it's going to hurt me," Takeda whispered.

Misao closed her eyes tighter as she felt Takeda thrust himself into her. "Kenshin," she thought, "please save me."