EXTRA CHAPTER: Saito's Thoughts

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Hajime Saito’s POV

“Good Morning Saito-san!” Yukimura cheerfully greets

“Good Morning Yukimura” I greet as well, she was carrying a tray of tea heading to Vice Commander Hijikata’s room

“Are you going to talk to Hijikata-san?” She asked

“No. I was headed to the Courtyard to train my men” I informed her

“Good Luck with your training” Yukimura cheered

We parted ways while I headed towards the courtyard, I found Kihara on the steps down sitting dango at her side with tea and a book on her lap

“Good Morning Saito-san” She greets without so much as looking up from the book she was reading. That actually is pretty strange how did she always ever knew who would approach her?

“...Good morning Kihara” I greet as well I always see her loitering around sitting here or perhaps at the Hall her feet dangling down. Kihara and Yukimura are two different persons but the two have something in common they are very strange, I shook my thoughts out of the way and proceeded to train my men.

“Haaa!” My men shouted while they were doing basic drills.

“Hey Fuyumi-chan” I heard Heisuke’s voice “What are you doing around here?” I heard him ask

“I was just relaxing” She states

“Hmm...? You’re relaxing in a place like this? And you’re reading a book? Isn’t it too noisy to be around here?” that’s true, well Kihara is strange so that’s no surprise hearing her say that

“I was indulging myself at the scenery since it’s like in the book, see?” I ignored them but Heisuke’s voice is so loud that I can hear their conversation even though I filter their voices out

“That’s true! Is this a love story?” Heisuke asks

“No. This is actually a murder, the woman is just sneaking around the headquarters” She informs her, they talk for a few moments before Heisuke exclaimed that Hijikata was making him run an errand he says goodbye and silence hung in the air again. But it was already time to dismiss my men I didn’t notice the time it seems that they’re little chat distracted me as well

“All right that’s enough for today” I said dismissing them

“Thank You Captain Saito” They said bowing their heads I was about to head inside but Kihara stopped me

“Saito-san” She calls out “Good work for today” she says “Here” She hands a dango to me, I was contemplating whether or not I would accept it when a hand suddenly grab it.

“Saito-san” She calls out “Good work for today” she says “Here” She hands a dango to me, I was contemplating whether or not I would accept it when a hand suddenly grab it

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“Don’t mind if I do, Fuyu-chan” Okita says walking away, She glared at Souji’s back and offered me another

“T-Thanks” I said accepting the sweet, she pats her side beckoning to sit with her, I gave a thoughtful look but she suddenly chuckled.

“You don’t have to think of everything Saito-san you just need to go with the flow sometimes” She informed me, I sat beside her, She turned back to her book while eating her dango, I on the other hand stared at the dango she gave me, I actually wanted to talk to her but never really had the time since the other sometimes takes her away or she’s too busy to talk...I turn to look at her she was intently staring at the book,  Dango half way through her mouth, she had a serious expression on her face, I didn’t notice that I was staring at her.

“...” I realized that her expression was the same when Souji and I first encountered her. Beauty shone in the light of the moonlight, I was mesmerized by her and I still am...

“Saito-san?” I snapped out of my thoughts “You were spacing out, and smiling to yourself, did you remembered something nice?” She asked

“Not in particular” I told her
She closes her book and turned around giving her full attention to me

“Did you have something to talk about? Your eyes shown restlessness when you sat down” I proceeded to eat the dango she gave

“I wanted to talk about your fighting technique, but never really had the time since you were distracted or busy” I said to her

“Well you have my attention now unless someone takes it from you” She quietly chuckles “If your curious about my fighting style then I’ll tell you” she picks her tea up and sips on it “My Obasama made me learn how to fight but I already told you that now did I?” She smiles she rarely smiles but when she does all eyes were on her, she is beautiful and she doesn’t smile as often as Yukimura but seeing her smile you really would get lost in her beauty. “Before my Obasama, made me learn how to use weapons, she thought me how to dance first” I didn’t expect that she would learn how to dance before she would learn how to fight so well, her style is like dancing... “I was the shrine maiden of Obasama’s village she made me learn how to do the dance of the Miko or Kagura Dance” she explains drinking her tea again “Whenever I made a mistake she would bring out her Tessen and smack me with it” She brings her own out and made a swinging motion in the air “And that really hurt...” She says rubbing her arm wincing in pain, I unknowingly smiled at her actions

“Then when I mastered being a shrine maiden, she thought me how to handle weapons, I learned to handle weapons in this order, Naginata, Tessen, Bow, then the sword” She explains “Obasama never let me moved on to the other weapon unless I defeated ...

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“Then when I mastered being a shrine maiden, she thought me how to handle weapons, I learned to handle weapons in this order, Naginata, Tessen, Bow, then the sword” She explains “Obasama never let me moved on to the other weapon unless I defeated her or unarmed her” She says looking up at the sky her expression becoming stern “There was never a day that my body was wracking in agonizing pain by Obasama” My mouth slightly gaped “But her words did make sense no pain no gain Fuyumi, if you want to survive this world you must be ready to endure pain and agony physically and mentally, And I did” Her lips curve into a smile again “If it wasn’t for my Obasama I wouldn’t be a skilled fighter and I wouldn’t have met you” She turns to look at me, I turn away my cheeks feeling suddenly hot.

“You’re fighting style is an interesting way of killing enemies” I commented

“I didn’t know that Saito-kun was one to flirt with someone such as Fuyumi-chan” Both of us look up to see Harada and Nagakura

“I am not flirting” I said biting on the dango

“Oh? Food on the side a girl and a boy side by side” Nagakura says teasingly

“Are you jealous?” Harada asked him

“Of course not!” Nagakura protest.

“Then why do you look jealous?” Harada says with a teasing look on his face.

I’ve gotten to know Kihara even if for a little bit, she is a mysterious girl though, I never can tell what she’s thinking, but seeing her fighting style and technique her Obasama thought her well her heart is clear with no malice, she fights to protect.

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