HijiChi Week Day 2 - A Night to Remember

A/N: A fic where you should take the title literally, not figuratively. Unfortunately there are no shenanigans to be found here.

Hijikata couldn’t sleep and it wasn’t because there was work to be done. At this point there was nothing he could do. Everything was on the ships except the men who would board at dawn, only a few short hours away. Accommodations were already in order for when they arrived in Edo. There were no papers to sign or letters to write. Why bother when the government was simply scrambling to follow the cowards who had fled ahead of the troops?

Maybe it was the Water of Life working its way through his veins, changing him, slowly turning him into a terror of the night. Or it could simply be that his body had become accustomed to his bad sleeping habits.

Finally unable to take staring at the same whorls of wood grain on the ceiling any longer, Hijikata grudgingly rolled out of his futon and walked over to the window.

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Tension Pt 2

Pt One

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Under the cover of night, Morning Glory struck again. She climbed up on the side of the safe house, her satchel securely tied to her, full of jewels and gold. In their place was a bouquet of morning glories. The jewels and gold were going to be donated to a nearby village under the Princess’s name-her own name.

She hopped down, bracing her ankles for the impact and steadily made her way into the forest. She strayed off from the path that travelers took and continued walking until she spotted two horses, a white one and a brown one. Shiori clicked her tongue a few times and the white horse turned his head to look at her. She pet the horse’s head and peered around.

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