Disclaimer: I don't own anything Ruroken. Nor do I own the song, "I Don't Know You Anymore," which is the property of Savage Garden.

"It's been a long time... Shishou..."

"You..." Hiko turned to see the man that even he'd heard rumors of during Bakumatsu. The hitokiri. The demon. He could see what the war had done to him: the brutal scar, the confused eyes shifting from a hitokiri's to... something else entirely... So, this was hitokiri Battousai. This was the monster that Hiko, himself, had helped create.

Why could he still sense Shinta in his ki?

"So, you've returned," he thought. "But which of you has come to me? The hitokiri... or my baka deshi...? Do I trust my eyes... or my heart?"

The title comes from a Savage Garden song. Every time I hear the lyrics to "I Don't Know You Anymore," I think of this scene... so it seemed an appropriate title...

Anyway... my fourth 100 word ficlet. Just popped into my head when I woke up this morning, so I thought I'd write it before I went back to "Out of Time" (the next chapter is almost done! I promise!)...

I'll shut up now...

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