Another Chance…
Archangel and Female hitokiri Battousai
R Angst, violence, romance, lemon {Greek, Christian and Japanese culture in one}
Syn: an angel grants kaoru the possibility to go ten days into the pass to undo the people who made Kenshin scars. Can she do it without going crazy from the sadness and hurt in her heart?
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Kaoru looked up at the moon…
Life really makes no sense…
Kaoru was depressed and in a state of bitterness.
She bits her lips feeling her tears coming on. She tormented herself with the reason for Kenshin's restraint towards her... it was Tomoe, sister of his last opponent, Enishi. Enishi Yukishiro was a vengeful man… as a child he witnessed the murder of his beloved sister and vowed to revenge her death. He trained long and hard and finally got his chance when he took Kaoru away from Kenshin, causing the man once known as Battousai to fight.
In a world of grief and suffering, would anything good ever come out from her pain and misery. All these years when she had accepted Kenshin into her heart, she was forced to believe, she couldn't have him…and never would…
Those dreams were long gone like lost memories in the wind. She choked a sob feeling exceptionally cold…
You can never be half the woman, Tomoe-san was to him…
Was life so unfair, that every time you fell in love with someone you'd have to know the winter that came with them? Was it that her hopes were mere sand on a beach, only to be crumpled by other's people footsteps?
I loved him all those years…
Only to know…
She closes her eyes, bows her head and places her hands interlaced over her heart…
Only to know… he didn't love me. He restrained himself, so many years, because of her, the perfect Japanese woman…Tomoe Yukishiro…
The burden she placed his heart after her death, made him block the doors to my love all these years. And when I did look into his eyes and saw the prettiest shades of violet, I swallowed, knowing that he did love me, when all along, I fooled myself. Was I wrong to? Yes…
To take away it all, would make me much happier. If he only knew how sick and madly in love I am with him… if he only knew….but he'd never know. No, because he doesn't want to accept love again, ever again. So he shut me down all these years… to preserve her memory alive…
Kaoru fell on her knees crying like never before. He never loved her. It stung her, like never before. Clutching a hand in her hair, she bawled. Her cries ripped the night's dead silence, making those who heard, hurt…and wonder…
Kaoru got up, not wanting to face Kenshin ever again. The longing to die consummated her thoughts and primal reasons of the very existence to live. She would die, to lose his memory. Yeh, that would solve her problem, yet within her, a small voice murmured it wasn't going to solve anything. She began running, whilst thoughts of death and of Kenshin raced through the floor of her mind. Tears began to form but she quickly wiped them away. She was in no situation to have a breakdown, yet it was inevitable. She ran past the houses on the empty deserted road. Thieves, she could see pillaging the villagers of Tokyo. She did not care. She wasn't even aware of what was happening around her, only what seemed to be a great warfare in her mind, and in her heart more so. Running and running, for hours she went, just running. No destination in her mind… she ran. Suddenly she fell. She was out of breath and needed to rest. She picked her ragged self up off the roadside and into the nearest shelter, a Shinto shrine. Feeling that she needed god now, she walked in. She pushed the large doors, seeing light seeping from inside.
Kaoru entered. Slowly, she walked with tears to the statue. Her eyes blurred every time she came closer. The gods not once helped her, but she was hoping they could now. They took everything she loved, her mother, her father, her students, …Kenshin. What more could they want from her, her soul? Falling on her knees she looked at the statue just feeling her hate bubbling. She thought of all the wonderful times that she had had with Kenshin, yet this did not seem to be enough to bring her happiness. Her sadness was beyond any that was ever experienced before. Her tears fell upon the ground and began to sink through the spaces in the floor. She was angered by Tomoe's effect on Kenshin, yet without Tomoe's intervention, there would still be an assassin, Battousai. Kaoru screamed, "Why!!!…Why me!?!" she asked in a quarrelsome manner. She began questioning herself. Even though she had not noticed, these questions were making her even bitterer.
"You never helped me!" she started in a low voice…speaking to the statue
"Never… why? WHY CAN'T YOU EVER DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR ME?" she bawled at the statue….
"HUH? YOU ONLY WANTED TO HURT ME ALL THESE YEARS, WELL HERE, HERE I AM IN YOUR PRESCENCE, WHY DON'T YOU? HUH…huh (crying) why …d-don't you?" she cried…
All she wanted to do was cry… "oh kami! Why?" she whispered…
Nothing ever happened like those countless times…
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~IN PURGATORY~
"Angel Celeste, we have been watching your record, and there's been a consecutive amount of failures you attributed for. You are of the royal clan, it's expected that you do the best and be the best for this committee, but with a track record such as this, it's becoming clear what has to be done. You have 1 more chance to prove to the clan, that you are worthy of keeping the status in the group. If you fail, you will be sent down into the lower heavens and live a life of mediocrity, and you know your mother was one who would not accept that. Go down there and you will see for yourself," they paused. "You may try cleaning this wound on this woman. We beseech you. This is a very sensitive task. Remember the rules, if not things may be done wildly, and it may affect the rest of the world and cause serious dilemmas." one of the fates spoke, "you have once chance, be gone!" she spoke…
Celeste descended from the heavens feeling weary. Her life wasn't as smooth as angels would think. I mean being an angel was tough, and she had to admit she tried real hard, but she always managed to screw up and cause trouble. So now, she had to re-write history and be the very best in order to preserve her status and mother's name.
There she turned invisible and walked through the walls of the shrine. She sat down and began to listen to Kaoru's squabbles and questions.
The angel was amazed. She had never seen such pain and suffering in such a young beautiful woman. She needed to set things right. She began to study Kaoru's life, through her soul. She marveled at her as she watched into her soul. She then made a check on her past, her present and her future to see what was in store for her. She was shocked… Kaoru had no future! The angel then looked into her heart where she saw Kaoru's cause for suffering. Such a sad one. Holding her breath, she appeared in the form of a mere mortal- a woman.
Oh god! 'I just wanted to live happy… but now, I'm not sure if I can, knowing the meaning of those scars! I know what they mean, and the burden behind just wearing it.'
Where was her light at the end of this dark tunnel? She didn't know. "I wish--god, that---(cries) I could undo---those scars…everything" she closed her eyes, crying in the pitch on darkness…
The angel heard this and saw her chance to play a part in Kaoru's reformation. But first she needed to check Kaoru out, after all she was very sensitive…
"Why are you crying miss?" the woman asked. Her voice like a cold sprinkle of water in the tension of the room.
"Who…who are you?" the weeping maiden asked, "I didn't notice you come in," she continued. "It does not matter who I am," said the angel in disguise, "what matters is what you are going to become if you don't stop sulking and do something about your problem." Kaoru was in shock. "What do you know about my problem?" Kaoru asked, "It's not like you can help me solve it!" "Oh…but you see, I can!" replied the old lady.
Kaoru never answered, who was she to intervene. The woman came closer, watching how pretty the young girl was. Such a pretty face didn't deserve to be marred and ruined with tears and puffs of red.
"Why don't you speak to me?" she asked
Kaoru never spoke…
"Are you crying because…" she paused and walked to the Shinto Statue… "because of Tomoe and Kenshin?" she asked…
Kaoru gasped. Suddenly, there was a light filtering through the roof of the shrine. The light beam fell upon the old lady as her disguise was exposed and her true form shown. Kaoru was in even more shock now than she was in before. It was still night yet there was a beam of light. Kaoru looked across the room to see the angelic wings spread from the back of the old lady, who was also getting younger. "I'm an angel…" said the visitor, "my name is Celeste,".
Kaoru began to laugh. She had never seen an angel before and was not impressed by her presence. Then she began to cry once more
"Why do you cry Kamiya-san?" she asked.
Kaoru bits her lips feeling her world fading beneath her…
"Is it that you chose to torture yourself by the mere fact he loved before you…" she paused… "or…are afraid he had chosen her... all these years, over you? Hmm?" she asked
Kaoru in shock swallows the truth.
Kaoru seems stunned, but now, the angel thinks she's gone mad…
"Do you love him?" the angel bowed at the idol in holy admiration
Kaoru wasn't sure…
"Do you love him, or are you focusing on the scars legacy?" the angel asked
Kaoru wasn't answering…
The angel sighed, seeing she wasn't getting through to the disturbed girl. The angel bit the inside of her mouth, while twisting her fingers in one another. Hmm, she wondered if she could bend the rules…just a little…
"Are you jealous of Tomoe-san?" the angel asked
Kaoru glared at the angel, "should I answer that?"
"Why should you be jealous of her? she's dead, and you never saw her... is it, that you are eating yourself alive with the mere illusions you project in your mind of the perfect Japanese woman for the awesome hitokiri Battousai?" the angel paused, "is it that you chose to kill yourself in sadness from somebody you don't even know…?"
"SHUT UP!" Kaoru shouted, "GET OUT! LEAVE ME ALONE!"
The angel saw she was going too far
"You said you wished you could undo his scars…" she spoke, "do you want to?"
"No!" her voice was a mere whisper in the sadness of her heart…
"WHAT?" the angel was confused
Kaoru didn't know what she wanted anymore
"But, if you could, just, lets say, in ten days, undo his scars, would you?" the angel inquired
Kaoru didn't know where the hell the angel was coming from
"If you could, would you--- you know, undo his scars?" she asked softer
Kaoru nodded no...
"WHAT? I don't understand you Kaoru! You're willing to die in sadness (she paused) you're
not even willing to give this a turn of life a chance. You're completely selfish in not seeing the good...
why?? why won't you stop and try understanding me?" the angel paused "Here you have 1 chance... a chance of a lifetime to undo everything, Tomoe, the scars, Kiyosato, Kenshin being so isolated... you have 1 chance to be there when he was of need the most and here you are throwing it away for your selfish reasons" the angel was angry…
"How could you say such things, I loved him all my life, and now I know, he doesn't love me…" Kaoru whispered "one DAMN BIT." she paused to cry…
(CRYING
"HE LOVED HER... ALL OF HER, THOSE YEARS" Kaoru screamed
The angels sighs and drops on her knees, holding Kaoru's face she tells Kaoru she's going to die. Kaoru's not surprise to know that….
Celeste looked at her most pitifully and said, "Ok… that's enough crying for you lil' lady…It's time for me to show you what I'm about!" She picked off Kaoru off the floor and her angelic wings enclosed them both. "This is your future!" said Celeste, "This is what will happen if you don't fix your problem now." Kaoru looked into the distance. There was a grave and she looked closely at the name engraved on it. "KAMIYA KAORU…" read the gravestone. "So what!" Kaoru answered, "I want to die anyway so it really doesn't matter to me!" Celeste again enclosed Kaoru in her wings of pure white. Seconds later, they reappeared in the Kamiya Dojo. Kaoru looked around. Kenshin was asleep still and nothing there was any different than when she had left it earlier that night.
Pain swept through her body…she cried
"Enough, you're really tempering, I'm sending you back into the past for 10 days to undo everything, do it right, on the tenth day, if you passed the test of no scars, you will be rewarded generously...!'' the angel paused… "if you fail and allow him to wear the scars of Tomoe and Kiyosato , two epic lovers…then you shall die. The way you would, in the future, but quite different. You see, if you fail he will destroy you"
The angel snapped her arms in the air making a vortex of light suck Kaoru in…
"Let the force be with you!" ^_^
The next thing Kaoru knows, she's running in this alley, it's nighttime, damp and poorly lit . She stops and looks around in shock and then stops to the scent of blood…
Kaoru holds her mouth at the dead people on the floor. Then in a blink of an eye she hears noises. She slowly peeks from the darkness. There she sees two men fighting, one she realizes, whom looks alot like Kenshin only he seem~~~ YOUNGER???
Then it clicks in her. This wasn't a dream anymore this was all real, all so very real. She then realizes that this young man on the side seem very skilled. His stance was powerful and proportional to the boy…
'Boy?'
Wait a minute, that young boy, was...
was...
Kenshin slashes the man across the chest, the man tumbles down. The boy hovers over ready to strike. When he's about to shove his sword down the young man's throat, she whispers, "hitokiri Battousai"
"Himura Kenshin!" her voice was gentle and very small
Battousai after hearing his full battle name and name looks up at the girl who witnessed him killed all these men. How could she have known his name, no one else except the Ishinshin and sensei Hiko Serjirou knew his name. This could only be resolved by one way. To kill her. Kaoru gets the impression she said too much, she covers her mouth and sees his eyes burn wild amber.
Kaoru began to run away, back into the dark.
The assassin trailed closely behind her into the darkness.
"You can run…but you can't hide!" he voiced
He was angered. Kaoru ran into a dojo that was nearby and took a bokken from the wall. She hid behind the doors of the dojo and stooped down, hoping that she would not be seen. Battousai walked in and stood at the center of the dojo. He listened carefully and could hear Kaoru's pounding heart behind the door. He pulled out his sword and slashed the door into 3 pieces, which fell back, revealing Kaoru. Kaoru quickly picked herself up, armed with the bokken. She did the succession technique, which causes a stir of interest in the assassin. Battousai quirks a brow. He was very impressed yet very pissed
'Damn Konichi!'
He showed no emotion as he leapt into his attack stance and flew toward the maiden, sword forth!
Her eyes they awaited his sword with a defiant shade of teary blue…
'Oh kami-sama, help me!' she swallows hard
[To Be Continued]
[Author's Notes By Archangel] : Well….first of all, thanks for reading this CO-AUTHORED story. FHB and I are looking forward to continuing this story very soon… very, very soon. Any comments, ideas or suggestions are welcomed and can be forwarded to either FHB or me [Archangel]. This story's plot is really, really great and we have to thank FHB, for it was her idea.
[Authoress Notes By Female Hitokiri Battousai] : Well, I'd like to say it's real cool to be working with Archangel. He's such a good writer not to mention artist. I hope he knows. And hope u guys liked it. ^_^
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