My first fanfic!! Okay, so I'm gonna make a few things different… In this fic, Kaoru has short hair (she looks like Saya from Blood+, only with blue eyes…wait, wouldn't that make her look like Diva???) She's on the track team and she likes to hit people with baseball bats!

Summery: Kaoru is a struggling college student on her way to becoming a doctor/scientist. When an experiment gone bad transports her and her cousin Misao back to the past, she will have to find a way of getting home before final exams start…but will she want to go back? Warning: might contain lemon.

Disclaimer: I do not own Rurouni Kenshin (unfortunately)

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Ch.1 Woops

Beep! Beep! Beep!

Kaoru could here the annoying sounds emitted from the alarm clock bring her slowly back from the dreamless coma she was in. Opening her azure eyes a fraction; Kaoru quickly let them drop, not bothering to turn the clock off…. Just a little more… She thought to herself, going back to sleep once more.

However, the small beeping sounds coming from the clock grew into loud and obnoxious shrills as the seconds passed. Not able to take any more of the torture, Kaoru slammed her fist down onto the poor electronic. She could hear something inside it break as the beeping noise died out.

Finally… but her peace was not to last.

"Kaoru!!!!" Her eyes bulged open as Misao (her cousin) jump on her back and laid down on her.

"Misao!?" Kaoru exclaimed in surprise as Misao wrapped her arms around Kaoru's neck. Though confused, Kaoru remained still until lack of air (due to the fact Misao was on top of her) had caused her to say: "Misao? Can you get off??"

"Oh sorry." She said getting up. Kaoru looked at her. This is strange… Misao is usually more perky in the morning.

"Misao, what's wrong?" Kaoru asked, sitting up.

"Oh Kaoru!!! I so badly wanna fall in love!!"

"Huh??" Kaoru knew Misao was a romantic, but she never said anything as desperate as that.

"It's true!!" Misao exclaimed, taking a defiant stance, fists in front of her.

Kaoru sighed. "Misao, you know I don't approve of any of the guys you date…"

"But Kaoru, this ones really nice and sweet and handsome and sexy and kind and generous and…"

Kaoru listened impatiently as Misao listed of the details of her newest fixation. For as long as she could remember, Kaoru had protected the child from all who would harm her, including future boyfriends. Kaoru knew that love only ended in pain so she tried to protect Misao from it, not wanting her to fall victim to it.

Kaoru remember the first time she fell in love. Well, it was more of a crush then love. It was in first grade. After a few weeks it ended when she found him passing notes with another girl. That night she cried. She didn't make a silly vow never to love, but she had been careful.

"-Kaoru! Are you listening?"

" Oh sorry… anyway, I don't approve of Kei Sgarashi, so you can forget about him"

"BUTT KAORU!!

"No butts! Now get dressed, we're gonna have to go soon."

Sighing Misao left the room, defeated and rejected once again.

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"Misao? Are you still pouting?" Kaoru asked as they headed to science class. Misao was a pigeon head when it came to science but she only took it to be close to Kaoru. They sat down at their usual desks, next to each other.

Misao turned away from Kaoru, giving her the silent treatment. Kaoru knew if she was a manga character, a sweat mark would have appeared on her head.

The room turned dark and Kaoru was brought back to the front of the room. "Sit down and shut up everyone!!" Sensei Kiro yelled. He definitely had a hangover. The room hush and all attention was turned to him. Kiro put a silver metal case on the table, typed in a combination into the lock set. The latches popped open and Kiro slowly opened the case.

"Can anyone tell me what I am holding in my hand?" Kiro said as he gently pulled out a cylindrical glass container held together at both ends by huge metal coverings. Inside, a small ball was clearly visible as even smaller balls circled around it. Kaoru gave a gasp, an atom. (Okay, LD here. I know that what I'm writing about atm is not possible, but it will help with the plot later. And use suspension of disbelief, this is a fanfiction)

"It's an atom!" Kaoru exclaimed in surprise.

"Right Kamiya. This is an atom I extracted in a lab. It is highly unstable but as long as it is in this container, it will remain neutralized. Removing it from the container will cause such a tremendous change in balance that the atmosphere will be ripped apart and the fabrics of space might be damaged. "

And with that said, Kiro dove into the lesson, with Kaoru and the other students taking diligent notes and Misao thinking of the perfect plan to get back at her dear cousin.

"Honestly Kaoru. How many times do I have to say it! You aren't concentrating." Coach said, lecturing Kaoru on the fine points of running. Kaoru put her hands on her knees and lowered her head, sweat dripping from it onto the ground as she took short heavy breaths.

"You have to run as if your life depended on it." And with that said, coach dismissed practice and told everyone to hit the showers.

Kaoru slowly recovered and looked around for Misao, failing to find her long haired friend.

-------In the showers:

Kaoru got out of the shower and dried off. She downed a pair of long khaki (more to the white side) pants and a light purple long sleeved shirt with a dark shaded purple vest over it. She put on her black ballet flats and stood in front of the mirror, brushing her short hair out. It's a good thing I cut it. I feel so much better now without it in my face.

After brushing out her hair, Kaoru picked up her big black duffel bag and walked out of the gym. On her way out, Kaoru saw Misao running toward the track. What is she up to?

Curious, Kaoru followed her. "Misao? What are you doing here?"

They were standing on the track, "O-Oh! Kaoru! I had no clue you were still here." She said turning around with her hands behind her back.

Kaoru raised an eyebrow. "Misao, what do you have behind your back?"

"N-nothing…"

Kaoru slowly stalked toward her. "Misao."

"Kaoru."

"Misao."

She was now in front of the girl. "Misao."

"Oh it nothing, its just- just the atom that Kiro showed in class…." She said, whispering the last part and coughing in between.

"Misao!! How could you!? Do you know how dangerous that is?! Give it back now!"

"No!! It's payback for not letting me go on my date! I was goanna put it in your bag and frame you for steeling it!! Then you would be so flustered you'd do anything for me not to tell anyone. Then you'd let me go out with Kei."

Kaoru looked at her cousin as if she just grew a second head. "Misao…That's gotta be the stupidest plan I ever heard…Now, give it back." She said, holding out her hand

"No!"

Misao started to run. Kaoru quickly followed her and tackled her down. "No!!" The girls wrestled for the container. As Kaoru reached for it over Misao's head, it slipped out of Misao's hands and landed with a prominent thud on the track ground. Glass shattered and both Kaoru and Misao looked in direction of the naked atom, shining even brighter than before as it's prison, no longer holding it's power, was destroyed.

The girls sat there in awe, "Wow…" Misao sighed. Pushing Kaoru off her, she ran toward the atom in fascination, like a child to candy, or a seagull to a shiny mirror.

"Shit! No Misao!!" Kaoru yelled. She didn't know how powerful the atom was, but she knew that it was dangerous to be around. And a very unstable atom was worse.

Kaoru ran after Misao, duffel bag swinging across her shoulder. "Misao!! Come back!!!" Kaoru pushed her already aching legs faster as she tried to catch Misao's braid. Kaoru could see the atom rising up into the air. Dark churning clouds appeared overhead and thunder was heard in the distance

Shit!! This isn't good! Misao, you stupid girl!!

A white bolt flashed somewhere near the atom. Lightning!!!! Kaoru's eyes widened as she heard Misao stop and scream, shielding her eyes with her arms from the bright flash.

Kaoru jumped on Misao, covering her with her body. The wind was blowing in every direction, the clouds swirling in an endless vortex over the track. Kaoru held onto Misao and looked back over at the atom, which was now far above their heads, floating toward the churning clouds.

We have to get out of here. "Misao!!" Kaoru yelled over the thrashing wind, "We need to go now!!!" She yelled even louder. Misao nodded her head and both girls tried to stand, fighting against the force of the wind that was trying to pin them down to the ground.

Then it happened. The elevated atom was struck by lightning. Neither girls saw it but they both heard it, like thunder meeting lightning. They both turned their heads and looked at the glowing atom.

The wind was sucked back toward the lightning struck atom, blowing anything not bolted down into the sucking vortex accumulating around the atom. It was a whirlwind tornado.

"Run!!!!" Kaoru could hear herself yelling, but her voice was gone at the vortex started sucking her and Misao towards it's glowing churning. They both faced away from the vortex, the wind pinning them closer to the ground.

Kaoru held her hands on Misao's back as she helped the girl crawl on her hands and knees away from the vortex.

It's too strong. Kaoru felt the vortex pulling her and Misao in. No! In that moment, Misao's long braid hit Kaoru in the face, blinding her eyes and stinging them. That moment of weak surprise was all the wind need to push Kaoru off balance and stumbling back into the vortex.

"Kaoru!!!" She heard Misao scream. Loosing her grip and rushing toward her.

"Misao!! Don't!!! Run!!!" Kaoru said, holding out her hand. Misao jumped into Kaoru's arms as they nearned the vortex, and with the added mass, they both were sucked into the churning winds where nothing but darkness was seen.

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Warm, and heavy. But cold too… What's going on. Kaoru tightened her arms around the warm body. I feel like…I'm falling… Wait- I'm falling?? Why am I falling?

Kaoru's eyes popped open as she and Misao (currently in her arms) crashed into the icy cold water… Kaoru tried to make her legs move, but couldn't.

Come on legs! You're my legs!! Work!!!

But they didn't respond. Kaoru's felt the water filling her lungs. She felt her eyes start closing and the need to stay awake was not a demanding. She felt Misao's heavy body crushing hers, pushing her down.

Misao…

The thought of her cousin brought her back awake. Every nerve in her body was screaming and Kaoru tried her legs again. They worked.

Yes!

Kaoru had reached the bottom. She pushed her feet to the murky ground and pushed with all she had, suspending her into the water again. Kick. Kaoru thought, Keep kicking. Don't stop, concentrate, Kick, Kick, Kick.

Her lungs were screaming at the lack of air and the water that clouded them. Almost there!! She saw the light at the top of the waters surface. One more push! Come on legs, once more!!!

Kaoru's head burst out of the water, and she started a coughing fit. Still not yet recovered, she blindly saw a rock nearby and swam over to it, her legs loosing their ability to work with every push. Desperately she clung onto the rock. Water blinded her vision and the lack of air caused her to faint.

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Muahhahahha!! Cliff hanger!!! Okay so ask me some questions and I'll clear them up in the next chapter. Ja Ne Everyone!! ~_~