-1Disclaimer: I do not own RUROUNI KENSHIN or the characters

CHAPTER 1

The steady tapping of the early morning rain against my bedroom window was enough to rouse me from my sleep. Groaning I turned on to my back and sat up in bed, folding my legs under me and placing the backs of my hands on my knees, with my thumb and index finger joined, I closed my eyes and took a few deep breaths trying to centre myself and make a decent attempt at meditating. I am going to have a good day today, I am not going to let my temper get the best of me, I am going to remain calm, cool and collected *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* "dammit" the sound of my alarm clock broke through my thoughts. Frowning, I let my shoulders slump then opened my eyes and turned to glare at the offending object. Getting up from the bed, I stalked over to the alarm clock and silenced it, then turning towards the bedroom window I slowly drew back the dark blue curtains only to be greeted by droplets of rain pelting the glass panes and a miserable gray sky, so much for a good day. Stifling a yawn I began to move about my room going through the daily routine of getting ready for school. After having a shower and putting on my school uniform, which consisted of a white button up, short sleeved blouse, a blue tartan all-round pleated skirt that ended above my knees and dark blue knee high socks, I made my way downstairs to make myself a bowl of cereal for breakfast. After putting my bowl in the sink and putting the milk away, I saw a note on the fridge held up by a fridge magnet

Darling had to leave early, There's some money on the counter if you want to order takeaway for dinner. Ill be back late so don't wait up for me okay

Love you

Mom

Making my way over to the counter I grabbed the money and found another note

Oh and darling it looks like its gonna be a cold and dreary day so don't forget your jacket.

Love

Mom

P.S or your umbrella

Running back upstairs to my room I put on the dark blue blazer that completed the school uniform then grabbed my school bag and house keys before I made my way to the front door, putting on my black school shoes before walking out. I noticed that the rain had let up, I hope its stays like this till I at least get to school I thought to myself as I walked down my driveway and out the front gate.

As I walked through the school gates the wind started to blow fiercely causing the dark blue ribbon I used to tie my hair into a ponytail with, to come loose and be blown away by the wind. With my waist length hair blowing loose all around me I turned in the direction I saw my ribbon being carried and ran after it trying to catch it. Having chased after it into the schools parking lot I watched it settle on the roof of a black car. I waited to catch my breath before I walked towards it, I was about to grab the ribbon when it was picked up by the wind once more, but before It could be swept away again a hand swiftly reached out and caught it. My eyes traveled from the hand that held my ribbon, moving slowly along a brown sleeved jacket that covered the arm, I caught sight of bright red hair that framed a handsome face. My eyes paused on a cross shaped scar that marred a left cheek. The moment my eyes connected with his, time seemed to stop and I felt as though I couldn't breathe, my heart started to pound so hard I thought it was going to burst in my chest. I continued to stare into deep pools of violet and suddenly noticed flecks of amber flash in his eyes, like fire and I was about to consumed by the flames.

"is this yours?" he asked with a warm and enticing smile on his lips.

I could only nod slowly in reply to his question as I felt speechless. I grabbed what I could of my hair and tried to prevent it from whipping me in the face as his eyes made its slow trek along the length of my body, I shivered slightly as I felt a slow heat build within me, warming me despite the cold wind. His eyes moved back up and found mine again. He slowly started to make his way towards me. I felt like a deer caught in the headlights, frozen in place unable to move, as he moved with an easy and sexy demeanor, . He came to a stop about a foot away from me and extended the hand that was holding the ribbon towards me. I stared down at his hand for a while feeling unsure of myself then very slowly I let go of my hair and made a move to take back the ribbon, just as I was about to touch it a loud thundering roar filled my ears, startling me, making me squeeze my eyes shut and snatch my hand back to cover my ears, rain started to fall furiously around me but not on me. Curiously, I opened my eyes and glanced up to see a black umbrella shielding me from the heavy rainfall, then I moved my head back down to look at the man holding said object and drew in a sharp breath, our faces were so close our noses were almost touching, his eyes were no longer held any trace of the soft violet colour but a bright and burning amber. I felt the hair on the back of my neck stand as his intense gaze bore into me, our bodies were so close I could feel heat radiating from him stoking the rapidly growing fire within me, making me tremble slightly.

"we should make a run for shelter" he said with a low and deep voice "I don't know how long this umbrella will hold up against the wind" and with that we both made a run for the side entrance to the school building. Once we got to the shelter just outside of the doors we stopped so he could shake out his umbrella and fold it down. He turned to me, smiled then opened the door, I walked through and turned to smile back at him and noticed that his eyes were back to normal he has the most amazing eyes. Once we were both inside I looked down the left of the hallway and he looked to the right, it was empty.

"well im going down this way" he stated with a wave of his hand in the direction he had been looking

"I'm headed that way" I said motioning with my head in the opposite direction " thanks for helping me out"

"no problem" he said as he extended his hand to shake mine "well it was nice meeting you…"

"Kaoru Kamiya" I said as I placed my hand in his. The moment we touched I felt a jolt of awareness for this man shoot through me, unnerving me, making me feel an intense desire to want to touch him more and looking in his eyes it almost seemed as though he knew what I was thinking.

"Kaoru" he said in a hushed and alluring tone as his thumb started to stroke the back of my hand

"it's a pleasure to meet you too… uh?" I asked feeling an intense warmth spread throughout my body

who would have thought that a handshake could feel so good

"Kenshin Himura"

Kenshin Himura

"Himura-san"

"call me Kenshin and the pleasure is all mine Kaoru" he stated as he looked intensely at me. The sound of students approaching roused us from our state and without another word he released my hand and walked away. I felt something in my hand so I turned it to see what it was and saw my ribbon. Smiling to my self I looked up once more to see his retreating back before turning around and going my way. I guess today isn't going to be as bad as I thought it was.

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AU: well this is what will hopefully be the first story in a 3 peice series im doing on all the RK characters called the forbidden series, why forbidden coz all the story lines will involve a relationship between the characters that are against the rules/law hehehe, obviously this is KxK and these are gonna be rated M in the future soooo yeah please RxR (any comments welcome) and i will TRY stressing the try to keep writing and updating