Hey people. Ok, I know, I know, I've got a ton of other projects going on, but I got this idea and next thing I knew I had a chapter. Ha ha. Imagine that. Anyways, this should end up interesing so please! R&R!!!! You know, someday my stories will be good enough that I won't have to beg people to leave reviews, but I'm not there yet, so tell me what you think. I'll update sooner if you do! So yeah. This will be a dark romance and I know this chapter is short but bare with me. It's merely an introduction. Ha ha. Wierd name for a chapter, I know. But read on and you shall see why!!!

Disclaimer: I hardly ever do these, but just for the say, I do not own Rurouni Kenshin. If I did, I would be a rich bitch bouncing off the clouds. Unfortunately, I'm not that cool. So just read it and we'll be homies, yeah...

He Brought You Flowers, I Brought You Blood

Chapter One

Hi

A single tear fell from the sky, diving through the atomosphere, no purpose in mind at all. It fell and fell at an endlessly increasing pace, until it hit. The drop lengthened at gravity drew it down the rusty iron bar, till a part of it hit earth, where the drop would repeat the cycle over again. The liquid was weak and powerless, too pathetic to fight its wretched fate of this cursed routine. It was part of the world. Part of life. Part of the plague that water really is.

Heavy eyelids fought to open to sound of heavy precipitation. They groggily made it about a fifth of the way, then gave up and closed again. The brain retreated again to its personal land of dreams, bidding the presence of its spectacular creations, hallucinations of a world it could never have.

The sound of rain suddenly became replaced with that of a fist pounding on a door.

"Kamiya!" a voice screeched. :Up! You have only fifteen minutes!"

Kaoru forced her blue eyes open, cursing under her breath as she pushed herself up. Damn, she hated that woman. Did she not know how to wake someone up gentally? The sixteen year old swung a leg to the side of the bed, focusing her energy in her palms to push herself out of the comfort, stumbling as she finally stood. She collected her balance, and proceded to staring around at the piles of clothes towards the sides of the room. She spotted her uniform and hobbled over to it. Why in hell did her feet hurt so much? She pushed the thought to the back of her mind as she dressed.

By the time she did her hair and got her things together, there was no time for breakfast. Takaya-san, her overly busy foster mother, shoved a box lunch in her face and shewed her out the door. Kaoru turned around in time to catch the old umbrella the woman carelessly swung at her. Rolling her eyes, she started for the school. The umbrella was inadequate, what with a huge hole at one end and the other end collapsing. She checked her watch, rolled her eyes and picked up her feet, as cars passed her with mothers driving their teenagers to the school. Kaoru still had two miles to go.

She had ran the last mile, but she had still ended up being ten minutes late. She walked into the classroom and took her seat. The sensei glared at her profoundly. It didn't bother Kaoru whatsoever. This was part of her daily routine.

Kaoru made her way to a vacant table at lunch. Her class seemed so melancholy due to the rain. Everyone's quiet and sober attitudes irratated her and she made a point to stare out the window rather than at anyone else. She watched the cars skid through the sopping streets, wishing she had a ride for the way home. She watched as people ran for taxi's, wathed as people walked down the sidewalk, their hand shaking as they brought their cigarette to their lips. Kaoru hated the cold. Her room at the foster home was constantly freezing, and the walks to and from school were pure hell. Time and time again she had complained to Takaya-san about this, but her complaints had gained her nothing. The school uniform being so short didn't help a thing. She would sit and grit her teeth when the girls in her class would talk about how ugly other school's uniforms were and how lucky they were to have such cute ones. They got to ride to and from school. Even in the worst snowstorms, Kaoru had to walk.

Suddenly, something outside caught Kaoru's eye. Towards an alley across the street to the left, almost out of her sight, was a man, leaning against the wall, smoking. She of course saw several other men doing the same thing everyday, but none had such long, radiant, pheonix colored hair. He was dressed in black sweats with something hanging from his side. His face was down, and Kaoru tilted her head with curiosity. She whispered.

"Hello."

She had no purpose in whispering it, mainly just thoughts of who he could be, but she never expected what the man did next.

Kaoru's eyes widened as the man slowly raised his head, turning it in her direction. And all in an instant, his eyes met hers. His eyes... they couldn't be real! So amber and bright. So...

Murderous...

And very coldly, the man smirked at her, and she could've sworn he mouthed the word "hi".

Kaoru's glance snapped back to the rest of the class, where all seemed as depressing as ever. She returned her gaze to it's previous place, but... the man was...

Gone.

Before Kaoru could think things over, the bell rang, signifying that lunch was over.

Kaoru went through the rest of the day in somewhat of a trance. When the day was finally over, the man had completely left her mind, as she grabbed the broken umbrella, sighing as she began her rountine walk home. The winds had picked up and it was bitter, bitter cold. Kaoru pictured herself collapsing from frostbite, catching pneumonia, and being delivered as a corpse to Takaya-san's doorstep. She somehow wondered if it would be painful, or if the temperature would freeze her nerves. She thrust the thoughts away as she forced each step.

That night, Kaoru spent hours on her homework, hating every second of it. However, she knew Takaya-san, who had been checking in every ten minutes, would not let her sleep until every bit of it was done. At one a.m., she was completely exhausted, yet still had two more essays and another math worksheet. After Takaya-san denying her plea's for sleep, she started on them. By a little after two-thirty, her work was complete. She fell into bed, and passed out within a minute.

The next morning, Kaoru got out of bed five minutes later. Takaya-san was furious. Kaoru zoned her out as she hobbles out the door, her feet killing her. She opened the umbrella and made her way towards the school. If only she had money, she thought to herself. She wanted so bad for a taxi... for anything! It was so cold, she could barely move, and her teeth hurt from chattering.

Kaoru was about a mile from the school when she started to hear the sirens. At first she thought nothing of it, but the closer she got to the school, the louder the sirens got. When she got to the school, she was shocked to see five squad cars, and ambulence, and a ton of cops everywhere in front of the school. She looked around, trying to figure out what happened. There was a huge crowd, full of people whispering. She scouted out the student body president and ran up to him.

"Tite-sempei!"

Her class mate looked over. He was so pale he looked dead. "Kamiya."

"What in hell happened?" she asked, a sick feeling in her gut.

Tite shook his head. "There was a... a student c-councel meeting, you see... we came... we came early, you see..."

"Sempei please, I just want to know what happened." Kaoru had never prided herself on being patient.

Tite shook his head as his voice went high pitched. "There... there was bl... there was blood... everywhere..."

Kaoru's eyes widened. "Blood?"

Tite looked at her. "Dead," he whispered. "He was dead. No... he had been slaughtered... as if someone thought," he swallowed. "He was an animal."

Kaoru fought the urge to puke. "Who?"

Tite shook his head. "Haruka-sensei."

Kaoru gasped. Haruka-sensei was the school librarian. He was a cheerful young man. Nobody had anything against him. Kaoru had been in the library alone with him on several occasions, and he was always appropriate with her. Everyone liked Haruka-sensei.

Suddenly, the principle came on the outside intercom, announcing the school would be closed for the day. Kaoru turned to leave and froze.

There, at the alley across the street to the left, was the amber eyed man from the day before. He looked up at her, nothing in his eyes but pure hate and...

Victory?

Kaoru turned back. She spotted Tite stepping into a car. She ran over.

"Sempei!"

Tite turned around. Kaoru looked at him desperately.

"Excuse me, I'm so sorry, but the foster house is three miles from here, and what with what's happened, I really don't want to walk..." she thought of how stupid it sounded and kicked herself.

Tite tried to smile. "Get on in."

Kaoru let out a breath of relief. "Domo... thankyou so much.

When Kaoru looked back towards the alley again, the man was gone.

Chapter One

End

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