"Miss Kamiya, This is the third time this week you've pulled a stunt like
this." A male voice said.
"Yes... yes it is...Keeping track now are we?" a more feminine voice spoke out of the darkened corner of the dull room.
"Kaoru, you know I'm just trying to help." He said in a sincere voice and even though she chose not to look at him she could tell he wanted desperately to help her.
"Yea, yea why don't you punish me already so I can get outa here?" Kaoru snapped back at the man.
"Kaoru I...((sigh))I guess your right. You'll have to hand wash the graffiti off the walls and help the janitors clean up the lunch room." He said defeated and tired. The girl, Kaoru, stood up from her comfy chair and nonchalantly walked out of the office marked 'Principle.' The door swung open and nearly missed a few kids, Kaoru laughed at their misfortune.
She sighed and stood in the threshold of the office watching the lives of so many people pass by her. She was in high school and she was livin' the high life. Kaoru's eyes shot up suddenly hearing her name, she scanned the hallway for the source of irritation but she didn't see anyone she knew.
'People must be talking about me, that's all.' She thought trying to calm herself down. She turned around and closed the door, she began to walk down the hall way when she heard her name again. She whipped around looking for the person who had called her. Finding that no one had meant her to hear her name.
Kaoru continued to walk casually until she got to her locker. She spun the knob and opened the lock. She pulled open the locker and a pile of cards fell out of her locker. She smiled when she saw Misao's handwriting on the top of each folded piece of paper.
She bent down and picked them up in her arms and shoved them in her locker. She opened each one up reading the one line on each piece of paper. All together the note read:
Kaoru,
THAT WAS THE BEST STUNT YET! You defiantly know how to start a food fight! And you spray-painted the side of the building! Kaoru you must be in big trouble with the principal though. He must have chewed your ass out for everything you've done this week. Call me. Misao
Kaoru laughed at her friend and tossed all the notes in the trash. She pulled out a pen and a notebook from her locker and walked down the hallway to art class. She was happy the principal never said when she had to clean every thing up so she could go to one of the only classes she ever went to. She slipped down the hallway walking slowly along the wall to room G13. She stepped into the room and sat down in her usual seat in the back dark corner.
She was a few minutes early for this class like very day but the teacher let her do what she wanted in that time. Kaoru was an excellent artist and loved to draw. She had been painting since she was born and was called a prodigy by the age of 10.
However Kaoru was never able to let her talent show to the world. Kaoru opened her notebook and began to draw. She drew a few animals to get warmed up and watched as students filled in. She loved to draw the inner features of people. She worked on a different person every day.
Since Kaoru already knew all the lines you needed to draw and most of the artists of the world she didn't need to listen. Today she decided to work on Kenshin Himura.
'This one will be good.' She thought grinning evilly. 'Kenshin Himura, I will have fun drawing you.' She thought still smiling like a fool. She began to draw the lines of his face and the shape of his head.
She thought long and hard about him memories of earlier years came flooding into her mind. Times when he made fun of her, times when he was kind to her even times when he was perverted towards her.
Flashback
"Hey Kaoru, why do you have a bra on when you don't need it?" Kenshin asked leaning over the seat on the bus into her. He reached down and snapped the loose strap and she jumped.
Kaoru turned to him angry and hurt, tears brimming her eyes. "K-K" She began about to spit out a nasty comment when the bus lurched to a screeching stop and she stood as quickly as she could, running off the bus.
She ran so fast she didn't see the regret filling Kenshin's eyes and how sorry he looked as he watched her run off the bus.
A few years later
Kaoru was walking down the street and passed a group of guy, she could hear the cat-calls come from within the group and spread to become a vicious circle of hooting and hollering. Kaoru turned to find she only knew one of the boys in the circle, Kenshin Himura.
"Kenshin!" She said in a forceful tone. He stepped forward out of the group smiling like a fool.
"Yes, pretty thing?" He asked her.
"If you know what's good for you you'll never say anything like that to me or any other girl again!" She said anger flooding her vision, filling her veins. Kenshin just smiled.
"Of course I wont, I learned my lesson." He said in a sweet innocent voice. Kaoru knew she couldn't win against an idiot so she began to stomp away from them when she felt something below the equator.
Pink slowly crept onto her cheeks due to anger and embarrassment. She turned around on her heal facing the whole group. Kenshin was standing close infront of her his hand suspended in mid-air.
"Kenshin, you'll wish you never did that." She said as she began to chuckle a little. She raised her fist and it came hurdling toward his face...
Earlier This Year
Kaoru had been drawing her most recent portrait of her most favorite subject, People. She was drawing many people on a crowded sidewalk with one girl standing still beginning to cry. Kaoru felt sorrow when she drew it and lost her self in her painting.
She was so lost in her own world Kaoru didn't realize she had begun to cry while connecting with the woman in the picture who had a strange resemblance of her. She felt a tap on her shoulder and her eyes snapped open wide and she looked around startled.
Her eyes landed on Kenshin and she gulped hoping he thought she was some one else.
"Kaoru, are you alright?" He asked her kindly. She wasn't sure what made her trust his sincerity but she just felt like she could trust the words flowing from his mouth.
"I-I just, I'm fine." She said becoming surprisingly nice to him.
"Are you sure, you are crying" Kenshin said emphasizing the word 'are.' Kaoru nodded.
"Yes I'm fine, now you better get away from me." Kaoru said in a soft voice, which completely ruined the threat. Kenshin didn't find her intimidating when she didn't know what to say, or when her voice was soft and sweet like it was now. He felt like her voice could lull him to sleep but he wanted this conversation to keep going.
"And what will you do if I don't get away?" He asked her.
"What do you mean 'What will I do?'" Kaoru asked. Kenshin smiled.
"Well normally your sentences end with an ' or I'll...'" Kenshin said playfully.
"Or I'll personally make sure you take a long hike off a short peir...Happy?" Kaoru asked tilting her head back towards her painting. Kenshin reached over to her chin and gently pulled her face to look at him. He then took his other hand and wiped away the tears with his thumb.
"Perfect." he said as he stood up and walked away leaving Kaoru confused.
End Flash Back
Then Kaoru realized she couldn't draw Kenshin. She had drawn perverts before and drawn people who were mean, she even drew nice people, who generally turned out to be more beautiful then they originally were.
Kaoru loved comparing people, they always turned out to be opposite. For example a lot of the really ugly or really fat people turned out to be absolutely beautiful in her drawings, yet people who are beautiful in real life were ugly deformed drawings.
Kaoru had quite a few pictures pinned up on her wall at home of what people really look like. But Kaoru couldn't put her finger on what Kenshin looked like. So like in any hard drawings she drew what she saw on the outside.
She started with his irregular hair then went to his beautiful purple eyes. She eventually had his entire picture done when the end of class bell rang. Kaoru sat in her seat for a few minutes until every one in the class was gone.
"Kaoru? Did you want to talk to me?" The teacher asked gathering her things.
"Well I didn't plan on it but..." Kaoru began.
"Say no more. Another internal portrait I presume? And if I may venture on a limb I assume it is of Himura Kenshin since you stared at him for the first twenty minutes of class." The teacher guessed while talking to her like a best friend.
"Yea, But its not what you think, He was just the only person close enough to me to draw." Kaoru said.
"And what do I think?" The teacher asked giving Kaoru a hard time. Kaorus eyes were half lidded and she looked at the teacher sarcastically. The teacher laughed.
"Megumi, don't do this to me, I know exactly what you were thinking." Kaoru said to her.
"Kaoru I don't know what you're talking about." Megumi said innocently. Kaoru handed Megumi the picture and she frowned. "Kaoru, this is not your regular portrait." She said.
"I know Megumi, I know. But I don't know how to draw him." Kaoru said in a worried tone.
"Well, Kaoru first you take your pencil in hand and draw a circle."
"MEGUMI!" kaoru yelled.
"Ok, OK Kaoru calm down. Don't worry, your talent is not dwindling." Megumi said. Kaorus face lit up and she smiled.
"Megumi you always know what's on my mind." Kaoru said.
"I know, and I know why you can't draw him. Its because his personality is to diverse. He's not always mean so you can't draw a hideous beast, but he can't be beautiful because he isn't always nice. I think you need to color this one in then make another one and make it ugly, color that one and make another beautiful one. Then color that one, then compare them and see which you like the most." Megumi said to her.
"Thanks Megumi!" Kaoru said as she hugged her and ran out to the hallway. She closed her notebook quickly so no one saw her pictures and walked quickly to the courtyard.
Kaoru sat down on a bench and began to draw in more detail. She finished all the shadowing for her picture and pulled some colored pencils out of her purse. She began to color the picture rubbing the color back and fourth when it had to blend. Kaoru colored all through the next block and finished within the hour.
She began to draw an ugly picture but found she needed to see his face to draw him, even if it wasn't him. So she flipped to his realistic portrait and was able to draw. However no matter how hard she tried she was unable to erase his perfect eyes, which threw the whole picture off.
Kaoru sighed and crumbled it up and threw it next to her. After an hour of drawing the ugly Kenshin she had come up with a pile of crumpled paper next to her. Kaoru sighed and flipped back to the realistic picture and smiled.
"It's good. Just like looking in a mirror." A voice said from behind her. She jumped out of her skin and slowly turned around dreading the face she knew she'd see.
"Kenshin, What do you want?" Kaoru asked masking her surprise.
"The principal wants to see you." He said. Kaoru subconsciously unleashed her breath she was holding.
"Is that all?" Kaoru asked walking towards the principals office. Kenshin followed right behind her. She hadn't noticed any one else was even in the hallway until he slowly began to reach south of the border.
She turned around quickly catching him in the action.
"What were you doing? And what are you doing following me?" Kaoru asked.
"I was going to grab you're-"He started reaching in the same place. She stepped away and looked appalled. Kenshin followed her until she backed up against a wall. She was smiling since she won until he reached down to her side and grabbed her notebook from her hand.
"I was going to grab you're notebook. And I'm following you because this period I work in the office." Kenshin said. Kaorus face began to flood red and she turned and began to walk away so he couldn't see her turn red like a tomato.
Kenshin smiled having seen her turn red and he knew what she thought he was going to do, and he was tempted but decided to make her feel bad.
Kaoru began to tune out his foot steps and became enchanted in her own world were she completely zoned out.
"You're very good Kaoru." Kenshin said. When she didn't answer or even acknowledge him he thought she was ignoring him.
"Well if you're going to ignore me I'll just stop talking," he said. He got no reply.
"Kaoru?!" Kenshin whined, because he hated silence.
"What!? Did you say something?" Kaoru asked being knocked out of her world.
"Real mature Kaoru, real mature." Kenshin said.
"Wasn't listening." Kaoru said to him beginning to zone out again.
"Kaoru you space out a lot." Kenshin began. Kaoru opened the door and allowed it to close infront of Kenshin and she laughed when she heard a thud from him hitting the door. Kaoru walked into the office laughing when she heard Kenshin grumble as he re-opened the door.
Kaoru sat down in her normal chair on the other side of the principals desk and propped her feet up on his desk. "What's up doc?" Kaoru asked him He reached over and knocked her feet down.
"Kaoru, You have to clean the graffiti off the wall today, now. Also I will be assigning some one to help you." The principal said. Kaoru groaned.
"Well, Misao is really good at cleaning you know. She just loves to clean; you know she cleans for a part-time job. I think she even cleaned graffiti off a train once." Kaoru said.
The principal's eyes roamed to her notebook sitting on the desk and he smiled. "Kaoru this is phenomenal work, and it gives me a good idea." he said. Kaorus face fell even more than before when she realized what he was looking at.
"Your not thinking-"Kaoru started. The principal looked at her with a smirk playing on his face and a twinkle in his eye.
"Kaoru I have found you assistant." He said slapping her notebook down with Kenshin's picture face up.
"Um, is that code for Misao?" Kaoru asked knowing the answer.
"That's code for Kenshin." He said.
"But-but why?" kaoru asked in a helpless tone.
"Kenshin is in office duty during this period, he's a hard worker and has nothing to do here, and you seem to have taken a liking to him." He said looking at her picture.
"Listen, Misao doesn't do anything, and um she can work hard I think and, um well you know I don't have a thing for him! Besides you know I draw every one." Kaoru said.
"Yea ok, he's still your partner." The principal said. Kaoru groaned.
"I can't believe you're making me do this." Kaoru whined. She walked out of his office and looked at Kenshin dreading the hour to come.
"Kenshin, come with me" She sighed out. Kenshin looked up from his magazine.
"Talking to me now?" Kenshin asked. Kaoru sighed and looked pleadingly to the laughing principal. He shooed her off with his hands and she stomped out of the office Kenshin looking confused slowly walked after her looking questioningly towards the principal.
He walked after her and tapped her on the shoulder. She turned to look to him pulling head phones off her head.
"Ya?" She asked him.
"Well I was only wondering, what am I doing?" Kenshin asked sarcastically.
"Oh, forgot to tell you." Kaoru said. After a pause kenshin spoke up.
"Are you going to tell me?" Kenshin asked.
"Oh, yea. We have to clean the wall of graffiti." kaoru said.
"Why do I have to?" Kenshin asked.
"Because our principal is evil." Kaoru said.
"Oh." Kenshin said.
They walked in silence to the wall on the side of the school were Kaoru spry-painted the school.
"Kaoru, you should express your art some other way." Kenshin said.
"Why?" Kaoru asked.
"So I don't have to clean it off with you." Kenshin said smiling. Kaoru laughed shaking her head and grabbed a rag with goof-off on it. She began to clean the wall off with Kenshin.
Disclaimer: Don't own it, or goof-off.
"Yes... yes it is...Keeping track now are we?" a more feminine voice spoke out of the darkened corner of the dull room.
"Kaoru, you know I'm just trying to help." He said in a sincere voice and even though she chose not to look at him she could tell he wanted desperately to help her.
"Yea, yea why don't you punish me already so I can get outa here?" Kaoru snapped back at the man.
"Kaoru I...((sigh))I guess your right. You'll have to hand wash the graffiti off the walls and help the janitors clean up the lunch room." He said defeated and tired. The girl, Kaoru, stood up from her comfy chair and nonchalantly walked out of the office marked 'Principle.' The door swung open and nearly missed a few kids, Kaoru laughed at their misfortune.
She sighed and stood in the threshold of the office watching the lives of so many people pass by her. She was in high school and she was livin' the high life. Kaoru's eyes shot up suddenly hearing her name, she scanned the hallway for the source of irritation but she didn't see anyone she knew.
'People must be talking about me, that's all.' She thought trying to calm herself down. She turned around and closed the door, she began to walk down the hall way when she heard her name again. She whipped around looking for the person who had called her. Finding that no one had meant her to hear her name.
Kaoru continued to walk casually until she got to her locker. She spun the knob and opened the lock. She pulled open the locker and a pile of cards fell out of her locker. She smiled when she saw Misao's handwriting on the top of each folded piece of paper.
She bent down and picked them up in her arms and shoved them in her locker. She opened each one up reading the one line on each piece of paper. All together the note read:
Kaoru,
THAT WAS THE BEST STUNT YET! You defiantly know how to start a food fight! And you spray-painted the side of the building! Kaoru you must be in big trouble with the principal though. He must have chewed your ass out for everything you've done this week. Call me. Misao
Kaoru laughed at her friend and tossed all the notes in the trash. She pulled out a pen and a notebook from her locker and walked down the hallway to art class. She was happy the principal never said when she had to clean every thing up so she could go to one of the only classes she ever went to. She slipped down the hallway walking slowly along the wall to room G13. She stepped into the room and sat down in her usual seat in the back dark corner.
She was a few minutes early for this class like very day but the teacher let her do what she wanted in that time. Kaoru was an excellent artist and loved to draw. She had been painting since she was born and was called a prodigy by the age of 10.
However Kaoru was never able to let her talent show to the world. Kaoru opened her notebook and began to draw. She drew a few animals to get warmed up and watched as students filled in. She loved to draw the inner features of people. She worked on a different person every day.
Since Kaoru already knew all the lines you needed to draw and most of the artists of the world she didn't need to listen. Today she decided to work on Kenshin Himura.
'This one will be good.' She thought grinning evilly. 'Kenshin Himura, I will have fun drawing you.' She thought still smiling like a fool. She began to draw the lines of his face and the shape of his head.
She thought long and hard about him memories of earlier years came flooding into her mind. Times when he made fun of her, times when he was kind to her even times when he was perverted towards her.
Flashback
"Hey Kaoru, why do you have a bra on when you don't need it?" Kenshin asked leaning over the seat on the bus into her. He reached down and snapped the loose strap and she jumped.
Kaoru turned to him angry and hurt, tears brimming her eyes. "K-K" She began about to spit out a nasty comment when the bus lurched to a screeching stop and she stood as quickly as she could, running off the bus.
She ran so fast she didn't see the regret filling Kenshin's eyes and how sorry he looked as he watched her run off the bus.
A few years later
Kaoru was walking down the street and passed a group of guy, she could hear the cat-calls come from within the group and spread to become a vicious circle of hooting and hollering. Kaoru turned to find she only knew one of the boys in the circle, Kenshin Himura.
"Kenshin!" She said in a forceful tone. He stepped forward out of the group smiling like a fool.
"Yes, pretty thing?" He asked her.
"If you know what's good for you you'll never say anything like that to me or any other girl again!" She said anger flooding her vision, filling her veins. Kenshin just smiled.
"Of course I wont, I learned my lesson." He said in a sweet innocent voice. Kaoru knew she couldn't win against an idiot so she began to stomp away from them when she felt something below the equator.
Pink slowly crept onto her cheeks due to anger and embarrassment. She turned around on her heal facing the whole group. Kenshin was standing close infront of her his hand suspended in mid-air.
"Kenshin, you'll wish you never did that." She said as she began to chuckle a little. She raised her fist and it came hurdling toward his face...
Earlier This Year
Kaoru had been drawing her most recent portrait of her most favorite subject, People. She was drawing many people on a crowded sidewalk with one girl standing still beginning to cry. Kaoru felt sorrow when she drew it and lost her self in her painting.
She was so lost in her own world Kaoru didn't realize she had begun to cry while connecting with the woman in the picture who had a strange resemblance of her. She felt a tap on her shoulder and her eyes snapped open wide and she looked around startled.
Her eyes landed on Kenshin and she gulped hoping he thought she was some one else.
"Kaoru, are you alright?" He asked her kindly. She wasn't sure what made her trust his sincerity but she just felt like she could trust the words flowing from his mouth.
"I-I just, I'm fine." She said becoming surprisingly nice to him.
"Are you sure, you are crying" Kenshin said emphasizing the word 'are.' Kaoru nodded.
"Yes I'm fine, now you better get away from me." Kaoru said in a soft voice, which completely ruined the threat. Kenshin didn't find her intimidating when she didn't know what to say, or when her voice was soft and sweet like it was now. He felt like her voice could lull him to sleep but he wanted this conversation to keep going.
"And what will you do if I don't get away?" He asked her.
"What do you mean 'What will I do?'" Kaoru asked. Kenshin smiled.
"Well normally your sentences end with an ' or I'll...'" Kenshin said playfully.
"Or I'll personally make sure you take a long hike off a short peir...Happy?" Kaoru asked tilting her head back towards her painting. Kenshin reached over to her chin and gently pulled her face to look at him. He then took his other hand and wiped away the tears with his thumb.
"Perfect." he said as he stood up and walked away leaving Kaoru confused.
End Flash Back
Then Kaoru realized she couldn't draw Kenshin. She had drawn perverts before and drawn people who were mean, she even drew nice people, who generally turned out to be more beautiful then they originally were.
Kaoru loved comparing people, they always turned out to be opposite. For example a lot of the really ugly or really fat people turned out to be absolutely beautiful in her drawings, yet people who are beautiful in real life were ugly deformed drawings.
Kaoru had quite a few pictures pinned up on her wall at home of what people really look like. But Kaoru couldn't put her finger on what Kenshin looked like. So like in any hard drawings she drew what she saw on the outside.
She started with his irregular hair then went to his beautiful purple eyes. She eventually had his entire picture done when the end of class bell rang. Kaoru sat in her seat for a few minutes until every one in the class was gone.
"Kaoru? Did you want to talk to me?" The teacher asked gathering her things.
"Well I didn't plan on it but..." Kaoru began.
"Say no more. Another internal portrait I presume? And if I may venture on a limb I assume it is of Himura Kenshin since you stared at him for the first twenty minutes of class." The teacher guessed while talking to her like a best friend.
"Yea, But its not what you think, He was just the only person close enough to me to draw." Kaoru said.
"And what do I think?" The teacher asked giving Kaoru a hard time. Kaorus eyes were half lidded and she looked at the teacher sarcastically. The teacher laughed.
"Megumi, don't do this to me, I know exactly what you were thinking." Kaoru said to her.
"Kaoru I don't know what you're talking about." Megumi said innocently. Kaoru handed Megumi the picture and she frowned. "Kaoru, this is not your regular portrait." She said.
"I know Megumi, I know. But I don't know how to draw him." Kaoru said in a worried tone.
"Well, Kaoru first you take your pencil in hand and draw a circle."
"MEGUMI!" kaoru yelled.
"Ok, OK Kaoru calm down. Don't worry, your talent is not dwindling." Megumi said. Kaorus face lit up and she smiled.
"Megumi you always know what's on my mind." Kaoru said.
"I know, and I know why you can't draw him. Its because his personality is to diverse. He's not always mean so you can't draw a hideous beast, but he can't be beautiful because he isn't always nice. I think you need to color this one in then make another one and make it ugly, color that one and make another beautiful one. Then color that one, then compare them and see which you like the most." Megumi said to her.
"Thanks Megumi!" Kaoru said as she hugged her and ran out to the hallway. She closed her notebook quickly so no one saw her pictures and walked quickly to the courtyard.
Kaoru sat down on a bench and began to draw in more detail. She finished all the shadowing for her picture and pulled some colored pencils out of her purse. She began to color the picture rubbing the color back and fourth when it had to blend. Kaoru colored all through the next block and finished within the hour.
She began to draw an ugly picture but found she needed to see his face to draw him, even if it wasn't him. So she flipped to his realistic portrait and was able to draw. However no matter how hard she tried she was unable to erase his perfect eyes, which threw the whole picture off.
Kaoru sighed and crumbled it up and threw it next to her. After an hour of drawing the ugly Kenshin she had come up with a pile of crumpled paper next to her. Kaoru sighed and flipped back to the realistic picture and smiled.
"It's good. Just like looking in a mirror." A voice said from behind her. She jumped out of her skin and slowly turned around dreading the face she knew she'd see.
"Kenshin, What do you want?" Kaoru asked masking her surprise.
"The principal wants to see you." He said. Kaoru subconsciously unleashed her breath she was holding.
"Is that all?" Kaoru asked walking towards the principals office. Kenshin followed right behind her. She hadn't noticed any one else was even in the hallway until he slowly began to reach south of the border.
She turned around quickly catching him in the action.
"What were you doing? And what are you doing following me?" Kaoru asked.
"I was going to grab you're-"He started reaching in the same place. She stepped away and looked appalled. Kenshin followed her until she backed up against a wall. She was smiling since she won until he reached down to her side and grabbed her notebook from her hand.
"I was going to grab you're notebook. And I'm following you because this period I work in the office." Kenshin said. Kaorus face began to flood red and she turned and began to walk away so he couldn't see her turn red like a tomato.
Kenshin smiled having seen her turn red and he knew what she thought he was going to do, and he was tempted but decided to make her feel bad.
Kaoru began to tune out his foot steps and became enchanted in her own world were she completely zoned out.
"You're very good Kaoru." Kenshin said. When she didn't answer or even acknowledge him he thought she was ignoring him.
"Well if you're going to ignore me I'll just stop talking," he said. He got no reply.
"Kaoru?!" Kenshin whined, because he hated silence.
"What!? Did you say something?" Kaoru asked being knocked out of her world.
"Real mature Kaoru, real mature." Kenshin said.
"Wasn't listening." Kaoru said to him beginning to zone out again.
"Kaoru you space out a lot." Kenshin began. Kaoru opened the door and allowed it to close infront of Kenshin and she laughed when she heard a thud from him hitting the door. Kaoru walked into the office laughing when she heard Kenshin grumble as he re-opened the door.
Kaoru sat down in her normal chair on the other side of the principals desk and propped her feet up on his desk. "What's up doc?" Kaoru asked him He reached over and knocked her feet down.
"Kaoru, You have to clean the graffiti off the wall today, now. Also I will be assigning some one to help you." The principal said. Kaoru groaned.
"Well, Misao is really good at cleaning you know. She just loves to clean; you know she cleans for a part-time job. I think she even cleaned graffiti off a train once." Kaoru said.
The principal's eyes roamed to her notebook sitting on the desk and he smiled. "Kaoru this is phenomenal work, and it gives me a good idea." he said. Kaorus face fell even more than before when she realized what he was looking at.
"Your not thinking-"Kaoru started. The principal looked at her with a smirk playing on his face and a twinkle in his eye.
"Kaoru I have found you assistant." He said slapping her notebook down with Kenshin's picture face up.
"Um, is that code for Misao?" Kaoru asked knowing the answer.
"That's code for Kenshin." He said.
"But-but why?" kaoru asked in a helpless tone.
"Kenshin is in office duty during this period, he's a hard worker and has nothing to do here, and you seem to have taken a liking to him." He said looking at her picture.
"Listen, Misao doesn't do anything, and um she can work hard I think and, um well you know I don't have a thing for him! Besides you know I draw every one." Kaoru said.
"Yea ok, he's still your partner." The principal said. Kaoru groaned.
"I can't believe you're making me do this." Kaoru whined. She walked out of his office and looked at Kenshin dreading the hour to come.
"Kenshin, come with me" She sighed out. Kenshin looked up from his magazine.
"Talking to me now?" Kenshin asked. Kaoru sighed and looked pleadingly to the laughing principal. He shooed her off with his hands and she stomped out of the office Kenshin looking confused slowly walked after her looking questioningly towards the principal.
He walked after her and tapped her on the shoulder. She turned to look to him pulling head phones off her head.
"Ya?" She asked him.
"Well I was only wondering, what am I doing?" Kenshin asked sarcastically.
"Oh, forgot to tell you." Kaoru said. After a pause kenshin spoke up.
"Are you going to tell me?" Kenshin asked.
"Oh, yea. We have to clean the wall of graffiti." kaoru said.
"Why do I have to?" Kenshin asked.
"Because our principal is evil." Kaoru said.
"Oh." Kenshin said.
They walked in silence to the wall on the side of the school were Kaoru spry-painted the school.
"Kaoru, you should express your art some other way." Kenshin said.
"Why?" Kaoru asked.
"So I don't have to clean it off with you." Kenshin said smiling. Kaoru laughed shaking her head and grabbed a rag with goof-off on it. She began to clean the wall off with Kenshin.
Disclaimer: Don't own it, or goof-off.