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Hello there! It's nice to know that someone is reading my story! ^-^ I feel so loved. Okay this is only the prologue, and it is also my first fanfic, so please be gentle, but if you have any tips to give to me I'd like that bunches! ^-^; I'm not great at spelling so I'll try to use spell check as much as possible. I'd like you R+R please if it doesn't take up too much of your time.
Escaping Destiny
Chapter 1
Rain.
That's all it seemed to be doing lately...
Kaoru looked up into the heavens only to see more rain fall upon her windowsill. Sighing, Kaoru looked down to her forgotten book that she had been reading earlier. 'It was a good book,' thought Kaoru sarcastically,' if you want to read about the history of Literature. Only heaven knows why Uncle Saito wanted me to read such a dreadful book, and with the humid rain, it only seems more boring.'
But, Kaoru, being in the position that she was in, wanted to grant her Uncle's wishes. ' And if,' Kaoru thought sourly,' one of those wishes is to read about English and Literature, then so be it.'
So Kaoru read on through the hateful book... But not a moment later did Kaoru find that she was nodding off to sleep.
"Damn book, it's not my bed-time yet." Kaoru whispered through her teeth, with a frown on her face, and her frustration getting the best of her; her right eye found itself a nice twitch.
Kaoru looked up from her book; to grant her eyes a rest, and she looked into her study. It was a fair sized circular room, with a fireplace, and cushion-chairs around that for comfort and talking. There was a writing place, a desk, was that what they called it? Well Kaoru was only there if she wanted to write letters or documents. Then there was a little library, from the floor to the ceiling around the study. The only part the books didn't cover was the doorway, and her favorite spot in the whole room, the cushioned window seat and window. Kaoru stood, as she put the 'Love of English' back in to its rightful place, she decided that she needed some fresh-air, raining or not. ' I can't be cooped up in this stuffy old castle forever.' Kaoru thought, finally her mood brightening. Picking up her skirts, Kaoru walked out of the study. 'I think walking in the garden would be a great place to start. And I could read one of my adventure books there too. Kami knows I need excitement in my life.'
So Kaoru walked down the maze of stairs and hallways to get to the garden, and when she finally got there, she found out that it stopped raining. 'Perfect timing!' Kaoru thought her mood becoming happier.
She smiled to see the raindrops on all the plants, and the wet pavement, but she got a bigger grin on her face to see a gigantic puddle. 'If I do this, Nana isn't going to be happy with me,' her sub-conscience thought. ' Who cares, it'd be fun, a little part of the excitement that you said you needed.' Kaoru's conscience thought back. So She ran to the puddle, and jumped in it like a little girl would. Getting her dress, legs, arms, and hair wet, and laughing like a true child, she didn't notice the golden eyes that where upon her.
Kenshin sighed, 'This is going to be a long day.'
Not only did his adoptive father and master put him on an impossible mission, but it was raining! Pouring to be exact. Once he snuck into the Castle he made sure that he changed from his sopping wet cloths, dried them, then put them back on. But even more, the enemies Castle was so heavily guarded that he almost got caught sneaking in, and to add to that the 19-year-old women that he was supposed to kill was harder to find then he thought she would be. She's not in her room, so he checked her cambers, to find that they were all empty, even the study was empty. Kenshin gave another aggravated sigh as he walked to the window seat, and sat down. He looked out the window, noticing the rain had stopped just after he gotten in the castle, that only made his frustration rise farther, so he looked to the gardens below, ...
Just to see a beautiful women jumping in a huge puddle, the water droplets from her splashes around her, a big genuine smile on her face, and her Ice blue eyes mirrored the smile ...
It was like he was stuck in a trance, but, as he looked at her face closer, it hit him, ' This is the women I'm supposed to assonate? She's nothing but a child!'
But orders were orders, and he ran down the maze of stairs and hallways to get to the gardens. As he got there he noticed that the princess wasn't jumping in the puddles any more. ' Great! Just great! I find her, and when I get to the spot that I see her in, She's not there!'
Kenshin looked up to the clouds, just as he felt the pouring rain come down on him again.
Kenshin was livid...
Controlling his anger so that is was just bearable, he started reasoning where she could be,' At least I know that she's still in the gardens, if she wasn't I would have past her on the way here.'
So the Hitokiri Battousai started his search of the gardens. Only to find out an hour later that the 'girl' he was looking for was even harder to find in the massive garden then the Osaka Castle. So he rested at the base an extremely gigantic tree for a while. He was very happy to notice that he was out of the rain.
Kaoru look around from where she was sitting high up in her favorite tree, it started raining again, she noticed.
'But that didn't matter, this has big leaves, I didn't feel a single rain drop. I only noticed because I heard it.' Kaoru thought even happier.
The branch was shaped for sitting and it was flat on the top, so she wouldn't be falling any time soon, most people would think that it's not safe, but in fact it was very sturdy, so much so, that 50 people, if they could fit, could sit on this branch and it wouldn't make a single move to brake. But to add to that the branch was so huge, along with the other branches, that if she fell over, her head would just hit the tree instead of the ground. Needless to say, even if it was a very old tree, it was the biggest tree in her Aunt Tokio's garden, and the hugest tree in the all of Japan. And another fact that she liked the place so much was because of the fact that it was so hard to find, and only her cousin Yahiko had found it searching for her.
But Kaoru wasn't interested in her favorite spot to read; she was more engrossed in her adventure/romance book. She sighed a very happy sigh and thought what it would be like to adventure around the whole Japan just looking for her lover, as the main character in her book had done. She sighed a dreamy sigh, with a blush on her face, as she got to a very mushy part in the book.
"I wonder what it would be like to kiss someone like that." She whispered dreamily, with a tint of a blush, and a smile on her face. Kaoru was so lost in 'La la land' that she didn't see the red haired man below her, until he stepped on a twig.
Gasping, Kaoru looked below herself, adrenalin running as well as her emotions, as she saw the very hansom red-haired man. But she got curious as to whom he is, since all she could see of him was the back of his head.
That is until he turned around looking for something, or more of, someone. Kaoru stared in trance at the fact that he was very hansom. He had the most unusual amber eyes, and hair that looked more like flames then hair. He was dressed in the usual armor, but the thing is that it was all black, and had a black cape attached to his shoulder armor. The other thing that was unusual was the fact that he was carrying a Japanese Sword instead of the usual gun, and European Sword that a normal Police-man would. He was most frightening, but Kaoru didn't care. Though now Kaoru was very sub-conscience of her spaghetti strapped, tight midriff, green dress, which had a slit on both sides that went up to her hip. At the bottom of the dress were glittered purple and blue flames; the glitter went up to her knees. And she had an indigo ribbon in her hair, her favorite in fact. Kaoru had many of these dresses that had slits because they were great for moving around in, especially when she practiced using a sword, doing her marital arts, and practicing her witch craft. Yes, Kaoru was a witch, and very useful and talented one at that. Her dreams could predict the future, battles and such, but she couldn't only see the future, she could see the present and into peoples minds, and erase them if she wanted to, she could also do the normal witch stuff as well. Which is why, Saito, her uncle, didn't want her running around a bunch. She getting captured, or killed, was his fear. But Kaoru didn't like using them too much because if she saw into a persons mind then they could see into hers, and also it takes up to much energy, even if she was a powerful witch, she wasn't nearly as strong and powerful as her mother was. Kaoru didn't want to bother the searching hansom man, so she didn't speak. She started to move away, when her bear feet steeped on a stray small branch, which snapped on impact.
Kenshin's head shot up, as he heard a branch snap, and he immediately got in to a defensive position automatically. And when he saw the 'girl' he was looking for, he had a faint smirk, menacing to all he looked at, and his glare could strike fear into any man, the Princess was making it easier for him. But the Princess only smiled at him. 'Does she think that I'm only being silly?' Kenshin was confused, but that only turned into anger. He was caught off guard when she fell screaming out of the massive tree, some how she slipped. He ran forward, as though to catch her, he didn't know why. 'I should just let her fall, she IS high up enough to be killed on impact, and that's what I want... Isn't it?' Kenshin's conscience thought. But something was telling Kenshin to catch the women, something he didn't understand. And it was bothering the hell out of him.
When Kaoru stepped on the small branch she jumped, but her eyes where still on the interesting man, as his head shot-up to look at her. She froze scared that he'd attack her, but when he smirked at her for on apparent reason, which only made him seem more frightful, she smiled back, but only to cover up her fear. When she took a step backwards, though, her footing slipped and she fell down wards giving out a loud shriek...
But only to be caught in strong warm arms...
Kaoru only looked up for a moment to see her savior, and just as she thought, it was that strange Knight. But she didn't care, the fact that her insides where so jumbled was strong enough to make her puke, and that's exactly what she did, but she was polite enough to not to throw-up on the Knight.
When Kaoru got back up from throwing-up, she noticed that he had put her into a standing position, but he had an arm around her waist that she was leaning over and his other hand was rubbing her back. Kaoru wiped her mouth from throw-up, and turned to the stranger, now very conscience of what she was wearing, and that fact that one of his arms was around her. Their eye transfixed upon each other as if they were stuck, she could advert her eyes, but she didn't want to, and it seemed that he didn't want to either. It felt like she had stared into his eyes before, a long, long time ago, it felt so familiar staring into them, and them looking in to her eyes.
"I-I'm s-sorry." Kaoru said in a shaken voice. But the Knight brought two fingers up to her lips to silence her, and he smiled at her in a comforting and knowing way.
"Shhhh, it's okay." He said in a deep, rich, and comforting voice.
He swiped a strand of stray hair away from her face and tucked it behind her ear, as the wind blew. The touch felt so familiar, so warm, and safe... and Kaoru was surrounded by black as she stared into her saviors golden eyes, knowing that she will be dreaming about them in future dreams to come. She guessed her powers wanted her to see something. And Kaoru Blacked out...
OKAY well that's all for now folks! Tell me what you think by read and reviewing please!!! I need to know what the fans want! ^-^ I'll try and write some more soon. Some time Sunday, maybe, I'm not too sure. ^-^ well I'll try any ways! Ja! Moon Baby.
Hello there! It's nice to know that someone is reading my story! ^-^ I feel so loved. Okay this is only the prologue, and it is also my first fanfic, so please be gentle, but if you have any tips to give to me I'd like that bunches! ^-^; I'm not great at spelling so I'll try to use spell check as much as possible. I'd like you R+R please if it doesn't take up too much of your time.
Escaping Destiny
Chapter 1
Rain.
That's all it seemed to be doing lately...
Kaoru looked up into the heavens only to see more rain fall upon her windowsill. Sighing, Kaoru looked down to her forgotten book that she had been reading earlier. 'It was a good book,' thought Kaoru sarcastically,' if you want to read about the history of Literature. Only heaven knows why Uncle Saito wanted me to read such a dreadful book, and with the humid rain, it only seems more boring.'
But, Kaoru, being in the position that she was in, wanted to grant her Uncle's wishes. ' And if,' Kaoru thought sourly,' one of those wishes is to read about English and Literature, then so be it.'
So Kaoru read on through the hateful book... But not a moment later did Kaoru find that she was nodding off to sleep.
"Damn book, it's not my bed-time yet." Kaoru whispered through her teeth, with a frown on her face, and her frustration getting the best of her; her right eye found itself a nice twitch.
Kaoru looked up from her book; to grant her eyes a rest, and she looked into her study. It was a fair sized circular room, with a fireplace, and cushion-chairs around that for comfort and talking. There was a writing place, a desk, was that what they called it? Well Kaoru was only there if she wanted to write letters or documents. Then there was a little library, from the floor to the ceiling around the study. The only part the books didn't cover was the doorway, and her favorite spot in the whole room, the cushioned window seat and window. Kaoru stood, as she put the 'Love of English' back in to its rightful place, she decided that she needed some fresh-air, raining or not. ' I can't be cooped up in this stuffy old castle forever.' Kaoru thought, finally her mood brightening. Picking up her skirts, Kaoru walked out of the study. 'I think walking in the garden would be a great place to start. And I could read one of my adventure books there too. Kami knows I need excitement in my life.'
So Kaoru walked down the maze of stairs and hallways to get to the garden, and when she finally got there, she found out that it stopped raining. 'Perfect timing!' Kaoru thought her mood becoming happier.
She smiled to see the raindrops on all the plants, and the wet pavement, but she got a bigger grin on her face to see a gigantic puddle. 'If I do this, Nana isn't going to be happy with me,' her sub-conscience thought. ' Who cares, it'd be fun, a little part of the excitement that you said you needed.' Kaoru's conscience thought back. So She ran to the puddle, and jumped in it like a little girl would. Getting her dress, legs, arms, and hair wet, and laughing like a true child, she didn't notice the golden eyes that where upon her.
Kenshin sighed, 'This is going to be a long day.'
Not only did his adoptive father and master put him on an impossible mission, but it was raining! Pouring to be exact. Once he snuck into the Castle he made sure that he changed from his sopping wet cloths, dried them, then put them back on. But even more, the enemies Castle was so heavily guarded that he almost got caught sneaking in, and to add to that the 19-year-old women that he was supposed to kill was harder to find then he thought she would be. She's not in her room, so he checked her cambers, to find that they were all empty, even the study was empty. Kenshin gave another aggravated sigh as he walked to the window seat, and sat down. He looked out the window, noticing the rain had stopped just after he gotten in the castle, that only made his frustration rise farther, so he looked to the gardens below, ...
Just to see a beautiful women jumping in a huge puddle, the water droplets from her splashes around her, a big genuine smile on her face, and her Ice blue eyes mirrored the smile ...
It was like he was stuck in a trance, but, as he looked at her face closer, it hit him, ' This is the women I'm supposed to assonate? She's nothing but a child!'
But orders were orders, and he ran down the maze of stairs and hallways to get to the gardens. As he got there he noticed that the princess wasn't jumping in the puddles any more. ' Great! Just great! I find her, and when I get to the spot that I see her in, She's not there!'
Kenshin looked up to the clouds, just as he felt the pouring rain come down on him again.
Kenshin was livid...
Controlling his anger so that is was just bearable, he started reasoning where she could be,' At least I know that she's still in the gardens, if she wasn't I would have past her on the way here.'
So the Hitokiri Battousai started his search of the gardens. Only to find out an hour later that the 'girl' he was looking for was even harder to find in the massive garden then the Osaka Castle. So he rested at the base an extremely gigantic tree for a while. He was very happy to notice that he was out of the rain.
Kaoru look around from where she was sitting high up in her favorite tree, it started raining again, she noticed.
'But that didn't matter, this has big leaves, I didn't feel a single rain drop. I only noticed because I heard it.' Kaoru thought even happier.
The branch was shaped for sitting and it was flat on the top, so she wouldn't be falling any time soon, most people would think that it's not safe, but in fact it was very sturdy, so much so, that 50 people, if they could fit, could sit on this branch and it wouldn't make a single move to brake. But to add to that the branch was so huge, along with the other branches, that if she fell over, her head would just hit the tree instead of the ground. Needless to say, even if it was a very old tree, it was the biggest tree in her Aunt Tokio's garden, and the hugest tree in the all of Japan. And another fact that she liked the place so much was because of the fact that it was so hard to find, and only her cousin Yahiko had found it searching for her.
But Kaoru wasn't interested in her favorite spot to read; she was more engrossed in her adventure/romance book. She sighed a very happy sigh and thought what it would be like to adventure around the whole Japan just looking for her lover, as the main character in her book had done. She sighed a dreamy sigh, with a blush on her face, as she got to a very mushy part in the book.
"I wonder what it would be like to kiss someone like that." She whispered dreamily, with a tint of a blush, and a smile on her face. Kaoru was so lost in 'La la land' that she didn't see the red haired man below her, until he stepped on a twig.
Gasping, Kaoru looked below herself, adrenalin running as well as her emotions, as she saw the very hansom red-haired man. But she got curious as to whom he is, since all she could see of him was the back of his head.
That is until he turned around looking for something, or more of, someone. Kaoru stared in trance at the fact that he was very hansom. He had the most unusual amber eyes, and hair that looked more like flames then hair. He was dressed in the usual armor, but the thing is that it was all black, and had a black cape attached to his shoulder armor. The other thing that was unusual was the fact that he was carrying a Japanese Sword instead of the usual gun, and European Sword that a normal Police-man would. He was most frightening, but Kaoru didn't care. Though now Kaoru was very sub-conscience of her spaghetti strapped, tight midriff, green dress, which had a slit on both sides that went up to her hip. At the bottom of the dress were glittered purple and blue flames; the glitter went up to her knees. And she had an indigo ribbon in her hair, her favorite in fact. Kaoru had many of these dresses that had slits because they were great for moving around in, especially when she practiced using a sword, doing her marital arts, and practicing her witch craft. Yes, Kaoru was a witch, and very useful and talented one at that. Her dreams could predict the future, battles and such, but she couldn't only see the future, she could see the present and into peoples minds, and erase them if she wanted to, she could also do the normal witch stuff as well. Which is why, Saito, her uncle, didn't want her running around a bunch. She getting captured, or killed, was his fear. But Kaoru didn't like using them too much because if she saw into a persons mind then they could see into hers, and also it takes up to much energy, even if she was a powerful witch, she wasn't nearly as strong and powerful as her mother was. Kaoru didn't want to bother the searching hansom man, so she didn't speak. She started to move away, when her bear feet steeped on a stray small branch, which snapped on impact.
Kenshin's head shot up, as he heard a branch snap, and he immediately got in to a defensive position automatically. And when he saw the 'girl' he was looking for, he had a faint smirk, menacing to all he looked at, and his glare could strike fear into any man, the Princess was making it easier for him. But the Princess only smiled at him. 'Does she think that I'm only being silly?' Kenshin was confused, but that only turned into anger. He was caught off guard when she fell screaming out of the massive tree, some how she slipped. He ran forward, as though to catch her, he didn't know why. 'I should just let her fall, she IS high up enough to be killed on impact, and that's what I want... Isn't it?' Kenshin's conscience thought. But something was telling Kenshin to catch the women, something he didn't understand. And it was bothering the hell out of him.
When Kaoru stepped on the small branch she jumped, but her eyes where still on the interesting man, as his head shot-up to look at her. She froze scared that he'd attack her, but when he smirked at her for on apparent reason, which only made him seem more frightful, she smiled back, but only to cover up her fear. When she took a step backwards, though, her footing slipped and she fell down wards giving out a loud shriek...
But only to be caught in strong warm arms...
Kaoru only looked up for a moment to see her savior, and just as she thought, it was that strange Knight. But she didn't care, the fact that her insides where so jumbled was strong enough to make her puke, and that's exactly what she did, but she was polite enough to not to throw-up on the Knight.
When Kaoru got back up from throwing-up, she noticed that he had put her into a standing position, but he had an arm around her waist that she was leaning over and his other hand was rubbing her back. Kaoru wiped her mouth from throw-up, and turned to the stranger, now very conscience of what she was wearing, and that fact that one of his arms was around her. Their eye transfixed upon each other as if they were stuck, she could advert her eyes, but she didn't want to, and it seemed that he didn't want to either. It felt like she had stared into his eyes before, a long, long time ago, it felt so familiar staring into them, and them looking in to her eyes.
"I-I'm s-sorry." Kaoru said in a shaken voice. But the Knight brought two fingers up to her lips to silence her, and he smiled at her in a comforting and knowing way.
"Shhhh, it's okay." He said in a deep, rich, and comforting voice.
He swiped a strand of stray hair away from her face and tucked it behind her ear, as the wind blew. The touch felt so familiar, so warm, and safe... and Kaoru was surrounded by black as she stared into her saviors golden eyes, knowing that she will be dreaming about them in future dreams to come. She guessed her powers wanted her to see something. And Kaoru Blacked out...
OKAY well that's all for now folks! Tell me what you think by read and reviewing please!!! I need to know what the fans want! ^-^ I'll try and write some more soon. Some time Sunday, maybe, I'm not too sure. ^-^ well I'll try any ways! Ja! Moon Baby.