Broken Hearts
Ch.1
Sunny Day Smiles
"Hello?!" Sano said waving his hand in front of Kaoru's dazed face. "Hello? Can you pass the rice over here Missy?!"
"Oh!" Kaoru said suddenly awakening from a daydream in which she had been absent mindedly staring at Kenshin's gi. Kenshin had been trying to ignore this fact for as long as possible but had ended up shifting uncomfortably every few minutes. Kaoru picked up Sano's bowl and gave him another serving of steaming rice.
Sano greedily shoveled it into his mouth and took a drink from his cup like it would disappear if he ate it too slow. "You must be very hungry today Sano! That's a lot of food, even for you!" Kenshin said in his normally joyous voice, quite glad that Kaoru's gaze had slipped out towards the window.
"How can you eat this stuff?!" Yahiko exclaimed in complaint as he gobbled it down just as fast.
"Hey!" Kaoru yelled at him waking from another daze. "I work my butt off to feed you scoundrels and this is how you repay me?! By insulting me?!"
"What would an ugly girl like you know about cooking?!" Yahiko added with a smirk.
Just as Kaoru was going to whack him on the head with something Kenshin interrupted with a smile, "I think Miss Kaoru's food is quite good, that I do!"
The stick that hovered dangerously over Yahiko's head suddenly dropped as a Kaoru's face surprisingly blushed. "Ouch!" Yahiko yelled as he grabbed his head in pain.
Kenshin quite surprised and Kaoru's reaction became worried. "Are you okay Miss Kaoru?"
"Is she okay?! What about me?! I'm the one that got knocked on the head!"
Sano laughed as he finished his last bowl of rice. "You think you would have learned to stop calling her ugly by now, wouldn't you Yahiko?!"
For a while Kaoru didn't respond to Kenshin's question, but then she suddenly stood up and said hastily, "I'm not feeling too well, and I've got a lot of chores to get to, so please excuse me."
"Huh?" Kenshin said to himself quite confused as to her behavior.
"What was that all about?!" Sano asked.
"What about my lessons for today?" Yahiko added quite too late for a response.
"What chores? All I've seen that woman do all week is daydream!" Sano added as he got up to leave.
"Hmm?" Kenshin sighed as he stood up. 'Miss Kaoru has been acting very strange lately.' He thought to himself. 'What ever could be wrong?'
Yahiko found himself all alone with a table full of dirty dishes. "Hey! ...I'm not cleaning these up!...Dang it!"
* * * * *
Kenshin was busily humming away as he scrubbed a kimono in the wash bucket in the back yard. It had been a few hours since Kaoru's little drama and the sun was beginning to sink towards the western edge of the sky. The evening birds sung a similar tune as all became quiet all around the dojo.
"Whatever could be the matter with Miss Kaoru?" he thought aloud as he scrubbed a mud stain on Kaoru's garment. He laughed as he remembered how she had carelessly tripped into the mud puddle yesterday, and had accidentally brought him down with her, as he tried to help her up.
"You should watch where you're going Miss Kaoru, that you should." He had said with a quiet laugh as he put out a hand to help her up. "Whoops!" he said as his sandal slipped on a slick stone.
"Now you're just as muddy as I am!" Kaoru had said with a laugh as they sat dripping in the wet street.
"Yes but I'm afraid your new kimono is all muddy now!" Kenshin said with a sigh, it would be hard work cleaning this one.
"Oh no!" she had said standing up suddenly.
"Don't worry Miss Kaoru!" he said as he picked himself up. "These hands are not only good for sword fighting, that they are!"
Kenshin laughed as he remembered the smile that reappeared on her face. He had been finding it hard not to smile recently. Her strange behavior had a certain appeal to it. She had been acting all day-dreamy since he got back to Tokyo. She would be so out of it to have went out for an hour to the market and come home having forgotten what she was doing. The thought of this would cause a little grin to appear on his face, like the sun had finally peeked through the clouds after a long rainy day.
But his pleasant thoughts were suddenly interrupted, "Where's Kaoru?" Yahiko asked, "I haven't seen her since she wandered off after lunch."
His smile disappeared, "What? I haven't seen her all day either!"
"Could she have gone to the market and forgotten herself again?" Yahiko asked with jest.
"I don't think so..." Kenshin said as he listened intensely for some clue of her presence.
Suddenly there came a scream of a woman's voice. Kenshin tensed and dropped Kaoru's kimono in the grass. In a flash he was gone, and off in the direction of the scream his hand rested on his sword.
The sun began to sink down beyond the horizon as he ran along the muddy road. He turned the bend just as man came out of his door to light his evening lamp. A scream came again and Kenshin was sure this time.
"Kenshin! Help!" Miss Kaoru screamed.
Kenshin rounded another corner and reached a dark alleyway. "Kenshin!" Kaoru managed to scream again as she saw him. A man in a black gi, hakama, and mask covering his large face was holding Kaoru by the arm a long blade at her throat. "One wrong move Battousai and your girl shall say good-bye to her beautiful head."
TO BE CONTINUED
... so what did you think? ...pls tell me.
Ch.1
Sunny Day Smiles
"Hello?!" Sano said waving his hand in front of Kaoru's dazed face. "Hello? Can you pass the rice over here Missy?!"
"Oh!" Kaoru said suddenly awakening from a daydream in which she had been absent mindedly staring at Kenshin's gi. Kenshin had been trying to ignore this fact for as long as possible but had ended up shifting uncomfortably every few minutes. Kaoru picked up Sano's bowl and gave him another serving of steaming rice.
Sano greedily shoveled it into his mouth and took a drink from his cup like it would disappear if he ate it too slow. "You must be very hungry today Sano! That's a lot of food, even for you!" Kenshin said in his normally joyous voice, quite glad that Kaoru's gaze had slipped out towards the window.
"How can you eat this stuff?!" Yahiko exclaimed in complaint as he gobbled it down just as fast.
"Hey!" Kaoru yelled at him waking from another daze. "I work my butt off to feed you scoundrels and this is how you repay me?! By insulting me?!"
"What would an ugly girl like you know about cooking?!" Yahiko added with a smirk.
Just as Kaoru was going to whack him on the head with something Kenshin interrupted with a smile, "I think Miss Kaoru's food is quite good, that I do!"
The stick that hovered dangerously over Yahiko's head suddenly dropped as a Kaoru's face surprisingly blushed. "Ouch!" Yahiko yelled as he grabbed his head in pain.
Kenshin quite surprised and Kaoru's reaction became worried. "Are you okay Miss Kaoru?"
"Is she okay?! What about me?! I'm the one that got knocked on the head!"
Sano laughed as he finished his last bowl of rice. "You think you would have learned to stop calling her ugly by now, wouldn't you Yahiko?!"
For a while Kaoru didn't respond to Kenshin's question, but then she suddenly stood up and said hastily, "I'm not feeling too well, and I've got a lot of chores to get to, so please excuse me."
"Huh?" Kenshin said to himself quite confused as to her behavior.
"What was that all about?!" Sano asked.
"What about my lessons for today?" Yahiko added quite too late for a response.
"What chores? All I've seen that woman do all week is daydream!" Sano added as he got up to leave.
"Hmm?" Kenshin sighed as he stood up. 'Miss Kaoru has been acting very strange lately.' He thought to himself. 'What ever could be wrong?'
Yahiko found himself all alone with a table full of dirty dishes. "Hey! ...I'm not cleaning these up!...Dang it!"
* * * * *
Kenshin was busily humming away as he scrubbed a kimono in the wash bucket in the back yard. It had been a few hours since Kaoru's little drama and the sun was beginning to sink towards the western edge of the sky. The evening birds sung a similar tune as all became quiet all around the dojo.
"Whatever could be the matter with Miss Kaoru?" he thought aloud as he scrubbed a mud stain on Kaoru's garment. He laughed as he remembered how she had carelessly tripped into the mud puddle yesterday, and had accidentally brought him down with her, as he tried to help her up.
"You should watch where you're going Miss Kaoru, that you should." He had said with a quiet laugh as he put out a hand to help her up. "Whoops!" he said as his sandal slipped on a slick stone.
"Now you're just as muddy as I am!" Kaoru had said with a laugh as they sat dripping in the wet street.
"Yes but I'm afraid your new kimono is all muddy now!" Kenshin said with a sigh, it would be hard work cleaning this one.
"Oh no!" she had said standing up suddenly.
"Don't worry Miss Kaoru!" he said as he picked himself up. "These hands are not only good for sword fighting, that they are!"
Kenshin laughed as he remembered the smile that reappeared on her face. He had been finding it hard not to smile recently. Her strange behavior had a certain appeal to it. She had been acting all day-dreamy since he got back to Tokyo. She would be so out of it to have went out for an hour to the market and come home having forgotten what she was doing. The thought of this would cause a little grin to appear on his face, like the sun had finally peeked through the clouds after a long rainy day.
But his pleasant thoughts were suddenly interrupted, "Where's Kaoru?" Yahiko asked, "I haven't seen her since she wandered off after lunch."
His smile disappeared, "What? I haven't seen her all day either!"
"Could she have gone to the market and forgotten herself again?" Yahiko asked with jest.
"I don't think so..." Kenshin said as he listened intensely for some clue of her presence.
Suddenly there came a scream of a woman's voice. Kenshin tensed and dropped Kaoru's kimono in the grass. In a flash he was gone, and off in the direction of the scream his hand rested on his sword.
The sun began to sink down beyond the horizon as he ran along the muddy road. He turned the bend just as man came out of his door to light his evening lamp. A scream came again and Kenshin was sure this time.
"Kenshin! Help!" Miss Kaoru screamed.
Kenshin rounded another corner and reached a dark alleyway. "Kenshin!" Kaoru managed to scream again as she saw him. A man in a black gi, hakama, and mask covering his large face was holding Kaoru by the arm a long blade at her throat. "One wrong move Battousai and your girl shall say good-bye to her beautiful head."
TO BE CONTINUED
... so what did you think? ...pls tell me.