Title: A parting

Rated: R Violence and Language

Author: Emi-chan (formally known as Kaoru23)

E-mail: Tanuki_musume@hotmail.com

Chapter date: If I knew it I would tell you.

Disclaimer: I don't own RK. Everyone knows the rest... (Don't sue)

My second time or so time on a fanfic. Please be nice... ^_^

Chapter 1:

Kaoru sits behind the desk. Fumbling mindlessly though the papers. Growling with frustration. She spins around in the chair. Yanking out the drawers of the file cabinets. Unable to find the papers.

"KUSO!" Kaoru exclaims. Throwing her hands up in the air. She gets up. Rubbing her temples.

Her boss was going to kill her. She couldn't find the files. Where the hell were they? They couldn't just vanish. Unless...

Kaoru slams open the door of her office. "SANO!!" She yells across the office. All the employs look at her with a questioning look before going back to work.

She struts angrily past everyone going into the office parallels of her. She slams open the door. A spiky brown headed man sat at his desk typing on his laptop. He looks up at her. Blinking in curiosity.

"Oi, Jou-chan! What is up?" He says with a huge grin.

Kaoru walks over to him. Grabbing his hair and tilting his head so she could see his eyes. "What did you do with my report Tori-atama?" Her voice low in a cold, stern tone.

He takes her fingers and gently pries them off of his hair. "Calm down Jou-chan. I took them in for you." He gives her a grin.

"ARGH! You know not to do that Sano. We are getting a new boss tomorrow and I have to make a good impression. You know that!" She says trying not to hit him.

She sighs softly and shakes her head. "I am going back to my office. Don't ever do that again."

She walks calmly out of his office. Closing the door behind her. A few of the employs looks up at her. Raising their eyebrows in question. She shakes her head at them. They were so nosey.

She goes back to her office. Slumping down into her chair. Sano was always doing that to her. She hated him for that but he was her best friend.

They had known each other since they were little. He was only a couple years older then her but he still acted like when they met.

She laughs softly at the thought. He was also her next door neighbor in their apartment complex. She grabs her glasses off the desk and turns on her computer. She needed to get to work on her next report.

She sits forward in her chair starting to type up another boring report about the crime scene.

2 HOURS LATER *

Kaoru slouches back into her chair. Looking at the clock. It was about time to go. Just another 10 minutes. She looks around her office.

It was a total wreck. Maybe she would clean up first. She slides to the ground. Sitting on her knees. She picks up the scattered paper and files them back into the right place.

Just then Sano comes strutting in. "Jou-chan, you're so anal." Kaoru frowns up at him.

"I am just clean that is all. And just because you are a total slob doesn't mean I need to be one too." She says in a cool tone.

She didn't completely understand why Sano and her were friends. They were complete opposites. She was a neat freak. A hard worker and she was rather anal.

Sano on the other hand was a lazy, pig-headed slob. She sighs putting in the last off her papers. She gets up. Smoothing out her skirt. She hated wearing this damn thing everyday but she needed to look nice for work.

"I am guessing you are ready to go tori-atama?" She says grabbing her purse from beside her desk.

He nods simply and gets out of the way for her. She moves past him and heads towards the stairs. They were on the second floor. No point waiting for the elevator.

She hurries down the stairs and they walk out through the parking garage. She always parked close to the stairs. They reach her car which happened to be a sad little old Honda.

She opens her purse and rummages through it. "Kuso!" She cusses softly. "Ano... I forgot my keys. Let me go run back up and get them."

Kaoru spins around and runs back into the building and up the stairs. As she was about to pull the door open it swings out and hits her dead on in the face.

Kaoru stumbles backwards loosing her balance she falls on her butt. She groans. Holding her hands over her throbbing noise. Her eyes watering.

A man's voice rings out through the pain. "Miss? Miss? Daijoubuka?"

Kaoru nods. Opening her watering eyes. A fuzzy view of a man with long red hair and violet eyes swims into vision. She blinks a couple of times and he becomes clearer.

"Daijoubu." She says softly. Putting her hands on the ground she tries to get up. She then feels an arm grab her gently and help her stand.

The hand remains on her arm until she becomes steady again. Kaoru peers at the man. He was a little taller then her. His hair was crimson red, and his eyes were the color of a bright violet flower.

She finds herself staring and blushes a bright red. Quickly she turns her head away. Trying to hide it.

He laughs softly. "It is okay. I think my eyes and hair have that effect on people. They just aren't use to seeing it around here." He grins.

She smiles back at him. Feeling her heart thundering in her chest. Wanting to run her hands through his hair. Shaking her head she clears the thoughts.

"Ano... I must be going. My friends is waiting and all I need to do is grab my keys." She says hurriedly.

He nods. "That is fine. I do hope we meet again." He then starts off down the stairs.

She watches him go until she couldn't see him anymore. She then remembers what she came up to do. She runs hurriedly to her office. Grabbing the keys off her desk she hurries and rushes back out.

Finally reaching Sano who was lounging on the hood of her car. She slaps him playfully on the side on the head.

"Get off there you tori-atama! Before I have to tell Megumi-san." She says evilly.

Sano's eyes grow wide and he jumps off the hood of the car.

Kaoru laughs affectionately and opens the car. Megumi was Sano's love interest. Quite the little Kitsune.

Megumi and Kaoru weren't the best of friends. But she was tolerable and anything for her friend Sano. Plus Sano couldn't live without her.

Kaoru starts up the car and pulls out of the garage. Sano glancing at her every few seconds.

She glances at him. "NANI!?!?" She says angrily.

Sano chuckles softly. "Just wondering what took you so long. And why your have blood oozing out of one nostril." He grins evilly.

Kaoru lets out a yelp. Taking on hand off the wheel. She reaches into the glove compartment and fumbles for a tissue. Finding on she blots at her nose.

"You could have helped me you know." She says in a throaty tone. The tissue now sticking out of her nose.

Sano bust out laughing. "Jou-chan that look suits you." He says laughing harder and harder.

Kaoru just scowls at him. Finally he calms down and stops laughing. She sighs softly and continues on their journey home.

Her mind wandering to the red headed man she has met in the stairwell. He was quite handsome. And his eyes... She had never seen anything like them before.

Suddenly a car horn blows and she snaps to reality. Putting her foot on the gas and going through the green light. Sano scowls at her.

"What are you daydreaming about? A guy no less. But you know you can dream to much. You already have a guy of your own." He says in a sing-song voice.

Kaoru sighs softly. That was right. She went out with Enishi right now. She frowns slightly. Course she wish she wasn't. But there wasn't much she could do about that.

She pulls into the parking lot of her complex. Parking the car in their usual spot. She unbuckles her seat belt and gets out of the car. Slamming the door shut.

She came home everyday like this. Tired and hungry. Enishi would be there as well.

She trudges up the stairs of the apartment. Sano following in her wake. Just as tired. Or just being lazy.

Kaoru fumbles around with her keys until she finds the one for her apartment. She puts it in the key hole but Sano stops her for a moment.

"You going to be okay tonight? I mean. I do hear a lot of yelling from you guys at night." He says in a soft tone. "He doesn't hit you does her Kaoru?"

Kaoru looks at him. He rarely used her name and when he did he was serious. She shakes her head.

"I will be fine Sano. I can handle myself." She says with a gentle smile.

Sano nods and then leaves disappearing into his apartment. Kaoru unlocks the door and enters into her cozy apartment.

Something very heavy then slams into the side of her face. She tumbles across the room lying on the floor dazed.

THE END

Vocabulary:

Kuso: Damn...Ppl keep telling me it is shit and damn so idk.

Tori-atama: Rooster head

Jou-chan: Missy... Little miss... I get lots of different kinds of arguments about this one. So don't get mad at me about it.

Ano: UMMM lol

Kitsune: Fox

Daijoubu: I am fine.... In a question it would be... Are you okay? But it would have to have ka on the end to be in the form of a question.

Think that is it!!!

Emi-chan: AHAHAHAHA cliffhanger. Hopefully someone will read it... lmao!

Kenshin: I am sure someone will. ^_^

Emi-chan: Stop being so optimistic!

Kenshin: GOMEN GOMEN!!

Emi-chan:*Sits on Kenshin* Anyways. Don't be to hard on me!! ^_^ I know my grammar and spelling and what not sucks. So... Go easy on me!!

p.s. This is a comment after 4 chapters of this...lol. THIS CHAPTER STINKS!! Lol... Will come back and revise it later... Thanks for any reviews though on this stinky chapter!! ^_^