(a/n: Hello everyone!! this is my first fanfic! Anyway I hope you enjoy ! )-Thank you so very much ladyshiin and littogrrlstephie!!
Summary: Kenshin and Kaoru are trying to get together, but what is this? A young beauty with red hair, blue/amber eyes, and a short temper appears in the dojo and claims to come from the Future. What's more, she is a seer, a person who possesses the gift of foresight (seeing into the future). But there is a problem; someone of great power is blocking her visions. How will she get back to her family? How will the rest of the Kenshingumi survive the Female Battousai's short temper? Many laughs and Romance-Action/Adventure!
Disclaimer: you know that I don't own anyone right? RIGHT?! Good. Well except for a few people that I will make up in the beginning
THE THIEVING SEER
Chapter One: Hello Past, I am Future
A young woman with short unbound fiery red hair and dark blue eyes ran to the side of the building, sweat covering her body. She heard helicopters, shouting men, and lightly padding feet coming closer to her. Her tight black leather shirt and her very short black shorts hid her in the enshrouding darkness. She gasped for air. Her mission had almost cost her life. Almost. She had to make a break for it.
Couldn't my employers at least have told me about the alarm system? They might have mentioned five Great Danes and ten bodyguards in the damn report, she thought.
The street lamp nearest her flickered for a moment before going completely out.
Thank you, Hiko! She grinned as she ran across the street into another alley.
The shouting and barking grew louder. She gritted her teeth in annoyance.
All this bustle just because my Organization wanted to steal some technology, she thought as she ran down the musty, dank alley. She stopped when she spotted a sewer port.
She lifted it up, her hands now dingy with grime. She dragged it aside as lightly as she could, and jumped inside, not using the service ladder. She splashed in the dirty water, her nice black knee-high boots now covered in God-knows-what.
What a night, she thought, exasperated.
She climbed back up the ladder, being as quiet and careful as she could.
She poked her head out of the hole and dragged the lid of the sewer back over, covering her tracks. She jumped down from her original position from the iron ladder and into the muck that covered the floor.
A thick overpowering scent of human waste attacked her nose.
"Oh God, what a horrible stench!!" she yelped, trying to cover her nose and mouth.
"I'm never doing a retrieval mission if I have to use a damn sewer!" her voice carried down through the vacant tunnels of the sewer.
Urako Himura is not a gopher! She yelled in her head as she sent out her ki, to try and detect any unwanted attention.
Sensing none, she set out on the gloomy, nauseating trek back to her headquarters.
Meanwhile, back in the Meiji era...
Kaoru awoke frowning at her ceiling, recalling the bits and pieces of her latest dream. She closed her eyes, trying to get a better vision of it.
Beginning of Dream
Darkness enshrouded Kaoru's body. A young woman slipped through the night, undetected by those who were looking for her. The unknown woman paused for a slight moment, blue and amber eyes glistening in the slight dying light of the candles. Blood covered her form as well as her katana and wakazashi. Her head snapped in the direction of Kaoru. '"Why can't I see? " she shouted.
End of Dream
Who is that woman? Kaoru wondered silently, Why did she look like Kenshin? Is it Kenshin? I am so confused!
"Or," she thought aloud," maybe my mind is so stressed out right now that it is conjuring fake images of Kenshin as child."
Kaoru slapped her face at her incompetence.
Kaoru you idiot, why did you have to say that out loud? Kenshin probably heard you and is going to ask you what is wrong!
And, as if on cue...
"Miss Kaoru? Are you all right? This unworthy one heard you mention his name, that he did," Kenshin asked from behind her shoji door, concern lining every word.
Kaoru pictured the worried ex-warrior, which wasn't all that hard to do considering he worried about her 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. She smiled to herself thinking of his caring charm.
"Yes, Kenshin I'm alright-just a dream that I had, that's all," she explained, hoping that Kenshin wouldn't ask about it.
"Alright, Miss Kaoru. Do you want to talk about it?" Kenshin asked, as his form pressed against the side of Kaoru's shoji door.
"There really isn't that much to talk about, since I don't even understand it myself," Kaoru explained truthfully.
When Kaoru refused to elaborate anymore on the subject, Kenshin let it slide.
"Oh," he replied, " Well if you find out anything more, maybe I could help, that I could. By the way, Yahiko said he would be at the Akabeko all day today, helping Tae and Tsubame, so he won't be practicing with you."
Kaoru frowned slightly at the mention of Yahiko, though shrugged.
He probably wants to spend more time with his little girl friend, she outwardly giggled at the thought.
"Thanks Kenshin, I'm sure that I'll need help with that later on," she replied with a yawn as she got up from her nice and cozy futon.
"OK. Breakfast is all ready for you Miss Kaoru," Kenshin answered as he left her door.
Kaoru's 'thank you', was muffled by her kimono's sleeve as she yawned again. What does my dream mean? She asked herself as she tied her obi.
She knew there was something important there, something that she missed. Or maybe she'd have another dream that would reveal more to her. Whatever it was, she needed to write about it in her journal. She sighed and walked out of her room towards the dining room.
What could it mean? Kaoru thought as she took a bite of some rice.
She was so confused. She turned her head to look at Kenshin and sighed as she chewed her food slowly.
No one seemed to be in the mood to talk that morning, as the two ate their meal. The clinking of their utensils against the bowls of rice and the cups against the plates were the only sounds resounding in the room.
Kaoru sat, watching Kenshin eat his food with his chopsticks, her mouth slowly chewing her own food. Her brows creased in thought as she added more rice to her mouth.
Nothing like this has ever happened to me before...I wonder if there is evidence of it in my family's journal from previous generations, she thought, sipping her green tea.
Kenshin then turned from eating his own rice and looked at her. Kaoru's eyes widened and turned her head away quickly, a blush staining her face.
Oh my goodness, I can't believe that I let myself gawk at him again! Kaoru you idiot! This is no the way to go about getting his attention! Kaoru scolded herself, trying to act like she was busy eating her food. Well at least I am going to Tae's; maybe she will have some advice for me. Not to mention getting my mind off of my whole dream thing,
Happy with herself, she got up from the table and said, "Thank you...Kenshin for breakfast."
Her mind then blacked out, sending her senses to another world. Sending them back into her dream.
Blood. Death. Blue eyes swirling with amber entered my vision. 'Kaoru!!' a voice screamed in pain.
Kaoru blinked many times, trying to get the image of death and the stench of blood out of her head. But mostly, of the image of those eyes and that blood curdling scream.
What is going on here? She thought, her eyes watering.
Amidst that horrible vision, Kaoru felt herself fall towards the dining room floor.
Strong arms caught her before she hit, and she clutched at the fabric of Kenshin's gi as if it was her lifeline. She didn't even notice the tears streaming down her face until he asked.
"Kaoru? Miss Kaoru, are you OK?" his voice strained.
Urako Himura walked down the vacant hallway of her employer's establishment. She had not changed since her mission, and she smelled horrible.
Well they deserve the stench considering what I had to put up with! she thought as she narrowed her eyes in determination.
Her footsteps reverberated off the naked walls of the hallway.
She was pissed.
Even though she'd gotten what she was after, it shouldn't have been this much of a hassle.
Her ki was suffocating and destroying things in its wake on her way towards Hiko's room. Each footstep was imprinted in the ground and the walls were being pushed away.
She didn't even wait to be let in; she just barged in through the oak double doors and glared at Hiko.
Hiko turned from his current conversation with a client. "Can't you see that I am in the middle of an important conversation?"he asked in an agitated voice," Wait outside!"
She clenched her fists tightly. Like hell I'm waiting outside! she thought.
"What I have to tell you is of great importance! Send your new client away so that we can discuss this new 'business'," she ground out.
Hiko glared menacingly at Urako, his jaw tightening in anger.
"I'm sorry Akumatsu-san, it seems as though I must take a rain check on our meeting. I'll have my secretary call you to make a new date, alright?"
The small man nodded and nervously glanced at Urako as he quickly left the room.
"Now, you'd better have some great news, because you just embarrassed me in front of a powerful man who was going to join with our Organization!" Hiko growled.
Hiko....all you can think about is money and power...,'Urako thought, her anger causing her hands to shake.
"Did you even see the news today?" she screeched. " Did you see how much commotion I caused? Tell me the true importance of this new technology!" She took the small box from her pouch and tossed it to Hiko.
Hiko caught the small glinting box with gentleness in both hands, careful not to damage it.
"This piece of technology was made in secret at Kyoto's Warehouse. Our spies say that they were going to go back in time and change the past so that Meiji government would be no more. Knowing what they know now about the Revolution, they would surely win had you not have taken the device," Hiko answered calmly, through narrowed eyes.
Why is he so calm about this?!' Urako thought as she began pacing around the room.
"Did that little tidbit of information just happen to slip your mind when I was handed this mission? And where the HELL was my back up? Did they just forget about me? I will not tolerate such incompetence in my line of work! Do you understand me?" Urako boomed.
When I see them next, they will die, she thought.
Hiko winced somewhat at the volume of her voice, but replied," We have received nothing from them, and suspect that they are the moles that have been leaking information to the Kyoto Organization."
"Oh, well thank you for telling me this now! It would have been convenient for the both of us, if you just told me about it before I set out for this!" Urako snapped.
"We needed to be sure Urako!" Hiko yelled, finally fed up with Urako's unnecessary attitude. "In this day and age, we need solid evidence to convict people of traitorous acts. We can't just guess that they are. We would be fools to think that!"
Urako's face turned down to the ground. She knew Hiko spoke the truth.
She felt shame enter her, but she glared at him in defiance, "If this happens again, I won't be accountable for my actions."
She snatched the small box from the table and placed it in her pouch. Then she left the room, slamming the door behind her.
Urako walked briskly down a street of Tokyo. She absently fingered the small box in her pouch, her mind trying to piece certain details together since her mission. For instance, something this technologically advanced should have had more surveillance on it. Not to mention her back up didn't even show, so they might have had a hand in tripping some unseen alarm.
The bounty on her head was so large, that even alliances with neighboring companies were considering betrayal to the Hiten Mitsurugi Corp. She was endangering her colleagues, friends, and family by being what she was. A seer, and someone with a lot of power would need her to be ultimately successful.
I'm a seer! Shouldn't I have seen this coming? Shouldn't I have seen dark cloud or anything to signify danger? She thought worriedly.
Lately, her powers seemed to be blocked by someone, but she couldn't figure out by whom. And if that were what was happening, then her importance to Hiko's Organization would be nothing. Someone wanted her out of the way, but whom? Who could be that powerful, cunning, and not to mention insane. Who would want to get the assassin/thief, out of the picture? There had to be middlemen--that's where those annoying fools, Cho, Enishi, and Akira, came into play. Her so-called back up.
Bastards, I will show you what it means to backstab the Hiten-Mitsurugi Corporation! she thought, as she quickened her pace a little more.
She entered a nearby park where her house was situated, but stopped upon feeling a disturbance in her ki netting. She looked around and saw no one, though felt three people's ki advancing on her spot.
SHIT! her mind screamed. Someone is following me! I have to hide and get rid of them.
With her mind made up, she quickly concealed her ki and jumped into a nearby tree.
In the distance, she heard faint voices.
"I knew I felt her ki! But where is she? I felt her right here, but then she just disappeared!" said the first voice frantically.
That has to be Cho. I'd recognize his scared little voice anywhere, she thought, shifting her position on the tree.
"Shut-up! And keep looking! she's bound to be around here somewhere," cursed the second one.
Damn you....Akira! I thought we were friends!
"We won't be able to find her if she has concealed herself from us again," explained Cho.
You won't be able to find me when you're six feet under the ground, you slug shit!
"Yes, we will," the third man said, his platinum colored hair coming into view.
Of course, you, Enishi, would be the leader of these stooges. What are you guys up to? she watched them come into view, looking around for her.
"She will come to us willingly, if she values her brother's life," added Enishi smugly.
Oh GOD, I completely forgot about Shinta! Damn it! she cursed.
She touched the smooth surface of the box in her pouch, They have no idea that I still have this thing, do they? Though, if I get myself caught, it won't be of much use to me. I have to think!!
Kaoru's knuckles were white from the strain as she clenched Kenshin's gi tighter. Kenshin looked at her, worry plastered on his features as he tried to figure out what was wrong with Kaoru. He carried her in his arms, gently swaying her in order to coax her out of whatever plagued her at the moment.
What is wrong with my precious Kaoru? She fainted like she saw a ghost and now she is holding onto my gi like it's her lifeline. What happened? Kenshin thought as he wiped away the tears that were streaming down her face with his thumb.
Kaoru buried her head into the soft fabric, trying to erase the bloodied bodies and the heart wrenching cries from her mind. She was suddenly aware of a light caress on her cheek and slowly looked up at Kenshin, worry and care showed within his depths. Her face started to burn a crimson color as she slowly realized what position she was in.
"Are you alright Miss Kaoru?" Kenshin asked softly, still cradling her and still massaging her cheek with his thumb.
Kaoru's form went slack in Kenshin's arms, hands falling at her sides, and sapphire orbs disappearing behind white creamy lids. Kenshin panicked, thinking for a moment that her heart stopped, until he saw the rise and fall of her chest.
Kenshin sighed in relief, but that didn't erase all the worry on his face.
What happened to her? I must find out, she is fainting from something terrible. Maybe it has something to do with her dreams!
With that in mind, Kenshin went down the corridor that led to their sleeping quarters and opened Kaoru's shoji door with his foot. Fiddling with the rolled up futon with his feet, Kenshin finally unrolled it and slowly put Kaoru's sleeping form on top of it. He looked upon her sleeping form with undying love and compassion.
I was so close, too. I could see it in her eyes before she fainted into my arms. I saw all her emotions reflected in those blue orbs, Kenshin sighed, and placed a blanket over her, kissing the cheek that he had previously caressed. He walked into the far corner of her room and sat with his back against the wall, his sword propped up against his knees, and his head bent so that his bangs covered his eyes. His eyelids slowly drifting downwards towards sleep.
Beginning of Dream
Crying. Heart wrenching cries Within the darkness, Kaoru wanted to just fall to her knees and cover her ears, wanting nothing more than to stop those wails of pain and anguish. 'What could cause such pain?' she thought, tears of her own, falling down her cheeks. A shimmer of light caught her eye and was face to face with a deadly blade.
Kaoru's eyes bulged, her heartbeat quickened, as she heard a deep and demanding voice speak, "Why are you here? Who are you?" The blue/amber eyes narrowed in suspicion and drawled, "Are you the one who makes me blind?"
End of Dream
Kaoru awoke fluttering her eyes, her brows furrowed up in confusion, bits and pieces of her dream coming to her. The only definite memory was burning blue and amber after the nightmare occurred.
What does she mean, 'Are you the one who makes me blind?'- AGGHHH!! I don't understand! she cursed to herself. She looked around the room from her fetal position on the floor.
Wasn't I just here? What happened? she asked herself.
She moved slightly in futon and stretched, then noticed that she was still wearing her kimono.
Oh shit, that was real? she thought, as her face burned a scarlet red, as she remembered the events that led up to her current position.
She smiled in spite of it, a bubbling sensation starting in the pit of her stomach. She placed her hands on her burning face and felt a light dampness on the right side of her face.
What is that I wonder? Could it possibly be that Kenshin kissed me while I slept? No..Kenshin didn't kiss me, he feels too unworthy of me, remember? It must have been from my tears...But oh God it felt so good to be caressed by him, if only by his thumb! she thought suddenly, blushing again.
Throughout the whole two hours that Kaoru slept, her kimono top was slightly pulled apart, giving anyone a nice view of cleavage. Though being in her drowsy state, she didn't notice it, or the sleeping Kenshin in the corner of her room as she began to get up from her futon. She slowly walked to the wooden chest that held all of her kimonos, while untying the obi to her now wrinkled one.
Kenshin awoke before Kaoru, watching her sleep soundlessly. She looks so peaceful, that she does, he thought.
She began to stir and he immediately thought, Oh no! What am I going to say when she finds me in here? Actually I know perfectly well what my fate is. a bokken to the head and numerous titles of HENTAI!' Kenshin laughed at himself in his head and thought, She is sure one fiery little kendo instructor, but that is why I love her.
Kenshin saw her touching her face with her hand wondering if she had known about the stolen kiss.
Oh no, what if she does know? Will she hate me forever for tainting her? Or will she run and jump into my arms...no not my innocent Kaoru-she needs someone more pure than me to run and jump to, he sadly shook his head, his heart cracking even more.
Through his blood-colored bangs, he saw her getting up slowly, and the sight that greeted him made his nose bleed.
The top of her kimono was gaping slightly. She shifted her weight and went to her kimono chest, all the while untying her obi.
"ORO! sorrykaorutheisunworthyonewillgonowthathewill!" Kenshin said very fast as he dashed for her shoji door. But alas, the door was not what greeted him, instead his head was introduced to Kaoru's bokken and numerous cries of 'HENTAI!'
Kenshin rushed out of there like a bat out of hell, and into Sano.
CRASH!
"Oroorororrororro" Kenshin mumbled, eyes swirling.
"Whoa man, what's eating you?" Sano asked sitting up and rubbing his stomach.
"Nothing Sano," Kenshin replied, turning red as he thought about what had happened.
"Uh-huh, and I suppose that blush is nothing either?" Sano grinned as he lifted an
eyebrow at the suspicious Kenshin.
"S-s-Sano, this unworthy one must leave to do the laundry, that he must," Kenshin replied as he sped out of the corridor and to the yard.
'Well, I guess I have to question Missy, now don't I?' Sano asked himself as he headed for the kendo instructor's room.
Urako Himura steadied her breathing as she tried to sense where her brother was, using as little ki as possible so as not to be detected. Gotcha! she thought happily as she snapped open her eyes.
He's near the family dojo! Crap, that looks like where they're going, too. I just hope he is near the phone,
Urako pulled out a tube like device and pressed the small yellow button on the topside, multiple times.
If he noticed it, then he should pick up the phone and send the message back to me, she thought.
After a few minutes, the underside of the small tube, started to blink in the same combination.
Thank GOD! she thought relieved, making her ki a little more visible to those who were looking for her.
Now, hopefully he'll get the hell out of there and go to Hiko!
Urako jumped down from the trees and onto the soft grass floor, blasting her ki signature to anyone in range. Now, for the second part of the plan!
The three traitors surrounded her almost a few seconds after making herself known.
"I knew that you'd give in, knowing that your brother would be killed otherwise. So the great Himura actually has a weakness, how strange," Enishi's voice flowed, lies and deceit curving each line of his face.
"The Battousai has no weaknesses, Shinta can take care of himself just fine! I came for another reason!" Urako spat, her ki keeping the others at bay.
"Oh? And what is that, Urako? You are useless to us if your powers are no more," Enishi replied coolly.
Urako's anger was slowly consuming her and she clenched her fist to keep it in check.
How the hell do they know of my situation? she thought, as she growled.
"I have something that you need," she glared at Enishi as she slowly took the small box from her pouch. She immediately felt uneasiness coming from all three men's ki, and smiled knowing how much power she held in her hand.
She held it out before them, between her fingers, almost as if it were at a display show.
The sun shone down upon them all, but mostly on the small box. Urako's hand trembled a little and the box seemed to burn, turning from a silver color to a burning amber. The place where her fingers held the box suddenly caved in, making a light screeching noise.
The men stepped back a little, unsure of what was happening to the box.
Urako was cursing to herself, How the hell am I supposed to stop this thing?! Damn it Hiko!!
"Sh-" she started, but was indefinitely silenced by the time machine.
Light suddenly engulfed the box and Urako Himura in a bright flash, sending her back into the past.
"-it!" Urako finished as she landed in a tub filled with soap bubbles.
"Ororororroro!" she heard someone exclaim next to her.
Shit! What the hell happened? Where the hell am I? What the hell did I land on?
Her body was currently sitting in a tub with clothes in it. Her form covered in a soapy mess, not to mention her favorite black knee-high boots, were, yet again, covered in a watery substance.
She quickly jumped out of the washtub and sprang her new kunai between her fingers as she glanced around her surroundings. She spread her ki out to look for any immediate danger, and found one out in the yard and two others within the house.
She glanced down at the redheaded warrior who had the higher of the ki, and ran to his side.
"Shinta? Shinta is that you?" she exclaimed, putting her kunai back in place.
The man on the ground snapped his head up at the sudden exclamation, coming face to face with a woman who looked like him. All the while trying not get a nosebleed from what the woman appeared to be wearing.
"Umm..No I am Kenshin Himura, that I am," Kenshin answered, slightly embarrassed.
"WHAT? Oh shit! Wait a minute! What is the year?" Urako asked, eyes bulging in anticipation.
"Eleventh year of the Meiji, why?" Kenshin asked, now really confused by this barely clad woman. Kenshin got off the ground and glanced quickly over at the young woman, whose face was drained of color.
"Is there a problem, miss..?"Kenshin began, hoping the woman would answer his silent question.
"You're never going to believe me, Kenshin. I don't even believe it myself," Urako answered, her ki angry and sad.
She stared at him, her bluish amber orbs glistening with failed hope and anger at herself.
"Well, I promise to believe you if you'd just tell me the truth," replied Kenshin, slightly perturbed by the woman's answer.
What is going on here? he thought.
Urako got up and dusted her black short shorts off, making sure her pouch with the time machine was still intact.
She immediately snapped her head at the entrance to the dojo.
A dojo..? That's right! This is my family's dojo, she thought, a slight smile graced her mouth, though turned to a frown when she felt the ki of another man coming outside. She then sprang out her kunai and got into position to throw them.
"Kenshin? Ken-hey! What have we got here? -Owow!" Sano exclaimed as a kunai embedded itself right next to his head.
Sano fell over and glanced shakily back towards the woman next to Kenshin.
"Never give me that tone of voice again! Battousai does not like loud mouthed jerks!" she snapped, her eyes narrowed dangerously at Sano.
Kenshin snapped his head back to the woman in horror. Did she just say..Battousai? Does she know of my past...does she know that was my name? I will not have some copycat ruin the lives of my friends that I will not!
"Miss, I would gladly appreciate it if you do not harass my friends, that I would. If it is a fight you are looking for from me, go and look somewhere else," Kenshin explained harshly.
"Kenshin, I know you were the Battousai, that was how the Meiji government came to be! Everyone knows that! I am the Battousai of another era. I am Urako Himura, your descendent,"