How I Fell In Love With The Lamppost

By: ShadowElite

I don't own Rurouni Kenshin.

AN: This fanfic is a bit of a risk to take, as I didn't really know if anyone would like it. One of my friends found it too fluffy… so yeah. Hope you like it! Constructive reviews will be much appreciated. Will be editing this chapter

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Chapter 1: Unwanted Savior

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The city lights shone with an ethereal glow, highlighting the wonderful landscape. It was a beautiful night, to be enjoyed with that 'someone' in your dreams. Kaoru sighed. It was too depressing. A) She had no certain 'someone' and B) She had to work late. It wasn't really that late, 9:47pm really. But she was already feeling sleepy, due to the constant staring of the computer and a bout of insomnia last night.

She was to submit her work by tomorrow, or face the wrath of her boss. Typing in the final sentence, she sighed with relief and pressed print. She stretched out her legs under her cluttered desk, piled full of magazine clippings. She yawned and massaged her tense shoulders. She couldn't wait to go back home and plonk straight into bed. In fact, thinking of her soft plush bed, made her feel even sleepier. She packed her things silently, and slowly made her way down the building. By the time she'd reached the ground floor, she was like a zombie. She stumbled onto the street, not bothering to watch where she was going.

Suddenly, she hit a solid barrier and blinked hazily. She could make out the features of a typical lamppost with greyish material with small indistinct letterings.

"Hey, are you okay?"

Kaoru blinked and squinted at the foggy lamppost. 'Ooh, this lamppost can talk! Magic!' With that last thought, she fell asleep against the magical lamppost.

Kenshin almost fell back with the additional weight. One minute he was walking normally, and the next, a random lady just collapsed on him, albeit a beautiful one. He tried to wake the person up with a slight nudge, but the person didn't budge. Did he hear the words teddy bear?? He groaned with frustration. How had he gotten himself into this predicament? He couldn't possibly leave her here, she might get raped or something.

'Man, I did not count on something like this to happen.'

He lifted her up into his arms and carried her to his car. Grimacing at the extra weight, (this woman was not light!) he dropped her not so gently on the car seat, in hopes of waking her up. But the woman snored on happily.

Once he had reached home, he tucked her into his clean smelling bed and sighed. He had to sleep on the sofa instead. Curse his kindness.

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Sunlight entered into the room, shining on Kaoru's face. Kaoru groaned unhappily and stretched out her hand to grope for her clock. She frowned when she couldn't touch anything except air. She stretched out her hand further, but she couldn't feel anything remotely solid. Still too lazy to open her eyes, she stretched further, but lost her balance and fell on the cold hard floor with a yelp. Now her butt was sore.

The door opened and an anxious head poked in. "Are you alright? I heard-" Kenshin stopped in mid-sentence as he saw the situation. He tried to maintain a straight face. He really did. But he couldn't help himself; it was way too funny. Kaoru glared at the stranger as she stood up awkwardly. "It's not funny."

She looked at the stranger who was still laughing his ass off and then at her surroundings.

She looked at Kenshin again. And let out a high-pitched scream.

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Kenshin stopped laughing immediately, as a high-pitched scream erupted from the woman. He walked to her and covered her mouth, hoping nobody heard her. God, people would think he had kidnapped someone or something. Which was kind of true. "Would you calm down a bit, alright? I did not abduct you or raped you okay?" He said with a strained voice.

"I'm going to remove my hand. Don't start screaming again." He added warningly.

"What am I doing here??"

"Look, I wasn't the one who went around hugging random people and calling them teddy bears." He replied.

"And screamed at the said teddy bear." He smiled amusedly at the situation.

"I, I did that?" Kaoru asked incredulously.

"Yes."

"I don't believe you. You must have kidnapped me for one of your perverted games." Her eyes widen in horror. "Oh my goodness! Maybe it's like in those movies! And, and they start to chop off each finger and-"

"You have been watching too many movies, Miss."

Kaoru continued, ignoring what Kenshin had said.

"-start laughing manically. Maybe even burning their hands."

"I thought the fingers were chopped off?" Kenshin asked amusedly.

"That's not the point! Or maybe, you decided to tie me up for those binding torture games. And I'd thought you looked like a decent guy."

"As much fun as this is, I have to go to work. It's already 10:30am. If you want-"

Kenshin was cut off by an ear-piercing shriek. "10:30?? OH MY GOSH!" Kaoru said hysterically. "I'm supposed to meet my boss at nine!"

She shoved Kenshin out of the way and ran down the steps. Kenshin could hear doors opening and slamming. Then, a quick pitter-patter of footsteps was heard up the stairs again. Kaoru looked at Kenshin and asked embarrassedly, "Where's the toilet?"

"Walk" He emphasised on the 'walk', "straight and turn left."

She nodded and ran off. Kenshin could hear the floor crack loudly beneath her feet and cringed.

One hour and thirty minutes late! Her boss was going to kill her! She hurriedly pinned her hair and sprinkled water on her face in an attempt to freshen up. She grabbed her bag and went flying down the stairs to catch a cab.

Kenshin surveyed the damage left. His front door was half broken, and he had to repair the tap. Life was so great. He sighed and went up to make the bed. As he was smoothing the quilt, he felt something bulky. He frowned. Strange. He reached under the covers to pull out a nicely stapled set of papers. He wondered if she noticed it was missing yet.

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Kaoru dashed into the workplace and knocked into her boss. She looked up anxiously and started explaining why she was late.

"Enough of that, Miss Kamiya. I am willing to close one eye today, or even both. Do not expect that in future. Now, where are the papers?"

Relieved that she was not to be punished, she opened her bag and started searching for her papers.

"Hey, wait. I thought I had it! I did it yesterday!" She searched her bag frantically. Her boss groaned and smacked his forehead. "Look, Kamiya. What's wrong with you today? I don't care. Have it ready in one hour or you are fired."

"I don't think it needs such extreme methods." Said a voice from behind.

"Here are your papers, Miss." Kenshin said politely as he pressed the papers in her hands.

Her boss looked at him with undisguised shock. "Aren't you Kenshin Himura?"

Kenshin nodded with a smile and said. "Nice to meet you, Arashi-san."

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AN: No pleading for reviews this time. If you like it, review. If you don't, review constructively or don't review at all. If you are too lazy to review, it's ok. Thanks to ys-chan for indirectly giving me inspiration. Love you all.