Noriykoi: This story is on the extremely dark side and is a vamp/reincarnation Kenshin is Battousai and a vampire. Kaoru is Kenshin soulmate but in every life time she dies. Kenshin knows she will be reincarnated and waits for her but when he find her he finds one who is totally different from his memories.

Foxfire: That should cover it.

Noriykoi: who wants to take over the Kenshin/Inuyasha crossover. I'm dreadfully afraid that I will not be able to complete it do to extreme writers block on it, and I mean extreme. I can't think of a single thing to type on it, further more it has no storyline this current story does however at least until you get towards the middle. I will be doing polls on out-fits so feel free to suggest.

Disclaimer: if me owned kenshin would be lock with Kaoru in a bedroom and getting jiggy with it.

Mine: Eternally Bound

Chapter One

Lost Past, Unknown Future

Smoke permeated the air in the surrounding area. Blood was splatted in all directions, and mutilated bodies layed against the cold frozen ground.

A young girl, around fifteen maybe sixteen, walked into the carnage that was once her village. She gasped at the sight, and felt bile rise in the back of her throat . She forced down the urge to spill the contents of her stomach on to the frozen ground. She looked around to see a red headed man covered in the blood of her village kin.

He opened amber eyes to look at her with an insane grin. " I knew you would come to me," he said. "You always come back to me."

"Stay away from me you basterd, Why must you always ruin my life?" The young girl screamed with tears running down her face.

"Because you belong to me. You have since the day you were born." He said appearing in front of her. He grabbed her shoulders to hold her steady and to keep her from running away as he brought his blood covered lips to her clean ones in a chaste kiss. She struggled violently against him, he only depended the kiss.

"Now, what's your choice?" He whispered against her lips. "Will you stay with me or will you run again, and allow what happened to this village happen to the next one." He depended the kiss even farther, as the girls struggles begin anew.

The girl felt the bile rise again at the metallic taste of blood. She came to a quick decision. "Neither." She whispered panting from his vile kiss. Quickly she grabbed his sword from his waist and trust it into her abdomen before he could stop her.

The girl smiled as she died. In death she had her freedom if only until she was reincarnated. The girl knew she could never have true freedom, but it never hurt to dream.

The amber eyed man smirked. He knew what she was thinking. "Even in death you will not escape me, for your soul is bound to mine, and you will always find you way back to me." As he said this tears rolled down his face.

"I really do love you."

Kaoru jolted from her bed and ran to the bathroom to hurl her stomach into the toilet. She washed her face with hot water. Very hot water. Kaoru felt sick, maybe it was something she ate. She looked a mess, dark sleep rings surrounded her eyes. Her skin was so pale it looked paper white.

Kaoru stepped into the scalding hot water of the shower. She felt the urge to empty her stomach again as she reflect back on her dream. It seemed so real, she could actually fell the pain as she jabbed the sword into her abdomen. It was almost like a memoire.

Kaoru, sixteen, and in her seventh foster home in the last two year. Shortly after her fourteenth birthday she arrived home from school to find her mother brutally murdered. She would not speak for six months afterward.

Kaoru turned off the water, and stepped out into the cool air condition room. She dried her mid-back midnight black hair before pulling it up in to a high ponytail on top of her head.

She looked at the clock before making her way to her walk-in closet. She pulled out a black tee-shirt that said 'I like you so when I take over the world your death will be quick and painless'. Kaoru dressed quickly than she climbed down the greenery that grew up the side of the two story building.

Once her feet hit the ground she took off into the direction of down town. Kaoru took a short cut through a dark street alley. She didn't care that it was dangerous, she was to caught up in self misery to care about her own welfare.

Kaoru should have paid more attention to where she was going instead of dwattling in her thoughts. If she had she wouldn't of run face frist into this humungo guy. And I mean he was huge. He towered over her by two feet, had a pudgy nose and look totally repulsive. In short he was a brute.

Kaoru cursed a few words that she bet would make even a sailor blush. The brute had her back into a wall. Man, she really hated walls at this moment. The brute grabbed Kaoru by her upper arm and tried to drag her off. He had a first encounter with her infamous sunshine 'Treatment' Ouch!

The brute made a slight grimace before backhanding Kaoru into the nearest wall. Kaoru slid down the wall. She knew she was going to have a bruise in the morning, it didn't matter to her. She could care less.

She was dazed. Her body wouldn't move at all. The brute dragged Kaoru by the arm, as he spoke. "To bad the boss won't let us kill any women until he seen them. Oh well, his punishment is way worse than mine."

Kaoru had slowly gotten the felling back in her body, and could move by the time he finished up his tirade. Kaoru knew she was taken a big chance, not like she cared, and punched the guy with all she had. She took great pleasure in hearing a his jaw bone crack.

Kaoru could tell that man wanted nothing more than to kill her at that moment. Lucky for her he couldn't without getting in trouble. So he did the next best thing he slapped her hard across the face.

Kaoru felt the blood trickle down the side of her mouth were the man had slapped her. She laughed a sadistic laugh. The man finally stopped dragging her, and stopped in front of a door. He opened the door and pushed her in making sure she landed on her face.

"The boss will see you now." He did a mock bow before he slammed the door shut.

Kaoru looked around the dark gloomy room, and what do you know, she decided she liked this place already. Looking more intently she tried the identify what was in the room. Dark, dark, outline of a man, dark. Kaoru' s gaze settled on the outline figure of a man.

The man was only a little bit taller than her if her sight wasn't felling her, if it was, oh well. She grimace when her knee popped as she took a step back. She felt uneasy just looking at him. Most of the reason was that he had an un canny resemblance to her dream man.

"W-who are you?" Kaoru asked cursing her self for stuttering.

The man lips curled into a smirk. He opened his eyes only to see her eyes wide. She was tense. He saw her in the dark she looked like...

Kaoru was tense with fear the mans eyes shouldn't effect her that much but they did and she knew why. It was because she knew those eyes. Eyes of the wolf. They were gold.

The man went over to her and grabbed her chin. He forced her to look in to his eyes. He saw the dark bruise that was forming, and his eyes narrowed in anger. He brought his finger to trace the abused skin. He said nothing about it.

"Who do you think I am?" He asked.

The name instantly popped in to her head.

"Battousai." She blurted.

He smiled. She had just confirmed his earlier thought. He looked at the bruised flesh, angered that any one beside him had layed hand against her.

"Good, you remembered." He said, "Now who hit you."

Battousai brushed his fingers against her abused skin again. Kaoru flinched, the dream from earlier still fresh on her mind. She tried to take a step back, she feared him for some reason, especially his hands. His hands were stained in blood, she knew this the moment she saw them. He pulled her back to him.

"Who hit you?" He asked again.

"Who do you think?" She asked reverting back into punk mode. "He going be sore for a while especially since I broke his jaw."

Battousai narrowed his eyes at her attitude. He didn't like it. It suddenly dawn on him what she had said. She had broken the brutes jaw. He would have to store that information for later when "the brute" got his reward. He clapped his hands and the light came on. He got a better look at the girl he was soul bound to.

"I really need to go I am late for a meeting." Kaoru said trying to get out of there as quick as possible.

Battousai watched her amused. He knew what she was trying to do. She was trying to escape again only this time he would watch her closer than ever. After all she couldn't escape if she wasn't alone.

"Your not going." He said.

"What?" Kaoru asked frustrated.

"Your not going, your going to stay here." He said.

She was confused, he knew this, but he also knew that she was his and this was all he needed to keep himself happy. Selfish? Perhaps, he really didn't care. He could only hope that not all of her memories returned.

Kaoru's head hurt, and she knew why she was running on two hours of sleep and thought it was enough to keep her going for a while, but it was not to be. The room started spinning. Kaoru was scared of this Battousai. And here she was. In a the same room as him, about to lose her grip on the conscious world. She felt her self falling backwards as she finally gave into her bodies demand for sleep and darkness overtook her.

He caught her before she hit the ground. Only slightly worried. He had seen the sleep rings around her eyes and how pale her skin was. He wasn't worried because these were only signs of some one who hadn't had enough sleep. He was content, watching her. Resting her head in his lap as he made a decision. She wasn't going leave this time. He was going to keep her for the rest of eternity, but eternity wasn't very long for an immortal. For a vampire.

Noriykoi: This is my best story yet. The story may end abruptly or it may be really drawn out right now I'm starting work on chapter 4, but I will probably update only once a week to once a month deepening on how much waiting I got done. And I will try not abandon this story.

Foxfire: on a happier note, I got a boyfriend.

Fangs Noriykoi: we know

Foxfire: party poopers.

Next chapter: Kaoru dreams about her past life and Battousai a little on the gentle/crazy side