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"Talking"

'Thoughts'

So Sick

By: Misao-chan

'It's raining' Kaoru Kamiya was walking home from her boyfriend's house. No, wait, ex-boyfriend… There hasn't been a good feeling between the two, but this weather definitely didn't help her mood.

'Damn it! Why didn't I bring an umbrella?' she thought.

After about a year of dating, she and her boyfriend, Enishi Yukishiro, haven't been really clicking. They got into a fight and broke up at his house. She felt so crappy. Every time she had someone special, they always left. Heartbroken at the thought, she started to cry. "Excuse me, miss?" a masculine, yet feminine, voice said from behind her. She turned around and saw, in her opinion, a very hot redhead.

"You dropped something,' he said pointing to her cell phone on the ground, wet with rain water. "Oh crap!" she cried, desperately trying to dry it with her denim jacket. "Thank you for it back," she said and turned around towards her house. "Wait…" the boy said. "Yes?" she turned around to look at him. She studied his face closely and realized that he was actually really cute…

'Baka, you just broke up with your boyfriend less than hour ago!'

"You're soaking wet. Would you like my umbrella?" he asked her with a strange concern. She just looked at him. She thought about the situation and raised an eyebrow. "I appreciate your concern, but why do you even care? I really don't know you" she asked.

"You look like you're having a bad day. I'm sure this rain isn't helping."

'You have no idea,' she thought.

"Besides, I'm your new neighbor. I thought I would be able to, you know, make friends?" he said hopefully.

Kaoru just gave a sad smile. "I appreciate it, but I really am having a bad day."

"Well, when is a good time?" he asked.

"Sometime…later" She began to inch towards her house.

"Ok then. I just live next door. So I'll see you around…?" he said, asking for her name.

"Kaoru Kamiya. And you are?"

He smiled warmly, "Kenshin Himura."

Kenshin POV

Kenshin walked into his new home. "Uncle Hiko, I'm home!" He lived with uncle and two sisters, Misao and Megumi. They are really close in age (Misao-15, Megumi-16, Kenshin-17). Their parents died in a car accident when Misao and Megumi were 1 and 2. Unfortunately, at age 3, Kenshin remembered every last bit of their deaths. Because of that, his mind is a little twisted. One minute he can be the nicest person, and then the next...

"Uncle Hiko isn't here. He's at a meeting with this big corporate dude," Misao said, dancing around with headphones on her ears. Hiko Seijuro was a very big business man. He can bring an entire company to its knees if he wanted to.

Kenshin thought about Kaoru again and smiled. He walked into the T.V room and sat down next to Megumi, who was reading. "What's with the dorky smile, Kenny?" she asked.

He just laughed a little, "I met our neighbor."

"Oh really? Was she cute?" she asked not looking up from her book.

Kenshin gaped at her 'How does she do that?'

"I'm your sister, I know these things…" Megumi put her book down and looked at him "Just…be careful Kenshin."

He rolled his eyes, "You worry too much," he said, and walked up to his room and shut the door

Kaoru's POV

Kaoru trudged into her room and plopped on the bed. Like the Himura household, there was nobody here almost all the time. Sometimes, she wondered why kids complain their parents are never home. She's never had a problem with it. In fact, she loved being home alone. But right now, she felt like she couldn't love anything.

She spotted her radio on her nightstand and turned it on. Music always made her feel better.

She lazily flung her hand at the ON button on her radio. "We Belong Together" by Mariah Carey blared through the speakers. Her eye twitched. 'No love songs. Can't take that right now.' she thought.

She changed the station, and she listened to "Call Me When You're Sober" 'depressing love song…hmm…still not helping…'

Frustrated, she changed it again. A rock song was ending, then "I Miss You" came on for a memorial to Aaliyah. A vein popped out of her forehead as she chucked the radio out the window and into a tree.

Sighing, she propped her elbows on the windowsill and stared outside. A movement caught her eye. She looked up, and there was Kenshin, in his room. 'Oh how convenient' she thought with sarcasm. She was trying as hard as possible to not fall in love with another guy.

'It's bad enough there is a hot guy living next door, but right in clear view from my window?'

She focused back on Kenshin's room, and...he was getting undressed! Blushing about 12 shades of red when Kenshin was down to nothing but his boxers, Kaoru tried to look away. But couldn't. 'Bad Kaoru, bad Kaoru. Stop looking! This is so wrong.'

Kenshin was brushing his long fiery hair when Kaoru really started to look at him. Small and slender frame, and yet muscular. He had beautiful red hair that reached halfway down his back. His legs looked like they could run for miles, and his arms looked so strong and gentle. He continued to brush his hair and moved toward the window. She ducked as fast as she could. After about 30 seconds, she looked back up. He was grinning ear to ear, still brushing his hair. Kaoru sweatdropped, 'Great, he saw me.' He put down his brush, grabbed a towel, and headed, to what Kaoru guesses, the bathroom.

When he was finally gone, she finally looked away. She heaved a big sigh. 'I'm going to have a hard time keeping off of him...'

To Be Continued (maybe)

A/N I'm sorry this chapter is so short! I just didn't want to waste time writing a long chapter and having no one like it. But if you do, REVIEW! And tell me what you think. Not asking much, at least three reviews.