Can You Still Wait?

Disclaimer! Rurouni Kenshin doesn't belong to me, but to Nobuhiro Watsuki. Darn, maybe some day ^_^x

A Sequel to "Waiting for You" (and even shorter too!)

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I feel your gaze on me. You do not know that I know you're always there, always watching my like a hawk. Almost everyday, you sit in the tallest sakura tree. You sit there, visibly hidden by the large leaves and petals, watching me. Why you watch I have no idea.

I have no idea why such a young and pretty girl like yourself would spend your precious time watching a man such as myself.

I have no idea how you could love a man like myself that appears to be so cold and heartless.

I have no idea why you would love a man like myself that appears to be so cold and heartless.

Everyday for the past eighteen months you have brought me tea and dinner. Everyday for the past eighteen months you have greeted me with perky greetings. Perky greetings I love to hear. Perky greetings just for me.

Believe it or not, those perky greetings are something I look forward to. Those perky grettings are what I now live for. Those perky greetings mean the world to me. Just like you mean the world to me.

I know you have had feelings for me. At first I took no notice of them. Waving it away, it was merely infatuation. The key word being 'was'. You were a child then, but you are not a child anymore. You have grown into a beautiful young woman. And I know it is not infatuation anymore.

But you deserve more. More than what I can offer you. You deserve a man who has not been the cause of the death of his comrades. You deserve a man whose past will not come back to haunt him.

I know you are no longer a child. You are a young woman, soon to be an adult. Your eighteenth birthday is right around the corner.

You are of marrying age. I know that Okon and Omasu will want a matchmaker to see you. I know that there will be many young men after you. Afterall, you are a very beautiful young woman with a very likable personality.

And yet with this knowledge, I know you will still pursue me. You will still pursue me while having so many others pursuing you.

And so I have made a decision.

Two years. In two years when you turn twenty, I will tell you. I will finally open up and tell you everything. Everything you want to know and everything you want to heard.

But I have to know . . .

After all this time . . .

After all that time . . .

While others chase you . . .

Can you still wait?

Will you still wait?

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A/N: there! there's the sequel, short, but I still liked writing it. and I liked the way it turned out. I hope Aoshi doesn't seen too OOC You can never really tell what goes on in his head. and you know, just becuase he doesn't talk, doesn't mean he doesn't think

Please note that when it says "After all this time" it means the time that has passed and when it says "After all that time" it means the two years that will pass.

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