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Summary: Kaoru's the daughter of a very rich man that doesn't care for her… she's a complete tomboy whose greatest dream is going back in the past to the samurai era… one day her dream is conceded. What will happen now? Will she find love, a way to return home or even return home?

'...' thoughts / "..." speech

There are three POV's in this story: Normal, Kaoru's and later on Kenshin's =)

Back to the past

The Breakfast

Normal POV

Kaoru is the daughter of a very rich business man. Her mother died when she was young and ever since she lived her life quite lonely. As she grew up she became a tomboy, excellent martial arts fighter, a disaster at making any house shores (A/N: but if you think about it… she didn't need to do them… she had maids for everything! ) and whose greatest dream was living in the samurai era…

Summer 2004

A 17 year old, raven haired girl lies on her bed sleeping peacefully…

An old maid enters into the huge room and starts opening the windows in order to let the daylight in.

"Tooooo early…. I'm on holidays… yawn" said the girl keeping her eyes shut stiff.

"Yes I know, Kaoru-dono…" the old maid said gently "…but your father requested your presence at breakfast today."

Two beautiful sapphire blue eyes opened in surprise "He NEVER requests my presence at breakfast…"

"He said he needed to talk to you about something important…" said the women smiling.

"Yeah… I bet he does… otherwise he wouldn't request my presence!" said Kaoru grumpily. (A/N: what can I say… not EVERYONE is a morning person, ne?)

There was a long dull silence in the room.

Kaoru's POV

'MAN! I hate waking up early! Especially when he wants me too… I mean ever since okaa-san died he never worried about me, only when he needed something from me or if I made anything bad!'

"Come on… Kaoru-dono… just go and see what he wants…" Nana said gently. 'Her real name is Nadisha ( I'm terrible at making up names… if you have any suggestions…) she's like a mother to me, technically she's been my mother ever since okaa-san died… Also Nana's the only one who understands me!'

"Nana-san do you think I can go on my pj's?" I asked sheepishly.

"I don't think so Kaoru-dono… You know your father, he's very strict about that…"

"Yeah yeah… he always wants me to wear fancy clothes whenever I'm with him! I hate fancy clothes they're so uncomfortable!" I said while I got out of my bed to go take a bath. "Will you please put some clothes on my bed? I'm not in the mood to choose them today…"

"Hai…" she said and went to get me some clothes.

I got myself into the bathroom slowly and cursing everything…

15 minutes later

I got out of the bathroom and looked around in my room. Nana was still there fixing the room a bit. I fetched my clothes and started dressing myself.

"Here…" I gave her my pj that she neatly put away on top of my pillow.

"You look marvelous sweetheart…" sometimes Nana-san drops the polite –dono thing and talks to me like any mother does to her child.

"I do…. Demo… I hate dressing up like this!" I made an ugly face, wrinkled my nose and finally for the first time that damn morning I started to laugh!

Normal POV

The two just stood there laughing for a while. That relaxed Kaoru who was very nervous at the thought of what her father wanted to tell her… She hadn't a good feeling about it, not at all.

They stopped laughing and Nana gave her an encouragement look, opened the door and went right ahead of her as if pulling her out.

Kaoru's POV

'Well that was relaxing… but now it's time to go!' I took a deep quick breath and followed Nana. 'I wonder what he wants to tell me…' I thought as I reached the end of the stairs I then entered the elephant sized dinning room and a quick thought hit me 'Guess I'm about to know.'

I lifted my head proudly and started walking towards my father.

"Ohayo otou-san!" I said cheerfully 'Well… this may seem contradictory to what it seemed before… demo… it isn't… although I don't like the way he acts toward me, always so numb and cold, he IS my father and as I can't see him very often I always treat him like this… I still carry the hope that he will return to his true self… like when okaa-san was alive! Demo… it always cost me a lot to act all cheerful…'

"Ohayo Kaoru-chan…" he said expressionless as usual…

"Ohayo Kamiya-dono." I heard someone say.

Slowly I turned my head to see a young man, probably not much older than me and very good looking. He was smiling at me and even though I felt uncomfortable like if something wasn't right. I paid a little more attention and finally understood what was annoying me, he was looking at me like a hungry wolf! 'Why you… hentai! How humiliating!' From that moment I just plain hated that guy.

"Ohayo…" I muttered glaring daggers at him. At first he seemed a little surprised but then he grinned viciously at me and apparently started to enjoy it! I kept my head high and sat down by my father just across the weird, pervert guy.

"So…" my father started talking but I simply cut in.

"I didn't know we were having visitors… Nana-san didn't tell me anything about it." I said calmly.

"She didn't know…" he answered.

"Oh…"

The room was silent but I decided I hadn't finished my questions…

"Forgive my rudeness but who is he?"

"Atsu Fuyaki." He said in the tone that meant - no more questions -.

Normal POV

The servants started serving the meal and for a while nothing was heard except eating sounds.

"Do you remember me telling you about that big enterprise?" Kamiya-sama asked his daughter.

"Yes…"

"Well this is the actual owner of that company…"

"Soooo…. Just cut to the chase otou-san." She said rudely. Although she always tried to be kind and understandable towards her father most of the times Kaoru would loose her temper very quickly especially if she knew something very wrong was being hidden from her.

He looked at her angrily and coldly said "You're engaged to him and you two will marry as soon as you finish high school."

"NANI?!?!?!" the girl shouted near tears.

Kaoru's POV

'It cannot be…' I choked as I heard the words come out of his mouth.

"I can't believe it! You're doing this for the money I bet! How could you otou-san!!!!"

Atsu-sama looked at me amused and that only angered me more.

"I'M NOT GOING TO MARRY HIM AND THAT'S FINAL!!!" I shouted alerting everyone in the house.

"You will do as I say, I'm still you're father so I know what's best for you. With time you'll get used to the idea… now shut up, sit down and eat your breakfast. Gomen nasai for this little incident Atsu-sama."

"It's ok." He said coldly but still amused "You warned me that she wouldn't react well to the news, demo… I think I even like her more being hard like this… it'll make things… funnier." He stated ending with a horrible nasty look at me.

By that time I completely freaked out and though 'The HELL with it! I'm not just going to stand here and listen to this like I'm some piece of $%#&!'

"No otou-san… you are so wrong…" I said this coldly, calmly and expressionless like I never ever had talked to otou-san "you ceased being my father from the moment you stopped carrying for me as a person and only seeing me as an object. I will not marry that man even if I have to kill myself… mark my words." With that I stood up throwing the chair to the ground and got out of the room as fast I could crying, as my world crashed down or at least what was left of it.

I went to my room and threw myself on to the bed. Few seconds after Nana entered the room closing the door behind her and sat beside me comforting me.

Glossary:

Otou-san: father

Okaa-san: mother

Demo: but

Gomen nasai: I'm very sorry

Ohayo: good morning

Me: Well how did you like it? This is my first fanfic! YAY! L0ol Now really I hpe you liked it… and I hope it doesn't have many errors cause you see I'm Portuguese =) I'm not English nor I am Japanese(the two languages used here) ( I wish I could be! Not that I don't like my country! Not at ALL! I love it! It's great… just that I'm a little tired of it…). Think of me a a maniac who thinks will ever get to go to Japan and practice his (her to be more precise) Japanese as I've been to England already!

Everyone: JUST SHUT UP ALREADY!!!!

Me: Ok… =x

Ja ne!

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