This is my first story on this site. I hope you all like it. Hopefully you will write me some reviews to tell me what you like and what I need to work on. If you have some suggestions please tell me. Sorry this one is a little short but it is just the prologue or tease for you. Enough blabbing. All right here I go.J
Disclaimer: I do not own Kenshin or any of the other characters in this story.
Dreams were troubling Kenshin this night. Not in a long time had they been this bad. Actually he never usually dreamt at all. It was a technique his master Hiko had taught him that was now failing.
He was dreaming of Tomoe's death again. Again and again he would see himself slicing his sword through her body. Her silent scream rang hollow in his mind although it had no noise. Tomoe's blood stained the snow and him every time.
Kenshin felt her make the second mark of the cross on his face. He heard over and over again her voice say, "For you love. My gift for you my love." Then he could feel her body go limp and she would die in his arms for what seemed like forever.
Finally he broke into consciousness and stood up. He was still in his bedroom at Miss Kaoru's place. Sweat was engulfing his entire body. Chills encompassed his body again and again.
He knew he needed a walk in the cool night breeze. Yes that would help get his mind off the past and onto the present. Besides Kaoru did not need a depressed Kenshin. In fact he didn't want one. Surely Sano would find that him being affected by a memory would be funny. It was far from humorous.
Kenshin sighed and walked outside. His thoughts drifted to Kaoru. The fact was that he loved her and was now worried about her safety. What if he was to hurt her or even kill her? He couldn't go through something like that again. No matter what he would protect her.
Someday soon he would express to Kaoru how he felt. Maybe in the morning he would. Yahiko and Sano wouldn't be back until around noon. He just wasn't sure if he was ready to take love into hand again. Although he already was in love with her so why not just tell her?
There was a ripping noise and a strangled scream coming from inside the house. No mistaking the scream. Miss Kaoru. He had no idea what the other was. Horror struck Kenshin and he ran into the house.
Without any hesitation he flung open her door. The door broke off with his strength and crashed to the floor. He cared not for whom he would wake up in the neighborhood at this point. This could not happen to him again. He would not allow it to.
What Kenshin saw next made him dumb struck. The window in her room was open and looked broken. There was a cord like thing on he ground. The room was in distress. Everything was a mess.
In the middle of the room was Kaoru on the floor. There was a red raw ring around her neck from the cord Kenshin supposed. Her eyes were closed and she was not moving. Kenshin couldn't breathe.
In fact Kaoru wasn't breathing . . . . . . . . . .
