DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN RUROUNI KENSHIN! THESE ARE NOT MY CHARTACTERS!

Warning: Lemon! If you don't like this type of story, sorry, please go back and read something else. Please enjoy!

Chapter 1: Not a Normal Nightmare

It was a dark moonless night. A young man crept across the landscape as if he himself were one of the shadows of the night. No sound was made as he approached his target. His assault took now more than a few seconds. The light from the lantern that the now dead man had carried flashed across the young assassin to reveal a high ponytail of flaming red hair and a cross shaped scar on his left cheek. Just as he was turning to leave, a young woman stepped out of the dark bushes behind him.

The dim light only gave him vague look at pearl white skin, sapphire blue eyes, and dark raven hair. She began approaching him with her wooden sword ready to attack. The closer she got to him, the brighter the light became and the scenery began to change. The colors of the landscape swirled together to create an imposing smoke that surrounded the two fighters.

"That's enough Kenshin, or would Himura Battosai be more appropriate?" she calmly asked when there was only the distance of their swords separating them. "I won't let you hurt me again."

This confused the young assassin as he had never seen the woman in his life. "How does she know my name? And since she does know it, why is she foolish enough to attack me with a wooden sword? And how did I hurt her before?"

But as he was pondering these questions and more, she attacked. He watched as her wooden sword transformed into metal as she swung it. Was the wood some kind of illusion? As he drew his sword to defend himself she slashed though the semi-transparent haze that should have been his blade. He jumped back holding nothing but the hilt to his smoky katana.

"I, Kamiya Kaoru will avenge myself. You took my happiness and now I shall take your life."

With the sound of her name came a flood of memories. He knew this woman. He was living with her at her family's dojo in Tokyo right now. "But then why am I dressed the way I did during the Bakumatsu? Why am I fighting her?" What had happened to cause the woman that he loved more than anything in the world to want to kill him? "What have I done to her?"

"Kaoru-dono?" he asked. "Why do you want to hurt me? What have I don't to yo—"

His eyes were wide with shock as his blood sprayed across his love's face. He began to fall but the ground never came. He used his last breath to say "I love you," as death closed over him and he fell into the abyss.

"KAORU!" he yelled as he violently awoke from sleep. He was gasping for air and covered in sweat. He sat up and looked at his surroundings. He was in his room in the Kamiya dojo. It was still dark outside. As his breathing returned to normal he was hoping that he hadn't woken the others. Kaoru would be furious. Kaoru! Hadn't he just dreamed that she was trying to kill him? What had he done? As the sweat began to run down his face again he quickly ran outside.

SPASH! The cold water running down his body calmed him. "Baka, it was just a dream," he told himself. "More like a nightmare," he thought. He walked back to the dojo to check on his love.

Quickly creating a puddle of cold water outside her room, he decided to just look and make sure she was alright. She had a pillow squeezed tightly in her arms. I wish I could just lie with her and express my feelings. NO! NO! NO! I mustn't think that way. She's too innocent." She was muttering something. As he couldn't tell from the distance he quietly crept into the room and slid the door shut behind him. As he knelt beside her he could understand her. "She looks so peaceful. She is so beautiful. Her breasts look so perfect in this light, I just wish her yukata would open a bit more. STOPIT!"

"Please, please…" she kept saying over and over.

He began to gently rub her face with his hand and whispered "Shush, my love. I'm here my Kaoru. What would you have of this unworthy one?"

"Love," she answered in her sleep.

"Alright, koishii," he said as he softly placed a kiss on her forehead. "Now that I know your true feelings I promise I will do as you ask. Oyasumi nasai" "That was hard. No more nighttime visits or I won't be able to control myself. I need another dose of cold water." With this he quickly and quietly returned to his own room to change clothes.

By the time he was finished it was nearly dawn. "Might as well get a head start on breakfast," he yawned. "I'll even have time to prepare a bath for my Kaoru. That will lift her spirits. Who knows, if I get my chores done early I may even head into town later. I've got plans to discuss with Sano later." With these last words he resumed his normal rurouni manner and left his room to start the day with a smile.

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Kat