Okay, well, i am beginning a new story, so bear with me for awhile.
It might be a one shot, and it might be continued, depending how many reviews i get.
The RK Characters are not mine, but the lyrics and various OCs named later are mine.(AKA The Villan!)
Okay, now, let's get to the story.
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Kaoru woke with a start, her dreams were becoming more and more violent recently, and she had to clear her head.
She rose, her hair tied back in it's braid fell over her shoulder.
She ignored her house shoes and walked barefoot to her door.
Sliding it aside, she stepped out into the open hallway and walked as silently as she could toward the bath.
She knew that Kenshin was a light sleeper, and that the red haired ruroni would ask her questions that she didn't want to answer.
But as she walked past his room, she heard groaning and shifting.
sliding the door open a crack, she ghasped at the sight that met her eyes.
Dream Sequence
Kenshin was alone, covered in blood.
The harsh winds blew through the feilds, blowing the metallic scent of blood over him.
He closed his eyes, wishing it all away.
When he opened them, he was not alone.
There were seven crosses against the blood red sky.
He looked on in horror as strands of ribbons and hair flowed from the front of the crosses, the backs were to him.
He walked slowly, not wanting to know who were on the crosses, but not being able to help himself.
As he slowly rounded the line, he could make out profiles against the sun, bleeding black profiles.
He finally got to the front of them, and he stood there, hypnotized in his horror.
Kaoru...
Sano...
Yahiko...
Aoushi...
Saito...
Megumi...
the last face, the face in the middle, he couldn't see.
That last face horrified him.
He screamed.
End dream sequence
He woke up screaming.
He realized that he was being held in place, two slender arms snaked around him, keeping him where he was.
He looked up to see Kauru's worried face.
"Kaoru-do.."
"Please, Kenshin, we are alone in the middle of the night, can we just drop your past for tonight?" Kaoru pleaded
Kaoru looked down at him, admiration and worry in her blue eyes.
"Bu..Hai. Okay." He said, looking past her to where the ceiling was beginning to leak with the autumn rain.
Kenshin tried to sit up, and when she didn't let go, he looked up at her confused.
"Kaoru?" he asked, his voice small.
She didn't answer, her eyes were blank.
"Kaoru?!" He asked again, his voice slightly louder now.
Kaouru snapped out of her daze and looked down at him with warmth.
"I'm sorry, Kenshin, i just kinda' dozed off there. I cant sleep."
Kenshin looked up at the raven haired woman who held him, amazed that she could keep something from him.
Kenshin somehow switched their positions, and they were holding each other.
(A/N I'm about to cry. Sniffle sniffle)
They were both exhausted, trembling.
She looked up at him, a slight ray of happiness in her eyes.
"Wanna talk?" she asked, "It looks like neither of us are getting any sleep tonight. I'll tell if you will."
He looked down at the girl that attacked him the first day that they had met.
Somehow his past had brought him here, and it was giving to him.
"Aa, You look tired." he said, shifting so that they lay near each other.
"You first. No hiding." she said, looking over at him, her sense of humor coming back.
"Aa, yes maam!" he said, a ruroni-ish grin seeping over his face.
(A/N i am obsessed with the word Seeping )
He lay quietly for a few moments, searching for the words.
"I am alone, soaked in blood, standing in a glorious feild of wheat as the sun sets in bloody glory.
"Then i close my eyes for a moment, and there are seven black crosses protruding from the earth, like so many scars. There are people on them, i know even from behind.
"I walk around the row, toward the front. I catch a few glimpses of profiles, made black by the sun, and when i finally get around to the front...." he choked back a sob.
"When i get around to the front, and i stare up at the people on those crosses... There's Sanouske and Megumi...Yahiko and Aoushi...Saito and....You."
He looked at her, searching her face for any sign of emotion.
she had none.
"There is a seventh, but i cannot see his face, his is the cross in the middle, the one that i cannot see the face, only that he has red hair, like me.."
She reached out to him, then.
He held onto her, sobbing into her yukata, and she just held him.
She waited until his shakes had ceased before she tilted his face up and kissed his temple.
Holding him to her, she began her own tale.
"I am alone, nothing surrounding me, just blackness.
"And then, i am not alone.
"Something is behind me, i can feel it.
"I catch a glimpse of white, and then he is standing there. His hair is white, his clothes are white, but his eyes...His eyes hold the cosmos.
"I know he is not Kami-sama, he feels....evil.
"I dont know what he wants, but then he has you.
"He....He takes your sword....He takes your sword and he...." she broke down into sobs, burying her face into his burning red hair.
"He....He slices your throat, spraying me with your blood....and then he has Yahiko and Sano, and Saito and Megumi and Aoushi...and then i am the only one left.
"Then...then he runs toward me and i wake up....scratches on my chest and wrists...."
He looks up at her, then, his eyes filled with horror and sadness.
He once again switches their positions.
She had been wearing her winter Kimono already, not showing her throat or arms.
He had been worried that she had been getting a cold, but..
He wripped open the front of her shirt, revealing the deep scratches, some of them fresh.
He snarled, someone who can do this to someone like her was sick.
"Kaoru..It's alright, nothing's going to happen." he whispered into her ear.
"Kenshin.." she whispered looking up at him with love.
he was enveloped by her deep blue eyes, falling into the abyss of them.
He wiped a tear off her face with the back of one hand, bringing his mouth down, closer to hers.
She raised her face toward his, thinking of only how his lips would taste.
Their lips met, not hungrily, but softly, tenderly.
Soon they were enveloped in each other, kagome nipping at his ear while he nuzzled her neck.
They were enveloped in each other, the only thing keeping them from going to the full legth was pride.
"Kaoru, we cant." he whispered against her hot mouth.
"I know, but can't we just stay like this? at least for now?" she whispered back.
"Aa, forever if we could." he said, curling around her.
He felt her throat vibrate as she began to hum.
"Sleep little one, the day will soon come close your bright eyes and fall into dream
Sleep my little darling My precious little darling as i wait by your side sing the last lullaby..."
He fell asleep, like that, her singing to him, her sweet voice filling the air around him.
Kaoru smiled when his breathing went shallow, and he was asleep.
She closed her eyes and fell into a dream.
Sano woke around daylight, ready to eat.
He noticed that there were no sounds in the dojo and he went to find kenshin.
When he walked into Kenshin's room, he blushed a bright red.
The red haired Ruroni was curled around Kaoru, their hair was unbound, and Kaoru's yukata was open, the only thing protecting her from view was Kenshin's arm wrapped protectively around her. Something bothered him, though.
Scratches and bruises were all over Kaoru's wrists and chest, trailing up toward the base of her throat.
Sano knelt and pulled the still sleeping Ronin out of the room.
He felt the rage building within him.
He punched the red haired ruroni out of his dreams and into the waking world.
Kenshin sat, dazed, rubbing his jaw where sano had punched him.
"Sano?" He asked, looking up at the ex-street fighter.
"Dont you fuckin "Sano" me! What did you do to Jou-chan you bastard!" Sanouske yelled, seeing red.
"Sanouske! I didn't do it! She told me not to tell, but i swear i did not do that! I would never, Sanouske, Never." Kenshin stood, not even bothering to run for his sakaba.
"Who did it, Kenshin, I deserve to know who hurt her like that!" he said, panicking, his eyes wild.
"Sanouske, have you been having trouble sleeping lately?" he asked, looking at the panicking man.
"Oh, shit. I thought i was the only..." Something came to him, and he raced off toward the rooms.
"Yahiko!" Kenshin cursed, then ran to Yahiko's room, where the spikey haired bou was just getting dressed.
They burst opent the door to find him staring down at the bulge at his weist.
Not a scratch on him.
"Yahiko, hurry, Jou-chan will be awake soon, and i want to do something before she gets up." Sano said, covering his amusement by slamming the door shut.
They had to run back out into the courtyard before they burst out into laughter.
They were still laughing when Kauru came into the kitchen, fully clothed.
When she awoke, she was alone. For a moment, she panicked, and then she heard voices.
She could hear Kenshin and Sano joking around in the Kitchen and Yahiko grunting with his morning practice exorcizes.
she snuck to her room and got her clothes on before walking into the kitchen.
They stopped when she appeared in the doorway, but the started back laughing when they saw it was her.
"What's so funny?" she grumped.
"Yahiko....Yahiko just got his first morning boner." Sano choked out between laughs.
Kaoru giggled, watching her pupil practice in the yard.
"Breakfast is almost ready, Kaoru-dono." Kenshin said, looking up from the fire, an amused smile on his face.
"Thank you, Kenshin, i will practice with Yahiko for a few minutes until then." she said, grabbing her Bokken on her way out.
"Yahiko, It's like this!" they heard her say, and then they heard a feint "Ugly" from Yahiko, and a loud "You Little.." from kaoru, and they could hear shouts and screams coming and going as Kaoru chased Yahiko around the yard and through the dojo.
"Jou-chan worries me sometimes. She acts like there is nothing wrong." Sanouske said, thinking aloud.
"Aa. it is worrying." Kenshin admitted, looking down at the fire.
"You telling me you didn't know?"
"Aa." Kenshin pulled the pot from the fire, scalding one hand as he did.
Shaking off the pinkish red hand, he watched as kaoru chased Yahiko past them.
"Kaoru-dono is a verry strong person." he said, picturing her in his mind as she was last night.
"Aye, that she is."
Suddenly a shout came from the east gate and kenshin raced out, sakaba ready.
He came to a dead halt when he saw who it was.
Aoushi and Saito stood there, looking at each other, silent as always.
Megumi was behind them.
This was not good.
Kenshin opened the gate and watched them walk in.
"i need to speak to you alone, Himura." Saito said, nodding toward the far corner of the dojo.
"Aa. as do I." Aoushi said. looking as emotionless as ever.
"Himura, There have been a recent series of murders." Saito said, looking at the ruroni.
"This in itself is not unusual, but the way in which these murders were committed was."
"Each of the victims were tied to a cross with razor wire, and then their throats were ripped open... The killings make a pattern, a spiraling pattern with Tokyo as it's center point." Saito said, looking toward the sun.
"The murders started in Kyoto, and they are travelling around Tokyo, toward Tokyo.
"We can find nothing on these killings, nothing. Himura, we wouldn't come to you if the situation was anything but dire."
"I will stay here, Saito, he is coming for me, whoever he is." Kenshin said, looking over toward Kaoru as she served tea to Aoushi.
"How do you know, Himura?"
"Don't they always? it's either me, or one of them, and either way, it is me that will fight, you know that, Saito." he said, looking the wolf in the eyes.
"So be it."
"Will you be staying here, or at the motel?" Kenshin asked, keeping careful watch on kaoru's stiff movements.
"Will you have me?" Saito asked, looking at the ronin.
"It is her desicion, not mine, wolf." Kenshin said, standing.
He walked over to Kaoru and told her to sit down, and that he would take care of the rest of it.
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Okay, yall, tell me what you think. I really need to know.
If i can find a way, i will upload the pic that i drew to go with this fic.
It's the cross scene, and Gawd it's creepy and cool all at the same time!
Okay, now, i need to get some sleep or i will fall asleep in Life science and have you ever smelled Ammonia? That smells really nasty!!!! EEEEEEWWWWW!!!
People are unhappy because they only dwell in the past and the future, Not in the present. -Snow Drop.
It might be a one shot, and it might be continued, depending how many reviews i get.
The RK Characters are not mine, but the lyrics and various OCs named later are mine.(AKA The Villan!)
Okay, now, let's get to the story.
------
Kaoru woke with a start, her dreams were becoming more and more violent recently, and she had to clear her head.
She rose, her hair tied back in it's braid fell over her shoulder.
She ignored her house shoes and walked barefoot to her door.
Sliding it aside, she stepped out into the open hallway and walked as silently as she could toward the bath.
She knew that Kenshin was a light sleeper, and that the red haired ruroni would ask her questions that she didn't want to answer.
But as she walked past his room, she heard groaning and shifting.
sliding the door open a crack, she ghasped at the sight that met her eyes.
Dream Sequence
Kenshin was alone, covered in blood.
The harsh winds blew through the feilds, blowing the metallic scent of blood over him.
He closed his eyes, wishing it all away.
When he opened them, he was not alone.
There were seven crosses against the blood red sky.
He looked on in horror as strands of ribbons and hair flowed from the front of the crosses, the backs were to him.
He walked slowly, not wanting to know who were on the crosses, but not being able to help himself.
As he slowly rounded the line, he could make out profiles against the sun, bleeding black profiles.
He finally got to the front of them, and he stood there, hypnotized in his horror.
Kaoru...
Sano...
Yahiko...
Aoushi...
Saito...
Megumi...
the last face, the face in the middle, he couldn't see.
That last face horrified him.
He screamed.
End dream sequence
He woke up screaming.
He realized that he was being held in place, two slender arms snaked around him, keeping him where he was.
He looked up to see Kauru's worried face.
"Kaoru-do.."
"Please, Kenshin, we are alone in the middle of the night, can we just drop your past for tonight?" Kaoru pleaded
Kaoru looked down at him, admiration and worry in her blue eyes.
"Bu..Hai. Okay." He said, looking past her to where the ceiling was beginning to leak with the autumn rain.
Kenshin tried to sit up, and when she didn't let go, he looked up at her confused.
"Kaoru?" he asked, his voice small.
She didn't answer, her eyes were blank.
"Kaoru?!" He asked again, his voice slightly louder now.
Kaouru snapped out of her daze and looked down at him with warmth.
"I'm sorry, Kenshin, i just kinda' dozed off there. I cant sleep."
Kenshin looked up at the raven haired woman who held him, amazed that she could keep something from him.
Kenshin somehow switched their positions, and they were holding each other.
(A/N I'm about to cry. Sniffle sniffle)
They were both exhausted, trembling.
She looked up at him, a slight ray of happiness in her eyes.
"Wanna talk?" she asked, "It looks like neither of us are getting any sleep tonight. I'll tell if you will."
He looked down at the girl that attacked him the first day that they had met.
Somehow his past had brought him here, and it was giving to him.
"Aa, You look tired." he said, shifting so that they lay near each other.
"You first. No hiding." she said, looking over at him, her sense of humor coming back.
"Aa, yes maam!" he said, a ruroni-ish grin seeping over his face.
(A/N i am obsessed with the word Seeping )
He lay quietly for a few moments, searching for the words.
"I am alone, soaked in blood, standing in a glorious feild of wheat as the sun sets in bloody glory.
"Then i close my eyes for a moment, and there are seven black crosses protruding from the earth, like so many scars. There are people on them, i know even from behind.
"I walk around the row, toward the front. I catch a few glimpses of profiles, made black by the sun, and when i finally get around to the front...." he choked back a sob.
"When i get around to the front, and i stare up at the people on those crosses... There's Sanouske and Megumi...Yahiko and Aoushi...Saito and....You."
He looked at her, searching her face for any sign of emotion.
she had none.
"There is a seventh, but i cannot see his face, his is the cross in the middle, the one that i cannot see the face, only that he has red hair, like me.."
She reached out to him, then.
He held onto her, sobbing into her yukata, and she just held him.
She waited until his shakes had ceased before she tilted his face up and kissed his temple.
Holding him to her, she began her own tale.
"I am alone, nothing surrounding me, just blackness.
"And then, i am not alone.
"Something is behind me, i can feel it.
"I catch a glimpse of white, and then he is standing there. His hair is white, his clothes are white, but his eyes...His eyes hold the cosmos.
"I know he is not Kami-sama, he feels....evil.
"I dont know what he wants, but then he has you.
"He....He takes your sword....He takes your sword and he...." she broke down into sobs, burying her face into his burning red hair.
"He....He slices your throat, spraying me with your blood....and then he has Yahiko and Sano, and Saito and Megumi and Aoushi...and then i am the only one left.
"Then...then he runs toward me and i wake up....scratches on my chest and wrists...."
He looks up at her, then, his eyes filled with horror and sadness.
He once again switches their positions.
She had been wearing her winter Kimono already, not showing her throat or arms.
He had been worried that she had been getting a cold, but..
He wripped open the front of her shirt, revealing the deep scratches, some of them fresh.
He snarled, someone who can do this to someone like her was sick.
"Kaoru..It's alright, nothing's going to happen." he whispered into her ear.
"Kenshin.." she whispered looking up at him with love.
he was enveloped by her deep blue eyes, falling into the abyss of them.
He wiped a tear off her face with the back of one hand, bringing his mouth down, closer to hers.
She raised her face toward his, thinking of only how his lips would taste.
Their lips met, not hungrily, but softly, tenderly.
Soon they were enveloped in each other, kagome nipping at his ear while he nuzzled her neck.
They were enveloped in each other, the only thing keeping them from going to the full legth was pride.
"Kaoru, we cant." he whispered against her hot mouth.
"I know, but can't we just stay like this? at least for now?" she whispered back.
"Aa, forever if we could." he said, curling around her.
He felt her throat vibrate as she began to hum.
"Sleep little one, the day will soon come close your bright eyes and fall into dream
Sleep my little darling My precious little darling as i wait by your side sing the last lullaby..."
He fell asleep, like that, her singing to him, her sweet voice filling the air around him.
Kaoru smiled when his breathing went shallow, and he was asleep.
She closed her eyes and fell into a dream.
Sano woke around daylight, ready to eat.
He noticed that there were no sounds in the dojo and he went to find kenshin.
When he walked into Kenshin's room, he blushed a bright red.
The red haired Ruroni was curled around Kaoru, their hair was unbound, and Kaoru's yukata was open, the only thing protecting her from view was Kenshin's arm wrapped protectively around her. Something bothered him, though.
Scratches and bruises were all over Kaoru's wrists and chest, trailing up toward the base of her throat.
Sano knelt and pulled the still sleeping Ronin out of the room.
He felt the rage building within him.
He punched the red haired ruroni out of his dreams and into the waking world.
Kenshin sat, dazed, rubbing his jaw where sano had punched him.
"Sano?" He asked, looking up at the ex-street fighter.
"Dont you fuckin "Sano" me! What did you do to Jou-chan you bastard!" Sanouske yelled, seeing red.
"Sanouske! I didn't do it! She told me not to tell, but i swear i did not do that! I would never, Sanouske, Never." Kenshin stood, not even bothering to run for his sakaba.
"Who did it, Kenshin, I deserve to know who hurt her like that!" he said, panicking, his eyes wild.
"Sanouske, have you been having trouble sleeping lately?" he asked, looking at the panicking man.
"Oh, shit. I thought i was the only..." Something came to him, and he raced off toward the rooms.
"Yahiko!" Kenshin cursed, then ran to Yahiko's room, where the spikey haired bou was just getting dressed.
They burst opent the door to find him staring down at the bulge at his weist.
Not a scratch on him.
"Yahiko, hurry, Jou-chan will be awake soon, and i want to do something before she gets up." Sano said, covering his amusement by slamming the door shut.
They had to run back out into the courtyard before they burst out into laughter.
They were still laughing when Kauru came into the kitchen, fully clothed.
When she awoke, she was alone. For a moment, she panicked, and then she heard voices.
She could hear Kenshin and Sano joking around in the Kitchen and Yahiko grunting with his morning practice exorcizes.
she snuck to her room and got her clothes on before walking into the kitchen.
They stopped when she appeared in the doorway, but the started back laughing when they saw it was her.
"What's so funny?" she grumped.
"Yahiko....Yahiko just got his first morning boner." Sano choked out between laughs.
Kaoru giggled, watching her pupil practice in the yard.
"Breakfast is almost ready, Kaoru-dono." Kenshin said, looking up from the fire, an amused smile on his face.
"Thank you, Kenshin, i will practice with Yahiko for a few minutes until then." she said, grabbing her Bokken on her way out.
"Yahiko, It's like this!" they heard her say, and then they heard a feint "Ugly" from Yahiko, and a loud "You Little.." from kaoru, and they could hear shouts and screams coming and going as Kaoru chased Yahiko around the yard and through the dojo.
"Jou-chan worries me sometimes. She acts like there is nothing wrong." Sanouske said, thinking aloud.
"Aa. it is worrying." Kenshin admitted, looking down at the fire.
"You telling me you didn't know?"
"Aa." Kenshin pulled the pot from the fire, scalding one hand as he did.
Shaking off the pinkish red hand, he watched as kaoru chased Yahiko past them.
"Kaoru-dono is a verry strong person." he said, picturing her in his mind as she was last night.
"Aye, that she is."
Suddenly a shout came from the east gate and kenshin raced out, sakaba ready.
He came to a dead halt when he saw who it was.
Aoushi and Saito stood there, looking at each other, silent as always.
Megumi was behind them.
This was not good.
Kenshin opened the gate and watched them walk in.
"i need to speak to you alone, Himura." Saito said, nodding toward the far corner of the dojo.
"Aa. as do I." Aoushi said. looking as emotionless as ever.
"Himura, There have been a recent series of murders." Saito said, looking at the ruroni.
"This in itself is not unusual, but the way in which these murders were committed was."
"Each of the victims were tied to a cross with razor wire, and then their throats were ripped open... The killings make a pattern, a spiraling pattern with Tokyo as it's center point." Saito said, looking toward the sun.
"The murders started in Kyoto, and they are travelling around Tokyo, toward Tokyo.
"We can find nothing on these killings, nothing. Himura, we wouldn't come to you if the situation was anything but dire."
"I will stay here, Saito, he is coming for me, whoever he is." Kenshin said, looking over toward Kaoru as she served tea to Aoushi.
"How do you know, Himura?"
"Don't they always? it's either me, or one of them, and either way, it is me that will fight, you know that, Saito." he said, looking the wolf in the eyes.
"So be it."
"Will you be staying here, or at the motel?" Kenshin asked, keeping careful watch on kaoru's stiff movements.
"Will you have me?" Saito asked, looking at the ronin.
"It is her desicion, not mine, wolf." Kenshin said, standing.
He walked over to Kaoru and told her to sit down, and that he would take care of the rest of it.
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Okay, yall, tell me what you think. I really need to know.
If i can find a way, i will upload the pic that i drew to go with this fic.
It's the cross scene, and Gawd it's creepy and cool all at the same time!
Okay, now, i need to get some sleep or i will fall asleep in Life science and have you ever smelled Ammonia? That smells really nasty!!!! EEEEEEWWWWW!!!
People are unhappy because they only dwell in the past and the future, Not in the present. -Snow Drop.