A Very Rurouni Christmas
A/N: I don't own RK. I wish I did. Maybe Santa could hook me up…? This ended up as one of those stories where I just kind of pour out my Christmas-ness all over the place.
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Kenshin Himura strolled down the cold, dark street, carrying a half full bucket of tofu. He felt too lazy to carry a whole bucket of tofu home, so had only bought half a bucket. For full price, of course, because he's Kenshin.
So anyways Kenshin was strolling and what-not and suddenly his long flowing mass of fiery red hair got caught in a tree/bush/rock or something. So he stopped, put down the tofu, untangled his hair, and kept walking, because he's Kenshin.
When Kenshin got back to the Kamiya Kasshin dojo, he was greeted by a whack over the head by none other than Kaoru.
"Where have you been?" She screamed, thwapping Kenshin repeatedly with a frying pan/bokken/rock or something. "It's Christmas Eve! You can't just leave me alone here! I thought you might never come back!"
Kenshin oro'ed and feigned innocence and such, apologizing humbly until Karoru stopped trying to rip his liver out. He meant to explain to Kaoru why he was gone, when he realized that he had left the tofu bucket on the side of the road, leaving him without evidence and making his story not very believable.
"Oh! Miss Kaoru! This one apologizes. This one was walking down the road, when he saw a beautiful tree that he thought might do well as a Christmas tree!" Kenshin lied quickly.
"Kenshin, we have a tree already."
"This one remembered that, so he did not chop it down!"
"But why were you out in the first place?"
Kenshin sat down, completely ignoring Kaoru, which Kaoru of course noticed, and began smacking Kenshin again with a frying pan/bokken/rock or something. Around this time, the author realized that the story was going no where. She began contemplating deleting everything and starting over, but then had an idea.
"Hey Miss Kaoru!" Kenshin said, the author writing an idea into his fictional brain. "I have a gift for you!"
Kaoru immediately stopped hurting Kenshin, eyes wide.
"What didja get me?" She squealed, skipping in circles around Kenshin.
"It's a surprise," Kenshin replied with his hands behind his back. "You have to close your eyes and count to ten."
"One… two…" Kaoru began counting.
Kenshin ran for his life out of the dojo, down the street, and into the nearest shop.
"I'll buy everything!" He shouted, wildly thrusting his near to empty wallet at the shopkeepers, who regarded him with fear. He was quickly ushered out of the store holding what meager items he could afford. Rice, a mitten, and a chocolate bar. Kenshin reentered the dojo, sweat dripping down his hair.
"Ten!"
"Merry Christmas!" Kenshin said, showering Kaoru in rice. The rice got in her hair, which ticked her off. And then stuff happened.