Looming Sun

Summary: A goddess of night tied to a human. The god of day claiming superiority to the land and a kingdom where what's enslaved rules the world.

A/N: I finally got this story out, I hope you enjoy it!

"Kamiya, Where are you?" Tomoe screamed. Kaoru ran into the room, "Yes milady?" The words tasted bitter in her mouth. Kaoru was wearing a hooded black cloak that was spelled so that if you looked into it you would only see darkness. She had cuffs around her wrists that were connected by a chain so she couldn't go against her 'masters' who were the king and/or king of the country. Tomoe didn't know about the cuffs though.

Kaoru was trapped in the castle during the day and could roam freely within the city at night. Tomoe stood at her full height, barely taller and definitely thicker than her but not to the point where she was fat. "Pack my stuff and be quick at it, use magic if you must. We are leaving for Soleil today." Kaoru's eyes widened and she worked to get Tomoe's gowns into the luggage, "We milady?" Tomoe glanced at the packed luggage, "Yes we, you're coming with me. Hurry, we're leaving now!"

They were settled into the carriage, Kaoru sitting across from Tomoe so she could protect her if anything went wrong. Tomoe curiously peered into Kaoru's hood, looking for the face she knew she wouldn't see. It disgusted her.

"I expect you to act like a lady; you must speak only when spoken to and never speak out of turn."

"…"

Tomoe was getting frustrated with the lack of responses that Kaoru was giving and decided to confineto the girl, "I hope to marry the ruler of that land Himura Kenshin. He's a god but a deserve him. That is why many dignitaries are flocking there; he's hoping to find a bride. Of course I'll be the one who becomes the goddess by his side." Unknown to Tomoe Kaoru had a huge smirk on her face.

'We'll see.'

The carriage rumbled up the road and parked in the line of other carriages. The door opened and a footman helped Tomoe out of the carriage. Kaoru hopped out, ignoring the footman who looked at her in horror. She followed Tomoe to a group of people and stood in the shadows, which wasn't hard considering that they were standing a yard away from where she was. Dark clouds covered the sky as if it was about to rain and Tomoe repeatedly glanced up.

Tomoe placed her hand out and a red haired man with gold eyes kissed it, "I am Himura Kenshin milady." A tall man with spiked up hair raised his hand in greeting, "Sanosuke Sagara but you can call me Sano," and pointing to a beautiful lady to his left who was wearing healer's robes, "And this is the fox." The 'fox' jabbed Sano in his ribs and bowed to Tomoe, "I am Takani Megumi your majesty." A short girl with a long braid and green eyes grinned, "I'm Makamichi Misao," and the tall man with icy blue eyes said, "Shinamori Aoshi."

Tomoe politely smiled and curtsied, "My name is Yukishiro Tomoe and this," she said pointing to Kaoru with a frown, "is my servant and the reason why we're late." Kaoru snorted. Tomoe hissed at Kaoru, "Introduce yourself."

Kaoru stepped forward and finally realized she was in the sun. With a soft smile that they couldn't see she bowed to them and said, "My name is Kamiya Kaoru."

Megumi frowned at her, "It is impolite to wear robes that do not show your face in the presence of five gods." Tomoe's eyes widened and repeatedly apologized and yelled at Kaoru to take off her hood. Kaoru bowed to all of them, "I am extremely sorry but due to the terms of my servitude with the Yukishiro's, I must keep these robes on and hide my face."

Megumi's eyes narrowed, "Even to gods and goddesses?"

Kaoru lifted her head, "Yes."

"Well there's no helping that," Sano said while scratching his head, "Will we ever see your face?"

"That has yet to be determined."

There was a brief silence followed by Kenshin clapping his hands together, "Well Yukishiro-dono if you would follow me to your rooms?" Kenshin started walking and Tomoe followed with a small smile, "I will if in exchange you would call me Tomoe?"

Sano made a gagging sound and Kenshin gave Tomoe a small smile, "Of course Tomoe-dono." Her smile changed to a frown.

Kaoru followed after them noting the path they took, where the exits were, the people they passed and the relationship between Kenshin and Tomoe. With a sigh she saw the sky out of a passing window. 'I wonder when night will come, when my break will come?'

Kenshin had left Tomoe in her rooms and had started walking towards his conference room. He could feel a headache coming; Tomoe was going to be a pain.

Everyone who had greeted Tomoe was there and his shishou. "Finally you made it baka deshi." Hiko commented. Kenshin's brow twitched in irritation as he went to his chair. "I was a bit preoccupied with Tomoe-dono."

Snickers were heard from Sano, Misao and Megumi. "It's not like that!" Kenshin yelled, eyes showing amber flecks. They all quieted down. Aoshi spoke up, "All of your guests have arrived."

"Good, are there any women here where marrying them will profit our country?"

"Tomoe Yukishiro, she rules over the kingdom of Nuit and that will a marriage would increase the kingdoms size by half and they specialize in objects no one's ever heard of."

"But what about Yukishiro, herself, does she have a good personality? Is she kind? What makes her stand out?" Megumi asked.

"The Yukishiro's have been down playing their actions and attendances to special events. No one would really know what Tomoe's like unless they're stuck around all day," Misao responded, "and no one would like to spend all day with any royal, especially not a female."

"Her personal servant and body guard. She sticks around Tomoe-dono all day she must know what she's like." Kenshin realized, almost hopping out of his chair.

"I don't know but wouldn't it be suspicious if we call her body guard here, Tomoe might blackmail her." Sano commented.

"Not if we call her hear for an inspection." Megumi said.

"Call her here and until the 'inspection' is over replace her with another guard." Kenshin ordered. They were about to find out about Tomoe Yukishiro whether she liked it or not.

Kaoru entered the throne room, curios as to what the inspection was going to be about. Kenshin stood at the head of the table and in the chairs were everyone that came to greet Tomoe and a giant man who looked oddly familiar.

"You called me here?"

"We want you tell us about Tomoe-dono, her personality and what she's known for." Misao said.

Kaoru raised a gloved hand to her chin and thought. 'How do I see Tomoe?'

"Are you going to tell her what I'm going to say?"

"Of course not."

"Okay well then let's see… Tomoe's a selfish arrogant person who may think of another person when it benefits her. She has a façade that she puts on to show you a fake her and has crazy mood swings. In the kingdom she's known as the Ice Queen for her cold heartedness and the façade that I already mentioned," staring at their shocked faces Kaoru continued, "I'm about 75 percent sure that she's making deals with the underground, wiping out anyone that would stand in her way. If you married her she would probably hire her extremely loyal underground worker to assassinate you."

"You're free to go now." Kenshin muttered.

"Why, why are you willing to tell us this?" Megumi whispered.

Kaoru placed her hand on the door and with a smile on her face, which they couldn't see, she turned towards them, "Because I'm not willing to let two kingdoms to suffer if you made the wrong choice." Kaoru exited the room.

Hiko chuckled, "I like that one."

Aoshi raised his hand up to his chin, "There's something off about her."

They nodded their heads in agreement. Kenshin's eyes turned gold, 'There definitely is something off about Kaoru Kamiya and I will find out what.'

Tomoe was laying on her bed when Kaoru walked in, "Where were you?" Kaoru played innocent, "You didn't hear about the inspection I had? It was called by Himura-sama himself. He was probably just making sure that you're as protected as possible since no one else that I know of was called in." Kaoru grinned into the darkness of her hood, 'Tomoe is easy to play, when you pull the strings right you could get away with anything.'

Tomoe grinned, "Another man falling hopelessly in love with me, it's all about my charm." Tomoe looked at Kaoru, "What you're still there? You're free at night so go to the garden or forest so I don't have to go through the pain of looking at you. Be sure to be back when I call though. Dismissed."

Once Kaoru left the room she cursed Tomoe in every language she knew, which was a lot. She walked to one of the public gardens and sat on a bench looking at the moon.

A few candle marks later:

"Even when the moons shining I can't see into your hood, it makes a person wonder what you're hiding." Said a voice from the shadows.

"Well then you can keep on wondering because if I was hiding something, not that I am, I wouldn't tell you." Kaoru retorted.

Kenshin stepped into the moonlight, "Now that you know who I am are you going to take back what you said?"

Kaoru's temper rose causing her to speak carelessly, "You arrogant fool, I wouldn't care if you're my father I would not take what I said back."

Kenshin's eyebrows rose, "Calm down my little hell raiser-"

"What did you just call me?"

"A hell raiser, you have such a temper if it got high enough it would probably raise hell. Anyway, you would never talk to Tomoe-dono like that. Am I right?"

Kaoru crossed her arms over her chest, "It's more fun to talk to her as if I felt neutral or even liked her, way more interesting. You should try it."

To her surprise Kenshin burst out laughing, "Amazing, it's been a long time since anyone's made me laugh. Who exactly are you?"

"I told you earlier, I am Kaoru Kamiya. Oh, I almost forgot, you asked what I was hiding under my hood. I know I said I wouldn't tell you so I won't tell you all of it. My family was bound to the Yukishiro's a long, long time ago and all of our will was taken away. One of the Yukishiro's favored one of my ancestors long ago and claimed that they would do anything for her. She asked for two things, the first was to be free at night unless there's an emergency. He agreed to that and it was granted. The second was that all of us were to wear gloves, boots and heavy cloaks to the extent where not a part of us could be seen. A spell was cast upon the cloaks to hide our faces. The Yukishiro painfully agreed to that, devastated that he wouldn't see her face.

"She grew ill from that day on. He asked her on her death bed about the cloaks, boots, gloves and the freedom during the night and she told him it was so that we would be able to have a part of us that they didn't know. He was outraged, he ordered us to take them off and tried to disband our night freedom but he had signed a contract, saying that if he took those things away from us that we would go free."

Kaoru looked at the moon once again, "After he had found a wife and created an heir that he killed himself to chase her into the afterlife to either be with her forever or to get his revenge from her deceiving him."

"I would like to think he followed her to the afterlife to be with her forever."

Kaoru looked at him, "Awww, you a true romantic!"

His mouth fell open, "The Battousai is not a romantic."

"That means nothing to me, you must have your reasons but was that a secret? I mean did you want to tell me?"

"No, not exactly."

"Hmm, well then I guess to be equal I have to tell you a secret of mine. Um okay will you trust me and close your eyes?"

"For some reason I'll trust you. It's irritating but it feels as if I've known you for years so I'll trust you." He said closing his eyes.

Kaoru slid off her hood thankful that no one other than Kenshin was near and watching, her magic made sure of it. "Umm you can uh look now."

He opened his eyes and his face twisted in shock as he stared at her midnight hair and ocean blue eyes. Looking into his eyes they were a lavender and when he saw her face his eyes turned a rich gold.

She smiled up at him, a faint blush on her cheeks, "This is how I truly look, please don't tell anyone." All he could do was nod. Her beauty was unearthly and he found himself leaning closer to her.

Looking into Kenshin's eyes Kaoru found herself unconsciously leaning closer to Kenshin. Once their noses were almost touching they both realized how close they were.

Kaoru blushed harder, "Um Kenshin, I can't kiss you."

"Why not?" he asked, his voice husky.

"I'm just a servant and bodyguard."

"Just shut up Kaoru." Kenshin said bringing his mouth down on top of hers. The kiss was soft and Kenshin slid his tongue over her bottom lip causing Kaoru to gasp and gaining entrance to her mouth. His tongue tasted every inch of her mouth, her sweet taste. Kaoru pulled back, her face rivaling Kenshin's hair.

"I'm sorry, all these girls are here so you can choose a wife and it's not right for me to kiss you." Kenshin was smug, "If I remember correctly it was me who kissed you."

"But I'm not one of your candidates to become your wife so it's wrong for you to kiss me."

"I'm a god; I don't have to follow the rules."

"I'm sorry I just can't." Kaoru said pulling the hood of her cloak over her head and running out of the garden.

Kenshin looked at the sky; the sun was starting to come up and yesterday's clouds covered the sky. Kenshin sighed; the weather fit his mood perfectly.

A/N: I finally got it out! It took a while and I would concentrate on my other story's but my muse is …um… forever changing. I will finish my other stories!