Disclaimer: No matter how much I love Rurouni Kenshin, I will never be able to own it.
Author notes:
Yeah, I know, I'm not finished with 'Forever', but I felt like writing a short story. I'm doing a little research for cars currently. I'm still working on it though!
My first fic where the whole entire Kenshin-gumi are normal! No one is OCC! YAY! Actually, Kenshin acts kinda different, but you would too, if you were him and you had lost what he had lost. I know I would... Okay you guys, my first attempt in trying to write two fics at the same time. Sorry if it's horrible!
WHERE IS IT?
Chapter 1
The lost treasure of love
One early evening, the Kenshin-gumi were enjoying a wonderful breakfast, made by, of course, Kenshin. The everyday teasing came on, just like any other day would.
"Oi, busu. Pass the soy sauce would ya!" Yahiko asked with a mouthful of rice.
"Mine your manners, Yahiko-CHAN!" Kaoru said, emphasizing the word 'chan'.
"Don't call me CHAN, BUSU!" Yahiko shouted.
"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Kaoru demanded, throwing a small bowl of soy sauce at his face. "Want some more?" she asked with a smirk. "I've got loads more of where that came from."
"Watch where you throw things YOU OLD HAG!"
And so, the normal bickering went on.
"Sessha will be going to his room now." Kenshin began, standing up, making the two stop bickering any further. "This one will be back within a short while, that he will." Kenshin flashed them his warm rurouni smile and walked out of the dining room.
"I wonder what's up with him?" Yahiko asked with rice flying out of his mouth.
"He got sick of your manners, that's what." Sano sarcastically answered, standing at the doorway.
"Sanoskue!" Kaoru welcomed. "Here for breakfast?" she asked.
"As usual." Sano replied lazily with a lopsided grin.
"ORO?!" Kenshin shouted from his room.
"What's up with Kenshin?" Sano asked, looking at Kenshin's closed shougi.
"I don't know." Kaoru answered worriedly. "I'm going to go check on him."
"Me too!" Sano and Yahiko said in unison.
Sano glared down at Yahiko. "Little kids should mind their own business."
"Roosters shouldn't talk!" Yahiko retorted.
"What'd you call me, brat?" Sano demanded.
"Rooster!"
"Brat!"
"Free-loader!"
"Kid!"
"Shhhhh!" Kaoru hushed, bonking them on their heads with her bokken.
Kaoru stood up and crept over to Kenshin's shougi, along with Sano and Yahiko following behind her. She stuck a finger up at them, indicating to keep their mouths shut. Kaoru silently placed her ear against the shougi door to listen to what was going on in there.
"Not here…. Where is it?…. No, it can't be!…. Not here either…. I can't find it!" Kaoru heard Kenshin saying in his room, along with a bunch of crashes inside. "NOOOOO!" Kenshin yelled.
Kaoru immediately slammed back the shougi door. Kenshin was kneeling on the floor, in the middle of his room with his back facing her and his hands fisted in his hair. "What's going on Kenshin?" Kaoru eagerly asked.
Kenshin jumped at the sound Kaoru's voice. He slowly turned around to face everyone. "It's gone." Kenshin mumbled quietly. He looked as though he were about to burst out crying.
"What was that?" Kaoru asked, not hearing what he had said.
"IT'S GONE!" Kenshin shouted, running to his closet and throwing everything out.
Kaoru went up to Kenshin. "What's gone, Kenshin?" she asked. Kenshin seemed to occupied to hear her. He was too busy looking for something.
Kaoru began to jump to conclusions. "Did you lose your reverse-blade sword?" she asked.
"No, not that." Kenshin answered, not sparing her a glance.
"Your gi?"
"No."
"Your laundry soap?"
"No."
"Your cooking utensils?"
"No."
"Your money?"
"No."
"Then what the hell are you looking for?" Kaoru asked exasperatedly.
Kenshin turned to her and opened his mouth to tell her, but immediately shut it, shaking his head from left to right.
"Kenshin Himura, tell me now." Kaoru commanded.
Kenshin just continued to shake his head from left to right.
"Then how on earth do you expect me to help you find what you are looking for?" Kaoru asked angrily.
Seconds passed with no answer. Then minutes. Then some more minutes. Kenshin gave a long, heavy sigh. "I can't tell you." He finally answered.
"Hey, I wanna know what it is!" Yahiko whined.
"Yeah, me too!" Sano joined.
"Kenshiiiin, and just why won't you tell us?" Kaoru asked, cracking her knuckles and glaring down at the redhead.
Kenshin sweat dropped and took a deep gulp. "I can tell Sano and Yahiko, but I cannot tell you, that I can not." He answered nervously.
"And just why not?" Kaoru asked with vein a popping out of her forehead.
"Because…." Kenshin drifted off, not knowing what to tell her.
"Oh, I see." Kaoru concluded. "You don't want to tell me because I'm a girl and girls can't do anything, am I right? Well I've got something for you Himura." She said sarcastically. Rolling up her sleeves, she took a deep breath and punched him on the top of his head. She then stomped off to her own room, ignoring everyone.
"So, what is it?" Yahiko asked eagerly once Kaoru was out of sight.
Kenshin peeled himself off the floor and scratched the back of his head. "I'm not sure if I should tell you, that I do not." He said worriedly.
"Oi! You said you'd tell us! 'I can tell Sano and Yahiko, but I cannot tell you, that I can not.' Remember?" Sano said, shaking the poor rurouni by the front of his gi.
"Hai, hai, I remember, that I do." Kenshin said with swirly eyes.
"Now that's a good boy." Sano said, setting Kenshin down and patting him on the head like he would to a dog.
"Oro?"
"So what is it?" Yahiko asked.
Kenshin gave a weary sigh. "If I tell you, you must promise not to tell anyone. Especially Kaoru-dono." He whispered.
Sano and Yahiko both nodded their heads. "Promise." They both said.
"Okay…" Kenshin began.
"Question." Sano cut in.
Kenshin gave Sano an annoyed look. "What is it, Sano?" Kenshin asked.
"Why are we all whispering?" Sano questioned.
Kenshin and Yahiko felt their eyebrows twitching. "Because what I am about to tell you is something that should not be heard by anyone else, namely Kaoru-dono, who is just a couple of rooms away, that she is." Kenshin answered.
"All right, on with it." Yahiko whispered impatiently.
"Hai, hai." Kenshin sighed. "As you know, tomorrow will be the exact day that I have been staying at the Kamiya Dojo for three years."
Sano and Yahiko both nodded their heads. "Go on." Sano whispered.
"I was planning to ask Kaoru-dono's hand in marriage that day because-"
"Congratulations man!" Sano butted in, patting Kenshin on the back. "I was beginning to think you weren't straight since I never saw you try to pull a move on jou-chan." Sano winked.
"Ewww! Kenshin proposing to busu! Kenshin and busu getting married! Kenshin and busu having kids!" Yahiko puked out, grimacing at his thoughts. Kenshin began blushing like a tomato while Sano was giving him pats on the head.
"Who'd ever want to wake up to an ugly face like hers every morning!? I know I'd have nightmares for eternity!" Yahiko finished.
"Shut up kid!" Sano whispered harshly. "You'll get Kaoru's attention!"
"Who you calling a kid?"
"Who do you think?"
"Maa, maa, let me finish what I was trying to say, and then you guys can fight, ne?" Kenshin insisted.
"Okay, tell us!" Sano demanded. Yahiko nodded his head in agreement.
"Alright, now where was I?" Kenshin pondered.
"You were planning to ask busu's hand in marriage tomorrow because…" Yahiko put in.
"Because tomorrow is the day that I had ever met her." Kenshin said dreamily. "I had bought her a beautiful sapphire diamond ring that I had waited so long to get. It was the rarest one that you could ever find. But now…" Kenshin drifted off sadly.
"Now what?" Yahiko asked.
"Oh, don't tell me." Sano whispered.
"I have lost it." Kenshin finished.
TBC
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