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Generation A Smile
by: MrFoshizzlePro
A/N: Thank you very much for such wonderful reviews and favoriting my friends! :D I greatly appreciate your thoughts and outlooks upon my little drabble ^-^ I've gotten a dose of inspiration to write another drabble it seems! :D So, I hope you will all enjoy this one as much as the last. This one takes place during the first night Kenshin stays at the Kamiya dojo. Enjoy!
P.S. I actually began writing this four days ago, but I hadn't the time to get to working on it, let alone putting it up... o.o;
Disclaimer: Rurouni Kenshin is owned by Nobuhiro Watsuki. I claim no rights to owning such a marvelous anime!
Lonely No More
"Kaoru-dono?"
"Hai, Kenshin?"
Kaoru stopped midway towards the gate, turning around and casting her blue eyes to the rurouni who was presently only a few steps away. The sun was beginning to set, showering the sky in a scarlet light. Kenshin strode up to meet her. His violet eyes changed to slits, then he gradually shut his eyes.
"Arigatou," Kenshin said through a smile.
Kaoru eyebrows raised slightly in confusion. "Arigatou...?" she murmured softly. "For what?"
"For everything."
Kaoru grinned. "Sure," she chirped. "It's not a trouble at all to have someone staying with me at the Kamiya dojo. I hope you'll like it here. It may not be the biggest place in all of Tokyo, but it really is a relaxing place to be."
Kenshin's eyes opened and he dipped his fiery head to show he was listening. "Hai," he agreed cheerfully. "This one hopes he will not be too much a burden on you Kaoru-dono— "
Kaoru interviened with a hasty reply. "Not at all! It's like I said before, it's no trouble to have someone staying here." She calmed herself, adding with a faint blush streaking her cheeks, "You can stay as long as you want. No matter where you go, remember that you'll always be welcome to the Kamiya dojo anytime."
Kenshin took in Kaoru's sweet words with much gratitude.
Arigatou, Kaoru-dono... he told her silently again, but in his mind. This one is forever grateful to you for as long as he is alive.
"Kenshin?"
"Oro?"
Kenshin jolted out of his thoughts and blinked.
Kaoru giggled quietly to herself at his goofy expression. She asked, "Would you mind if we go ahead in and continue our confersation inside so we won't stand in the cold all night?"
Kenshin had barely realized that dusk was accumulating in the once sunny sky. Stars were beginning to fade in from the deep blue of the darkening sky, and the crescent moon was dangling high above their heads.
At this, he nodded his approval. "Hai. Gomenasai, Kaoru-dono."
"No problem," she murmured, standing aside, waiting for Kenshin to enter through the gate and following him in close behind with the heavy weight of loneliness finally streaming away.
Arigatou, Kenshin, Kaoru thought.
"Arigatou...Kenshin..."
— Owari —
