A/N: Thanks for your awesome reviews which helped this chapter come out so soon! Here's chapter two!

And no, I don't own RK, so you can stop rubbing it in (goes into dark corner and dies)


Chapter 2 : If You're There, Beware


Sunday…

Kaoru groaned the next morning as she rolled over on her futon, grasping the warm comforter and pulling it over her face in a feudal attempt to block the sunlight streaming in from her wide-open windows.

"Kaoru, wake up! Its already nine thirty and I'm bored!" Yahiko yelled from down stairs, annoyance laced in his every word.

Kaoru grumbled something about teenage boy's attention spans before getting up and changing into some old jeans and a tight t-shirt.

She stomped down the stairs, forgetting about the last step and falling forward, all of which Yahiko saw and laughed while Kaoru tried to chase and pummel him to the ground, even if it was hard wood.

After they'd calmed down, they went into the kitchen and Kaoru started testing the appliances.

"So what're we doing today?" Yahiko asked as he sat down on one of the five chairs that surrounded their small kitchen table.

"I was thinking of cleaning some more and putting more furniture in my room, plus explore the house, see what works and what doesn't. Like this fridge is totally fried." She sighed as she tried to turn on the old, rusted fridge but to no success.

"Fine, you do that, I'm gonna go explore the town." Yahiko stated as he got up and went to the front door.

"Wait! How will you get around?" Kaoru questioned as she peaked her head out from the kitchen, absently watching him tie his tennis shoes.

"This place is so small I can just walk. And we're right in the middle I think, so everything should be really close."

"Alright then, see ya later brat." Kaoru called as she went back into the kitchen, other appliances still needed to be tested.

"Yeah, bye to you too Busu." Yahiko called back over his shoulder as he threw on his jacket and ran out the doors.


Not much longer, Kaoru stood in one of the many aisles of the hardware store, surprised that such a small town would have such a large store, but pleased none-the-less. She needed some major appliances, and thanks to the money from their last house, they had some money to spare.

"May I help you Miss?" a kind voice said from behind her and she snapped around, finding a happy middle aged man in front of her.

"Oh yes, I need all of these things." She said as she handed him the list of the appliances she needed.

He looked down at the list and one of his eyebrows lifted before the next "Why do you need so many things?" He questioned after he gave the list back, a look of bewilderment still on his face.

"Well, I just moved in and the house I now live in hasn't been used in five years, so all the electronical things are dead." She explained.

"Ah! I thought I didn't recognize your face." The older man understood with a smile, making Kaoru smile as well.

"Come on. We have this policy that you pick out whatever you want, pay for it, and then someone will deliver everything to you and then install, if need be, as soon as possible. But that may take some time with everything that you need." He continued to explain as they walked down the isle of stoves.

"Tell me anything that strikes your fancy."


"Kenshin, I'm bored." Sano complained as he lay sprawled on Kenshin's couch, both of them watching TV.

"Not my problem you have an ADD disorder." Kenshin snorted as he flipped the channel away from the cartoons they were just watching.

"Hey! I was watching that, and NO I don't have ADD." Sano huffed as he snatched the remote from Kenshin and changed it back just in time to see some animated violence that made Sano laugh.

"Could've fooled me." Kenshin muttered as he got up from his own slouched position to go to the kitchen, grabbing an apple. He looked out one of the far off windows and noticed that the jeep that occupied the driveway yesterday was gone.

"Hey Sano, I think the new neighbors are away." Kenshin called as he walked back into the living room, casually munching his apple.

"Perfect!" Sano exclaimed as she bolted up from the couch and over to Kenshin, yanking his wrist and jerking the red head with him towards the front doors, the partially eaten apple forgotten on the floor.

"Sano, what're you doing?" Kenshin exclaimed when he finally pulled his wrist away from his friend's iron like grip.

"We're gonna do some investigation of your new neighbors." Sano said maniacally as he turned forward, Kenshin noticing for the first time that they were standing in front of a pair of double doors just as big as his own, if not slightly smaller.

"No way, we could get arrested for B&E." (breaking and entering, duh) Kenshin shock his head in affirmation, arms crossed in determination.

"Come on, man, don't wuss out on me." Sano whined as he put one of his hands on a knob. "Aren't you wondering who else is now living in this house rather then that boy?"

Kenshin remembered his 'sight-seeing' from last night and before he knew it, his hand was on the other knob.

"That's what I'm talking about." Sano smirked as they opened the doors together.

They peaked their heads in warily, first making sure that no one was around, and then walked in. Kenshin looked around and noticed that everything still had an old Japanese style to it, almost everything made out of wood.

"Come on, let's split up." Sano said with glee, not helping Kenshin's apprehension in the bottom of his stomach.

Sano went in the direction of the kitchen while Kenshin hesitantly started up the stairs. He kept going down the semi-long hallway until an open door at the end caught his eyes. He peaked his head open and his eyes widened.

He gently stepped into the room. There were a few clothes scattered around the room, a few briefcases next to a simple futon covered in a turquoise cover, and a few boxes scattered across the room, some opened and others still closed.

He noticed a vanity that had a large mirror, a small stool next to it. He also noticed a dresser with some clothing hanging out. He walked over to it and opened the first drawer. He gasped when he saw girl panties of every color and design laid out before his eyes. He gingerly picked up a frilly pink pair and he felt his face immediately flush.

"Kenshin!" Sano huffed as he burst into the room, Kenshin still rooted to the ground in realization that what he saw yesterday really wasn't a dream.

Sano smirked as Kenshin tried to stuff the pair back in the drawers, but in his hast, it only made more pop out and when he pulled his hand back out, he realized he now had about five pairs on his hands in addition to bras that he tried to shake off.

"Come on, we gotta leave." Sano snapped, explaining to Kenshin why his face was slightly flushed. "They're back." He said with wide eyes that Kenshin's own now mirrored.

"If I get caught, I blame it on you." Kenshin stated, pointing a finger on him, which a bra hung on, making his statement now seem comical.

"Dude, come ON!" Sano ordered as he went to the wide-open windows of the room, looking down.

"Think we can jump two stories without breaking anything?" he tried to ask seriously, but came out as a lame joke.

"Not me, but with your height you can make it if you go on the edge of the roof and then hang there before dropping, but do it slowly."

"What about you?"

"You'll catch me dumbass." Kenshin growled.

Sano nodded gravely and went first, Kenshin soon followed, the underwear on his hands temporarily forgotten in their panic.

Sano successfully landed with a roll before warily lifting his head and looking through the nearest window before standing up and giving the thumbs up to Kenshin.

As Kenshin got ready, he heard steady footsteps very faintly from inside the house, coming closer and closer. He jumped hastily down, not even looking back, and Sano skillfully caught him with a gasp.

"Come on, man!" Kenshin said with wide eyes as he and Sano sprinted back to his house, adrenaline making their legs pump faster then usual.

They quickly threw open the doors, forgetting how heavy there were, and closed them with care, making sure not to slam them. With their little adventure over, they slumped onto the ground, backs pressed against the doors.

Sano glanced over to Kenshin and before either of them knew it, they started bursting into hysterical laughter, tears forming at the edges of their eyes and sides starting to hurt.

"What the hell are you idiots doing?" Hiko asked as he walked down the stairs.

Kenshin got up and cleared his throat, helping Sano up who was still laughing uncontrollably.

"Nothing, Hiko." He tried to lie.

"If it's nothing, then what're those on your hands?" Hiko asked with amusement as he pointed down at Kenshin's hands.

Kenshin looked down and blushed in embarrassment as he noticed that a bra and two panties had somehow survived their little escape. When Sano followed Hiko's pointing finger, he started a new wave of laughter as Kenshin tried to stutter a reply.

And just then, they heard a high-pitch scream from not off in anger, obviously from a woman. Kenshin gulped, hoping that his father hadn't heard it, which he acted like he didn't.

"Whatever, you horny teenage boy." Hiko said as he waved his arm in the air, as if brushing the matter away, before going over to the TV.

"That was the shit, Kenshin." Sano said as he slapped Kenshin across the back, nearly knocking him over, as he continued his laugher.

"Yeah, yeah, happy day." Kenshin replied through clenched teeth, picking off the underwear in annoyance.


"I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!" Kaoru screeched when she saw her open drawer and her underwear littered across the floor, leading to the window.

"What's wrong, Kaoru?" Yahiko said breathlessly as he ran into her room, just getting home a few minutes ago before hearing her far off scream.

"Someone just went pantie raided me!" she said with a flushed face, as she glared down at Yahiko.

He looked down at the mutilated drawer to her face that was currently contorted in anger.

"I'm gonna eat dinner." Yahiko said airily as he left his sister that reminded him of a banshee right now.


Monday…

Kaoru pulled down her tight t-shirt in aggravation again as she looked up at the looming school in front of her. Next to her was an equally nervous Yahiko, though he did a good job at hiding it.

"C-Come on." Kaoru stuttered, but stood up straight and walked into the building with determination.

"Hello dear, what can I help you with today?" asked an older lady at her working desk.

"Uh…yes, I'm Kamiya Kaoru and this is Myojin Yahiko." Kaoru stated with a smile.

"Hm, both Japanese, are you two related?" the woman asked as she looked for their schedules and other needed information.

"Yes, Yahiko was adopted into our family but he chose to keep his last name." Kaoru explained as she ruffled Yahiko's spiky hair, making it slightly frizzy.

"Ah! Here you are. Kaoru the senior and Yahiko the freshman." She read before handing them their folders. "Please have a good time at Meiji High School!" she said with a squeal that Kaoru thought she was just a little too old to do.

She walked out of the office and closed the door, noticing the hallways were now empty. "It looks like I have history right now. What do you…?" But Kaoru drifted off when she saw Yahiko at the end of the hallway, already headed to his next class.

"Independent brat." She snorted before looking at the map and finding her room after a little trouble. She took a big breath before she knocked and opened the door.

The teacher raised an eyebrow in confusion at the intrusion of his class before Kaoru gave him a slip the older lady had told to her to give him, a slight blush on her pretty face from all the students in the room starring at her with interest.

The teacher read the paper with a stone straight face before he nodded once and turned to the class that was less then twenty.

"Everyone, we have a new student. Why don't you introduce yourself to everyone. I'm Saito Hajime."

Saito glanced at her before walking back to his desk and sitting down in his leather chair, leaving Kaoru to stand-alone and start to fiddle with her bag strap.

She bit her lip as she starred at the many (or seemed that way to her) faces that starred right back at her.

"Um…hi, I'm Kamiya Kaoru and I'm new here. I just moved in from Tokyo a few days ago and I'm a senior." She summed up in a few sentences, a friendly smile blossoming at the end of her small speech.

"Thank you Kamiya, now take a seat next to Himura. Himura, raise your hand so she knows who and where you are."

She saw a hand shot up and gasped at the handsome red head to which it belonged to. She murmured a thanks to the teacher before sitting down in her small desk and placed her bag on top, taking out a notebook.

"Hi. I'm Himura Kenshin." Kenshin introduced himself with a dazzling smile, sticking his hand out for her to shake.

Kaoru gulped as she shock his hand, "Kaoru Kamiya, but you probably already know that." She giggled in embarrassment for repeating her name again.

"No problem." He said as he withdrew his hand from hers and leaning back into his chair, trying to find a comfy position on the hard plastic.

"Now class I want you all to pay attention…"

The rest of the day went fine for Kaoru, she did notice, however, that Kenshin was in all of the three hour and a half classes that she had that day, his red mob of hair sticking out even in the crowded hallways. When the final bell rang and everyone went his or her own way, Kaoru was surprised. It was only 2:45 but school was already over?

"Are you going to go to the sports director's office to sign up for your sport?" A girl asked her from behind and Kaoru recognized her as her science partner from third period.

"Yeah. I was just gonna go do that right now." Kaoru said with a smile before waving bye and walking off down to the locker rooms to change into her soccer workout attire.


"What do you mean there's NO GIRL SOCCER TEAM?!" Kaoru practically screamed in a high pitch that would have made any dog run for cover.

"I-I'm very sorry Miss Kamiya, but there just isn't enough players. Maybe you could go for the volleyball team?" he added, hoping she would jump on it.

Kaoru grimaced, she hated volleyball. Not only because of her lack of height, but also just because of the basis of the game.

"I play soccer. That's the ONLY sport I play." She growled through clenched teeth.

"Again, I'm sorry. But you must play a sport all year, so please get back to me at least by tomorrow." He finished as he handed her a paper that listed all the activities she could go into before turning away from her to a stack of papers that he had to go through.

She stood there, so infuriated that she couldn't speak, and tears started to prickle her eyes, but she pushed them back and started to stomp out the door, the paper crushed in her hand.

"Too bad you aren't a guy, then you could play on the boy's team…" she heard him mutter through the ruffle of papers.

With that statement, she came stopped dead in her tracks and turned back around, hope now in her eyes. She was about to ask more about it, but before she could, another older tall male came into the room.

"Are the new soccer balls in yet?" He asked smoothly with a commanding voice.

She sports administer turned his head and smiled weakly "Yes, Coach Hiko, they're at the end of the hall."

The man only nodded before turning to leave, but not before glancing down to an equally starring Kaoru.

Kaoru stood there in a daze for a few seconds before she bolted after him, leaving the sports office behind.

"Um…Coach Hiko?" She asked tensely once she'd caught up to him, lightly jogging to keep up with his long and quick strides.

He stopped and turned to her, Kaoru finally noticing how intimidating he looked with the large height difference and she noted for the first time how broad his shoulders were and how muscular he was, even though his loss t-shirt and shorts hid them well.

But she stood up straight and took a deep breath before asking "Can I please join your team?"

One of Hiko's eyebrows rose slowly in puzzlement and shock.

"Please?" Kaoru added hesitantly, desperation thick in that one word. But she kept the eye contact steadily even though she wanted to go and hide under his piercing gaze.

He continued starring down at her intensely before turning around and continuing to walk down the hall.

"Help me carry these balls to the field." He said over his shoulder, not waiting for her to catch up as he threw over one of the two bags of balls over his shouler. Kaoru sprung to life with a new bound in her steps as she hauled the other one over her shoulder, wondering if he meant that she could, indeed, join the team.


"So, Captain, any new info on your new neighbors?" Sano asked Kenshin, barely holding down a snicker as he and the rest of the team began stretching.

"You have new neighbors? Bummer, that house was perfect for Halloween." A different boy added as everyone laughed, memories coming back from previous haunted houses held there.

"Hopefully it's a girl." Everyone continued to laugh, but Sano shot Kenshin a look that made him blush, he still didn't know what to do with his new possessions.

"Hey! There's Coach!" One of the boys yelled over the laughter.

"And someone's with him." Added another as he pointed to the smaller figure.

The fifteen-man team lightly jogged over to their coach, and were surprised when they saw the girl next to him.

"Whose she?" Sano asked as he looked down at Kaoru, studying her.

"She wants to join the team." Hiko calmly stated as if he was talking about the weather, opening one of the bags and inspecting a shiny new soccer ball.

There was a few seconds of silence before laughter erupted from the high school boys.

"Shut-up!" Kaoru screamed with a flushed face, which startled the boys to silence "So what if I'm a girl? At my old school, I was the captain that lead my team to nationals." She continued to fume, fists balled at her sides.

"No way, there's n-" but Sano was interrupted when he was pelted from a ball thrown by Hiko, hitting him directly in the face and successfully shutting him up.

"It's for the Captain to decide. I've already given my consent." Hiko explained.

Kaoru raised an eyebrow, but when she saw Kenshin come through form the back, her eyes widened.

"Himura?! You're the Captain?!" She said as her jaw hung open.

Kenshin ignored her and walked around her, studying her profile, which made her lightly blush. He finally added "You're a little too skinny and looks like you have barely any muscle, I'm not so sure if you could handle it."

"You're one to talk. It looks like the wind could blow you over and snap you like a twig." She shot back, earning her a few 'ohs' from the crowd of boys beside them.

His eye twitched in annoyance as she smirked at him.

"Fine, lets see what you've got."


A/N: So yes, the main plot is finally coming into view! SOCCER! I've played soccer for seven years of my (so far) short life, but stopped when I went into high school cause I wasn't good enough to make varsity, and I always thought it would be a good sport to mix with RK. I know this sport story idea has been done before, but I'm trying to add a twist with Kaoru wanting to play too.

So sorry for the babble and please remember to review!