Thank you for the reviews. Yes this is a KK fic and I'm sorry to say to those who like Tomoe that I have no intention of making this a KT fic. I have nothing against Tomoe (or maybe I do… Ehehehehe…) but I just don't think she and Kenshin suits as a couple. She's too lady-like for Kenshin. So no offence people!

About this story. Well as all of you can see. It's a spoiler of a sort set in the first OVA. It's basically when Kenshin met Tomoe but that is where the twist is. Here Kenshin met Kaoru way before he met Tomoe.

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"Would you wait for me?"

"I would wait forever for you"

"Would you smile for me when I return to you?"

"You're the only one I smile for"

"Would you still love me when I return?"

"I would always love you, until the end of time. No matter what"

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The words kept on repeating in his head as he ate quietly in the room. Everyone around him was busy talking and discussing about the war but he had no intention of mingling or giving his input on it. To him it was useless. He would rather dwell in his own thought and memory, for it was a better way of passing the time while he waited for Katsura to join them.

A pair of eyes bore into his skull. He knew he was something to be looked upon especially with his red hair, golden eyes and a fresh scar on his left cheek. But the feeling of these eyes on his wasn't out of curiosity. Something about them made him felt unease. As he looked up from his meal he saw the woman from the other night. The woman he saved and brought back. She kept her eyes on him and what he saw in her eyes disturbed him. There was a mild interest in them but most of her emotion was concealed. To him it was a usual trait for a woman to hide her emotions from the world. Especially at time like these.

Although it was never a trait of which he found in his Kaoru. She would show her every emotion in just one look and it was what drew him to her. Her eyes filled with emotion and every bit of them was directed to him and only him. How he loved her eyes. He loved every part of her being. The way she touched him with her soft fingers and the way she smiled up at him. The way she laughed with him. Every single thing about his Kaoru was perfect to him.

The woman from the night he found was still looking at him with those emotionless eyes. He raised one eyebrow before he went back to his meal. He didn't know what to make of her stares. Nor did he know what to make of her all together. She was just some witness he found and just someone he had to share a room with for the time being. He had no intention of knowing this woman. Women in the inn only brought headaches. To spend some time with them was never in his list of things to do. The only one he would spare some time with is his Kaoru. With the last thought his grip on the ribbon around his left had tighten.

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"Why are you giving me this? Isn't this your favourite ribbon?" The blue ribbon was placed onto the palm of his right hand. His eyes searching her face for an answer.

"I just want you to have something to remember me by" She replied never looking up from the ground. Her hands were linked behind her while she shifted her foot from one to the other in nervousness.

"Even without this, I would still remember you" He smiled. Trying to give back the beautiful ribbon to her.

"I don't care just keep it" finally looking at him in the eye. The sadness in the blue crystals was evident. "Just promise you'll remember me. That you won't forget about me"

"I promise to take good care of this, I promise to return to you with this ribbon" wrapping the ribbon on to the hilt of his sword, "and I promise to never forget about you. Though I know it would be very hard for me to forget the person who gave me more bruises than Hiko does"

With that she smiled. Her eye shone with a bit of happiness. His heart felt whole right there and then. Everything he lived for was for her. Only her.

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"Kaoru?"

A young girl of 17 looked up from her book she was reading to face the man by the door frame. Her soft lips formed a slight smile for the man. Who wouldn't smile up at a man half drunk but still be able to stand tall let alone train a boy to fight.

"Yes Master?"

The man frowned at the title. No one other than his baka deshi calls him that. "You know you shouldn't be calling me that" he said, as he walked into the middle of the study room where she sat.

"I know" She smiled, mirth was evident in her eyes. "I just felt like teasing you today" Placing her book to the side.

"Don't you tease me every time I come by?" He replied with an unnoticeable grin. 'Such a spirited girl she is. She suits you so well baka deshi'

"Do you have any news of him?" Kaoru asked. Ignoring his question. She knew that every time he came by it would be about her dearest. It has been a routine for them. They would tease each other to lighten the mood before the serious matter. Hiko never did like to give her bad news, but Kenshin trusted no one but his master when it came to her.

"Yes I have word, but not of him" A grim look was set on Hiko's face.

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I hope you all like this chapter. I know it's not much of a progress but I promise you the next one will be. Thank you again!