Kaoru

I don't know where I am. I don't know how I got here and I don't know how I'm going to escape.

I also don't know where my clothes are.

He doesn't tell me anything but to wait here for Kenshin to come for me. How am I supposed to just wait here? Kenshin's hurt, all of them are hurt. It doesn't make sense for them to attempt to rescue me now. It would be ridiculous.

He wants to kill me, I can tell. If it wasn't for the fact that I'm Tomoe's age when she passed away, I would probably have been dead that night.

But I don't want to be here, I want to be rescued. I want to just sit down and cry, scream, run. I really want to be rescued. It doesn't seem like that is going to happen though.

The only option for me is to wait. Kenshin will come for me, I'm sure of that; I just have to have faith in him. With that, I can probably show Enishi that the man he hates is very different from the man he is now. I mean, if I could show that trust and faith in him, Enishi would realise that there is more to Kenshin than the killer he saw. Hopefully, Enishi could see Kenshin's regrets and what Tomoe had done for him and not what Kenshin did to her.

Enishi seems to be obsessed with his sister's smile, perhaps that is the key, the smile. Maybe with that, he will understand. I can understand the need of a smile. Kenshin smiles all the time, too much sometimes. He has many types of smiles, the annoying detached smiles and the genuine ones. Yes, I understand the power behind smiles. That's why I always smile now too, it makes me feel better, like there is hope still. Like my smile could inspire people to never give up.

I cannot smile now, even if I wanted to. All I could do is wait. When he finally comes (I hope he doesn't push himself, but I hope he comes soon) I will smile for him. I will show him how I never lost faith in him and that I knew he will come for me. Until then, I will wait.

End.

Kaoru is so hard to write! She was all over the place after being kidnapped, which is an acceptable response but trying to show that is difficult.

Thank you for reading.