A/N: Sorry for the late update guys! It seems that time just slips away.

Disclaimer: I still don't own Rurouni Kenshin, if I did my ideas would be in the series, or at least some of them…

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Forever

Chapter 4

A whole month had passed at the Venom hideout and Kenji and Aya were still playing there little game.

"Gosh, it's really cool that Aya and Kenji are as close as they are." Sano yawned before crawling into bed.

"It's fake Sano."

"Huh?"

"Please, they did this on purpose, I'm not totally sure why though."

"You honestly think it's just an act?"

"I know it is, or at least started that way."

"You mean they're actually starting to fall in love?"

"I think so. They don't know it yet but I've invited their parents to come by and visit, things will turn really interesting really fast."

"Good night woman." Sano reached to shut off his bed-side lamp.

"Good night."

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July was hot and Kenji and Aya rarely left the house.

"Ugh, I'm so bored." Aya whined.

"We could have sex."

Aya paused and blushed. "It's too hot."

"Wait, did you actually just consider it?!"

"No!" She declared.

He sat down next to her on the couch and wrapped his arm around her.

"Let's take a nap."

"I guess that'd be alright." She shifted so she could lie beside him.

He closed his eyes but she just lie wide awake, her heart racing.

"I heard that there's a carnival opening tomorrow, we should go."

"Yeah." She whispered.

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Aya had woken up to Kenji still sleeping so decided to head out to the mall.

She was confused, her feelings towards Kenji were becoming cloudy.

She needed to pick something cute to wear at the carnival.

Then she stopped dead in her tracks, she was trying to impress Kenji!

"What am I doing?" She sighed and leaned against the window of a shoe store. "Am I really falling in love with him?"

She pushed herself up and carried on.

"I guess I am."

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It was beginning to get dark so Aya changed into her new clothes.

She slipped on a short jean skirt and a baby blue short sleeved shirt. She was wearing flip flops to match.

"Great, you're ready." Kenji walked in without even knocking.

"What would have happened if I would have been naked right now?"

"I would have gotten rather excited, now let's go." He grabbed her hand and led her out of the room.

He was wearing a simple white tank-top and navy blue gym shorts.

"We're going to the carnival." Kenji stated to Sano as ran out the door.

"Kenji, are you in a hurry?"

"Yeah, I really wanna be alone with you."

"Huh?"

"Never mind. Let's go."

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There was a rainbow of lights at every turn and the smell of cotton candy filled the air.

"Come on baby, let's ride that one first." Kenji led her to a ride that went up in the air and spun.

"Ok."

She wasn't exactly sure about Kenji's weird behavior but she went along anyway.

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"You are an evil woman." Sano sat on the steps while his wife leaned against the wall.

"It's been a long time since we've seen them."

All of a sudden there was a knock at the door.

Megumi opened it revealing both the Shinomori and Himura families.

"Megumi!" Misao called out and hugged the older woman.

"Misao, you're still very energetic."

"Misao, I'm sure Megumi doesn't need you jumping all over her." Aoshi scolded her like a child.

"Whatever." Misao made her way inside with the others following behind.

"Sano, you're looking well." Kenshin smiled.

"Are you ever well when your wife is as cruel as mine?"

"Oh, when did you and Megumi get married?" Kaoru questioned.

"To make an extremely long story short it was a few years before you came the leader of the Crimson clan, but honestly you don't want to talk about that."

Every jaw in the room dropped.

"It just proves that we can keep our secrets better than all of you." She winked.

Her gaze then fell upon a rather tall boy who looked a lot like Aoshi.

"I'm assuming that you're Aya's younger brother?"

"AJ." He said almost coldly. They say the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.

There were also too slutty (A/N: Is that a word? Oh well it is now) looking girls chatting and a skinny raven haired guy behind Kaoru.

"These are some of Kenji's friends." She explained.

"Ah yes, Aya and Kenji have already left. We should go join them at the carnival." Megumi led them out the door. No one tries to fool Megumi and gets away with it.

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Kenji and Aya were sitting on the curb by the ferris wheel.

"It's a beautiful night." Aya gazed up at the moon and stars.

"Yeah." Kenji was secretly examining Aya's every feature.

She peered over and looked deep into his eyes.

"Aya, I really need to tell you something."

"Yeah?"

"Aya I-"

"Kenji!" Two high-pitched feminine sequels cried. It was Candy and Baby, his to 'girlfriends'.

"Fuck." He murmured.

"Aya!" Misao called to her daughter.

"Mom?"

Misao hugged her daughter tight.

Kenji's girls were jumping all over him, kissing his face and whispering things into his ear.

"Kenji." His dark haired friend pulled him away from the girls.

"Seth, hey what's up?"

Aya finally broke away from her mother's embrace.

"Well let's not waste a good night, two fine ladies and a dark place we could really get this going." Seth smiled.

Kenji glanced over his shoulder and Aya who was staring in shock.

"I'm gonna have to sit this one out."

Aya felt relieved.

"What you going soft on me? I gotta tell the guys back home." Seth whipped out his cell.

"No! I just really don't want anyone pissed at me right now."

Aya glared at him. "Don't let me ruin your fun."

She then stormed off to the parking lot.

Kenji's friends pushed him in the opposite direction. He was going to regret this.

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Kenji finally got home at 3am.

He and Aya had been moved to a guest bedroom early that month so he tried not to wake his sleeping beauty.

But to his surprise she was already awake.

"Aya?"

All her belongings were packed in suit cases.

"I'm going home tomorrow night." She whispered.

"What?! Why?!"

"What do you care anyway?"

"Aya I'm not done with you yet."

"Oh but you sure were willing to go out with your friends to night."

"Don't start with this crap Aya! Even when I was with them I was thinking of you!"

"Then why did you decided to screw with those girls?!"

"Aya I didn't! I couldn't!"

"Somehow that's hard to believe."

"I swear I didn't! Aya I love you!"

Everything went silent.

"Goodnight Kenji."

She turned her back to him and said nothing else.

The next day not a word was spoken between the two. Aya left that night with a clouded mind and broken heart.

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A/N: Next chapter's the epilogue. Sorry that this is going to end so soon but if I were to drag it out it'd be completely boring. Thanks for reading!