Author's note: Hi everyone! I was going to recommend fics in this chapter
but I really don't know who wanted which one recommended. I am such an
idiot sometimes.^^
Reviewers: -_- *sweat drop*
Me: So if you want a story recommended I'd have to remember. *Cough*remind
me*cough*
In other news:I am lazy so I had my mom type this for me. Unfortunately she tends to "clean up" something when she types it so I'm sorry this isn't quite my normal style. FORGIVE ME PEOPLE! Reviewers: *hurl vegetables at me* Me: Iiiiiiiieeeeeeeee!
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Chapter 10: The Name of the Past, Tomoe
"Well, everyone has gone except Kenshin," I said later that day while we were all finishing up lunch.
"I should have my meeting after dinner then, that I should," Kenshin said.
"Sure, okay," I told him.
Megumi seemed quiet. She was probably thinking over her meeting we had earlier. Sano seemed to have recovered from his meeting pretty well. Or perhaps he was in denial.
(later)
"Well, let's get started then," I told Kenshin as the session began.
"So what should we talk about?" Kenshin asked me.
"Let's start with Koaru," I said.
He tensed. Perhaps he feared how he felt for her. He wanted the best for her. To him the best was someone who was not a farmer hitokiri, someone whose life was not threatened by the past.
I decided to ease in with mind reading. I got a flash of panic - perhaps battling emotions, there seemed to be two sides of this mental argument. Then it was almost as though he knew what I was doing and he "shut" himself. I could no longer feel his emotions or anything.
I gasped. This had taken a lot more strength that I had thought. I was exhausted.
"Is something wrong, Leslie?" he asked. His voice was more tense. Maybe he had sensed what I was doing. I needed no mind reading to know he was suspicious.
"Nothing, I just got a headache is all - I'll be fine," I told him.
Now what? Did he really sense my presence? No, that was impossible -- nothing like this had ever happened before. I was nervous, but I had to know if he really knew I was entering his mind. I tried again.
I sensed a rising anger as I tried again. Then I was "blocked" again. My head was throbbing. It was final. He could sense me.
"I'm sorry, we should really get started," I told Kenshin.
"You wanted me to start with Koaru, correct?"
"Umm actually, how about we start with your past?"
"That would be fine, that it would." There was a trace of doubt in his voice.
I tried again. One word. One word was on his mind then. Just one word- "Tomoe".
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Special thanks: Thank you Ivy Raine, Master of Time and Space, Rurouni Kaoru Kenshin's Love, Emerald31, Choas Babe, trueyamigirlfriend, Silvermoon, Snow White Hyatt, Sotianiya, dark-luv-dove, Rissi-Sama, Chibi-Tenken/Harusame, PraiseDivineMercy, IchigoHikaru, Sotianiya, Spin Of Doom, Melody, Madame Zorina, Master of Time and Space, Dark Yukina, Buzzard Chicken!, lively meatball, Wave-Master-Alex, knshn4eva, RoseoftheDesert, I-Love-Kenshin, KC1, deity of death1, HZero, Chocolate covered Videl, Seals Destroy, Firuze Khanume, Falling_from_the_sky, & Takuni for reviewing my fic.
A special thank you to Choas Babe, Dark Yukina, trueyamigirlfriend, cynical feline, Spin Of Doom, Ivy Raine, knshn4eva, Wave-Master-Alex, Snow White Hyatt, Rissi-Sama, psychopenguinjedi23, animeaddict195x, dark-luv-dove, & Emerald31 for having me on their favorite authors list.
PS. Don't you just love cliff hangers?
In other news:I am lazy so I had my mom type this for me. Unfortunately she tends to "clean up" something when she types it so I'm sorry this isn't quite my normal style. FORGIVE ME PEOPLE! Reviewers: *hurl vegetables at me* Me: Iiiiiiiieeeeeeeee!
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Chapter 10: The Name of the Past, Tomoe
"Well, everyone has gone except Kenshin," I said later that day while we were all finishing up lunch.
"I should have my meeting after dinner then, that I should," Kenshin said.
"Sure, okay," I told him.
Megumi seemed quiet. She was probably thinking over her meeting we had earlier. Sano seemed to have recovered from his meeting pretty well. Or perhaps he was in denial.
(later)
"Well, let's get started then," I told Kenshin as the session began.
"So what should we talk about?" Kenshin asked me.
"Let's start with Koaru," I said.
He tensed. Perhaps he feared how he felt for her. He wanted the best for her. To him the best was someone who was not a farmer hitokiri, someone whose life was not threatened by the past.
I decided to ease in with mind reading. I got a flash of panic - perhaps battling emotions, there seemed to be two sides of this mental argument. Then it was almost as though he knew what I was doing and he "shut" himself. I could no longer feel his emotions or anything.
I gasped. This had taken a lot more strength that I had thought. I was exhausted.
"Is something wrong, Leslie?" he asked. His voice was more tense. Maybe he had sensed what I was doing. I needed no mind reading to know he was suspicious.
"Nothing, I just got a headache is all - I'll be fine," I told him.
Now what? Did he really sense my presence? No, that was impossible -- nothing like this had ever happened before. I was nervous, but I had to know if he really knew I was entering his mind. I tried again.
I sensed a rising anger as I tried again. Then I was "blocked" again. My head was throbbing. It was final. He could sense me.
"I'm sorry, we should really get started," I told Kenshin.
"You wanted me to start with Koaru, correct?"
"Umm actually, how about we start with your past?"
"That would be fine, that it would." There was a trace of doubt in his voice.
I tried again. One word. One word was on his mind then. Just one word- "Tomoe".
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Special thanks: Thank you Ivy Raine, Master of Time and Space, Rurouni Kaoru Kenshin's Love, Emerald31, Choas Babe, trueyamigirlfriend, Silvermoon, Snow White Hyatt, Sotianiya, dark-luv-dove, Rissi-Sama, Chibi-Tenken/Harusame, PraiseDivineMercy, IchigoHikaru, Sotianiya, Spin Of Doom, Melody, Madame Zorina, Master of Time and Space, Dark Yukina, Buzzard Chicken!, lively meatball, Wave-Master-Alex, knshn4eva, RoseoftheDesert, I-Love-Kenshin, KC1, deity of death1, HZero, Chocolate covered Videl, Seals Destroy, Firuze Khanume, Falling_from_the_sky, & Takuni for reviewing my fic.
A special thank you to Choas Babe, Dark Yukina, trueyamigirlfriend, cynical feline, Spin Of Doom, Ivy Raine, knshn4eva, Wave-Master-Alex, Snow White Hyatt, Rissi-Sama, psychopenguinjedi23, animeaddict195x, dark-luv-dove, & Emerald31 for having me on their favorite authors list.
PS. Don't you just love cliff hangers?