Who'll raise you to heaven and drop you to hell

by Rampaging Sorrow

I never wanted to come home. I just wanted to stay where I felt I belonged. And now that i'm back home, it's not the same way as before because of me... this is what I feared.[Sequel to It's always that one person.]

10. I'm sorry that my heart is slowly fading

Started: Sunday, July 23, 2006

Finished: Sunday, August 13, 2006

Reason for Delay: Document Manager wasn't working. :(

R.S.: Hello people! I just got home from Trinidad yesterday and I'm itching to write! Sigh It was a nice relaxing trip, but it would've been better if I could've brought a laptop with me to write on and stuff, ya know? I wanted to start this ever since Monday of last week and I couldn't because I ran out of paper from writing a Kingdom Hearts story.

Speaking of that, look out for it! It's called L.O.V.E. and it's a yaoi. I don't know if you people don't like it or do, but to me it's a real challenge because it's going to be mostly written in POV's and it's going to be dark and angsty, ya know? It should be going up around August because I have to start writing for it again. Man I missed fanfiction!

And I love the reviews I've been getting about this! It's not much, but I still like it! It fuels me to keep writing! People don't like Allusius, people want more KxK; it's all good for my ideas! But don't worry! It's getting better.

Okay! The beginning of this chapter is going to be a little weird because its flashback that the Italian Four are having of something in the past. You may think that it has nothing to do with it, but as the chapter continues, you'll see why I've done this. The flashback will be in complete italics.

Oh yeah! I almost forgot! I don't own Rurouni Kenshin, Utada Hikaru's music, A thorn for every heart's music, and other music by other people. I just own the made-up characters and the songs that I've written myself.

And now for the chappy! Enjoy it! I think that flashback is written poorly.

(KxK)

But all eyes fail before time's eye,

All actions come to justice there.

Though never willed, though far down the deep

past,

Your bed, your dread sirings,

Are brought to book at last.

Antistrophe 2 from the book Sophocles: The Oedipus Cycle.

Who'll raise you to heaven and drop you to hell

By: Rampaging Sorrow

Chapter Nine: I'm sorry that my heart is slowly fading from yours

"Hey pass another beer and keep the fire running!"

"Yeah, yeah, Anthony. Just relax it."

A soft smile came up on Kaoru's lips as Michael threw another log into the dying fire and made the flames instantly rise back up. They were all in the woods on a trip with four kids from America who had asked them to come along since they had the best English in their age group. They had beers, hotdogs, marshmallows, and some other foods that would taste really good. Behind them were the steps to the cabin that they were all sharing for the week.

Allusius laughed as he put his arms around Kaoru and pulled her into a hug. The two American girls said 'awww' as Kaoru pressed a kiss to his grinning lips and got up with a stretch of her arms. Her wife beater rose up a little and Allusius ran a finger along her stomach before she giggled and she sat down, the music behind her giving a nice atmosphere to relax her even more.

They all were just talking about random things and getting to know each other better. As Kaoru shifted and let Allusius feed her a piece of marshmallow, Tytto said 'take that inside' as Allusius licked some of the sweet substance off of her lip. As Allusius went to sit with a boy named Kevin and talk about soccer, Kaoru heard Anthony making noise about fear as he spoke with Tytto.

"Why be scared of things! I'm a fucking man for god's sake! I shouldn't be afraid of nothing that comes to me. NO fear has ever come from me before."

"Really now? Are you sure you're not just trying to impress Lily?"

"Impress nothin', Tytto. Ask my friends. I—don't—get—scared."

"Of anything."

The two of them turned to Kaoru as she had her hair over her shoulder and she was looking down at the fire that separated them. It was bigger so she saw their faces through the flames.

"You're not scared of anything. Not scared of killers, of suicidal bombers, of dying on a plane. You're not scared of getting shot, of blowing up in an accident, or falling to your death. You're not scared to see somebody die in front of you or something. You can honestly say that you're not afraid."

"Why do you want to know all this? Are you afraid or something? That's natural though because ALL girls are afraid."

As he laughed, Allusius looked through the fire as a smirk began to play on Kaoru's lips and his breath caught as he saw Kaoru's eyes slowly turn into a ruby reddish color. He was amazed as Kaoru asked him to answer.

"No. I'm not afraid of that either. Its life and shit happens. Why be afraid, you know?"

Kaoru looked down at the fire again as her eyes slipped back to a shade of blue and she brought her beer to her lips with a frown because she hated liars. She then got up with a smile and she stretched her arms above her head again.

"Allusius, Sto entrando nei legno. (I'm going in the woods)"

"Perche?" he asked with Michael and Tytto. She shook her head again before she spoke.

"Sto andando vagare appena intorno per una punta piccola. Il fuoco che lo rendono sleepy ed io desiderano svegliare più successivamente per avere alcuno... "divertimento". Non lo seguono, giusto? Posso maneggiarsi. I'm going to just wander around for a little bit. The fire's making me sleepy and I want to wake up to have some... "fun" later. Don't follow me, okay? I can handle myself.)"

They all watched as Kaoru smiled, gave Anthony a wave, and then turn around and began to walk. Michael wasn't dumb though because he saw the red coming out of the blue as she had turned. She was soon gone from sight and Anthony got up with a stretch before he grabbed a bag of chips and started to munch on them.

"I gotta pee. I'll be back." Tytto told Anthony to drain his weasel in a nice manner before Anthony laughed and disappeared into the woods as well. After five minutes or so, a scream was heard loud into the air. All knew it was Anthony.

"What the fuck! Get away! Aaaah Stop!"

Allusius and Anthony both jumped up at the same time as everybody else looked scared as they saw Anthony run back with blood on his arms from his own cuts.

"Something just attacked me. It moved so fucking fast and it tried to slit my fucking throat. We're not safe out here right now."

Allusius looked towards the woods and as he saw Anthony sit down and put his face in his hands to calm himself, he knew something that nobody else did.

"Let's go look then. We need to be safe and find Kaoru."

'Before she gets bored'

(A/N: The bar divider isn't working, so this is how i'll have to do it. So sorry)

Light blue eyes watered up as they refused to shut and they continued to stare up into the light of the ceiling. It was blinding and as they shut again, the light was behind her eyelids now as well. As the sounds of monitors made her ears hurt and the noise of rolling things passed by, she forced herself to do one thing. Sit up.

"Get up, Kaoru. It doesn't hurt that bad, you lazy thing. Don't get soft."

Kaoru opened her eyes again and as she pushed herself to sit up, she hissed at the feeling in her throat. The cords in her arms were annoying so as she finally saw some bandages and gauze pads close by, she began to take them all out herself and patch herself up. The line went straight and Kaoru turned it off with an annoyed sigh before she looked around.

"Where's Llusi? I see his clothes hanging—oh."

Kaoru looked over to the bed that was occupied by the brown skinned boy and she let out a sigh of relief once she saw he wa still breathing. His face had small bandages and his arms were wrapped as well. As she saw his lip, she frowned at the stitches that were there.

"Oh baby… I'm sorry that we didn't leave like you said. It was my entire fault."

Kaoru hissed as she turned her legs to the end and they dangled painfully. She let her feet hit the ground and as she caught her balance, she saw some sweatpants and a t-shirt lying around under some panties. She guessed that Michael brought them since it had Allusius' name on the butt.

She slipped on all the clothing before she ran her fingers through her hair and she opened the door. Taking one last look back at Allusius, she blew a kiss and she left the room.

(KxK)

"I never knew that Kaoru could sing like this. She's a good ass rock star, huh Souj?"

"Yeah. Too bad you guys aren't together right now. You could be richer than you already are."

"… Gold digger."

"Hey, my girlfriend's not as rich as us."

"… Gold—Digger."

Dark blue eyes looked over in Kenshin's direction as a smirk came up on his lips and he gave his brother a tap on his red locks. The two were sitting in front of the computer his father put in the kitchen and they were going through un-read mail from Soujiro's account.

"She's very… dark in her words, though. I like this dark and light punk think she's got going for her." Soujiro gave Kenshin a smile as Kenshin arched his eyebrow and then the two turned around again.

"When did she make this?" Soujiro asked.

Kenshin looked at the words under it and then he said, "Three months before she came back .It was a big hit over there in Europe. I guess she didn't want it here."

Soujiro nodded before he took a bite of his sandwich and said 'mmmm' at the chicken flavor running through his mouth. Kenshin shook his head with a laugh before he shifted in his seat and listened to Kaoru's words as she kept singing.

"Feel the pain! Take the blade!
Slide it across your shame…
Open your eyes! Feel the lies!
They're all the ones to blame..."

"Damn, this is that deep shit, huh?" Kenshin asked Soujiro and Soujiro just laughed and nodded before they kicked back and listened to the rest of the words. Slowly, Kenshin looked deeper into the words and he frowned as he truly understood that… it was about him in some way.

"Hate! That is your biggest perfection…
Love! That is your greatest flaw…
Throw away your love n' you'll be the angriest of them all…"

"I like this song! Don't you, Kenshin?" Kenshin made a 'so-so' motion with his hand before he looked at her in the video as she looked deadly and hurt all in the same time as she pretended to be somebody's conscience and walk around them as the stood there with tears in their eyes. Her outfit was all black, her hair out and moving with her. Her eyes… they were cold, they were angry, they were… lost.

"Ignore the deception…
Accept the lies…
Feel rejection…
But don't cry…
Take the hurt! Accept the pain!
Nobody understands…
Grab the words! Let it sting!
The blood falls down my hand…

Hate, it's your biggest perfection…
Love, it's your greatest flaw…
Take away the love; you'll be most hateful of them all…" Soujiro started to watch Kenshin's facial expression and then he looked back as the ending of the music video was coming close. He saw Kaoru's look and as she held the mic and fell to her knees, he tilted his head a little bit to see what was on her neck.

"I can see… I can feel…
I know what you're thinking…
I can hear… I can taste…
I know how you're feeling inside…
You feel just like me…"

"Hey answer the phone, Kenshin? I'm going to pee-pee."

"TMI, Soujiro." Kenshin said with a smile before he walked to the phone and he heard it ring again. He saw the name 'Aoshi Kamiya' before he arched his eyebrow and answered the phone.

"Hello, Kenshin Himura speaking."

"You're a fucking prick, you know. A real fucking heart breaker. I had a lot of hope in you, Kenshin. I figured that it would last. But I guess you get scared at things that are above your head." Kenshin sighed at Aoshi's bitter words before he spoke.

"Look, what are you calling me for? I'm not in the best of moods now that me and Kaoru are separated for the moment."

"For the moment? Is this just some little phase for you? You think you can just pull away and go back? Don't fuck with me, Kenshin. I told you what's going to happen. Now have you seen her anywhere?"

"Seen her? Why?" he asked with some curiousness.

"Because Kaoru left the hospital this morning. She checked in two nights ago with Allusius because of some… problems they were having. Now she's up and missing again."

"… No, I haven't seen her—" Kenshin heard a click! and he looked at the phone in some shock as the line went dead. Soujiro came back into the kitchen stretching and as he saw Kenshin looking at the phone with a frustrated and worried expression, he asked him what was wrong.

"Kaoru's been in the hospital for the past two days and just this morning she's disappeared."

"Again!" Soujiro asked with disbelief.

"Again." Kenshin sighed and he sat down in his seat before Soujiro went into the fridge with a 'man!'

"It's like she goes missing every other week! What the fuck is wrong with her, Kenshin? Is she having fun or something? I mean, come on! She has to stop this."

"I know, I know." Kenshin replied and he ran his fingers through his hair again before he put his forehead on the back of his hands.

"I don't understand what she could possibly be doing. I know she's been on some drugs, but she swore with the others that she was off. I just… fuck, grab a coat, Souj."

"We're going to find Aoshi, aren't we?" Soujiro said with some hatred at Aoshi's name before Kenshin frowned and nodded.

"I swear to god if he hits me, I'll kill him."

"I gotcha back, Souj. I gotcha back."

(KxK)

"Where the hell are you?"

"I'm walking down the hall towards the room. Has anybody been there yet?"

"Yeah; Aoshi's here waiting for you to come back. What have you been doing?"

"… I went to find something for Llusi. I'll see you in a few seconds, okay?

"Okay. Bye-bye."

Aoshi watched as Michael shut his eyes and hung up the phone with an irritated sigh. Tytto was eating a yogurt and he was sitting in a chair as Yahiko sat right next to him and ate his own yogurt for a breakfast meal. Allusius still lay asleep, his face looking pained and peaceful as his breathing was deep. His hands were bandaged and there was a cast on his foot.

"Allen, what are you reading?"

"Some book with a different alphabet from us. I like it."

Aoshi looked over in the new man's direction before Michael called him a loser. Allen had green and brown eyes with a tan complexion, a stern face, and a head of light brown hair. His body was muscular and his style looked cool and casual. His voice was smooth and Aoshi knew that he was an intelligent man with a lot to give just by the way he spun his pen around in his fingers.

The door was heard opening and a female groan was released from behind. Both of them turned to see the missing beauty walk in with a frown on her face and her cheek bleeding. Michael quickly rushed over to her and he caught her as she was falling forward. He moved her to her bed before he sat her down and he cleaned the bruise with the things that were there.

"Kaoru, where did you go? Are you alright?" Kaoru nodded weakly as Michael made her take off her sweat pants so she wouldn't be hot. She lay back against the bed and she quickly turned onto her side before she snuggled into her pillow and she fell asleep without any words. Michael could only sigh and pull the blanket up over her waist area so she wasn't exposed.

"Aoshi, your phone." Aoshi looked at Allen as it was silent, but then it started to ring.

"How'd you—"

"Don't know. I've just always had that feeling when a phone's about to ring…. Gonna answer it?"

"Nah, you do it. It's Kenshin and I want to kill him right now." Allen took the phone and as he sighed, he picked it up and spoke.

"Hello, Allen Sanchez speaking. How may I help you today?"

"Can I speak to Aoshi, please? This is Kenshin." Allen looked over at Aoshi before he just nodded his head and put up one finger. Aoshi gave him a nod and said, 'have fun.' before Allen spoke again.

"Sorry, Aoshi's not around right now. Perhaps I can take a message for him?"

"Okay, I just heard him in the background. Please, this is really important, sir. I need to speak with him." Allen looked at Aoshi as he put it on speakerphone and Aoshi just shook his head again before Allen put the phone towards his lips.

"Sorry, he can't speak with you right now. He's with his sister at the moment and we're very busy with her. Can you call back at another time?"

"This is very important! I need to tell him something that's a big issue." Allen was slowly growing irritated and as Kenshin said, 'fuck', he narrowed his eyes and spoke.

"Okay, look. I'll be honest with you. Aoshi doesn't want to talk to you, no matter what's important or not. You've been dirty and he doesn't want his clean hands dirtied by you. I'm sorry if this hurts you, but you hurt Kaoru, okay? This is another one of her friends and I came just because of what you did. Now please don't call back unless it's to apologize to Kaoru, or to say that you're leaving town or something."

Allen hung up the phone and he handed it back to Aoshi before he looked back into his book and started to read once more. Tytto ran his fingers through Kaoru's hair as her face was pained a little and she let out a whimper. Yahiko was doing schoolwork and he was busy with headphones over his ears.

"I see we have a lot of family here." The four men turned their eyes to see a doctor walk into the room with a clipboard in hand. Michael saw Tytto frown because it wasn't a woman. As the doctor shut the door, he looked over at Kaoru and he saw that all the cords were disconnected from her body.

"What happened here?"

"We came in and saw that they were there. She must've removed them after she woke up. Kaoru doesn't like IVs in her arm."

"I see… well, let's see if she's alright." The doctor went to her and he checked all the bandages to see if she had bled through them. He checked her heartbeat, her pulse, and he made sure that she wasn't running a fever as well. He pulled the sheet back and he ran his hands along her legs where the bandages were. Aoshi wanted to get up and pull his hands away, but Michael just shook his head and his index finger.

"He's a doctor." Michael mouthed before Aoshi just frowned and sat still. The doctor pulled the sheet back up and he fixed it nicely before he pulled Kaoru's hair from her face and saw the bandage on her cheek.

"She had a cut this morning so I just put it on. Sorry if that was wrong." Michael said softly and the doctor told him it was fine before he wrote some things down and moved over to Allusius's bed. There was a frown on his face as he checked him and Aoshi arched his eyebrow at the sudden change.

'Is he a racist or something? He looks like he doesn't want to do it.'

"Alrighty now. I can tell you everything. I'll start with Kaoru. From what I see, she's healing nicely, and the internal bruise she had was healed. She should be able to leave anytime she just wants to go. Keep a close eye on her and we have medication for her to be on for a week."

"What kind of medication?" Tytto asked as he put more yogurt into his mouth.

"Just some medication for her to heal and be 100 again." Allen looked up into the doctor's face before he shifted and he shut the book.

"And what of my cousin Allusius?" The doctor looked over at him before he just shook his head.

"Silence doesn't really do much about his condition. I'd like words, if you don't mind."

"… He's not too good. His cuts are healing nicely and that wound to his stomach is coming along well. But his foot… it's not too good. It's healing, but it still looks bad from my eyes. His hands are still slightly swollen and he hasn't woken up yet like we figured he would."

"So what does that mean? Because he has to run for Italy in the World Championships." Tytto said and he put his yogurt cup down as he folded his hands together.

"Well, Allusius was hurt pretty badly… I don't think he'll be able to run with that foot. I'm sorry."

The room was silent as the doctor bowed his head and exited the room. As soon as the door was shut, Tytto looked down at Allusius' sleeping form and he frowned with a sigh.

"He's going to cry. He's going to keep strong, but he's going to cry. This race is what he wants the most. He's been dreaming of it ever since he was ten years old. He wants to bring Italy some pride and he wants to race against Kenshin now that he knows he's running for America."

"Poor Allusius… he did this for Kaoru… do you think she'll run if he doesn't, Al?" Michael turned his body to look at Allen as he was spinning his pen in his fingers again.

"She's not going to want to, but he's going to make her run for him. To run twice as hard just because he can't do it. Allusius would never want her to back out of something because he was taken out. That's the whole reason why Kaoru's tougher than she used to be."

(KxK)

"Get out of my face."

"Kaoru, please tell him."

"I'm not waking up to hear your bullshit, Michael! Just stop fucking talking now!"

Kaoru frowned as she was fed yogurt by Aoshi and she watched Allusius slowly have an emotional breakdown. He had woken up an hour ago and after they made sure he was okay, they gave him the bad news. He wasn't taking too well, but it wasn't something that they didn't expect. They knew Allusius would lash out angrily.

"Allusius, calm down and breathe… you just woke up, you shouldn't be stressing yourself out like this… Just breathe and relax—"

"Who the fuck are you; Doctor Phil! Get—the fuck—out my face." He said again and he kept saying it until he raised his arm to swing at Tytto.

"Allusius, stop it!" Kaoru barked at him and he put his arm down angrily as he began to rock his body a little to try and calm down.

"I can run. I'll heal fast. I can do this. I need to do this… it's all I've ever wanted." Allusius put his head back against the pillows before he let out another sigh.

"Llusi… baby, I'm so sorry… this is my fault…"

"I have to run… I have to! Fuck that doctor! I want to be free! I have to get out of it!" Allusius leaned forward and buried his face into his hands before he began to rock back and forth.

"I have to run… I have to run… I'm going to run for my country… I'm going to give my dad something to be happy about…I have to run… Why couldn't it have taken my hand? ..."

Allusius kept rocking himself and as Kaoru got up and she pulled at the boxers Allen made her put on, she went over to him and she put her arms around him.Allusius bit his lip as he tried to hold it in, but as Kaoru apologized sadly to him again, he pulled her closer in a fast moment and he began to softly let go of his pain into her shoulder through tears.

"Allen, are you going back with him?"

"Yes, we'll leave in three days. He should be able to walk. You know how determined this black kid is." Allusius didn't have the energy to fight him as Kaoru rubbed his back and she told him that he was going to be okay. Allusius nodded as she kissed his head and then Allen got up as his phone rang.

"Please excuse me." Allen left the room for a moment and Aoshi put Yahiko's homework away as he had fallen asleep on Kaoru's bed. Kaoru let him go and she wiped his face before she wiped her own and rested her forehead against his as she put her hands on his cheeks.

"You're going to run and I know you will. You got two more weeks to heal. Do whatever it takes, Llusi. I have faith in you and you heal fast. You got this, okay? You got this."

"Hate to bring bad news… but there's one more club tonight." Allen said as he entered the room again.

"I thought they were finished." Allusius said angrily and Allen just sighed and shrugged his shoulders.

"I guess not. You know how fucking confusing this is. Michael and Tytto, you guys are going to do this. Say that you're sorry for Kaoru's fall and all that other shit. Kaoru, you're going too. But you're a dancer in the crowd with me, okay? Bring your sister and your friend, okay? You have to look like you're just a dancer and when they're done, we'll leave. Aoshi stays here with Allusius because I don't want him alone."

"Right." Kaoru said and she then looked at Aoshi as he arched his eyebrow in Allen's direction.

"Just who are you to them anyway, Allen?" Allen sat down and then he smiled as he put his hand out.

"Let's start over then." Aoshi nodded before he put his hand out and shook.

"Aoshi Kamiya. Freshman in college."

"Allen Sanchez. The Boss of these three in the underground." Aoshi widened his eyes as they let go hands and Allen just gave a lopsided grin.

"How old are you?"

"Twenty. Been in since I was thirteen and I been a boss since I was sixteen. I work fast, you know. But I don't want them in there anymore so that's why I formed a plan to get them out. They're still young, ya know? I want them to live without this on their shoulders n' shit."

"I understand where you're coming from." Aoshi replied and as he looked at Kaoru just run her fingers through her hair and rest her head on the silently sobbing youth, he sighed.

"I understand perfectly where you're coming from. This is too much for them already."

(KxK)

"Kaoru, stop faking sleep and answer it. You don't want him coming in here, do you?"

"No but… its daddy, Aoshi."

"Just answer."

With a nervous sigh escaping her lips, Kaoru flipped her cell phone open and she said 'Hello?' with a tired voice. As soon as she said that, she knew that she had gotten herself into something bad.

"Where the fuck is you at?"

"Excuse me? Who are you cursing at like that?"

"I said WHERE ARE YOU AT!"

"… In the hospital." She finally admitted and she ran her fingers through her hair as she let out air through her nose.

"And just why are you in the hospital YET AGAIN, Miss Kaoru?"

"Um… because I got hurt with Allusius?"

"Bad move." Allen and Aoshi both said before Kaoru opened her eyes as she got her words to the fullest extent.

"Why the fuck are you always there! Don't you think the goddamn hospital is tired of seeing you there every-other-week! Jesus Christ, Kaoru! Give it a rest or something! Stop your crazy bullshit!"

"You can't even say it like that! You don't even know what I'm doing!"

"I don't give a fuck what you're doing! I'm tired of hearing the same shit! 'Oh, I'm going to change daddy' 'Daddy I'm good now.' 'I'm being clean, daddy'-"

"But I am being clean, so what the fuck are you talking about!"

"Kaoru, how can I believe what you say when you're always doing this off the wall shit? Huh? You tell me how I can listen to your words and believe you when you keep lying to me. Over and over and over again, you keep telling me one thing and you run and do something else. Do you think I'm stupid? I am your mother's husband, Kaoru! I know all the tricks and I can play the game just as good as you can!"

"This is no game! I'm not doing this for some kind of attention either daddy! I want to explain this to you, but I can't! I really can't!" Kaoru blinked her tears back as her father began to laugh in her ear and speak again.

"Kaoru, why are you in the hospital?"

"…"

"Why can't you answer me? Kenshin tells me that you're in there with Allusius, so he must've been watching your ass and making sure you weren't wild n crazy."

"It's not even like that, daddy! And who the fuck are you to listen to Kenshin before your own blood!"

"Kenshin doesn't lie, my dear. YOU, on the other hand, Lie like a dog." Kaoru bit her lip as he kept making her feel terrible inside.

"But daddy… you're not even listening… I'm trying to explain."

"I'm tired of explanations! You come home from Italy and it's like everything I taught you is blowing up in my fucking face! You were on drugs, you sneak out at the craziest times of the night, and you party worse than the college kids! You come home with the wildest tattoo on your arm and I have no fucking idea what that means to you!"

"You don't understand!" Kaoru said and she finally cracked and began to cry because she was frustrated.

"And I'm tired of trying to with you! Do you know how much I have worried for you! I could have a fucking heart attack and die! That's how much stress I got from making sure that somebody was with you and you were okay! You're scaring me, Kaoru! I've cried so much for you! Everytime you ran away, my eyes just well up with tears and I can't help but cry because this is the same thing Annalise was doing! The same exact thing your mother was up to, you're doing in your own little way! I lost her already, and I don't want to loose you! Why are you doing this to me! You think I like saying these things to you! You think I'm doing this for me! I'm doing this so you don't end up losing your family!"

Kaoru brought her knees up to her chest as she sat on the bed and she said, "Daddy… I'm so sorry…"

"I've come to a conclusion and I've realized that you're not rebelling. Oh no. You can't be rebelling for no reason. So after thinking this over, I've realized that you've finally lost your nuts and screws in you brain! You're wacked, you're a nutcase, and you're crazy!"

"No, that's not true!"

"Don't tell me otherwise! You're crazy! That's what you are! Now that I've established this, I now know not to worry about you! So have fun and be wild and crazy because when you get shot, I will not come for you. Goodbye, Ms. Kamiya."

"But daddy—" the phone line went dead and Kaoru dropped the phone before she began to cry in her hands. Allusius was fast asleep and as he heard the first sob, his eyes snapped open and he said 'what's wrong.'

"Daddy… he just doesn't understand. I keep trying to explain, but he listens to other people over me. I mean, who the fuck is somebody else to tell about me? Huh? I know me, not anybody else! That's Fuckin Bullshit!"

"Watch your mouth, now." Aoshi said and Kaoru just put her hands above her head with a 'leave me alone!' before she put them down and scratched her head in annoyance.

"I quit trying." She said softly and then she sniffed before she continued.

"I quit trying to make daddy happy. I quit trying to get out if it's only making him even more upset. The whole reason I want to leave is to be happy and make him proud. But no, he doesn't want to listen."

"Kaoru—"

"I said I quit!"

And you
You're just so far away
Our just couldn't stay
That long… so now it's time
For me to go
I hope that you know
That you'll always have my heart in pieces

"That's Kenshin… What." Kaoru said after flipping the phone open.

"Are you okay?" Kaoru glared at the phone before she got sarcastic and real pissed.

"Oh yeah! I'm perfectly fine! Besides the fact that my ex-lover's turning out to be a snitch and now my daddy hates me, I'm okay! Perfectly fine now since I have no reason to continue what I'm doing."

"You're sarcasm isn't needed, Kaoru."

"Sarcasm? I'm being serious." She said bitterly at him and then she wiped her eyes with another sniff and Kenshin asked if she was crying.

"No, my allergies are making me sob about dust and pollen. What do you think?"

"Look, why don't you just stop being so goddamn sarcastic and get serious. You got yourself into this situation, not me."

"You wanna know something! All you had to do was keep your fucking mouth shut and he wouldn't have worried! Aoshi was going to call him and he was going to tell him something that would've made this whole conversation non-existent! But you wanna jump in and be the big hero and tell, right!"

"I don't want to be the hero if I'm not going to have a reason! Your father has the right to know that you and that… that boy are running around and doing senseless things that you probably can't handle at the moment!"

"I can handle myself, goddammit! I have been on my fucking own making my own money for one year! I took care of Yahiko by myself for a year, okay! Don't you dare tell me that I can't handle myself because I've done it and I've handled taking care of Yahiko! How dare you insult me like that!"

Allusius glared at her phone and Kaoru just shook her head as she knew he was trying to burn a hole through it. 'Stop it' she mouthed to him before she heard him sigh softly.

"Kaoru, what are you doing to yourself? Huh? You're hurting yourself, you know that, right? I'm worried about you a lot, you know."

"Oh really now? You're worried about me, are you?" Kaoru gave a soft laugh before she mumbled 'you weren't worried when you broke up with me.'

"Kaoru cut the bullshit."

"No, it's you who should cut the bullshit! And don't ever curse at me either; I'm not your child, okay?"

"Sigh This is getting nowhere. Look, Kaoru…can I at least help you?"

"You're wasting your time, Kenshin! Hang up and let's go!"

"Soujiro, shut up…Kaoru, please? I… I don't know. I feel bad that you're being hurt almost every other week and nobody seems to understand… Just let me understand, at least?"

Kaoru felt the tears fall down her face even harder and as Kenshin thought that she was going to at least, agree, Kaoru snapped and she blew his ear up in a string of curses and hurtful words.

"Watashi ha watashi no tame no ookii totemo eiyuu de aru you ni koudou shi te iru anata ni unzari suru! Teishi shi nasai sore o, Kenshin! Seikou ga naze suru ka tsuneni ki, suru watashi ni kanji no warui joutai o ka! Watashi ha anata no koe o kii ta nochi sakebu koto ni tsukare te iru! Naze shi nasai ka tsuneni kore o ka. suru! Watashi ha shiri tai to omou! Kore ha de aru nani, anata ga doujou kara ka. shi te iru totemo koto! Ii nasai watashi ni, Kenshin! Watashi o kinodoku ni omou node sore ha aru! (I'm sick and tired of you acting as if you're some big fucking hero for me! Stop it, Kenshin! Why the fuck do you always come along and make me feel bad! I'm tired of crying after hearing your voice! Why do you always do this! Huh! What is this, some fucking thing you're doing out of pity! Tell me, Kenshin! Is it because you feel sorry for me!)"

"Kaoru, please—"

"Please nothing, okay! You left me alone, Kenshin! So don't you dare come now and try to fix things! Stop calling my phone if you're doing things for pity! Do it because you love me dammit!"

Kaoru threw her phone into the wall and it broke into pieces as she put her fingers into her hair again and she began to scream and cry to herself. They were hesitant to touch her, but as Allusius told Aoshi to move, he winced and he got up from the bed.

"Allusius, stop it."

"The only way to full recovery is to bite through the pain, right? That's what daddy says."

"It's rest, you loon. Now stop." Allusius ignored Allen's words and he hopped over to Kaoru before he moved her arms for her holding herself. Kaoru said 'stop it! Get off of me!' but as he just sighed with a smile and pulled her into his chest, she put her arms around his back and clung to his hospital gown.

"Thank god he has boxers on." Aoshi said with a sigh and as Allusius began to speak to her in fast Italian, she just nodded and she sniffed as he told her it was going to be okay. He let her go and kissed her hair before they helped him back into bed and she checked to see what time it was.

"It's six thirty… are we going to the club tonight or what?"

"You really want to go?" Kaoru nodded and as Aoshi got up and called Tytto since he had left to drop Yahiko home, she smiled.

"I need to go and feel free."

(KxK)

9:30
Club Aoi
Bar section

"Kenshin, there's a lot of girls here tonight looking sexy and fly! Make a move!"

"Give me a chance, Tommy! Soujiro put down my drink and buy your own!"

As the four boys laughed on their 'boys night out' and they just danced and flirted, they made sure that their minds were free of anything stressful and they were strictly to having fun with as much ladies as possible. As Josue sipped on his drink and Tommy shook hands with Kenshin as they pointed to a sexy girl dancing around, Soujiro looked towards the stairs entrance and his mouth dropped.

"G-Guys… look…" the three looked at the stairs and as their eyes widened and their mouths dropped as well, Tommy said one thing.

"Kenshin, you are an idiot…"

"That's Kaoru! Whoa she looks hot as hell! What the fuck did she do! Damn, that body is nice! That outfit is bangin'; look at all the skin! Kenshin, I'm sorry, but tonight I have to ask her if she's gonna dance." Josue shivered in delight and as Kenshin just looked at her, he had to admit that Josue was right and he looked away.

A/N: If anybody's seen the Ciara video 'Get Up' That's the outfit Kaoru had on. If not, go check it out.)

Kaoru had on black pants with chains going from one belt loop to the other and the pants stopped at her mid calf and were slightly baggy. It hung off one hip showing the creamy skin there. Her top was tight and black and it went over the top part of her stomach showing her soft skin and her dangling star belly ring. On her hands were gloves that showed her fingers and her shoes were black k-swiss.

Her hair was down and it had just been washed so it was slightly curly and it smelled like vanilla. Her lips had a gloss and her face was clean of makeup. In all honesty, she looked good without it. Once they got down, Misao cheered and put her fist in the air.

"Let's par-tay!" they all laughed and agreed before Aoshi glared towards the bar.

"Kao, Kenshin's here." Kaoru narrowed her eyes and as he tilted his head towards the bar, she saw him with the others. Josue was waving and as he blew a kiss, she winked at him and gave Kenshin a cold look.

"Ooooo, Kenny, you're not on her good side at all."

"Well, duh, Tommy."

Michael and Tytto said they were going to work and as Allen told them 'good luck' they nodded and they walked off. Kaoru went to one of the tables on the side and as they all sat down, Genia giggled and pulled her dark blue top down a little as Allen said he was going to get drinks.

"Kao-kao, you know we're just pure torture, ne?"

"Hai. I see the way he's looked at me. Probably thinking about why he wants space." The two laughed softly and as Allen came back from the bar with a tray of glasses, they all picked one and he took it back quickly.

"Kaoru, they're looking over here! Just give a smile or something! At least be nice tonight because we're going to party and make him sooooo jealous." Misao said after she sipped her drink and she shook as it went down her throat.

Kaoru sighed and as she looked over at them with a cold look, her lips formed into a smile and she raised her arm up from the table and said 'hi' with her hand. The two brothers waved back and Kenshin just gave a nod before she rolled her eyes afterward and she finished her drink.

"Now that I'm ready, let's get dancing! Poor Llusi can't be here, so I promised him I'd make him jealous while Yahiko was keeping him company with Tara. Let's go already!"

"I'm going." Genia said and Kaoru took her hand before Misao said she was going too. The two men sighed and got up before they followed him out onto the dance floor. Genia said 'hey' to Josue with a smile before he said 'SEXAY!' and whistled. Kaoru gave him a sexy smile and as they found a place to dance, Aoshi started off the fun by crossing his arms and just bouncing his shoulders.

"You're such a stiff ass!" Misao laughed and he gasped and said 'really now?'

"Oh yes."

"If you think so, shorty." Aoshi laughed as she hit him in the arm and the two said they were going to dance together somewhere else. Allen was already missing from the crew and once Genia got ready, the two began to dance.

"Hey look!" Tommy turned his head and as he saw the two dancing, he gasped.

"Look at that! Since when can Kaoru move like… like that!" Kenshin turned his head as well and his eyes opened as he gasped.

"Oh my god, Kenshin! You really are an idiot! Whoa, those two are amazing!"

Genia saw their faces and she whispered, "it's working" in Kaoru's ear.

"I know. We're just too sexy, ya know?" the two laughed softly before Kaoru told Genia to call Josue out. Genia waved to him and as he pointed to himself, she nodded and he said 'yeah!' and he got up. He jogged over and once they met, they started to grind instantly and wind into each other for the song. Kaoru said, 'good girl!' and Genia just waved her off as Josue said, 'hey Kaoru.'

"Hey." Kaoru moved away and as she went to the bar, she sat three seats away from Kenshin and she asked for a drink. She gave a smile and nodded before she ran her fingers through her hair and she drank the small shot. Kenshin looked at her in the corner of his eye with Tommy as she pouted cutely and then she felt somebody tap her shoulder.

"Hey Allen!" she said after spinning around with a smile. Allen just waved softly and as he pointed to somebody next to him, Kaoru smiled and put her hand out.

"This is a friend of mine named Kyle! He's been watching out for you guys sometimes and I figured you should meet him since he's been protecting you when you don't know it!"

"Oh! Thanks for your help!" Kaoru took his hand and he kissed her hand with a soft smile before she looked at him. He was sexy in her eyes as he had light green and hazel eyes and some dark brown hair. His body was a nine.

"Are you part spanish!"

"Yeah, I'm actually half Puerto Rican! How'd you guess!"

"Your eyes!" he laughed softly and then as Allen left them to talk, Kaoru leaned back against the bar and she looked over at Kenshin to see him looking somewhere else jealously. She smiled softly before she nodded to him and she smiled.

"Hey, you wanna dance! I've heard you can move by Allusius, so I wanna see what his best friend is about!"

"Sure!" Kaoru took his hand and as he left a bill for the drink, she thanked him and said 'bye!' to Tommy as he waved. Kenshin just sighed and as they kept talking, Kyle found a good spot before the two just began to dance without touching yet.

"This is boring, don't you think!" she asked him as she took his hand.

"What do you wanna do then!"

"I think it'd be more fun like… this."

Kaoru started to grind into him and he put one hand on her waist as the two started to dance together to the Dancehall beat as the DJ shouted it out.

"Yo, we're about to have a dancehall marathon! If you know you can wind and you know you got the body to get a crowd hyped, then get your ass up and dance!"

Kaoru smiled to him softly as he said 'you're good' and he spun her around so her back was against his chest. The two began to move into each other and Genia said 'yeah little sister!' as she and Josue were taking a break and just bouncing through the crowd, his hand holding hers so she wouldn't get lost.

"You always get the hot ones!" Kaoru smiled as moved her body lowers and she gave a slow teasing grind. He was amazed as she got into her movements and the two got lost with the crowd around them.

"Kenshin, you look so jealous!"

"Am not. We're not married anymore, so let her do what she wants. Just hope she doesn't get drunk and that's about it on my part. I'm going to dance."

"Don't leave us!"

Kaoru gave a soft smile as she saw him get up and move into the crown with a jealous glance. 'It's really working'

(KxK)

"Look at Michael! He's such a girl!"

Kaoru laughed softly as they all had got back together and they were dancing around each other and having fun. Josue had gone back to his boys because he thought it was wrong to switch groups like that. Kaoru smiled as she had a crowd with Misao and the two girls began to get seductive and sexual in their movements.

Kaoru put her fingers in her hair and as she bit her lip innocently, she danced her body low and she bounced her butt before she had guys whistling as she rose up with a moving of her hips, her body still winding softly as she was back on her feet.

"Come on, Kao! Let's do it!"

Kaoru laughed at Misao's choice of words since she thought of it perversely. Misao just shook her head and as Kaoru began to dance and walk towards her, Misao smiled softly as the people around them were wondering what was going on. Kaoru took her hand and she began to dance back towards the center, Misao moving right with her as they moved forwards and backwards at the same time.

"Look at the two girls dancing! Are they bisexual or something!"

"No, they're just kinky!" Aoshi yelled to answer and that sent laughter around as the two girls stated to dance to the new song playing. They stopped after a while and once they started to walk around again, Kaoru went to find Josue.

"Josue!" she called out to him and as she saw the four boys just dancing in the crowd and having fun, she saw him stop and say 'hey!' she jogged over to him and as she slowed down to a walk, she put her hand out to him.

"Do you like my outfit!"

"You're on fire, Kao-baby! Really sexy!" she smiled softly at that before she shifted and put her hand out more with a 'come on'

"What?"

"You wanted to dance, right! Genia told me earlier! I got better, so maybe I'll be good for you now!"

"Oooo I see! Well…" That made him turn back quickly and she crossed her arms.

"Don't look at him for an answer! Didn't you know we're separated! I'm Ms. Kamiya again, so I make my own decisions! Now are we gonna dance, or do I have you lure you out like a fish?"

Josue smirked and said, 'let's party then.' Before Kaoru took his hand and she backed up into the crowd. The two started to dance moves at first and as they saw people turning to look, Josue said 'you did get good!'

"I told you! I didn't just study over there! I partied a lot! Japan is the best place on weekends!"

The song changed and Kaoru said 'oooo shit!' as she did the chicken head and laughed with Josue. Josue took her hand and as he spun her around to him as the words began to come out. A smirk came up on her face as they started to grind.

"Isn't this your favorite song?" she asked him and he nodded before she giggled softly and went back to watching her movements. He spun her around so her back was against his chest and he whispered, 'you've came a long way in dancing. Hell, you're almost black.'

"Is that a compliment!"

"Of course, Kao-baby!"

Kaoru smiled softly and as he put his hands on her hips and they danced to Justin Timberlake's Sexy Back (Do not Own), Kaoru put her arm around his neck and she laid her head back.

"Look at Josue and Kaoru!" Misao said jumping up and down. The Kamiyas turned their heads and as they saw them, Aoshi opened his mouth in shock as Genia yelled, 'PAY ME!'

"PAY ME, AOSHI! You know how Josue is and you bet against him! Pay me, white boy!"

"I don't have any money!" he said in shock and Genia took his wallet and hit him for lying. He said 'fuck' as she slipped it in her pocket and she laughed as he just scratched his head and shook his head.

"I figured he saw her as a sister!

"That's when she was Mrs. Himura! She's Ms. Kamiya now! That means she's back on the charts for the boys!"

Josue asked if Kaoru wanted to stop dancing and she shook her head before he said 'cool' and Tommy just said 'whoa!'

"She's really a dancer now! Josue never dances through more than one song with a girl! Damn, she must be a beast, right Kenshin!... Kenshin!... Hey, you son bitch! Wait for me!"

(KxK)

"Snap Yo Fingers, Kaoru! This is recording for Llusi!"

"Does it just like the boys in the video!"

Kaoru nodded and as she stood by herself and she started to dance for Tytto's cameras. She started to move with it instead of standing still and as she jumped and crossed her legs, Misao said, 'sooo cool!'

"How'd you learn that!" Kaoru said, "Television!" before they laughed and she kept dancing and moving. Boys who knew how to dance came around and they started to do it with her, Josue being one of them as they all stood in one line, Kaoru being in the middle as they all jumped at once and continued to move with an 'Ey!'

"Watch this." Allen said to Genia and Kaoru said 'five seconds!' to them. The mix of white and black boys nodded before Kaoru threw her hand up in the air. They all looked around the ceiling as if amazed and after five seconds, Kaoru pretended to catch it and they all snapped and went back to moving around in a circle as the others laughed.

"Alrighty! Let's bring this hip-hop into a Club mix people! This is for everybody, so just get your ass up and pull the moves! If you don't wanna, get on out and make room for the pros! Girls, start to shake that Rump!"

As soon as he said that, "Rump the club mix" came on, and they said 'ooo!' before they started to pull out hip-hop moves one by one. They made a circle and as some girls came over to dance and Aoshi held the camera, the two Kamiya boys got in the circle and they all took turns dancing.

"Go Michael! Go Kyle ! Look at the Pop-lockin' boys! Ah, where's Allusius when you need em, ay!"

The two pulled out moves and as Genia said 'next!' Kaoru jumped into the middle with another girl and the two started to do the same moves since they had talked before.

"Crump it! Holy shit, look at that! Don't stop em, Genia! This is sexy as hell! Go wild gurlz! Go Wild Gurlz!"

"Slut material." Soujiro mumbled to Kenshin as they sat and just flirted with the girls next to them. Kenshin hit him and said 'watch your tongue' before Soujiro shrugged and said 'I call it as I see it.'

"That's not Kaoru. She's… she's just venting out stress through dancing, that's all."

"Says the man who broke up with her."

"… I'm starting to regret bringing you here."

(KxK)

"We're about to bring out some of the romantic songs! About ten more of these up-beats and we're about to drop it down reeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaallll slow. Get ready and find a partner before it's too late! But right now, we're going to play a new club favorite called Tippy Toe by Kaoru Kamiya! This song's off the shit!"

Kaoru sat at the bar, her head throbbing slightly as she and Soujiro were just finished with a screaming match. The two of them had met up and brushed shoulders the wrong way, Kaoru turning around and snapping at him harshly the same time he turned to say it himself.

Within the blink of an eye, the two had blew up in each other's faces with pushes and some heavy japanese cursing and names that could make people just cry. After they were split by Tommy and Aoshi, Aoshi sent her to the bar and told her to cool off with some soda.

"Is this seat taken?"

"It's a free country, pal. Take a load off." Kaoru said as she put her hand on her hair and scratched her hair as she let out a groan.

"Headache from partying hard?" Kaoru turned to him ready to tell him to just lay off before she widened her eyes and saw violet eyes widen in the same way. The two ex-lovers stared at each other with wide eyes before Kaoru just rolled her eyes and she got ready to get up before a hand was put on her shoulder to stop her.

"What do you want, Kenshin? You've caused me enough tears today." Kenshin sighed softly as she stared at him coldly and waited for her answer to come from his mouth. She shifted and she shook her hair from her face as she crossed her arms.

"I… I just want to talk to you, Kaoru. Please, at least give me this from you. I know that we're on the worst terms ever, and I know that it's my fault for making you feel awful. But… please, let me talk to you. I just can't stand the fact that we're like this. I really can't."

"… You did this, Kenshin. Not me." Kaoru said softly as his hand moved from her shoulder. As she was going to get up, he made her stay again and he asked what kind of soda she wanted.

"Why? I can buy it myself."

"Kaoru, what kind of soda do you want.?" Kaoru kept silent and Kenshin ordered two sprites since he knew that it was her favorite. As they put the drinks down and Kenshin paid for it, she thanked him quietly and glared at her drink before Kenshin took a sip of his own.

"What do you want from me, Kenshin? I could be dancing with the others right now."

"I want to talk about… I want to know what it is." Kaoru arched her eyebrow as he said it and she asked what he meant.

"I mean, I want to know what's going on. Why you're doing all these things that's making you get in trouble—"

"Well! This conversation is over quick." As Kaoru got up, Kenshin stopped her again and he said wait.

"Come back, come back. I'm sorry, that was rude to just pry in as if I was apart of it. That's wrong on my part." Kaoru sat back down and as she looked down, Kenshin raised her head up and told her to give some kind of smile. Once he saw he wasn't going to get it, he sighed.

"How have you been?"

"Besides my tears and being shunned in every other direction?... Broken."

(KxK)

"Kenshin, stop. Just stop right there. You can't just expect to make me feel better by doing that! What am I, some little kid that you can just bribe with candy to do what you want! I have a brain, you know, and I use it a lot! I think for myself and you're here making me feel stupid!"

"But how! All I asked was if you could just hang with me and I could make things right again! I hate the way we are right now! You are my everything and the way you look at me is like you've seen the worst thing on earth!"

"That's how you've made me feel, Kenshin! You think that you're making me feel good! I feel awful inside and I hate feeling this way! I'm so depressed over you, and you have no idea! Ask anybody from in Italy, and they will tell you that my heart's always been over here with you! Never anywhere else! What don't you understand!"

Kaoru sniffed and she put her hand over her mouth as Kenshin looked at her sadly and watched her wipe her eyes before she ran her fingers through her hair and put it on the opposite side as she just shook her head.

"Why am I even talking to you? You just make me feel… so wrong inside. I can't take this feeling. Everytime I think about you, I just get so upset. I cry so much because the way you just… you just left me, Kenshin! You just left me to handle it alone!

"I was ready to explain everything to you! I knew that if you knew, things would be right between us! I wouldn't have to keep hiding things from you! But you didn't want that… you couldn't just support me."

"So you really would have supported me if I were doing things behind your back! Tell me, Kaoru! Would you really have said, 'I'm here for you.', while I'm out doing things that I know can get me killed!"

"Yes! I would have been with you because I trust you and I love you!"

Kenshin looked at her with a shocked look as she buried her face into her hands and said that he was phony.

"How am I phony, Kaoru! You know that I supported you until you started going missing for days at a time and not telling me anything! You know I wouldn't have gone to Shinji if you had just told me to keep it a secret! But you decided to start playing secrets!"

"There was nothing secret! Aoshi understood it and that's why I told him! Because I knew he would have my back! You would have so much to say about it! I don't understand why you can't trust me! If anything, I shouldn't trust you anymore! You left me alone for all that time and I don't know anything! You could have gotten married or something!"

Kenshin looked into her angry eyes and he saw that one was red as she was fighting her emotions back. She wiped her tears again and then she sighed.

"I could have come home to just say 'you left me alone, now I leave you alone. It's over.' But I didn't because I decided to throw it aside. Whatever happened there, happened. I just wasn't going to complain about it and accept it because I love you. That's how much my heart was yours, Kenshin. Now… I don't even know what to think about you."

"Kaoru… Kaoru, you know that I still love you. The reason that I did what I did was so… so we truly wouldn't have to end it. I told you before—"

"I know what you told me before, okay?" Kaoru snapped and she just wiped tears again before she just said, 'I hate this.'

"Okay! Now we're about to bring out the first slow song of the night! This is a song called, 'Kairo', another by Kaoru Kamiya. I hear that she's somewhere around here in the club tonight, so if you're here sexy girl, you're japanese music is awesome."

Kaoru smiled softly at the DJ's words before Kenshin heard the song begin to play. He instantly liked it and he got up before taking a napkin and wiping her tears. Kaoru moved away from it and then he removed her from the seat before he began to walk into the crowd.

"What are you doing! Let me go!" Kenshin found a spot away from the crowd and as he smiled softly at her, Kaoru couldn't help but feel her heart start to beat again for the expression on his face that she loved to death.

"One for old time's sake. If you really don't love me like before, as you say… fill your ex-husband's wish."

"So we really are broken up then… I knew it." Kenshin cursed as she took it the wrong way and as she was going to walk off, he grabbed her arm hard and she let out a growl as she turned to swing. Kenshin grabbed her other arm and then he spun them around so that her arms were pinned above her head. As she glared up at him and she saw his sexy smile, she tried to look away.

"Why do you always make me feel so weak? I hate being around you." She barked angrily and as he just chuckled and he leaned in closer so that their lips were inches apart, Kaoru's voice being heard through the speakers as the singing had begun.

"You really wanna know why? … It's because you know we still love each other."

Kaoru widened her eyes and as she felt his soft lips cover her own, her whole body just froze with shock as he put one hand on her hip and began to make them both move left to right. Kaoru's eyes suddenly felt heavy and as her lips began to move against his, the beat came in and she began to move against him by herself.

Kenshin's eyes slipped shut as well and as he let her hands down, she grabbed his falling hand and enlaced their fingers together before he raised it above their heads once more. As the beat faded away again and it got softer, the two slowly forgot about their problems and their emotions. The only focused on the moment.

Kaoru put her fingers in his hair as she opened her mouth and their kiss got more passionate. Things that were held back before were put into the kiss and as he pulled her closer to him, she whimpered softly as his tongue ran across hers and he put his arms around her waist.

"Look, Aoshi… she's over there." Aoshi turned his head as he and Misao were slow dancing to the song and it was slowly turning into something else. Misao said, 'she's happy.', as she pointed and Aoshi simply hmphed before he spun her around again.

"At least she's not by the bar crying with him anymore. I've been straining to hold you boys here with Genia and the brothers."

"So what? I was gonna kill em'."

"Which is exactly why we we're holding you. We just wanted them to talk. She's made him jealous enough to just sit and sulk by the bar for about the whole night."

"Because she's sexy. I won't just let her go back without him at least fighting for it. And she knows it too. That's why she better make him prove his love for her."

As Misao looked over again to see Kaoru passionately in his arms and she then looked back to Aoshi before she smiled softly and he pressed a kiss to her lips.

"She'll make him fight for it. It's just a kiss, that's all. I've known that girl since we were younger and she's always been the one to make people fight for her… this night should end with something exciting."

(KxK)

"Just who the fuck are you! Get your hands off of me!"

"Kaoru, you're slightly drunk. Stop and just listen to me!"

"NOOOOOO! Get your dirty hands off of me, you red-headed heart-breaker! I don't know why I kissed you in the first place!"

Kenshin glared at the man who was slowly walking away, his whole body raked with fear as Kenshin had threatened him in a way that he would never forget. Kaoru pouted and as she tried to move again, Kenshin told her to wait for Misao to come with Genia.

"I can handle myself, Kenshin! Let me go right now! I'll scream!"

"Go ahead! Nobody cares over this music, you know! Now stop it!" Kaoru glared at him and as she began to curse at him and tell him to stop treating her like a child, he just took it and he threw it out the window as she got tired and she screamed out at him.

"LET ME GO!"

"Shut up!" he barked and as Kaoru punched him in his arm, he told her to stop hitting him.

"Well, let me go! Now you want to come and suddenly care!"

"I've always cared for you!"

"You don't show it!" she barked at him and the two began to argue. Kenshin raised his hand, but he put it down because he knew that hitting a woman was wrong. Hitting the love of his life was even worse. To him, that was like sentencing himself to death.

"Kaoru, stop it! Why don't you understand that the men in here will hurt you now just because you are vulnerable! Do you wanna get raped!" Kaoru glared at him and as she called him the rudest name she could, Kenshin had enough. She jumped out of his arms and he lost his control a little bit and grabbed her harshly.

"Why don't you listen to me! I'm doing this for you!" His eyes were gold and raged and as Kaoru's head made her panic and her eyes widen in fear, she ducked her head and she cried out in pain as his grip tightened

"Enishi, let me go!"

Kenshin's hands let her go with a gasp and as Kaoru backed away from him and she rubbed her arms, she just began to shake her head as he tried to apologize.

"Kaoru… I didn't mean it, I swear…"

"Enishi… I saw it in your eyes… the same way he used to look at me…the same look when he was trying to abuse me…Aoshi! Aoshi, come get me! Michael, Tytto, anybody! Please come get me!"

Kaoru mentally crashed and she sat down against the wall with her head in her hands before Kenshin backed away and he ran off. Soujiro saw him moving towards the exit and he told Josue before they turned to see Kenshin running up stairs. Aoshi arched his eyebrow when they left and as his phone rang, he picked it up and he heard Kaoru.

"Kaoru, Kaoru what's wrong!"

"Please just come find me! I wanna go back to the hospital! I wanna go away from here! Please, I wanna go!"

"Just stay where you are! I'm coming!" Aoshi hung up and he said, 'head for the car' before he ran off in the direction that he saw her last. When he saw her on the floor with her knees pulled up to her chest, he knelt down and he removed her hands from her ears.

"What happened between you and Kenshin!"

"He wouldn't let me go! This guy tried to take me to the bathroom and he shooed him off!"

"So that's why you're here! Are you retarded; you should be thanking him!"

"That's not it!" she cried to him and then she began to speak again.

"I said to let me go because I was going to go to you! And he wouldn't let me! He started yelling at me and I was yelling back because I just wanted to go to you! And he grabbed me and just lashed out at me! I saw the same look Enishi used to give me, Aoshi!"

Aoshi pulled her into his embrace and he rubbed her back as she clung to him and said 'I don't wanna see that look again.' He raised her up and as she was pulled up into his arms, Aoshi made his way towards the exit as she buried into his chest and she began to whimper softly.

"I promise it won't happen like that! He's not here anymore! Enishi's gone, Kaoru! No more thoughts about him, okay!"

All Kaoru could do was nod and let the fabric move through her fingers as he walked towards the car.

"I'm going to take you to the hospital and have your mind checked. You're not in a good state of mind, sis. And I don't say that to be mean. I say that because I know about it, okay? Promise you won't get on bad about this."

"I won't. I promise I'll be good… Just don't give me that look."

(KxK)

"I got space for you right here."

"But… your foot…"

"Means nothing. Just come and sleep. You look exhausted, amore."

A now awake Allusius looked at Kaoru as she just shook her head and she continued to sleep against the door. He winced as he shifted and he blinked the sleepiness away from his eyes. He took the crutches that were near his bed and then he grabbed the thin sheet that was pooled around his legs. He knew she was in a deep sleep as he stuck his tongue out the corner of his mouth and began to tie the sheet to the crutches.

"Damn these bandaged fingers…Ngh…Grrr…" Allusius pulled it tight with this teeth and as he smiled and he made the crutches go to the shortest length, he raised it behind his head and he swung it forward. It brushed past her stomach and as he pulled it back again, he grinned as it almost got her around the neck.

"Come on, come on… shift a little bit…" As he pulled it back again, he swung it forward harder and it went around her neck.

"Yes!" he said softly. Kaoru wasn't all the way leaned on the wall so as he moved it down to around her stomach area, he grinned as he began to pull her towards him like she was a fish.

"Whoa, this one's heavy… steady now, Allusius. She's a keeper!" Kaoru opened her eyes as she felt her body moving and then she raised her eyes quickly to see him struggling with a determined smile on his face.

"What are you doing?" she said with a sleepy yawn in her voice.

"Pulling you towards me. You said don't get up, so I just got smart and I made this little contraption thingy! You like it? I worked hard with these bandaged fingers."

Kaoru just shook her head with a smile as he pulled her in once more. Kaoru began to fight it playfully and move from left to right as he said 'whoa!' and he pretended along with her. Once he got her close enough, he grabbed her and he pretended to beat her in as she giggled softly.

"I got a big ass fish today. Boy would daddy be proud." Kaoru sat down on the bed and as he told her to raise her legs, he began to untie her shoes and take it off of her feet. Kaoru just rubbed her eyes as he put them down and then he removed the chains on her pants and pointed to the end of his bed.

"See? You have shorts." Kaoru went and she changed into it before she got into bed and she yawned. Allusius rubbed her back in small circles and as he asked how her night was, she mumbled 'tomorrow'. He said, 'okay' gently before he went back to rubbing her back.

"I heard some new songs today." He said softly as the light in his room was turned off by the nurse. He mouthed 'thanks' before the door was shut quietly and Kaoru said 'hmm?'

"I said, I heard some new songs today."

"… What song did you hear, Llusi?" she said softly as she was ready to slip into sleep.

"Some songs from movies and stuff. Your siblings brought in a laptop and they let me watch movies and browse the internet. Tara's pretty cool."

"Mmmhmm… too bad she's going to loose badly at the races…" Allusius chuckled softly before he said 'you're mean.'

"She said she's running fifty-six seconds at the moment. Also, she says that she's working every day."

"So?" Kaoru yawned and she then snuggled deeper into his clothing before Allusius just kept rubbing small circles on her back.

"I'm coming for all of them. Me and Aoshi are gonna do them bad…And you too right?"

"Of course." He said confidently and Kaoru just said, 'hmm' before she laid her head back down and Allusius told her to get some shut eye.

"I was, but you're talking to me. Yawn, it's rude to not listen." Allusius said 'polite ass' before she shrugged her shoulders and Allusius said that he was going to just sing to himself.

"Hey, go for it. It'll put me to sleep faster."

Kaoru silenced her words and she yawned again before she lowered her eyes shut and she heard Allusius begin to sing softly as a lullaby for her. With a few words, she was fast asleep, but Allusius didn't stop singing for her there. He kept singing the song for her and it sent her deeper into her tired slumber, his voice sweet and relaxing to her ears. He knew the song wasn't exactly a lullaby, but hey. It's Kaoru we're talking about. Her lullabies aren't exactly sweet and soothing in her head.

"I never knew
I never knew that everything was falling through
That everyone I knew was waiting on a cue
To turn and run when all I needed was the truth
But that's how it's got to be
It's coming down to nothing more than apathy
I'd rather run the other way than stay and see
The smoke and who's still standing when it clears…"

(KxK)

Noon
Kamiya Residency
Kitchen

"Daddy, why do you always make her feel that way! Why can't you just support her and let her have your trust!"

"Aoshi, don't bring this to me right now. Now is not the time."

"Now is a perfect time to talk about this. It's just you and me. I know what's going on, nobody else does. There's nobody's opinion in this. Just ours."

Shinji sat down at the kitchen table and as Aoshi glared at him, he simply ignored him and continued working on the bills that were in front of him. Aoshi pushed the bills off the table with one swipe of his arm and Shinji said, "Aoshi, what the hell!"

"Talk to me and answer my question! Why don't you support Kaoru! She's bad enough broken because Kenshin's playing with her fucking head! Now you want to come and just say you don't care! What the fuck is wrong with you!"

"Excuse me! I am her father, Aoshi! Don't you dare come in here and curse at me as if you're my wife or something! You don't have the right!"

"I do have the right to care about Kaoru's mental well being! And if mom was here, she'd do the same thing!"

"If your mother was here, this wouldn't be happening, Aoshi. End of that discussion." Aoshi glared harder at him and as Shinji just stared up into his eyes with his own icy gaze, he let out a sigh and he began to pick up his things.

"What do you want from me, Aoshi? I don't have time for this! I have to pay these hospital bills and I also have to pay a car damage bill that is all from Kaoru. Medication for her, bandages, new paint job, new tires, there's also clothes on this and weapons. All from just Kaoru."

"What the hell is the point, father!"

"The point is that this is about fifty-thousand-dollars! All in a two-month span! This isn't right at all!"

"IS MONEY ALL YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT RIGHT NOW! YOU ARE A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE; THAT'S GODDAMN CHUMP CHANGE FOR YOU!"

"Money is no issue in this and you damn well know it! The problem is that this is just too much! It's not needed for her to be like this! And you and those other two retards are hiding it! And whoever this Allusius boy really is, he's about to be shut down as well."

"What do you mean, shut down?" Aoshi arched his eyebrow as he sat down and then Shinji just 'hmphed and he said 'why should I tell you?'

"So I can ask you afterward what kind of way you want Kaoru to blow up in your face."

It was now Shinji's turn to arch his eyebrow as Aoshi just put his hands out and said 'your choice, old man.'

"You're saying that that child will really snap on me for him?"

"He's been with her for one full year. He's basically her other-half right now if you think about it. Whatever she does, he rationalizes it first. Kaoru's tame right now, considering the stories I've heard about her."

"Really now? What kind of stories did you hear? That she skipped school? That she partied hard and had to be carried home? The minor things in life for you guys?"

"Actually," Aoshi replied, "She was violent. Only skipped once or twice, but from what they've told me, she put a lot of people in the hospital."

"… boys or girls?"

"Co-ed." Aoshi sang softly and Shinji just shook his head and said 'all the more reason to end this now.'

"You think so. She won't."

"I don't care what she thinks anymore, Aoshi! What don't you understand about the fact that I am her father and I am going to kill her before she does it herself!"

"Because she's not killing herself! You are with your words! All that hurtful stuff you've been saying to her over the phone! How can you tell her that she's killing you! You don't say shit like that to a person who needs you! You told her that she was crazy! Now she really is thinking that! I had to have her checked before at the club last night when we took her to feel happy, she lost it! And another thing! Just who are you supporting! Her, or Kenshin!"

"Look here, Aoshi. Kenshin doesn't lie to me—"

"He's a fucking coward!"

Aoshi's voice echoed through the whole room and it seemed to travel other places as he had slammed his hands ont eh table and he looked at his father dead in the eyes. Shinji wasn't too much fazed by it. After all, Aoshi was his son. He had seen this side of him before and he was used to it. But the thing that mostly surprised him was that Aoshi was more serious than ever before.

"He's some boy who lied to her, okay! He doesn't lie to you, but he did lie to her! He left her alone in Italy when she wanted to hear from him! He left her empty promises before she left! You think he's some saint who's looking out for her well being! If he's looking out for her, why did he make her do all these things in the first place!"

"He's not the cause of this, Aoshi!"

"Yes he is, yes he is, yes he is! And I will stand by this until the day I die! If we argue about this for years to come, I will never EVER say that Kenshin wasn't the cause. Because if he wasn't the cause of this, they'd still be together now."

"You know damn well what went wrong, and right now you need to stop."

"How can you not defend your own blood, father! Kaoru is your flesh and blood! She's your favorite, isn't she! She told me that you don't love her anymore and now that she's not your child! Why does she think that! Because you don't tell her what she needs to hear to feel better inside!"

"You act as if Kaoru is five fucking years old! Kaoru is seventeen and she's basically an adult! Why the fuck should I bust my ass to make her feel happy! She obviously doesn't care!"

"IF SHE DIDN'T CARE, SHE WOULDN'T CRY AND YOU KNOW IT! I AM TIRED OF SEEING HER SOB HER HEART AWAY FOR NOTHING!"

Shinji's eyes widened as he saw something that he'd never seen on his son in a very very long time… tears. Real, tears were pouring down Aoshi's face and he was glaring with hurt and anger at his father as he balled his fists up tightly and he breathed deep.

"She cries every time she thinks about it. She sobs like she's lost mom again. Why is she crying like that? Why? She should never have to cry like that. Kaoru is your daughter, and she doesn't even know what to do with herself. It's bad enough that Kenshin broke up with her when she needed him most and he did it because he couldn't handle what she was going to give him."

"That's not true, Aoshi! Do you know the full story!"

"I know he left her on the steps crying because he wanted to take some time! He didn't want time! He's a coward, a fool, a punk! He's not a man and if you dare say he is, I myself will attack you! No man should ever leave the love of his life hanging! Don't you think that I should know this!" Shinji kept silent as Aoshi spoke his mind and his tears kept pouring, his voice strained as he was trying to hold his tears back.

"I lost Misao because I thought I loved somebody else. But I realized that she wasn't the one and I have Misao back. I'm never going to let her go again. That's what true love is. When you can admit mistakes and go back to the person you love to fix it and make things right again.

"Kenshin tried that at the club, but he didn't make it right. Making out makes things right again? Making her cry at the bar makes things right? She told me all of what he said to her and she told me how he tried to say that he still truly loved her. But I thank God himself every—single—day that Kaoru is smart and that she knows damn well how to see through people."

"Aoshi… you're really hurt over this."

"DAMN RIGHT I AM! SHE IS MY SISTER AND SHE'S TOLD HERSELF THAT HER FATHER IS GONE! YOU'RE NOT IN HER LIFE ANYMORE!"

"How can you say that!"

"By looking at how you treat the situation! You don't say all those things to her! That she's killing you, that she's crazy, that you won't go for her when she's shot. You said that she's reckless, that's she worse than other people, that she's some lying dog. How can you call her a dog? A lying one at that? Where do you get off? Is this how the Kamiya family treats their situations now?"

"Aoshi, don't disrespect your family like this!"

"My family is a fucking joke! The Kamiya side is a joke if this is what goes on! And from what I've gathered by talking to sobo(grandmother), it's true! Kono kazoku ha kanojo o sakeru koto o kokoromi ta tabi ni totemo fumeiyo no tame no de aru! choudo Kaoru ga haha no you choudo de aru node, hito sore no tame no kanojo o sakeru koto ga dekiru koto o imi shi nai! watashi ha Kamiya kazoku ga Loire kazoku o fuun na deki goto no ikutsu ka no tame ni kousei konoma nai, sou nani ka. koto o shitte iru! kodomo o hakai suru tame ni ka. sore o made tora nakere ba nara nai!(This family is a fucking disgrace for every time they've tried to shun her! Just because Kaoru is just like mother, doesn't mean you guys can shun her for it! I know the Kamiya family doesn't like the Loire family just because of some of their unfortunate events, but so what! You have to take it as far as to destroy a child!)"

"Stay in your place as a child!"

"Not when I know that there's another child out there who needs you! Why don't you just go to her! Stop the bullshit, dad! Just fucking stop!"

SMACK

Aoshi wasn't too fazed, but he did widen his eyes and hold his cheek as his father's hand had went across his face. Shinji breathed hard and as he had started to yell at Aoshi, Aoshi blocked all the words out as he wiped his lip and he rubbed his stinging cheek.

"You can't dare come here and talk like that! I won't have it! And if she did send you, then tell her too! You two are so fucking disobedient! Why can't you just follow the Kamiya way, huh! What's so hard about following the Kamiya way!"

"… because we're not Kamiyas."

"Excuse me!" Shinji asked him full of rage and disbelief. Aoshi looked up with a sudden mischievous grin and then he said, 'that's right.'

"We're not Kamiyas! That must be the reason! We don't act like we're apart of this family, and our beliefs are completely different from the Kamiya way! That's why we're not Kamiyas! In fact, we were never Kamiyas to begin with! Mom always told me that I was a Loire and that Kaoru was one too!"

"So just what are you trying to say to me?"

"I'm trying to say… that we're out!" Aoshi began to laugh as he said it and he opened his wallet and pulled out a family card. He put it down and he just shook his head before he pulled out a paper from his pocket as well.

"What do you mean out? How can you just back out of a family?"

"It's so simple! Instead of us just backing out of both sides, we're going to the other side. I'm a Loire now, Shinji. And Kaoru is too. That paper is from her. Whoo, I should have thought of this earlier! Man, Kaoru was right when she said that in her e-mail from Italy!"

"Aoshi, stop it and be serious."

"Oh, but I am. I, Aoshi Kamiya, am officially, from this day, Aoshi Loire." He got close to his father's face as he leaned over the table and he just glared at him as he said his words.

"You don't want to support her, we don't want to be under you. We'll just talk to some family and we'll be set under mom's name. I'm tired of her crying, and frankly, this is the only way fit. So you can complain all you want and tell me not to, but it's how it's going to be. We'll write it on all our schoolwork, change our phonebook names, we'll even tell everybody what it is. I'm tired of this and I've just laid my foot down."

"Who do you think you are? You're not her father, so you can't call the shots for her!"

"I'm not her father, but I'm the only person who can help her right now. So I'll see you around, Mr. Kamiya. I need to go and see if Kaoru went home yet."

"Home?" Shinji asked as Aoshi turned and began to walk out.

"Oh, yeah! She forgot to mention this because she knew it wasn't a good idea to tell you. Kaoru bought an apartment and that's where she's going to live from now on. Since you don't care about her, she's left the house and now, I have too. She'll see you at the last parent teacher conference before graduation or something. There's one two weeks from now for Kaoru. I'm just going to stay on campus and come to her when I head back for weekends… well, ja!"

Shinji was outraged as Aoshi strode off humming to himself and heading towards the door, the words of Kaoru's song on his lips as he started to sing just to spite his father.

"If you leave this house, don't you ever expect to come back!"

"That's the point of us leaving old man! We know when we're not wanted!"

As the door slammed shut, Shinji punched the table and cursed for letting it get out of hand that way. He sat down after getting ice for his fist and as he opened the paper before he set it down and he began to read it. Instantly, he knew that Aoshi's words were true. His heart broke as he saw the teardrop stains on the paper.

Dear Daddy,

Hey, it's Kaoru. Um… I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for everything that I've done to cause you some kind of stress and harm. I know that I'm not the best child in the world, and I know that I'm causing you shame. I don't mean to, but I guess that I can't help it.

I also want you to know that I don't think I'm crazy. But I guess you know me better than I do myself, huh? If I really am, then I'll just try to take medicine for it. I'll do anything just to have you love me again. It… it hurts me to know that you're angry with me and I want to make things better.

Genia tells me that you've talked to Kenshin and that he's been telling you things. I just want to tell you that Kenshin doesn't know what's going on, so please don't listen to him? If you do, that's your decision, but I just wanted you to know that I'm your blood and what I say on the matter is the most truth that you'll get.

Because you can't stand to see me this way, I'll make ur life easier and just leave. Me and Aoshi have decided that since our ways aren't Kamiya material, as that bitch of a grandmother said to us when she called, that we're going to the Loire side and staying there. It'll make life easier on your and you'll be able to raise Yahiko with the Kamiya morals. He's still young, so he's all yours now.

I hope that later on in the year we'll be able to talk. I'm not expecting you to, but it'd be nice. And Allusius is leaving in two days to go back home. He said that maybe it was his fault and he should leave to make things better. And Michael is going back home too. His father was just as mad as you, but he thinks that it's best anyways.

I hope that you'll be better and the stress will leave you soon. Tell Yahiko that I'll see him on Wednesday and Friday when Genia has him with her at the mall to get some things for him. I really love you daddy and I hope you'll be able to love me again too.

XoxoXoxo
-Kaoru-

Shinji sat down and as he turned it over on the back, he saw that there was more writing. It wasn't from Kaoru, thought. To his surprise, it was from Allusius himself. As he read it, he felt even worse about it and he decided that he was going to shower it off.

-To Mr. Kamiya-

Look, I don't know what you're trying to get by making Kaoru feel like dirt, but whatever it is isn't worth your daughter's heart. I know that me coming here has made things worse and that's why I'm leaving to at least give things a start to get them better again.

I don't understand how you can say things to her like this, but she tells me it's the Kamiya way. Whatever way that is isn't good for Kaoru, so drop it. You could at least show her some love instead of giving her all that hatred!

Tell that redhead to stop telling you what his opinion is. If he wants to give his opinion on something, tell him to give it on what he was doing when he let her alone. I don't give a damn if you don't like me for this, but I hate Kenshin. You shouldn't want him for your daughter. That's just my opinion, and you can let him know if you want.

That's all I really have to say. Give Kaoru some love and stop shunning her. You don't know how bad that it breaks her heart when she thinks about it. She… she won't stop crying.

-Allusius-

(KxK)

"Hey, what's going on with you, Genia? Why are you panicking like that? Did something happen?"

"Aosh and Kaoru… they just left the Kamiya family, Misao. He says that he's a Loire now. He won't even say his last name right. It's Aoshi Loire this, Aoshi Loire that. He's really gone and Kaoru left with him… I'm worried."

"Oh my god… I didn't think he was serious, Genia!"

"I didn't think so either! I thought it was just drunk words! But he really stuck by it! He's here getting all Kaoru's clothes and all her school things! You should see the suitcase he has for it; its huge! And he has boxes! Kaoru's really moving out, Misao! She's going to live on her own with Tytto!"

"And your father didn't say anything."

"… He doesn't know what to say for it."

Misao frowned as she drove towards Kenshin's house and she turned the corner in her mini cooper. Aoshi hated the car, but he bought it for her birthday anyway since she was in love with it. As she pulled up to his house and she parked, she slipped her sandals back on and she got her little back pack with the cute cat ears.

"Let's get this over with." She mumbled to herself and she picked up a big manila envelope with things inside. She got out the car and then she fixed her short shorts before she looked at herself in the window. Her hair was tied up in a mid-way ponytail and she was wearing pink short shorts and a white zip-up hoodie with the sleeves up from the Victoria Secret's Pink line. On her feet were some slippers and she had her pink RAZOR to match.

"Not exactly something Aoshi would approve, but what the hell. I'm here already"

She jogged up to the door and she rang the doorbell before she began to rock on the heels on her feet. She hummed quietly and as she knocked this time and rang, she saw a light come on in the main hall with voices laughing. Misao shook the hair from her eyes before she gave a smile as the porch light turned on.

"Time to be nice." She sighed and then she gave a cheerful smile as the door opened and Soujiro's blue-brown eyes came into view as he saw his brown hair was slightly ruffled and he looked as if he was doing something wrong.

"H-hey, Misao."

"Hi! Are you the only one home?" she asked politely and she put her arms behind her back with a smile.

"Nah, Kenshin's here with Josue and Tommy. You wanna come in for a minute?"

"Yeah; I gotta give Kenshin something."

Misao walked in with Soujiro and he led her to the den where they all were playing video games. Kenshin was laughing hard with Josue as Tommy had a big smile since he was beating the opponents on the screen like crazy.

"Yo, Smash Brothers never gets old! Tommy, you are ridiculous!"

"I love this game! The way you can kill them is off the shit."

"Ahem." They stopped the game at the feminine voice and turned around to see Misao standing there with a soft smile on her face as she bowed and said, 'hey.'

"Hey, Misao. What brings you to the Himura residency? You're usually here with Genia and she's at home trying to talk to Aoshi from what she's told me."

"I just had to return something, Josue. That's all. Um… here, Kenshin."

Misao walked over to him and he said 'cute outfit' before she said, 'thanks!' and handed him what she was holding. She backed away and as Kenshin opened it, she got ready to leave.

"Take this back, Misao." Misao froze and she said 'dammit' under her breath before she turned around and put her hands together.

"What do you mean? I didn't bring it all this way for nothing, ya know!"

"Take it back." She winced at his tone before she sighed and got serious. The others were shocked at how her tone changed.

"Look, I didn't want to give it to you. I don't even want to talk to you, okay? This is what they told me to give because Kaoru's unable to drive at the moment."

"And why is she unable to drive?"

"Because she had a blood test today and she's slipping in and out of sleep. She's not doing to well after her little… break-down at the club, which happened to be with you."

Kenshin glared at her now as she glared back. She wasn't going to back down and as she put her hands at her sides, she turned around.

"You take it back if you don't want it. But just don't say that I didn't give it to you." Misao felt it hit her back and she said, 'ow!' as it stung.

"What the fuck's your problem!"

"I said take it back! I don't want it here! I'm telling you to take it out of this house!"

"You don't throw things at me, okay! I don't know where you get off doing that, but don't ever put your hands on me or throw something at me like I'm some dog, okay! You don't know me like that!"

"I don't care. Take it out my house." Misao grit her teeth as she balled her fists up and then she walked over to him and she picked it up. She dumped out all the contents before she looked at him evilly.

"This is all the things that Allusius said that she wanted to give back, okay? Since you're playing with her head, she's giving this shit back. Keep it all and give it to somebody else because I'm tired of you playing games with her and she's sick of you being all around her."

"I'm not playing games! What I said at the club was true!"

"Then why did you grab her like that! She looks at you and thinks that you're acting just like Enishi was before! She has bruises on her arm from you grabbing her like that!"

"I didn't mean to! She was trying to go off with that man—"

"She wanted to go to Aoshi. Kaoru was tipsy, but she's smart. She was going to him because she saw him raise his arm and motion her over. I understand you wanted to watch her, but you grabbed her and screamed at her as if she was your child. You don't have that right. Oh yeah, here's a note."

She threw it at him and as she tried to leave, Kenshin said 'wait.' And Soujiro held her in the room. Misao tried to get past him, but he said 'uh-uh' and he made her stay. She glared at him and said 'move!' before Kenshin began to read aloud the message.

"Dear Kenshin I just want to let you know that I am sick and tired of you and your fucking games. If you don't want to be with me, just stop playing fucking games because I'm not up for your bullshit anymore and I'm tired of you breaking my heart. Just who the fuck—Grrr forget it. I just want you to take all the stuff that you sent me because it's meaningless right now. So do what you want with it, but I don't want it. Sincerely, Kaoru… P.S. I'm no longer a Kamiya, I'm a Loire. So don't come looking for me around the house since I've moved out and I'm living on my own. You're horrible and I don't know what's happened to you."

"See? Now just let me go."

"Take it back, Misao." Kenshin sat down and as he began to write on the back of it, Misao said 'no!' and she tried to get through. Soujiro pushed her back and she pushed him before he said, "What's your deal, Makimachi! Just take it and say what happened!"

"No! You give it to her yourself!" Kenshin handed her the paper and she dropped it before she said, 'let me go home!'

"I have to study for a test on Monday, okay! Let me go home so I can do this and get it out the way for tonight!"

"Could you please just give it to her? That's all I'm asking, Misao. It's not even that hard! You could drop it off and leave without knowing. Just give it back."

"I SAID NO!"

Soujiro felt her kick his stomach and he bent forward in pain before she jumped over him low and she let out a scream of surprise as he raised forward and she was flipped. Kenshin gasped as she fell and she hit the floor hard. She had landed on her side and he heard a faint crack.

"Soujiro, what did you do!"

"I just rose up! Who the fuck told her to jump over me! I was just going to move! That's her mistake!"

"Soujiro, she's hurt! How's it her mistake!"

Misao let out a cry of pain as she got up and she bit back her tears as she held her wrist in pain. She glared at Soujiro and as she walked back, the two brothers said, 'whoa!' as she spun and kicked him in his ribs.

"Ouch! What the hell, Misao!"

"You wanna flip me, so just fight me, Soujiro!" she sniffed and then she went and pushed him again before swinging at him with her good fist. Soujiro said 'stop it' and as Misao kicked him again, he took her and he threw her onto the couch. Right onto her bad side.

"Soujiro, are you fucking nuts! Do you know who Aoshi is!" Josue asked as she let out a cry and she held her arm in pain. Josue tried to help her up, but she said 'let me go' as she began to cry for her body.

"Misao, are you okay?" Kenshin asked softly with Tommy. Misao got up and she began to limp towards the door.

"Soujiro, apologize!"

"I'm sorry, Misao."

"Mean it, damn you! Do you know who she's going to call!" Tommy said, fear laced on his voice as he shook Soujiro and made him dizzy. Kenshin told Misao to wait and let him get her some ice.

"No! This would've never happen if you just LET ME GO HOME! Keep away from me!" they followed her to the door and Josue opened it for her before she sniffed and cried out again for her arm and her hip.

"It hurts… it hurts so bad… I hate you Soujiro! You're terrible!"

"It's not like I meant to! Who the fuck jumps over somebody!"

"You wouldn't let me go, so that's what I had to do to get out! But you wanna rise up and flip me over!"

"Misao—"

"No! I'm telling my brothers and I'm telling Aoshi. You better watch your ass, Soujiro."

"Whatever, Misao. I apologized and if you don't accept it, then fine."

"You say it like you did it out of the sympathy! You said it because they told you to!" Misao leaned against the car and as she pulled out her cell phone, she pressed 4 and she put it to her ear.

"Uh-oh… she's calling Aoshi… he's gonna kill you, Soujiro." Soujiro just got annoyed and he rolled his eyes before Misao began to cry to the person she was talking to.

"Watashi ha watashi ga watashi no tekubi o kowashi ta koto o kangaeru! Watashi ha watashi no hidarite ga tsui te iru watashi no kuruma o unten deki nai! Watashi no tame ni koko ni ki nasai! Sore ha kizutsuku shitagatte warui joutai, watashi ha jibun jishin no baransu o toru koto ga deki nai!(I think I broke my wrist! I can't drive my car with my left hand! Please come here for me! It hurts so bad, I can't even balance myself!)"

Kenshin just sighed and he put his head in his hands as he sat on the steps and Josue told Misao to stop and just hang up. Misao said, 'shut up!' before she said 'please' and she hung up the phone.

"Who'd you call? Please tell me that you just called your grandfather." Tommy said in a hoping voice.

"You'll see when the person gets here… my wrist, how am I going to play tennis tomorrow! You ruined me, Soujiro! I hate you!"

Misao shut her car door in pain and as she thrashed about angrily, they watched her go nuts inside the car and only pray that she didn't call her boyfriend or her brothers. In all honesty, when Aoshi gets mad… he's the scariest person on earth.

(KxK)

"But Kaoru's scarier… look at her eyes, they're red. I'm surprise she didn't hit him yet"

"Josue, hush. Don't even try to instigate it."

Kaoru and Soujiro were screaming at each other as Misao held ice that Kaoru brought on her wrist. Tommy was holding Kaoru back as she yelled over his shoulder and she made sure that Soujiro heard every word.

"Where do you get off holding her anyway? What's Kenshin, your master or something! You should listen to what she says! She did something for me because I didn't even want to be near my house! Now I'm here because she's hurt! Look at her fucking arm! It's blue!"

"Next time she won't jump."

"I'll show you not to jump you mother—" Tommy said 'hey!' as she pushed his shoulder down and she jumped over him to get to Soujiro. Kaoru tackled him and as the two rolled around and hit each other, Misao gasped and she wiped her eyes to see if it was true.

"Yo! Kaoru never attacks dudes! She just leaped on his ass!"

"Stop gawking and help me, damn you!"

Kenshin and Josue got up before they went to help split them up. Kaoru wasn't backing down for anything as she growled and she sat on him and began to just attack him as he swung back. He hit her off and they started to roll again before Kenshin grabbed her and Josue and Tommy grabbed Kenshin.

"Let me go! He needs it! Let me go and don't ever touch me again!"

"Kaoru, you need to just relax—" Kaoru slammed her head back and it knocked his nose before he let go in pain. The other two let him go before the two at it again and Kaoru tripped him. Soujiro pulled her down with him and they just kept hitting each other. Kenshin saw Kaoru throw his arm behind his back and slam him in the grass as his foot was kicking at her back.

"That's enough! Genia, get your sister, man!" Genia, who had been leaning against her car the whole time, made sure that Kaoru was held before she went over and she grabbed her sister. Kaoru glared hard and as she told Misao to get in the driver's seat, Misao said, 'I'm sorry' since she thought Kaoru was mad at her.

"I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at the brothers who think holding women against their will is right. Wait till I tell Aoshi. You both are gonna get it."

"By who? Just him?"

"No. By all three of em'." Kaoru shut the car door and Genia led the way as they drove off and Kaoru said, 'assholes!' through the window. Soujiro rubbed his face and spit out dirt before he said, 'there was no backup!'

"You guys had fun watching me!"

"Dude, if you haven't noticed, that family knows people in all the right places. I'm not trying to get caught on the street and just have my ass pummeled by some random people that they know."

"You're fucking gang leaders!"

"Of just one gang. There are a lot of gangs out there, ya know. Don't wanna get my gang in trouble."

"You're so fucking—Grrr!"

Soujiro stormed into the house and as Kenshin just frowned and shrugged his shoulders, they followed him and turned the porch light off.

(KxK)

"Misao, stop crying right now."

"I'm trying! It hurts!"

Aoshi sighed softly as Tytto bandaged her wrist up and made sure the ice didn't slip off of her hip. Kaoru bandaged up her arm since she got a scrape from rolling around with him and Genia just sighed as she pushed ice onto Kaoru's cheek.

"You are such a tomboy, you little wannabe man."

"I'm not a wannabe man. I just wanted to kill em'. I've wanted to get at him for days now after his lapdog ways for Kenshin and the club. This just topped the icing on the hateful cake."

"Where's Allusius?" Aoshi asked and he said, 'ssssh' and he rubbed Misao's back as she sniffed and she leaned her head into his chest.

"He's plotting on his laptop by the window. Don't you see him over there with the ear piece and the palm pilot? Kid looks like Bill Gates."

Laughter went around and as they heard him begin to sing and end a call, he leaned his head back. The others kept talking and as he just sat there and spaced out singing, Kaoru kept one ear open to listen to him singing his own songs. Soon, she got up and she walked over to him as she watched his eyes stare up.

"You want me to always remember
And I promise I always will
You'll watch and you'll wait for my return
And I promise I'm coming home…" As he kept singing, Kaoru just listened quietly and she stared out the window.

"Sometimes I don't know where I am, or who I'll be
Feels like I'm so far, far away, far away from home." Allusius sighed and as he mumbled, 'thank you, next is 99 with an anchor'Kaoru had to grin as she realized that him performing was drilled into his mind. As he started to sing the song with some emotion, Kaoru sighed.

"Don't be angry that I'm hurt. I gave him some bruises too, Llusi. It's okay to just vent out with words. You know I won't be angry." Allusius looked down at her with his gray eye open before the others said, 'whoa' as he started to scream the song now. He had never done it before, and now that he did it, they were amazed that he could make his voice that powerful.

"Allusius! Stop it and talk to me!"

"Every day you cried out my name
You said to me that you can't leave now!"

"Allusius, stop it!"

"Everything that comes to mind
Will help you find it the last time I see you!"

"I SAID STOP IT AND TALK TO ME!"

"Everything you want is over now!"

"TALK TO ME!"

"You want me to talk to you?" Kaoru glared at him and said, 'yes, damn you!' before Allusius sat up and he crossed his arms after putting his laptop on the floor.

"Okay. Let's talk. Let's talk about how you didn't tell me what happened at the club and I heard from a source there. Let's talk about how you said you wouldn't kiss Kenshin and he had you up against the wall. Let's talk about how you said that he wouldn't make you cry anymore and he made you shed tears in front of him at the bar. Let's talk about you thinking about that… that loser who almost killed you. Let's talk about what you're not telling me."

"I tell you everything, Allusius. But I didn't tell you about the club because… because…"

"Because what? Because I'd be disappointed? I'm more upset that you hid it from me than from you doing it! Yeah, to know that he's still making you cry annoys me to hell. And yes, to know that he put those bruises on your arms makes me want to slit his throat. But you lied to me, Kao. You only told me what you wanted to."

"Allusius, look at you! You have enough stress already! Why put on more!" Allusius just said, 'goodnight.' Before he grabbed his crutches and hobbled out the room. Kaoru threw a pillow at his head and yelled 'IDIOT!'

"Real mature, babe." Allusius said and he went and shut a door. Kaoru let out a frustrated scream and she grabbed her keys before she stormed out the house. They sat quietly looking at one another and once they heard tires skidding on the street and a deep engine moving away, they sighed.

"She's in a real triangle, boy. A complicated love triangle with a black boy and a japanese kid."

"Kid?" Michael said laughing.

"Kid. Until he can be a man, he's a kid."

(KxK)

"… So how does it feel to be almost free?"

"Don't know how it should feel. I guess I'm used to this place. I have space to myself, I've been thinking a lot, and they gave me a laptop! With internet at that, so I've been keeping myself good with current events. But I am excited to go places again."

"I see…what about your brother?"

"He got bailed out two months ago by his father. Daddy never liked me anyways, so I was just waiting out my sentence. I'm surprised they didn't give me thirty years."

"We wasted a lot of money on you, you know. You better be ready to do what you said once you get out of that place."

"Just trust me! I can do it. I've been in here with time to my-sel-elf."

"Your singing sucks. Anyways, you better know that your family's kinda rocky with you coming home. Your brother doesn't know what to do about it. He's been home-schooled and you have to be too in order to catch up. Your sister's the only one who's going to school again."

"Really? How is sis?"

"Doesn't matter…well, I'd better let you go. You have to get your time. I'll see you in a a few weeks when the call gets there to release you. You really excited to leave?"

"Hell yeah! I'll be able to go outside and breathe! It's fresh air, man! Fresh air! I can't wait to get out of this place! I swear I'm going to have so much fun when I get on the outside!"

"Calm down now and go back to your alone time. Goodbye Yukishirou."

"Goodbye, and for the last time I'm not using that last name right now. It's Enishi. Got it?"

"I don't care what to call you. You better just be ready to send that girl into the grave."

"Oh, trust me… I am ready… Hey, can you bring me some juice?"

Click!

R.S.: That was long. Longer than I expected, but oh well. I don't think this was that good. I think I confused myself in the middle of it.

Now you see that Enishi is going to come into this story. But who was he talking to? And what plan do they mean?

Kaoru and Kenshin are still fighting and now Allusius is mad at her as well. Is Kaoru ever going to get everybody happy? And what of Aoshi? He's in the middle now as well.

If nobody understands the beginning, its to show that Kaoru acts on boredom and impulses. When she wants to prove something, she will go to all feats to show it. Just as she was trying to do at the club. She was trying to show that she didn't need Kenshin and when she couldn't do it, she broke down. Its something that her mother does, and because she is her mother, she does it too.

What's going to happen next chapter? Who knows, but it all depends on me! Yay!

Next on: "Who'll raise you to heaven and drop you to hell"

Chapter Ten: I'm on a swing of crazy emotions

"He…he beat Soujiro before he left? How? He's on one foot!"

"The next fight is Kenshin versus Kaoru! Let's see a good one now!"

"Kaoru, run your fucking heart out right now! I swear to god if you don't run your heart out, to hell with the races! We're not training with Japan, we're training with ourselves! Now you just made it fucking hard on yourself!"

"You found who? … How the fuck does she know where you live? …Okay. I'm on my way."

"What's going on?"

"Kaoru's lying on Josue's steps with some bruises. I gotta go get her."

"They can't pick her up?"

"She's pointing a gun to shoot."