77. Experiment
Sano had to hand it to Kamatari. The man was a genius. One that had incredible acting skills.
At the beginning, he truly thought that Kenshin had finally screwed up his chances with Kaoru. This Kamatari guy seemed to be a winner. He was like the second perfect guy, or maybe as perfect as Kenshin was, for Kaoru. But Kamatari, unlike Kenshin, had an unfair—however one could define it—advantage: he knew Kaoru from way back. Kenshin didn't. No matter how long Kenshin had dated Kaoru. No matter how obsessed, devoted, enamored he was with her, he still didn't and couldn't know her like Kamatari did.
So when he saw this new guy and Kaoru hug a couple of weeks ago, Sano really thought Kenshin had definitely lost her.
Guess he was wrong—and that was a good thing. At least in this instance.
He knew that Kaoru was simply the one for Kenshin. She was the right girl for him. Only the stupid idiot was idiot enough to end things with her just because his undeserving ex had suddenly reappeared and wanted to oh-so-get-back together. For the life of him, Sano couldn't get into his brains why in the world Kenshin decided to listen to his ex and start dating her again. The woman had left him because she wanted to pursue her career. If she really cared about their relationship in the first place, she should have tried harder.
Whatever. She was back and annoying the crap out of everyone. Pity that Kenshin didn't notice—or maybe he did but he was doing nothing about it. The little bastard.
In any case, with Kamatari's presence, things were definitely turning extremely entertaining. Whether or not Kaoru noticed, her friendly-touchy-treatment toward Kamatari was driving Kenshin up against the wall. Or at least, it was making him ignore his current date, who had already asked him for the fourth time if he wanted lemonade.
Wearing a Cheshire grin, Sano simply continued observing. If his predictions were correct, by the end of the day, Kamatari's sneaky experiment was going to have a successful outcome.
One unsuspecting male individual, one unknown friendship to said unsuspecting male, and a couple of doses of kisses and hugs, and the final result was almost tangible: a jealous man who would most likely do anything to get what was his back.