Disclaimer: I shall never own Rurouni Kenshin. No matter how many candles
I light, how many rabbits I decapitate . . .
Argg! I have WAY to many ideas for new stories! I can't come up with any for this one! I think im just gonna do the wedding then be done with this story. Well, Kenji's gonna be born to but I still don't know how im gonna do that . . .
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"So . . . this is all you found?" Kaoru asked. She was leaning against the dojo gate walls and had just finished reading the letter left behind. Sano nodded and waited for her response.
"Hai, so . . . what do we do about it?" Sano asked with curiosity.
Kaoru looked at the letter hard and frowned. After a few minutes of silence, she crumbled the letter up and tossed it over her shoulder. "We do nothing about it," she stated simply.
"What!? Shouldn't we stop her? I mean, from the way that letter was written it seemed like she was a very lonely and depressed person and-"
"I repeat! We do NOTHING about it!" she shouted. *Uh-oh, mood swing! Calm down Kaoru . . . * she told herself. Then, remembering Sano wanted to talk to her about something else, she asked him what it was he wanted. She cocked her head to the side when she saw Sano rub the back of his head and look at the sky. When he began to whistle, she knew what was coming.
"Sano!" she scolded, " You didn't gamble your house again did you!"
"I hadn't no moneys . . ." Sano replied, putting his finger to his mouth and gave her puppy eyes.
"You had better suck those eyeballs back into your head before I do it for you!" she yelled.
"Now, Missy, maybe you should calm down . . ."
"DON'T you Missy ME Mister!" Kaoru yelled. She raised her finger and began poking Sano on the chest, forcing him to back up. "I have told you time and time again to stop gambling your valuables! Which includes money!"
Unable to help himself, Sano said "I can't gamble anything valuable? Well . . . does that mean I can gamble you . . . perhaps?"
Kaoru began to boil with anger. Taking one large step forward, Kaoru rolled up the sleeve of her kimono. "WHY YOU LOUSY NO GOOD FREELOADING JERK! I OUTTA . . .!"
Knowing what was about to happen, Sano closed his eyes and turned away, shielding his head. He began to whimper. He waited a while, prepared for the sting of a smack or a bokken or something. After hunching over a few moments, he realized the pain was never going to come. He opened his eyes to see Kaoru being held back by Kenshin. She was grunting and doing everything in her power to be set free so she could smack Sano around. Fortunately for Sanosuke, Kenshin was a lot stronger.
"Kenshin! Let me go!" Kaoru yelled, struggling in his arms. With every wave of her flailing arms, Kenshin was smacked in the face.
"Kaoru- ORO!-you-ORO!-really-ORO!-need to-ORO!- calm down!-ORO!!!!!!!" Kenshin said, trying to evade her attempts to escape form his grasp.
"I'm out of here!" Sano yelled, running. He almost ran for the gate but upon realizing he had no where else to go to other than the Akebeko, he decided against it. Well, for one, he sort of figured Tae was still mad and that he loved his poor life, he ran for his once occupied room.
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"OW!" Kenshin yelped as the cool washcloth touched one of his bruises. The Kenshin-gumi where sitting in the sitting room (whatever the hell that is) and Kaoru was cleaning his face from the marks left earlier from Sano's gambling accidents.
"I'm sorry Kenshin . . . I didn't mean to hurt you. . ." She apologized. *Curse these damn mood swings! * Kaoru thought miserably, * First, you ruin my social life! Now your making me hit my own fiancee! * (A/N Oh, yeah right! Like you weren't hitting Kenshin before . . .)
"Man, busu. You must've had a lot of stress on you to give Kenshin a black eye like that one! My God, it's HUGE!" Yahiko said looking Kenshin in the eye. Kenshin quickly covered his with his hand, trying to hide the swelling bruise. Kaoru suddenly stood up. Everyone looked at her with surprise, wondering why she had done this.
"Crud! The wedding! Oh, we forgot about the wedding!" she cried, repeatedly smacking herself on the side of her head.
"ORO! We forgot about the wedding!"
"Damn! We forgot about the wedding!"
"You mean you forgot about the wedding-OW! I mean, we forgot about the wedding!"
(A/N Don't ask me why I did that. To be honest, I don't even know why . . .)
They all glanced at each other, trying to figure out what to do next.
"Kenshin! You know one of your faults? You can save the world but you can't remember your own wedding!" Sano said, trying to place the blame on him.
"Me!" Kenshin stated defensively, " Um. . . . uh . . . well, Kaoru never went out to look for a nice shrine for us to be married at, that she didn't!"
"Don't you even try blaming this all on me Kenshin!" Kaoru fired back, "Who's the pregnant one here? And WHO was supposed to ask around to find out what date we were supposed to be married on?" Both of them turned to Sano who raised his hands in defense.
"Unh-uh! This is YOUR wedding! You two are the responsible ones here! Everyone who plays a major role in the wedding has a responsibility to this and I'm only . . ."
"The best man?" Kenshin asked, rolling his eyes.
"That's right! I mean, no, uh, yes?" Sano said totally in a state of confusion.
"Who else would I pick to be the best man?" Kenshin asked, surprised at Sano's stupidity.
"Aoshi?" .
"To solitary," Kaoru said.
"Yahiko?"
"Ring bearer," Kenshin said with no emotion.
"Uh . . . um . . . Saitou?" Sano asked.
"Saitou?! Sano, why don't you want to be the best man for my wedding?" Kenshin asked.
"You know me! I might get drunk and have a hangover on your wedding day. You wouldn't feel to pretty if I just walked up and gave Kaoru a big smooch in font of everyone, would ya?"
"You kiss me and I'll . . .!" Kaoru said, her eyes turning into tiny slits.
"Anyway . . ." Kenshin said, trying to regain control of this situation, " who's paying for the this thing?"
Kaoru pointed to Sano who pointed to Kenshin who pointed back to Kaoru.
"I have no money! Why do you think I gambled my house in the first place?!"
"Because you're a baka! Why else?"
"Well, I'm still just a penny-less wanderer that I am!"
"Oh, so you two expect for the woman to pay for the wedding. I see how you are!"
Yahiko, feeling forgotten, just stared at the three adults fighting with each. He sighed, thinking he and Yutaro got along better than this. He sat there for another two minutes watching the adults bicker back and forth.
"I have a child to raise here!" Kaoru yelled.
"You mean our child, right?" Kenshin asked softly. Kaoru let out a growl and Kenshin told her it was her child.
"Please, Kaoru, I think you could spare a few thousand yen for your wedding!" Sano said, rolling his eyes.
"I barely have 5 yen in the bank!" Kaoru yelled.
"Sanosuke, you are NOT helping!" Kenshin said, giving Sano a sarcastic glare.
"Neither are you! I'm the only one bringing in money here! And you! The three of you just sit around while I go out giving tendo lessons! Don't tell me how to use my money when you don't have enough money to pay for one tiny itsy bitsy grain of SAND!" Kaoru yelled at Sanosuke.
Yahiko looked from one adult to the other, wondering when they were going to quit. He was actually surprised Kenshin was fighting. Kenshin was usually the one to resolve things like this but this time he got into it himself.
"Are you making fun of the way I live my life!" Sano asked with fury.
"No, I'm CRITICIZING you on how you live your life! Gambling you house . . . you are such a baka!" Kaoru fired at him. Kenshin thought maybe if he could go Battousai, he could control the situation once more.
"Now, listen here . . ."
"OH, SHUT UP BATTOUSAI!" Kaoru and Sano both yelled at him. And guess what? He actually backed down and went back to being Kenshin again.
Yahiko cocked his head to the side, still waiting for the fighting to cease. His stomache began to rumble but he couldn't here it. The three older people were to busy yelling at each and going from subject to subject so he couldn't here it. Yahiko quickly ran to the kitchen. Hurriedly, he grabbed some leftovers and ran back into the sitting room so he wouldn't miss anything. Getting comfortable, Yahiko placed his food on the floor and sat on a tatami mat. He grabbed Kenshin and Kaoru's mats and laid them side to side. He heard Sano say something about him knowing the two poorest people in the world and then heard a smack as Kaoru's hand met Sano's face. Yahiko began to arrange the mats so could lay down. He picked up his chopsticks and began to eat, watching the battle in awe.
"You have no room to be calling anyone poor! You haven't a dime in your name and here you are mocking us? Please!"
"Kenshin's just as poor as me! I don't exactly see him bringing in the mother load either!"
"Sano, how come you always find a way to turn this fight on me?" Kenshin asked, both insulted and infuriated.
"Oh, be quiet Kenshin!" Kaoru said, turning in his direction, "For once, he's right! What do you do for a living? Hm? Answer that for me, SWEETIE!"
"I cook, I clean, and I work my fingers to the bone!" Kenshin argued.
"In other words, you try to be like a girl," Sano simply stated. Yahiko laughed at this statement and started choking on his rice. He quickly gulped it down so he wouldn't miss anymore of the action.
"Oh, so now your saying my work is girl chores?" Kenshin asked turning to Sano.
"Not just that. Your long, red hair makes you look like a girl," Sano stated.
"Not to mention you kind of have a girls body frame Kenshin. Your one of the skinniest people I know of," Kaoru stated.
"Of course, YOU would know that wouldn't you?" Kenshin said sarcastically. Kaoru looked quite offended.
"Kenshin, just because she's gone to bed with you doesn't mean that she's the only one who sees this! No offense or anything, but when I first saw you, I thought you were a woman!" Sano chimed in.
Yahiko laid back on the mats, trying to get comfortable. This was more entertaining than watching Sano run out the door of the Akebeko when he told Tae he had no money after he ate and she began throwing things at him.
"Sano, you would know what a woman would look like to, now wouldn't you? You find some woman to get horny with every weekend!" Kaoru clearly stated towards him.
"Hey! I am loyal to the fox, not all those other people out there!" Sano said, insulted.
"Loyal to the fox my fucking foot!" Kaoru said.
"That's right!"
"Oh, please! No man is ALWAYS loyal to their most loved one," Kenshin said then turned to Kaoru, " Not even me. I'm sorry for letting Rudiko . . .you know . . ."
"Oh, Kenshin!" Kaoru said.
"Oh, for the love of Mike! Could we please not do this now!" Sano yelled.
"Well, if you don't want to see your friends express their love for each other, then you can just go to your room mister!" Kaoru said.
"WHAT?! You can't tell me what to do!"
"March!" Kaoru yelled, pointing her finger in the direction of his room.
"I don't have to take this!" Sano said, pulling up his pants. He stomped to the dorrway and turn around and said, " I'm going to my room!"
"Well, FINE! Come on Kenshin! We're going to bed!" Kaoru said.
As the adults left, Yahiko looked around. *Is it over already? Man! It was just getting good too! * he whined in his head.
"Oh, well! At least I get to stay up all night without busu telling me to-"
"GO TO BED YAHIKO!"
"Aw!"
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Hey guys! Did you like it? I tried to make up for the shortness of the other chapter by making this one slightly longer than the other ones. Review and tell me what you think! P.S., I haven't looked at the reviews since I posted chapter 16, so I'll be getting to those later! Until next time!
Argg! I have WAY to many ideas for new stories! I can't come up with any for this one! I think im just gonna do the wedding then be done with this story. Well, Kenji's gonna be born to but I still don't know how im gonna do that . . .
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"So . . . this is all you found?" Kaoru asked. She was leaning against the dojo gate walls and had just finished reading the letter left behind. Sano nodded and waited for her response.
"Hai, so . . . what do we do about it?" Sano asked with curiosity.
Kaoru looked at the letter hard and frowned. After a few minutes of silence, she crumbled the letter up and tossed it over her shoulder. "We do nothing about it," she stated simply.
"What!? Shouldn't we stop her? I mean, from the way that letter was written it seemed like she was a very lonely and depressed person and-"
"I repeat! We do NOTHING about it!" she shouted. *Uh-oh, mood swing! Calm down Kaoru . . . * she told herself. Then, remembering Sano wanted to talk to her about something else, she asked him what it was he wanted. She cocked her head to the side when she saw Sano rub the back of his head and look at the sky. When he began to whistle, she knew what was coming.
"Sano!" she scolded, " You didn't gamble your house again did you!"
"I hadn't no moneys . . ." Sano replied, putting his finger to his mouth and gave her puppy eyes.
"You had better suck those eyeballs back into your head before I do it for you!" she yelled.
"Now, Missy, maybe you should calm down . . ."
"DON'T you Missy ME Mister!" Kaoru yelled. She raised her finger and began poking Sano on the chest, forcing him to back up. "I have told you time and time again to stop gambling your valuables! Which includes money!"
Unable to help himself, Sano said "I can't gamble anything valuable? Well . . . does that mean I can gamble you . . . perhaps?"
Kaoru began to boil with anger. Taking one large step forward, Kaoru rolled up the sleeve of her kimono. "WHY YOU LOUSY NO GOOD FREELOADING JERK! I OUTTA . . .!"
Knowing what was about to happen, Sano closed his eyes and turned away, shielding his head. He began to whimper. He waited a while, prepared for the sting of a smack or a bokken or something. After hunching over a few moments, he realized the pain was never going to come. He opened his eyes to see Kaoru being held back by Kenshin. She was grunting and doing everything in her power to be set free so she could smack Sano around. Fortunately for Sanosuke, Kenshin was a lot stronger.
"Kenshin! Let me go!" Kaoru yelled, struggling in his arms. With every wave of her flailing arms, Kenshin was smacked in the face.
"Kaoru- ORO!-you-ORO!-really-ORO!-need to-ORO!- calm down!-ORO!!!!!!!" Kenshin said, trying to evade her attempts to escape form his grasp.
"I'm out of here!" Sano yelled, running. He almost ran for the gate but upon realizing he had no where else to go to other than the Akebeko, he decided against it. Well, for one, he sort of figured Tae was still mad and that he loved his poor life, he ran for his once occupied room.
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"OW!" Kenshin yelped as the cool washcloth touched one of his bruises. The Kenshin-gumi where sitting in the sitting room (whatever the hell that is) and Kaoru was cleaning his face from the marks left earlier from Sano's gambling accidents.
"I'm sorry Kenshin . . . I didn't mean to hurt you. . ." She apologized. *Curse these damn mood swings! * Kaoru thought miserably, * First, you ruin my social life! Now your making me hit my own fiancee! * (A/N Oh, yeah right! Like you weren't hitting Kenshin before . . .)
"Man, busu. You must've had a lot of stress on you to give Kenshin a black eye like that one! My God, it's HUGE!" Yahiko said looking Kenshin in the eye. Kenshin quickly covered his with his hand, trying to hide the swelling bruise. Kaoru suddenly stood up. Everyone looked at her with surprise, wondering why she had done this.
"Crud! The wedding! Oh, we forgot about the wedding!" she cried, repeatedly smacking herself on the side of her head.
"ORO! We forgot about the wedding!"
"Damn! We forgot about the wedding!"
"You mean you forgot about the wedding-OW! I mean, we forgot about the wedding!"
(A/N Don't ask me why I did that. To be honest, I don't even know why . . .)
They all glanced at each other, trying to figure out what to do next.
"Kenshin! You know one of your faults? You can save the world but you can't remember your own wedding!" Sano said, trying to place the blame on him.
"Me!" Kenshin stated defensively, " Um. . . . uh . . . well, Kaoru never went out to look for a nice shrine for us to be married at, that she didn't!"
"Don't you even try blaming this all on me Kenshin!" Kaoru fired back, "Who's the pregnant one here? And WHO was supposed to ask around to find out what date we were supposed to be married on?" Both of them turned to Sano who raised his hands in defense.
"Unh-uh! This is YOUR wedding! You two are the responsible ones here! Everyone who plays a major role in the wedding has a responsibility to this and I'm only . . ."
"The best man?" Kenshin asked, rolling his eyes.
"That's right! I mean, no, uh, yes?" Sano said totally in a state of confusion.
"Who else would I pick to be the best man?" Kenshin asked, surprised at Sano's stupidity.
"Aoshi?" .
"To solitary," Kaoru said.
"Yahiko?"
"Ring bearer," Kenshin said with no emotion.
"Uh . . . um . . . Saitou?" Sano asked.
"Saitou?! Sano, why don't you want to be the best man for my wedding?" Kenshin asked.
"You know me! I might get drunk and have a hangover on your wedding day. You wouldn't feel to pretty if I just walked up and gave Kaoru a big smooch in font of everyone, would ya?"
"You kiss me and I'll . . .!" Kaoru said, her eyes turning into tiny slits.
"Anyway . . ." Kenshin said, trying to regain control of this situation, " who's paying for the this thing?"
Kaoru pointed to Sano who pointed to Kenshin who pointed back to Kaoru.
"I have no money! Why do you think I gambled my house in the first place?!"
"Because you're a baka! Why else?"
"Well, I'm still just a penny-less wanderer that I am!"
"Oh, so you two expect for the woman to pay for the wedding. I see how you are!"
Yahiko, feeling forgotten, just stared at the three adults fighting with each. He sighed, thinking he and Yutaro got along better than this. He sat there for another two minutes watching the adults bicker back and forth.
"I have a child to raise here!" Kaoru yelled.
"You mean our child, right?" Kenshin asked softly. Kaoru let out a growl and Kenshin told her it was her child.
"Please, Kaoru, I think you could spare a few thousand yen for your wedding!" Sano said, rolling his eyes.
"I barely have 5 yen in the bank!" Kaoru yelled.
"Sanosuke, you are NOT helping!" Kenshin said, giving Sano a sarcastic glare.
"Neither are you! I'm the only one bringing in money here! And you! The three of you just sit around while I go out giving tendo lessons! Don't tell me how to use my money when you don't have enough money to pay for one tiny itsy bitsy grain of SAND!" Kaoru yelled at Sanosuke.
Yahiko looked from one adult to the other, wondering when they were going to quit. He was actually surprised Kenshin was fighting. Kenshin was usually the one to resolve things like this but this time he got into it himself.
"Are you making fun of the way I live my life!" Sano asked with fury.
"No, I'm CRITICIZING you on how you live your life! Gambling you house . . . you are such a baka!" Kaoru fired at him. Kenshin thought maybe if he could go Battousai, he could control the situation once more.
"Now, listen here . . ."
"OH, SHUT UP BATTOUSAI!" Kaoru and Sano both yelled at him. And guess what? He actually backed down and went back to being Kenshin again.
Yahiko cocked his head to the side, still waiting for the fighting to cease. His stomache began to rumble but he couldn't here it. The three older people were to busy yelling at each and going from subject to subject so he couldn't here it. Yahiko quickly ran to the kitchen. Hurriedly, he grabbed some leftovers and ran back into the sitting room so he wouldn't miss anything. Getting comfortable, Yahiko placed his food on the floor and sat on a tatami mat. He grabbed Kenshin and Kaoru's mats and laid them side to side. He heard Sano say something about him knowing the two poorest people in the world and then heard a smack as Kaoru's hand met Sano's face. Yahiko began to arrange the mats so could lay down. He picked up his chopsticks and began to eat, watching the battle in awe.
"You have no room to be calling anyone poor! You haven't a dime in your name and here you are mocking us? Please!"
"Kenshin's just as poor as me! I don't exactly see him bringing in the mother load either!"
"Sano, how come you always find a way to turn this fight on me?" Kenshin asked, both insulted and infuriated.
"Oh, be quiet Kenshin!" Kaoru said, turning in his direction, "For once, he's right! What do you do for a living? Hm? Answer that for me, SWEETIE!"
"I cook, I clean, and I work my fingers to the bone!" Kenshin argued.
"In other words, you try to be like a girl," Sano simply stated. Yahiko laughed at this statement and started choking on his rice. He quickly gulped it down so he wouldn't miss anymore of the action.
"Oh, so now your saying my work is girl chores?" Kenshin asked turning to Sano.
"Not just that. Your long, red hair makes you look like a girl," Sano stated.
"Not to mention you kind of have a girls body frame Kenshin. Your one of the skinniest people I know of," Kaoru stated.
"Of course, YOU would know that wouldn't you?" Kenshin said sarcastically. Kaoru looked quite offended.
"Kenshin, just because she's gone to bed with you doesn't mean that she's the only one who sees this! No offense or anything, but when I first saw you, I thought you were a woman!" Sano chimed in.
Yahiko laid back on the mats, trying to get comfortable. This was more entertaining than watching Sano run out the door of the Akebeko when he told Tae he had no money after he ate and she began throwing things at him.
"Sano, you would know what a woman would look like to, now wouldn't you? You find some woman to get horny with every weekend!" Kaoru clearly stated towards him.
"Hey! I am loyal to the fox, not all those other people out there!" Sano said, insulted.
"Loyal to the fox my fucking foot!" Kaoru said.
"That's right!"
"Oh, please! No man is ALWAYS loyal to their most loved one," Kenshin said then turned to Kaoru, " Not even me. I'm sorry for letting Rudiko . . .you know . . ."
"Oh, Kenshin!" Kaoru said.
"Oh, for the love of Mike! Could we please not do this now!" Sano yelled.
"Well, if you don't want to see your friends express their love for each other, then you can just go to your room mister!" Kaoru said.
"WHAT?! You can't tell me what to do!"
"March!" Kaoru yelled, pointing her finger in the direction of his room.
"I don't have to take this!" Sano said, pulling up his pants. He stomped to the dorrway and turn around and said, " I'm going to my room!"
"Well, FINE! Come on Kenshin! We're going to bed!" Kaoru said.
As the adults left, Yahiko looked around. *Is it over already? Man! It was just getting good too! * he whined in his head.
"Oh, well! At least I get to stay up all night without busu telling me to-"
"GO TO BED YAHIKO!"
"Aw!"
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Hey guys! Did you like it? I tried to make up for the shortness of the other chapter by making this one slightly longer than the other ones. Review and tell me what you think! P.S., I haven't looked at the reviews since I posted chapter 16, so I'll be getting to those later! Until next time!