The day arose fresh and clean, like all days after a storm should be, and the Kamiya Dojo lie peaceful in its little part in Tokyo. That is, until a certain spiky haired rooster showed up….

"Hey!!!!!!! YO!!! Jo Chan?!! Where is everyone?" Sanosuke yelled out into the quite air.

Kaoru, startled by the sudden noise, jumped up out of her seated nest beside the still sleeping Kenshin and dashed outside to great Sano, fixing her hair on the way.

"Sano! What brings you over so early in the morning?" Kaoru asked standing in the doorway of Kenshin's room.

Sano grinned wickedly, seeing Kaoru all ruffled up coming out of Kenshin's room gave him some 'odd' ideas, "Ah, Jo Chan, is it still so early? Last I checked it was about ten o'clock." Kaoru looked bedazzled at the time like she had just forgotten a few hours of her life. Sanosuke couldn't stand it any more, "So, Jo Chan? Did you 'sleep' well?"

Looking very exasperated she slung her head down and replied, "Not really," to which Sano could only raise an eyebrow. (which of course was hidden under his red bandana so you couldn't really tell)

Kaoru just sort of hung there in a state of half sleep daze long enough for Sano to slip by into the room. The room, of course, knowing Kenshin, was all neat and tidy except for over near the bed where an exhausted Kenshin lay sleeping tangled up in his covers. Sano grinned a tiny smirk. "Hey, Kenshin!! Get up!" Sano yelled at him from a distance. "YO, Slugabed!! Kenshin! You red haired firecracker, Get Up!!" Sano said walking over towards Kenshin a bit. "Man he really got worn out" Sano thought to himself. "HEY KENSHIII…..!"

~BAMMMMMM~ A large heavy stick collided and broke over his head leaving a large knot. "HE'S SICK, STUPID! I've been staying up all knight with him trying to keep his fever down!!!!!!!!" Kaoru yelled at Sanosuke, making her angry D-eye face look. "SO BE QUIET!" Kenshin stirred and Kaoru hopped over to his side and dabbed his forehead down with the damp cloth furiously with her big watery eyes. Sano began to laugh out loud and he was met with another of Kaoru's never fail head bashes. "Anyway," she began stepping away from the spirally eyed Sanosuke, "I'm taking him to se Dr. Gensai as soon as he wakes up…. I was wondering if you wouldn't mind helping me bring him there Sano?" she said blinking her eyes in the newly recovered Sano's direction.

"So, Jo Chan, basically what you're asking me to do is carry him there?"

"If he can't walk by himself yes," Kaoru smiled back in his direction.

"All right, I'll come, so long as that 'FOX' isn't prowling around anywhere near!"

A knew little voice popped out of the morning air. "Come on Sano… we all know you and Megumi 'Lo………~BAAAMMMMMMM!!!!!~" Yahiko was silenced by a hard blow from Sano before he could finish the sentence.

..(chasing around the room)

"LOVE!!!!" Yahiko yelled.

"SHUT UP , KID. STOP JOKING AROUND!"

"LOVE LOVELOVELOVE!!!!!!!!"

"THAT'S IT! I'M SMASHING YOUR BRAINS IN!!!"

"SHUT UP YOU TWO YOUR GOING TO WAKE UP KENSHIN!!! PUT YAHIKO DOWN SANO!!"

"OK, YOU STINK AND YOUR UGLY!!!"

"WELL YOUR JUST A PUNK ROOSTER!!!!"

"SHUT UP !!!!!! SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"……K…Kaoru Dono?" came a quiet voice from the corner of the small room that was now crowded with noisy people, two of which were fighting and the other of which was yelling at them to stop. All of them did stop making commotion when these words were said, and they turned to look at a Kenshin seated up in his bed smiling semi-feebly at all of them. Kaoru then knocked each of the two idiots who had been 'making all the noise' in the room across the head so that they fell limply to the floor, then she hurried over to Kenshin who was close-eyed smiling at them all.

"Kenshin, how do you feel?" Kaoru asked feeling his forehead.

" Much better Kaoru, thank you," he smiled at her.

"Your fever is down a little bit,…. I'm still taking you to see Dr. Gensai, I'm sure he can find something that will help….. Sano help Kenshin get dressed and ready to go…. Yahiko come with me and help me fix some breakfast."

Mischievously Yahiko replied, "I'm not so sure that's a good idea, considering that it might be your cooking that's making him sick."

"DON'T EVEN JOKE, YAHIKO!!!!!!" Kaoru yelled D-eyed.

"Yahiko!" Kenshin began, "I'm sure that can't be the case. Kaoru Dono's cooking isn't that bad."

"Fine then Yahiko, you can just fix it by yourself!" Kaoru, folded armed, snapped at Yahiko.

"Kaoru!!? …….. fine I'll help you cook."

"Good. Now, Kenshin, Sano, I'll be back with some food in a minuet or two, K?"

Sano leaned over and whispered into Kenshin's ear, who just smiled with a sweat drop, "I'd rather be stuck in your condition than to have to eat her food."

"I HEARD THAT, SANO!!!!!!!!!" Kaoru said as her fist collided with his face. "Anyway, I'll be right back, Kenshin."

"OK, Kaoru," Kenshin replied smiling and Kaoru left the room. Sano and Kenshin just sat there for a while until Sano spoke up.

"So, Kenshin … were you really 'sick' last night?"

"Very," he replied.

"And Kaoru spent the 'whole night' in here 'alone' with only 'you' in the room?"

"Yes, she was very kind."

"And nothing happened? …. MAN!!! You two are impossible!" Sano laughed standing up so that he could help Kenshin get up.

(meanwhile in the kitchen)

"YAHIKO!! Don't put that in that!!!!"

"OH YEAH! And how would you know, Ugly?"

"Ug…? HOW DARE YOU CALL YOUR SENSEI UGLY, BRAT!!! I MIGHT BE A BAD COOK BUT AT LEAST I'VE COOKED BEFORE IN MY LIFE TIME ."

"OH, so she admits that she's a bad cook!!?"

"ALRIGHT COME HERE, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE FRIED YAHIKO FOR BREAKFAST TODAY!!!!" Kaoru yelled chasing Yahiko around the room with a butcher's knife.

"AAAHHH!!! You're crazy!! I give up, I give up!! I'll do whatever you say!!" Yahiko yelled as Kaoru began to threaten chopping off his hair.

"That's more like I now help me over here with this."

"Hi, Hi!"

…….

(back at the room)

"Well here you two go, enjoy!" Kaoru said smiling, handing Sano and Kenshin the 'food.' Kenshin, of course, took it with much gratitude and started to nibble, while Sano …. just sat there…looking at it, then finally with a *I might as well get this over with* look on his face, he swallowed it whole, grimacing as it traveled down into his stomach.

"Bheeeeaah!!!!!!" Sano said sticking out his tongue in a appalled way. "Kenshin how can you stand to eat this stuff?" he turned to ask Kenshin who was taking his time chewing the food, "whatever you've got has to be affecting your sense of taste for you to eat that stuff with a straight face…. A SMILE EVEN!!!!" Sano was very shocked to see Kenshin smiling and asking for seconds!!!!!!! *must really be sick*

"Thank you Kaoru, your cooking seams quite good today!" Kenshin said smiling.

Sano, Yahiko, and even Kaoru's jaw dropped when Kenshin said that her cooking was actually edible…..GOOD EVEN! They jumped up and started to drag Kenshin over to the clinic as fast as humanly possible.

…To Be Continued…