A/n: hey, I've been on Fanfiction.net for two years now, so I thought I'd write something. And considering I haven't written anything Kenshin, and this was just an idea that popped into my head, here you go! As a disclaimer, I do not own Kenshin nor any characters in the show. . . yadda, yadda, I only own the fluff-balls in my head. Reviews are nice **hint, hint**
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She looked up at the sky, sitting on the porch of the dojo. Lazy raindrops fell almost reluctantly, but they were still falling and that still made her a little unhappy. Especially considering she'd wanted to go on a picnic with everyone; but that picnic would just have to wait.
"Kaoru-dono, what's the matter?" her oblivious red-haired prince charming asked, emerging from the kitchen. She sighed deeply and tried to smile.
"Nothing," she said, and it was truthful. For rain isn't much in the way of being wrong, just a ruiner of plans. He looked at her doubtfully and smiled.
"We don't have to stay in, you know. We could visit Tae-dono, I was going to get tofu anyway," he said. She knew he was lying, but appreciated his effort.
"I guess we could. Let's get Sano and Yahiko. . . ." just as the sentence had escaped her lips, they appeared with looks on their faces that said 'Akabeko or bust!'. She smiled helplessly at the boys, hopeless as they were.
Kaoru grabbed her umbrella and they started their walk. It wasn't long before Megumi joined them, and ducked under Kaoru's umbrella.
"Aha! The fox doctor joins us again. . ." Sano commented sarcastically. He glanced at her sideways and have her a half-smile.
'It really is hopeless, that idiot will never get any smarter,' she thought, although she knew that she would never think it was hopeless.
"Hey Kenshin, what's that?" Yahiko asked, pointing at what looked like a rip in the air. Kenshin tilted his head to the side, his wet hair sticking to his eyes, making it hard to see. They all walked closer and Yahiko even circled it. "I wonder what will happen if. . ." he stuck his hand out to touch and disappeared completely. Kaoru ran worriedly after him, and disappeared as well.
Kenshin casually walked in after Kaoru, secretly mulling over thoughts of wonder such as 'will we end up in the same place. . .'
"I guess I need to go look after Kenshin, you know what kind of trouble he can get himself into. . ." although Sano knew that Kenshin could take care of himself, and he didn't have to make excuses for Sano.
"I guess I need to go look after you, chicken head. . ." she said, although she knew that Sano was a big boy, but she wanted an excuse to go.
They both walked through casually, and the tear seemed to close perfectly behind Megumi. What they saw on the otherside was completely shocking, and only Megumi had wits enough to recover. There were loud noises and tall building and neon lights. It was raining here as well, but Kaoru had dropped her umbrella and was standing on hard ground looking around her as though she had just been shoved into an entirely different world where black was white, and white was black. And that's exactly how it felt.