A/N: Disclaimer is as follows: I OWN NOTHING!!! Nothing, I tell you. Nothing. I have just converted to environmentalism and I live my life as a hippie, relying on the land and the land alone. Err. . . okay, so maybe I own some things, but I don't own Kenshin. And stuff.

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She awoke feeling unusually comfortable and warm. There was something about today that made her want to say, "Just fifteen more minutes, then I'll wake up. . . promise." Then it hit her, and she remembered everything that had happened the night before. She opened one of her eyes to make sure she wasn't dreaming.

Those were really his arms around her, pulling her close. He was smiling at her, as she looked up at him, still resting her head against his chest. She moved one of her hands up and played with his loose hair, smiling back.

"How long have you been awake?" Kaoru asked quietly, smiling shyly but feeling more at peace than she ever really had before. Even in the strangeness of a hotel bed, so far from home without anyone but him, she felt perfect.

"About an hour, I think," he whispered, running one of his hands up her back to play with her hair, too. She felt strange but lovely, entangled with him.

"An hour? You could have gotten up and taken a shower or something, I wouldn't have minded," she said quietly, but silently thanked him for staying till she woke up. The curtains were closed, and the light blue of the material seemed to illuminate. Everything in the room had a strange dim blue glow, but she could see the perfect violet color of his eyes. The eyes she loved.

"I would have minded. I don't want to be any further from you than this," he leaned his head all the way down to kiss her softly and she smiled. "Besides, I'm always afraid for you. I don't want to let anyone have their chance at you."

There was a silent tone that said, "You're mine, just mine, and I'm not sharing." She loved him with all her heart, and didn't know how to feel other than contented at that moment. She rolled over onto her back for a second to look at the clock. 10:00 already? She wanted to just lie there for an eternity, although that may not have been long enough, still.

She sat up and looked at him, still lying there peacefully smiling up at her. "I love you, Kenshin," she said quietly. She took in the whole picture of him just lying there in his shirtless, loose-haired perfection. She wanted to kiss him but she was always characteristically shy, and just laid back down next to him instead.

"If there weren't things to do, I'd lay here all day with you, Kaoru," he said, still staring at the ceiling. He must have been reading her thoughts, because he sat up and leaned over her. She wrapped her arms around his neck as he slowly leaned down to kiss her. It was a simple kiss at first, growing more passionate every second, but somewhere they both found the control to keep it at that, a kiss. Or perhaps it was the fear that something bad was happening to their friends while they laid in bed, rediscovering the world together.

They pulled away and looked at each other understandingly, before reluctantly crawling out of bed and walking over to the dresser. Kenshin shyly looked over at the pile of clothes Kaoru was looking through.

"Wear the blue skirt, Kaoru. Blue looks nice on you," he smiled a little as she grabbed the skirt and simply matched colors. Had he known that she had absolutely no idea which clothes were hers? As she dressed in the bathroom, he dressed just outside the door, listening to her frustrated sounds as she almost fell over, trying to get dressed. Apparently it was completely different from a kimono. Although it wasn't paradise dressing himself. The whole button idea was really dumb, he thought as he fought with the button on his jeans. He got it done up just as Kaoru opened the bathroom door. She smiled at him, because he was wearing no shirt and apparently just figuring out the whole jeans idea.

He threw a t-shirt over his head quickly before looking at her. Her blue skirt was the same length as the plaid one, and had a darker blue hem and pockets on the sides. She wore a white tank top and light blue vest with it, and white socks up to her knees that had two horizontal blue stripes at the top. She blushed slightly.

He smiled at her, before grabbing one of the funny bags that Megumi had bought and putting everyone's clothes in it. He hung it on his back, and they went to the front desk to check out.

"Kenshin, are you really ready to do this? What if we can't get home again?"

"Don't worry, I will do everything I can. And if we can't get home, then we will live here. Together."