A/N: sorry for the delay, but I went on a short vacation… yay! Butterflies! Just a weekend in a place called Angangeo…. ¬¬' don't try to pronounce it… unless your latin you won't get it right, I went to see the monarch butterflies! Just beautiful!!!!! So many!!! One hell of a walk up the mountain though… but it was worth it! I even got to hold one in my hand… he was on the floor flapping like crazy and I thought he was hurt or something… nope, turns out he was very busy… with another butterfly… *sweatdrop* then I couldn't get them off my hand!!! Oro! Anyway…

Thinking

"Jou-chan? Are you still out here? Where's Kenshin?"

She pointed to the spot she had been looking at for the last half hour. Sano sighed and led her inside.

"Daijoubu, I bet he'll be back later on tonight, but for now the fox has to go and I'm walking her back."

Kaoru nodded at him and smiled going back into Kenshin's room. Sano nodded as well and said his good bye's before going to get Megumi. Thank God she was going to be left alone, she had a lot of thinking to do.

"Can sessha kiss you?"

She blushed remembering that question over and over again. He wanted to kiss her? But why on earth would he just say it like that? She sighed stopping at Kenshin's door. She turned and headed towards her room. She needed to change into something more, better yet, less revealing.

"Take your filthy eyes off MY Kaoru and get the hell out of my property! If you so much as cast a glance at her again or say anything of that nature, I will personally yank out your eyes and cut off your tongue!!"

Stepping over the broken frame of the door she took off her yukata and began to look for a nice kimono. 'My Kaoru…' she said to herself. She remembered that scene leaving out a word or two. Kenshin didn't look good cussing. But it was awfully sweet of him to say that…. Well sort of.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

Kaoru spun around covering herself with the kimono that was first at hand.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! She screamed as well.

"ahhhhhhhhh!"

"ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"ahhhhhhhhh!"

"Yahiko!!!!!!!" she screamed letting her brain process the image of the boy in front of her. She took a small table beside her and flung it at him with everything she had knocking him out in the yard.

"Iteeee!!!" he yelled barely conscious

"Yahiko what on earth do you think you're doing?!" she yelled grabbing a blanket  to cover as much of her as possible

"I wanted to go to the bathroom fer cryin out loud!!!!!!" Yahiko said his nose bleeding. His face was as red as a ripe tomato, she wondered if it was just because of the table. "What the hell are you doing changing without the door closed?!"

"Woah what happened to you?" asked Sano looking down at him

"What did you do to him Tanuki?" asked Megumi kneeling down.

She looked over at Kaoru and giggled, lifting up Yahiko's head to stop the bleeding.

"I guess Yahiko will be coming with us…" said Megumi reaching out for a piece of cloth to cover his nose.

"Fine take him…" said Kaoru still hiding behind her blanket

"By da way Busu, Kendshid cad't lie… dats why he's acding so weird…" said Yahiko

Megumi and Sano smacked him over the head, while Kaoru stared.

"Hehehe, don't listen to him maybe he's delirious or something, anyway oh look at the time! It's getting dark already gotta go! Oyasumi Tanuki"

Megumi rushed out with Sano and Yahiko. Kaoru stood there a very odd expression on her face as she heard Yahiko from far of "Itai!!"

'Kenshin, can't........ lie?' she shook of the ridiculous thought and check for sure that this time there was no one at the dojo. She went back to her room still in the blanket and changed into the kimono she had taken out. Even though what Yahiko said was completely absurd, if she put that information everywhere she didn't understand why Kenshin was doing something odd, it made sense. 'But it doesn't!! how on earth could Kenshin not lie?!'

After she had finished untangling her hair she stepped out of her room to go wandering all around the house. She didn't see a point to making a ponytail if it was so late already. Besides she still had that bandage around her head. She paced processing the new information but dismissing the thought every time.

Why did Kenshin have to be so odd?! Why was he so dense? Why didn't he see? Why didn't he talk?! Why?!

"KENSHIN NO BAKA!!!" she screamed  jumping out in the yard

"Oro!!!"

Kaoru blinked.

"Ahh!" she groaned as something very heavy fell on top of her.

"Ororororo…"

"Kenshin??"

She opened her eyes to look up at a mess of magenta, red and lavender. She would recognise those colors any where. She sucked in some air, they were awfully close, their noses almost touched. Crickets chirped around them as none of them made a move to get up.

"You smell nice…" thought Kenshin. Or at least he thought he did. Kaoru's cheeks went from pink to red.

Her hair was loose and it lay around her like small ebony rivers. The bandage had loosened and slid off reviling the cut on her forehead. 'Baka!! What if you hurt her?' he realised 'it wasn't a very graceful landing'

"Gomen nasai de gozaru yo!! Daijoubu ka?" he said quickly getting up and helping her to her feet.

"I'm fine Kenshin… ano… but, where on earth did you come from?" she asked looking up at the sky

"sessha was on the roof."

"on the roof? Since when?"

"Since Sano, Megumi and Yahiko left. I saw them on the street heading back."

"Oh… what were you doing up there?"

"I was thinking de gozaru…"

"Oh…"

a moment of very loud silence came over them.

"Kenshin…" "Kaoru…" they said at once.

"You go first…" said Kaoru

"No, it can wait..."

"no really, go on"

"No what were you going to say?"

"Dammit Kenshin just tell me!"

"Oro!"

She crossed her arms and looked at him expectantly

"Gomen nasai, for what happened earlier today… sessha is just, odd…"

"What do you mean odd?"

"I mean sessha, ano… has been, deprived… of certain things."

Kaoru's eyes bulged.

"Oro!!!! What are you thinking Kaoru-dono?!"

Kaoru blushed and turned away finding great interest in the falling Sakura petals. She waved her hand in dismiss.

"Would Kaoru-dono like a bath de gozaru ka?"

She sweat dropped "A bath? No Kenshin I would like to know what on earth is happening to you!"

Kenshin sweat dropped and finally sighed in resignation. He went over to the dojo porch and sat down signalling for Kaoru to do the same.

"Kaoru-dono…" he started

"Yes?" she blushed as he took her hand in his

"You promise you will not mock sessha for what he is about to say? It's very important and I speak wit my heart when I tell you… that…"

"Yes…?" said Kaoru leaning in

"sessha… is… not gay!"

Kaoru's feet were now where her head had been. She fell over making a whole in the wooden floor.

"Kenshin no baka!!!!!!! I know that!!!!!" she said recovering and driving his head into the floor.

"Oro! You do?!"

"Of course I do you idiot!"

"yokatta…"

"Kenshin! Tell me what on earth is wrong with you?!"

"Sessha can't lie!!!!!"

"¿................?"

"It's true Kaoru-dono… sessha must speak the truth… if you doubt me prove it to yourself… ask me anything…"

"..........?"

"Really ask anything…"

"Um… how old are you?"

"29…"

"mmm, favorite colour?"

"Blue… dark blue…"

"Why don't you ever change?"

"Sessha is comfortable in his gi…"

"Does it bother you to be so short?"

"occasionally…"

 She stared at him… he really was telling the truth… or was he? She could ask one question… to know exactly how truthful he was being, this was the last test… the truthful one… she took in a deep breath and prepared herself for what the answer could be…

"how do I cook?"

"ORO!!!!"

She waited impatiently.

"ano…"

"Answer the question Kenshin....."

 He winced "Terrible, but sessha would eat a raw pigeon if Kaoru-dono prepared it!" he said quickly.

Kaoru stared back at him, frustrated at not knowing what to do. She set her hands over her lap and tightened her fists. 'he really can't lie, I don't know if I would have really hit him, I couldn't cook to save my life, but… that means anything I ask him… he will tell me… I could ask him…'

"Kaoru-dono? daijoubu ka?" he interrupted her thoughts

she looked to him and thought some more. 'Do I really want to know? What if he doesn't love me the way I do him? I want to know but… what if…'

"Kaoru-dono…?" he asked again.

"Kenshin do you have feelings for me?" she blurted out. Her hands immediately went to her mouth.

He looked up at her. He knew she wanted to know but he didn't think she would actually ask… it wasn't a surprise she didn't know. Everybody else did, but…. 'Gomen nasai!!! Time's up my little Rurouni! One whole day without you lying! At this time yesterday you had to speak your mind… but it's 7:48pm so… Okidoki! You can lie again, but what you do from here is up to you!' that voice! He turned to Kaoru. She was still silent. She hadn't heard… only him…. Could it be true? He could lie again??

A/n: ehehehehe, meet Bao… the evil awful person who loooooooves cliffhangers!!! Ohohohoho!!! *kitty ears appear* (hey like Megumi has always been a fox I have always been a cat! Ask anybody!) well here you have it, I hope you enjoyed… almost over… *sob* this was fun, but hey, it's not over yet!