DISCLAIMER: I don't own Rurouni Kenshin. I just happen to like it. Written
while getting over a hang-over.
Changes by Ayame-chan
The sun shone brightly as Himura Kenshin walked through the marketplace in search for the last item in today's grocery list. Kaoru had sent him off to shop for the things they needed at home while she went off to teach at the nearby dojo. It was almost noontime and busy people filled the streets of downtown Tokyo. Nearby, a vendor was doing some sort of demonstration on how effective his kitchen knives were. In the nest stall, another vendor peddled fine silk and quite a few ladies has gathered around. Wherever he went, people pointed fingers and stared but he politely gave each of them his famous rurouni smile. He was, after all, carrying a sword in broad daylight. Well, he couldn't blame them for staring, anyway.
"Last one on the list. Daikon.", the swordsman thought as he headed to Kaneshiro-san's stall. 'Sessha hopes to make it home in time to prepare Kaoru-dono a decent lunch de gozaru. Teaching all morning woul---' His train of thoughts were interrupted as he felt an all-too familiar kind of ki. Killing ki.
As Kenshin turned his head to the direction of the ki, he saw that someone was surrounded in a dark alley by big thugs that. that had bird wings. 'What the---', Kenshin thought, abandoning his usual polite self. The thugs had wings, all right. But the real shocker came as he glanced at their faces. 'They're friggin' birds. Wait! Six-foot tall birds who could talk. I'm hallucinating. Maybe there were some kind of drug in the sake I drunk last night. No friggin' way am I seeing what I'm seeing right now!'
"Ready to meet your death?! Where's your master now,huh? Pitiful servant", one of the bird people said as he smirked [yes, he actually smirked] at the person they were about to turn into birdfeed. Kenshin was now able to see how the 'servant' looked like.He was foreign-looking and had a black cloak around him. Kenshin focused his eyes on a particularly red spot on the servant's torso. Blood. He was hurt real badly.
'Sessha doesn't know if this is real, but that man needs help. He can't fight in his condition.' the rurouni thought as he approached the scene, tightening his grip on his sakabatou. The bird people noticed his presence and shot death-glares at his direction. The 'servant', on the other hand, took this opportunity to whip his hand out from where it was previously hidden under his cloak to reveal sharp, long nails. In an instant, four of the birds had their heads rolling on the ground and Kenshin had his eye bulging out of their sockets with a shocked look on his face. "Oro?"
The foreign-looking guy fell to his knees in exhaustion while clutching his wound. As he fell, Kenshin noticed a fifth bird hiding among the shadows, ready to attack the fallen stranger. He did what his instincts told him to and in split-second, the fifth one was sprawled on the ground. He didn't notice when, but when he surveyed the surroundings, all of the bird people were gone. Disappeared. And the tall, foreign-looking guy was standing straight up with his wound quickly vanishing before his very eyes. , "Orororororo!" was all the dazed rurouni could say.
"Arigato. I could have handled them all by myself, but my power has diminished that I wasn't able to sense the fifth one. I am Larva. And I thank you for your kindness, stranger."
"Himura. Himura Kenshin desu. Uhhh. sessha is really confused. Sessha thinks he's seeing things.", Kenshin said, confusion still evident in his face.
"This is another dimension. Completely different from where I come from. There are things that are better kept unexplained.", Larva replied but he noticed that Kenshin's pink gi was ripped in several places by his earlier bout with the fifth attacker. "Gomen.", he simply said. And handed Kenshin a black gi which materialized out of thin air. "Here. Take this. Sorry for the trouble you had to go through. You are a kind soul, Himura." With those words, Larva vanished, leaving behind a very, very dumb-struck Kenshin.
Afternoon. Back at the dojo:
"Kenshin! Kenshin!", Kamiya Kaoru called as she searched every single room in the house. 'Mou! I'm starving', she thought as she frowned to see that there wasn't any lunch prepared, the yard was a mess and the laundry was still piled up beside the washtub.
'Kami-sama! No! It can't be! He couldn't have just left. What if he wandered again?...', Kaoru thought as her earlier annoyance quickly turned into fear. Then to panic. What would happen to her if he decided to leave? In desperation, she screamed: "Kenshin!!!", closed her eyes and wept frantically.
After a short while, she wiped her tears and looked up. Only to see a certain red-headed man with a ton of groceries approaching the gate with a silly smile on his face. She quickly lit up upon seeing him and started running towards his direction. "Kenshin! Kenshin! You're home!", Kaoru joyfully announced.
As they were walking towards the house, Kenshin spoke up. "Kaoru-dono, sessha is sorry to come home this late. There was a commotion at the marketplace and sessha---" Kaoru didn't even bother to listen to the rest of his story. She just sighed and thought 'That's just like him. Putting others ahead of his own happiness. I'm sure he helped some poor old lady from some yakuzas. Again.' Just then, she noticed that his pink gi was ripped in various places. "Anooo.... Kenshin, daijoubu? What happened to your gi? You aren't doing anything crazy now, aren't you?", Kaoru asked.
"Oro?", Kenshin looked down at himself and sure enough, his favorite gi was ruined. He placed the groceries on the kitchen counter and assessed the state of his gi once more. "Don't worry about sessha, Kaoru-dono. Sessha could sew it up in no time."
"Take it off.", Kaoru ordered firmly.
"Ororororo!"
"I'LL mend it for you. It's about time I did something for you in return for all that you do around here. Really, Kenshin, you just do too much.", she said smiling swwetly.
"But Kaoru-dono, sessha really can---"
"Take. It. Off. Now", came Kaoru's order. Smile gone and more demanding this time. 'Mou! How stubborn..'
Kenshin sighed in resignation and accepted defeat. "Hai, Kaoru-dono", he said softly as he began taking off the worn-out piece of clothing.
Kaoru's breath caught in her throat as she was now standing before a bare-chested Himura Kenshin. 'I think I'm going to have a nosebleed', she thought as she took in the sight of his firm muscles and marveled at the way they flexed and rippled as he moved. 'Yamete! Kaoru no hentai!'
At that point, Kenshin was staring back at her with a look of confusion written all over his handsome face. 'Did sessha do something wrong. Kaoru-dono looks like she's lapsing into a coma. Or maybe she thinks I'm too irresponsible for messing my clothes like a little boy.', he decided to talk. "Anoo. Kaoru-dono."
Kenshin's voice shook her away from her thoughts and brought her back to reality. "Gomen ne, Kenshin.", she said feeling the faint blush in her cheeks. She took hold of the discarded gi and turned back to Kenshin, using all her will to prevent her eyes from traveling to his chest. "I'll have this ready before dinner."
"Arigato gozaimas, Kaoru-dono. Sessha shall go and prepare us something nice for dinner." And with that, she vanished towards her room, gi in hand.
Kenshin's room:
Purple eyes studied the black gi Larva had given him earlier. The rurouni had nothing else to put on since the rest of his gi's [and there were not a lot of them] were still in the laundry.
'Sessha can't go around the house half-naked. What if someone sees me like that? It would dishonor Kaoru-dono's school. Plus, what would Sano and Yahiko think if they saw sessha half-naked with Kaoru-dono."
Cringing at the mental picture of a smirking Sano, began to don the black gi. As soon as he had it in place: 'Sessha feels weird."
TBC.
Changes by Ayame-chan
The sun shone brightly as Himura Kenshin walked through the marketplace in search for the last item in today's grocery list. Kaoru had sent him off to shop for the things they needed at home while she went off to teach at the nearby dojo. It was almost noontime and busy people filled the streets of downtown Tokyo. Nearby, a vendor was doing some sort of demonstration on how effective his kitchen knives were. In the nest stall, another vendor peddled fine silk and quite a few ladies has gathered around. Wherever he went, people pointed fingers and stared but he politely gave each of them his famous rurouni smile. He was, after all, carrying a sword in broad daylight. Well, he couldn't blame them for staring, anyway.
"Last one on the list. Daikon.", the swordsman thought as he headed to Kaneshiro-san's stall. 'Sessha hopes to make it home in time to prepare Kaoru-dono a decent lunch de gozaru. Teaching all morning woul---' His train of thoughts were interrupted as he felt an all-too familiar kind of ki. Killing ki.
As Kenshin turned his head to the direction of the ki, he saw that someone was surrounded in a dark alley by big thugs that. that had bird wings. 'What the---', Kenshin thought, abandoning his usual polite self. The thugs had wings, all right. But the real shocker came as he glanced at their faces. 'They're friggin' birds. Wait! Six-foot tall birds who could talk. I'm hallucinating. Maybe there were some kind of drug in the sake I drunk last night. No friggin' way am I seeing what I'm seeing right now!'
"Ready to meet your death?! Where's your master now,huh? Pitiful servant", one of the bird people said as he smirked [yes, he actually smirked] at the person they were about to turn into birdfeed. Kenshin was now able to see how the 'servant' looked like.He was foreign-looking and had a black cloak around him. Kenshin focused his eyes on a particularly red spot on the servant's torso. Blood. He was hurt real badly.
'Sessha doesn't know if this is real, but that man needs help. He can't fight in his condition.' the rurouni thought as he approached the scene, tightening his grip on his sakabatou. The bird people noticed his presence and shot death-glares at his direction. The 'servant', on the other hand, took this opportunity to whip his hand out from where it was previously hidden under his cloak to reveal sharp, long nails. In an instant, four of the birds had their heads rolling on the ground and Kenshin had his eye bulging out of their sockets with a shocked look on his face. "Oro?"
The foreign-looking guy fell to his knees in exhaustion while clutching his wound. As he fell, Kenshin noticed a fifth bird hiding among the shadows, ready to attack the fallen stranger. He did what his instincts told him to and in split-second, the fifth one was sprawled on the ground. He didn't notice when, but when he surveyed the surroundings, all of the bird people were gone. Disappeared. And the tall, foreign-looking guy was standing straight up with his wound quickly vanishing before his very eyes. , "Orororororo!" was all the dazed rurouni could say.
"Arigato. I could have handled them all by myself, but my power has diminished that I wasn't able to sense the fifth one. I am Larva. And I thank you for your kindness, stranger."
"Himura. Himura Kenshin desu. Uhhh. sessha is really confused. Sessha thinks he's seeing things.", Kenshin said, confusion still evident in his face.
"This is another dimension. Completely different from where I come from. There are things that are better kept unexplained.", Larva replied but he noticed that Kenshin's pink gi was ripped in several places by his earlier bout with the fifth attacker. "Gomen.", he simply said. And handed Kenshin a black gi which materialized out of thin air. "Here. Take this. Sorry for the trouble you had to go through. You are a kind soul, Himura." With those words, Larva vanished, leaving behind a very, very dumb-struck Kenshin.
Afternoon. Back at the dojo:
"Kenshin! Kenshin!", Kamiya Kaoru called as she searched every single room in the house. 'Mou! I'm starving', she thought as she frowned to see that there wasn't any lunch prepared, the yard was a mess and the laundry was still piled up beside the washtub.
'Kami-sama! No! It can't be! He couldn't have just left. What if he wandered again?...', Kaoru thought as her earlier annoyance quickly turned into fear. Then to panic. What would happen to her if he decided to leave? In desperation, she screamed: "Kenshin!!!", closed her eyes and wept frantically.
After a short while, she wiped her tears and looked up. Only to see a certain red-headed man with a ton of groceries approaching the gate with a silly smile on his face. She quickly lit up upon seeing him and started running towards his direction. "Kenshin! Kenshin! You're home!", Kaoru joyfully announced.
As they were walking towards the house, Kenshin spoke up. "Kaoru-dono, sessha is sorry to come home this late. There was a commotion at the marketplace and sessha---" Kaoru didn't even bother to listen to the rest of his story. She just sighed and thought 'That's just like him. Putting others ahead of his own happiness. I'm sure he helped some poor old lady from some yakuzas. Again.' Just then, she noticed that his pink gi was ripped in various places. "Anooo.... Kenshin, daijoubu? What happened to your gi? You aren't doing anything crazy now, aren't you?", Kaoru asked.
"Oro?", Kenshin looked down at himself and sure enough, his favorite gi was ruined. He placed the groceries on the kitchen counter and assessed the state of his gi once more. "Don't worry about sessha, Kaoru-dono. Sessha could sew it up in no time."
"Take it off.", Kaoru ordered firmly.
"Ororororo!"
"I'LL mend it for you. It's about time I did something for you in return for all that you do around here. Really, Kenshin, you just do too much.", she said smiling swwetly.
"But Kaoru-dono, sessha really can---"
"Take. It. Off. Now", came Kaoru's order. Smile gone and more demanding this time. 'Mou! How stubborn..'
Kenshin sighed in resignation and accepted defeat. "Hai, Kaoru-dono", he said softly as he began taking off the worn-out piece of clothing.
Kaoru's breath caught in her throat as she was now standing before a bare-chested Himura Kenshin. 'I think I'm going to have a nosebleed', she thought as she took in the sight of his firm muscles and marveled at the way they flexed and rippled as he moved. 'Yamete! Kaoru no hentai!'
At that point, Kenshin was staring back at her with a look of confusion written all over his handsome face. 'Did sessha do something wrong. Kaoru-dono looks like she's lapsing into a coma. Or maybe she thinks I'm too irresponsible for messing my clothes like a little boy.', he decided to talk. "Anoo. Kaoru-dono."
Kenshin's voice shook her away from her thoughts and brought her back to reality. "Gomen ne, Kenshin.", she said feeling the faint blush in her cheeks. She took hold of the discarded gi and turned back to Kenshin, using all her will to prevent her eyes from traveling to his chest. "I'll have this ready before dinner."
"Arigato gozaimas, Kaoru-dono. Sessha shall go and prepare us something nice for dinner." And with that, she vanished towards her room, gi in hand.
Kenshin's room:
Purple eyes studied the black gi Larva had given him earlier. The rurouni had nothing else to put on since the rest of his gi's [and there were not a lot of them] were still in the laundry.
'Sessha can't go around the house half-naked. What if someone sees me like that? It would dishonor Kaoru-dono's school. Plus, what would Sano and Yahiko think if they saw sessha half-naked with Kaoru-dono."
Cringing at the mental picture of a smirking Sano, began to don the black gi. As soon as he had it in place: 'Sessha feels weird."
TBC.