Cursed Mirror

RK doesn't belong to me.

AN: Hello, people, I am updating once again, after a week of being *cries* gone. Oh well, my dark side was busy updating and posting a new dark fic (which can get quite annoying if your light side wants to do something different, something totally different…). Anyway, on with the fic!

Chapter 6: Those Who Kill Are Those Who Know

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Some one is coming…

What is?

Your self…

My self…? How? How can I come if I am…

There is so many ways future…

Order! Future Order? What is happening?!

The Mirror feels it all, you poured your soul into it, and thus…it feels the pain of your soul from another dimension who knows to much for her own good…

How…?

There is so many ways…

She woke with a start, sweat making her hair and clothes stick to her skin. Everything felt hot, and so unclear, her dream just adding to the confusion she felt deep inside.

"Kao-chan!"

Kaoru looked up to see Kenshin, looking at her with such eyes that made her feel like she was on top of the world…they were so caring. "Your awake!"

She only then realized where he was sitting, right at the side of her bed, in other words, to close for comfort, or for being proper. "How…how long was I out?"

"Sense last night, but the way you went…it wasn't normal."

"I know, but I'm fine now, see?" She touched his cheek, feeling the heat of his skin, the warmth of his eyes as if they were giving off s soft kind, and loving heat. His own hand came up and clasped hers in a tight hold. All she wanted to do at that moment was kiss him and he seemed to agree as they slowly leaned into each other.

"Kenshin-san, Kao-san! I've got you something--!" Tomoe called out, opening the door and startling the two, who didn't jump away from each other, neither wanting to give the other's hand up. "Oh! I'm so sorry!"

She turned red at the feeling of the room and the way the two occupants seemed to look at her. Tomoe quickly set the tray of food down and scurried from the room, closing the door shut behind her.

"You just seem to be the unlucky one, don't you, dear?" teased Akira to his blushing girl friend as she mumbled something about ruining a sweet moment between Kenshin and Kaoru twice by now.

"It's not funny, Akira! I totally walked in on the two! And at such a bad moment! The feeling of the room was like something very important in their relationship was going to be said!" declared Tomoe, glaring at Akira as she did so.

"If it makes you feel better Tomoe-chan, 'the important thing' that was going down, did happen," said Kaoru, as she and Kenshin came into the kitchen. Scratch that, it was more like Kenshin came into the kitchen with Kaoru on his back. "It was a delicious snack you sent up too."

"Why thank you," said Soba, appearing quite proudly from around the corner to the room where the washing machine and dryer were. "I made it myself."

"I think they could've told that you at least did the tea," said Enishi, sitting at the counter and drinking his own cup of tea. "Hey…did anyone get a strange feeling last night…? One that seemed to tell you that some one was coming from far way?"

"NO, why would you ever say that?" Soba felt his forehead, checking to see if he had a fever. "Maybe we should have Megumi-chan look at you…which reminds me! Kao-chan, I want you to go with me to her father's clinic, and get a check up. I don't want you getting sick from what happened last night.

"I'm fine Great Aunt, I was just…"

"Going through great amounts of unknown pain?" Megumi offered, as she stood at threw door to the kitchen. "Sorry for coming in unannounced, but on one seemed to hear me knock at the front door."

"Its alright, friends are family! Come in and have a seat, I just finished making a nice snack!" Soba went about her task of taking the cookies out of the oven, putting some more in as well.

"Did anyone else help?"

"Of course! Enishi was my taste tester. He seems to be enjoying the job."

"I hope there was better results then the other night!"

"Do you have to remind me about that?" Enishi said, looking a little pitiful as everyone laughed at him.

"Sorry, you poor boy, but that experience means that my cooking will NEVER improve!" Kaoru said, trying to make him feel better.

"What do you mean? Your cooking is very good."

"And it will either be bad or too spicy. I can never get a recipe to work out right."

"That must suck."

"You have no idea!"

"Enishi, I need you to go down the street and bring this batch of cookies to Old Hideki for me," Soba said, handing her grandson a package of cookies. "When you get back I will have everything ready for a noon time snack."

If there was one thing Enishi hated in this life was Old Hideki, the man was always reminiscing about the past, and what a boring bast it had always been! It was like the man had nothing else to do but complain about the past he would rather be reliving while adding more adventure.

And the reason he was going was because he didn't like the "sweet old man" as Soba described him.

"Sweet old man my ass," he mumbled, his feet taking him slowly to the corner where Hideki was, sitting under the shade of his tree with this small pet dog by his side. "Hideki-san, Soba made you some cookies!"

Enishi put them down next to him, trying to escape from hearing any of the old man's tales when he said something the young man didn't expect. "She's coming, a woman…but she isn't a woman at all. More like a demon in a human's skin…but, she IS human. That is the strange thing."

"What do you mean?"

"I had a dream last night, one I can't quite explain, and SHE was in it. Looked like your cousin, but she wasn't the same. Better looking, I guess you could say, but…her eyes, they hold knowledge beyond the years that she looks. That's it! She is older then she looks…if so, then why doesn't she look old?"

A burst of lightening struck through a cloudless sky, the thunder coming after it thick and strong. It was natural, and it gave Enishi a shock to his bones. He looked up at the sky, his eyes trying to find something that he knew wasn't there.

"You had the same dream, the only other person I found today who did, but, what does this all mean?!" Hideki's pet started to whine, scooting back under his master's chair in fear as the thunder and lightening filled the air, like a constant heart beating, one that never missed a single beat.

"I better get going!" Enishi didn't wait for a reply just started to run back home, but the street started to twist, turn, the colors changing form pink, red, blue, orange, yellow and so on, always changing, but not one thing was changed to its original color.

He looked at his own body, afraid that he too was changing colors, but he found himself perfectly the same, everything else was being changed, but never him.

A thick wind started to blow, leaves flying around in mock tornadoes as they blew about in strong clouds. The thunder and lightening started to go out of sync, and the color changing stopped. Soon enough, everything seemed to stop, as if time was standing still.

And then, they appeared.

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AN: Cliffhanger, well, because my dark side wanted to stop and work more on the battle scene so it would be better, so I only had to go along. That was 1, 249 words! The longest yet…I think. And it was all written quite well. ^.^

omochi: No, in the end though, some one is going to try and get the mirror, i.e. take it.

Misanagi: Okay, thank you for the bit of information. All I knew was that it was a Latin word. And I'm understanding this fic little by little as well, cause I have no idea really where it is going to lead to. ^.^'

Jay: The mirror senses that another Kaoru is coming, but this one from another dimension. In fact, she just showed up at the end of this chapter.

Thank you for reviewing this confusing fic, but things will be explained more in the next chapter, well…about this "unexpected guest" anyway. I hope you like it!