Kimodameshi: Last Chapter, King Card: Kenshin and Kaoru

We do not own anything in this fic-except for Kupo-chan, cause that's my nickname in a moogle body. ^.^ Oh, and our own names. Well, mine anyway, MoMo stole hers from a Sailor Moon side story...

AN: This is the end of the collaboration fic between MoMo-ChAn and aku-chan. Hopefully, we won't forget to send all the characters we have borrowed home. Hopefully that is.

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"Okay, only you two are left!" MoMo announced, looking at Kaoru and Kenshin. "Though I have no idea what Aku has in store for you. Since that Enishi-Tomoe meeting, she hasn't been feeling very well."

"Oro, will Aku-dono be alright?" Kenshin asked.

"Maybe, who knows. Somehow, she loves the guy."

"Love is a weakness," muttered Sephiroth, "Besides, I thought she loved Vincent."

"Oh, that's just a crush. She REALLY liked that one. And I agree. Love is a weakness. Look what it did to your mom, Lucrecia, and Vinnie," MoMo replied.

"What?!"

"Kupo! You two have to get going now!" cried Kupo-chan, pushing Kaoru and Kenshin to the entrance while MoMo and Sephiroth talked.

"We're going, but what exactly do we have to do?" demanded Kaoru.

"I don't know, kupo!" The moogle started crying. "Aku-chan has been locked up someplace for a while trying to decide what is going to happen! She didn't even give me a map to give to you!"

The creature continued to cry. "Red Mantle Wipe!" Red Mantle showed up, picking up the moogle and rocking it like a baby. Every one stared at him-except the crying moogle that is. "What? I have a soft spot for cute furry things in pain."

"She doesn't love me!!!" Kupo-chan cried out.

"Of course she does!" muttered MoMo. "I gave her the nickname she used for you…"

"What are you two still doing here!" Aku showed up, ushering K and K into the open door, closing it with a slam afterwards.

"I don't like the look in her eyes," whispered MoMo.

"How can you even see them?" replied Sephiroth.

"I just can… we had better keep an eye on those two, and rescue them in case something happens…" MoMo thought for a moment. "I know! We can go get Cloud and get him into the thing!"

Unfortunately she spoke too loudly. And didn't he already go through Kimodameshi? Though no one thought this, they just remembered that he was still in the tree.

"Worried about those two? No need to, they are my favorite RK couple! 'Sides, Cloud is still in the tree." Aku smiled before bouncing off into her pink Barbie dollhouse, which she had painted pink again instead of the gray MoMo had already made it, slamming the door behind her.

"Houston… we can all be afraid now…"

Kenshin looked around their surroundings wearily, keeping a hold of Kaoru's hand, as she wanted to walk off down the path, but Kenshin didn't like the way things looked around them. They were in a big building, well-lighted and empty, except for shops and plants and benches all filled with things to be sold to shoppers- if they ever came. It seemed like the mall hadn't seen life in years- everything was outdated, the plants were dead, and even the fake plants looked brown and wilted.

"Um, Kenshin, I think we are supposed to go there," said Kaoru, pointing to the opening of a place, its sign flashing neon, 'Virtual Experience: Monster Fighting.'

"And why do you think that, Kaoru-dono?"

"Because of that," Kaoru pointed at a sign that flashed 'Go there,' as well a bunch of others saying 'that way' and such things.

"Then I guess we should go, de gozaru," Kenshin said, though he didn't look like he wanted to go.

Kaoru tried to get ahead of Kenshin, even if it meant having to let go of Kenshin's hand, but then again, hadn't she just heard of Tomoe? Though, it was said that such a beautiful person had died. She felt herself get pulled back, Kenshin hadn't let go, and was forcing her to drag him along if she wanted to go any faster.

Soon enough they made it there, coming up to a ticket booth were a masked person waited, looking like skeleton, complete with a white smile-which made Kaoru scream in shock and surprise as the thing laughed. Kenshin glared at it. "Stop staring- someone might think you like me or something."

It laughed again. "Go on in, they are expecting you."

With a glance at the black entrance Kenshin took Kaoru by the hand and dragged her on in-she was still in aftershock of the laughing skeleton. Inside they found themselves having to go through what appeared to be a metal detector, though it was far from it. But when the came out, they were wearing a sort of device around their shoulder, as well a gun one would use in Laser Tag.

"Hello everyone!" shouted a voice over an intercom. "Please keep walking forward until I tell you to stop…that means you two…"

"Oro!" Kenshin exclaimed, looking around.

"Where did that come from?" Kaoru asked.

"Please walk forward until I tell you to stop. I don't get paid by the hour people."

The two shrugged before walking on, until the voice told them to stop. In front of them where chair looking things, small two-seaters compartments, waited. The voice told them to sit down in one, which they did.

Kaoru gasped again as the cars started moving and freaky music filled the air-like that from the Haunted House at Disney Land™.

Aku looked at her mirror with a dead look watching the two. Why exactly was she doing this again? Oh yeah, so Enishi would like her. Pathetic, but she was going to make it that Enishi wouldn't know what hit him when you were doing something for the one you loved. He wouldn't make it anywhere near the two.

And how exactly was she going to do that? A hall of mirrors in a Virtual Reality place would make anyone lost.

Meanwhile, Kaoru decided she was scared of the ghost-especially the one who decided to sit where in between her and Kenshin, some of it was even in her body! By the time the ride was over she was quite shaken up. Kenshin thought it was quite funny, but wouldn't make a sound in case he got hit. It all didn't appear real to him, even if Kaoru thought it was.

"Okay people, from this point on you are going to go through the real battle-remember to destroy all those monsters."

"Um…I don't kill, de gozaru yo."

"They're not real honey, just projections. It will be all right. But if you get shot three times you die."

"Die?"

"Oh, not for real but you have to go all the way back to this point and start all of it over again. Well, what are you waiting for? I'll see you at the end."

The voice left them, as did the chair-looking things and they were all alone to go forward into a Hall of Mirrors. Here Enishi was waiting, ready to finally exact his revenge, watching the spot where Aku said they would come in from. And sure enough, he was there, walking with Kaoru in hand. The good thing was that they couldn't see him-something Aku had made sure would happen.

He charged the two and landed right in a mirror.

Once more, he tried to charge the ones he thought were real, only to land in a mirror. It happened again and again, all the times he tried.

He couldn't find the real ones. And the were standing to the side watching Enishi act like a mad man as he landed in mirror after mirror thinking it was them.

"I think we should go, Kaoru-dono, de gozaru yo…" Kenshin said, slowly.

"Yeah, that would probably be a good idea."

The two started walking away, leaving Enishi to attack their image in the mirrors.

Aku started laughing as she watched Enishi. Revenge was sweet.

After leaving the Hall of Mirrors and Enishi, the two found themselves in a fake forest surrounded by fake trees. Just then, something bounced out of the forest. Kaoru screamed out, "Monster!" As it was-a giant mutant beast with clawed hands.

Kenshin was faster though, dishing out the laser gun he had been given and firing. The monster vanished.

"Are you alright Kaoru?"

"Does it look like I am alright?" Kaoru yelled, scared. "Whatever that thing was, it could never be real."

"Like those things at a circus?"

"Shut up."

"Oro."

And so the two continued on, destroying monsters as they came up, neither got a hit, as Kenshin was good at making sure they dodged things. And that almost makes it sound like that Sailor Moon episode Aku had based this chapter on.

Anyway, Kaoru started to enjoy the game, except when she missed the monsters that she tried to destroy, but that is to be expected. But then, the trap hole in the floor finally caught them.

Explanation? Well, they were walking on ahead when Kenshin and Kaoru stopped right over the trap door at the "Y" shaped intersection. One wanted to go right, the other left-and who was who doesn't really matter-they couldn't decide on which direction, and Kaoru couldn't beat him into agreeing with her. Thus, like all trap doors, they had stayed their too long. With a blast of pink, they fell down-well, first a jump of surprise in the air while in their "ack" and "oro" poses and then the fall.

Kenshin landed gracefully on his feet, catching Kaoru in his arms before she hit the ground. The two looked each other in the eye, taking one another in after such a surprise. Their lips came closer, closer, even closer now until they almost touched-when a rope ladder came down from the sky and hit Kenshin right on the head.

"Orororo!"

"Kenshin!" Kaoru called out, asking him if he was okay.

"Fine, just let the room stop spinning first, de gozaru…"

Aku looked at her mirror and dropped to the ground. "WHY IS THIS ALL WRONG?! That wasn't supposed to happen!"

Grabbing her coat, she appeared as a masked penguin-including the height of a penguin as well. She hoped away, off to make sure things went right.

Enishi had found his way out of the Hall of Mirrors, and came upon the two just climbing out of the hole using the ladder that someone had ever so gently given them. What sucked was that they couldn't see him approach them with the stealth of a tiger-the point of it though? They still couldn't see him.

He only a few yards from them when a small masked penguin landed on his head, pounding him into the ground-head first.

"Why you…!" Enishi growled, taking out his sword and started to whack repeatedly at it but missed very time! Finally, he swore and started to chase the penguin down the opposite path that Kenshin and Kaoru took.

Kaoru kept glancing at Kenshin here and there; not really sure of what she should say she kept quiet, taking in the silence. The stupid ladder had ruined her chance of finally getting a kiss from Kenshin!

Kenshin looked at Kaoru for a moment, smiling at the fire in her eyes. Maybe he could do something to make up for the missed chance on a kiss…

Kaoru felt Kenshin stop, and looked behind her to see him standing still, his bangs covering his face. "Hey, Kenshin…why'd you stop?"

The red head kept quiet as he reached out and gently wrapped Kaoru in his arms, pulling her into a tight hug. Kaoru was shocked-surprised as well, but they are really the same thing, right?-by his intimate action. But she welcomed the hug none the less.

One of his hands came up, tilting her head back and brushing his lips to her own. It stopped just as suddenly as it had begun, and they looked at each other with blushes across their faces but a satisfied smile.

And so a tiny penguin seemed to show up with a tied Enishi being dragged with rope-which he was tied up in-behind it. Seeing the two, it told Enishi to stay and hopped onto Kenshin's head in a way that made the red head kiss Kaoru again-but neither really seemed to mind.

The penguin went back to Enishi and proceeded to drag him off somewhere.

Kenshin and Kaoru did make it out of their round of Kimodameshi, but more like thirty minuets latter, and hand in hand.

"Okay, the only characters who are left to return are Red Mantle…" said MoMo as she organized the anime characters they borrowed for this fic.

"Red Mantle swipe!" The ghost showed up.

"Right, through the door that says Haunted Junction, please Black Tiger?"

"Here, with my graceful steed!" Black Tiger was on a giant beetle.

"Okay, the door that says Orphen."

"Now, Sephiroth-sama- are you absolutely sure I can't have your Masamune?"

"Yes."

"Okay, and Cloud."

He's still tied and covered with fuzzles, but off of the tree and with Sephiroth-and he mumbled a, "Here."

"Good, through the Final Fantasy VII door."

"Why can't I go with them?" asked Vincent.

"Because you can't."

"Why?"

"You just can't."

"Alright," he said with a sigh.

"All that is left is Kaoru and Kenshin…Kupo-chan, are they done yet?"

"Just coming to the exit."

"Good, then we made it in time!" said Aku with a confused looking Enishi.

"What's his problem?" MoMo asked looking at him.

"He hit his head too hard on the ground…and is currently diagnosed with amnesia." Aku gave a sigh. "But he is still my Eni-chan!"

"Ah, so you made it out," said Kupo, to the new couple walking hand in hand from the exit.

"Congrats!" said MoMo. Vincent muttered his own words to them.

"Why did she say that?" asked Enishi.

"They are a couple now," replied Aku.

"Oh…"

"Anyway, congratulations!"

"And please step through the remaining portal," said MoMo, gesturing to what looked like a regular door. The two did so, hands still together and found themselves back home.

"Oro…did that really happen?" Kenshin asked-nothing seemed to be different except for their friends asleep among the front porch of the dojo.

"I hope so," replied Kaoru, who simply leaned on Kenshin's arm, giving his hand a squeeze. Kenshin merely smiled and agreed with a kiss.

Back at Aku's house, they split, the house taking off in a puff of pink and everyone going this way and that. And soon enough the door to Kimodameshi in this place vanished and a soft voice rang through the air.

"Um…please don't tell me you forgot about me again!"

THE END

Aku: Where did Vincent go?

MoMo: You made me send Sephiroth-sama back. So I sent Vinnie back.

Aku: YOU DIDN'T!!