Battousai VS Kenshin: Part 5

Author's note: Okay, thanks everyone for your suggestions, reviews, and many orders to continue. My last chappie was a cliff hanger, and I hope all of you were hanging! *readers wave guns* Uh, okay, here's part 5

Battousai stared at Kaoru. Who? Who did she love? Kaoru looked down. Where was Kenshin? Battousai finally frowned, after Kaoru stalled for a few minutes, and looked away.

"It's okay." He mumbled.

"Huh?" Kaoru finally looked up.

"It's okay if you love someone else. I don't care."

Kaoru looked down again. How could she tell him she was in love with him, but also with him? That sounded confusing just thinking about it.

" I do, but it wouldn't make any sense to you." Kaoru said quietly.

"Yahiko?"

"What? No!"

"Sanosuke?"

"No! Why-wait, you know there names?" Kaoru was very surprised at this.

"Why wouldn't I?" Battousai asked.

"I thought you were different from Kenshin." Kaoru admitted sheepishly.

Battousai smiled his naturally evil smile at her and scooted closer.

"Who says I'm not Kenshin? Got the red hair, cross-shaped scar, big ears." He asked, pulling on one of his ears.

Kaoru chuckled a bit, but then frowned.

"But that's only skin deep. I mean, you're so mmuch different from him personality wise." She said.

Battousai smiled again, and kissed Kaoru on the cheek. Then, he rolled over, pressing himself against her side.

"Do you want me to show you something that wanderer would never think of doing for you?" He whispered in her ear.

Kaoru felt her face begin to heat. Her body seemed to freeze, as well as her ability to answer at the moment.

Yahiko, lying in his own futon, sat up and immediately crawled to his spying hole. He looked through it and chuckled to himself.

"Battousai..." Kaoru said, very quietly.

She knew she'd eventually give into this, as long as the Battousai hung around. She wanted to say no, but she couldn't for some reason.

Battousai moved his hand onto Kaoru's shoulder, then he moved his face closer, Kaoru swallowed and tried to speak, but she couldn't. Suddenly Battousai winced, closing his eyes.

Tears came to Kaoru's own when she saw two bright violet ones staring back at hers. Kenshin saw how close he was to her, and slowly inched himself away. The two of them didn't say another word to eachother.

"Battousai, I..." Kaoru mumbled, on the verge of falling asleep.

Kenshin turned around. So it was Battousai she was in love with? His old self. Kenshin frowned, and turned over to face her. Well, if she was going to wake up and foil all his dreams of her and him ever being together, so be it.

"Why do you love me?" He asked, changing his voice so that it sounded raspy and dark.

Even in her sleep, Kaoru looked confused and unhappy.

"Kenshin..." She mumbled.

Kenshin immediately changed his voice back to his own.

"Yes, Miss Kaoru?" He asked.

"I love...I love, you..Bat...Ken.."

With that, Kaoru drifted off to a deep sleep, where the only noise heard was her deep breathing.

Yahiko sat there, very confused. What on earth was going on?

The next morning, Kenshin and Kaoru were silence at breakfast. Kaoru looked kind of distorted, like she'd been awake all night. Kenshin looked kind of angry.

"Why does Miss Kaoru love Battousai? I don't even love Battousai, and he's me." Kenshin thought pitifully.

"Because I'm better than you." Came a dark voice in his mind.

Kenshin froze.

"What? Battousai?" He thought.

Suddenly, his head hurt, and his eyes turned yellow.

"Kaoru deserves a man who doesnt treat her like she's some kind of little sister." He hissed.

Sanosuke and Yahiko stared at him. Before they could say anything, his eyes turned violet again.

"I do not treat her like a little sister, that I do not!"

Yellow eyes again.

"You're a prude, wanderer."

Violet eyes.

"Miss Kaoru is not just some sort of object you can fondle with. She's a person, that she is."

Yellow eyes.

"I love Kaoru for who she is, but I also want to prove my love to her."

Violet eyes.

"Well, then send her flowers."

Suddenly, Kenshin punched himself. Yahiko and Sanosuke exchanged uneasy glances.

Yellow eyes.

"Oh, that really hurt."

Kenshin then hurled himself into the wall.

Violet eyes.

"Leave Miss Kaoru alone."

Kaoru, Sanosuke, and Yahiko just stare in utter shock. This wasn't right at all!

To Be Continued?