Chapter 11: A Little Surprise For Kenji

Kenji watched helplessly as Kuzami walked away. She was very beautiful, yet he knew he had no chance with her. Standing up, he walked to the store and bought the tofu, then started home.

As he reached the gate, his father greeted him. He knew of Kenji's 'habit', yet no matter how hard he and Kaoru had tried to break him of it, it just came back.

"Rejected again, Kenji-kun?" He asked as he wrapped his arm around his sons shoulder.

Kenji sighed. "I always get rejected dad."

"Well, don't advance so fast on girls. Time is how it is done, Kenji. You just have too much of your mother's spirit in you, de gozaru ne."

Kenji shook off Kenshin's arm and pushed the tofu into his arms. "I think I'm gonna practice some."

Kenji retreated into the dojo, almost to lose his arm. He dodged away with a cry as a Bokutou swung at him and almost made contact. The girl veered away, lost her balance, and fell on her butt.

"Hey, watch were your going! Geeze, you almost killed me!"

"Speak for yourself loser!" The girl stood up and swung the hair out of her eyes. As her optics made contact with Kenji's, she began to blush, yet boil with anger at the same time.

Kenji froze in terror, realizing the mistake he had made by walking into the dojo.

Kaoru and Kenshin stood next to each other, Kenshin hearing his son's cry had come rushing into the dojo, realized the anger and embarrassment in the air.

"Kenji," Kuzami said softly. The look on Kenji's face was of pure terror. He sat among several wooden swords that he had knocked from the wall. And all Kuzami could do was laugh.

Kenji, still not sure of her actions, sat frozen. His eyes sized her up, trying to read her next actions. But all she did was laugh.

"I almost killed you I hope know." She said as she reached down for his hand. Kenji winced and jumped slightly, but then realized her good intentions. Smiling, he grasped her wrist and heaved himself up.

"I had no idea my mom was teaching you too." He said as he turned to look at the mess of wooden swords, his long red hair brushing against his shoulder lightly. Bringing a hand up, he scratched behind his head and turned to look at Kaoru. "How come you never told me?"

"How come you never asked?" Kaoru said, placing her hands on her hips. "Now pick those up before I sic Kuzami on you."

Saluting to his mom, Kenji hurried over and picked up each sword, replacing it carefully. Along with his looks, Kenji had also inherited his father's neatness. Unfortunatly, he also inherited his mother's cooking skills.

As he picked up the swords, Kazumi couldn't help but admire Kenji. He was cute, she had to admit that, and she loved it when he flirted with her, but his hentai-ness and forwordness sometimes overdid his charm. Kenji had a little-boy face, yet was strong and looked about 16 instead of 13. Boy, he would be someone to look foreword to challenging.

"Kazumi?" Kaoru said softly in her ear. "If you don't mind, we can keep training," She said with a soft smile.

"ooh, yes, we can." Jumping into her fighting stance, yet kept Kenji in sights out of the corner of her eye.

Kaoru smirked happily and turned to her son. "Would you like to join us, Kenji?" The young boy stood immediately and grabbed a bokutou. "OK!" he shouted as he stepped next to Kazumi.

Eyeing the two teens, Kaoru crossed her arms and smiled. "I want you two to fight against each other. Sparing, I guess it would be."

Both of the kids looked at each other, then shrugged and turned to face the other.

"ready," Kaoru raised an arm dramatically into the air, "GO!"

immediately Kenji flew towards Kazumi with lighting speed his father had taught him. He slammed the bokutou down hard on hers, just inches from her face.

'Its not strength against strength, use hers against her.' Kenji thought as he ducked away. Unfortunatly for Kenji, Kazumi had been thinking the same as him. Her steel blue eyes flashed angeraly, the way they did when she was in the heat of battle.

"HYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Cried Kazumi as she leapt foreword, thrusting her sword at Kenji. The teen dodged the swing and came up behind Kazumi and..

"HENTAI!!!"

AN: HEHEHE! I am sooo evil! Ok, I know these last two chapters have been about Kenji a lot, so ill try to squeeze Kenshin and Kaoru in. I'm running dry on idea's and time, so I don't know what to do next!