Kaoru's Regrets

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Now onto chapter 5

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Kaoru's Regrets, Chapter 5: Of Dreams and Fantasies

Kaoru looked around and found herself in a gigantic room with her eight grade class. She was wearing a white kimono with red and pink flowers over it; her obi was a light pink and was intricately tied. It fit her perfectly and really showed her gorgeous curves. Her long raven hair was tied up in a formal bun and in her hair was a beautiful jade butterfly pin in it . She wore light blush and her lips were painted red.

"So the tanuki girl has finally started to look like a lady! Ohohohoho!!!!!" Kaoru turned around and was face to face with Megumi

"Megumi" Kaoru was a little confused, "Where are we?"

"Don't you remember anything?" Megumi huffed. "Honestly! Anyway tonight's the graduation party. Remember? Well, Kaoru-chan you look very pretty tonight"

"And look at you!" Kaoru exclaimed. Megumi wore a dark purple kimono and her dark blue obi really complimented it. her hair was down as usual and she wore light make-up as well.

They saw Misao running towards them. Her trademark braid was gone and in its place was a new Western style. Half was swept up and the rest was slightly curled at the ends. It bounced off her back, just like her braid. She wore a light blue kimono with a black butterfly moving upwards and a white obi was tied around her waist. All in all, Misao looked stunning.

"Hey! You guys look fantastic! Watch out! The three hottest girls in Japan are getting their men tonight!"

"Maybe you and Megumi, but Kenshin is just way to dense! And I had the impression that he liked me" Kaoru sighed. At this rate, she would be an old maid by the time Kenshin finally asked her out. 'I wish he would come over and ask me to dance' Kaoru thought wistfully.

"Oi, Fox, come dance with me"

'Oh well, close enough' Kaoru thought, 'Megumi should really be a lot happier that Sano flirts with her. I wish Kenshin would flirt with me, but he's just going to Kaoru-dono me until I die!'

"Like I would want to dance with a baka rooster-head!" Megumi's retort brought Kaoru back to reality.

"Foxy, that hurt. I would have thought you had a better liking to me since graduation"

That comment made Megumi blush as red as that headband Sano always wears. She remembered the kiss and how wonderful it made her feel. The next thing she knew she was on the dance floor with Sano.

Misao and Kaoru made their way to a table and sat down. The plates were made out of the finest china and the glass chopsticks went nicely with it as well.

"Are these seats taken?"

"Sure, sit, whatever." Kaoru said a little absentmindedly

"Arigato, Kaoru-dono" Kaoru-dono? Kaoru looked to her side to see Kenshin taking the seat next to her and Aoshi next to Misao. The four ate dinner and chatted about graduation and what they planned to do over the summer.

Their evening was hald over and both Kaoru and Misao were wishing that their dreams guys would ask them to dance.

Aoshi look in Kenshin's direction and nodded, it was time. 'He better not mess up his chance with Kaoru' Aoshi looked at Misao in the eye and asked, "Misao would you like to dance?"

"Of course!" Misao bounded out of her seat happily and gladly took Aoshi's hand.

Kenshin took a deep breath and said, "Kaoru-dono?"

"Yes, Kenshin?"

"Sessha would like to know why Kaoru-dono ran away from him graduation night"

Kaoru smiled, so he did notice, "Kenshin, if you really want to answer that, first get rid of the 'sessha' and then drop that '-dono' off my name."

"I will have a hard time with that Kaoru-do, I mean Kaoru"

"Ok, to answer your question, I was looking for Megumi" Kaoru lied

"Sessha knows you have lied. If you do not tell sessha the truth then sessha will not stop, that I will not."

Kaoru sighed. "Ok, fine, I don't really know why. I just didn't want to face you. It's not like you made me nervous or anything like that. I just-"

"I did not mean to scare you off."

"No, no! You didn't scare me off. I was just afraid of you rejecting me."

"Kaoru look at me." Blue met violet. "I did not mean to sadden you, that I did not." He leaned forward and Kaoru gasped. Was he going to kiss her?

Kaoru leaned a little closer to Kenshin as he caressed her cheek and thier lips slowly met. Kaoru melted into Kenshin's embrace. 'His lips are so soft and gentle.' Kaoru thought. 'Is this real?' Kaoru was estatic and slowly broke off their first kiss.

It was breathtaking! So passionate, she longed for another

*beep beep*

Kaoru woke up with a start. Damn alarm clock. Why was that crap on anyway? 'Oh, yeah' Kaoru thought sheepishly. 'I was going to find Misao a kimono that will made Aoshi speechless when he sees her, maybe something like what she was wearing in my dream'

She touched her lips. The kiss felt so real, but it wasn't. It was just a pigment of her imagination

'What an imagination' Kaoru thought as she got up and headed for the kitchen

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Do you guys hate me for doing that? Well, I really liked writing this chapter. Was the fluff terrible? I'm not really that great at writing fluff. But, I just wanted to say that the dream was also a fantasy for Kaoru, becuase, duh! Kenshin kissed her!! and the title idea came from this book I had to read for school called, "Of Mice and Men" and I though Of Dreams and Fantasies sounded nice and it gave you a little clue to what it was about

I just realized that I got off my whole original idea of the story, but I'm actually kinda glad, I wouldn't have liked it as much as this one

Next time: And the scheming Begins . . .

Kaoru and Kenshin both are scheming to see each other with the help of their friends, feelings are revealed

Teaser: "Oooo, Himura" Misao started to get excited. "You like Kaoru don't you? don't you? Misao poked him. "Don't lie to me, I may not be able to read kis, but I do know when someone is lying to me, so spill!" Kenshin of course, not wanting to tell Misao, of all people, tried to dodge the question. "Misao-dono, this is not the pla-" "I said tell me the truth!" Misao started to get angry and Kenshin didn't need her eye color to change to tell him that.

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