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Chapter 9!
Disclaimer- All I own is myself! And Kai!
Author's Notes- I feel so warm and fuzzy! I'm glad everybody is reviewing it really helps me work Oh and don't forget to read my new story Spies in The Shadows, it has all your canon pairings and action too! It's a little edgier too! Probably from me listening to too kick ass rock music! So on with my chappie!
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"Oof!" CRASH CLANG BASH BOING BOOM! The drum kit had made it's way down the steep stairs as she missed a step and fell face first (ouch) on top of them.
"God dammit! Why do we have to practice down here? Why not in our spiffy new apartment hmmm?" She huffed while picking her broken self up.
" I told you before Misao-chan that we can't play there, we'll disturb the neighbours! Our landlord was very helpful in letting us use the basement storage for a rehearsal space." Kaoru laughed as she watched Misao pout and kick some imaginary object.
" Come on Misao cheer up!" Kai said playing a perky tune on her dark green bass.
"It's smells and it's moldy." Misao whined miserably and then started to pick up her drum kit and set up.
" You're just upset because you had to carry the bass drum down." Megumi said sitting on a lacquer fold up lawn chair that she discovered lying unguarded, she crassly tuned her ruby red electric guitar. Misao merely responded with a loud raspberry towards the fox doctor. Soon everything was set up but one thing was missing.
" Where are my lyrics?" Kaoru asked quickly scanning over the dilapidated room.
"You must of left it upstairs." Kaoru nodded and jetted up the basement stairs into the lobby and waited for the elevator, because there was no way in hell she was sprinting up ten flights up stairs no matter how in shape she was. She pressed the opal button with an arrow pointing up and stood waiting, humming that oh so catchy tune of hers. The silver doors slid open with a 'Bing', she stepped inside and pushed '10'. The doors were about to close when a hand intercepted the two.
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Sometimes Kenshin really really wished he hadn't agreed to move in with his old roommate. Didn't he remember what it was like in college? The empty beer bottles laying on the floor like fallen soldiers in some horrid battle, the dirty laundry just begging to be washed, but Kenshin knew better to touch those articles and finally the smell; a mix of alcohol induced vomit and a stench he dare not identify. What had really possessed him this time? Then it came to him, loneliness. Loneliness was what made him move in with Sano. After Tomoe left with Kiyosato, the apartment they shared seemed so empty full of heart breaking memories. Kenshin instantly felt down trodden and wanted to get off the subject of his first love cutting his heart out with a spoon. (A.N Why a spoon? Alan Rickman in Robinhood "Because it's dull it'll hurt more")
So back to the task at hand! Laundry detergent! Ah yes the comforting Zen he found was always in laundry and tomorrow was laundry day! Unfortunately Sano when doing his own laundry used most of it over flowing the machine with bubbles and him being banned from the apartment laundry for a month.
Kenshin hauled back his Sunlight high efficiency tested soap (Nothing but the best! A.N I'm A Sunlight girl myself!) and trying to out run the precipitation, there was no way in hell he was getting his soap soggy!
He used his god like speed to race back to the apartment. He found himself fast approaching and slowed, he could feel the squish of his soaked socks with each step he took. Why did he have to forget his umbrella?
After shaking his dewy hair out he stepped into the lobby and head in the direction of the elevators. As Kenshin rounded the corner waving hello to the desk clerk and wishing him a good evening his breathe caught in his throat. There stood a familiar backside. Long raven hair, Alabaster skin, very shapely figure, could it be Kaoru? He felt as if he was a grand old oak tree because he was rooted to the ground. He watched her hum softly and step into the elevator all the time his head was chiming, ' It's her It's her It's her It's her' He needed to know if it was really her, he watched the silver doors begin to close and he was struck with panic 'Catch that elevator you baka!' Thank the heaven's that be for god like speed because he manage to get his hand crushed just in time to stop the door from sliding shut on his wonder woman or possibly wonder woman.
The door slid open in what seemed to him to be slow mo and there stood a surprised Kaoru.
"Kenshin?"
"Ah Konban wa Kaoru-dono." In his head a little chibi version him was jumping for dear joy at seeing the sight that was her. But, then a thought struck him, what was she doing here anyways?
"What floor are you headed for Kenshin?" Her soft voice cooed him out of his up coming thoughts of horror.
"Ano, Ten arigatou gozaimasu."
"Oh what luck that's the floor I'm headed to!" This comment sent him spinning into another string of hopeless thoughts. ' Why is she going to ten? Is she going out with one of those asses next door?' his eyes flickered amber as he was angered at this.
"I just moved into one of the apartments on that floor today."
"Oh I remember you telling me about it," Kenshin said simply and then did a double take fully coming to grips at what she was saying, "You mean Jiro and Kijuro moved out?"
"Uhuh. So why are you here? Coming to visit your girlfriend or something?"
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Yes, yes Kaoru knew bloody well that he lived next door but she had to find out if he was single. ' Oh kami-sama please make him single!' She chanted as she asked this painfully obvious question. She was so shocked to see him actually catch the door, it seemed as if he was catching it for her! 'He could have very well waited for the next but no he caught it! Bad Kaoru don't get your hopes up! You know very well that a man like that doesn't stay single for very long!' Then a look of panic filled his beautiful violet eyes and he began frantically waving his arms and shaking his head No.
"No no! I'm not seeing anybody- I mean I just live here." Kaoru felt like screaming her lungs out for pure unadulterated happiness. It took every bit of self-control she had to keep her from hopping up and down like a giddy schoolgirl. But she kept composed and said,
" Really I guess we'll be neighbours then." She smiled.
"Hai." He smiled then they just looked at each other for a little before the doors slid open.
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Kenshin didn't want to leave her, his eyes boring deeply into hers. Something in them told her that this was right that in her he could find home. They walked down the hall silently before nodding and smiling and heading into their respective apartments. But, before Kenshin could even put down his Sunlight there was a shriek from across the hall. Faster then a speeding bullet, Kenshin was on the scene ready to vanquish an evil that would threaten her only to see that she was beating his roommate senseless with a rolling pin.
"Oro! Kaoru-dono? Sano?" Sano who was curled up in a fetal position for his own protection squaked like the rooster he was,
"Get her off of me!" Slowly but surely Kenshin walked up to Kaoru to take the blunt object out of her hand when WHAM! He got it straight in the face.
"KENSHIN!" A horrified Kaoru screamed forgetting about the intruder and ran to tend the swirly-eyed man.
"Kenshin are you okay. I'm really sorry; you shouldn't sneak up on me! Let me get some ice! Damn we don't have ice yet! Ooh Kenshin what can I get you?"
"I'm alright Kaoru-dono, really." Kenshin gently said trying to calm the panicky girl, but from the corner of his eye he spotted Sano trying to sneak out, 'Not this time Sano.' He thought
"Sano what were you doing in Kaoru-dono's apartment?" Sano froze trying to squeeze a tangible answer from his sometimes-slow mind,
"Kenshin, you know this guy?" Kaoru's eyes sparkled in confusion and curiosity.
"Oro," He said rubbing his sore head, "He's my roommate."
"What the hell is he doing in my apartment?" She asked irritably jabbing a thumb at Sano.
"Oi! I was just going to the fox lady to change my bandages, it's not my fault you girls left your door unlocked." Kenshin looked at Kaoru go red with embarrassment and said,
"Oh." She was just adorable when she was flushed like that. There was a moment of silence.
"So Kenshin are you going to introduce me to your lovely friend or what?"
"Oro! Uh Sagara Sanosuke this is Kaoru.ano I sorry Kaoru-dono I don't know your last name."
"Kamiya Kaoru." She smiled.
"This is Kamiya Kaoru." Kenshin said softly.
"Nice meeting ya Jou-chan."
"It's Kaoru."
"Whatever." Sano said waving her off. Then some one else entered the room
"Kaoru- What's going on here?"
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Megumi had come to tell Kaoru to hurry the hell up but found her with the chicken head and another red headed guy.
"Oi! Fox lady perfect timing! It's time to change my bandages." He said waving his wrapped hand in her face. 'Cocky Jerk!'. She sharply snatched it and he whimpered in pain.
"This way!" She said smirking wildly and trotting rapidly to the couch. She wanted this done as quickly as possible.
"Megumi, can you come check Kenshin's head after?" Kaoru asked still inspecting the red head's head.
"What happened to him?" Megumi asked non-chalantly as she unwrapped Sano's hand roughly.
"Oi! Fox lady not so rough! My hands are very delicate!"
"Sure they are." She rolled her eyes, " Well what happened to Ken-san eh?"
"You seem to care about jou-chan whacking him in the head more then my broken hand!"
"Tanuki you are a vicious one aren't you?"
"Ugh don't call me that!"
"What you want me to call you an old hag like you brother does?" Kaoru scowled at this comment, "And don't give me that face, how do you expect to get a boyfriend acting like this huh?"
"MOU!" Megumi observed the redhead's reaction to her announcing she was single and as she expected his eyes lit up like the fourth of July. 'So tanuki-chan you have an admirer.' Megumi's eyes went soft for a moment, 'Hmm good for you'.
"Ow!"
"Quit whining rooster-head!"
"AND YOU SAY JOU-CHAN'S VICIOUS!"
"For some one who used to box you sure cry like a baby!"
"Hey I'm not the one who is acting like a broken hand is a football."
"It's just like a jock to relate everything back to sports." Megumi laughed
"Oi who you calling a jock?" But before she could answer about how dense he was Kaoru's little redhead chirped in,
"Actually, he isn't a jock. Sano got kicked off all the teams he joined, because of fighting."
"Shut up Kenshin." Sano snapped in pain as Megumi manhandled the raw hand.
"My my don't we have a lot of testosterone, ohohohoho!" The comment got a sly smirk from Sano,
"Just more for me to love the ladies with!"
"Ha! What ladies!" Megumi laughed.
"Oi!"
"Guys are we going to rehearse or- What the hell is going on here?" An angered Misao stomped and took in the sight, "Himura?"
"Ah Misao-dono, do you live here too?" Kenshin asked wide eyed
~*~*~ Somewhere in a dark dank storage room a solitary figure strummed a guitar singing a sad love ballad,
"All by myself Don't wanna be all by myself"
~*~*~ "Hey where's Kai?"
TBC
Hahaha chapter 9 and still no rehearsal but plenty of good KxK and SxM ! Well I don't gots much to say so I'll leave it there!
Til Next time folks!
Love it? Hate it! Review it - it can't be that hard!
Chapter 9!
Disclaimer- All I own is myself! And Kai!
Author's Notes- I feel so warm and fuzzy! I'm glad everybody is reviewing it really helps me work Oh and don't forget to read my new story Spies in The Shadows, it has all your canon pairings and action too! It's a little edgier too! Probably from me listening to too kick ass rock music! So on with my chappie!
~*~*~
"Oof!" CRASH CLANG BASH BOING BOOM! The drum kit had made it's way down the steep stairs as she missed a step and fell face first (ouch) on top of them.
"God dammit! Why do we have to practice down here? Why not in our spiffy new apartment hmmm?" She huffed while picking her broken self up.
" I told you before Misao-chan that we can't play there, we'll disturb the neighbours! Our landlord was very helpful in letting us use the basement storage for a rehearsal space." Kaoru laughed as she watched Misao pout and kick some imaginary object.
" Come on Misao cheer up!" Kai said playing a perky tune on her dark green bass.
"It's smells and it's moldy." Misao whined miserably and then started to pick up her drum kit and set up.
" You're just upset because you had to carry the bass drum down." Megumi said sitting on a lacquer fold up lawn chair that she discovered lying unguarded, she crassly tuned her ruby red electric guitar. Misao merely responded with a loud raspberry towards the fox doctor. Soon everything was set up but one thing was missing.
" Where are my lyrics?" Kaoru asked quickly scanning over the dilapidated room.
"You must of left it upstairs." Kaoru nodded and jetted up the basement stairs into the lobby and waited for the elevator, because there was no way in hell she was sprinting up ten flights up stairs no matter how in shape she was. She pressed the opal button with an arrow pointing up and stood waiting, humming that oh so catchy tune of hers. The silver doors slid open with a 'Bing', she stepped inside and pushed '10'. The doors were about to close when a hand intercepted the two.
~*~*~
Sometimes Kenshin really really wished he hadn't agreed to move in with his old roommate. Didn't he remember what it was like in college? The empty beer bottles laying on the floor like fallen soldiers in some horrid battle, the dirty laundry just begging to be washed, but Kenshin knew better to touch those articles and finally the smell; a mix of alcohol induced vomit and a stench he dare not identify. What had really possessed him this time? Then it came to him, loneliness. Loneliness was what made him move in with Sano. After Tomoe left with Kiyosato, the apartment they shared seemed so empty full of heart breaking memories. Kenshin instantly felt down trodden and wanted to get off the subject of his first love cutting his heart out with a spoon. (A.N Why a spoon? Alan Rickman in Robinhood "Because it's dull it'll hurt more")
So back to the task at hand! Laundry detergent! Ah yes the comforting Zen he found was always in laundry and tomorrow was laundry day! Unfortunately Sano when doing his own laundry used most of it over flowing the machine with bubbles and him being banned from the apartment laundry for a month.
Kenshin hauled back his Sunlight high efficiency tested soap (Nothing but the best! A.N I'm A Sunlight girl myself!) and trying to out run the precipitation, there was no way in hell he was getting his soap soggy!
He used his god like speed to race back to the apartment. He found himself fast approaching and slowed, he could feel the squish of his soaked socks with each step he took. Why did he have to forget his umbrella?
After shaking his dewy hair out he stepped into the lobby and head in the direction of the elevators. As Kenshin rounded the corner waving hello to the desk clerk and wishing him a good evening his breathe caught in his throat. There stood a familiar backside. Long raven hair, Alabaster skin, very shapely figure, could it be Kaoru? He felt as if he was a grand old oak tree because he was rooted to the ground. He watched her hum softly and step into the elevator all the time his head was chiming, ' It's her It's her It's her It's her' He needed to know if it was really her, he watched the silver doors begin to close and he was struck with panic 'Catch that elevator you baka!' Thank the heaven's that be for god like speed because he manage to get his hand crushed just in time to stop the door from sliding shut on his wonder woman or possibly wonder woman.
The door slid open in what seemed to him to be slow mo and there stood a surprised Kaoru.
"Kenshin?"
"Ah Konban wa Kaoru-dono." In his head a little chibi version him was jumping for dear joy at seeing the sight that was her. But, then a thought struck him, what was she doing here anyways?
"What floor are you headed for Kenshin?" Her soft voice cooed him out of his up coming thoughts of horror.
"Ano, Ten arigatou gozaimasu."
"Oh what luck that's the floor I'm headed to!" This comment sent him spinning into another string of hopeless thoughts. ' Why is she going to ten? Is she going out with one of those asses next door?' his eyes flickered amber as he was angered at this.
"I just moved into one of the apartments on that floor today."
"Oh I remember you telling me about it," Kenshin said simply and then did a double take fully coming to grips at what she was saying, "You mean Jiro and Kijuro moved out?"
"Uhuh. So why are you here? Coming to visit your girlfriend or something?"
~*~*~
Yes, yes Kaoru knew bloody well that he lived next door but she had to find out if he was single. ' Oh kami-sama please make him single!' She chanted as she asked this painfully obvious question. She was so shocked to see him actually catch the door, it seemed as if he was catching it for her! 'He could have very well waited for the next but no he caught it! Bad Kaoru don't get your hopes up! You know very well that a man like that doesn't stay single for very long!' Then a look of panic filled his beautiful violet eyes and he began frantically waving his arms and shaking his head No.
"No no! I'm not seeing anybody- I mean I just live here." Kaoru felt like screaming her lungs out for pure unadulterated happiness. It took every bit of self-control she had to keep her from hopping up and down like a giddy schoolgirl. But she kept composed and said,
" Really I guess we'll be neighbours then." She smiled.
"Hai." He smiled then they just looked at each other for a little before the doors slid open.
~*~*~
Kenshin didn't want to leave her, his eyes boring deeply into hers. Something in them told her that this was right that in her he could find home. They walked down the hall silently before nodding and smiling and heading into their respective apartments. But, before Kenshin could even put down his Sunlight there was a shriek from across the hall. Faster then a speeding bullet, Kenshin was on the scene ready to vanquish an evil that would threaten her only to see that she was beating his roommate senseless with a rolling pin.
"Oro! Kaoru-dono? Sano?" Sano who was curled up in a fetal position for his own protection squaked like the rooster he was,
"Get her off of me!" Slowly but surely Kenshin walked up to Kaoru to take the blunt object out of her hand when WHAM! He got it straight in the face.
"KENSHIN!" A horrified Kaoru screamed forgetting about the intruder and ran to tend the swirly-eyed man.
"Kenshin are you okay. I'm really sorry; you shouldn't sneak up on me! Let me get some ice! Damn we don't have ice yet! Ooh Kenshin what can I get you?"
"I'm alright Kaoru-dono, really." Kenshin gently said trying to calm the panicky girl, but from the corner of his eye he spotted Sano trying to sneak out, 'Not this time Sano.' He thought
"Sano what were you doing in Kaoru-dono's apartment?" Sano froze trying to squeeze a tangible answer from his sometimes-slow mind,
"Kenshin, you know this guy?" Kaoru's eyes sparkled in confusion and curiosity.
"Oro," He said rubbing his sore head, "He's my roommate."
"What the hell is he doing in my apartment?" She asked irritably jabbing a thumb at Sano.
"Oi! I was just going to the fox lady to change my bandages, it's not my fault you girls left your door unlocked." Kenshin looked at Kaoru go red with embarrassment and said,
"Oh." She was just adorable when she was flushed like that. There was a moment of silence.
"So Kenshin are you going to introduce me to your lovely friend or what?"
"Oro! Uh Sagara Sanosuke this is Kaoru.ano I sorry Kaoru-dono I don't know your last name."
"Kamiya Kaoru." She smiled.
"This is Kamiya Kaoru." Kenshin said softly.
"Nice meeting ya Jou-chan."
"It's Kaoru."
"Whatever." Sano said waving her off. Then some one else entered the room
"Kaoru- What's going on here?"
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Megumi had come to tell Kaoru to hurry the hell up but found her with the chicken head and another red headed guy.
"Oi! Fox lady perfect timing! It's time to change my bandages." He said waving his wrapped hand in her face. 'Cocky Jerk!'. She sharply snatched it and he whimpered in pain.
"This way!" She said smirking wildly and trotting rapidly to the couch. She wanted this done as quickly as possible.
"Megumi, can you come check Kenshin's head after?" Kaoru asked still inspecting the red head's head.
"What happened to him?" Megumi asked non-chalantly as she unwrapped Sano's hand roughly.
"Oi! Fox lady not so rough! My hands are very delicate!"
"Sure they are." She rolled her eyes, " Well what happened to Ken-san eh?"
"You seem to care about jou-chan whacking him in the head more then my broken hand!"
"Tanuki you are a vicious one aren't you?"
"Ugh don't call me that!"
"What you want me to call you an old hag like you brother does?" Kaoru scowled at this comment, "And don't give me that face, how do you expect to get a boyfriend acting like this huh?"
"MOU!" Megumi observed the redhead's reaction to her announcing she was single and as she expected his eyes lit up like the fourth of July. 'So tanuki-chan you have an admirer.' Megumi's eyes went soft for a moment, 'Hmm good for you'.
"Ow!"
"Quit whining rooster-head!"
"AND YOU SAY JOU-CHAN'S VICIOUS!"
"For some one who used to box you sure cry like a baby!"
"Hey I'm not the one who is acting like a broken hand is a football."
"It's just like a jock to relate everything back to sports." Megumi laughed
"Oi who you calling a jock?" But before she could answer about how dense he was Kaoru's little redhead chirped in,
"Actually, he isn't a jock. Sano got kicked off all the teams he joined, because of fighting."
"Shut up Kenshin." Sano snapped in pain as Megumi manhandled the raw hand.
"My my don't we have a lot of testosterone, ohohohoho!" The comment got a sly smirk from Sano,
"Just more for me to love the ladies with!"
"Ha! What ladies!" Megumi laughed.
"Oi!"
"Guys are we going to rehearse or- What the hell is going on here?" An angered Misao stomped and took in the sight, "Himura?"
"Ah Misao-dono, do you live here too?" Kenshin asked wide eyed
~*~*~ Somewhere in a dark dank storage room a solitary figure strummed a guitar singing a sad love ballad,
"All by myself Don't wanna be all by myself"
~*~*~ "Hey where's Kai?"
TBC
Hahaha chapter 9 and still no rehearsal but plenty of good KxK and SxM ! Well I don't gots much to say so I'll leave it there!
Til Next time folks!
Love it? Hate it! Review it - it can't be that hard!