Author's Notes: Yay! I'm soooo happy to be writing this chapter! Yeah, I
know. I'm a dork, but I can't help but love to write this story. I think
this is the first GOOD original idea that I've gotten. Is it original? I
dunno, but I've never read anything like this story. Have any of you? Oh,
I'm thinking of adding in Misao....what do you think?
Kay Kylo: I know I know! But, I promise that it will all make sense!
Jen: Not quite....remember that this is an Alternate Universe, so there was no Oniwaban group, hehe.....don't kill me
MP: Nope, he's not bad....he just has different ideas that...well....it'll be explained later.
Chris: Good guess....and the answer to that is yes, but also no.
comic fan: I know, but you'll see why he was a professor later!
Title: The Scholar and the Princess
Author: KaBunny
E-mail: Alexandra_Miyoko@yahoo.com
Rating: PG-13
Chapter Seven: The Fight Between Kenshin and Sanosuke
Kaoru wandered down the hall, her face to the floor as she thought about the occurrences. She had found out Kenshin was the Batoussai and that evening her father had betrothed her to Aoshi. He may look like good husband material to her father, but to her he was all wrong. She had spent time with the Professor for schooling and soon discovered he was a quiet man who had nothing to say out of academics. He kept his opinions to himself and didn't seem to care about the world around him. It was odd in a way.
Kenshin, however, was a completely different story. He was calm and collected most of the time. He also had a happy exterior and was always in the mood to help out. He applied his opinion when it was plausible and kept this mouth shut when he believed it to be right. 'It might just be his manners,' Kaoru thought, giving a small laugh. He also had a kind heart which almost made him being Batoussai impossible. But, the look on his face at dinner completely proved Kaoru's doubts wrong.
'Why am I comparing my future husband to Kenshin?' Kaoru thought, a blush on her face as she turned the corner. 'Maybe I am in love....maybe, that's why I had that outburst in the library the other day. Maybe that's why I believe so strongly in love now. Maybe.....maybe I'm just crazy.'
She sighed as she stopped in front of her door. She placed her hand on the handle, but then turned and looked at the door next to hers. 'Why did he act like that?' she thought, still staring at his door. 'What is it about Aoshi that makes him so angry?'
She saw a flash of him storming out of the hospital wing and then again at dinner.
~*~Flashback~*~
They had been sitting there in silence for some time, but Kaoru could feel Kenshin's tension just by sitting next to him. Aoshi had sat across the table from Kenshin and had begun eating a few moments after he had arrived. He didn't seem to mind the quiet and he even seemed to be amused by Kenshin, who looked very tense.
Kaoru couldn't help it. She had watched as Kenshin's knuckles turned white from gripping the fork so tightly and how he hid most of his face with his long bangs. So, she placed a hand on his, which caused him to look up at her. He had a horribly scary look on his face and his eyes were yellow, just like a demon's. She pulled back away from him a bit and he turned to glare at Aoshi, who just smiled his small cold smile.
Kaoru could hear Kenshin growl as he pushed his plate away and stood up. He bowed in the general direction of the king before glaring at Aoshi again. He pushed his chair out of the way, and stormed out of the room again as he struggled to keep Batoussai in check.
Kaoru had stayed for dinner, just to keep up the charade that Kenshin was just her teacher and nothing more.
~*~End Flashback~*~
So, after dinner had been over, she decided to come back here, to her room. But, something was bothering her and she had to find out. She shook her head, and pulled her hand off her handle. Then, she wandered over to Kenshin's door and reached a hand up to fix her ponytailed hair. She ran a hand along her violet kimono as if to wipe off any wrinkles before she knocked lightly on Kenshin's door.
She waited, but received no answer. After deciding that he must not be in his room, she turned to go back to her room just as Kenshin's door opened. "Good evening, Miss Kaoru," she heard Kenshin say in a voice that told her he was back to his normal polite self.
"Kenshin, I mean, Mr. Himura, may I talk with you?" Kaoru questioned, turning back to him and looking up at him.
"Of course, Miss Kaoru," Kenshin replied, smiling at her. He opened the door wider for her to enter, which she did.
"I believe this may be quite impolite of me to ask this of you, but I just want you to know it is for curiousity's sake," Kaoru explained, taking a seat on his maroon colored couch.
Kenshin sat down in the maroon chair across from her and smiled at her. "Your speech has become quite reserved, that it has. My lessons must be working," Kenshin stated, looking at his student with lavender eyes.
"Ken.....Mr. Himura, I know who you are," Kaoru said, confusing Kenshin. "I really just want to know why you hate Aoshi so much. I don't understand. I thought that maybe it had to do with the war. I thought that maybe you crossed paths with Aoshi or something in battle, but....then I realized that Sano was in the war too, so it doesn't make any sense."
"Miss Kaoru? What are you talking about?" Kenshin questioned, his voice unsure.
"You don't have to pretend anymore. I know who you are and your past doesn't matter to me," Kaoru said, shaking her head.
"I see," was all he said. He face became hidden again by his long bangs as he looked down and sighed. "It appears that I do not belong here anymore. But, may I ask, how did you find out?"
"Miss.....Miss Megumi told me, but only because I forced her," Kaoru explained, as Kenshin stood up, his face still hidden.
He was silent as he walked over to the window and looked outside. He watched as the trees swayed in the soft wind and how the flowers smiled up at the moon. He then realized that he liked being here and he didn't want to go, but somehow knew that eventually he would have to. "I didn't know it would come so soon," he muttered, shaking his head.
"Kenshin?" Kaoru questioned, standing up and walking over to him. She looked up at him, as he turned around to face her, his head still down. "I don't want you to leave."
"I'm sorry, Miss Kaoru, but my reputation has a tendency to place people in unwanted danger," he stated, walking past her toward his bed.
"Will you at least tell me why you hate Aoshi?"
Kenshin stopped as his eyes widened. He realized then that he couldn't leave because he had found who he had been searching for all those years. That's right. He had found Aoshi Shinomori and now he had to let the world know the truth about the man before it became too late.
"Kenshin?"
"Please, sit down, Miss Kaoru," Kenshin said, walking to the couch and sitting down. Kaoru followed his suit and sat down next to him. "This will be a long story and everything I will tell you will be the truth about what really happened, but first I would like to know everything that Miss Megumi told you."
"She only told me how you met. She said that you showed up at her door because you had heard rumors about her doctoring. Then, a few days after she had taken you in men showed up looking for Batoussai.....she said that you protected her from them, but not after she had found out that you were him, Batoussai, I mean. She then nursed you back to health. In the process, she said that you were not one to sit around to wait for your wounds to heal and had a tendency to wander. She also told me that she spread the rumors of you death at your request and that you took a vow.....a vow never to kill again," Kaoru replied, her soft, dark blue eyes never leaving Kenshin's face. "Are all these facts true?"
"Yes, they are," Kenshin murmured, finally looking up at her. "I will never kill anyone ever again. However, I still have one old soul buried down within me and that soul is my unfinished business with Aoshi Shinomori. He is what caused me to wander out of the war and spread the rumors of my death. His unlawful way of killing his captain."
"Aoshi didn't kill Captain Sagara, Ba-....you....you killed Captain Sagara," Kaoru responded, quite astonished by the fact that she didn't remember that Batoussai had killed the great Captain.
"No, Aoshi killed his own Captain," Kenshin stated, standing up and placing his hands behind his back as he wandered to look out the window again. "He killed him because his Captain's ideals went against his own ideals."
"What were Aoshi's ideals?" Kaoru questioned, trying to swallow all this information.
As Kenshin thought a moment, his eyes flashed yellow as he suddenly became angered at his memory. "So, that's why he wanted to marry you," he muttered, walking over to his door. He glanced back at Kaoru. "You'll have to excuse me for a bit Kaoru."
Kaoru blushed as he said he name without the 'miss' before he left his room. 'What is going on?' she questioned to herself, as she stared at the door. 'He's hiding something.....there was something he didn't tell me.'
~~~~~~(Phew! Now onto the fight!)
As Kenshin stepped out of his room, ran down the hall, and turned a corner, he ran directly into someone. As he glanced up to apologize, he saw the angry eyes of Sanosuke. He immediately calmed himself and brought himself back to the polite scholarly Kenshin. "Excuse me, Sano. I was in such a hurry, that I didn't notice you coming around the corner," Kenshin said, standing up and dusting himself off. 'I didn't sense him either. I mustn't let my anger cloud my senses.'
Kenshin glanced over at Sano, when he said nothing. Sano eyes were narrowed at him in anger and Kenshin could feel that it had much more to do with the fact that he had just run into him. "Is everything alright, Sano?"
"How could you? Why did you do this to me? It's just like you to pretend to be someone other than the wretch you are. Eventually your true colors shined through didn't they?" Sano responded angrily.
"What?" Kenshin questioned, exasperated.
"How could you kill Captain after he had already been injured?" Sano asked, his eyes narrowing as he accused Kenshin.
"What are you talking about?" he inquired, hoping that Sano really hadn't found out. 'How would he? Wait.....Kaoru knew, but she didn't tell anyone else, did she?'
"Don't play dumb, Kenshin.....or should I say Batoussai?" Sano growled, his eyes never leaving Kenshin and never blinking.
'He did know....,' Kenshin thought, lowering head to stare at the floor.
"How could you come in here and trick us like that? What about the Little Missy? She's become so attached to you and it would break her heart when I had to kill you," the brunette stated.
"K-kill me?" Kenshin stuttered, looking up at Sano with wide eyes.
"That's right," Sano answered, crossing his arms. "You heard my story. Here's my chance to get revenge for my Captain and I plan to take it. You have no choice but to fight me."
Kenshin said nothing as he looked at the floor again. He then began walking down the hall, Sano at his back, following him. They made their way outside to the training ground that Sano usually used for teaching Kaoru and Yahiko the art of swordsmanship.
The long red haired man pulled a wooden sword from one of the racks and Sano gave him a look that said 'You can't kill me with that.' Kenshin gave him one back that said enough to cause Sano to stop looking at him that way. Kenshin's one lavender eyes had turned a dark blue color as his pupils had shrunk to a much smaller size that normal. He placed the wooden sword he had in a fake sheath and leaned into his fighting stance, his eyes on Sano who had his fists out infront of him.
From a window far above, stood Aoshi, watching over the battle. A small cold smile creased his lips as he stared at the two. He then turned back to his student at hand and his history lesson.
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Well, that's that for that chapter. Wow! I used 'that' three times in once sentence, hehe....Sorry about them not actually fighting, but that'll come next chapter when a lot of stuff is revealed. Aoshi is not actually a bad guy. He just has certain.....ideas. You'll see. This chapter is a little longer than normal....as a certain reviewer requested
Stay Tuned for Chapter Eight: Aoshi Shinomori......Kenshin and Sano battle as Kenshin tries to convince Sano of what REALLY happened. Aoshi's up to no good as soon as he gets wind of something from Kaoru. In the meantime, Aoshi reveals his reasons.
Ja ne! ~KaBunny
Kay Kylo: I know I know! But, I promise that it will all make sense!
Jen: Not quite....remember that this is an Alternate Universe, so there was no Oniwaban group, hehe.....don't kill me
MP: Nope, he's not bad....he just has different ideas that...well....it'll be explained later.
Chris: Good guess....and the answer to that is yes, but also no.
comic fan: I know, but you'll see why he was a professor later!
Title: The Scholar and the Princess
Author: KaBunny
E-mail: Alexandra_Miyoko@yahoo.com
Rating: PG-13
Chapter Seven: The Fight Between Kenshin and Sanosuke
Kaoru wandered down the hall, her face to the floor as she thought about the occurrences. She had found out Kenshin was the Batoussai and that evening her father had betrothed her to Aoshi. He may look like good husband material to her father, but to her he was all wrong. She had spent time with the Professor for schooling and soon discovered he was a quiet man who had nothing to say out of academics. He kept his opinions to himself and didn't seem to care about the world around him. It was odd in a way.
Kenshin, however, was a completely different story. He was calm and collected most of the time. He also had a happy exterior and was always in the mood to help out. He applied his opinion when it was plausible and kept this mouth shut when he believed it to be right. 'It might just be his manners,' Kaoru thought, giving a small laugh. He also had a kind heart which almost made him being Batoussai impossible. But, the look on his face at dinner completely proved Kaoru's doubts wrong.
'Why am I comparing my future husband to Kenshin?' Kaoru thought, a blush on her face as she turned the corner. 'Maybe I am in love....maybe, that's why I had that outburst in the library the other day. Maybe that's why I believe so strongly in love now. Maybe.....maybe I'm just crazy.'
She sighed as she stopped in front of her door. She placed her hand on the handle, but then turned and looked at the door next to hers. 'Why did he act like that?' she thought, still staring at his door. 'What is it about Aoshi that makes him so angry?'
She saw a flash of him storming out of the hospital wing and then again at dinner.
~*~Flashback~*~
They had been sitting there in silence for some time, but Kaoru could feel Kenshin's tension just by sitting next to him. Aoshi had sat across the table from Kenshin and had begun eating a few moments after he had arrived. He didn't seem to mind the quiet and he even seemed to be amused by Kenshin, who looked very tense.
Kaoru couldn't help it. She had watched as Kenshin's knuckles turned white from gripping the fork so tightly and how he hid most of his face with his long bangs. So, she placed a hand on his, which caused him to look up at her. He had a horribly scary look on his face and his eyes were yellow, just like a demon's. She pulled back away from him a bit and he turned to glare at Aoshi, who just smiled his small cold smile.
Kaoru could hear Kenshin growl as he pushed his plate away and stood up. He bowed in the general direction of the king before glaring at Aoshi again. He pushed his chair out of the way, and stormed out of the room again as he struggled to keep Batoussai in check.
Kaoru had stayed for dinner, just to keep up the charade that Kenshin was just her teacher and nothing more.
~*~End Flashback~*~
So, after dinner had been over, she decided to come back here, to her room. But, something was bothering her and she had to find out. She shook her head, and pulled her hand off her handle. Then, she wandered over to Kenshin's door and reached a hand up to fix her ponytailed hair. She ran a hand along her violet kimono as if to wipe off any wrinkles before she knocked lightly on Kenshin's door.
She waited, but received no answer. After deciding that he must not be in his room, she turned to go back to her room just as Kenshin's door opened. "Good evening, Miss Kaoru," she heard Kenshin say in a voice that told her he was back to his normal polite self.
"Kenshin, I mean, Mr. Himura, may I talk with you?" Kaoru questioned, turning back to him and looking up at him.
"Of course, Miss Kaoru," Kenshin replied, smiling at her. He opened the door wider for her to enter, which she did.
"I believe this may be quite impolite of me to ask this of you, but I just want you to know it is for curiousity's sake," Kaoru explained, taking a seat on his maroon colored couch.
Kenshin sat down in the maroon chair across from her and smiled at her. "Your speech has become quite reserved, that it has. My lessons must be working," Kenshin stated, looking at his student with lavender eyes.
"Ken.....Mr. Himura, I know who you are," Kaoru said, confusing Kenshin. "I really just want to know why you hate Aoshi so much. I don't understand. I thought that maybe it had to do with the war. I thought that maybe you crossed paths with Aoshi or something in battle, but....then I realized that Sano was in the war too, so it doesn't make any sense."
"Miss Kaoru? What are you talking about?" Kenshin questioned, his voice unsure.
"You don't have to pretend anymore. I know who you are and your past doesn't matter to me," Kaoru said, shaking her head.
"I see," was all he said. He face became hidden again by his long bangs as he looked down and sighed. "It appears that I do not belong here anymore. But, may I ask, how did you find out?"
"Miss.....Miss Megumi told me, but only because I forced her," Kaoru explained, as Kenshin stood up, his face still hidden.
He was silent as he walked over to the window and looked outside. He watched as the trees swayed in the soft wind and how the flowers smiled up at the moon. He then realized that he liked being here and he didn't want to go, but somehow knew that eventually he would have to. "I didn't know it would come so soon," he muttered, shaking his head.
"Kenshin?" Kaoru questioned, standing up and walking over to him. She looked up at him, as he turned around to face her, his head still down. "I don't want you to leave."
"I'm sorry, Miss Kaoru, but my reputation has a tendency to place people in unwanted danger," he stated, walking past her toward his bed.
"Will you at least tell me why you hate Aoshi?"
Kenshin stopped as his eyes widened. He realized then that he couldn't leave because he had found who he had been searching for all those years. That's right. He had found Aoshi Shinomori and now he had to let the world know the truth about the man before it became too late.
"Kenshin?"
"Please, sit down, Miss Kaoru," Kenshin said, walking to the couch and sitting down. Kaoru followed his suit and sat down next to him. "This will be a long story and everything I will tell you will be the truth about what really happened, but first I would like to know everything that Miss Megumi told you."
"She only told me how you met. She said that you showed up at her door because you had heard rumors about her doctoring. Then, a few days after she had taken you in men showed up looking for Batoussai.....she said that you protected her from them, but not after she had found out that you were him, Batoussai, I mean. She then nursed you back to health. In the process, she said that you were not one to sit around to wait for your wounds to heal and had a tendency to wander. She also told me that she spread the rumors of you death at your request and that you took a vow.....a vow never to kill again," Kaoru replied, her soft, dark blue eyes never leaving Kenshin's face. "Are all these facts true?"
"Yes, they are," Kenshin murmured, finally looking up at her. "I will never kill anyone ever again. However, I still have one old soul buried down within me and that soul is my unfinished business with Aoshi Shinomori. He is what caused me to wander out of the war and spread the rumors of my death. His unlawful way of killing his captain."
"Aoshi didn't kill Captain Sagara, Ba-....you....you killed Captain Sagara," Kaoru responded, quite astonished by the fact that she didn't remember that Batoussai had killed the great Captain.
"No, Aoshi killed his own Captain," Kenshin stated, standing up and placing his hands behind his back as he wandered to look out the window again. "He killed him because his Captain's ideals went against his own ideals."
"What were Aoshi's ideals?" Kaoru questioned, trying to swallow all this information.
As Kenshin thought a moment, his eyes flashed yellow as he suddenly became angered at his memory. "So, that's why he wanted to marry you," he muttered, walking over to his door. He glanced back at Kaoru. "You'll have to excuse me for a bit Kaoru."
Kaoru blushed as he said he name without the 'miss' before he left his room. 'What is going on?' she questioned to herself, as she stared at the door. 'He's hiding something.....there was something he didn't tell me.'
~~~~~~(Phew! Now onto the fight!)
As Kenshin stepped out of his room, ran down the hall, and turned a corner, he ran directly into someone. As he glanced up to apologize, he saw the angry eyes of Sanosuke. He immediately calmed himself and brought himself back to the polite scholarly Kenshin. "Excuse me, Sano. I was in such a hurry, that I didn't notice you coming around the corner," Kenshin said, standing up and dusting himself off. 'I didn't sense him either. I mustn't let my anger cloud my senses.'
Kenshin glanced over at Sano, when he said nothing. Sano eyes were narrowed at him in anger and Kenshin could feel that it had much more to do with the fact that he had just run into him. "Is everything alright, Sano?"
"How could you? Why did you do this to me? It's just like you to pretend to be someone other than the wretch you are. Eventually your true colors shined through didn't they?" Sano responded angrily.
"What?" Kenshin questioned, exasperated.
"How could you kill Captain after he had already been injured?" Sano asked, his eyes narrowing as he accused Kenshin.
"What are you talking about?" he inquired, hoping that Sano really hadn't found out. 'How would he? Wait.....Kaoru knew, but she didn't tell anyone else, did she?'
"Don't play dumb, Kenshin.....or should I say Batoussai?" Sano growled, his eyes never leaving Kenshin and never blinking.
'He did know....,' Kenshin thought, lowering head to stare at the floor.
"How could you come in here and trick us like that? What about the Little Missy? She's become so attached to you and it would break her heart when I had to kill you," the brunette stated.
"K-kill me?" Kenshin stuttered, looking up at Sano with wide eyes.
"That's right," Sano answered, crossing his arms. "You heard my story. Here's my chance to get revenge for my Captain and I plan to take it. You have no choice but to fight me."
Kenshin said nothing as he looked at the floor again. He then began walking down the hall, Sano at his back, following him. They made their way outside to the training ground that Sano usually used for teaching Kaoru and Yahiko the art of swordsmanship.
The long red haired man pulled a wooden sword from one of the racks and Sano gave him a look that said 'You can't kill me with that.' Kenshin gave him one back that said enough to cause Sano to stop looking at him that way. Kenshin's one lavender eyes had turned a dark blue color as his pupils had shrunk to a much smaller size that normal. He placed the wooden sword he had in a fake sheath and leaned into his fighting stance, his eyes on Sano who had his fists out infront of him.
From a window far above, stood Aoshi, watching over the battle. A small cold smile creased his lips as he stared at the two. He then turned back to his student at hand and his history lesson.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Well, that's that for that chapter. Wow! I used 'that' three times in once sentence, hehe....Sorry about them not actually fighting, but that'll come next chapter when a lot of stuff is revealed. Aoshi is not actually a bad guy. He just has certain.....ideas. You'll see. This chapter is a little longer than normal....as a certain reviewer requested
Stay Tuned for Chapter Eight: Aoshi Shinomori......Kenshin and Sano battle as Kenshin tries to convince Sano of what REALLY happened. Aoshi's up to no good as soon as he gets wind of something from Kaoru. In the meantime, Aoshi reveals his reasons.
Ja ne! ~KaBunny