Chapter V:Shall I be the One for You?

After that night onward, Kaoru hadn't even waked up for a day.

All of them are inside Kaoru's room waiting for her to wake up.

"I'm worried about Kaoru-dono, what had happened to her?" Kenshin so puzzled.

"Let's call fox-doctor, Kenshin?" Sanosuke suggested.

"Okay. Yahiko go and get Megumi-dono and bring her here." Kenshin faced the young boy.

"Okay." He stood up and left.

After 5 minutes of waiting.

The door of Kaoru's room opened.

"It's about time you showed up fox-lady." Sanosuke teased.

"Ya, ya rooster-baka! There's no time left, so who's going to be my patient this time?" She asked.

"Megumi-dono it would be possibly is Kaoru-dono." He answers her question.

"So what happened to her Ken-san?" she asked.

"Last night Aoshi arrived with her, then we went to the kitchen to have some hot tea she offered us then she said last night "I'm sleepy. We better go to bed mi-" then she stopped talking and fell to the ground." He told him the story.

"(gasp) Masaka! Someone who must have put a really bad opium!" she said in a shocking matter.

Everyone got shocked of what she said.

"You must be kidding fox-lady?!" Sanosuke tried to be confident.

"Why should I try to tell a bad joke about it rooster-baka?!" she said with anger.

"Masaka! You mean our Kamiya Kaoru, will die Megumi?" Yahiko tried to stop his tears.

"It may happen Yahiko, we might loose her someday." She said with full of tears in her eyes.

"Megumi-dono, you mean my Kaoru will." Kenshin couldn't say the word.

"Yes Kenshin. You could have told her your feelings towards her, but now it's late you or we could loose her someday, somehow or sometime." Megumi couldn't handle the matter, she then went to Sanosuke and shed tears at his chest.

"Oh no. What will the others back at Kyoto do if she dies? Misao might as well kill herself, she accepted Kaoru-chan as her favourite big sister all the time." Aoshi started worrying about Kaoru.

A dark shadow seen outside the door of Kaoru that wasn't closed afterwards Yahiko and Megumi entered.

"Someone payed a visit here Sano, Aoshi." He said to them in battousai eyes of the killer.

"What? Where, I'll kill him if he's the one after Jou-chan?" Sanosuke was ready to kill that guy from the shadow.

"Who are you? Are the one responsible for this?" Kenshin asked the guy.

"Yes! I can't stand her sadness face everyday. It made me sad to see that face ever again. She wished that you Mr. Himura would see her feelings for you! Then she wished last night that she might as well kill herself somehow." The man's voice became softer everytime he talks about it.

"I don't know if she really wishes to kill herself for that matter it is not." Kenshin grabbed his Sakabatou and went outside Kaoru's room.

While Aoshi took his sword out and went outside too. Sanosuke let his love go and went the three of them.

"Kaoru-dono brought us joy, happiness, love, care and a whole family she created! She used all her heart for that matter. Because she loves us." Kenshin told him all about how Kaoru brought joy to them.

"Nonsense. She did. But she said last night that If she dies all of you will be happy for that matter." The man continued.

"Who the hell are you mister-kill-Kaoru-?" he asked in a very mean sound.

"I am Kaoru's ex-boyfriend, Shinta!" Shinta answered his question.

"That can't be!" Kenshin really confused. At Kaoru's room, where Yahiko and Megumi are.

"Oh no, Kaoru never told about that to us." Megumi was really shocked to hear this.

Kaoru's hand moved.

"Megumi, Kaoru is moving." He said surprisingly.

"Kenshin." A soft whisper was heard outside her room.

"Masaka! Kaoru-chan is awake." Shinta was surprised to hear her voice again.

"Kenshin. ya-me-rou." She tried to stop Kenshin.

"Kaoru-dono." Kenshin was surprised to hear her sweet, soft voice again.

"Kenshin." Kaoru stood up from her futon and went to the straight direction where Kenshin, Sanosuke and Aoshi is.

"Kaoru-dono you shouldn't have stood up from your futon." With Kenshin's warm concerned face towards her.

"Kenshin. my question is." she started.

Everybody was staring at her.

"Kenshin. shall. I. be.the.one..for..you?" she asked.

Everybody was shocked hearing her words to Kenshin.

"Kenshin. Shall I be The One for You?" She straightened her words this time.

"Yes Kaoru-dono that you'll be always the one I love." He said it, he finally said it to her. His emotions did it for her.

"I'll always love you Kenshin." She said shedding tears.

Shinta was surprise of what he just seen from the scene.

"Me too Kaoru-dono, I'll always love you." They smiled at each other then Kenshin leaned to her then the final blow, the KISS.

Everybody cried because Kenshin and Kaoru did it.

They broke the kiss. "You'll always be my rurouni, Kenshin." She said.

Kaoru fell on him then,

"I'll be with you for the last time and this is." she had to say it or it'll be late.

"Don't say it Kaoru-dono." Kenshin started to shed tears of what Kaoru will next to say to him.

"Sa-you-na-ra." then she stopped breathing.

"Iie." Everybody saw it. It was painful for Kenshin.

Megumi, Yahiko, Sanosuke and Aoshi shed tears of what they just seen.

"Kao-ru-do-no." he looked at her pale skin. His tears started to fall to her cheeks.

"IIIIIIEEEEE!!!!! KAAAOOORRUUU-DONOOOO!" he shouted out loud.