Disclaimer: Do I own Rurouni Kenshin? Hold on, let me check with my
secretary, my mystical #8 ball.. And it says.. 'In your dreams'.. Why you
little. (throws agaisnt wall).. So as you can see, I don't own RK. wish as
I might.. I never will.. BUT I CAN DREAM!!!
Authors Notes: I am going on vacation Saturday!!!! Yay!!! I'm only going to be gone for a week at the most, but I thought I should update this story anyway. And again, I am calling upon you all for help! I am drawing a blank here. I don't know the name of the people Kenshin worked for as Battousai and I have NO idea what they looked like. I'm going to try and go around giving them names in this chapter. But if you know, COULD YOU PLEASE review me or e-mail me at freakishlyinsanelycrazy@yahoo.com and let me know? I know, I should probably know this, but some of the people I just don't know how to spell their names!!! Thanx!!! Love you all!!!!
~Coming of the Dawn~
***Chapter 5- Breaking The Ice***
Kaoru had found that the kimonos in the closet fit her better than the other ones she had received. And they were more her fashion. She adorned a blue one with silver sakura flowers around the hems. She tied it together with a white obi that had large flowers on it. She brushed her hair with a brush she had found, and put her hair up in an indigo ribbon.
Then her thoughts trailed to the Battousai. 'I wonder if me wearing these kimonos will get him angry with me. Maybe it will upset him again?'
She pushed the thought back. She didn't need to care. She shouldn't care about his feelings. Kaoru had a feeling he wouldn't kill her because of the accidentally murder of his wife. she wondered about that too. How had it happened? She figured she shouldn't pry into it any farther.
At least not yet.
She looked in the mirror. She was angry that her hair wasn't complying with her that day. She tried 2 more times to get it to go up nicely, and both times she failed. She huffed. She had a feeling it had to do with the fact she was stressed out. Kaoru just let her hair fall down. She wouldn't bother putting it up today.
She slipped on some sandals and then walked out of the room towards the kitchen to start her daily chores. She washed some of the dishes that were used in cooking the breakfast. She did this quickly.
"Kaoru-chan." Came the voice of her friend Hinoki.
She looked up. "Toki-chan!"
"Can you bring some of the breakfasts into the offices?" she asked her.
Kaoru nodded. "Of course, why?"
Hinoki glanced behind her shoulder quickly. "Because the men decided to have their breakfast in there along with their meeting. I'm going to help you. There are only 8 men in there right now, so it's not going to be that much."
Kaoru nodded and lifted up a tray of food. She followed Hinoki. She had never been into the 'offices', the secret meeting room in the Inn. Hinoki led the way and Kaoru followed her obediently, glad there was nothing for her to trip over. She moved behind Hinoki as she moved to open the door skillfully with one hand. Then she followed her in.
Hinoki pointed to one side of the large table that was surrounded by 8 men. Kaoru nodded and went over to that side, slowly serving each man. She gave each their fair share and listened to their comments and halfheartedly tried to ignore the information they were exchanging.
"And will end there, since our breakfast is here." Came the voice of a dark-haired and dark-eyed man. Kaoru guessed he was in control of the workings of the Ishin Shishi.
*************
Battousai groaned. Breakfast. He had a feeling this was going to be a long meeting, and that didn't settle well with him. His stomach growled in protest. He had to admit that he was hungry. He glanced up at who was serving him his breakfast. His eyes met a familiar kimono and down black hair.
'TOMOE? 'His mind screamed as his eyes widened in shock. Then she pulled her hair back behind her ear. 'Oh, it's just Kaoru'. He thought. He wasn't really disappointed to see her, just that for a minute there he had hope that maybe he HADN'T really killed Tomoe. but he knew the real truth.
But why the heck was she wearing Tomoe's kimono?!
Battousai nodded to Kaoru, telling her she had given him enough to eat. She nodded in response and then got up to move on.
*************
Kaoru was glad she was away from Battousai. She didn't know why, but she had felt strange under his scrutinizing eye. She didn't understand why at first. Then she realized he must have recognized the kimono. She grinned inwardly, thinking she had angered him. She decided he deserved it for kidnapping her and using her for ransom.
Kaoru finished and went to follow Hinoki out of the room.
************ ************
Misao followed Aoshi around farther into the worse part of Kyoto. She made sure she kept her wits about her. She wasn't going to make a mistake. If she did then she wouldn't be able to go on any more missions because Aoshi would think of her as unable and unfit to fight anymore. She didn't want to appear weak before him. That was the last thing she wanted.
Aoshi stopped and Misao nearly bumped into him. She stopped just inches away from him. He held an arm out in warning. She gave him a look, afraid to say anything. She put her hand on her weapons, not knowing if she would need them or not. Aoshi didn't reach for his kodachi's; he just stood there on full alert.
Misao waited a full 5 minutes before she got annoyed with waiting.
"What IS it, Aoshi-sama?" she said, impatient.
He gave her a glare that told her to be quiet. She blushed in embarrassment for upsetting him. She kept her eyes fixated on the back of his head, waiting for him to motion that they were going to move on.
Then someone came barreling out from behind a bush, totally clad in white. Misao groaned. It was HIM!
"Baka you rooster head!" Misao screamed. "You are such a distraction, Sanosuke!"
Sano had fallen so he dusted himself off. "Be quiet weasel."
Misao's face scrunched up at the name. "Don't call me that ROOSTERHEAD!"
"Don't call me rooster, WEASEL!"
Before Misao could get her next comment out, Aoshi placed a hand on her arm. She blushed immediately at the contact.
"We need to continue on Misao." He told her, and then he looked at Sano. "And you need to find your way back into town."
Then Aoshi led Misao out and away from Sano.
Sano stood there dumbfounded for a minute. Then he finally found his voice. "Hey, why are you LEAVING ME HERE?"
************ ************
Kaoru finished doing the breakfast dishes and cleaning the dining hall. She and Hinoki spoke for a while until Hinoki went to help at the front desk. Kaoru made her way back to her room. She was disheartened to see the swordsman, one on each side of her door. She felt like a prisoner.
'That's because you are, Kaoru! ' She reminded herself. She was, too. She was a prisoner ever since Battousai had kidnapped her from the Aoiya. She boiled over with anger at that thought. She was still bitter with him over that. She may have been with him for what was now nearing a week, but she was still bitter over that.
And she missed her friends. Misao, Aoshi, and the rest of the Oniwabanshu, not to count the others that weren't living at the Aoiya. Like that rooster head Sanosuke.
Kaoru walked past the first swordsman to get into her room. They both smiled at her, and she smiled back. 'At least they're nicer than the Battousai,' she thought to herself as she let herself walk into the room.
She decided she would try and see what else was in this room. She walked over to some drawers. She found nothing too exciting. A ripped piece of paper, some ribbon, pieces of old candy here or there. Then she found something really exciting.
She found a book.
She opened to the first page. It was a sketchbook, she discovered. And it appeared to be full. One was of a bird, simply a bird, sitting in a sakura tree. She turned the page, and there was another drawing. This one had some people in it, standing in the town, she decided finally after scrutinizing looking them over. She wondered who drew these. She looked at the corner to see if there was a signature, but there was not.
Then a hand reached over and closed the book.
Kaoru spun around, to see an angry Battousai looking at her.
"Don't go through Tomoe's things." He said, anger in his tone.
She looked up at him. "It's my room."
"But these AREN'T your things."
Kaoru dropped the book and stood up, then lifted it. "If it's so important to you, then here."
She shoved the book into his chest. He grasped it.
"I'm sorry, I was just looking around to see if there was anything interesting in here. I can stop wearing the kimonos, too, but then I'll have nothing to wear." She crossed her arms over chest.
He glared down at her. He had a right to wonder why she was being bitter with, but supposed it had to do with him. Of course, Battousai would never admit to it.
"What is your problem?" he asked.
Kaoru just stared at him. Yes, she wasn't usually this way around him because he scared her. But for someone reason today, she just wanted to get in his face and let him know exactly how he was making her feel.
"Hmm, let me see?" she started. "Maybe it has something do with the fact that you KIDNAPPED me, are holding me HOSTAGE, and are USING me to get the ONIWABANSHU to help you and you're little group here? I guess that's nothing to angry over, huh?"
He hadn't expected such a heated answer from her. "Actually, it's not. I could have just killed in on the spot."
She gave him a defiant look. "Why didn't you?"
Battousai didn't expect that question. And he didn't want to answer it. No, he didn't want to answer Kamiya Kaoru. He would tell her a half- truth.
"We need the Oniwabanshu's help."
"See? I'm just some toy to you and you're little group." She stated. "I'm sure if you were in my position you would feel THE SAME way I do."
He glared down at her.
"By the way," she said. "You never did tell me your name? Or don't you remember it?"
Battousai glared at her. "You don't need to know it. I'm Battousai to you, and I will always be Battousai to you."
She glared at him. "Then you have no right to call me Kamiya or Kaoru or Kamiya Kaoru."
"Have I called you ANYTHING since you've been here?" he asked her back, knowing he had a point.
Kaoru hadn't noticed that her name or any thing like 'little girl' or 'miss' had been said to her. It was always straight sentences.
"Well I'm forewarning you." She stated, looking at him angrily.
He threw his hands in his the air.
Then Kaoru asked a question. "Can I visit my friends?"
He looked at her like she was crazy. "I'm not letting you leave."
"Not leave. Have them come here?" she asked.
He gave her a look. "No. This is a secret place. I can't have you're friends bounding in and out. They would give our position away."
Kaoru fought the urge to hit him with the nearest object. She cursed the fact. If he wasn't an assassin he would be on the floor right now and she wouldn't let him push her around like this. It made her mad.
"FINE CUT ME OFF FROM THE WORLD!" She declared. "I can see why you wouldn't care, I'm nothing to you or anyone here. I'm just a hold on you're deal. Which really doesn't sit with me well. You're not going to like me if I stay mad."
He took a tight hold of her arm. "You won't mess with me. I'll make sure of that."
"I'd like to see you try."
He fumed. She was one DEFIANT and STUPID girl. He couldn't believe he she was the same person he had brought there. One moment she's scared, the next she's prying into his life, the next she's asking ridiculous questions and then she's mad.
Battousai didn't think he'd ever understand women. Especially this one.
"Himura Kenshin." He said as he turned to walk out.
"What?" she asked.
"My name. is Himura Kenshin."
Author's Notes: Okay people, there's your chapter! I was trying to make it longer, but I think I failed miserably. I wanted to leave it off there. Does anyone know what Misao's throwing knives are really called? I want to know! If you know any other weapon names I could use (ex. The name of the smaller sword Battousai carries) then would you please tell me?
I hope you read these author's notes. I always read them or at least skim through them because there's important stuff in here! Anywayz, I know this is supposed to be a romance, but I mean Kaoru and Battousai haven't even been around one another for a week yet! This is going slow. I have to get them trusting each other first before any * feelings * can start to peek through here! If you got any ideas for the story, I'll welcome that. Sometimes it helps spark bigger ideas! Maybe I can write bigger, longer chapters. Okay, so maybe I didn't need to add longer, but still! ^-^;;
I just hope I don't get big times writers block while I'm gone.. I always get writers block when I go somewhere for a long time (knocks on wood). Reviews will help, that they will! Thanx of reading. Reviews are always welcome, helpful criticism is welcome too!
Luv,
Crystal Renee
PS- (sorry!!!) I'm going try and make chapter 6 longer.
Sano: Bet you can't do it.
Crystal: Bet 'cha I can.
Sano: How much?
Crystal: How much you got, rooster head?
Sano: (pulls out coins and holds them out) That much.
Crystal: (thinking) Okay, you've got yourself a bet!
Kenshin: Oro.. This isn't a good idea, that it isn't.
Sano: (laughing) I'm SOOO gonna win this bet!
Crystal: Yeah, like how you beat Kenshin at poker and he didn't even know how to play?
Sano: (sweatdrops)
Luv,
Crystal Renee
Authors Notes: I am going on vacation Saturday!!!! Yay!!! I'm only going to be gone for a week at the most, but I thought I should update this story anyway. And again, I am calling upon you all for help! I am drawing a blank here. I don't know the name of the people Kenshin worked for as Battousai and I have NO idea what they looked like. I'm going to try and go around giving them names in this chapter. But if you know, COULD YOU PLEASE review me or e-mail me at freakishlyinsanelycrazy@yahoo.com and let me know? I know, I should probably know this, but some of the people I just don't know how to spell their names!!! Thanx!!! Love you all!!!!
~Coming of the Dawn~
***Chapter 5- Breaking The Ice***
Kaoru had found that the kimonos in the closet fit her better than the other ones she had received. And they were more her fashion. She adorned a blue one with silver sakura flowers around the hems. She tied it together with a white obi that had large flowers on it. She brushed her hair with a brush she had found, and put her hair up in an indigo ribbon.
Then her thoughts trailed to the Battousai. 'I wonder if me wearing these kimonos will get him angry with me. Maybe it will upset him again?'
She pushed the thought back. She didn't need to care. She shouldn't care about his feelings. Kaoru had a feeling he wouldn't kill her because of the accidentally murder of his wife. she wondered about that too. How had it happened? She figured she shouldn't pry into it any farther.
At least not yet.
She looked in the mirror. She was angry that her hair wasn't complying with her that day. She tried 2 more times to get it to go up nicely, and both times she failed. She huffed. She had a feeling it had to do with the fact she was stressed out. Kaoru just let her hair fall down. She wouldn't bother putting it up today.
She slipped on some sandals and then walked out of the room towards the kitchen to start her daily chores. She washed some of the dishes that were used in cooking the breakfast. She did this quickly.
"Kaoru-chan." Came the voice of her friend Hinoki.
She looked up. "Toki-chan!"
"Can you bring some of the breakfasts into the offices?" she asked her.
Kaoru nodded. "Of course, why?"
Hinoki glanced behind her shoulder quickly. "Because the men decided to have their breakfast in there along with their meeting. I'm going to help you. There are only 8 men in there right now, so it's not going to be that much."
Kaoru nodded and lifted up a tray of food. She followed Hinoki. She had never been into the 'offices', the secret meeting room in the Inn. Hinoki led the way and Kaoru followed her obediently, glad there was nothing for her to trip over. She moved behind Hinoki as she moved to open the door skillfully with one hand. Then she followed her in.
Hinoki pointed to one side of the large table that was surrounded by 8 men. Kaoru nodded and went over to that side, slowly serving each man. She gave each their fair share and listened to their comments and halfheartedly tried to ignore the information they were exchanging.
"And will end there, since our breakfast is here." Came the voice of a dark-haired and dark-eyed man. Kaoru guessed he was in control of the workings of the Ishin Shishi.
*************
Battousai groaned. Breakfast. He had a feeling this was going to be a long meeting, and that didn't settle well with him. His stomach growled in protest. He had to admit that he was hungry. He glanced up at who was serving him his breakfast. His eyes met a familiar kimono and down black hair.
'TOMOE? 'His mind screamed as his eyes widened in shock. Then she pulled her hair back behind her ear. 'Oh, it's just Kaoru'. He thought. He wasn't really disappointed to see her, just that for a minute there he had hope that maybe he HADN'T really killed Tomoe. but he knew the real truth.
But why the heck was she wearing Tomoe's kimono?!
Battousai nodded to Kaoru, telling her she had given him enough to eat. She nodded in response and then got up to move on.
*************
Kaoru was glad she was away from Battousai. She didn't know why, but she had felt strange under his scrutinizing eye. She didn't understand why at first. Then she realized he must have recognized the kimono. She grinned inwardly, thinking she had angered him. She decided he deserved it for kidnapping her and using her for ransom.
Kaoru finished and went to follow Hinoki out of the room.
************ ************
Misao followed Aoshi around farther into the worse part of Kyoto. She made sure she kept her wits about her. She wasn't going to make a mistake. If she did then she wouldn't be able to go on any more missions because Aoshi would think of her as unable and unfit to fight anymore. She didn't want to appear weak before him. That was the last thing she wanted.
Aoshi stopped and Misao nearly bumped into him. She stopped just inches away from him. He held an arm out in warning. She gave him a look, afraid to say anything. She put her hand on her weapons, not knowing if she would need them or not. Aoshi didn't reach for his kodachi's; he just stood there on full alert.
Misao waited a full 5 minutes before she got annoyed with waiting.
"What IS it, Aoshi-sama?" she said, impatient.
He gave her a glare that told her to be quiet. She blushed in embarrassment for upsetting him. She kept her eyes fixated on the back of his head, waiting for him to motion that they were going to move on.
Then someone came barreling out from behind a bush, totally clad in white. Misao groaned. It was HIM!
"Baka you rooster head!" Misao screamed. "You are such a distraction, Sanosuke!"
Sano had fallen so he dusted himself off. "Be quiet weasel."
Misao's face scrunched up at the name. "Don't call me that ROOSTERHEAD!"
"Don't call me rooster, WEASEL!"
Before Misao could get her next comment out, Aoshi placed a hand on her arm. She blushed immediately at the contact.
"We need to continue on Misao." He told her, and then he looked at Sano. "And you need to find your way back into town."
Then Aoshi led Misao out and away from Sano.
Sano stood there dumbfounded for a minute. Then he finally found his voice. "Hey, why are you LEAVING ME HERE?"
************ ************
Kaoru finished doing the breakfast dishes and cleaning the dining hall. She and Hinoki spoke for a while until Hinoki went to help at the front desk. Kaoru made her way back to her room. She was disheartened to see the swordsman, one on each side of her door. She felt like a prisoner.
'That's because you are, Kaoru! ' She reminded herself. She was, too. She was a prisoner ever since Battousai had kidnapped her from the Aoiya. She boiled over with anger at that thought. She was still bitter with him over that. She may have been with him for what was now nearing a week, but she was still bitter over that.
And she missed her friends. Misao, Aoshi, and the rest of the Oniwabanshu, not to count the others that weren't living at the Aoiya. Like that rooster head Sanosuke.
Kaoru walked past the first swordsman to get into her room. They both smiled at her, and she smiled back. 'At least they're nicer than the Battousai,' she thought to herself as she let herself walk into the room.
She decided she would try and see what else was in this room. She walked over to some drawers. She found nothing too exciting. A ripped piece of paper, some ribbon, pieces of old candy here or there. Then she found something really exciting.
She found a book.
She opened to the first page. It was a sketchbook, she discovered. And it appeared to be full. One was of a bird, simply a bird, sitting in a sakura tree. She turned the page, and there was another drawing. This one had some people in it, standing in the town, she decided finally after scrutinizing looking them over. She wondered who drew these. She looked at the corner to see if there was a signature, but there was not.
Then a hand reached over and closed the book.
Kaoru spun around, to see an angry Battousai looking at her.
"Don't go through Tomoe's things." He said, anger in his tone.
She looked up at him. "It's my room."
"But these AREN'T your things."
Kaoru dropped the book and stood up, then lifted it. "If it's so important to you, then here."
She shoved the book into his chest. He grasped it.
"I'm sorry, I was just looking around to see if there was anything interesting in here. I can stop wearing the kimonos, too, but then I'll have nothing to wear." She crossed her arms over chest.
He glared down at her. He had a right to wonder why she was being bitter with, but supposed it had to do with him. Of course, Battousai would never admit to it.
"What is your problem?" he asked.
Kaoru just stared at him. Yes, she wasn't usually this way around him because he scared her. But for someone reason today, she just wanted to get in his face and let him know exactly how he was making her feel.
"Hmm, let me see?" she started. "Maybe it has something do with the fact that you KIDNAPPED me, are holding me HOSTAGE, and are USING me to get the ONIWABANSHU to help you and you're little group here? I guess that's nothing to angry over, huh?"
He hadn't expected such a heated answer from her. "Actually, it's not. I could have just killed in on the spot."
She gave him a defiant look. "Why didn't you?"
Battousai didn't expect that question. And he didn't want to answer it. No, he didn't want to answer Kamiya Kaoru. He would tell her a half- truth.
"We need the Oniwabanshu's help."
"See? I'm just some toy to you and you're little group." She stated. "I'm sure if you were in my position you would feel THE SAME way I do."
He glared down at her.
"By the way," she said. "You never did tell me your name? Or don't you remember it?"
Battousai glared at her. "You don't need to know it. I'm Battousai to you, and I will always be Battousai to you."
She glared at him. "Then you have no right to call me Kamiya or Kaoru or Kamiya Kaoru."
"Have I called you ANYTHING since you've been here?" he asked her back, knowing he had a point.
Kaoru hadn't noticed that her name or any thing like 'little girl' or 'miss' had been said to her. It was always straight sentences.
"Well I'm forewarning you." She stated, looking at him angrily.
He threw his hands in his the air.
Then Kaoru asked a question. "Can I visit my friends?"
He looked at her like she was crazy. "I'm not letting you leave."
"Not leave. Have them come here?" she asked.
He gave her a look. "No. This is a secret place. I can't have you're friends bounding in and out. They would give our position away."
Kaoru fought the urge to hit him with the nearest object. She cursed the fact. If he wasn't an assassin he would be on the floor right now and she wouldn't let him push her around like this. It made her mad.
"FINE CUT ME OFF FROM THE WORLD!" She declared. "I can see why you wouldn't care, I'm nothing to you or anyone here. I'm just a hold on you're deal. Which really doesn't sit with me well. You're not going to like me if I stay mad."
He took a tight hold of her arm. "You won't mess with me. I'll make sure of that."
"I'd like to see you try."
He fumed. She was one DEFIANT and STUPID girl. He couldn't believe he she was the same person he had brought there. One moment she's scared, the next she's prying into his life, the next she's asking ridiculous questions and then she's mad.
Battousai didn't think he'd ever understand women. Especially this one.
"Himura Kenshin." He said as he turned to walk out.
"What?" she asked.
"My name. is Himura Kenshin."
Author's Notes: Okay people, there's your chapter! I was trying to make it longer, but I think I failed miserably. I wanted to leave it off there. Does anyone know what Misao's throwing knives are really called? I want to know! If you know any other weapon names I could use (ex. The name of the smaller sword Battousai carries) then would you please tell me?
I hope you read these author's notes. I always read them or at least skim through them because there's important stuff in here! Anywayz, I know this is supposed to be a romance, but I mean Kaoru and Battousai haven't even been around one another for a week yet! This is going slow. I have to get them trusting each other first before any * feelings * can start to peek through here! If you got any ideas for the story, I'll welcome that. Sometimes it helps spark bigger ideas! Maybe I can write bigger, longer chapters. Okay, so maybe I didn't need to add longer, but still! ^-^;;
I just hope I don't get big times writers block while I'm gone.. I always get writers block when I go somewhere for a long time (knocks on wood). Reviews will help, that they will! Thanx of reading. Reviews are always welcome, helpful criticism is welcome too!
Luv,
Crystal Renee
PS- (sorry!!!) I'm going try and make chapter 6 longer.
Sano: Bet you can't do it.
Crystal: Bet 'cha I can.
Sano: How much?
Crystal: How much you got, rooster head?
Sano: (pulls out coins and holds them out) That much.
Crystal: (thinking) Okay, you've got yourself a bet!
Kenshin: Oro.. This isn't a good idea, that it isn't.
Sano: (laughing) I'm SOOO gonna win this bet!
Crystal: Yeah, like how you beat Kenshin at poker and he didn't even know how to play?
Sano: (sweatdrops)
Luv,
Crystal Renee