Disclaimer: Ahem.. I, Crystal Renee, do not and never have, owned Rurouni
Kenshin or it's characters. I only own the clones in which I invented in my
fairly troubled brain. the one that is being attacked by a mutant cold
virus and trying to make me sane!!!
Author's Notes: GEEZ PEOPLE DON'T KILL ME!!!! When I finished the last chapter, I HAD AN IDEA ON HOW TO MAKE EVERYTHING RIGHT. Some of you even mentioned it in your reviews, SO DO NOT FRET! And I'm sorry ahead of time if I sound REALLY grouchy in some of the responses or really depressed, I'm just so sick that everything is all confusing to me I just react, and I normally would've laughed at the threats (I actually kinda am now).Yes, I do have it in me to kill off a main character, but I won't for the sake of keeping this story going. It's called drama. Kinda soap operay. Anywayz, onto the bad news that is still making me angry: MY MOM REFUSES TO LET ME WATCH RUROUNI KENSHIN EVER AGAIN!!! Yes, you read right. Since it's on at 11 on Saturday's now, my mom has decided I will never watch (and this is her quote) "that stupid cartoon from Japan" ever again. I hate her right now. That's retarded because IT'S NOT A STUPID CARTOON, IT'S RUROUNI KENSHIN!!! It has a name an in my opinion is one of the COOLEST shows out there right now. I will get the DVDs. I don't care what she says, I'll get my grandma to get them for me for my birthday and for Christmas. My birthday is only 10 days after Christmas anyway. Now, onto the story before you decided to decapitate me 100,000 times.
~Coming Of The Dawn~
***Chapter 25- Aishiteru***
The blood.
It flowed everywhere, resembling rivers and streams that flowed through indirect paths around and over the stones that lined the alleyway, never ending with the continuous feeding of rain and blood. Tumbling form his crimson locks to her pale hands, circling through and around her fingers until it splashed into the increasing red pool. A few pink tinged tears fell form his face, though they did not cascade from his eyes as his head lay limply against her lap. They fell from her eyes, racing towards his deathly white face as her body rocked form her sobbing.
Numbly she ran her fingers over his red streaked blue lips, tracing their contours with inhumanly gentleness. Her hair fell and the ends lightly wisped across his face, something that should have tickled his sensitive skin. Yet he reacted not, no impulse to show signs of life.
Her mind screamed for her to move, the scene too much for her tainted soul to bear witness to. Yet Kaoru's heart made her stay, her regret causing her to say those forbidden words over and over again, pouring her desires out up on the one who should all ready have know. But he would never fully know, despite her words as she cradled his precious head against her soaked, spasming body.
"Don't leave me." she whispered in between her heart wrenching sobs. "Please Kenshin."
Her heart fell to pieces holding his dead weight body. He never knew, he never would know.
"Kami-sama, I . I love you." Kaoru cried, finally just burying her face in his damp, sticking hair, and sobbed until two pairs of hands lifted her up.
Renee and Angela both hugged her at once, trying to calm her as she sobbed and continued to repeat her mantra. Over and over and over again. They pulled her off of the raining street and into a close building, trying to calm her down.
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Kaoru shot up, screaming for Kenshin. She wrapped her blanket around herself, finding herself still on her futon in the Inn. But Kenshin was nowhere to be seen. She searched around frantically and then she heard the door to her room open.
Averting her eyes to the door she saw Renee and Angela.
"Kaoru-chan, what's wrong?" they both asked, concerned as they knelt down beside her.
"Kenshin. where's Kenshin?" she asked frantically, pulling on Renee's kimono and shaking her.
It was then she noticed they hadn't bounced at all.
"Is he." she asked, a particular scene from her dream running through her mind.
'Kaoru watched as Kenshin again tried to attack Saitou from the sky. She watched in utter fear as his attack was off by a slight space. Saitou's block did more than block. His sword penetrated straight through Kenshin's skull.
Tears fell from Kaoru's eyes as she watched Kenshin fall to the ground with a sickening thud, which broke his back. Saitou pulled his sword out of his skull and simply walked away. At first Kaoru couldn't move as she saw the blood begin to fill the street until it looked like a lake with ripples. It began to rain and slowly, she edged her way over.
Surely Kenshin wasn't dead.'
They didn't say anything at first.
"HE'S DEAD? OH KAMI-SAMA IT WASN'T JUST A DREAM!!!" And Kaoru started to breakdown, sobbing onto her knees.
Renee and Angela looked at each other, wondering what Kaoru was talking about. Then the door burst open again, and there stood an angry man.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST DO TO HER?!" he demanded, his words seething with anger and venom.
"Nothing!" Angela stated, standing up straight and staring him in the eyes. "She's just freaking out."
"Why?" he asked again.
"Because she thinks YOUR dead!" Renee stated, screaming at his amber eyes.
Kaoru lifted her head up. Then she shot off of her futon and gripped Kenshin around the neck, on hand going up to his skull and searching for bandages or a cut. There was nothing. She sobbed into his shoulder as Renee and Angela found their way out. Kenshin shut the door as he finished his way in.
When he had heard Kaoru scream for him he had thought something, or someone, had come for her. He had gotten to the room as quick as he could, since he had been going for a walk earlier that day. He let his arms drape their way around her waist and he held her close.
"Why are you crying?" he asked her as he lowered her down onto a futon and sat with her still cradled in his arms.
Kaoru sobbed a few more times. "I. I thought you."
"You thought I was dead, yes, but why?" he asked her, pulling her face away from his shoulder so he could look her straight in the eyes.
Her tearstained cheeks sent anger into his heart. He didn't like to see her cry. And now she was crying over him?
"I had a dream. it just seemed so real." she confessed, crying. "Saitou came, he attacked Renee, Angela, and I and then you came and told me to go back. and oh my Kami-sama, there was so much blood. everywhere."
He let a hand wipe away tears. "What happened?"
"He killed you in an air attack, his sword went right through your skull." she told him. "There was so much blood. So much. You were so cold, and you were dead before I even got to your side."
He let a hand wipe her hair back. He looked into her eyes and saw the plain fear she had for his safety.
"I don't plan on dying anytime soon, especially to Saitou." He told her. "We don't even know if he's still alive."
Kaoru nodded. He was right. Yet her heart told her that her dream had been trying to tell her something.
"Feel better?" Kenshin asked.
She nodded and her let her go and then stood up. He stretched his muscles, Kaoru watching his every move.
Kaoru's eyes flew to the floor, and she replayed her dream in her head.
'Gingerly, she lifted his wrist and felt for a pulse. There was none. She checked for the rise and fall of his chest to prove that he was breathing. There was no movement. His eyes were wide open and lifeless; the amber had changed to violet that held absolutely no luster. Kaoru pulled Kenshin's head into her lap, not caring about the blood that poured of his skull as if it was a jug of sake. Her tears fell from her eyes as she bent over his dead body, falling to his face and mixing with his own makeshift tears of blood.
"Kenshin." Kaoru began, her sobs stopping her from taking as her body shook in the rain. "I never got to tell you."
She knew he couldn't hear her. He was dead.
"I never got to tell you. that I love you. anata, I love you so much." she stated, bending over and leaning her forehead against his cold one. She traced her hand up to his cheek and sobbed. "I should have helped."
Kaoru stayed there, crying onto his dead body until she was simply heaving dry sobs against his cold, damp, blood covered skin.
The moon was red that night, casting an eerie glow upon the world as if to tell everyone of the news.
Kenshin was dead.'
She shook her head. She had no reason to think that. Kenshin was standing right in front of her! He was alive, he was breathing, and he had just held her in his arms.
'Wait. did I tell him that loved him in my dream?' she thought, and then realized she had.
Kenshin shot a quick glance at her over his shoulder, and saw her glazed over look. Immediately he started to worry. Just how vivid had her dream really been? Could be that vivid that she was still fighting to believe he was alive.
"Do you want to take a bath?" Kenshin asked her, his worry evident.
Kaoru looked at him and blushed.
'She opened the door to the first room, and there began to remove her clothing. She pulled a towel off of the rack, and covered her otherwise naked body in it. Setting her clothes in a corner and then picking her bathing things and her new outfit, Kaoru opened the door and prepared to take a warm, soothing bath.
She didn't expect to see what she had when she opened the door.
Clutching her towel tightly to her body, she stifled a scream that was sure to permit from her throat. THIS. WAS. NOT. GOOD.
Even walking in on Kenshin changing in the room the first day was a better and less embarrassing scenario than this.
There was Kenshin, his eyes closed, soaking in the tub, the water clear enough for Kaoru to see through but she refused to look down. She didn't know what to do and found herself backed up against a wall, which she hit with much force, still clutching her towel. The steam in the room made her hair damp and it started to cling to her.'
That was the one part of her dream she KNEW would be rising every time she took a bath from now on.
Kenshin was confused. One minute she was crying, the next she was dazed, and now she was embarrassed?
"Was it something I said? Or just the Battousai charm?" Kenshin asked her, hoping a bit of sarcasm would help to get her going happily again.
Kaoru blushed. "Uh. something you said. and uh. well. part of the other. there was a little more to my dream. concerning walking in on you in the bath."
Kenshin himself blushed. "Well I didn't know you were that way, Miss Kaoru!"
'Miss Kaoru.' She thought. He had called her that in her dream.
Then she came to her senses. "I'M NOT A HENTAI LIKE SOME MEN I KNOW, ONE OF WHICH HAPPENS TO BE IN THIS ROOM, KENSHIN HIMURA!"
Kenshin grinned. Finally, she was back to the normal Kaoru.
"I'm gonna leave you alone for now." He told her.
Kaoru stood up quickly.
"No Kenshin! Don't leave me!"
' "Don't leave me." she whispered' that had been in her dream.
Kenshin turned around and eyed her confusedly. "Yes?"
Kaoru blushed. She had to tell him. She had no choice. If this was what the dream meant, then she was going to tell him.
"I think my dream was telling me to say something before I lost the chance to." Kaoru started.
An eyebrow rose on his face, and he eyed her with a suspicious look upon his face that changed to a grin. "What would that be?"
Kaoru sighed and then took a deep breath.
She had to tell him.
It was now or never.
"Kenshin Himura. I.. Aishiteru. I do. I love you." Kaoru stated.
Author's Notes: BEFORE I SAY ANYTHING ELSE!!! For those of you who like to read the little side story at the end of the chapter, it has been POSTED ON THE SITE AS IT'S OWN STORY called 'THE SEARCH FOR THE SWIRLYEYED SAMURAI' and it is under my friend's account, krystlsaliormoon, since she co-wrote it with me. PLEASE GO CHECK IT OUT YOU WILL LIKE IT!!!!!!!! YOU MUST REVIEW TO SEE THE REST OF IT!!! THERE ARE PARTS YOU HAVE NOT READ BEFORE!!!!
Now, sorry for a short chapter. 1, I wanted to get it out, 2, I have a cold and I'm really out of it, and 3, I didn't know what else to put in it. DO YOU GUYS NOT HATE ME NOW?! I thought that was a good way for Kaoru to finally get that off of her chest, was it not? Anywayz, I'M SORRY IF I SOUND GROUCHY IN THESE REVIEW RESPONSES, but I was kinda upset today and I'm sick and I'm miserable because of that I just wasn't in a happy mood when I started responding (I responded halfway through the chapter, neeing time to come up with an idead). I start this story at school to the point that she woke up. I think that turned out better than the rest of the story.
And here's your responses:
Catrina 3: I DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE YOU SAD!!! Oh, by the way, I tried to e- mail the picture of Sireta to you but the retardo thing wouldn't load (cusses out her computer) GRRR!!!!! I'm kinda hungry. had school again today I'm totally drained. not to mention my cursed cold that's got me drained too.. ZAKURO YOU ARE SO MEAN!!!!! Even I don't want Kenshin dead and I'm the one who made Saitou kill him!!! Okay, I'm going to go hide from you and your sakabatou and katana (hides in kitchen). and NO I MISSED THE EPISODE BECAUSE MY PARENTS WOULDN'T LET ME WATCH IT THAT'S WHY KENSHIN DIED IN THE LAST CHAPTER!! Grr. my parents make me so mad sometimes.
Alex: I'm glad you said THAT YOU STILL LIKE MY FIC ANYWAY!!! Of course I could NEVER really kill Kenshin..
Ruriko2: Yeah I live in the US. I know we can get the OVA'S, but only in Japanese with English subtitles. And off of e-bay.. I believe. Yes, KENSHIN IS SO ALIVE!!!!!
Disturbed-demon-gurl: GOD THAT WAS THREAT!!!!!! Geez, just because he 'died'? That really kinda hurt.. A lot to think that just because of thing you didn't like you'd quit reading my fics all together. I never really planned on him dying in the first place.. And I know there are some good lemony stories. I don't write them. but I guess I can try and help.
Piper: And that makes you the 2nd person to threaten to never ever read any fics by me again if Kenshin is really dead. I think you guys are liking to dampen my spirits. but it's okay I wanted to know what you guys thought. if I wasn't having a cold I would care less about it being kinda harsh to say that, but oh well. I never planned on killing Kenshin. I'M SORRY I MADE YOU CRY!!!!!! But you're the only one so far who's said they cried when reading the fic.. I DID KNOW WHAT I WANTED TO DO WITH 'OPERATION: BATTOUSAI'S SHEATH' and it's coming up soon, don't worry!!! And no, I'm not writing a lemon. I won't. I refuse to. It's awkward to write about that especially since I have no experience in that region of life. But that's for your review anyway!
AsIaNbAkA: Not, that's defiantely not all.
Chibi Fyrefly: You're the only one who didn't mention anything about being angry about Kenshin's alegedded death. hehehehe!!! But thank you for liking the story!!!!!
AnkaraStark: I know I can't kill Kenshin. I won't kill Kenshin. I love Kenshin.
DragonTamer9741: I won't let him be dead I promise you guys that. none of the lovable characters are going to die.. Please don't hate me.
Anime-Master7: Yes.. It was what you said it better be. I had planned that AFTER I wrote the scene because I wasn't going to post it if I didn't have a way around it. I didn't want people hating my guys (although I do now). You GUYS NEVER GOT THIS WORKED UP OVER KAORU! Besides, I know I can' t kill Kenshin. Or else it wouldn't be Rurouni Kenshin, now would it? Yes, Battousai does think very highly of himself and yes he does have a good reason to (grins). I HATE IT WHY DO THEY KEEP CHANGING THE TIME FOR RUROUNI KENSHIN?! I hate it. It's bugging the crap out of me. Good.. I don't want anyone taking over the world just yet. not even you. and you're my friend (because I said so). Nah, not that MUCH mass destruction, just whenever someone wants to know how to use something and 'accidently' does it wrong. hehehehe!!! Okay, 4SL it is. I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN GUMMI SHIPS WERE FROM KINGDOM HEARTS!!! My friend has that videogame and I love it to pieces. hehehehehe!! I'm such a stupid, sick blonde. Very sick young lady yet I'm writing these things up. WELL I DIDN'T KNOW YOU HAD A KITCHEN SO BE PREPARED BECAUSE I'M GONNA RAID IT!!!!! Yes, it was a nutso chapter.. For once.. I DON'T WANT TO FACE YOUR WRATH!!!!! (cower's under 4SL's huge atomic bomb) (throws little grenade) (it's a dud). I think I updated with a not-dead Kenshin, did I not? Hehehe. good luck on your fight with your evil people that are yet again trying to take over your awesome base that I have yet to visit..
May storm: I never put a wish in there for him to die. I don't think. but don't worry he ain't going to die. I'll check out your story ASAP, -k-?
Saviangohan16: I'm glad you still like the story.. YES PLEASE E-MAIL THE DETIALS OF THE EPISODE TO ME!!!! I would mail you to let you know but I'm kinda grounded and too sick to really do it. so mail me at freakishlyinsanelycrazy@yahoo.com, okay? THANKS A BAZILLION!
Rei: I didn't kill Kenshin for real. hope you still like the story though.
Kyosnekozukigirl: I hated missing Kenshin. it's on at 11 PM on Saturday now. and no he ain't dead (think I've said that like 50 MILLION TIMES NOW!)
HiEi FoR sALe: You were right, were you not? At least you didn't want to rip my head off. I think I learned my lesson. I live in Michigan, all the ways over here in Michigan! YES, PEOPLE, IT WAS SIRETA WHO KILLED KENSHIN NOT ME!!!!! YELL AT HER! FINALLY SOMEONE NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A FUNNY BATHHOUSE SCENE IN MY CHAPTER! Cool, that's great to be Korean. I don't get to be around many people from different places but I love them all because you're all so cool. my cousin lived in Japan for 3 YEARS but he's not Japanese. yeah. anywayz. I'm like getting a really bad cough now but I really do think my cold will go away soon.sorry if this chapter sucked but I'm so sick I can barely concentrate.yet I still drag myself to school. awww. you wanna send me get well soon cards!! I e-mailed you back when I was at school and I was feeling better (it's called medicine, you should really try it sometime) and I'm feeling rotten now. I opened those Ronald pictures. hehehe!!! Thanks for your review, you're so nice!! (hugs) We'll see what we can do to put you in the story. it's gonna be hard and I'm not promising anything, okay? But I'll see.
Aglaia102: I updated ASAP, I hope that was fast enough and your body isn't deteriorating from your heart stopping (sends Kenshin over to jumpstart the heart)
Nicky4: Yes, parents suck. hehehehe. he ain't dead.
Mika: NO DON'T DIE ON ME!!!! KENSHIN, MOUTH TO MOUTH RECESSITATION RIGHT NOW AND MAKE THIS REVIEWER LIVE OR I WILL KILL YOU FOR REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ame Kurayami: It's okay that you didn't review last chapter. YOU ACTUALLY THINK I KILLED HIM? Well, yeah. I kinda did. but still. I have a way around everything. my friend said I have a twisted mind. she's really nice, isn't she? Anywayz, yeah, Kenshin was on at 11. grrr, stupid Cartoon Network. MY PRESENT WAS STILL THE BEST?! YEAH!!!!!!!!! Hehehe. hope you had a good b- day!!!!
Kyrstlsaliormoon: Your review was the one I was most scared about getting.(has Battousai tied up in a corner to Sireta so she can respond to review). I pray that you don't hate me (is crying, for real, from all the threatening reviews. If I wasn't sick I wouldn't be crying. stupid cold.). No, I did not kill him. I love Kenshin too much to kill him, we should work on making him immortal!!! (cowers under Angie's sakabatou) Beat me if you want to, just don't kill me!!! Battousai is his Almight-Sexiness? (hears Battousai rooting for himself before he's knocked out). okay, I agree with you on that Angie. I'm glad you at least still like the story. but I really am afraid that you hate me now. (holds onto Kenshin clone for support, but he's mad at her too, and doesn't want to catch her mutant alien cold). AT LEAST SIRETA IS BEING TAKEN CARE OF!!! (Battousai grumbles at the thought of thought of writing an autograph in grape juice and complains about the pink gi. he still thinks it's pink. and decides that all photographs taken by Angie must be burnt before she can have possible blackmail. then he suddenly breaks his bond, knocks Crystal off the chair and knocks her out as she hits the cement floor and bleeds)
Battousai: WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M NOT MORE FUN TO BE AROUND? THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH KILLING TO HELP PEOPLE!!! I'M GONNA KILL CERTAIN FANFICTION AUTHORESS IF SHE DOESN'T MAKE ME COME BACK TO LIFE. uh. oops. (looks at body). uh. I don't think. (pokes it).. I'll be leaving now. uh. other things. hehehe. but I must be going. Sireta. you write the side story, okay? I have to hide before someone finds Crystal's.uh. body.
Sireta: With pleasure. and if Crystal's still out by tomorrow. or if Battousai really did kill her (checks Crystal for pulse but doesn't stay long enough to determine if there is one). I will be finishing this fic on my own (wrings her hands togethers and cackles).
~Recently Found Battousai/Rurouni Which Is Off To Find Kaoru~
Crystal: (looks around) DAMN IT!!!!!!!!
Everyone: (is shocked and barely-ever-cusser-authoress cussing)
Angie: What?
Crystal: SIRETA GOT AWAY.. AGAIN!!!!!!
Naoko: (gulps) Uh.. AND BATTOUSAI AND KAORU ARE OUT THERE DOING WHO THE HELL KNOWS WHAT!!!!!
Crystal: YES!!!!!!!
Angie: (grips bokken) Well she ain't getting away with it this time!!
(is grabbed by Yahiko)
Yahiko: Whoa. what's busu and Battousai doing, anyway?
(everyone blushes)
Sano: If I were you Angie. I wouldn't. uh. go barging in on Battousai while he's, uh, busily occupied!
Megumi: (is shocked at vague thing Sano said) Yes.
Angie: (blushes) Oh my god I FORGOT ABOUT THAT!!!
Crystal: (huffs and sits on Kenshin Clone 2's lap) If she does anything to stop Kaoru and Kenshin from getting jiggy I'm gonna chop her head off.
Angie: But.
Crystal: But what?
Angie: Won't that kill you, too?
Crystal: No. why?
Angie: LETS GO VISIT 4SL THEN AND GET SOME ATOMIC BOMBS AND BLOW SIRETA INTO PIECES!!!
Naoko: (hits head) DUH!!! Why didn't we go there before!!!
(suddenly appear in an underground base with many weapons of mass destruction)
Crystal: 4SL, where are you? I WANT SOME POP!!! TAKE ME TO YOUR KITCHEN!!!!!!
(4SL turns up)
4SL: HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET IN HERE?
Angie: We just popped in here.
4SL: Uh. MEGUMI I'D SUGGEST YOU LEAVE!!!!
Megumi: (confused) Why?
Crystal: (laughs) Because he hates you and wants to throw atomic bombs at you so you'll explode.
Megumi: Ah! (hides behind Sano)
Angie: He's not to fond of you either, Sano.
Yahiko: (looking at bombs with Naoko)
Crystal: I guess we gotta pop you two back before he tries to kill you. or knock you out, whatever.
(Megumi and Sano pop away)
4SL: Why are you here, anyway?
Crystal: I need to stock up on my weapons again.
4SL: AGAIN?! I thought we talked about this! You don't use them for mass destruction reasons!!!
Crystal: It's not my fault Sireta's inpenitrable!!!! Give me something REALLY strong. and a Dr.Pepper while your at it!!!
Angie: Yeah!! Some sugar for me!
Naoko: And some.uh. SWEETS FOR ME!!!
Will Sano and Megumi find Battousai, Kaoru, and Sireta (that did not sound right.)? Will Crystal get her Dr. Pepper? WILL YAHIKO SET OFF A BOMB? Will 4SL come up with a strong atomic weapon?
Sireta: There you go people. now that most of those guys are out of the way, I can go get Battousai for myself. Let me see if Crystal is awake (pokes her. She doesn't move and blood still comes from her head). Huh? Battousai must've pushed her hard. Oh well, less annoying authoress. I don't wanna hug you, but I'll send apology hugs from Crystal since I know she would anyway. So hugs and luv, from Crystal, not me, Sireta!!! Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go sharpen my double sided sword right now.
Chibilover2000: Nope, she missed recording it for me. She didn't know it was on then, either so. yeah. Yes, they have to get to the I love you thingy still so he ain't dead. ain't dead ain't dead ain't dead..
Beriath: I have a way to get out of it (hence this chapter). You're withdrawl symptoms are deadly? YIKES!!!
Cutie Blossom: Geez, I'm so mad I missed it. My mom and dad won't let me watch it now (growls angrily). Yes, I like it being on later, too. WHY DID SOUJIRO GO AND TELL SHISHIO ABOUT KENSHIN'S MOVE? Grr. oh well. we just gotta wait and see what happens, now don't we? I always keep my promises, do I not? HAVE I YET BROKEN A PROMISE TO YOU GUYS?! Yes, I am receiving death threats and threats that no one will ever read my fics again if he's not alive in this chapter. kinda makes me sad but when I think about it it's kinda funny too!!! Oh well. I'm sick so I'm really screwed up..
AngelKitty2: I no killy Kenshin. me promises. (crosses her heart)
CurlsofSerenity: Yes, I was madder than. well. uh. a word I won't say. HEY GUESS WHAT YOUR FIRST REACTION WAS RIGHT!!!!
Kenshin'sgrl: I wanna wear a wedding kimono for when I get married. I can't wait to get my picture done. I want you all to see if I can some find a way to GET MY PICTURES TO ACTUALLY SEND!!!!! Okay. I'm better now. hehehehe. glad you liked the words..
Brittanie Love: YES SIRETA IS STUPID FOR KILLING KENSHIN!!!!!! But does my way around it make up for her evilness? YOU CRIED TOO? I cried when I was writing it. I'm not lying either, but SIRETA WANTED TO VENT MY ANGER THAT WAY. And that is why we never let Sireta write in the story. Angie is making her pay, don't you worry!!!!
Black Twilight: You like my waff? Hehehehehe. maybe I can give out lessons, that's a pretty good idea. WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T HATE ME FOR CHAPTER 26!! That makes me so sad. .hehehehehe... I love the waff too.. did this chapter do good? YAY YOU WILL DRAW FANART!!!! I'm glad I'm inspiration to people, it makes me feel so happy to be me!!!! Hehehehehe!!!!!!!!! And I can't wait to see your drawings!!!!!!! I will love them forever and for always!!!!!!!! Yes, I'm glad he's gone!!!!! (hugs her repeatedly) (AND AGAIN) (and again!!!!)
Okay. TREATS FOR ALL OF YOU EVEN THOSE WHO SAID THEY'D NEVER READ MY FIC AGAIN!!!!! I DO REALLY LOVE YOU ALL..I'M JUST SO MISERABLE RIGHT NOW FROM MY RETARDED MUTANT VIRUS COLD THAT I DIDN'T TAKE EVERYTHING IN MY HAPPY MOOD!!! I HOPE I DIDN'T UPSET ANY OF YOU!!!!!! HUGS TO YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!
Until the next chapter-
Luv and hugs (you know who you are if and if you receive a hug),
Crystal Renee
Author's Notes: GEEZ PEOPLE DON'T KILL ME!!!! When I finished the last chapter, I HAD AN IDEA ON HOW TO MAKE EVERYTHING RIGHT. Some of you even mentioned it in your reviews, SO DO NOT FRET! And I'm sorry ahead of time if I sound REALLY grouchy in some of the responses or really depressed, I'm just so sick that everything is all confusing to me I just react, and I normally would've laughed at the threats (I actually kinda am now).Yes, I do have it in me to kill off a main character, but I won't for the sake of keeping this story going. It's called drama. Kinda soap operay. Anywayz, onto the bad news that is still making me angry: MY MOM REFUSES TO LET ME WATCH RUROUNI KENSHIN EVER AGAIN!!! Yes, you read right. Since it's on at 11 on Saturday's now, my mom has decided I will never watch (and this is her quote) "that stupid cartoon from Japan" ever again. I hate her right now. That's retarded because IT'S NOT A STUPID CARTOON, IT'S RUROUNI KENSHIN!!! It has a name an in my opinion is one of the COOLEST shows out there right now. I will get the DVDs. I don't care what she says, I'll get my grandma to get them for me for my birthday and for Christmas. My birthday is only 10 days after Christmas anyway. Now, onto the story before you decided to decapitate me 100,000 times.
~Coming Of The Dawn~
***Chapter 25- Aishiteru***
The blood.
It flowed everywhere, resembling rivers and streams that flowed through indirect paths around and over the stones that lined the alleyway, never ending with the continuous feeding of rain and blood. Tumbling form his crimson locks to her pale hands, circling through and around her fingers until it splashed into the increasing red pool. A few pink tinged tears fell form his face, though they did not cascade from his eyes as his head lay limply against her lap. They fell from her eyes, racing towards his deathly white face as her body rocked form her sobbing.
Numbly she ran her fingers over his red streaked blue lips, tracing their contours with inhumanly gentleness. Her hair fell and the ends lightly wisped across his face, something that should have tickled his sensitive skin. Yet he reacted not, no impulse to show signs of life.
Her mind screamed for her to move, the scene too much for her tainted soul to bear witness to. Yet Kaoru's heart made her stay, her regret causing her to say those forbidden words over and over again, pouring her desires out up on the one who should all ready have know. But he would never fully know, despite her words as she cradled his precious head against her soaked, spasming body.
"Don't leave me." she whispered in between her heart wrenching sobs. "Please Kenshin."
Her heart fell to pieces holding his dead weight body. He never knew, he never would know.
"Kami-sama, I . I love you." Kaoru cried, finally just burying her face in his damp, sticking hair, and sobbed until two pairs of hands lifted her up.
Renee and Angela both hugged her at once, trying to calm her as she sobbed and continued to repeat her mantra. Over and over and over again. They pulled her off of the raining street and into a close building, trying to calm her down.
********** **********
Kaoru shot up, screaming for Kenshin. She wrapped her blanket around herself, finding herself still on her futon in the Inn. But Kenshin was nowhere to be seen. She searched around frantically and then she heard the door to her room open.
Averting her eyes to the door she saw Renee and Angela.
"Kaoru-chan, what's wrong?" they both asked, concerned as they knelt down beside her.
"Kenshin. where's Kenshin?" she asked frantically, pulling on Renee's kimono and shaking her.
It was then she noticed they hadn't bounced at all.
"Is he." she asked, a particular scene from her dream running through her mind.
'Kaoru watched as Kenshin again tried to attack Saitou from the sky. She watched in utter fear as his attack was off by a slight space. Saitou's block did more than block. His sword penetrated straight through Kenshin's skull.
Tears fell from Kaoru's eyes as she watched Kenshin fall to the ground with a sickening thud, which broke his back. Saitou pulled his sword out of his skull and simply walked away. At first Kaoru couldn't move as she saw the blood begin to fill the street until it looked like a lake with ripples. It began to rain and slowly, she edged her way over.
Surely Kenshin wasn't dead.'
They didn't say anything at first.
"HE'S DEAD? OH KAMI-SAMA IT WASN'T JUST A DREAM!!!" And Kaoru started to breakdown, sobbing onto her knees.
Renee and Angela looked at each other, wondering what Kaoru was talking about. Then the door burst open again, and there stood an angry man.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST DO TO HER?!" he demanded, his words seething with anger and venom.
"Nothing!" Angela stated, standing up straight and staring him in the eyes. "She's just freaking out."
"Why?" he asked again.
"Because she thinks YOUR dead!" Renee stated, screaming at his amber eyes.
Kaoru lifted her head up. Then she shot off of her futon and gripped Kenshin around the neck, on hand going up to his skull and searching for bandages or a cut. There was nothing. She sobbed into his shoulder as Renee and Angela found their way out. Kenshin shut the door as he finished his way in.
When he had heard Kaoru scream for him he had thought something, or someone, had come for her. He had gotten to the room as quick as he could, since he had been going for a walk earlier that day. He let his arms drape their way around her waist and he held her close.
"Why are you crying?" he asked her as he lowered her down onto a futon and sat with her still cradled in his arms.
Kaoru sobbed a few more times. "I. I thought you."
"You thought I was dead, yes, but why?" he asked her, pulling her face away from his shoulder so he could look her straight in the eyes.
Her tearstained cheeks sent anger into his heart. He didn't like to see her cry. And now she was crying over him?
"I had a dream. it just seemed so real." she confessed, crying. "Saitou came, he attacked Renee, Angela, and I and then you came and told me to go back. and oh my Kami-sama, there was so much blood. everywhere."
He let a hand wipe away tears. "What happened?"
"He killed you in an air attack, his sword went right through your skull." she told him. "There was so much blood. So much. You were so cold, and you were dead before I even got to your side."
He let a hand wipe her hair back. He looked into her eyes and saw the plain fear she had for his safety.
"I don't plan on dying anytime soon, especially to Saitou." He told her. "We don't even know if he's still alive."
Kaoru nodded. He was right. Yet her heart told her that her dream had been trying to tell her something.
"Feel better?" Kenshin asked.
She nodded and her let her go and then stood up. He stretched his muscles, Kaoru watching his every move.
Kaoru's eyes flew to the floor, and she replayed her dream in her head.
'Gingerly, she lifted his wrist and felt for a pulse. There was none. She checked for the rise and fall of his chest to prove that he was breathing. There was no movement. His eyes were wide open and lifeless; the amber had changed to violet that held absolutely no luster. Kaoru pulled Kenshin's head into her lap, not caring about the blood that poured of his skull as if it was a jug of sake. Her tears fell from her eyes as she bent over his dead body, falling to his face and mixing with his own makeshift tears of blood.
"Kenshin." Kaoru began, her sobs stopping her from taking as her body shook in the rain. "I never got to tell you."
She knew he couldn't hear her. He was dead.
"I never got to tell you. that I love you. anata, I love you so much." she stated, bending over and leaning her forehead against his cold one. She traced her hand up to his cheek and sobbed. "I should have helped."
Kaoru stayed there, crying onto his dead body until she was simply heaving dry sobs against his cold, damp, blood covered skin.
The moon was red that night, casting an eerie glow upon the world as if to tell everyone of the news.
Kenshin was dead.'
She shook her head. She had no reason to think that. Kenshin was standing right in front of her! He was alive, he was breathing, and he had just held her in his arms.
'Wait. did I tell him that loved him in my dream?' she thought, and then realized she had.
Kenshin shot a quick glance at her over his shoulder, and saw her glazed over look. Immediately he started to worry. Just how vivid had her dream really been? Could be that vivid that she was still fighting to believe he was alive.
"Do you want to take a bath?" Kenshin asked her, his worry evident.
Kaoru looked at him and blushed.
'She opened the door to the first room, and there began to remove her clothing. She pulled a towel off of the rack, and covered her otherwise naked body in it. Setting her clothes in a corner and then picking her bathing things and her new outfit, Kaoru opened the door and prepared to take a warm, soothing bath.
She didn't expect to see what she had when she opened the door.
Clutching her towel tightly to her body, she stifled a scream that was sure to permit from her throat. THIS. WAS. NOT. GOOD.
Even walking in on Kenshin changing in the room the first day was a better and less embarrassing scenario than this.
There was Kenshin, his eyes closed, soaking in the tub, the water clear enough for Kaoru to see through but she refused to look down. She didn't know what to do and found herself backed up against a wall, which she hit with much force, still clutching her towel. The steam in the room made her hair damp and it started to cling to her.'
That was the one part of her dream she KNEW would be rising every time she took a bath from now on.
Kenshin was confused. One minute she was crying, the next she was dazed, and now she was embarrassed?
"Was it something I said? Or just the Battousai charm?" Kenshin asked her, hoping a bit of sarcasm would help to get her going happily again.
Kaoru blushed. "Uh. something you said. and uh. well. part of the other. there was a little more to my dream. concerning walking in on you in the bath."
Kenshin himself blushed. "Well I didn't know you were that way, Miss Kaoru!"
'Miss Kaoru.' She thought. He had called her that in her dream.
Then she came to her senses. "I'M NOT A HENTAI LIKE SOME MEN I KNOW, ONE OF WHICH HAPPENS TO BE IN THIS ROOM, KENSHIN HIMURA!"
Kenshin grinned. Finally, she was back to the normal Kaoru.
"I'm gonna leave you alone for now." He told her.
Kaoru stood up quickly.
"No Kenshin! Don't leave me!"
' "Don't leave me." she whispered' that had been in her dream.
Kenshin turned around and eyed her confusedly. "Yes?"
Kaoru blushed. She had to tell him. She had no choice. If this was what the dream meant, then she was going to tell him.
"I think my dream was telling me to say something before I lost the chance to." Kaoru started.
An eyebrow rose on his face, and he eyed her with a suspicious look upon his face that changed to a grin. "What would that be?"
Kaoru sighed and then took a deep breath.
She had to tell him.
It was now or never.
"Kenshin Himura. I.. Aishiteru. I do. I love you." Kaoru stated.
Author's Notes: BEFORE I SAY ANYTHING ELSE!!! For those of you who like to read the little side story at the end of the chapter, it has been POSTED ON THE SITE AS IT'S OWN STORY called 'THE SEARCH FOR THE SWIRLYEYED SAMURAI' and it is under my friend's account, krystlsaliormoon, since she co-wrote it with me. PLEASE GO CHECK IT OUT YOU WILL LIKE IT!!!!!!!! YOU MUST REVIEW TO SEE THE REST OF IT!!! THERE ARE PARTS YOU HAVE NOT READ BEFORE!!!!
Now, sorry for a short chapter. 1, I wanted to get it out, 2, I have a cold and I'm really out of it, and 3, I didn't know what else to put in it. DO YOU GUYS NOT HATE ME NOW?! I thought that was a good way for Kaoru to finally get that off of her chest, was it not? Anywayz, I'M SORRY IF I SOUND GROUCHY IN THESE REVIEW RESPONSES, but I was kinda upset today and I'm sick and I'm miserable because of that I just wasn't in a happy mood when I started responding (I responded halfway through the chapter, neeing time to come up with an idead). I start this story at school to the point that she woke up. I think that turned out better than the rest of the story.
And here's your responses:
Catrina 3: I DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE YOU SAD!!! Oh, by the way, I tried to e- mail the picture of Sireta to you but the retardo thing wouldn't load (cusses out her computer) GRRR!!!!! I'm kinda hungry. had school again today I'm totally drained. not to mention my cursed cold that's got me drained too.. ZAKURO YOU ARE SO MEAN!!!!! Even I don't want Kenshin dead and I'm the one who made Saitou kill him!!! Okay, I'm going to go hide from you and your sakabatou and katana (hides in kitchen). and NO I MISSED THE EPISODE BECAUSE MY PARENTS WOULDN'T LET ME WATCH IT THAT'S WHY KENSHIN DIED IN THE LAST CHAPTER!! Grr. my parents make me so mad sometimes.
Alex: I'm glad you said THAT YOU STILL LIKE MY FIC ANYWAY!!! Of course I could NEVER really kill Kenshin..
Ruriko2: Yeah I live in the US. I know we can get the OVA'S, but only in Japanese with English subtitles. And off of e-bay.. I believe. Yes, KENSHIN IS SO ALIVE!!!!!
Disturbed-demon-gurl: GOD THAT WAS THREAT!!!!!! Geez, just because he 'died'? That really kinda hurt.. A lot to think that just because of thing you didn't like you'd quit reading my fics all together. I never really planned on him dying in the first place.. And I know there are some good lemony stories. I don't write them. but I guess I can try and help.
Piper: And that makes you the 2nd person to threaten to never ever read any fics by me again if Kenshin is really dead. I think you guys are liking to dampen my spirits. but it's okay I wanted to know what you guys thought. if I wasn't having a cold I would care less about it being kinda harsh to say that, but oh well. I never planned on killing Kenshin. I'M SORRY I MADE YOU CRY!!!!!! But you're the only one so far who's said they cried when reading the fic.. I DID KNOW WHAT I WANTED TO DO WITH 'OPERATION: BATTOUSAI'S SHEATH' and it's coming up soon, don't worry!!! And no, I'm not writing a lemon. I won't. I refuse to. It's awkward to write about that especially since I have no experience in that region of life. But that's for your review anyway!
AsIaNbAkA: Not, that's defiantely not all.
Chibi Fyrefly: You're the only one who didn't mention anything about being angry about Kenshin's alegedded death. hehehehe!!! But thank you for liking the story!!!!!
AnkaraStark: I know I can't kill Kenshin. I won't kill Kenshin. I love Kenshin.
DragonTamer9741: I won't let him be dead I promise you guys that. none of the lovable characters are going to die.. Please don't hate me.
Anime-Master7: Yes.. It was what you said it better be. I had planned that AFTER I wrote the scene because I wasn't going to post it if I didn't have a way around it. I didn't want people hating my guys (although I do now). You GUYS NEVER GOT THIS WORKED UP OVER KAORU! Besides, I know I can' t kill Kenshin. Or else it wouldn't be Rurouni Kenshin, now would it? Yes, Battousai does think very highly of himself and yes he does have a good reason to (grins). I HATE IT WHY DO THEY KEEP CHANGING THE TIME FOR RUROUNI KENSHIN?! I hate it. It's bugging the crap out of me. Good.. I don't want anyone taking over the world just yet. not even you. and you're my friend (because I said so). Nah, not that MUCH mass destruction, just whenever someone wants to know how to use something and 'accidently' does it wrong. hehehehe!!! Okay, 4SL it is. I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN GUMMI SHIPS WERE FROM KINGDOM HEARTS!!! My friend has that videogame and I love it to pieces. hehehehehe!! I'm such a stupid, sick blonde. Very sick young lady yet I'm writing these things up. WELL I DIDN'T KNOW YOU HAD A KITCHEN SO BE PREPARED BECAUSE I'M GONNA RAID IT!!!!! Yes, it was a nutso chapter.. For once.. I DON'T WANT TO FACE YOUR WRATH!!!!! (cower's under 4SL's huge atomic bomb) (throws little grenade) (it's a dud). I think I updated with a not-dead Kenshin, did I not? Hehehe. good luck on your fight with your evil people that are yet again trying to take over your awesome base that I have yet to visit..
May storm: I never put a wish in there for him to die. I don't think. but don't worry he ain't going to die. I'll check out your story ASAP, -k-?
Saviangohan16: I'm glad you still like the story.. YES PLEASE E-MAIL THE DETIALS OF THE EPISODE TO ME!!!! I would mail you to let you know but I'm kinda grounded and too sick to really do it. so mail me at freakishlyinsanelycrazy@yahoo.com, okay? THANKS A BAZILLION!
Rei: I didn't kill Kenshin for real. hope you still like the story though.
Kyosnekozukigirl: I hated missing Kenshin. it's on at 11 PM on Saturday now. and no he ain't dead (think I've said that like 50 MILLION TIMES NOW!)
HiEi FoR sALe: You were right, were you not? At least you didn't want to rip my head off. I think I learned my lesson. I live in Michigan, all the ways over here in Michigan! YES, PEOPLE, IT WAS SIRETA WHO KILLED KENSHIN NOT ME!!!!! YELL AT HER! FINALLY SOMEONE NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A FUNNY BATHHOUSE SCENE IN MY CHAPTER! Cool, that's great to be Korean. I don't get to be around many people from different places but I love them all because you're all so cool. my cousin lived in Japan for 3 YEARS but he's not Japanese. yeah. anywayz. I'm like getting a really bad cough now but I really do think my cold will go away soon.sorry if this chapter sucked but I'm so sick I can barely concentrate.yet I still drag myself to school. awww. you wanna send me get well soon cards!! I e-mailed you back when I was at school and I was feeling better (it's called medicine, you should really try it sometime) and I'm feeling rotten now. I opened those Ronald pictures. hehehe!!! Thanks for your review, you're so nice!! (hugs) We'll see what we can do to put you in the story. it's gonna be hard and I'm not promising anything, okay? But I'll see.
Aglaia102: I updated ASAP, I hope that was fast enough and your body isn't deteriorating from your heart stopping (sends Kenshin over to jumpstart the heart)
Nicky4: Yes, parents suck. hehehehe. he ain't dead.
Mika: NO DON'T DIE ON ME!!!! KENSHIN, MOUTH TO MOUTH RECESSITATION RIGHT NOW AND MAKE THIS REVIEWER LIVE OR I WILL KILL YOU FOR REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ame Kurayami: It's okay that you didn't review last chapter. YOU ACTUALLY THINK I KILLED HIM? Well, yeah. I kinda did. but still. I have a way around everything. my friend said I have a twisted mind. she's really nice, isn't she? Anywayz, yeah, Kenshin was on at 11. grrr, stupid Cartoon Network. MY PRESENT WAS STILL THE BEST?! YEAH!!!!!!!!! Hehehe. hope you had a good b- day!!!!
Kyrstlsaliormoon: Your review was the one I was most scared about getting.(has Battousai tied up in a corner to Sireta so she can respond to review). I pray that you don't hate me (is crying, for real, from all the threatening reviews. If I wasn't sick I wouldn't be crying. stupid cold.). No, I did not kill him. I love Kenshin too much to kill him, we should work on making him immortal!!! (cowers under Angie's sakabatou) Beat me if you want to, just don't kill me!!! Battousai is his Almight-Sexiness? (hears Battousai rooting for himself before he's knocked out). okay, I agree with you on that Angie. I'm glad you at least still like the story. but I really am afraid that you hate me now. (holds onto Kenshin clone for support, but he's mad at her too, and doesn't want to catch her mutant alien cold). AT LEAST SIRETA IS BEING TAKEN CARE OF!!! (Battousai grumbles at the thought of thought of writing an autograph in grape juice and complains about the pink gi. he still thinks it's pink. and decides that all photographs taken by Angie must be burnt before she can have possible blackmail. then he suddenly breaks his bond, knocks Crystal off the chair and knocks her out as she hits the cement floor and bleeds)
Battousai: WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M NOT MORE FUN TO BE AROUND? THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH KILLING TO HELP PEOPLE!!! I'M GONNA KILL CERTAIN FANFICTION AUTHORESS IF SHE DOESN'T MAKE ME COME BACK TO LIFE. uh. oops. (looks at body). uh. I don't think. (pokes it).. I'll be leaving now. uh. other things. hehehe. but I must be going. Sireta. you write the side story, okay? I have to hide before someone finds Crystal's.uh. body.
Sireta: With pleasure. and if Crystal's still out by tomorrow. or if Battousai really did kill her (checks Crystal for pulse but doesn't stay long enough to determine if there is one). I will be finishing this fic on my own (wrings her hands togethers and cackles).
~Recently Found Battousai/Rurouni Which Is Off To Find Kaoru~
Crystal: (looks around) DAMN IT!!!!!!!!
Everyone: (is shocked and barely-ever-cusser-authoress cussing)
Angie: What?
Crystal: SIRETA GOT AWAY.. AGAIN!!!!!!
Naoko: (gulps) Uh.. AND BATTOUSAI AND KAORU ARE OUT THERE DOING WHO THE HELL KNOWS WHAT!!!!!
Crystal: YES!!!!!!!
Angie: (grips bokken) Well she ain't getting away with it this time!!
(is grabbed by Yahiko)
Yahiko: Whoa. what's busu and Battousai doing, anyway?
(everyone blushes)
Sano: If I were you Angie. I wouldn't. uh. go barging in on Battousai while he's, uh, busily occupied!
Megumi: (is shocked at vague thing Sano said) Yes.
Angie: (blushes) Oh my god I FORGOT ABOUT THAT!!!
Crystal: (huffs and sits on Kenshin Clone 2's lap) If she does anything to stop Kaoru and Kenshin from getting jiggy I'm gonna chop her head off.
Angie: But.
Crystal: But what?
Angie: Won't that kill you, too?
Crystal: No. why?
Angie: LETS GO VISIT 4SL THEN AND GET SOME ATOMIC BOMBS AND BLOW SIRETA INTO PIECES!!!
Naoko: (hits head) DUH!!! Why didn't we go there before!!!
(suddenly appear in an underground base with many weapons of mass destruction)
Crystal: 4SL, where are you? I WANT SOME POP!!! TAKE ME TO YOUR KITCHEN!!!!!!
(4SL turns up)
4SL: HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET IN HERE?
Angie: We just popped in here.
4SL: Uh. MEGUMI I'D SUGGEST YOU LEAVE!!!!
Megumi: (confused) Why?
Crystal: (laughs) Because he hates you and wants to throw atomic bombs at you so you'll explode.
Megumi: Ah! (hides behind Sano)
Angie: He's not to fond of you either, Sano.
Yahiko: (looking at bombs with Naoko)
Crystal: I guess we gotta pop you two back before he tries to kill you. or knock you out, whatever.
(Megumi and Sano pop away)
4SL: Why are you here, anyway?
Crystal: I need to stock up on my weapons again.
4SL: AGAIN?! I thought we talked about this! You don't use them for mass destruction reasons!!!
Crystal: It's not my fault Sireta's inpenitrable!!!! Give me something REALLY strong. and a Dr.Pepper while your at it!!!
Angie: Yeah!! Some sugar for me!
Naoko: And some.uh. SWEETS FOR ME!!!
Will Sano and Megumi find Battousai, Kaoru, and Sireta (that did not sound right.)? Will Crystal get her Dr. Pepper? WILL YAHIKO SET OFF A BOMB? Will 4SL come up with a strong atomic weapon?
Sireta: There you go people. now that most of those guys are out of the way, I can go get Battousai for myself. Let me see if Crystal is awake (pokes her. She doesn't move and blood still comes from her head). Huh? Battousai must've pushed her hard. Oh well, less annoying authoress. I don't wanna hug you, but I'll send apology hugs from Crystal since I know she would anyway. So hugs and luv, from Crystal, not me, Sireta!!! Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go sharpen my double sided sword right now.
Chibilover2000: Nope, she missed recording it for me. She didn't know it was on then, either so. yeah. Yes, they have to get to the I love you thingy still so he ain't dead. ain't dead ain't dead ain't dead..
Beriath: I have a way to get out of it (hence this chapter). You're withdrawl symptoms are deadly? YIKES!!!
Cutie Blossom: Geez, I'm so mad I missed it. My mom and dad won't let me watch it now (growls angrily). Yes, I like it being on later, too. WHY DID SOUJIRO GO AND TELL SHISHIO ABOUT KENSHIN'S MOVE? Grr. oh well. we just gotta wait and see what happens, now don't we? I always keep my promises, do I not? HAVE I YET BROKEN A PROMISE TO YOU GUYS?! Yes, I am receiving death threats and threats that no one will ever read my fics again if he's not alive in this chapter. kinda makes me sad but when I think about it it's kinda funny too!!! Oh well. I'm sick so I'm really screwed up..
AngelKitty2: I no killy Kenshin. me promises. (crosses her heart)
CurlsofSerenity: Yes, I was madder than. well. uh. a word I won't say. HEY GUESS WHAT YOUR FIRST REACTION WAS RIGHT!!!!
Kenshin'sgrl: I wanna wear a wedding kimono for when I get married. I can't wait to get my picture done. I want you all to see if I can some find a way to GET MY PICTURES TO ACTUALLY SEND!!!!! Okay. I'm better now. hehehehe. glad you liked the words..
Brittanie Love: YES SIRETA IS STUPID FOR KILLING KENSHIN!!!!!! But does my way around it make up for her evilness? YOU CRIED TOO? I cried when I was writing it. I'm not lying either, but SIRETA WANTED TO VENT MY ANGER THAT WAY. And that is why we never let Sireta write in the story. Angie is making her pay, don't you worry!!!!
Black Twilight: You like my waff? Hehehehehe. maybe I can give out lessons, that's a pretty good idea. WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T HATE ME FOR CHAPTER 26!! That makes me so sad. .hehehehehe... I love the waff too.. did this chapter do good? YAY YOU WILL DRAW FANART!!!! I'm glad I'm inspiration to people, it makes me feel so happy to be me!!!! Hehehehehe!!!!!!!!! And I can't wait to see your drawings!!!!!!! I will love them forever and for always!!!!!!!! Yes, I'm glad he's gone!!!!! (hugs her repeatedly) (AND AGAIN) (and again!!!!)
Okay. TREATS FOR ALL OF YOU EVEN THOSE WHO SAID THEY'D NEVER READ MY FIC AGAIN!!!!! I DO REALLY LOVE YOU ALL..I'M JUST SO MISERABLE RIGHT NOW FROM MY RETARDED MUTANT VIRUS COLD THAT I DIDN'T TAKE EVERYTHING IN MY HAPPY MOOD!!! I HOPE I DIDN'T UPSET ANY OF YOU!!!!!! HUGS TO YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!
Until the next chapter-
Luv and hugs (you know who you are if and if you receive a hug),
Crystal Renee