Disclaimer: Oh. my friends. I have news for you!!! I HAVE YET TO OVERTAKE RK BY FORCE!! (wields sakabatou and katana. Yes. One deadly, one blunt). I WILL SUCCEDD!!! (gets hit with tranquilizer) I WILL SUCCEED. I will. suc. zzzzzzzz.

Author's Notes: Ahh. how sweet. love is in the air. you all think it was about time, ne? Hehehehehe. well. I'm not going to go completely through with the relationship in this story (no marriage or proposal. I know where I'm gonna end it). So I'm gonna leave it up to you guys to tell me if I should write a sequel because ONCE I END THIS IT'S ENDED. I will be willing to write a sequel, though. I swear. OH AND LIME WARNING!!! LIME WARNING!!! LIME WARNING!!!! Well, I consider it lime, I don't know if you do but I do. lime warning, that's the last time I'm gonna say it!!! I know I said I wasn't gonna write any limy or lemony things somewhere in here before.. But I HAVE NO CHOICE, THIS IS OPERATION: BATTOUSAI'S SHEATH!!!!!!!

~Coming of the Dawn~

***Chapter 27- Lustful Rapture ***

Sano tapped his foot rhythmically as Megumi looked over his injured wrist. Her hands glided gracefully over the sprained joint, applying a small amount of pressure every-so-often. She reached over for a bowl of cooled water and placed some medical salts into it. After they had dissolved into nothingness, she placed the bloody, bruised hand into the basin. Sano stared up at the ceiling, as if mentally processing his thoughts to clear his mind of the pain.

"This is the 3rd time you've hurt your wrist." Megumi began, dipping his wounded appendage in and out of the water. "and I can't help but wonder what you do to yourself, rooster head."

Sano's eyes shot toward her face. "Hey, fox, ya think Kaoru and Kenshin got anything going on now that I sent them on that vacation?"

"I thought it was Aoshi-san and Misao-chan's idea." Megumi countered, matter-of-factly.

Sano face-faltered. "He was joking. I put Operation: Battousai's Sheath into action!" he stated, overly proud of himself.

Megumi grinned and then thrust his wrist down hard into the basin. The only thing heard around the Ishin Shishi's headquarters was the cry of a man complaining about insane fox women who decide to break your arm off.

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Kaoru's mind was hazy as she pulled herself closer to what she was gripping so tightly her knuckles turned white. ((0_o;;..)). Lifting herself lightly to her toes, she pressed harder, as if afraid to fall as she slowly gave into the feeling of warmth ((. think clean, my hentai friends.)) that washed through her body. She opened wider (( CLEAN THINKING!!!)) and let him take her deeper.

((Yeah. sound kinda bad. ne? O_o;;))

Kenshin pulled back for a quick breath, earning a whimper form Kaoru's tantalizingly soft lips. He grinned, his thoughts clouded over with thoughts that would have gotten him smacked over the head with a bokken enough times to kill him. Her mouth opened and her eyes did slowly before he attacked her mouth again, his hands roaming from the small of her back down or up towards her hair, where his fingers tangled in with her silky strands and pulled. His ministrations from the other hand earned him a deep moan from deep in Kaoru's throat, urging him in deeper with his tongue.

(( God I hope I'm writing that okay..))

Pushing her head back lightly his mouth left hers, trailing wet kisses along her jaw line and nibbling in places he knew would get her moving against him. She arched up as he nibbled his way down her neck, licking over the bite marks as if to heal them with the touch of his wet tongue. He move back up to her mouth, and kissed her fully, but not to the extent she wanted.

Finally he pulled back when his other side came out of its daze and convince him that now was DEFIANTLY not the time. His grip on Kaoru didn't loosen though; it only became tighter as he held her closer. She didn't object, but her glazed over azure eyes and slightly pink cheeks told him he had done a good job at flustering her.

"Why did you stop?" she gasped out, setting her gaze upon his fiery amber eyes. "Why?"

Kenshin was a little taken aback by that, but he shrugged it off with a grin as he ran his fingers through her silky ponytail. "We can't go too far, that we can't."

'DAMN YOU!!! You sound like a fucking priest!' the Battousai side growled, obviously upset at the lack of getting what he desperately needed and wanted.

His other side rolled its eyes. 'WE will not advantage of her on the FIRST NIGHT you said 'I love you', that we won't.'

'Does it look like she cares? She probably wants it.'

'She's not a hentai like someone I'm forced to share a body with.'

Battousai grinned. 'Now I KNOW you don't know that.'

Kaoru pouted, her red swollen lips taking the form of the PERFECT pout. "Why?"

Kenshin ran a hand gently across her cheek, and she leaned into his caresses. It was then he noticed that his other hand was still on her. uh. bottom. and he quickly moved it back up to her back. Battousai was a sneaky one and usually got what he wanted, but Kenshin didn't want to ruin Kaoru's innocence like that. As long as the battle was going on between the two, Kenshin would be winning.

Then Kaoru purred.

Kenshin's blood rain icy cold and then sun hot at the sound of her purring, and feeling the vibrations the sound was making against his palm. Kaoru cracked one eye open, her look mischievous as she purred again.

Battousai's thoughts churned, one thought about being on all fours coming to the front of his mind relatively quick. Kenshin shook his head, dismissing the hentai thought's Kaoru's sounds were stirring inside of him. Or rather, in Battousai.

((I was listening to Marilyn Manson's 'The Beautiful People' when I started to write that. Hehehehehe. it's what was on the radio at the moment.))

Kaoru snaked her hands under his arms and up his back, and began to purr into his chest. She didn't know why she was doing it, she just was and she liked the way he reacted by stiffening up and looking dazed off. She grinned and placed one kiss on his chest where his gi gaped wide open.

Kenshin shuddered. Did she have ANY idea what she was doing to him?

"Have you done this before?" came out the hoarse question, surfaced by Battousai as he easily took control of his weaker side's moment of shock.

Kaoru shook her head against his chest, her hair tickling him mercilessly. "No."

Battousai ((Hehehehe. he's not Kenshin no more.)) lifted her chin to so she would face him. Standing out there in the frigid cold, he thought it was funny he felt like he was standing out in the sun on the warmest day of summer. Kaoru batted her eyes open slowly.

"You do know what to do. Are you sure you've never done this before?" he asked her, his voice husky and Kaoru shivered.

"No. I have never done this before." She told him. "I'm experimenting."

Battousai took her mouth in his and kissed her deeply, hungrily, lustfully, passionately, basically any word you could think of to describe it. Kaoru's knees fell weak and she was glad he was holding her so tight, because had he not, she would have fallen. So this was what kissing your loved one was like, she thought to herself. She never knew it could be. wonderful.

Kaoru let Battousai's hands roam around her body, let his lips trail across her face until he was able to nibble on her ear and kiss her on her sensitive, velvety soft neck. One of his hands moved across her side to her stomach, splaying across it and then slowly moved farther up her body. Kaoru began to shiver as chills ran down her spine, her body aching for his touch. He purposely refused to caress her, and Kaoru whimpered and moaned all at once.

"You know."Battousai stated in between his kisses that were coming dangerously closer to her mouth before they would travel back down her neck and to her collarbone. "we really shouldn't."

Kaoru took a hold of his hair, glad that he had wore it low. She pulled the tie out, and his hair went flying around, touching her face and flowing through the air as a slight wind caught it and made it dance gracefully in crimson arcs. She twisted one strand on her finger, glad that she was able to run her fingers through his puzzling blood red hair. He growled as her hand gently ran over the back of his neck, tickling him unintentionally. She didn't show her joy in his growl.

"We shouldn't do this." he stated. Battousai's other side was trying desperately to take over before everything got out of hand.

Kaoru pouted when he stopped kissing to look at her. "Why not? Show me how much you love me, Battousai. Show me, Kenshin."

Battousai lifted his eyebrow. "Are you sure."

"Yes." She breathed. "Only to you."

Battousai backed off; fighting with himself before he quickly scooped her small form up into his arms. "Where would you like that, koishii?" he whispered into her ear.

Kaoru shuddered. "Where." she stopped and gasped when she felt him caress her through the kimono, causing her breasts to immediately come to peaks. " ever you want."

"You are a ."

"Yes." she answered, her eyes shut as she arced against him.

He nodded. "Then I will go easy on you. this time."

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Angela covered her head with the pillow in her room and screamed bloody murder into it. She had said she wanted them to finish the operation, BUT WHY DID THEY HAVE TO BE SO DARN LOUD while doing it?! She regretted letting Sano convince her to take a room next to Kenshin and Kaoru's.

"I told you we wouldn't need to spy on them to be sure!" Renee stated. "Besides, THAT'S just not right."

Angela looked at her sister, thoroughly angry. "Why are they so loud?!"

Renee shrugged. "I guess we'll find out when we find our own men."

"I hate it!!! Remind me to kill Sano when we get away from here!" Angela complained, trying to talk over the obsessive moaning and groaning coming from the room next to hers.

"We could go downstairs. I don't think they'll be at it much longer. You did want him to pounce her!" Renee reminded.

"You're the one who brought it up!" Angela retorted. "And besides, how do we know they shut the door?"

Renee rolled her eyes. "I'm SURE they shut the door!!"

"How long are they GOING TO BE AT THAT? I never thought I'd say this, BUT I CAN'T WAIT FOR THEM TO GO AWAY!!! Or at least go to bed!" Angela complained.

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Hands roamed bodies. Cries emitted from deep throats, crying out the name of the other's beloved. Screams filled the halls, sending many people away blushing or complaining about hentai's, wishing to go complain to the Innkeeper.

Kenshin set Kaoru down, and they inched their way to their room, both highly uneasy at the sounds of another couple going at what they would soon be participating in themselves. (( HEHEHEHEHEHE!!! Angela and Renee are in for a LONG night!!!)) Kaoru got into the room first, and collapsed to the futon, trying in vain to hide her blush and the sudden nervousness that had filled her body. She curled into a ball on the futon until she heard the door shut, and she loosened slightly.

"Are you scared, koishii?" came Kenshin's voice, his face veiled not only by the darkness but also by his red hair that licked around his cheeks and fell over his shoulders in a way that made Kaoru yearn to touch it.

Kaoru gulped. "H.hai."

Kenshin dropped to his knees roughly next to her, as if he had been wounded and had just fallen to his knees. "I understand."

"Will it."

"A little, if this really is your."

Kaoru nodded. "How long?"

Kenshin refused to look at her. "Only a little while."

Kaoru nodded and waited for Kenshin to lift his head up and face her, or make a move or something.

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On his way over to Kaoru where she lay curled up on the futon, Kenshin was having an inner battle with himself, his eyes changing color constantly. But this time, it wasn't the two-sided arguments he usually had. His eyes changed from amber, to blue, to violet, as he argued between his Battousai, Kenshin, and Rurouni side. He had been a rurouni for about year before the Ishin Shishi called for him again, and ever since then he had been fighting to punish himself.

'You can't do this! She's only 18!' came Kenshin's voice.

'Sessha will not let you taint her! What if you have to leave? Then what will she do? She's young, that she is!' stated the rurouni.

Battousai growled. 'She loves us, you baka's, and we NEED her, she's willing. I would never take her if she wasn't. Don't you see? I love her too much.'

'So do I, that I do!' stated the Rurouni.

The Kenshin side sighed. 'We're going to have to compromise.'

'NO!' said both the rurouni and Battousai.

'Will you go easily on her? And promise not to hurt her?' asked Kenshin.

'I CAN'T promise not to hurt her, she's a virgin!'

The rurouni huffed. 'That is exactly why sessha cannot have her!'

'I'm not 'sessha'. Besides, you are the one who was telling me that I loved her in the first place, so blame yourself! Otherwise, yes, I will be nice. No hentai things this time around. But next time I'm not promising anything.' Battousai stated.

He had sat next to Kaoru, not really knowing where to begin. After talking it over with her, he waited a moment until he realized his waiting was only making her more nervous by the steady rise in her ki. He slowly edged over her, so he straddled her lap, and his hair again veiled his face so he could see her but she couldn't see his face.

"Kaoru. are you sure?"

She nodded, and began to lift a hand an run it down his chest that was expose and slightly down where his gi hung open as he held himself up above her with his hands, each of which were planted just outside her head. Kenshin took of her hands in his and he felt her other tracing it way down his chest.

"Answer my question." he prodded, trying to hold back as every piece of flesh she touched ignited numerous fires within him.

"Hai. have me Kenshin."

He grasped her hand tightly then slowly lowered his lips down to hers, vainly moving the shoulder of her kimono to the side as he moved his kisses into a quicker mode, savoring her quickly before moving away to taste other parts of her. Kaoru's heart began to race the closer he came to her most secret areas, nibbling gently on her collarbone before licking across the entire thing.

She purred and moaned in one.

In an instant he obi was undone, and she didn't even bother to figure out how he had done it in the first place.

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Angela shot up in her chair. "They're at it AGAIN?!"

Renee giggled. "I take it we did a good job. Operation: Battousai's Sheath is a success."

Angela fell back. "They have SERIOUSLY got to have stamina to be going at it again already."

"You think too much on hentai thoughts." Renee scolded it. "Besides, I'm sure we can pry the details out of Kaoru-chan in the morning, IF she wakes up."

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Kenshin collapsed beside Kaoru, his breath ragged as hers and he pulled her closer to his sweaty body. Kaoru leaned into his embrace, exhausted beyond what she thought was even humanly possible. She felt a blanket wrap about her, and she welcomed the feel of the warm blanket against her heated skin. Laying her head against Kenshin's chest, she murmured into his chest.

"I love you, anta."

Kenshin smiled running his fingers through her hair trying to get to fall asleep. He wouldn't sleep until she did. "Hai, Aishiteru, koishii."

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The man dropped his cigarette to the floor, stomping it out as he walked away from the door and down the stairs. He no longer needed to linger there. He knew Battousai's weakness now; all he had to do was use it to his advantage. He snickered as he walked away, knowing Battousai had been to preoccupied to have sensed him. He walked down the stairs and out the door, until he had walked nearly half a block down the streets.

"Captain, did you find out how to destroy the Battousai?" a young man clad in Shisengumi colors questioned.

The man grinned, lighting another cigarette. "Yes. It is that woman. Kamiya. We get her, we have Battousai in the palm of our hands."

Author's notes: Well. did my limey fluff or whatever you wanna call it suck big time? I wrote this today. I tried hard (I've never written like this before..) so I hope I didn't just totally ruin the story. I'm thinking of using krystlsaliormoon's idea of Kaoru's dream as foreshadowing. but we shall see. OH AND SORRY NO REVIEW RESPONSES IN THIS CHAPTER!!!!!!!!!! I have no time to put them in here. I GOT A REVIEW IN MY E-MAIL FROM A REVIEWER IN SPAIN (I'm sorry. I forgot how to write your name so just put that down, BUT I LOVE YOU!!!!) and she drew me fan art!!! So I'm all bouncing around like an insane maniac right now..... hehehehehee!!!!!!! I'll try and respond to you guys in the next chapter, I PROMISE!!!!!! I just have SO MANY REVIEWERS now that I don't know HOW I'm gonna respond to you all. But thanks to those of you who reviewed that last chapter!!!!!!!

Luv,

Crystal Renee