Disclaimer: (music in the background). (bangs head to 'The Beautiful
People'. Yes, I do have other music and this is the only song by Marilyn
Manson I have. I listen to Celine Dion, too people!!! Anywayz..) Nope. I
don't own Rurouni Kenshin. I own the copyright to this story but not the
characters.I am only borrowing them.
Author's Notes: You all have such little faith in my promises!!! (sniffs and cries on Angie's shoulder and she fights off angry reviewers). I said I wouldn't kill Kenshin and I'm not going to kill him!!! With that said, I just gave away my entire chapter. (grumbles to self). I wrote that with this chapter semi thought out because I know how I want to end the story (which will be in the next chapter or 2) And I usually suck at endings. Does anyone want to see the fanart I've gotten so far? Give me your e-mail and I will try and send copies to you. I won't be able to until Friday, though, because that's when I'm going to my grandma's house and my internet doesn't seem to like attaching pictures to my e-mails. With that said, here's the chapter. Oh, and I still haven't found my disk. Anime-Master 7, I can't write the side story until I get a review from Krystlsaliormoon since she has to respond to what I write to her and I to what she writes to be and that is how the story gets posted.. And I did delete the notes for reviewers and the 200 reviews fun and the note to you guys about the disk, that's why it says there is less chapters than there was before.
~Coming of the Dawn~
***Chapter 29- A New Beginning***
She forced herself to lift her eyse as the rain began to pour. Her eyes stung with tears as the dagger like raindrops peirced her skin, stinging her wounds with the slight pressure. Her eyes bore away from the scene, her back to the place that the battle had abruptly ended only a few minutes ago. Her heart fell.
Like a wounded animal scared for it's life, she hesitantly and fearfully turned to the sight of the battle. First she took in the blood that ran aroudn the darkened area. It was too dark to see clearly, so she slowly stood up and trailed her way back to the alleyway, dragging her feet and hanging her head on her way. Kaoru noticed her body felt like lead weighted it down as she travelled solemnly from her original place of solitude.
If she didn't see his body then he wasn't really dead. Now, she was walking towards the inevitable. She would find out if he was dead or not. And how her heart wrenched and she prayed to Kami like she never had before.
Kaoru's white socks slowly turned a reddish-pink as the bloody water splashed agaisnt the pure cloth. In her sight she saw a hand, blood running in rivelets down through the wrinkles and creases that bore deep into the palm until the liquid reached the fingers and circled around them before landing helplessly upon the unforsaken, bloody thirsty, muddy ground. Her heart leapt. So much blood. So much life, draining away in the rain.
Willing her eyes to look farther she lifted her head to see the face of the man who's fate was drawing there in the rain. For all she knew it could be one of the men Kenshin had killed earlier. She didn't know. She just knew who she prayed it wasn't.
Before her eys could land on the face, an arm wrapped around her waist and pulled her back away, turning her away from the body before she could get a look at it. She felt her small, yet strong form being crushed agaisnt a hard yet soft chest, and a slowly seeping wet heat hitting her back and shoulders from a bloody wound on the person who held her so defiantly. The scent confirmed her thoughts.
"No Kaoru. he's not dead." Came the voice.
Kaoru spun around, her eyes lockign with a pair of amber tinted violet ones. Tears began to form in her sapphire/azure orbs as she wrapped her arms aroudn the crimson-haired man before her. He winced and she pulled back, her eyes falling to the gushing wound in his shoulder and sword arm.
"You're hurt." She stated, gingelry touching the sensitive skin that surrounded the painful looking wound. She could feel him react to her touch as his skin twitched and tensed.
He hand rubbed the tears, blood and rain from her cheeks. "I'll be fine." He assured her calmly, his voice not portaying the true pain he was in.
Kaoru's eyes flew from the wound to his face. "You're still hurt! You could lose your arm with a wound like this..."
He took a hold of both her hands, clamping them between his own and bringing them to his lips for a quick, tender peck. "No one's cutting my arm off. Megumi can sew me up and I'll be fine."
"Kenshin....." Kaoru pleaded with him, obviously not convinced.
"Would you rather thing of the worst, koishii?" he questioned her, perking an eyebrow up.
She shook her head in defeat and turned to face Saitou, who lay on the cold floor of mud and gravel. He had a chest wound that was bleeding profously, due to the lack of accuracy on Battousai's part during the attack. But the wound wasn't life threatening; except for maybe bleeding to death. His chest rose and fell in his ragged breathing. He was still alive. Kaoru's eyes flew to the nearest sight of movement and she moved back unconciously towards Kenshin.
Renee and Angela came barreling out from their hiding places, both falling down to the ground hard before getting up and walking across the muddy, bloody ground to stand with Kenshin and Kaoru. Angela went to Kaoru and looked at the leg wound and then forced Kenshin to sit down while she wrapped up his wound as best she could. Kaoru turned around to help.
Renee walked around Saitou, determining if she should be kind enough to help him out. She knew there was a reason why Kenshin hadn't killed him then and there, besides the missed attack. Shaking her head and looking back at the others, she got a nod from the manslayer and precided to reluctantly help Saitou.
Even if they had attacked them, she felt no reason to leave him there dying when he could still have the possibility of life.
Kenshin looked back at the two other women after he gave Renee the nod to help Saitou somewhat. Part of him didn't know why he cared if Saitou lived or died, but the rurouni side answered quickly.
'Because Kaoru saved him once and you know she doesn't want you to kill him. or kill at all for that matter.' Came the smart response.
Kaoru was holding the sliced piece of Angela's kimono agaisnt Kenshin's shoulder while Angela tried to tie around the wound. It was slow and obviously put Kenshin in pain, but he didn't verbalize his pain. He just watched them as they worked slowly and carefully, and he was slightly touched that they cared enough. Kaoru, he knew she would help him, but he hadn't thought the other two women would. He smiled. Maybe he was growing soft but now it didn't matter.
Finally the knot was tied.
"Done!" Angela announced, her cheery smile on trying to faze the thick fog-like mood and silence.
Kaoru grinned a goofy grin at the halfhearted attempt, then turned to face Kenshin. She opened her mouth, but he placed a finger agaisnt her lips.
"I know. Don't use my sword. I'll hurt it worse. Wait for Megumi to look at it and take care of it." He told her, reading her thoughts.
Kaoru blushed and nodded, then stood up and helped Kenshin stand. Angela did a once over on her work to be sure she had done a good enough job on it.
"AH!" came a scream.
All heads shot to Renee, who was being held up by Saitou's sword that had caught in her kimono. She kicked at him and managed to hit his arm but it didn't faze him.
"I was only helping you!" she cried, trying in vain to cut through the kimono so she could run.
Kenshin stepped forward but one glare from Kaoru and Angela told him to stay put. Kaoru took a hard grip on her broken bokken (A/N: Say that ten times fast. Brokenbokken, brokenbokken,brokenbokken,brokenbokken..) and in once swift move she had knocked Saitou to the floor and Renee out of his path of danger. She continued to ruthlessly beat on him, taking no mercy on the already hurt man. She kept hitting him, naming her reasons for anger in her head.
Finally she stopped and turned back to Angela, who kicked Saitou roughly in the side and Renee who tore the bandaging off of him. All three of them walked back to Kenshin, and slowly they all walked away in the rain.
Kenshin, cradling his arm.
Kaoru, her head resting on Kenshin's good shoulder.
Renee, holding the gaping hole in her kimono.
Angela, poking fun at Renee for her slow reaction time.
Kenshin slipped his arm around Kaoru, just glad she was safe and glad that it had been she who beat the living daylights out of Saitou. It made him smile, knowing she had it in her to protect herself.
********* *********
"KENSHIN!!!!" Kaoru cried, shoving the man to the floor. "Stay here!"
Kenshin rolled on the floor and popped up behind her. "I think I can do some things on my own, you don't have to baby me, Kaoru."
Kaoru stopped her foot in frustration. "We haven't even had a doctor look at that wound yet, YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE or doing ANYTHING until we do!"
"I don't need a doctor for a scratch." Kenshin retorted.
Kaoru flicked in the arm. He winced and yelped, jumping away from her.
"Why'd you do that?" He asked, sounding remarkably like Sano in the process.
Kaoru grinned. "You can't even handle a little flick in the arm? I was right, YOU AREN'T DOING ANYTHING!"
Kenshin finally gave up after about 10 more minutes of arguing and let Kaoru get his clothes out of the closest for him. The Battousai started to laugh.
'Bet you could get her to bathe you....' he grinned.
Kenshin's eyes grew wide. 'Absolutely not! I can do THAT on my own! I can CHANGE on my own, too! If she won't let me get my own clothes out of the closest what makes you think she's gonna let me do THAT?' he asked, seeing the Battousai's thoughts. 'That's not even humanly possible.'
'Maybe she'll do it for you!'
'Oro. Sessha has had enough of these thoughts, that he has!' came the voice of a frightened and horrofied rurouni.
"Oro!" Kenshin said allowed just as the rurouni had in his head.
Kaoru spun around. "Huh?"
Kenshin blushed. Great, he'd said that outloud. "Uh... how do you expect me to bathe? I'm not letting you bathe me too!"
Kaoru's turn to blush. "I.... uh...... Well.... I guess I won't help you with that....."
'IT'S NOT LIKE SHE HASN'T SEEN IT!' the Battousai roared.
The rurouni grinned. 'Maybe Kaoru-dono has virtures, values, and morals, unlike you, that she does.'
The Battousai glared at the rurouni. 'You've had your share fo those thoughts too, pink boy, don't be saying that to me!'
'Oro..'
Kenshin shook his head. "I don't expect you to. I. I mean it's kind of awkward."
'Awkward? You BEDDED her just what, the other night?' the Battousai stated. 'The only awkward thing would be that she's dressed and your not!'
Both Kenshin and the rurouni slapped the Battousai silly. 'That is enough hentai thoughts, that it is!' both stated angrily.
"I. well.. You can do that on your own..." Kaoru stated, her blush still obvious agaisnt her cheeks.
Kenshin smiled. "Finally, I have your permission to do something on my own."
Kaoru glared and hit him over the head with her broken bokken. "JUST BECAUSE YOUR HURT DOESN'T MEAN I WON'T HURT YOU MORE!"
Kenshin said his infamous 'oro' over and over until Kaoru felt guilty. As soon as he could, he grabbed his garments from her and fled to the bathhouse. He need to get in there right then and there before she decided to hit him again for being unruley.
********** *********
"Kaoru-chan, time to check on your wound!!! We need to rebandage it!" came Angela's voice as she floated into the room, dragging Renee with her.
"What happened to bouncing?" Kaoru asked.
Renee grinned. "It's no fun when you don't have the option of joining in!"
Kaoru laughed and Angela inspected her leg wound and wrapped cleaner bandages around it. Kaoru helped the others with their wounds. Angela pretended her flesh wounds to her back didn't bug her but obviously they did, and she was treated first. Renee still only had the wound to her arm, since Saitou's sword hadn't been accurate enough to slice through her.
They just finished with Kenshin walked in.
"Oro! I. oops!" he stated, backing out when he saw Angela pulling her kimono back up after her bandages had been completely wrapped.
He slammed the door shut. The girls started to giggle and Renee opened the door and pulled Kenshin inside when they were all done.
"Now. time to look at your wound." She stated, making him sit.
Kenshin kept trying to stand up so finally Kaoru just sat on his lap so he couldn't move without knocking her over, Angela held his arm out and held his head in a head lock so he couldn't move his upper body either. Renee took the makeshift bandages off and rearanged everything with crisp, clean, white bandages. They all (except for Kaoru), jumped away. Angela nodded to them and she and Renee left the room.
Kaoru just giggled as she continued to sit on Kenshin's lap.
"Oro.you shouldn't sit on my lap, Kaoru...." Kenshin stated, his rurouni side and Battousai side fighting for control in his head.
She gave him a side glance, a little confused. "Why? Oh...." she realized what he meant and she slowly got up off of his lap and pulled him up.
'DAMMIT WHY DID YOU EVEN HAVE TO SAY ANYTHING IN THE FIRST PLACE?!' Battousai whined.
Kenshin smiled. "Thank you."
Kaoru looked at him. "We need to end our vacation early."
"Why?"
She pointed to his arm and then to her leg. "We're both injured and Megumi would have my head if we didn't come back after getting hurt."
Kenshin winced at the thought of Megumi ripping their heads off; well, more like yelling at them to no end. "Ah. I understand."
"Let's leave tomorrow, okay?"
He looked at her. "Why not today?"
She grinned. "I want one more night with you and I'm gonna sit on your lap again."
'Oro.' said the rurouni.
'HELL YEAH!' stated the Battousai, throwing a party in Kenshin's head.
Kenshin could merely grin.
Author's Notes: Ah.. I updated fast because I don't plan on working on the next chapter for a while because I fear that when I end the next chapter I will end the story. and it's not fair!!! I don't WANT to end the story!!!! But all good things must come an end, ne? There will be a sequel more than likely so look out for it.and with the lack of a disk, I still cannot give out review responses (sorry guys!!!) but I will try and post your responses under an author's notes on Friday night or Saturday, okay? I'll take it off again when I finished the last chapter.. (sniff)..
Luv,
Crystal Renee
Author's Notes: You all have such little faith in my promises!!! (sniffs and cries on Angie's shoulder and she fights off angry reviewers). I said I wouldn't kill Kenshin and I'm not going to kill him!!! With that said, I just gave away my entire chapter. (grumbles to self). I wrote that with this chapter semi thought out because I know how I want to end the story (which will be in the next chapter or 2) And I usually suck at endings. Does anyone want to see the fanart I've gotten so far? Give me your e-mail and I will try and send copies to you. I won't be able to until Friday, though, because that's when I'm going to my grandma's house and my internet doesn't seem to like attaching pictures to my e-mails. With that said, here's the chapter. Oh, and I still haven't found my disk. Anime-Master 7, I can't write the side story until I get a review from Krystlsaliormoon since she has to respond to what I write to her and I to what she writes to be and that is how the story gets posted.. And I did delete the notes for reviewers and the 200 reviews fun and the note to you guys about the disk, that's why it says there is less chapters than there was before.
~Coming of the Dawn~
***Chapter 29- A New Beginning***
She forced herself to lift her eyse as the rain began to pour. Her eyes stung with tears as the dagger like raindrops peirced her skin, stinging her wounds with the slight pressure. Her eyes bore away from the scene, her back to the place that the battle had abruptly ended only a few minutes ago. Her heart fell.
Like a wounded animal scared for it's life, she hesitantly and fearfully turned to the sight of the battle. First she took in the blood that ran aroudn the darkened area. It was too dark to see clearly, so she slowly stood up and trailed her way back to the alleyway, dragging her feet and hanging her head on her way. Kaoru noticed her body felt like lead weighted it down as she travelled solemnly from her original place of solitude.
If she didn't see his body then he wasn't really dead. Now, she was walking towards the inevitable. She would find out if he was dead or not. And how her heart wrenched and she prayed to Kami like she never had before.
Kaoru's white socks slowly turned a reddish-pink as the bloody water splashed agaisnt the pure cloth. In her sight she saw a hand, blood running in rivelets down through the wrinkles and creases that bore deep into the palm until the liquid reached the fingers and circled around them before landing helplessly upon the unforsaken, bloody thirsty, muddy ground. Her heart leapt. So much blood. So much life, draining away in the rain.
Willing her eyes to look farther she lifted her head to see the face of the man who's fate was drawing there in the rain. For all she knew it could be one of the men Kenshin had killed earlier. She didn't know. She just knew who she prayed it wasn't.
Before her eys could land on the face, an arm wrapped around her waist and pulled her back away, turning her away from the body before she could get a look at it. She felt her small, yet strong form being crushed agaisnt a hard yet soft chest, and a slowly seeping wet heat hitting her back and shoulders from a bloody wound on the person who held her so defiantly. The scent confirmed her thoughts.
"No Kaoru. he's not dead." Came the voice.
Kaoru spun around, her eyes lockign with a pair of amber tinted violet ones. Tears began to form in her sapphire/azure orbs as she wrapped her arms aroudn the crimson-haired man before her. He winced and she pulled back, her eyes falling to the gushing wound in his shoulder and sword arm.
"You're hurt." She stated, gingelry touching the sensitive skin that surrounded the painful looking wound. She could feel him react to her touch as his skin twitched and tensed.
He hand rubbed the tears, blood and rain from her cheeks. "I'll be fine." He assured her calmly, his voice not portaying the true pain he was in.
Kaoru's eyes flew from the wound to his face. "You're still hurt! You could lose your arm with a wound like this..."
He took a hold of both her hands, clamping them between his own and bringing them to his lips for a quick, tender peck. "No one's cutting my arm off. Megumi can sew me up and I'll be fine."
"Kenshin....." Kaoru pleaded with him, obviously not convinced.
"Would you rather thing of the worst, koishii?" he questioned her, perking an eyebrow up.
She shook her head in defeat and turned to face Saitou, who lay on the cold floor of mud and gravel. He had a chest wound that was bleeding profously, due to the lack of accuracy on Battousai's part during the attack. But the wound wasn't life threatening; except for maybe bleeding to death. His chest rose and fell in his ragged breathing. He was still alive. Kaoru's eyes flew to the nearest sight of movement and she moved back unconciously towards Kenshin.
Renee and Angela came barreling out from their hiding places, both falling down to the ground hard before getting up and walking across the muddy, bloody ground to stand with Kenshin and Kaoru. Angela went to Kaoru and looked at the leg wound and then forced Kenshin to sit down while she wrapped up his wound as best she could. Kaoru turned around to help.
Renee walked around Saitou, determining if she should be kind enough to help him out. She knew there was a reason why Kenshin hadn't killed him then and there, besides the missed attack. Shaking her head and looking back at the others, she got a nod from the manslayer and precided to reluctantly help Saitou.
Even if they had attacked them, she felt no reason to leave him there dying when he could still have the possibility of life.
Kenshin looked back at the two other women after he gave Renee the nod to help Saitou somewhat. Part of him didn't know why he cared if Saitou lived or died, but the rurouni side answered quickly.
'Because Kaoru saved him once and you know she doesn't want you to kill him. or kill at all for that matter.' Came the smart response.
Kaoru was holding the sliced piece of Angela's kimono agaisnt Kenshin's shoulder while Angela tried to tie around the wound. It was slow and obviously put Kenshin in pain, but he didn't verbalize his pain. He just watched them as they worked slowly and carefully, and he was slightly touched that they cared enough. Kaoru, he knew she would help him, but he hadn't thought the other two women would. He smiled. Maybe he was growing soft but now it didn't matter.
Finally the knot was tied.
"Done!" Angela announced, her cheery smile on trying to faze the thick fog-like mood and silence.
Kaoru grinned a goofy grin at the halfhearted attempt, then turned to face Kenshin. She opened her mouth, but he placed a finger agaisnt her lips.
"I know. Don't use my sword. I'll hurt it worse. Wait for Megumi to look at it and take care of it." He told her, reading her thoughts.
Kaoru blushed and nodded, then stood up and helped Kenshin stand. Angela did a once over on her work to be sure she had done a good enough job on it.
"AH!" came a scream.
All heads shot to Renee, who was being held up by Saitou's sword that had caught in her kimono. She kicked at him and managed to hit his arm but it didn't faze him.
"I was only helping you!" she cried, trying in vain to cut through the kimono so she could run.
Kenshin stepped forward but one glare from Kaoru and Angela told him to stay put. Kaoru took a hard grip on her broken bokken (A/N: Say that ten times fast. Brokenbokken, brokenbokken,brokenbokken,brokenbokken..) and in once swift move she had knocked Saitou to the floor and Renee out of his path of danger. She continued to ruthlessly beat on him, taking no mercy on the already hurt man. She kept hitting him, naming her reasons for anger in her head.
Finally she stopped and turned back to Angela, who kicked Saitou roughly in the side and Renee who tore the bandaging off of him. All three of them walked back to Kenshin, and slowly they all walked away in the rain.
Kenshin, cradling his arm.
Kaoru, her head resting on Kenshin's good shoulder.
Renee, holding the gaping hole in her kimono.
Angela, poking fun at Renee for her slow reaction time.
Kenshin slipped his arm around Kaoru, just glad she was safe and glad that it had been she who beat the living daylights out of Saitou. It made him smile, knowing she had it in her to protect herself.
********* *********
"KENSHIN!!!!" Kaoru cried, shoving the man to the floor. "Stay here!"
Kenshin rolled on the floor and popped up behind her. "I think I can do some things on my own, you don't have to baby me, Kaoru."
Kaoru stopped her foot in frustration. "We haven't even had a doctor look at that wound yet, YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE or doing ANYTHING until we do!"
"I don't need a doctor for a scratch." Kenshin retorted.
Kaoru flicked in the arm. He winced and yelped, jumping away from her.
"Why'd you do that?" He asked, sounding remarkably like Sano in the process.
Kaoru grinned. "You can't even handle a little flick in the arm? I was right, YOU AREN'T DOING ANYTHING!"
Kenshin finally gave up after about 10 more minutes of arguing and let Kaoru get his clothes out of the closest for him. The Battousai started to laugh.
'Bet you could get her to bathe you....' he grinned.
Kenshin's eyes grew wide. 'Absolutely not! I can do THAT on my own! I can CHANGE on my own, too! If she won't let me get my own clothes out of the closest what makes you think she's gonna let me do THAT?' he asked, seeing the Battousai's thoughts. 'That's not even humanly possible.'
'Maybe she'll do it for you!'
'Oro. Sessha has had enough of these thoughts, that he has!' came the voice of a frightened and horrofied rurouni.
"Oro!" Kenshin said allowed just as the rurouni had in his head.
Kaoru spun around. "Huh?"
Kenshin blushed. Great, he'd said that outloud. "Uh... how do you expect me to bathe? I'm not letting you bathe me too!"
Kaoru's turn to blush. "I.... uh...... Well.... I guess I won't help you with that....."
'IT'S NOT LIKE SHE HASN'T SEEN IT!' the Battousai roared.
The rurouni grinned. 'Maybe Kaoru-dono has virtures, values, and morals, unlike you, that she does.'
The Battousai glared at the rurouni. 'You've had your share fo those thoughts too, pink boy, don't be saying that to me!'
'Oro..'
Kenshin shook his head. "I don't expect you to. I. I mean it's kind of awkward."
'Awkward? You BEDDED her just what, the other night?' the Battousai stated. 'The only awkward thing would be that she's dressed and your not!'
Both Kenshin and the rurouni slapped the Battousai silly. 'That is enough hentai thoughts, that it is!' both stated angrily.
"I. well.. You can do that on your own..." Kaoru stated, her blush still obvious agaisnt her cheeks.
Kenshin smiled. "Finally, I have your permission to do something on my own."
Kaoru glared and hit him over the head with her broken bokken. "JUST BECAUSE YOUR HURT DOESN'T MEAN I WON'T HURT YOU MORE!"
Kenshin said his infamous 'oro' over and over until Kaoru felt guilty. As soon as he could, he grabbed his garments from her and fled to the bathhouse. He need to get in there right then and there before she decided to hit him again for being unruley.
********** *********
"Kaoru-chan, time to check on your wound!!! We need to rebandage it!" came Angela's voice as she floated into the room, dragging Renee with her.
"What happened to bouncing?" Kaoru asked.
Renee grinned. "It's no fun when you don't have the option of joining in!"
Kaoru laughed and Angela inspected her leg wound and wrapped cleaner bandages around it. Kaoru helped the others with their wounds. Angela pretended her flesh wounds to her back didn't bug her but obviously they did, and she was treated first. Renee still only had the wound to her arm, since Saitou's sword hadn't been accurate enough to slice through her.
They just finished with Kenshin walked in.
"Oro! I. oops!" he stated, backing out when he saw Angela pulling her kimono back up after her bandages had been completely wrapped.
He slammed the door shut. The girls started to giggle and Renee opened the door and pulled Kenshin inside when they were all done.
"Now. time to look at your wound." She stated, making him sit.
Kenshin kept trying to stand up so finally Kaoru just sat on his lap so he couldn't move without knocking her over, Angela held his arm out and held his head in a head lock so he couldn't move his upper body either. Renee took the makeshift bandages off and rearanged everything with crisp, clean, white bandages. They all (except for Kaoru), jumped away. Angela nodded to them and she and Renee left the room.
Kaoru just giggled as she continued to sit on Kenshin's lap.
"Oro.you shouldn't sit on my lap, Kaoru...." Kenshin stated, his rurouni side and Battousai side fighting for control in his head.
She gave him a side glance, a little confused. "Why? Oh...." she realized what he meant and she slowly got up off of his lap and pulled him up.
'DAMMIT WHY DID YOU EVEN HAVE TO SAY ANYTHING IN THE FIRST PLACE?!' Battousai whined.
Kenshin smiled. "Thank you."
Kaoru looked at him. "We need to end our vacation early."
"Why?"
She pointed to his arm and then to her leg. "We're both injured and Megumi would have my head if we didn't come back after getting hurt."
Kenshin winced at the thought of Megumi ripping their heads off; well, more like yelling at them to no end. "Ah. I understand."
"Let's leave tomorrow, okay?"
He looked at her. "Why not today?"
She grinned. "I want one more night with you and I'm gonna sit on your lap again."
'Oro.' said the rurouni.
'HELL YEAH!' stated the Battousai, throwing a party in Kenshin's head.
Kenshin could merely grin.
Author's Notes: Ah.. I updated fast because I don't plan on working on the next chapter for a while because I fear that when I end the next chapter I will end the story. and it's not fair!!! I don't WANT to end the story!!!! But all good things must come an end, ne? There will be a sequel more than likely so look out for it.and with the lack of a disk, I still cannot give out review responses (sorry guys!!!) but I will try and post your responses under an author's notes on Friday night or Saturday, okay? I'll take it off again when I finished the last chapter.. (sniff)..
Luv,
Crystal Renee