Ki revealed: Part 1

The unraveling of why Kaoru was wanted...

[/...\= Kaoru seeing past visions]

[::...:: = Battousai remembering something written on paper]

Making their way back into the apartment Kaoru yawned softly, eyes half closed and half open. She kept walking slower and slower until someone grabbed her hand rather roughly causing her to yelp. Battousai tugged at her in annoyance wanting for her to hurry up, she was too tired to snatch it back and surprisingly she tugged him closer to her and put her head on his shoulder. Battousai narrowed his eyes wanting to just push him off her but decided against it since she would just fall asleep against the wall of the hallway. He put her on his back, wrapping her arms around his neck and holding her legs around his hips. She snuggled her head closer to his neck sleeping peacefully. He sighed and continued walking back to his apartment. He carefully unlocked the door, making sure she would not fall.

Closing the door with his foot he looked around, everything looked the same as before. Walking down the hallway to the bedroom he opened the door. He walked towards the bed, placing her gently down on it. Noticing a piece of paper besides the candle on the desk next to the bed he picked it up it was unusually wet, like tear drops. He saw written, "the children are the future. Killing them will make the future devastated." His mouth gaped open. 'That night she was crying... She was having a nightmare...' He read the note again, 'why would she dream of children being murdered?' He wondered silently.

Kaoru woke up rubbing her eyes and yawning loudly. She had got a good sleep she had no nightmares at all. She woke up surprised she still had a kimono on. But when did I?... Memories flooded her and she began to blush, she couldn't believe she just put her head on his shoulder. He must of carried her back to the bed. She walked to the closet where she had put all the kimonos at. She quickly changed into a beautiful white kimono with yellow stars all over with a red colored obi. She opened the door to her surprise Battousai was sleeping sitting up against the wall next to the room. Gasping she took a slight step back. He looked like he was sleeping but she could tell he wasn't. She stood there a few minutes pondering why he was outside her room and glaring at him angrily.

Deciding to walk past him she tiptoed as quietly as she could past him but before she did she felt something grab her leg and make her fall. As she was about to land face first on the floor two hands wrapped around her causing her not to. She was then picked up and put back into a standing position. Blushing furiously she turned around seeing him smirking. She angrily burst out saying, "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING?!" He just chuckled at her and she continued, "WHAT are you doing outside of MY room?!" He stopped smirking and gave her a long cold stare. "What do you think I was doing?" She raised an eyebrow and put her right hand on her hip. "I think that you thought I was going to try to escape. You baka! If I were to escape don't you think I know you would kill me?" She turned around putting her back to him, "but of course you've already tried to kill me..."

She started to walk away but he grabbed her wrist and spun her back, making her face him again. "It's because you talk too much! You need to learn how to shut your mouth especially when you question the ways of a hitokiri!" Kaoru wiggled her wrist free of his grip, "don't touch me!" She commanded loudly. He narrowed his eyes at her and suddenly pushed her rather roughly to the floor. She winced when she connected with the floor and looked up to see him hovering over her. He kissed her in a forced movement and he felt the tears from her come on to his face. His eyes opened locking into hers, scared; panicked; sad eyes stared back at him. He quickly pushed himself off of her and stared at her shocked at his own actions. She looked at him confused and scared. He was holding his head and cursing himself. "Kuso!" He yelled before he walked away from Kaoru, not even looking back at her. A slamming of the door caused Kaoru to wince at the sound of broken glass, when a picture fell on the floor outside the door.

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Hours later Battousai finally come out into the room. He glanced around on the floor, he had heard glass break and knew it was the picture hanging up in the hallway. That picture had been there since he first had the apartment and he never bothered to take it down. Odd thing was he didn't see the picture or any glass. Kaoru must have cleaned it up. He looked to see her sitting against a wall staring at the ceiling. Her eyes had water in them, like she was ready to cry. She knew he was there but didn't bother to look at him, rather she was too scared. He narrowed his eyes, "we're leaving." She didn't move. "Now." She nodded and stood up. Still not looking at him she walked over to the door and waited for him, staring at the floor. He walked in front of her sliding the door open.



To Kaoru's luck they were walking a normal pace, she was glad she didn't have to run all over Kyoto this time. Then for no reason Battousai picked Kaoru up and ran to his destination. Kaoru wondered where they were since they had already gone by the teahouse. He rounded a corner and he put Kaoru down. Their a few feet away stood men with swords and a boy somewhat bruised and beaten. He was holding a shinai. Then one of the men swung his sword at the boy's shinai, slicing it in half. Which the boy gasped and dropped the rest of it and took a stance with his fists up.

"What are you doing?! Help him!" Kaoru ordered him loudly. Battousai shook his head, "the child dies. I was to kill him if these men didn't carry that out." "No..." Kaoru collapsed to the ground crying. "...why?" She said through sobs... "What did he do?" Battousai shook his head, "I don't know but it must be pretty serious if they wanted me to kill him..." 'He kills anyone...' She thought.

/My hands were covered in blood I was holding a katana which was also covered in blood...

"You killed him!" A girl cried out to me she looked like she was around seven. She was hovering over a body of a man who's blood was everywhere on the ground. She was crying, staring at me in disbelief. I gripped the katana tightly, "He-" I began, but was interrupted by the girl... "You! How could you! I know that he killed your father... But didn't your father teach you the Kamiya Kasshin Ryu? Isn't it the sword supposed to protect people? How could you- how can you protect people if you kill them?!" "I didn't mean to-" I was interrupted again. "Your father..." Did she dare go there? To speak about my father? "Would have been..." She did and it only boosted my anger more. "...disgraced." Rage built inside me, it was if I was blinded by blood. Before I blinked there a dead girl hung from my katana her arms limp, no movement at all. Her skin pale like a ghost and her eyes white, I dropped the Katana and I screamed.\

'After that incident...' Kaoru's hand formed a first. 'I promised myself that I would never let a child be killed again...' Battousai looked down at her, she had stopped crying for sometime and the men were advancing on the boy about to kill him. Kaoru slowly began to rise, eyes closed.

Kaoru now stood, not a sound came from her mouth.

::The children are the future.::

She stood up slowly and opened her eyes looking at the men about to kill the boy.

::Killing them will make the future devastated.::

Battousai noticed her eyes were no longer their beautiful blue, but they were a raging... Amber.



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Translations:

Baka - Idiot.

Kuso - Kuso literally means shit, but saying shit in Japan isn't like saying shit over here. Shit in English is a pretty nasty word and we tend to treat it as such. Shit in Japanese doesn't carry nearly the weight; it's closer to saying crap or dammit in most cases, with the stronger sense reserved for really intense situations. I usually translate kuso as "dammit!" because it's usually muttered under the character's breath when something goes wrong.

-Kuso translation information taken from http://www.freehomepages.com/pioneersucks/email.html

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Shinai - Bamboo sword.