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        On with the story.

        Chapter Three

After standing in the elevator for what seemed like hours, Kenshin arrived at the top. Walking down the hall, he stuck a sticky-note on Noyu's door that said, "DIE!!!" Kenshin continued to walk down the hallway and over to his door.

Inside, Kaoru sat on the couch, daydreaming about nothing very important. She looked up when Kenshin walked in and looked at her. She was wearing one of his black t-shirts and his only white hakama.

Kenshin glared at her. "Why are you wearing my clothes?" he asked.

"You didn't expect me to wear my P.J's all the time now did you?" Kaoru asked, feeling a bit snobby today.

Kenshin just glared at her for a moment more, then said, "Very well. You can wear my clothes." He walked over to the kitchen and began to eat some crackers. He noticed that some of the crackers were gone and looked at Kaoru, then rolled his eyes.

Kaoru smiled inwardly, knowing he had seen she ate his crackers. 'What else was I supposed to eat???' she thought to herself. She leaned back on the couch and sighed. "So. . . . what do I do now?" she asked.

Kenshin didn't look at her. "Katsura wants to use you against Tokishi," he told her. Finally he looked at her still aqua eyes. "He wants to use your powers."

Kaoru gasped with anger. 'They know about my power??? How can this be?' thunder was heard outside louder then Kenshin had ever heard normal thunder. She rolled her eyes and felt like steam was coming out of her ears.

Kenshin raised an eyebrow, realizing he had hint a nerve. He grabbed a handful of crackers, walked over to the large chair, and sat down, looking out into space.

Within minutes, Kaoru became bored. "Kenshin?" she asked. He didn't look at her. "Please tell me more about yourself. I understand that this Katsura guy will want to use my powers . . . only more then just Tokishi and I'd like to know my kidnapper," she said.

Kenshin turned his head to her. "Why do you want to know?" he asked.

"It's boring just sitting here."

"Get used to it."

"No."

Kenshin groaned in irritation. "I thought you knew all about the Battousai," he snarled. He popped another cracker in his mouth, and began to think. 'She probably doesn't know about. . . about her. . ."

Kaoru knew what Kenshin was thinking for she had heard about that woman. Tokishi had spoken about her many times, calling her "The Battousai's Wife" Kaoru knew that the woman's name was Tomoe.

"I don't know everything about. . . about Tomoe," she said, quietly. She realized she had struck a nerve when Kenshin's eyes grew big. She watched, fearfully when he got out of his chair and came face to face with her, anger seeping through his eyes.

"How do you know her name? What do you know!?! You never know anything! You don't know what the word pain means! You'll never know how much I've suffered! How hard it is to keep my reputation strong! To keep away the tears and never go soft!" Kenshin blurted out. 'Where'd that come from . . .?' he wondered.

Kenshin was still angry though and unsheathed his sword. "Never talk to me like that again! Never say her name again in my presence!" he brought the sword to her throat and thought about what he was about to do.

Remembering that when Katsura said he could do whatever he wanted with her except kill her he never mentioned he couldn't hurt her. He cut a small slice in Kaoru's neck, making a small tinkle of blood run down her soft skin.

Kaoru held in her gasp as tears went into her eyes. Although it was a small cut it was horribly painful. She barely heard him when Kenshin said, "You WILL know the meaning of suffering while you stay in my apartment. And as far as I'm concerned, that will be a very long time!"

Finally Kenshin sheathed his sword and walked over to the bathroom, slamming the door. Kaoru took this moment to run over to the kitchen and get a paper towel, putting it over the cut in her neck. She cried, silently, waiting for it to stop bleeding.

But every time she checked, it continued to bleed. She sobbed now, the pain more intense then she could ever think. Kenshin had ran his sword over a vein, and the pain had shot up and down her neck several times.

She ran over to Kenshin's bedroom, paper towel still on her neck. She jumped onto the bed and began to sob so loudly Noyu could hear it in the other room. Kenshin heard it as well. The whole of Tokyo heard it. Not her sobs, but the thunder and lightning that clouded the sky.

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Later that night, Kaoru couldn't get any sleep. She lied in bed, a band-aid on her neck, just thinking about how she was ever to get away from Kenshin, when she heard the door open. She sat up, and listened.

"Mr. Himura, a letter for you sir," said a messenger.

Kenshin took the letter and read it. It was simple enough. "Markaro Lokinu - Tonu Street" Though a normal person would never understand this letter, Kenshin understood it totally. He nodded to the messenger and closed the door.

He walked over to the bedroom and locked the door. Kaoru frowned. 'Go figure. . . . . . .' Then he walked over to the shelf where his katana was, tied it to his waist, walked out of the apartment and locked the door.

Kaoru sighed, knowing she wouldn't see him until the morning. 'But what exactly does he do at night?' she wondered. She lied back down but couldn't bring herself to fall asleep.

Meanwhile, Kenshin went to Tonu Street to the house where Markaro Lokinu lived. He slinked into the house through the window. 'What moron thinks of letting his window be open?' he wondered.

Slipping into a bedroom he looked at the man asleep on his futon. 'Da-ja-vu all over again! This is just what happened with Kaoru . . .' he walked over to the girl, unsheathed his sword, and put it to his neck.

This time the prey didn't wake up like Kaoru did and Kenshin plunged the sword into his neck, instantly killing him. Wiping the blood off his sword, he slinked back out of the house and towards the skyscraper once again.



The next morning Kaoru woke up to the smell of miso soup. She couldn't bring herself to smile though, remembering what a great 'goodnight' she had gotten from Kenshin.

Finding that her door was no longer locked, she opened it up and walked into the kitchen. Never looking at Kenshin, she took her bowl of miso soup and sat down at the table.

She began to eat it, and found that it tasted very good. 'Wow. . . I've never tasted such good food!' she thought, but decided not to say the compliment out loud.

Kenshin noticed her moodiness and ate his food at the counter, never once looking at Kaoru. He began to think, 'Man. . . Kaoru must really hate me now. Well good! I don't care!' but something deep down inside told him that he did care, and that he felt a tinge of sadness at her no-talk-treatment.

After eating, Kenshin headed for the door, only saying, "I'm going to go train. Be back in an hour or two. Stay out of trouble." He locked the door tightly.

Once he had left, Kaoru sighed. 'I'm never going to get out of here. . .' she thought. Looking outside, she saw a slight rain shower, and smiled. 'I wonder what Kenshin meant when he said, 'Stay out of trouble'?' she smiled more when a bit of sun showed and a rainbow crossed over the sky.

To Be Continued. . .

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