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Chapter Four

Later that night, Kenshin and Kaoru ate their dinner is silence. Kenshin looked over at the girl eating her miso soup. 'I wonder why she's so quite tonight . . .last night she was very talkative . . .I wish she'd talk.' He thought to himself. 'Hey wait a moment! I'm getting all mixed up! Why should I care for her. . .?' but he couldn't help but think that he wanted 'some' conversation.

But Kaoru didn't say anything. She didn't say anything to him, or even look at him when she got up and washed her bowl. 'Kenshin's cooking might be good but I miss my old food . . .' she thought to herself. 'I miss everybody at Tokishi's mansion. All but Tokishi. . .'

Kenshin got up and washed his dishes. He turned to Kaoru. "I had a chat with Katsura today," he told her, hoping she'd respond. He nearly groaned of irritation when she didn't. "Tomorrow we're on the move of killing Tokishi's company and Tokishi himself."

"Whatever . . ." Kaoru said. She wasn't in the mood to talk tonight. Her eyes were the color of purple, and it was extremely dark outside. She walked past him and went into the bathroom.

Kenshin sighed. "Oh well. . ." he looked outside. It was darker then it should usually be. It was only seven at night and it was normally this dark at midnight. He would know. He smiled slightly. He waited for Kaoru to come out of the shower.

"Kaoru?" he asked. She looked at him for the first time that night. He was about to ask her what was wrong when he realized, 'I'm going soft! This can't be happening to me! I've got to make her afraid of me more, make her respect me!' Making up for his lack of words he said, "Tomorrow you better work hard!" his coldness was enough to scare the heck out of a man much bigger then himself.

Kaoru flinched at his coldness. 'I can't stand his iciness any longer!!! I want out of here!' "Sure. . .Whatever. . ." she said, and began to turn back to walk down the hall to the bedroom when she felt Kenshin's angry grip on her shoulder.

"You do NOT talk to me like that!" he hissed, amber eyes seeming to glow in the dark. 'I just want to make her afraid. To prove to her that I'm not going soft!' he thought in his head. He watched when tears rolled down her cheeks.

'He's so cold!' she thought to herself. 'I wish he'd lighten up a bit! OK, I've made up my mind! I'll try to get out of here once we've defeated Tokishi's company!' she screamed mentally when he put a foot on her toes.

Kenshin pushed her into the bedroom and locked the door. "If you fail tomorrow you will regret it!" he hissed. He listened to Kaoru sob in the room, but he thought it was because she was afraid of him, when really she was crying tears of sadness.

He looked up when he heard rain pounding on the roof, rolling his eyes. He sat down and leaned against the slide door. He listened to her carefully until he finally heard her deep breathes of sleep.

There was a knock on the door. Kenshin got up and answered it. Reading the card, he nodded to the messenger boy again and put the letter in the burning fireplace. He shook his head, then walked back over to the slide door. Getting down, he leaned against it. He knew that as the Battousai he should not fall asleep with a 'chore' undone, but without realizing it the soft drops of rain on the roof slowly dragged him into sleep.



In Kenshin's dream, Tomoe was reaching up at him, pressing the knife to his left cheek making the last touch to the X shaped scar on his cheek. He watched when she died, there in his arms. He had never before felt such sadness.

Suddenly, Kaoru was there, and she was happily laughing, her eyes the normal blue color and it was sunny outside. Though they were not in his apartment. They were in a garden, a beautiful garden, and they were planting seeds.

Kenshin had never seen Kaoru laugh in real life but her laughter seemed like beautiful music to his ears. Kenshin smiled back at her, a bright smile, a happy smile, something he'd never done since when he was happily living the life of the little boy named Shinta.

That's when it hit him. Kenshin realized his feelings were more then he could ever imagine for Kaoru. He thought about why he felt this way. She was very beautiful, stubborn like himself, confident but knew when to play damsel in distress, she was smart and she had a wonderful power with her eyes. He realized that he was falling in. . .

That's when the mean and cruel Battousai interrupted him. 'NO! I'LL NEVER FEEL THAT WAY!' he screamed. 'NEVER!'

The good side of Kenshin answered, 'But then, why did I feel such sadness when she didn't talk to me?'

'Because you're an idiot! Wake up this is only a dream!'

'Oro? I'm dreaming? That's new. . . normally I have nightmares. . .'

'ARGGGGGGGGGGG. . . . .' Battousai screamed. He hit his head over and over again, screaming, 'WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE. . .'



Kenshin awoke to banging on the front door. He heard Noyu screaming for him to come out and rolled his eyes. He pressed his ear to the slide door and heard that Kaoru was awake also, groaning with irritation. He sighed and got up.

Opening the door he asked, "What is it, moron? And how long have you been banging on my door?"

Noyu looked at him, shocked. "I thought you knew! I've been banging the door for about fifteen minutes!!!" he cried.

Kenshin shook his head in irritation.

"Have you gone deaf or something?"

"No. . .I was. . .I was asleep," Kenshin stuttered.

Noyu looked at him in shock for a moment, then burst out laughing. "Don't worry, Kenshin! You aren't in trouble! When Katsura found out you hadn't left for your duty, he just sent somebody else out. Said you must have been tired. . ." Noyu looked him over. "Or maybe. . . you were doing something with that girl!" he teased.

Kenshin's eyes flashed angrily. "What do you want???" he hissed, his patience running low this morning.

Noyu slapped his knee, laughing. "Himura, you didn't have your coffee yet or something?" he teased. Then he straightened up a bit. "Katsura found the location of Tokishi. The man himself. At this moment he's in a bar with some friends and Katsura is gonna meet you there in an hour. We also found out that the police are searching for the girl all over the place and can't find her, asking a reward of 100,000,000,000 yen for the kidnapper's head," he said, with a solute at the end.

Kenshin rolled his eyes. "How do they know it was a kidnap? What if she ran away?" he asked.

Noyu looked at him oddly. "They always think its kidnap. Anyway, Tokishi actually thinks that the girl wanted to marry him when actually Katsura said that she hates his guts!" He watched Kenshin's face etch a look of surprise.

Kenshin looked down for a moment, his bangs covering his eyes while he thought about his dream. Then he looked back up and said, "Noyu, good report." He shut the door without even saying goodbye.

He rolled his eyes for the millionth time that morning when he heard Noyu call out, "OI HIMURA! Katsura wants your PET to come along too!!!"

        Noyu's laughter could be heard all the way down the hall and the person across the hallway shouted, "Shut up you maniac!!!" The laughter stopped.

        Kenshin walked back down the hallway and knocked on Kaoru's door. "You better get ready!" he hissed. "We're leaving in five!" Then he tied his katana to his waist and sat down in the large chair, waiting for her, daydreaming his dream over and over again.

        Kaoru rolled her eyes. 'Great. Now I have to go see that pig Tokishi. Well, he's going to get it! And then I'll finally get out of this place!' Kaoru had pretended to be asleep last night and thought up an idea to get out.

        But did she really want to get out? Yes. She did. 'I hate him. And maybe if I can while I escape from this dump, maybe I'll be known as the one who killed Battousai!' she thought.

        Suddenly her thoughts were interrupted by her modest side. 'Man. . .what a change in attitude, Kaoru!' it said.

       'Yeah well I have acted like a lady long enough! I should face the fact that Kenshin doesn't like me at all and I should just get outa here!' she screamed  mentally.

       'You know you like him. . .' her modest side said.

        Kaoru stopped right then. 'I do?' she asked herself. 'No I don't!' but Kaoru couldn't help it. Tears rolled down her cheeks.

       'Give him another chance! Try to change him! You know that you want to be happy with him right?'

       'Well. . .I guess so. . .'

       'You know so.'

       'Alright, I'll take your challenge! I'll give Kenshin another chance and I'll try to change him into a loving kind of person! But if this doesn't work. . .' Kaoru pushed the thought of her killing him out of her mind.

       Suddenly, "Are you coming or not?!?" shouted an angry Kenshin.

       Kaoru rolled her eyes. "I can do this. . ." she whispered. "I just hope he can let go of that Tomoe girl. I wonder what she looks like, and why Kenshin likes her so much. Of course, she is his wife. . .I don't know how I'll be able to drive him away from her. . ." she continued to whisper. Little did Kaoru know, since Tokishi didn't tell her ALL the facts, was that Tomoe Yukishiro was dead.

       To Be Continued. . .

       Author's Notes: Alrighty then! Thank you for reading! REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!! Please review minna-sama! Thank you!