Author's Notes: Hello and welcome to chapter thirteen! YAY! REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!! Thank you minna-sama!

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On with the story. . .

Chapter Thirteen

Kenshin sighed as he walked around the house. He was looking all over for Kaoru, since he couldn't find her. 'Blast that Katsura, he HAD to make this house a mansion!!!' Kenshin thought. The house was so big he couldn't find her. He had asked Megumi, Yahiko, and Sano but none of them had seen her. That's when Kenshin spotted the open window. He growled. 'This is not good!!!'

He went outside only to see nobody. It was getting pretty dark outside, but there was a lantern out there. He looked around more carefully. That's when he saw a note on the ground. He rolled his eyes, knowing exactly what had happened, and opened the note.

"Battousai, I've got your little woman. Come find me, battle me, and loose to me. Just try to find me first. Just remember my sister"

Kenshin crumpled the paper. He frowned, his eyes immediately turning from their recent violet to their hard core amber. His deep and angry thoughts were disturbed however, when a menacingly familiar voice ran through the cold night's air.

"Oi Himura! Whatcha got there?" Kenshin turned to see Noyu walking up, cigarette poking out of the side of his mouth, and a cast on his right leg.

Kenshin resisted the temptation to behead the annoying little fiend, but decided it would be a waste of his time. "I thought you were in the hospital, Noyu," he said, voice cold as ice.

Noyu smiled, pathetically thinking over what he had just done. "I did something no man has ever done before!" he walked all the way over to Kenshin, until he was about five feet from him. "I escaped! I was actually supposed to get out in three weeks, but I didn't feel like sitting on my butt for that long, so I got out in the middle of the night, and headed over here! Great plan, eh?"

"Hn," came the answer.

"So, Himura, whatcha doing outside in the dead of night, with that little note? Not from Katsura, is it?" Noyu asked, after a large puff off his cigarette.

Kenshin glared daggers at the poor, limping man, and straightened up his back a bit. "No, it's not from Katsura, nor does it have anything to do with you!" he said, voice even colder, spitting venom.

Now, I might remind you, that when Kenshin talks like this, the man or woman he was talking to would run away, like a frightened cat. Noyu, however, is NOT your average man, so he just stood there, and laughed.

"What's so funny, moron?"

"Gee, and 'I' thought that pet of yours would soften you, but she hasn't even barely touched your coldness!!! Gods above, Himura! What happened? Did your birdy fly away?" Noyu teased, not knowing the reality of his question.

Kenshin once again glared daggers at Noyu. "It's none of your business! Now go home! Or even better, go back to the hospital! I should hope that after your little escape tonight they'll put you in the retarded section!"

At this, Noyu decided to not push the Hitokiri any further. "Fine fine. . . Himura. Whatever you say! None of my beeswax. . ." he walked off into the night, and Kenshin noted that he was headed in the opposite direction of the hospital.

Kenshin grunted, knowing that his little 'chat' with Noyu might have been a distraction, so he headed off into the night, running madly for a place he hadn't been in ten long years.



Enishi smirked as he looked down upon the Battousai's woman. "So this is she. . . eh?" he wondered aloud. He watched as Kaoru lazily sat up and looked around herself. He was very pleased to see her frightened face.

"W. . . Where am I?" Kaoru asked aloud. She looked over at Enishi. She had no idea who this man was! 'Who is he? And what does he want with me? He probably kidnapped me to get at Kenshin, but. . . why?'

Enishi smiled and walked down to Kaoru from his stone throne. He was wearing entire orange with a few blue clothes, with a blue cape. He swished his cape around himself. He had brilliant white hair and small circled glasses. Kaoru noted the big cheesy grin on his face.

"You may be wondering why you are here, ne?" Enishi asked, voice booming.

Kaoru nodded, nimbly, not quite sure if she should get up and kick his butt.

"You're here because I despise your little boyfriend, the Battousai! I despise him with all the hatred of the world, and mind you that's quite a lot because there are many hateful people out there," Enishi continued with his speech.

Kaoru frowned a bit. "Why do you hate him? He was only following orders from Katsura!" she yelled.

Enishi raised an eyebrow. "Of course. . ." He murmured. "The Battousai would naturally pick a feisty woman. . ." His train of thoughts were semi different though, 'And extremely beautiful at that. . .'

Kaoru's frown deepened.

"Ah but the Battousai did much more then that!" Enishi continued. "He killed my sister! My beloved sister. . ." Enishi sighed at the thought of his beautiful sister. How kind a woman she was back then. . .

Kaoru gasped. 'Kenshin killed his sister?' she thought, bewildered. 'The only woman I've ever heard of him talking about killing was. . .' that's when the thought hit her like a dagger. '. . .Tomoe. . .'

Enishi nodded, knowing her thoughts well. "That's right, little girl, he killed my sister!"

Kaoru immediately grew angry. "Little girl??? Who are you calling little girl???" she asked. She stood up and walked to Enishi, ready to slap him.

Enishi had different plans though. He grabbed Kaoru with his powerful arms and held her tightly against himself. He smiled a goofy grin. "You and I are just going to have to wait until the Battousai figures it out and comes over here, aren't we?" he asked, in a mere whisper.

Kaoru tried her best to get away from this horrible man, but saw the despair in Enishi's eyes. 'Kenshin killed his sister. . .' she thought. 'This poor man must have suffered greatly. . . I suppose I should help him become a nicer man.' She corrected herself. 'Oh man! That's TWO promises to TWO different men!!! Kaoru,' she told herself. 'You wished for an adventure. . . I guess you ought to use the time you've got wisest!'

Kaoru snuggled closer to Enishi, if that was possible. "Of course. . ." she told him. She watched his grin grow bigger and his eyes fill with joy. She hesitated her sigh, she knew tonight would be a difficult one to get through.

Little did Kaoru know, but she was slowly falling in love with Enishi Yukishiro.



        It was the next day when Kenshin climbed up a stone stairway, up to a place in the woods where nobody had lived in for ten years. He looked around. He saw a garden that looked like a farm that hadn't been taken care of for decades, overgrown with many weeds and even a small growing, yet dieing, maple tree here and there.

Then he looked over to his right, where a large section of the ground was black and brown, with a few weeds here and there, but everything pretty much growing around it, since the soil there appeared to be very much dead.

It was the house he and Tomoe had lived in, and the house he had burned to the ground, Tomoe, his beautiful late wife, burned with. Kenshin averted his eyes from the house and garden, and looked around more. He was sent here for a reason, where was Enishi hiding???

Kenshin walked around. He walked into the section of the ground where his house 'would' have stood. That's when he noticed a hole big enough for him to climb through. He walked over to it. That's when he heard voices.

He peeked his head inside of the hole to see Kaoru, the love of his 'recent' life, dancing with another man!!! His eyes grew bigger when he saw who the man was. It was Enishi Yukishiro!!!

Kenshin watched in pure hatred of Enishi as they shared small kisses and snuggles and cuddles together, while eating a hearty breakfast that none other then Jin-eh had came up with.

Kaoru smiled giddily as she heard Enishi's laughter. It was the purest laughter she had ever heard. She had never heard Kenshin laugh like this!!! She didn't realize it, but throughout the night, she had fallen in love with Enishi.

When not angry with somebody, Enishi was very kind, loving, warm, happy and caring. Who would have thought that any man who had lived his life with pure hatred for another, would be this content?

Kaoru supposed it was because he liked her. She didn't know it but Kaoru looked amazingly like Tomoe, and she reminded Enishi of his sister, only a little bit more outward.

Kenshin felt like steam was coming out of his ears. He hesitated on jumping right into the hole, but instead, he decided to sit back a bit and ponder on what his plan would be. Kenshin growled when he heard more laughter, and decided to move away from the hole. Eyes completely amber, a scowl on his face and dog like growling coming from his throat, Kenshin pondered on his plan of action.

To Be Continued. . .

Author's Notes: YAY!!! I give a large thanks to Female Hitokiri Battousai on her WONDERFUL ideas!!! REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!! Thank you minna-sama!