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Kaoru sat in the water. 'He had stayed with her all night?' the thought kept running through her head. Why had he went through all the trouble? he didn't strike her as the kind of guy to do something like this. Turning her head she looked at the gash on her arm it wasn't that big really Dr Genzi had done a good job patching her up but still it would leave a mark. Just one more, to add to her many little scars. She had been doing so good lately, really she had.
Bowing her head she heard the door to the bathhouse open and sunk further into the water her attention snapping back. Swiveling her head to look at the door where she saw Tae entering a kimono held in her hands.
"Oh Kaoru you had me so worried." Tae said clutching her friend's clothes to her chest. She wanted to run and hug her friend, at the same time she was worried that she might hurt her.
"I know, I am so sorry. I never." I never meant to what? To get caught without a weapon? Because that's what everything came down to she had gotten hurt because she hadn't had a weapon on her.
"Kaoru what happened?"
The concern in Taes voice touched her. How was she supposed to answer? She didn't want to tell her what had really happened. That she had been careless and her guard was down, so she had been hurt in the streets by a man. That she had been stupid enough to let live in the first place.
Tae watched as her friend bowed her head her head of raven hair averting her eyes. She wasn't going to tell her.
"Don't ask me to tell you that." Kaoru focused on water. She couldn't bring her self to look at her friends eyes. She didn't want to lie to her she had lied to her to many times about what she was doing. Tae wasn't an idiot she had to suspect something but she wasn't going to tell her. She wasn't going to put her in danger.
It hurt to see Kaoru like this. She knew that her friend was hurting too. "Why."
Looking down Kaoru allowed the cool mask to slip onto face. She couldn't handle this not right now. The best way she could think to deal with it was to feel nothing. So she didn't letting the other part of herself take over completely.
Tae didn't understand it when Kaoru looked at her again there was nothing. No expression on her face just blank eyes stared back at her. She just got up quickly covering herself with a towel before wrapping the Yakata around her. It was enough to make the young waitress snap.
"You don't understand anything!" the words tumbled from her mouth in a harsh cry fueled by her anger and hurt. How dare Kaoru look at her like this like she wasn't here, like she didn't matter.
Kaoru turned taking a step closer to her friend not saying anything just watching her waiting for her to get through with what ever it was that she had to say. So they just stood there looking at each other. Long after Tae's last words had dissipated, leaving them both in aching silence.
Tae couldn't believe it even after her outburst. Kaoru still stood there with her emotionless eyes trained on her. closing the distance she felt tears running down her cheeks. "You could have died." placing her hands on either of Kaoru's shoulders and began to shake her. Willing the tears that were falling to stop but they didn't. So she bowed her head to hide her face.
Kaoru could feel the jarring of her body and the roughness of Tae's grip as her friend continued the shake her. Tae needed this and she wasn't about to take it away from her. She felt a trickle of blood run down her arm and she knew that she had pulled one of her stitches but when she was in this mode such a small pain was nothing to her. So the shaking continued till Tae bowed her head.
"I watched you die.." all her frustration spent she just stood there, her hands falling away from Kaoru's shoulders. "I watched you die.." The words left her mouth again at a whisper that she was helpless to stop.
'I watched you die' the words played through Kaoru's mind as she looked at her friend. Reaching up she placed her own hands on the other woman's shoulders. "I'm sorry but if I tell you then you'll die too." She knew she sounded cold and to her friend that had known her a long time and never seen her like this she must have appeared heartless but this had to be done.
Tae felt her blood freeze at those words 'was she threatening her?' she hadn't thought that Kaoru would ever do something like that. Then again she would have been able to picture Kaoru looking at her like this either. "Is that.. is that a threat."
"No it's the truth. So don't ask me to tell you." Picking up the kimono she slipped into it working to tie her obi as fast as possible. Paying no attention to Tae more for her own benefit, the look on her friends face was too much for her.
Tae's eyes widened as she took a step away from her friend. How could she have been so wrong? She had known Kaoru for almost as long as she could remember. No that wasn't right she remembered her since she came here to live with Dr Genzi.
"Kaoru." He shoulders sagged as the raven haired girl stepped passed her. As much as she wanted to reach her hand out and stop her she couldn't. The sound of the door closing rang in her ears. She should go after her but her feet weren't working. It was like she was frozen.
Kaoru stepped out into the hall allowing her mask to slip off. The pounding in her temples was almost unbearable closing her eyes she steadied herself against the wall for a brief second. The pain spread through he body, her shoulder was throbbing but she wasn't about to tell Dr Genzi he would get mad at her for being so careless.
The sound of laughter poured out of the room that she had left not to long ago closing the distance she stood in the doorway her hand resting on the open shoji.
Kenshin was sitting against the wall his face down so she couldn't see what kind of expression was there. Two small girls were milling about him tugging at his shirt and hair urging the static statue of a man to play with them. Their small hands twisting in his gi as they danced around him giggling merrily. With a half smile on her face she entered the room. It was Suzume that noticed her first her eyes brightening, the little girl ran cross the room her pigtails bouncing atop her head.
"Kaoru neechan! Are you alright?" The girl asked her little hands twining in Kaoru's kimono.
"Yes I'm fine Suzume. You weren't bothering our guest were you?" She said crouching down to be at eye level with the little girl.
"No, no. Suzume was being a good girl." She said in a cheery voice looking to her older sister and the man that was sitting there watching them for confirmation. Her sister smiled. Kenshin on the other hand just sat there watching them.
The Battousai watched as the smallest girl clung to Kaoru. The raven haired girl was crouched a half smile on her face but he got the feeling that it wasn't a real smile her eyes where still lifeless as she looked down at the little girl. He heard the sound of someone outside the room. Assured that it was a resident of the house he turned his attention back to the Kaoru. The other girl had went over the stand next to her as well.
The blood in her temples was pounding, closing her eyes like she had done before she was waited for the dizziness to pass. The room was spinning urging her to fall, it was like falling would almost be welcome- after all when you hit the floor there was no where else to go. Even falling proved harder then expected her knees hit the ground with surprising force for the short distance. Then she was lurching forward, into nothing ness into waiting arms. In the back of her mind she could hear Ayames and Suzume nervous voices but even that as drowned out by the rushing in her ears.
He had reached out the catch her out of pure reflex closing the short distance quickly. One of his hands going her un injured arm and the other clasping around her waist. Breaking her fall her as she rested against his chest. Then he smelled it. He knew that she had gone to take a bath so why did she smell like blood? A gasp drew his attention to the door where he saw Tae standing watching them. There was something different about her. Guilt shown in her brown eyes and he knew that she was the culprit.
Tae had been standing in the door way watching Kaoru with Suzume. It had shocked her never before had she realized what sadness her friend held in her heart. Then Kaoru had been pitching forward. As the man had caught her, Tae had realized what must have happened in the bathhouse. She must have ruptured Kaoru's stitches when she had been shaking her. A picture of Kaoru's emotionless eyes flashed through her mind. But she was just trying to keep you safe a voice said in the back of her thoughts. Guilt filled her, nagging at her, how could she had done something so horrible? The man looked up at her with his cold calculating eyes. 'He knows' it wasn't a question she could tell by murderous glint I his eyes and she felt even more ashamed.
A betrayer that was what she felt like. Trust that had been what Kaoru was really been asking for when she said that she couldn't tell. Trust- trust you couldn't even give her that her mind screamed at her and she looked away from them. Only to look back a few seconds later to see that the man was no longer looking at her but back down at Kaoru.
Suzume had lasped into tears her small hands still clinging to Kaoru's kimono. Ayame worse worried expression on her face not knowing at to do. Try and comfort her sister, or do the same thing as her and grab a hold of Kaoru and bawl her eyes out.
"Ayame, can you calm your sister down for me?" the Battousai said nodding in the direction of the little girl that was crying and clinging to Kaoru like her life depended on it.
Slowly the room stopped spinning waiting just a few seconds to be sure that it would remain that way she opened her eyes. Kenshin had caught her- she should have expected that as he was the only one in the room other then the two little girls. Still it was a shock to her.
The Battousai had been about to tell the girls to run and get Dr Genzi but just as he was about to say something he felt he hand clasp his shoulder. Looking down at her she shook her head no. Having no reason to protest he nodded.
Seeing him nod she turned her attention to the only other two people in the room that could tell Dr Genzi what terrible shape she was in.
"It's ok I'm fine see." She said looking at the two little girls that were clinging to each other a few feet away. Suzume dislodged herself from her sister before throwing her small body against Kaoru.
"Kaoru neechan! You're not going to die are you?" a small voice asked between sobs.
The Battousai turned his attention to Ayame who was standing there staring at them reaching out his free and he placed it on her shoulder and nudged her toward Kaoru.
Dr Genzi heard the crying coming from Kaorus room walking down the hall he saw that Tae was standing in the doorway watching them, making his way to her side he paused next to her looking into the room.
Kaoru crouched on the ground Suzume in her arms, Ayame had thrown her hands around the man that was crouched with them. He watched as the man exchanged glances with Kaoru and she pulled Suzume closer to her and nodded at him. He in turn wrapped his free arm around the little girl.
"Ken nii" the little girl said into his hair. His eyes widening he realized that she was talking to him. He felt Kaorus head resting on his shoulder. His eyes going to her face he saw she still had a smile plastered on her face but he knew the real reason that she was leaning against him. His hand tightening on her waist, he pulled her a little closer to him taking more of her weight.
Looking across the room to Tae. He would have to talk to her about her stupidity later.
"Ken nii" Ayame said tilting her head back so that she could see.
Saying nothing his eyes were focused on Kaoru. What little color had been in her face had drained away.
"You remind me of Kaoru neechan."
"How's that?" he asked
"You move like her." Ayame said innocently not understanding just what her words meant. Seeing that the man wasn't going to say anything she continued on. "You should Marry Kaoru neechan. She's always alone."
That got him he felt his muscles tense and he fought to retain his cool that had been slipping away little by little since he had entered this house. "I will never marry Besides. women like her aren't meant for me."
"You make it sound like you're a bad person." Ayame said pulling back even more but not letting go of the man in front of her. You make it sound like Kaoru is a bad person not understanding why he would think something like that. Wanting an answer she looked at the man asking him just that.
'Kaoru a bad person' the thought ran through his head no she was too confusing to figure out. He had watched her kill a man on the street. But he had attacked her first then there was the way that her family acted around her. No she wasn't bad, at least not as bad as him, compared to him she was saintly.
"Because I'm just like her, We can always spot our own." He said his eyes softening a little as he looked at the girl.
Kaoru looking at him as he said this he wasn't looking at her so she could observe him for a few second. His hard eyes softened for the briefest second before turning back to their icy coldness. He was right when he said that she was like him. Behind her masks they were the same. Only he didn't care what people thought and she. she hid behind a false smile because she knew that was what people wanted to see.
"Kaoru. I Need to talk to you." Dr Genzi said from his place at the door.
"Yes of course." She replied feeling the hand at her waist tighten and help her up. She was thankful and ashamed at the same time for that. On one hand she was happy that because he had helped her Dr Genzi couldn't see how much pain she was in. At the same time it hurt to know that she needed help. You couldn't allow yourself the pleasure to relay on someone. Not if you did what she did. Out there she was all alone. It was just her, but she found herself depending on this man more and more. She was going to have to stop it. She wouldn't allow herself to become soft, she couldn't afford to be weak.
Taking a step away from him she put her hand on Suzume's shoulder capturing the little girls attention. Walking out of the room she fallowed him into hall. He stood there waiting for her. His critical eyes looked her over once before he turned and continued down the hall.
Tae could feel his eyes on her, watching her. Turning her attention away from Kaorus retreating back she hesitantly looked in the room to the man that was standing there watching her. It shouldn't have fazed her but those eyes. They were locked on her, the thought that had ran through her head the first time she had seen them came back to her. Killers eyes, they were and right now they were focused on her. Taking a deep breath she had to force her self not to take a step back.
"Why don't you two go outside and play."
Suzume looked like she was about to protest when her older sister took her hand and started to pull her out of the room.
Tae watched them leave her last hope had just walked out of the room. In the blink of an eye the man had closed the distance and was now standing in front of her. Would he kill her right here? Would he be merciful? The murderous glint in his cold eyes told her that he would not be.
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Kaoru fought to keep a composed look on her face now. Dr Genzi would not be so easily fooled. He knew that something was wrong with her, damn her for being so good at hiding her emotions he thought. It was obvious that he wasn't going to get any information out of her so he continued on.
"Who is he Kaoru?" he asked in a cold voice of his own. It wasn't that he was ungrateful to the man. The truth was that he had nothing but gratitude for him. Still that didn't ease his fears. The man was dangerous he would have to be stupid not to know that. Even Tae had known that there was something off about the man.
"Himura Kenshin." She could see how it was that Dr Genzi would be untrusting of him. After all he wasn't exactly warm and fuzzy. It hurt though that Dr Genzi could be so doubting about her judgment.
'Himura Kenshin' it was a name that he had never heard before. Could the man have given her a fake name? Kaoru would have been able to tell if he had been lying. At least he thought that she would of but her mind was probably a little fogged from the after affects of the poison. With that thought he focused on her face that was still pale giving her entire face a sunken look.
"Be careful I will not have you getting hurt, anymore then you already are." He watched her face for any change but saw none. " I don't trust him." He added. Though he had assured Tae that it had been alright to leave them alone he still didn't completely trust him.
"I didn't ask you too." She said her eyes taking in the serious expression that was plastered on his face.
It was true Kaoru hadn't asked him for anything. She didn't expect him to trust the man, this Himura Kenshin. Did she herself even trust him?
"Do you trust him?"
"I do." The words left without thought it was only after she had said them that she realized that they were true she did trust him. He could have let her die. He didn't have to save her from the falling sword. He could have just left her in the street. He could have just dropped her off at the Akabecko and left without a backward glance. But he hadn't he had stayed and for that he had her trust.
The way she said it left no doubt in his mind that she meant what she said. Not that there was any reason to doubt her words. Kaoru rarely said anything that she didn't mean. It amazed him really. How long had she known this man? His thought from before echoing in his head ' if she had met him before she would have told me' Kaoru trusted him shouldn't that be enough? "I see. about your mission." He said in effort to change the subject.
Kaoru had known him for a long time long enough to know that tone in his voice. He was going to tell her that she shouldn't go. She never backed out, and she wasn't about to start now. "I'm still doing it."
"But with your arm like that. Plus you'll still be weak from the poison that was circulating in your system."
She could felt blood as it slowly side down her arm. There was no way that she could tell him that she had ruptured the stitches in her arm now. That would just be one more strike that he would have against her. One that she was not about to give him.
"I have two days to rest then. Which I will be doing at home" Her voice was dead pan as she spoke and he knew that she meant it.
That was it he knew that no matter what it was that he said she would do whatever it was that she wanted. The only thing that he could ever do was support her and worry. "you could at least stay here." He said hopefully though he knew what her answer would be. She was more at peace then when she was here.
He could remember one time that she had gone missing and he had found her there at the dojo. Someone would think that after what she had seen happen there that she would never want to return there. Not her not Kaoru, she kept herself there a prisoner to her misery.
She said just turned on her heal and left the room.
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Tae looked at the man not because she wanted to but because she couldn't make herself look away. His gaze held her, she was helpless like a small bird caught in the sights of a snake. Too bad she had to be the bird.
"You're going to tell me what stupid things you did to Kaoru and depending on what you say we'll see how long you're going to live." His voice was cold and the woman in front of him looked like she was going to burst into tears at any second. He hoped that she didn't there was nothing that he hated more than a weepy woman.
"I. I." She stammered her brain wasn't working. At a time when she most needed her wits they had abandoned her. "I was worried about her but. she wouldn't tell me so I" she paused both ashamed and afraid to tell him. "I started to shake her." She heard the sound of metal scraping against something the next thing she knew she felt a cold blade resting against her neck.
"Continue." Of all the stupid things for her to do.
"She had this look on her face it scared me it was like she was looking at me but she wasn't looking at me." Like the little girl had said it had reminded her of him it had reminded her of a killer. Kaoru who she had known most of her life at that moment she had realized how little she knew about her friend and it scared her senseless.
"Himura san what are you doing?" Kaoru asked from the door. She took in the scene. Kenshin was standing there with his short blade drawn. The tip of the blade rested in the hallow of Tae's throat.
Crossing the room her first instinct was to reach out and save her friend. From all her training she knew better then to act so rashly so instead she stood by his side watching.
"I am doing what you should have done you are too soft by far."
"Do not blame her for what she did. She received quite a bit of shock." Kaoru said slipping into her mask the best way to deal with this was tactfully unfortunately Tae didn't like the way she looked.
"See just like that.." she hadn't been able to help herself she had reached a point where babbling was good.
"Why do you stay around these people?" he wanted to know. He wanted to know everything about her. Starting with this, she surrounded her self with normal people when he could tell from the other night as well as the expression on her face that she was anything but.
Kaoru was taken back by the question. Her mind was filled with eddying emotion. Why? Because. Suddenly her thoughts became clear and she looked at Kenshin. "Because they keep me human, because without them I'm afraid of what I might become or of what I might already be."
Her voice held no hint of emotion in it that he could detect. Yet he knew the pain in her heart that must have accompanied them. Was that why he had saved her? Was that why he had went against just watching? Because she made him feel the same thing that had just been described? That this woman spoke to some shred of humanity that was left in him?
With a nod he lowered his blade. Not saying another word he turned away from them. He had found out what he wanted to anyway.
The sound of running could be heard and seconds later the two little girls burst into the room. Bright smiles on their little faces. "We came to say goodbye Grandpa told us that you were going home." Ayame said
"Why can't you stay and play with us?" Suzume added disappointed that her playmate was going home.
"I'll be back. You know that I can't stay away from you." She said leaning down and giving each of the little girls a hug.
"You will be leaving as well? I assume."
The Battousai shifted his attention the man that had just entered the room giving him a nod.
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The Battousai looked at the woman that walked next to him. He was to escort her home. He was supposed to meet with his informant sometime today. First he wanted to see where the person that he was supposed to be watching lived. That way he could find her when ever he wanted to. At least that's what he told himself, but some part of him wanted to know that she was safe.
Reaching his hand out he took her arm, supporting her slight weight he let her guide him to her home. The longer they walked the more he felt her leaning against him. The little fool she should have stayed with the doctor, yet he knew that she had not wanted to. She had not wanted to burden him with her pain.
Kaoru sneaked a look at Kenshin out of the corner of her eye. He was staring strait ahead a clam collective expression gracing his handsome features. What was he thinking? Why was he still helping her? If he wanted to help her home then she would let him. She need to save her energy any way. She only had two days.
They neared her house and she could feel her energy returning. She always felt this way excited to be home. Removing her hand arm from Kenshins grasp she took a few steps into the yard as she neared the house she stopped and turned to see Kenshin frozen in place.
This was her home? Here? He had been here before on a mission on a mission to kill the man that had lived in this house. The sign out front that had said Kamiya dojo was no longer there but he knew that this was the same place. And that meant that. Stopping in his tracks he watched Kaoru cross the yard before turning around to look at him.
For a second he didn't see her, but a small little girl standing there was defiant blue colored eyes turned at him fill with anger and hate. Slowly the picture turned to the woman that stood there now her eyes no longer holding the same passion but rather a dull acceptance. It was her. It felt like he had been doused with a bucket of cold water as reality set in with the realization that this was a woman from his past.
He half expected her to yell at him. To hear her strangled cry through the yard like he had heard it all those years ago like he had heard it in his dreams the night before. In stead she made her way toward him her pale hand reaching out to touch him arm.
He wanted to pull away but he couldn't all he could do was stand there. Even now as she looked up at him in semblance of concern he knew that he had killed something in her that night. Something that she would never be able to get back.
He had this blank look on his face. That shouldn't have bothered her but there was something different about it then before. "Himura San." She watches as he blinks then shifts his eyes to look at her. "I'll make you some tea."
"That would be nice of you." He said following her into the house.
Kaoru watched him as he stood in the doorway rather then taking a seat at the low table. She had been about to tell him to take a seat when the disarray of his clothes caught her attention. He probably felt grimy too she thought thinking of how stiff her cloths had felt from the dried sweat.
"You can take a bath if you want I can draw it for you."
"A bath would be good but I would think that you would want to care of your arms first. Also I can draw my own bath." He informed her.
Kaoru walked into the other room with quick strides depositing her self on the floor in front of a little box. Reaching in she grabbed some bandages. Frowning she thought that she should have gotten the water before she sate down because he body was protesting against her standing. Biting her lips she was about to stand when she heard a noise she looked up to see Kenshin standing there with a small basin of water in his hand.
"Do you need help?" He asked though he didn't wait for her to answer instead knelt down next to her.
Saying nothing she did her best to shrug out of the sleeve of her Kimono but her arms was still and she had to bite her lip against the pain that it was causing. Worming her arm out of the sleeve she took a deep breath. The blood had soaked through the bandage that bound her upper arm. Watching as his strong hands with their delicately long fingers unwrapped the layers of cloth revealing the angry gash in her arm.
His eyes narrowed as at the sight. Her arm was red and her stitches had been ripped from the tender flesh. Half congealed blood coated the outside of the wound serving to slow the flow of blood down her arm. Reaching out he covered it, removing it temporarily from his sight with a wet cloth. After that was done he began to wind the new bandages around her arm, all the while saying nothing.
She looked down at her newly dress arm and grimaced a little as she put her arm back in her sleeve. She could feel his hand on her other arm guiding her to her feet. Not protesting she rose next to him. Her attention once again focused on his clothes. Leaving him sitting at the table she walked into her fathers room.
Pausing for a second she looked around herself at the room that was in front of her. Everything was the same as it had been. The room was clean and neat. Crossing the room and opening a trunk she found what she was looking for grabbing a pair of dark blue hakama. Digging through the white gis she finally came upon a black one that looked fairly new her father had hardly ever worn black so the gi looked practically new. Before she left on a whim she reached out and turned back the top cover and fluffed the mattress.
The Battousai watched as Kaoru walked back into the room with what looked like clothes in her hands. "I brought you these they'll probably be too big for you but."
"These will due thank you." He said reaching out the take the bundle of clothes from her hands.
"I can wash you clothes if you want me to."
"No I can do it myself."
A little taken back that he had declined her offer to wash his clothes she nodded in the direction of the bathhouse.
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Kaoru was sitting at the table with two cups of tea sitting in front of her. Hearing a sound from the doorway she looked up seeing Kenshin standing there. A half smile playing across her lips she watched in walk across the room. The gi fit alright but the hakama looked a little to long on him. If he hadn't had a such a serious expression on his face he would have looked like a little kid.
"Your welcome to stay here for the night, I mean it's the least that I can do for you."
Nodding he took a drink of tea. 'she makes good tea' he decided letting the warm liquid slide down his throat. If he was supposed to watch her he could think of no better way to do it then to watch her then to stay here, but first he had some business to take care of.
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Walking into the dark room the Battousai moved throw the shadows like he was gliding through water. The lighting in the room was dim serving to hide him as well man that waited in the shadows. Coming to a stop he waited for the man to speak.
"Did you find the person that we seek? It is very crucial that you have. The man must be dealt with." He looked at the vague outline of the man that lurked in the shadows. He had to admit that even now knowing that the Battousai was working for him he scared the crap out of him. He could feel cold eyes watching him from the darkness.
"Her, I found her." He corrected.
"Her?" the man could not hide the shook in his voice all this trouble was being cause by a woman? His still found the information hard to belief. He would have called the person a liar if he hadn't remembered who he had been talking to. Recovering quickly he carried on. "It makes no difference. Male or female. Jin eh has declared a hit and knowing this "woman" she will be there I want to see how she handles him. He may do our work for us." He couldn't help the smile that glinted across his face he.
"Is she pretty?" the man asked wondering what the woman had been causing them so much trouble looked like.
"I do not noticed such things." He said before nodding to his eliyier statement he turned to leave the room when the man's voice called him back. Not bothering to turn around he waited for the man to say what ever it was that he had stopped him for.
"Do not think that you got out of a mission. No matter who the winner is your objective is the same. I require a kill."
Pausing he stared at doorway. The order sinking in, his eyes flashed gold.
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Kaoru sat in the water. 'He had stayed with her all night?' the thought kept running through her head. Why had he went through all the trouble? he didn't strike her as the kind of guy to do something like this. Turning her head she looked at the gash on her arm it wasn't that big really Dr Genzi had done a good job patching her up but still it would leave a mark. Just one more, to add to her many little scars. She had been doing so good lately, really she had.
Bowing her head she heard the door to the bathhouse open and sunk further into the water her attention snapping back. Swiveling her head to look at the door where she saw Tae entering a kimono held in her hands.
"Oh Kaoru you had me so worried." Tae said clutching her friend's clothes to her chest. She wanted to run and hug her friend, at the same time she was worried that she might hurt her.
"I know, I am so sorry. I never." I never meant to what? To get caught without a weapon? Because that's what everything came down to she had gotten hurt because she hadn't had a weapon on her.
"Kaoru what happened?"
The concern in Taes voice touched her. How was she supposed to answer? She didn't want to tell her what had really happened. That she had been careless and her guard was down, so she had been hurt in the streets by a man. That she had been stupid enough to let live in the first place.
Tae watched as her friend bowed her head her head of raven hair averting her eyes. She wasn't going to tell her.
"Don't ask me to tell you that." Kaoru focused on water. She couldn't bring her self to look at her friends eyes. She didn't want to lie to her she had lied to her to many times about what she was doing. Tae wasn't an idiot she had to suspect something but she wasn't going to tell her. She wasn't going to put her in danger.
It hurt to see Kaoru like this. She knew that her friend was hurting too. "Why."
Looking down Kaoru allowed the cool mask to slip onto face. She couldn't handle this not right now. The best way she could think to deal with it was to feel nothing. So she didn't letting the other part of herself take over completely.
Tae didn't understand it when Kaoru looked at her again there was nothing. No expression on her face just blank eyes stared back at her. She just got up quickly covering herself with a towel before wrapping the Yakata around her. It was enough to make the young waitress snap.
"You don't understand anything!" the words tumbled from her mouth in a harsh cry fueled by her anger and hurt. How dare Kaoru look at her like this like she wasn't here, like she didn't matter.
Kaoru turned taking a step closer to her friend not saying anything just watching her waiting for her to get through with what ever it was that she had to say. So they just stood there looking at each other. Long after Tae's last words had dissipated, leaving them both in aching silence.
Tae couldn't believe it even after her outburst. Kaoru still stood there with her emotionless eyes trained on her. closing the distance she felt tears running down her cheeks. "You could have died." placing her hands on either of Kaoru's shoulders and began to shake her. Willing the tears that were falling to stop but they didn't. So she bowed her head to hide her face.
Kaoru could feel the jarring of her body and the roughness of Tae's grip as her friend continued the shake her. Tae needed this and she wasn't about to take it away from her. She felt a trickle of blood run down her arm and she knew that she had pulled one of her stitches but when she was in this mode such a small pain was nothing to her. So the shaking continued till Tae bowed her head.
"I watched you die.." all her frustration spent she just stood there, her hands falling away from Kaoru's shoulders. "I watched you die.." The words left her mouth again at a whisper that she was helpless to stop.
'I watched you die' the words played through Kaoru's mind as she looked at her friend. Reaching up she placed her own hands on the other woman's shoulders. "I'm sorry but if I tell you then you'll die too." She knew she sounded cold and to her friend that had known her a long time and never seen her like this she must have appeared heartless but this had to be done.
Tae felt her blood freeze at those words 'was she threatening her?' she hadn't thought that Kaoru would ever do something like that. Then again she would have been able to picture Kaoru looking at her like this either. "Is that.. is that a threat."
"No it's the truth. So don't ask me to tell you." Picking up the kimono she slipped into it working to tie her obi as fast as possible. Paying no attention to Tae more for her own benefit, the look on her friends face was too much for her.
Tae's eyes widened as she took a step away from her friend. How could she have been so wrong? She had known Kaoru for almost as long as she could remember. No that wasn't right she remembered her since she came here to live with Dr Genzi.
"Kaoru." He shoulders sagged as the raven haired girl stepped passed her. As much as she wanted to reach her hand out and stop her she couldn't. The sound of the door closing rang in her ears. She should go after her but her feet weren't working. It was like she was frozen.
Kaoru stepped out into the hall allowing her mask to slip off. The pounding in her temples was almost unbearable closing her eyes she steadied herself against the wall for a brief second. The pain spread through he body, her shoulder was throbbing but she wasn't about to tell Dr Genzi he would get mad at her for being so careless.
The sound of laughter poured out of the room that she had left not to long ago closing the distance she stood in the doorway her hand resting on the open shoji.
Kenshin was sitting against the wall his face down so she couldn't see what kind of expression was there. Two small girls were milling about him tugging at his shirt and hair urging the static statue of a man to play with them. Their small hands twisting in his gi as they danced around him giggling merrily. With a half smile on her face she entered the room. It was Suzume that noticed her first her eyes brightening, the little girl ran cross the room her pigtails bouncing atop her head.
"Kaoru neechan! Are you alright?" The girl asked her little hands twining in Kaoru's kimono.
"Yes I'm fine Suzume. You weren't bothering our guest were you?" She said crouching down to be at eye level with the little girl.
"No, no. Suzume was being a good girl." She said in a cheery voice looking to her older sister and the man that was sitting there watching them for confirmation. Her sister smiled. Kenshin on the other hand just sat there watching them.
The Battousai watched as the smallest girl clung to Kaoru. The raven haired girl was crouched a half smile on her face but he got the feeling that it wasn't a real smile her eyes where still lifeless as she looked down at the little girl. He heard the sound of someone outside the room. Assured that it was a resident of the house he turned his attention back to the Kaoru. The other girl had went over the stand next to her as well.
The blood in her temples was pounding, closing her eyes like she had done before she was waited for the dizziness to pass. The room was spinning urging her to fall, it was like falling would almost be welcome- after all when you hit the floor there was no where else to go. Even falling proved harder then expected her knees hit the ground with surprising force for the short distance. Then she was lurching forward, into nothing ness into waiting arms. In the back of her mind she could hear Ayames and Suzume nervous voices but even that as drowned out by the rushing in her ears.
He had reached out the catch her out of pure reflex closing the short distance quickly. One of his hands going her un injured arm and the other clasping around her waist. Breaking her fall her as she rested against his chest. Then he smelled it. He knew that she had gone to take a bath so why did she smell like blood? A gasp drew his attention to the door where he saw Tae standing watching them. There was something different about her. Guilt shown in her brown eyes and he knew that she was the culprit.
Tae had been standing in the door way watching Kaoru with Suzume. It had shocked her never before had she realized what sadness her friend held in her heart. Then Kaoru had been pitching forward. As the man had caught her, Tae had realized what must have happened in the bathhouse. She must have ruptured Kaoru's stitches when she had been shaking her. A picture of Kaoru's emotionless eyes flashed through her mind. But she was just trying to keep you safe a voice said in the back of her thoughts. Guilt filled her, nagging at her, how could she had done something so horrible? The man looked up at her with his cold calculating eyes. 'He knows' it wasn't a question she could tell by murderous glint I his eyes and she felt even more ashamed.
A betrayer that was what she felt like. Trust that had been what Kaoru was really been asking for when she said that she couldn't tell. Trust- trust you couldn't even give her that her mind screamed at her and she looked away from them. Only to look back a few seconds later to see that the man was no longer looking at her but back down at Kaoru.
Suzume had lasped into tears her small hands still clinging to Kaoru's kimono. Ayame worse worried expression on her face not knowing at to do. Try and comfort her sister, or do the same thing as her and grab a hold of Kaoru and bawl her eyes out.
"Ayame, can you calm your sister down for me?" the Battousai said nodding in the direction of the little girl that was crying and clinging to Kaoru like her life depended on it.
Slowly the room stopped spinning waiting just a few seconds to be sure that it would remain that way she opened her eyes. Kenshin had caught her- she should have expected that as he was the only one in the room other then the two little girls. Still it was a shock to her.
The Battousai had been about to tell the girls to run and get Dr Genzi but just as he was about to say something he felt he hand clasp his shoulder. Looking down at her she shook her head no. Having no reason to protest he nodded.
Seeing him nod she turned her attention to the only other two people in the room that could tell Dr Genzi what terrible shape she was in.
"It's ok I'm fine see." She said looking at the two little girls that were clinging to each other a few feet away. Suzume dislodged herself from her sister before throwing her small body against Kaoru.
"Kaoru neechan! You're not going to die are you?" a small voice asked between sobs.
The Battousai turned his attention to Ayame who was standing there staring at them reaching out his free and he placed it on her shoulder and nudged her toward Kaoru.
Dr Genzi heard the crying coming from Kaorus room walking down the hall he saw that Tae was standing in the doorway watching them, making his way to her side he paused next to her looking into the room.
Kaoru crouched on the ground Suzume in her arms, Ayame had thrown her hands around the man that was crouched with them. He watched as the man exchanged glances with Kaoru and she pulled Suzume closer to her and nodded at him. He in turn wrapped his free arm around the little girl.
"Ken nii" the little girl said into his hair. His eyes widening he realized that she was talking to him. He felt Kaorus head resting on his shoulder. His eyes going to her face he saw she still had a smile plastered on her face but he knew the real reason that she was leaning against him. His hand tightening on her waist, he pulled her a little closer to him taking more of her weight.
Looking across the room to Tae. He would have to talk to her about her stupidity later.
"Ken nii" Ayame said tilting her head back so that she could see.
Saying nothing his eyes were focused on Kaoru. What little color had been in her face had drained away.
"You remind me of Kaoru neechan."
"How's that?" he asked
"You move like her." Ayame said innocently not understanding just what her words meant. Seeing that the man wasn't going to say anything she continued on. "You should Marry Kaoru neechan. She's always alone."
That got him he felt his muscles tense and he fought to retain his cool that had been slipping away little by little since he had entered this house. "I will never marry Besides. women like her aren't meant for me."
"You make it sound like you're a bad person." Ayame said pulling back even more but not letting go of the man in front of her. You make it sound like Kaoru is a bad person not understanding why he would think something like that. Wanting an answer she looked at the man asking him just that.
'Kaoru a bad person' the thought ran through his head no she was too confusing to figure out. He had watched her kill a man on the street. But he had attacked her first then there was the way that her family acted around her. No she wasn't bad, at least not as bad as him, compared to him she was saintly.
"Because I'm just like her, We can always spot our own." He said his eyes softening a little as he looked at the girl.
Kaoru looking at him as he said this he wasn't looking at her so she could observe him for a few second. His hard eyes softened for the briefest second before turning back to their icy coldness. He was right when he said that she was like him. Behind her masks they were the same. Only he didn't care what people thought and she. she hid behind a false smile because she knew that was what people wanted to see.
"Kaoru. I Need to talk to you." Dr Genzi said from his place at the door.
"Yes of course." She replied feeling the hand at her waist tighten and help her up. She was thankful and ashamed at the same time for that. On one hand she was happy that because he had helped her Dr Genzi couldn't see how much pain she was in. At the same time it hurt to know that she needed help. You couldn't allow yourself the pleasure to relay on someone. Not if you did what she did. Out there she was all alone. It was just her, but she found herself depending on this man more and more. She was going to have to stop it. She wouldn't allow herself to become soft, she couldn't afford to be weak.
Taking a step away from him she put her hand on Suzume's shoulder capturing the little girls attention. Walking out of the room she fallowed him into hall. He stood there waiting for her. His critical eyes looked her over once before he turned and continued down the hall.
Tae could feel his eyes on her, watching her. Turning her attention away from Kaorus retreating back she hesitantly looked in the room to the man that was standing there watching her. It shouldn't have fazed her but those eyes. They were locked on her, the thought that had ran through her head the first time she had seen them came back to her. Killers eyes, they were and right now they were focused on her. Taking a deep breath she had to force her self not to take a step back.
"Why don't you two go outside and play."
Suzume looked like she was about to protest when her older sister took her hand and started to pull her out of the room.
Tae watched them leave her last hope had just walked out of the room. In the blink of an eye the man had closed the distance and was now standing in front of her. Would he kill her right here? Would he be merciful? The murderous glint in his cold eyes told her that he would not be.
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Kaoru fought to keep a composed look on her face now. Dr Genzi would not be so easily fooled. He knew that something was wrong with her, damn her for being so good at hiding her emotions he thought. It was obvious that he wasn't going to get any information out of her so he continued on.
"Who is he Kaoru?" he asked in a cold voice of his own. It wasn't that he was ungrateful to the man. The truth was that he had nothing but gratitude for him. Still that didn't ease his fears. The man was dangerous he would have to be stupid not to know that. Even Tae had known that there was something off about the man.
"Himura Kenshin." She could see how it was that Dr Genzi would be untrusting of him. After all he wasn't exactly warm and fuzzy. It hurt though that Dr Genzi could be so doubting about her judgment.
'Himura Kenshin' it was a name that he had never heard before. Could the man have given her a fake name? Kaoru would have been able to tell if he had been lying. At least he thought that she would of but her mind was probably a little fogged from the after affects of the poison. With that thought he focused on her face that was still pale giving her entire face a sunken look.
"Be careful I will not have you getting hurt, anymore then you already are." He watched her face for any change but saw none. " I don't trust him." He added. Though he had assured Tae that it had been alright to leave them alone he still didn't completely trust him.
"I didn't ask you too." She said her eyes taking in the serious expression that was plastered on his face.
It was true Kaoru hadn't asked him for anything. She didn't expect him to trust the man, this Himura Kenshin. Did she herself even trust him?
"Do you trust him?"
"I do." The words left without thought it was only after she had said them that she realized that they were true she did trust him. He could have let her die. He didn't have to save her from the falling sword. He could have just left her in the street. He could have just dropped her off at the Akabecko and left without a backward glance. But he hadn't he had stayed and for that he had her trust.
The way she said it left no doubt in his mind that she meant what she said. Not that there was any reason to doubt her words. Kaoru rarely said anything that she didn't mean. It amazed him really. How long had she known this man? His thought from before echoing in his head ' if she had met him before she would have told me' Kaoru trusted him shouldn't that be enough? "I see. about your mission." He said in effort to change the subject.
Kaoru had known him for a long time long enough to know that tone in his voice. He was going to tell her that she shouldn't go. She never backed out, and she wasn't about to start now. "I'm still doing it."
"But with your arm like that. Plus you'll still be weak from the poison that was circulating in your system."
She could felt blood as it slowly side down her arm. There was no way that she could tell him that she had ruptured the stitches in her arm now. That would just be one more strike that he would have against her. One that she was not about to give him.
"I have two days to rest then. Which I will be doing at home" Her voice was dead pan as she spoke and he knew that she meant it.
That was it he knew that no matter what it was that he said she would do whatever it was that she wanted. The only thing that he could ever do was support her and worry. "you could at least stay here." He said hopefully though he knew what her answer would be. She was more at peace then when she was here.
He could remember one time that she had gone missing and he had found her there at the dojo. Someone would think that after what she had seen happen there that she would never want to return there. Not her not Kaoru, she kept herself there a prisoner to her misery.
She said just turned on her heal and left the room.
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Tae looked at the man not because she wanted to but because she couldn't make herself look away. His gaze held her, she was helpless like a small bird caught in the sights of a snake. Too bad she had to be the bird.
"You're going to tell me what stupid things you did to Kaoru and depending on what you say we'll see how long you're going to live." His voice was cold and the woman in front of him looked like she was going to burst into tears at any second. He hoped that she didn't there was nothing that he hated more than a weepy woman.
"I. I." She stammered her brain wasn't working. At a time when she most needed her wits they had abandoned her. "I was worried about her but. she wouldn't tell me so I" she paused both ashamed and afraid to tell him. "I started to shake her." She heard the sound of metal scraping against something the next thing she knew she felt a cold blade resting against her neck.
"Continue." Of all the stupid things for her to do.
"She had this look on her face it scared me it was like she was looking at me but she wasn't looking at me." Like the little girl had said it had reminded her of him it had reminded her of a killer. Kaoru who she had known most of her life at that moment she had realized how little she knew about her friend and it scared her senseless.
"Himura san what are you doing?" Kaoru asked from the door. She took in the scene. Kenshin was standing there with his short blade drawn. The tip of the blade rested in the hallow of Tae's throat.
Crossing the room her first instinct was to reach out and save her friend. From all her training she knew better then to act so rashly so instead she stood by his side watching.
"I am doing what you should have done you are too soft by far."
"Do not blame her for what she did. She received quite a bit of shock." Kaoru said slipping into her mask the best way to deal with this was tactfully unfortunately Tae didn't like the way she looked.
"See just like that.." she hadn't been able to help herself she had reached a point where babbling was good.
"Why do you stay around these people?" he wanted to know. He wanted to know everything about her. Starting with this, she surrounded her self with normal people when he could tell from the other night as well as the expression on her face that she was anything but.
Kaoru was taken back by the question. Her mind was filled with eddying emotion. Why? Because. Suddenly her thoughts became clear and she looked at Kenshin. "Because they keep me human, because without them I'm afraid of what I might become or of what I might already be."
Her voice held no hint of emotion in it that he could detect. Yet he knew the pain in her heart that must have accompanied them. Was that why he had saved her? Was that why he had went against just watching? Because she made him feel the same thing that had just been described? That this woman spoke to some shred of humanity that was left in him?
With a nod he lowered his blade. Not saying another word he turned away from them. He had found out what he wanted to anyway.
The sound of running could be heard and seconds later the two little girls burst into the room. Bright smiles on their little faces. "We came to say goodbye Grandpa told us that you were going home." Ayame said
"Why can't you stay and play with us?" Suzume added disappointed that her playmate was going home.
"I'll be back. You know that I can't stay away from you." She said leaning down and giving each of the little girls a hug.
"You will be leaving as well? I assume."
The Battousai shifted his attention the man that had just entered the room giving him a nod.
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The Battousai looked at the woman that walked next to him. He was to escort her home. He was supposed to meet with his informant sometime today. First he wanted to see where the person that he was supposed to be watching lived. That way he could find her when ever he wanted to. At least that's what he told himself, but some part of him wanted to know that she was safe.
Reaching his hand out he took her arm, supporting her slight weight he let her guide him to her home. The longer they walked the more he felt her leaning against him. The little fool she should have stayed with the doctor, yet he knew that she had not wanted to. She had not wanted to burden him with her pain.
Kaoru sneaked a look at Kenshin out of the corner of her eye. He was staring strait ahead a clam collective expression gracing his handsome features. What was he thinking? Why was he still helping her? If he wanted to help her home then she would let him. She need to save her energy any way. She only had two days.
They neared her house and she could feel her energy returning. She always felt this way excited to be home. Removing her hand arm from Kenshins grasp she took a few steps into the yard as she neared the house she stopped and turned to see Kenshin frozen in place.
This was her home? Here? He had been here before on a mission on a mission to kill the man that had lived in this house. The sign out front that had said Kamiya dojo was no longer there but he knew that this was the same place. And that meant that. Stopping in his tracks he watched Kaoru cross the yard before turning around to look at him.
For a second he didn't see her, but a small little girl standing there was defiant blue colored eyes turned at him fill with anger and hate. Slowly the picture turned to the woman that stood there now her eyes no longer holding the same passion but rather a dull acceptance. It was her. It felt like he had been doused with a bucket of cold water as reality set in with the realization that this was a woman from his past.
He half expected her to yell at him. To hear her strangled cry through the yard like he had heard it all those years ago like he had heard it in his dreams the night before. In stead she made her way toward him her pale hand reaching out to touch him arm.
He wanted to pull away but he couldn't all he could do was stand there. Even now as she looked up at him in semblance of concern he knew that he had killed something in her that night. Something that she would never be able to get back.
He had this blank look on his face. That shouldn't have bothered her but there was something different about it then before. "Himura San." She watches as he blinks then shifts his eyes to look at her. "I'll make you some tea."
"That would be nice of you." He said following her into the house.
Kaoru watched him as he stood in the doorway rather then taking a seat at the low table. She had been about to tell him to take a seat when the disarray of his clothes caught her attention. He probably felt grimy too she thought thinking of how stiff her cloths had felt from the dried sweat.
"You can take a bath if you want I can draw it for you."
"A bath would be good but I would think that you would want to care of your arms first. Also I can draw my own bath." He informed her.
Kaoru walked into the other room with quick strides depositing her self on the floor in front of a little box. Reaching in she grabbed some bandages. Frowning she thought that she should have gotten the water before she sate down because he body was protesting against her standing. Biting her lips she was about to stand when she heard a noise she looked up to see Kenshin standing there with a small basin of water in his hand.
"Do you need help?" He asked though he didn't wait for her to answer instead knelt down next to her.
Saying nothing she did her best to shrug out of the sleeve of her Kimono but her arms was still and she had to bite her lip against the pain that it was causing. Worming her arm out of the sleeve she took a deep breath. The blood had soaked through the bandage that bound her upper arm. Watching as his strong hands with their delicately long fingers unwrapped the layers of cloth revealing the angry gash in her arm.
His eyes narrowed as at the sight. Her arm was red and her stitches had been ripped from the tender flesh. Half congealed blood coated the outside of the wound serving to slow the flow of blood down her arm. Reaching out he covered it, removing it temporarily from his sight with a wet cloth. After that was done he began to wind the new bandages around her arm, all the while saying nothing.
She looked down at her newly dress arm and grimaced a little as she put her arm back in her sleeve. She could feel his hand on her other arm guiding her to her feet. Not protesting she rose next to him. Her attention once again focused on his clothes. Leaving him sitting at the table she walked into her fathers room.
Pausing for a second she looked around herself at the room that was in front of her. Everything was the same as it had been. The room was clean and neat. Crossing the room and opening a trunk she found what she was looking for grabbing a pair of dark blue hakama. Digging through the white gis she finally came upon a black one that looked fairly new her father had hardly ever worn black so the gi looked practically new. Before she left on a whim she reached out and turned back the top cover and fluffed the mattress.
The Battousai watched as Kaoru walked back into the room with what looked like clothes in her hands. "I brought you these they'll probably be too big for you but."
"These will due thank you." He said reaching out the take the bundle of clothes from her hands.
"I can wash you clothes if you want me to."
"No I can do it myself."
A little taken back that he had declined her offer to wash his clothes she nodded in the direction of the bathhouse.
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Kaoru was sitting at the table with two cups of tea sitting in front of her. Hearing a sound from the doorway she looked up seeing Kenshin standing there. A half smile playing across her lips she watched in walk across the room. The gi fit alright but the hakama looked a little to long on him. If he hadn't had a such a serious expression on his face he would have looked like a little kid.
"Your welcome to stay here for the night, I mean it's the least that I can do for you."
Nodding he took a drink of tea. 'she makes good tea' he decided letting the warm liquid slide down his throat. If he was supposed to watch her he could think of no better way to do it then to watch her then to stay here, but first he had some business to take care of.
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Walking into the dark room the Battousai moved throw the shadows like he was gliding through water. The lighting in the room was dim serving to hide him as well man that waited in the shadows. Coming to a stop he waited for the man to speak.
"Did you find the person that we seek? It is very crucial that you have. The man must be dealt with." He looked at the vague outline of the man that lurked in the shadows. He had to admit that even now knowing that the Battousai was working for him he scared the crap out of him. He could feel cold eyes watching him from the darkness.
"Her, I found her." He corrected.
"Her?" the man could not hide the shook in his voice all this trouble was being cause by a woman? His still found the information hard to belief. He would have called the person a liar if he hadn't remembered who he had been talking to. Recovering quickly he carried on. "It makes no difference. Male or female. Jin eh has declared a hit and knowing this "woman" she will be there I want to see how she handles him. He may do our work for us." He couldn't help the smile that glinted across his face he.
"Is she pretty?" the man asked wondering what the woman had been causing them so much trouble looked like.
"I do not noticed such things." He said before nodding to his eliyier statement he turned to leave the room when the man's voice called him back. Not bothering to turn around he waited for the man to say what ever it was that he had stopped him for.
"Do not think that you got out of a mission. No matter who the winner is your objective is the same. I require a kill."
Pausing he stared at doorway. The order sinking in, his eyes flashed gold.
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