Author: Emilee (Minor edits by Gypsy-chan)

Email: Greeneyes869@aol.com

Genre: Romance/Drama

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters included in this fanfiction.

Summary: Kenshin has found love while being haunted by a strange dream that turns to reality. Kenji believes that his father is dead and becomes Battousai Jr. Afterwards, Kenshin spoke to Kaoru in one of her dreams. He said that he would return someday. Will things around that Kamiya Dojo ever return back to normal again?

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THE END OF THE BEGINNING

BY: Emilee

Chapter 6: Kaoru's Sorrow

Three days passed and everyone at the Kamiya Dojo were not acting themselves. Kaoru would not leave her room, Yahiko did not go to the Akabeko to help out Tae, and Sano did not come around to try to get a free meal. Things were not the same.

Yahiko walked to Kaoru's door and knocked . There was no answer, so he knocked again. There was still no answer. He opened the door to see a pitiful Kaoru sitting on the floor with tears running down her cheeks.

"Kaoru," Yahiko said as he walked in. "I brought you some miso soup."

"I am not hungry, thanks anyway," Kaoru replied.

"You need to eat. Do you think Kenshin would want you to be like this over him," Yahiko said.

*I shouldn't have said that. I shouldn't have mentioned Kenshin. Now she will just be even more pitiful than she already is. At least she doesn't know about Kenji leaving. What had happened to him anyway? He was acting strange and I saw amber flash right before my eyes before I was knocked out. What was it?* Yahiko thought rubbing the back of his head were Kenji hit him.

"Just leave me alone," Kaoru said as her eyes swelled up with tears. Yahiko left and shut her door.

* Why did you leave me Kenshin? Why did you have to...* Kaoru thought crying even harder. "It is not the same without you. I wish you would come back ." *I love you Kenshin. I love you so much.*

That night Kaoru sat on her window watching the stars thinking of Kenshin. A shooting star passed by and she made a wish.

"I wish that Kenshin would somehow come back. Please come back. Please...," Kaoru said falling to the floor weeping.

The next day Yahiko went in to Kaoru's room to talk to her.

"Kaoru I need to tell you something," Yahiko said staring Kaoru in the face. "Look, Kenji is gone. He ran off somewhere and Sano and I have been looking all over for him. We can't find him anywhere. When he knocked me out I saw a flash of amber pass by me. That is all that we have to find him."

Kaoru sat there with a blank stare in her face but her heart just broke. She could not bear the strain. She put her arms around Yahiko's neck crying into his shoulder. He put his arm around her to comfort her.

*She has been through a lot. It is hard to see her like this. I have to find Kenji if that will make her feel any better but I doubt it,* Yahiko thought.

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