Chapter 2

A/N: Hello again!

I'm glad to see you enjoyed the story so far. I would just like to assure you Sano/Megumi die hard fans, that this story will end happy! Don't worry- it's sad to say, but Kate is a hopeless romantic when it comes down to it… but, you'll have to bear with me for a few chapters- a little drama before a happy ending adds to the story. Or that's what I think- we'll just have to see what you guys think.

Anyway- Thanks for the reviews and now on to the show!

Disclaimer: I don't own Rurouni Kenshin, or any of the characters .

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She drove him absolutely mad, the way she allowed him to pull her body close sent tingles up his spine.

Megumi felt the coldness of her words as they came off her lips. She had hurt him. But she wasn't happy at all with her actions. 'Isn't that what you wanted? To see him hurt… just like you've been hurt?' Her mind asked.

'No,' Her heart responded as did her body to his.

Megumi heard a light moan escape as she allowed the kiss to deepen in passion and fire. To her surprise the moan was her own, and they didn't seem to stop as Sano's hands started to roam down her sides.

Sano's mind and body were racing. His heart was beating fast as he was finally able to get through to her.

Kami- how he had dreamed of kissing her; just touching her smooth skin would have been enough for him..

"Megumi." He growled as he let his tongue duel with hers.

Holding back a chuckle, as they dueled Sano conceded that there always would be issues that required a sparing match when it came to the foxy doctor. But he's take what little he could get as long as he would have her.

Sano's body was reaching its limits. He needed her, wanted her… and now… His strong hands gently cupped her head and deepened the kiss before he let his lips trail down her neck. Neither cared they were fully in public's view while they dueled. His lips followed his hands down lower until he nuzzled the base of her shoulders.

"Sano…" Megumi moaned out loud.

"Kitsune… I need you… I love you." He groaned deeply in his throat.

A great heat developed in Megumi's stomach as Sano artfully caressed her once cold skin. Now it was no longer clod or pale like her usual tone. She could feel it was a flush of heat and color.

Slowly moving them both out of the public eye, Sano led her back into an alley way without breaking contact with her skin. With his bruised, yet skillful hands he traced Megumi's frame. He could feel her raging breaths puff out on his skin as he continued to devour her neck and exposed flesh of her neckline.

'Wait Sano- not here… not like this. You can't just take her in some alleyway like a common street whore… this is Megumi, she deserves more.' His mind sobered him. Slowly he began to lessen his kisses.

"Megumi… let's go back to my place." He whispered into her ear before he pulled back and took her hand in his.

Her face was flushed. Sano liked the look of pleasure on her face. He would enjoy making her happy.

Megumi groaned as he pulled back and took her hand. She felt so empty without his lanky body pressed up to hers.

The night's air hit her face and she was finally able to see the situation.

'You let him kiss you!' Her mind screamed. 'But you enjoyed it… oh Kami, you where ready to let him take you there and then… but, you'll just wake up tomorrow and just be one of his many conquests… Used and thrown aside.' Her mind worried.

Sano felt the resistance of her body as he started to lead her to his apartment.

"Megumi?" He asked looking back to see his love in tears. "What's.."

But before he could finish his question her hand came down on his face hard. The slap took him totally by surprise. He could only stand there and drop her hand, stepping back he blinked at her.

"how could you?" Her voice asked low and angry.

"Megumi?"

"NO!" She said as she swiftly walked past him. If it weren't for the confining cloths she was in, and the shoes she wore, she would have ran away from him.

Sano could only blink out of sheer dumbfundement. 'What just happened?'

"Megumi Wait!" Sano said as he caught up to her as she reached nearer her residence with Dr. Gensai.

"How dare you! How Dare YOU!" Megumi fumed as she threw the basket she had picked up after their kisses were over. "So you would have bragging rights with all your buddies that you slept with me? What Sano? What do you want?"

"I want you! I want us to be together- I don't want to see you alone and I don't want to be alone anymore either…'

"Who are you to think you know what I need or want?"

"Megumi… I can change… I'll do anything to get you to realize I love you more than anything… you're the only person I've felt this way for. I'll do anything…" His voice softened and his brown orbs pleaded with hers.

"Then leave Sano. Leave and don't come back. I don't ever want to see you again. I don't and could never love someone like you!" With that she turned and vanished into the residence leaving a broken hearted Sanosuke wondering what went wrong.

"If that's what you want, my love…" He said sadly as he turned and began to walk away. "As long as you're happy."

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The house seemed colder as Megumi slumped to the floor behind the door and cried. 'Sano… what a baka. All he wanted was to get some action and new material to hurt me with… I hope… I hope I never see his face again.'

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"Sano?" A sleepy figure came to the door of the small house. "Is that you? It's the middle of the night… what's wrong?"

"Sorry for waking you up Katsu…" Sano said.

"Well come in- you look like crap- what happened?" His old friend asked ushering the other surviving member of the Sekihou Tai into his small apartment.

"I told her…"

"The doctor lady?"

"Ya." Came Sano's reply.

"And?"

"I'm leaving Tokyo… I can't stay here any longer." Sano said with out emotion.

"Why? Hey- Sano, what happened?"

"She… she doesn't love me.. Come to think of it why should she? I've got nothing to offer… and I'm never going to be able to make her happy. I don't deserve to love her." He sighed.

"Sano, don't you think you're selling yourself a little short?" His black haired friend asked. "Think of all the good things about you… you've done so much with your life already…"

"What does that matter when she doesn't love me? Nothing matters anymore…"

"Sano."

"No- I've made up my mind. I'm leaving tonight. Will you sell my place and use the money to put on my tab at the akebeko? I'll send what I can once I figure things out…" Sano added as he walked towards the door.

"Wait, Sano! What will you do? Where will you go?" His friend asked trying to get him to see reason.

"Doesn't matter. I wrote Jo-chan and Kenshin a note. Will you give it to them? I'm sorry… I'm being such a bother, but I'll be back to repay you all… someday. Maybe… I just can't stand to see her hating me. Well I better be off." A down hearted Sano said as he handed the letter over and went to the door.

"You better come back! Remember us Sekihou Tai survivors got to stick together!" His friend yelled after him.

"Thanks- it was good to see ya again…take it easy!"

And with that Sano made his way out of Tokyo. His body was leaving for who knows where, but his heart would never leave. Because it would always remain with the one who could never love him.

'Goodbye my fox… be happy.'