Disclaimer: I don't own rk yea we all know that I just don't really like lawyers, 'hides in the corner cowering away from layer glaring at them, they take a step closer and I close my eyes and sit in the fetal position'

Authors Note: OK this is a sequel to Black fox and I think it refers to the other story so you would have to read it. If you haven't, go back and read it. Also I never told you this but they were seniors in high school when they beat Shishio and now they are thinking about taking a year off to live and train in the "real world" (ya know they just say that to scare you) its summer right now.

Sequel to Black Fox

The Black Fox Is A Black Bat

Chapter: 1

And they lived happily ever after, or did they?

Misao opened her eyes. She took a deep breath of fresh mountain air. 'Wait mountain air? Were am I? Oh yea Aoshi suggested we come all the way up here to train for a while. Great.' she thought.

" I may bust with excitement," she said to herself sarcastically. She quickly got dressed and put her hair up in its usual braid. She merrily ran down stairs to eat breakfast, she figured Aoshi would be meditating so she boiled some tea and made some food. She quickly ate and finished just as the kettle started to whistle. She poured some tea and walked out to the little pond were Aoshi liked to meditate. She only poured one cup today because she had to run to town and buy some tofu and other necessities. She slowly walked up to Aoshi waiting for him to acknowledge she was there so she wouldn't disturb him.

 "Misao" he said.

 " Aoshi I brought you some tea but I wont be jointing you today; I have to go to town" Misao said. Aoshi just nodded. She set the tea down and walked back to their little "house" it looked more like a small dojo split up into 3 rooms, no 3 very small boxes. She grabbed some money and her Kauai (little dagger thingies I don't know how to spell it) just in case some one came up to her she wasn't in the mood for, particularly one of Shishios followers. Misao was in a particularly good mood today so she happily skipped around the shack.. Erm house and gathered her things. Right before she walked onto the path out of her secluded little meadow in which she practiced she stopped and turned around. She grabbed one of her Kauai and with a devious smile threw it with all her might towards Aoshi's head. The little dagger was flying through the air with deadly precision toward her master's temple even though she was 1/8th of a mile away from him (one football field I think). Almost in slow motion he reached up and caught the dagger in between his index and his middle finger. She pouted for about a second she didn't want to hurt him she just expected a little more reaction. Wait a second no she didn't if he did she would surely go into a coma out of shock.

 "Hey Aoshi do you need anything" She shouted. He just shook his head 'no', luckily she has keen eyesight cuz' she could barely even see it.

"Ok ill be back by dinner and this time don't forget to eat lunch you knuckle head" she said, oh how she wished they had neighbors right then that would have surely got something out of him if they did. But they didn't cuz they were now where near a town and so she had to walk like 3 miles to the nearest shop. Though they did live next to a small creek and in a meadow so it was always so pretty. She started down the hill to the town when she tripped over a pebble. 'What a time to be clumsy huh? Good thing we don't have neighbors' she thought. As she rolled down the hill her ninja skills kicked in and about 20 feet from were she tripped she stopped on a dime. She striated herself out and began to walk again and she swore she hears Aoshi snicker behind her but she stayed looking forward and pretended she didn't hear that.

 Kaoru's house

Kaoru woke up and smelled breakfast. She slowly got up out of her futon and got dressed and put her hair in a high ponytail and put on some make-up. She looked back at her futon with desire just to plop down on it and sleep until she forgot Misao was gone but once her nose was delighted with the smell of Kenshins cooking again she jumped back to her senses and thought 'Misao is happy shell be back she misses me to and she wouldn't want me to be so sad ok Kaoru wipe off that mask you've been wearing and suck it up she's gone having fun and wants you to do the same' Kaoru was mentally prepping herself to stop pretending to be happy and just, be happy she can have a fun summer with sano Migume and kenshin with out Mr. Icicle and Mrs. Sunshine (Aoshi and Misao). She succeeded in making herself feel better. She walked into the kitchen to see kenshin setting the table, smiling as usual, and sano and Migume snuggled up on the couch. Her life was perfect. She had a boyfriend making food for her in the kitchen, a hell of a lot better than her cooking, Her two best friend, at the moment, were snuggling on her couch, her parents were out, well her guardian was out, and she just woke up for the first time in weeks nightmare-free. She has had nightmares of The Black Fox terrorizing the town and messing with Misaos body (like smoking and drinking) and it always ended with her killing Kaoru so she could marry kenshin by force because Aoshi never talked to her and didn't seem to like her. Kaoru wasn't scared by these dreams they were, they were, well her mind sure was detailed and creative. But she knew this couldn't happen because Misao was good at keeping BF inside and When Kaoru saw Aoshi look at Misao on the hill watching the sunset she knew he cared deeply about her. But, she couldn't help feeling that something weird was going to happen.

"Kenshin, good morning" Kaoru said.

"Good morning Kaoru. Did you sleep well? Kenshin asked hoping she didn't have that nightmare again it was creepy it made him look at Misao in a different light.

"Actually yes I did sleep well" She said happy that she didn't have nightmares anymore. 'That was close I hope he doesn't say anything about my dreams cuz if sano and Migume found out there would be no end to the embarrassment and torture' she thought. They all sat down to eat. They all sat in silence except the noises of sano eating rapidly. "Kenshin, Migume, Sano I'm going to the market today do any of you need anything?" kaoru asked.

"No" Sano piped up through mouthfuls. They all nodded.

"Ok well ill be off then, good bye," Kaoru said. She walked out of the dojo door and looked to the mountains. She saw a pretty meadow on one of them she wished she could see the town from there I would look so pretty. She walked down the trail towards the town and stumbled a bit but regained her balance before she fell. Both girls are walking to the same town and at the same moment trip just one falls and the other catches her.

In the town

Misao walks around shopping and talking to people she knows when she thinks she sees a stranger that looks like Kaoru 'Nah couldn't have been her what are the odds' Misao thought.

Kaoru walked through the town talking to people who she hasn't seen in about week and shopping when a stranger caught her eye 'nah that couldn't have been Misao what are the odds' Kaoru thought. She turned around just as the stranger did and she looked at her.

"AHH!! Misao"

"AHH!! Kaoru"

Both of them screamed at the same time. They each hugged each other and laughed.

"I was lucky to get away from kenshin, he wont let me go anywhere with out him there to protect me" kaoru said.

"Yea I know Aoshi wont let me go anywhere I have to train, train, train, cook, train, and clean" Misao said. They laughed and hugged once more. Both girls talked for a little while then walked to a restaurant to eat. They talked for a little while and finally had to split it was getting late. Misao ran up the hill she was in a really good mood despite the creepy dreams kaoru had of her she was ecstatic.

"Bye Kaoru, see you later" Misao waved good-bye as kaoru did the same and walked home happily. She bounced up the hill but her smile soon turned to a frown when she reached her hut, house thing. Aoshi was standing on the porch waiting for her, maybe it was just because the sun was almost set but she thought she saw a hint of worry in his cool ice blue eyes.

"Aoshi, I'm so sorry I said id be home by dinner but I wasn't I met Kaoru at the market can you please forgive me??" she said. Aoshi just looked at her, emotionless as always.

"Did you eat?" he asked.

 "Yes why" she said a little confused. She walked into the kitchen motioning for him to follow her so he could answer her question. She started putting groceries away. They stood in the small kitchen/living room/guestroom for a while in silence the only noise was the whistle of the wind and the noise of Misao putting away groceries. Once she was finished he spoke.

"Misao you do remember that Enishi is coming for a while, don't you?" Aoshi said. That was the most he has said to her all day once he said "Enishi" Misao froze she completely forgot, well now she knows. She just kind of stood there with the deer-in-the-head-lights look. Then she snapped out of her little trance.

"Yes of course I remembered.., tell me again when he is coming?" she asked trying not to seem like she had no idea what he was talking about. Of course he saw right through her act but he was getting used to this so he let her slide, so long as she knows now.

"He is coming sometime tomorrow, practice starts early tomorrow to make up for the lost time" Aoshi said as he walked out of the room. 'Great, just great now I have to practice my ass off tomorrow cuz I didn't today and some guy named Enishi is coming, lovely just lovely' Misao thought as she searched for the spare futon so she wouldn't have to look later. Misao reluctantly went to bed early so she could get in a lot of practice before Enishi came. She was mumbling in her sleep, something about a stupid Aoshi making her practice extra because she was visiting Kaoru and now she has some loser that she doesn't even know coming to live with them.

Misao woke up the next morning bright and early.

"Why dose it have to be so bright when it is so early" Misao said sleepily walking around the cozy little shack/house. 'Aoshi isn't up, man it must be really early' she thought while looking out the window hoping to see his meditating form sitting on the grass. She stepped into his room quietly. Her eyes wandered only to find that he was actually sleeping peacefully on his futon. 'Ill let him sleep I think ill make breakfast for us then ill set up that fool Enishis futon and maybe clean the house, wow I must be sick' she thought. She groggily got dressed and started on breakfast. She ate a little and set the rest out for Aoshi when he woke up. She dragged the spare futon out into the guest room portion of the kitchen/living room/guest room. She set up the bed and got to work on cleaning this pigsty of a house. She cleaned every room but hers, she was waiting to clean that last because it was so messy. She cleaned the whole house but her room it was spotless. Now, for her room. She was so busy cleaning her room she didn't notice Aoshi get up. He walked into her room and got an eye-full. He saw Misao with headphones on and was wearing blue swishy pants with a stripe down the side and a black sports bra. She had her butt in the air practically in his face and was swaying back and fourth she was digging through her clothes, it almost seemed like she was trying to find the floor. Then she found something she sat down slowly and took off her headphones staring at the thing. Aoshi couldn't see what it was and was about to move but then remembered that she could hear him, if he moved she would know. Then he heard a deer run through the flowers outside her window she didn't even flinch to see if it was an intruder she didn't even move to see if it was Enishi. Aoshi began to think she wouldn't even know he was there if her walked up to her head-on and pulled her braid right off her head. So, because he knew she would acknowledge him he moved over ever so slightly so he could see what she had. He saw a picture frame with two pictures in it, one was of all her friends and her back at home at the beach, and the other was of her and her family sitting together at the table eating and having fun. She was smiling; she was looking at her family and friends, whom she selflessly left for the summer to train with him up in the mountains, and was smiling despite the biting pain in her heart. She burned to be with them laughing and hanging out but instead she toughed it out up her for a month. At that moment her felt an extreme weight put upon his heart. He felt terrible for pulling her away from them, but then why did she come? And an even better question, why did she stay?