Disclaimer: I'm to lazy to say something funny, so I won't. I do not own Rurouni Kenshin.

No this is not a sequel to For the Love of Kaoru! if that's what you people out there are thinking. This is where Kenshin meets mini him.

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"Yahiko, your posture today is horrific!" Kaoru cried while training her young pupil. It was a very bright day, the skies a cheerful blue with the sun out of the clouds. For the past few it has been quite murky and the air was filled with musty-ness. Kaoru took a deep breath of the fresh air that filled the dojo and smiled a soft smile.

"Fix your posture, busu! You look like your daydreaming about Kenshin!" Yahiko quirked.

"Fix that mouth of yours before I fix it for you!" Kaoru yelled, slamming her bokken on Yahiko's head, leaving Yahiko with huge bump.

"You'll regret that! HYAAAAA!" Yahiko screamed. He pounced in the air, ready for an air attack. He didn't have any time to use it before Kaoru stuck her hand out and stopped Yahiko dead in his tracks. He began swinging his sword wildly trying to smack her around but failed miseribly in the attempt.

"HA!" Kaoru said and slammed her wooden sword on Yahiko's shoulder. She hadn't met to hit him so hard but she wasn't really focused on her training. All she could think about was Kenshin. How his red hair gleamed in the sunlight so brightly and stayed bright even on days as one like yesterday. She loved staring at those happy, sexy violet eyes he had. And she couldn't even describe how loving his voice was, even as the Battousai. She can't but I can, so I will. His voice was like sugar to her and every time Kaoru heard him call her name, a shiver went down her spine. To bad he kept calling her that annoying Kaoru-DONO.

She snapped back into reality when she heard Yahiko singing a very familiar song.

"Kenshin and Kaoru! Sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G! First comes love! Then comes marriage, then comes mini-Kenshin in a baby carriage!" Yahiko fell over with laughter. Kaoru turned a bright red from embarressment as well as anger and began chasing Yahiko around. It didn't take her long to catch him considering his laughing so hard was weighing him down a great deal. She didn't smack him upside the head with her bokken like she usually does when Yahiko annoys the living crap out of her. Instead she just poked him in the side with her bokken.

IN THE KITCHEN

Kenshin peeped out of the kitchen window looking at Kaoru poking Yahiko mercilessly. Scratch that. He was gazing at her more or less. He started daydreaming about what it did to him every time she called his name. Every time she did, his eyes went amber for a split second because she just had a frantic voice. Even when she was happy, she always sounded so frantic. A smile began to creep up on Kenshin's lips when he started thinking about her eyes. Those gorgeous eyes of hers that could make any man's heart melt. Kenshin often forgot what to say when Kaoru looked at him with those big, round, ocean blue youthful eyes.

"Staring at jou-chan again, I see," came the ever amusing voice of our freeloading friend Sano.

"Sanosuke, when did you get here? And how did you get past Kaoru- dono?" Kenshin asked, then he thought over his second question. She's way over here where you can't see the gate to the dojo even if you tried and she's to busy tickling Yahiko to really care if Sano came over to freeload some food.

"I got here about five minutes ago but you were to busy staring at Kaoru to even notice poor, lil' old me."

"Sano, your 20." Kenshin replied, with no emotion in his voice.

"And your 29 and still haven't asked jou-chan to marry you," Sano said. He regretted it as soon as the words left his mouth. His red-headed rurouni has been meaning to tell her what's really lying deep inside his heart but couldn't. Kenshin was just to sincere and curtius to do that.

"Sessha does not deserve her, that I don't" Kenshin replied evenly, then went back to the szechuan seafood he had going in a pan.

Sano had had it. He was so sick and tired of 'Sessha not being worthy'.

"You know what? F*%$ you sessha," he said, receiving a cold amber glare. He knew he was gambling with his life at this moment but he didn't really care.

"Glare at me all you want! I don't care!(A/N watch it Sano)This is jou- chan's future, not just yours. My life may not have meaning and you can say that yours doesn't either for all I care, but she's only 18 Kenshin! She's not going to wait around for you to admit your feelings for her. There are plenty of men out there wanting to take her hand in marriage and they will if you don't cut this damn bullshit your pulling. I'm not gonna let her live her life in agony just because a certain 'sessha' won't tell her the truth. She's the closest thing I've ever had to family, to a REAL sister and by Kami-sama I am willing to let you beat the shit out of me if it means making her happy!" Sano yelled to Kenshin.

Kenshin just stood there his eyes still a fierce amber as he just glared at Sano. In one quick motion, Kenshin grabbed Sano by his gi and slammed so hard against the wall that the food almost fell off from where it was cooking.

"Listen here, you lousy good for nothing gambling drinking FOOL!" Kenshin said in a low voice that it scared Sano half to death. "You have NO idea how hard it is to admit your love to someone then be able to keep them safe! I haven't even told her how much she means to me and already she's been kidnapped and beaten all because of me! I can't just come out and say it. I love her as much as you do, maybe even more but I can't just ask her to marry me with all my enemies out there wanting to kill me! You can already bet that they will go after her to make sure I'm in misery! Don't you DARE tell me what to do again!"

Kenshin ripped his hand from Sano's shirt and went outside to call in Kaoru and Yahiko. Sano just stared blankly at the opposite wall. Now he knew why Kenshin couldn't tell her and it was tearing him up inside. He loves her so much he wont tell her just so she wont be in any danger. Oh Kami, why are you doing this to him? Sano thought disdainfully. He was going to help Kaoru and Kenshin if it's the last thing he does. But first, I'm getting an ice pack for my back. Who knew such a little man could pack such painful slam! OWIE!

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I know, not a lot of humor in it. But next chapter will have humor, I SWEAR! Sano is such a big sweetie in this story and Kenshin's torn between mixed emotions. Who knew being a manslayer could be so hard. Well, tough luck, you'll have to wait for the next chapter!