Hi everybody! And welcome back to the story! Up next the second chapter! And one note: the site will not let me use / or + or = in my title. That's why it says Angry Shocked Kaoru Shinai Swirly-eyed Red Head when its supposed to be: Angry/Shocked Kaoru + Shinai = Swirly-eyed Red Head. You had probably caught on to that. Well, read and enjoy!
Standard Disclaimer: I do not own Rurouni Kenshin. I would write something funny, but I got nothin.
Chapter two: Kenshin and the Brain Sucking Demons
I must say that I never expected to become so popular on the whim of simply being a so called jock, which is not true considering I'm only good for fighting/martial arts/kendo (otherwise I'm definitely a klutz), and being in some girls words 'drool worthy'. I had never experienced this before considering that before coming to my current educational instructive residence, aka Judai high school, I was home schooled with a rather unpleasant tenacity from my Shishou. (-_-;)
Anyway it would be safe to say that I was not lacking in friends or female admirers, (which I hate being fawned over Damn It!) even though I gave them no grounds of hope to start any kind of relationship except friendship. Even with me turning down 'girls' (girls in '' because I would rather call them brain sucking demons) left and right it didn't seem to phase off the female high school population, curses. Because of this I had lost all hope of any intelligent conversation with any of the opposite sex unless it be with my teachers.
That being said lets move on to more important matters like 'how in the hell was I going to get into the Kendo class when it was already full?' I thought that with at least one class with no 'brain sucking demons' I could keep hold of my mental stability. And it was just my luck that I had moved in the middle of the first semester making it impossible to get any classes I truly desired. However, it seemed that luck decided to make it up to me by giving me a friend who had a crush on a certain classmate of mine that I partnered during the same class period of Kendo and that my friend had Kendo.
So safe enough to say we struck a bargain. For the second semester Sanosuke and I would trade classes! He would attend EMS with Megumi and I; well I would be in the totally bliss-full environment of the gym, filled with the opportunity to commit myself to some major ass kicking distributed by yours truly. Oh yes, life was good. Or it was until I met my Kendo partner…
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"Himura!" I heard I call from the back of the gym and went to follow it. "Hi, Aoshi." Yet another friend of mine, who most, and I do not blame them, call him such affectionate terms as 'Ice King' and 'That Big Block Of Ice'.
"So, when do we get started?"
"You'll start when you find out who your partner is, Soujiro (N/A: Did I spell that right?) and I will start in a few minutes."
Soujiro smiled "It's not that hard to figure out who it will be. It'll probably be Sanosuke's old partner."
"And that is…?"
Aoshi grinned then for some reason, which was actually really big deal, for him anyways. "Kamiya." Does he always have to call people by their last names? Okay he's about to start laughing, something is definitely not right here.
"Oh yes, good opponent." That smile of Soujiro's is about to get irritating. A good opponent huh? Why have I never heard of them? And what was Aoshi smiling about! You would have thought that genki girl Misao who's always trying to 'thaw him out' (at least that's what Sano says, I've never seen any such attempt) had finally steeled her nerves, took her chances and kissed him, most passionately as well I would say. I should meet this Misao; such interaction between her and Aoshi would be entertainment.
"Himura!" Coach Saitoh calling. And then words I swore to never forget as I was sure it would mean the price of my mental stability "Kenshin Himura, Kaoru Kamiya. You're partners, warm up then begin." Then he was gone and I was stuck, with a 'brain sucking demon'. Okay, what is wrong with this picture! Girl and Kendo do not just equal each other. In fact they shouldn't even be uttered in the same sentence! Unless its something like 'My girlfriend is coming to watch me at the Kendo tournament'!
Oh yes, stuck with a demon. A demon who strangely enough started to recite what sounded like a well rehearsed phrase of theirs "School is evil, school must die." Freaky. This partnered with the, um, withering look she was giving me made me guess she wasn't to thrilled about this either. "Lets begin." Okay, begin with a defense. After all she is a girl.
Twack, twack. She was actually pretty good, surprisingly.
But she was beginning to look a little distracted. Girls, always worrying about something. Twack, crash. Her eyes caught my attention, blue almost a dark purple tint. Hm, pretty. Her long ebony hair, even in her ponytail, as well as those, go ahead and say it, soft—'looking' lips. Again pretty. A pretty brain sucking demon, who would have thought?
Woah! Wait a minute, now an angry brain sucking demon! Now that's scary!
"What the hell do you think you're doing!" She sputtered "I waited five minutes for you to attack me and you didn't! Not once!" oops. "This is Kendo not knitting!" Her flashing eyes, her swinging hair… "And if I find out this was because I'm a girl demons will not even be able to eat your brains I'll smash you so hard into the floor! Get my drift!" Definitely. Mental note: never, ever, treat Kaoru like pushover.
"Your kind of scary, that you are." Oops, shouldn't have let that slip out. Okay, I'm registering fire on my radar. Still, what a cute fire demon. "But you know what? You're really beautiful when you're angry, that you are."
"WHAT!" shriek. *thwack* PAIN. A- LOT- OF- PAIN.
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Thanks for reading and I hope you go ahead and review. I know what your thinking: What! The same thing only from a different point of view! That's not a chapter! That's a cheap rip-off!
Well I think its fine! Its good. Its gooooood. (ever seen 'Bruce Almighty'?) Anyway I also wrote another chapter for my other fic today as well, so nah! Now push da button!
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