Hello, everybody I'm back! (Finally right?) Sorry for taking so long! I hope this chapter is okay, since it's been so long since I've written for it. Well here we go!
Disclaimer: I do not own Rurouni Kenshin! Why am I so happy?! …..how the hell should I know?
Chapter Three:
(Later that day, after Kendo where our lovely Kaoru made Kenshin see stars. Walking along the empty court-yard)
"Kaoru!" That voice sounds familiar.
"Oh, hello Misao." I slowly turned, feeling like crap. Let me make that more, um, definitive; I feel emotionally like crap. But what's this? Misao had a knowing, but tired, glint in her eye, a bad omen indeed. Two words: oh, shit.
"I heard what happened in Kendo today." There it is, and here it comes. "Really Kaoru! The most popular guy in school?! Have you no self control at all?" All of my guilt was thrown out the window.
"It wasn't just me! You should have seen how he fought me! Like I was some kind of push over! Then he said that-that thing!"
"Oh, yes." Misao spoke dryly "I would be upset too if someone paid me a compliment." Hey, this is definitely not fair! And what is with that smile? "You know I think you liked the compliment." Well, duh. Who would not enjoy some kind of compliment?
"Of course I liked it. I was just embarrassed." I felt something stir in the pit of my stomach. My voice was quiet. "Not a lot of people say that to me…only you and Sano."
Her smile looks so soft. "But you are. People just can't say it. You avoid them so they are afraid of you. You're different."
"I'm different, that's why? I know I'm different, but so are you! Am I so different?" That was depressing. I new I was different, but not so different that people thought me scary or a freak. Is that what I am? A freak?
I felt her small arms around me. "Oh, Kaoru. People fear what they don't understand, you know that. Maybe Kenshin saw in you something different, that's why he said what he did so freely. Either that or he is just really stupid!"
"I don't know. My head fills full. I need to sleep."
"All right, next class is study hall anyway. Then schools out."
"yeah, but, Misao…I need to apologize… to Kenshin" my breath rushed out of me ". …But I'm kinda scared." My hands felt cold, stomach was sick.
"Don't worry about it! I mean look what he's already said. I don't think he's gonna be mad." She smiled "Besides I can go with you! He's in the nurse's office last time I heard. All his friends are there."
"All of his friends huh? Does that include Aoshi?"
"Yeah, but I'm going for you!"
"You better be or I would have to cook you lunch!" The biggest threat in the entire world! My toxic cooking! Heh, heh, heh!
Misao turn a respectively green. "I promise."
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(nurse's office)
"Kenshin, feeling any better yet?" Sano was concerned yet amused by his friends state, after all he had been on the end of one of Kaoru's beatings more than once himself.
"Yeah, but this bump on my head isn't going down any."
Sano couldn't help but laugh. "Yeah, well that's what you get for messing with my sister!"
"Sister! That girls your sister!"
Sano only answered with a prim "Yep!" Damn was he proud! His little sister knocking out the most popular guy in school! "I'm so proud I could almost cry."
"Proud! She knocked me out, for chris' sake!" What the hell is wrong with this guy?!
"I know!" His pride swelled. "You brought it on yourself, Aoshi told me you were messing with her."
"I was not!"
At this Aoshi stepped in the discussion. "Yes, you were. You weren't fighting her, any warrior would take that as an insult."
"I was fighting her! I was only on the defense!"
The stoic voice spoke again. "It was a pretty pitiful defense, anyone could tell you weren't really even concentrating much less on fighting. What were you thinking, that she was a girl she couldn't possibly be any good?"
"Really, Kenshin. First she teachers the beginners, second how could you think any one that was my partner would be a pushover?! I'm not exactly the weak kind, or thoughtless when it comes to my fights."
"I know, I guess I just wasn't thinking."
At this Soujiro piped in. "Yes you were. I could tell you were. In fact I think it was his wandering mind that got him pounded."
"Well if you weren't thinking about your opponent what were you thinking about?"
"I was thinking about my opponent! Besides…" The red head grumbled "that is not why she decked me…kinda." Kenshin felt his stomach start to sink. He did not mean to let that slip. He knew what was coming.
"So why exactly did she deck you?" All three pairs of eyes were on him.
"I…I kind of…" God this was…embarrassing.
"Kind of what?"
"Yeah, we're not getting any younger here, Kenshin." I shamefully looked at him. He took the look totally wrong. "You better not have done what I think you did. Why can't you people leave her alone and quit mess'n with her! She gets it enough from everyone else, Kenshin; she doesn't need it from you! I thought you were different!"
"Hey! I didn't mess with her okay! I just said she was cute!"
"WHAT?!" The comment surrounded him in stereo.
"Shit." That wasn't supposed to come out either. He looked up and they were shaking with suppressed laughter. "Go ahead, its not like your hiding it very well."
"HAH, HAH, HAH-----------!!! Why the hell'd you say that for!"
"I didn't mean for it to come out! What's her problem anyway?! All I did was say she was beautiful when she was angry, and she thwacks me on the head! What kind of asylum are you living in! Next time I know to avoid that weird sister of –…" *SLAM* Luckily or rather unluckily my view of our visitors was clear. There was girl just standing there, I could feel the heat of her glare bearing into me.
"Misao?" Aoshi? This was Aoshi's Misao? The laughter died down as she refused to reply. It was now that I realized there was someone behind her, struggling to release themselves from this girl's iron like grasp.
"Misao, what is it?" Misao pushed them infront of her.
"Kaoru?" Her eyes were glazed over with tears. She lifted up head as if it weighed the world and spoke in a choked whisper, her head dropping down in the middle.
"I just came to say I'm sorry…" Then she turned… she turned and ran, her hair streaming behind her. With her cries echoing down the hall.
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This is it! This is also all I can write right now considering I'm updating all my other stories today as well! Later! Ja ne!
Iram: I love you and the piano people appreciate your devotion! Sorry but I'm in a hurry! I updated my other two stories as well! Go check them out! Chao! And…..Don't cry for me iramina-----! The truth is I never left you….blah, blah, blah, blah, blah…
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