I'm bbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!! Sorry, I just couldn't resist .. I got a

few good reviews, and I'm on top of the world . Anyway ..Here's the deal ..the RK characters, sadly

for me, lucky for them, don't belong to me Who knows what I would make them do .O.o Hope you

like this is the first time I'm typing off the top of my head not having it be on paper . Oh boy .Kami,

I pray for this chapter to be logical .

I have a few thank you's and what not to make.....please....you don't have to read them....just...I feel it is

something I should do....Things I would never tell someone in person....for...fear of.....hm.....I

dunno...just read...^^

These are in no particular order.....just...whatever...I am referring to fanfiction.net pen names, whenever

I can....

First, and foremost....

Sakabatou-tetsusaiga: Hm....so much to say....I really hope I get the chance to speak to you face to face

one day...I think it would be very entertaining....^^ Thanks is an understatement....I could never thank

you enough.... you have helped me a lot in my writing....and, you listen to me...which is more than I can

say about a lot of people! I think we can relate, somehow....I do want you to know...I consider you as a

best friend....in an odd way....I just don't think I could just...tell you. ^^

Misao-chan: What to say? I love you, you know that...yet...you are so....frustrating!!! Anyway....we are

best friends forever...remember that, weasel...:P

Shii-chan...and Lauren-chan....: Beware.....Tomoe is not done murdering Kaoru yet....muhahaha!!!

Reviewer people: You have made me sooo happy.....I wouldn't write, if you guys didn't like it.....

Anyway...I'm done....lol...^^

Chapter 3:

Kaoru did not reply to Kenshin .she didn't even hear him.

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Kenshin was frantically calling her name out to her, praying for a response. He noticed she was still

breathing, and he sighed out of relief. He looked into her eyes, but they were closed. He, after all of that,

realized she was sleeping. He smiled, and tried to shake her a bit, to move her into her own futon. She

would not wake. She seemed to be in a deep slumber, though there were tears still wet on her cheeks.

He brushed them off gently. He tried to move her into her room himself, but she was clutching onto his

gi, and could not be pried off. Even if he tried which he didn't. He smiled, looking down at the angel

sleeping in his arms. She smelled of jasmine She looked .so beautiful .

He took the ribbon out of her hair. He thought that would be most comfortable for her. He also thought

she looked prettier that way, but would never dare tell her, for fear of being struck. He smiled, the young

lady before him, was perfect. So perfect, she could never love him. And he could never expect her to. He

was so unworthy of her ..

He did, finally, get her to let go of him, and he put her in her futon. He didn't want her waking up in his

arms. He probably get slapped and locked in the shed .She call him a hentai, among other names he

didn't even want to imagine. He watched her sleep. He made her tea, then came back with it. She was

still asleep.

He brushed the hair from her face gently. She had been asleep for a few hours, not moving, not

murmuring; nothing. The only sign that she was still alive, was her breathing. He knew why she was

sleeping like this. He had also been up late; not even sleeping at all most of the nights that week. He

heard someone up. He looked around the entire Dojo, not finding any signs of an intruder .. It must

have been her. He cursed himself in his mind .that would have been the perfect opportunity to be with

her .

He shook his head, freeing himself of the thought. He knew he would have to let her go someday .

Someday not so soon, he hoped. He then winced at his extreme selfishness. His deepest desire was for

her to be happy .and, whether it was with or, most likely, without him, it

wouldn't .couldn't .shouldn't matter

He gazed upon her for what seemed like only five minutes but was really hours. She looked so calm; so

peaceful. She looked like a goddess. Though, her calmness made him uneasy. She looked like she was

dead if Kenshin couldn't hear hear her breathing he would have sworn she was dead. He took her

wrist, and took her pulse once more. He did that often, as if she was as delicate as a porcelain doll, that

would at any moment break, leaving him nothing but broken shards. Remnants of a love, to never

form.....

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Heh.... more of my stuff in this chapter, then story....well.....I hope you liked it.....

I like my ellipses!!! It.....helps.....put...spaces...in...things....

Till next time,

~*Kaoru-dono*~