Chapter #13 **
Hey peoples! I'm back, sorry I haven't updated sooner, I'm taking my time on these last few chapters because they are most important. ^.~
This Chapter: Kaoru isn't too well so we check on her and her condition, and trust me she's not getting better. Her only hope is Kenshin. We go back to Kakushibyou Temple to were we see everyone together having tea, just kidding! Hideaki see's his sister again after 13 years he see's her again but there is something strange about her. I'll leave the end of this chapter a mystery. ;-)
Reviewers:
Crystal Renee: Usually I get beat up for cliffhangers *looks at the bruses*
hitokirixbattousaix: You'll find out in due time, that you will ^_^X
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The Grief in a Woman's Heart
"Kaoru... Kaoru... Kaoru wake up, I'm home," Kaoru awoke to see two bright violet eyes staring down at her, "Welcome back Kaoru."
Kaoru jumped into his arms and held him tight, she cried happy tears on his shoulder as he spun her around. When he finished she just stared in his eyes wanting to ask a million questions: What happened? How did you save me? All these questions were running through her head yet none of them left her lips.
Her lips.
They were locked together, closed. She was unable to speak.
Kenshin's face started to darken.
Kaoru tried to scream his name but she couldn't open her mouth to make even a peep.
His face soon disappeared into darkness and she was being sucked into it. She was able to speak now but she had nothing to say. All she could hear was the screams of sorrow, grief and pain of her heart.
*
"What's wrong with her Dr. Gensai?" Yahiko asked looking at Kaoru's crying form. She was mumbling something while sleeping in her futon. The tears continued to fall each time Dr. Gensai wiped her eyes. Her mumbling was hypnotic. She was saying the same thing yet she wasn't saying anything at all.
"It's been 12 days Yahiko. Her dreams aren't making this easy. If Kenshin doesn't get here soon she will die," Dr. Gensai looked over at Yahiko who was running up to him.
Yahiko crouched down in front of him and balled his fists, "Don't say things like that! Kenshin will be here and Kaoru isn't going to die!"
"Yahiko...," Kaoru whispered.
He looked over and crawled over to her face, "What is it Kaoru?" Yahiko held a serious expression awaiting Kaoru's next responce.
"Little... Yahiko..." she cried out a scream of pain after. She then went back to her mumblings.
Yahiko wiped the tiny tears at the corners of his eyes, "Yeah... Little Yahiko here."
Dr. Gensai looked back into the room after he exited and sighed. After a while of walking he found Megumi picking fresh herbs, "He's so dogged, that Yahiko."
Megumi stopped brushing dirt from an herb and dropped it in her lap, "Dogged isn't the right word for Yahiko, more like tenacious: he believes that everything will be alright no matter how hopeless the situation is. So far everything he strived for and wished for has come true. This time, I'm not so sure." Megumi went back to pulling out herbs and crying her silent tears, hidden from the world.
^.~
"Here she is Hideaki, your beloved sister," Hakaisha's evil voice exclaimed as Aya walked down from her podium. She seemed to float when she walked and then she hooked her arm to Hakaisha. "Such a delicate flower," he turned her head and brought his lips to hers and she didn't seem to mind at all but Hideaki did.
'I was right, he has been using her as... AS A BEDMATE! Damn him.' Hideaki stared at his sisters face. She seemed to be so happy to be held by his hands, his bloodsoaked hands. The blood of their mother. "Aya..."
She turned her beautiful face and her curly hair flew swiftly over her shoulder, "My Lord, who is this man; how does he know my name?" She spoke like a courtess: proper and calm.
Hideaki looked at Hakaisha with a dumbfounded exression, "What has happened to her?"
Hakaisha smirked and said, "It's been so long and she's forgotten all those terrible memories, including those with you."
'Bastard!' Hideaki walked up to his sister and grabbed her hand, pressing his lips to the back of it, "I'm sorry my Lady, I didn't meen to address you to improperly. I am Hideaki your Lord's faithful servant," he hated speaking to her like Hakaisha wanted him too.
She pulled back her hand and placed it on Hakaisha's chest, "Your man is more decent than I thought him to be."
Hakaisha placed a huge grin on his face signaling to Hideaki that he was in control and if he wanted his sisters safety, he'd not try anything, "Yes, Hideaki knows his place."
Sanosuke balled his right fist and whispered to Kenshin, "I knew he was lieing! He's just a fraud!"
Kenshin didn't believe so, he watched as Hideaki turned to him and gave him a sympathetic look, "He isn't lieing Sano, Hakaisha knows how bad he wants his sister back. All Hideaki can do is stand back and obey him, for his sisters life."
Sanosuke looked back at Aya and how her expression towards Hideaki showed no love or feelings. He was merely a servant to her, "I think you're right bud. She doesn't even seem to know him."
"You finally caught on didn't you Moron," Saito said with a small chuckle.
Hakaisha turned to Hideaki and said, "Take her back up the podium and keep her safe. Remember Hideaki, she's mine." Hideaki nodded and took her hand respectivly.
Once they walked a little Hideaki squeezed her hand, "Do you not remember me sister?"
Aya looked at him with confusion, "You must have me mistaken for someone else. I have no family, just Lord Hakaisha. No will you please ease your grip on my hand!"
He did so but he still had to awaken her memory, "Do you remember a time in your life when you lived in a small village and you had a small doll named Gina? It had red hair and blue eyes?"
Aya looked at him with annoyance and then she spoke with a tint of anger in her voice, "Listen you lowly servant! I never lived in a small POOR village but in a rich home it was always so that I...!" she stopped as she felt a little light headed, "Oh dear... I'm feeling rather tired, sit me down."
Hideaki got her up on the podium and sat her in a marbel chair, "What is it, Aya?"
She looked stricken and spoke firmly, "It's Lady Aya to the likes of your kind!"
"Will you listen to me! I need you to remember, remember everything before all this!" Hideaki had gripped tight to her hand again and she was struggling.
"Get your damn hands of me Kai!"
Hideaki looked at her with a shocked expression and then it softened to a smile, "Kai, that's what you used to call me when you were little."
Aya pulled back her hand trying to ignore what she and he said, "I don't know what you're talking about! But I know that I'm an only child, now if you will please excuse me, I will be watching this match. And if you try to pull that stunt on me again I'll be sure to have Lord Hakaisha take your head!"
Hideaki looked at her with a shocked expression, she really didn't remember. 'Is her memory damaged or does she choose no to remember? I'll get her to remember herself, even if it kills me.'
..."You know...," Hakaisha continued, "My master told me something about you when I was in here so long ago. He said that a man with a cross-shaped scar would come after us if we chose not to go after him. That you were a hunter that killed without a thought of mercy. I didn't believe him, but when I got word of his death the burning desire to kill you raged in my heart and has not ceased one tiny bit..." he paused and looked up at the orange sky, "I've seen and heard of men with such malace in their hearts but none of them match yours."
"You're wrong! Kenshin isn't that type of person anymore! You're speaking of a man named Battousai; this is Kenshin Himura, a wanderer and my friend. He's taught me things that wouldn't ever get through your thick head!" Sanosuke defended Kenshin but Hakaisha kept his eyes to the sky.
"Hitokiri Battousai; Kenshin Himura... there still the same man, in flesh and blood. He can never wipe away the blood of my master from his sword and hands!" He looked to Kenshin and then to Saito. He smirked and spoke calmly, "Battousai must be weaker now since he has to bring his sorry friends."
"Sorry friends?" Saito began, ""Sorry" is no where close to what I am and "friend" is not even a word anyone could call me. I suggest you do more research." Saito placed his hand on his sword and smirked, "If you choose not to i'll give you a demonstration."
"Yes, carefull what you say, those words could haunt you in the end," Aoshi said coldly.
Before Sanosuke could say anything Hakaisha started to laugh, "I don't see anything funny around here so I don't see why you're laughing!" Sanosuke yelled beginning to get ticked off.
Kenshin watched Hakaisha's moves; watched how he began to slide to the side with every chuckle.
Hakaisha looked up and said loudly, "It's suprising how you all think so highly of yourselves when I have the upper hand!" Kenshin looked down at a button on the floor. He turned around but before he could warn them they were surrounded by flames, above and around them. A cage concealed them and many snakes surrounded the fire. They were smaller versions of the Dokudokushii; they hissed at their every move.
"Hey this isn't fair, you coward, you're afraid that's why you locked us in here!" Sanosuke raged as he tried to break through the bars.
"You wont be able to break through that mental, it's the strongest of this time! Try as you might you wont purge it. And even if you do my young Dokudokushii's are begging for a meal. Also, call me a name I don't approve of again, your death will only be sooner."
Kenshin backed away from the snakes and flames and turned his attention back to Hakaisha, "are you that afraid of defeat that you would imprison my friends?" Kenshin said sturnfully.
"I'm hardly afraid! This battle is strickly between you and me!" Hakaisha pulled out his sword and licked it. "My blade would love to taste your blood. Yours will spill out just as my masters! Draw your sword."
Kenshin took his Battoujutsu stance and a chill ran down his spine, "Before we fight, I need to see the cure to the poison you inflicted in Kaoru."
"Ah yes, that woman of yours. Here..." Hakaisha pulled a pouch from his hip and pulled out a small vial of beige liquid, "This is it. You may have it IF you defeat me." Hakaisha put the pouch in his chair and turned back to Kenshin. "Your chapter ends here, the legend ends today."
Kenshin narrowed his eyes and sweat dropped from his face, 'Can I beat this man that has been planning for so long. Planning to kill me and finding everything that he could about my life and fighting technique? Hes...'
"Kenshin!" Sanosuke interrupted his thoughts. "Remember, Kaoru is counting on you. She knows you'll return to her. Believe you can beat this guy!"
Kenshin relaxed and smiled, "I'll win this battle for her if nothing else."
Hakaisha smirked and gripped his sword, "Foolish to put a woman before a battle."
'Kaoru...' Kenshin thought.
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Kenshin's smiling face and voice surrounded her in the darkness, 'I don't want to be here with just my memory of you!' Kaoru thought as she hugged herself. She began to cry and Kenshin began to fade from where she was before the pitch black returned he whispered, "Kaoru..."
Kaoru lifted her head to see his worried face fading from her view. She stood and extended her arms, "Come back to me Kenshin!"
**
Kenshin widened his eyes as Hakaisha charged, "Yhaaaaaaaa!" he yelled as he struck with Battoujutsu. Everything stopped.
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I'm sorry it's short but I wanted to make all the action happen in the next chapter. and that's where It'll all end so it's gaurenteed to be long. Tee hee hee!
Next Chapter: The CLIMAX!!!!!!!! Don't miss it and don't forget to bring the popcorn, it's gunna be a bloody and exciting one! Kaoru's life is fading. Kenshin better hurry up. Who knows how long her body can hold out. Wait a minute, what's this, a death, a betrayal, A trick, What the!? Tune in next time for the next chapter of Someone Like You!
REVIEW!
Hey peoples! I'm back, sorry I haven't updated sooner, I'm taking my time on these last few chapters because they are most important. ^.~
This Chapter: Kaoru isn't too well so we check on her and her condition, and trust me she's not getting better. Her only hope is Kenshin. We go back to Kakushibyou Temple to were we see everyone together having tea, just kidding! Hideaki see's his sister again after 13 years he see's her again but there is something strange about her. I'll leave the end of this chapter a mystery. ;-)
Reviewers:
Crystal Renee: Usually I get beat up for cliffhangers *looks at the bruses*
hitokirixbattousaix: You'll find out in due time, that you will ^_^X
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The Grief in a Woman's Heart
"Kaoru... Kaoru... Kaoru wake up, I'm home," Kaoru awoke to see two bright violet eyes staring down at her, "Welcome back Kaoru."
Kaoru jumped into his arms and held him tight, she cried happy tears on his shoulder as he spun her around. When he finished she just stared in his eyes wanting to ask a million questions: What happened? How did you save me? All these questions were running through her head yet none of them left her lips.
Her lips.
They were locked together, closed. She was unable to speak.
Kenshin's face started to darken.
Kaoru tried to scream his name but she couldn't open her mouth to make even a peep.
His face soon disappeared into darkness and she was being sucked into it. She was able to speak now but she had nothing to say. All she could hear was the screams of sorrow, grief and pain of her heart.
*
"What's wrong with her Dr. Gensai?" Yahiko asked looking at Kaoru's crying form. She was mumbling something while sleeping in her futon. The tears continued to fall each time Dr. Gensai wiped her eyes. Her mumbling was hypnotic. She was saying the same thing yet she wasn't saying anything at all.
"It's been 12 days Yahiko. Her dreams aren't making this easy. If Kenshin doesn't get here soon she will die," Dr. Gensai looked over at Yahiko who was running up to him.
Yahiko crouched down in front of him and balled his fists, "Don't say things like that! Kenshin will be here and Kaoru isn't going to die!"
"Yahiko...," Kaoru whispered.
He looked over and crawled over to her face, "What is it Kaoru?" Yahiko held a serious expression awaiting Kaoru's next responce.
"Little... Yahiko..." she cried out a scream of pain after. She then went back to her mumblings.
Yahiko wiped the tiny tears at the corners of his eyes, "Yeah... Little Yahiko here."
Dr. Gensai looked back into the room after he exited and sighed. After a while of walking he found Megumi picking fresh herbs, "He's so dogged, that Yahiko."
Megumi stopped brushing dirt from an herb and dropped it in her lap, "Dogged isn't the right word for Yahiko, more like tenacious: he believes that everything will be alright no matter how hopeless the situation is. So far everything he strived for and wished for has come true. This time, I'm not so sure." Megumi went back to pulling out herbs and crying her silent tears, hidden from the world.
^.~
"Here she is Hideaki, your beloved sister," Hakaisha's evil voice exclaimed as Aya walked down from her podium. She seemed to float when she walked and then she hooked her arm to Hakaisha. "Such a delicate flower," he turned her head and brought his lips to hers and she didn't seem to mind at all but Hideaki did.
'I was right, he has been using her as... AS A BEDMATE! Damn him.' Hideaki stared at his sisters face. She seemed to be so happy to be held by his hands, his bloodsoaked hands. The blood of their mother. "Aya..."
She turned her beautiful face and her curly hair flew swiftly over her shoulder, "My Lord, who is this man; how does he know my name?" She spoke like a courtess: proper and calm.
Hideaki looked at Hakaisha with a dumbfounded exression, "What has happened to her?"
Hakaisha smirked and said, "It's been so long and she's forgotten all those terrible memories, including those with you."
'Bastard!' Hideaki walked up to his sister and grabbed her hand, pressing his lips to the back of it, "I'm sorry my Lady, I didn't meen to address you to improperly. I am Hideaki your Lord's faithful servant," he hated speaking to her like Hakaisha wanted him too.
She pulled back her hand and placed it on Hakaisha's chest, "Your man is more decent than I thought him to be."
Hakaisha placed a huge grin on his face signaling to Hideaki that he was in control and if he wanted his sisters safety, he'd not try anything, "Yes, Hideaki knows his place."
Sanosuke balled his right fist and whispered to Kenshin, "I knew he was lieing! He's just a fraud!"
Kenshin didn't believe so, he watched as Hideaki turned to him and gave him a sympathetic look, "He isn't lieing Sano, Hakaisha knows how bad he wants his sister back. All Hideaki can do is stand back and obey him, for his sisters life."
Sanosuke looked back at Aya and how her expression towards Hideaki showed no love or feelings. He was merely a servant to her, "I think you're right bud. She doesn't even seem to know him."
"You finally caught on didn't you Moron," Saito said with a small chuckle.
Hakaisha turned to Hideaki and said, "Take her back up the podium and keep her safe. Remember Hideaki, she's mine." Hideaki nodded and took her hand respectivly.
Once they walked a little Hideaki squeezed her hand, "Do you not remember me sister?"
Aya looked at him with confusion, "You must have me mistaken for someone else. I have no family, just Lord Hakaisha. No will you please ease your grip on my hand!"
He did so but he still had to awaken her memory, "Do you remember a time in your life when you lived in a small village and you had a small doll named Gina? It had red hair and blue eyes?"
Aya looked at him with annoyance and then she spoke with a tint of anger in her voice, "Listen you lowly servant! I never lived in a small POOR village but in a rich home it was always so that I...!" she stopped as she felt a little light headed, "Oh dear... I'm feeling rather tired, sit me down."
Hideaki got her up on the podium and sat her in a marbel chair, "What is it, Aya?"
She looked stricken and spoke firmly, "It's Lady Aya to the likes of your kind!"
"Will you listen to me! I need you to remember, remember everything before all this!" Hideaki had gripped tight to her hand again and she was struggling.
"Get your damn hands of me Kai!"
Hideaki looked at her with a shocked expression and then it softened to a smile, "Kai, that's what you used to call me when you were little."
Aya pulled back her hand trying to ignore what she and he said, "I don't know what you're talking about! But I know that I'm an only child, now if you will please excuse me, I will be watching this match. And if you try to pull that stunt on me again I'll be sure to have Lord Hakaisha take your head!"
Hideaki looked at her with a shocked expression, she really didn't remember. 'Is her memory damaged or does she choose no to remember? I'll get her to remember herself, even if it kills me.'
..."You know...," Hakaisha continued, "My master told me something about you when I was in here so long ago. He said that a man with a cross-shaped scar would come after us if we chose not to go after him. That you were a hunter that killed without a thought of mercy. I didn't believe him, but when I got word of his death the burning desire to kill you raged in my heart and has not ceased one tiny bit..." he paused and looked up at the orange sky, "I've seen and heard of men with such malace in their hearts but none of them match yours."
"You're wrong! Kenshin isn't that type of person anymore! You're speaking of a man named Battousai; this is Kenshin Himura, a wanderer and my friend. He's taught me things that wouldn't ever get through your thick head!" Sanosuke defended Kenshin but Hakaisha kept his eyes to the sky.
"Hitokiri Battousai; Kenshin Himura... there still the same man, in flesh and blood. He can never wipe away the blood of my master from his sword and hands!" He looked to Kenshin and then to Saito. He smirked and spoke calmly, "Battousai must be weaker now since he has to bring his sorry friends."
"Sorry friends?" Saito began, ""Sorry" is no where close to what I am and "friend" is not even a word anyone could call me. I suggest you do more research." Saito placed his hand on his sword and smirked, "If you choose not to i'll give you a demonstration."
"Yes, carefull what you say, those words could haunt you in the end," Aoshi said coldly.
Before Sanosuke could say anything Hakaisha started to laugh, "I don't see anything funny around here so I don't see why you're laughing!" Sanosuke yelled beginning to get ticked off.
Kenshin watched Hakaisha's moves; watched how he began to slide to the side with every chuckle.
Hakaisha looked up and said loudly, "It's suprising how you all think so highly of yourselves when I have the upper hand!" Kenshin looked down at a button on the floor. He turned around but before he could warn them they were surrounded by flames, above and around them. A cage concealed them and many snakes surrounded the fire. They were smaller versions of the Dokudokushii; they hissed at their every move.
"Hey this isn't fair, you coward, you're afraid that's why you locked us in here!" Sanosuke raged as he tried to break through the bars.
"You wont be able to break through that mental, it's the strongest of this time! Try as you might you wont purge it. And even if you do my young Dokudokushii's are begging for a meal. Also, call me a name I don't approve of again, your death will only be sooner."
Kenshin backed away from the snakes and flames and turned his attention back to Hakaisha, "are you that afraid of defeat that you would imprison my friends?" Kenshin said sturnfully.
"I'm hardly afraid! This battle is strickly between you and me!" Hakaisha pulled out his sword and licked it. "My blade would love to taste your blood. Yours will spill out just as my masters! Draw your sword."
Kenshin took his Battoujutsu stance and a chill ran down his spine, "Before we fight, I need to see the cure to the poison you inflicted in Kaoru."
"Ah yes, that woman of yours. Here..." Hakaisha pulled a pouch from his hip and pulled out a small vial of beige liquid, "This is it. You may have it IF you defeat me." Hakaisha put the pouch in his chair and turned back to Kenshin. "Your chapter ends here, the legend ends today."
Kenshin narrowed his eyes and sweat dropped from his face, 'Can I beat this man that has been planning for so long. Planning to kill me and finding everything that he could about my life and fighting technique? Hes...'
"Kenshin!" Sanosuke interrupted his thoughts. "Remember, Kaoru is counting on you. She knows you'll return to her. Believe you can beat this guy!"
Kenshin relaxed and smiled, "I'll win this battle for her if nothing else."
Hakaisha smirked and gripped his sword, "Foolish to put a woman before a battle."
'Kaoru...' Kenshin thought.
**
Kenshin's smiling face and voice surrounded her in the darkness, 'I don't want to be here with just my memory of you!' Kaoru thought as she hugged herself. She began to cry and Kenshin began to fade from where she was before the pitch black returned he whispered, "Kaoru..."
Kaoru lifted her head to see his worried face fading from her view. She stood and extended her arms, "Come back to me Kenshin!"
**
Kenshin widened his eyes as Hakaisha charged, "Yhaaaaaaaa!" he yelled as he struck with Battoujutsu. Everything stopped.
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I'm sorry it's short but I wanted to make all the action happen in the next chapter. and that's where It'll all end so it's gaurenteed to be long. Tee hee hee!
Next Chapter: The CLIMAX!!!!!!!! Don't miss it and don't forget to bring the popcorn, it's gunna be a bloody and exciting one! Kaoru's life is fading. Kenshin better hurry up. Who knows how long her body can hold out. Wait a minute, what's this, a death, a betrayal, A trick, What the!? Tune in next time for the next chapter of Someone Like You!
REVIEW!