Chapter !~!~!~!~!~!~! THE CLIMAX!
Welcome Welcome! It's finally here: THE SUPER DUPERER HUMUNGERUS BATTLE OF THE STORY!!!! Tehehehehehehehehe! I'm finally back people, and I gaurentee you that this chapter will leave you at the end of your computer chair!
This Chapter: Kaoru is confronted by someone dear from Kenshin's past, can you guess? If you know already you should hear what she's going to tell Kaoru which helps her hold on longer. Hideaki watches the excitment in Aya's eyes as Hakaisha and Kenshin carrry on with their battle, he tries desperatly to remember something that will make his sister remember who she really is and was. He's got it, a song! and if you people watch Inuyasha and you know the 4th ending song for the credits of that show you'll know what song it is right now. We go to Sanosuke, Aoshi and Saito in the cage and each one of them will explain what has happened in their thoughts, but it'll seem as though they are talking to us. FINALLY we go to the BATTLE between KENSHIN IN THE RED CORNER vs. HAKAISHA IN THE BLUE! It all ends here, but WAIT, this isn't the last chapter, we still have to save Kaoru, or wont she be saved? All your questions will be answered in this and the next chapter.
REVIEWERS:
Rurouni Kaoru Kenshin's Love: Whoa Whoa Whoa, I never said Kaoru's gunna die, but if u want me to kill her, okay. You'll find out who breaks the bars ^^
Crystal Renee: I hope those pins and needles wont leave any scars. A DEATH HAHAHAH! It will come!
Disclaimer: *Ties Kenshin up and throws him in my closet with all my other Anime Hubbie.* I own him now ^.~
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For The One You Love
The muffled cry of a woman echoed through the darkness of her head. No one was around her but the memories of the one she loves the most leaving her, abandoning her to nothingness. "I don't want to be alone."
"She's going," Dr. Gensai said as he checked Kaoru's weakening pulse.
Kaoru heard this and saw them all above her. She rose and tried to run to them but all she was doing was distancing herself from them, "Wait, come back!"
"Damn you Kenshin!" Yahiko screamed as he slammed his bleeding fist into the floor of the dojo.
"Yahiko," Kaoru whispered then yelled, "Yahiko!"
Megumi covered her mouth and looked at Dr. Gensai with shock, "She can't be dieing!"
Kaoru grabbed her throat and started to cry, "I can't breathe without you," she said. She fell to her knees and then rested her head on the floor, "Ken-shin..."
"She's gone, I'm..." Dr. Gensai began to cry, "Kaoru, you're just like a daughter to me."
Yahiko couldn't believe it and he ran out the dojo and threw up in the bushes, he looked at the hanging laundry and ripped it down. He grabbed a white sheet and began to tear it and he said, "Why didn't you come?"
Yahiko dropped to his knees and looked up, once he did he saw an image of an angel, "Wow..." he said as the spirit touched him on the cheek, he smiled and fell to sleep with a tear-stained smile.
Megumi turned away not daring to look at Kaoru's lifeless body. The spirit kneeld before her and wiped the tiny tears streaming down her face, "An- angel." Megumi also smiled and visted the same sleep with Yahiko.
Dr. Gensai was sobbing harder than the other two before. The spirit stroked his back and slowly laid him down to rest.
It looked over Kaoru's body and laid down in it...
Kaoru was in the same sleep as Yahiko, Megumi and Dr. Gensai, until the lovely spirit tapped her on the lips. Kaoru's eyes began to flutter under her eylids until they slowly opened to see a beautiful woman she saw once before.
"Yes, I am..."
"Tomoe," Kaoru finished for her as she sat up.
Tomoe was wearing a beautiful summer kimono that was full with every color imaginable. Her face glowed with a white light and her lovely smile made her glow even more.
Kaoru adjusted her eyes to adapt to the bright light until she started crying, which blurred her vision. Then she asked through tears, "Why are you hear."
Tomoe's smile only got softer, "I was sent to take you to Kami," her tone was calm and gental.
Kaoru looked at herself glow with the same light as Tomoe, "No, I can't go yet! Kenshin is out there fighting for me! I can't die, I can't leave him alone!" Kaoru balled her fists and brought them to her chest, "You can't take me."
Tomoe slightly laughed and said, "I knew you'd react this way, I've been watching you two for years, knowing that you two would only fall into each others pain of loss. You lost your mother and father and Kenshin lost me. Both of your losses brought you two together and I was assigned to watch over you and make sure you two would never be sepearated, and then this happens.
Where us spirits go, we can watch our loved ones at any time. I've been watching you two and I have the sight to see the future..."
Kaoru placed her hands on Tomoe's shoulders, "What do you see? Is Kenshin going to die!?"
Tomoe smiled and placed her own hands on Kaoru's, her gental voice rang around the darkness, "Yes."
Kaoru began to cry harder, "No."
Tomoe grabbed her head and placed it on her chest, "Stop your crying, there is a way to stop this."
Kaoru's head shot up, "What?! I don't want him to be alone like how I am now."
"Kaoru, are you afraid of being of alone, or Kenshin?"
Kaoru was about to speak until she thought, then she said what she really meant, "I don't want to be without him."
"Do you love him?"
"I do..." Her eyes began to stop their tears as she could say something that brought her true joy, "Yes, I love him."
Tomoe's smile brightened, "And he loves you two." She paused and said what Kami refused her to say, "If you love him, and wish for him to be happy forever with all your heart, then he will be saved."
Kaoru smiled but couldn't sustain it as she wanted to burst with joy, "I love him with everything in me, I want him to be happy, forever. I never want him to turn back into that lonely manslayer ever, ever again."
Tomoe turned and waved her arm and showed Kenshin's thoughts, "To save you, you need to know if Kenshin loves you all the same, and if that fire that burns inside your heart blazes brighter, you will live."
Kaoru took the orb created by her and smiled with joy as happy tears fell down her face. There, in the orb, she saw all the times Kenshin and her spent together, how they hugged when he left for Kyoto, and how every time he closed his eyes he saw her face. Then she saw what she needed the most: a blurry image of Kenshin and her having a child.
Tomoe felt the tear slide down her cheek and fall on her backhand, 'How I wish things were different back then so we could have been together.' She wiped the tear and took the orb from Kaoru's hands. "Now that you've seen the love within him, how do you feel?"
Kaoru's bangs concealed her eyes, "I always wanted to know about you and Kenshin and how things came to pass, but I need no explination. Death seperated you two and the reason you've come to me is because you don't want that to happen to Kenshin again..."
Tomoe windened her eyes, then she smiled, "I would break the rules made from Kami to keep him happy, even if I can't bring that happiness to him personally."
"I understand that, and now that I know you do I can say..." Kaoru lifted her head and the white light surrounding her body left her, "...I love Kenshin, and he loves me!"
Yahiko, Megumi and Dr. Gensai all awoke and without warning or any thought looked at Kaoru's body.
"Take care of yourself Kaoru, I'll be watching over you both, always," with that Tomoe began to rise out of Kaoru's body.
Kaoru watched as the darkness began to fade and she felt a rush run through her chest and she couldn't stop it.
"Look!" Megumi yelled as Kaoru opened her mouth and took in a huge gasp of air.
"She's- she's alive!" Yahiko and Dr. Gensai said in unison.
Kaoru's, once again living body opened their eyes fully which they haven't done in such a long time without a look of pain in them. They were soft and tired and everyone in the room crowded around her and grabbed her hands.
"Yahiko, Megumi, Dr. Gensai, I wont die. No- not when Kenshin is out there fighting to save me," Kaoru's voice was sleepy (A/N: it would be since she was sleeping for 12 days -_-) but she felt so alive even though nearly every part of her body was paralyzed, she was blessed enough to be able to move her lips to speak to her friends.
"Yahiko, don't be mad at Kenshin, he's doing his best to get to me; he'll come."
Yahiko looked at her and laughed, "I was never mad at Kenshin, I've always thought he was gonna save you- ouch!" Megumi pinched his arm knowing he was lieing.
Kaoru did her best to laugh but her lungs hurt too much. "I'll try to stay awake as long as I can, but will you all do me a favor..."
"What Kaoru?" Megumi asked.
"Bring me a beef pot from the Akeabeko," and she fell to peaceful slumber.
They all chuckled a little and then bursted into laughter, "It's true we all haven't been to the Akeabeko in a while," Yahiko said rolling on the floor.
Megumi dried her eyes and went to the door. They all looked at her strangely and she smiled, "I'm going to invite Tae over and we'll all have a beef pot on behalf of Kaoru. It will be on me."
Yahiko ran to her and said, "I'll go too!"
Dr. Gensai left the room for a second and brought in a sleeping Ayame and Suzume. He set them next to Kaoru and hummed a little tune until Megumi and Yahiko arrived with Tae and a huge feast.
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"Bring him down my Lord!" Aya yelled as she watched Kenshin and Hakaisha battling, both of them seemed to be even in strength and wounds. No one seemed to be gaining and no one seemed to be losing.
Hideaki hated watching how seeing the blood of those two men brought joy to her eyes. She was hanging off the edge of her seat waiting for the next bloody attack on Kenshin.
He was standing beside her chair with his arms crossed, though he was watching the battle go on, he was also thinking of a way to reach his sister. He'd been through things in her life that she played with: the horse that their father had always rode out to battle with, he'd gave it to him and Hideaki let Aya have him, but he'd always be with her when she rode it. There was the kimono she always wore that was made by their mother, though she had stained it with mud and grass, she never took it off until the day it made a ripp top big to be repaired. She cried for days after that. He remembered the songs their mother had sung to them when they were young. Then is hit him.
Aya took a sip of her sake and sighed, "Why is it taking forever for Lord Hakaisha to kill this weakling?"
Hideaki coughed to get her attention and kneeld in front of her, "M'lady, would you like me to entertain you with a song? My voice is very pleasing, enough for Lord Hakaisha."
Aya clapped her hands twice, "I hope you are a very good singer Hideaki, I haven't heard one in months. All the entertainers My Lord has sent me where horrible."
Hideaki coughed again and began to sing, "Tell me babe, how many do I shed my tears?
Every Heart, Every Heart is not a gentle yet. Shall I do? I can never say my loneliness.
Every Heart doesn't know so what to say oh what to do..." Hideaki kept singing and watched as the expression of pleasure changed to confusion on his sisters face.
'His voice is beautiful yes, but what is it about him that is making me feel dizzy?' Her eyelids began to feel heavy and when they closed flashes of her past flew before her eyes. 'What is this?'
'It's working,' Hideaki thought as he moved to the chorus, "Round & Round the planets revolve round the sun
And we always seek after love and peace, Forever more
Growing growing woe baby we can work it out.
Look up at the sky, Every Heart is shining all today."
Aya's lips began to move but no word escaped, 'Who is this woman? Why does she look so much like me? And this man, it's Hideaki, the servant, why do I see him...' Her eyes opened as she remembered. She began to sing with Hideaki...
"Goes & Goes the time goes on we are not alone
We live on together and we will find some precious things
Sometime we will smile sometime we will cry somehow
Don't forget believing yourself - Tomorrow's never die."
They looked at each other with shock in their eyes, then Aya burst into tears, "Kai!"
"Aya!" He stood and she wraped her arms around his waist, "How could I have forgotten about Mother, you, everything." She gripped her brother tighter as she remember the day when she was taken away from him, how the man she called her Lord, her lover, had killed their mother. "I'm nothing now, how could I come back to you when I've shamed our family by going with this man? It's not right."
"I don't care about that, it doesn't matter to me now," he said and then looked in his sisters dewy eyes, "Has that monster touched you? If he has, I'll kill him now!"
"No brother, I am still innocent. My Lor-, I mean, that Hakaisha was going to take me after he won the battle against Himura," Aya grew relieved as she hugged herself being thankful that she didn't go any farther that kissing him, but even that caused her to be sick. "Brother..." she recalled all the devilish things she did for Hakaisha, all the men and woman she killed for him to gain such power.
She fainted in Hideaki's arms, "Aya, Aya?!" She was out cold. He gentally laid her in the chair and kissed her cheek, "I will be back sister, but first I have to find a way to help Himura."
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"Yha! Yha!" Sanosuke used every Futeanokiwami attack against the bars that barricaded them. "This isn't giving away at all, no matter how hard I hit it."
"The point is that this metal is meant to keep us in and not be broken," Saito explained as he leaned against the bars.
"Don't you even care if we die in here," Sanosuke yelled kicking the bars and ended up hurting his toe, "Youch!"
"I don't care if YOU die, but I will not."
Aoshi looked around every part of the cage they were in, not seeing or feeling one flaw in it. It was truely the perfect metal. "Even with our power attacking this all together we wont be able to break through it. The only way out is for someone to set us free from here."
Aoshi leaned against the bars across from Saito, "What if they attack us from inside?"
"I'll be ready," Saito's eyes were closed but there was a sound of pleasure in his tone.
Sanosuke sat down and crossed her arms, "I'm taking a break, once I regain a little of my strength and the swelling in my hand dies down, I'll be at it again," he said to himself. He looked at the flames in front of him and though, 'As soon as this started I had a bad feeling about this. Yeah, Kenshin is a strong guy but so is Hakaisha. The first attack hit Kenshin pretty hard; with his reverse blade sword the Battoujutsu was slow and Hakaisha's attack was quick enough to reach Kenshin left arm and break the skin. That changed everything, Kenshin's bleeding pretty bad and he's moving slower than before. With me in here, there's no way I can wrap the wound. I hope Missy is holding out alright, Kenshin needs her right now."
Aoshi looked at Sanosuke and stared at the flames too, 'The Battousai is doing well now, he managed to use a second Battoujutsu to crush the ribs on Hakaisha's left side. He can't manuvuer as well as before. The Battousai also was able to crush Hakaisha's left fingers once he switched his sword; one of his attack was to switch the sword with such speed that the apponent will still think it in the other hand and attack there and he would be able to take down his apponent easily.'
'This is very boring...' Saito thought as he watched the battle rage on, 'Everytime I see the Battousai and he gets stronger in some way, but now he's being attacked the wounded and there is much power in him that could kill Hakaisha, but he still believes in not taking life, that all people should have the right to live. It's very annoying hearing him say that, over and over. Hakaisha has him injured across his back, his chest. Next..." a smile came across his lips, "Maybe his head."
Sanosuke heard this and turned to him, "Whose head? I know you're not talking about Kenshin!" Sanosuke got up and grabbed Saito's police uniform, "you better not be thinking about hurting Kenshin in that thick head of yours; if you are, it will be your head not Kenshin's."
Saito punched Sanosuke in the stomach but Sanosuke ignored it, "I see you've learn how to resist strong punches, but you still have no defense."
Sanosuke let him go and turned away rubbing him stomach, "Geez, that hurt," he whispered.
Aoshi heard footsteps and turned his gaze to see Hideaki running behind the cage, flames and snakes to a door. Aoshi turned his head back to see Saito noticed but Sanosuke was still gripping his stomach, "Hideaki is up to something." They watched as Hideaki climbed the steps that lead to a door, the three didn't know what he was up too, but they were ready for whatever might come to them.
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Kenshin jumped back and breathed deeply, they'd been fighting none stop for 5 minutes. (A/N: Don't go "5 minutes, that's a little bit!" Lets see you run around attacking as hard as you can and dodgeing attacks for 5 minutes!) Hakaisha was breathing deeply also, they both stared at each other thinking of their next move and what would be a good enough attack to finally bring their apponent down.
Kenshin could feel his warm blood drip down his back, arm and chest. The wounds weren't fatal but they did slow him down, as his strides were slower and his vision became blurrier.
Hakaisha's fingers on his left hand were throbbing and swelling, every bone in them were crushed and he could only make one handed attacks. He was holding up well but being unable to weild his powerful attacks made things much harder.
'I can't kill him, he still has much time in his life to repent for everything he's ever done. If I turn my blade now, I will be going against everything I ever believed in. I might even return to being a manslayer. I have to use the Amakakeru Ryu No Hiromeki against him, it's the only way to show him.'
Hakaisha tried to move his broken fingers, the pain was extreme but he kept flexing, he had to use his ultimate attack, the one attack his master taught him before he died. The Kaibutsu Toushin the lethal attack that slices in an instant. One wrong move from the one who weilds it can slice through you rather than your apponent. 'Dispite my fingers being broken , I'll use it, I want this to be over. This is the first time in my life where i've been injured so badly. I will kill him, and then i'll get my prizes, avenging my master, watching him die, taking Aya to my bed and making Hideaki watch. Hahaha, I can just see Hideaki's face now..." Hakaisha looked up and saw Aya in the chair sleeping. 'Why hasn't he taken her to her bed?' He looked around for Hideaki and saw him climbing the stars on the mountain to the door that would ruin all his plans. "Damn him!"
Kenshin looked up to where Hakaisha was glaring and saw Hideaki, running up the stairs. 'I must save him.' Once he cast his gaze back on Hakaisha, he was gone. He was chasing after Hideaki. "Oh, no!" Kenshin yelled and chased after him.
Hideaki looked back and saw Hakaisha gaining on him; he began to run faster. He reached the door and opened it to find the handle that would set Saito, Sanosuke and Aoshi free. He reached for it and right when he did Hakaisha's sword went through his back.
"KAI!!!" Aya said waking up to hear her brother scream out.
Hakaisha moved in closer to Hideaki's face and said turning his sword withing Hideaki, "You've made your sister remember and you tried to let them free, well, you failed. I knew I should have killed you along with your mother.
Hideaki screamed in agony and as his body fell he pulled the handle down with him.
The Dokudokushii's ran off, the fire died down and the cage fell to pieces. Aoshi and Sanosuke ran up the stairs towards them and Saito went another direction.
"That's... what you ge-t you... bastard," Hideaki said as Hakaisha pulled out his sword from his back.
"Damnit!" Hakaisha screamed and turned. He saw Kenshin approaching his sword sheated and his hand on the hilt. "Now, Prepare to die!"
"Oh, no Kenshin!!!" Sanosuke yelled as the both ran towards each other.
'This is it!' Kenshin thought, he saw Kaoru's face flash in his head as she held out her hand, saying, "Welcome home Kenshin." "Yhaaaaaa!"
"Yahaaaaa!" Hakaisha yelled as he spun his sword with his left hand and twirled it over his head. "Be gone!" He dived with his sword as it twirled claw like needles escaped the sword and struck Kenshin's flesh.
Kenshin knocked his sword away and said, "This is for Miss Kaoru!" He released the Amakakeru Ryu No Hiromeki on Hakaisha and he flew into the air, left on his chest was a deep slash mark.
"My revenge..." Hakaisha whispered as his battered body fell down the mountain; his bones began to break and his skin was torn from is body, as he reached the rocks below him, his head was crushed.
Kenshin turned his head away and said, "I did not wish to hurt you, that I did not but the evil in your heart, drove you to your death." Kenshin felt light headed and fell back.
"Kenshin!" Sanosuke yelled as he caught him under the arms, "Geez, buddy you had us going there." Sanosuke smiled and threw one of Kenshin's arms over his shoulder. "Lets get you back to Missy."
Kenshin held up is head a little, "Wait Sano, we need to get th-the cure, for her ill-ness, that we do." The pain was growing as his body began to go numb and he began to shake.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot," Aoshi took Kenshin from Sanosuke and he ran do the steps to Hakaisha's chair. Once he got to the bottom he met Saito holding it in his hands. "Hey, whats the big idea?"
Saito looked at the bottle saying, "this..." he threw it on the floor and he said, "is a fake."
Kenshin looked up and said, "What?"
"That was the same poison injected in your woman Battousai, if she would have taken in more of that, she would have died right in your arms."
Sanosuke balled his fist and kicked the broken glass and poison away, "You mean there never was a cure! That we came here only for Kenshin to fight that guy! Damnit!"
Kenshin dropped his head, "Miss Kaoru, I'm sorry, that I am."
"Kenshin Himura," a voice came from the side of them. Through the doors came a bandaged Shikaku. He used his sword to support him and in one of his hands he held a bottle of clear liquid.
"Shinja," Kenshin called by his real name. Kenshin watched as he came closer and as he did he extended the arm holding the bottle. "Is that...?"
"The Futoueki chiyu, the cure you were looking for. Hakaisha wanted me to hide it from you so when you came and fought and if their was a chance you'd win you'd just end up killing the person you want to save." His voice was shaky but kind.
"How do we know you're not lieing?" Saito asked giving him a cold stare.
Shinja looked up at him and said, "I am grateful to Himura for saving me from Hakaisha, I have no intention to betray him, i'd be glad to take some of that poison on the ground into my mouth and then take the cure."
"I still don't believe him Kenshin," Sanosuke said looking at the bottle in his hands.
"I can sense in him that he has truly changed, that I can. Sano, take the bottle and we must find a way to hurry back to Tokyo, I believe Miss Kaoru has 2 day left, that she does." Kenshin fell unconscious after he said that.
Sanosuke took the bottle from Shinja and turned to Saito, "Can you get one of your carriages over here, riding as fast as we can, how long would it take to reach Tokyo?"
Saito crossed his arms and began to exit, "Normally I only send for carriages when I'm after someone but i'll make an exception now: the Battousai did win and that give me a chance to fight him again-"
"Just answer the question!" Sanosuke yelled becoming impatient.
"2 days, at the most."
"Fine, we gotta hurry, we don't have much time left."
After Sanosuke said that they all began to run out through wence they came and reached the outside where Saito called for a carriage.
Shinja looked down the mountain to see Hakaisha's dead body and the city below who were just about to ignite their lights. The moon was already up as the sky began to turn orange.
"Kai!" Aya called and Shinja turned and watched her.
"Kai!" Aya did her best to run up the stairs, she removed the delicate sandals she wore at her feet and ripped off the many layers of her kimono, she was hardly dressed when she reached her brothers bloody body.
She lifted his head on her lap and stroked his face, "Kai, Kai! Don't leave me please, don't," she cried and laid her face on his, she turned her head and kissed her brothers lips, "it's my fault you had to die," she spoke and kissed her brothers face, "I'm so sorry."
(Okay, perv's they aren't THOSE kind of brother and sister. They just really love each other, though there aren't many of those relationships, this is one!)
Hideaki opened his eyes and said quietly Aya, "I love you, my sister..."
She rose her head and sobbed harder, "I love you too brother." She watched as he breathed his final breath and exhaled. "NO!!!!" She yelled and hugged her brother's lifeless body.
She stood and dragged her brothers lifeless body to the edge of the mountain and looked down and the river below. She fell to her knees and placed her brothers arm around her shoulder, "I'm coming." She then fell began to fall forwards.
"No! Lady Aya!" Shinja ran with his swordsman speed and caught her arm before she could fall down the mountain and into the raging rapids.
Aya opened her eyes to see herself still on the mountain and how her brothers body float down the river. She widened her eyes and started to fight, "Let me go, I want to die, I don't deserve to live after all that I've done! Please!"
Shinja gripped her other arm and turned her to face him, "Lady Aya, look at me!" He stared at her beautiful face and remembered all the times he wished she was HIS. He looked over her and how she was barely clothed and her light complextion glowed in the setting sun.
Aya opened her eyes to see him, the swordsman of Hakaisha. He was staring at her with love. She began to softly cry as she hugged him in a tight embrace. "We don't deserve to live for all the tings we've done," she breathed in his ear.
Shinja looked down at the rapids below and sighed, "I know." He pushed himself against her and they both met their death in each others arms.
(What is up with everyone falling off the mountain? O.o???)
Kenshin could sense each one of their deaths as the carriage shook over the rocks under it. He could feel the tears falling from the corners of his eyes as he lay on the soft seat of the wide carriage. Sanosuke and Aoshi were bandaging his wounds while Saito sat up front with the driver.
'I'm sorry I couldn't be there for you all,' Kenshin thought as a bright light shined over his eyes, he thought it was the setting sun coming in from the window but it was Tomoe's spirit.
"You're only human, Kenshin," Tomoe said.
"Tomoe," Kenshin spoke quietly, Sanosuke looked at him, not being able to see Tomoe.
"Rest now Kenshin, you need to regain your strength," Sanosuke then went back to tending to the wound on his arm.
'You're back,' Kenshin thought, thinking that that was the way to talk to her without being noticed by Sanosuke or Aoshi. 'Tomoe, what are you doing here?'
Tomoe kissed Kenshin's cheek and whispers in his ear, "She's waiting for you, she's holding on as tight as she can so she can see you. Rest now and when you wake, you'll have to save her. You belong with her now, it is your duty to take care of her."
Kenshin closed his eyes and swallowed, thinking of what he'd say next to her; when he opened them back up she was gone. He turned his head to find only Sanosuke and Aoshi. He smiled and whispered in a breath, "I'm coming home Miss Kaoru."
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HAHAHAHAHAH! How did you like that!
There was a lot of deaths in this chapter, when I said in the last chapter, "A death" but at least I didn't fully kill Kaoru! You never know if in the last chapter i'll kill her and leave Kenshin alone and then kill Kenshin and then...! I'm just kidding, I'm not going to tell you whats gunna happen next, but I'll give you a hint it has to do with the title of the story, the title will be explained in the next chapter. I hope you all can wait a while because I need to make the next one really good or you all will kill me.
Song sung by Hideaki: Every Heart- BoA
REVIEW!
Welcome Welcome! It's finally here: THE SUPER DUPERER HUMUNGERUS BATTLE OF THE STORY!!!! Tehehehehehehehehe! I'm finally back people, and I gaurentee you that this chapter will leave you at the end of your computer chair!
This Chapter: Kaoru is confronted by someone dear from Kenshin's past, can you guess? If you know already you should hear what she's going to tell Kaoru which helps her hold on longer. Hideaki watches the excitment in Aya's eyes as Hakaisha and Kenshin carrry on with their battle, he tries desperatly to remember something that will make his sister remember who she really is and was. He's got it, a song! and if you people watch Inuyasha and you know the 4th ending song for the credits of that show you'll know what song it is right now. We go to Sanosuke, Aoshi and Saito in the cage and each one of them will explain what has happened in their thoughts, but it'll seem as though they are talking to us. FINALLY we go to the BATTLE between KENSHIN IN THE RED CORNER vs. HAKAISHA IN THE BLUE! It all ends here, but WAIT, this isn't the last chapter, we still have to save Kaoru, or wont she be saved? All your questions will be answered in this and the next chapter.
REVIEWERS:
Rurouni Kaoru Kenshin's Love: Whoa Whoa Whoa, I never said Kaoru's gunna die, but if u want me to kill her, okay. You'll find out who breaks the bars ^^
Crystal Renee: I hope those pins and needles wont leave any scars. A DEATH HAHAHAH! It will come!
Disclaimer: *Ties Kenshin up and throws him in my closet with all my other Anime Hubbie.* I own him now ^.~
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For The One You Love
The muffled cry of a woman echoed through the darkness of her head. No one was around her but the memories of the one she loves the most leaving her, abandoning her to nothingness. "I don't want to be alone."
"She's going," Dr. Gensai said as he checked Kaoru's weakening pulse.
Kaoru heard this and saw them all above her. She rose and tried to run to them but all she was doing was distancing herself from them, "Wait, come back!"
"Damn you Kenshin!" Yahiko screamed as he slammed his bleeding fist into the floor of the dojo.
"Yahiko," Kaoru whispered then yelled, "Yahiko!"
Megumi covered her mouth and looked at Dr. Gensai with shock, "She can't be dieing!"
Kaoru grabbed her throat and started to cry, "I can't breathe without you," she said. She fell to her knees and then rested her head on the floor, "Ken-shin..."
"She's gone, I'm..." Dr. Gensai began to cry, "Kaoru, you're just like a daughter to me."
Yahiko couldn't believe it and he ran out the dojo and threw up in the bushes, he looked at the hanging laundry and ripped it down. He grabbed a white sheet and began to tear it and he said, "Why didn't you come?"
Yahiko dropped to his knees and looked up, once he did he saw an image of an angel, "Wow..." he said as the spirit touched him on the cheek, he smiled and fell to sleep with a tear-stained smile.
Megumi turned away not daring to look at Kaoru's lifeless body. The spirit kneeld before her and wiped the tiny tears streaming down her face, "An- angel." Megumi also smiled and visted the same sleep with Yahiko.
Dr. Gensai was sobbing harder than the other two before. The spirit stroked his back and slowly laid him down to rest.
It looked over Kaoru's body and laid down in it...
Kaoru was in the same sleep as Yahiko, Megumi and Dr. Gensai, until the lovely spirit tapped her on the lips. Kaoru's eyes began to flutter under her eylids until they slowly opened to see a beautiful woman she saw once before.
"Yes, I am..."
"Tomoe," Kaoru finished for her as she sat up.
Tomoe was wearing a beautiful summer kimono that was full with every color imaginable. Her face glowed with a white light and her lovely smile made her glow even more.
Kaoru adjusted her eyes to adapt to the bright light until she started crying, which blurred her vision. Then she asked through tears, "Why are you hear."
Tomoe's smile only got softer, "I was sent to take you to Kami," her tone was calm and gental.
Kaoru looked at herself glow with the same light as Tomoe, "No, I can't go yet! Kenshin is out there fighting for me! I can't die, I can't leave him alone!" Kaoru balled her fists and brought them to her chest, "You can't take me."
Tomoe slightly laughed and said, "I knew you'd react this way, I've been watching you two for years, knowing that you two would only fall into each others pain of loss. You lost your mother and father and Kenshin lost me. Both of your losses brought you two together and I was assigned to watch over you and make sure you two would never be sepearated, and then this happens.
Where us spirits go, we can watch our loved ones at any time. I've been watching you two and I have the sight to see the future..."
Kaoru placed her hands on Tomoe's shoulders, "What do you see? Is Kenshin going to die!?"
Tomoe smiled and placed her own hands on Kaoru's, her gental voice rang around the darkness, "Yes."
Kaoru began to cry harder, "No."
Tomoe grabbed her head and placed it on her chest, "Stop your crying, there is a way to stop this."
Kaoru's head shot up, "What?! I don't want him to be alone like how I am now."
"Kaoru, are you afraid of being of alone, or Kenshin?"
Kaoru was about to speak until she thought, then she said what she really meant, "I don't want to be without him."
"Do you love him?"
"I do..." Her eyes began to stop their tears as she could say something that brought her true joy, "Yes, I love him."
Tomoe's smile brightened, "And he loves you two." She paused and said what Kami refused her to say, "If you love him, and wish for him to be happy forever with all your heart, then he will be saved."
Kaoru smiled but couldn't sustain it as she wanted to burst with joy, "I love him with everything in me, I want him to be happy, forever. I never want him to turn back into that lonely manslayer ever, ever again."
Tomoe turned and waved her arm and showed Kenshin's thoughts, "To save you, you need to know if Kenshin loves you all the same, and if that fire that burns inside your heart blazes brighter, you will live."
Kaoru took the orb created by her and smiled with joy as happy tears fell down her face. There, in the orb, she saw all the times Kenshin and her spent together, how they hugged when he left for Kyoto, and how every time he closed his eyes he saw her face. Then she saw what she needed the most: a blurry image of Kenshin and her having a child.
Tomoe felt the tear slide down her cheek and fall on her backhand, 'How I wish things were different back then so we could have been together.' She wiped the tear and took the orb from Kaoru's hands. "Now that you've seen the love within him, how do you feel?"
Kaoru's bangs concealed her eyes, "I always wanted to know about you and Kenshin and how things came to pass, but I need no explination. Death seperated you two and the reason you've come to me is because you don't want that to happen to Kenshin again..."
Tomoe windened her eyes, then she smiled, "I would break the rules made from Kami to keep him happy, even if I can't bring that happiness to him personally."
"I understand that, and now that I know you do I can say..." Kaoru lifted her head and the white light surrounding her body left her, "...I love Kenshin, and he loves me!"
Yahiko, Megumi and Dr. Gensai all awoke and without warning or any thought looked at Kaoru's body.
"Take care of yourself Kaoru, I'll be watching over you both, always," with that Tomoe began to rise out of Kaoru's body.
Kaoru watched as the darkness began to fade and she felt a rush run through her chest and she couldn't stop it.
"Look!" Megumi yelled as Kaoru opened her mouth and took in a huge gasp of air.
"She's- she's alive!" Yahiko and Dr. Gensai said in unison.
Kaoru's, once again living body opened their eyes fully which they haven't done in such a long time without a look of pain in them. They were soft and tired and everyone in the room crowded around her and grabbed her hands.
"Yahiko, Megumi, Dr. Gensai, I wont die. No- not when Kenshin is out there fighting to save me," Kaoru's voice was sleepy (A/N: it would be since she was sleeping for 12 days -_-) but she felt so alive even though nearly every part of her body was paralyzed, she was blessed enough to be able to move her lips to speak to her friends.
"Yahiko, don't be mad at Kenshin, he's doing his best to get to me; he'll come."
Yahiko looked at her and laughed, "I was never mad at Kenshin, I've always thought he was gonna save you- ouch!" Megumi pinched his arm knowing he was lieing.
Kaoru did her best to laugh but her lungs hurt too much. "I'll try to stay awake as long as I can, but will you all do me a favor..."
"What Kaoru?" Megumi asked.
"Bring me a beef pot from the Akeabeko," and she fell to peaceful slumber.
They all chuckled a little and then bursted into laughter, "It's true we all haven't been to the Akeabeko in a while," Yahiko said rolling on the floor.
Megumi dried her eyes and went to the door. They all looked at her strangely and she smiled, "I'm going to invite Tae over and we'll all have a beef pot on behalf of Kaoru. It will be on me."
Yahiko ran to her and said, "I'll go too!"
Dr. Gensai left the room for a second and brought in a sleeping Ayame and Suzume. He set them next to Kaoru and hummed a little tune until Megumi and Yahiko arrived with Tae and a huge feast.
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"Bring him down my Lord!" Aya yelled as she watched Kenshin and Hakaisha battling, both of them seemed to be even in strength and wounds. No one seemed to be gaining and no one seemed to be losing.
Hideaki hated watching how seeing the blood of those two men brought joy to her eyes. She was hanging off the edge of her seat waiting for the next bloody attack on Kenshin.
He was standing beside her chair with his arms crossed, though he was watching the battle go on, he was also thinking of a way to reach his sister. He'd been through things in her life that she played with: the horse that their father had always rode out to battle with, he'd gave it to him and Hideaki let Aya have him, but he'd always be with her when she rode it. There was the kimono she always wore that was made by their mother, though she had stained it with mud and grass, she never took it off until the day it made a ripp top big to be repaired. She cried for days after that. He remembered the songs their mother had sung to them when they were young. Then is hit him.
Aya took a sip of her sake and sighed, "Why is it taking forever for Lord Hakaisha to kill this weakling?"
Hideaki coughed to get her attention and kneeld in front of her, "M'lady, would you like me to entertain you with a song? My voice is very pleasing, enough for Lord Hakaisha."
Aya clapped her hands twice, "I hope you are a very good singer Hideaki, I haven't heard one in months. All the entertainers My Lord has sent me where horrible."
Hideaki coughed again and began to sing, "Tell me babe, how many do I shed my tears?
Every Heart, Every Heart is not a gentle yet. Shall I do? I can never say my loneliness.
Every Heart doesn't know so what to say oh what to do..." Hideaki kept singing and watched as the expression of pleasure changed to confusion on his sisters face.
'His voice is beautiful yes, but what is it about him that is making me feel dizzy?' Her eyelids began to feel heavy and when they closed flashes of her past flew before her eyes. 'What is this?'
'It's working,' Hideaki thought as he moved to the chorus, "Round & Round the planets revolve round the sun
And we always seek after love and peace, Forever more
Growing growing woe baby we can work it out.
Look up at the sky, Every Heart is shining all today."
Aya's lips began to move but no word escaped, 'Who is this woman? Why does she look so much like me? And this man, it's Hideaki, the servant, why do I see him...' Her eyes opened as she remembered. She began to sing with Hideaki...
"Goes & Goes the time goes on we are not alone
We live on together and we will find some precious things
Sometime we will smile sometime we will cry somehow
Don't forget believing yourself - Tomorrow's never die."
They looked at each other with shock in their eyes, then Aya burst into tears, "Kai!"
"Aya!" He stood and she wraped her arms around his waist, "How could I have forgotten about Mother, you, everything." She gripped her brother tighter as she remember the day when she was taken away from him, how the man she called her Lord, her lover, had killed their mother. "I'm nothing now, how could I come back to you when I've shamed our family by going with this man? It's not right."
"I don't care about that, it doesn't matter to me now," he said and then looked in his sisters dewy eyes, "Has that monster touched you? If he has, I'll kill him now!"
"No brother, I am still innocent. My Lor-, I mean, that Hakaisha was going to take me after he won the battle against Himura," Aya grew relieved as she hugged herself being thankful that she didn't go any farther that kissing him, but even that caused her to be sick. "Brother..." she recalled all the devilish things she did for Hakaisha, all the men and woman she killed for him to gain such power.
She fainted in Hideaki's arms, "Aya, Aya?!" She was out cold. He gentally laid her in the chair and kissed her cheek, "I will be back sister, but first I have to find a way to help Himura."
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"Yha! Yha!" Sanosuke used every Futeanokiwami attack against the bars that barricaded them. "This isn't giving away at all, no matter how hard I hit it."
"The point is that this metal is meant to keep us in and not be broken," Saito explained as he leaned against the bars.
"Don't you even care if we die in here," Sanosuke yelled kicking the bars and ended up hurting his toe, "Youch!"
"I don't care if YOU die, but I will not."
Aoshi looked around every part of the cage they were in, not seeing or feeling one flaw in it. It was truely the perfect metal. "Even with our power attacking this all together we wont be able to break through it. The only way out is for someone to set us free from here."
Aoshi leaned against the bars across from Saito, "What if they attack us from inside?"
"I'll be ready," Saito's eyes were closed but there was a sound of pleasure in his tone.
Sanosuke sat down and crossed her arms, "I'm taking a break, once I regain a little of my strength and the swelling in my hand dies down, I'll be at it again," he said to himself. He looked at the flames in front of him and though, 'As soon as this started I had a bad feeling about this. Yeah, Kenshin is a strong guy but so is Hakaisha. The first attack hit Kenshin pretty hard; with his reverse blade sword the Battoujutsu was slow and Hakaisha's attack was quick enough to reach Kenshin left arm and break the skin. That changed everything, Kenshin's bleeding pretty bad and he's moving slower than before. With me in here, there's no way I can wrap the wound. I hope Missy is holding out alright, Kenshin needs her right now."
Aoshi looked at Sanosuke and stared at the flames too, 'The Battousai is doing well now, he managed to use a second Battoujutsu to crush the ribs on Hakaisha's left side. He can't manuvuer as well as before. The Battousai also was able to crush Hakaisha's left fingers once he switched his sword; one of his attack was to switch the sword with such speed that the apponent will still think it in the other hand and attack there and he would be able to take down his apponent easily.'
'This is very boring...' Saito thought as he watched the battle rage on, 'Everytime I see the Battousai and he gets stronger in some way, but now he's being attacked the wounded and there is much power in him that could kill Hakaisha, but he still believes in not taking life, that all people should have the right to live. It's very annoying hearing him say that, over and over. Hakaisha has him injured across his back, his chest. Next..." a smile came across his lips, "Maybe his head."
Sanosuke heard this and turned to him, "Whose head? I know you're not talking about Kenshin!" Sanosuke got up and grabbed Saito's police uniform, "you better not be thinking about hurting Kenshin in that thick head of yours; if you are, it will be your head not Kenshin's."
Saito punched Sanosuke in the stomach but Sanosuke ignored it, "I see you've learn how to resist strong punches, but you still have no defense."
Sanosuke let him go and turned away rubbing him stomach, "Geez, that hurt," he whispered.
Aoshi heard footsteps and turned his gaze to see Hideaki running behind the cage, flames and snakes to a door. Aoshi turned his head back to see Saito noticed but Sanosuke was still gripping his stomach, "Hideaki is up to something." They watched as Hideaki climbed the steps that lead to a door, the three didn't know what he was up too, but they were ready for whatever might come to them.
^.~
Kenshin jumped back and breathed deeply, they'd been fighting none stop for 5 minutes. (A/N: Don't go "5 minutes, that's a little bit!" Lets see you run around attacking as hard as you can and dodgeing attacks for 5 minutes!) Hakaisha was breathing deeply also, they both stared at each other thinking of their next move and what would be a good enough attack to finally bring their apponent down.
Kenshin could feel his warm blood drip down his back, arm and chest. The wounds weren't fatal but they did slow him down, as his strides were slower and his vision became blurrier.
Hakaisha's fingers on his left hand were throbbing and swelling, every bone in them were crushed and he could only make one handed attacks. He was holding up well but being unable to weild his powerful attacks made things much harder.
'I can't kill him, he still has much time in his life to repent for everything he's ever done. If I turn my blade now, I will be going against everything I ever believed in. I might even return to being a manslayer. I have to use the Amakakeru Ryu No Hiromeki against him, it's the only way to show him.'
Hakaisha tried to move his broken fingers, the pain was extreme but he kept flexing, he had to use his ultimate attack, the one attack his master taught him before he died. The Kaibutsu Toushin the lethal attack that slices in an instant. One wrong move from the one who weilds it can slice through you rather than your apponent. 'Dispite my fingers being broken , I'll use it, I want this to be over. This is the first time in my life where i've been injured so badly. I will kill him, and then i'll get my prizes, avenging my master, watching him die, taking Aya to my bed and making Hideaki watch. Hahaha, I can just see Hideaki's face now..." Hakaisha looked up and saw Aya in the chair sleeping. 'Why hasn't he taken her to her bed?' He looked around for Hideaki and saw him climbing the stars on the mountain to the door that would ruin all his plans. "Damn him!"
Kenshin looked up to where Hakaisha was glaring and saw Hideaki, running up the stairs. 'I must save him.' Once he cast his gaze back on Hakaisha, he was gone. He was chasing after Hideaki. "Oh, no!" Kenshin yelled and chased after him.
Hideaki looked back and saw Hakaisha gaining on him; he began to run faster. He reached the door and opened it to find the handle that would set Saito, Sanosuke and Aoshi free. He reached for it and right when he did Hakaisha's sword went through his back.
"KAI!!!" Aya said waking up to hear her brother scream out.
Hakaisha moved in closer to Hideaki's face and said turning his sword withing Hideaki, "You've made your sister remember and you tried to let them free, well, you failed. I knew I should have killed you along with your mother.
Hideaki screamed in agony and as his body fell he pulled the handle down with him.
The Dokudokushii's ran off, the fire died down and the cage fell to pieces. Aoshi and Sanosuke ran up the stairs towards them and Saito went another direction.
"That's... what you ge-t you... bastard," Hideaki said as Hakaisha pulled out his sword from his back.
"Damnit!" Hakaisha screamed and turned. He saw Kenshin approaching his sword sheated and his hand on the hilt. "Now, Prepare to die!"
"Oh, no Kenshin!!!" Sanosuke yelled as the both ran towards each other.
'This is it!' Kenshin thought, he saw Kaoru's face flash in his head as she held out her hand, saying, "Welcome home Kenshin." "Yhaaaaaa!"
"Yahaaaaa!" Hakaisha yelled as he spun his sword with his left hand and twirled it over his head. "Be gone!" He dived with his sword as it twirled claw like needles escaped the sword and struck Kenshin's flesh.
Kenshin knocked his sword away and said, "This is for Miss Kaoru!" He released the Amakakeru Ryu No Hiromeki on Hakaisha and he flew into the air, left on his chest was a deep slash mark.
"My revenge..." Hakaisha whispered as his battered body fell down the mountain; his bones began to break and his skin was torn from is body, as he reached the rocks below him, his head was crushed.
Kenshin turned his head away and said, "I did not wish to hurt you, that I did not but the evil in your heart, drove you to your death." Kenshin felt light headed and fell back.
"Kenshin!" Sanosuke yelled as he caught him under the arms, "Geez, buddy you had us going there." Sanosuke smiled and threw one of Kenshin's arms over his shoulder. "Lets get you back to Missy."
Kenshin held up is head a little, "Wait Sano, we need to get th-the cure, for her ill-ness, that we do." The pain was growing as his body began to go numb and he began to shake.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot," Aoshi took Kenshin from Sanosuke and he ran do the steps to Hakaisha's chair. Once he got to the bottom he met Saito holding it in his hands. "Hey, whats the big idea?"
Saito looked at the bottle saying, "this..." he threw it on the floor and he said, "is a fake."
Kenshin looked up and said, "What?"
"That was the same poison injected in your woman Battousai, if she would have taken in more of that, she would have died right in your arms."
Sanosuke balled his fist and kicked the broken glass and poison away, "You mean there never was a cure! That we came here only for Kenshin to fight that guy! Damnit!"
Kenshin dropped his head, "Miss Kaoru, I'm sorry, that I am."
"Kenshin Himura," a voice came from the side of them. Through the doors came a bandaged Shikaku. He used his sword to support him and in one of his hands he held a bottle of clear liquid.
"Shinja," Kenshin called by his real name. Kenshin watched as he came closer and as he did he extended the arm holding the bottle. "Is that...?"
"The Futoueki chiyu, the cure you were looking for. Hakaisha wanted me to hide it from you so when you came and fought and if their was a chance you'd win you'd just end up killing the person you want to save." His voice was shaky but kind.
"How do we know you're not lieing?" Saito asked giving him a cold stare.
Shinja looked up at him and said, "I am grateful to Himura for saving me from Hakaisha, I have no intention to betray him, i'd be glad to take some of that poison on the ground into my mouth and then take the cure."
"I still don't believe him Kenshin," Sanosuke said looking at the bottle in his hands.
"I can sense in him that he has truly changed, that I can. Sano, take the bottle and we must find a way to hurry back to Tokyo, I believe Miss Kaoru has 2 day left, that she does." Kenshin fell unconscious after he said that.
Sanosuke took the bottle from Shinja and turned to Saito, "Can you get one of your carriages over here, riding as fast as we can, how long would it take to reach Tokyo?"
Saito crossed his arms and began to exit, "Normally I only send for carriages when I'm after someone but i'll make an exception now: the Battousai did win and that give me a chance to fight him again-"
"Just answer the question!" Sanosuke yelled becoming impatient.
"2 days, at the most."
"Fine, we gotta hurry, we don't have much time left."
After Sanosuke said that they all began to run out through wence they came and reached the outside where Saito called for a carriage.
Shinja looked down the mountain to see Hakaisha's dead body and the city below who were just about to ignite their lights. The moon was already up as the sky began to turn orange.
"Kai!" Aya called and Shinja turned and watched her.
"Kai!" Aya did her best to run up the stairs, she removed the delicate sandals she wore at her feet and ripped off the many layers of her kimono, she was hardly dressed when she reached her brothers bloody body.
She lifted his head on her lap and stroked his face, "Kai, Kai! Don't leave me please, don't," she cried and laid her face on his, she turned her head and kissed her brothers lips, "it's my fault you had to die," she spoke and kissed her brothers face, "I'm so sorry."
(Okay, perv's they aren't THOSE kind of brother and sister. They just really love each other, though there aren't many of those relationships, this is one!)
Hideaki opened his eyes and said quietly Aya, "I love you, my sister..."
She rose her head and sobbed harder, "I love you too brother." She watched as he breathed his final breath and exhaled. "NO!!!!" She yelled and hugged her brother's lifeless body.
She stood and dragged her brothers lifeless body to the edge of the mountain and looked down and the river below. She fell to her knees and placed her brothers arm around her shoulder, "I'm coming." She then fell began to fall forwards.
"No! Lady Aya!" Shinja ran with his swordsman speed and caught her arm before she could fall down the mountain and into the raging rapids.
Aya opened her eyes to see herself still on the mountain and how her brothers body float down the river. She widened her eyes and started to fight, "Let me go, I want to die, I don't deserve to live after all that I've done! Please!"
Shinja gripped her other arm and turned her to face him, "Lady Aya, look at me!" He stared at her beautiful face and remembered all the times he wished she was HIS. He looked over her and how she was barely clothed and her light complextion glowed in the setting sun.
Aya opened her eyes to see him, the swordsman of Hakaisha. He was staring at her with love. She began to softly cry as she hugged him in a tight embrace. "We don't deserve to live for all the tings we've done," she breathed in his ear.
Shinja looked down at the rapids below and sighed, "I know." He pushed himself against her and they both met their death in each others arms.
(What is up with everyone falling off the mountain? O.o???)
Kenshin could sense each one of their deaths as the carriage shook over the rocks under it. He could feel the tears falling from the corners of his eyes as he lay on the soft seat of the wide carriage. Sanosuke and Aoshi were bandaging his wounds while Saito sat up front with the driver.
'I'm sorry I couldn't be there for you all,' Kenshin thought as a bright light shined over his eyes, he thought it was the setting sun coming in from the window but it was Tomoe's spirit.
"You're only human, Kenshin," Tomoe said.
"Tomoe," Kenshin spoke quietly, Sanosuke looked at him, not being able to see Tomoe.
"Rest now Kenshin, you need to regain your strength," Sanosuke then went back to tending to the wound on his arm.
'You're back,' Kenshin thought, thinking that that was the way to talk to her without being noticed by Sanosuke or Aoshi. 'Tomoe, what are you doing here?'
Tomoe kissed Kenshin's cheek and whispers in his ear, "She's waiting for you, she's holding on as tight as she can so she can see you. Rest now and when you wake, you'll have to save her. You belong with her now, it is your duty to take care of her."
Kenshin closed his eyes and swallowed, thinking of what he'd say next to her; when he opened them back up she was gone. He turned his head to find only Sanosuke and Aoshi. He smiled and whispered in a breath, "I'm coming home Miss Kaoru."
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HAHAHAHAHAH! How did you like that!
There was a lot of deaths in this chapter, when I said in the last chapter, "A death" but at least I didn't fully kill Kaoru! You never know if in the last chapter i'll kill her and leave Kenshin alone and then kill Kenshin and then...! I'm just kidding, I'm not going to tell you whats gunna happen next, but I'll give you a hint it has to do with the title of the story, the title will be explained in the next chapter. I hope you all can wait a while because I need to make the next one really good or you all will kill me.
Song sung by Hideaki: Every Heart- BoA
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