Chapter 15 ;_; Here my adoring fans, is where it all ends...
You need to memorize this poem to understand the ending!
Where is that someone like you is who believes in me when I feel there is nothing left in my life.
You're that loving wind that lifts me to flight.
When is that someone like you going to part the clouds on a rainy day.
All the clouds in the world couldn't cover the feelings I feel in such a way.
The hours in a day are not long
Waiting forever for tomorrow seems so wrong, but it's worth it waiting for the love so new.
That love so strong is Someone Like You.
~*Pnkx
This Chapter: I can't say anything it will give it all away.
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Someone Like You
"Hurry bring Sir Ken in here!" Megumi yelled as she set the bedding for Kenshin next to Kaoru.
"Calm down, we're injured too you know!" Sanosuke yelled at her as he gentally put Kenshin down. "He's hurt pretty bad and he's lost a lot of blood."
Megumi frowned at him and said, "don't you think I know this! Everytime Sir Ken goes into battle he losses a lot of blood. Hell, he nearly losses his life. I count on you to bring him home safly but you all just get your butts kicked and let Sir Ken do all the work-," Megumi continued in a rage.
Sanosuke had an embarrased look on his face, "Um, Megumi?"
"I'M NOT DONE! You all are so weak; if it wasn't for Sir Ken you'd all be dead by now and I'd have to be treating him and making arrangements for your funeral-," she still continued ignoring the fact that Kaoru was still sick and had very little time and Kenshin was still bleeding.
"Damnit woman!" Sanosuke gripped her by the shoulders and lifted her up.
"Get your hands off me. Oh, now you have strength but when Sir Ken was fighting Hakaisha you had none what-so-evermmmmmmm!" Megumi was shut up by a forceful kiss from Sanosuke. Her eyes were opened as far at they could go. Soon she relaxed and eased into the kiss and finally closed her eyes.
'What am I doing?' Sanosuke broke the kiss, letting go of her; as he turned he said, "like I said, Kenshin is hurt pretty bad and he's lost a lot of blood. You better help him..." Sanosuke paused and turned back to her to see her face in a blissful daze.
Sanosuke blushed and grabbed the bottle from his pocket, "Here's Kaoru's cure."
He began to walk away when Megumi said flushed, "Will you please call Dr. Gensai to assist me?"
Sanosuke stopped and turned his head with a handsome smile on his face, "Sure." He then ran to get Dr. Gensai.
At Sanosuke's smile she shivered and touched her lips. She then heard a moan from Kenshin and said in a panick, "what's the matter with me! I have two sick people here; it's my duty as a doctor to put them first before a kiss... AH or anything out of work!"
Kenshin stirred and barely opened his eyes; he looked at Megumi and said, "Miss Kaoru, please help Miss Kaoru; she doesn't have much time, that she doesn't."
Megumi panicked more, "but you're badly injured Sir Ken if you bleed anymore, you'll die."
"I know that but Miss Kaoru is more important right now, that she is. I'll hold on as long as I can for her and me; I will not die, that I won't," Kenshin's breathing started to come in gasps as he held tight to some of his wounds.
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In the light of Kaoru's mind she could hear Kenshin's voice all around her. She stood and walked to one of the mirrors of her mind.
"Where are you Kenshin?" Kaoru asked and she was answered by his voice all around her.
"I'm back now Miss Kaoru. I'll keep holding on for you. Do you feel my hand Miss Kaoru? As long as I'm holding onto your spirit Miss Kaoru I will live forever," Kenshin said staring at her sleeping form.
Kaoru could see the image of Kenshin's beaten and bloody body and his gental hand in hers. Tears began to leave her face as she screamed, "I'll hold on for you too Kenshin!"
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"Oh my! Kenshin!" Dr. Gensai came in quickly and attended to his injuries. He looked at Megumi who was insiminating the cure within Kaoru's body. He asked, "Do you think she'll make it?"
Megumi shook her head and said, "I'm not sure, but..." she looked at Kenshin's hand within Kaoru's and she touch her lips and thought of Sanosuke. Then she said, "she's with the one she loves now. That will make her hold on longer, excuse me."
Dr. Gensaid stared at her and said, "Where are you going? Aren't you going to watch over..." he paused and looked at the lonesomeness in her face and saw the desire to feel loved in her eyes. "Go on Miss Megumi, I'll take it from here. You have been at this for 2 weeks."
Without turning she said in a muffled voice, "thank you."
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After Yahiko was done peeking in on Dr. Gensai and Megumi he followed her siliently. She was headed for town and it was nearly 11:30. He kept a good 20 feet between them and tried not to run into anyone or try to look to suspicious but everyone was nearly asleep anyway.
He stopped behind a tree before the bridge and saw Sanosuke, "Why is she going to meet Sanosuke? This is weird," Yahiko climbed the tree to get a better view. As he reached a good height he quieted himself to hear the conversation.
'Why did I kiss her? I didn't need to; I could have just slapped her but that wouldn't be right. I wasn't raised to be disrespectful to women. One piece of advice Captain Sagara taught me. Unfortunately I haven't been very fortunate with the ladies. Is that why I kissed her?" Sanosuke heard foot steps that broke him from his thoughts, "Who's the tough guy that's come to pick a fight?" he whispered.
"Sanosuke?" Megumi asked wondering why he was talking to himself.
Sanosuke turned his head to her and then back to the sparkling water below him, "it's just you."
Megumi didn't make a smart comment she just leaned on the wood next to him and looked at her dim reflection in the water. Before she could say anything about the kiss Sanosuke spoke.
"So how is Missy doing?" His voice was soft and cancerned.
Megumi stared at his reflection but he did not look at hers. She spoke tiredly, "I've given her the cure, all we can hope for now is that we're not to late and her body will accept the help the cure and save her life."
"And Kenshin?"
"I don't know? Dr. Gensai let me have a break and he began to tend to Sir Ken's wounds."
"Why did you come here?" Sanosuke asked already knowing what she was going to ask.
Megumi looked at the side of his face and then in his eyes, the eyes that made its mark in the river where his reflection lay. "What's going on?"
Sanosuke took his eyes off his reflection and looked into her eyes, "are you talking about earlier? The kiss?"
Megumi sighed and closed her eyes, "It's not just that! It's everything, even when you were away with Sir Ken I was afraid not only for Sir Ken but for you also. I nearly thought about you everyday!" He eyes were still closed but through the lids came tears she waited so long to cry: the tears for Sanosuke's return.
"C'mon, don't cry Megumi." Sanosuke was confused; he didn't know what to do. 'Now I have a sad girl crying. Well maybe I could, um...' Sanosuke slowly but gentally wrapped his arms around Megumi and held her close to him. He said soothingly, "It'll be alright."
"I was so worried!" Megumi quickly stopped her tears and wrapped her arms around him and looked up at him, "Sanosuke."
His eyes were soft and his voice sweet and loving, "Yeah?"
"Kiss me again."
He had no hesistation he dropped his head down and brought his lips to hers and they stood there under the moonlight with their reflection trapped in the water as one.
Yahiko held his stomach and said, "Megumi? Sanosuke? No Way!" He slowly started climbing down the tree but as he reached the last branch he fell with a loud crash. He yelled, "oh no!"
Sanosuke broke the kiss and turned to the dark tree to see a form, "Who's there?" When he heard the clapping of slippers and thumping on the grass he ran after it. "Who do you think you are!"
Yahiko threw his gi over his head and tried to find a place to hide. He saw an alley to his right and ran into it. He held his breath and waited for Sanosuke to pass.
"Get back over here you jerk!" Sanosuke yelled as he ran by.
"Phew!" Yahiko was ready to leave when Megumi walked by and stopped in front of the entrace of the alley.
"I found him Sanosuke, he's over here!" Megumi yelled.
Yahiko could hear Sanosuke's steps and as he did Yahiko yelled as he ran, "Why did I have to follow her! Sanosuke is going to kill me!" He ran into a wall and tried to climb over it, there was nothing he could use on the wall to get over and then he saw a chain hanging on the building next to him, "Alright," he yelled triumphtly but as he began to climb hands grabbed him by the waist and started to pull him back.
"Oh no you don't!" Sanosuke yelled pulling with all his might. With one hard tug the chain broke and Yahiko fell on top of Sanosuke.
His gi fell from his head and he quickly pulled it back over, "I gotta get out of here!" He began to run back down the alley but Megumi stood in front of him.
Sanosuke grabbed him by the shirt and turned to see only his eyes, "So you're the little guy that was spying on us, who are you with? You better tell me the truth, my fist don't like liars." Sanosuke balled his fist and got ready to hit him.
"Wait Sanosuke! Don't kill me, I'm still young. I haven't even had a girlfriend yet!"
Megumi walked up to Sanosuke and then looked at the little person he was holding. She tried to remove the gi but Yahiko held onto it tight. "That voice sounded very familiar," she said with one eye brow cocked.
"Sure did, but who though," Sanosuke teased. He pulled the gi from over Yahiko's head and smiled. "I knew it was you, you dirty rat!" Sanosuke put Yahiko in a shoulder lock and gave him a noggie.
"Stop, that hurts!" Yahiko yelled.
"Serves you right for spying on us!" Megumi said while wagging her finger in his face.
Yahiko broke free and stuck out his tongue at both of them, "Sano and Megumi sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
"Ohhh, I'll get you!" Megumi ran after him and followed by them both was Sanosuke.
They ran around in circles for a while laughing and playing when cold water hit them. They all looked up to see and old lady with no teeth holding a leaky bucket.
"It's 12:00 and you young whipper-snappers been at this for 15 minutes already. GO TO BED!" She closed her window and turned off her light.
Megumi pulled out her pocket watch and said, "Oh my, it is already twelve, we should be heading back to the dojo." She moved next to Sanosuke and grabbed his hand.
Yahiko stuck out his tongue and said, "yuck. How could a kiss change two opposites soooo much!?"
Sanosuke hit him on the head and threw him over his shoulder, "That should shut him up, ay Megumi?" he winked at her as he said this.
Megumi giggled and smiled.
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"Good-bye Kenshin," Kaoru said as she began to drift further away from him.
"Miss Kaoru!" Kenshin called but he couldn't move. With all his might he tried to move but his injuries rendered him useless to move. "No, I've come back Kaoru. Stay with me!"
Suddenly Kaoru stopped and the smile on her face turned to fear as the opponents from Kenshin's past surrounded her. She began to scream out a name but Kenshin couldn't hear it.
"Miss Kaoru!" He could move now and with all his speed he ran to her but his sword was no were to be found. He looked back and saw it laying on the ground in the shape of an X. Kenshin began to scream as the memories of his past with Tomoe came through his head. The death of her fiancee and how he killed her with his own sword. The cross of his cheek began to burn as if Hell's Fire was in it.
"Kenshin!" He could hear Tomoe and Kaoru calling to him. In his head Tomoe was screaming as the demons of hell dragged her down.
"Kenshin!" Kaoru called as Shisho struck his sword across her back. Kenshin windened his eyes as Hakaisha had Kaoru by the throat.
His face held a twisted smile as he stuck his sword in her chest and began to spin his sword, "this will quicken her death."
"Tomoe, Kaoru!!! What should I do!?" Kenshin fell to his knees and grabbed his sword. "Kaoru!"
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Kenshin awoke in a cold sweat; the wind blew on his cold body and that caused him to go deep in his covers. He slightly opened his eyes and looked to the right side of him, he was holding his sword so very tightly that blood was dripping from his palm. He ripped some of the bandages beside him and wrapped his hand.
He could hear the sound of Yahiko's sweeping and he could smell the scent of a beef pot meaning Tae and Subame where there.
He reflected back on the dream he had. It was so mind boggling to him. He had to choose between Tomoe and Kaoru, but he had made that desicion already when Tomoe appeared to him the first time. Or was there something else lurking around him something more than choosing which he would always be there for?
"What could it be?" He remember he was holding Kaoru's hand so he squeezed but when he did he found there was nothing to squeeze, Kaoru was gone.
Kenshin sat up ignoring the pain shooting through his body. Her futon was made indicating something must have happened to her. "Miss Kaoru!"
Kenshin got up and put on his pant, being unable to find his shirt he ran out the dojo shirtless with his sword at his hip. Rain started to fall on him and his hair, out of it's band, flew across his face and stuck to his back.
Yahiko watched as Kenshin ran by, he continued to sweep saying, "good-moring Kenshin.... KENSHIN! I GOTTA TELL THE OTHERS!" He dropped the broom and ran into the dojo.
'Where is she, what could have happened, what if? No she can't be. I wont believe it!' So many reason were running through his head and as he ran by the people of the early morning he got many comments like, "what has he been through." "Poor man." "How is he able to move with those wounds?" "Where's his shirt?" He ignored them all and kept running scopping out all the places she might be, then he thought that he forgot to look in the dojo. That didn't make sense Yahiko would have said something; there would be a celebration going on; Sanosuke would be dead drunk and would have terrorized his bedding and would have fallen asleep on top of him. Kenshin had so many things going to his mind that he didn't even notice the temple steps in front of him. He tripped over the first one.
"Oro-." Kenshin got up slowly and gingerly rubbed his chest, stomach and face. "I need to pay attention more, that I should." He looked up the steps and saw something very familiar, Kaoru's indigo ribbon; her favorite one. "She is here, that she is." He quickly ran to her ribbon and grabbed it tightly. He continued up the steps until he reached it's peak what he found was Kaoru's robe and slippers.
"What's has happened to her?" Kenshin passed by them and continued up the hill until he found a young woman sitting in the rain on a rock looking at the river and mountains that lead to Kyoto.
"Miss Kaoru?" Kenshin asked tiredly and weakly. Slowly she turned her head and revealed her face, her warm and loving face. Kenshin couldn't believe his eyes, she was alive and well. She was still with him.
"Good morning Kenshin," she frowned and said, "it's raining Kenshin get under here." She was under a very tall tree with many branches, the rain hardly hit her.
Kenshin looked at the bandages across his chest and stomach, "I'm not worried about it Miss Kaoru, that I'm not. You had me worried, Miss Kaoru, that you did."
Kaoru slowly got up and walked to him, she placed her hands on his chest and lay her head on his shoulder. "I'm sorry, I just couldn't stand to see you there laying battered and beaten because of me."
"Don't worry Miss Kaoru, I rather die today then see you die at all, that I would," Kenshin wrapped his arms around her.
"When I thought I had nothing else to live for, when my life was at the brink of death you came and lifted me up and made me fly. Fly to that plane in my life where I'd always live on." The rain beat against them as they held each other in a loving embrace.
Kenshin stared at her and said, "Miss Kaoru, I'd do anything for you; you mean that much to me."
The rain stopped and the clouds slowly began to part. Kaoru looked up and said, "Even you, a man with such skill could stop the rain a remove the clouds from the sky. Even on the rainiest day." Kaoru looked deep in his eyes and said, "Today when I woke I thought that I or you could die at any moment of the day and there wouldn't be enough time to express how we feel."
Kenshin leaned a little closer to her and said, "How do you feel?"
Kaoru smiled and said, "Tomorrow seems like forever but I wait for it because I- I..." She paused and leaned a little closer, "I lo-,"
"There you are!" Yahiko yelled as the rest of the party arrived. Sanosuke and Megumi came from behind him then Dr. Gensai, Ayame and Suzame, Tae, and Subame.
"We were looking all over for you!" Tae said as Subame nodded.
"If it weren't for this old lady who said she saw a man without a shirt we would have probably never found you two," Yahiko said taking in air.
Megumi began to cry, "That's not the point, you two are alright!"
"That's right!" everyone else said in unison.
Everyone began to cheer and shout and Kaoru and Kenshin stood there with incredulous expressions. They watched suprising events before them that they had never seen before...
Megumi jumped in Sanosuke's arms and kissed him deeply. When their kissed ended Sanosuke spun her around and kissed her again saying, "You're a great doctor Megumi and I love you!"
"I love you too Sanosuke!" Megumi yelled in the kiss.
Kaoru and Kenshin's mouths were down to their knees at this.
Subame was next to Yahiko cheering. She stopped and pulled Yahiko into a tight embrace and gave him a quick peck on the lips. She let go, held her cheeks and flushed.
Yahiko was scratching his head with a goofy smile on his face. He grabbed her hand and kissed her again after he got over the first kiss.
Everyone seemed to rejoyce over the recovery of Kenshin and Kaoru while they were stuck there taking it all in. They closed their mouths and smiled at them all thinking that it was the way it should be: everyone happy with nothing to bring them down.
Kenshin gentally grabbed Kaoru's chin and turned her to him, "Kaoru, I may not be the one for you. I have caused you so much pain over time. I don't know what you want. What you want that someone to be."
Kaoru smiled and tears fell down her face, "I want someone like you." She lifted her head and caught his lips into a gental kiss. She broke it and said, "I love you Kenshin and I will stand beside you through good times and bad."
"I love you too Kaoru, I will protect you and care for you... forever." Kenshin leaned down and kissed her softly again, charishing every moment of it. 'Somone Like You.'
Tomoe lifted up above them saying, "There is your answer Kenshin, that something more is Love."
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That's it, I finally finished this story it took me forever but I still got it done. I am sorry that this is ending for people who don't want it to come to an ending but with a beginning comes an end and that's just how the world works.
Any questions of comments just review. I'm going on vacation from fanfiction, be back in May or June of 2004.
REVIEW!
You need to memorize this poem to understand the ending!
Where is that someone like you is who believes in me when I feel there is nothing left in my life.
You're that loving wind that lifts me to flight.
When is that someone like you going to part the clouds on a rainy day.
All the clouds in the world couldn't cover the feelings I feel in such a way.
The hours in a day are not long
Waiting forever for tomorrow seems so wrong, but it's worth it waiting for the love so new.
That love so strong is Someone Like You.
~*Pnkx
This Chapter: I can't say anything it will give it all away.
REVIEWERS:
Crystal Renee: You are really really weird... O.o
PrincessSakura4: Thank you for loving this story! I'll leave Kaoru a mystery until you read this chapter.
Rurouni Kaoru Kenshin's Love: ^-^; glad to see you can smile...
Rurouni Kaoru Kenshin's Love: What's funny?
Disclaimer: JUST READ THE STORY!
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Someone Like You
"Hurry bring Sir Ken in here!" Megumi yelled as she set the bedding for Kenshin next to Kaoru.
"Calm down, we're injured too you know!" Sanosuke yelled at her as he gentally put Kenshin down. "He's hurt pretty bad and he's lost a lot of blood."
Megumi frowned at him and said, "don't you think I know this! Everytime Sir Ken goes into battle he losses a lot of blood. Hell, he nearly losses his life. I count on you to bring him home safly but you all just get your butts kicked and let Sir Ken do all the work-," Megumi continued in a rage.
Sanosuke had an embarrased look on his face, "Um, Megumi?"
"I'M NOT DONE! You all are so weak; if it wasn't for Sir Ken you'd all be dead by now and I'd have to be treating him and making arrangements for your funeral-," she still continued ignoring the fact that Kaoru was still sick and had very little time and Kenshin was still bleeding.
"Damnit woman!" Sanosuke gripped her by the shoulders and lifted her up.
"Get your hands off me. Oh, now you have strength but when Sir Ken was fighting Hakaisha you had none what-so-evermmmmmmm!" Megumi was shut up by a forceful kiss from Sanosuke. Her eyes were opened as far at they could go. Soon she relaxed and eased into the kiss and finally closed her eyes.
'What am I doing?' Sanosuke broke the kiss, letting go of her; as he turned he said, "like I said, Kenshin is hurt pretty bad and he's lost a lot of blood. You better help him..." Sanosuke paused and turned back to her to see her face in a blissful daze.
Sanosuke blushed and grabbed the bottle from his pocket, "Here's Kaoru's cure."
He began to walk away when Megumi said flushed, "Will you please call Dr. Gensai to assist me?"
Sanosuke stopped and turned his head with a handsome smile on his face, "Sure." He then ran to get Dr. Gensai.
At Sanosuke's smile she shivered and touched her lips. She then heard a moan from Kenshin and said in a panick, "what's the matter with me! I have two sick people here; it's my duty as a doctor to put them first before a kiss... AH or anything out of work!"
Kenshin stirred and barely opened his eyes; he looked at Megumi and said, "Miss Kaoru, please help Miss Kaoru; she doesn't have much time, that she doesn't."
Megumi panicked more, "but you're badly injured Sir Ken if you bleed anymore, you'll die."
"I know that but Miss Kaoru is more important right now, that she is. I'll hold on as long as I can for her and me; I will not die, that I won't," Kenshin's breathing started to come in gasps as he held tight to some of his wounds.
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In the light of Kaoru's mind she could hear Kenshin's voice all around her. She stood and walked to one of the mirrors of her mind.
"Where are you Kenshin?" Kaoru asked and she was answered by his voice all around her.
"I'm back now Miss Kaoru. I'll keep holding on for you. Do you feel my hand Miss Kaoru? As long as I'm holding onto your spirit Miss Kaoru I will live forever," Kenshin said staring at her sleeping form.
Kaoru could see the image of Kenshin's beaten and bloody body and his gental hand in hers. Tears began to leave her face as she screamed, "I'll hold on for you too Kenshin!"
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"Oh my! Kenshin!" Dr. Gensai came in quickly and attended to his injuries. He looked at Megumi who was insiminating the cure within Kaoru's body. He asked, "Do you think she'll make it?"
Megumi shook her head and said, "I'm not sure, but..." she looked at Kenshin's hand within Kaoru's and she touch her lips and thought of Sanosuke. Then she said, "she's with the one she loves now. That will make her hold on longer, excuse me."
Dr. Gensaid stared at her and said, "Where are you going? Aren't you going to watch over..." he paused and looked at the lonesomeness in her face and saw the desire to feel loved in her eyes. "Go on Miss Megumi, I'll take it from here. You have been at this for 2 weeks."
Without turning she said in a muffled voice, "thank you."
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After Yahiko was done peeking in on Dr. Gensai and Megumi he followed her siliently. She was headed for town and it was nearly 11:30. He kept a good 20 feet between them and tried not to run into anyone or try to look to suspicious but everyone was nearly asleep anyway.
He stopped behind a tree before the bridge and saw Sanosuke, "Why is she going to meet Sanosuke? This is weird," Yahiko climbed the tree to get a better view. As he reached a good height he quieted himself to hear the conversation.
'Why did I kiss her? I didn't need to; I could have just slapped her but that wouldn't be right. I wasn't raised to be disrespectful to women. One piece of advice Captain Sagara taught me. Unfortunately I haven't been very fortunate with the ladies. Is that why I kissed her?" Sanosuke heard foot steps that broke him from his thoughts, "Who's the tough guy that's come to pick a fight?" he whispered.
"Sanosuke?" Megumi asked wondering why he was talking to himself.
Sanosuke turned his head to her and then back to the sparkling water below him, "it's just you."
Megumi didn't make a smart comment she just leaned on the wood next to him and looked at her dim reflection in the water. Before she could say anything about the kiss Sanosuke spoke.
"So how is Missy doing?" His voice was soft and cancerned.
Megumi stared at his reflection but he did not look at hers. She spoke tiredly, "I've given her the cure, all we can hope for now is that we're not to late and her body will accept the help the cure and save her life."
"And Kenshin?"
"I don't know? Dr. Gensai let me have a break and he began to tend to Sir Ken's wounds."
"Why did you come here?" Sanosuke asked already knowing what she was going to ask.
Megumi looked at the side of his face and then in his eyes, the eyes that made its mark in the river where his reflection lay. "What's going on?"
Sanosuke took his eyes off his reflection and looked into her eyes, "are you talking about earlier? The kiss?"
Megumi sighed and closed her eyes, "It's not just that! It's everything, even when you were away with Sir Ken I was afraid not only for Sir Ken but for you also. I nearly thought about you everyday!" He eyes were still closed but through the lids came tears she waited so long to cry: the tears for Sanosuke's return.
"C'mon, don't cry Megumi." Sanosuke was confused; he didn't know what to do. 'Now I have a sad girl crying. Well maybe I could, um...' Sanosuke slowly but gentally wrapped his arms around Megumi and held her close to him. He said soothingly, "It'll be alright."
"I was so worried!" Megumi quickly stopped her tears and wrapped her arms around him and looked up at him, "Sanosuke."
His eyes were soft and his voice sweet and loving, "Yeah?"
"Kiss me again."
He had no hesistation he dropped his head down and brought his lips to hers and they stood there under the moonlight with their reflection trapped in the water as one.
Yahiko held his stomach and said, "Megumi? Sanosuke? No Way!" He slowly started climbing down the tree but as he reached the last branch he fell with a loud crash. He yelled, "oh no!"
Sanosuke broke the kiss and turned to the dark tree to see a form, "Who's there?" When he heard the clapping of slippers and thumping on the grass he ran after it. "Who do you think you are!"
Yahiko threw his gi over his head and tried to find a place to hide. He saw an alley to his right and ran into it. He held his breath and waited for Sanosuke to pass.
"Get back over here you jerk!" Sanosuke yelled as he ran by.
"Phew!" Yahiko was ready to leave when Megumi walked by and stopped in front of the entrace of the alley.
"I found him Sanosuke, he's over here!" Megumi yelled.
Yahiko could hear Sanosuke's steps and as he did Yahiko yelled as he ran, "Why did I have to follow her! Sanosuke is going to kill me!" He ran into a wall and tried to climb over it, there was nothing he could use on the wall to get over and then he saw a chain hanging on the building next to him, "Alright," he yelled triumphtly but as he began to climb hands grabbed him by the waist and started to pull him back.
"Oh no you don't!" Sanosuke yelled pulling with all his might. With one hard tug the chain broke and Yahiko fell on top of Sanosuke.
His gi fell from his head and he quickly pulled it back over, "I gotta get out of here!" He began to run back down the alley but Megumi stood in front of him.
Sanosuke grabbed him by the shirt and turned to see only his eyes, "So you're the little guy that was spying on us, who are you with? You better tell me the truth, my fist don't like liars." Sanosuke balled his fist and got ready to hit him.
"Wait Sanosuke! Don't kill me, I'm still young. I haven't even had a girlfriend yet!"
Megumi walked up to Sanosuke and then looked at the little person he was holding. She tried to remove the gi but Yahiko held onto it tight. "That voice sounded very familiar," she said with one eye brow cocked.
"Sure did, but who though," Sanosuke teased. He pulled the gi from over Yahiko's head and smiled. "I knew it was you, you dirty rat!" Sanosuke put Yahiko in a shoulder lock and gave him a noggie.
"Stop, that hurts!" Yahiko yelled.
"Serves you right for spying on us!" Megumi said while wagging her finger in his face.
Yahiko broke free and stuck out his tongue at both of them, "Sano and Megumi sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
"Ohhh, I'll get you!" Megumi ran after him and followed by them both was Sanosuke.
They ran around in circles for a while laughing and playing when cold water hit them. They all looked up to see and old lady with no teeth holding a leaky bucket.
"It's 12:00 and you young whipper-snappers been at this for 15 minutes already. GO TO BED!" She closed her window and turned off her light.
Megumi pulled out her pocket watch and said, "Oh my, it is already twelve, we should be heading back to the dojo." She moved next to Sanosuke and grabbed his hand.
Yahiko stuck out his tongue and said, "yuck. How could a kiss change two opposites soooo much!?"
Sanosuke hit him on the head and threw him over his shoulder, "That should shut him up, ay Megumi?" he winked at her as he said this.
Megumi giggled and smiled.
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"Good-bye Kenshin," Kaoru said as she began to drift further away from him.
"Miss Kaoru!" Kenshin called but he couldn't move. With all his might he tried to move but his injuries rendered him useless to move. "No, I've come back Kaoru. Stay with me!"
Suddenly Kaoru stopped and the smile on her face turned to fear as the opponents from Kenshin's past surrounded her. She began to scream out a name but Kenshin couldn't hear it.
"Miss Kaoru!" He could move now and with all his speed he ran to her but his sword was no were to be found. He looked back and saw it laying on the ground in the shape of an X. Kenshin began to scream as the memories of his past with Tomoe came through his head. The death of her fiancee and how he killed her with his own sword. The cross of his cheek began to burn as if Hell's Fire was in it.
"Kenshin!" He could hear Tomoe and Kaoru calling to him. In his head Tomoe was screaming as the demons of hell dragged her down.
"Kenshin!" Kaoru called as Shisho struck his sword across her back. Kenshin windened his eyes as Hakaisha had Kaoru by the throat.
His face held a twisted smile as he stuck his sword in her chest and began to spin his sword, "this will quicken her death."
"Tomoe, Kaoru!!! What should I do!?" Kenshin fell to his knees and grabbed his sword. "Kaoru!"
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Kenshin awoke in a cold sweat; the wind blew on his cold body and that caused him to go deep in his covers. He slightly opened his eyes and looked to the right side of him, he was holding his sword so very tightly that blood was dripping from his palm. He ripped some of the bandages beside him and wrapped his hand.
He could hear the sound of Yahiko's sweeping and he could smell the scent of a beef pot meaning Tae and Subame where there.
He reflected back on the dream he had. It was so mind boggling to him. He had to choose between Tomoe and Kaoru, but he had made that desicion already when Tomoe appeared to him the first time. Or was there something else lurking around him something more than choosing which he would always be there for?
"What could it be?" He remember he was holding Kaoru's hand so he squeezed but when he did he found there was nothing to squeeze, Kaoru was gone.
Kenshin sat up ignoring the pain shooting through his body. Her futon was made indicating something must have happened to her. "Miss Kaoru!"
Kenshin got up and put on his pant, being unable to find his shirt he ran out the dojo shirtless with his sword at his hip. Rain started to fall on him and his hair, out of it's band, flew across his face and stuck to his back.
Yahiko watched as Kenshin ran by, he continued to sweep saying, "good-moring Kenshin.... KENSHIN! I GOTTA TELL THE OTHERS!" He dropped the broom and ran into the dojo.
'Where is she, what could have happened, what if? No she can't be. I wont believe it!' So many reason were running through his head and as he ran by the people of the early morning he got many comments like, "what has he been through." "Poor man." "How is he able to move with those wounds?" "Where's his shirt?" He ignored them all and kept running scopping out all the places she might be, then he thought that he forgot to look in the dojo. That didn't make sense Yahiko would have said something; there would be a celebration going on; Sanosuke would be dead drunk and would have terrorized his bedding and would have fallen asleep on top of him. Kenshin had so many things going to his mind that he didn't even notice the temple steps in front of him. He tripped over the first one.
"Oro-." Kenshin got up slowly and gingerly rubbed his chest, stomach and face. "I need to pay attention more, that I should." He looked up the steps and saw something very familiar, Kaoru's indigo ribbon; her favorite one. "She is here, that she is." He quickly ran to her ribbon and grabbed it tightly. He continued up the steps until he reached it's peak what he found was Kaoru's robe and slippers.
"What's has happened to her?" Kenshin passed by them and continued up the hill until he found a young woman sitting in the rain on a rock looking at the river and mountains that lead to Kyoto.
"Miss Kaoru?" Kenshin asked tiredly and weakly. Slowly she turned her head and revealed her face, her warm and loving face. Kenshin couldn't believe his eyes, she was alive and well. She was still with him.
"Good morning Kenshin," she frowned and said, "it's raining Kenshin get under here." She was under a very tall tree with many branches, the rain hardly hit her.
Kenshin looked at the bandages across his chest and stomach, "I'm not worried about it Miss Kaoru, that I'm not. You had me worried, Miss Kaoru, that you did."
Kaoru slowly got up and walked to him, she placed her hands on his chest and lay her head on his shoulder. "I'm sorry, I just couldn't stand to see you there laying battered and beaten because of me."
"Don't worry Miss Kaoru, I rather die today then see you die at all, that I would," Kenshin wrapped his arms around her.
"When I thought I had nothing else to live for, when my life was at the brink of death you came and lifted me up and made me fly. Fly to that plane in my life where I'd always live on." The rain beat against them as they held each other in a loving embrace.
Kenshin stared at her and said, "Miss Kaoru, I'd do anything for you; you mean that much to me."
The rain stopped and the clouds slowly began to part. Kaoru looked up and said, "Even you, a man with such skill could stop the rain a remove the clouds from the sky. Even on the rainiest day." Kaoru looked deep in his eyes and said, "Today when I woke I thought that I or you could die at any moment of the day and there wouldn't be enough time to express how we feel."
Kenshin leaned a little closer to her and said, "How do you feel?"
Kaoru smiled and said, "Tomorrow seems like forever but I wait for it because I- I..." She paused and leaned a little closer, "I lo-,"
"There you are!" Yahiko yelled as the rest of the party arrived. Sanosuke and Megumi came from behind him then Dr. Gensai, Ayame and Suzame, Tae, and Subame.
"We were looking all over for you!" Tae said as Subame nodded.
"If it weren't for this old lady who said she saw a man without a shirt we would have probably never found you two," Yahiko said taking in air.
Megumi began to cry, "That's not the point, you two are alright!"
"That's right!" everyone else said in unison.
Everyone began to cheer and shout and Kaoru and Kenshin stood there with incredulous expressions. They watched suprising events before them that they had never seen before...
Megumi jumped in Sanosuke's arms and kissed him deeply. When their kissed ended Sanosuke spun her around and kissed her again saying, "You're a great doctor Megumi and I love you!"
"I love you too Sanosuke!" Megumi yelled in the kiss.
Kaoru and Kenshin's mouths were down to their knees at this.
Subame was next to Yahiko cheering. She stopped and pulled Yahiko into a tight embrace and gave him a quick peck on the lips. She let go, held her cheeks and flushed.
Yahiko was scratching his head with a goofy smile on his face. He grabbed her hand and kissed her again after he got over the first kiss.
Everyone seemed to rejoyce over the recovery of Kenshin and Kaoru while they were stuck there taking it all in. They closed their mouths and smiled at them all thinking that it was the way it should be: everyone happy with nothing to bring them down.
Kenshin gentally grabbed Kaoru's chin and turned her to him, "Kaoru, I may not be the one for you. I have caused you so much pain over time. I don't know what you want. What you want that someone to be."
Kaoru smiled and tears fell down her face, "I want someone like you." She lifted her head and caught his lips into a gental kiss. She broke it and said, "I love you Kenshin and I will stand beside you through good times and bad."
"I love you too Kaoru, I will protect you and care for you... forever." Kenshin leaned down and kissed her softly again, charishing every moment of it. 'Somone Like You.'
Tomoe lifted up above them saying, "There is your answer Kenshin, that something more is Love."
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That's it, I finally finished this story it took me forever but I still got it done. I am sorry that this is ending for people who don't want it to come to an ending but with a beginning comes an end and that's just how the world works.
Any questions of comments just review. I'm going on vacation from fanfiction, be back in May or June of 2004.
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