Double Trouble: Chapter 5

Feel lucky fans!!! I've posted chappies on this AND Return of Sen! AND the first chappie of a new fic I hope you all love! Go check it out, it's a Yu- Gi-Oh! fic called "The Prophecy Books - Book 1: Prophecy Met". Well, I suppose you don't HAVE check it out... but I'd really appriciate it! But if you do, read the new chappie first, k? Heheh. YAHIKO-CHAN!! Do the disclaimer onegai!!

Yahiko: Duck doesn't own Rurouni Kenshin. Not its chars, events, places, nothing! Thank kami, or else she'd own me!! If she owned Rurouni Kenshin, Battousai would be coming out a LOT more often, and Saitoh would compare every single person he ever met to a different animal.

*grins* Don't forget to mention it'd be a total Kenshin/Sanosuke yaoi!

Yahiko: *shudders* Don't even make me THINK about that!!

On with the fic!! ^ ^

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Kenshin continued to sit in the training hall, leaning against the wall, Kaoru laying in his arms, still passed out. The rurouni gave a sigh and rested his head against the wall so as to stare up at the ceiling. For the first time, he tried to imagine a fight against the real Battousai and found it quite difficult. It just seemed impossible to see himself fighting him. He cursed himself for making that stupid wish in the first place. It was all his fault!!

Kaoru stirred in his arms. He let out a relieved breath. Her eyes fluttered open. Kenshin smiled down at her. He watched her eyes widen and fill with fear. She let out a shriek and clambered out of his arms, stumbling away from him.

"Battousai!!" she cried, shielding her head with both arms. "P-please don't touch me!..."

Kenshin reached out for her. "Kaoru-dono, please! Your arm! You need to be careful, that you do!!" She peeked out between her arms. The rurouni could see tears welling up in her eyes. Slowly, she lowered them.

"K...Kenshin!!" She jumped back into his arms, hugging him around the neck. He "oro"ed briefly, then embraced her back. He felt her tears leak through his worn gi, wetting his shoulder. After a minute or so, he touched her arms. She pulled them away, gazing at him.

"I didn't realize he frightened you so much." They both knew who he meant. Kaoru didn't reply right away, and Kenshin didn't push it.

"It... it wasn't really him here... was it?"

"No." He shook his head. He took her bandaged arm and pulled it out of the sling. "I'm just making sure you didn't injure your arm further, that I am," he said before she could ask. He studied it for a moment, then gently guided it back into the sling. "It's as fine as it can be right now."

"Why... why did I see him here?" Kaoru asked, brushing tears out of her eyes.

"Tsukai-dono was helping me train. She produced an image of Battousai for me to fight. If I knew it would react like that, I would have warned you, that I would..."

Kaoru cradled her wounded arm against her chest. "So I didn't... didn't imagine Battou- it, trying to kiss me...?"

"Oh, Kaoru-dono!"

Kenshin wrapped his arms around her again, holding her tightly. She blinked and blushed faintly. It was a beautiful moment.

"KENSHIN!!"

Sanosuke and Yahiko burst into the room, both out of breath. Kenshin looked up from Kaoru's shoulder. They normally would have commented on the two hugging before them, but today they didn't have time for something as trivial and humorous as that.

"Kenshin, it's Battousai!" Sanosuke yelled.

"He was seen in town!" Yahiko agreed quickly. "He's here, Kenshin, he's here!!" ______

The akakami (means redhead!) strode down the street, amber eyes burning from under a wave of blood red hair. People fell over themselves to get out of his way; he gave off a dangerous aura, and they could all feel it. Soon the street was completely empty, aside from him. He glance about, at faces peeking out at him from the lighted windows of the Akabeko. These quickly ducked out of sight.

Battousai smirked. Fear, that's what he loved. Fear and blood. And soon, he would have the blood of the foolish rurouni. He could sense it, and his bloodsense was never wrong. ________________________________________________________________________

Author's Notes:

Kenshin: *sweatbead, stands there with Duck sprawled out on the floor, clutching the leg of his hakama* Oro...

*wails* Kenshin, why am I writing this fic!?!? I really LIKE Battousai!! I don't believe he's a psycho guy obsessed with killing!!! He's just... willing to go so far as to kill to stand up for what he thinks is right!! He's like Slytherins! HE'S MISUNDERSTOOD!!!

Kenshin: *sinks to the floor, holding his head with one hand* Orororo...

Sano: *tries not to snicker* While they're busy doing that, Duck wants me to to tell ya: she still needs to know a few things for future fics. Just between you and me, they're all for that new Yu-Gi-Oh! fic she just posted. So if you want more chapters on that thing, someone'd better answer her... so no pressure! *grins*

How many years has Pegasus had the Millennium Eye? Also, how long was it between Cecilia dying and Pegasus getting the Eye?

What are those things Kaiba developed called? They were on episodes between Duelist Kingdom and Battle City. They're like big chair things. You put your deck in them and sit in them and you go into suspended animation or something. Your mind goes to this game world where you use your deck to duel "real" monsters in the game. It's like virtual reality or something, kinda like The World. On one of the episodes, there was a princess that looked like Mokuba! I can't remember what they're called!

*sniffles* Well, Kenshin's not gonna help me, so. *points to the button on the bottom of the screen labeled "Go"* Selct review and click it! *mimes clicking* Chika chika!! Click! Go! Review!! No reviews for Duck means fics go BYE BYE!! So review!! Arigato! See you next chappie!! ^ ^