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"Kaoru?" a vaguely familar voice drifted into her sleep muddled thoughts. "Kaoru . . . . wake up. I need to talk to you."
Kaoru blinked, squinting her eyes at the bright light. An axious face swam into view. "Misao?" she questioned, almost certain that the jade green eyes belonged to the young ninja.
"Hai!" Misao reponded instantly. "Are you okay? You've been sleeping like the dead since yesterday."
"Nani?!" Kaoru exclaimed in alarm. She had slipped into a fitful sleep shortly after bringing Enishi to Dr. Gensai's clinic. The last thing she remembered was being told that they were going into emergancy surgury.
She started to struggle, trying to make her weary body obey her commands. Misao put a hand on her sholder. "Relax," she urged the slightly older woman.
Kaoru took a deep breath. "Don't tell me what to do. You're an aweful friend and I ha - "
Misao put her hand to Kaoru's mouth. "Before you finish that sentence, do I at least get to know what's going on?" she asked, an unusally serious look on her face. "All I know is that you sent a very vague wedding invintation to Kyoto and since I've arrived I've only been told that you were asleep."
Kaoru blinked. "What about Enishi?" she asked, sinking back into the futon she was lying on.
If anything, Misao started to look even more confused then she had a second ago. "Uhmmmm . . . . Enishi Yukishiro? What's he got to do with anything?" she asked, a perplexed look gracing her features.
"Ahem," Dr. Gensai cleared his throat loudly from the doorway before Kaoru could attempt to explain her plan and her reasons behind her choices.
The aging doctor looked weary, like he hadn't slept all night. There were black bags under his kindly blue eyes and he was hiding a yawn behind his hand. "I've done all that I could," he announced.
"And?" Kaoru asked axiously, while Misao practically had question marks floating around her head from confusion.
Dr. Gensai cleared his throat again. "Without the anitdote, he will die," he said softly.
"What's the antidote?" Kaoru asked in an even softer voice.
"Who'll die?" Misao blurted out.
Kaoru waved Misao's voice down. Her still uncertain feelings for Enishi were starting to confuse her. She wanted to save him, but if she left Kenshin alone in the care of that priest . . . . . . what would happen to him?
She screamed, loudly, not even attempting to resist the urge. It wasn't fair that she had to choose to save only one of them. If she went to get the anitdote, she had no doubt that she would never see Kenshin alive again. However, if she didn't, then Enishi would die.
"Dr. Gensai, who needs an anitdote, and what for?" Misao asked. She glanced back at a furiously distraught Kaoru and then back towards the aging doctor. "You have to tell me. Or at least tell me where and what the anitidote are, then I'll go retrieve it and someone could tell me what's going on."
"There'll be no need for you to retrieve the anitidote," Dr. Gensai announced. "You'd probably only bring back more posion anyway - "
"How could you?" Kaoru whispered. "It's your duty as a doctor to save as many lives as you can. How could you say that there is no need to get the anitidote?"
"That's simple," Dr. Gensai responded, laughing in a slightly wheezing fashion. "I've already sent some volunteers to retrieve the required medicine."
"Who?" Kaoru asked as Misao sank to the floor mouthing the words, 'who who what what?' Kaoru ignored her, as did Dr. Gensai.
"Yahiko, Sano, Megumi, and Tsubamme came by late last night. They demanded to speak to you, but they weren't able to wake you. They left this letter and headed out almost immeadiatly.," Dr. Gensai said, hanging her a letter.
"Arigatou," Kaoru murmured, remembering her manners and inclining her head gratefully as she took the letter.
"Oh, it's no problem at all," Dr. Gensai yawned. "I'm just going to **yawn** take a little nap now . . . ." Without another word, he left the room.
Kaoru starred at the letter, notning that her name was written in Megumi's tidy script on the front.
"So it must be Kenshin, right?" Misao asked. "He's got to be the one posioned. He's the only Kenshin-gumi member that I haven't seen yet."
"You wouldn't recognize him if you seen him," Kaoru said distractedly. She opened the letter, pouring over it's words carefully.
The letter was short and to the point.
"Dear Kaoru,
Sorry we trusted Rizzu. We were just angry that you weren't considering our feelings. We didn't mean to get Yukishiro hurt - I'd only do that in a fair fight. Anyway, we're going to get the anitidote, just hold on."
That portion was written in an untidy scrawl that belonged to Sano. Underneath it there were a couple more sentences.
"We'll talk things over when we return . . . promise," those words were written in Megumi's handwritting.
Kaoru set the letter down and glanced around the room, her spirits lifted. She hadn't expected them to suddenly be helpful again. After what she had witnessed at the restaurant, she didn't believe that she could ever trust them again.
She set the letter down with a sigh that finally relieved some tention from her body. Now that her friends were helping her again, she could find Rizzu and Kenshin. She wasn't going to let anything happen to Kenshin.
She stood up and walked out of the room without a word.
Her bare feet padded along the hall until she came to the room that Enishi was resting in. Sliding the door open, she entered and sat down beside him. "Hi," she mumbled. "I'm going to get our baby back."
Enishi, who was unconcious, didn't respond. Kaoru brushed some of his hair back from his face, tucking it behind his ears. "I really don't know what to make of you anymore," she admitted. "I just hope that we can work things out later, you know?"
She bent foreword, as if she were going to kiss his mouth. For a moment, she lingered over his mouth before kissing his cheek lightly. "I'll be back," she promised. Then, before she could change her mind, she stood and hurried off to the Kamiya Dojo with a perplexed Misao bounding around her in confusion.
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Author's notes; Ahem, I would like to apologized for the horrible long wait for this chapter. And I'm sorry that it is so short. I lost track of the point of the story and was forced to put it on hold. (I got writers block ..... -_- ) Anyway, I'm back into the story, so expect an update a week.
And thank you soooooo much to everyone who reviewed.
Regards,
Kissa-chan
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"Kaoru?" a vaguely familar voice drifted into her sleep muddled thoughts. "Kaoru . . . . wake up. I need to talk to you."
Kaoru blinked, squinting her eyes at the bright light. An axious face swam into view. "Misao?" she questioned, almost certain that the jade green eyes belonged to the young ninja.
"Hai!" Misao reponded instantly. "Are you okay? You've been sleeping like the dead since yesterday."
"Nani?!" Kaoru exclaimed in alarm. She had slipped into a fitful sleep shortly after bringing Enishi to Dr. Gensai's clinic. The last thing she remembered was being told that they were going into emergancy surgury.
She started to struggle, trying to make her weary body obey her commands. Misao put a hand on her sholder. "Relax," she urged the slightly older woman.
Kaoru took a deep breath. "Don't tell me what to do. You're an aweful friend and I ha - "
Misao put her hand to Kaoru's mouth. "Before you finish that sentence, do I at least get to know what's going on?" she asked, an unusally serious look on her face. "All I know is that you sent a very vague wedding invintation to Kyoto and since I've arrived I've only been told that you were asleep."
Kaoru blinked. "What about Enishi?" she asked, sinking back into the futon she was lying on.
If anything, Misao started to look even more confused then she had a second ago. "Uhmmmm . . . . Enishi Yukishiro? What's he got to do with anything?" she asked, a perplexed look gracing her features.
"Ahem," Dr. Gensai cleared his throat loudly from the doorway before Kaoru could attempt to explain her plan and her reasons behind her choices.
The aging doctor looked weary, like he hadn't slept all night. There were black bags under his kindly blue eyes and he was hiding a yawn behind his hand. "I've done all that I could," he announced.
"And?" Kaoru asked axiously, while Misao practically had question marks floating around her head from confusion.
Dr. Gensai cleared his throat again. "Without the anitdote, he will die," he said softly.
"What's the antidote?" Kaoru asked in an even softer voice.
"Who'll die?" Misao blurted out.
Kaoru waved Misao's voice down. Her still uncertain feelings for Enishi were starting to confuse her. She wanted to save him, but if she left Kenshin alone in the care of that priest . . . . . . what would happen to him?
She screamed, loudly, not even attempting to resist the urge. It wasn't fair that she had to choose to save only one of them. If she went to get the anitdote, she had no doubt that she would never see Kenshin alive again. However, if she didn't, then Enishi would die.
"Dr. Gensai, who needs an anitdote, and what for?" Misao asked. She glanced back at a furiously distraught Kaoru and then back towards the aging doctor. "You have to tell me. Or at least tell me where and what the anitidote are, then I'll go retrieve it and someone could tell me what's going on."
"There'll be no need for you to retrieve the anitidote," Dr. Gensai announced. "You'd probably only bring back more posion anyway - "
"How could you?" Kaoru whispered. "It's your duty as a doctor to save as many lives as you can. How could you say that there is no need to get the anitidote?"
"That's simple," Dr. Gensai responded, laughing in a slightly wheezing fashion. "I've already sent some volunteers to retrieve the required medicine."
"Who?" Kaoru asked as Misao sank to the floor mouthing the words, 'who who what what?' Kaoru ignored her, as did Dr. Gensai.
"Yahiko, Sano, Megumi, and Tsubamme came by late last night. They demanded to speak to you, but they weren't able to wake you. They left this letter and headed out almost immeadiatly.," Dr. Gensai said, hanging her a letter.
"Arigatou," Kaoru murmured, remembering her manners and inclining her head gratefully as she took the letter.
"Oh, it's no problem at all," Dr. Gensai yawned. "I'm just going to **yawn** take a little nap now . . . ." Without another word, he left the room.
Kaoru starred at the letter, notning that her name was written in Megumi's tidy script on the front.
"So it must be Kenshin, right?" Misao asked. "He's got to be the one posioned. He's the only Kenshin-gumi member that I haven't seen yet."
"You wouldn't recognize him if you seen him," Kaoru said distractedly. She opened the letter, pouring over it's words carefully.
The letter was short and to the point.
"Dear Kaoru,
Sorry we trusted Rizzu. We were just angry that you weren't considering our feelings. We didn't mean to get Yukishiro hurt - I'd only do that in a fair fight. Anyway, we're going to get the anitidote, just hold on."
That portion was written in an untidy scrawl that belonged to Sano. Underneath it there were a couple more sentences.
"We'll talk things over when we return . . . promise," those words were written in Megumi's handwritting.
Kaoru set the letter down and glanced around the room, her spirits lifted. She hadn't expected them to suddenly be helpful again. After what she had witnessed at the restaurant, she didn't believe that she could ever trust them again.
She set the letter down with a sigh that finally relieved some tention from her body. Now that her friends were helping her again, she could find Rizzu and Kenshin. She wasn't going to let anything happen to Kenshin.
She stood up and walked out of the room without a word.
Her bare feet padded along the hall until she came to the room that Enishi was resting in. Sliding the door open, she entered and sat down beside him. "Hi," she mumbled. "I'm going to get our baby back."
Enishi, who was unconcious, didn't respond. Kaoru brushed some of his hair back from his face, tucking it behind his ears. "I really don't know what to make of you anymore," she admitted. "I just hope that we can work things out later, you know?"
She bent foreword, as if she were going to kiss his mouth. For a moment, she lingered over his mouth before kissing his cheek lightly. "I'll be back," she promised. Then, before she could change her mind, she stood and hurried off to the Kamiya Dojo with a perplexed Misao bounding around her in confusion.
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Author's notes; Ahem, I would like to apologized for the horrible long wait for this chapter. And I'm sorry that it is so short. I lost track of the point of the story and was forced to put it on hold. (I got writers block ..... -_- ) Anyway, I'm back into the story, so expect an update a week.
And thank you soooooo much to everyone who reviewed.
Regards,
Kissa-chan
