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The Tale of A Proper Marriage : Chapter 11
by white seraph
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Kaoru punched her palm. How dare the freak do this to her?! Who does he think he is huh? The king of the world? Screw it! Kaoru wasn't going to let him control her like a puppy, let him confine her like a captive. How she loathed him, how much she loathed him! Fine, if he was to be such an ass, then she'd just have to find other ways to get out, and she'd probably just run off back to her own estate, leaving her fiancé to explain to his mother!
Looking around for another exit Kaoru explored around the walls that surrounded the estate and for the first time, she actually realized how big it was; it used to take her only 10 to 15 minutes to walk around the walls of her own estate walls when she was bored and had nothing to do, but now, nearly after half an hour's walk, Kaoru still didn't find a back door. Dammit, Kaoru sighed with despair. Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of a white porcelain like statue, that was extremely familiar, and looked like the statue she had seen just a while ago..She looked around; the whole path seemed rather familiar.And then, it finally occurred to her that it looked familiar because it was the exact same path she walked through just a while ago!
Sighing, Kaoru decided to give up looking for a back door that probably didn't even exist! Instead, she thought of a better plan. Tying her sleeves into big knots and pulling her kimono up to her knees, Kaoru looked around and made sure no one was around before climbing up the white statue that depicted a rather dementedly giant fish. Stepping on the end of the tail; where it curled back upwards like a hook, Kaoru pushed herself up, just tall enough for her to put a leg across the grey walls..
Suddenly, the tail, very unfortunately decided it could no longer support Kaoru's immense wait and broke, and shattered on the ground, causing a destructive clash that vibrated loudly.
Kenshin, after hearing of the loud, clashing noise outside, rushed to see what was disrupting the peace and quiet. Most shocked was he to see his fiancé, very unladylike-ly and most peculiarly saddling on the walls of the Himura estate. "Just what are you doing?!" Kenshin yelled as he slipped his sandals on and stepped down to the walls.
Kaoru quickly swung her head around and saw him running to her. At that, she, in attempt to get herself over the wall, tried to swing her leg to the outside of the wall so she could jump of and go. But quite unexpectantly, and as if it were fate, the hem of her Kimono was hooked was the tiles of the walls, causing poor Kaoru to loose her balance and tumble disgracefully back to the ground, and still behind the walls.
It all happened to fast, that Kaoru was still rubbing the back of her head, trying to relieve the pain, when the large white stone fish lost it's balance and fell on top of Kaoru.
She had tried to yell, but no sound came out. The shock and fear precluded Kaoru from making any noise, and all she could do was sit still and look up at the large white stoney fish that was about to crush her.
But it never came.
Someone had somehow, managed to scoop her small body up and carried her to safety before the fatal statue got to her. How ever did they do it, she didn't know, but somehow they had managed, and Kaoru was eternally thankful.
Kaoru turned to turned and saw a glimpse of red, and her heart immediately froze. It couldn't be him. She looked past her shoulder and looked across her shoulder to confirm everything. She breathed hard, not knowing whether to be grateful or not, and all she did was stare straight into his eyes, hard.
Thankfully, he spared her from speaking, "You silly girl!" He lamented "Did you know how dangerous that was? Would you want me to have to go to your mother and tell her that you died?!" He glared at her with his eyebrows furrowed with anger.
No, he was more angered over himself than her. Why did he do what he did? He could have just let her die so he would no longer have to be betrothed to her. He could have let her die so he would no longer have to hear her annoying voice or see her face every again. But no, he had to pretend to be a saint and save her, didn't he?
"Um." Kaoru looked at him uneasily, she had decided to be grateful, since she did in a sense, owe him her life. "Can you get your hands off me?" She asked softly as she looked at his hands, still clutching her shoulder uncomfortably, and then mentally slapped herself when she realized how rude and insincere she sounded.
Kenshin didn't take her words in offence, and immediately had her released, feeling his face hot. "I..uh" He thought quickly, trying to steer the conversation elsewhere. "Next time, if you really have to go out, just let me know." He pushed himself away from her, read to leave, as he realized how harsh it was of him to treat her in such a way that almost drove her to escape.
"You'll really let me go out?!" Kaoru asked with anticipation.
"No."
Kaoru stared at him with disappointment. So he wasn't as good as she had thought. Screw it if he saved her life, he probably did it so he wouldn't have to get his ass kicked by his mother when she came back. But then."Hey how did you do it?" She asked him, totally dropping the previous conversation off.
"Do what?" He asked dully, acting as if he were not in the least interested in the conversation.
Kaoru rolled her eyes, not knowing how much obvious she could get. "You know, how you did you like rush from there" She pointed at the building "to here" she pointed at the shattered statue "in less than like TWO seconds?"
Kenshin decided she had not the right to know of anything about him other than his name and the fact that he was forced into a marriage with her. "I just did." He said evasively, obviously not wanting to tell her anything, and turned back to the house before she could ask anymore. He had better plans for himself tonight.
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After that little incident, nothing much happened that was interesting. In fact, Kaoru had hardly seen the boy around; never turning up for dinners, or any other meals, Kaoru had learnt to eat alone in the big dinning room during the pass few days. She never questioned where he was, nor did she even try to think, as she had made quite a positive assumption that he was probably busying himself, socializing in tea houses with friends or something. Not that she really cared, but it just was that she found it rather selfish of him to ditch her just like that, but she half expected him to be that sort of person when she first stepped into the house already.
Kaoru chewed her rice boringly, as she looked around the empty room. She sighed, suddenly feeling the crave to go home and listen to her brother's voice, even if it was meant to annoy her, or even her mother's squeaky voice that she was so sick of hearing. Kaoru was homesick, but not like anyone around would care, not like anyone around could help. Because, although he did mention that if she really wanted to go out, she could ask him, but Kaoru could never bring herself low enough as to beg the jerk. Never ever.
It was a very unexcited week for Kaoru, even worse that than the times when both her parents were in town, keeping an eye on them. And Lady Himura would return tomorrow, with her guest.whoever they were. Her once anticipated week was gone, just like that, miserable and boring, and all because of that idiot.
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"Yumiko! The mistress is back, hurry and help her unload the luggage!" One of the older girls come running into the laundry area, getting others out of their chores to help out. They had learnt through the hard way that their mistress was always, always and always in a foul mood; and aftermath of a long journey in a small confined carriage, and this then, they had all learnt to prepare themselves well.
The girls were rather surprised, that there was a new guest the Lady brought; a quite gentleman who's perpetuating smile never seemed to cease. But that was not the problem. Everyone knew that ever since the death of the late Lord Himura, Kenshin's grandfather, the Lady decided that it would be best to store everything the old man once owned in the store rooms, as a legacy or something to remember him buy. But of course, considering the fact that he was a clever scholar that interacted frequently with the imperial court, the books alone were more than abundant. There was absolutely no where else to put the stuff other than to occupy a guest room.
Now the Himura estate may be big, but there wasn't many guest rooms, infact they only had two, as the family rarely invited guests over to stay over night. And occupying one out of two guest rooms, meant there was only one left.
If Kaoru was staying in the current guestroom, then that meant..the new lad had no where to stay? The girls held the lad's boxes of cargo, not knowing where to put them.
"Lady Himura" One decided to ask the Lady, who was busying herself with a conversation with the mysterious new boy. "I." She saw Lady Himura's offended stare, as if not at all happy she had interrupted her conversation.
"S..sorry, but I would like to ask where I should drop the luggage." She looked down at the boxes she was carrying.
At that, she seemed to understand the girl's problem, and erased the frown on her face. "Oh, that, my dear, goes to the guest room Kaoru's staying in." Then, looking at the girls' confused look, she added "Don't worry, Kaoru will be moving to Kenshin's room." And turned back to Soujirou and resumed back to their previous conversation.
And of course, when the girls suddenly came into Kaoru's room and started unpacking strange things that she knew did not belong to her, the girl was perplexed, and uncertain what was going on. "Hey hey! What are you doing?" She asked as the girls came in, one after another.
"Our mistress has ordered us to take these boxes to the guest room, miss" One replied politely.
"What? I think you're in the wrong guest room!" Kaoru told them.
"There's only one guest room" Another explained.
Kaoru was about to retort back that they were mistaken, when Lady Himura came in and started to clear Kaoru's confused mind. Standing at the opened doorway, she smiled warmly, trying to relieve the frown on Kaoru's face. "Kaoru dear, can I have a quick word with you?"
The girl was reluctant to leave her room unattended and with girls coming in and out like it was a public display room, but not wanting to offend her hostess, she complied and followed her out the main yard, where she started to, very calmly, unfold the story.
"I'm so sorry, but my sister's death was rather unexpected, and it wasn't only until the end of last week did I realize that he would be staying with us for the next few weeks. And I guess the only one other place proper place for you to stay is Kenshin's room," She patter Kaoru's hand "I'm sure that would be alright for you, would it not?" she asked rhetorically.
"I um." She shuffled uncomfortably "If I'm causing so much trouble, I think it would be best if I go home." Kaoru took her chance hopefully.
"Oh, don't you even think yourself a burden dear. I love seeing you around, brightens the house a lot, you know?" Lady Himura reassured the girl. She had all a long intended for this to happen, but of course, this was not for the girl to know. "Now, lets not talk about that anymore, I want to you meet my nephew" Lady Himura stirred the conversation away quite successfully as she stood, and took Kaoru to meet the person who quite ironically, was the one who forced her out of the guestroom.
Kaoru had never met a more cheerful person before, constantly smiling distantly; Kaoru had thought the boy rather queer, but at least he wasn't like a certain jerk who was so up himself that he thought the whole world revolved around him only. But there was little to say between them, and before they could even get themselves acquainted, dinner time was called.
For the first time in a week, Kaoru saw her fiancé at dinner, not that she really cared if he was there or not, in fact, she wished she wasn't there at all! But by the cool, nonchalant looks of his, it seemed as if he was still not informed of the newest arrangements. Kaoru smiled as she thought of Kenshin's possible reactions.
Kaoru knew she'd find out soon, when Lady Himura asked Kenshin to go see her in her private room after dinner, leaving Kaoru and the new guest in a rather awkward situation, not because they knew nothing beyond each other's names, but because there was no one else left in the dining room, all the servants went away with the dishes and the silence was causing a rise in tension.
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"Um.hi" Kaoru tried to start a conversation off, with a meek, quiet greeting that didn't seem to work as effectively as she thought.
"Hi." The boy turned to her and replied with a short answer, still masking his emotions with that superficial smile.
Kaoru sighed, "Don't you ever get bored of that same smile?" "No, why?" He asked nonchalantly, sipping the hot tea. To be truthful to himself, the place and people here are still quite foreign to him, which of course it was excusable, since he had lived his entire life under his mother's care in the same Edo house. The sudden change in accommodation and people around, make him feel rather uneasy, and Lday Himura's effusive manner did not help one bit. The smile was to cover up all his anxiety and homesickness, which he thought, would be an offence to the people here.
Kaoru, on other hand, felt rather bad. "Sorry, I..Did I say that out loud?" She asked, still not believing that she had actually spoke her thoughts out loud.
The boy chuckled at her strange sense of humor. "You're queer." He pursed his lips back to the same smile.
"Queer?" Kaoru looked at him perplexes, as if he was speaking some alien language. "Now why would I be queer?"
But Soujiro never came to answer the question, as the loud, protesting voice of his cousin's echoing from his aunt's room that was way over on the other side of the house. "WHAT? I'M NOT SLEEPING WITH THAT WENCH!!" The voice yelled, and Soujiro was sure it was loud enough for everyone in the entire premise to hear. He looked at Kaoru's humiliated, embarrassed face, and immediately felt sorry for the girl. And for the first time, he understood that she was in an even worst position that he was in the house.
"I see, he is still, as spoilt and obnoxious as ever." He said to Kaoru, hoping he could stop her from feeling so unwanted and bad, and fortunately, it did seem to have an effect.
"Still?" Kaoru asked.
"Yeah, we used to know each other, a long time ago, where we were really young." He explained to her, but avoiding all the crucial details, as he didn't really want her to know too much about his past to judge him in any way.
"Would you like to come and collect your things in the guest room?" He asked before she could further press on him on his past.
"Alright" Kaoru said, obviously still reluctant about the new arrangements. She dragged herself along the corridor, letting Soujiro follow her, since he didn't know the ways around yet.
Kaoru never even thought she'd ever step a foot into her fiancé's room, and now, she realized how strange the idea of bringing her clothes and books to his room. Not that she didn't have the permission to go in alone, in fact, Lady Himura had said earlier this afternoon, that his room was part of her room now, and she had every right to go in and out without asking.
And soon, with the help of Soujiro and a few other girls, she had managed to move everything in to the new room, which she found was actually very big and spacious compared to her own that was under renew right now.
Humming to herself, Kaoru pulled out the futon and laid it on the floor after they had all left, and was about to turn the lights off and go to bed, when the door slid open and he walked in, angered and annoyed.
NEXT TIME! Kenshin is still as hostile to Kaoru as ever, and under such ill treatment, Kaoru seeks Soujirou for refuge! Their friendship thrives, but at the same time, someone's jealousy seems to be growing and growing too!
The Tale of A Proper Marriage : Chapter 11
by white seraph
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Kaoru punched her palm. How dare the freak do this to her?! Who does he think he is huh? The king of the world? Screw it! Kaoru wasn't going to let him control her like a puppy, let him confine her like a captive. How she loathed him, how much she loathed him! Fine, if he was to be such an ass, then she'd just have to find other ways to get out, and she'd probably just run off back to her own estate, leaving her fiancé to explain to his mother!
Looking around for another exit Kaoru explored around the walls that surrounded the estate and for the first time, she actually realized how big it was; it used to take her only 10 to 15 minutes to walk around the walls of her own estate walls when she was bored and had nothing to do, but now, nearly after half an hour's walk, Kaoru still didn't find a back door. Dammit, Kaoru sighed with despair. Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of a white porcelain like statue, that was extremely familiar, and looked like the statue she had seen just a while ago..She looked around; the whole path seemed rather familiar.And then, it finally occurred to her that it looked familiar because it was the exact same path she walked through just a while ago!
Sighing, Kaoru decided to give up looking for a back door that probably didn't even exist! Instead, she thought of a better plan. Tying her sleeves into big knots and pulling her kimono up to her knees, Kaoru looked around and made sure no one was around before climbing up the white statue that depicted a rather dementedly giant fish. Stepping on the end of the tail; where it curled back upwards like a hook, Kaoru pushed herself up, just tall enough for her to put a leg across the grey walls..
Suddenly, the tail, very unfortunately decided it could no longer support Kaoru's immense wait and broke, and shattered on the ground, causing a destructive clash that vibrated loudly.
Kenshin, after hearing of the loud, clashing noise outside, rushed to see what was disrupting the peace and quiet. Most shocked was he to see his fiancé, very unladylike-ly and most peculiarly saddling on the walls of the Himura estate. "Just what are you doing?!" Kenshin yelled as he slipped his sandals on and stepped down to the walls.
Kaoru quickly swung her head around and saw him running to her. At that, she, in attempt to get herself over the wall, tried to swing her leg to the outside of the wall so she could jump of and go. But quite unexpectantly, and as if it were fate, the hem of her Kimono was hooked was the tiles of the walls, causing poor Kaoru to loose her balance and tumble disgracefully back to the ground, and still behind the walls.
It all happened to fast, that Kaoru was still rubbing the back of her head, trying to relieve the pain, when the large white stone fish lost it's balance and fell on top of Kaoru.
She had tried to yell, but no sound came out. The shock and fear precluded Kaoru from making any noise, and all she could do was sit still and look up at the large white stoney fish that was about to crush her.
But it never came.
Someone had somehow, managed to scoop her small body up and carried her to safety before the fatal statue got to her. How ever did they do it, she didn't know, but somehow they had managed, and Kaoru was eternally thankful.
Kaoru turned to turned and saw a glimpse of red, and her heart immediately froze. It couldn't be him. She looked past her shoulder and looked across her shoulder to confirm everything. She breathed hard, not knowing whether to be grateful or not, and all she did was stare straight into his eyes, hard.
Thankfully, he spared her from speaking, "You silly girl!" He lamented "Did you know how dangerous that was? Would you want me to have to go to your mother and tell her that you died?!" He glared at her with his eyebrows furrowed with anger.
No, he was more angered over himself than her. Why did he do what he did? He could have just let her die so he would no longer have to be betrothed to her. He could have let her die so he would no longer have to hear her annoying voice or see her face every again. But no, he had to pretend to be a saint and save her, didn't he?
"Um." Kaoru looked at him uneasily, she had decided to be grateful, since she did in a sense, owe him her life. "Can you get your hands off me?" She asked softly as she looked at his hands, still clutching her shoulder uncomfortably, and then mentally slapped herself when she realized how rude and insincere she sounded.
Kenshin didn't take her words in offence, and immediately had her released, feeling his face hot. "I..uh" He thought quickly, trying to steer the conversation elsewhere. "Next time, if you really have to go out, just let me know." He pushed himself away from her, read to leave, as he realized how harsh it was of him to treat her in such a way that almost drove her to escape.
"You'll really let me go out?!" Kaoru asked with anticipation.
"No."
Kaoru stared at him with disappointment. So he wasn't as good as she had thought. Screw it if he saved her life, he probably did it so he wouldn't have to get his ass kicked by his mother when she came back. But then."Hey how did you do it?" She asked him, totally dropping the previous conversation off.
"Do what?" He asked dully, acting as if he were not in the least interested in the conversation.
Kaoru rolled her eyes, not knowing how much obvious she could get. "You know, how you did you like rush from there" She pointed at the building "to here" she pointed at the shattered statue "in less than like TWO seconds?"
Kenshin decided she had not the right to know of anything about him other than his name and the fact that he was forced into a marriage with her. "I just did." He said evasively, obviously not wanting to tell her anything, and turned back to the house before she could ask anymore. He had better plans for himself tonight.
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After that little incident, nothing much happened that was interesting. In fact, Kaoru had hardly seen the boy around; never turning up for dinners, or any other meals, Kaoru had learnt to eat alone in the big dinning room during the pass few days. She never questioned where he was, nor did she even try to think, as she had made quite a positive assumption that he was probably busying himself, socializing in tea houses with friends or something. Not that she really cared, but it just was that she found it rather selfish of him to ditch her just like that, but she half expected him to be that sort of person when she first stepped into the house already.
Kaoru chewed her rice boringly, as she looked around the empty room. She sighed, suddenly feeling the crave to go home and listen to her brother's voice, even if it was meant to annoy her, or even her mother's squeaky voice that she was so sick of hearing. Kaoru was homesick, but not like anyone around would care, not like anyone around could help. Because, although he did mention that if she really wanted to go out, she could ask him, but Kaoru could never bring herself low enough as to beg the jerk. Never ever.
It was a very unexcited week for Kaoru, even worse that than the times when both her parents were in town, keeping an eye on them. And Lady Himura would return tomorrow, with her guest.whoever they were. Her once anticipated week was gone, just like that, miserable and boring, and all because of that idiot.
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"Yumiko! The mistress is back, hurry and help her unload the luggage!" One of the older girls come running into the laundry area, getting others out of their chores to help out. They had learnt through the hard way that their mistress was always, always and always in a foul mood; and aftermath of a long journey in a small confined carriage, and this then, they had all learnt to prepare themselves well.
The girls were rather surprised, that there was a new guest the Lady brought; a quite gentleman who's perpetuating smile never seemed to cease. But that was not the problem. Everyone knew that ever since the death of the late Lord Himura, Kenshin's grandfather, the Lady decided that it would be best to store everything the old man once owned in the store rooms, as a legacy or something to remember him buy. But of course, considering the fact that he was a clever scholar that interacted frequently with the imperial court, the books alone were more than abundant. There was absolutely no where else to put the stuff other than to occupy a guest room.
Now the Himura estate may be big, but there wasn't many guest rooms, infact they only had two, as the family rarely invited guests over to stay over night. And occupying one out of two guest rooms, meant there was only one left.
If Kaoru was staying in the current guestroom, then that meant..the new lad had no where to stay? The girls held the lad's boxes of cargo, not knowing where to put them.
"Lady Himura" One decided to ask the Lady, who was busying herself with a conversation with the mysterious new boy. "I." She saw Lady Himura's offended stare, as if not at all happy she had interrupted her conversation.
"S..sorry, but I would like to ask where I should drop the luggage." She looked down at the boxes she was carrying.
At that, she seemed to understand the girl's problem, and erased the frown on her face. "Oh, that, my dear, goes to the guest room Kaoru's staying in." Then, looking at the girls' confused look, she added "Don't worry, Kaoru will be moving to Kenshin's room." And turned back to Soujirou and resumed back to their previous conversation.
And of course, when the girls suddenly came into Kaoru's room and started unpacking strange things that she knew did not belong to her, the girl was perplexed, and uncertain what was going on. "Hey hey! What are you doing?" She asked as the girls came in, one after another.
"Our mistress has ordered us to take these boxes to the guest room, miss" One replied politely.
"What? I think you're in the wrong guest room!" Kaoru told them.
"There's only one guest room" Another explained.
Kaoru was about to retort back that they were mistaken, when Lady Himura came in and started to clear Kaoru's confused mind. Standing at the opened doorway, she smiled warmly, trying to relieve the frown on Kaoru's face. "Kaoru dear, can I have a quick word with you?"
The girl was reluctant to leave her room unattended and with girls coming in and out like it was a public display room, but not wanting to offend her hostess, she complied and followed her out the main yard, where she started to, very calmly, unfold the story.
"I'm so sorry, but my sister's death was rather unexpected, and it wasn't only until the end of last week did I realize that he would be staying with us for the next few weeks. And I guess the only one other place proper place for you to stay is Kenshin's room," She patter Kaoru's hand "I'm sure that would be alright for you, would it not?" she asked rhetorically.
"I um." She shuffled uncomfortably "If I'm causing so much trouble, I think it would be best if I go home." Kaoru took her chance hopefully.
"Oh, don't you even think yourself a burden dear. I love seeing you around, brightens the house a lot, you know?" Lady Himura reassured the girl. She had all a long intended for this to happen, but of course, this was not for the girl to know. "Now, lets not talk about that anymore, I want to you meet my nephew" Lady Himura stirred the conversation away quite successfully as she stood, and took Kaoru to meet the person who quite ironically, was the one who forced her out of the guestroom.
Kaoru had never met a more cheerful person before, constantly smiling distantly; Kaoru had thought the boy rather queer, but at least he wasn't like a certain jerk who was so up himself that he thought the whole world revolved around him only. But there was little to say between them, and before they could even get themselves acquainted, dinner time was called.
For the first time in a week, Kaoru saw her fiancé at dinner, not that she really cared if he was there or not, in fact, she wished she wasn't there at all! But by the cool, nonchalant looks of his, it seemed as if he was still not informed of the newest arrangements. Kaoru smiled as she thought of Kenshin's possible reactions.
Kaoru knew she'd find out soon, when Lady Himura asked Kenshin to go see her in her private room after dinner, leaving Kaoru and the new guest in a rather awkward situation, not because they knew nothing beyond each other's names, but because there was no one else left in the dining room, all the servants went away with the dishes and the silence was causing a rise in tension.
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"Um.hi" Kaoru tried to start a conversation off, with a meek, quiet greeting that didn't seem to work as effectively as she thought.
"Hi." The boy turned to her and replied with a short answer, still masking his emotions with that superficial smile.
Kaoru sighed, "Don't you ever get bored of that same smile?" "No, why?" He asked nonchalantly, sipping the hot tea. To be truthful to himself, the place and people here are still quite foreign to him, which of course it was excusable, since he had lived his entire life under his mother's care in the same Edo house. The sudden change in accommodation and people around, make him feel rather uneasy, and Lday Himura's effusive manner did not help one bit. The smile was to cover up all his anxiety and homesickness, which he thought, would be an offence to the people here.
Kaoru, on other hand, felt rather bad. "Sorry, I..Did I say that out loud?" She asked, still not believing that she had actually spoke her thoughts out loud.
The boy chuckled at her strange sense of humor. "You're queer." He pursed his lips back to the same smile.
"Queer?" Kaoru looked at him perplexes, as if he was speaking some alien language. "Now why would I be queer?"
But Soujiro never came to answer the question, as the loud, protesting voice of his cousin's echoing from his aunt's room that was way over on the other side of the house. "WHAT? I'M NOT SLEEPING WITH THAT WENCH!!" The voice yelled, and Soujiro was sure it was loud enough for everyone in the entire premise to hear. He looked at Kaoru's humiliated, embarrassed face, and immediately felt sorry for the girl. And for the first time, he understood that she was in an even worst position that he was in the house.
"I see, he is still, as spoilt and obnoxious as ever." He said to Kaoru, hoping he could stop her from feeling so unwanted and bad, and fortunately, it did seem to have an effect.
"Still?" Kaoru asked.
"Yeah, we used to know each other, a long time ago, where we were really young." He explained to her, but avoiding all the crucial details, as he didn't really want her to know too much about his past to judge him in any way.
"Would you like to come and collect your things in the guest room?" He asked before she could further press on him on his past.
"Alright" Kaoru said, obviously still reluctant about the new arrangements. She dragged herself along the corridor, letting Soujiro follow her, since he didn't know the ways around yet.
Kaoru never even thought she'd ever step a foot into her fiancé's room, and now, she realized how strange the idea of bringing her clothes and books to his room. Not that she didn't have the permission to go in alone, in fact, Lady Himura had said earlier this afternoon, that his room was part of her room now, and she had every right to go in and out without asking.
And soon, with the help of Soujiro and a few other girls, she had managed to move everything in to the new room, which she found was actually very big and spacious compared to her own that was under renew right now.
Humming to herself, Kaoru pulled out the futon and laid it on the floor after they had all left, and was about to turn the lights off and go to bed, when the door slid open and he walked in, angered and annoyed.
NEXT TIME! Kenshin is still as hostile to Kaoru as ever, and under such ill treatment, Kaoru seeks Soujirou for refuge! Their friendship thrives, but at the same time, someone's jealousy seems to be growing and growing too!
