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Well, if you can tell, I changed the rating of this story, because well, the 1st chapter was rated G, but the rest of chapters, I seriously doubt it's going to be rated G.
Well, go on! Read it! Review!
Changing
By: AnimeKrazy a.k.a. Kaoru-chan
Oh yeah. And I forgot this last chapter. I don't own the Kenshin-gumi!
Chapter 2 - Nani!?
"NANI!?" everyone yelled at the same time. Kaoru winced. Then she snapped her fingers.
"Yahiko!"
"Yeah busu?"
"I'm going to ignore that and tell you the good news!" Kaoru said enthusiastically. "Well, I was thinking, you really aren't a little boy anymore, and we do have an awful lot of rooms in the dojo. How would you like your own?"
"Honto? You mean my own room?" he spluttered.
"Yup! Why don't you go look for one now?" Kaoru smiled.
"Thanks Kaoru!" Yahiko jumped and sped out the room.
Kaoru sighed, and then she secured and fastened the lock to the room.
"So. Wanna explain a bit further, Jou-chan?"
"I don't exactly have to kill him," Kaoru whispered.
Kenshin raised an eyebrow.
"I have to seduce him first-"
"What?!" Megumi screamed.
"-Then I have to injure him enough that I'll be able to bring him to the Meiji government. So that he could answer some questions." Kaoru finished.
"So, when were you going to tell us about this, if we hadn't figured it out?" Kenshin asked softly.
Kaoru turned her head away.
"Even if you did decide to do this, you aren't exactly having luck with seducing Ken-san. How are you going to seduce another, western man?" Megumi asked slyly.
"Well, excuse me! For your information, I do know how to seduce a man! I have not been trying to seduce Kenshin!" Kaoru's temper flared again. Then she added shyly, "I'm having better luck with Kenshin then you with Sano."
Sano chuckled. Then he asked in a serious voice, "That's why the geisha is coming over, right?"
Kaoru nodded.
"You do know you can't do this right?" Megumi whispered.
Kaoru's head snapped up. "And why not?"
"There is no way Sano and Kenshin are going to let you do this. Right, Ken- san? Sano?"
They both nodded.
"Mou!"
Kaoru walked out the door.
"You know, Jou-chan is pretty determined to do this. We either have to tie her up or kill this Kiyo or Kayo or whatever."
"I still have a feeling Kaoru is keeping something from us. We should ask Saitou. Kaoru-dono, I'm sure, will not tell us about it," said Kenshin.
"So exactly why are you busting in to my office at this hour?" asked Saitou, looking particularly displeased.
"You know exactly why we're here. So spill it," Sano said menacingly.
Saitou smirked. "As much as you can try, you do not intimidate me, Zanza."
"We're not here to intimidate you. We're here to ask you for some information," although Megumi was shaking like a leaf inside, she somehow managed to sound firm and angry.
Saitou smirked, "I've given the tanuki my word. How much of it do you exactly know?"
"Enough," Kenshin's cold voice sliced through the air.
"Apparently not enough, or you wouldn't be in my office."
Megumi could've sworn she'd heard Kenshin's teeth grinding against each other.
"Can you tell us or not?" Sano asked, very frustrated.
"I will be there tomorrow with a woman. Otherwise, I keep my word to the tanuki. Ask her. I will not supply you with any information what so ever." Saitou stated as he walked out of the office with his jacket slung over his shoulder.
"Well, we're obviously not getting any info here. Let's try and squeeze it out of Jou-chan tomorrow. But for now, I'm going to sleep like the dead."
"Kenshin?" Kaoru yawned. "When did you come back last night?"
"How'd you know I was missing?" he asked sharply. Kaoru seemed taken aback. Then she blushed, "I went to your room because, well, because I had another nightmare... Anyway, I just want to ask you, can you cook for one more person then usual today?"
"Sure Kaoru-dono!" Kenshin said, turning back to his Rurouni self. "Another nightmare?" he asked, frowning. Then, as if on cue, a female voice rang out in the dojo front yard.
"Ken-san! The baka rooster head and I thought we would join you for some breakfast!"
Kaoru's eyes narrowed a bit before muttering things under her breath.
"Well, I'm going to brush my hair a bit more."
'Nani? Kaoru-dono brushing her hair?' Kenshin shook the picture out of his head. Not that the image was bad, Kaoru was absolutely beautiful, her sitting on a futon, smiling seductive as she brushes her hair...
Kenshin tried to shake the mental image out of his mind as Sano came up behind him, grinning.
"Hey Kenshin it smells good! Guess-" Before he could finish his sentence, a familiar ki entered the dojo.
Kenshin let out a relieved breath. Saitou.
Kenshin went out quickly to greet them, with Sano trailing behind him. There was a pretty and a petite blonde woman looking at Megumi with interest.
"So you're Kaoru? I thought you'd be younger! More innocent looking at the least. You're rather in the 'beautiful' category. Not exactly 'cute'! Saitou you lied! No matter, I don't know why you hired me for this job when it's obvious she knows what she's doing!" and she kept talking and talking.
"Sakura?" Kaoru's soft voice came. Then she shook her head. "I'm sorry. I must be imaging things..."
"Kaoru?" the blonde woman called out softly.
"Wait! You guys know each other?" Saitou asked in alarm.
"Actually, we've met. Briefly. Over, what, 10 years ago?" Sakura wondered to herself.
"How'd you meet?" Sano asked.
Kaoru and Sakura had gone quiet, neither of them talking. Then Megumi jabbed him in the ribs. Sakura began talking again, "Well, when they asked me to teach a Kaoru, I didn't think my Kaoru! The innocent one! -"
Kaoru stuck her tongue out. Then she muttered, "Your Kaoru?"
"-Well, as sad as that maybe, I'm still doing my job. And Kaoru, I need help with all your clothes and mine. Well, well, well, what is the delicious smell? Please tell me that you know how to cook now Kaoru! Please!" Sakura pleaded desperately.
"Hahaha very funny! You know for a fact that I can't cook! Mou! Does everyone cook better than me?" Kaoru asked.
"Yup. The first thing I'll do is teaching you to cook! That's the ticket to a man's heart!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Really?" Kaoru asked.
"Why? Have got someone special?" Sakura asked slyly.
"No!" Kaoru shouted, blushing crimson.
"Anyway, I got your clothes in the carriage! Let's go get them!" Sakura said.
"Nani? Clothes? Why?" Megumi asked.
"You can't expect her to seduce a man dressed in training clothes... If I know Kaoru, she's neither cunning nor devious as to know how to seduce a man. If this is the Kaoru I met 10 years ago, she's just a lonely tomboy girl..." Sakura sighed.
"Okay. You can stop talking about me as though I'm not here... and I was not lonely. I had... Dr. Gensai..." Kaoru's eyes shined with unshed tears.
"Now... About those clothes you brought me..." Kaoru whispered and pushed against Saitou to get to the carriage.
After a moment, Sakura apologized. "I think I must have brought painful memories of her. Damn. I shouldn't have judged her like that... We only, met, briefly... For a couple of hours... Chikuso. I hate my stupidity."
Then she, too, walked out past Saitou toward the carriage.
"That was Sakura Kamajino. She'll be boarding with you as well. Kamiya offered," he quickly added the last sentence, at the looks on their faces. "Well, I'll be off. Oh and by the way. Sakura is a sucker for romance. You might be able to sneak some things out of her if you play the cards right."
Then he walked out, to be bumped into by Kaoru. "Leaving?" she inquired. He nodded.
"Well. What should I do about my hand-to-hand combat?" Kaoru asked again.
"You'll learn soon enough. I will also test you on your sword skill. By the way, Sakura has a picture of this man. From the new western technology called camera. I'm sure you'll appreciate it."
'Appreciate it?' Kaoru thought. 'Appreciate what?' She shook her head as if trying to rid of her thoughts.
Then she looked at the bundle of dressed in her arms and carried them to her room, followed by Sakura.
"Okay. Now put the salt in the pot... That's it... Good! Mix it up..." Sakura's voice came from the kitchen.
Sakura began to teach Kaoru to cook. So basically, it was going to be one hell of a lunch experience for them. The breakfast was good but Kenshin did not expect Sakura so he didn't cook enough so they were still a bit hungry.
When the delicious aroma of food teased their nose, Sano snorted. "Jeez, isn't Blondie supposed to be teaching Jou-chan how to cook? It doesn't smell like anything burning."
"Blondie? Where did that come from? And you're right! It doesn't smell like anything's burning!" Megumi exclaimed, a bit jealous at Sakura's new name.
"Sessha doesn't think there is anything wrong with Kaoru-dono's cooking..."
"There, there, Kenshin. It's all right. Living through the Bakamatsu made you eat things we can only imagine about... It messed up your sense to taste..." said Yahiko in a pitying voice.
"Ororororororo?"
"The food is here!" Sakura said.
"Wow! That smells good! Aren't you supposed to be teaching Jou-chan?"
Sakura frowned. "What do you mean? Kaoru cooked this. I just stood by next to her!"
Everyone looked incredulous.
"Where is the tanuki girl?" Megumi asked.
"She wanted to come eat but I told her to dress up first. She needs to get comfortable wearing stiff clothes!"
"That doesn't make sense," said Yahiko, scratching his head.
"Well, it basically means Kaoru has to learn to do things in formal clothes. Even fighting," Sakura smiled at Yahiko.
"Oh."
As they began to sip the miso soup and ate, Kenshin could feel Kaoru's ki flaring, coming very quickly their way.
But as she entered the room, dressed in her regular training clothes, smiling, Sakura's eyes widened.
"Where are the dresses?" she asked.
"There is no way I'm going to go around town every day looking like a prostitute..." Kaoru whispered, sipping the food.
Then tension crackled in the air and Sano said nervously, "So Jou-chan... You made this?"
Kaoru paid no mind to Sano and kept eating. Sakura got up, yanked Kaoru up by the arm and began to drag her out the door.
"LET GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Ow ow ow!! Kenshin!! Sano!!! Yahiko!! Megumi!!! SOMEONE HELP!!!!"
Megumi couldn't help but smirk.
Definitions.
Chikuso - shit Nani - what Busu - ugly Honto - really Jou-chan - little missy. Mou - Jeez Tanuki - Raccoon (girl) Baka - idiot
Well, if you can tell, I changed the rating of this story, because well, the 1st chapter was rated G, but the rest of chapters, I seriously doubt it's going to be rated G.
Well, go on! Read it! Review!
Changing
By: AnimeKrazy a.k.a. Kaoru-chan
Oh yeah. And I forgot this last chapter. I don't own the Kenshin-gumi!
Chapter 2 - Nani!?
"NANI!?" everyone yelled at the same time. Kaoru winced. Then she snapped her fingers.
"Yahiko!"
"Yeah busu?"
"I'm going to ignore that and tell you the good news!" Kaoru said enthusiastically. "Well, I was thinking, you really aren't a little boy anymore, and we do have an awful lot of rooms in the dojo. How would you like your own?"
"Honto? You mean my own room?" he spluttered.
"Yup! Why don't you go look for one now?" Kaoru smiled.
"Thanks Kaoru!" Yahiko jumped and sped out the room.
Kaoru sighed, and then she secured and fastened the lock to the room.
"So. Wanna explain a bit further, Jou-chan?"
"I don't exactly have to kill him," Kaoru whispered.
Kenshin raised an eyebrow.
"I have to seduce him first-"
"What?!" Megumi screamed.
"-Then I have to injure him enough that I'll be able to bring him to the Meiji government. So that he could answer some questions." Kaoru finished.
"So, when were you going to tell us about this, if we hadn't figured it out?" Kenshin asked softly.
Kaoru turned her head away.
"Even if you did decide to do this, you aren't exactly having luck with seducing Ken-san. How are you going to seduce another, western man?" Megumi asked slyly.
"Well, excuse me! For your information, I do know how to seduce a man! I have not been trying to seduce Kenshin!" Kaoru's temper flared again. Then she added shyly, "I'm having better luck with Kenshin then you with Sano."
Sano chuckled. Then he asked in a serious voice, "That's why the geisha is coming over, right?"
Kaoru nodded.
"You do know you can't do this right?" Megumi whispered.
Kaoru's head snapped up. "And why not?"
"There is no way Sano and Kenshin are going to let you do this. Right, Ken- san? Sano?"
They both nodded.
"Mou!"
Kaoru walked out the door.
"You know, Jou-chan is pretty determined to do this. We either have to tie her up or kill this Kiyo or Kayo or whatever."
"I still have a feeling Kaoru is keeping something from us. We should ask Saitou. Kaoru-dono, I'm sure, will not tell us about it," said Kenshin.
"So exactly why are you busting in to my office at this hour?" asked Saitou, looking particularly displeased.
"You know exactly why we're here. So spill it," Sano said menacingly.
Saitou smirked. "As much as you can try, you do not intimidate me, Zanza."
"We're not here to intimidate you. We're here to ask you for some information," although Megumi was shaking like a leaf inside, she somehow managed to sound firm and angry.
Saitou smirked, "I've given the tanuki my word. How much of it do you exactly know?"
"Enough," Kenshin's cold voice sliced through the air.
"Apparently not enough, or you wouldn't be in my office."
Megumi could've sworn she'd heard Kenshin's teeth grinding against each other.
"Can you tell us or not?" Sano asked, very frustrated.
"I will be there tomorrow with a woman. Otherwise, I keep my word to the tanuki. Ask her. I will not supply you with any information what so ever." Saitou stated as he walked out of the office with his jacket slung over his shoulder.
"Well, we're obviously not getting any info here. Let's try and squeeze it out of Jou-chan tomorrow. But for now, I'm going to sleep like the dead."
"Kenshin?" Kaoru yawned. "When did you come back last night?"
"How'd you know I was missing?" he asked sharply. Kaoru seemed taken aback. Then she blushed, "I went to your room because, well, because I had another nightmare... Anyway, I just want to ask you, can you cook for one more person then usual today?"
"Sure Kaoru-dono!" Kenshin said, turning back to his Rurouni self. "Another nightmare?" he asked, frowning. Then, as if on cue, a female voice rang out in the dojo front yard.
"Ken-san! The baka rooster head and I thought we would join you for some breakfast!"
Kaoru's eyes narrowed a bit before muttering things under her breath.
"Well, I'm going to brush my hair a bit more."
'Nani? Kaoru-dono brushing her hair?' Kenshin shook the picture out of his head. Not that the image was bad, Kaoru was absolutely beautiful, her sitting on a futon, smiling seductive as she brushes her hair...
Kenshin tried to shake the mental image out of his mind as Sano came up behind him, grinning.
"Hey Kenshin it smells good! Guess-" Before he could finish his sentence, a familiar ki entered the dojo.
Kenshin let out a relieved breath. Saitou.
Kenshin went out quickly to greet them, with Sano trailing behind him. There was a pretty and a petite blonde woman looking at Megumi with interest.
"So you're Kaoru? I thought you'd be younger! More innocent looking at the least. You're rather in the 'beautiful' category. Not exactly 'cute'! Saitou you lied! No matter, I don't know why you hired me for this job when it's obvious she knows what she's doing!" and she kept talking and talking.
"Sakura?" Kaoru's soft voice came. Then she shook her head. "I'm sorry. I must be imaging things..."
"Kaoru?" the blonde woman called out softly.
"Wait! You guys know each other?" Saitou asked in alarm.
"Actually, we've met. Briefly. Over, what, 10 years ago?" Sakura wondered to herself.
"How'd you meet?" Sano asked.
Kaoru and Sakura had gone quiet, neither of them talking. Then Megumi jabbed him in the ribs. Sakura began talking again, "Well, when they asked me to teach a Kaoru, I didn't think my Kaoru! The innocent one! -"
Kaoru stuck her tongue out. Then she muttered, "Your Kaoru?"
"-Well, as sad as that maybe, I'm still doing my job. And Kaoru, I need help with all your clothes and mine. Well, well, well, what is the delicious smell? Please tell me that you know how to cook now Kaoru! Please!" Sakura pleaded desperately.
"Hahaha very funny! You know for a fact that I can't cook! Mou! Does everyone cook better than me?" Kaoru asked.
"Yup. The first thing I'll do is teaching you to cook! That's the ticket to a man's heart!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Really?" Kaoru asked.
"Why? Have got someone special?" Sakura asked slyly.
"No!" Kaoru shouted, blushing crimson.
"Anyway, I got your clothes in the carriage! Let's go get them!" Sakura said.
"Nani? Clothes? Why?" Megumi asked.
"You can't expect her to seduce a man dressed in training clothes... If I know Kaoru, she's neither cunning nor devious as to know how to seduce a man. If this is the Kaoru I met 10 years ago, she's just a lonely tomboy girl..." Sakura sighed.
"Okay. You can stop talking about me as though I'm not here... and I was not lonely. I had... Dr. Gensai..." Kaoru's eyes shined with unshed tears.
"Now... About those clothes you brought me..." Kaoru whispered and pushed against Saitou to get to the carriage.
After a moment, Sakura apologized. "I think I must have brought painful memories of her. Damn. I shouldn't have judged her like that... We only, met, briefly... For a couple of hours... Chikuso. I hate my stupidity."
Then she, too, walked out past Saitou toward the carriage.
"That was Sakura Kamajino. She'll be boarding with you as well. Kamiya offered," he quickly added the last sentence, at the looks on their faces. "Well, I'll be off. Oh and by the way. Sakura is a sucker for romance. You might be able to sneak some things out of her if you play the cards right."
Then he walked out, to be bumped into by Kaoru. "Leaving?" she inquired. He nodded.
"Well. What should I do about my hand-to-hand combat?" Kaoru asked again.
"You'll learn soon enough. I will also test you on your sword skill. By the way, Sakura has a picture of this man. From the new western technology called camera. I'm sure you'll appreciate it."
'Appreciate it?' Kaoru thought. 'Appreciate what?' She shook her head as if trying to rid of her thoughts.
Then she looked at the bundle of dressed in her arms and carried them to her room, followed by Sakura.
"Okay. Now put the salt in the pot... That's it... Good! Mix it up..." Sakura's voice came from the kitchen.
Sakura began to teach Kaoru to cook. So basically, it was going to be one hell of a lunch experience for them. The breakfast was good but Kenshin did not expect Sakura so he didn't cook enough so they were still a bit hungry.
When the delicious aroma of food teased their nose, Sano snorted. "Jeez, isn't Blondie supposed to be teaching Jou-chan how to cook? It doesn't smell like anything burning."
"Blondie? Where did that come from? And you're right! It doesn't smell like anything's burning!" Megumi exclaimed, a bit jealous at Sakura's new name.
"Sessha doesn't think there is anything wrong with Kaoru-dono's cooking..."
"There, there, Kenshin. It's all right. Living through the Bakamatsu made you eat things we can only imagine about... It messed up your sense to taste..." said Yahiko in a pitying voice.
"Ororororororo?"
"The food is here!" Sakura said.
"Wow! That smells good! Aren't you supposed to be teaching Jou-chan?"
Sakura frowned. "What do you mean? Kaoru cooked this. I just stood by next to her!"
Everyone looked incredulous.
"Where is the tanuki girl?" Megumi asked.
"She wanted to come eat but I told her to dress up first. She needs to get comfortable wearing stiff clothes!"
"That doesn't make sense," said Yahiko, scratching his head.
"Well, it basically means Kaoru has to learn to do things in formal clothes. Even fighting," Sakura smiled at Yahiko.
"Oh."
As they began to sip the miso soup and ate, Kenshin could feel Kaoru's ki flaring, coming very quickly their way.
But as she entered the room, dressed in her regular training clothes, smiling, Sakura's eyes widened.
"Where are the dresses?" she asked.
"There is no way I'm going to go around town every day looking like a prostitute..." Kaoru whispered, sipping the food.
Then tension crackled in the air and Sano said nervously, "So Jou-chan... You made this?"
Kaoru paid no mind to Sano and kept eating. Sakura got up, yanked Kaoru up by the arm and began to drag her out the door.
"LET GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Ow ow ow!! Kenshin!! Sano!!! Yahiko!! Megumi!!! SOMEONE HELP!!!!"
Megumi couldn't help but smirk.
Definitions.
Chikuso - shit Nani - what Busu - ugly Honto - really Jou-chan - little missy. Mou - Jeez Tanuki - Raccoon (girl) Baka - idiot