Where I left off, Kenshin had just came back & only Kaoru knows. Oh yeah, I know I said that I'd say more about Kaoru's brother Rei, but I'm going to leave that out until the next chapter, ok?

Kenshin opened is eyes slowly. A single beam of light made it through the window shutters which were covered in snow. It had snowed for the past two days non stop. He looked over to wear Kaoru was, well she was supposed to be there, but she wasn't. "Oro?" Kenshin got up and put his normal clothes on, except the top wasn't red/purple, it was blue. He went downstairs to look for her, and finally did in the kitchen.

She was lightly humming to herself and cooking breakfast. Kenshin snuck up behind her and rapped his arms around her.

"?? Oh, good morning Kenshin."

"Good morning Kaoru, since when do you make breakfast?"

She noticed he had been leaving the 'Miss'/ 'Dono' part out of her name for three days, but didn't say anything about it. "Since you left I've had to. Sano and Yahiko don't cook." When she finished, she handed him a plate, and set hers on the table, sitting down. She took a bite of her food, as Kenshin did the same. He was surprised at the taste.

"Wow Kaoru! You actually did wonderfully!"

"Hey, do you mean you doubted me?!"

"Well, at first." she hit him on the head.

"Thanks I guess, I'm glad you like it." She realized something then. "shoot."

"What is it?"

"Sano and Yahiko will probably be over any minute. if they can make it through the snow."

"huh? I thought they only came once a week."

"Well, I left out the fact that whenever I cook something good it's like they can tell. Sano always loves free food, and Yahiko is always hungry too." As if on cue, the dojo door opened.

"That snow was hard to walk through eh Yahiko? Missy! Anything good today?" Sano called out.

"Yeah, we're starving!" Yahiko shouted. The two walked in and nearly fell over.

"Kenshin?!"

"Nice to see you two again, that it is!"

"Kenshin it's really you!!" Yahiko grinned happily.

"Kenshin!! Missy, let's have a feast! Woah, wait! Missy! How long has he been her?!"

"Ever since you two left 3 days ago."

"AND YOU DIDN'T TELL US?!"

"I had a bad day, I didn't think about it."

"What was so bad about it? KENSHIN COMING BACK?!" Yahiko screamed.

"No, Daren and Kiara killed themselves."

Sano and Yahiko froze, feeling so stupid.

"Oh, I'm really sorry Missy. I had no idea..."

"Yeah, I'm sorry too."

"Don't worry about it! Kenshin's back, so that's behind me now!" she lied, she was really sick to her stomach and felt horrible.

Kenshin looked around hoping to find something to change the subject, luckily there was something. "Kaoru, Misao's at the gate."

"She is? Oh I haven't seen her in nearly a year!" she ran out of the dojo, leaving the guys to talk. "Misao!!"

"Kaoru!! I haven't seen you in sooo long!!!"

"Yeah, how are you?"

"Good, you?"

"I'm good, Kenshin's back!"

"He is? That's great! Have you two kissed yet?" She joked.

"Um, well, yeah. but we also."

"You mean you two actually."

"Yeah."

"Wow. oh, Aoshi kissed me!! I'M SOOO HAPPY!!!" she grinned a huge smile.

Kaoru laughed, then felt an eruption of headaches and dizziness which she had actually been feeling since yesterday after visiting graves of her friends and family.

Misao took Kaoru's hands and started to spin very fast.

"Misao, stop, I'm not feeling well."

Misao thought she was kidding and just kept going faster.

"Misao, please.."

"Have you told Himura that you don't feel well?"

"No,"

"Then you're lying because you would have told him."

"But Misao,"

"Stop fooling around Kaoru!" Misao spun faster a few more times, then let go of Kaoru's hands.

Kaoru felt one more ounce of pain before falling to the snowy ground unconscious.

"K-Kaoru? You're kidding right?" Misao looked at her, but got no response. "Kaoru?!" she shook her, but still nothing happen.

"Oh s***! This is all my fault! I should have listened to her. HIMURA!!!" she yelled into the dojo.

"Coming!" he walked out to her. "What is it?"

"Kaoru." she pointed to her lying out in the yard.

"Kaoru!!" he rushed over to her. "What happen to her?!"

"I was spinning her around and she told me to stop because she wasn't feeling good, and I thought she was lying, so I asked her if she had told you. She said no so I thought that if she hadn't told you, then she had to be faking, but when I let go, she fainted."

"SANO!!" Kenshin shouted.

Sano came running out. He looked to Kenshin who was holding an unconscious Kaoru. "What's wrong with Missy?"

"No time, go get Miss. Megumi, quick!"

"Right!" he ran off.

Yahiko walked out of the dojo. "Huh?! What's wrong with Kaoru?! IS she going to be alright?! Please say yes!"

"Yahiko, calm down. she passed out. I don't know what's wrong, or if she's alright. I pray she is, but I do not know.."

"S-She's never passed out for no reason before. Kenshin, what if she." Yahiko stopped, he couldn't bring himself to continue.

"Shut up, she'll be fine!" Misao sobbed.

Sano hopped over the gate, running as fast as he could. Megumi ran behind him, but not as fast and opened the gate. She ran to Kaoru, and put her hand on her head, then checked her breathing.

"This isn't good." She said after taking Kaoru's temperature.

"What's not good?" Sano asked.

"Kenshin, was she outside in the snow at anytime last night?"

"Yes actually, she paid a visit to her parents, brother, and her 2 friends' graves for about an hour. why?"

"This is not good @ all. She might have Hallsca (AN: Hallsca is something I made up, it's sort of like Hypothermia cept. well. not.)"

"What's Hallsca?" Misao asked.

"No time for explaining! Yahiko, go pour hot water into her bath tub, you too rooster head, hurry!!"

"Got it!" They ran to her bath room.

"Hurry, Kenshin we have to get her there fast!"

Cliffhanger!! Well, I'd write more, but I have 2 go to sleep. I'm tired.. Check back tomorrow for the next chapter!!!