Author's Note: Another chapter, and I do hope that you people like it.

PLEASE send in poems or quotes that have to do with my fic. You'll get the next chapter early, like Ravyn. Note that it'll be the exact same thing that I post up on Saturday. Maybe I should just end all of them in cliffhangers so you people will send them in. Mhuahahahaha!

NOTES ABOUT STORY: READ!

1) Am I that confusing? *Sigh* Kaoru and the others are not going to get back their memories of the past. It's just that Kaoru and Kenshin have a connection and her natural instinct takes over when they're together.

2) Someone suggested that I should make more than one lemon for the others, and I guess that could be done. Be assured that I will make at least one, and it might not be of K/K. I'm still thinking things about this story. I don't have my stories pre-written so I would appreciate suggestions on the futuristic things.

3) The twins' blood, if sucked completely dry, can make the vampire immortal. This is because their parents are very powerful and have true vampire blood, meaning that none of their family before them was human. So that's really rare now.

4) Vampires don't just attack humans and drink their blood like before. Humans, since they're the only ones who have the blood vampires need to keep going, have a choice to give all of their blood to the vampires when they're close to death. Or they can choose to become zombies; humans are now the origin of most vampires, werewolves, and zombies.

Humans are required to give one pint of blood each year to vampires, so that the vampires don't need to go back to just sucking every victim that they see. It helps balances the new ecosystem or species.

5) Zombies don't usually get into fights, their species is neutral, meaning they stick to themselves now. Though before they did stand up for their rights. Now in 3003, they aren't as specists as the other three species are.

I just wanted to make a few things clear. So if you skipped it, READ IT! Feel free to ask questions. Though do read carefully, so that you don't miss anything. READ MY A/N THROUGHTOUT THE CHAPTER. They help and explain a lot.

Disclaimer: ME NO OWN RK! That's so not fair.

Chapter Four: Secrets Revealed

"Life exists to die,

Yet it is afraid of death." -Anonymous

(I found that one myself. Please people, send in quotes and/or poems that are related to my story, you get the next chapter early.)

"Okay. Let me get this straight. We got married in your way; 1000 years ago just because you wanted to get stronger to defeat a guy named Shishio?" Asked Kaoru after he explained to her in their huge room, which seemed to be able to fit fifty people and still have room.

The room was decorated in blue and red with a large Tri-King bed in the center where Kenshin was seated at now, as Kaoru paced the room trying to take it all in.

(A/N: Tri-King beds are... well think about three kings sized beds merged into one. That's pretty darn big, so you can imagine how many things have changed.)

Kaoru sat crossed legged on the soft carpet that covered the room floor. She looked at him seriously for a moment and knew that he wasn't lying.

"So I was just a tool to get you stronger? Well I'm not going to do that Ritual thing of yours again just so you can get stronger," said Kaoru defiantly as she glared at him.

"No, that wasn't it! You went willingly, or should I say Kirei, but still... I loved you back when, and that love has come with me for 1000 years. If I didn't, then why would I have declined all of the women that have wanted to replace you? Kaoru, you're irreplaceable in my heart. I love you more than I can say," said Kenshin as he got off the bed and kneeled before her. His amber depths baring into her sapphire depths.

Kaoru bit her lower lip that was true. He must really have loved... no still love me if he hadn't gone off with another woman for that long. No man would do that; she had to admit he was very loyal. They were bonded in some strange way, so she only nodded.

Kenshin smiled and kissed her fully on the lips; he was confused when she tried to push him away. This time he allowed her to do so.

"Can we take this a little... slower?" Asked Kaoru as she stood up.

He looked hurt, but nodded. If he waited this long, he could wait a bit more.

"Kenshin?" Asked Kaoru as she looked around.

"Yes?"

"Where's the bathroom?" Asked Kaoru.

Kenshin pointed at a blank wall.

"That's not funny," said Kaoru angrily as her ki rose, there was nothing there.

Then suddenly, as if the bathroom sensed her need through her ki, a door appeared and it opened diagonally.

Kaoru blinked at the door that suddenly appeared.

"This house is ki wired koishii. You're going to have to keep some ki out so that the house can read what you want, since it can't read your mind. Only I can do that to you," said Kenshin with a grin.

Kaoru nodded and cautiously walked in, and snapped her head around when the door vanished behind her. She was locked in, and began to panic and the doors suddenly appeared again.

Kenshin looked in and chuckled.

"You'll get use to it. You should shower before dinner," said Kenshin.

"I... don't think I know how to work or even where the shower is," said Kaoru, as she looked at the room confused, it was completely empty.

Kenshin grinned and stepped in, and the door vanished behind him.

"Will I have to take a shower with you?" Asked Kenshin as he cocked his head to her.

Kaoru glared death at him.

"Don't get made koishii. Raise your ki a bit," said Kenshin seriously.

Kaoru nodded and did so, but just a bit.

Suddenly a screen appeared. It was like an arch doorway that was made of metal. The screen had blue line at where the door or air should have been. It was twice the size of Kaoru, and the room seemed to have gotten bigger.

"Now what?" Asked Kaoru.

"It's a Waterfall Shower. Just get naked and walk through. Your hair will get shampooed and it'll cleanse your body. It takes as long as it takes you to walk through it," said Kenshin grinning at her.

"Pervert," said Kaoru as she tried to hit him across the head, but he caught her head.

"Well isn't that how everyone takes a shower?" Asked Kenshin innocently.

Kaoru just glared at him.

"Won't the floor get wet when I step back out?" Asked Kaoru.

"It dries you too. Why don't you use a female clothes screen?" Asked Kenshin.

"A what...?" Asked Kaoru.

"So that you walk through the Waterfall Shower and then into the Clothes Screen, that way no one will see you. The Clothes Screen can tell what you want to wear and give it to you. I guess you won't need that clothes capsule after all," said Kenshin.

"You'll still see me when I take off my clothes. So get out," said Kaoru as she pushed him to where the door suddenly appeared.

"I've already seen you though," stated Kenshin.

"In the past, this is now," said Kaoru angrily as she shoved him out.

"I'll see you soon anyways," said Kenshin grinning as he sat down on the bed to wait for her.

Kaoru walked through the Waterfall Shower, and found out that it was like jumping into a pool. Just that it was warmer and more soothing; it was quite the experience.

Then when she stepped out, she found that going through the Clothes Screen was like falling into rushing water, though it lasted only a few seconds.

She gasped as she found herself in a casual white t-shirt with the words 50% Angel in front, and 50% Devil on back. Her pants were regular black ones that moved easily when she walked.

Her hair was down and dry, she was about to get a hair tie that she left on a counter that appeared beside her before she went in, when a huge circular item came down over her head and began to warm her hair. She felt a tingling sensation when water sprayed on her hair and the machine seemed to be fixing her hair.

Once it finished, she looked around for a mirror; one popped up out of no where before her.

The machine made her hair silky shine, as it pulled it up into her favorite ponytail.

She checked herself out before summoning for the door again and stepped out.

"Finally. Why do you women always take forever to get ready?" Asked Kenshin as he stood up to look at her.

Kaoru rolled her eyes and sat down on the bed.

"You sure have the latest things, don't you? The one that I have at home takes like 15 minutes to get through that showering, rinsing, and drying process. They're at least fifteen feet long, yours is like an inch or two," said Kaoru.

(A/N: The one Kaoru's talking about is a regular shower to the normal people. Think of the ones that are on The Jetsons. I'm using a lot from that, since my creativity is wavering.)

"Well money can get you anything now a days," said Kenshin with a shrug.

"Didn't you say that we were going to have dinner after my shower?" Asked Kaoru as she stood up, she was getting pretty hungry.

Kenshin smiled and the two left to go downstairs.

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Misao and Tsubame got help from Megumi on how the items worked in their room, as Aoshi helped his younger brother. Who was beginning to admire him all over again.

"So is your kitchen normal, or is it better like the items upstairs?" asked Yahiko as they all walked down to get a bite to eat.

"Normal hover tables, chairs, and self-setting utensils. We do have a food dispenser," said Aoshi as they entered the white kitchen, it was the size of their rooms, but bigger.

There were menus on the walls with buttons next to them, so that if you pressed it, then that selected item would come down at the large slot below each of the menus.

"Those are food dispensers," said Aoshi pointing at the 'menus'.

The other three looked on in awe, there were so many choices.

"You can either get it yourself, or have a robot butler give it to you. Though you're going to have to tell them exactly what you want. I say the manual way is better," said Megumi as they all sat down on their hover chairs, that were made of a very comfortable cushions, that was called cotsilk. (A/N: It's like cotton and silk merged together.)

Yahiko was about to stand when his hover chair moved him toward the food dispenser he was eyeing. He greedily pressed most of the buttons. Out popped about thirty small pill like items.

He grabbed them all, and the hover chair took him back to the large table that seemed to have grown when Cho and Kittra walked down to eat.

Once the pills landed on the table, they puffed up and exploded into food. There was chicken, fish, rice, sushi, and a lot more.

Yahiko licked his lips before digging in.

The others only laughed or rolled their eyes.

Then Soujiro, Katsu, Tae, and Shura walked down together and smiled at their friends.

"Anatra and Hiko are busy, so we'll have to eat without them," informed Sanosuke as he sat beside his mate.

They all nodded, but looked up when they sensed Kenshin who walked in for once with a smile on his face. It shocked them all, it had been quite some time since he smiled.

"Missy must be doing something right," whispered Sanosuke.

Megumi elbowed him in the stomach.

Kaoru smiled and walked over to sit with her friends.

"Hey! Why are we here anyways?" asked Yahiko between bites when Kenshin sat beside Kaoru.

The others stopped talking and became serious.

"It's for your protection," answered Katsu.

"You are not to leave on your own, or this house. Enishi and his group will snatch you all when you're vulnerable. He'll most likely want revenge," said Kenshin.

Misao, Tsubame, and Yahiko looked confused.

"You haven't told them?" asked Kenshin looking at the others who kept quiet.

"Just know that you can't trust him or the people near him," said Aoshi.

The four nodded, but Tsubame stopped mid-nod.

"What about school? We have like a test for every class next week. We can't miss it," said Tsubame suddenly, as she realized it.

"We have our one-month break after next week," said Kaoru.

"Oh shoot! I forgot my book bag. My homework and school assignments are in there," said Misao panicking.

"I forgot mine too," said Kaoru, she was going to be in major trouble if she didn't do it.

"You guys have all of tomorrow to do that," said Sano as he picked his food.

"It's all major assignments," said Misao.

"We don't graduate if we fail any of our tests. All of my notes are in my NC. If I had known that we were stuck here, I would have taken it," said Tsubame.

"Katsu, Tae, do you two think you can go back to their places and get their school items?" asked Kenshin.

"Sure. We'll just get some food and leave," said Katsu as he and his mate stood up to get a few pills of food and left the mansion.

"You'll all be safe in school; Enishi isn't that stupid to try anything like that again. So one of us will drop you off each day, and one will pick you up after school. Just make sure that you all go together, or just meet up somewhere," said Soujiro.

The four all nodded.

"Then let's eat," said Sano as he came back with at least fifty to one hundred pills that practically filled the table when they all exploded back into food.

"Tomoe might try that little trick again on Kaoru though. You know how revengeful she can get. I say that one of us follows Kaoru to her classes, and say we're seeing how the teachers are doing. She's the one that's most likely going to be targeted," said Cho seriously.

"So the person that drops them off can do that," said Sano.

"It will be more convenient," said Megumi.

Kenshin nodded.

"Why me though?" asked Kaoru, she had yet to get her dinner.

"To get to me. They all know that you are my one weakness," answered Kenshin.

"So you're very valuable in this time," said Kittra.

"You should always carry some sort of protection," said Megumi.

Kaoru nodded; she never thought that she would ever make a difference, but it seemed like she was born with a major difference. Any female would die to be her. She thought about it, and knew that it would be better not to take it for granted.

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By the end of the meal, Sano had found new respect for Yahiko. The boy was able to eat as much as he did, and was quite the person to talk to. He found out that they had a lot more in common, it made him think at how Tsubame came to like Yahiko and sort of knew why. She had always looked up to him after all.

"We might as well wait for our books. The ones that left were Katsu and Tae right?" asked Misao; they were learning the vampires' names over dinner. If they were going to be staying in the same place for some time, they might as well know all of the people occupying it.

Megumi nodded as the humans sat down in the living room on the main floor.

They sat on a large cotsilken chair that grew when more people sat on it, so that they wouldn't have to be all squashed when there were too many people on it.

The living room was like that at the Blood Hotel, just that it grew as more people came in, had the latest T.V. and computers along the walls. In the very center was a table that grew and shrunk depending on who was seated beside it. It was one of the traditional Japanese tables, but was obviously modified for the 31st century.

"Did you take notes in History?" asked Misao to Tsubame.

"Didn't you?" asked Tsubame.

"I was asleep," protested Misao.

Kaoru rolled her eyes as Yahiko snickered.

"Can I use yours?" asked Misao, practically begging to Tsubame.

"You do realize that we have tests for each of our subjects next week, don't you?" asked Kaoru.

"We do? Oh shoot! I was suppose to get notes from Kamatari and Takasugi," said Yahiko.

The others looked at him questioningly.

"The three of us trade off notes every Saturday or Friday afternoon. You know how boring classes get, so each one of us takes turn taking notes," said Yahiko.

"So you only have one-third of the needed material," said Kaoru shaking her head.

"I never thought that I'd be dragged here," protested Yahiko.

"You can use mine then," said Tsubame.

"Then they'll think that I baled on them. I refuse to be called a traitserter," said Yahiko.

(A/N: Traitserter is a nickname for traitor or deserter.)

They all looked at Kenshin who sat in his own cotsilken chair.

"We can't bring them here, but you are allowed to go to them tomorrow at noon," said Kenshin as he looked at Aoshi.

"I'll go with you," said Aoshi; Yahiko was his younger brother.

"Do cell pockets work out here?" asked Yahiko.

"Yes, but no one will be able to call you," said Shura.

The humans all nodded as Yahiko took out his cell pocket and punched in Kamatari's cell pocket number.

When Kamatari answered, Yahiko went back into the kitchen to talk.

Kaoru looked at Misao and Tsubame who exchanged glances.

Do you think they can communicate without telepathy? Asked Sano to the others as he watched the girls nod and seem to exchange information.

Who knows? They could be using one of those knew ways to communicate without thinking it, since I can't find anything on their minds. Said Cho.

I can't believe you want to know what they're talking about. It can be a secret. Said Shura.

It's safer that way. Protested Cho.

Kaoru took out something from her pocket.

The item was a palpil, and it was a midnight blue color.

(A/N: Palpio is basically a palm pilot. It's used to store images, can take pictures, send messages, go on the Internet--it hasn't changed--, and keep information.)

Misao took out a green palpil as Tsubame took out a pink one.

The vampires were all confused.

"What are you doing?" asked Soujiro politely as possible.

"Want to see?" asked Misao with a bright smile.

Soujiro got up and sat next to her, and blinked a few times as he saw the screen.

"Where'd you get that information?" asked Soujiro as he took the palpil and looked at it more carefully, trying to make sure that what he saw was right.

"Kaoru's the genius in the group and Tsubame got the program, and I decode it," said Misao.

"What is it?" asked Shura.

"They have information on our cases and the data that we stored in the Statistics," said Soujiro.

(A/N: It's a program that has all of the information that they have collected from the past 1000 years. It's classified, so them--humans aren't suppose to know that much-- being able to get it is shocking. Since that information is the real history, not the goody information that they have in their history books. It's the real stuff.)

Kenshin was suddenly behind Kaoru and had her palpil in his hands. His amber eye scanned it, and was so glad that they didn't get the information on how they died before. Luckily he had placed a master lock on it so that no one would get it. He had to remember to get rid of it.

"Hey!" protested Kaoru angrily, as she tried to get it back.

"Now why would you need all of this?" asked Kenshin as he placed the palpil out of her reach.

"For our history test of course. Professor Hoiji gives extra credit to the more accurate we get, and we need it," said Kaoru as she tried to reach it, but Kenshin moved it away from her.

"When did you learn to hack into our system like this?" asked Kenshin.

"Well your security sucks," said Kaoru as she stood and tried to get it, but Kenshin threw it into the air and Kaoru practically glared death at him.

"Then we'll just have to take back the information," said Kenshin with a grin.

"Don't you dare," said Kaoru as she tried to catch the falling item.

Kenshin easily caught it in front of her face. She glared at him. Her mind making a list of all the curse words that she knew at him.

The other vampires were in utter shock as they read her mind; they never thought she would think that way toward Battousai.

Kenshin's grin never faltered, but those names were getting to him. He'd just have to tame her again; his grin widened as he thought about it.

"Whoa! Missy sure has a large vocabulary," said Sano as she continued to think more up.

"Here I thought I knew them all," said Cho.

"Why is this so important to you? I don't think that it has to do with the information that it carries, does it?" asked Kenshin as he looked through the palpil.

"Don't look through it! Give it back," said Kaoru as she tried to get it again, but Kenshin was on the other side of the room.

Kenshin began to search through it quickly as Kaoru rushed over to him to try and take it back, but before she could stop him, he found what she didn't want any one to see.

Kaoru grabbed it back when Kenshin was in shock at what he saw in there. She quickly turned it off and placed it back in her pocket.

Kenshin turned to look at her with narrowed amber slits, they were close to turning into a demonic golden color.

The other vampires were becoming tense as Misao and Tsubame felt uncomfortable.

"Hey guys! Kamatari says that it would be all right," said Yahiko as he strolled in and pocketed his cell pocket again, but he froze when he noticed the tension in the room. That wasn't what made his blood freeze, it was the deadly look that Battousai was giving Kaoru.

"What happened?" asked Yahiko in a whisper to the girls as he sat in his seat by Tsubame.

The two only shrugged.

"Why," it was the only word that Battousai said as his eyes had a swirl to red to them. It didn't sound like a question, more of a demand. Even if he said it in a mere whisper, everyone in the living room felt it more than heard it; his voice was enough to stop a whole army.

The humans had a bad feeling about this.

"Why what?" asked Kaoru defiantly in a calm voice. Though it had to do with her eyes just as red as his own.

"Why did you do that, in the picture."

"What's it to you?" asked Kirei; her eyes never leaving his own that had turned completely red by his inpatients.

"Missy," said Sano warningly. A mad Battousai was a bad thing.

Battousai made his mouth into a thin line.

"Who's the other person in the picture," said Battousai, this time his voice was dark, commanding, and sent shivers down all of their spines.

"Why should you care?" asked Kirei defiantly, she wasn't going to let him get his way.

Because you're kissing the Guy. Said Battousai darkly through his telepathy to her; he made sure that none of the others would be able to break through the interception.

"Oh. I see now. Well all I have to say is that he's someone very special to me," said Kirei as she calmly sat down next to Misao who gulped when he saw Battousai's blood red eyes.

What scared Misao the most, was that Battousai's eyes looked like they wanted blood and death. So she decided to keep her mouth shut. Even if she wanted to move her eyes away from him, she couldn't and that scared her even more.

All the others moved away from Battousai and Kirei.

"Who is he," demanded Battousai as his ki picked up enough to cause most of the lights to flicker on and off.

A light bulb went off in all of the vampires' heads. He was jealous. They immediately felt bad for the person that was the guy; he was going to die so slowly and painfully.

They all shook their heads.

"He's who he is, and you're who you are," said Kirei with a smile.

Battousai fisted his right hand as his ki rose so high that most of the nuclear bulbs popped under all of the power and the robots were running around bumping into each other. They were functioning on nuclear batteries and Battousai's ki was messing with their circuits.

He closed his eyes and took in a deep breath and slowly let it out.

"Tell me, or I'll find out. When I do, it won't be pretty," said Battousai through gritted teeth, he was holding on his last string of control not to just force her to say who it was. He really didn't want to because it was Kirei, but she was pressing too many of his buttons.

"He's my..."

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A/N: Well that's it for this week. I didn't have enough time to make it longer. So I still hope you all liked it and feel free to make suggestions and ask questions.

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