Disclaimer- I do not own Rurouni Kenshin. I do not own any Rurouni Kenshin characters.

a/n- school started up again from spring break and I'm pooed out of my mind so sorry about the late update. Plus I found all of these pieces and bits of fics I wrote while cleaning my room. I might even be so kind as to share them with you by posting them! Won't that be just spectaculous? I am tired...can you tell? But my story isn't tired and it wants to be told so,...WITH OUT ANY FURTHER ADO,......

(Drum roll.............drum rolls........)

Chapter 4

"Funny," Kenshin slid into the chair across from Kaoru at the diner in town," I never knew anyone lived out there."

"I'm usually in Chicago but, I thought it was time for a vacation." She quietly thanked the waitress as she set their coffee in front of them, "Why were you in Chicago?"

"Meeting"

"Ah," she took a sip of coffee, cradling the mug in her hands.

"Now what I really don't understand is why you came here instead of Mexico or the Caribbean. Those tropical paradises are really something."

"What's wrong with here?"

"Well," he paused, looking around him and leaning in speaking in a deep whisper, "To be brutally honest, it gets extremely boring around here."

"Why are you whispering?" She leaned in too with wide eyes.

"I don't want the people to spear me for dissing their home."

"Yours too." She smiled.

"Your right." He leaned back and she followed suit.

"Plus, I Kamiya Kaoru NEVER GET BORED!!" she said in the deepest masculine- like voice she could muster while taking the super hero stance in her upper body.

"Nice." He chuckled softly," But I'll have to offer the fact that that's what all the newbies say." He downed a gulp of coffee. "Besides," she slumped back down into her original position and ignored his comment," If I do happen to get bored, though it is very unlikely, I'll just call my BESTEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!" she exclaimed with watery excited eyes.

"Misao?" he muttered absentmindedly.

"No, baka...you."

"Oh really?" his attention was back on her and he raised an eyebrow.

"Yes so stop giving me that look."

"Well, when I last checked, you didn't have my number."

"Well, I look it up." She shrugged taking another sip of coffee.

"In what directory?" his eyes twinkled, clearly delighted by her look of deep thought.

"..." he leaned back and crossed his arms with knowing he'd won.

"Exactly. Now let me bask in all your deep silence."

"Well, that's what these are for!" Kaoru laughed pulling out a pad of paper and pen out of her purse and sliding them across the table to land in his lap.

"You didn't let me bask!" he pouted, "and what do you have in that purse of yours anyways?" he stood up and leaned over to try to grasp it but she pulled it behind her back and smiled at him.

"A lady's purse is a lady's secret." She laughed when he sat back down, defeated. "Now write that number down."

"Suppose I don't have a phone." He glanced up at her.

"I'll send messages telepathically." She smiled," Oh wait, that's too far of a distance. I guess I'm just going to trust the fact that you're not an anti-social cave man."

He laughed and picked up the pen, "Right... you writers are so weird." He shook his head while jotting down his number. She laughed and took the pen he offered when he'd finished and he slid the paper back over to her. She smiled and stuffed it back in her purse.

"Check please." She lifted her hand at the waiter, "your treat?" she raised an eyebrow at Kenshin.

He nodded and chugged the remainder of his coffee and stood up, "Now remember to call me when you get bored."

"You know what?" she said standing up too," I won't be calling because I'm bored. I'll be calling to offer suggestions to get you un-bored."

"Yeah," he laughed," whatever you say."

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"Damn." She muttered. Lounging on the couch, staring at the ceiling, she made the scientific observation that she was bored. Oh no, not just bored, She was bored out of her mind. So bored that she was beginning to consider pushing aside her stubbornness and calling Kenshin..." Maybe not." She smirked.

"Hmmm..." she sat up and scratched her head, "must find something to do..." She looked around her just waiting for something exciting to do just to jump out at her. When that didn't happen, she thought for a moment.

"What would Megumi do?" she paused and got in the mind frame of her friend;" She would call Kenshin and confess how right he was and how bored she is."

"Okay!" she exclaimed," then it's settled." She picked up the phone and dialed his number. The second she punched in the last digit, she slammed the phone back down on the stand. "Damn my stubbornness." She cursed flopping back down to lay on her stomach.

"Now, what would Misao do? She stopped..."she would daydream about Aoshi." She tilted her head to the side and cleared her mind of all but Aoshi. She squeezed her eyes shut and focused on Aoshi. Yep, just daydreaming about Aoshi. Yessirre, just daydreaming about calling Kenshin-"No!" she smacked her head." Can't call him. Can't call him. Can't daydream...too dangerous." She took a deep breath,

"What would Kaoru do?" she smirked, "I can see the merchandise now. _W.W.K.D_ If the world followed my way of thinking,...all humanity would be screwed."

She turned over and hugged a pillow to her chest and scrunched up her face in deep thought. "In a cabin in the middle of nowhere...all by myself...I would, I would..." She bit her lip in concentration; "I would,...SNOOP!!" she leaped off the couch and dated up to the attic to begin her snooping spree.

She pulled the old wooden door open and it made a miserable creak and slid inside. "Wow..." she breathed out in utter awe at the sight before her. It was a magnificent window that reached the ceiling and looked out at the forest behind the cabin. And the best part was, it had a window seat just calling her name.

She squealed in pure delight of it and dashed over then plopped down on the plush sending a cloud of dust up and making her sneeze. She looked around her at all the boxes and her eyes fixed on the one labeled _Kaoru's things_.

"Ohhh, looky!!" she pulled it over to sit next to her and gently peeled the lid off.

"Oh," she smiled pulling out an old doll," I remember you." She whispered setting the doll aside and looking back in the box. She pulled a book out and slid her palm across the cover to clear the dust off and the opened it, "My old writing." She whispered. She laughed as she read them and curled up in the corner of the seat.

Then her breath caught, it was that story. She sat up and read with a frown that quickly turned to wide eyes as she threw the book aside and shuddered out, "No." then left the room not ready to face the truth that was so ugly. She shut the door quietly and walked down to the kitchen.

"I need to get out for a while." She decided running a hand shakily through her locks. She picked up the phone and dialed Kenshin's number.

(tbc)

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