-Chapter 3-
Of
Something to Tell You...
--------- Megumi, Sanosuke, and Yahiko were enjoying breakfast outside the clinic. It had been at least one day since the incident that had left them all breathless.
"I'm. so surprised that. he's even. alive!" Yahiko stated between large swallows of Megumi's rice. "I'm so glad that he's okay, things will go back to normal. now." Sano didn't speak he just shoveled down his food. Megumi laughed.
"Yes, I'm sure that we're all glad Ken-San's okay." Megumi gave Sano sevenths. "Eheh. Perhaps you should eat slower Sano, you could develop indigestion." Sano just showed her an empty bowl that she scooped eighths to.
"I'm worried Kitsune-Onna, Kaoru hasn't slept or eaten since that day. She'll get real sick if you doesn't get some rest and food." Megumi nodded and scooped a bowl of rice for Kaoru. "You're right Sano. I'll go give her breakfast. She closed the door. Sano stealthily crept over to the cooking sweet potatoes. She opened it.
"And Sano," she gave a wicked grin, "Don't touch anything that might involve you not getting anything for lunch. If you know what I mean." Sano slipped back over to the rice.
"Kaoru? I. brought you some rice. Please eat. You won't help Ken-San by giving yourself malnutrition." Megumi handed her the rice bowl. Kaoru smiled.
"Thanks, Megumi. I'll eat all of this right away." Kaoru took the bowl and set it beside her. Megumi ran outside to stop Sano from attacking the sweet potatoes. Kaoru took the chopsticks and attempted to feed some to Kenshin. He moved, an improvement, and ate a few grains. She smiled and lay down beside him. Even she had to sleep sometime. She was glad that he was no longer looking like he was dying, a little more at peace now. She fell asleep. Megumi had said that he might be able to come home that day. later of course. ~ Of course ~
Later she woke it being late evening. Kenshin was still asleep. The others were nowhere to be seen. She got up. Megumi opened the door to greet her. "Kaoru! I'm so glad you're up! The others left earlier. They're at the dojo. I decided not to send Kenshin home with them. I was going to wait until you got up."
"Thanks, Megumi. I'm up now." Megumi walked over and handed Kaoru a whole bag of things.
"These are clean bandages, ointment, pain medicine..." Megumi went on about the contents as she called someone into to help them into a carriage. "Now I'll be over everyday to help tend to him. Kaoru I'm trusting you to take care of him." Kaoru smiled and hugged Megumi.
"Thank you. Thank you so much!" Kaoru and Kenshin, his head in her lap, she held his hand on his chest as his breaths came warm and steady. Occasionally he took a very deep breath and when he released it she could feel the warmth on her neck. She resisted the urge to cradle him and fall asleep right there.
Later on she laid Kenshin down on his futon in his room. After covering him up she went in to make dinner. Yahiko complained as usual. Sano ate despite his feeling towards the food. Later on she changed Kenshin's bandages and added the ointment and gave him the pain medicine. Part of the procedure she could barely bring herself to do because he looked like he was in so much pain. At one point he let out a short gasp and quick yell. After he looked calm again she recovered him.
"Kenshin, I promise, because I did this to you. I will do all I can to help you heal."
That night she slept in Kenshin's room, not in the same futon of course.
A few mornings later she woke up and went over to check on Kenshin, only to find that he was not there! She yelled. She ran outside to see if she saw him. "SANO! SANO! Kenshin's gone!" Sano came running from around the corner."
"What? What? Kenshin!? He's gone!?"
"I. I don't know! We have to find him!" Kaoru's heart beat faster and faster. ~ Oh, no! What if. What if Shishio's men got him! He's completely vulnerable! Defenseless! ~ Kaoru ran back inside when she heard something shatter. then something else.
"Kenshin?! Is that you?" She ran into the kitchen where she found Kenshin crawling towards the cabinets. He had tried to reach the plates; instead they just kept falling around him. She ran over and held him back. "Kenshin, what are you doing? You should be resting!"
Kenshin's eyes looked glazed over. He seemed so dazed that she feared he had come down with something. "Kaoru-Dono. I'm sorry for sleeping in. I'll. make breakfast. right away." Kaoru smiled without being able to help it.
"Kenshin. You're wounded, rest, I'll make breakfast."
"No. Kaoru-Dono I could never force my. responsibility on you like that." He made another attempt to reach the plates. Kaoru had to snap him back to reality. She gently touched the wound on his stomach, trying not to hurt him. His eyes shrunk momentarily but then squinted and yelled out. Kaoru started crying.
"Kenshin. I'm sorry. I didn't want to hurt you. Please." She hugged him around the shoulders as he squirmed slightly. "Forgive me." Sano helped Kaoru carry him back to his futon.
"Miss Kaoru, you need not to apologize." Kenshin tried to smile. "You've been sitting here every night, You've been helping me heal." Kaoru's tears started to roll past her cheeks. "Kaoru-Dono. you've helped me heal. I'll get better now, thanks to you." Despite the intense pain in his stab wound he managed to make it look like he was perfectly ok. He reached up to hold her chin. "Domo arrigatou, Kaoru-Dono."
For a second she thought that Kenshin might kiss her or embrace her lovingly, but to her dismay he only wiped her tears away with his thumb. Why didn't he see? "Miss Kaoru, later perhaps you could visit me again. It is always nice when you visit Sessha." Kaoru smiled.
"I don't plan on leaving Kenshin, I'll make us some tea." She left to make some tea with some special herbs to help heal. When she came back she and Kenshin talked and relaxed for at least 6 hours. She looked out side to se it was late noon. "Wow, It sure has been long." Kenshin, who had been forced to remain in his futon the whole time, looked at her.
"Do you plan to leave?" His eyes looked rather sad. (Kaoru's thought-) ~ He's so cute when he looks like that. He looks almost. sad. He probably wanted company this whole time and all I did was sit and watch him. ~
"No," she took a sip of the tea; "I was just wondering how it got so late so fast." He looked weary and tired. Keeping him up to talk probably made him very tired and after all: he needed as much rest as possible. "Kenshin, lay back. You need to get some more rest."
Kenshin was about to argue that he was perfectly okay, but instead he listened and lay back down. She covered him up. "Get some rest, Kenshin." He nodded.
"Yes, Miss Kaoru." She hated the formality in those words. But it seemed however many times she told him he would never listen.
"Don't call me that," she smiled and laid down in her own futon.
"Yes, Miss Kaoru." He yawned and turned over slowly. She stifled a giggle.
Later on, around 7:00pm, she woke up. Kenshin had moved his futon nearer to hers and had fallen asleep. She thought it was an act of friendship. ~ He probably didn't like me alienating him. ~ "Kenshin. I wonder."
"Miss Kaoru, your up," She turned to meet Kenshin's blue-purple eyes.
"GaaaAaah!" She flew up and hit her head on the wall. She rubbed her head. "Ooff." Kenshin looked worried.
"Are okay Kaoru-Dono?" She smiled with a blush. "Y-Yes. I'm fine."
"Oh, Kaoru-Dono, I thought you would like to know that Miss Megumi stopped by and made dinner for the others." He looked up as if to think, "That was about 2 hours ago. I believe Miss Megumi is still here, that I do." She leaned over and covered him up again.
"Kenshin, I told you to rest." He sighed and made to lay over and sleep. About 15 minutes later Megumi entered the room. Kaoru was laying beside Kenshin (in her OWN futon). Megumi put a hand up to hide her mouth and let out her trademark laugh.
"Ohohoho! Kaoru you mustn't be so hard on poor Ken-San!"
"Wha-? Megumi what do you mean?"
"Just you must be stressing him out, being so close and all, pushing all your feelings onto him. You must have exhausted him!"
"What do you mean by that!?"
"Ohoho! Miss Kaoru, don't act so innocent. I know you must want Ken-San very badly."
"MEG-MEG-MEGUMI! You know I would NEVER think of Kenshin like. like that!"
"Oh, come now. You've been in here all alone with your beloved Kenshin for many, many hours" Megumi winked.
"Oh, come on! He's injured!"
"He wouldn't be able to fight back would he?"
"Oh please! I'm not. like that!" Kaoru blushed.
"How do you know that he doesn't want you? You want him?"
"Even. even if I did. It's not like HE thinks. thinks of me like that."
"You'll never know. Let me guess you just want Kenshin to hold you?"
"Megumi! You're more perverted than Sano! So what if I do! And."
Megumi began laughing again, knowing she had made her friend angry again. This is what they did. She would flirt with Kenshin and Kaoru would lose her mind. It was always good for loosening the mood.
"Kaoru-Dono?"
Both Megumi and Kaoru froze as Kenshin rolled over and looked at her.
"K-Kenshin." stuttered Kaoru. "Did you. did you hear? Did you overhear us?"
"Forgive me Miss Kaoru, should Sessha have not been listening."
"No. I. shouldn't have been. saying anything like that." Kaoru's face turned bright red. ~ Why do I want to scream? Why do I want to cry? ~ Her eyes began to fill with tears. "Gomen, Kenshin." She ran off into her room, almost next to Kenshin's. She went to her bed and started crying.
"I've blown everything."
"Oh, come on. What were you guys doing all this time in there."
"M-megumi! How did you? -"
"It doesn't matter. What I want to know is WHAT you guys WERE doing in there."
"N-nothing!"
"How am I supposed to know that?" Megumi laughed, "I bet you DID didn't you."
"No! Megumi I said NO!"
"If you did, his hakama would be loose, should I check?"
"I wouldn't care! I keep telling you that nothing happened!"
Kaoru was now infuriated with Megumi. She practically pushed her through to Kenshin's room.
"There! ENJOY!" Kaoru's heart was racing. Had she really just sent her rival into Kenshin's room to make sure his Hakama was properly tight and straight? She groaned and listened through the door. ~ Oh my god. I cannot believe myself! What am I doing? ~ She heard Kenshin.
"M-Miss Megumi!?"
"Hold still Ken-San!"
"Miss Megumi please refrain from removing my hakama! IYYAA!" There was the sound of a large ripping sound. Kaoru couldn't stand it. She burst through.
"Megumi doonn't!" She looked up just in time to see Megumi pushing her back through where she came. Megumi was out of breath. They heard Kenshin from the other room.
"Oooroooo! Where is my hakama?!" Kaoru looked up earnestly at Megumi.
"Wh-What happened?"
"Well. I. went to check and see if it was loose. and well. he wouldn't stop moving around. He tried to get me off and the pants ripped." She held up two halves of Kenshin's hakama. Kaoru's hands flew to her mouth.
"Megumi!"
"I'm err. sorry." Kaoru ran over to her father's old dresser and pulled out a dark gray hakama, a bit for Kenshin, but it would work. She went over to the door and opened it, shutting her eyes tight.
"K-Kenshin. I brought you some p-pants."
"OOROO!? K-Kaoru-D-DONO!? What. what are you doing here?! Please. err.. please leave."
Kaoru felt hurt. Her eyes were shut and she was trying to help him out. Why was he being so offensive? Tears ran down her cheeks. She threw the pants at Kenshin, from where his voice was at least.
"Th-there! I'll. I'll sew up your other ones later!" There was the slightest tone of anger in her voice. but mostly her feelings were hurt. ~ I would have thought he might have been more comfortable around me! ~
So ends the. 3rd chapter of "Something to Tell You." Next chap.. or next 2 chaps: Kenshin tells Kaoru something that hurts her very deeply (read to find out what he says). If what he said is true should she leave? Will she even be able to leave. will Kenshin let her?
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ZC (ZimmyChild)
--------- Megumi, Sanosuke, and Yahiko were enjoying breakfast outside the clinic. It had been at least one day since the incident that had left them all breathless.
"I'm. so surprised that. he's even. alive!" Yahiko stated between large swallows of Megumi's rice. "I'm so glad that he's okay, things will go back to normal. now." Sano didn't speak he just shoveled down his food. Megumi laughed.
"Yes, I'm sure that we're all glad Ken-San's okay." Megumi gave Sano sevenths. "Eheh. Perhaps you should eat slower Sano, you could develop indigestion." Sano just showed her an empty bowl that she scooped eighths to.
"I'm worried Kitsune-Onna, Kaoru hasn't slept or eaten since that day. She'll get real sick if you doesn't get some rest and food." Megumi nodded and scooped a bowl of rice for Kaoru. "You're right Sano. I'll go give her breakfast. She closed the door. Sano stealthily crept over to the cooking sweet potatoes. She opened it.
"And Sano," she gave a wicked grin, "Don't touch anything that might involve you not getting anything for lunch. If you know what I mean." Sano slipped back over to the rice.
"Kaoru? I. brought you some rice. Please eat. You won't help Ken-San by giving yourself malnutrition." Megumi handed her the rice bowl. Kaoru smiled.
"Thanks, Megumi. I'll eat all of this right away." Kaoru took the bowl and set it beside her. Megumi ran outside to stop Sano from attacking the sweet potatoes. Kaoru took the chopsticks and attempted to feed some to Kenshin. He moved, an improvement, and ate a few grains. She smiled and lay down beside him. Even she had to sleep sometime. She was glad that he was no longer looking like he was dying, a little more at peace now. She fell asleep. Megumi had said that he might be able to come home that day. later of course. ~ Of course ~
Later she woke it being late evening. Kenshin was still asleep. The others were nowhere to be seen. She got up. Megumi opened the door to greet her. "Kaoru! I'm so glad you're up! The others left earlier. They're at the dojo. I decided not to send Kenshin home with them. I was going to wait until you got up."
"Thanks, Megumi. I'm up now." Megumi walked over and handed Kaoru a whole bag of things.
"These are clean bandages, ointment, pain medicine..." Megumi went on about the contents as she called someone into to help them into a carriage. "Now I'll be over everyday to help tend to him. Kaoru I'm trusting you to take care of him." Kaoru smiled and hugged Megumi.
"Thank you. Thank you so much!" Kaoru and Kenshin, his head in her lap, she held his hand on his chest as his breaths came warm and steady. Occasionally he took a very deep breath and when he released it she could feel the warmth on her neck. She resisted the urge to cradle him and fall asleep right there.
Later on she laid Kenshin down on his futon in his room. After covering him up she went in to make dinner. Yahiko complained as usual. Sano ate despite his feeling towards the food. Later on she changed Kenshin's bandages and added the ointment and gave him the pain medicine. Part of the procedure she could barely bring herself to do because he looked like he was in so much pain. At one point he let out a short gasp and quick yell. After he looked calm again she recovered him.
"Kenshin, I promise, because I did this to you. I will do all I can to help you heal."
That night she slept in Kenshin's room, not in the same futon of course.
A few mornings later she woke up and went over to check on Kenshin, only to find that he was not there! She yelled. She ran outside to see if she saw him. "SANO! SANO! Kenshin's gone!" Sano came running from around the corner."
"What? What? Kenshin!? He's gone!?"
"I. I don't know! We have to find him!" Kaoru's heart beat faster and faster. ~ Oh, no! What if. What if Shishio's men got him! He's completely vulnerable! Defenseless! ~ Kaoru ran back inside when she heard something shatter. then something else.
"Kenshin?! Is that you?" She ran into the kitchen where she found Kenshin crawling towards the cabinets. He had tried to reach the plates; instead they just kept falling around him. She ran over and held him back. "Kenshin, what are you doing? You should be resting!"
Kenshin's eyes looked glazed over. He seemed so dazed that she feared he had come down with something. "Kaoru-Dono. I'm sorry for sleeping in. I'll. make breakfast. right away." Kaoru smiled without being able to help it.
"Kenshin. You're wounded, rest, I'll make breakfast."
"No. Kaoru-Dono I could never force my. responsibility on you like that." He made another attempt to reach the plates. Kaoru had to snap him back to reality. She gently touched the wound on his stomach, trying not to hurt him. His eyes shrunk momentarily but then squinted and yelled out. Kaoru started crying.
"Kenshin. I'm sorry. I didn't want to hurt you. Please." She hugged him around the shoulders as he squirmed slightly. "Forgive me." Sano helped Kaoru carry him back to his futon.
"Miss Kaoru, you need not to apologize." Kenshin tried to smile. "You've been sitting here every night, You've been helping me heal." Kaoru's tears started to roll past her cheeks. "Kaoru-Dono. you've helped me heal. I'll get better now, thanks to you." Despite the intense pain in his stab wound he managed to make it look like he was perfectly ok. He reached up to hold her chin. "Domo arrigatou, Kaoru-Dono."
For a second she thought that Kenshin might kiss her or embrace her lovingly, but to her dismay he only wiped her tears away with his thumb. Why didn't he see? "Miss Kaoru, later perhaps you could visit me again. It is always nice when you visit Sessha." Kaoru smiled.
"I don't plan on leaving Kenshin, I'll make us some tea." She left to make some tea with some special herbs to help heal. When she came back she and Kenshin talked and relaxed for at least 6 hours. She looked out side to se it was late noon. "Wow, It sure has been long." Kenshin, who had been forced to remain in his futon the whole time, looked at her.
"Do you plan to leave?" His eyes looked rather sad. (Kaoru's thought-) ~ He's so cute when he looks like that. He looks almost. sad. He probably wanted company this whole time and all I did was sit and watch him. ~
"No," she took a sip of the tea; "I was just wondering how it got so late so fast." He looked weary and tired. Keeping him up to talk probably made him very tired and after all: he needed as much rest as possible. "Kenshin, lay back. You need to get some more rest."
Kenshin was about to argue that he was perfectly okay, but instead he listened and lay back down. She covered him up. "Get some rest, Kenshin." He nodded.
"Yes, Miss Kaoru." She hated the formality in those words. But it seemed however many times she told him he would never listen.
"Don't call me that," she smiled and laid down in her own futon.
"Yes, Miss Kaoru." He yawned and turned over slowly. She stifled a giggle.
Later on, around 7:00pm, she woke up. Kenshin had moved his futon nearer to hers and had fallen asleep. She thought it was an act of friendship. ~ He probably didn't like me alienating him. ~ "Kenshin. I wonder."
"Miss Kaoru, your up," She turned to meet Kenshin's blue-purple eyes.
"GaaaAaah!" She flew up and hit her head on the wall. She rubbed her head. "Ooff." Kenshin looked worried.
"Are okay Kaoru-Dono?" She smiled with a blush. "Y-Yes. I'm fine."
"Oh, Kaoru-Dono, I thought you would like to know that Miss Megumi stopped by and made dinner for the others." He looked up as if to think, "That was about 2 hours ago. I believe Miss Megumi is still here, that I do." She leaned over and covered him up again.
"Kenshin, I told you to rest." He sighed and made to lay over and sleep. About 15 minutes later Megumi entered the room. Kaoru was laying beside Kenshin (in her OWN futon). Megumi put a hand up to hide her mouth and let out her trademark laugh.
"Ohohoho! Kaoru you mustn't be so hard on poor Ken-San!"
"Wha-? Megumi what do you mean?"
"Just you must be stressing him out, being so close and all, pushing all your feelings onto him. You must have exhausted him!"
"What do you mean by that!?"
"Ohoho! Miss Kaoru, don't act so innocent. I know you must want Ken-San very badly."
"MEG-MEG-MEGUMI! You know I would NEVER think of Kenshin like. like that!"
"Oh, come now. You've been in here all alone with your beloved Kenshin for many, many hours" Megumi winked.
"Oh, come on! He's injured!"
"He wouldn't be able to fight back would he?"
"Oh please! I'm not. like that!" Kaoru blushed.
"How do you know that he doesn't want you? You want him?"
"Even. even if I did. It's not like HE thinks. thinks of me like that."
"You'll never know. Let me guess you just want Kenshin to hold you?"
"Megumi! You're more perverted than Sano! So what if I do! And."
Megumi began laughing again, knowing she had made her friend angry again. This is what they did. She would flirt with Kenshin and Kaoru would lose her mind. It was always good for loosening the mood.
"Kaoru-Dono?"
Both Megumi and Kaoru froze as Kenshin rolled over and looked at her.
"K-Kenshin." stuttered Kaoru. "Did you. did you hear? Did you overhear us?"
"Forgive me Miss Kaoru, should Sessha have not been listening."
"No. I. shouldn't have been. saying anything like that." Kaoru's face turned bright red. ~ Why do I want to scream? Why do I want to cry? ~ Her eyes began to fill with tears. "Gomen, Kenshin." She ran off into her room, almost next to Kenshin's. She went to her bed and started crying.
"I've blown everything."
"Oh, come on. What were you guys doing all this time in there."
"M-megumi! How did you? -"
"It doesn't matter. What I want to know is WHAT you guys WERE doing in there."
"N-nothing!"
"How am I supposed to know that?" Megumi laughed, "I bet you DID didn't you."
"No! Megumi I said NO!"
"If you did, his hakama would be loose, should I check?"
"I wouldn't care! I keep telling you that nothing happened!"
Kaoru was now infuriated with Megumi. She practically pushed her through to Kenshin's room.
"There! ENJOY!" Kaoru's heart was racing. Had she really just sent her rival into Kenshin's room to make sure his Hakama was properly tight and straight? She groaned and listened through the door. ~ Oh my god. I cannot believe myself! What am I doing? ~ She heard Kenshin.
"M-Miss Megumi!?"
"Hold still Ken-San!"
"Miss Megumi please refrain from removing my hakama! IYYAA!" There was the sound of a large ripping sound. Kaoru couldn't stand it. She burst through.
"Megumi doonn't!" She looked up just in time to see Megumi pushing her back through where she came. Megumi was out of breath. They heard Kenshin from the other room.
"Oooroooo! Where is my hakama?!" Kaoru looked up earnestly at Megumi.
"Wh-What happened?"
"Well. I. went to check and see if it was loose. and well. he wouldn't stop moving around. He tried to get me off and the pants ripped." She held up two halves of Kenshin's hakama. Kaoru's hands flew to her mouth.
"Megumi!"
"I'm err. sorry." Kaoru ran over to her father's old dresser and pulled out a dark gray hakama, a bit for Kenshin, but it would work. She went over to the door and opened it, shutting her eyes tight.
"K-Kenshin. I brought you some p-pants."
"OOROO!? K-Kaoru-D-DONO!? What. what are you doing here?! Please. err.. please leave."
Kaoru felt hurt. Her eyes were shut and she was trying to help him out. Why was he being so offensive? Tears ran down her cheeks. She threw the pants at Kenshin, from where his voice was at least.
"Th-there! I'll. I'll sew up your other ones later!" There was the slightest tone of anger in her voice. but mostly her feelings were hurt. ~ I would have thought he might have been more comfortable around me! ~
So ends the. 3rd chapter of "Something to Tell You." Next chap.. or next 2 chaps: Kenshin tells Kaoru something that hurts her very deeply (read to find out what he says). If what he said is true should she leave? Will she even be able to leave. will Kenshin let her?
Anyway.. review please, a simple "hey. ur. read it. fill in small comment " Yea. Well I've been trying to use very good spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Tell me how I'm doing! Thanks to all who reviewed. I'm glad you think I'm doing something okay! ^_^-
~Byaz~
ZC (ZimmyChild)