I DO NOT OWN Rurouni Kenshin





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NINETEEN









Kenshin looked up at one of the butlers angrily, "What time is it?!"





The butler looked very uncomfortable being so close to Kenshin, "It's

quarter pass 11 Kenshin-sama."





Kenshin frustratingly got up from his seat on the leather couches as he

started to pace the living room,



"Does she think she

could just waltz in any time of the day?! She's on top of world now isn't she!"





Mr. Kobayashi came in looking very frightened. Kenshin looked up accusingly

at him, "How come you haven't found her?! Isn't it

you're fault she's not here?!"





"I'm sorry Kenshin-sama.I waited in the car like she asked and when Kaoru-

sama didn't return after half an hour I went up

looking for her but she had already been in and out with Jino-sama ticket..."

Mr. Kobayashi tried explaining.





"You should have been by her the whole time!" Kenshin yelled irritably. "I'm

sure Kaoru-sama will be home any minute..." Mr. Kobayashi tried reassuring.





"Any minute?! Any minute?! She won't be ever coming in if she isn't in this

house by 11:30! Over my dead body she's coming

back into this house!" Kenshin said infuriatingly, "Either you find her by

11:30 or I don't know who a Kamiya Kaoru is!"





Mr. Kobayashi bowed understandingly as he rushed out of house. Kenshin

continued to pace the living room as maids and butlers

watched for any sudden flying objects.



Kenshin unpredictably paced the

living room when he suddenly had a clue where Kaoru

could be.



Kenshin grabbed his keys from his pockets as he stormed out of

the house.









Kenshin parked in front of Enishi's condo as he hot headedly pounded on

Enishi's door.



After a couple of minutes of darkness

and silence the front light turned on and Enishi opened the door wearing a

pair of shorts.





"Where the hell is she?!" Kenshin demanded.





Enishi looked very confused, "What the hell are you talking about?"





Kenshin looked at Enishi exasperatedly, "You better f-----g tell me where

Kaoru is or I'm going to make you regret the day you

were born Yukishiro Enishi."





"For your information she never came by. She doesn't even know where the

hell I live Kenshin. Oh and I already regret the day

I was born... because I was born related to you," Enishi said coldly as he

simply smiled mockingly at Kenshin.





"Tell me where the hell Kaoru is!" Kenshin said as his fists clenched tighter

and tighter.





"She's not here... it's probably your fault she ran away anyway. You better

find her or I'll personally come after you... big

brother... " Enishi said as he slammed the door shut on Kenshin.





Kenshin quickly started to head back to his car as he dialed home.





"Himura residence how may I help you?" a maid asked a bit frantically.





"Is she home?!" Kenshin asked sounding like he was about to kill someone.



The maid answered Kenshin just as quickly as he asked, "No not yet sir..."





Kenshin shut his hand phone as he closed the door of his car and started to

rush out of Enishi's parking lot.







Kenshin drove around every place that Karou could be but for everywhere he

went he was always given the same answer,



"She hasn't been here today."







Kenshin then called all his friends in hope that she was hiding out at one of

their houses or something but they all let him down

as they answered with, "I haven't seen her today."





"Where the hell are you Kamiya Kaoru?!" Kenshin thought to himself

upsettingly.





Kenshin sped through the highway frustratingly hoping that someone would

cut him off so he could go take some of his

frustration and anxiousness off at someone. It almost seemed like everyone

understand that Kenshin was in a state of manner

where he could be dangerous because all the cars seemed to move out of his

way.



Before going back home Kenshin

continued to circle the blocks around his house hoping he'd find Kaoru sitting

at a sidewalk or walking home but to his

disappointment he didn't see a single soul that even barely resembled Kaoru.





It was already 12:25 AM and Kenshin finally saw his house coming into view.





At the same time he saw a shadowed bump in the

ground. Kenshin got out of his car as he curiously wandered out towards the

figure laying in front of the main gate that lead to

the driveway of Kenshin's mansion. Kenshin carefully walked up towards the

figure wondering what a homeless person was

doing in such a stuck up neighborhood.



As Kenshin got closer and closer to

the figure he suddenly felt a hundred mixed

emotions whizzing through his head.







Lying half dead on the cement floor was Karou. Her clothes were ripped all

over as her blood covered bra showed from her

almost entirely ripped suite jacket.



Her skirt was splattered with dirt and

ripped in different places. She had no shoes on and all

up her leg were scars and scrapes from who knows where.



The part Kenshin

hated looking at the most was her tender face. It

was no longer the beautiful face that Kenshin loved so much he couldn't

admit it.



Her soft and angelic face was now covered

with sweat marks and dried and fresh blood coming form her forehead. Her

left eye had a dark purple and black bruise that

gave a painful stab at Kenshin "insides."



Kenshin kneeled down as he prayed

Kaoru was still alive.





"Kaoru... Kaoru... " Kenshin called trying to wake her.





Kaoru suddenly let go of a piercing scream, "Don't! Please don't! Someone

help me!"





Kenshin looked painfully at Kaoru who suddenly realized that she was in

Kenshin's arms, "It's okay..."





Kaoru started to cry frantically like a lost child as she weakly hugged

Kenshin, "I thought you'd never come... I thought I was

going to die... and you were going to leave me... "





Kenshin felt his heart rip into millions of pieces as Kaoru cried helplessly

into him, "Shh... you'll be okay..."





Suddenly Kaoru fainted as Kenshin rushed Kaoru inside to his house. As he

stormed into his mansion all the maids and

butlers that were standing around waiting suddenly all gasped in horror at

the sight of Kaoru.





"Someone call a f-----g doctor NOW!" Kenshin demanded as he took Kaoru

into her room.





The maids came running into Kaoru's room as one of them swooped Jino off

the bed and moved him into another room.





Another maid quickly started to peel off the layers of infected clothes and

started to treat the wounds across Kaoru's arms,

legs, and face.



Kenshin turned around as the maids started to undress Kaoru.





The doctor showed up 15 minutes later as he looked over Kaoru. He carefully

applied medicine to her wounds and stitched

up the opening in the insides of her head. The doctor finally finished after

an hour of fixing Kaoru up.





"I want to know how she got this way... " Kenshin said quietly.





"Looking at the bruises and cuts it looks like someone very strong, most

likely a man, and more then one man, did this to Kaoru-sama," the doctor said

sympathetically.





Kenshin's eyes grew darker and wider as he felt his hands ache from his firm

grasp of his fists, "Was she... "





The doctor understood what Kenshin was trying to ask, "There seems to be

no signs of sexual abuse but the damages done to

Kaoru-sama were purposeful.

The cuts and the bruises on Kaoru-sama were

no accident."





Kenshin thanked the doctor emotionlessly, "Thank you for showing so late

doctor."





The doctor nodded understandingly as he left quietly. Kenshin turned to one

the butlers, "Find out who did this to Kaoru. I

want you to find out by tomorrow morning."





The butler bowed and left the room as he closed the door behind him and let

Kenshin have some alone time with Kaoru.





Kenshin sat on the edge of Kaoru's bed as he caressed her soft shining

midnight hair. He thought to himself regretfully,



"This is all my

fault... I'm sorry Kaoru... I'm so sorry..."









~Aya~