READING THE AUTHOR'S NOTE IS A MUST!
[AN: Well, chapter 8 at last! AND NO I DIDN'T DIE YET! ::Hears moaning and regretful remarks:: I know how you feel! -' Anyways… my last chapter didn't get as many reviews, but I don't really care since I just like writing anyways. At least this chapter will get me to the above 40,000 word mark. I just hope that'd get me somewhere. If you thought the characters didn't seem the same in chapter 7, something's wrong with you. - I don't know, but Kaoru's pissed off state seemed right to her character, Yahiko being jealous of Yutaro's accomplishments, Kenshin seemed fine… I don't know, but for this chapter, I'm going to add as much comedy as I can possibly can. Just hope my corny jokes are good enough to make you laugh… briefly. Well, please enjoy the chapter and thanks for reading!]
Disclaimer: If you want a plain "I don't own Rurouni Kenshin" fine! I don't own Rurouni Kenshin.
Chapter 8!!!! (Panic!)
Dark clouds forming in the sky, the smell of rain in the air, and the sound of… partying? Hm… let's all go down and see what's making all that noise. Why it's the Kamiya residence holding a party! Plus, a lot of people are waiting outside in the cold just to go in.
The door to the house opened and out popped Kaoru and Kenshin. "ALRIGHT PEOPLE!" screamed Kaoru, silencing everybody outside. "YES IT'S ABOUT TO RAIN, BUT OH WELL RIGHT? EVERYBODY IS GOING TO COME INSIDE ANYWAYS! BUT FIRST THING'S FIRST! RULES!" Mumbling and groaning was heard all around the crowd. "ONE! NO DRINKING ANY SORT OF ALCOHOL! TWO! NO UNNECESSARY LANGUAGE! THREE! NO UNNECESSARY BODY CONTACT! YOU KNOW THERE ARE CHILDREN IN HERE!"
By the third rule, most of the people had left cursing. The only people left were Kaoru and Kenshin's friends. "Well, at least I don't have to yell anymore, right?"
Misao, Okon, Omasu, Aoshi, Sanosuke, Megumi, Soujiro, Tsubame, and Tae were left. They all shrugged to each other and walked in. As they all entered, Kaoru announced, "Oh yeah, one more thing! Anyone who criticizes my cooking will feel the wrath of my…" Kaoru slowly took out a shinai and started waving it around like a maniac, "my oh so powerful SHINAI! MUHAHAHAHA!" Kaoru then closed the front door as everyone turned around to leave. "I don't think so people."
Yahiko leaned over to Kenshin's ear and whispered, "Oo, she's good."
"That's what I'm afraid of…" he replied very cautiously incase Kaoru heard.
"Well, what are you people standing there for?! LET'S PARTY!" yelled Kaoru while she was in the process of running towards all the food. Yes, it was Kenshin's cooking, but no one knew that yet. (AN: SHHHHHHHH! Don't tell them either!)
"Wait a tick… how can Kaoru stand her own cooking… unless…" Sanosuke sprinted for the fried rice and shoved some of it in his mouth. "OH CRAP!"
Everyone ran over to Sanosuke to see if he was dead yet. "Poke him Misao; see if he's still alive."
"Why don't you Megumi? You're the one dating him!" Misao shot back. Megumi flushed and quickly poked Sanosuke once… then twice…
"Um… rooster head? You're not dead are you?" she asked silently.
"No, why would you ask that?" SANO TALKED! The rest of the guests sighed in relief, while Kaoru was choking from laughter and Kenshin was sweatdropping with his innocent smile.
"Well maybe because you yelled out 'OH CRAP' and you were frozen for the past… minute or so," explained Aoshi.
"Oh… MAYBE BECAUSE THIS FOOD IS SO…" before Sanosuke could use his "special selection of words," Kaoru cut him off.
"Goodph? Yah, biffecaush Kenshhin cuked bish shtuph yoooo shmarsh wonsh." Kaoru's mouth was stuffed when she said this, but it was clear enough to hear.
"KENSHIN COOKED?!" They all questioned at once with a surprising stare. Yes, amazingly, everyone actually understood what Kaoru had said. After a few moments of staring, they noticed the familiar sounds of Sanosuke pigging out.
"Hey! What the heck rooster head? Save some for us!" Misao jumped over the table to the other side and grabbed as many chicken wings she could hold with one hand.
"That's not fair! Get off that salad weasel!" cried Megumi. Though offended by Megumi's weasel insult, Misao continued eating. The rest of them gave their "buffet battle cries" and dug in Kenshin's amazing talent in cooking. A lot of pushing and shoving was involved, but not one person was hurt during the food-fest. I guarantee it. Yes, not one PERSON, but many chickens were hurt.
Bellies were expanded, groaning was heard, and bones were all over the table. Thanks to the cheap plastic tablecloth thing, everything on the table could be thrown away easily! Technology these days… Anyways, they were really full and just ready to do something fun that didn't involve a lot of moving.
"So, does anyone have any decent ideas of what to do for fun when you're full?" asked Kaoru.
Shouts of "SPIN THE BOTTLE," "VIDEO GAMES," and "BARBIES" were heard around the room. Ayame and Suzume had already had their "equipment" taken out.
"How about a barbecue scenario?" asked Ayame.
Just looking at the plastic food gave Sanosuke a green face. "I think I'm going to hurl…"
"Well don't just stand there then! Go to the bathroom! It's down the hall, take a right, then down that hall, left, then right again, and then… ah yes 3rd door to the right… or was it the left?" Kaoru thought for a moment to think of the correct directions.
Sanosuke had let Kaoru ponder enough. "Isn't… there… a… closer… bathroom?"
"Yes, in fact there is. Just right there." Kenshin pointed to a door not very far from the dining room.
"Thanks Kenshin," Sanosuke seemed to blurt out before dashing to the door, almost ramming down the door in fact.
"Hey Sano! Watch it! Those doors don't cost a dollar you know!" Kaoru's voice faded and she started mumbling to herself, "But they were on sale for ten dollars…"
"I got it! Let's play Super Smash Brothers Melee!" suggested Soujiro. (AN: OO' OWNED)
"You know what, I need to release my anger about… something… right about now! Yeah, let's do it! Super Smash Bros. Melee tourney!!!" Sanosuke had heard the suggestion after coming out of the restroom and was now getting overly excited on a really fun fighting game. (AN: VERY FUN!)
"Um… I'll pass, come on girls, let's girl talk!" squeaked Misao and she dragged Kaoru and the others toward somewhere she didn't know.
"How about my room Misao?" asked Kaoru as she dragged the girls the other direction.
"Good idea!" Misao humbly agreed.
"Well, that just leaves us guys and this nice little box they call a Gamecube." Sanosuke walked over to the gaming console. "So kid, how do you turn it on?"
Yahiko smacked himself on the forehead and unwillingly hooked up the Gamecube. He sighed and offered the other three controllers to whoever that could grab it first. Well Sanosuke seemed like he would punch anyone who grabbed it first so he got second controller, Kenshin didn't want to be left out so with his GOD-LIKE SPEED, he grabbed third controller, and Aoshi gave his death glare to anyone who touched the fourth player. Only person who was left was Soujiro, but he didn't want to get one of Aoshi's death glares. Rumors say people die from it without actually dying…
(AN: LOL that didn't make sense!)
Eventually, they all found their favorite and quite relating characters after a few rounds of brutal beat-downs with five lives each. Kenshin found that his signature character was Marth because he was fast and used sword techniques, Yahiko had Roy, even though he sucked at the game, Sanosuke found Donkey Kong quite useful, and Aoshi with Link. Soujiro sat back and laughed at humorous scenes as they played such as Sanosuke semi-purposely walking off the stage on his first try. (SMART -')
Meanwhile, all the girls were in Kaoru's "more than huge" room "girl talking." (AN: Notice that I'm a guy, so therefore I'll do my best impression of a girl talk. XD …and no, I'm not "happy." --') Anyways, what else would girls talk about at a party other than… GUYS?
"So Kaoru, how's it going with KENSHIN?" Misao snickered because she had made Kaoru's head turn into a tomato.
"NOTHING! Geez, I just live with him. Nothing is going on between us, nope, nada, zip. We're just good friends…" Finding her best excuse to cover up any signs of feelings for a certain someone.
"Yeah, close friends. IF you think about it, they are quite close… too close to being just friends eh? Oh yeah, didn't they go out on that one date at the carnival?" Can you see those fox ears now? They're practically not not there. (AN: No, those two "not" words are not a typo. I did it on purpose to see how a double negative would sound like in this story. -') Megumi laughed that evil laugh she has and was very famous for.
"NO! Humph, what about YOU Misao? I heard Aoshi comes by now and then." If you saw Kaoru now, you'd probably ask, 'Gee Kaoru, what a big smirk you have!'
Blushing, blushing, and more blushing was all you could see on Misao's face. Giggling, giggling, and more giggling was all you could hear from Misao. "Well… nothing MUCH is going on between us…"
"That's fake denial right there!" Pointing and laughing was all Kaoru and company could do at the moment.
"Wait… quiet everyone. Do you hear that?" Megumi put her ear to the door and listened. "It's silent outside," she whispered, "Too silent…"
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Too silent indeed. Good thing the girls didn't know what MOST of the guys were doing or else there'd be a giant SMACKDOWN at Kaoru's house. And THAT definitely wasn't a good idea. Just right outside the door to Kaoru's room was Sanosuke, Soujiro, Yahiko, and for some reason Aoshi wanted to listen in. Who knows why Aoshi was there, but who cares, they all wanted to know what the girls were talking about, except Kenshin. Kenshin was leaning on the wall in the hallway, chuckling to himself at the thoughts of what would happen if ALL those girls in there were to find out what was outside.
"Shush you people, I think they're talking about me," whispered Sanosuke as softly as he could. They all shoved their ears closer to the door. "Wait a second… it's quiet in there… too quiet…"
Megumi opened the door and all four guys fell onto the floor and into the room. "I knew it all along. Guys will be guys," said Megumi as she rolled her eyes. "Tie them up girls." Kaoru, Misao, and Tae all grabbed some duct tape (AN: I don't know why Kaoru has duct tape in her room, but oh well… -') and tied the four guys back to back. Sanosuke and Yahiko tried to crawl their way out, but naturally it didn't work. Aoshi sighted and sweat dropped, and Soujiro kept that smile plastered on his face.
"Manicure, Pedicure, or Facial? Which one girls?" Megumi took out the correct appliances for each torture. OO'
"Well, Aoshi doesn't need any of those. He's already sexy…" Misao let out while blushing. With instinct, she untied him and Aoshi mouthed a thank you and hugged her. Yes, more blushing, though she did hug him back.
"Aw… Ok, that's one less guy to torture at least. So who's first? Yahiko?" With lipstick in hand, Megumi moved closer to their victims. Yahiko turned his face away from Megumi to keep her from applying the gross red stuff on his face. Tsubame had to feel sympathy for him and guarded Yahiko.
"Oh, Megumi, please don't hurt Yahiko," pleaded Tsubame with her soft and persuading voice.
"Fine, I didn't really want to waste my make-up on a little brat like that anyways," replied Megumi.
"LITTLE?! Why you ugly fox lady…" Tsubame pushed Yahiko out of the room before Yahiko could finish.
Megumi stared at Kaoru. "What? I didn't teach him any of that!" Kaoru backed away from Megumi a few steps. All Kaoru received from that LAME excuse were constant glares of daggers. Yes, they hurt very much… well not exactly physically, but… mentally I guess?
Outside, Aoshi was standing on a balcony with Misao. Quite silent if you ask me. Misao couldn't find anything to say to him amazingly. Good of Aoshi to point out the obvious…
"Misao, you're unnaturally quiet, is there something wrong?" Aoshi said bluntly.
"No, nothing, I'm just enjoying the night sky… well trying to…" Misao giggled at her own joke, but Aoshi just lifted an eyebrow.
Not that Aoshi didn't know, but Kenshin was in his room spying on them silently from his window. "Sorry Misao, but it's kind of crowded here. Let's move somewhere else."
"Oh, I didn't know I was disturbing you. I'm sorry…" Misao got up from the floor and began turning the doorknob.
"No Misao, not you, you took it the wrong way. What I meant was…" Aoshi pointed at where Kenshin was standing. Kenshin immediately noticed that Aoshi was pointing at him so he closed the curtain and backed away a few steps. Little did Kenshin know, there was a chair behind him. So, what happens when you have a chair behind you and you're backing away from something at a quick pace? The obvious of course! WHAM! Kenshin met his new best friend, Floor.
"Oro…"
"Oh my gosh, Kenshin are you alright?" asked Kaoru as she entered the room.
"I think I am… oro…" He rubbed his head for a while as he got back up. "So Kaoru, what are we doing now?"
"Oh, nothing much other than giving Sanosuke all three tortures since no one else was held captive anymore." Kaoru giggled and pushed Kenshin out of the room.
"What about Soujiro? Wasn't he one of your honorable captives also?" Kenshin pondered aloud.
"Well, to tell you the truth, his smile was just getting too creepy… so we let him go, you know what I mean?" Kaoru pulled out her hair tie and retied her hair quickly before opening the door to her room.
GASP! What a sight Sanosuke was after his makeover. "…Um… Sano… ::cackle:: oh dear… oro… ::cackle:: here… let me help you… Sanosukella…" It wasn't himself to laugh at Sanosuke, but this was an exception. Sanosuke's face was powered white with a incredibly noticeable blush, his eyebrows looked like they have been plucked, his legs most likely have been shaved, but I don't think Kenshin would dare to take a glance, his eyes were shaded and he was given extra long eyelashes, his hair was tied into two pigtails somehow, he was shoved into a pink skirt and a shirt with a low cut collar, his fingernails had 10 different colors of nail polish with happy faces in the middle of each fingernail, and his toe nails were also multicolored with hearts in the middle of each toe nail. Girly? Yes, very. I don't know how they did that, but Sanosuke was definitely Sanosukella now. (AN: If you can imagine Sanosuke as a girly person with this description, good for you!)
Sanosuke wasn't all too happy with Kenshin's reaction, but what would you expect right? "Shut up Kenshin or else I'll beat the living snot out of you…" grumbled Sanosuke. Ah yes, don't forget the lipstick applied on his lips.
"What a site, eh Kenshin?" asked Kaoru. Kenshin could only nod slightly as he was still leaning his head on the wall laughing. Eventually he finished laughing at wet a towel paper to wipe all the make-up off Sanosuke's face, but he didn't dare to free him because he knew Megumi's wrath would be upon him.
"You're on your own Sano…" Kenshin sweat dropped with a faint smile as he was dragged out of the room by Kaoru. Kaoru winked at the other girls to give them the hint that 'you should leave the two alone for a while' kind of wink. Everyone left except for Megumi who didn't get the hint because she wasn't meant to, and Sanosuke who was tied up to the chair.
"Hm… what are they doing?" Megumi got up and made her way to the door until Sanosuke stopped her. Yup, he had broken out of the tape with his amazing strength. He gave her a giant bear hug from behind.
"Leaving me already?" he asked not in a threatening way, but with his version of 'care.' She didn't know why, but Megumi had the urge to just stay there being hugged to death by Sanosuke. 'He's not that bad of a hugger…'
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"Hey I got an idea!" Kaoru clapped her hands together to get everyone's attention. "Everyone's full right?" Supposedly everyone nods, but Kaoru didn't care because she had an idea! "How about a martial arts tournament?! It'll be so much fun!"
"Hey that's not a bad idea! How about tag matches? I'm with Aoshi!" shouted Misao as she jumped over to Aoshi and hugged him before anyone else could be his partner.
With so much sarcasm that only a moron couldn't notice it, Kaoru snapped her fingers, "Aw, I was just about to get Aoshi myself… I guess I'm stuck with Kenshin." Misao glared at her while Kenshin sweat dropped.
"I'm with Sanosuke!" cried Yahiko triumphantly. Sanosuke grabbed Yahiko into a headlock and gave him a good ol' knuggy.
From the deep dark shadows, out came Mr. Kamiya with his arms crossed and Seijirou with a bokken. "Hey baka-deshi, put us in this thing. Mr. Kamiya and I feel like you kids need to be taught a valiant lesson," said Seijirou.
"And what would that lesson be old man?" asked Sanosuke.
"Well obviously to respect your ELDERS! Duh," replied Seijirou as he bonked Sanosuke on the back of the head.
"Well SORRY old man! Anyways, let's get this thing started! Where's your dojo, and I think we're going to need some clothes that you can fight in…" Sano drifted off as he wandered around the house looking for the dojo.
"First of all, you're going to wrong way Sano, and second of all, I got training clothes of all shapes and sizes for practically everyone." Kaoru led everyone toward the dojo and directed him or her to the lockers.
"Hey we need our weapons…" Misao stopped when she saw every variety of weapons on the wall. There was even a huge bucket of kunai. Aoshi and Kenshin went up to the wall and looked over the choices. Eventually Aoshi picked up the two wooden Kodachis (AN: We don't want to hurt anyone now do we?) and Kenshin picked up a bokken for himself and a bokken for Kaoru. Yahiko ran to his room and quickly changed into his yellow gi and green hakama as he grabbed his customized shinai, which of course was just perfect for his height. Sanosuke just took off his shirt (Megumi blushed of course) and got into some sweats. He also bandaged his hands for Futai no Kiwami can kill, so he didn't want to use it. Seijirou and Mr. Kamiya took their bokkens and walked over to a white board, marker in hand.
"Alright people, we need to put up the match ups. Since it's a tag battle, there will only be…" Seijirou started counting with his fingers.
"Three fights," Mr. Kamiya said for him.
"Yeah, that's right. Three fights." Seijirou leaned over to Mr. Kamiya's ear. "I knew that…"
Mr. Kamiya just nodded as he laughed. "Hm… how about Kaoru and Kenshin Vs. Misao and Aoshi for the first round, rooster head over there with Yahiko against myself and Seijirou, and for the third round, the winners of both rounds will fight. Does anyone have objections, if you do, please say so now."
"This ain't no marriage, let's get it over with!" Sanosuke pouted.
"Alrighty then, first match, KK Vs. AM! Haha, AM…" Seijirou couldn't help but chuckle at the weird abbreviations.
Kaoru and Kenshin took one side of the dojo while Misao and Aoshi took the other. Mr. Kamiya stood in the middle with his hand out to get ready and start the match.
"Ready?" He looked at both tag teams and they all nodded at him. "Ok then, HAJIME!" Mr. Kamiya quickly ran out of the way incase of "serious" injuries.
Well, lucky for him, none of the fighters had moved when the match started yet. Misao stood there with kunai filled in her hand, waiting for Aoshi to give her the signal. To be sure, Aoshi was waiting for Misao. Of course Kenshin noticed this and nodded at Kaoru. As fast as he could, Kenshin dashed out with Kaoru right behind him… well she was well behind him, but it was fast enough. Kenshin appeared unexpectedly in front of Misao and bonked her on the head. Kenshin then quickly jumped out of the way for Kaoru to strike as Misao was dazed from the bonk.
Kaoru appeared just as Kenshin jumped out of the way. "DIE MISAO!" she shouted as she "stabbed" her with the bokken, pushing her back with a great deal of force. Misao was immediately knocked out with swirly eyes.
"MISAO!" cried Aoshi as he dashed towards her to check if she was all right.
Kaoru smirked. "Not so shy when the weasel's in danger."
Misao popped back up. "WEASEL?! Alright Kaoru, it's just me and you now!"
Kenshin shivered where he stood. 'Ugh… cat fight…'
"You know what Kaoru? Kansatsu Tobi-Kunai Kawasemi no Hashi! (Misao's Kunai throwing technique in the show/manga)" cried Misao as she began throwing some wooden kunai at Kaoru, but Kenshin quickly leaped toward the kunai as they were in the air and slashed them to the ground. "Get her Kaoru! I'll distract Aoshi!" After landing his leap, Kenshin quickly made his way to Aoshi, ready for a Battoujutsu.
"Take this Aoshi!" cried Kenshin as he unleashed his Battoujutsu. Aoshi barely jumped back in time, but dodged it by mere millimeters. Aoshi reclaimed his footing and quickly countered.
"Onmyou Hasshi!" Aoshi threw one kodachi and the other right behind it, therefore making both kodachis look as if it were one kodachi. (AN: If anyone got what I just said… good for you!) Kenshin quickly whacked the first kodachi away, but very unexpectedly saw the second kodachi coming his way. With only a split second to spare, Kenshin barely dodged the second kodachi as it burnt off some of the skin on Kenshin's forehead.
"ORO!"
At the same time, Kaoru and Misao were giving each other the death glare. Neither of them moved an inch until a droplet of Misao's sweat dropped onto the mats. "AH! Keicho Geri!" (Keicho Geri literally means Monster Bird Kick, so… just guess how Misao would look doing it… oO) Misao dashed toward Kaoru and leaped up into the air to launch her aerial attack. Kaoru immediately side-stepped and smacked Misao on the back of the neck with her bokken.
Misao dropped like a fly and laid on the floor for quite a while with swirly eyes. "Woot! In your face Misao! Kendo owns Ninjutsu!" Kaoru held up her victory sign and ran circles around the "dead" Misao.
As for Aoshi and Kenshin… actually you couldn't really see them anyways. They were moving too fast for the eye to see. Seijirou nudged Mr. Kamiya with his elbow, "Hehe, looks like I taught my pet some new tricks." Mr. Kamiya cracked up really bad even though Seijirou meant it as a boast. But oh well, back to the fight.
The contact between the wooden blades were heard every now and then proving that the battle was still going on. "Hey rooster head, do you see what's going on?" asked Megumi.
"Um… why of course, Fox! Well… Kenshin is running around slashing is sword around at Aoshi and technically the other way around," Sanosuke desperately guessed just to impress Megumi.
"Really? Who's winning then?"
'Well how in the world should I know?!' thought Sanosuke. "Um… from the looks of things, Kenshin's winning." Saying that only earned him a killer glare from Misao. "Ok maybe not, Aoshi's whoopin' Kenshin's butt." Saying THAT only earned him a disintegratable glare from Kaoru. "I mean Kenshin's winning," (Misao glare) "No I meant Aoshi's winning!" (Kaoru glare) "…GAH! I give up!"
Anyways, Kenshin continued blocking Aoshi's attacks until he found the correct time to counter, but Aoshi wasn't leaving any open spots just yet. Unexpectedly, Aoshi switched to Kempo and lashed out a kick toward Kenshin. Kenshin immediately hopped back and while Aoshi's back was facing him, he prepared himself for a decent technique that'd take Aoshi out.
"Ryu Sou Sen!" Kenshin swung his sword wildly at Aoshi in flashes, hitting him with every slash.
Definitely a good choice and of course, Aoshi fell to the floor. "Ow…"
"Winners: Kenshin and Kaoru!" yelled out Mr. Kamiya. Kaoru leaped up in joy and both of them subconsciously hugged each other. Sanosuke whistled, which of course made Kenshin and Kaoru realize how close they were to each other. Like hot butter on a butter knife, they slipped away from each other blushing. "Anyways, up next are Seijirou and myself versus Yahiko and Sanosuke!"
Yahiko staggered forward. "I have to go against my dad and Kenshin's master?" he said shakily.
"You can do it Yahiko!" cried Tsubame. Boy you could see the vigor and confidence flow through all of Yahiko's bones right then and there. Kaoru and Misao giggled while Sanosuke and Kenshin just plain smiled.
"Don't worry kid, we can do this," Sanosuke encouraged.
"I'M NOT A KID!" Seems like Sanosuke's encouraging wasn't really working.
Kaoru came to the middle of the ring to start the fight. All the fighters got to their positions and waited. "Are you ready boys? OK! HAJIME!"
"Come on son, let's see what you got!" taunted Mr. Kamiya. Yahiko charged at him with a tsuki, a charge to the throat area. Mr. Kamiya cleverly dodged it and smacked Yahiko on the head. "Aw… Son, you got to do better than that to be the man of the house! Come on, give it your best!"
"Alright old man, you asked for it!" yelled Yahiko as he prepared for a men attack (cut to the head). "GAH!!!!" Yahiko ran forward and launched his men attack, but Mr. Kamiya still blocked it. Yahiko quickly switched his hand positions on his shinai and went for a doh attack (sideways cut to the abdomen). Mr. Kamiya once again blocked the attack and countered with a kote attack (downward cut to the wrist). His attack was successful and Yahiko dropped to the ground and his shinai fell to the floor because of the pain on his wrist. "Gr…"
"You still have a lot to learn son, but you did very well." Mr. Kamiya hoisted Yahiko from the floor and moved to the side to give Sanosuke and Seijirou some room to fight.
"Well here we go rooster head. Bring it on you juvenile!" Seijirou got in a stance like no other. There were practically no open spots. The only open spots were those for a swordsman, but did Sanosuke look like a swordsman? NO! Sanosuke threw various punches in various directions, but non of them were direct hits.
"Ok, that's it!" Sanosuke took off toward Seijirou and Futai No Kiwami-ed Seijirou's bokken into pieces. "Ha, what're you going to do now huh?!"
"HA! Only amateurs rely fully on their weapons." Seijirou threw his cloak off at Kenshin, but Kenshin wasn't expecting it so…
"ORO!"
"Whoops, sorry Kenshin. Anyways…" Seijirou unexpectedly charged at Sanosuke and threw him hard onto the floor.
"Ok, THAT I'm not going to let you get away with." Sanosuke flipped up off the floor and got back into his fighting stance. Seijirou just continued slamming Sanosuke onto the floor until he gave up.
"Gah I hate you!" Sanosuke slowly lifted himself off the floor and limped to Megumi where she checked his wounds. Seijirou smirked.
"Serves you right, taking me on. HA!" Seijirou took out a sake bottle and started drinking.
"Uncle, I wouldn't get too overconfident, he might get better and beat you eventually," warned Kenshin.
"That's a good one Kenshin, when socks can get untied, then he'll beat me!" mocked Seijirou. Many veins popped out of Sanosuke's forehead, but he was too tired to do anything about, not like he could do anything about it anyways.
Mr. Kamiya stood up from where he sat and announced that they all were to have a break. Kaoru stretched out and heard her stomach grumble. "Anyone up for a snack?"
"Isn't it pretty late for a snack? And after Kenshin's feast, you'd think we'd have stomach left for a snack? You're crazy Kaoru," said Misao as she laid her head on Aoshi's lap as he meditated. Instantly everyone gasped and stared at Misao amazed. "What?!" was the only thing she could say before she realized her head was resting on Aoshi's lap. "GAH!" Misao lifted herself back up blushing.
"It's ok Misao, I don't really mind," Aoshi ALMOST bluntly replied, which of course made Misao blush even more. Slowly, her head returned to his lap and Misao closed her eyes to enjoy a VERY GOOD nap.
"Anyways, Kenshin, want to join me then?" asked Kaoru.
"Sure," he quickly responded as he followed Kaoru out of the dojo.
"So Kenshin, what do you think of the party so far?" questioned Kaoru as she grabbed a bowl of instant ramen.
"Judging by the fact that this is my first party, it's been really fun. And should you really be eating something like that when we have a match against your dad and my uncle next?" Kenshin raised an eyebrow.
"NO WAY! This is your first party? EVER? Wow… and don't worry about this. I'm hungry, don't mess with me." They both shared a laugh and the night went on silently… well except the sound of Kaoru's slurping. It was those kind of moments that are meant to be silent where you're with someone you care for… as they eat, and the other way around.
"KENSHIN! KAORU! LET'S GO! BREAK'S OVER!" yelled Yahiko from some distant room.
"Well, here we go!" said Kaoru enthusiastically.
'Yup, here we go…'
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AN: WELL, I'm super sorry people for not updating in… forever, but it couldn't have been helped. HW is killer nowadays and due to my procrastinating ways, this is what I get. Well, at least this chapter crosses the 40k word marker so it's all good. It's almost summer so I'll probably post then, but I have hecka vacations to go to so I guess probably not… LOL. Well, not many responses to reviews because… well… there were only like… 2. HAHAHAHA. So I suck at writing, who cares?! At least I like writing right? XP Gah, if i have any errors, please do tell in a review or something =/
[AN: Well, chapter 8 at last! AND NO I DIDN'T DIE YET! ::Hears moaning and regretful remarks:: I know how you feel! -' Anyways… my last chapter didn't get as many reviews, but I don't really care since I just like writing anyways. At least this chapter will get me to the above 40,000 word mark. I just hope that'd get me somewhere. If you thought the characters didn't seem the same in chapter 7, something's wrong with you. - I don't know, but Kaoru's pissed off state seemed right to her character, Yahiko being jealous of Yutaro's accomplishments, Kenshin seemed fine… I don't know, but for this chapter, I'm going to add as much comedy as I can possibly can. Just hope my corny jokes are good enough to make you laugh… briefly. Well, please enjoy the chapter and thanks for reading!]
Disclaimer: If you want a plain "I don't own Rurouni Kenshin" fine! I don't own Rurouni Kenshin.
Chapter 8!!!! (Panic!)
Dark clouds forming in the sky, the smell of rain in the air, and the sound of… partying? Hm… let's all go down and see what's making all that noise. Why it's the Kamiya residence holding a party! Plus, a lot of people are waiting outside in the cold just to go in.
The door to the house opened and out popped Kaoru and Kenshin. "ALRIGHT PEOPLE!" screamed Kaoru, silencing everybody outside. "YES IT'S ABOUT TO RAIN, BUT OH WELL RIGHT? EVERYBODY IS GOING TO COME INSIDE ANYWAYS! BUT FIRST THING'S FIRST! RULES!" Mumbling and groaning was heard all around the crowd. "ONE! NO DRINKING ANY SORT OF ALCOHOL! TWO! NO UNNECESSARY LANGUAGE! THREE! NO UNNECESSARY BODY CONTACT! YOU KNOW THERE ARE CHILDREN IN HERE!"
By the third rule, most of the people had left cursing. The only people left were Kaoru and Kenshin's friends. "Well, at least I don't have to yell anymore, right?"
Misao, Okon, Omasu, Aoshi, Sanosuke, Megumi, Soujiro, Tsubame, and Tae were left. They all shrugged to each other and walked in. As they all entered, Kaoru announced, "Oh yeah, one more thing! Anyone who criticizes my cooking will feel the wrath of my…" Kaoru slowly took out a shinai and started waving it around like a maniac, "my oh so powerful SHINAI! MUHAHAHAHA!" Kaoru then closed the front door as everyone turned around to leave. "I don't think so people."
Yahiko leaned over to Kenshin's ear and whispered, "Oo, she's good."
"That's what I'm afraid of…" he replied very cautiously incase Kaoru heard.
"Well, what are you people standing there for?! LET'S PARTY!" yelled Kaoru while she was in the process of running towards all the food. Yes, it was Kenshin's cooking, but no one knew that yet. (AN: SHHHHHHHH! Don't tell them either!)
"Wait a tick… how can Kaoru stand her own cooking… unless…" Sanosuke sprinted for the fried rice and shoved some of it in his mouth. "OH CRAP!"
Everyone ran over to Sanosuke to see if he was dead yet. "Poke him Misao; see if he's still alive."
"Why don't you Megumi? You're the one dating him!" Misao shot back. Megumi flushed and quickly poked Sanosuke once… then twice…
"Um… rooster head? You're not dead are you?" she asked silently.
"No, why would you ask that?" SANO TALKED! The rest of the guests sighed in relief, while Kaoru was choking from laughter and Kenshin was sweatdropping with his innocent smile.
"Well maybe because you yelled out 'OH CRAP' and you were frozen for the past… minute or so," explained Aoshi.
"Oh… MAYBE BECAUSE THIS FOOD IS SO…" before Sanosuke could use his "special selection of words," Kaoru cut him off.
"Goodph? Yah, biffecaush Kenshhin cuked bish shtuph yoooo shmarsh wonsh." Kaoru's mouth was stuffed when she said this, but it was clear enough to hear.
"KENSHIN COOKED?!" They all questioned at once with a surprising stare. Yes, amazingly, everyone actually understood what Kaoru had said. After a few moments of staring, they noticed the familiar sounds of Sanosuke pigging out.
"Hey! What the heck rooster head? Save some for us!" Misao jumped over the table to the other side and grabbed as many chicken wings she could hold with one hand.
"That's not fair! Get off that salad weasel!" cried Megumi. Though offended by Megumi's weasel insult, Misao continued eating. The rest of them gave their "buffet battle cries" and dug in Kenshin's amazing talent in cooking. A lot of pushing and shoving was involved, but not one person was hurt during the food-fest. I guarantee it. Yes, not one PERSON, but many chickens were hurt.
Bellies were expanded, groaning was heard, and bones were all over the table. Thanks to the cheap plastic tablecloth thing, everything on the table could be thrown away easily! Technology these days… Anyways, they were really full and just ready to do something fun that didn't involve a lot of moving.
"So, does anyone have any decent ideas of what to do for fun when you're full?" asked Kaoru.
Shouts of "SPIN THE BOTTLE," "VIDEO GAMES," and "BARBIES" were heard around the room. Ayame and Suzume had already had their "equipment" taken out.
"How about a barbecue scenario?" asked Ayame.
Just looking at the plastic food gave Sanosuke a green face. "I think I'm going to hurl…"
"Well don't just stand there then! Go to the bathroom! It's down the hall, take a right, then down that hall, left, then right again, and then… ah yes 3rd door to the right… or was it the left?" Kaoru thought for a moment to think of the correct directions.
Sanosuke had let Kaoru ponder enough. "Isn't… there… a… closer… bathroom?"
"Yes, in fact there is. Just right there." Kenshin pointed to a door not very far from the dining room.
"Thanks Kenshin," Sanosuke seemed to blurt out before dashing to the door, almost ramming down the door in fact.
"Hey Sano! Watch it! Those doors don't cost a dollar you know!" Kaoru's voice faded and she started mumbling to herself, "But they were on sale for ten dollars…"
"I got it! Let's play Super Smash Brothers Melee!" suggested Soujiro. (AN: OO' OWNED)
"You know what, I need to release my anger about… something… right about now! Yeah, let's do it! Super Smash Bros. Melee tourney!!!" Sanosuke had heard the suggestion after coming out of the restroom and was now getting overly excited on a really fun fighting game. (AN: VERY FUN!)
"Um… I'll pass, come on girls, let's girl talk!" squeaked Misao and she dragged Kaoru and the others toward somewhere she didn't know.
"How about my room Misao?" asked Kaoru as she dragged the girls the other direction.
"Good idea!" Misao humbly agreed.
"Well, that just leaves us guys and this nice little box they call a Gamecube." Sanosuke walked over to the gaming console. "So kid, how do you turn it on?"
Yahiko smacked himself on the forehead and unwillingly hooked up the Gamecube. He sighed and offered the other three controllers to whoever that could grab it first. Well Sanosuke seemed like he would punch anyone who grabbed it first so he got second controller, Kenshin didn't want to be left out so with his GOD-LIKE SPEED, he grabbed third controller, and Aoshi gave his death glare to anyone who touched the fourth player. Only person who was left was Soujiro, but he didn't want to get one of Aoshi's death glares. Rumors say people die from it without actually dying…
(AN: LOL that didn't make sense!)
Eventually, they all found their favorite and quite relating characters after a few rounds of brutal beat-downs with five lives each. Kenshin found that his signature character was Marth because he was fast and used sword techniques, Yahiko had Roy, even though he sucked at the game, Sanosuke found Donkey Kong quite useful, and Aoshi with Link. Soujiro sat back and laughed at humorous scenes as they played such as Sanosuke semi-purposely walking off the stage on his first try. (SMART -')
Meanwhile, all the girls were in Kaoru's "more than huge" room "girl talking." (AN: Notice that I'm a guy, so therefore I'll do my best impression of a girl talk. XD …and no, I'm not "happy." --') Anyways, what else would girls talk about at a party other than… GUYS?
"So Kaoru, how's it going with KENSHIN?" Misao snickered because she had made Kaoru's head turn into a tomato.
"NOTHING! Geez, I just live with him. Nothing is going on between us, nope, nada, zip. We're just good friends…" Finding her best excuse to cover up any signs of feelings for a certain someone.
"Yeah, close friends. IF you think about it, they are quite close… too close to being just friends eh? Oh yeah, didn't they go out on that one date at the carnival?" Can you see those fox ears now? They're practically not not there. (AN: No, those two "not" words are not a typo. I did it on purpose to see how a double negative would sound like in this story. -') Megumi laughed that evil laugh she has and was very famous for.
"NO! Humph, what about YOU Misao? I heard Aoshi comes by now and then." If you saw Kaoru now, you'd probably ask, 'Gee Kaoru, what a big smirk you have!'
Blushing, blushing, and more blushing was all you could see on Misao's face. Giggling, giggling, and more giggling was all you could hear from Misao. "Well… nothing MUCH is going on between us…"
"That's fake denial right there!" Pointing and laughing was all Kaoru and company could do at the moment.
"Wait… quiet everyone. Do you hear that?" Megumi put her ear to the door and listened. "It's silent outside," she whispered, "Too silent…"
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Too silent indeed. Good thing the girls didn't know what MOST of the guys were doing or else there'd be a giant SMACKDOWN at Kaoru's house. And THAT definitely wasn't a good idea. Just right outside the door to Kaoru's room was Sanosuke, Soujiro, Yahiko, and for some reason Aoshi wanted to listen in. Who knows why Aoshi was there, but who cares, they all wanted to know what the girls were talking about, except Kenshin. Kenshin was leaning on the wall in the hallway, chuckling to himself at the thoughts of what would happen if ALL those girls in there were to find out what was outside.
"Shush you people, I think they're talking about me," whispered Sanosuke as softly as he could. They all shoved their ears closer to the door. "Wait a second… it's quiet in there… too quiet…"
Megumi opened the door and all four guys fell onto the floor and into the room. "I knew it all along. Guys will be guys," said Megumi as she rolled her eyes. "Tie them up girls." Kaoru, Misao, and Tae all grabbed some duct tape (AN: I don't know why Kaoru has duct tape in her room, but oh well… -') and tied the four guys back to back. Sanosuke and Yahiko tried to crawl their way out, but naturally it didn't work. Aoshi sighted and sweat dropped, and Soujiro kept that smile plastered on his face.
"Manicure, Pedicure, or Facial? Which one girls?" Megumi took out the correct appliances for each torture. OO'
"Well, Aoshi doesn't need any of those. He's already sexy…" Misao let out while blushing. With instinct, she untied him and Aoshi mouthed a thank you and hugged her. Yes, more blushing, though she did hug him back.
"Aw… Ok, that's one less guy to torture at least. So who's first? Yahiko?" With lipstick in hand, Megumi moved closer to their victims. Yahiko turned his face away from Megumi to keep her from applying the gross red stuff on his face. Tsubame had to feel sympathy for him and guarded Yahiko.
"Oh, Megumi, please don't hurt Yahiko," pleaded Tsubame with her soft and persuading voice.
"Fine, I didn't really want to waste my make-up on a little brat like that anyways," replied Megumi.
"LITTLE?! Why you ugly fox lady…" Tsubame pushed Yahiko out of the room before Yahiko could finish.
Megumi stared at Kaoru. "What? I didn't teach him any of that!" Kaoru backed away from Megumi a few steps. All Kaoru received from that LAME excuse were constant glares of daggers. Yes, they hurt very much… well not exactly physically, but… mentally I guess?
Outside, Aoshi was standing on a balcony with Misao. Quite silent if you ask me. Misao couldn't find anything to say to him amazingly. Good of Aoshi to point out the obvious…
"Misao, you're unnaturally quiet, is there something wrong?" Aoshi said bluntly.
"No, nothing, I'm just enjoying the night sky… well trying to…" Misao giggled at her own joke, but Aoshi just lifted an eyebrow.
Not that Aoshi didn't know, but Kenshin was in his room spying on them silently from his window. "Sorry Misao, but it's kind of crowded here. Let's move somewhere else."
"Oh, I didn't know I was disturbing you. I'm sorry…" Misao got up from the floor and began turning the doorknob.
"No Misao, not you, you took it the wrong way. What I meant was…" Aoshi pointed at where Kenshin was standing. Kenshin immediately noticed that Aoshi was pointing at him so he closed the curtain and backed away a few steps. Little did Kenshin know, there was a chair behind him. So, what happens when you have a chair behind you and you're backing away from something at a quick pace? The obvious of course! WHAM! Kenshin met his new best friend, Floor.
"Oro…"
"Oh my gosh, Kenshin are you alright?" asked Kaoru as she entered the room.
"I think I am… oro…" He rubbed his head for a while as he got back up. "So Kaoru, what are we doing now?"
"Oh, nothing much other than giving Sanosuke all three tortures since no one else was held captive anymore." Kaoru giggled and pushed Kenshin out of the room.
"What about Soujiro? Wasn't he one of your honorable captives also?" Kenshin pondered aloud.
"Well, to tell you the truth, his smile was just getting too creepy… so we let him go, you know what I mean?" Kaoru pulled out her hair tie and retied her hair quickly before opening the door to her room.
GASP! What a sight Sanosuke was after his makeover. "…Um… Sano… ::cackle:: oh dear… oro… ::cackle:: here… let me help you… Sanosukella…" It wasn't himself to laugh at Sanosuke, but this was an exception. Sanosuke's face was powered white with a incredibly noticeable blush, his eyebrows looked like they have been plucked, his legs most likely have been shaved, but I don't think Kenshin would dare to take a glance, his eyes were shaded and he was given extra long eyelashes, his hair was tied into two pigtails somehow, he was shoved into a pink skirt and a shirt with a low cut collar, his fingernails had 10 different colors of nail polish with happy faces in the middle of each fingernail, and his toe nails were also multicolored with hearts in the middle of each toe nail. Girly? Yes, very. I don't know how they did that, but Sanosuke was definitely Sanosukella now. (AN: If you can imagine Sanosuke as a girly person with this description, good for you!)
Sanosuke wasn't all too happy with Kenshin's reaction, but what would you expect right? "Shut up Kenshin or else I'll beat the living snot out of you…" grumbled Sanosuke. Ah yes, don't forget the lipstick applied on his lips.
"What a site, eh Kenshin?" asked Kaoru. Kenshin could only nod slightly as he was still leaning his head on the wall laughing. Eventually he finished laughing at wet a towel paper to wipe all the make-up off Sanosuke's face, but he didn't dare to free him because he knew Megumi's wrath would be upon him.
"You're on your own Sano…" Kenshin sweat dropped with a faint smile as he was dragged out of the room by Kaoru. Kaoru winked at the other girls to give them the hint that 'you should leave the two alone for a while' kind of wink. Everyone left except for Megumi who didn't get the hint because she wasn't meant to, and Sanosuke who was tied up to the chair.
"Hm… what are they doing?" Megumi got up and made her way to the door until Sanosuke stopped her. Yup, he had broken out of the tape with his amazing strength. He gave her a giant bear hug from behind.
"Leaving me already?" he asked not in a threatening way, but with his version of 'care.' She didn't know why, but Megumi had the urge to just stay there being hugged to death by Sanosuke. 'He's not that bad of a hugger…'
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"Hey I got an idea!" Kaoru clapped her hands together to get everyone's attention. "Everyone's full right?" Supposedly everyone nods, but Kaoru didn't care because she had an idea! "How about a martial arts tournament?! It'll be so much fun!"
"Hey that's not a bad idea! How about tag matches? I'm with Aoshi!" shouted Misao as she jumped over to Aoshi and hugged him before anyone else could be his partner.
With so much sarcasm that only a moron couldn't notice it, Kaoru snapped her fingers, "Aw, I was just about to get Aoshi myself… I guess I'm stuck with Kenshin." Misao glared at her while Kenshin sweat dropped.
"I'm with Sanosuke!" cried Yahiko triumphantly. Sanosuke grabbed Yahiko into a headlock and gave him a good ol' knuggy.
From the deep dark shadows, out came Mr. Kamiya with his arms crossed and Seijirou with a bokken. "Hey baka-deshi, put us in this thing. Mr. Kamiya and I feel like you kids need to be taught a valiant lesson," said Seijirou.
"And what would that lesson be old man?" asked Sanosuke.
"Well obviously to respect your ELDERS! Duh," replied Seijirou as he bonked Sanosuke on the back of the head.
"Well SORRY old man! Anyways, let's get this thing started! Where's your dojo, and I think we're going to need some clothes that you can fight in…" Sano drifted off as he wandered around the house looking for the dojo.
"First of all, you're going to wrong way Sano, and second of all, I got training clothes of all shapes and sizes for practically everyone." Kaoru led everyone toward the dojo and directed him or her to the lockers.
"Hey we need our weapons…" Misao stopped when she saw every variety of weapons on the wall. There was even a huge bucket of kunai. Aoshi and Kenshin went up to the wall and looked over the choices. Eventually Aoshi picked up the two wooden Kodachis (AN: We don't want to hurt anyone now do we?) and Kenshin picked up a bokken for himself and a bokken for Kaoru. Yahiko ran to his room and quickly changed into his yellow gi and green hakama as he grabbed his customized shinai, which of course was just perfect for his height. Sanosuke just took off his shirt (Megumi blushed of course) and got into some sweats. He also bandaged his hands for Futai no Kiwami can kill, so he didn't want to use it. Seijirou and Mr. Kamiya took their bokkens and walked over to a white board, marker in hand.
"Alright people, we need to put up the match ups. Since it's a tag battle, there will only be…" Seijirou started counting with his fingers.
"Three fights," Mr. Kamiya said for him.
"Yeah, that's right. Three fights." Seijirou leaned over to Mr. Kamiya's ear. "I knew that…"
Mr. Kamiya just nodded as he laughed. "Hm… how about Kaoru and Kenshin Vs. Misao and Aoshi for the first round, rooster head over there with Yahiko against myself and Seijirou, and for the third round, the winners of both rounds will fight. Does anyone have objections, if you do, please say so now."
"This ain't no marriage, let's get it over with!" Sanosuke pouted.
"Alrighty then, first match, KK Vs. AM! Haha, AM…" Seijirou couldn't help but chuckle at the weird abbreviations.
Kaoru and Kenshin took one side of the dojo while Misao and Aoshi took the other. Mr. Kamiya stood in the middle with his hand out to get ready and start the match.
"Ready?" He looked at both tag teams and they all nodded at him. "Ok then, HAJIME!" Mr. Kamiya quickly ran out of the way incase of "serious" injuries.
Well, lucky for him, none of the fighters had moved when the match started yet. Misao stood there with kunai filled in her hand, waiting for Aoshi to give her the signal. To be sure, Aoshi was waiting for Misao. Of course Kenshin noticed this and nodded at Kaoru. As fast as he could, Kenshin dashed out with Kaoru right behind him… well she was well behind him, but it was fast enough. Kenshin appeared unexpectedly in front of Misao and bonked her on the head. Kenshin then quickly jumped out of the way for Kaoru to strike as Misao was dazed from the bonk.
Kaoru appeared just as Kenshin jumped out of the way. "DIE MISAO!" she shouted as she "stabbed" her with the bokken, pushing her back with a great deal of force. Misao was immediately knocked out with swirly eyes.
"MISAO!" cried Aoshi as he dashed towards her to check if she was all right.
Kaoru smirked. "Not so shy when the weasel's in danger."
Misao popped back up. "WEASEL?! Alright Kaoru, it's just me and you now!"
Kenshin shivered where he stood. 'Ugh… cat fight…'
"You know what Kaoru? Kansatsu Tobi-Kunai Kawasemi no Hashi! (Misao's Kunai throwing technique in the show/manga)" cried Misao as she began throwing some wooden kunai at Kaoru, but Kenshin quickly leaped toward the kunai as they were in the air and slashed them to the ground. "Get her Kaoru! I'll distract Aoshi!" After landing his leap, Kenshin quickly made his way to Aoshi, ready for a Battoujutsu.
"Take this Aoshi!" cried Kenshin as he unleashed his Battoujutsu. Aoshi barely jumped back in time, but dodged it by mere millimeters. Aoshi reclaimed his footing and quickly countered.
"Onmyou Hasshi!" Aoshi threw one kodachi and the other right behind it, therefore making both kodachis look as if it were one kodachi. (AN: If anyone got what I just said… good for you!) Kenshin quickly whacked the first kodachi away, but very unexpectedly saw the second kodachi coming his way. With only a split second to spare, Kenshin barely dodged the second kodachi as it burnt off some of the skin on Kenshin's forehead.
"ORO!"
At the same time, Kaoru and Misao were giving each other the death glare. Neither of them moved an inch until a droplet of Misao's sweat dropped onto the mats. "AH! Keicho Geri!" (Keicho Geri literally means Monster Bird Kick, so… just guess how Misao would look doing it… oO) Misao dashed toward Kaoru and leaped up into the air to launch her aerial attack. Kaoru immediately side-stepped and smacked Misao on the back of the neck with her bokken.
Misao dropped like a fly and laid on the floor for quite a while with swirly eyes. "Woot! In your face Misao! Kendo owns Ninjutsu!" Kaoru held up her victory sign and ran circles around the "dead" Misao.
As for Aoshi and Kenshin… actually you couldn't really see them anyways. They were moving too fast for the eye to see. Seijirou nudged Mr. Kamiya with his elbow, "Hehe, looks like I taught my pet some new tricks." Mr. Kamiya cracked up really bad even though Seijirou meant it as a boast. But oh well, back to the fight.
The contact between the wooden blades were heard every now and then proving that the battle was still going on. "Hey rooster head, do you see what's going on?" asked Megumi.
"Um… why of course, Fox! Well… Kenshin is running around slashing is sword around at Aoshi and technically the other way around," Sanosuke desperately guessed just to impress Megumi.
"Really? Who's winning then?"
'Well how in the world should I know?!' thought Sanosuke. "Um… from the looks of things, Kenshin's winning." Saying that only earned him a killer glare from Misao. "Ok maybe not, Aoshi's whoopin' Kenshin's butt." Saying THAT only earned him a disintegratable glare from Kaoru. "I mean Kenshin's winning," (Misao glare) "No I meant Aoshi's winning!" (Kaoru glare) "…GAH! I give up!"
Anyways, Kenshin continued blocking Aoshi's attacks until he found the correct time to counter, but Aoshi wasn't leaving any open spots just yet. Unexpectedly, Aoshi switched to Kempo and lashed out a kick toward Kenshin. Kenshin immediately hopped back and while Aoshi's back was facing him, he prepared himself for a decent technique that'd take Aoshi out.
"Ryu Sou Sen!" Kenshin swung his sword wildly at Aoshi in flashes, hitting him with every slash.
Definitely a good choice and of course, Aoshi fell to the floor. "Ow…"
"Winners: Kenshin and Kaoru!" yelled out Mr. Kamiya. Kaoru leaped up in joy and both of them subconsciously hugged each other. Sanosuke whistled, which of course made Kenshin and Kaoru realize how close they were to each other. Like hot butter on a butter knife, they slipped away from each other blushing. "Anyways, up next are Seijirou and myself versus Yahiko and Sanosuke!"
Yahiko staggered forward. "I have to go against my dad and Kenshin's master?" he said shakily.
"You can do it Yahiko!" cried Tsubame. Boy you could see the vigor and confidence flow through all of Yahiko's bones right then and there. Kaoru and Misao giggled while Sanosuke and Kenshin just plain smiled.
"Don't worry kid, we can do this," Sanosuke encouraged.
"I'M NOT A KID!" Seems like Sanosuke's encouraging wasn't really working.
Kaoru came to the middle of the ring to start the fight. All the fighters got to their positions and waited. "Are you ready boys? OK! HAJIME!"
"Come on son, let's see what you got!" taunted Mr. Kamiya. Yahiko charged at him with a tsuki, a charge to the throat area. Mr. Kamiya cleverly dodged it and smacked Yahiko on the head. "Aw… Son, you got to do better than that to be the man of the house! Come on, give it your best!"
"Alright old man, you asked for it!" yelled Yahiko as he prepared for a men attack (cut to the head). "GAH!!!!" Yahiko ran forward and launched his men attack, but Mr. Kamiya still blocked it. Yahiko quickly switched his hand positions on his shinai and went for a doh attack (sideways cut to the abdomen). Mr. Kamiya once again blocked the attack and countered with a kote attack (downward cut to the wrist). His attack was successful and Yahiko dropped to the ground and his shinai fell to the floor because of the pain on his wrist. "Gr…"
"You still have a lot to learn son, but you did very well." Mr. Kamiya hoisted Yahiko from the floor and moved to the side to give Sanosuke and Seijirou some room to fight.
"Well here we go rooster head. Bring it on you juvenile!" Seijirou got in a stance like no other. There were practically no open spots. The only open spots were those for a swordsman, but did Sanosuke look like a swordsman? NO! Sanosuke threw various punches in various directions, but non of them were direct hits.
"Ok, that's it!" Sanosuke took off toward Seijirou and Futai No Kiwami-ed Seijirou's bokken into pieces. "Ha, what're you going to do now huh?!"
"HA! Only amateurs rely fully on their weapons." Seijirou threw his cloak off at Kenshin, but Kenshin wasn't expecting it so…
"ORO!"
"Whoops, sorry Kenshin. Anyways…" Seijirou unexpectedly charged at Sanosuke and threw him hard onto the floor.
"Ok, THAT I'm not going to let you get away with." Sanosuke flipped up off the floor and got back into his fighting stance. Seijirou just continued slamming Sanosuke onto the floor until he gave up.
"Gah I hate you!" Sanosuke slowly lifted himself off the floor and limped to Megumi where she checked his wounds. Seijirou smirked.
"Serves you right, taking me on. HA!" Seijirou took out a sake bottle and started drinking.
"Uncle, I wouldn't get too overconfident, he might get better and beat you eventually," warned Kenshin.
"That's a good one Kenshin, when socks can get untied, then he'll beat me!" mocked Seijirou. Many veins popped out of Sanosuke's forehead, but he was too tired to do anything about, not like he could do anything about it anyways.
Mr. Kamiya stood up from where he sat and announced that they all were to have a break. Kaoru stretched out and heard her stomach grumble. "Anyone up for a snack?"
"Isn't it pretty late for a snack? And after Kenshin's feast, you'd think we'd have stomach left for a snack? You're crazy Kaoru," said Misao as she laid her head on Aoshi's lap as he meditated. Instantly everyone gasped and stared at Misao amazed. "What?!" was the only thing she could say before she realized her head was resting on Aoshi's lap. "GAH!" Misao lifted herself back up blushing.
"It's ok Misao, I don't really mind," Aoshi ALMOST bluntly replied, which of course made Misao blush even more. Slowly, her head returned to his lap and Misao closed her eyes to enjoy a VERY GOOD nap.
"Anyways, Kenshin, want to join me then?" asked Kaoru.
"Sure," he quickly responded as he followed Kaoru out of the dojo.
"So Kenshin, what do you think of the party so far?" questioned Kaoru as she grabbed a bowl of instant ramen.
"Judging by the fact that this is my first party, it's been really fun. And should you really be eating something like that when we have a match against your dad and my uncle next?" Kenshin raised an eyebrow.
"NO WAY! This is your first party? EVER? Wow… and don't worry about this. I'm hungry, don't mess with me." They both shared a laugh and the night went on silently… well except the sound of Kaoru's slurping. It was those kind of moments that are meant to be silent where you're with someone you care for… as they eat, and the other way around.
"KENSHIN! KAORU! LET'S GO! BREAK'S OVER!" yelled Yahiko from some distant room.
"Well, here we go!" said Kaoru enthusiastically.
'Yup, here we go…'
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AN: WELL, I'm super sorry people for not updating in… forever, but it couldn't have been helped. HW is killer nowadays and due to my procrastinating ways, this is what I get. Well, at least this chapter crosses the 40k word marker so it's all good. It's almost summer so I'll probably post then, but I have hecka vacations to go to so I guess probably not… LOL. Well, not many responses to reviews because… well… there were only like… 2. HAHAHAHA. So I suck at writing, who cares?! At least I like writing right? XP Gah, if i have any errors, please do tell in a review or something =/