Counterfeit Love
Chapter 10
Wow the big 1-0, that's cool....
I've written chapter's 8, 9 and 10 in the same two days, and I don't have internet...so I feel lost to the world...
I want to write, so let's get on with this fiction:
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"Kami no!" Kaoru cried, collapsing in a road in the middle of a forest, "Kami no....he can't be gone!" tears were pouring from her eyes and pain was taking over her body. She didn't care though, all that mattered right now was Kenshin, "I can't loose you!"
She ran down the road some more, but her body screamed in pain. This is why Megumi had said don't move around much...
"Kami! Why?!" She broke down in the middle of the path, "The one I love! The one I prayed would stay! Kami!" She curled up in a ball, right in the middle of the path not caring about anything else, "I'll hate myself forever if I can't find him!" She stood up, hot tears streaking her face. She took a step and nearly, fell, but she caught herself on the way down. "I can't..my body won't...Why must I be so weak? Kenshin left because of me! I am of no good to anyone"
A long while had gone by and Kaoru was sitting in the middle of the road, crying, not able to move. She didn't want to move..there was nothing to live for...She thought she would die there and she didn't care.
It was getting later and later, the moon wasn't even out anymore and as the night got deeper and deeper, the temperature began to drop a considerable amount. Half the night was gone and Kaoru still cried. Snow began to lightly dust the earth and Kaoru didn't care that she was freezing, or that her legs were exposed in this cold or that she couldn't breath normally anymore...
"Stop crying, please. Every tear you shed cuts me" Kaoru turned suddenly and saw Kenshin standing on the road
"Kenshin!" Kaoru cried, standing up and running over to him, "Why did you leave me?" She embraced him and he held her up while she cried on his shoulder, "I hate you! Why did you leave?!"
"Don't cry anymore Kaoru-dono, please"
"You made me cry you baka!" She hit his chest with no strength at all, "I hate you!"
"Sessha is sorry"
She wrapped her arms around his neck, "Never leave me......please..."
"Sessha couldn't" He sighed and squeezed her, "When it came down to it, and sessha tried, I couldn't...you have to strong a hold on this unworthy one's heart"
"Kenshin..no baka ..." She shook her head, "If you ever try to leave I swear...."
"I know....Gomen"
"I hate you...." Tears flooded even more from her eyes
"I know...I know....I hate me too" He leaned his head against hers, "Kaoru, promise me the next time I think about leaving, you hit me upside the head"
"Done...." she laughed through tears
"Since you hate sessha so much, I'm sure you wouldn't mind" He chuckled
"Kenshin!" She looked at him and shook her head, "Don't honestly think I-"
"I know koishii" He kissed her head, "I know"
She sighed and leaned her head on his shoulder and gave away all strength she had left. Kenshin caught her and lifted her up
"Kenshin?"
"Yes?"
"I love you"
"I love you too koishii"
Kaoru couldn't let go of Kenshin at the chance he might leave so her arms stayed around his neck as he carried her home. She looked at his face and noticed a tearstain down his cheek. She sighed and leaned her head on his shoulder. When they got to the dojo Kenshin immediately brought Kaoru to her room and got her extra blankets. After she changed, she sat on the futon not wanting to sleep and Kenshin was standing in the doorway shaking out the snow from his hair. She giggled and he looked up as he brushed of his sleeves
"Please excuse me for a moment Kaoru-dono" He smiled, "I wish to get out of these wet clothes"
"How long were we out there?"
"Quite a while"
He left and she shook her head. She looked around the room and sighed, untying her hair and letting it fall around her shoulders. She ran her fingers through it, hoping it was straight and Kenshin waked back in the room and smiled
"May sessha sit?" he asked earnestly
"Of course" she smiled and he sat next to her bed while she entwined their hands, "Where did you go?"
"Well, I tried to leave Tokyo, but I couldn't. So I wandered the outskirts until I found myself at the clinic"
"Really?"
"Yes, and I went inside quietly, I don't know why I didn't knock but I'm glad I didn't..."
"Why?"
"When sessha walked in, I saw Sano sitting in a chair, with Megumi on his lap, both asleep..."
"Really?!" Kaoru exclaimed
"Yes, and I think sessha realized that not matter what, you'll always love the one who has hold on your heart"
"I still can't believe those two..."
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Early that day......
"Sano, that mouse is scaring the hell out of me" an anxious Megumi said, still on Sano's lap, eyes darting around the room
"Why you so afraid of mice Fox?"
"When I was little, my brother used to chase me around and tease me with a rubber mouse. Then one night I woke up and there was one standing right on my stomach"
"Nasty..."
"Yea" She sighed, "I've never told anyone that...I thought that for an educated woman like me, that would be stupid"
"Naw, it's not stupid. Everyone's afraid of something"
"What are you afraid of?"
He smiled, "Bees"
"Really?"
"Yea...when I was a boy, I was working in the fields and I accidentally stepped on a fallen bee hive....I got strung so bad, I almost died" he rubbed his chin, remembering
"Oh, poor thing"
"Mmm..." he said shaking his head, "But if mice are all you're afraid of then you got it easy"
"They aren't all I'm afraid of!"
"So she IS human after all" Sano laughed, "Spill it then"
She sighed and smiled mischievously, "I think I'm afraid of falling in love with you"
Sano froze and Megumi shook her head with laughter. He regained his ability to speak, "So what are you saying....exactly.."
"That I care for you, baka"
"This isn't' a joke or nothing that is gonna embarrass me later, is it?"
"Not that I know of"
"Good cause you scared me for a second"
"Hmm?"
"Well you act so high and mighty some of the time it's like you care about no one but yourself"
"Not true!" She protested, "I do care about everyone!"
"I know, but I mean it's like, I wish sometimes you'd show emotions"
"Well I am now, aren't I?"
"Yea I guess"
There was a sudden squeak and the mouse showed itself again. Megumi shrieked and pulled her legs completely on Sano's. He laughed a bit
"Couldn't you kill it Sano?"
"Now why would I do that?" he grinned, "This mouse has brought me such good fortune!"
"Sanosuke!"
He chuckled, "Sorry..but really, it would be impossible to try and catch those things with out Kenshin's godlike speed....I'll set some traps out tomorrow"
"Thank you..." She sighed, "By the way you never told me if you cared about me" she said in a fake manner with a smile
"Of course I care you stupid fox! Why would I be sittin' here?" He said shaking his head
She laughed and playfully tapped his shoulder, "I know!"
"Kuso fox, your mighty fine when you're playful like this"
"And just what do you mean by that Sanosuke Sagara?"
He laughed, "I mean what I said"
An hour later Megumi had drifted to sleep, leaning against Sanosuke, who had fallen asleep as well with an arm around Megumi's waist. They both slept soundly, in the contentment that the other wouldn't leave.
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"I still can't believe those two" Kaoru laughed, "I wonder how on earth Sano seduced Megumi"
"Oro?"
"Never mind, Kenshin" she laughed. She leaned over traced their hands, while unintentionally getting some hair in Kenshin face. He breathed in the deep scent of jasmine, "Why did you want to leave Kenshin?" She asked with a sudden serious tone
"Mmmm....Dunno" He answered, slightly intoxicated with her scent
"Mou, Kenshin!" She said pulling her hair away, with Kenshin trying to follow, "Seriously!"
Kenshin laughed and scratched he back of his head, "Sorry...I thought that I would be putting you in danger by staying.....I AM putting you in danger by staying..." his gaze shifted
"You're not going anywhere" she said squeezing his hand
He laughed, "Maa, maa...I know, but sessha doesn't want to hurt you...I don't want to be the root of your pain. I just..."
"Shut up" She said suddenly starring him in the eye with the fierceness of a Hittokari, "First off, Reijiro, or Seiji or which ever was MY problem, MY past and MY fault"
"No Kaoru-dono, it's not your-" Kenshin began to say but Kaoru put up a hand
"Let me finish..Second, I can take care of myself perfectly fine thank you....I AM a kenjustu instructor after all, and I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself"
"Maa maa, I know"
"And last" she said pulling him close to her, "I love you to much to let you leave and it's my decision if I want to put myself in harms way or not. And you can't do anything about that!" she smiled mischievously while he laughed
"Kaoru?"
"Hmm?"
"I don't ever want to leave" he said looking at her straight in the eye
"I don't ever want you to" she answered. He smiled and caught her lips with his and pulled away leaving her speechless for a second. Then she smiled, "Mou Kenshin!"
He laughed and kissed her again, both not giving a damn if the world ended
Kenshin had made Kaoru go to sleep a little while later but in a half waking state she had asked him to stay. (A/N: And was Kaoru really sleeping? Hmmm?) He merely shook with a smile his head and slipped in the spot next to her thinking,
'Arigato, Kami-sama......the world can be good'
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Sano woke the next mourning feeling the twinge of hangover. He realized he was sitting up and immediately thought, 'Oh shit......Did I fall asleep in the bar again?'
He shifted and was surprised to find something putting pressure on his lap
'If it's another geisha....'
He opened his eyes and saw the one person he would never expect to see upon waking. Suddenly a wave of memories from last night came rushing to him. He smiled and relaxing watching her sleeping form slowly wake up.
"Mmmm.." Megumi said sleepily, stirring in Sano's lap. Her eyes fluttered open and she stretched her arms, "Surgery, visit, check up...and go to Kaoru's and find Sa-" She saw Sanosuke's grinning face and blushed, "- no....What are you doing here?"
"You don't remember?"
She thought and then remembered...
"Mouse..." She said suddenly shivering
"Don't worry I'll set traps for you, fox"
She looked him straight in the eye as if testing to see if he'd really do that for her and finally came to a conclusion by getting up and going to the sink to slash some water on herself.
"Want to come with me to Jou-chan's?"
"Hai...my first patient isn't until 12 o'clock" She rubbed her face dry and went into the other room, "Let me get ready first"
"Why, it's just breakfast at Jou-chan's? Nothing formal"
"I'd rather look nice then sloppy. Wouldn't you?"
"I would want you to look nice if that's what you mean" He grinned straitening his jacket with the kanji on it for "bad". He laughed at himself and thought, 'If Captain Sagara could only see me now...'
Megumi announced she was ready and the two left together for Kaoru's
But what would they find?
@---
If that was a long wait gomen, gomen....
And I keep changing moods! I went from dark to happy in the same day!
I better hurry up and put this up before I get kicked off the computer!
Song of the Day: ....................I don't know.....How about Courtesy of the Red White and Blue for my best friends who love Toby Keith
I miss you guys!
And I love this whole chapter! Even the dark parts!
See you Space Cowboy.......
Chapter 10
Wow the big 1-0, that's cool....
I've written chapter's 8, 9 and 10 in the same two days, and I don't have internet...so I feel lost to the world...
I want to write, so let's get on with this fiction:
@---
"Kami no!" Kaoru cried, collapsing in a road in the middle of a forest, "Kami no....he can't be gone!" tears were pouring from her eyes and pain was taking over her body. She didn't care though, all that mattered right now was Kenshin, "I can't loose you!"
She ran down the road some more, but her body screamed in pain. This is why Megumi had said don't move around much...
"Kami! Why?!" She broke down in the middle of the path, "The one I love! The one I prayed would stay! Kami!" She curled up in a ball, right in the middle of the path not caring about anything else, "I'll hate myself forever if I can't find him!" She stood up, hot tears streaking her face. She took a step and nearly, fell, but she caught herself on the way down. "I can't..my body won't...Why must I be so weak? Kenshin left because of me! I am of no good to anyone"
A long while had gone by and Kaoru was sitting in the middle of the road, crying, not able to move. She didn't want to move..there was nothing to live for...She thought she would die there and she didn't care.
It was getting later and later, the moon wasn't even out anymore and as the night got deeper and deeper, the temperature began to drop a considerable amount. Half the night was gone and Kaoru still cried. Snow began to lightly dust the earth and Kaoru didn't care that she was freezing, or that her legs were exposed in this cold or that she couldn't breath normally anymore...
"Stop crying, please. Every tear you shed cuts me" Kaoru turned suddenly and saw Kenshin standing on the road
"Kenshin!" Kaoru cried, standing up and running over to him, "Why did you leave me?" She embraced him and he held her up while she cried on his shoulder, "I hate you! Why did you leave?!"
"Don't cry anymore Kaoru-dono, please"
"You made me cry you baka!" She hit his chest with no strength at all, "I hate you!"
"Sessha is sorry"
She wrapped her arms around his neck, "Never leave me......please..."
"Sessha couldn't" He sighed and squeezed her, "When it came down to it, and sessha tried, I couldn't...you have to strong a hold on this unworthy one's heart"
"Kenshin..no baka ..." She shook her head, "If you ever try to leave I swear...."
"I know....Gomen"
"I hate you...." Tears flooded even more from her eyes
"I know...I know....I hate me too" He leaned his head against hers, "Kaoru, promise me the next time I think about leaving, you hit me upside the head"
"Done...." she laughed through tears
"Since you hate sessha so much, I'm sure you wouldn't mind" He chuckled
"Kenshin!" She looked at him and shook her head, "Don't honestly think I-"
"I know koishii" He kissed her head, "I know"
She sighed and leaned her head on his shoulder and gave away all strength she had left. Kenshin caught her and lifted her up
"Kenshin?"
"Yes?"
"I love you"
"I love you too koishii"
Kaoru couldn't let go of Kenshin at the chance he might leave so her arms stayed around his neck as he carried her home. She looked at his face and noticed a tearstain down his cheek. She sighed and leaned her head on his shoulder. When they got to the dojo Kenshin immediately brought Kaoru to her room and got her extra blankets. After she changed, she sat on the futon not wanting to sleep and Kenshin was standing in the doorway shaking out the snow from his hair. She giggled and he looked up as he brushed of his sleeves
"Please excuse me for a moment Kaoru-dono" He smiled, "I wish to get out of these wet clothes"
"How long were we out there?"
"Quite a while"
He left and she shook her head. She looked around the room and sighed, untying her hair and letting it fall around her shoulders. She ran her fingers through it, hoping it was straight and Kenshin waked back in the room and smiled
"May sessha sit?" he asked earnestly
"Of course" she smiled and he sat next to her bed while she entwined their hands, "Where did you go?"
"Well, I tried to leave Tokyo, but I couldn't. So I wandered the outskirts until I found myself at the clinic"
"Really?"
"Yes, and I went inside quietly, I don't know why I didn't knock but I'm glad I didn't..."
"Why?"
"When sessha walked in, I saw Sano sitting in a chair, with Megumi on his lap, both asleep..."
"Really?!" Kaoru exclaimed
"Yes, and I think sessha realized that not matter what, you'll always love the one who has hold on your heart"
"I still can't believe those two..."
@---
Early that day......
"Sano, that mouse is scaring the hell out of me" an anxious Megumi said, still on Sano's lap, eyes darting around the room
"Why you so afraid of mice Fox?"
"When I was little, my brother used to chase me around and tease me with a rubber mouse. Then one night I woke up and there was one standing right on my stomach"
"Nasty..."
"Yea" She sighed, "I've never told anyone that...I thought that for an educated woman like me, that would be stupid"
"Naw, it's not stupid. Everyone's afraid of something"
"What are you afraid of?"
He smiled, "Bees"
"Really?"
"Yea...when I was a boy, I was working in the fields and I accidentally stepped on a fallen bee hive....I got strung so bad, I almost died" he rubbed his chin, remembering
"Oh, poor thing"
"Mmm..." he said shaking his head, "But if mice are all you're afraid of then you got it easy"
"They aren't all I'm afraid of!"
"So she IS human after all" Sano laughed, "Spill it then"
She sighed and smiled mischievously, "I think I'm afraid of falling in love with you"
Sano froze and Megumi shook her head with laughter. He regained his ability to speak, "So what are you saying....exactly.."
"That I care for you, baka"
"This isn't' a joke or nothing that is gonna embarrass me later, is it?"
"Not that I know of"
"Good cause you scared me for a second"
"Hmm?"
"Well you act so high and mighty some of the time it's like you care about no one but yourself"
"Not true!" She protested, "I do care about everyone!"
"I know, but I mean it's like, I wish sometimes you'd show emotions"
"Well I am now, aren't I?"
"Yea I guess"
There was a sudden squeak and the mouse showed itself again. Megumi shrieked and pulled her legs completely on Sano's. He laughed a bit
"Couldn't you kill it Sano?"
"Now why would I do that?" he grinned, "This mouse has brought me such good fortune!"
"Sanosuke!"
He chuckled, "Sorry..but really, it would be impossible to try and catch those things with out Kenshin's godlike speed....I'll set some traps out tomorrow"
"Thank you..." She sighed, "By the way you never told me if you cared about me" she said in a fake manner with a smile
"Of course I care you stupid fox! Why would I be sittin' here?" He said shaking his head
She laughed and playfully tapped his shoulder, "I know!"
"Kuso fox, your mighty fine when you're playful like this"
"And just what do you mean by that Sanosuke Sagara?"
He laughed, "I mean what I said"
An hour later Megumi had drifted to sleep, leaning against Sanosuke, who had fallen asleep as well with an arm around Megumi's waist. They both slept soundly, in the contentment that the other wouldn't leave.
@---
"I still can't believe those two" Kaoru laughed, "I wonder how on earth Sano seduced Megumi"
"Oro?"
"Never mind, Kenshin" she laughed. She leaned over traced their hands, while unintentionally getting some hair in Kenshin face. He breathed in the deep scent of jasmine, "Why did you want to leave Kenshin?" She asked with a sudden serious tone
"Mmmm....Dunno" He answered, slightly intoxicated with her scent
"Mou, Kenshin!" She said pulling her hair away, with Kenshin trying to follow, "Seriously!"
Kenshin laughed and scratched he back of his head, "Sorry...I thought that I would be putting you in danger by staying.....I AM putting you in danger by staying..." his gaze shifted
"You're not going anywhere" she said squeezing his hand
He laughed, "Maa, maa...I know, but sessha doesn't want to hurt you...I don't want to be the root of your pain. I just..."
"Shut up" She said suddenly starring him in the eye with the fierceness of a Hittokari, "First off, Reijiro, or Seiji or which ever was MY problem, MY past and MY fault"
"No Kaoru-dono, it's not your-" Kenshin began to say but Kaoru put up a hand
"Let me finish..Second, I can take care of myself perfectly fine thank you....I AM a kenjustu instructor after all, and I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself"
"Maa maa, I know"
"And last" she said pulling him close to her, "I love you to much to let you leave and it's my decision if I want to put myself in harms way or not. And you can't do anything about that!" she smiled mischievously while he laughed
"Kaoru?"
"Hmm?"
"I don't ever want to leave" he said looking at her straight in the eye
"I don't ever want you to" she answered. He smiled and caught her lips with his and pulled away leaving her speechless for a second. Then she smiled, "Mou Kenshin!"
He laughed and kissed her again, both not giving a damn if the world ended
Kenshin had made Kaoru go to sleep a little while later but in a half waking state she had asked him to stay. (A/N: And was Kaoru really sleeping? Hmmm?) He merely shook with a smile his head and slipped in the spot next to her thinking,
'Arigato, Kami-sama......the world can be good'
@---
Sano woke the next mourning feeling the twinge of hangover. He realized he was sitting up and immediately thought, 'Oh shit......Did I fall asleep in the bar again?'
He shifted and was surprised to find something putting pressure on his lap
'If it's another geisha....'
He opened his eyes and saw the one person he would never expect to see upon waking. Suddenly a wave of memories from last night came rushing to him. He smiled and relaxing watching her sleeping form slowly wake up.
"Mmmm.." Megumi said sleepily, stirring in Sano's lap. Her eyes fluttered open and she stretched her arms, "Surgery, visit, check up...and go to Kaoru's and find Sa-" She saw Sanosuke's grinning face and blushed, "- no....What are you doing here?"
"You don't remember?"
She thought and then remembered...
"Mouse..." She said suddenly shivering
"Don't worry I'll set traps for you, fox"
She looked him straight in the eye as if testing to see if he'd really do that for her and finally came to a conclusion by getting up and going to the sink to slash some water on herself.
"Want to come with me to Jou-chan's?"
"Hai...my first patient isn't until 12 o'clock" She rubbed her face dry and went into the other room, "Let me get ready first"
"Why, it's just breakfast at Jou-chan's? Nothing formal"
"I'd rather look nice then sloppy. Wouldn't you?"
"I would want you to look nice if that's what you mean" He grinned straitening his jacket with the kanji on it for "bad". He laughed at himself and thought, 'If Captain Sagara could only see me now...'
Megumi announced she was ready and the two left together for Kaoru's
But what would they find?
@---
If that was a long wait gomen, gomen....
And I keep changing moods! I went from dark to happy in the same day!
I better hurry up and put this up before I get kicked off the computer!
Song of the Day: ....................I don't know.....How about Courtesy of the Red White and Blue for my best friends who love Toby Keith
I miss you guys!
And I love this whole chapter! Even the dark parts!
See you Space Cowboy.......