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AN: Thanks for reviewing keep it up!! _____________________________
Kaoru's POV:
"Yahiko you're late!" Kaoru said throwing a bokken at him as he entered the training hall.
Yahiko grunted as he began to warm up.
"Kaoru," it was Kenji who was standing at the entrance to the hall.
Kaoru walked over to him "What is it Kenji? I'm kinda busy." She motioned towards Yahiko.
"Let me do today's practice." Kenji pouted trying to get Kaoru to let him.
"Kenji I- don't pout! Fine, but you screw him up it's your blood." Kaoru walked out of the hall throwing her hands in the air as she thought, 'Why does he want to lead today's lesson any way?'
Yahiko's POV:
Yahiko wiped the sweat off his brow and watched as Kenji sat in Kaoru's spot "Why are-"
"You don't want her interrogating you yet do you?" Kenji asked. Yahiko nodded, "Well good, now take your stance!" Kenji commanded.
Yahiko scrambled to get back in place and started his first lesson with Kenji.
Kaoru's POV:
Meanwhile Kaoru went to go find something useful to do. That is when she spotted Kenshin playing with Ayame and Suzume.
"Ahh Kaoru, done with the lesson already?" he said while twirling Suzume around.
"No, Kenji stole my student so I thought I would come out here and play with you guys." She smiled and picked up the girls ball and tossed it to Ayame, who immediately hit it towards Kenshin.
"Yay Auntie Kaoru's playing with us!" Ayame Squealed.
"Auntie Kaoru play, Auntie Kaoru play!" Suzume jumped around excitedly.
"Alright let's play..." Kaoru smiled deviously, "Keep away from Uncle Kenshin!" she snatched the ball from him and ran off.
"YAY!!" the girls squealed as they ran after her.
"Oh no I'm gonna get the ball" Kenshin laughed as he chased after them.
"Auntie Kaoru throw it!"
"Suzume catch!" Kaoru tossed the ball lightly to the little girl and stuck her tongue out at Kenshin as he stopped right in front of her.
"Hehehe, Auntie Kaoru fooled Unca Kenny!" Ayame laughed pointing at them.
"That she did." He said smiling at the little girl.
Kenshin laced his fingers together with Kaoru's as the watched the girls play with the ball. Kaoru sighed dreamily. "What are you thinking?" he asked.
"That someday our little child will be playing just like Ayame and Suzume are right now." Kaoru put her hand on her stomach and sighed. 'I can't believe there is something growing inside me...'
Yahiko's POV:
When darkness fell Yahiko snuck out of the dojo and headed towards the Akabeko not knowing that he was being followed by Kaoru.
He arrived at the restaurant as the last customers were leaving. "Miss Tae, are you feeling better?"
"Yes I am Yahiko, thank you." She smiled at the boy. "Tsubame is in the back if you wanna talk to her."
Yahiko smirked and walked back to the back of the restaurant.
"Little Yahiko!" Tsubame said happy to see him.
"Don't call me little!" he said face turning red.
"Sorry," Tsubame blushed. "Have you told Kaoru yet?"
"No but at least Kenshin knows right?" Yahiko said.
"I guess..."
Kaoru's POV:
While Yahiko was in the back talking to Tsubame, Kaoru walked into the restaurant and found Tae she then asked her why Yahiko was there.
"Don't you know Miss Kaoru?" Tae said looking confused at her.
"Know what?" Kaoru eyed her suspiciously.
"Yahiko has been watching over the Akabeko for me at night because someone robbed it about a month ago." Tae was shocked that Yahiko hadn't told Kaoru like she had asked him to.
"What!?"
"I told him to tell you, or he couldn't work." She shook her head. "Yahiko, could you come here for a moment!" she yelled to the boy.
"What is it Miss... Kaoru!" he jumped when he saw Kaoru standing next to Tae tapping her foot impatiently.
"I thought we had an understanding." Tae looked disappointedly at Yahiko.
"But I told Kenshin!" Yahiko said shocked.
"Wait Kenshin knows!" Kaoru chimed in, a twinge of anger went across her face. 'And he didn't tell me! He is going to get an ear full when I get back.'
"Well be that as it may, Yahiko I can't let you work anymore, I'm sorry you didn't tell Kaoru like I told you to." Tae sighed.
"Can I at least get paid for what I have done?" Yahiko said feeling a little angry at himself and at Kaoru for following him.
Tae smiled and handed him a small pouch of money. "Now go home, both of you."
* * *
They were walking through the streets of the city when Kaoru stopped and said something. "Why couldn't you tell me?" She looked at Yahiko seriously as he turned around to look at her.
"I just didn't!" he said a little annoyed.
"Why?" she persisted.
"I didn't want you to make fun of me!" Yahiko's face turned red and he told her the truth, "I wanted to pay you back, for everything that you do..." he felt his pride take a blow.
Kaoru smiled and put a hand on his shoulder. "You don't have to pay me anything. Yahiko, why did you want to?"
"Jeeze cant I say thank you!?"
"Well I-"
"Isn't that sweet." Said a dark voice from the ally.
"Who are you?" Kaoru jumped, and squinted her eyes straining to see the persons face.
"I am your worst nightmare." The person stepped out of the shadows. He was Tall and muscularly large, with a scar across his eye. "You are a Kamiya aren't you?" he laughed darkly, "Looks like I found my pray."
"Subaru..." Kaoru whispered, she felt the fear rising in her heart, 'how-'
"So you do know me." He stepped forward again. "That will make it easier for me." He started to run towards Kaoru, but Yahiko stepped in front of her and taking Subaru's blow.
"Yahiko!" Kaoru said but she kept her eyes on Subaru.
The man grabbed her around the neck with one hand and picked her up off the ground. Kaoru felt consciousness slipping, 'No I won't give up, not yet-' She gathered he strength and kicked as hard as she could between the legs of the large man. He dropped her and she scrambled to get up but he jumped on her and pinned her to the ground, and twisted her arm behind her back, she cried out in pain.
"Kaoru!" Yahiko yelled trying futilely to stand up.
"Yahiko, get out of here go get Kenshin and my brother!" She yelled as she man picked her up. She struggled to get away but the man struck her and she fell limp in his arms.
"Kaoru!" Yahiko charged towards Subaru but he pushed him away like a fly and Yahiko slammed against a brick wall with a sickening crack. "No...Kaoru..." He said trying to fight with the urge to fall into darkness, he watched helplessly as the blurred image of the tall man walked off with Kaoru's limp body. Nothing was left but darkness.
* * * Yahiko's POV:
Yahiko slowly came too a few hours later. "Damn, my head," he grumbled rubbing his head. He looked around. "Oh no" he said when he saw no sight of Kaoru or the man. He stood up and a letter fluttered to the ground. He picked up the note and read it. His face pailed and he ran as fast as his legs would carry him to the dojo.
He threw the door open, running down the halls franticly as he yelled "KENSHIN!!" he looked around "KENSHIN!"
Kenshin who had been sleeping snapped his eyes open, "Oro?" He got up to see why Yahiko was yelling. By the time Kenshin got to Yahiko Kenji was already standing there trying to get the boy to speak.
Yahiko spotted Kenshin and looked at him with a panicked expression. "Kenshin- Kaoru...ally...guy and then...attacked us...letter" He said incoherently tears filling his eyes.
"Yahiko take a deep breath, what happened?" Kenshin said trying to get the boy to calm down.
Yahiko took a deep breath and wiped the tears away, and told them what happened, "Kaoru and I were walking home from the Akabeko when this huge guy came out of this ally, I think Kaoru knew him, or at least knew his name-"
"What, what was the name?" Kenji interrupted grabbing the boy around the shoulders and shook him.
"Kenji calm down." Kenshin said putting a hand on his shoulder
"I think she said 'Subaru'" Yahiko looked at Kenji's expression which had dropped and Kenshin's gaze narrowed. Yahiko continued, "He-he knocked me out and when I came too they were gone and all that was there was this letter." He handed the letter to Kenji who read it and then crumbled it up.
"Damn it." He said breathing hard. Kenji dropped the letter and walked off and disappeared somewhere into the depths of the dojo.
Kenshin picked up the letter and read it. 'Kenji, I found your secret, I know this woman is your sister, and the Battousai's lover. If you ever want to see her again you know where to go. –Subaru'
Kenji appeared once again, this time totting a sword.
Yahiko stared surprised at Kenji, "Why do you have a sword, doesn't the Kamiya Kasshin school prohibit real swords?"
"It didn't stop my father, he was a sword bearing police man, and an imperial soldier," Kenji looked at the boy, "He died by his sword, and I will not be held back buy some toy of an idealist era, I gave up on my father's school, 'the sword to protect' how can I protect my sister from this man using a toy?" He shot a look at Kenshin, "Do you have some words to stop me?"
"Not at all, but are you ready to sully your hands with another's blood? Even if it is for Miss Kaoru, even if it is for revenge" Kenshin looked at Kenji. "Are you ready for that responsibility?"
"Who's to say I do not already carry that burden?" Kenji had a cold steely gaze.
Kenshin nodded. "You know where Subaru is then?"
"Yes, he is at the same place where I last saw him." Kenji's fist tightened. "He calls it 'The Depths of Hell' It is where he lives when he is not trying to kill me"
* * *
Kaoru's POV:
Kaoru woke up to find herself in darkness, she felt ropes tightly holding her arms behind her, 'where am I?' she thought then it flooded back to her as she began to remember what happened. "Kenshin..." she whispered.
"The Battousai isn't here to save you, my little flower," said Subaru's deep voice. She felt him kneel down next to her and cupped her face in his hands.
"Why didn't you kill me?" she spat trying to move away from his grasp.
"Because it is inconvenient to me, you see I want to destroy your brother, and to do that I not only need to kill him, but demolish his soul, and to do that I need you." He laughed manically "And if I destroy the Battousai's soul as well, then all the better for me, but to do that I need to wait until they are present to kill you." Subaru got up and struck her across the face once more before setting out a bowl of watery looking soup. "This is your food; you get one serving a day." He laughed as he left. "Be happy I give you that."
When Kaoru could no longer here his foot falls she forced herself to eat the food that he had left for her. It was an overly salty beef stew that made Kaoru feel sorry that she had even ate it, thirst consumed her as her dry throat made her cough miserably. She started to cry, how was she going to get out of this? How would she escape from this place, in the depths of hell?
To be continued...
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AN: And now the fun begins. Yay now I am in the groove, chapters should be coming faster from now on (and some may be long too ^^) Well I have a sequel in the works for this story, mwahahahahaha!!!
Kaoru: What does she mean 'now the fun begins?'
Kenshin: Yay I was having more fun-
Kaoru: Don't even speak you aren't the one who is held captive in some dark dungeon!
Kenshin: No but I am stuck with your brother, not to mention I am worried sick!
Kaoru: *blushes* Awe you're worried about me?
Battosaichick: *coughs* Yay ummm well anyway until next time *waves*
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AN: Thanks for reviewing keep it up!! _____________________________
Kaoru's POV:
"Yahiko you're late!" Kaoru said throwing a bokken at him as he entered the training hall.
Yahiko grunted as he began to warm up.
"Kaoru," it was Kenji who was standing at the entrance to the hall.
Kaoru walked over to him "What is it Kenji? I'm kinda busy." She motioned towards Yahiko.
"Let me do today's practice." Kenji pouted trying to get Kaoru to let him.
"Kenji I- don't pout! Fine, but you screw him up it's your blood." Kaoru walked out of the hall throwing her hands in the air as she thought, 'Why does he want to lead today's lesson any way?'
Yahiko's POV:
Yahiko wiped the sweat off his brow and watched as Kenji sat in Kaoru's spot "Why are-"
"You don't want her interrogating you yet do you?" Kenji asked. Yahiko nodded, "Well good, now take your stance!" Kenji commanded.
Yahiko scrambled to get back in place and started his first lesson with Kenji.
Kaoru's POV:
Meanwhile Kaoru went to go find something useful to do. That is when she spotted Kenshin playing with Ayame and Suzume.
"Ahh Kaoru, done with the lesson already?" he said while twirling Suzume around.
"No, Kenji stole my student so I thought I would come out here and play with you guys." She smiled and picked up the girls ball and tossed it to Ayame, who immediately hit it towards Kenshin.
"Yay Auntie Kaoru's playing with us!" Ayame Squealed.
"Auntie Kaoru play, Auntie Kaoru play!" Suzume jumped around excitedly.
"Alright let's play..." Kaoru smiled deviously, "Keep away from Uncle Kenshin!" she snatched the ball from him and ran off.
"YAY!!" the girls squealed as they ran after her.
"Oh no I'm gonna get the ball" Kenshin laughed as he chased after them.
"Auntie Kaoru throw it!"
"Suzume catch!" Kaoru tossed the ball lightly to the little girl and stuck her tongue out at Kenshin as he stopped right in front of her.
"Hehehe, Auntie Kaoru fooled Unca Kenny!" Ayame laughed pointing at them.
"That she did." He said smiling at the little girl.
Kenshin laced his fingers together with Kaoru's as the watched the girls play with the ball. Kaoru sighed dreamily. "What are you thinking?" he asked.
"That someday our little child will be playing just like Ayame and Suzume are right now." Kaoru put her hand on her stomach and sighed. 'I can't believe there is something growing inside me...'
Yahiko's POV:
When darkness fell Yahiko snuck out of the dojo and headed towards the Akabeko not knowing that he was being followed by Kaoru.
He arrived at the restaurant as the last customers were leaving. "Miss Tae, are you feeling better?"
"Yes I am Yahiko, thank you." She smiled at the boy. "Tsubame is in the back if you wanna talk to her."
Yahiko smirked and walked back to the back of the restaurant.
"Little Yahiko!" Tsubame said happy to see him.
"Don't call me little!" he said face turning red.
"Sorry," Tsubame blushed. "Have you told Kaoru yet?"
"No but at least Kenshin knows right?" Yahiko said.
"I guess..."
Kaoru's POV:
While Yahiko was in the back talking to Tsubame, Kaoru walked into the restaurant and found Tae she then asked her why Yahiko was there.
"Don't you know Miss Kaoru?" Tae said looking confused at her.
"Know what?" Kaoru eyed her suspiciously.
"Yahiko has been watching over the Akabeko for me at night because someone robbed it about a month ago." Tae was shocked that Yahiko hadn't told Kaoru like she had asked him to.
"What!?"
"I told him to tell you, or he couldn't work." She shook her head. "Yahiko, could you come here for a moment!" she yelled to the boy.
"What is it Miss... Kaoru!" he jumped when he saw Kaoru standing next to Tae tapping her foot impatiently.
"I thought we had an understanding." Tae looked disappointedly at Yahiko.
"But I told Kenshin!" Yahiko said shocked.
"Wait Kenshin knows!" Kaoru chimed in, a twinge of anger went across her face. 'And he didn't tell me! He is going to get an ear full when I get back.'
"Well be that as it may, Yahiko I can't let you work anymore, I'm sorry you didn't tell Kaoru like I told you to." Tae sighed.
"Can I at least get paid for what I have done?" Yahiko said feeling a little angry at himself and at Kaoru for following him.
Tae smiled and handed him a small pouch of money. "Now go home, both of you."
* * *
They were walking through the streets of the city when Kaoru stopped and said something. "Why couldn't you tell me?" She looked at Yahiko seriously as he turned around to look at her.
"I just didn't!" he said a little annoyed.
"Why?" she persisted.
"I didn't want you to make fun of me!" Yahiko's face turned red and he told her the truth, "I wanted to pay you back, for everything that you do..." he felt his pride take a blow.
Kaoru smiled and put a hand on his shoulder. "You don't have to pay me anything. Yahiko, why did you want to?"
"Jeeze cant I say thank you!?"
"Well I-"
"Isn't that sweet." Said a dark voice from the ally.
"Who are you?" Kaoru jumped, and squinted her eyes straining to see the persons face.
"I am your worst nightmare." The person stepped out of the shadows. He was Tall and muscularly large, with a scar across his eye. "You are a Kamiya aren't you?" he laughed darkly, "Looks like I found my pray."
"Subaru..." Kaoru whispered, she felt the fear rising in her heart, 'how-'
"So you do know me." He stepped forward again. "That will make it easier for me." He started to run towards Kaoru, but Yahiko stepped in front of her and taking Subaru's blow.
"Yahiko!" Kaoru said but she kept her eyes on Subaru.
The man grabbed her around the neck with one hand and picked her up off the ground. Kaoru felt consciousness slipping, 'No I won't give up, not yet-' She gathered he strength and kicked as hard as she could between the legs of the large man. He dropped her and she scrambled to get up but he jumped on her and pinned her to the ground, and twisted her arm behind her back, she cried out in pain.
"Kaoru!" Yahiko yelled trying futilely to stand up.
"Yahiko, get out of here go get Kenshin and my brother!" She yelled as she man picked her up. She struggled to get away but the man struck her and she fell limp in his arms.
"Kaoru!" Yahiko charged towards Subaru but he pushed him away like a fly and Yahiko slammed against a brick wall with a sickening crack. "No...Kaoru..." He said trying to fight with the urge to fall into darkness, he watched helplessly as the blurred image of the tall man walked off with Kaoru's limp body. Nothing was left but darkness.
* * * Yahiko's POV:
Yahiko slowly came too a few hours later. "Damn, my head," he grumbled rubbing his head. He looked around. "Oh no" he said when he saw no sight of Kaoru or the man. He stood up and a letter fluttered to the ground. He picked up the note and read it. His face pailed and he ran as fast as his legs would carry him to the dojo.
He threw the door open, running down the halls franticly as he yelled "KENSHIN!!" he looked around "KENSHIN!"
Kenshin who had been sleeping snapped his eyes open, "Oro?" He got up to see why Yahiko was yelling. By the time Kenshin got to Yahiko Kenji was already standing there trying to get the boy to speak.
Yahiko spotted Kenshin and looked at him with a panicked expression. "Kenshin- Kaoru...ally...guy and then...attacked us...letter" He said incoherently tears filling his eyes.
"Yahiko take a deep breath, what happened?" Kenshin said trying to get the boy to calm down.
Yahiko took a deep breath and wiped the tears away, and told them what happened, "Kaoru and I were walking home from the Akabeko when this huge guy came out of this ally, I think Kaoru knew him, or at least knew his name-"
"What, what was the name?" Kenji interrupted grabbing the boy around the shoulders and shook him.
"Kenji calm down." Kenshin said putting a hand on his shoulder
"I think she said 'Subaru'" Yahiko looked at Kenji's expression which had dropped and Kenshin's gaze narrowed. Yahiko continued, "He-he knocked me out and when I came too they were gone and all that was there was this letter." He handed the letter to Kenji who read it and then crumbled it up.
"Damn it." He said breathing hard. Kenji dropped the letter and walked off and disappeared somewhere into the depths of the dojo.
Kenshin picked up the letter and read it. 'Kenji, I found your secret, I know this woman is your sister, and the Battousai's lover. If you ever want to see her again you know where to go. –Subaru'
Kenji appeared once again, this time totting a sword.
Yahiko stared surprised at Kenji, "Why do you have a sword, doesn't the Kamiya Kasshin school prohibit real swords?"
"It didn't stop my father, he was a sword bearing police man, and an imperial soldier," Kenji looked at the boy, "He died by his sword, and I will not be held back buy some toy of an idealist era, I gave up on my father's school, 'the sword to protect' how can I protect my sister from this man using a toy?" He shot a look at Kenshin, "Do you have some words to stop me?"
"Not at all, but are you ready to sully your hands with another's blood? Even if it is for Miss Kaoru, even if it is for revenge" Kenshin looked at Kenji. "Are you ready for that responsibility?"
"Who's to say I do not already carry that burden?" Kenji had a cold steely gaze.
Kenshin nodded. "You know where Subaru is then?"
"Yes, he is at the same place where I last saw him." Kenji's fist tightened. "He calls it 'The Depths of Hell' It is where he lives when he is not trying to kill me"
* * *
Kaoru's POV:
Kaoru woke up to find herself in darkness, she felt ropes tightly holding her arms behind her, 'where am I?' she thought then it flooded back to her as she began to remember what happened. "Kenshin..." she whispered.
"The Battousai isn't here to save you, my little flower," said Subaru's deep voice. She felt him kneel down next to her and cupped her face in his hands.
"Why didn't you kill me?" she spat trying to move away from his grasp.
"Because it is inconvenient to me, you see I want to destroy your brother, and to do that I not only need to kill him, but demolish his soul, and to do that I need you." He laughed manically "And if I destroy the Battousai's soul as well, then all the better for me, but to do that I need to wait until they are present to kill you." Subaru got up and struck her across the face once more before setting out a bowl of watery looking soup. "This is your food; you get one serving a day." He laughed as he left. "Be happy I give you that."
When Kaoru could no longer here his foot falls she forced herself to eat the food that he had left for her. It was an overly salty beef stew that made Kaoru feel sorry that she had even ate it, thirst consumed her as her dry throat made her cough miserably. She started to cry, how was she going to get out of this? How would she escape from this place, in the depths of hell?
To be continued...
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AN: And now the fun begins. Yay now I am in the groove, chapters should be coming faster from now on (and some may be long too ^^) Well I have a sequel in the works for this story, mwahahahahaha!!!
Kaoru: What does she mean 'now the fun begins?'
Kenshin: Yay I was having more fun-
Kaoru: Don't even speak you aren't the one who is held captive in some dark dungeon!
Kenshin: No but I am stuck with your brother, not to mention I am worried sick!
Kaoru: *blushes* Awe you're worried about me?
Battosaichick: *coughs* Yay ummm well anyway until next time *waves*
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