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Kaoru's POV:
"Who are you?" She said to the dark haired man.
"Just a humble servant of Master Subaru, I have been directed to play with you until your rescuers came." He bowed and grinned at her evilly.
"Play?" She did not like the sound of that.
The man smirked "defend yourself," he said as he tossed one of the swords that was hanging from his belt.
"But-" she looked down at the Japanese sword.
"If you don't pick up that sword consider your life to be over." He said as he fell into his stance and charged.
Kaoru fell to her knees; the blade of the sword was only inches from her cheek and penetrated the wall behind her. "I thought you said you were going to kill me," she said realizing how close the blade was.
"I can't kill you remember? I can only make you suffer." He laughed wrenching the sword from the wall.
"That's comforting" she said sarcastically as she stood up. 'This is wrong...' Kaoru hesitated but she picked up the sword at her feet despite the feeling that she shouldn't.
"Hmm" he hummed as he fell into his stance again and lunged towards her.
Kaoru backed against the wall, trying her hardest to block his blows that came one after another. 'I can't keep this up,' she thought 'I have to take the offensive, but how?' Kaoru feeling the pressure finally found her chance, she ducked underneath his blade and rammed the hilt of the sword into his stomach.
"Oh ho so the little Kamiya does fight back." He said as he stumbled back a little shocked that she had even defended herself, "Come on little Kamiya, let go of all of the restrictions of your foolish Kasshin School." He laughed again "Come on, kill me."
She stared at him waiting for the next attack refusing to even lunge at him. He stood up and laughed at her again, "You know, you have rescuers who are on their way, to bad they won't make it past the master's traps." He taunted as he got ready to strike again.
She glanced at the wall behind her 'I am blocked against this wall I can't dodge his attack again. But if I don't-'
Kenshin's POV:
He walked cautiously through the halls, preparing for any type of assault that may befall upon him. Surprisingly nothing happened. He looked around, 'Odd that such a place has no rooms but has hallway upon hallway. Did he design this place as some type of labyrinth?' He wondered entering another room and noticed that they were stairs leading down too another level. 'I wonder where the secret passages that Kenji was talking about.'
It was as if someone was reading his mind as he thought this he noticed something was out of place in the hall. He saw that the wall was sticking out in a spot, and when he examined it he noticed that it was a door. 'Look's like some one is inviting me into the depths.' He thought walking through the door.
Kaoru's POV:
"What's the matter you look afraid." The man snickered.
"I am not afraid." She said more to reassure herself rather than convince him
"Just keep telling yourself that." He said as he charged forward.
'He's leaving his right side open, but why? He seems skilled enough not to make a beginners mistake like that-' She thought as she changed her footing to that side but it was too late his sword seemed to burry itself deep into her shoulder pinning her to the wall.
He twisted his sword before wrenching it out. "What's the matter did that sting?" He sneered seeing the pain in her eyes.
"Why don't you just kill me?" she said falling to her knees "Or are you the one who is afraid?"
"Fear has nothing to do with this," he raised his sword as to swing down for a final blow but stopped just before it made contact with her neck. "Think of it as a message. I am not the one who should be so lucky as to kill you, not yet." He bent down so she could see him eye to eye and then he smiled, "So you better go and deliver the message to your rescuer, deliver it and be sure to tell them to wait until then."
He stood up and walked off though Kaoru did not know where her eye's started to blur as she in her pain stood up. She still clutched on to the sword in her hands 'I can't seem to let it go, even though there is no point in holding onto it, but why does it comfort me like this?' Blood trickled slowly down her arm, but she did not care; she had other things on her mind. She stumbled out of the hall still holding fruitlessly on to the sword. 'They're here, but where can they be?' She leaned against the wall to catch her breath, 'What will it take?'
Kenshin's POV:
He walked down the dark passage until it came to an end. 'well that was a short hall wasn't it?' he thought opening the door and walking into another corridor that was lined with paintings and a large crystal chandelier as the only light. 'Am I just getting myself more lost?'
"What's the matter Battousai having a hard time finding the little bird?" Subaru appeared behind him smiling all the more evilly.
"You're Subaru I presume." Kenshin said looking with a cold gaze at the much taller man.
"Yes, and I presume you are looking for my little bird? Go further into the pit if you wish to find her, though you maybe to late, it would seem one of my men has broken the little birds wing." He started to laugh as he saw Kenshin look a little anxious.
"Where is Miss Kaoru?"
"My birds is somewhere close, but probably not close enough, you still have a ways to go and a lot of traps between her and yourself. But then again she doesn't know about them; and what would happen if the wounded little bird where to run across them in her state? Even if she were at her best she would never make it past them, my advice to you Battousai is to run to her before it is too late," Subaru was idly examining a dagger that he had pulled out of his sleeve. "I would hate to see such a pretty bird's blood staining more of my home." He kept his same evil grin and walked away through the door that he entered from. "Now I must take my leave I have someone else waiting for me to kill them."
Kenshin ran off not letting Subaru's last comment faze him, Kenji could handle himself, for now. Kenshin was afraid of Kaoru's fate more so than her brothers personal battle.
Kenshin was still amazed that he had not ran across any traps yet but was it just the calm before the storm? Kenshin was running down a long corridor when he stopped 'that smell... it's blood-' He felt a small twinge of fear as he entered the next corridor.
"Miss Kaoru..." The corridor had the obvious signs of a struggle. Kenshin looked around for a sign of which way Kaoru may have gone. He glanced to his side and saw a dark abandoned room, it was small and it had shards of a broken bowl. He looked around 'Where could she have gone...' He looked down at the ground and saw a small trail of blood. He followed the trail in hopes that he would find his beloved Kaoru before it was too late for her.
Yahiko's POV:
Yahiko had been contemplating on what Subaru had told him. 'You can see in his eyes that he has killed, but he seems to have something in him that reminds me of something but I just can't place it...' Yahiko shivered, 'What am I getting myself into?'
"Problems kid?" Kenji asked looking at him.
Yahiko shook his head, 'Man what is it with people and being able to figure out what I am thinking?'
They exited the secret pathway and started walking through one of the halls when a voice echoed from behind them.
"So Kenji, come back for me to kill you?" Subaru was standing behind them with the servant that had attacked Kaoru at his side.
"Where's my sister?" Kenji asked pulling Yahiko behind him.
"You mean my bird? I don't know, I haven't seen her since I let Yoshiki here play with her." A short Chinese man walked out from behind Subaru. Yoshiki brandished a sword which still had blood staining its blade.
"You bastard." Kenji gripped his sword ready to cut Subaru's servant down.
'Blood?!' Yahiko thought, 'Kaoru- I hope Kenshin find's you soon...'
"Now, now don't get so hostile, I won't let her die; she is very important to me and my plans." He smiled "You however, seem to be in the way, you know how I hate senseless violence but you just have to go."
"What plans?" Kenji asked.
"You are as inquisitive as your sister, but my plans are of no concern to you so you need not know about them." Subaru said smugly.
"Is that so? Well then you need not know that I am about to cut your head off..." Kenji charged forward.
"Fool" Subaru countered him with his dagger and pushed Kenji back, "How many time's must we go through this? Fighting and killing and winning and losing? How many of my Servant's have you killed now? Eight, nine? Yoshiki will fight you, he is my best servant now and if you can win against him then you can finally fight against me and I promise that I will kill you quickly."
'Kenji said he only killed one person... was he lying to me?' Yahiko shuddered, 'what kind of person is he? I just can't figure him out'
Yoshiki stepped forward, "This should be more fun than running your sister through. She doesn't put up much of a fight." Yoshiki brought up his blood stained sword to Kenji's eye level.
"You'll regret that." Kenji said as he and Yoshiki squared off.
Kaoru's POV:
She stumbled through the halls using the sword as a balance, she was loosing more strength than blood, she couldn't figure out why. 'I can't give up now, they're here.' Kaoru stopped to catch her breath, 'He plans to kill Kenji, but why? What is it that he has against Kenshin?' Then she remembered what Subaru had said about her father having what he wanted, then that she was just like her mother.
"But if that is true, then he thinks that-" it made her stomach churn if all of what he said were his true feelings then Kaoru was her mothers replacement and Subaru was just reliving his past, he wanted to destroy the people who had everything. Something didn't fit. She remembered him talking about Kenji being a road block in his plans if Kenji was a road block rather than the problem itself then what other agenda does he have?
"My head hurts," she clutched her head. 'I have to stop thinking so much when I have lost so much blood.' She sighed. 'Kenshin where are you?'
She stood up and was about to walk on when the hair on the back of her neck stood up, someone was behind her, as if it were an instinct she turned, the sword in her grip leading the way. Metal met metal as Kenshin brought up his reverse blade sword to block her.
He looked at her with his same kind smile, "I thought you weren't going to use a real sword?"
A deep feeling of relief filled her heart "Kenshin-"
To be continued...
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AN: Woohoo!!! Another chapter done, and yes a cliff hanger too I'm so evil sometimes, but don't worry still more to come ^^ well until next time *Waves*
AN: Thank you everyone for reviewing! _______________
Kaoru's POV:
"Who are you?" She said to the dark haired man.
"Just a humble servant of Master Subaru, I have been directed to play with you until your rescuers came." He bowed and grinned at her evilly.
"Play?" She did not like the sound of that.
The man smirked "defend yourself," he said as he tossed one of the swords that was hanging from his belt.
"But-" she looked down at the Japanese sword.
"If you don't pick up that sword consider your life to be over." He said as he fell into his stance and charged.
Kaoru fell to her knees; the blade of the sword was only inches from her cheek and penetrated the wall behind her. "I thought you said you were going to kill me," she said realizing how close the blade was.
"I can't kill you remember? I can only make you suffer." He laughed wrenching the sword from the wall.
"That's comforting" she said sarcastically as she stood up. 'This is wrong...' Kaoru hesitated but she picked up the sword at her feet despite the feeling that she shouldn't.
"Hmm" he hummed as he fell into his stance again and lunged towards her.
Kaoru backed against the wall, trying her hardest to block his blows that came one after another. 'I can't keep this up,' she thought 'I have to take the offensive, but how?' Kaoru feeling the pressure finally found her chance, she ducked underneath his blade and rammed the hilt of the sword into his stomach.
"Oh ho so the little Kamiya does fight back." He said as he stumbled back a little shocked that she had even defended herself, "Come on little Kamiya, let go of all of the restrictions of your foolish Kasshin School." He laughed again "Come on, kill me."
She stared at him waiting for the next attack refusing to even lunge at him. He stood up and laughed at her again, "You know, you have rescuers who are on their way, to bad they won't make it past the master's traps." He taunted as he got ready to strike again.
She glanced at the wall behind her 'I am blocked against this wall I can't dodge his attack again. But if I don't-'
Kenshin's POV:
He walked cautiously through the halls, preparing for any type of assault that may befall upon him. Surprisingly nothing happened. He looked around, 'Odd that such a place has no rooms but has hallway upon hallway. Did he design this place as some type of labyrinth?' He wondered entering another room and noticed that they were stairs leading down too another level. 'I wonder where the secret passages that Kenji was talking about.'
It was as if someone was reading his mind as he thought this he noticed something was out of place in the hall. He saw that the wall was sticking out in a spot, and when he examined it he noticed that it was a door. 'Look's like some one is inviting me into the depths.' He thought walking through the door.
Kaoru's POV:
"What's the matter you look afraid." The man snickered.
"I am not afraid." She said more to reassure herself rather than convince him
"Just keep telling yourself that." He said as he charged forward.
'He's leaving his right side open, but why? He seems skilled enough not to make a beginners mistake like that-' She thought as she changed her footing to that side but it was too late his sword seemed to burry itself deep into her shoulder pinning her to the wall.
He twisted his sword before wrenching it out. "What's the matter did that sting?" He sneered seeing the pain in her eyes.
"Why don't you just kill me?" she said falling to her knees "Or are you the one who is afraid?"
"Fear has nothing to do with this," he raised his sword as to swing down for a final blow but stopped just before it made contact with her neck. "Think of it as a message. I am not the one who should be so lucky as to kill you, not yet." He bent down so she could see him eye to eye and then he smiled, "So you better go and deliver the message to your rescuer, deliver it and be sure to tell them to wait until then."
He stood up and walked off though Kaoru did not know where her eye's started to blur as she in her pain stood up. She still clutched on to the sword in her hands 'I can't seem to let it go, even though there is no point in holding onto it, but why does it comfort me like this?' Blood trickled slowly down her arm, but she did not care; she had other things on her mind. She stumbled out of the hall still holding fruitlessly on to the sword. 'They're here, but where can they be?' She leaned against the wall to catch her breath, 'What will it take?'
Kenshin's POV:
He walked down the dark passage until it came to an end. 'well that was a short hall wasn't it?' he thought opening the door and walking into another corridor that was lined with paintings and a large crystal chandelier as the only light. 'Am I just getting myself more lost?'
"What's the matter Battousai having a hard time finding the little bird?" Subaru appeared behind him smiling all the more evilly.
"You're Subaru I presume." Kenshin said looking with a cold gaze at the much taller man.
"Yes, and I presume you are looking for my little bird? Go further into the pit if you wish to find her, though you maybe to late, it would seem one of my men has broken the little birds wing." He started to laugh as he saw Kenshin look a little anxious.
"Where is Miss Kaoru?"
"My birds is somewhere close, but probably not close enough, you still have a ways to go and a lot of traps between her and yourself. But then again she doesn't know about them; and what would happen if the wounded little bird where to run across them in her state? Even if she were at her best she would never make it past them, my advice to you Battousai is to run to her before it is too late," Subaru was idly examining a dagger that he had pulled out of his sleeve. "I would hate to see such a pretty bird's blood staining more of my home." He kept his same evil grin and walked away through the door that he entered from. "Now I must take my leave I have someone else waiting for me to kill them."
Kenshin ran off not letting Subaru's last comment faze him, Kenji could handle himself, for now. Kenshin was afraid of Kaoru's fate more so than her brothers personal battle.
Kenshin was still amazed that he had not ran across any traps yet but was it just the calm before the storm? Kenshin was running down a long corridor when he stopped 'that smell... it's blood-' He felt a small twinge of fear as he entered the next corridor.
"Miss Kaoru..." The corridor had the obvious signs of a struggle. Kenshin looked around for a sign of which way Kaoru may have gone. He glanced to his side and saw a dark abandoned room, it was small and it had shards of a broken bowl. He looked around 'Where could she have gone...' He looked down at the ground and saw a small trail of blood. He followed the trail in hopes that he would find his beloved Kaoru before it was too late for her.
Yahiko's POV:
Yahiko had been contemplating on what Subaru had told him. 'You can see in his eyes that he has killed, but he seems to have something in him that reminds me of something but I just can't place it...' Yahiko shivered, 'What am I getting myself into?'
"Problems kid?" Kenji asked looking at him.
Yahiko shook his head, 'Man what is it with people and being able to figure out what I am thinking?'
They exited the secret pathway and started walking through one of the halls when a voice echoed from behind them.
"So Kenji, come back for me to kill you?" Subaru was standing behind them with the servant that had attacked Kaoru at his side.
"Where's my sister?" Kenji asked pulling Yahiko behind him.
"You mean my bird? I don't know, I haven't seen her since I let Yoshiki here play with her." A short Chinese man walked out from behind Subaru. Yoshiki brandished a sword which still had blood staining its blade.
"You bastard." Kenji gripped his sword ready to cut Subaru's servant down.
'Blood?!' Yahiko thought, 'Kaoru- I hope Kenshin find's you soon...'
"Now, now don't get so hostile, I won't let her die; she is very important to me and my plans." He smiled "You however, seem to be in the way, you know how I hate senseless violence but you just have to go."
"What plans?" Kenji asked.
"You are as inquisitive as your sister, but my plans are of no concern to you so you need not know about them." Subaru said smugly.
"Is that so? Well then you need not know that I am about to cut your head off..." Kenji charged forward.
"Fool" Subaru countered him with his dagger and pushed Kenji back, "How many time's must we go through this? Fighting and killing and winning and losing? How many of my Servant's have you killed now? Eight, nine? Yoshiki will fight you, he is my best servant now and if you can win against him then you can finally fight against me and I promise that I will kill you quickly."
'Kenji said he only killed one person... was he lying to me?' Yahiko shuddered, 'what kind of person is he? I just can't figure him out'
Yoshiki stepped forward, "This should be more fun than running your sister through. She doesn't put up much of a fight." Yoshiki brought up his blood stained sword to Kenji's eye level.
"You'll regret that." Kenji said as he and Yoshiki squared off.
Kaoru's POV:
She stumbled through the halls using the sword as a balance, she was loosing more strength than blood, she couldn't figure out why. 'I can't give up now, they're here.' Kaoru stopped to catch her breath, 'He plans to kill Kenji, but why? What is it that he has against Kenshin?' Then she remembered what Subaru had said about her father having what he wanted, then that she was just like her mother.
"But if that is true, then he thinks that-" it made her stomach churn if all of what he said were his true feelings then Kaoru was her mothers replacement and Subaru was just reliving his past, he wanted to destroy the people who had everything. Something didn't fit. She remembered him talking about Kenji being a road block in his plans if Kenji was a road block rather than the problem itself then what other agenda does he have?
"My head hurts," she clutched her head. 'I have to stop thinking so much when I have lost so much blood.' She sighed. 'Kenshin where are you?'
She stood up and was about to walk on when the hair on the back of her neck stood up, someone was behind her, as if it were an instinct she turned, the sword in her grip leading the way. Metal met metal as Kenshin brought up his reverse blade sword to block her.
He looked at her with his same kind smile, "I thought you weren't going to use a real sword?"
A deep feeling of relief filled her heart "Kenshin-"
To be continued...
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AN: Woohoo!!! Another chapter done, and yes a cliff hanger too I'm so evil sometimes, but don't worry still more to come ^^ well until next time *Waves*