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A/N: I am gonna try to update faster this time, but I can't make any promises b/c finals are looming around the corner (they're next week!) XX (BC: Kaoru hit me in the head with your bokken so I can legally skip them okay? Kaoru: OKAY!)
Yahiko's POV:
Yahiko looked around trying to figure out which way Subaru had gone. There was a dead end ahead of him and no where else to go with out back tracking. But if Subaru had done that he would have ran straight in to Yahiko. 'Gaaahhh! Where did he go?!'
Kenshin's POV:
They had been walking for a while Kaoru had been really quiet as she was thinking about what could be happening when a thought hit her. "Kenshin-"
He turned around and smiled "I think that we are almost there, that we are."
Kaoru nodded, "Kenshin, what do you know about Subaru? Have you ever heard of him other than from my brother?"
"No." Kenshin said aloud, 'frankly he is an enigma' he thought to himself. "Do you have some kind of suspicion about him?"
"Hmmm..." she said thinking "He gave hint that he had something up his sleeve."
"That is very possible-" Kenshin sensed a menacing presence and he put a hand in front of Kaoru. "We are not alone," He growled. Kaoru stopped and looked at Kenshin with concern. The ground started to rumble "Miss Kaoru look out!" Kenshin pushed Kaoru one way and went the other as a large steel bar wall fell between them.
"Kenshin!" Kaoru screamed as she fought to get to him though it was pointless the bars were to close together.
Kenshin stood up and assessed the bars, "Miss Kaoru, please stand back;" Kenshin took out his sakabatou and was about to slash the bars when a voice came from behind Kaoru.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you Battousai." Subaru said appearing from the shadows.
Kenshin shot him a look of pure hatred through the bars, "Open it or I will," Subaru was getting to close to Kaoru.
Subaru cracked a smile at Kenshin, "Do that and I will make the bird here wish that I had killed her in the alley." Subaru grabbed Kaoru and twisted her bad arm painfully behind her back.
A spasm of anger crossed Kenshin's face as he watched Kaoru grimace at the pain she felt shooting through her arm.
"The only way to get here is to fight your way out Battousai." Subaru laughed as six men walked up behind Kenshin and surrounded him. None of the men would be able to stave Kenshin off for long by themselves, but if they all attacked together it may delay him if not a little. "Have fun battousai, when you get done here you should come join the bird she will be watching the show of the century." And with that Subaru left pulling a resistant Kaoru with him.
"Kenshin!" she screamed her words echoed the hall as she was being led down it.
Yahiko's POV:
Yahiko hid back in the shadows as he heard Subaru walk past him from a hidden door. He was leading Kaoru who had been trying to fight futilely against him. When he was sure that Subaru was gone he went out and saw Kenshin incapacitating the last of the six men.
"Kenshin?" Yahiko said as he looked at Kenshin who was examining the bars that were his barrier.
"Yahiko stay back." Kenshin said very seriously and Yahiko heeded him and noticed that Kenshin had gone into his battou-jutsu stance and struck at the bars. Kenshin looked at the scene in front of him, stunned nothing had happened.
Kenshin's POV:
"Oro?!" Kenshin looked shocked as he looked at the bars and then at his sakabatou and them back at the bars noticing that he hadn't even made a single mark on them. He tried again but to no avail. 'How can this be possible!'
"Kenshin?" Yahiko questioned his idol once again. Yahiko was in disbelief how could that not have worked?
Kenshin didn't answer Yahiko, he was trying to figure out how to get through. "Yahiko, look for a lever or something like that open this."
"Right" Yahiko responded faithfully and started to look for some way to get Kenshin out.
Kaoru's POV:
Kaoru tried to struggle against Subaru who was pulling her roughly by her injured arm making it bleed more profusely. "You are a sick man."
"Oh your words hurt me bird." Subaru said sarcastically.
Kaoru snarled at him, "If you hurt any of my friends or family I'll make you regret it." She began to feel dizzy; she had lost too much blood in such a short amount of time.
They walked into a room and Kaoru's eyes widened in shock as she watched her brother fighting the man that had injured her earlier. Kaoru and Subaru made it to the room with enough time to see Kenji defeat and kill Yoshiki in one foul swoop.
"Kenji!" Kaoru yelled out of terror, watching her brother kill, once more kill by using the succession technique of Kamiya Kasshin. ((A/N: If you know the actual name for any of the techniques for Kamiya Kasshin Ryu, it is the only one I know none of the names for ;))
Kenji looked up covered in the blood of his fallen foe. "Kaoru-" His heart fell he had hoped to keep Kaoru from seeing him kill at all costs and he had just failed miserably.
Subaru applauded. "Good show," An evil grin swept across his face. "Now that you're warmed up it is time for you to fight me."
Kenji's eye's flashed with a deadly lust to kill the man in front of him.
"Kenji, please don't do this, don't spill anymore blood." Kaoru's eyes filled with tears as she feared for her brother.
"Kaoru, my dear sweet, innocent, little sister, please forgive me, I wanted to protect you from seeing me kill but I can not avoid this any longer." Kenji's voice had grown dark and every part of him ached to fight and kill Subaru.
Subaru stepped in front of Kaoru without saying another word, holding out a Katana.
And so the battle has begun, Swords clashed and the sound of metal against metal rang through the room.
The sound of the battle covered up Kaoru's futile plea as she fell to her knee's and covered her ears with her hands and screamed in horror through her tears, "Stop this- please don't... BROTHER!!!"
To Be Continued...
A/N: I am so sorry that it took me so long. I have been bitten by the writers block bug. (and I am not even going to get into the endless studying for finals.twitch twitch) I get so many ideas for 'Bitter Cold' and not enough ideas to keep this story together so that it fits with the ending (yeah I wrote the ending before any other part of this story). I feel like the writers when they write the filler episodes for some anime's... You know going nowhere fast!
Yahiko: Yeah you can say that again.
BC: Shut up Yahiko-chan! you have no idea where I am going with this so you better shut up before I send Kaoru after you, and you know I will!
Kaoru(smiles after hearing her name mentioned): did some one say I need to beat Yahiko up?
BC: Yes! Here's a bokken have at him pulls out the magically appearing bokken
Kaoru: Come here Yahiko...
Yahiko: AHHHH SOMEONE SAVE ME!!!!
BC: No one can save you from the wrath of Kaoru Bwahahahaha!!! smiles at readers well until the next story! waves
A/N: I am gonna try to update faster this time, but I can't make any promises b/c finals are looming around the corner (they're next week!) XX (BC: Kaoru hit me in the head with your bokken so I can legally skip them okay? Kaoru: OKAY!)
Yahiko's POV:
Yahiko looked around trying to figure out which way Subaru had gone. There was a dead end ahead of him and no where else to go with out back tracking. But if Subaru had done that he would have ran straight in to Yahiko. 'Gaaahhh! Where did he go?!'
Kenshin's POV:
They had been walking for a while Kaoru had been really quiet as she was thinking about what could be happening when a thought hit her. "Kenshin-"
He turned around and smiled "I think that we are almost there, that we are."
Kaoru nodded, "Kenshin, what do you know about Subaru? Have you ever heard of him other than from my brother?"
"No." Kenshin said aloud, 'frankly he is an enigma' he thought to himself. "Do you have some kind of suspicion about him?"
"Hmmm..." she said thinking "He gave hint that he had something up his sleeve."
"That is very possible-" Kenshin sensed a menacing presence and he put a hand in front of Kaoru. "We are not alone," He growled. Kaoru stopped and looked at Kenshin with concern. The ground started to rumble "Miss Kaoru look out!" Kenshin pushed Kaoru one way and went the other as a large steel bar wall fell between them.
"Kenshin!" Kaoru screamed as she fought to get to him though it was pointless the bars were to close together.
Kenshin stood up and assessed the bars, "Miss Kaoru, please stand back;" Kenshin took out his sakabatou and was about to slash the bars when a voice came from behind Kaoru.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you Battousai." Subaru said appearing from the shadows.
Kenshin shot him a look of pure hatred through the bars, "Open it or I will," Subaru was getting to close to Kaoru.
Subaru cracked a smile at Kenshin, "Do that and I will make the bird here wish that I had killed her in the alley." Subaru grabbed Kaoru and twisted her bad arm painfully behind her back.
A spasm of anger crossed Kenshin's face as he watched Kaoru grimace at the pain she felt shooting through her arm.
"The only way to get here is to fight your way out Battousai." Subaru laughed as six men walked up behind Kenshin and surrounded him. None of the men would be able to stave Kenshin off for long by themselves, but if they all attacked together it may delay him if not a little. "Have fun battousai, when you get done here you should come join the bird she will be watching the show of the century." And with that Subaru left pulling a resistant Kaoru with him.
"Kenshin!" she screamed her words echoed the hall as she was being led down it.
Yahiko's POV:
Yahiko hid back in the shadows as he heard Subaru walk past him from a hidden door. He was leading Kaoru who had been trying to fight futilely against him. When he was sure that Subaru was gone he went out and saw Kenshin incapacitating the last of the six men.
"Kenshin?" Yahiko said as he looked at Kenshin who was examining the bars that were his barrier.
"Yahiko stay back." Kenshin said very seriously and Yahiko heeded him and noticed that Kenshin had gone into his battou-jutsu stance and struck at the bars. Kenshin looked at the scene in front of him, stunned nothing had happened.
Kenshin's POV:
"Oro?!" Kenshin looked shocked as he looked at the bars and then at his sakabatou and them back at the bars noticing that he hadn't even made a single mark on them. He tried again but to no avail. 'How can this be possible!'
"Kenshin?" Yahiko questioned his idol once again. Yahiko was in disbelief how could that not have worked?
Kenshin didn't answer Yahiko, he was trying to figure out how to get through. "Yahiko, look for a lever or something like that open this."
"Right" Yahiko responded faithfully and started to look for some way to get Kenshin out.
Kaoru's POV:
Kaoru tried to struggle against Subaru who was pulling her roughly by her injured arm making it bleed more profusely. "You are a sick man."
"Oh your words hurt me bird." Subaru said sarcastically.
Kaoru snarled at him, "If you hurt any of my friends or family I'll make you regret it." She began to feel dizzy; she had lost too much blood in such a short amount of time.
They walked into a room and Kaoru's eyes widened in shock as she watched her brother fighting the man that had injured her earlier. Kaoru and Subaru made it to the room with enough time to see Kenji defeat and kill Yoshiki in one foul swoop.
"Kenji!" Kaoru yelled out of terror, watching her brother kill, once more kill by using the succession technique of Kamiya Kasshin. ((A/N: If you know the actual name for any of the techniques for Kamiya Kasshin Ryu, it is the only one I know none of the names for ;))
Kenji looked up covered in the blood of his fallen foe. "Kaoru-" His heart fell he had hoped to keep Kaoru from seeing him kill at all costs and he had just failed miserably.
Subaru applauded. "Good show," An evil grin swept across his face. "Now that you're warmed up it is time for you to fight me."
Kenji's eye's flashed with a deadly lust to kill the man in front of him.
"Kenji, please don't do this, don't spill anymore blood." Kaoru's eyes filled with tears as she feared for her brother.
"Kaoru, my dear sweet, innocent, little sister, please forgive me, I wanted to protect you from seeing me kill but I can not avoid this any longer." Kenji's voice had grown dark and every part of him ached to fight and kill Subaru.
Subaru stepped in front of Kaoru without saying another word, holding out a Katana.
And so the battle has begun, Swords clashed and the sound of metal against metal rang through the room.
The sound of the battle covered up Kaoru's futile plea as she fell to her knee's and covered her ears with her hands and screamed in horror through her tears, "Stop this- please don't... BROTHER!!!"
To Be Continued...
A/N: I am so sorry that it took me so long. I have been bitten by the writers block bug. (and I am not even going to get into the endless studying for finals.twitch twitch) I get so many ideas for 'Bitter Cold' and not enough ideas to keep this story together so that it fits with the ending (yeah I wrote the ending before any other part of this story). I feel like the writers when they write the filler episodes for some anime's... You know going nowhere fast!
Yahiko: Yeah you can say that again.
BC: Shut up Yahiko-chan! you have no idea where I am going with this so you better shut up before I send Kaoru after you, and you know I will!
Kaoru(smiles after hearing her name mentioned): did some one say I need to beat Yahiko up?
BC: Yes! Here's a bokken have at him pulls out the magically appearing bokken
Kaoru: Come here Yahiko...
Yahiko: AHHHH SOMEONE SAVE ME!!!!
BC: No one can save you from the wrath of Kaoru Bwahahahaha!!! smiles at readers well until the next story! waves