COME AWAY WITH ME

I Do Not own any of the RK characters... never did and never will... suck- sh tobe meh! I made some minor changes to this chapter thanks to TanukiGirl... Thnx for the suggestions!

Small author's note As you will see, Aoshi will be a bit out of character... but only for a little while more... cuz the next chapter will be the last... So please bare with us till the last chapter, kay?! Arigatou gozaimasu.

Chapter 4: On a mountain top

((So won't you try to come))

((Come away with me))

((And we'll kiss))

((On a mountain top))

Aoshi has never felt fear in his life. Even when he fought the Hitokiri Battousai, himself, fear was but a word that so minutely had relevance to him and his feelings. Yet when it came to his genki Weasel girl... nothing was too out of the norm.

He started to run pass the field of knee high grass and through the small valley that lead up to a small mountain. It almost looked like a hill made of rocks that wasn't big enough to be a mountain but certainly too big to be a hill. 'Would one call such a terrain a hilltain?' He smirked to himself and thought that if Misao was here, she would faint if he had said that out loud. He was actually one who made up really funny jokes, but it seems as though no one would be willing to give him a chance to share such thoughts. It was like everyone thinks just because he meditates more than the average monk does and that he is always so quite, they assume that he has no sense of humor. What else would one do with all that butt-numbing time?

Okay, Shinomori... WAYYYY OFF TOPIC HERE!! Misao, Misao, Misao!!

"Where could she have gone? Or... what if-OH NO!' The clouds were moving in closer. The rain was bound to pour its sorrows on earth soon. He had to find her before it started to pour. What if she was stuck in a ditch somewhere? What if a poisonous snake attacked her? Or, worse, what if the rival clan captured her?

"MISAO!" Aoshi shouted out into the afternoon. His thoughts are always clear and sanguine. Yet, right now all his rational thinking was tossed into the wind; he was exclusively uninhabited. He couldn't think straight; as if everything around him began to swirl. Then, all of a sudden, Misao's ki slammed into his jumbled senses. She was somewhat uneasy at the moment.

'If I loose her now... if I... I would never be able to... tell her...' He thought as he staggered around the corner of the small mountain reef, trying his best not to loose her ki. He looked up and sighed out 'Kami- sama'. His Misao was there, with the ferret, hanging on by a branch over the small cliff.

Then his voice boomed...

"Misao! What the heck-! What are you doing?" Aoshi strode over and tried to look around at the condition of the branch she was glancing so lovingly at. From his observations, he thought that with all that squirming the ferret and her were doing, the dinky branch was going to last no long than 60 seconds.

"Misao? Can you reach up and give me your hand?" Aoshi yelled.

50 seconds...

Misao tried to reach her hand to his but failed miserably and instead, one of her fingers slipped from the branch. She let out a small grasp and looked up at Aoshi with fear filled eyes.

35 seconds...

Aoshi was running out of ideas to help her when finally he thought of the one thing that got her to always work double hard during her ninja training with his old partner (and companion) Hannya.

25 seconds...

"Oi, come on Misao! I thought you were better than that. You call yourself an Oniwabansuu ninja, let alone an Okashira? Why don't you just go and join some other ninja group that would actually take in a twenty-year-old ninja wanna-be who can't even get herself up over a cliff-" Aoshi never did finish his statement as Misao threw her ferret over her head and onto solid ground. Seeing that its life was in major danger when it was around the genki girl, the ferret was about to tuck tail and run but bashed its head on a pair of steal legs. It looked up and up and up till it fell flat on its back while getting a good look at the face that owned suck legs.

10 seconds...

Aoshi reached down, snatched the ferret up and ran over to the edge of the cliff...

8 seconds...

Misao had already tied her ribbon that was wrapped around her hair, to her kunai and threw it above the ledge and soon it kit the tree on top of the mountain next to where Aoshi had set her new pet down.

4 Seconds...

Aoshi got to the edge and stretched his hand out towards her...

3 seconds...

Suddenly, the branch snapped and slipped out of her hand.

Aoshi lunged forward, caught Misao around the waist, made a grab for the ribbon and swung both of them up to solid ground.

They both just embraced for the longest time. 'Thank you Kami-sama! Thank you so much for letting me keep her. I would have truly known what hell felt like if I couldn't save her.' He clutched her to his body.

"Aoshi... can't... breath." Misao squeaked.

"Gomen, Misao-chan." Aoshi said s he loosened his hold on her.

"OIIIIIIIIII!!! AOSHI-SAMA! I'm not Misao-CHAN ANYMORE! How many times do I have to tell you that I am a twenty-year-old hag who can't even get the guy she loves to notice-" But as the last of her sentence formed it was sealed away as his lips descended on hers and locked.

((Come away with me and I'll never stop))

((Lovin' you))

Misao opened her eyes and thought she had died and gone to heaven. Man, she was on a role today. Aoshi spelt beside her last night, and then he actually said more than a few grunts to her, then he saved her and now he was kissing her! HE KISSED HER! His lips were perfect and his tongue was so velvety soft, as it played with hers. He tasted like tea and something else... something... so Aoshi-sama-ish!

She started to blush as he pulled away and began to stare at her so intently. With a sigh she laid her head on his chest.

He was so warm, complete contrast to the weather now as the wind began to pick up. Why did her just kiss her for? (Yes, leave it to Misao to be the clueless one!) She began to raise her eyes of questions rose to his, yet before she even reached his face, a drop of liquid fell on face and rolled down her cheek. The mere thought of the great Okashira of the Oniwabansuu clan was actually shedding a tear for even his genki weasel, would make a laughing stalk of anyone who uttered such words.

Yet, as she raised her head the rest of the way up, she would never know if those tears were his or Kami-sama's, as the first drops of rain began to come down on two very different ninjas and a ferret.

Thank you so much for sticking with us for this long... the story is almost done... all that is left is the epilogue! I hope you all had a wonderful adventure with Aoshi and Misao and hope to see you next time at Can you feel the love tonight? with Kenshin and Kaoru!!! Thanks and million and one!!!