Chapter Seven: Kenshin's Dilemma

"Kenshin's eyes again pierced Kaoru's gaze. His eyes blank hers as if under control of a stronger being. Looking deeper Kenshin found her eyes filled with sadness, regret, pain, and helplessness under the dominating sheen of upheld power."

Kenshin and Kaoru stared at each other for a long while. Finally, Kenshin moved his hand up to his injured arm and wrapped his hand around the hilt of the knife. He pulled it out in one quick pull; the pain that had seared throughout his arm intensified tenfold. Kenshin bit his jaws together and his fists shook with pain as he clenched and unclenched them. "Oh, let me help you!" said Kaoru, her voice sugary-sweet. Kenshin stared at her, his eyes cold forbidding slits.

"Oh, what's with that look? Let me help you!" Kaoru said, dripping honey from her words. She walked over to him, pulling bandages and antibiotic cream from her sleeve. "We should get Megumi-san, she'll be of use." Kaoru said sweetly. Suddenly her voice became low and dangerous "You have more battles to deal with Battousai." Kenshin glared at Kaoru. She made an innocent pouty face, "why are you glaring at me? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to throw a knife at your heart in an attempt to kill you!" Kenshin's glare intensified, "when I figure out what happened to you, I'll save you Kaoru," he whispered. The original uncontrolled Kaoru seemed to look at him for a moment and give him a quick hopeful smile before giving way again to the tyrant. "Oh, don't even try sweet words, Battousai."

"Come on," said Kenshin when Kaoru was done treating his wounds. He began to walk back the way they had come. "Where are we going?" Kaoru asked in a sickening high pitched perky voice.

"Back to Sano"

"Why?"

"Because he's probably worried and we'd best trying to find our way back now even if its dark, the moon is bright and if we don't hurry up he'll go and search for us and then he'd be lost too."

"Oh, but don't you want to stay here with me?" Kaoru asked, stopping Kenshin and putting her hands on his chest. Kenshin stood still, not quite sure what she was implying. Kaoru began to loosen the tie on his hakama. Suddenly, she leaned over and kissed his neck and began to nibble on his earlobe. "Please…" she whispered. Kenshin was stunned. What should he do? There was no way of getting her to go back to Sanosuke and the others, but staying here for the night would be far too dangerous, especially with Kaoru like this.

"I can't take it anymore!" Sagara Sanosuke yelled. "I'm going to go look for them!" Kyoyama Miaka stood, "but Sanosuke! You'll just end up getting yourself lost!" Asakura Tamahome nodded. "You'll just make everything more difficult, when they come back then we'll need to find you!" Sanosuke's head magnified and his teeth became fangs "That won't happen because I'll find them and bring them back!!" Tamahome's face grew equally as large and vicious, "Oh no you won't! You're staying here even if you hear screams! The man's not called Battousai for nothing! He can deal with it!!" Sano's head shrunk a bit. "And anyway, We'll chain you down if we must," Miaka said with a wink.

Sanosuke as well as Tamahome shrunk back from Miaka. Sanosuke said, "you'll what!?!" While at the same moment Tamahome said, "we will?" with a large gulp. Miaka smiled evilly, "mwuhahahahahaha!!!" Tamahome and Sanosuke grew little and hid behind a shrub. "Do you think she'll find us here?" they whispered to each other. Suddenly Miaka appeared behind them, laughing maliciously. Sanosuke and Tamahome shuddered, turning slowly. Miaka's teeth became fangs as she chased Tamahome and Sanosuke in a circle around the fire.

Kenshin froze as Kaoru made a trail of kisses down his neck. Kaoru moved her lips upward to kiss Kenshin on the mouth. Flashes of Kaoru at the dojo filled Kenshin's mind, no, Kaoru smiling with her bokken balanced on her shoulder, n. Kaoru was mere inches from Kenshin's lips.Kaoru whacking Sanosuke for insulting her cooking, no, centimeters apart. Kaoru crying, crying right before he left for Kyoto, crying for him , NOOOOOO!!!!!!. Kenshin shoved Kaoru away. Kaoru fell to the ground, whimpering.

"Leave Kaoru the hell alone!" Kenshin yelled as unsheathed his sword. "But I am Kaoru, I am the one you'd die to protect." Kaoru said. Kenshin, in less than an instant, had his sword touching her neck. Kaoru felt the blunt side of his sword pressing into her skin, "You wouldn't kill me, You wouldn't kill your beloved Kaoru" Kenshin flipped his sword and pressed the sharp edge against her throat. Blood dripped from her neck onto his sword. His eyes a fierce amber, hers a frightened deep sapphire one moment, a cold, unfeeling ice blue the next.

Two men sat and watched in the air above them. One said, "You should go save her, He's on the brink of returning to us, but I don't want him to yet." The other, younger man nodded. "Want me to distract him while you grab the dame?" The old man shook his head, "You should be able to do this, I haven't trained you for nothing." The young man swooped down. Kenshin instantly swung his sword around and would have killed the man if he had not counter attacked. They fought in the bright moonlight, each attacking the other as their minds made question after question. No one, spoke all was silent, except for the clanging of metal against metal and the quiet retreat of a controlled woman joining the old man in the sky.

Hello, again, sorry I didn't update during break…I was kind of busy doing who knows what. I'm gonna redo z chapters, well..not entirely. I'm just going to add more detail, so no, you don't need to reread all of them. On that note, I wanted to thank everyone who reviews:

LunarDaughter: Well Christine, you've done it, again! You've reviewed! Again! Thanks.

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