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"Not According To Plan"
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Chapter Two
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"Kaoru Kamiya?" Kenshin asked, with curiosity. "The chick who practices swordsmanship?" Looking at Sano who was nodding enthusiastically, Kenshin crossed his arms, as he looked strait into Sano's amused brown eyes with a smirk. "Hmm…you drive a hard bargain man, but it's a deal, cause this should be easy.""That's what you think." Sano mentally laughed as he grinned. "Well why don't you go over there and pull some famous Himura moves on her right now, if you think you're such hot stuff." Sano laughed, as he pointed toward Kaoru who seemed to finally have caught up with Misao.
"You know, I think I will." Kenshin replied with a smug look. Picking up his backpack that he had previously dropped onto the ground, he slung it over his shoulder as he waved a bye to Sano and made his way over to Kaoru, delirious of Sano's true intentions.
Waving a bye to Kenshin, and seeing him fully move out of his sight, Sano rubbed his hands in anticipation as he laughed evilly and turned the heel of his foot to go look for his filming buddy Katsu. "Man…this is way too perfect…" Sano deviously thought as he scouted the corners of the buildings and looked over the heads of his peers in search of his buddy. Finally catching sight of the one and only film student, with shoulder-length black hair, he smirked as he saw him shamelessly flirt with yet another female specimen… "Oi Katsu!"
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"Finally, I caught up with you!" Kaoru panted as she leaned upon Misao for support. Looking at Misao with leery eyes she said, "Haven't I told you a million times that your watch is five minutes fast?"
"Heh…" Misao chuckled nervously as she shrugged. "What can I say, I have a mind that is slipping in my youth." Looking at Kaoru with a smile she patted her best friend's back as she said, "Just think of the running as strength training."
Laughing, Kaoru looked at Misao with mirth in her eyes as she sighed in defeat. "Yea, I guess your right, anyway you ready for class?"
"Ready as ever." Misao chimed. Looking at Kaoru, with a smile, Misao's eyes blinked as though something popped in her head. Letting out an "oh!" as she began to rummage through her backpack in search of something leaving Kaoru to look upon her in confusion. "Hey before I forget…" Misao started as she pulled out a book from her backpack, which was soon revealed to Kaoru's roaming eyes to be their Home Economics book. "You do have your text right? Because for the past few days, you've been breaking your back doing extra cleaning because you keep on forgetting to bring it."
"Shoot!" Kaoru muttered as she smacked the side of her head in frustration and began to rummage through the things in her backpack. Looking sheepishly up at Misao, she nervously laughed. "Heh…seems I did forget it after all. Misao, could you go on ahead and tell Mrs. Tae I'll be there soon?"
"Gotcha' Kaoru." Misao replied. Sighing, she patted Kaoru's back. "Man… Kaoru I think your memory is getting worse than mine."
"Oh shut up." Kaoru laughed.
"Fine…don't have to bring your frustrations on meeee." Misao giggled. With a smile, she waved a bye to Kaoru with her hand and merrily skipped off down the hall as she shouted. "See you in five minutes!"
Rubbing her eyes, Kaoru looked in astonishment at Misao's perky ways. "How she gets the energy so early in the morning I will never know." Yawning, she merely shook her head, "Well then again it is Misao we're talking about…and it is kind of like she's on sugar 24/7." Making her way down the long school hallway, Kaoru finally approached her faded black painted locker and sighing, dropped her backpack on the floor, as she grabbed the dull silver lock and grasped it in her palm. Taking a hold of the dial with her other hand she began to rotate the wheel of the lock and enter in her combination. Unfortunately for Kaoru, it wouldn't pull open when she was finished entering her combo. Sighing rather unhappily, Kaoru stared at the lock in frustration. "Damn lock. They really need to get this fixed, it always jams on me." Kaoru thought with grief, as she once more, sighed heavily, and began to pry at the lock, shoving it against the locker with every few passing seconds.
While Kaoru was busy with the task of trying to open her locker, our one and only lovable redhead sees this as a perfect opportunity. Pulling up his blue letterman jacket a bit, he started to slowly approach Kaoru, who at the time was totally unaware of his presence.
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Meanwhile two people are watching the whole thing in interest…
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"Like I said Katsu you got to tape this." Sano laughed as he looked into the confused face of Katsu who was merely wiping the lens of his portable camcorder. "I want to record Kenshin finally making a fool of himself, for entertaining purposes of course." Sano chuckled with a devilish smirk on his face as he rubbed his hands together in anticipation. "Hehehe…maybe now the guy will shut the hell up about being Mr. Hotstuff all the time."
"Ho, too true my brother, you got yourself a deal." Katsu replied with a laugh. Kneeling in a crouching position, next to Sano, the two were hidden behind a corner observing Kenshin's every move. Spotting Kenshin making his way down the hall, Katsu with a snicker adjusted his camcorder, and zoomed in on Kenshin's face. "Oh…by the way…" Katsu began as he began to position the camera in filming position. "What do you want me to do with the Cancun tape? Leave it at your house? I must say that I got some interesting shots of Megumi if you know what I mean." Katsu said with a wink as he nudged Sano with his free elbow.
Looking in a daze toward the ceiling, a perverted grin came upon Sano's face as he dwelled more onto his words. Laughing, he patted his shoulder with eagerness as he said, "I love ya' man! But yea just drop it off at my house when you can." Looking back at Kenshin, Sano grabbed Katsu's head and turned it toward the direction of Kenshin, once more, since a rather busty member of the opposite sex was distracting Katsu at the time. "Hey we're on a mission here! Their he goes, and oh yes, he's about to make his move, you taping right?"
"Sure am, man." Katsu replied with a smirk as he adjusted his camcorder one final time, focusing mainly on the smug look appearing on Kenshin's face as he approached his unaware prey.
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"Dammit, I'm going to be late! Maybe… if I shove it harder against my locker one last time it will open." Hearing some shuffling coming in her direction, Kaoru lifted up her head and listened with curiosity at the noise. "Wait…theirs someone coming toward me." Kaoru thought, identifying the noise as footsteps coming near her. Shrugging her worries away she simply sighed. "Ahhh…no worries, its probably Sou-chan. I never did get to see him this morning."
"I see you're having a bit of trouble." Said a very seductive voice.
"…and that sure as hell doesn't sound like Sou-chan." Kaoru thought in confusion, "I wonder who it could…" Quickly turning her head, Kaoru was surprised and shocked to see non other than Mr. Pompous Egotistical Maniac himself leaning upon the locker right next to hers, staring down at her, smiling. Arching her eyebrows in surprise she looked at him suspiciously as she asked in a rather, annoyed voice, "…and what the hell do you want?" "This is too weird…I wonder why all of a sudden Kenshin Himura out of all people wants to talk to me…"
Kenshin who at the time was stunned at her greeting, arched an eyebrow at her actions. "Jeez that was kind of harsh." He mentally said as he noted the tone of voice she used toward him. "Here I am trying to help her, and she's giving me this look of pure annoyance." Contemplating why she would do such a thing in his mind, he asked himself, "Could she actually not…ah no that's impossible, no girl is possibly immune to my devilishly handsome looks." Restoring back his confidence, a smug look appeared on his face as he regained his composure under the hard look of Kaoru and assured himself that she was probably playing "hard to get" "Yea hard to get…" Kenshin thought with a smirk. "…Because after all…my charms are irresistible."
"Well all I'm trying to do is help you." Kenshin replied with a laugh as he stared into Kaoru's blue eyes with his violet ones. "I see you got your locker jammed. It happens to me all the time. Let me show you what do to." Kenshin finished as he flashed his famous Himura grin at Kaoru who was looking at him in pure confusion, as she put her hand that was dialing her combo on her hip and let the other one continue to grasp the lock within the palm of her hand.
Kenshin, noticing her position, and being the bold guy that he always was, decided to take the "forward" approach. With a smile, he gently grabbed the hand on her hip and putting it on the lock began to glide it over the dial to show her "the trick" of how to open her locker with ease.
Kaoru at the time was in pure surprise and a fluster as a faint blush began to tint her cheeks at the closeness between them. Staring up at him, then her hand that was within his grasp, than back at him again, thoughts began to quickly flood her mind as she questioned the situation she was in, "What the heck is he doing? And why in the hell is he staring at me…that way…with his eyes." Catching sight of his deep gaze that was directed toward her, Kaoru cocked her head to the side as she looked strait into his eyes with suspicion and a bit of fascination. She really didn't like where this was going…but his eyes they were just so neat she couldn't help but stare into them. "Whoa... they're all violet…with a bit of amber? Are those contacts?"
"Heh…she's looking strait into my eyes…I guess my charm must really be working." Kenshin's ego spoke, as he looked strait into Kaoru's sapphire blue eyes with interest. "Yea…you mean suspicious ones." A voice in the back of his mind snorted. Grumbling in frustration at his conscious he swept that comment away as he comforted himself. "That's beside the point, at least she's looking, which means I'm just too irresistible to resist."
Shaking her head, Kaoru looked at Kenshin once more with leery eyes. "Wait! I'm getting distracted here. I mean…from my female deductions, it looks like he's trying to flirt with me. But…wow…Kenshin Himura? It's just too hard to believe…" She told herself in amazement. "Do you think that maybe…no! Of course he wouldn't or would he…" She asked herself as she stared strait into Kenshin's eyes with her own.
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"Man this is getting boring." Katsu yawned, as he continued to focus the camera on Kenshin and Kaoru. "All they're doing is staring at one another…and yea Himura's pulling some pretty cheesy moves, but I mean nonetheless b-o-r-i-n-g."
Smacking Katsu's head with a rolled up essay paper in his head, Sano to his satisfaction heard a yelp of pain as he said. "Will you be patient…you have to wait you numbskull."
"Jezuz." Katsu scowled, as he grumbled profanities under his breath. He had forgotten how much of a no sparing asshole Sano could be when it came to him doing filming projects with him. "…How I managed to ever be friends with this rooster head ever since the age of eight is beyond me." He thought with a sigh. But he couldn't help but chuckle when he remembered the time they went about filming next door trying to catch a glimpse of Miss Ayamura changing clothes…ahhh sweet memories… thwack "AI!"
"Oi! How many times do I have to tell you snap out of it!"
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"You know I have to admit…she really has some pretty eyes…" Kenshin told himself as he continued to look strait into her eyes with his own. "I've never really seen anyone with eyes blue like sapphires…". Shaking his head ridding all thoughts of Kaoru he told himself, "Look I'm you're here on a mission, to make money. She is a bet…only a bet…anyway, come on like I, Kenshin Himura would actually date Kaoru Kamiya". Yet, something in the back of his head…even though he tried to push all thoughts aside about Kaoru, wouldn't let him forget about how beautiful her blue eyes were as she stared into his gaze.
"I mean Kenshin…is like popular…I've never…the only time…" Stopping herself, her look of curiosity and wonder dropped to a frown as an image of a familiar smirking person appeared in her head. "…But wait Kaoru…He's probably trying to trick you like…like… did before…"
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Sitting in a desk a young fourteen-year old girl was busily working at a worksheet she was assigned, unaware of someone moving toward her. "Sooo if four times twenty-eight is a hundred and twelve than you divide that by..."Meanwhile, a young boy of about fifteen with spiky platinum blonde hair and glinting jade eyes finished making his way toward the raven-haired girl and took a seat on the desk that was facing the young girl. Smiling upon her busy form, that wasn't aware of his presence he said, "You know I've been looking at you for awhile Kaoru…and I wanted to know if you would like to go out with me sometime. You're pretty cute you know."
Kaoru looking up from her desk stared at Enishi with startled, sapphire eyes. "Huh? Enishi?!" Her mind confusedly asked herself. Looking back up at him and his smile she couldn't help but break into one herself as a smile began to slowly light up her face along with a faint blush on her cheeks. "Oh wow! Enishi Yukishiro…it's too hard to believe!" Her mind gushed with happiness as she finally processed his words in her mind. "I can't believe he just asked me out…I'm so happy I could die!" Looking down at the table she nervously asked herself, "Umm… what should I say?"
"Sure!" replied a bubbly Kaoru, who was believing that her dreams were finally coming true.
"Cool." Enishi replied as he touched the tip of her nose, holding his smile. "I'll meet you at the park at six p.m. tonight." Enishi finished, as he stood up and waved her a bye to her as he walked out of the classroom.
"Ok!" Kaoru happily chimed back, as she too waved a bye to him. Watching his figure dissappear, Kaoru became dazed as she began to fantasize what would happen that night, unaware of the snickers coming from the back of the classroom from Megumi Takani, Tomoe Yukishiro, and Yumi Komagata. "Oh wow…maybe…maybe we might become girlfriend and boyfriend!" Kaoru gushed with happiness as she stared down at her worksheet, and began to scribble furiously, wanting to finish it so she could be done for the day and leave, "…and then I can finally get ready!"
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After school, Kaoru immediately ran to her house and dragged Misao along with her so she could help her in getting ready for her dream date with Enishi, mostly with the mental part, by reassuring her that everything was going to go fine.
At Kaoru's home Misao tried to convince Kaoru to wear something cute and perky like a sundress, but Kaoru upon seeing the dress, immediately said "no", despite all of Misao's begging and whining, since she was embarrassed by the length of it thinking it was way too short. So finally after extreme digging through her closet, Kaoru came to terms with Misao as she agreed and settled for some jean capris and a nice, warm yellow t-shirt.
"Oh well, either way the dates bound to go well." Misao thought to herself, with a sigh and a smile as she finished combing her friends long ebony hair and tied it into its usual high ponytail.
So after getting ready and a few more hours of prep talks, Kaoru finally had enough courage to go to the park and wait for Enishi. Leaving her home at 5:40 and waving a bye to Misao, she left her house and soon arrived at the park, exactly at six o'clock.
Kaoru, upon taking a seat on an empty bench, began to nervously intertwine her fingers together in her lap as she scanned the premises for a sign of Enishi. Seeing that no one was there she came to the conclusion that he was probably on his way there. Leaning back upon the bench she tried to relax and wait patiently as she continued to look back up at her watch then back at the park entryway. Finally fifteen minutes passed and he still wasn't there.
Twenty minutes: "Maybe he's running late." She hopefully thought as she forced on a smile.
One hour: "Car broke down?" Kaoru thought as she tried to keep on her face a smile that was slowly faltering.
…and finally two hours. "Family Emergency?" She tried to convince herself, refusing to let herself get down. Sighing, with a frown on her face, Kaoru looked up once more toward the park entryway when suddenly in the distance she finally saw him.
"I knew he was coming! I knew it." Kaoru thought happily, a smile creeping upon her face, as she stared at his figure that was coming closer with each passing second. Standing up from the bench, she waved to him with joy. But alas, to Kaoru's confusion someone was with Enishi and who else it to be none other than Megumi Takani herself. "Wait…What's she doing here? It's just me and Enishi right?" Kaoru thought confusedly while her heart began to race due to extreme nervousness.
Enishi finally arriving before Kaoru with Megumi latched on his arm, looked strait into Kaoru's eyes with a smug grin as he said, "You seriously didn't believe me when I said that I wanted to go out with you, did you?" Laughing and shaking his head he finished, "Like that could or would ever happen."
"Yea never in a million years." Megumi snickered as she moved closer to Enishi and looped her arm around his waist. With her cinnamon brown eyes sparkling with mirth, Megumi put her head on Enishi's chest, looked into Kaoru's hurt face and said with a smirk, "You got to have the class and looks to go out with someone like Enishi, tanuki." With that said, Megumi took her hand and positioning it behind Enishi's neck, brought his face down to hers where they soon lip-locked and within a matter of seconds began to make-out, leaving a heart broken Kaoru to slowly leave, as tears began to slowly fall from her eyes.
"S..So..Sorry." Kaoru stuttered as she moved toward the park entryway. Reaching the entry way she grabbed the railing and looked back at Enishi and Megumi with tears, to make sure that it wasn't true, that this wasn't really happening, that this was all just an illusion.
Breaking from her kiss, Megumi stared at Kaoru and broke into a vicious laughter, as she waved a bye to her. Shaking her head, and swallowing a lump in her throat, Kaoru turned around and ran furiously down the street wiping at the tears that were streaming down her face.
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"Yea…he's probably here to just play with me. Well if he thinks he's actually going to do that, he has another thing coming." Kaoru thought with fury, as the look of confusion and delirium that was once on her face, vanished and was instead placed with a look of anger on her features.
"Eh?" Kenshin asked himself in confusion. "What's with the…"
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Kaoru snapped as she snatched her hand back from his grasp. "I can manage to open my own locker thank you very much." Grasping her lock once again, she looked at the close contact between them and looking into his eyes with her cold, hard sapphire eyes she said, "…and I would also highly appreciate it if you could give me some space so I can get my book." Huffing, she stared at his confused face, and with a sigh rolled her eyes as she said. "…Do I have to spell it out for you? Leave. Back off and go somewhere else, because I'm not interested."
This reaction of course achieved a few snickers toward Kenshin from his fellow student body.
Staring in confusion at the abrupt change of attitude and hearing the snickers from his fellow peers, Kenshin couldn't help but become angry as he looked at Kaoru. "What the hell just happened?! Did she just talk to me, Kenshin Himura, in that way, in that voice, and make people laugh at me?! Who the hell does she think she is?"
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"Oohhh yea!" Sano grinned as he punched the air with his fists in joy. "Finally Jou-chan has attacked, and man is it beautiful!" He mentally cheered with happiness. Looking at Katsu, grinning like a madman, he anxiously asked, "Hey, you getting this Katsu? We finally hit the jackpot, and oh man is this stuff great!""Oh yea man." Katsu replied with a grin, as he zoomed in on Kenshin's face that was splotching with red. "Look at Himura man, it looks like he's going to explode." Katsu snickered, as he tried to concentrate on recording, rather than laughing.
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"Hey who gives you the right to yell at me like that! All I was trying to do was help you, and then you go off and blow in my face." Kenshin replied back viciously as he stood strait up and stared at Kaoru with hard, amber eyes.
"Well I never asked for your help!" Kaoru spat. "…and you were getting in my way. How else am I going to tell you huh?" A very agitated Kaoru finished whom out of sheer luck, finally managed to open her locker. Grabbing her Home Economics textbook, she slammed her locker close with a bang, and bent down to pick up her backpack on the floor.
"Well with that attitude, no wonder no one ever looks your way." Kenshin spoke, looking at her with pure anger, as he folded his arms together.
"Hey! Who asked you to get in my personal life?" Kaoru snapped. "It's none of your business, so if you would excuse me I better get going to my class jerk." Kaoru said, as she finished slipping her backpack around her arms. Clutching her textbook to her chest, she moved forward, shoving Kenshin out of the way and walked away toward her Home Economics class, leaving a furious Kenshin behind as he stared at her form slowly disappearing down the hallway.
"Why I outta…" Kenshin said balling up his fist as he gritted his teeth. Breathing in heavily he tried to calm himself down as he closed his eyes, remembering that she was after all, only a bet. "Wait, Wait! Bet, bet...must remember bet." Kenshin thought as he exhaled. "Five hundred bucks, got to keep my cool." Finally calming down a bit, he watched Kaoru finally enter her class and disappear. Crossing his arms, and leaning upon the lockers he smirked as his mind contemplated different things to get Kaoru within grasp. "Trust me, I'll show you who reign superior in the end, Kaoru". With thoughts soon flooding his mind of diabolical schemes to conduct, he heard the sound of suppressed snickering. Arching an eyebrow in confusion he asked himself, "Do I hear laughing?" Turning around in curiosity, Kenshin in surprise, shock, and agitation saw no other than Sano and Katsu, at the corner of the hallway, clutching their stomachs, and laughing their asses off as they stared at him.
"You think it's so funny don't you?" Kenshin snapped as he looked at the both of them. Looking at Katsu's hand he looked wide-eyed at the camcorder. "…and what the hell!? You were video recording the whole thing!" Kenshin stated with shock, as he stared at the both of them with wide amber eyes.
"Smooth move Himura, I have to admit you really know how to swoon the ladies." Sano replied, as he burst out into another fit of laughter. "Good thing I got the whole thing recorded. Now I can watch you making yourself look like an ass over and over again whenever I need a good laugh."
"You wait Sano. I'll get Kaoru…" Kenshin huffed as he looked at them. Running his hand through his red mane, he looked to the side as he mumbled, "I'm just lacking a bit today you know, with Tomoe and all."
"Bullshit." Sano said with a grin." You know that you just got rejected even with your smooth moves."
"Yea, well you just wait." He smirked, "I got until prom, and that's not till three months away."
"Sure…" Sano replied with sarcasm and a grin as he walked up to Kenshin and patted his back. "Whatever you say Kenshin…" Snickering, Sano couldn't help but burst into another laugh at his words, this thus receiving him yet another dirty glare from Kenshin.
"Ohoho…man…I needed that." Sano sniffed with a grin as he wiped the tears of laughter from his face. Looking down at his watch Sano's grin soon vanished as he cursed and looked up at Kenshin and Katsu. "Look you guys we got to get to class before Hiko busts are asses, yet again."
" Dammit your right." Kenshin muttered as he looked down at his own watch and closed his eyes in frustration. "This is the forth time this week. He's going to kick our asses for sure, especially during training." Kenshin thought miserably as he picked up his backpack and slung it over his shoulder. Nodding to Sano and Katsu, the three of them in unison ran down the empty hallway, all minds in grief as they awaited an onslaught of yelling from their wonderful, loved history teacher, Mr. Hiko Seijuro.
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From the Insane mind of the actually not procrastinating authoress gasp!:
Well howdy do? How are you guys doing? I must say I'm very happy that I have actually heard from some of my old reviewers, Wai! It brings joy that I may not have lost you after all, and wai! I even got some new reviewers…wow…this might actually be a good move after all…because seriously you guys I was looking over at this old stuff…and it sucks…oh, curse my young writing skills - - ;;;!
But nonetheless, thank you everyone who reviewed from the last chappie. I must say it was kind of hard, creating a brand new first chapter from scratch, but nonetheless it was kind of fun !
But yes…please keep on reading and reviewing since they are like in a sense my fuel to keep on going and going and going…sort of like the energizer bunny you know?
Oh man before I forget, I wanted to tell you guys that currently I'm reading Memoirs Of A Geisha…and oh my god…its freakin' awesome! It's long mind you, but still nonetheless awesome, may the wench Hatsumomo die grrrr… but ahaha…yea you will know and understand what I mean if you read the book, because in my opinion I would highly suggested this for a read. In a sort of way the main character reminds me of Kaoru because her eyes are like a blue-gray…and people, I will say this once, that is highly strange among the Japanese…blue eyes…wow…it's flippin' insane!
But yes another highly suggested read, that I got at the same bookstore. (Very lovely used bookstore mind you, in Virginia called the Book Exchange… very helpful and nice people.) It's called Shanghai Baby…and oh man read it! It was burned in China when it first debuted because of its sensuality. Basically because it tells the story of a young woman's story, of self-discovery, true love and sex. It's beautiful man, sad, but yet with a bittersweet ending. Man…I love Asian stories, they are just too kick ass )!
But yes…umm…that's pretty much it…schools about to start bleh…but yes…hey, I'll try to update every three days and please like I said before don't forget to review its highly appreciated. I love you guys a lot for all the support you've given me. Hugs and kisses, toodles and kudos…
Roku-chan