Disclaimer: Do I have to repeat myself?
Lawyer: Yes.
Thunder sister: (sigh of defeat) I don't own Rurouni Kenshin. If I did Kaoru would be paired up with Soujiro and Kenshin could sit on his sorry ass for all I care.
Kenshin: (starts to anime cry) You're so mean, thunder sister! Why don't you care if I sit on my sorry ass?
Thunder sister: Well... One reason: You're a bastard. Second reason: You made Kaoru cry. Third reason: You're still a bastard.
Author's Note: Ok, ok. I know... It takes me so long to update... and for what? A short chapter? I'm so sorry... I've delayed you from this update long enough! Now on with the fic!
I Want to See the Human World
Chapter 3: No Women Allowed
Sano led Kaoru inside the luxurious kingdom.
"Wow!" Kaoru exclaimed as she skipped around the entrance of place like a little girl on her first airplane ride," This is great! Everything here's so bright and pretty! Not like back home in the vampire world. Everything there's so dark and gloomy."
Sano couldn't help but chuckle at the childish women that have come to be a little sister to him. "Well, of course, your highness. It suits you. You're always so bright, happy, and energetic. It's not a surprise that you hate the vampire world that you were supposedly planned to rule."
Kaoru's eyes turned sad. "I never said anything about hating the vampire world. All I said was that it's not my type of place, ok? I never said anything like that. I would never hate the vampire world, ever... especially after that..."
(Ok, so whenever you read in a fanfic that Kaoru looks sad, don't you imagine her eyes look so pretty like when Cheza's eyes were half open. You know? Reader's like, 'huh?' Ok, ok, just imagine Kaoru got transferred in the anime Wolf's Rain and her eyes are all pretty like that. Now do you get me? Reader shakes head. Sigh. This is no use.)
Sano noticed Kaoru's sad expression. "Oh hey! Don't take it like that, jou- chan. It's ok if you do hate the vampire world. It won't hurt anyone."
"Yes it will... Just like him... Just like that last time..."
Flashback
A redhead stood at the edge of the highest balcony of the vampire world. He looked as if he was about to jump.
A younger-looking Kaoru was there, watching helplessly as her previous bodyguard just stood there, emotionlessly. "No! Kenshin! Don't do it!" she screamed.
Kenshin emptily turned around and faced her. "Kaoru," he said, his breath so icy you could see mist coming from his mouth," You said that you hated the vampire world. So you must also hate the vampires themselves. Am I correct?"
Kaoru couldn't speak.
"Here, take Shiroi. Take good care of him. He'll lead you to the human world and you could find your human life there." A snow-white fox appeared from behind Kenshin and scampered its way to Kaoru. "I hope you have a happy life as a human."
Kaoru finally found her voice. "No! Kenshin! I don't hate you! Please! Don't go!"
Kenshin shook his head politely. "No... You told me once before that you hated everything vampire, everything sad, everything gloomy. Well, I'm all three and I'll be doing you a favor by disappearing from your life. Besides, I'll get to see your suicidal sister, Tomoe, right? I'll tell her you said, 'Hi.' But for now, I hope we'll meet again... Kaoru..."
After that, he stepped backwards and plunged to his doom, meeting his fate.
Now Kaoru was crying heavily. She ran. She ran to catch him. But she failed.
"Kenshin!!! Don't! Don't... go..." Kaoru fell to the floor of the room, crying. 'He's gone,' she thought to herself,' He's really gone this time, isn't he? Its Tomoe's, isn't it? It's my damn's sister's fault. She made Kenshin fall in love with him, then faked insanity, and killed herself! Damn it! Tomoe! Why'd you have to be suicidal?! Can't you do that without bringing Kenshin down with you?!"
Kaoru punched a hole in the floor. "Damn it..." She cried some more, tears flowing freely now.
"It's my fault... It's always my fault... I'm so pathetic... Why can't I be like everyone else?! Why can't I just live like this in the vampire world? I should be thankful that I was born here. Why? Why?! Why!" Kaoru punched the already abused floor and made the previous hole deeper. "I'm so pathetic..." She then cried herself to sleep. Shiroi, the fox, walked up to her and nudged its nose on hers. It meowed and started to cry.
End flashback
"I don't know, Sano-kun," Kaoru said wearily, "Just take me to a bar or something. I'm hungry."
"Yeah, yeah, sure, jou-chan," Sano easily complied. He knew what happened all those years ago. He knew what happened to Kaoru during that time. He knew it all too well. He thought to himself,' I'm so grateful...to Kenshin's brother. If it wasn't for Battousai, I'm sure jou-chan would still be broken.' Sano turned his head to the direction of the vampire world. 'Yo, Battousai,' Sano thought to his old friend,' Thanks. If it weren't for you, jou-chan would've committed suicide 200 years ago. So I'm going to take care of the little missy. I'll guard her with my life. Don't you ever forget that, buddy.'
Kaoru knocked on Sano's head. "Human world to Sano," she said," Oh no! Mayday! Mayday! Houston, we have a problem!"
Sano was immediately slapped out of his daze, literally. "Oh huh? Oh yeah, yeah. I'm awake now, jou-chan. There's no need to slap me again. It still hurts, thank you very much." He rubbed his now reddish cheek.
They entered the dimly lit bar.
In the darkest corner of the bar, there was a hooded figure. You could barely make out his vague silhouette. He spied on our little Kaoru from the moment she entered the bar.
The place was filled from floor to the ceiling of the 4th floor with alcohol and smoke. Kaoru coughed a bit and pinched her nose.
"Sano," she complained, "How do you put up with all this? I mean, doesn't it hurt your nose? I knew humans had a bad sense of smell, but I didn't know it was this bad!"
Sano sighed as he rubbed the back of his head. "Ah well," he answered," You'll get used to it after a long while. And by long while, I mean a couple years."
Interrupting their conversation, a drunk man cam up to Kaoru and slumped his arm over her shoulder. "Hey, baby," he said, "Want to get a few drinks with me?" He had lust written all over his eyes. "And after that... you want to have a little fun upstairs?" He trailed his wandering fingers from Kaoru's cheek to the top of her left breast. Kaoru, by now, was furious.
'How dare he?!' she fumed, 'How dare he, a human, even think to touch the princess of the vampire world?! That's it! When I return home, this man's head is mine!'
Noticing the look of murder on Kaoru's face, Sanosuke came by for the rescue. He tapped the man on the shoulder and said politely, "Excuse me, sir. That's my girl you're talking to. Leave her alone."
The drunken man looked at the serious expression on Sano's face and left, bumping into a few people on the way.
"Heh, sorry about that, jou-chan," Sano said as he led Kaoru to the counter. (Is that how you call it? It's a counter where you sit down and wait until the bartender is available to attend to you... Is that what you call it? A counter? Doesn't it have some kind of fancy name or something? Maybe I'm just wasting my time thinking about this predicament...)
"Sano-kun," Kaoru warned," If something like that happens again, I probably won't handle my anger, although I wouldn't mind too much to have that human's head propped as a trophy above the guest room fireplace."
Sano shook his head in defeat. "You may be and look like a princess, but you certainly don't act like one," he concluded," No wonder Battousai never asked you out." This comment hit a nerve.
Kaoru punched him right across the face and walked away, leaving unconscious for a bit. After the punch, every man in the bar looked at her with murder in his eyes. Kaoru didn't fail to notice this. "What?!" she eyed them suspiciously.
All the men surrounded her. Then they started to talk. One random man said," You know what you just did their, little missy? You hit a man. That's right! A man! And you know what happens when a woman hits a man?" Kaoru cocked an eyebrow in annoyance. "We hang them! We hang them in front of all the women in the kingdom as a reminder to them that they are lowlifes! They need to learn to respect men! After all, we are superior."
Kaoru was silent throughout that little speech of his. The men thought that she was so scared and frightened that she was speechless. Boy, were they wrong.
Another man chuckled evilly. "So you're afraid now, aren't ya? Well, I'm sure you've learned your lesson by now, pretty. We'll let ya go this time. Next time, I'm not so sure you'll get away with a simple hanging."
"Are you afraid about what we're going to do to ya?"
"Of course she is! Just look at her! She's speechless with fright!"
Kaoru was definitely mad now, but she maintained her emotionless demeanor. She replied," Scared? Ha! Don't make me laugh! I wasn't speechless because I was scared. I was speechless because I was shocked! I've always believed that everybody in this world had at least some beauty in them. But now you've just proven me wrong. I have never seen any uglier bastards such as yourselves! You're so funny!" And there she stood. The princess of the vampire world stood in the middle of a crowd of semi-drunk men, laughing haughtily.
Then and there, the men strike at her.
thunder sister: Hmmm... Maybe I should stop the story here... looks at a mob of angry readers and then looks back at her computer Nah, I'd like to live a few more decades...
Then and there, the men strike at her. "We'll show you to respect us men!"
At that precise moment, the mysterious hooded figure stepped in, interrupting the soon-to-be fight.
Author's Note: Ok, I'm going to end it here. I haven't done many cliffhangers ever since I updated chapter 9 to my infamous fanfic, What the Hell is Going On! I know I haven't updated that for a while... I don't know. It's just that... It brings back memories. That's all. Like when I used to have certain people be my friends... Oh well. That was 6th grade! Moving on to 7th grade! Whoo! I'm starting school on the 7th of September. So I better get moving on these updates. It just may my last! (A very distressed Female Hitokiri Battousai appears from behind thunder sister with a knife in hand) Okay, okay, so maybe not my last, last... But last for the summer vacation period. Yeah! That's it! (sighs as FHB disappears) Oh my loyal fans! I feel so loved! .
I have a question for Royal Jester. Can I use your character? I think his name was... Konjiro? I think... I'm not so sure... Oh well, I'll look at your story later to see what his name is. So yeah.. Just asking... Can I use him? If you don't like him, I could always beat him to a bloody pulp in this fic's future chapters. If you do like him... I just won't beat him as much.
Konjiro: Hey! Why do you hate me?
Thunder sister: Because, you're being mean! (Starts poking him with a stick)
Konjiro: How am I being mean? (Tries to run away from thunder sister)
Thunder sister: Ah, well. Beat him later. (Pushes Konjiro into a small cage that could only fit Yahiko) Speaking of Yahiko... He WILL be in this fic, but later on... WAY on.
Konjiro: (Whines) This cage is sooo small!!!
Thunder sister: No complaining! You must atone for your evilness!! (Continues poking him with a stick)
Konjiro: Owie! You're so mean! (Tries to flick the stick out of thunder sister's hand)
Thunder sister: (Throws the stick somewhere random and ends up hitting Kenshin on the head) Yes! Strike! I mean, um, sorry there Kenni.
Kenshin: (Swirly eyes) Oroooroooorooo?!
Thunder sister: (mutters) Stupid wanderer.... (mutters some more) Can't even stop yourself from killing that stupid Tomoe... (even more muttering) Doesn't even know what 'oro' means...
Kaoru: Um... thunder? You're muttering to yourself again. Your friends keep on telling you not to do that.
Thunder sister: Sure, sure, whatever. (looks at the bottom of the computer) Whoa! (starts freaking out) I typed 6 and a half page! It's a new record for me!!! . I knew you guys reviewing for me would help out!
Kaoru: Aren't you forgetting something?
Thunder sister: Thank you to Royal Jester for letting me use Konjiro! (Please?) Thank you to all the people that reviewed to me.
Lawyer: Yes.
Thunder sister: (sigh of defeat) I don't own Rurouni Kenshin. If I did Kaoru would be paired up with Soujiro and Kenshin could sit on his sorry ass for all I care.
Kenshin: (starts to anime cry) You're so mean, thunder sister! Why don't you care if I sit on my sorry ass?
Thunder sister: Well... One reason: You're a bastard. Second reason: You made Kaoru cry. Third reason: You're still a bastard.
Author's Note: Ok, ok. I know... It takes me so long to update... and for what? A short chapter? I'm so sorry... I've delayed you from this update long enough! Now on with the fic!
I Want to See the Human World
Chapter 3: No Women Allowed
Sano led Kaoru inside the luxurious kingdom.
"Wow!" Kaoru exclaimed as she skipped around the entrance of place like a little girl on her first airplane ride," This is great! Everything here's so bright and pretty! Not like back home in the vampire world. Everything there's so dark and gloomy."
Sano couldn't help but chuckle at the childish women that have come to be a little sister to him. "Well, of course, your highness. It suits you. You're always so bright, happy, and energetic. It's not a surprise that you hate the vampire world that you were supposedly planned to rule."
Kaoru's eyes turned sad. "I never said anything about hating the vampire world. All I said was that it's not my type of place, ok? I never said anything like that. I would never hate the vampire world, ever... especially after that..."
(Ok, so whenever you read in a fanfic that Kaoru looks sad, don't you imagine her eyes look so pretty like when Cheza's eyes were half open. You know? Reader's like, 'huh?' Ok, ok, just imagine Kaoru got transferred in the anime Wolf's Rain and her eyes are all pretty like that. Now do you get me? Reader shakes head. Sigh. This is no use.)
Sano noticed Kaoru's sad expression. "Oh hey! Don't take it like that, jou- chan. It's ok if you do hate the vampire world. It won't hurt anyone."
"Yes it will... Just like him... Just like that last time..."
Flashback
A redhead stood at the edge of the highest balcony of the vampire world. He looked as if he was about to jump.
A younger-looking Kaoru was there, watching helplessly as her previous bodyguard just stood there, emotionlessly. "No! Kenshin! Don't do it!" she screamed.
Kenshin emptily turned around and faced her. "Kaoru," he said, his breath so icy you could see mist coming from his mouth," You said that you hated the vampire world. So you must also hate the vampires themselves. Am I correct?"
Kaoru couldn't speak.
"Here, take Shiroi. Take good care of him. He'll lead you to the human world and you could find your human life there." A snow-white fox appeared from behind Kenshin and scampered its way to Kaoru. "I hope you have a happy life as a human."
Kaoru finally found her voice. "No! Kenshin! I don't hate you! Please! Don't go!"
Kenshin shook his head politely. "No... You told me once before that you hated everything vampire, everything sad, everything gloomy. Well, I'm all three and I'll be doing you a favor by disappearing from your life. Besides, I'll get to see your suicidal sister, Tomoe, right? I'll tell her you said, 'Hi.' But for now, I hope we'll meet again... Kaoru..."
After that, he stepped backwards and plunged to his doom, meeting his fate.
Now Kaoru was crying heavily. She ran. She ran to catch him. But she failed.
"Kenshin!!! Don't! Don't... go..." Kaoru fell to the floor of the room, crying. 'He's gone,' she thought to herself,' He's really gone this time, isn't he? Its Tomoe's, isn't it? It's my damn's sister's fault. She made Kenshin fall in love with him, then faked insanity, and killed herself! Damn it! Tomoe! Why'd you have to be suicidal?! Can't you do that without bringing Kenshin down with you?!"
Kaoru punched a hole in the floor. "Damn it..." She cried some more, tears flowing freely now.
"It's my fault... It's always my fault... I'm so pathetic... Why can't I be like everyone else?! Why can't I just live like this in the vampire world? I should be thankful that I was born here. Why? Why?! Why!" Kaoru punched the already abused floor and made the previous hole deeper. "I'm so pathetic..." She then cried herself to sleep. Shiroi, the fox, walked up to her and nudged its nose on hers. It meowed and started to cry.
End flashback
"I don't know, Sano-kun," Kaoru said wearily, "Just take me to a bar or something. I'm hungry."
"Yeah, yeah, sure, jou-chan," Sano easily complied. He knew what happened all those years ago. He knew what happened to Kaoru during that time. He knew it all too well. He thought to himself,' I'm so grateful...to Kenshin's brother. If it wasn't for Battousai, I'm sure jou-chan would still be broken.' Sano turned his head to the direction of the vampire world. 'Yo, Battousai,' Sano thought to his old friend,' Thanks. If it weren't for you, jou-chan would've committed suicide 200 years ago. So I'm going to take care of the little missy. I'll guard her with my life. Don't you ever forget that, buddy.'
Kaoru knocked on Sano's head. "Human world to Sano," she said," Oh no! Mayday! Mayday! Houston, we have a problem!"
Sano was immediately slapped out of his daze, literally. "Oh huh? Oh yeah, yeah. I'm awake now, jou-chan. There's no need to slap me again. It still hurts, thank you very much." He rubbed his now reddish cheek.
They entered the dimly lit bar.
In the darkest corner of the bar, there was a hooded figure. You could barely make out his vague silhouette. He spied on our little Kaoru from the moment she entered the bar.
The place was filled from floor to the ceiling of the 4th floor with alcohol and smoke. Kaoru coughed a bit and pinched her nose.
"Sano," she complained, "How do you put up with all this? I mean, doesn't it hurt your nose? I knew humans had a bad sense of smell, but I didn't know it was this bad!"
Sano sighed as he rubbed the back of his head. "Ah well," he answered," You'll get used to it after a long while. And by long while, I mean a couple years."
Interrupting their conversation, a drunk man cam up to Kaoru and slumped his arm over her shoulder. "Hey, baby," he said, "Want to get a few drinks with me?" He had lust written all over his eyes. "And after that... you want to have a little fun upstairs?" He trailed his wandering fingers from Kaoru's cheek to the top of her left breast. Kaoru, by now, was furious.
'How dare he?!' she fumed, 'How dare he, a human, even think to touch the princess of the vampire world?! That's it! When I return home, this man's head is mine!'
Noticing the look of murder on Kaoru's face, Sanosuke came by for the rescue. He tapped the man on the shoulder and said politely, "Excuse me, sir. That's my girl you're talking to. Leave her alone."
The drunken man looked at the serious expression on Sano's face and left, bumping into a few people on the way.
"Heh, sorry about that, jou-chan," Sano said as he led Kaoru to the counter. (Is that how you call it? It's a counter where you sit down and wait until the bartender is available to attend to you... Is that what you call it? A counter? Doesn't it have some kind of fancy name or something? Maybe I'm just wasting my time thinking about this predicament...)
"Sano-kun," Kaoru warned," If something like that happens again, I probably won't handle my anger, although I wouldn't mind too much to have that human's head propped as a trophy above the guest room fireplace."
Sano shook his head in defeat. "You may be and look like a princess, but you certainly don't act like one," he concluded," No wonder Battousai never asked you out." This comment hit a nerve.
Kaoru punched him right across the face and walked away, leaving unconscious for a bit. After the punch, every man in the bar looked at her with murder in his eyes. Kaoru didn't fail to notice this. "What?!" she eyed them suspiciously.
All the men surrounded her. Then they started to talk. One random man said," You know what you just did their, little missy? You hit a man. That's right! A man! And you know what happens when a woman hits a man?" Kaoru cocked an eyebrow in annoyance. "We hang them! We hang them in front of all the women in the kingdom as a reminder to them that they are lowlifes! They need to learn to respect men! After all, we are superior."
Kaoru was silent throughout that little speech of his. The men thought that she was so scared and frightened that she was speechless. Boy, were they wrong.
Another man chuckled evilly. "So you're afraid now, aren't ya? Well, I'm sure you've learned your lesson by now, pretty. We'll let ya go this time. Next time, I'm not so sure you'll get away with a simple hanging."
"Are you afraid about what we're going to do to ya?"
"Of course she is! Just look at her! She's speechless with fright!"
Kaoru was definitely mad now, but she maintained her emotionless demeanor. She replied," Scared? Ha! Don't make me laugh! I wasn't speechless because I was scared. I was speechless because I was shocked! I've always believed that everybody in this world had at least some beauty in them. But now you've just proven me wrong. I have never seen any uglier bastards such as yourselves! You're so funny!" And there she stood. The princess of the vampire world stood in the middle of a crowd of semi-drunk men, laughing haughtily.
Then and there, the men strike at her.
thunder sister: Hmmm... Maybe I should stop the story here... looks at a mob of angry readers and then looks back at her computer Nah, I'd like to live a few more decades...
Then and there, the men strike at her. "We'll show you to respect us men!"
At that precise moment, the mysterious hooded figure stepped in, interrupting the soon-to-be fight.
Author's Note: Ok, I'm going to end it here. I haven't done many cliffhangers ever since I updated chapter 9 to my infamous fanfic, What the Hell is Going On! I know I haven't updated that for a while... I don't know. It's just that... It brings back memories. That's all. Like when I used to have certain people be my friends... Oh well. That was 6th grade! Moving on to 7th grade! Whoo! I'm starting school on the 7th of September. So I better get moving on these updates. It just may my last! (A very distressed Female Hitokiri Battousai appears from behind thunder sister with a knife in hand) Okay, okay, so maybe not my last, last... But last for the summer vacation period. Yeah! That's it! (sighs as FHB disappears) Oh my loyal fans! I feel so loved! .
I have a question for Royal Jester. Can I use your character? I think his name was... Konjiro? I think... I'm not so sure... Oh well, I'll look at your story later to see what his name is. So yeah.. Just asking... Can I use him? If you don't like him, I could always beat him to a bloody pulp in this fic's future chapters. If you do like him... I just won't beat him as much.
Konjiro: Hey! Why do you hate me?
Thunder sister: Because, you're being mean! (Starts poking him with a stick)
Konjiro: How am I being mean? (Tries to run away from thunder sister)
Thunder sister: Ah, well. Beat him later. (Pushes Konjiro into a small cage that could only fit Yahiko) Speaking of Yahiko... He WILL be in this fic, but later on... WAY on.
Konjiro: (Whines) This cage is sooo small!!!
Thunder sister: No complaining! You must atone for your evilness!! (Continues poking him with a stick)
Konjiro: Owie! You're so mean! (Tries to flick the stick out of thunder sister's hand)
Thunder sister: (Throws the stick somewhere random and ends up hitting Kenshin on the head) Yes! Strike! I mean, um, sorry there Kenni.
Kenshin: (Swirly eyes) Oroooroooorooo?!
Thunder sister: (mutters) Stupid wanderer.... (mutters some more) Can't even stop yourself from killing that stupid Tomoe... (even more muttering) Doesn't even know what 'oro' means...
Kaoru: Um... thunder? You're muttering to yourself again. Your friends keep on telling you not to do that.
Thunder sister: Sure, sure, whatever. (looks at the bottom of the computer) Whoa! (starts freaking out) I typed 6 and a half page! It's a new record for me!!! . I knew you guys reviewing for me would help out!
Kaoru: Aren't you forgetting something?
Thunder sister: Thank you to Royal Jester for letting me use Konjiro! (Please?) Thank you to all the people that reviewed to me.