Hey everyone. Chapter 4 revised. Enjoy.

That's when he found the small knife in the small of her back.

His eyes widened slightly as he surveyed the cut. No not a cut, a wound.

"It's deep," He whispered aloud, grimacing slightly. He didn't specialize in mending wounds.

He quickly ran and set Kaoru somewhere sheltered. Under the big willow tree. He took out the small knife, and blood flowed out onto his hands. That's when he realized he had nothing to patch the wound with. He panicked for a second before he realized that he was wearing clothes (DUUUUH). So he ripped off some of the cloth and held it to her wound. Then he ran to a small river and ripped off another piece of cloth, which he soaked in water. Then he quickly ran back. After the bleeding ceased a little bit, he began cleaning it with the damp cloth. After everything was cleaned, washed, and stopped of bleeding, he relaxed a tiny bit.

But that was a mistake, because he realized that Kaoru was running a fever. So he ripped ANOTHER piece of cloth off, soaked it, and calmed her temperature.

That night Battousai didn't get a single blink of sleep, for he either had to clean the cut, stop the bleeding, or calm a temperature. Finally at sunrise, he fell asleep beside Kaoru, who was slowly drifting awake.

'Mmmm Where am I?' She thought as she moved.

'OW!' She winced at the pain in her back.

Then as she looked around her surroundings, she realized she was under the willow tree, and there were bloody clothes surrounding her. Then she spotted Battousai sleeping slightly.

'Did he do this?' She thought as she moved a bit more. Just then Battousai sat up quickly and unsheathed his sword.

Kaoru gasped, as he looked around, his golden eyes alert and ready.

Then Battousai settled down a bit and looked at her. Then before she new it she was flipped onto her stomach gently with Battousai checking her wound.

"OW!" She yelled as Battousai changed and rewrapped the bandage tightly.

"It has to be tight," He said calmly, and he checked the tightness.

"B- OW!!" She screamed as he once again tightened it.

When he finally finished, he lifted her up and set her on the ground.

"Stay here, I shall fetch you some Food and clothes," He said quietly as he set out to the village.

An hour later

"NO! I will NOT!" Kaoru bellowed at Battousai as he tried with one hand to force the clothes on her, while the other hand tried to force food in her mouth.

"..." He continued to try and force the clothes and food on her.

" I said NO!!!" He screamed again.

"But- .." He was cut off again by Kaoru. "GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD, I AM NOT WEARING THESE SLUTTY CLOTHES! I'LL LOOK LIKE A PROSTITUE!!"

Battousai sighed as he stuck the food in her mouth to quit her complaining. Then while she was occupied with the food he quickly slipped on the short kimono that she found so inappropriate. In fact, he thought it was sort of pretty, and he didn't know why she didn't like it.

Flashback

Battousai walked back from the village with food and this very short white kimono.

"Uhhh... What's that?" Kaoru asked innocently pointing to the kimono.

"It is your new kimono," Battousai stated holding it out to her.

"Uh, NO!" Kaoru said to him looking from the kimono to him.

"Well... Put it on!" Battousai stated holding out the kimono to her again.

Kaoru looked at him and turned red in anger.

"Don't you think that for ONE moment I would wear such a inappropriate, despicable, SHORT piece of cloth!" She yelled getting louder and louder by the minute. Finally people stopped and stared.

"And what are YOU staring at?!?" She screamed to the people who were starting on their way again, fearing Kaoru's nasty temper. Whoever she was, they did NOT want to mess with her.

"Please! Would you just put on the kimono?" Battousai asked quietly. It was the first time he said the 'magic' word to anyone, and he felt a little awkward saying the word.

" If you can even CALL that a kimono, I am NOT putting it on!" Kaoru tossed her head to the side and stuck her nose in the air, as if to prove a point.

"Fine then... you leave me no choice..." Battousai said as he walked up to her.

Just as he was about a meter away he jumped on her and wrestled her to the ground, ready to force the kimono on her.

End of flashback

Kaoru 'hmphed" as she got up in the short kimono. Battousai who had a smug smirk on just stood there and took advantage of the view.

'What am I thinking? I have to remember that she is a girl!!" He thought and for some reason, this weird man in with pink on stepped into his head.

"She's pretty curvy for a girl... that she is!" The man in pink smiled cutely at Battousai.

BONK

WHAM

BOOOOM

Kaoru hit Battousai over the head for the third time.

'Orororororororororo!!!' The man in pink screamed in his head.

"That will teach you to force me to do things," Kaoru said calmly.

Battousai got up and glared at her.

Kaoru glared back.

Then all of a sudden Battousai's face went blank, even though his emotions were swirling around in frenzy. Mostly admiration, rage, and something else he couldn't place. Then he slowly turned around and continued walking down the dirty path, heading further towards the man he was supposed to assassin.

"Come," He said calmly his face betraying the emotion of boredom.

'Noo... I don't believe it... how could he have gotten bored already?! He didn't even respond to those smacks!!" Kaoru was thinking furiously, and finally her face got red, and her eyes narrowed noticeably. She was mad, no not mad, FURIOUS at Battousai.

'How dare he thinks he can ignore me!!!! I'll show him how to REALLY ignore!!' Kaoru thought as her face reddened even more, only this time her fists clenched and she shuffled her feet on the dirty path.

'Grrrr... he is going to learn what it's like to be ignored!'

"We are going to stop for some rest," Battousai said quietly as he changed his path of direction onto the grass surrounded by large cherry blossom trees.

"..." Kaoru didn't answer and she just continued walking down the all too familiar dirt path.

"Did you hear me? We are going to stop for some rest," Battousai said a little more loudly, his face starting to show annoyance.

"..." Kaoru continued to ignore him, and continued on.

"HELLO? I SAID we are going to stop for rest!!!" Battousai started to get angry that this woman was ignoring him like he was some beggar on the street. Infact, he pretty much has had ENOUGH of her attitude towards him. She would respect him that she would.

"..." Kaoru was starting to get a little scared at the tone Battousai used, and by now she was about 20 meters away from him.

Finally Battousai found out what Kaoru was doing.

'Why that little...' His face turned into a scowl of anger and annoyance.

Kaoru was just walking away from him.

Then about three seconds later Battousai was right in front of Kaoru, having used his ungodly speed.

" I thought I told you we were stopping over there (he pointed 20 meters back) to rest?" He said this in a dead calm voice, which scared Kaoru enough to trip over her sandal.

'So much for ignoring him...'

Battousai by then, had grabbed her wrist and started walking her back to where he decided they stop. Just when they got back to the grassy shade, he pushed her onto the ground, and left her there, moving aside to take out some supplies to start a fire.

What he didn't realize was that he pushed her right onto her wound, making it open up and start bleeding again.

"...Mmm..." Kaoru whimpered in the unknown pain in the small of her back. Battousai just ignored her thinking that she got a bruise or something.

"A-... oooo" Kaoru groaned again in pain as she started shivering. By then Battousai figured out something was wrong from the smell of blood in the air. He immediately looked at Kaoru.

"Kaoru?" Battousai's expression turned into one as slight worry. Well as worried as Battousai could get.

The smell of blood grew stronger and Battousai's worry intensified.

That's when he saw the small puddle of blood on the green grass. Then he new, he new when he had pushed her to the ground that way, her wound had reopened and she probably had a chance of losing too much blood. And by then, Kaoru was unconscious and still bleeding. His expression was one of surprise and worry as he quickly rushed over to her.

'How could I be so foolish...' He thought silently as his brow formed a bead of sweat as he worked silently into the night, trying to save Kaoru's life. By the time it was morning, Kaoru was sleeping soundly. The bleeding had stopped completely.

Battousai was also sleeping, and was in a very embarrassing position indeed. His head rested on her chest, and the top of her kimono was gaping slightly.

Battousai was the one who woke up first, and he blushed a deep crimson when he saw the gaping kimono. He just left her, and started up the fire, in hopes she wouldn't wake up to see his face.

' She sure is a big girl... "The man in Pink was invading his mind again.

"HEY! Remember that, she is JUST a girl, nothing more." He spoke to the man feeling slightly foolish for talking to himself.

"I wouldn't say a girl... more like a-" Battousai cut him off before he could finish.

"H- Hey!! Shut UP!!"

"Make me..."

' Grrrr...' Battousai started to get irritated that this man... in PINK could bring out so emotion.

'Who the hell are you anyways?' Battousai grumbled slightly.

"I'm you, Kenshin," Rurouni Kenshin smiled at Battousai in his mind. He was so busy talking to this Rurouni guy that he didn't notice that Kaoru had woken up and noticed her kimono was nearly completely open.

' Why that little!! I bet he tried to undress me!! Wait... what happened last night? All I remember is that BIG pain in my back!' Kaoru wondered what had happened last night, and her rage disappeared when she remembered some flashbacks that came to her mind.

Flashback

Kaoru groaned and tried to move, only to find that Battousai was sitting there cleaning her lower back.

"Shhhh, go back to sleep, Kaoru, It's alright," Battousai had whispered to her as she fell asleep.

And indeed everything HAD been all right.

End of Flashback

Kaoru's face lit up with a sweet smile at how nice and considerate Battousai had been.

'That was so sweet of him..." Kaoru thought.

"Wonder if he tastes sweet too" A voice said in her head.

'H-Hey! Who are YOU?!' Kaoru cried in surprise.

'Your heart...' The voice replied.

' I do NOT want to know if he tastes sweet!' Kaoru grumbled stubbornly in her mind.

'Yes you do...' Her heart argued just as stubborn.

' NO I DON'T!!!' Kaoru growled, now extremely irritated.

'Yes you d- '

Kaoru was snapped out of her thoughts, by the sound of the crackling fire. She watched its dancing flames, and realized she must look AWEFUL. She looked around and saw a small pond in the distance.

'Oh my... I must smell horrible... I MUST take a bath!' Kaoru felt her hair, and found that it was matted and greasy.

Kaoru looked around again and saw Battousai sitting there, concentrating on getting the fire bigger. She realized she had better ask.

"Uh... Battousai? Could I G-go for a walk?" Kaoru asked quietly, watching his facial expressions. As she saw him look at her out of the corner of his eye, she knew the answer right away. It was no.

"Thanks, bye!" Kaoru closed her eyes and gave him a quick smile before she rushed off towards the pond.

'Maybe I should follow her..." He thought suddenly.

' You just want to see her naked!' Rurouni cried in delight at catching Battousai.

Battousai knew Kaoru was going to take a bath by the way her eyes shifted to the pond in the distance. In fact he even felt some perverted thoughts come to him, but he pushed them away quickly. He had no time for these thoughts.

'But... maybe I should follow her just in case she intends to run away...'

' You just want to watch her from those bushes!!' Rurouni burst out in delight again.

Battousai blushed deeply at what his conscious said. He got up from his kneeling position, and quickly followed Kaoru unseen.

When Kaoru got to the pond, she gasped.

'I-It's so beautiful! I feel like I'm intruding just looking at it!' Kaoru thought as she looked around the pond. Everything seemed perfect. The flowers surrounding it were green and healthy, and the water seemed to sparkle in its own way. Kaoru looked it over one more time before she started to strip herself slowly.

'...Have I died? Am I in heaven?' More thoughts like this came into Battousai's head at the speed of light. When he saw the pond from behind the bushes he thought it was beautiful, but what REALLY took his breath away was the sight of Kaoru starting to strip.

'Hurry UP!!' The thought from the Rurouni popped into his head before he could stop it, and he started to feel himself getting hard... He needed to get out of there and FAST.

'Just a bit longer...' Battousai couldn't bring himself to leave the beautiful sight that was Kaoru.

' Pervert!' Rurouni yelled at him.

' Am NOT, this was YOUR idea!!' Battousai glared at the Rurouni in pink.

'Was not...'

Battousai hated to give his conscious the last word, but he was throbbing painfully and if he didn't get out of there, she would either see him, or he would MAKE her see him.

He quietly got up and, with god speed, he ran back to camp, trying to forget all the sights he had just seen.

Chapter 4 revised!! Chapter 5 coming soon ;;... hope you enjoyed the revised version. Personally, I think it's much better.