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Chapter 3
Kaoru sighed as she looked out the window, her chin rested on her hand while she waited for her drink. She had been looking out the window the entire flight and now her curiosity of who was next to her was growing more and more by the second. 'Well I'll have to turn around when our drinks comes so I can see him then' Kaoru thought. Then as if right on queue the flight attendant came over to them carrying both theirs and other people's drinks. Kaoru smiled as she turned over and reached to grab her canned Dr. Pepper, "domo arigato" she said happily to the flight attendant. "So you like Dr. Pepper huh kid?" the person next to her asked, his voice was rough and deep so it was easy for Kaoru to figure out he was a male but she couldn't get a good enough view to see his face which was hiding under a hood of a black jacket, he didn't even turn to face her. He just kept looking ahead and dodging Kaoru's moving head that was trying to see his face. "Hai!" Kaoru exclaimed giving up, "I love it!"
The man's voice tone didn't change and he didn't laugh at her enthusiasm, "hai it is good." Kaoru smiled at that after all there weren't that many Dr. Pepper fans that she knew, "so where are you off to? Tokyo, Esu?" Kaoru opened her can and smiled as she turned to look out the window again. "I'm heading to Tokyo to visit my Mother's old friend" "that's nice to hear," said the man, "I'm returning to Tokyo from a business trip in Esu." "Cool" Kaoru said before taking a big gulp of her Dr. Pepper.
She turned to look out the window again and smiled when she saw Narita airport come into view. (A/N- If any one knows the names of some airports in Tokyo or Kyoto or has an idea for a name then please tell me) It was a site to see, standing tall and proud and ready for their airplane to come in "well it seems we're finally here after a long 5 hour flight" said the man. "Hey Mr.?" Kaoru asked when they got up "yes?" he asked "can you please tell me your name ya know just in case I get lost our something." He hesitated for a moment, she was so calm and gentle he said "it's Seijurou, Hiko Seijurou," with that he turned and asked, "what is yours?" "Kamiya Kaoru."
(A/N- It's hard to see Hiko drinking Dr. Pepper isn't it?)
"Right then" Hiko said before grabbing his few things from the compartment above them and walked away. Kaoru looked after him but grabbed her bokken and walked off also, once she was out of the plane she placed her bokken behinds her back and walked out of Narita airport.
"Great," Kaoru sighed, "now all I have to do is find a man that I've never even met before and rarely heard off."
Kaoru looked around and saw someone get into a taxi "hey Mr.!" she called out after him but he closed the door and the taxi drove away. "May I help you Miss?" Kaoru turned around and looked behind her and saw a man wearing a uniform looking at her "nani?" Kaoru asked "may I help you?" he repeated. "I doubt it" Kaoru said.
"Why don't you try me?" the man asked her "well okay," Kaoru said uncertainly, "I'm looking for a man named something Genzai" "something Genzai?" he asked surprised. "Hai do you know where he lives?" Kaoru asked "hai Miss." The man said, "he's my families doctor" "yay!" Kaoru cried jumping up and down. "Can you tell me where he lives?" she asked "hai" the man said, "come" he made a gesture for her to follow him with her hand and they walked over to the street. Waving his hand a taxi pulled over and the man opened the door for Kaoru to climb in. "You look like you don't have much money on you" the uniformed man said to Kaoru "iie" Kaoru sighed remembering all the money she had used to get to Kyoto Airport and buy her airplane ticket.
"Here," the uniformed man said handing the taxi driver some money, "this should be enough for your trip." "Um...arigato sir" Kaoru said doing her best to bow in taxi. "Your very welcome" said the man and told the driver to take Kaoru to Dr. Genzai's place before slamming the door shut. "So you're off to Dr. Genzai's place huh?" asked the driver "uh....hai" Kaoru said.
"What's your name kid, you here alone?" asked the driver "hai, my name is Kamiya Kaoru and I'm visiting Dr. Genzai who is a friend of my mother's" "neat" said the driver. "Yeah my name's Samika Reta, and it's been awhile since any one's asked to go visit there."
"Why?" Kaoru asked, "is something wrong with him?" "oh no no no," replied Reta, "he usually comes to visit the people that's all" "oh."
Kaoru sighed and Reta looked at her with the rear view mirror "you practice swordsmanship?" Reta asked Kaoru when she noticed Kaoru's bokken. "Huh?" Kaoru asked, "oh hai, my family used to teach our style to other's before my..." Kaoru choked. "Hey you don't have to mention something personal" Reta said noticing it "nani?" Kaoru asked, "oh it's just we stopped teaching it when my mother died" Kaoru smiled. It felt like she had just taken a load off her back, it wasn't that often that she spoke about her mother. "What's your style?" Reta asked "the Kamiya Kasshin Ryu" Kaoru replied proudly.
"Cool name" Reta said "arigato" Kaoru said. Reta laughed "your quite the adventuress one Kaoru" "nani?" Kaoru asked Reta, "What makes you say that?" "well not many people come around this area of Tokyo that often without someone with them." Kaoru was about to ask why when Reta pulled up a house "here we are kid," Reta said as Kaoru got out, "it was nice talking to you." Once Kaoru shut the door Reta drove off. Kaoru carried her bokken ready for an attack as she slowly walked up to Dr. Genzai's home.
She knocked on the door and waited listening to some noises in the home. "Hai?" some one called from inside, "who is it?" Kaoru gulped and said "its Kamiya Kaoru."
"I'm here to" but before she could finish her sentence the door flew open and out stepped a cheerful man. "Why could it really be?!" he asked himself, "could you really be Kamiya Kaoru?!" "um...hai" Kaoru said a little afraid. "It's great to see you!" he cried pulling Kaoru into a tight hug, which made Kaoru drop her bokken. She made a small squeak at the sudden hug but smiled when she was released. "Gomen Kaoru," he said, "I am Dr. Genzai and it's just been so long since I've seen you."
"When was the last time you saw me?" Kaoru asked him "why when I first saw you Kaoru, you were just a mere baby no older than...give me a moment...3 years old that was it!" Kaoru laughed. "Hai you've grown so much I almost thought you were some prankster but when I saw your face...it felt like I was looking at your mother." Kaoru sweat dropped at this and laughed and Dr. Genzai grabbed her and pulled her inside.
The inside was warm and welcoming to Kaoru, it had a wooden floor and wooden stairs, and there was a long rug in one of the halls that led to the kitchen. If you took a few steps away from the door you would see on your right a small glass like table with four chairs with one on each side. Then on your left you saw a little room that had toys scattered all over the place. Kaoru then followed Dr. Genzai into the kitchen "you must be hungry from your trip from Kyoto," he said to Kaoru "wait is Yahiko here with you?!" "iie Dr. Genzai," Kaoru told him, "he's still back in Kyoto and is staying with one of his friends." Dr. Genzai looked at Kaoru almost like he was looking into her heart, mind, and soul, trying to figure out what she wasn't telling him.
"Well then Kaoru," Dr. Genzai said, "why don't I make some food and you can go explore a little." Kaoru nodded her head and turned around "but when you go upstairs please be quite because the girls are sleeping." Kaoru nodded 'why are they still sleeping? It's 4:12 p.m.'
However Kaoru went up stairs and walked around. Right next to the stairs was a wooden railing so you wouldn't fall down, the railing was painted white and when Kaoru placed her hand on it she smiled. It was so unlike her railing back in Kyoto, which was broken and run down from all the slams, and crashes that had been put upon it.
Kaoru sighed and said, "if only I had asked Yahiko to come with me, but he had friends to stay with, and he obviously wouldn't want to leave if I told him we were coming here. He actually has a life in Kyoto, unlike me." Kaoru removed her hand from the clean railing and began to walk left where there was an open door. She peeked in and looked around "wow" she whispered. The room had two windows, which gave it lots of light and brightened things up. The bed had clean sheets, which were all white; it wasn't that high from the ground but high enough that things could fit under it.
Kaoru ran over to the windows and looked out, it had nice curtains that were nice and light and they blew around in the light breeze. The window over looked the side of the home where Kaoru could see mountains and green grass holding up some trees and bushes. Kaoru walked over to the wardrobe and ran her fingers along it's dented like pattern, however it was made dented and had not been dented by the home. Looking around Kaoru saw a wooden desk "Dr. Genzai really seems to like wood" Kaoru said. She gently placed her hands along the clean straight computer desk and looked around.
She walked back over to the door and turned around to take one last glimpse at the room before moving onto another room.
The door was closed but there was a creak just enough for Kaoru to her some light sounds from inside. Trying her best to stay quite she changed her position to see if she could get a glimpse of who was in there. "Most likely those girls Dr. Genzai was talking about are the ones in there" Kaoru said. She walked into another room that was right next to that one "uh..." Kaoru was speechless she had no clue what to say.
The room had a queen size bed in it prepared with white sheets with blue, pink, and yellow flowers on it. The balcony over looked the backyard where there grew a flower garden and some cherry blossom trees. The balcony was white and hard, Kaoru wasn't able to however figure out what type of stone or mixture was used for it. She turned around and realized that the balcony had a sliding glass doors and it had a railing bottom just like the one at the stairs.
There was a desk like the one in the other room placed with a paper pad and was obviously a computer desk however there was no computer. She looked at the wooden wardrobe that stood next to the desk Kaoru felt it. Unlike the other one there was no pattern except for the legs that held up the wardrobe. It was made to look like lions, paws. Kaoru tried to open the door but it was stuck shut. It was almost as if it hadn't been opened for a long time and now had returned to a connection with the wood.
"Gomen Kaoru" Dr. Genzai said from behind her making Kaoru jump. She sighed and looked at him, "nani do you mean?" Kaoru asked him. "I mean you won't be able to open that wardrobe" he told her, "why is that?" Kaoru asked him, "it doesn't look like it needs a key." "Iie iie iie Kaoru it's just that I have never been able to open it before." "Nani?" Kaoru asked him, "why not?" "I'm not sure Kaoru but let's not think about that now," Dr. Genzai said, "I'll show you more of the house later but right now let's eat!"
"Shouldn't we wake the girls?" Kaoru asked "oh iie," he told Kaoru, "they'll wake up as soon as we begin just watch." Kaoru shrugged but followed Dr. Genzai out of the kitchen.
"So tell me Kaoru why have you come here to Tokyo?" Dr. Genzai asked demo before Kaoru could answer him two girls ran into the room. "Kaoru meet Suzume and Ayame my two nieces" the two girls looked at Kaoru for a moment before Ayame took Kaoru's hand and said "be our friend" then Ayame grabbed Kaoru's other hand and copied her older sister "be our friend" she said. Kaoru smiled and said "of course I'll be your friend" the two girls smiled and sat across from each other while Kaoru and Dr. Genzai took their seats at the longer ends of the table. "Kaoru's our new friend" Ayame told Dr. Genzai "she's our new friend" Suzume repeated. (A/N-What do Ayame and Suzume call Dr. Genzai again? Does anybody know? If so please tell me)
Kaoru smiled as she looked at them then at her food and stared at her chopsticks she grabbed them and dug in "ahem" Dr. Genzai coughed. "Huh?" Kaoru asked looking up at him she saw Ayame and Suzume looking at her too "girls" Dr. Genzai said. The two children looked down and interlocked their hands "Kaoru" Dr. Genzai said. Then it struck Kaoru, 'they do some sort of grace before they eat' she blushed in embarrassment glad that she was looking down so that no one could see her. "Kaoru would you like to say grace" Dr. Genzai asked Kaoru who remained face down as she turned even redder "um...well you see I've never done grace before" "oh alright then I will" Kaoru frowned she had just gotten here and she had already embarrassed herself and it was only lunch.
'They probably hate me know' Kaoru thought, if her father were here with her he would be so ashamed of her he would slap her for not knowing any kind of grace. He would probably do it even if he weren't drunk for once. Dr. Genzai's words broke her thoughts.
"Through rich or poor we ask no more of our food we hold, we will love and thank-you all even if it's just a mere crumb of bread. So we share our food and drinks with as many as we can through rich and poor we ask of no more as long as we have each other and some bread"
Dr. Genzai finished and Kaoru sweat dropped. 'Never heard that one before' she said to herself sadly before she looked up "now you can eat Kaoru" Kaoru smiled "hai! Arigato" she cried before bring her bowl of rice right over to her mouth where she made sure she wouldn't miss a bite. "This is delicious!" she cried as she reached over and grabbed some milk and poured it into her cup. "I have never had such a wonderful lunch in my life!" Kaoru sighed, she looked at everyone who was now staring at her. "Gomen demo we don't get a lot to eat back at home." "That's alright Kaoru" Dr. Genzai said watching Kaoru look at him "um...I will go wash my things now" she said picking up her rice bowl, and the plate where she had placed some fish and rice balls and other foods, and her cup. She sighed and walked into the kitchen and walked over to the sink "that was so embarrassing" she said to herself as she put her plate, bowl, and cup in the sink.
Taking her hand she wiped off as much as she could off her things, and placed them all in the dishwasher. "I know I'll have to tell him sometime" Kaoru said to herself sadly but it's just so hard."
"Wait where did that all come from?" she asked herself, "I need to go train," she said as she walked back over to the door where she had left her bokken. "I need to practice a little so I'll be out back if you need me" Kaoru said.
She walked back into the kitchen and slid open the glass door so she could step out. Once she was outside she closed the door behind her, "I hope Yahiko is okay" she said as she got into a position and began to do some moves. She then began to swing her sword back and forth "1...2...3...4..." Kaoru kept on going her back turned to the door she didn't see Dr. Genzai step out with Ayame and Suzume. Who began to swing pretend swords around "63...64...65...66..." she suddenly heard giggling from behind her and stopped her swings to see the two girls and her mothers friend watching her. Kaoru laughed a little "how many do you plan on doing Kaoru?" Dr. Genzai asked her "oh just 100 right now" Kaoru replied going back to her swings "67...68...69...70..." "alright then I'll see you later Kaoru" Dr. Genzai said as he led the girls back inside the home. "Bye," Kaoru said, "these are really going to help me later on or at least I have a strong feeling." "91...92...93...94...95...96...97...98...99...100..." Kaoru sighed she had barely begun but she wanted to explore the house some more. "Dr. Genzai" she called out when she went back inside, she closed the door behind her and locked it before walking around the house calling out for him.
"Hai Kaoru?" Dr. Genzai said suddenly appearing making Kaoru jump once again. "Oh you said you were going to show me around some rooms" Kaoru reminded him "of hai I was wasn't it" Dr. Genzai laughed. "Demo first have some water" he said handing her a glass. 'He obviously doesn't know me that well' she thought but she took the water anyway. "Arigato Dr. Genzai" Kaoru thanked him placing the glass on the table "Kaoru are you running from something?" he asked her 'he's a very straight forward man' Kaoru thought. She sighed and looked at him, 'it's not time,' she thought, 'I'm not ready yet' "iie Dr. Genzai" she replied.
"Alright Kaoru," he said, "if something's wrong though you must promise to come and tell me no matter what it is okay?" Kaoru sighed but agreed suddenly she felt very weak. An image of Yahiko flashed through her mind, he was reading her note and collapsing on a chair crying. "Gomen" Kaoru whispered "nani?" Dr. Genzai asked "huh? Oh it's nothing" Kaoru replied quickly.
Kaoru looked into his eyes sadly "um Dr. Genzai I have a question" "hai?" he asked her "where will I be staying?" "ah hai you will be staying in the room with the wardrobe that we can't open" "arigato" Kaoru said before slowly walking out of the kitchen, through the hallway, up the stairs and walking into her room. "I have a major headache" she complained as she placed her bokken against the wall next the desk and closed the door. She stood in front of the mirror and began to braid her hair she sighed as she thought of every thing that had happened to her all these years.
A drunken father, a dead mother, no friends at school, continuously being made fun of, watching Yahiko get hurt all the time, the laughs of the misunderstandings. Yet there was also a good thing in all her life. Only one good thing that she could think of and it was saving Yahiko. She had put her life in danger to save his she knew it would have been too much to watch Yahiko die. She wouldn't be able to stand it, not one little bit. So she had sent him for the police.
Yet he not only got the police he also got an ambulance to save her life. That was the only thing she could think of, them helping each other, they needed each other to live, other wise they would both feel pain. They would both feel anger. They would both blame themselves for what had happened. But Yahiko save her life just like she had saved his and that's the good thing, their sibling love.
Kaoru sighed as she finished braiding her hair, when she had gone back home to grab her bokken she hadn't thought of bringing any clothes or something with her. So she simply slid of her shoes and got into her new bed in her new room, she had no other clothes so she wore her old sweaty school uniform.
She slid deep under the covers letting the warm feeling touch her skin. Her old blankets were old and dirty and thin, so during the winter the she nearly froze to death. She loved this home, she loved this bed, the food was good and she didn't have to pay for it like she and Yahiko had used to. Back in Kyoto they had gone out to a restaurant to eat every night they could. Otherwise they just wouldn't eat. Kaoru sighed as she closed her eyes 'it's not that I don't want to tell him,' she thought, 'it's just...I'm not ready' Kaoru turned so she was on her right side and after that last thought she fell asleep. With both a smile and a frown on her face.
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Chapter 3
Kaoru sighed as she looked out the window, her chin rested on her hand while she waited for her drink. She had been looking out the window the entire flight and now her curiosity of who was next to her was growing more and more by the second. 'Well I'll have to turn around when our drinks comes so I can see him then' Kaoru thought. Then as if right on queue the flight attendant came over to them carrying both theirs and other people's drinks. Kaoru smiled as she turned over and reached to grab her canned Dr. Pepper, "domo arigato" she said happily to the flight attendant. "So you like Dr. Pepper huh kid?" the person next to her asked, his voice was rough and deep so it was easy for Kaoru to figure out he was a male but she couldn't get a good enough view to see his face which was hiding under a hood of a black jacket, he didn't even turn to face her. He just kept looking ahead and dodging Kaoru's moving head that was trying to see his face. "Hai!" Kaoru exclaimed giving up, "I love it!"
The man's voice tone didn't change and he didn't laugh at her enthusiasm, "hai it is good." Kaoru smiled at that after all there weren't that many Dr. Pepper fans that she knew, "so where are you off to? Tokyo, Esu?" Kaoru opened her can and smiled as she turned to look out the window again. "I'm heading to Tokyo to visit my Mother's old friend" "that's nice to hear," said the man, "I'm returning to Tokyo from a business trip in Esu." "Cool" Kaoru said before taking a big gulp of her Dr. Pepper.
She turned to look out the window again and smiled when she saw Narita airport come into view. (A/N- If any one knows the names of some airports in Tokyo or Kyoto or has an idea for a name then please tell me) It was a site to see, standing tall and proud and ready for their airplane to come in "well it seems we're finally here after a long 5 hour flight" said the man. "Hey Mr.?" Kaoru asked when they got up "yes?" he asked "can you please tell me your name ya know just in case I get lost our something." He hesitated for a moment, she was so calm and gentle he said "it's Seijurou, Hiko Seijurou," with that he turned and asked, "what is yours?" "Kamiya Kaoru."
(A/N- It's hard to see Hiko drinking Dr. Pepper isn't it?)
"Right then" Hiko said before grabbing his few things from the compartment above them and walked away. Kaoru looked after him but grabbed her bokken and walked off also, once she was out of the plane she placed her bokken behinds her back and walked out of Narita airport.
"Great," Kaoru sighed, "now all I have to do is find a man that I've never even met before and rarely heard off."
Kaoru looked around and saw someone get into a taxi "hey Mr.!" she called out after him but he closed the door and the taxi drove away. "May I help you Miss?" Kaoru turned around and looked behind her and saw a man wearing a uniform looking at her "nani?" Kaoru asked "may I help you?" he repeated. "I doubt it" Kaoru said.
"Why don't you try me?" the man asked her "well okay," Kaoru said uncertainly, "I'm looking for a man named something Genzai" "something Genzai?" he asked surprised. "Hai do you know where he lives?" Kaoru asked "hai Miss." The man said, "he's my families doctor" "yay!" Kaoru cried jumping up and down. "Can you tell me where he lives?" she asked "hai" the man said, "come" he made a gesture for her to follow him with her hand and they walked over to the street. Waving his hand a taxi pulled over and the man opened the door for Kaoru to climb in. "You look like you don't have much money on you" the uniformed man said to Kaoru "iie" Kaoru sighed remembering all the money she had used to get to Kyoto Airport and buy her airplane ticket.
"Here," the uniformed man said handing the taxi driver some money, "this should be enough for your trip." "Um...arigato sir" Kaoru said doing her best to bow in taxi. "Your very welcome" said the man and told the driver to take Kaoru to Dr. Genzai's place before slamming the door shut. "So you're off to Dr. Genzai's place huh?" asked the driver "uh....hai" Kaoru said.
"What's your name kid, you here alone?" asked the driver "hai, my name is Kamiya Kaoru and I'm visiting Dr. Genzai who is a friend of my mother's" "neat" said the driver. "Yeah my name's Samika Reta, and it's been awhile since any one's asked to go visit there."
"Why?" Kaoru asked, "is something wrong with him?" "oh no no no," replied Reta, "he usually comes to visit the people that's all" "oh."
Kaoru sighed and Reta looked at her with the rear view mirror "you practice swordsmanship?" Reta asked Kaoru when she noticed Kaoru's bokken. "Huh?" Kaoru asked, "oh hai, my family used to teach our style to other's before my..." Kaoru choked. "Hey you don't have to mention something personal" Reta said noticing it "nani?" Kaoru asked, "oh it's just we stopped teaching it when my mother died" Kaoru smiled. It felt like she had just taken a load off her back, it wasn't that often that she spoke about her mother. "What's your style?" Reta asked "the Kamiya Kasshin Ryu" Kaoru replied proudly.
"Cool name" Reta said "arigato" Kaoru said. Reta laughed "your quite the adventuress one Kaoru" "nani?" Kaoru asked Reta, "What makes you say that?" "well not many people come around this area of Tokyo that often without someone with them." Kaoru was about to ask why when Reta pulled up a house "here we are kid," Reta said as Kaoru got out, "it was nice talking to you." Once Kaoru shut the door Reta drove off. Kaoru carried her bokken ready for an attack as she slowly walked up to Dr. Genzai's home.
She knocked on the door and waited listening to some noises in the home. "Hai?" some one called from inside, "who is it?" Kaoru gulped and said "its Kamiya Kaoru."
"I'm here to" but before she could finish her sentence the door flew open and out stepped a cheerful man. "Why could it really be?!" he asked himself, "could you really be Kamiya Kaoru?!" "um...hai" Kaoru said a little afraid. "It's great to see you!" he cried pulling Kaoru into a tight hug, which made Kaoru drop her bokken. She made a small squeak at the sudden hug but smiled when she was released. "Gomen Kaoru," he said, "I am Dr. Genzai and it's just been so long since I've seen you."
"When was the last time you saw me?" Kaoru asked him "why when I first saw you Kaoru, you were just a mere baby no older than...give me a moment...3 years old that was it!" Kaoru laughed. "Hai you've grown so much I almost thought you were some prankster but when I saw your face...it felt like I was looking at your mother." Kaoru sweat dropped at this and laughed and Dr. Genzai grabbed her and pulled her inside.
The inside was warm and welcoming to Kaoru, it had a wooden floor and wooden stairs, and there was a long rug in one of the halls that led to the kitchen. If you took a few steps away from the door you would see on your right a small glass like table with four chairs with one on each side. Then on your left you saw a little room that had toys scattered all over the place. Kaoru then followed Dr. Genzai into the kitchen "you must be hungry from your trip from Kyoto," he said to Kaoru "wait is Yahiko here with you?!" "iie Dr. Genzai," Kaoru told him, "he's still back in Kyoto and is staying with one of his friends." Dr. Genzai looked at Kaoru almost like he was looking into her heart, mind, and soul, trying to figure out what she wasn't telling him.
"Well then Kaoru," Dr. Genzai said, "why don't I make some food and you can go explore a little." Kaoru nodded her head and turned around "but when you go upstairs please be quite because the girls are sleeping." Kaoru nodded 'why are they still sleeping? It's 4:12 p.m.'
However Kaoru went up stairs and walked around. Right next to the stairs was a wooden railing so you wouldn't fall down, the railing was painted white and when Kaoru placed her hand on it she smiled. It was so unlike her railing back in Kyoto, which was broken and run down from all the slams, and crashes that had been put upon it.
Kaoru sighed and said, "if only I had asked Yahiko to come with me, but he had friends to stay with, and he obviously wouldn't want to leave if I told him we were coming here. He actually has a life in Kyoto, unlike me." Kaoru removed her hand from the clean railing and began to walk left where there was an open door. She peeked in and looked around "wow" she whispered. The room had two windows, which gave it lots of light and brightened things up. The bed had clean sheets, which were all white; it wasn't that high from the ground but high enough that things could fit under it.
Kaoru ran over to the windows and looked out, it had nice curtains that were nice and light and they blew around in the light breeze. The window over looked the side of the home where Kaoru could see mountains and green grass holding up some trees and bushes. Kaoru walked over to the wardrobe and ran her fingers along it's dented like pattern, however it was made dented and had not been dented by the home. Looking around Kaoru saw a wooden desk "Dr. Genzai really seems to like wood" Kaoru said. She gently placed her hands along the clean straight computer desk and looked around.
She walked back over to the door and turned around to take one last glimpse at the room before moving onto another room.
The door was closed but there was a creak just enough for Kaoru to her some light sounds from inside. Trying her best to stay quite she changed her position to see if she could get a glimpse of who was in there. "Most likely those girls Dr. Genzai was talking about are the ones in there" Kaoru said. She walked into another room that was right next to that one "uh..." Kaoru was speechless she had no clue what to say.
The room had a queen size bed in it prepared with white sheets with blue, pink, and yellow flowers on it. The balcony over looked the backyard where there grew a flower garden and some cherry blossom trees. The balcony was white and hard, Kaoru wasn't able to however figure out what type of stone or mixture was used for it. She turned around and realized that the balcony had a sliding glass doors and it had a railing bottom just like the one at the stairs.
There was a desk like the one in the other room placed with a paper pad and was obviously a computer desk however there was no computer. She looked at the wooden wardrobe that stood next to the desk Kaoru felt it. Unlike the other one there was no pattern except for the legs that held up the wardrobe. It was made to look like lions, paws. Kaoru tried to open the door but it was stuck shut. It was almost as if it hadn't been opened for a long time and now had returned to a connection with the wood.
"Gomen Kaoru" Dr. Genzai said from behind her making Kaoru jump. She sighed and looked at him, "nani do you mean?" Kaoru asked him. "I mean you won't be able to open that wardrobe" he told her, "why is that?" Kaoru asked him, "it doesn't look like it needs a key." "Iie iie iie Kaoru it's just that I have never been able to open it before." "Nani?" Kaoru asked him, "why not?" "I'm not sure Kaoru but let's not think about that now," Dr. Genzai said, "I'll show you more of the house later but right now let's eat!"
"Shouldn't we wake the girls?" Kaoru asked "oh iie," he told Kaoru, "they'll wake up as soon as we begin just watch." Kaoru shrugged but followed Dr. Genzai out of the kitchen.
"So tell me Kaoru why have you come here to Tokyo?" Dr. Genzai asked demo before Kaoru could answer him two girls ran into the room. "Kaoru meet Suzume and Ayame my two nieces" the two girls looked at Kaoru for a moment before Ayame took Kaoru's hand and said "be our friend" then Ayame grabbed Kaoru's other hand and copied her older sister "be our friend" she said. Kaoru smiled and said "of course I'll be your friend" the two girls smiled and sat across from each other while Kaoru and Dr. Genzai took their seats at the longer ends of the table. "Kaoru's our new friend" Ayame told Dr. Genzai "she's our new friend" Suzume repeated. (A/N-What do Ayame and Suzume call Dr. Genzai again? Does anybody know? If so please tell me)
Kaoru smiled as she looked at them then at her food and stared at her chopsticks she grabbed them and dug in "ahem" Dr. Genzai coughed. "Huh?" Kaoru asked looking up at him she saw Ayame and Suzume looking at her too "girls" Dr. Genzai said. The two children looked down and interlocked their hands "Kaoru" Dr. Genzai said. Then it struck Kaoru, 'they do some sort of grace before they eat' she blushed in embarrassment glad that she was looking down so that no one could see her. "Kaoru would you like to say grace" Dr. Genzai asked Kaoru who remained face down as she turned even redder "um...well you see I've never done grace before" "oh alright then I will" Kaoru frowned she had just gotten here and she had already embarrassed herself and it was only lunch.
'They probably hate me know' Kaoru thought, if her father were here with her he would be so ashamed of her he would slap her for not knowing any kind of grace. He would probably do it even if he weren't drunk for once. Dr. Genzai's words broke her thoughts.
"Through rich or poor we ask no more of our food we hold, we will love and thank-you all even if it's just a mere crumb of bread. So we share our food and drinks with as many as we can through rich and poor we ask of no more as long as we have each other and some bread"
Dr. Genzai finished and Kaoru sweat dropped. 'Never heard that one before' she said to herself sadly before she looked up "now you can eat Kaoru" Kaoru smiled "hai! Arigato" she cried before bring her bowl of rice right over to her mouth where she made sure she wouldn't miss a bite. "This is delicious!" she cried as she reached over and grabbed some milk and poured it into her cup. "I have never had such a wonderful lunch in my life!" Kaoru sighed, she looked at everyone who was now staring at her. "Gomen demo we don't get a lot to eat back at home." "That's alright Kaoru" Dr. Genzai said watching Kaoru look at him "um...I will go wash my things now" she said picking up her rice bowl, and the plate where she had placed some fish and rice balls and other foods, and her cup. She sighed and walked into the kitchen and walked over to the sink "that was so embarrassing" she said to herself as she put her plate, bowl, and cup in the sink.
Taking her hand she wiped off as much as she could off her things, and placed them all in the dishwasher. "I know I'll have to tell him sometime" Kaoru said to herself sadly but it's just so hard."
"Wait where did that all come from?" she asked herself, "I need to go train," she said as she walked back over to the door where she had left her bokken. "I need to practice a little so I'll be out back if you need me" Kaoru said.
She walked back into the kitchen and slid open the glass door so she could step out. Once she was outside she closed the door behind her, "I hope Yahiko is okay" she said as she got into a position and began to do some moves. She then began to swing her sword back and forth "1...2...3...4..." Kaoru kept on going her back turned to the door she didn't see Dr. Genzai step out with Ayame and Suzume. Who began to swing pretend swords around "63...64...65...66..." she suddenly heard giggling from behind her and stopped her swings to see the two girls and her mothers friend watching her. Kaoru laughed a little "how many do you plan on doing Kaoru?" Dr. Genzai asked her "oh just 100 right now" Kaoru replied going back to her swings "67...68...69...70..." "alright then I'll see you later Kaoru" Dr. Genzai said as he led the girls back inside the home. "Bye," Kaoru said, "these are really going to help me later on or at least I have a strong feeling." "91...92...93...94...95...96...97...98...99...100..." Kaoru sighed she had barely begun but she wanted to explore the house some more. "Dr. Genzai" she called out when she went back inside, she closed the door behind her and locked it before walking around the house calling out for him.
"Hai Kaoru?" Dr. Genzai said suddenly appearing making Kaoru jump once again. "Oh you said you were going to show me around some rooms" Kaoru reminded him "of hai I was wasn't it" Dr. Genzai laughed. "Demo first have some water" he said handing her a glass. 'He obviously doesn't know me that well' she thought but she took the water anyway. "Arigato Dr. Genzai" Kaoru thanked him placing the glass on the table "Kaoru are you running from something?" he asked her 'he's a very straight forward man' Kaoru thought. She sighed and looked at him, 'it's not time,' she thought, 'I'm not ready yet' "iie Dr. Genzai" she replied.
"Alright Kaoru," he said, "if something's wrong though you must promise to come and tell me no matter what it is okay?" Kaoru sighed but agreed suddenly she felt very weak. An image of Yahiko flashed through her mind, he was reading her note and collapsing on a chair crying. "Gomen" Kaoru whispered "nani?" Dr. Genzai asked "huh? Oh it's nothing" Kaoru replied quickly.
Kaoru looked into his eyes sadly "um Dr. Genzai I have a question" "hai?" he asked her "where will I be staying?" "ah hai you will be staying in the room with the wardrobe that we can't open" "arigato" Kaoru said before slowly walking out of the kitchen, through the hallway, up the stairs and walking into her room. "I have a major headache" she complained as she placed her bokken against the wall next the desk and closed the door. She stood in front of the mirror and began to braid her hair she sighed as she thought of every thing that had happened to her all these years.
A drunken father, a dead mother, no friends at school, continuously being made fun of, watching Yahiko get hurt all the time, the laughs of the misunderstandings. Yet there was also a good thing in all her life. Only one good thing that she could think of and it was saving Yahiko. She had put her life in danger to save his she knew it would have been too much to watch Yahiko die. She wouldn't be able to stand it, not one little bit. So she had sent him for the police.
Yet he not only got the police he also got an ambulance to save her life. That was the only thing she could think of, them helping each other, they needed each other to live, other wise they would both feel pain. They would both feel anger. They would both blame themselves for what had happened. But Yahiko save her life just like she had saved his and that's the good thing, their sibling love.
Kaoru sighed as she finished braiding her hair, when she had gone back home to grab her bokken she hadn't thought of bringing any clothes or something with her. So she simply slid of her shoes and got into her new bed in her new room, she had no other clothes so she wore her old sweaty school uniform.
She slid deep under the covers letting the warm feeling touch her skin. Her old blankets were old and dirty and thin, so during the winter the she nearly froze to death. She loved this home, she loved this bed, the food was good and she didn't have to pay for it like she and Yahiko had used to. Back in Kyoto they had gone out to a restaurant to eat every night they could. Otherwise they just wouldn't eat. Kaoru sighed as she closed her eyes 'it's not that I don't want to tell him,' she thought, 'it's just...I'm not ready' Kaoru turned so she was on her right side and after that last thought she fell asleep. With both a smile and a frown on her face.
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