AN: I'm so sorry!!!! My computer broke and I couldn't get Microsoft Word until now!!! I'm SO Sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SWEAR that I will never ever wait that long to update a story!!! Ok...now with the hopefully last chapter of Remember!!!!!!!

I don't own kenshin...or anyone in the series....I wish I did though...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....wishes she had watsuki's talent

Remember- 4 "Revenge For a Love"

A week later

The birds started singing a song. The breeze fled through the house blowing around Kenshin's bright red hair. He started humming the birds' lullaby, it was like he knew the song, and he felt as though Kaoru taught the birds this song. She taught it to him.

Kenshin sat down on the edge of the dojo with his tea. He took a sip and remembered that night. On the night that they confessed...the day she saved him. They kissed and talked, but nothing more. He took another sip and hummed the song again and thought about the person that could have hypnotized him.

I couldn't see his face, but I could feel the ki around him. He's powerful. I could defeat him but, it would be hard without him turning me against Kaoru once more...

"Kenshin?"

I could've killed her; if he strikes again...she could die at my hands...damn...

"Kenshin? Are you in there!?" Kenshin turned his head around finally realizing Kaoru had been shaking his shoulder.

"Oro. Hello kioshii" (sorry if I spelled that wrong)

Kaoru sat down next to him and held his hand. "Kenshin you've been staring off into space lately. What's wrong? Tell me what you're so worried about. You can tell me anything."

Kenshin sighed and kissed her cheek. "I'm just worried about your father's enemy coming back. I don't know if I could ever protect you if I'm hypnotized to kill you...I don't know how to stop him...it's like I can't fight him...I ..."

Kaoru cut him off with a kiss, a sweet one. "Kenshin, I know what you mean, but don't let this get you down. Someway you'll defeat him if he ever gets back, because, you're Kenshin. Besides, if he hurts you, I'll kick his sorry ass."

Kenshin laughed. "Ok. Thank you. I'll go start dinner now. Is Yahiko here?"

"He's at the akabeko helping out Tsubame. But he mentioned that he was going to come here for dinner." She awswered as she got up to walk with him.

They held hands as they walked into the kitchen.

-Later that night

Kaoru sat on the grass with a cup of tea. She sighed and glared up on the sparkling stars above. She smiled and looked down at her reflection in the tea. Her thoughts were of Kenshin.

I wonder what will become of us. Does he love me enough for marriage? For a family? I love him enough...

Something stirred in a tree. The branches were waving and leafs were crackling. She stared at the tree but couldn't see anything. She thought maybe the wind...but there was no sign of any wind at all. It was a hot summer night.

She got up to go to Kenshin, but dropped her tea a as a black figure walked toward her.

Kenshin sat upon his room looking at a picture of his 'so called' family. There were in Yokohama. Sano, Yahiko, Kaoru, and himself. They had saved a train and some rich dude, so they decided to take a picture with the reward money. He laughed as he looked at Sano, he was as rigid as a rock. He thought that pictures take one year off of your life. Then he looked at Kaoru.

I love her so much...

crash

Kenshin spun his head around and ran out his room. Kaoru...

He stopped at the grass where he had seen Kaoru lay in earlier, then stared at the broken cup of spilt tea. He searched the area.

"Kaoru...Kaoru are you here?" He ran to her room, the bathroom, everywhere. She wasn't there. Kenshin bit his lip. Dammit...

Wait. I hadn't checked where her wooden swords are!!!

He ran there with all his might. He was starting to sweat and his hair was coming loose from the rubber band. Kenshin closed his eyes once he got there. She wasn't here. But something was missing...one of her wooden swords were gone.

He walked in and looked around the room. His eyes widened, there was blood on the wall. Not a lot, but...it was still fresh. Kenshin walked out toward the gate and called out Kaoru's name. He ran out to the town still calling her name.

"hyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Kenshin knew that voice. The park! Kaoru I'm coming!

There she was, fighting a tall, ugly looking Chinese guy. Kenshin felt his ki. It was the same as the intruder. Kaoru's hair had fallen down and had a huge gash on her shoulder. But she was determined in this battle. She was running and jumping and was winning.

Kenshin sat down. He knew that she knew that he was there. He would help her if she was in trouble. But the main question of his mind was, why hadn't he hypnotized her? Told her to kill her self or something, didn't the intruder want to kill her? He was so confused! Kenshin smiled. Kaoru had jumped up and hit the killer on the back of the neck to knock him out. She won.

Kaoru then sat down and wiped off the sweat on her forehead. She looked at kenshin who was watching her. He got up and ran toward her.

He sat down next to her and looked her in the eyes. She was mad.

"And why didn't you come to my rescue? He did have a sword you know. I thought you cared about me!" Kenshin suddenly threw his arms around her neck, pushing her down.

"Kenshin?" She hugged him back.

His violet eyes stared into her sapphire ones. He felt like crying he was so happy.

"Kaoru, you have no idea how worried I was about you! You probably caused me to lose 10 years in aging. I thought I lost you, I love you so much...I guess I forgot that I loved a fighter, not an average girl. That's why I didn't come help, you were stronger, better, and looked like you didn't need my help."

Kaoru laughed at him. "I guess I do see a couple wrinkles. Thank you." She leaned up to his face and kissed him. It was powerful.

"Kaoru, I have something to ask you. I love you so much and, well..." he paused and took a deep breathe, "will you marry me?"

Kaoru really felt like passing out, "Yes Kenshin of course! What in hell took you so long! I wanted you to ask me that even before Shishio!" She smiled.

"Really? That long ago, I did too. We'll go shopping for a ring tomorrow. Right now you need sleep and I'll tend to your wound. But...one thing. How did you not get hypnotized from him? I couldn't stop it, how did you?"

Kaoru smirked and playfully hit him. "Kenshin, all I did was think of you. The whole time I was fighting I heard voices, telling me to kill myself, put me out of my misery. But I wasn't in misery, I had you. So he failed. It really WASN'T that hard. You could have stopped him." She looked at his confused face and flicked him in the head. Then kissed him. She was happy that her life was now complete.

He picked her up and started toward the dojo once again. His life was now perfect.

Except for one thing...Do I really have wrinkles?

Yes I'm done! Are you now satisfied? Please in the name of God tell me what you think. Now I have to sleep...But I just saw "Exorcist: the Beginning" Like I can sleep now.................................................That movie was damn creepy...but kind of funny...Buahahahahahaahahaha!!!!!!

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