Authors Note: People who read the original second chapter, I suggest you read the last part again because I reposted. I thank my reviewers for telling me I screwed up. There is an explanation why in the A/N of chap 2. There is no betaing for this chapter either. Thanks for the reviews. Well, on to the story.

Disclaimer: nope, don't own rurouni kenshin

Chapter 3

Kaoru woke up to the sound of chirping. She also woke up to find that she was asleep on the couch. How did she get here? She looked down and saw some red hair.

"Strange I don't have red hair." Kaoru said to herself.

"Yeah but I do." Kenshin got up with a moan, "I think I fell asleep."

"I think you did to." Kaoru remarked sarcastically, "Why are you here anyway?"

"FYI, I can't drive your car to work and drive both of them back." Kenshin paused, "I mean I know I'm talented and everything, but that's just impossible." His last remark had earned a glare from Kaoru.

"I'll go cook breakfast." Kaoru yawned

"NO!!" This statement got Kenshin up immediately, "I'm cooking." Kaoru shook her head at this. She wanted a chance to show what she could do in the kitchen (which wasn't much.)

"Nope it's ok I'll cook breakfast." Kaoru was already heading toward the kitchen. Kenshin ran and blocked the doorway.

"I am not offering to cook, I am telling that I am going to cook." Kenshin turned and locked her out of the kitchen. Whew, that was a close one, Kenshin thought. If she had cooked I'd be in the hospital by noon. He got out his supplies, which consisted of some eggs and a pancake mixture. Then he started to whistle as he mixed the eggs with the pancake mixture as well as water. When he was done he put it on the pan and turned the heat on.

After he finished cooking, he called the two to breakfast. They all sat around the table. Kaoru was staring at the pancakes in aw. She probably couldn't make something this good in a million years. She sighed. Kenshin looked at her knowing the reason for her sigh and grinned.

"So, is breakfast good? I mean, I think your breakfast would have been..." Kenshin didn't have to finish the sentence knowing that they all knew what he was implying. Kaoru, indignantly, lifted her chin.

"Well even though I'm not that great at cooking I might be better than you in other things." 'Not that great at cooking' had to be the greatest understatement in the world. Kenshin started to laugh but changed it to a cough when Kaoru made to throw the syrup at him. Yahiko who had been sitting watching the exchange went back to eating his pancakes.

"By the way, I have to get to school early today so I can get ready to present my report." Yahiko said, taking another bite of pancake, "ok?"

"Sure, oh yeah, you didn't do your homework yesterday did you?" Kaoru accused

"Didn't have any," was his immediate answer, "Its because we had a presentation."

"I'll drop you off on the way to work," Kaoru thought for a moment, "We also have to pick up the pictures." Kenshin nodded.

Once breakfast was finished they all got ready and got in the car. Kaoru had protested Kenshin driving but since Yahiko and Kenshin wanted it, she was out voted.

When Kenshin and Kaoru arrived at there offices they found there boss waiting for them.

"I want an update from you two about the case." Their boss said to Kenshin. He was ignoring Kaoru.

"We have found a r-r." he stopped as he got a look from Kaoru, "I mean, we haven't found anything suspicious yet."

"U-Umm," Kaoru cut in.

"I'm done here, get to work." The boss went back to his office at the end of the hall.

"Sexist freek," Kaoru muttered as she opened the door and went in.

"Well, I guess males are just more reliable." Kenshin declared airily putting a hand on his chest, "I, a specimen of the dominant sex, should know." Kaoru elbowed him ruining his know-it-all atmosphere.

"Males are deffinatly not the dominent sex. They just express their stupidity by being loud about it. Woman are smart, they just don't brag. There will be crazy woman, but none of them are stupid."(no offense to males or anything) Kaoru started to laugh.

"Kenshin, you know I just realized, woman are crazy men are stupid." Kenshin made a face.

"You know, half of that is definitely true, you really are crazy, but..." He pretended to think for a while, "I'm not stupid." Kaoru gave an unladylike snort.

"Lets just take a look at these," She waved the pictures. She took them out of the envelope and she furrowed her brow when she looked at it. It was a bunch of pictures of women. But when you looked closely, you could see that the womans face was made of other small pictures. The pictures that made up the face were miniscule. She looked up at Kenshin, handing him the pictures. "We'll have to enlarge these." Kaoru sighed as she took some of the pictures back. Great, more work.

"Wait a second, look here." Kenshin pointed to one of the pictures. From far away, it was a picture of a girls face, but when you looked closer, the picture had certain times listed on it.

"What could that be?"

"Good question," Kenshin remarked rolling his eyes, "I don't know. But maybe, just maybe, its our job to find out." Kenshin suggested. It was Kaoru's turn to roll her eyes.

"I know."

"Then why'd you ask."

"According to the fourteenth amendment I am a citizen of the U.S that has rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which also includes speech. I can say whatever I want to say."

"I agree entirely, but while I'm here, could you refrain to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness which also includes intelligent speech?" Kenshin asked as politely as possible.

"I am intelligent." Kaoru retorted.

"I never said you weren't intelligent, I just said whatever comes out of your mouth was."

"I beg to differ. I always say intelligent things." Kaoru was getting mad.

"Intelligence is a matter of opinion, your standards are just lower than mine is all." Kenshin while saying this hadn't been paying attention to Kaoru. Once he had finished his sentence, Kaoru pounced on him, pummeling him.

outside the office

"OOOOWWW!!!!! What the heck was that, oooow, forrr!!!"

crash

"ow"

Bang

"You crazy beast!!"

sweatdrop

In the office Kenshin was lying on the ground a hand on his head, rubbing a rather tender bump. He glowered at her. She had jumped on him, hit him several times in the head, and took a book and chucked it at his chest. The book had hit strait on. He peered at Kaoru. She was eyeing her handy-work. Or, in other words, gloating.

Kenshin gave a grunt as he lifted himself off the floor and brushed off his clothes.

"Well, that was interesting, why don't we get some work done?" Kenshin suggested. They both headed toward the overhead printer and printed out a copy of each picture enlarged. By the time they got back to the office, Kaoru was no longer mad. That didn't mean that people didn't stop giving them funny looks. Kaoru took out an overhead as Kenshin pulled down the screen. As Kaoru finished adjusting it, she put the photograph on. The pictures inside the picture showed places. These places, however, weren't clear enough for them to tell where they were located.

Kenshin scratched his head.

"Oro." Kaoru looked at him.

"What?" He pointed at one of the small pictures. Indicating the small figures in there. Kaoru looked closer, they looked like military men.

"That looks like the U.S military." The picture next to that had 2:30pm written on it. Kaoru backed away.

"I think that has the U.S military shifts on it." Kaoru was sounding as if she was spelling out a puzzle, "And over here indicates the time, and this indicates between shifts. hmm" Kaoru took out another picture. She pointed out that this picture was made up of pictures with multiple numbers.

"This looks like a program written for a..." Kaoru paused and looked at the whole picture. It was of a woman sitting at a bar. The significance of this woman was that she had abnormally long hair put up quite unnaturally. The small pictures that made up her hair were of small black numbers. She was holding a cup in her hand. Kaoru tilted the picture to the side and saw that her hair was made to look like a black device. It showed what to use to build it.

"I see it too." Kenshin remarked as he pointed to the hair.

"I think we should put this together, see what we come out with. I think," Kaoru indicated toward the numbers and letters, "is how we program it plus set it up." They looked at each other. They both seemed to know that they had stumbled upon something dangerous.

"Umm, we could put it together today. I'm pretty good with computers and such." "Yeah I am too," Kenshin mumbled as he running a hand threw hi hair, "and I thought this case would be easy."

"Yup, me too." Kaoru sifted through the pile of pictures again and shook her head.

"Looks like a lot of work."

"I don't think this is Shishio's doing. He's not smart enough for something so...so complicated, I mean, look at this," Kaoru fingered the pictures, "I bet he's just part of it and being part of a photo shoot is the perfect cover up for having these."

"Yeah, these could easily be mistaken for modeling. We only looked this closely because we were investigating."

"I want to toss this whole mess into someone else's lap, I suddenly feel like I'm under paid." Kenshin grinned at this.

"Aww, don't be lazy. It's just getting fun." Kenshin drawled

"Fun? This isn't fun! It's work." Kaoru got up, "Lets get to making this dumb thing."

Kenshin suddenly grabbed her over to him and pointed to a picture. They both froze.

I'm done, phew. I want to go to sleep z Z z Z z Z z. I seem to be writing allways at night or something and thats why I make so many mistakes. Oh well-yawn-bye :0zZzZ