Kenshin's Chick: Wow. Finally I have time to update. We have been moving into a new house all the past week. Even over Easter Break. So I apologize for the inconvenience I may have caused. Plus for this chapter I kind of had a brain fart. Don't really know why. School has been murder and hasn't helped it any.
Dragon: I bet being short doesn't help either.
Foxy: *laughs hysterically*
Kenshin's Chick: *sobs* But guys I'm really not that short. Stop making fun of me. Just because one of you is almost 6 foot and the other is a couple inches taller than me doesn't mean I am super short. You guys should think about how tall our P.E. teacher is. I mean she is as tall as Kenshin was and I'm 4 inches taller than that!
Dragon: True she is a midget, but so are you.
Foxy: *giggles harder*
Kenshin: Oro? What is that supposed to mean? Why does everyone call me a midget? Bri-dono, what are they doing here anyway? I thought this was fan fiction.
Kenshin's Chick: I really have no idea Kenshin. Will you guys let me type out the chapter please?
Dragon and Foxy: *both laugh evilly and loud*
Kenshin's Chick: *backs away from friends* Ummm . . . anyway I believe I should continue with the fan fic.
Kenshin: They were starting to really make me wonder if they needed help, that they did.
Dragon and Foxy: What is that supposed to mean Kenshin?!
Kenshin's Chick: Oh boy. This does not look good. It may get ugly.
Disclaimer: This one is unworthy of owning Rurouni Kenshin and always will be. Although I wish I did own it. *sigh*
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Ch. 2- Trouble
After a while of lying there just enjoying each other's company, they decided they should get up and walk around town. The couple had planned things to do but was just taking their time.
Kaoru picked out her favorite blue kimono with a white obi. She left her hair down because that was the way Kenshin liked it. Then she put on some of her jasmine perfume, which Kenshin also liked. They were married now and she knew she didn't have to impress him, but she loved seeing him look at her the way he did when she dressed like this.
The eighteen-year-old girl turned around and smiled at her husband. He smiled back in his own Kenshin way.
It felt so different to them waking up together and then getting dressed to go do basically nothing. They were both so used to having chores to do and being alone. This though, was a nice change.
"Shall we go then koishii?" Kenshin said walking towards the door but still looking at Kaoru.
"Of course Kenshin." She said taking his small hand as they walked out the door and into the street.
It was already pretty warm outside even though the sun had just come up. The streets were already busy with tourists and people coming to do their shopping. A cool breeze still came from over the seaport and it helped douse the heat.
"Flowers! Fresh Flowers! Lovely blossoms for sale!" An elderly lady with flowers walking by the couple yelled.
"Hold on a second Kaoru." The red head said pulling away. Kaoru stopped walking and watched him confused. He walked up to the lady and bought a beautiful blue flower. The raven-haired girl smiled at this. Kenshin had never done something like this before. It was so sweet of him.
Her anata came back and moved back her hair behind her ear. The blue flower's stem he placed behind the ear so the flower would stay put. A smile encompassed his face during it all with happiness.
Kaoru had noticed a very big change in Kenshin since the letter from Sakura. He seemed to be at peace and happy. She had always thought that she could never make him as happy as Tomoe had, but she learned during the night Kenshin seemed to think differently on that and he had told Kaoru so.
No longer was he a rurouni.
"Did I tell you how beautiful you look?" Kenshin asked her. Kaoru tilted her head and smiled.
"Hai."
"Well I'm telling you again Kaoru. And that thing about you will never change. Me loving you will never change either, that it will not."
"Kenshin . . . . ."
They both leaned in to kiss when they started to hear screaming and shouting and jumped back in surprise as a group of very large men came running through the street.
"Move out of the way! Or else get hurt by standing in our way," one of the large men yelled over the large crowd.
"We are looking for the man they call Himura Kenshin!" another said.
Kaoru's eyes widened and she turned to her husband. She couldn't understand why these angry men were after Kenshin. It was supposed to be a secret about them being there so they could avoid trouble.
"They're looking for you?" the girl said in confusion.
Kenshin's eyes narrowed as some of the men ran by. "Apparently."
"But why? We haven't even been out of our bedroom until now."
"I don't know why they want me Kaoru, but I intend to find out."
Raccoon girl wanted to cry in angriness and pure frustration. This was their honeymoon and it was being ruined already. "But Kenshin," she continued, "it's our honeymoon and you promised you wouldn't fight anymore!"
The ex-rurouni only smiled at Kaoru and her concern. He couldn't help but still find her beautiful even in a situation like this. In fact this was when she really shone to him. She was right though, he had made a promise and he was not going to break another ever again.
"I only want to find out so it is not ruined Kaoru. A promise is a promise, that it is." He said walking towards the group of large men.
Suddenly he felt a large tug on his ponytail and then was pulled, along with Kaoru, into a building closest to them.
"Oro!"
"What in Kami's name?" Kaoru yelled just as confused.
The person who had pulled them into the shop let go of them as soon as they got into a room where no one but them were. Kaoru and Kenshin both immediately turned to the person confused. (And in Kaoru's case very pissed off.) Their eyes almost bugged out of their heads when they saw who it was.
"Toki!" They said in perfect unison.
*(KC: If you have seen the Samurai X motion picture movie for the series just skip the next paragraph. It's just a filler for those who don't know who she is. I apologize for anything that may be misspelled.)*
Toki was a nineteen-year-old girl they had met the previous year in Yokohama on a trip. They had helped her and her mentor Shigure Takimi. Unfortunately Takimi had tried to start back up the clans of Isu and Shogi Tai. All would have gone well for him if not for Kenshin trying to stop Shigure for Toki's sake and then Shigure finding out then that in the revolution Kenshin had killed Toki's older brother and his good friend Gentatsu. In a desperate last battle Shigure was shot and killed after forgiving Kenshin by a traitor in the police force. So now Toki was again alone in the world.
"What were you doing Himura-san?" she said frowning at him.
Kenshin blinked in his most innocent way still wondering what she was doing here. "I was going to see what they wanted, that I was Toki-dono."
"Don't do that! Their intentions are not good! I heard a group of them talking as I walked by. They want to kill you and anyone related to you!" The girl said this still with a frown but more concern and worry was in her eyes.
"But why are they after Kenshin and I?" Kaoru finally piped up.
Toki turned her gaze towards Kaoru. "I only wish I knew Kaoru-san. It was getting dangerous walking around there because they were starting to notice me."
"Toki-dono what did this group look like? Did they have a symbol or something like it that would come in useful to find their background?"
"They were all foreign men." Toki said pulling out a strange flag from her kimono. It was red, white, and blue. Kenshin immediately recognized it. A British flag.
"The British," Kenshin said in deep thought, "Why are they after me though I wonder. I have only tried to help them in the past. Are you sure they want to kill me Toki-dono?"
She shook her head. "Hai. And something else too, like I mentioned before. Apparently they know you're married and they wish to kill Kaoru-san just as much if not more and . . . ."
"What Toki?" Kaoru said fearing what she was going to say next.
"Well they said that . . . if they ever heard that you guys had a child that they would want to kill it as much as Himura-san. They take it as a terrible threat if you guys bare a child."
Kaoru's stomach lurched and she felt sick. This was even worse now. People they didn't even know were ruining the rest of their marriage now and not just their honeymoon.
"How did you find this out Toki-dono? You said you walked by but I suspect that there is a little more to it. Isn't that true?" Kenshin and his purple narrowed eyes said.
Toki bowed her head in shame. "You always know don't you Himura-san? Hai, I should have told you this from the beginning. I was spying on groups to find out some information on the disappearances of Gentatsu's old friends. They are all disappearing suddenly. Nobody knows why. I just wanted to try and investigate. I know that it was wrong of me."
Kenshin walked over and set his hand on Toki's shoulder. Kaoru walked over with him, a smile now on her face. Toki reminded her somewhat of herself in some ways. In a lot of others she was totally different. She admired Toki in this way.
"I understand how you feel," Kaoru's husband said, "It just wasn't safe, that it was not. You really should just leave it to the police. They'll figure it out I'm sure."
A tear ran down Toki's cheek.
"I know. Its just-"
"Where are you Himura!" they heard those large men yell again. "We know you and your wife are here!"
Toki jumped and told Kenshin and Kaoru to follow her. She led them to the back of the shop and let them out the door giving them two train tickets.
"It is no longer safe here for you two. Here are two tickets back home. Go back as soon as you gather your things. It will be several weeks or months before they will find out where you went. They think you guys live here. I'll do my best to stall them as long as I can."
"Toki . . . . what can we do to thank you?" Kaoru asked.
The nineteen-year-old shook her head. "Nothing. You two have already done so much for me in the past. This is part of my payment to you."
"Toki-dono-" the x-samurai began and then got cut off by another yell from the gang members.
"Just go!" Toki yelled pushing the couple.
Kaoru and Kenshin ran back to the hotel to get their things and leave before they got caught.
"What is going on?" Kaoru wondered aloud as they reached the crowded station a little later.
The red head turned to his koishii and lovingly stroked her hair and noticed the flower was still in the same spot untouched.
"I really don't know Kaoru. But it doesn't seem like they will give up without a fight."
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I hope that this chapter was all right. Like I said I really didn't like writing this chapter. Once again I thank all of my lovely reviewers. And Angel Blossom I thank you for telling me about my typo. I had really meant for it to be spelled with an e and I thought I had but apparently I didn't. Next time I type the word it will be right. I will double check. Well, I will try and update as soon as I can! Keep reviewing everyone! Until next time, sayonara!
