This chappie coming to you from Isla De Margarita, Venezuela. I'm sorta
sick right now and since I have nothing better to do, I'll write a chapter
for you guys. I hope you like it, don't worry the secret isn't as bad as
you think! Actually I bring you more fluff, this time it's a tearjerker.
Remember I don't own Rurouni Kenshin, but I'd like to chain him to a wall
in my basement. XD Also, please forgive any oddities in this story because
my mind is altered by the music I'm listening to. It's a song by X-Japan
called Sadistic Desire, when you finish reading this go download it.
Kaoru reached up and turned on the light next to their bed. She sat up and looked down at Battousai, now sitting as well. He gave a deep sigh. This was something that he didn't want her to know, just in case she thought something would come of it.
"Kaoru, I want you to know that no matter what I tell you, I still love you and no one can change that." He told her with a small smile.
She was starting to get afraid. She had no idea what he would tell her, and the unknown made it even worse.
Battousai gave her a 'don't worry it's not as bad as it seems' look. "Well, when I was 15 my memories of the past started coming back. At that point in time, I was a very emotionally unstable young man. After all I had never seen so much death and destruction before, let alone come to terms that I had created it. I never knew how I came to be so good with a sword until then." He paused and gave a deep sigh, one of a man dredging up bad memories. "Well, one day I glanced at the Television in my apartment, this was after I was kicked out mind you, and I saw a sight I'll never forget. The reporter was talking to a man, a very tall man of about 40 years. He had long dark green hair and he was a businessman. This man's name was Seijuro, Hiko."
Kaoru gave a gasp. "Not that Seijuro, Hiko!" She had heard a lot about Battousai's old training master.
"The very same, Kaoru. That was one thing that startled me. The other thing was that the lady was commenting on his marriage to a young model by the name of Yukino (Sp?) Tomoe. At that point in time I knew I had to meet with both of them. I needed to sort out my memories, especially the memories of a time when I wasn't in control of my body. This was the time I spent with you Kaoru. Mainly, I thought that these people might be able to tell me where you were. I was quite infatuated with your memory by then, and I supposed that you too had been reincarnated. I had to get Marron and the guys drive me to the office building where Hiko worked. I told the lady at the front desk to tell Mr. Seijuro that Kenshin Himura was there to see him. I guess the only reason he let me into his office was because he was vaguely intrigued by my appearance. I came to find that this man may have the same body and soul as my old master, but he was an entirely different person. This man would never have saved a small slave boy unless there was a profit in it for him. Tomoe had changed too. Growing up in a different setting has caused both of them to be cold hearted and greedy. That wasn't why I went crazy. I went crazy because you might have changed as well. And in my fitful dreams, you became my guardian angel. The thought that you too would be a terrible fiend who lived to cause pain, that my angel was no better than I was, drove me to insanity. Marron and the guys were there after I came back from meeting my old acquaintances. I was in my apartment when I literally exploded. They told me later that I was screaming something about death, and Samurai, and fallen angels. They also said that my normally calm eyes which usually stayed purple or light gold were almost red with anger. I ripped the entire room to pieces with my bare hands." He lifted his fingers so she could see the scars. "I blacked out, and when I came too, I was in a hospital. I wouldn't stop yelling until they checked me out and let me out of the hospital. After that I went straight to the phone book to look up the last name Kamiya. You were about 8 at the time. I went to your house and waited in a tree for you to come back from school. When you came home, you were smiling and skipping. I was so happy that you hadn't changed. And from then on I've watched you. Like the time the man was chasing you and he planned to rape you."
Battousai felt warm hands lift his head. Kaoru was crying. The crystalline tears falling down her face. "It seems as if our roles have reversed, you're my angel now, my beautiful fallen angel." The tears flowed freely now, leaving red marks on her pale face.
He gave a hollow chuckle. "I am no one's angel. The only angel I could be is an angel of death." He held up his arms to show white scars all over his arm. "I tried to commit suicide hundreds of times. But I always went to your house and watched you laugh, then I'd stop for weeks. You're smile always stayed with me."
"I don't care if you once were an angel of death. You're my angel of love now." She told him with a smile. A flash of memory rippled through her consciousness. There was a flash of red and gold among the leaves in the tree next to her house. There were tears in the gold eyes, before the person disappeared. "I remember that, I saw you in my tree once. I thought you were a faerie." She laughed. "Don't beat yourself up. You told me that we aren't the same as we were before."
"I've killed men in this time period as well." He gave a sigh. "No matter what I do, my hands will always be coated in blood."
Kaoru looked him straight in the eye. "Could an angel's tears clean away the blood then?" she raised both of his hands to her face and let the tears slip out of her eyes and roll down her face to land softly on his open palms. "I don't care if you're covered from head to foot in blood, you'll always be my little angel of death."
Battousai wrapped his strong arms around her thin frame and drew her close. "I love you too. I'm never going to let you go again, I'm never going to leave you again. We'll be together in whatever century we are reincarnated into. We were meant to be."
She buried her face in his chest and then stifled a giggle. "One question, Battousai, why do you have Swedish clogs and Bunny ears in your closet?"
He chuckled, glad to know that his angel was still smiling. "That's a story for another time." And then grinning at her, they both fell into the warm waters of sleep.
Kaoru awoke the next morning on time for once and dragged herself out of bed. Battousai was no where to be seen. Yawning she walked to the kitchen where there was a delicious smell. Peeking around the doorframe, she spotted Battousai hard at work making omelets. "Food!" she yelled in glee and pounced on Battousai.
He laughed, barely keeping his balance as a new weight was added to his neck. "Yes, food. Eat up, we've got a lot of work to do." He dished her out a plate of eggs.
"What work?" she asked, stuffing her face. The eggs were good!
"Don't tell me you forgot about the cooking lesson you begged for so passionately!"
"You're actually going to try and teach me to cook?" Kaoru asked bluntly.
"Duh, now get into an apron, we're going to make this." He pulled out an old cookbook and opened it to a dusty page.
"3 Tiered Double Chocolate Pound Cake?" she read, quizzically.
"What?" Battousai looked at the book, then turned the page. "Damn, wrong page. We're making this." He pointed at the book with a smile. "The easiest thing to make in cooking, sugar cookies. So please go boil a pot of water, we're also adding icing."
"But Battousai," Kaoru paused and blushed. "I can't boil water."
His perfect image of Kaoru understanding everything quickly and becoming a world famous cook, not to mention wearing a cute little pink apron, was cracked by the harshness of reality. "You can't boil water?"
She shook her head. "Last time I tried it burned."
He actually face faulted, then stood up shakily. "I'm fine, but did you just say you burned water?"
"Yes, the water got all black and smoky." She gave a small smile.
Battousai just shook his head and started making another pot of coffee. "It's going to be a long day." He mumbled.
After the stove caught fire and singed the ends of his hair, he was thinking that maybe, just maybe, this was an incredibly stupid idea. About the time when Kaoru spilled the finally boiled water on his head, he knew this was an incredibly stupid idea. But he'd be damned if he wasn't going to at least try.
"Alright, Kaoru, change of plans." He stated with a grim smiled on his face, newly changed into more clothes because his others were wet. He had also left his hair down and she was having a hard time concentrating. He always looked so sexy when he was being serious, or trying to kill something. "We're making the actual easiest thing in cooking, Sugar Cookies mad with mix from a box."
"That sounds like more of my style." Kaoru said with a grin. "I am really hopeless with cooking, you must remember I use to cook all the time, of course it tasted like crap, and that never changed. If my cooking was good, you'd have a heart attack or an aneurism."
"Well, I guess that's true." He said with a chuckle while looking in the pantry for the box of cookie mix. After securing said box, he straightened. "Alright, it takes two eggs, one teaspoon of oil, and one cup of water. If you get the water, I'll get the oil."
Kaoru poured the mix into a large red mixing bowl. She added a cup of water and Battousai put the oil in. She clapped. "This is finally working for once!"
"Yes!" he grinned and gave her a big bear hug, "Success at last! Now can you bring me those eggs."
She nodded and picked one up, it broke. "Um, Battousai, my egg broke."
"How the hell did you manage that?" he lifted one of the eggs and squeezed it as hard as he could. It didn't break. "Remind me to stay away from your death grip." He mumbled.
She just gave a slight smile and smacked him lightly. "Your heads harder than this egg."
"Aw, that was a cheap shot. I'm injured." He replied, feigning hurt.
"You wouldn't be injured if I put 100 sticks of TNT down your pants and detonated it. You could bloody outrun the blast." Kaoru laughed, imagining this.
"You just want me out of my pants." He said with an evil little smirk.
"Hentai." She told him, giving him another smack on the head. "I just want to finish these cookies."
A few cracked eggs and one bokken whap, Battousai had mentioned mutual nudity and jell-o, later they set the cookies in the oven to bake. Battousai went off to watch the T.V. but Kaoru stared at them for the 10 minutes it took for them to be ready, just in case they started burning.
The timer dinged and Battousai got up to take the cookies out. They looked pretty good, not burned or anything. But then again, this was Kaoru, but he had helped so maybe they would be alright. Kaoru picked up a cookie and blew on it so it'd cool faster. "You try the first one."
Not even all of his Battousai power could save him from this fate. He took a deep breath and bit the cookie. It tasted like shit. Not really, actually it was quite good. He took another bite, his face splitting into a grin. "It's really good, try a bite."
Thinking he was lying, Kaoru warily took a bite of the cookie. Then she gave a cry of joy and threw her arms around his neck. "I actually cooked something!"
"Good job." He told her with a smile. In actuality his heart was beating like a bunnies, he thought that for sure the cookies would be poison. This stress was going to give him an aneurism some day. 'The things I do to get laid.' He thought with a sigh. 'At least Kaoru's worth it.'
[1]
The next day at school Kaoru brought a bag of cookies. Megumi and Misao saw her coming a mile away and tried to run. They were caught, and Kaoru gave them both a wide grin.
"You guys, I made cookies, try one!" she knew both of her friends were probably having heart attacks.
"Um, Kaoru, really that's okay." Megumi tried on her best smile. "We already ate."
Kaoru screwed up her face and looked like she was going to cry.
"Alright, fine we'll try one." Misao said with a sigh, not wanting her friend to cry. She took a cookie and so did Megumi, they both bit in, chewing.
Both girls froze. Right then, Sano and Aioshi showed up. "Who died?" Sano asked with a questioning look.
"Kaoru made edible cookies." Megumi said, and then fainted dead away.
Sano and Aioshi warily tried a piece, and then they both looked shocked to the point of death. Aioshi reached into his bag and removed a little pink piggy plushie and threw it into the air in an arch over everyone's head. He gave a small grin and said simply "When pigs fly." [2]
Okay, I know really abnormally short. It's called a bridge and it was fucking boring to write. Next we have the preliminaries for the kendo competition.
[1] I changed my liney format
[2] Taken from the totally awesome webcomic Boy Meets Boy
I can't do personalized thankyou's for everyone anymore because I had to change accounts when I got this new fanfiction.net name. For all you guys reading, I use to have like 130 reviews and I miss them.
To all my reviewers, you rock! Without you I would have stopped the story a long time ago. So glomps for everyone.
Kaoru reached up and turned on the light next to their bed. She sat up and looked down at Battousai, now sitting as well. He gave a deep sigh. This was something that he didn't want her to know, just in case she thought something would come of it.
"Kaoru, I want you to know that no matter what I tell you, I still love you and no one can change that." He told her with a small smile.
She was starting to get afraid. She had no idea what he would tell her, and the unknown made it even worse.
Battousai gave her a 'don't worry it's not as bad as it seems' look. "Well, when I was 15 my memories of the past started coming back. At that point in time, I was a very emotionally unstable young man. After all I had never seen so much death and destruction before, let alone come to terms that I had created it. I never knew how I came to be so good with a sword until then." He paused and gave a deep sigh, one of a man dredging up bad memories. "Well, one day I glanced at the Television in my apartment, this was after I was kicked out mind you, and I saw a sight I'll never forget. The reporter was talking to a man, a very tall man of about 40 years. He had long dark green hair and he was a businessman. This man's name was Seijuro, Hiko."
Kaoru gave a gasp. "Not that Seijuro, Hiko!" She had heard a lot about Battousai's old training master.
"The very same, Kaoru. That was one thing that startled me. The other thing was that the lady was commenting on his marriage to a young model by the name of Yukino (Sp?) Tomoe. At that point in time I knew I had to meet with both of them. I needed to sort out my memories, especially the memories of a time when I wasn't in control of my body. This was the time I spent with you Kaoru. Mainly, I thought that these people might be able to tell me where you were. I was quite infatuated with your memory by then, and I supposed that you too had been reincarnated. I had to get Marron and the guys drive me to the office building where Hiko worked. I told the lady at the front desk to tell Mr. Seijuro that Kenshin Himura was there to see him. I guess the only reason he let me into his office was because he was vaguely intrigued by my appearance. I came to find that this man may have the same body and soul as my old master, but he was an entirely different person. This man would never have saved a small slave boy unless there was a profit in it for him. Tomoe had changed too. Growing up in a different setting has caused both of them to be cold hearted and greedy. That wasn't why I went crazy. I went crazy because you might have changed as well. And in my fitful dreams, you became my guardian angel. The thought that you too would be a terrible fiend who lived to cause pain, that my angel was no better than I was, drove me to insanity. Marron and the guys were there after I came back from meeting my old acquaintances. I was in my apartment when I literally exploded. They told me later that I was screaming something about death, and Samurai, and fallen angels. They also said that my normally calm eyes which usually stayed purple or light gold were almost red with anger. I ripped the entire room to pieces with my bare hands." He lifted his fingers so she could see the scars. "I blacked out, and when I came too, I was in a hospital. I wouldn't stop yelling until they checked me out and let me out of the hospital. After that I went straight to the phone book to look up the last name Kamiya. You were about 8 at the time. I went to your house and waited in a tree for you to come back from school. When you came home, you were smiling and skipping. I was so happy that you hadn't changed. And from then on I've watched you. Like the time the man was chasing you and he planned to rape you."
Battousai felt warm hands lift his head. Kaoru was crying. The crystalline tears falling down her face. "It seems as if our roles have reversed, you're my angel now, my beautiful fallen angel." The tears flowed freely now, leaving red marks on her pale face.
He gave a hollow chuckle. "I am no one's angel. The only angel I could be is an angel of death." He held up his arms to show white scars all over his arm. "I tried to commit suicide hundreds of times. But I always went to your house and watched you laugh, then I'd stop for weeks. You're smile always stayed with me."
"I don't care if you once were an angel of death. You're my angel of love now." She told him with a smile. A flash of memory rippled through her consciousness. There was a flash of red and gold among the leaves in the tree next to her house. There were tears in the gold eyes, before the person disappeared. "I remember that, I saw you in my tree once. I thought you were a faerie." She laughed. "Don't beat yourself up. You told me that we aren't the same as we were before."
"I've killed men in this time period as well." He gave a sigh. "No matter what I do, my hands will always be coated in blood."
Kaoru looked him straight in the eye. "Could an angel's tears clean away the blood then?" she raised both of his hands to her face and let the tears slip out of her eyes and roll down her face to land softly on his open palms. "I don't care if you're covered from head to foot in blood, you'll always be my little angel of death."
Battousai wrapped his strong arms around her thin frame and drew her close. "I love you too. I'm never going to let you go again, I'm never going to leave you again. We'll be together in whatever century we are reincarnated into. We were meant to be."
She buried her face in his chest and then stifled a giggle. "One question, Battousai, why do you have Swedish clogs and Bunny ears in your closet?"
He chuckled, glad to know that his angel was still smiling. "That's a story for another time." And then grinning at her, they both fell into the warm waters of sleep.
Kaoru awoke the next morning on time for once and dragged herself out of bed. Battousai was no where to be seen. Yawning she walked to the kitchen where there was a delicious smell. Peeking around the doorframe, she spotted Battousai hard at work making omelets. "Food!" she yelled in glee and pounced on Battousai.
He laughed, barely keeping his balance as a new weight was added to his neck. "Yes, food. Eat up, we've got a lot of work to do." He dished her out a plate of eggs.
"What work?" she asked, stuffing her face. The eggs were good!
"Don't tell me you forgot about the cooking lesson you begged for so passionately!"
"You're actually going to try and teach me to cook?" Kaoru asked bluntly.
"Duh, now get into an apron, we're going to make this." He pulled out an old cookbook and opened it to a dusty page.
"3 Tiered Double Chocolate Pound Cake?" she read, quizzically.
"What?" Battousai looked at the book, then turned the page. "Damn, wrong page. We're making this." He pointed at the book with a smile. "The easiest thing to make in cooking, sugar cookies. So please go boil a pot of water, we're also adding icing."
"But Battousai," Kaoru paused and blushed. "I can't boil water."
His perfect image of Kaoru understanding everything quickly and becoming a world famous cook, not to mention wearing a cute little pink apron, was cracked by the harshness of reality. "You can't boil water?"
She shook her head. "Last time I tried it burned."
He actually face faulted, then stood up shakily. "I'm fine, but did you just say you burned water?"
"Yes, the water got all black and smoky." She gave a small smile.
Battousai just shook his head and started making another pot of coffee. "It's going to be a long day." He mumbled.
After the stove caught fire and singed the ends of his hair, he was thinking that maybe, just maybe, this was an incredibly stupid idea. About the time when Kaoru spilled the finally boiled water on his head, he knew this was an incredibly stupid idea. But he'd be damned if he wasn't going to at least try.
"Alright, Kaoru, change of plans." He stated with a grim smiled on his face, newly changed into more clothes because his others were wet. He had also left his hair down and she was having a hard time concentrating. He always looked so sexy when he was being serious, or trying to kill something. "We're making the actual easiest thing in cooking, Sugar Cookies mad with mix from a box."
"That sounds like more of my style." Kaoru said with a grin. "I am really hopeless with cooking, you must remember I use to cook all the time, of course it tasted like crap, and that never changed. If my cooking was good, you'd have a heart attack or an aneurism."
"Well, I guess that's true." He said with a chuckle while looking in the pantry for the box of cookie mix. After securing said box, he straightened. "Alright, it takes two eggs, one teaspoon of oil, and one cup of water. If you get the water, I'll get the oil."
Kaoru poured the mix into a large red mixing bowl. She added a cup of water and Battousai put the oil in. She clapped. "This is finally working for once!"
"Yes!" he grinned and gave her a big bear hug, "Success at last! Now can you bring me those eggs."
She nodded and picked one up, it broke. "Um, Battousai, my egg broke."
"How the hell did you manage that?" he lifted one of the eggs and squeezed it as hard as he could. It didn't break. "Remind me to stay away from your death grip." He mumbled.
She just gave a slight smile and smacked him lightly. "Your heads harder than this egg."
"Aw, that was a cheap shot. I'm injured." He replied, feigning hurt.
"You wouldn't be injured if I put 100 sticks of TNT down your pants and detonated it. You could bloody outrun the blast." Kaoru laughed, imagining this.
"You just want me out of my pants." He said with an evil little smirk.
"Hentai." She told him, giving him another smack on the head. "I just want to finish these cookies."
A few cracked eggs and one bokken whap, Battousai had mentioned mutual nudity and jell-o, later they set the cookies in the oven to bake. Battousai went off to watch the T.V. but Kaoru stared at them for the 10 minutes it took for them to be ready, just in case they started burning.
The timer dinged and Battousai got up to take the cookies out. They looked pretty good, not burned or anything. But then again, this was Kaoru, but he had helped so maybe they would be alright. Kaoru picked up a cookie and blew on it so it'd cool faster. "You try the first one."
Not even all of his Battousai power could save him from this fate. He took a deep breath and bit the cookie. It tasted like shit. Not really, actually it was quite good. He took another bite, his face splitting into a grin. "It's really good, try a bite."
Thinking he was lying, Kaoru warily took a bite of the cookie. Then she gave a cry of joy and threw her arms around his neck. "I actually cooked something!"
"Good job." He told her with a smile. In actuality his heart was beating like a bunnies, he thought that for sure the cookies would be poison. This stress was going to give him an aneurism some day. 'The things I do to get laid.' He thought with a sigh. 'At least Kaoru's worth it.'
[1]
The next day at school Kaoru brought a bag of cookies. Megumi and Misao saw her coming a mile away and tried to run. They were caught, and Kaoru gave them both a wide grin.
"You guys, I made cookies, try one!" she knew both of her friends were probably having heart attacks.
"Um, Kaoru, really that's okay." Megumi tried on her best smile. "We already ate."
Kaoru screwed up her face and looked like she was going to cry.
"Alright, fine we'll try one." Misao said with a sigh, not wanting her friend to cry. She took a cookie and so did Megumi, they both bit in, chewing.
Both girls froze. Right then, Sano and Aioshi showed up. "Who died?" Sano asked with a questioning look.
"Kaoru made edible cookies." Megumi said, and then fainted dead away.
Sano and Aioshi warily tried a piece, and then they both looked shocked to the point of death. Aioshi reached into his bag and removed a little pink piggy plushie and threw it into the air in an arch over everyone's head. He gave a small grin and said simply "When pigs fly." [2]
Okay, I know really abnormally short. It's called a bridge and it was fucking boring to write. Next we have the preliminaries for the kendo competition.
[1] I changed my liney format
[2] Taken from the totally awesome webcomic Boy Meets Boy
I can't do personalized thankyou's for everyone anymore because I had to change accounts when I got this new fanfiction.net name. For all you guys reading, I use to have like 130 reviews and I miss them.
To all my reviewers, you rock! Without you I would have stopped the story a long time ago. So glomps for everyone.
