Alright, alright I was really really really x 1000000000000 bad about
updating this chapter... and I don't have a very good excuse. So... feel free
to beat me, because I don't even like this chapter very well...
Chapter 4
"Sir, what do you think you're..."
Gunshot.
Collapse.
Pain.
Kenshin woke with a start. All night he had been re-living that one moment in the courtyard. He'd brought pain into Kaoru's house again, though hardly by his own intent.
Maybe... he thought as he stared out into the brightening world, Maybe I am, in fact, meant to leave them now... find Shishio... end this weary torment...
Footsteps in the hallway.
Miss Kaoru will not be pleased to find me awake at this early hour...
He shut his eyes and slowed his breathing to a slow, even exchange. It probably wasn't his best disguise work, but it would be enough.
He listened as the shoji slid open and someone padded close to his futon, setting down a tray. Silence for quite a while, but the visitor was surely there still; Kenshin had felt no change in ki.
Then the strangest thing happened, a hand began to stroke his hair!
"Miss Kaoru... is that you?"
His eyes opened to reveal exactly the person he had expected, Miss Kaoru Kamiya. She had placed a tray by his bedside and was making to leave.
"Kenshin! I hope I didn't wake you..." A blush rose in her cheeks, making her look exceptionally beautiful against the sun-bathed interior.
They made small talk while the morning aged and flooded the room in the fresh spring scent of birch and honeysuckle.
To have grown up like this... Miss Kaoru is so lucky. This peace... it reflects so well her patient nature
Just then he felt another pang of guilt. He, who for ten years made a life of violence and death, in no way deserved the kindness she had bestowed upon him for almost a year now. Far worse, she would give him even more. All he had to do was ask. But he wouldn't... he couldn't. There would be no forgiveness for him in all of heaven if he took another wife.
"I hope you know how grateful I am, for everything you do. I don't deserve your kindness, that I most certainly do not..."
They were only given a few more moments together before Megumi came to tend to his wound and Kaoru was hustled out. He paid little attention to the pain; he'd experienced worse. Besides, the pain in his side was nothing compared to the pain in his heart.
Twelve days... I have twelve days to make a decision...
To leave the happiness he had found at the Kamiya dojo, unthinkable. But then, he had made Shishio into the evil being he had become.
And for that, no man should deserve happiness.
"You know Sir Ken, you're very lucky..."
Lucky indeed he smirked as the doctor's comment fell upon his ears.
The thought struck him as her skilled hands worked the dead flesh from his torso.
Fault so great it devours your very life... Of anyone... Miss Megumi would understand
He turned his gaze from the window to stare at her somber face as she proceeded to daub various ointments upon his skin. She had feelings for him as well, he knew this of course. So shameful for a man to posses the love of a woman so brave and fair that cannot be returned. AN- I sorta kinda adapted that from ROTK :D
It was done. She made ready to leave until the next morning. Kenshin closed his eyes a moment to take in the last bits of morning before the rays passed over the awning.
A soft smell drifted in to his docile senses; the breakfast he had nearly forgotten lay upon his knees. As he partook of the first mouthful though, he recognized that something was not right in the dojo. A familiar sensation passed through his bones as he realized what it must be.
"An old enemy approaches the gates..."
Well, there you go! Before you submit your lovely review, dear reader, I would like to ask an important directional question. There is potential for lemon in the future depending on where I decide to take this fanfiction. I've never written it before... but erm I'm pretty sure I could do it if y'all are interested. I would prob be Sano/Megumi but I could be persuaded otherwise quite easily. Holla back now
Chapter 4
"Sir, what do you think you're..."
Gunshot.
Collapse.
Pain.
Kenshin woke with a start. All night he had been re-living that one moment in the courtyard. He'd brought pain into Kaoru's house again, though hardly by his own intent.
Maybe... he thought as he stared out into the brightening world, Maybe I am, in fact, meant to leave them now... find Shishio... end this weary torment...
Footsteps in the hallway.
Miss Kaoru will not be pleased to find me awake at this early hour...
He shut his eyes and slowed his breathing to a slow, even exchange. It probably wasn't his best disguise work, but it would be enough.
He listened as the shoji slid open and someone padded close to his futon, setting down a tray. Silence for quite a while, but the visitor was surely there still; Kenshin had felt no change in ki.
Then the strangest thing happened, a hand began to stroke his hair!
"Miss Kaoru... is that you?"
His eyes opened to reveal exactly the person he had expected, Miss Kaoru Kamiya. She had placed a tray by his bedside and was making to leave.
"Kenshin! I hope I didn't wake you..." A blush rose in her cheeks, making her look exceptionally beautiful against the sun-bathed interior.
They made small talk while the morning aged and flooded the room in the fresh spring scent of birch and honeysuckle.
To have grown up like this... Miss Kaoru is so lucky. This peace... it reflects so well her patient nature
Just then he felt another pang of guilt. He, who for ten years made a life of violence and death, in no way deserved the kindness she had bestowed upon him for almost a year now. Far worse, she would give him even more. All he had to do was ask. But he wouldn't... he couldn't. There would be no forgiveness for him in all of heaven if he took another wife.
"I hope you know how grateful I am, for everything you do. I don't deserve your kindness, that I most certainly do not..."
They were only given a few more moments together before Megumi came to tend to his wound and Kaoru was hustled out. He paid little attention to the pain; he'd experienced worse. Besides, the pain in his side was nothing compared to the pain in his heart.
Twelve days... I have twelve days to make a decision...
To leave the happiness he had found at the Kamiya dojo, unthinkable. But then, he had made Shishio into the evil being he had become.
And for that, no man should deserve happiness.
"You know Sir Ken, you're very lucky..."
Lucky indeed he smirked as the doctor's comment fell upon his ears.
The thought struck him as her skilled hands worked the dead flesh from his torso.
Fault so great it devours your very life... Of anyone... Miss Megumi would understand
He turned his gaze from the window to stare at her somber face as she proceeded to daub various ointments upon his skin. She had feelings for him as well, he knew this of course. So shameful for a man to posses the love of a woman so brave and fair that cannot be returned. AN- I sorta kinda adapted that from ROTK :D
It was done. She made ready to leave until the next morning. Kenshin closed his eyes a moment to take in the last bits of morning before the rays passed over the awning.
A soft smell drifted in to his docile senses; the breakfast he had nearly forgotten lay upon his knees. As he partook of the first mouthful though, he recognized that something was not right in the dojo. A familiar sensation passed through his bones as he realized what it must be.
"An old enemy approaches the gates..."
Well, there you go! Before you submit your lovely review, dear reader, I would like to ask an important directional question. There is potential for lemon in the future depending on where I decide to take this fanfiction. I've never written it before... but erm I'm pretty sure I could do it if y'all are interested. I would prob be Sano/Megumi but I could be persuaded otherwise quite easily. Holla back now