A/N: Sorry about the long wait for this story. I was busy..... counting on the disaster duo I have to counter with..... -- Anyway, I have to thank the following four reviewers and I owe about two or three or something like that because they have fanfics.....
Kazenna –chii – Thanks for that review comment....sry if you're still reading this, it'll be only a while before I update. : P
AngelMiko289 – One: I get the damn message. Two: Thanks for that bushes warning...I might need it in some time. Three: I'LL UPDATE!!!!! GEEZ, WOULD YOU AT LEAST KNOCK IT OFF!?
Engal Star 13 – Thank you for the review! I'll read your fics and YES, I'll review for them.
Elementsofmine - Glad you reviewed. And I did I really need to know about the writer's block thing? Because if I do, thank you for that warning.
I thank thee for them. (smiles) Now, if the REST of you can....I'll be VERY happy...
Oh, and I'm still thinking about the rest of the chapters for this story. Let me ask all of you something: Should I add the people who were in the Juppon Katana in this story as a gang or a group of people that just wanted to harm and kill people for no absolute reason at all? (Well....for Shishio, that's a different story there....) I just wanted an answer, otherwise, I'll have no absolute clue about this story at all. What should I do next? Place in characters from the Christian Arc or something like that??
Yahiko: Let me ask YOU something. Where am I gonna come in?
Me: Oh! Yahiko! Where in the hell did you come from?
Yahiko: I just wanted to say hi and –
Me: Do I really have to place you in? I already mentioned your name in first chapter.
Yahiko: That time, I wasn't there. DUH!!!! I'm glad that the busu one and busu two aren't here with you at this time...
Kaoru and Misao: (comes in with bokkens) WHAT DID YOU SAY, YAHIKO!?
Yahiko: (wide eyed, panicked) AAAAAHHHHH!!!! HELP ME!!!!!
Me: (enjoys the chase scene) And do what? Get plumbed with you or something? No thanks. I've been worn out from my friends enough!
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Disclaimer: Damn, I really hate this part. I DO NOT own Rurouni Kenshin or any characters relating to this anime. Well, Even though I have the last five episodes or Rurouni Kenshin and the last four or Samurai Deeper Kyo.... -- Different story.
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Chapter 3 The Reaction
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"Did you ask him out??"
Kaoru and Megumi were pressuring Misao to tell the answer he gave her.
"What are you soooo curious about? The guys or what Aoshi said?"
"THE SECOND ANSWER, MISAO!!!!!!!!!" The two girls exclaimed.
Geez, do they really have to be over reactive about this or what? It was just a simple answer......
"All right, all right! If you two are really curious, then YES!!! HE SAID YES!!!!!" Misao huffed. "There, satisfied?"
Kaoru and Megumi were stunned.
"Hello.....earth to kitsune and tanuki....." Misao waved a hand in front of their faces.
He said yes? That's just......not like him, Kaoru thought. I mean, to any other girls, he'll just decline, but to Misao? He just......oh my god!!!
OMG!!! HE SAID YES TO HER!!!!! Megumi's mind did a taco dance. (A/N: And I have no idea what the hell the taco dance is.) Little Misao's growing up, just like Kaoru!!
"Kaoru....Megumi....you all right?"
Misao snapped the two back to reality.
"Oh...gomen, " Kaoru and Megumi answered at the same time.
Misao looked at them and shook her head. And I thought I go into my little world sometimes and the two would call me weird.
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Aoshi was silent on the way home while the two boys were talking to each other in the front.
"I really am THIS rude to ask, but is Icicle all right?" Sanosuke looked at Aoshi, who was more silent than usual.
"Yes...You've noticed," Kenshin whispered.
"Why are you whispering?"
"So Aoshi can not hear us,"
"But, what if he did?" Sano asked out loud.
"Then I will beat you up into a bloody pulp with my mind or thought of its own,"
The cold voice belonged to Aoshi. Sano eeped.
"Are you really gonna do that to me, you know, because I have to survive and -"
Aoshi narrowed his eyes. Kenshin looked at him, rolled his eyes, then answered, "No, really? He'll just go ahead and let MISAO beat you up for him."
(A/N: Note the sarcasm?)
"Whatever," Sano sighed as soon as he went on the left side of the street. "Well.....I have to go. Otherwise, I will be late for my judo lessons....see ya!"
He ran off before the two even noticed his REAL reason why.
Kenshin shook his head. "I can see he tried to get out so he can call Megumi..."
Aoshi only nodded.
Kenshin then looked at his friend, then asked him, "Did Misao-dono ask you out?"
Oh wow...he found out, Aoshi groaned in his mind.
"....Yeah...she did,"
"What did you say to her?"
Aoshi paused for a second, trying to place the answer in words.
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-Flashback starts-
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"Aoshi?"
Aoshi looked up to see Misao at the door of the classroom.
"........."
"So....um....can I ask you something...?"
"....what is it?"
Misao started to ask, but then, she paused.
"Misao? Are you ready to ask me yet?"
Then Misao blurted it out.
"Can you go on a date with me???"
There, I said it, Kaoru, Misao thought as if Kaoru was there. Are you happy?????
Aoshi looked at her if he didn't understand the question.
"Misao....?"
"Yeah?"
"Is this a joke or something?"
"Um.....not really......."
"Aah......." 'I'm guessing that this was their dare to Misao. Asking me on a date.'
"So?" Misao was tense to what his answer was.
"....all right. What day and time would you want this to happen?"
"Um...." Misao was now panicking. "Saturday?? About....ten-thirty?"
"Sounds fair enough," Aoshi smirked.
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"So?"
"...I said yes..."
"ORO!?" Kenshin was now surprised to hear that. And I thought the day that he decided to say yes to date was when I go up to heaven then fly on down to purgatory and hell...geez, is he okay?
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Kaoru then called Kenshin on her phone as soon as she reached her home later that night. She was just too excited to tell him the news about what Misao had said to Aoshi.
The only person that answered?
"Hello, Himura residence. Yahiko speaking,"
Kaoru groaned at the sound of the young boy's voice on the phone. "Yahiko! Where is Kenshin? I need to speak with him NOW! Oh, and why the hell are in Kenshin's home?"
"Oh, hello, busu number 1. I didn't know you were home that quick."
A vein popped out of her head as she heard the word "busu" as known in Japanese terms, "ugly". It was also the favorite nickname of Yahiko Kamiya, Kaoru's little brother.
"Where's Kenshin..? I need to speak with him..." Kaoru smiled evilly, with gritted teeth.
Noticing the evil in her voice that was about to rise, Yahiko panicked in his mind, then hollered, "KENSHIN!!!! IT'S KAORU!!! SHE WANTS TO SPEAK WITH YOU!!!!"
Kenshin, who was dressing up, heard Yahiko's voice yell to him. "Hold on, Yahiko! I'll be on my phone in the room! Tell Kaoru-dono that!"
Yahiko then returned to the impatient Kaoru, who was waiting on the phone.
"Um...Kenshin'll be with you for a moment; he'll be on the other line," he said weakly.
"All right. Thank you, Yahiko," Kaoru's voice was back to normal by now.
Yahiko sighed with relief.
"But don't you think you're off the hook yet for calling me a busu!!" Kaoru yelled at the other line.
The little boy winced as soon as he heard her voice screech on the other line. Damn, and I thought Misao's voice was worse when she yelled at me.
"Oh, why are you over at Kenshin's home, anyway?"
Yahiko slightly blushed red. "Er...well...it's because of..."
"Tsubame?" Kaoru snickered. Tsubame Himura was Kenshin's little sister and Yahiko ahd fallen head over heels for her. That wasn't until the day they all found out about Kenshin and Kaoru's relationship that they found out that "Yahiko –chan" had fallen for Tsubame. That time, Yahiko's disappearance for Tsubame explains why he has been away from home.
Kenshin then took up the phone on the other line as soon as he pulled on his red T-shirt. "Hello? Kaoru-dono, are you here?"
"Finally, you answered! What were you doing back there, anyway?"
Kenshin slightly sweatdropped at that question. "Erm...dressing up..."
"Oh. So," Kaoru smiled back as soon as she was back to her sweet self again.
Well....not really. Considering the fact that Yahiko called her busu still ticked her off. But, that's not important right now.
"Kenshin, did you know Misao asked Aoshi out on a date?" she quipped.
"Um...yeah. What did she say?" Kenshin asked her. I'm going to guess it's a yes...
"He said "Yes," to her! Isn't that romantic?"
I knew it. "Er...yeah! That's very kind of Aoshi to do that for Misao-dono, all right!"
Kaoru noticed the "what the crap..?" tone in Kenshin's voice. "You found out, didn't you?"
"Aoshi told me. That's why,"
"Oh, and I'm probably guessing that if I told Misao that he told you, she'll just beat you up as usual, am I right?"
"Yeah....so don't say anything about this to her, all right?"
Kaoru smiled sweetly at his question. "Okay, Kenshin. For your sake, I'm gonna keep it a secret. Oh yeah....I forgot."
"Hm?"
"Aoshi rarely says yes on an offer on a date with other girls on the campus at school, so why to Misao?"
"I don't know, Kaoru-dono...that was rather unusual for that to happen. He turned down a lot of offers this year, as I can tell,"
Kaoru made a face. "But, that doesn't explain anything, Kenshin! I never saw Misao jealous of any girls who asked Aoshi out on a date!"
"That's true..." Kenshin was starting to wonder about his stony friend, also. "Do you suppose that there might be something along with Aoshi and Misao?"
Kaoru paused to answer the question for a minute. I never thought of that before... "Well....there might be a possibility, but mostly, I'd to stick to a "No," as my answer for now. I mean, there isn't anybody else Aoshi cares for...right?"
"I'm not so sure, Kaoru-dono...I'm not quite sure,"
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"OKINA!!!! I'M HOME!!!"
Misao hollered through her empty home. Then, she realized where they are.
Damn, they're working at the Aoiya again...and oh shit! I'm late!!
That was Misao's other job: to cater for waitress at the Aoiya, her family's restaurant. And she hated that job so much, she'll rather let either Kaoru or that little brat of Kaoru's to do the waitressing.
As soon as she ran inside the Aoiya, she was greeted by Okon and Omasu when she bursted in.
"Hey! You're late!" Omasu exclaimed.
"Gomen if I'm late," Misao apologized as she set her bag at the ground. "I had to find my way out of the arcade."
"AGAIN!?"
Misao rolled her eyes as their reaction. That happened before when she wound up at the arcade with Megumi and Kaoru. She got lost to find her way at the Aoiya, and then later, she got greeted by a really angry Okina.
"Oh yeah....where the hell is that old man, Jiya?"
"In his office," Kuro sighed. "Are you planning to kill him again?"
"Remember what happened with the alarm clock this morning?"
"Oh," Kuro and Shiro answered at the same time.
"Well, good luck..." Shori muttered as a steaming Misao stomped her way to the office.
"And I pray Okina won't get REALLY killed," Omasu said weakly.
The other three nodded in agreement.
In Okina's office, she slammed the door open.
"OKINA!!!! YOU OLD MAN!!! YOU MADE MY ALARM CLOCK GO EARLY THIS MORNING!!! WHAT THE HELL WAS UP WITH THAT!?" Misao shouted.
"Oh, hello, Misao," Okina smirked weakly.
"So, old man, what did you do?" Misao asked through gritted teeth.
"Well.....you see...." Okina said thoughtfully.
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Okina looked around a dark room at four AM in the morning, wearing a robber's clothes. Looking to the snoring Misao, he then tiptoed to her alarm clock. Quietly, he switched her clock twenty minutes later without her noticing.
Well....unfortunately...
The sound of the alarm clock switching perked Misao up, then looked around to see if anybody was in her room.
"Huh....nobody here..." she murmured.
Then she yawned, stretching her arms out. Then, with a full swing...her right arm smacked a head that was beside her bed.
Okina winced at her great pain, but he dared not to scream out "ITAI!!!!!!" at four in the morning.
You would imagine if that ever happened to anybody at that time of the day....right?
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So, he was there when I woke up....Misao thought blankly as she smacked Okina in the head.
"Okina no baka....why did you do that for??"
Before he can answer, she sighed, "Oh, and also, I have a date Saturday."
"With who?" Okina was interested at that part, all right.
"Some guy named Aoshi Shinomori..."
"Oh really?"
"So, can I go?"
Okina was silent for a minute, then he answered, "Well....I do know of the Shinomori family and we were their friends..."
"So!?"
Before Jiya can answer, the two can hear tittering behind the door.
"What the crap....?" Misao frowned.
Okina groaned as he mouthed, "Okon and Omasu."
Misao cracked her knuckles as she flung the door open.
How could Okina guess right?
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING HERE!???"
Okon and Omasu laughed weakly as they saw an angry Misao, glaring at them.
"Well..." the two said weakly. Omasu answered, "Some guy at table seven wants to see you! So we can over here to tell you, but we accidentally listened in on your little conversation!"
"Right....." Misao said.
"No really, somebody wants to see you at table seven," Okon said. "And that's no joke. He's a hottie!"
"What the hell are you two talking about?"
Before the two ladies were about to explain, Okina cleared his throught. The three looked at them.
"Misao, you can go. But..."
"What??"
"Tell me what happened after you're through with your little date!" he snickered.
Three ladies were about to kill him with fists gripped with their weapons. Okina stared backing away towards the wall, laughing weakly.
"Eh heh....just kidding!"
Yeah, sure, you lecherous Jiya, Misao thought as she walked out to take the order for the person at table seven, leaving Okina with the two ladies. They, unfortauntly, didn't kill him.
"Hello, welcome to the Aoiya. I'm your waitress today. May I help take your order?"
"No...we're not ready yet,"
Misao sighed as she was about to take another order from a different table.
"Misao,"
Misao opened her eyes to see a familiar face at the table. She nearly dropped her pad to see a certain person sitting there.
"A...Aoshi?? What the hell are you doing here??"
The ice man pointed towards the person next to him.
"Hey ya, koshii!!"
"SANO!? MEGUMI!? KENSHIN!? KAORU!? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ALL DOING HERE IN THE AOIYA!!!???"
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To be continued....
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A/N: Yeah, what the hell are Misao's friends are doing at the Aoiya at this time? I'm guessing you'll have to find out soon! I need a break.... Now, if I have about ten or fifteen reviews, maybe I'll update.
Sister: LILY NO BAKA!!!! IF YOU DON'T UPDATE IN THE NEXT 2 OR 3 WEEKS I WILL INJURE YOU SO BADLY EVEN A BUG WON'T LOOK AT YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me: Eh heh....I'll try...(sweatdrops)