A.N.: Alright, I'm updating really quickly this time. I'm so happy. I got a
review!!!(thanks KatDrama) (and your right, it is chi, but I've seen it
both ways)) :) It's going to get a little weirder here, but not much... that
comes in the third chapter, yes it does.
Soon, I'll post a bio as well...anyway.... I had a hard time putting who the main characters are, but soon, it'll be all the main ones ^____^. And the little genre thingy, that was hard too... maybe you all could help me :| Right now, it's labled K+K, but may more to Sano+Megumi. You tell me.
Dis-frickin'-claimer: Blah, blah, blah, the same shit everyone puts. I DO NOT OWN RUROUNI KENSHIN, GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD...! Though, the basic storyline of this fanfiction is MINE. (So, no touchy.) (
WARPED REALITY: CHAPTER 2
Kenshin blinked. "Oro?"
Yahiko, however, was less quiet. "Alright, would somebody please tell me what the hell is going on here?" He crossed his arms and stared at the two women.
Megumi/Kaoru's hands were all squished up into little fists and she looked more than a little scary as she stared up at Kaoru/Megumi.
Kaoru/Megumi tried to look as innocent as possible. "Who, me?"
"You sneaky little witch! What the hell do you think your doing?! CHANGE ME BACK!!!"
"WHAT?" Kaoru/Megumi asked genuinely. "I haven't done anything!"
"You lying wench!" Megumi/Kaoru fumed. She mover her hands back and forth, doing a really bad example of sign language to illustrate her point. Her erratic motions could be translated as 'pouring a liquid from one vile to another.' "You used one of those creepy potions or whatever to steal my body!"
Yahiko rolled his eyes. "Geez, Kaoru, why would anyone want to steal your body?"
Megumi/Kaoru turned veeery slowly toward him. "Yahiko Myojin, dammit! Would you just once shut up?!"
Yahiko's eyes got very large and he seemed to shrink a little. Despite being exceedingly ticked off at the moment, Kaoru was inwardly happy that even when she looked like that damn Megumi, Yahiko called her Kaoru; that her personality was that recognizable under such conditions. That maybe, just maybe, even if she never returned to normal, that she could live her somewhat-normal life.
Kenshin coughed quietly. "Um...Megumi-san, err...Kaoru, whoever you are, could you calmly tell this one exactly what is going on here?"
"I'm Kaoru," Megumi/Kaoru said forcefully, pointing at herself. "And THAT'S Megumi. Somehow...somehow...we've been switched." Now she pointed at Kaoru/Megumi. (She had to stop herself from screaming, 'THAT'S MEGUMI ON YOUR SHOULDERS!!!!')
Kenshin looked upward. "Kaoru...Megumi? Is this true?"
Kaoru/Megumi just stared for a moment. She tried to laugh... 'Damn! This is embarrassing!' She thought quickly. "It seems as though you've been hitting the sake a bit too hard, Megumi-san."
Megumi/Kaoru's blood boiled. That wasn't something she'd have EVER said to Megumi-san. Though, she was getting closer to telling her to do several other things. (A.N.: I wonder what...something along the lines of 'GO F#$@ YOURSELF YOU STUPID BITCH!!!'.... or something ()
"Listen you!" she pointed. (A.N.: here it comes....) "I'm sick of this game! Change me back!"
(A.N.: oh, what a let down....j/k)
The glint in Kaoru/Megumi's eyes changed and her tone of voice lowered as well. She had dropped the act. "No. You listen to me you ignorant little twit. This was not of my doing. As a matter of fact, I wasn't aware of the situation until this morning when I woke up next to Kenshin. That's when I realized I was...you."
Megumi Kaoru blinked. So it was true...and neither of them knew how. But, moreover, Kaoru got a minor case of the creeps just then.
"You, woke up next to Kenshin?" Megumi/Kaoru shivered. Boy, that was a strange mental image.
"Maa maa, Kaoru, you get those hentai thoughts out of your head. We didn't," Kenshin stuttered, waving his hands slightly. (Now, he had disturbing thought of a different kind.)
Kaoru fumed. THAT wasn't what she'd meant.
"Dammit, Kenshin!" she began, taking a step forward.
Then she noticed that Kenshin's eyes were as big as dinner plates. Kaoru/Megumi had slid one of her hands down inside Kenshin's gi and was giggle out: "Maybe, maybe...."
A vein popped in Kaoru's head. That was IT.
She balled her hands up again until her fingernails dug into her own palms. She shut her eyes tightly. She couldn't deal with this...with this bitch, now. She may end up doing something she would regret.
She spoke. "I can't...I can't deal with this now. I...I need to be alone...so I can.... I have to find a way to fix this." She turned her back on the others and the tears started again. Kenshin stared at the ground, pretending to be way-too amused with the pebbles and dirt ahead of him.
"Dammit, what now?" Yahiko muttered. He was totally lost.
Ayame and Suzume tugged at the sleeves of his gi. "Yahiko, what's wrong with...Auntie Kaoru?" Ayame began.
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Suzume echoed.
Overhearing, Megumi/Kaoru looked at them sideways. "I'm fine. I'll be better, but I need to be alone for awhile."
HUGE question marks appeared over both girls' heads. Yahiko turned them around to face him. "You two don't need to worry about it. Why don't you let me take you to your grandfather's clinic now?"
"Okay!"
"Okay!"
"Hurry back Yahiko," Kenshin said quietly, still refusing to revert his gaze from the entrancing dirt.
"Right!" The three left hurriedly.
Megumi/Kaoru stared at the ground. There was nothing better for her to do now then leave. She ran off, sobbing.
'What now? WHAT NOW?!' she yelled at herself mentally. She had been positive everything was Megumi's fault. How could she turn back into just Kaoru now?
Suddenly, she tripped and fell on her face with a squeak. She turned around and saw a boy standing in the alleyway. Where had he come from...?
"There you are, Megumi-dono," the boy grinned.
"Would you watch were your going?!" Kaoru wailed, already confused, tired, ticked off, and now her kimono was dirty to-boot.
He just kept smiling. Without breaking that creepy grin, she turned his gaze to the side alley, where heavy footsteps and breathing was coming from.
"Be quiet now. Someone's coming." He closed his eyes and giggled. "Hee-hee- hee-hee...."
* * * * *
Kenshin stood very still, feeling really stupid of the fact that Kaoru/Megumi was still seated firmly on his shoulders. "Megumi-san......"
She stiffened slightly as he grabbed her wandering hand firmly. "Uh!" He shifted slightly; just enough to make her promptly fall on her butt.
"Hey! That wasn't very nice!" she said as the startled puff of dust settled.
Kenshin looked at her. He looked sad...no, more disappointed. "What you have done to Kaoru-anata was way over the line, Megumi-san. You have always teased and bothered her, even flirting with me to do so. But, you don't seem to notice how much it hurts her sometimes. You don't seem to care. You should have told us...ME, about this 'switched' predicament....I almost...."
"But Kenshin, you've never..." Kaoru/Megumi couldn't help but interrupt. She stopped herself from saying 'You've never told me to stop before,' but that made her sound even shallower, even to her.
"Don't you realize what you could have made me do?!" Kenshin demanded. "With your little antics, you could have made me betray my wife.... My Koishii....!"
Kaoru/Megumi turned a shade paler. She realized that she had gone too far this time. "K-ken-san...I...—"
"And will you please cut out the 'Ken-san' crap?! (A.N.: Whooo! Go Kenshin! Hee-hee) Most of the time I let it go, but right now, I'm really not in the mood."
Kaoru/Megumi shut her mouth quickly. She had nothing more to say.
"Kenshin! Hey!"
The two turned their heads toward the sound of a familiar voice, but Kaoru/Megumi decided not to even pick herself off the ground. She felt too low.
Sanosuke came to a halt in front of Kenshin, once again making the ex- rurouni feel short. "Kenshin! And...Kaoru?" He looked confused. "What's wrong?"
"I really don't want to spend a lot of time explaining this to you Sano, because this one doesn't fully understand it himself. Though, it appears that somehow Kaoru and Megumi have switched places...err, bodies, to be exact. See, that's actually Megumi-san." He pointed.
"HUH?!" Sanosuke said intelligibly. "Say what?"
"Kaoru looks like Megumi-san and vice versa."
"Ada, I get it." Kenshin could see the wheels turning in Sano's head. Something clicked, and Sano's eyes got a little wider. "So...so that was actually Jou-chan back and the clinic, and...AW MAN! I'm the biggest ass in the world!"
"Sano?" Kenshin asked.
"Gee, Kenshin, do you know where Jou-chan went?? I'm afraid I may have been a little harsh this morning, and I need to talk to her."
Kenshin pointed in the general direction, and Sanosuke took off at lightning speed. "Hey, Sano wait—!"
"No you don't, Kenshin! You're waitin' for me!" Kenshin and Kaoru/Megumi both spun around, finding Yahiko running from the direction of the clinic.
Kaoru/Megumi stood up slowly as Yahiko closed the distance. What a mess she had caused. Even if she hadn't actually caused the switch, she realized that she should have told Kenshin and the others right of.
She sighed. 'Here I am, feeling sorry for myself again....'
Yahiko stumbled to a stopping point beside Kaoru/Megumi. "What now, you two?" he asked.
"I...suppose we need to find out how to undo the 'switch.' Though, this one really doesn't know how, that he does not," Kenshin grumbled. "First, though, we need to find Kaoru again, and now Sanosu—" He was cut short by a scream. And get this: It didn't sound like a girl's scream.
They stood still for about two seconds.
"What was that?" Yahiko squeaked.
"Sanosuke!" Kaoru/Megumi whispered hauntingly.
"Shit," Kenshin growled forcefully, and the three took off at the next moment. They could see Sano's and Megumi/Kaoru's very faint footprints in the soft soil of the alleyways.
After only traveling a few blocks, the three members of the Kenshin-gumi came to where the footprints had stopped suddenly, and a much rather...different path took their place.
Kaoru hadn't run very far.
The sight was certainly an eyeful.
The normal dust on from the road was totally blown away, leaving only the packed, hard dirt. Three meters in front of where the trio stopped began the new set of tracks, which were truly grooves cut into the ground, about six inches wide, and a couple deep, although it varied in places. The tracks continued into the distance, all the way to the horizon.
However, most importantly and most noticeable there was Sanosuke. He was lying sprawled, crumpled next to one of the nearby buildings. He was bleeding from the mouth, nose, and ears, and from the strait cuts across his back and left ankle.
He was lying, unmoving, in a growing pool of his own blood....
A.N.: Ha ha ha, I'm so mean...how's that for a cliffhanger?!
I know, I know, I'm so evil.... But I need encouragement for my poor delicate ego. *eyes water as crickets chirp* Whatever. But give me reviews, or I'll...I'll... I don't know. But I won't post the next chapter until I get some responses (yes it is already typed up).
Trust me, the next chappie is priceless. Think: People who live in Kyoto.
Soon, I'll post a bio as well...anyway.... I had a hard time putting who the main characters are, but soon, it'll be all the main ones ^____^. And the little genre thingy, that was hard too... maybe you all could help me :| Right now, it's labled K+K, but may more to Sano+Megumi. You tell me.
Dis-frickin'-claimer: Blah, blah, blah, the same shit everyone puts. I DO NOT OWN RUROUNI KENSHIN, GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD...! Though, the basic storyline of this fanfiction is MINE. (So, no touchy.) (
WARPED REALITY: CHAPTER 2
Kenshin blinked. "Oro?"
Yahiko, however, was less quiet. "Alright, would somebody please tell me what the hell is going on here?" He crossed his arms and stared at the two women.
Megumi/Kaoru's hands were all squished up into little fists and she looked more than a little scary as she stared up at Kaoru/Megumi.
Kaoru/Megumi tried to look as innocent as possible. "Who, me?"
"You sneaky little witch! What the hell do you think your doing?! CHANGE ME BACK!!!"
"WHAT?" Kaoru/Megumi asked genuinely. "I haven't done anything!"
"You lying wench!" Megumi/Kaoru fumed. She mover her hands back and forth, doing a really bad example of sign language to illustrate her point. Her erratic motions could be translated as 'pouring a liquid from one vile to another.' "You used one of those creepy potions or whatever to steal my body!"
Yahiko rolled his eyes. "Geez, Kaoru, why would anyone want to steal your body?"
Megumi/Kaoru turned veeery slowly toward him. "Yahiko Myojin, dammit! Would you just once shut up?!"
Yahiko's eyes got very large and he seemed to shrink a little. Despite being exceedingly ticked off at the moment, Kaoru was inwardly happy that even when she looked like that damn Megumi, Yahiko called her Kaoru; that her personality was that recognizable under such conditions. That maybe, just maybe, even if she never returned to normal, that she could live her somewhat-normal life.
Kenshin coughed quietly. "Um...Megumi-san, err...Kaoru, whoever you are, could you calmly tell this one exactly what is going on here?"
"I'm Kaoru," Megumi/Kaoru said forcefully, pointing at herself. "And THAT'S Megumi. Somehow...somehow...we've been switched." Now she pointed at Kaoru/Megumi. (She had to stop herself from screaming, 'THAT'S MEGUMI ON YOUR SHOULDERS!!!!')
Kenshin looked upward. "Kaoru...Megumi? Is this true?"
Kaoru/Megumi just stared for a moment. She tried to laugh... 'Damn! This is embarrassing!' She thought quickly. "It seems as though you've been hitting the sake a bit too hard, Megumi-san."
Megumi/Kaoru's blood boiled. That wasn't something she'd have EVER said to Megumi-san. Though, she was getting closer to telling her to do several other things. (A.N.: I wonder what...something along the lines of 'GO F#$@ YOURSELF YOU STUPID BITCH!!!'.... or something ()
"Listen you!" she pointed. (A.N.: here it comes....) "I'm sick of this game! Change me back!"
(A.N.: oh, what a let down....j/k)
The glint in Kaoru/Megumi's eyes changed and her tone of voice lowered as well. She had dropped the act. "No. You listen to me you ignorant little twit. This was not of my doing. As a matter of fact, I wasn't aware of the situation until this morning when I woke up next to Kenshin. That's when I realized I was...you."
Megumi Kaoru blinked. So it was true...and neither of them knew how. But, moreover, Kaoru got a minor case of the creeps just then.
"You, woke up next to Kenshin?" Megumi/Kaoru shivered. Boy, that was a strange mental image.
"Maa maa, Kaoru, you get those hentai thoughts out of your head. We didn't," Kenshin stuttered, waving his hands slightly. (Now, he had disturbing thought of a different kind.)
Kaoru fumed. THAT wasn't what she'd meant.
"Dammit, Kenshin!" she began, taking a step forward.
Then she noticed that Kenshin's eyes were as big as dinner plates. Kaoru/Megumi had slid one of her hands down inside Kenshin's gi and was giggle out: "Maybe, maybe...."
A vein popped in Kaoru's head. That was IT.
She balled her hands up again until her fingernails dug into her own palms. She shut her eyes tightly. She couldn't deal with this...with this bitch, now. She may end up doing something she would regret.
She spoke. "I can't...I can't deal with this now. I...I need to be alone...so I can.... I have to find a way to fix this." She turned her back on the others and the tears started again. Kenshin stared at the ground, pretending to be way-too amused with the pebbles and dirt ahead of him.
"Dammit, what now?" Yahiko muttered. He was totally lost.
Ayame and Suzume tugged at the sleeves of his gi. "Yahiko, what's wrong with...Auntie Kaoru?" Ayame began.
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Suzume echoed.
Overhearing, Megumi/Kaoru looked at them sideways. "I'm fine. I'll be better, but I need to be alone for awhile."
HUGE question marks appeared over both girls' heads. Yahiko turned them around to face him. "You two don't need to worry about it. Why don't you let me take you to your grandfather's clinic now?"
"Okay!"
"Okay!"
"Hurry back Yahiko," Kenshin said quietly, still refusing to revert his gaze from the entrancing dirt.
"Right!" The three left hurriedly.
Megumi/Kaoru stared at the ground. There was nothing better for her to do now then leave. She ran off, sobbing.
'What now? WHAT NOW?!' she yelled at herself mentally. She had been positive everything was Megumi's fault. How could she turn back into just Kaoru now?
Suddenly, she tripped and fell on her face with a squeak. She turned around and saw a boy standing in the alleyway. Where had he come from...?
"There you are, Megumi-dono," the boy grinned.
"Would you watch were your going?!" Kaoru wailed, already confused, tired, ticked off, and now her kimono was dirty to-boot.
He just kept smiling. Without breaking that creepy grin, she turned his gaze to the side alley, where heavy footsteps and breathing was coming from.
"Be quiet now. Someone's coming." He closed his eyes and giggled. "Hee-hee- hee-hee...."
* * * * *
Kenshin stood very still, feeling really stupid of the fact that Kaoru/Megumi was still seated firmly on his shoulders. "Megumi-san......"
She stiffened slightly as he grabbed her wandering hand firmly. "Uh!" He shifted slightly; just enough to make her promptly fall on her butt.
"Hey! That wasn't very nice!" she said as the startled puff of dust settled.
Kenshin looked at her. He looked sad...no, more disappointed. "What you have done to Kaoru-anata was way over the line, Megumi-san. You have always teased and bothered her, even flirting with me to do so. But, you don't seem to notice how much it hurts her sometimes. You don't seem to care. You should have told us...ME, about this 'switched' predicament....I almost...."
"But Kenshin, you've never..." Kaoru/Megumi couldn't help but interrupt. She stopped herself from saying 'You've never told me to stop before,' but that made her sound even shallower, even to her.
"Don't you realize what you could have made me do?!" Kenshin demanded. "With your little antics, you could have made me betray my wife.... My Koishii....!"
Kaoru/Megumi turned a shade paler. She realized that she had gone too far this time. "K-ken-san...I...—"
"And will you please cut out the 'Ken-san' crap?! (A.N.: Whooo! Go Kenshin! Hee-hee) Most of the time I let it go, but right now, I'm really not in the mood."
Kaoru/Megumi shut her mouth quickly. She had nothing more to say.
"Kenshin! Hey!"
The two turned their heads toward the sound of a familiar voice, but Kaoru/Megumi decided not to even pick herself off the ground. She felt too low.
Sanosuke came to a halt in front of Kenshin, once again making the ex- rurouni feel short. "Kenshin! And...Kaoru?" He looked confused. "What's wrong?"
"I really don't want to spend a lot of time explaining this to you Sano, because this one doesn't fully understand it himself. Though, it appears that somehow Kaoru and Megumi have switched places...err, bodies, to be exact. See, that's actually Megumi-san." He pointed.
"HUH?!" Sanosuke said intelligibly. "Say what?"
"Kaoru looks like Megumi-san and vice versa."
"Ada, I get it." Kenshin could see the wheels turning in Sano's head. Something clicked, and Sano's eyes got a little wider. "So...so that was actually Jou-chan back and the clinic, and...AW MAN! I'm the biggest ass in the world!"
"Sano?" Kenshin asked.
"Gee, Kenshin, do you know where Jou-chan went?? I'm afraid I may have been a little harsh this morning, and I need to talk to her."
Kenshin pointed in the general direction, and Sanosuke took off at lightning speed. "Hey, Sano wait—!"
"No you don't, Kenshin! You're waitin' for me!" Kenshin and Kaoru/Megumi both spun around, finding Yahiko running from the direction of the clinic.
Kaoru/Megumi stood up slowly as Yahiko closed the distance. What a mess she had caused. Even if she hadn't actually caused the switch, she realized that she should have told Kenshin and the others right of.
She sighed. 'Here I am, feeling sorry for myself again....'
Yahiko stumbled to a stopping point beside Kaoru/Megumi. "What now, you two?" he asked.
"I...suppose we need to find out how to undo the 'switch.' Though, this one really doesn't know how, that he does not," Kenshin grumbled. "First, though, we need to find Kaoru again, and now Sanosu—" He was cut short by a scream. And get this: It didn't sound like a girl's scream.
They stood still for about two seconds.
"What was that?" Yahiko squeaked.
"Sanosuke!" Kaoru/Megumi whispered hauntingly.
"Shit," Kenshin growled forcefully, and the three took off at the next moment. They could see Sano's and Megumi/Kaoru's very faint footprints in the soft soil of the alleyways.
After only traveling a few blocks, the three members of the Kenshin-gumi came to where the footprints had stopped suddenly, and a much rather...different path took their place.
Kaoru hadn't run very far.
The sight was certainly an eyeful.
The normal dust on from the road was totally blown away, leaving only the packed, hard dirt. Three meters in front of where the trio stopped began the new set of tracks, which were truly grooves cut into the ground, about six inches wide, and a couple deep, although it varied in places. The tracks continued into the distance, all the way to the horizon.
However, most importantly and most noticeable there was Sanosuke. He was lying sprawled, crumpled next to one of the nearby buildings. He was bleeding from the mouth, nose, and ears, and from the strait cuts across his back and left ankle.
He was lying, unmoving, in a growing pool of his own blood....
A.N.: Ha ha ha, I'm so mean...how's that for a cliffhanger?!
I know, I know, I'm so evil.... But I need encouragement for my poor delicate ego. *eyes water as crickets chirp* Whatever. But give me reviews, or I'll...I'll... I don't know. But I won't post the next chapter until I get some responses (yes it is already typed up).
Trust me, the next chappie is priceless. Think: People who live in Kyoto.