Oh my god! I'm so sorry it took this long to post this chapter! I'm sorry it isn't very good too. It's been sitting around for over four months untouched so I've only began to polish it today. I may go back and do some more editing but I wouldn't count on that happening for a long time!

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UnBREAKable

Chapter 26

Dark woke up and noticed that his shirt was damp. 'Perfect...' He noticed that Kat was still lying on top of him, sound asleep, and drooling. His entire shirt had been soaked in fact. 'You're lucky I love you...' Dark thought as he lifted the wet and sticky fabric away from his chest.

He gently shifted Kat off of his stomach and sat her next to him to remove his shirt. He placed it on a nearby table and turned to look at Kat, taking a moment to catch a glimpse of her face while she was still asleep. He could see Kat's brow crease in annoyance; the warmth she had been lying on was now gone.

Kat squirmed around a bit more until she found Kurama still sleeping next to her. Dark's brow twitched in annoyance as Kat squished herself against the fox demon. He was still in human form and slept just as heavily as Kat.

Dark sighed; he was defeated and denied any affection even when Kat was sleeping. He grumbled to himself as he walked out of the room to leave Kat to her dreams.

Kat shifted in her sleep and was beginning to squirm around enough to wake Kurama. He groaned and slid an emerald eye open to glare at Kat. "Too tired..." he muttered and tossed an arm around her to keep her from moving.

Kat slid her eyes open and groaned, "Red hair..."

"Wha-?" Kurama asked.

Kat just groaned and rolled over. She attempted going back to sleep but soon found that it was going to be impossible to do so.

Kat rolled out of bed, leaving Kurama to wonder where she had gone, and stumbled down the hallway to find something to wake her up. She ended up walking right into Kenshin, who looked every bit as tired as she did.

"Are you alright?" Kenshin asked her, having to shake Kat a bit to get her to wake up.

"Need coffee..." she mumbled and staggered off in the direction of the kitchen.

Kenshin followed her just to make sure Kat didn't crash into the walls. He was surprised that she didn't and even more surprised when she made it to the kitchen and managed to sit at the table without falling directly out of her chair.

"I can make the coffee," Kenshin offered, "But I'm afraid you'll have to tell me how to make it."

"Tea is fine," Kat mumbled. 'So long as it has caffeine in it...' She watched with a groggy sort of amusement as Kenshin tried to figure out how to make the tea with the electric kettle.

Eventually Kat had to help him and she was starting to wake up a bit. She rested her chin on his shoulder to support her head while she made him plug the kettle in and fill it with water. Kat moved to grab a cup for the tea but she ended up dropping it.

Kenshin was surprised when the cup shattered across the floor. His gaze landed on Kat's baffled face and he watched as she used her powers to restore the shattered cup. She bent over to pick it up and placed it onto the counter good as new. Kat went to pour the tea but Kenshin stopped her.

"I'll pour the tea," he said and got a cup down for himself.

Kat wandered out onto the porch/ hallway and just let herself collapse onto the wooden floor. Kenshin saw this and rushed over immediately.

"What's wrong Kat? Surely you don't act like this all the time?" Kenshin said concerned.

Kat sat up and summoned a cup of the tea into her hand. She sipped it groggily, slowly feeling herself awaken. "I'm more tired then usual..." she managed to say after drinking the last of her cup. "Perhaps I'm finally beginning to feel my age?"

"Nonsense, you don't look a day over twenty," Kenshin assured.

"I assure you, by now I'm well over forty," Kat smirked at his confused expression. "My powers slow the ageing process a great deal to the point where I can expect to look no older than twenty for hundreds of years."

Kenshin suddenly looked a bit sad and Kat wondered if he had been thinking of Tomoe. She knew her death was still a fresh wound and that he thought of her often. "My body," he smirked at the irony before continuing, "will some day age twice as fast as it does now."

"No," Kat assured him, "It won't."

"What do you mean?" Kenshin asked starting to get angry that she seemed to always know more about himself then he did.

"You have no need for using all of you're special techniques if you live here. If you stay here, you can live a peaceful life," Kat said.

"And if I don't want to stay here?" Kenshin asked.

Kat let a flicker of sadness flash across her face, "If you don't...?" She didn't know how to answer. These days she was as unsure of her emotions as a cat was about a friendly puppy.

Kenshin sighed and surprised Kat by putting an arm around her and pulling her close, "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that."

Kat wondered if she should lean her head against Kenshin but surprised herself by leaning away from him and resting her head against the wooden post next to her. 'I have to keep reminding myself that he's not the Kenshin I knew.'

The Kenshin sitting next to Kat remained oblivious to her cold gesture and stood to practice with his swordsmanship. Kat watched half heartedly and wondered faintly if she should go join him. Eventually she made up her mind to go off and do something else. She ended up finding herself in the game room, sitting on the couch, watching TV until she could think of something better to do.

Dark searched the house for Kat only to find that she wasn't there. His feet crunched over a pile of oak leaves as he neared the edge of the clearing their house rested in. He could hear something but he wasn't too sure of what it was. Violet eyes scanned the area around him for anything to give away Kat's position.

He finally found her and walked over. "What's bugging you?" Dark asked as he came up behind Kat, who was standing outside near the edge of the clearing about to tee off.

Kat swung through and narrowly avoided hitting Dark who was standing foolishly behind her. She followed the ball with her eyes and watched as it hit Kurama's right ear. "Why is everyone always able to tell?"

"You're game is off," Dark said as he watched Kat take another swing. "You should drop you're right shoulder and bend you're knees more."

"Since when did you know anything about golf?" Kat asked. Then, not giving him a chance to answer she continued, "I like my targets moving but I suppose Kurama's ears are getting a bit sore."

"Are you aiming for his ears?"

"No, but that's good enough for me!" Kat said as she watched her ball fly through the air and take a chunk out of the tree directly by Kurama's face. The fox demon turned to glare at her and Kat motioned for him to turn back around, "You don't want me to hit you're face do you?"

"Why can't you use a tree or something as a target?!" the demon howled.

"I have more motivation if I know it's you I'm aiming for!" Kat teased. She could see Kurama's shoulders sag and his ears flatten in annoyance. 'Now if only I had aim... Funny, I can hit pretty much anything I want to when it comes to fighting but when it comes to every day life, I suck!'

Dark watched as Kat took a few more swings and watched as the fox demon got more and more bumps on his head. Eventually, Kat managed to miss again and she called, "I'm bored! You can come back in... as soon as you pick up all the balls!" Kurama's glare was enough to send a grown man crying home and Kat threw up her hands in defense, "Just kidding!"

The fox demon rubbed his head as he passed Kat and Dark and continued inside to look for herbs he could to ease the pain of his abused ears.

Dark watched Kurama leave and asked, "Now do you want to tell me what's wrong?"

"Why is it that every time something is wrong with me everyone feels as if they're somehow compelled to ask that? What about you? Is there anything you want to tell me that I don't already know?" Kat snapped back.

Dark's eyes darkened and he closed off a bit from her, hiding his emotions and biting his tongue in agitation.

"Don't give me that!" Kat snapped, only getting more annoyed. She drew in a sharp breath and let it out slowly. "You already know what's bugging me, it's Kenshin."

"You don't like him because he doesn't like you?" Dark asked.

Kat scrunched her nose, "No, it's not that."

"Then what is it?" Dark asked.

"I miss the real Kenshin," Kat confessed. "It's not that I don't like the young one but I was just so attached to the one I knew..." 'I've got to work on my grammar...' Kat paused and stared at the sky with a slightly blank expression, obviously in deep thought. "Excuse me..."

Dark listened as her footsteps faded and sighed to himself. 'I don't know what to think of her anymore...'

Kurama came up beside Dark and leaned on the porch railing, staring at the sky with the same expression he had seen Kat with. "Why do things always turn out the way they do?"

Dark shrugged slightly and absently picked at a piece of flaking paint.

Kat wandered through the halls of the hut looking for Kenshin until she came to an old room where random items were usually stored. It wasn't really a closet; just a junk room where things went that were no longer needed. She paused only because the door was open.

Her feet made no sound as they padded across the dust covered wooden floor. Her kimono train dragged a bit and marked her path through the filth. She climbed to the second floor, where a vent with screen over it let small rays of light into the room. Kat wrinkled her nose at the musty smell the room gave off and wondered if she should clean the room sometime soon.

In an instant Kat's thoughts were pulled to direct her attention to another presence in the room. Without even using her powers Kat could tell that it was Kenshin. She rounded a pile of boxes and was about to call out to him, asking what he was doing up here, when she heard the light sound of sobbing. Her golden eyes fell upon his figure.

"Oh Kenshin..." Kat whispered. As soon as the words passed through her lips she bit her tongue. 'I should have left him alone. Maybe he hasn't noticed me? I'll try to slip away.'

Hastily, Kenshin wiped away his tears with his sleeve which left a long trail of dust smeared across his face.

"I'm sorry..." Kat tried to excuse herself. She noticed that Kenshin was holding onto a blue piece of fabric and instantly recognized it as Tomoe's obi. Her mind told her to leave Kenshin alone to sort out his feelings but her heart betrayed her and commanded she stay put. She hesitated a bit longer before noticing once again how young Kenshin looked.

Her eyes glazed over and she hung her head, ashamed to think that she could do nothing to ease his pain. Kneeling down in front of him, Kat gently used the wing of her kimono to rub the dust off his face. It wasn't a loving gesture which she had usually displayed to all members living with her and it seemed to have no effect on Kenshin.

Kat cursed herself again, thinking that she had done something wrong, and her muscles tensed as she made to stand up. Before Kat could even blink, she found Kenshin in her lap, his hands locked onto the folds in her kimono, tears sliding across the silky fabric. Shocked, Kat only sat where she was, muscles tightened in a usual 'fight or flight' response.

She could feel Kenshin's body shaking in her lap from the force of his sobs. She frowned. Her mind still told her that this was Kenshin, the unbreakable, the one who she went to for comfort not the other way around. Her heart ached when she draped her arms around him, feeling the difference in frame of the Kenshin she was used to.

'Why do you do this to me?' Kat asked as she felt her own eyes burn with tears. Kenshin's grip on her tightened, finding comfort in her embrace. Kat sat there, lightly stroking his head, and waited for him to stop crying. 'He has no one left for him in this world. The battousai didn't make friends and with Tomoe gone I can only wonder what will happen to him. I feel nothing towards him. With my feelings out of the way, I know that I will never love him and my Kenshin must have known the same. But then why is this Kenshin here?'

(A/N: Sorry if this chapter didn't make much sense... I might rewrite it later. It's been a very long time since I've even worked on this story so I've kinda lost sight of the ending or anything else for that matter... I'm still open to new ideas if you guys have any! If not then this might be one of the last chapters... PLEASE REVIEW!!!)