Would I ever love you again?
By: Fhb- Female Hitokiri Battousai
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[Previously]
Kaoru stood still watching him… then back at Misao. Wait a minute…
'I--I --- Aoshi!' she thought with tears in her eyes… 'I've found you!'
"Finally!" she whispered with tears gushing down her face…
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"A-Aoshi?" her voice was so small, it was almost a whisper in the air…
Her sapphire eyes an adrenaline rush, taunted him with a silver twinkle which he once enjoyed marveling upon. The jewels beacon so much sadness, so much pain, and yet in the thick of these agonies, were glory and happiness. His face seem to be smooth of any emotion for a couple of minutes and then he slowly bowed his head. His hands clenched in a tight ball and his teeth gritting. The anger within him became so thick that he screwed his eyes until he could only see the darkest shades of black. His ebony hair shadowed his face and Kaoru wished she knew what was happening…
"Aoshi" she called, her hand slightly moving forth, ready to touch his shoulder…
"You" his voice was slowly breaking from coldness to a discernible anger…
She quickly withdrew her hand and in one sudden moment he rose his head and his eyes were no longer calm seas of grey, but the seas of a stormy grey which flickered wild emotions.
Kaoru was numb and all she could do was voluntarily walk backward.
All the while Kenshin and Misao scratched their heads wishing they knew what was going on.
Misao sensed that Aoshi and Kaoru had knew each other, weather it be for better or worst situations. The point was, they knew each other…
"Aoshi-sama" called Misao most innocently…
"WHAT?" his head flickered hastily in her direction, his voice thick with sharp spunky anger.
The small girl made an inward gasp and soon her small lips were quivering in shock and sadness. Her huge green eyes grew moist and then tears began cascading down in two-three lines.
Aoshi didn't know what came over him, quickly blinking-back he called for the small child. She meekly looked up at him and then back at Kaoru whose heart seem broken and smashed. The small girl looked as if she were going to hold Aoshi, instead she walked passed his shoulder and made her way to the woman who slid down the wall, her body like a puddle of sediment. Misao slipped her small arms around the lady who seem downfallen. The woman hugged Misao whispering incoherent words. Aoshi was in shock, his Misao…in that woman's hands…
His anger probed the summit but his coldness dampen the feelings of aggression.
"Little Misao" the woman whispered…
Misao looked at the woman and was certain, this lady was her best friend. Aoshi once said that a best friend was somebody who would share your troubles, your pains, who would laugh with you and most importantly cry with you. Indeed Misao was convinced by all odds, this lady, regardless of her age, was her best friend.
"No cry Kaoru-chan…please" begged the little girl who cocked her head to the side…
"Oh Misao" her heart seem to be breaking each time…
"Listen Kao, crying no goods. It makes you sick, you no wanna cry. So no cry, okie-dokie, do it for me, your bestest friend in the whole wide world" Misao spoke…
Kaoru laughed a bit and then nodded her head…
"That's the spirit, now wipe those tears and get up" Misao rectified…
"Alright militant Misao" Kaoru smiled…
And with that the both girls got up. Kenshin whose violet eyes ran from left to right settled on the raven head woman who acted quite odd. His eyes grew a shadow as he contemplated on everything that just happened. Could it be some relationship had taken place with Aoshi and Kaoru? It was almost too impossible to tell, but emotions were wild and sent free this morning. Could it be there was a missing chapter to this story he hadn't read, and would never know? He didn't know, the best thing to do, was to look on with cool violets.
"Excuse me Himura" Aoshi spoke and with that the man withdrew from his boss's office.
Kaoru bit her lips and soon followed his suit.
"Misao please stay here" Kaoru spoke and with that she left trying to find Aoshi…
She could see him in the distance his back to her as he watched out the huge pane of glass.
"Aoshi" she called.
The man's head seem to fall just a bit, but when in turn he heard her voice, he rose slightly.
He didn't answer her.
Her heals against the ceramic tiles created a sound he hardly found time to think.
When she was about five feet from him, she called again.
He turned his head to his shoulder and waited for her.
"I missed you…" she started, her voice breaking again…
Aoshi closed his eyes ever so quickly and then reopened them to inhale his reflection on the window. Behind him was she, and with the light from the sun which filtered through the window, they made her tears a magical silver so beautiful to watch upon. He gritted his teeth in both anger and sadness.
"Did you?" came his cold and remote reply.
She gasped but took it anyhow. "…Yes" she paused while sniffing, "I--I most certainly did" she cried…
Aoshi let the anger drop. Turning to her, she looked into his eyes…
Artic storms of the roughest oceans beacon a mercury puddle or heavy anger, and yet in it's mass of great anger came ever powerful hate, which made trouble sapphires flicker in confusion and soon distraught.
"I know I can set things right, only if you would give me a chance" she whispered.
Aoshi's facial expression was opened with many confusions. With many disbeliefs.
"Another chance?" he repeated with anger in his voice.
Kaoru looked shocked as she backed up when she heard his loud tone.
"You want another chance? After everything that happened? Why would you even think I would give you that…?" he trailed off into a vulgar whisper
"Because we have something special and in common" her voice fading.
"What's that?" he whispered lecherously cold.
"Misao" Kaoru whispered.
"Don't dare say Misao is ours when hell Kaoru you don't even know her, she's just a little girl, she doesn't know what she's goddamn saying. Her parents died a LONG time ago. You could never be her parent and so can I. I tried so many years with Misao. She was just a baby, and because of a little letter her parents were destroyed, and that lil girl had to live with me. Some cold guy who didn't even know how to feed her, how to love her. It's hard Kaoru…" he whispered coldly
"What's hard?" tears in her eyes…
"It's hard, that she never got to see her parents, and all she ever got from me, is a cold friend,…full stop---the end" he whispered…
"Aoshi why do you look at it like that? You make seem as if it's something different, why? You are more than that Aoshi…you have no right to think like that." Kaoru reprimanded him.
"Listen you, the last thing I ever wanted… was to see you. You took everything I loved and dumped it---and I swear--if you take my Misao, then like hell---I'll take your life…one way or another" he whispered a coldness and lethalness she dare not meddle with…
Kaoru gasped…
Aoshi walked to Kaoru and was straight in her face, "I never imagined telling you that…but if it protects that little girl from evil women like yourself, then so be it" Aoshi whispered…
"A--oshi" Kaoru called..
He looked into her eyes, "please---I'm begging…one last chance" she whispered…
"---I can't learn love people like you, who I already indignantly hate" he walked away his back to hers, his jacket lightly flying.
Kaoru gasped with a hand over her heart. In grief she cried.
'Aoshi'
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An: Hello guys. What's up? Well hope the chapter was alright. I really had writers block for this fanfic but it's kinna over. Take y'all.
Please review.
Should I continue, yes or no?