Chapter 2: A choice

Kenshin starred dumbfound as he watched the two women running away from him. 'Which one do I follow?' The battousai in his mind started talking to him.

'Follow Tomoe!'

'No that's not Tomoe for one she's too young she looks only about 21 and Tomoe would be 38 by now.'

'Does it look like you've aged?'

'No'

'So maybe she hasn't either'

'That's not her! Remember I killed her!'

'That doesn't change the fact that you still love her.'

'Of course I will love Tomoe for ever but she is the past and Kaoru is the present.'

'You idiot! That bitch is eleven years younger than you! How could you fall for somebody that young?!'

'Tomoe was thirteen years older than me so how could you love someone that old?'

While Kenshin was conversing in his head with the Battousai Kaoru ran down the street as far away from Kenshin with tears streaming down her face. 'How could he do that? He doesn't even know the girl and he starts kissing her?!' Some men started to surround her while she slowed down from fatigue. 'Huh? What's going on?' Kaoru asked herself just noticing all of the men surrounding her, she counted 4.

"Well, well, well, looky what we found here boys!" Kaoru supposed the leader of the group said. "Now what's a beautiful young lady like you doin' out here all by you're self?" The man was about 6 feet tall and Kaoru had to bend her head up to look at him. He was very muscular and didn't seem too friendly. Kaoru could smell whiskey on him but it wasn't as strong as Sanosuke.

"I'm very sorry I was just leaving" Kaoru tried to say as polite as she could. She turned on her heal and started to walk, but was stopped by the same man. He grabbed her wrist.

"Aww, don' be in such a hurry why not come and stay with us for a couple of hours, or let's say the night." He said with an evil grin. Kaoru quickly started to struggle but another man grabbed her other wrist and another came up with some rope.

"KENSHIN!!!" Kaoru screamed as they bound her wrists behind her back.

Kenshin heard his name and quickly made up his disision, he loved Kaoru and Tomoe was dead no matter how much someone looked like her.

He ran until he came to an alley where Kaoru was trying to run with her hand behind her back and then she came to the end of the alley and the men started cornering with evil grins.

"Common you know you want us-" The man started before falling on the ground.

"What the he-" another started before falling on the ground. Kenshin stood over the unconscious bodies. He looked at Kaoru and saw that they mussed have tried to rip her clothes off because he saw a tear running up her kimono till mid thigh.

"Kenshin!" Kaoru ran towards him, he pulled out is sword and pointed it to her...