Disclaimer : Rurouni Kenshin is the property of Nobuhiro Watsuki, Shonen Jump, and Sony Productions.

Warning : Characters are OOC

Possession

Donna8157

Chapter 3 : Scarring

After a long time had passed, everyone started to sit down and rest from dancing. Kenshin and Kaoru had also stopped. Sweat poured down from the young man's forehead continuously as he got off the pool table. He walked towards the chair at the corner of the club and started to fan himself. Kaoru obediently followed him.

"Hey . . someone get me some water!"

As Kenshin yelled, a person by the counter quickly brought over a bottle of water. He drank a gulp of it and then most of it over his head. He shook his hair and Kaoru felt some of the water droplets sprinkle onto her. Then Kenshin brought the bottle back to his lips again.

Kaoru watched the young man as he was gulping down the water. She was extremely tired also, but she was afraid to sit down so she continued to stand next to him. She then felt his eyes on her and looked up. Her pulse began to race when she saw that he was staring at her and her cheeks started to heat up once again. Then Kenshin held out the bottle of water towards her.

She stared at it blankly and hesitated to take it. She was afraid that he was going to do something nasty to her again. Kenshin scowled when he saw the unwillingness in her eyes. The boy smirked as he shook his head in disappointment and brought the bottle of water to his lips again. This time when he took a gulp, he didn't swallow.

He looked over at the girl and stood up. He cupped the back of her head with his right hand and pulled her towards him without giving her any time to react. His lips covered her own. Kaoru widened her eyes in fear and shock by his sudden action and tried to push him away, but he was too strong. She had no choice but to drink the water that was inside of his mouth. The water trickled down her throat along with a tear from Kaoru's sapphire eyes.

People around them started whistling.

"Go Kenshin!"

"Yeah!"

"Woohoo!"

"Oh my, how embarrassing," a girl commented.

Everyone had started cheering when they saw Kenshin kissing Kaoru. Kaoru's face turned red as she felt that all the eyes were upon them. She didn't like it. She despised it. And most of all she hated him. How could he treat her like this? How could she let him treat her like this? The girl balled up her fists in a last spurt of strength and punched him in the jaw.

"Uh! . . What the hell?" Kenshin interjected as he was pushed down onto the ground by the sheer force of her attack. He looked at the girl and saw that anger was seething off of her body, her eyes looked at him with such hatred that he felt chills go down his spine.

He couldn't let her get away with this.

The man quickly got up and clenched his fists until his knuckles became white. Without giving another thought, he threw a fist at the girl. His fist landed right on her face and she fell down onto the ground with a sickening crunch. Kaoru didn't move and it looked as if she was knocked unconscious.

Kenshin glared down at her with his piercing, cold eyes. His face contorted with anger and a streak of red blood flowed down on the side of his lips. He spat the blood out. He looked up at the others who were staring at him and his anger grew.

"What the hell are you looking at? You bastards!!"

Everyone flinched and quickly went back to his or her own business.

Kenshin turned back to the ground and looked at the girl who was lying limply on the floor. Her long hair was disheveled and completely covered her face. How dare she reject me! No one rejects me, he thought angrily. He wiped the remaining blood from off of his lips and then looked at the blood on his hand. Kenshin's face heartlessly contorted with unbridled rage.

The atmosphere became disturbingly quiet as everyone watched in fear of the red-haired man. They had never seen him this upset before.

Kenshin didn't care what the others thought. All of his thoughts were only directed to her. Kamiya Kaoru. You'll pay dearly for this, he promised. He then walked away towards the bar and started gulping down beer. After finishing it, he threw the bottle to the floor and it shattered into a thousand pieces. Afterwards, Kenshin went back to dancing.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as they saw Kenshin return to normal and started dancing with him in the center of the club.

No one paid any attention to Kaoru, who still had not moved from her spot on the floor.

The girl felt someone shake her and she painfully opened her eyes. A man was looking at her with an expressionless face. It took her awhile to realize that it was the same man that had driven her to the club.

"Are you okay?" he asked.

". . Yes . . I'm . . ugh," she said as she began to get up. She moaned as she felt the pain in her face. When she was finally able to stand up, she looked around and saw that the place was empty. The party had ended and only silence circled the club.

She had been laying down there for a long time.

The driver looked at her with pity as he helped her walk towards the door and up the stairs. She bore with the pain that was shooting throughout her body and got into the car ever so carefully. The driver then closed the door and walked over to the front and entered.

Kaoru eye's fluttered as she felt herself relax inside the comforts of the leather chair of the limo. She was extremely tired.

The driver looked over at her through his rearview mirror sadly as he started the engine.

"I'm sorry . .I'm sorry that I made you come at this time," she told him, apologizing for the fact that he had to come back to the club that late at night to get her.

He looked up at her a bit surprised as his eyes softened. "There's no need to be sorry. This is my job."

Kaoru didn't know what to say when she heard the words of the blunt man and turned her head towards the window to look outside. Everything that had happened in her life passed in front of her eyes. Her father, her mother, her home, everything. Everything was gone now. She could never go back to that life that she had back then. Since her father had died, she had lost everything. Her house and all their money and savings had been taken. Her mother had a mental breakdown.

She was only eighteen. What could she have done? This seemed to be the only option. If she were to trade herself in for the debt, then maybe . . just maybe her mother could get better because there wouldn't be a debt over their heads anymore.

Her thoughts then turned the events that night. She thought about Kenshin feeding her water through his mouth and her face turned a dark shade of red. Kaoru unconsciously wiped her lips with her hand with disgust. She smiled bitterly as she thought of the situation she was in now.

I have to be strong. This is only the beginning, she thought.

After another thirty minutes, Kaoru found herself in front of a very luxurious residence. The driver opened the door for her and she followed him slowly up the steps towards the main house. Even amidst the situation that she was in, she couldn't help but be in awe and wonder of the beauty of the estate. There was a young butler that opened the front door and she went inside.

"Welcome to the estate, Kamiya-san," he said with a polite bow.

Kaoru couldn't help but smile at his politeness. She had forgotten about how it felt to be treated as an equal after spending that time at the club with Himura Kenshin.

"And you are?" she asked.

"Shinomori Aoshi, the butler," he said.

Kaoru smiled and nodded.

"This way please, Kamiya-san," he said as he gestured towards the stairs. "You're room is on the third floor, the second one on the right. I trust that you can find your own way?"

"Oh, yes. Thank you very much," she said as she began to make her way to the stairs.

"Oh, and Kamiya-san," he addressed. She turned back and looked at him questioningly. "Your clothes and other items are already in the room." The girl nodded as she turned around and went up the stairs.

As the girl went up the elaborate spiraling staircase she couldn't help but be in awe and wonder at the surroundings around her. What would my father and mother say if they saw this place?, she thought. But at the mere mention of her parents, sadness gripped her heart. She shoved it away when she finally reached the third floor. Kaoru carefully opened the door to her room and went inside.

Her blue eyes widened.

The room was humongous. It was too big to use alone. All the furniture in her room was clean and arranged properly. Kaoru sat on the bed after taking a good look around. She looked at herself in the vanity mirror on the wall and frowned. Her hair was disheveled and dried blood was caked on her lips. Her clothes were also a complete mess. She took a sniff of her sleeve and her nose wrinkled in disgust at the sudden barrage of memories from the club. The clothes reeked of the smell of alcohol and nicotine.

She was so exhausted that she didn't want to move, but she dragged her body into the bathroom anyway. After a quick shower, she came out and fell onto her bed. Kaoru fell into a deep sleep the moment she laid her head on the pillow.

[BEEP, BEEP, BEEP]

"Huh?" Kaoru looked around perplexed at the sudden noise coming from inside of her room. The sound was jarring and she finally found that it was coming from the intercom right next to the bed. She pushed a button to turn on the receiver.

[Do you know how many times the signal rung?!]

Kaoru recognized that the harsh, piercing voice on the other side was none other than Himura Kenshin. She quickly lowered the volume.

[Hello?! I want you to come into the door next to bathroom! Now!]

Kenshin roughly hung up not listening to Kaoru's answer. The girl quickly put down the receiver and opened the door next to the bathroom as the boy had told her. When she opened the door, she saw to her amazement that there was a much bigger room connected to her own bedroom. Her eyes were then drawn towards the window.

The young man was changing. Kaoru dazed off as she watched him standing there gracefully. His red hair was highlighted by the rays of the sun and his lavender eyes seemed ever so bright. It seemed like she was looking at a scene that could only be seen in a picture. She then noticed for the first time that there was a cross scar on his left cheek. She furrowed her brows in thought. How did that happen?

"What are you staring at? Come here and help me with my clothes!!" Kenshin ordered brutally and broke Kaoru's thoughts.

She blinked quickly as she came back to her senses and nodded. "Yes, sir." She quickly turned around and shut the door and then walked towards Kenshin. After she buttoned up his shirt, she started to put his tie on. The red-haired young man was very calm throughout the entire process as if he was already used to someone else helping him get dressed.

Kenshin looked down at the raven-haired woman who was at the moment still working on his tie. There was a scar on the left side of her lips that was from his punch yesterday. Without thinking, he lifted his hand and touched it. Kaoru instantly frowned from the pain of the sudden contact but continued to concentrate on his tie quietly. After she was done, she took a step back from him.

Kenshin, who still had his fingers on her lips until then, stared at his hand awkwardly and wasn't sure what to do with it. He grinned as if he were embarrassed and quickly shoved his hand into his pocket.

Not able to look back up at the young master, Kaoru dropped her eyes down towards the floor and found interest in her feet. Kenshin looked at her for awhile before talking.

"Are those the only clothes that you have?"

At the mention of her clothes, the girl quickly looked at herself. She was wearing a pair of jeans and a light blue shirt. They were the type of clothes that she enjoyed to wear the most. Kaoru felt uncomfortable wearing anything else other than that. Are my clothes not good enough for him either?, she thought. Then she remembered the Versace suit that she had on yesterday and understood why he was commenting on what she was wearing at the moment.

"I . ."

Kenshin didn't bother to listen to her and instead went to the drawer at the side of his room and took out his wallet. He pulled out a few bills and threw it onto the floor carelessly near the girl's feet.

"You're mine. I cannot tolerate you going around wearing those shabby clothes. Buy some clothes similar to the one that you wore to the club yesterday! You can keep whatever money that's left over." He took a few moments as he studied her and added, "And . . I'm telling you this right now, if you don't come right away the next time I call you it will be unforgivable."

He looked at her coldly with his lavender eyes and walked out of the room without giving another glance at the girl. Kaoru stared at the money that was scattered around the floor and when she heard that Kenshin had left, she slowly bent down onto the floor to pick up the bills.

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- To be continued

Author's Notes :

Please leave a review! I always enjoy reading any comments or criticisms. I know Kenshin is a "bastard" in this fic. (Lol) But I'm still in the process of developing his character. It'll take some time.

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