Scrubbing harder and harder both of their arms were beginning to ach
incessantly. Finally with a huff of exhaustion Kaoru sat on the green
school grass looking at the rest of the wall she had to clean. Her eyes
roamed across the building wall at her artwork, until they abruptly stopped
on the red-haired menace.
Her face scrunched up in a scowl thinking of everything he's done to her. She stood up and began to walk back into the school. At the sound of feet padding against the grass Kenshin turned to find Kaoru walking towards the front of the school. He quickly looked to her side of the wall to find it wasn't even half cleaned off.
He scurried over to her and tapped her on the shoulder urgently not wanting her to get him in trouble. She tuned her head to see him with one eye over her shoulder, she rolled her eyes, and turn to look ahead of her again.
"Kaoru, Where are you going?" Kenshin questioned. Kaoru ignored him and continued to walk through the door into the cool air-conditioned building. She smiled at the burst of cold air hit her face causing her hair to whip around at the back of her head.
"Ignoring me now are we?" Kenshin asked with a huff. "Well two can play at this game." He said walking ahead of her and turning slightly in the direction of the office. Kaoru watched him lazily as she turned as well and stood in front of the water fountain.
She nonchalantly bent down, pushed the button and took a sip of the cool water. Then she stood up and looked over at kenshin, a smirk playing on her lips. He was staring at her defeated but not ready to give up the fight.
Kaoru began to walk slowly towards the door again refreshed and ready to get back to work destroying her own mural. She looked behind her to find Kenshin following her staring blankly at the walls.
'She's such a mystery. She completely ignored me and made me look like a fool in five seconds...She should write a book.' Kenshin thought. 'How to make Kenshin Himura aggravated beyond belief-' He thought before she interrupted his thoughts.
"You know Kenshin, if you think to hard your head will explode." She said smiling and pushing the doors open to a steaming, scorching day. Kenshin scowled.
"You know Kaoru," Kenshin said mocking her. "If you're a bitch to long your head will explode." Kenshin said laughing to himself. Kaoru walked around to her half destroyed mural and forgot all about Kenshin and his remark.
She frowned and grabbed a rag pouring goof-off on it. She began to scrub off her precious picture. She had worked a whole night on that, and now she had to clean it off.
'It was ok when I made the picture and the janitors cleaned it off before the day was through, but when I actually have to ruin my work, its touchier.' Kaoru thought. Though she would never admit it, it was slowly killing her inside to whip it off the wall so easily as if it meant nothing to her. She vowed her self never to paint on the school wall again, or at least never put this much time into it.
Kenshin looked over to her and saw how sadly she gazed at the wall while cleaning it off. He would have hugged her if she wasn't Kaoru, the badass, don't mess with me poster child. They were both startled out of their thoughts when the bell rang. They looked at each other and Kenshin motioned to leave.
Kaoru just put her rag back on the wall and continued to rub removing the techno-color drawing. "Kaoru, shouldn't we get to class?" Kenshin asked. Kaoru shrugged.
"I'm not going to class, but I don't mind if you want to." Kaoru said instantly forgetting he was there. So when he said something to her she didn't pay attention. After he repeated her name several times and she still didn't answer, so he tapped her on the shoulder.
She turned surprised. "Yea?" She asked staring wide eyed from shock.
"I said, I'll stay and clean with you if you want." He said calmly.
She looked despondently back at the wall and shrugged. She continued to rub the wall and stopped when she heard another person scrubbing the wall and smiled inside. So for the next hour they both scrubbed away the emotion,
the confidence and the will power of Kaoru's painting.
Some time later
"Kaoru? Were are you going?" Kenshin asked jogging to catch up with her.
"Home." She said dully.
"But school isn't over." Kenshin said.
"It is for me. Care to ditch?" Kaoru offered half-heartedly not really wanting him to say yes.
"Well since there's only one more period left..." Kenshin said. Kaoru groaned quiet enough that he didn't hear her.
She sighed. "If your coming with me there's something we need to do first." She said walking back towards the school. She opened the door with Kenshin following. She walked past the principal's office waving at him smiling and giving a thumbs up when he mouthed are you finished.
Once the principal was out of seeing range she rolled her eyes. She didn't want the principal walking outside to see if they were done later that evening. They walked through the hustle and bustle of every one calmly. Kaoru turned around to face him and said loudly. "Stop following me!" She turned around and snickered lightly when people were staring at Kenshin stock still in the hallway.
She turned into a small dark alcove and waited patiently. Once she saw him walking past her hiding place she reached out and pulled him in with her. Kenshin looked around surprised until his eyes landed on her.
"What was that? A publicity stunt." Kenshin said. Kaoru put her finger on his mouth.
"No you idiot. I had to do something. You have obviously never ditched before." She said. "Or at least not with a person like me." She said after receiving a look from Kenshin.
"I don't understand." He said.
She rolled her eyes at his idiocy. "If people saw us walking together, or at least saw you following me. Well, not that I care just I don't want people thinking I'm.... how should I put this, friendly." She said looking around making sure no one could see through the shadow.
"Oh, god forbid..." Kenshin said sarcastically.
"This time stay further away from me if you know what's good for you." Kaoru seethed through semi-clenched teeth. Kenshin chuckled then looked into her deep blue eyes and his face fell.
"Ok!" He said. She rolled her eyes putting her hand on her forehead and shaking her head. She stepped from the light and began to casually walk waving and smiling to people she knew.
She walked further away and saw him emerge from the darkness after she was a good distance away and the people who saw her come out of the darkness had long passed. He didn't want them thinking anything since he was alone in the dark with kaoru.
She slowly slipped out of a door Kenshin soon following. She walked down the sidewalk and coughed when she saw a teacher.
"Miss Kaoru? Why aren't you in class?" The teacher questioned then his eyes widened in pure shock when he saw who was with her.
"Himura?" The teacher asked in alarm. The teacher's head was visibly spinning.
Kaoru coughed a deep throaty cough. "I-I'm sick" She said pretending to have a stuffy nose and surprisingly her face began to pale and look almost green. "Himura is escorting me to my house. I can't drive alone." She said shivering and coughing again.
Kenshin wrapped his arm around her shoulder and smiled nodding. He rubbed her other shoulder with his other hand pretending to warm her up.
"Will you be ok? Do you want a coat?" The teacher asked concerned.
"Once I get home I'll be fine. I have a coat in my c-car." She said putting on the illusion of being cold by wrapping her arms around herself and smiling at Kenshin gratefully. The teacher smiled and nodded walking into the school.
"I hope you feel better. Drive safe Himura, you're excused from class today." He said. Kenshin nodded then looked down at Kaoru and "helped" her walk towards her car.
"Thanks." Kenshin said over his shoulder. They walked to her car and she slid into the passenger seat. He looked confused and slid behind the wheel.
"Why am I driving?" He asked.
She coughed and nodded slightly in the direction of the teachers staring out their windows at them. He nodded and started up the car. Kaoru had a red spider convertible with black racing strips down the front. Kaoru clicked her seat belt shut.
The car raced down the street not wavering above or below the speed limit. Kaoru looked in the mirror and closed her eyes, when they opened again her cheeks were their regular color and she stopped coughing frequently.
She pulled the hair tie out of her hair letting her raven colored hair whip around her face. "Well Kenshin, your free." She said turning slightly to him. He looked from her to the road a few times his purple eyes shinning and his flaming red hair tickling the nape of his neck.
"Thanks Kaoru." Kenshin said.
"For?" She asked.
"For letting he ditch with you. I know you only asked to be polite," he said as she sweat dropped. "So, I'm going to take you were ever you want to go." Kenshin said to her. She looked questioningly towards his smiling face.
"Your going to take me where ever I want to go? In my car?" Kaoru asked. Kenshin smiled and nodded.
"I'm driving aren't I?" He said to her. Kenshin pulled to a stop and Kaoru reached over him. He looked surprised. "What are you doing?" He almost shouted distressed. Every one who heard him looked at him weird. He smiled and waved then looked at what she was fiddling with.
She had the seat belt in her hands and she was pulling it up then down to the left right then she pulled it across his chest and clicked it in. She then looked at the scenery around her resting her head on her hand on the car door.
Kenshin looked at her as if she were crazy. After a while the cars behind him honked the horn and he stepped on the gas nearly crashing her car. She sat up at the sudden movement and looked to him. He was still looking at her but looked at the road every few seconds.
"What was that back there?" He asked.
"What?" Kaoru asked.
"You could have asked me to put my seat belt on." Kenshin said.
"Oh, well when my other friends drive they are either concentrating on the road and ask me anyway or they can't figure it out... there's a special way you have to turn the seat belt for it to move and-" Kaoru said being cut
off by him.
"Whatever. Where do you want to go?" Kenshin asked.
"I don't care, but I'm hungry." Kaoru said as Kenshin pulled into a Wendy's. They ordered and ate inside her car in the parking lot. Kaoru leaned back her chair and closed her eyes enjoying the day when Kenshin pulled sharply out of the parking lot.
"Were are we going?" Kenshin asked. Kaoru shrugged and he poked her in the side sending her into a fit of giggles. "Don't touch me," She said in- between laughing.
"Why?" he said poking her there again. She began to laugh hard and would have jumped out of the car if they weren't on the highway. He poked her again and she continued laughing like crazy. "Because, I'm" She continued to laugh. "Ticklish."
Kenshin began to laugh at her and she stopped laughing and sat up glaring at him. "Are you laughing at me?" Kaoru asked. Kenshin nodded and poked her again. "Your laughing makes me laugh." Kenshin said.
"Were are we going?" Kaoru asked.
"You'll see." Kenshin said. After about half an hour of Kenshin poking the whole way the car stopped infront of a small park. Kenshin cupped his hands over her eyes and lead her towards the swings.
"Kenshin, what are you doing?" Kaoru asked annoyed at his childish antics.
"You'll see." Kenshin said sitting her down. She felt the wind still caressing her face and whipping her hair around. Kenshin's hands slowly moved away from her eyes and she opened them gasping. He sat down next to her soaking in his surroundings and watching her face delighted.
The view Kaoru saw was breath taking. Sakura trees were covering the park, flowers blooming. Through the trees she could see a cliff, the ground abruptly stopping and falling into the ocean. Further out to sea she could see a small island with a huge beautiful mansion resting in the sandy grass.
"Kenshin it's beautiful." Kaoru said. She suddenly grabbed her notebook and a pen and began to lightly sketch the view. She was drawing the trees with the flowers floating gently to the ground. She drew the sudden drop off and the small island with a house.
Kaorus sketch was almost perfect. 'Wow, she really should try to draw in other places besides the wall on our school.' Kenshin thought in awe. Kaoru finished soon and looked at him.
"What?" She said roughly defending her art from any criticism that might come. She held her notebook tightly to her chest. Kenshin smiled looking into her eyes.
"Kaoru, its beautiful." Kenshin said. Kaoru slowly let go of her notebook allowing it to drop to her lap.
"Oh." She said looking away. She stood up and walked through the flowers towards the car. Kenshin stood up sensing something was wrong.
'Did I say something wrong?' Kenshin thought. Kaoru sighed an opened the door jumping in behind the wheel. She fiddled with the seat belt and buckled it. Kenshin quickly got in before she left him. He buckled up as well learning from his experience.
Kaoru hit the gas petal speeding out of the park and onto the expressway further up the road.
"Which way Kenshin." Kaoru asked looking away from him. He pointed to the right, even though that was the wrong way. Kaoru turned not realizing Kenshin was leading her to his house. After a few minutes Kaoru was on a deserted road leading to the small island she saw with the mansion.
"Kenshin, I think I took a wrong turn." Kaoru said to him.
"No you were resting when we were here." kenshin said lying through his teeth. Kaoru nodded and the road soon ended leading into a drive way to the mansion.
"Resting?" Kaoru asked him not believing him.
Kenshin jumped out of the car and walked over to her side. He reached over the door unbuckled her seat belt turned off the car and opened the door for her.
"What are you doing?" Kaoru asked. Kenshin smiled holding a hand out to help her out of the car. She pushed it away and stood up herself. She looked around awestricken but determined to find out what Kenshin had brought her here for. She eyed him suspiciously and followed him through the door of the mansion.
"Kenshin, I knew you were a prep but I didn't know preps broke into houses." Kaoru said surprised keeping her voice low incase some one was home.
"Kaoru, I live here." Kenshin said.
"Bull shit Kenshin." Kaoru said laughing.
"I'm not shittin' you. This is my house." Kenshin said. Kaoru laughed at him.
"Yea right." She said. Kenshin looked at her and smiled shaking his head at her ignorance.
"Kaoru if I didn't live here why would there be pictures of me my mom and dad?" Kenshin asked. Kaoru looked all along the long hallway to find pictures of him and his parents, Kodak and painted.
"Oh." Kaoru said feeling stupid. "What are we doing here?" Kaoru asked.
"Well" Kenshin said walking up to the door and locking it. "If it kills me I'm going to figure you out." Kenshin said to her. Kaoru quirked an eyebrow up in confusion
"What?" She shrieked. Kenshin smiled.
"I want to know why you were so protective of your art. Why you seemed to be afraid of what I was going to say about it." Kenshin said in a kinder, gentler voice.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Kaoru said turning around so she didn't have to look at him.
"See, that's what I'm talking about." Kenshin said loudly walking up the stairs. Kaoru looked around in the dark and quickly flew up the stairs towards him. She latched herself on his arm looking around fear controlling her movements.
Once she realized what she had done she jumped off of him walking behind him looking around her at the dull red walls pictures staring at her through the dark light. She was scared of the dark and just wanted to get into a bright room with windows for walls.
They opened a door and walked into a blindingly light room kenshin called his own. Every thing was white, large, expensive, and neat. Kaoru looked in wonder at how clean everything was.
"Everything is so, clean." Kaoru said. Kenshin laughed.
"I'm a neat freak." Kaoru thought of her room clothes tossed everywhere, dark room, dirt chunks buried under everything, the polar opposite of kenshin. Kenshin was sitting on this bed waiting for Kaoru to sit as well just watching her.
She sat down and looked at him.
"Kaoru..." kenshin began.
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Her face scrunched up in a scowl thinking of everything he's done to her. She stood up and began to walk back into the school. At the sound of feet padding against the grass Kenshin turned to find Kaoru walking towards the front of the school. He quickly looked to her side of the wall to find it wasn't even half cleaned off.
He scurried over to her and tapped her on the shoulder urgently not wanting her to get him in trouble. She tuned her head to see him with one eye over her shoulder, she rolled her eyes, and turn to look ahead of her again.
"Kaoru, Where are you going?" Kenshin questioned. Kaoru ignored him and continued to walk through the door into the cool air-conditioned building. She smiled at the burst of cold air hit her face causing her hair to whip around at the back of her head.
"Ignoring me now are we?" Kenshin asked with a huff. "Well two can play at this game." He said walking ahead of her and turning slightly in the direction of the office. Kaoru watched him lazily as she turned as well and stood in front of the water fountain.
She nonchalantly bent down, pushed the button and took a sip of the cool water. Then she stood up and looked over at kenshin, a smirk playing on her lips. He was staring at her defeated but not ready to give up the fight.
Kaoru began to walk slowly towards the door again refreshed and ready to get back to work destroying her own mural. She looked behind her to find Kenshin following her staring blankly at the walls.
'She's such a mystery. She completely ignored me and made me look like a fool in five seconds...She should write a book.' Kenshin thought. 'How to make Kenshin Himura aggravated beyond belief-' He thought before she interrupted his thoughts.
"You know Kenshin, if you think to hard your head will explode." She said smiling and pushing the doors open to a steaming, scorching day. Kenshin scowled.
"You know Kaoru," Kenshin said mocking her. "If you're a bitch to long your head will explode." Kenshin said laughing to himself. Kaoru walked around to her half destroyed mural and forgot all about Kenshin and his remark.
She frowned and grabbed a rag pouring goof-off on it. She began to scrub off her precious picture. She had worked a whole night on that, and now she had to clean it off.
'It was ok when I made the picture and the janitors cleaned it off before the day was through, but when I actually have to ruin my work, its touchier.' Kaoru thought. Though she would never admit it, it was slowly killing her inside to whip it off the wall so easily as if it meant nothing to her. She vowed her self never to paint on the school wall again, or at least never put this much time into it.
Kenshin looked over to her and saw how sadly she gazed at the wall while cleaning it off. He would have hugged her if she wasn't Kaoru, the badass, don't mess with me poster child. They were both startled out of their thoughts when the bell rang. They looked at each other and Kenshin motioned to leave.
Kaoru just put her rag back on the wall and continued to rub removing the techno-color drawing. "Kaoru, shouldn't we get to class?" Kenshin asked. Kaoru shrugged.
"I'm not going to class, but I don't mind if you want to." Kaoru said instantly forgetting he was there. So when he said something to her she didn't pay attention. After he repeated her name several times and she still didn't answer, so he tapped her on the shoulder.
She turned surprised. "Yea?" She asked staring wide eyed from shock.
"I said, I'll stay and clean with you if you want." He said calmly.
She looked despondently back at the wall and shrugged. She continued to rub the wall and stopped when she heard another person scrubbing the wall and smiled inside. So for the next hour they both scrubbed away the emotion,
the confidence and the will power of Kaoru's painting.
Some time later
"Kaoru? Were are you going?" Kenshin asked jogging to catch up with her.
"Home." She said dully.
"But school isn't over." Kenshin said.
"It is for me. Care to ditch?" Kaoru offered half-heartedly not really wanting him to say yes.
"Well since there's only one more period left..." Kenshin said. Kaoru groaned quiet enough that he didn't hear her.
She sighed. "If your coming with me there's something we need to do first." She said walking back towards the school. She opened the door with Kenshin following. She walked past the principal's office waving at him smiling and giving a thumbs up when he mouthed are you finished.
Once the principal was out of seeing range she rolled her eyes. She didn't want the principal walking outside to see if they were done later that evening. They walked through the hustle and bustle of every one calmly. Kaoru turned around to face him and said loudly. "Stop following me!" She turned around and snickered lightly when people were staring at Kenshin stock still in the hallway.
She turned into a small dark alcove and waited patiently. Once she saw him walking past her hiding place she reached out and pulled him in with her. Kenshin looked around surprised until his eyes landed on her.
"What was that? A publicity stunt." Kenshin said. Kaoru put her finger on his mouth.
"No you idiot. I had to do something. You have obviously never ditched before." She said. "Or at least not with a person like me." She said after receiving a look from Kenshin.
"I don't understand." He said.
She rolled her eyes at his idiocy. "If people saw us walking together, or at least saw you following me. Well, not that I care just I don't want people thinking I'm.... how should I put this, friendly." She said looking around making sure no one could see through the shadow.
"Oh, god forbid..." Kenshin said sarcastically.
"This time stay further away from me if you know what's good for you." Kaoru seethed through semi-clenched teeth. Kenshin chuckled then looked into her deep blue eyes and his face fell.
"Ok!" He said. She rolled her eyes putting her hand on her forehead and shaking her head. She stepped from the light and began to casually walk waving and smiling to people she knew.
She walked further away and saw him emerge from the darkness after she was a good distance away and the people who saw her come out of the darkness had long passed. He didn't want them thinking anything since he was alone in the dark with kaoru.
She slowly slipped out of a door Kenshin soon following. She walked down the sidewalk and coughed when she saw a teacher.
"Miss Kaoru? Why aren't you in class?" The teacher questioned then his eyes widened in pure shock when he saw who was with her.
"Himura?" The teacher asked in alarm. The teacher's head was visibly spinning.
Kaoru coughed a deep throaty cough. "I-I'm sick" She said pretending to have a stuffy nose and surprisingly her face began to pale and look almost green. "Himura is escorting me to my house. I can't drive alone." She said shivering and coughing again.
Kenshin wrapped his arm around her shoulder and smiled nodding. He rubbed her other shoulder with his other hand pretending to warm her up.
"Will you be ok? Do you want a coat?" The teacher asked concerned.
"Once I get home I'll be fine. I have a coat in my c-car." She said putting on the illusion of being cold by wrapping her arms around herself and smiling at Kenshin gratefully. The teacher smiled and nodded walking into the school.
"I hope you feel better. Drive safe Himura, you're excused from class today." He said. Kenshin nodded then looked down at Kaoru and "helped" her walk towards her car.
"Thanks." Kenshin said over his shoulder. They walked to her car and she slid into the passenger seat. He looked confused and slid behind the wheel.
"Why am I driving?" He asked.
She coughed and nodded slightly in the direction of the teachers staring out their windows at them. He nodded and started up the car. Kaoru had a red spider convertible with black racing strips down the front. Kaoru clicked her seat belt shut.
The car raced down the street not wavering above or below the speed limit. Kaoru looked in the mirror and closed her eyes, when they opened again her cheeks were their regular color and she stopped coughing frequently.
She pulled the hair tie out of her hair letting her raven colored hair whip around her face. "Well Kenshin, your free." She said turning slightly to him. He looked from her to the road a few times his purple eyes shinning and his flaming red hair tickling the nape of his neck.
"Thanks Kaoru." Kenshin said.
"For?" She asked.
"For letting he ditch with you. I know you only asked to be polite," he said as she sweat dropped. "So, I'm going to take you were ever you want to go." Kenshin said to her. She looked questioningly towards his smiling face.
"Your going to take me where ever I want to go? In my car?" Kaoru asked. Kenshin smiled and nodded.
"I'm driving aren't I?" He said to her. Kenshin pulled to a stop and Kaoru reached over him. He looked surprised. "What are you doing?" He almost shouted distressed. Every one who heard him looked at him weird. He smiled and waved then looked at what she was fiddling with.
She had the seat belt in her hands and she was pulling it up then down to the left right then she pulled it across his chest and clicked it in. She then looked at the scenery around her resting her head on her hand on the car door.
Kenshin looked at her as if she were crazy. After a while the cars behind him honked the horn and he stepped on the gas nearly crashing her car. She sat up at the sudden movement and looked to him. He was still looking at her but looked at the road every few seconds.
"What was that back there?" He asked.
"What?" Kaoru asked.
"You could have asked me to put my seat belt on." Kenshin said.
"Oh, well when my other friends drive they are either concentrating on the road and ask me anyway or they can't figure it out... there's a special way you have to turn the seat belt for it to move and-" Kaoru said being cut
off by him.
"Whatever. Where do you want to go?" Kenshin asked.
"I don't care, but I'm hungry." Kaoru said as Kenshin pulled into a Wendy's. They ordered and ate inside her car in the parking lot. Kaoru leaned back her chair and closed her eyes enjoying the day when Kenshin pulled sharply out of the parking lot.
"Were are we going?" Kenshin asked. Kaoru shrugged and he poked her in the side sending her into a fit of giggles. "Don't touch me," She said in- between laughing.
"Why?" he said poking her there again. She began to laugh hard and would have jumped out of the car if they weren't on the highway. He poked her again and she continued laughing like crazy. "Because, I'm" She continued to laugh. "Ticklish."
Kenshin began to laugh at her and she stopped laughing and sat up glaring at him. "Are you laughing at me?" Kaoru asked. Kenshin nodded and poked her again. "Your laughing makes me laugh." Kenshin said.
"Were are we going?" Kaoru asked.
"You'll see." Kenshin said. After about half an hour of Kenshin poking the whole way the car stopped infront of a small park. Kenshin cupped his hands over her eyes and lead her towards the swings.
"Kenshin, what are you doing?" Kaoru asked annoyed at his childish antics.
"You'll see." Kenshin said sitting her down. She felt the wind still caressing her face and whipping her hair around. Kenshin's hands slowly moved away from her eyes and she opened them gasping. He sat down next to her soaking in his surroundings and watching her face delighted.
The view Kaoru saw was breath taking. Sakura trees were covering the park, flowers blooming. Through the trees she could see a cliff, the ground abruptly stopping and falling into the ocean. Further out to sea she could see a small island with a huge beautiful mansion resting in the sandy grass.
"Kenshin it's beautiful." Kaoru said. She suddenly grabbed her notebook and a pen and began to lightly sketch the view. She was drawing the trees with the flowers floating gently to the ground. She drew the sudden drop off and the small island with a house.
Kaorus sketch was almost perfect. 'Wow, she really should try to draw in other places besides the wall on our school.' Kenshin thought in awe. Kaoru finished soon and looked at him.
"What?" She said roughly defending her art from any criticism that might come. She held her notebook tightly to her chest. Kenshin smiled looking into her eyes.
"Kaoru, its beautiful." Kenshin said. Kaoru slowly let go of her notebook allowing it to drop to her lap.
"Oh." She said looking away. She stood up and walked through the flowers towards the car. Kenshin stood up sensing something was wrong.
'Did I say something wrong?' Kenshin thought. Kaoru sighed an opened the door jumping in behind the wheel. She fiddled with the seat belt and buckled it. Kenshin quickly got in before she left him. He buckled up as well learning from his experience.
Kaoru hit the gas petal speeding out of the park and onto the expressway further up the road.
"Which way Kenshin." Kaoru asked looking away from him. He pointed to the right, even though that was the wrong way. Kaoru turned not realizing Kenshin was leading her to his house. After a few minutes Kaoru was on a deserted road leading to the small island she saw with the mansion.
"Kenshin, I think I took a wrong turn." Kaoru said to him.
"No you were resting when we were here." kenshin said lying through his teeth. Kaoru nodded and the road soon ended leading into a drive way to the mansion.
"Resting?" Kaoru asked him not believing him.
Kenshin jumped out of the car and walked over to her side. He reached over the door unbuckled her seat belt turned off the car and opened the door for her.
"What are you doing?" Kaoru asked. Kenshin smiled holding a hand out to help her out of the car. She pushed it away and stood up herself. She looked around awestricken but determined to find out what Kenshin had brought her here for. She eyed him suspiciously and followed him through the door of the mansion.
"Kenshin, I knew you were a prep but I didn't know preps broke into houses." Kaoru said surprised keeping her voice low incase some one was home.
"Kaoru, I live here." Kenshin said.
"Bull shit Kenshin." Kaoru said laughing.
"I'm not shittin' you. This is my house." Kenshin said. Kaoru laughed at him.
"Yea right." She said. Kenshin looked at her and smiled shaking his head at her ignorance.
"Kaoru if I didn't live here why would there be pictures of me my mom and dad?" Kenshin asked. Kaoru looked all along the long hallway to find pictures of him and his parents, Kodak and painted.
"Oh." Kaoru said feeling stupid. "What are we doing here?" Kaoru asked.
"Well" Kenshin said walking up to the door and locking it. "If it kills me I'm going to figure you out." Kenshin said to her. Kaoru quirked an eyebrow up in confusion
"What?" She shrieked. Kenshin smiled.
"I want to know why you were so protective of your art. Why you seemed to be afraid of what I was going to say about it." Kenshin said in a kinder, gentler voice.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Kaoru said turning around so she didn't have to look at him.
"See, that's what I'm talking about." Kenshin said loudly walking up the stairs. Kaoru looked around in the dark and quickly flew up the stairs towards him. She latched herself on his arm looking around fear controlling her movements.
Once she realized what she had done she jumped off of him walking behind him looking around her at the dull red walls pictures staring at her through the dark light. She was scared of the dark and just wanted to get into a bright room with windows for walls.
They opened a door and walked into a blindingly light room kenshin called his own. Every thing was white, large, expensive, and neat. Kaoru looked in wonder at how clean everything was.
"Everything is so, clean." Kaoru said. Kenshin laughed.
"I'm a neat freak." Kaoru thought of her room clothes tossed everywhere, dark room, dirt chunks buried under everything, the polar opposite of kenshin. Kenshin was sitting on this bed waiting for Kaoru to sit as well just watching her.
She sat down and looked at him.
"Kaoru..." kenshin began.
((A/N: I was so surprised at how many people reviewed to the first chapter. I'm sure lots of em' only read it because they have me on author alert but I got so many. And my reviews were so helpful. Thank you so much!))
Reviewers: jmi102- thank you, I never thought I had a writing style heh heh. I hope to see more Rurouni Kenshin characters too but I don't know how im going to work this story. Dragonslayer- I'm trying to write as fast as I can. Animeluvergal-love the screen name by the way heh heh. I wonder what's gonna happen next to. Kenshin's-angel- Yup I love to draw too. And I thought it would be a good idea though I could never draw what I see on the inside I thought it would be a good idea. XxSilentxdreamerxX- well im updating but I don't know if I like this chapter. Reignashii- here's the next chapter Bradybunch4529- you think it's interesting? Really thanks, I just always read were Kenshins a bad ass and stuff so I wanted to mix it up a but and stick it to the man, heh heh NekoYokai-here it is Lady Misao kenshin-the whole homophones will probably stay because im not in school right now for grammar so I don't care to fix my little mistakes and my computer said it was right. Sakura Hopes- thanks and yes I love to draw...well copy actually I have picture of kenshin on the computer and I can copy it on a sheet of paper by hand and I think there good. Nigihayami hakuro- this review was extremely helpful and made me want to write more. And I understand about the narrorator thing but I don't know how to stop it heh, not good. Ill try to tone it down if I can, thanks for the review. kean- the language is ok with me. Thanks for the review. nobody- heh heh the inside of people can be tricky to draw. Shattered heart- thanks for the review.