DING DONG! Kenshin grunted and stood up stepping over Kaoru to the door.
Kaoru's eyes grew wide and she stood up quickly and ran up the stairs. She
opened the door to his room and slammed it right as Sano stepped in the
house. His eyes roamed up to the room raising an eyebrow at Kenshin.
"Dude what took you so long?" Sano asked punching Kenshin in the arm. He smiled but remained silent. Sano was waiting for an answer but didn't get one.
"Are you going to answer me or are we going to leave?" Sano asked impatiently. Kenshin forgot he was going to walk to school with Sano today.
"Oh, man I forgot. I was busy this morning." Kenshin said smiling a big ridiculous smile. Sano smirked and turned to walk away.
"Where are you going?" Kenshin asked Sano's retreating form.
"I'm going to leave both of you alone. By the way, sorry for interrupting." Sano said walking down the sidewalk.
'How does he always know?' Kenshin thought. He closed the door looked at the clock and figured he had enough time to coax Kaoru out of his room and walk to school. He took the stairs two at a time and knocked on the door. He didn't hear anything so he walked in seeing Kaoru sitting on his bed her eyes closed hugging her knees.
Instantly he was worried and ran to her side. He touched her shoulder and she jumped and pulled away scrambling to the other end of the bed. She looked at him with fear sketched into her face and her eyes overflowing with inner turmoil.
"Kaoru I-We" he tried to spit out but the words were jumbled in his mouth. Kaoru closed her eyes and when they opened a few minutes later they were unreadable and hard as a stone.
"When we walk to school, stay as far away from me as possible got it?" She spat out at him. Her words were like venom and Kenshin didn't understand. He just nodded his head with out really listening to what she said. She stood up walking roughly past him and down the stairs.
'What happened? She-she...' Kenshin thought in astonishment. He followed her down the stairs and they walked out the door towards the school. Kenshin stayed a good 50 feet away from her. It was almost as if he was afraid of her looking at his feet and occasionally glancing up at her.
She walked down the sidewalk the school in sight. She had a grimace painted on her face and her eyes hard as rock. She knew Kenshin wouldn't come near her and he would be crazy to try to talk to her.
'Don't look back Kaoru, don't look back...' She thought grimly. Almost running up the stairs to the school she quickly walked to her locker contemplating a plan to evade Kenshin. She opened it up fished around pulled out a note book and closed it. She turned to walk to her class and almost ran into her slightly smaller friend Misao.
"Kaoru where were you yesterday I called you 12 times! What's wrong you look so-oh I know...I know that look. Who is it?" Misao asked in a rush of words. Kaoru was having trouble sorting out everything she said.
"Um, I don't know what you're talking about." Kaoru said staring at her blankly.
"Uh huh...sure." Misao said sarcastically. "So who is it?" Misao asked beginning to turn around. Kaoru began to walk side by side next to Misao shaking her head.
"Misao I really don't know what you're talking about." She said innocently lying through her teeth.
"Yea right Kaoru, when you get to school you are always tripping someone or smiling wildly after you put shaving cream on your brothers face that morning. The only times I ever see you with a face like that is when something happens between you and a boy. So who is it?" Misao asked. Kaoru smiled.
"Yea the shaving cream is a weekly trick." Kaoru said smiling to herself feeling relived to get rid of her angry face. She smiled wider loving the feeling of being happy once again.
"Kaoru!" Misao said jumping infront of her friend who had a goofy face on. She shook her head and focused on her shorter friend.
"Oh, um no one." Kaoru said trying to deny everything.
"Kaoru im not moving until you tell me who it was." Misao said her face twisting into a frown. Kaoru couldn't look into her face and not spill the beans.
"Misao, if I told you, you wouldn't believe me."Kaoru said.
"Try me Kaoru." Misao said.
"Misao it was...it was...I got to get to class I'll tell you after school, call me!" Kaoru yelled back to her as she began to run to any random class, hiding from Misao. She turned around to see were she was and saw a familiar red mop top sitting in a desk towards the back of the class room.
Kaoru was relieved to find it was the wrong class she ran into and began to walk down the hall. She didn't bother to look back knowing he might see her. The bell rang as she walked down the deserted hallway on her way to the reading class she hadn't been to in a week.
She slowly opened the door and stepped in sliding into her seat in the corner. "Glad you could join us Miss Kamiya." Her teacher said. She looked at him and smiled.
"Yea," Kaoru said dully resting her head on her hand. The teacher just ignored her knowing she wasn't paying attention to him. The teacher began to lecture the class talking about homophones. Kaoru spent her time in this class thinking about the day before.
'Kenshin...'she thought sadly. 'He almost kissed me.' She thought now enraged. 'Not true Kaoru and you know that,' her conscious began. 'He pulled away and you moved closer to him. If you felt uncomfortable you could have stopped, but you didn't.' her "jiminy cricket" told her almost poking fun at her pathetic state.
She began to pout and pulled out a piece of notebook paper. She began to draw abstract art scratching the paper with harsh black lines. She started to ignore all the thought floating in her head and only focused on her art. Dark lines flowed this way and that.
Sharp corners slid into squares and numb shapes. She was so wrapped in her work she didn't hear the bell ring and jumped when she was tapped on the shoulder.
"Miss Kamiya, are you staying for next period?" the teacher asked jokingly. Kaoru looked into his face and shook her head.
"No im leaving." Kaoru said.
"Are you feeling ok?" He asked his eyes having a spark of worry.
"Yea." Kaoru said slowly and confused.
"Did you have a 24 hour flu yesterday or something?" He asked. Then Kaoru remembered that he had been the teacher she tricked.
"Yea, I think I just caught a cold from my brother. I took some antibiotics and I feel much better." Kaoru said sniffling to add the affect. She picked up her notebook and stood up walking out of the class. She walked into the courtyard and sat on a bench waiting for the bell to ring so no one would be in the halls making noise.
Slowly she began to continue her picture drawing in erratic patterns. By the time she was finished the paper looked more black than white. By just one look at her picture you could tell she was not a happy individual. Kaoru sighed her heart already feeling lighter.
She would have to add this one to the wall. She would have a lot to write in her diary tonight as well. 'I want to go home.' Kaoru thought. 'Every step I need to take to feel better is at home waiting for me.' She thought.
'I'll need to stop at the store for Chocolate ice cream with chocolate fudge and whip cream. I'll listen to "cold" and "lost prophets", talk to Misao, and in no time I'll feel as good as new.' She thought mentally preparing herself for the sugar rush she'll have tonight.
Kaoru sat in the courtyard watching flowers fall from the trees to the ground for the remainder of the period. She stood up a few minutes to the bell and walked into the cafeteria joining all the other ditchers.
She slowly sat at a table with many of her classmates and smiled in their direction. They were friends but Kaoru didn't need friends today, she needed some one deeper than that. She needed Misao.
The bell rang and Kaoru jumped out of her thoughts. Misao tapped her on the top of her head and she turned around quickly. Kaoru smiled.
"Hey Misao, I was just thinking about you." She said quietly.
"Really?" Misao asked.
Kaoru nodded. "I was thinking about tonight how I will be eating ice cream and talking to you." Kaoru said.
"It's that bad huh?" Misao asked now becoming sympathetic for her friend. Kaoru shook her head.
"Yes and no. You'll know everything tonight, then you'll understand." Kaoru said causing Misao to look hurt.
"I thought you'd tell me now." Misao said faking hurt. Kaoru laughed and began to pick at Misao's lunch lightly.
"Do you want it?" Misao asked holding her paper bag out to Kaoru. She shook her head Misao shrugged and began to eat savagely almost biting Kaoru's finger. Kaoru was lost in a world of thought when the bell rang. Kaoru stood up on impulse and began walking to art. No matter what kaoru never missed art, even when she was sick.
Kaoru walked into her class and sat down. She felt a tap on her shoulder and she snapped out of her trance looking around the room baffled.
"How did I get here-oh sorry. Did you want something?" Kaoru asked the boy who tapped her shoulder.
"I forgot a pencil do you have one I can borrow?" He asked. She pulled one from her pocket and gave it to him. He smiled in gratitude and the class began. Though Kaoru knew all the artists and art pieces learned in and out of school she still paid full attention to the teacher.
"Ok class, I will be splitting you up into partners to work on a major art project. This will be 50% of your grade. Your partner will be, for the most of you, on your own artistic level." The teacher said. Kaoru wondered if she would be partnered up with Aoshi like the rest of the year. From the extent of Kaoru's knowledge Aoshi was the best in the class only second to herself.
Kaoru never worked with any one else, the teacher loved Kaoru and let her do what she wanted. Kaoru's eyes roamed to the other end of the room to Aoshi. He was looking at her with his icy blue eyes that penetrated through his dark blanket of hair. Kaoru smiled and saw a dull spark in his eyes. His features were always unreadable but once you got to know Aoshi you could see his emotions in his eyes if you looked really hard.
The teacher was reading off pairs and Kaoru wasn't paying any attention until she heard 'Aoshi'.
"Shinomori Aoshi and Takani Megumi." The teacher said. Kaorus face fell and her world crashed and began to burn. She began to melt and seemed to drip onto the floor.
'This means, I have to work with...someone else!' Kaoru's mind screamed hating the notion immediately. She pulled herself together in an instant and looking around making sure no one saw her mini melt down. Though the smile once on her face was long gone her eyes still sparkled as if she was waiting for this moment.
"Kamiya Kaoru and...who's left? Ah yes! Himura Kenshin." the teacher said smiling towards Kaoru who stared blankly at her, eyes burning.
Her heart sunk and a ripple of goose bumps erupted from her and she frowned. At that moment the havens opened up and rain began to pelt down upon the school. Kaoru didn't even bother to listen to the teacher explain the project; she was busy slipping slowly into a state of despair.
The rest of the period went agonizingly slow and Kaoru kept glancing at the back of Kenshin dreading doing any work with him. Eventually the class ended and Kaoru ran into the hallway searching for Misao. She spotted her and ran to her though the mob of kids.
Kaoru grabbed her hand and dragged her out a door. Kaoru looked at Misao stumbling and struggling to collect her books that fell. She opened her mouth to speak but Misao beat her to the punch.
"Kaoru! What was that?" Misao asked perturbed. Kaoru smiled.
"Misao I cant take it anymore, I have to go home. I am faking sick and going to the nurse. I'll be at home ok?" Kaoru asked Misao quickly.
"It has to do with him doesn't it? I hope he's not the boy I think he is." Misao said carefully. Kaoru rolled her eyes.
"And who might that be?" Kaoru asked. Misao smiled.
"Well either Soujiro...or...ill kill you if its..." Misao started pausing and looking uncomfortable. "Aoshi." She said quietly. Kaoru began to laugh.
After a long hard laugh Kaoru answered. "Misao, Aoshi is yours I already told you I'm just his friend. And as for Soujiro...it's much worse." Kaoru said sadly. Misao sighed.
"Won't you tell me?" She pleaded.
"No way! I'll tell you later I can't have the risk of ANYONE knowing." Kaoru said laughing. Misao's eyes grew wide.
"That bad? Ok Kaoru I'll call you right when I get home Have fun while you're out of school." Misao said walking inside. Kaoru waved and waked to the principal's office. She began to cough profusely and sneeze. Her face began to pale and gain a green hue.
She opened the door walking in. She walked to the nurse. "I don't" She started then sneezed. "Feel very well. I just threw up, can I go home?" Kaoru asked. The nurse never even looked up.
"What happened this time honey?" She asked. Kaoru smiled.
"Well, I guess you could say it was another boy incident." Kaoru said.
"Another? Who was it this time? Soujiro? Aoshi? All your other silly friends?" The nurse asked looking up to her.
"No, you wouldn't believe me if I told you." Kaoru said her "cold" completely gone.
"Maybe I might. Tell me honey, no one will know." the nurse said.
"Ok I guess." Kaoru said. She leaned in and whispered into her ear.
"Kenshin"The nurse began to scream until Kaoru cupped her hands over her mouth.
"You promised not to tell! If anyone knows I'll-"Kaoru began a threat.
"I know, I know. You'll hunt me down and blah, blah, blah." The nurse said handing Kaoru a pass.
"Here Kaoru, This should get you out of class when ever you need to...you can come and talk to me if you want. Now get on home girl." She said. Kaoru walked out to her car and jumped in. She began to drive home blaring the song "Stupid girl" from cold. She stopped by the store and bought some ice cream. When Kaoru walked out of the store she saw some one in her car.
She ran up to her car throwing the ice cream in the backseat holding her fists up. "What are you doing in my...in my..." Kaoru said her eyes widening and she froze. She saw a head full of strait full red hair. Kenshin's head popped up and he smiled looking at her.
Kaoru was frozen still breathing hard. Kenshin grabbed the keys from her hand and put them in the ignition starting the car. "Stupid girl" began to play and the entire parking lot was filled with noise. Kaoru was frozen and numb.
Kenshin opened the door for her and he scooted over to the passenger seat. After a pause Kaoru was hopping mad her eyes ablaze and shooting daggers at him. Kenshin sensed irritation and backed up a little.
"What the fuck are you doing here? In my car!" Kaoru yelled over her music. He slowly reached to turn it off. Kaoru gave him an ugly look and he only turned it down.
'Bad idea.' Kenshin thought to himself wondering how he was going to get out of this predicament.
"What do you want?" Kaoru asked quietly after a pause looking exhausted and defeated at her feet. Kenshin's heart sunk.
"I-I don't want anything...except to talk." Kenshin said softly, enticing her to join him in the car. She slowly slid in the car hesitantly and looked at him.
"You always want to talk don't you?" She asked. He smiled and nodded. Kaoru began to drive in silence. Kenshin wanted her to open up to him when she wanted to...but she had to or he would never stop bothering her.
'Why cant he leave it be for a while. I'll open up once I'm over the shock!' Kaoru thought. She pulled into her drive way and turned off the car. She sat there for a while then built enough courage to look at him. He was staring intently at her with his large purple eyes.
Kaoru sighed. "Why do we have to talk now?" Kaoru asked unbuckling her seat belt and stepping out of her car. She grabbed her bag of chocolate and waked into her house Kenshin following. Kaoru allowed him to walk into her small cozy house, since she knew he'd probably wait outside if she didn't.
She put the chocolate in the freezer and turned to him.
"We don't have to." Kenshin said. "Just...I was...I want to." Kenshin said strangely. She looked at him pleadingly as if she could change his mind. She walked into her living room sat on the couch and watched him take a seat.
"What do you want to know?" Kaoru asked.
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"Dude what took you so long?" Sano asked punching Kenshin in the arm. He smiled but remained silent. Sano was waiting for an answer but didn't get one.
"Are you going to answer me or are we going to leave?" Sano asked impatiently. Kenshin forgot he was going to walk to school with Sano today.
"Oh, man I forgot. I was busy this morning." Kenshin said smiling a big ridiculous smile. Sano smirked and turned to walk away.
"Where are you going?" Kenshin asked Sano's retreating form.
"I'm going to leave both of you alone. By the way, sorry for interrupting." Sano said walking down the sidewalk.
'How does he always know?' Kenshin thought. He closed the door looked at the clock and figured he had enough time to coax Kaoru out of his room and walk to school. He took the stairs two at a time and knocked on the door. He didn't hear anything so he walked in seeing Kaoru sitting on his bed her eyes closed hugging her knees.
Instantly he was worried and ran to her side. He touched her shoulder and she jumped and pulled away scrambling to the other end of the bed. She looked at him with fear sketched into her face and her eyes overflowing with inner turmoil.
"Kaoru I-We" he tried to spit out but the words were jumbled in his mouth. Kaoru closed her eyes and when they opened a few minutes later they were unreadable and hard as a stone.
"When we walk to school, stay as far away from me as possible got it?" She spat out at him. Her words were like venom and Kenshin didn't understand. He just nodded his head with out really listening to what she said. She stood up walking roughly past him and down the stairs.
'What happened? She-she...' Kenshin thought in astonishment. He followed her down the stairs and they walked out the door towards the school. Kenshin stayed a good 50 feet away from her. It was almost as if he was afraid of her looking at his feet and occasionally glancing up at her.
She walked down the sidewalk the school in sight. She had a grimace painted on her face and her eyes hard as rock. She knew Kenshin wouldn't come near her and he would be crazy to try to talk to her.
'Don't look back Kaoru, don't look back...' She thought grimly. Almost running up the stairs to the school she quickly walked to her locker contemplating a plan to evade Kenshin. She opened it up fished around pulled out a note book and closed it. She turned to walk to her class and almost ran into her slightly smaller friend Misao.
"Kaoru where were you yesterday I called you 12 times! What's wrong you look so-oh I know...I know that look. Who is it?" Misao asked in a rush of words. Kaoru was having trouble sorting out everything she said.
"Um, I don't know what you're talking about." Kaoru said staring at her blankly.
"Uh huh...sure." Misao said sarcastically. "So who is it?" Misao asked beginning to turn around. Kaoru began to walk side by side next to Misao shaking her head.
"Misao I really don't know what you're talking about." She said innocently lying through her teeth.
"Yea right Kaoru, when you get to school you are always tripping someone or smiling wildly after you put shaving cream on your brothers face that morning. The only times I ever see you with a face like that is when something happens between you and a boy. So who is it?" Misao asked. Kaoru smiled.
"Yea the shaving cream is a weekly trick." Kaoru said smiling to herself feeling relived to get rid of her angry face. She smiled wider loving the feeling of being happy once again.
"Kaoru!" Misao said jumping infront of her friend who had a goofy face on. She shook her head and focused on her shorter friend.
"Oh, um no one." Kaoru said trying to deny everything.
"Kaoru im not moving until you tell me who it was." Misao said her face twisting into a frown. Kaoru couldn't look into her face and not spill the beans.
"Misao, if I told you, you wouldn't believe me."Kaoru said.
"Try me Kaoru." Misao said.
"Misao it was...it was...I got to get to class I'll tell you after school, call me!" Kaoru yelled back to her as she began to run to any random class, hiding from Misao. She turned around to see were she was and saw a familiar red mop top sitting in a desk towards the back of the class room.
Kaoru was relieved to find it was the wrong class she ran into and began to walk down the hall. She didn't bother to look back knowing he might see her. The bell rang as she walked down the deserted hallway on her way to the reading class she hadn't been to in a week.
She slowly opened the door and stepped in sliding into her seat in the corner. "Glad you could join us Miss Kamiya." Her teacher said. She looked at him and smiled.
"Yea," Kaoru said dully resting her head on her hand. The teacher just ignored her knowing she wasn't paying attention to him. The teacher began to lecture the class talking about homophones. Kaoru spent her time in this class thinking about the day before.
'Kenshin...'she thought sadly. 'He almost kissed me.' She thought now enraged. 'Not true Kaoru and you know that,' her conscious began. 'He pulled away and you moved closer to him. If you felt uncomfortable you could have stopped, but you didn't.' her "jiminy cricket" told her almost poking fun at her pathetic state.
She began to pout and pulled out a piece of notebook paper. She began to draw abstract art scratching the paper with harsh black lines. She started to ignore all the thought floating in her head and only focused on her art. Dark lines flowed this way and that.
Sharp corners slid into squares and numb shapes. She was so wrapped in her work she didn't hear the bell ring and jumped when she was tapped on the shoulder.
"Miss Kamiya, are you staying for next period?" the teacher asked jokingly. Kaoru looked into his face and shook her head.
"No im leaving." Kaoru said.
"Are you feeling ok?" He asked his eyes having a spark of worry.
"Yea." Kaoru said slowly and confused.
"Did you have a 24 hour flu yesterday or something?" He asked. Then Kaoru remembered that he had been the teacher she tricked.
"Yea, I think I just caught a cold from my brother. I took some antibiotics and I feel much better." Kaoru said sniffling to add the affect. She picked up her notebook and stood up walking out of the class. She walked into the courtyard and sat on a bench waiting for the bell to ring so no one would be in the halls making noise.
Slowly she began to continue her picture drawing in erratic patterns. By the time she was finished the paper looked more black than white. By just one look at her picture you could tell she was not a happy individual. Kaoru sighed her heart already feeling lighter.
She would have to add this one to the wall. She would have a lot to write in her diary tonight as well. 'I want to go home.' Kaoru thought. 'Every step I need to take to feel better is at home waiting for me.' She thought.
'I'll need to stop at the store for Chocolate ice cream with chocolate fudge and whip cream. I'll listen to "cold" and "lost prophets", talk to Misao, and in no time I'll feel as good as new.' She thought mentally preparing herself for the sugar rush she'll have tonight.
Kaoru sat in the courtyard watching flowers fall from the trees to the ground for the remainder of the period. She stood up a few minutes to the bell and walked into the cafeteria joining all the other ditchers.
She slowly sat at a table with many of her classmates and smiled in their direction. They were friends but Kaoru didn't need friends today, she needed some one deeper than that. She needed Misao.
The bell rang and Kaoru jumped out of her thoughts. Misao tapped her on the top of her head and she turned around quickly. Kaoru smiled.
"Hey Misao, I was just thinking about you." She said quietly.
"Really?" Misao asked.
Kaoru nodded. "I was thinking about tonight how I will be eating ice cream and talking to you." Kaoru said.
"It's that bad huh?" Misao asked now becoming sympathetic for her friend. Kaoru shook her head.
"Yes and no. You'll know everything tonight, then you'll understand." Kaoru said causing Misao to look hurt.
"I thought you'd tell me now." Misao said faking hurt. Kaoru laughed and began to pick at Misao's lunch lightly.
"Do you want it?" Misao asked holding her paper bag out to Kaoru. She shook her head Misao shrugged and began to eat savagely almost biting Kaoru's finger. Kaoru was lost in a world of thought when the bell rang. Kaoru stood up on impulse and began walking to art. No matter what kaoru never missed art, even when she was sick.
Kaoru walked into her class and sat down. She felt a tap on her shoulder and she snapped out of her trance looking around the room baffled.
"How did I get here-oh sorry. Did you want something?" Kaoru asked the boy who tapped her shoulder.
"I forgot a pencil do you have one I can borrow?" He asked. She pulled one from her pocket and gave it to him. He smiled in gratitude and the class began. Though Kaoru knew all the artists and art pieces learned in and out of school she still paid full attention to the teacher.
"Ok class, I will be splitting you up into partners to work on a major art project. This will be 50% of your grade. Your partner will be, for the most of you, on your own artistic level." The teacher said. Kaoru wondered if she would be partnered up with Aoshi like the rest of the year. From the extent of Kaoru's knowledge Aoshi was the best in the class only second to herself.
Kaoru never worked with any one else, the teacher loved Kaoru and let her do what she wanted. Kaoru's eyes roamed to the other end of the room to Aoshi. He was looking at her with his icy blue eyes that penetrated through his dark blanket of hair. Kaoru smiled and saw a dull spark in his eyes. His features were always unreadable but once you got to know Aoshi you could see his emotions in his eyes if you looked really hard.
The teacher was reading off pairs and Kaoru wasn't paying any attention until she heard 'Aoshi'.
"Shinomori Aoshi and Takani Megumi." The teacher said. Kaorus face fell and her world crashed and began to burn. She began to melt and seemed to drip onto the floor.
'This means, I have to work with...someone else!' Kaoru's mind screamed hating the notion immediately. She pulled herself together in an instant and looking around making sure no one saw her mini melt down. Though the smile once on her face was long gone her eyes still sparkled as if she was waiting for this moment.
"Kamiya Kaoru and...who's left? Ah yes! Himura Kenshin." the teacher said smiling towards Kaoru who stared blankly at her, eyes burning.
Her heart sunk and a ripple of goose bumps erupted from her and she frowned. At that moment the havens opened up and rain began to pelt down upon the school. Kaoru didn't even bother to listen to the teacher explain the project; she was busy slipping slowly into a state of despair.
The rest of the period went agonizingly slow and Kaoru kept glancing at the back of Kenshin dreading doing any work with him. Eventually the class ended and Kaoru ran into the hallway searching for Misao. She spotted her and ran to her though the mob of kids.
Kaoru grabbed her hand and dragged her out a door. Kaoru looked at Misao stumbling and struggling to collect her books that fell. She opened her mouth to speak but Misao beat her to the punch.
"Kaoru! What was that?" Misao asked perturbed. Kaoru smiled.
"Misao I cant take it anymore, I have to go home. I am faking sick and going to the nurse. I'll be at home ok?" Kaoru asked Misao quickly.
"It has to do with him doesn't it? I hope he's not the boy I think he is." Misao said carefully. Kaoru rolled her eyes.
"And who might that be?" Kaoru asked. Misao smiled.
"Well either Soujiro...or...ill kill you if its..." Misao started pausing and looking uncomfortable. "Aoshi." She said quietly. Kaoru began to laugh.
After a long hard laugh Kaoru answered. "Misao, Aoshi is yours I already told you I'm just his friend. And as for Soujiro...it's much worse." Kaoru said sadly. Misao sighed.
"Won't you tell me?" She pleaded.
"No way! I'll tell you later I can't have the risk of ANYONE knowing." Kaoru said laughing. Misao's eyes grew wide.
"That bad? Ok Kaoru I'll call you right when I get home Have fun while you're out of school." Misao said walking inside. Kaoru waved and waked to the principal's office. She began to cough profusely and sneeze. Her face began to pale and gain a green hue.
She opened the door walking in. She walked to the nurse. "I don't" She started then sneezed. "Feel very well. I just threw up, can I go home?" Kaoru asked. The nurse never even looked up.
"What happened this time honey?" She asked. Kaoru smiled.
"Well, I guess you could say it was another boy incident." Kaoru said.
"Another? Who was it this time? Soujiro? Aoshi? All your other silly friends?" The nurse asked looking up to her.
"No, you wouldn't believe me if I told you." Kaoru said her "cold" completely gone.
"Maybe I might. Tell me honey, no one will know." the nurse said.
"Ok I guess." Kaoru said. She leaned in and whispered into her ear.
"Kenshin"The nurse began to scream until Kaoru cupped her hands over her mouth.
"You promised not to tell! If anyone knows I'll-"Kaoru began a threat.
"I know, I know. You'll hunt me down and blah, blah, blah." The nurse said handing Kaoru a pass.
"Here Kaoru, This should get you out of class when ever you need to...you can come and talk to me if you want. Now get on home girl." She said. Kaoru walked out to her car and jumped in. She began to drive home blaring the song "Stupid girl" from cold. She stopped by the store and bought some ice cream. When Kaoru walked out of the store she saw some one in her car.
She ran up to her car throwing the ice cream in the backseat holding her fists up. "What are you doing in my...in my..." Kaoru said her eyes widening and she froze. She saw a head full of strait full red hair. Kenshin's head popped up and he smiled looking at her.
Kaoru was frozen still breathing hard. Kenshin grabbed the keys from her hand and put them in the ignition starting the car. "Stupid girl" began to play and the entire parking lot was filled with noise. Kaoru was frozen and numb.
Kenshin opened the door for her and he scooted over to the passenger seat. After a pause Kaoru was hopping mad her eyes ablaze and shooting daggers at him. Kenshin sensed irritation and backed up a little.
"What the fuck are you doing here? In my car!" Kaoru yelled over her music. He slowly reached to turn it off. Kaoru gave him an ugly look and he only turned it down.
'Bad idea.' Kenshin thought to himself wondering how he was going to get out of this predicament.
"What do you want?" Kaoru asked quietly after a pause looking exhausted and defeated at her feet. Kenshin's heart sunk.
"I-I don't want anything...except to talk." Kenshin said softly, enticing her to join him in the car. She slowly slid in the car hesitantly and looked at him.
"You always want to talk don't you?" She asked. He smiled and nodded. Kaoru began to drive in silence. Kenshin wanted her to open up to him when she wanted to...but she had to or he would never stop bothering her.
'Why cant he leave it be for a while. I'll open up once I'm over the shock!' Kaoru thought. She pulled into her drive way and turned off the car. She sat there for a while then built enough courage to look at him. He was staring intently at her with his large purple eyes.
Kaoru sighed. "Why do we have to talk now?" Kaoru asked unbuckling her seat belt and stepping out of her car. She grabbed her bag of chocolate and waked into her house Kenshin following. Kaoru allowed him to walk into her small cozy house, since she knew he'd probably wait outside if she didn't.
She put the chocolate in the freezer and turned to him.
"We don't have to." Kenshin said. "Just...I was...I want to." Kenshin said strangely. She looked at him pleadingly as if she could change his mind. She walked into her living room sat on the couch and watched him take a seat.
"What do you want to know?" Kaoru asked.
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