None of the original Rk characters are mine...yet..
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Kaoru drug herself out of the deep silent waters to glimpse a face over hers.
It was slim, almost feminine, with violet eyes and red hair.
Then it was gone and she was once again pulled into the oblivion.
The next time she awoke, she was in pain.
Her eyes shot open and she tried to sit up.
One hand was on her chest, keeping her in place.
"Careful, Kamiya." Came a voice.
"Where am i?" she asked, trying again to sit up.
"Rest, everything will be fine." Came the voice again as a sickly-sweet cloth was forced over her mouth and nose.
She was once again drowned in the oblivion of unconsiousness.
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Kenshin watched as she began to stir.
Then her eyes popped open and she tried to sit up.
He stopped her with a hand, keeping his face out of her line of sight.
"Careful, Kamiya." he said in her ear.
"Where am i?" she mumbled.
"Rest." he told her, covering her mouth and nose with the cloth. "Everything will be fine." He whispered as she fell back into sleep.
He picked her up and carried her out of the small building, nodding to the older couple.
"arigato." he said, shifting Kaoru's dead weight.
"come back and see us, himura." The woman said, the lythe old man agreed.
"I will try." he said, walking out slowly.
He arrived at Kaoru's apartment fifteen minutes before the cops did. He unbound her wound and left her there, where her own blood had pooled from before.
He took one last glance at her as the door was burst open and he had to leap from the window onto the balcony next door.
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"Kaoru! Why haven't you answered your phone all damn day!?" Yahiko yelled into the apartment before he saw the dead bodies on the floor.
"Kaoru!" he yelled, stepping over the dark puddles of blood.
He saw her on the floor, surrounded in her own blood.
"Kaoru." he whispered her name as he felt for her pulse.
Her eyes fluttered open and she looked at him with that same annoyed look in her eyes, then it faded and she closed her eyes again.
"What took you." she joked, her voice filled with pain.
"There was a massacre at County General, Gensai....He's dead, Kaoru. Kaoru?" No answer. "Kaoru! Hang on!" He said, stepping away from her.
"This is Miojin, get me an ambulance and the morgue, we have two stiffs and an officer down. And make it ten minutes ago!" he demanded into the radio as he searched for the first-aid kit.
When he found it, he raced over to Kaoru's side and lifted her shirt.
The wound was still bleeding, and it was deep and had gone out on the other side, but it hadn't appeared to hit any vital organs.
"Kaoru, you better hang on." He said to the pale figure below him as he wrapped her side.
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Kaoru woke in a hospital two days later.
Yahiko was staring at her from across the room.
"What are you looking at, kid?" she demanded, felling almost normal.
"Would you quit calling me that?" he demanded, glaring at her.
She cracked a grin.
"So, tell me, why am i here?" She asked, trying to remember.
"It seems Enishi had broken into your apartment and had shot you. The next part is confusing, though. He and his partner were slashed almost in two with a meji style Katana." he stared at her again.
"I don't remember anything." she lied. She remembered a face, a warm face with violet eyes and red hair. But that wasn't Enishi, or his companion from that night. "How long have i been here?" She asked, looking around.
"Two days." he said, shrugging.
the room was covered in flowers.
Black roses, red roses, and 'get well soon' baby's breath.
"Where are these from?" she asked, looking around.
"One is from a man named sanouske. Some are from us at the precinct, then these are from the battosai."He snarled.
"The battosai?" she asked, her brows furrowing in confusion.
"Yeah, he waltzed in here last night when the guards were changing shifts. Damn bastard overrided the cameras and snuck in here with four dozen home grown roses. All the black ones." he snarled, she could see the indignation in his face.
"Burns doesn't it." she said, grinning crookedly.
"Hell yeah." he grumped standing.
he took out a cigarrette and started to light it.
Kaoru was across the room in a flash.
She snapped the cigarrete from his mouth and grabbed the lighter as well. "No rookie of mine is gonna smoke. Got that. I let you cuss like a sailor and you ain't even of age yet to drink, so keep your butt in line." she snarled, breaking the cigarrette and grabbing the pack from his pocket. She tossed it onto the floor and crushed it under her bare heel.
Then a laugh bounced around the room and kaoru turned on it's owner.
Then she let up a smile herself.
Yakoi and Sanouske were standing in the doorway, looking at her almost bewildered and amused at once.
"Take a bullet to the gut and up pounding your rookie the moment you wake up." Yakoi said, grinning. "It's just like you, Kamiya." He moved on into the room.
Suddenly a nurse bustled into the room and led kaoru back to the bed and told her to lay down.
Kaoru had accidentally torn the iv out of her arm and hadn't noticed the blood dripping from her fingers until then.
"Miss Kamiya, i am sure you are strong, taking a bullet like that, but you have lost a lot of blood, please stay in bed." The nurse fussed over her for a few more minutes before she finally left.
"How long till i get out of here, Yakoi, i can't stand hospitals." She sighed, glaring at the needle in her arm.
"You ain't getting out for another two days, little missie, and then you're with me." Sanouske said, grinning, a toothpick jutting out from between his lips.
"Oh, Could you leave me and Yakoi alone for a minute or two please?" she asked, her voice cold.
Sanouske stared at her until yahiko grabbed him by the arm and dragged him out.
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Yahiko took the larger man down the hall to the end and halfway down the next one.
"She's gonna blow up on him. She hated to get me as a partner in the first place. I know that look. She's come this close to killing Saito." he grimaced and covered his ears.
Sanouske looked at the small teen in amazement. Had that tiny girl in the hospital bed have actually almost killed a guy, she was a cop, but to try to kill your superior...
THen he was blown into the wall by the pure ferocity of the yell.
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Kaoru waited for a few minutes, Yahiko knew how far to get awaywhen she was this mad.
she waited until she had worked up a full head of steam before she began.
"WHAT IN THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN BY PUTTING ME WITH THAT ROOSTER HEAD AS ANOTHER PARTNER. i DIDN'T WANT THAT ROOKIE TO BEGIN WITH AND YOU WANT ME TO HAVE ANOTHER PARTNER???!?!?!?" she screamed, ignoring the fact that she probably tore the stitches in her side.
"Kaoru...please, will you just listen..kaoru..." he finally got her attention.
"WHAT?" she demanded.
"Kaoru, the man that killed Enishi is the battosai. He was in your apartment before enishi got there, apparently. He was possibly waiting for you." He broke the news abruptly.
Kaoru was silent as she thought this over.
"He's not your partner, kamiya, he's your bodyguard." he said, mentioning Sanouske.
That would be his mistake.
"BODYGUARD...." she yelled, then silenced herself as she lunged at the man.
"You'd best be glad we're close to the hospital. that means i can beat the fuck out of you and you can live to see it again." she snarled as she plunged her fist in his face.
When she was finished, the man was in the hallway, the door had been broken down and yakoi was unconsious and bleeding from his broken nose and mouth.
She was crouched on the floor on one knee, one hand protecting her open side. She had torn it open again, as well as the IV.
Her blood pooled on the floor.
She grinned and started to stand up when the world tilted and the floor came up to meet her.
The darkness drug her down into unconsiousness.
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Yahiko uncovered his ears in time to hear "Bodyguard" And then several loud crashes shook the whole floor.
When he finally got around the bend, he stood in shock as Yakoi, the senior precinct officer, lay bleeding and unconsious.
He raced past him and into Kaoru's room.
She was unconsious on the floor, not a scratch on her but the one from the IV.
Blood was beginning to pool under her, she had re-opened her side.
"Medic!" he screamed, as the doctors came down the hall to inspect the damage.
"Oh my god. Did she do this?" one doctor asked, looking toward the officer in the hall.
"Yeah. Now hurry." Yahiko said, motioning to the blood pooling under his friend and tormentor.
"Holy shit." the doctor kept mumbling under his breath. Kaoru was about half the size of Yakoi.
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Tee hee I figured i would add in a laugh here, cuz it's all been pretty serious.
Now, let's get to reviewing!
There were no cats tortured in the making of this fic....Humans, however are another matter entirely. - me.