By the way, i would like to say two things to specific peoples:
Thanks for all of the understanding patience you have shown for the last few weeks while i was painting and trying to get my portfolio together to try t get into an art school.
and
Where are all you peoples coming from? I would really like to know when i got popular, cuz the first six times i tried to post, i got maybe three peoples to review, and now all of yall are just here?! I'm confused...
Thanks for all of the reviews so far, i will acnowledge you all in due time, and Muffins and Kenshin plushies to all!!!!
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Kenshin was coming through the entrance, his shoulders slouched, and his face tilted downward so that he would not be noticed.
He walked up the stairs, instead of the elevator, and reached the tenth floor in about five minutes, pushing the door open with one hand as the other closed on the hiden katana in his coat.
He stared at the large man lying unconsious against the window at the end of the hall.
He cursed and raced into Kaoru's apartment, only to be hit with a gut-wrenching truth.
He had gotten there first.
Kaoru was gone.
He raced to the phone and called Detective Yahiko, Telling him only the bare minimum before he disappeared into the night.
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Jin-ei had a vicious snarl that passed for his smile even when he was happy.
He was tall, and broad, but scrawny looking, his chest was bare, and he wore black loose pants.
He held a daggar in his hand, twirling it with practiced ease.
"My little doll." he cooed, bruching the back of his hand on her cheek.
She spat in his face.
"Now, now. I don't think it will do to have you acting up again, love." He said, slicing her shoulder with the blade.
She grit her teeth and bit back a scream, she would not scream.
She would not let him win.
She struggled and strained, but the bars held.
"What do you want with me?' she demanded.
"You know what i want." He said, grabbing her breast, making her growl.
"Get the fuck away from me!" she snarled, twisting away from him.
He cut a deep gash along her collar bone and watched the blood run down her body.
He licked at it as it ran down her bare skin.
He cut the straps on her lacy black bra, letting her small firm breasts fall free.
She tried again to twist away from him and he smacked her.
He held her by the throat as he ravashed her, as he forced her to respond.
He cut her shorts off, letting the scraps fall to the floor.
He plunged two fingers inside her, making her writhe harder to get away.
"If you do not stop, i will slit your throat." he said, his voice deep and hoarse.
She stopped, her eyes dulled.
He plunged three fingers inside of her, wiggling them around until he hit a nerve.
"There's my girl." He said, soothingly.
He dropped his pants while he forced her lips apart, choking her with his tongue.
He felt her shudder, and knew it was uncontrolled.
He plunged himself inside of her, and allowed his hands to trail along her breasts, bruising them while they were slickened with her blood.
He ravaged her as she was pinned up against the wall, the metal bands cutting into her wrists.
He felt her shudder as he came within her, then she feinted.
He pulled out of her, kissing her again as he carved into her chest.
He carved the Kanji for death above her heart, and stepped back into the shadows, they had a visitor.
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"Kaoru." he growled, staring at the paused screen.
The freeze frame was of Jin-ei carrying Kaoru out into the balcony.
It was enlarged to show his face.
"You bastard." He snarled, Punching the wall.
He raced off toward Ruffian Row, and where Jin-ei had taken Kaoru.
Kenshin kept tabs on everyone, even his subordinats, and he knew where to find the bastard.
He burst in to find Kaoru, pinned to the wall, her blood covering her naked breasts and stomach from wounds around her shoulders, deep gashes that leaked black blood.
"Jin-ei!" he yelled, drawing his sword.
"Over here, battosai." Came the cold voice.
He stepped from the shadows, licking the blade of his knife before sheathing it. He drew the katana on his side and twirled it in slow, lazy arcs.
"What are you going to do, Battosai?" Jin-ei taunted, moving around him.
"Kill you." He said, his voice cold.
They attached each other, ending in a stale-mate of swords. They pushed away from each other, landing a few feet apart, Kenshin's back now toward the bloody form of Kaoru.
"Hah. You wouldn't dare." Jin-ei said, attacking again.
He was nocked back and onto the floor, Kenshin standing above him.
Suddenly, something behind him made him stop.
"Please...Don't....Kill..." Kaoru started coughing, convulsions ravashiing her body.
"Kaoru." he was at her side in a flash, slashing through the steel bands that held her. He caught her, and tried to help her stand, she collapsed into his arms.
"Please, don't kill. Noone deserves to die, no matter what they do. Not if it's me." She said, pushing away from him.
She walked over and stood over the monster on the floor, the monster that, just moments before...
She kicked him in the head, knocking him out.
Then the world tilted and she found herself, once again, in the arms of unconsiousness.
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He caught her as she fell, Her slim body made pale and frail by loss of blood.
"Shh. it's going to be okay." He whispered to her in a rare moment of compassion.
He caught her legs and brought her around so she was being carried like a child.
He walked out and into the streets.
He walked strait to his apartment, closing and locking the door behind him.
He bandaged and watched her closely until she began to stir.
Then he left to make coffee, leaving her alone on his couch.
When he came back, she was sitting up.
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"You shouldn't be up, Mr. Sagara! You aren't fully healed yet!" The nurse fussed as Sanouske walked out of the bathroom completely dressed.
"I'm leaving, with or without your permission." He said, grabbing his clothes.
"But, Mr. Sagara!" The nurse exhasparated.
He just waved and walked out.
When he reached the third floor, he stopped. Yahiko was outside of a door resigned for special police convicts and suspects.
"Who's in there?" Sanouske asked, pointing through the door.
"Jin-ei Kinumori, We found him in a warehouse on Ruffian Row. he said the Battosai was there." Yahiko paused, staring at Sanouske.
"And?"
"There was a table with sliced restraining bars, Kaoru's blood was on those bars, and the floor around the table, and on this guy's knife." He snarled, "He says it was the battosai, but noone belives him. Kaoru's still missing." Yahiko said, watching for Sanouske's reaction.
Sanouske stormed into the room.
He punched the guy in his already bruised face, there was a bruise of a foot, he hoped that it was kaoru's.
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Kaoru looked at him sweetly, a little too sweetly for comfort.
Kenshin backed away.
"What did you just say?" she asked, a vein in her head pulsed.
"I....You should not be up yet miss Kaoru." He said, hopelessly.
"Tell me about how you found my so-called bodyguard?" She demanded.
"I..Well.. I walked in and i saw him and i ran into your apartment to see if you were okay. But then you weren't so i saved you..." He trailed off at the end, his voice growing meeker and meeker. "And..you looked so helpless..." He sqweeked as she jumped on top of him.
"Let's get one thing strait, I'm not helpless, i don't need anyone's help! Got that?! Or do i have to show you?" she drew back her fist.
He scrambled out from under her.
"No!" he yelped. He had seen her in action before.
She tackled him, then began slapping him over and over.
He caught her wrists after a few moments and looked up to see unseeing eyes clouded with tears.
He drew her down to him, curled her in his arms.
As she cried against his chest, his eyes softened to a warm lavender.
He picked her up and carried her to his bedroom, letting her cry on him as he place dher under the covers.
A few minutes later, he walked into the bathroom, showered, and went into the living room to sleep on the couch.
Kaoru would kill him if she woke up with him, and he didn't want that.
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Okay, yall, i decided to try to make it extra long cause yall had to wait so long. Anyways, My e-mail is , I have two versions of this chapter, one can't be posted, the other is right here.
Anyways..
Let's Play! -chucky. shudder