Plushies to all! And Cookies!
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Kaoru grimaced at the blood soaking into the sheets of Kenshin's bed.
"Sorry." she said as Sanouske glared at her from across the room.
"If you hadn't knocked me out maybe you wouldn't have gotten hurt as badly." He said, smugly.
"No, you would have just been shot." she told him practically.
Okushino lay in a black body bag in a stretcher on his way to the morgue.
She was wrapped in one of Kenshin's gi's and was bundled against the rain.
She ignored Kenshin's help until she reached the main hallway and collapsed from bloodloss. Then she let him carry her down to the ambulance.
She refused to get in with the EMTs unless kenshin was in with her.
so while they rushed her toward county general, they bandaged him up.
She drifted in and out of reality, slipping from moment to moment until the sun shone in her eyes from her apartment window three days later.
"Lay still, you aren't even supposed to be consious yet." Kenshin said, a hint of a grin in his voice.
"CLose the blinds then." she mumbled, her voice hoarse and cracked.
The obtrusive sun was cut off and she could see.
"Why are you in my appartment?" she asked, confused, "And why haven't you been arrested?"
"Would you prefer I had been? You've had three break-ins and four phone taps since you got home. The president wanted me to stay and look after you for awhile. Go back to sleep now and i'll wake you when lunch is ready." He said, pushing her back down onto her bed.
"I want to get up." she told him, trying to push his hand away weakly.
He let his fingers travel down her throat and pressed the pulse there, knocking her out painlessly.
"Kaoru no Baka. If you move around too much then you will re-open your wounds." he told her and she moaned, moving into his hand.
He watched her sleep for a while longer, then rose to make the promised lunch. She would sleep until he undid what he had done.
When he came back, though, she was gone.
He took the room in at a glance. No entry point.
His heart began to race in panic and rage when he heard a distant flush.
The side door opened and kaoru stepped out. She punched him in the face before she walked out into the hallway.
He caught her arm and pulled her back into the bedroom. She didn't need to see the large group of policemen in her livingroom. He sat her down on the bed and stared into her eyes.
They were blank. He stared at her in amazement. She was sleepwalking! He lay her back and undid what he had done.
She blinked in confusion.
"I want to get up." she said, finally, braking the silence.
"Eat first." He said, setting the tray on her lap.
"I'm not hungry." she said, ignoring the gnawing pain in her stomach.
He spooned some of the broth toward her mouth.
She turned her head and huffed, staring at the wall.
She felt a tap on her shoulder and turned her head to make a reply when a spoon was shoved into her mouth, forcing her to swallow it's contents. Then the obtrusive thing was gone and at her mouth again with another spoonful.
She glared at him but opened her mouth.
She was beginning to enjoy the attention when the bowl rang empty and he handed her a cup.
"Did you know you sleepwalked?" He asked her when she had finished.
She stared at him, wary.
"What's on this tape?" he asked, pulling a plastic wrapped tape from his pocket.
"You have it?" She asked, snatching it from him.
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"This is Megumi Takani, signing off." The black haired reporter said, and the on-air signal disappeared on the camera.
Sanouske Sagara had called her earlier, for dinner with a few friends of his.
"See ya, guys, i'm off to my date." She said, placing the tape recorder in her bag.
When she arrived at the diner at nine, she was surprised to see a bandaged Detective Kamiya beside a verry attractive red haired man.
"Miss Takani." sanouske said, handing her into the chair.
"To what do i owe this pleasure, detective?" Megumi asked the black haired woman opposite her.
The woman pulled out a black tape.
"This." Kaoru said, sliding it across the table.
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Yeah, i know, short chapter, but i don't care.
I hope i can help you die. -me.