Author's note: I do not own Rurouni Kenshin. And I wish to say any cliché's in this fic I deeply apologize for because well I've been watching Rurouni Kenshin for sometime now and I have recently taken a liking to reading these fics and I have yet to see a plot anywhere near the same as this one so if it's the same then I guess it's true Great Minds think alike!

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"Father, where is Kaoru?" The voice of Misao rang through out her father's chambers.

"She is with yet another suitor, Misao."

"How long ago have you let them be alone?"

"I left them when lunch was being served."

"Think she might actually settle for this one?" Misao inquired. "He stuck around longer than the others."

"Not likely." An older voice entered the room.

"Megumi, did you rest well."

"Rest?"

"Kaoru told me you had fallen ill and was resting."

"Oh yes, I feel better now." Megumi said no sooner the door to the room flung open and a dark haired gentleman hit the wall rather roughly.

"Are you okay sir?" Megumi asked the man who slid to the floor and was currently twitching. The man made an awesome recovery quicker than expected and glared at the woman outside of the door.

"That should teach you to keep your hands to yourself!!!!" She yelled with her beautiful sapphire eyes glowing with anger.

"A woman should know her place…"

"Oh no…" Misao groaned.

"And that place would be what exactly? To be beautiful for her charming husband, be ready to spread whenever he wishes to do so, and allow him to keep my father's kingdom and his own running properly when the time should come?!?" She said. "Am I to play the weak heroine whose life revolves around being nothing more than an accessory to you?"

"Well…" He started to agree with her. She sighed angrily and went to a curtain in the room and produced two wooden swords and tossed one at him.

"If you want me to play the weak heroine… prove you are stronger than me..." She fell into a stance and the gentleman merely laughed.

"I am not going to strike you." He said only to find himself winded when the sword hit him in the gut followed by a blow below the belt.

"Pathetic." She said dropping the sword and walked away.

"Kaoru!!"  Misao fussed while Megumi tended to the man holding his groin in pain.

"Please forgive my daughter she's a bit feisty."

"A bit feisty?!?! The woman is plain out scary and aggressive.  She should've been born male. Then you wouldn't have a problem trying to wed her off to someone else."

"So that's a no for the engagement." Megumi asked.

"That's a Hell would have to freeze over, I'd rather express love to a pig, lightening would have to strike me twice followed by a meteor, not if she was the last woman on this planet NO!" The man stood up and fixed his clothing before turning to the king. "Good Day your highness…" He walked out of the room and out of the palace.

"That is the fourth suitor in the past two weeks, father." Megumi stated plainly.

"I know that."

"Couldn't you just forget the ceremony and stop depriving myself and Misao from being with our-"

"We have had this discussion before Megumi. It is tradition…"

"For the siblings of three to wed at once… I know but I am three years older than Kaoru and four to Misao. If we keep waiting for Kaoru to choose the one she wishes to wed then Aoshi and Sanosuke will leave us for other women ready to bear them children and we'll be old maids together. Besides I'm not even interested in taking over any of your titles, Father. Neither is Misao."

"I know my dear but its tradition… The whole ceremony is a big thing."

"Well it will never happen since Kaoru hates all men that come here… Maybe you should start requesting princess's come instead of Prince's."

"No she would probably beat the princess senseless as soon as a comment on her boyish ways comes up." Lord Kamiya said.

"That's just it. She hits every suitor that comes here and none expect it and gets harmed easily." Megumi shook her head. "If only there was a Prince who could withstand such violence from her." She sighed wistfully.

"I should've thought of that sooner." The king stood looking surprised at his own silliness. The king left the room in search of one of his messengers.

"Kaoru, Come on he must've had some charm you liked…. you challenged him." Misao said watching her sister thrust her bokken at the dummy hanging on the wall.

"Yes, he was pleasant to talk to until he grabbed my leg then higher it crept." Kaoru kept moving. "I was going to forgive that but then in turn he 'casually' groped at my chest while reaching across the table for sugar. Then the touching kept happening so I hit him. Then you saw what happened from there."

"But Kaoru… what about me and Aoshi?"

"I'm sorry, Misao." Kaoru stopped moving. "I don't mean to be so picky but it's just that the Meiji Era is a tough place for a princess like me to find a man of quality… especially when the rumors of Megumi float around making everything I'm as promiscuous as she had been in searching for someone like Sanosuke.  You were lucky enough to have met Aoshi when you had at least you know he's worth something. Me? I have my own idea on what my love life should be like and I refuse to be arrested for killing someone I HATE!!!" She growled throwing her bokken through the dummy on the wall. She sighed before smiling.