A/N: okies, it's been a while, and i've just been lazy..... but maybe if i got some more reviews, i wouldn't be so lazy!!! plz?? i is beggin' u w/ duck eyes........ so i'll get some reviews fer dis one?? Plz?? OKIES!!!! give the sad ducky some REVIEWS!!!!! i must thank all of u who stay by me that i don't feel like putting names down for so i'll do that in a later chappie.... but thank u.....
Chappie 4
Kaoru......
She leapt from one tree to the other, keeping a steady pace. Her vision was blurry from all the tears and she tried not to think about what they had done. She didn't know where she would go from there. She hadn't planned on things turning out the way they had.
She kept going, even thought night was fast approaching. She had cried all her tears and she told herself that she wasn't going to anymore. She tried to steal her nerves as she journeyed on. But her thoughts kept wandering back to him and what they'd done......
Flashback
"Kenshin," she breathed. He continued to nuzzle her neck as she held him to her. Her hands tangled lovingly in his hair.
"Kaoru," he whispered. She didn't reply verbally but rather with her mouth as she brought his face back to hers. He took her lips possessively, kissing her hard and deep. She moaned into his mouth as he freed he of the confinement of her clothing.
End Flashback
The tears started to fall faster than she could stop them as she slumped on the branch, leaning against the trunk. She cried herself into an uneasy sleep.
Battousai.......
'Kaoru,' he thought for the millionth time as he searched for her. He thought he'd felt her ki, and had searched all over, but hadn't found her. He wanted to so desperately to explain himself, to tell her how much he loved her.
"I swear I'll find you and make it up," he promised.
He finally found her, curled up in the tree, trying to stay warm. He crept up to her and pulled her into his arms. She didn't wake as he expected her too, but was surprised to find tears clinging to her eyelashes.
Dojo.......
"Kuso, they've been gone a long time," Yahiko cursed. Megumi had been in a state of depression, realizing that 'Ken-San' as she'd proclaimed him, was in love with the stupid little tanuki she hated so much.
"What do you suppose they're doing together?" Megumi asked quietly.
"There's no guarantee that he even found her yet."
"Aa," she said, looking down.
"Hey, don't look so down! What about Sanosuke? He might be a bit of a loser, but I know he loves you!"
"It's not the same. I love Kenshin, not Sano......"
Aoiya.....
Misao and Soujiro had gotten to know each other very well now and were talking as if they'd known each other all their lives.
"So, Misao-chan, what is it that happened between Kaoru-chan and Battousai? She told me the basics, but she had to leave," Soujiro asked.
"Well, I guess she admitted her undying love for him and he flat out said he didn't love her. She said she couldn't live with him anymore, she said it'd be too embarrassing," Misao explained.
"I see."
"I think maybe it's time for bed," Misao suggested, "Hey Jiji! Where's Sou-chan gonna sleep?"
"In the guest room," Okina answered. She smacked her forehead.
"I knew that," she assured him.
Kaoru and Battousai........
Kaoru awoke in the middle of the night, wrapped in a pair of warm arms. She snuggled closer before logic set in.
'Wait..... I left..... alone..... and now.....'
"Ahhhhhhhhhh! Take that you pervert!!" she screamed hitting him over the head with the sakabatou.
Kenshin woke up to pain. And lots of it. Looking up he saw Kaoru beating the shit out of him with what looked like a sakabatou.
"Oro!" he let the rurouni's word slip, "What are you doing Kaoru?!" She stared at him, shrugged, then decided that he deserved it and continued to beat on him.
"How dare you chase me! I hate you just as much as the rurouni! Now get away from me!!" she yelled, jumping to the next tree.
"Kaoru! Let me explain!"
"I don't want your shitty excuses or goddamn explanations!!"
Aoiya..........
Soujiro stayed in the room next to Misao's but, she dragged him into her room to talk before bed.
"Hey! Sou-chan, Aoshi-Sama said that he had met you before, where?" she asked.
"When we worked under Shishio-sama," he told her.
"You worked with that weirdo?!"
"Hai, and I admired him for what he did to me after I was taken from Kaoru-chan."
"What happened?"
"It's a long story......"
Kaoru........
'Why?! Why does he continue to chase me?! I have to steel my heart, my emotions! I can't let him violate me again! I won't! He'll use my love to his advantage!' she thought furiously.
"Dammit! This is getting me NOWHERE!!!!!!!!" she said out loud. She dropped to the ground, running.
'I'll go back to Tokyo! He won't find me there! He won't expect me to go back! Yeah,' she thought, taking off towards the train station.
Aoiya.........
"When I was little, my family lived next to the Kamiya dojo. My parents quickly made friends with Kaoru's parents and soon Kaoru and I were introduced to each other. She was so sincere, so adorable. She held her hair up in a ribbon, much like she does now.
"Konnichiwa! I'm Kamiya Kaoru! Who are you?" she asked me.
"Seta Soujiro," was my only answer.
"Sou-chan! Come and play with me! Do you know how to hold a shinai?"
She called me Sou-chan, just like you do. She was so sweet to me. I shook my head and she took me into the dojo. For months she taught me how to use it. That's how I really became interested in kenjutsu. I was only about five then. When I was ten, my parents were murdered. I wanted to stay with Kaoru-chan at the dojo, and she tried like hell to get me to stay. My distant relatives heard about it and came to take me with them. In the end, law said I had to stay with them. They treated me like a slave. It was like I wasn't related to them at all. I had to do everything. I quickly learned that complaining would lead to a beating. So I smiled. It was stupid to let them know I was suffering, seeing as they got their pleasure from my pain. (A/N: don't laugh at me, don't call me names, don't get your pleasure from my pain. Don't laugh at me. hee, hee. ignore me. kaoru: gods! you r so predictable, let them get back to the story)
A few years later, Shishio-sama was passing through and need more bandages. I hid him in the barn, and I went to the house in search for bandages. My aunt found me, though. She asked me what I was doing with them. I told her someone needed my help. She didn't believe me, but she brushed it off. I took the bandages to Shishio-sama along with some food I was able to steal off the table. He asked me why I let them boss me around like that they did. It was then he explained his philosophy to me, now I know it's wrong, but back then, I was so confused. He seemed like he had a point. He told me that the strong will live and the weak will die. He asked me why I smiled all the time and I told him. He said that smiling was a sign of my weakness. He gave me one of his swords, saying that I was weak and needed to become strong if I wanted to live.
I disobeyed my relatives and they took out all their weapons to beat me with. This time it looked as if they were going to kill me. I still had the sword. I climbed underneath the house and hoped they wouldn't come after me. But they did. One of the men, they followed me and I..... I killed him. It was the first time I'd ever killed someone and I felt so...... so empowered. I crawled out and they all stared at the bloody blade. I killed them all. And Shishio-sama took care of me after that...... (A/N: forgive me if Soujiro's past is off a bit. i'm goin' off memory and i haven't seen the episode in forever and they haven't talked about it in the manga yet.....)
Battousai..........
He was cursing as he struggled to see the girl in the dark trees. She was no where in sight. She really pissed him off sometimes, no matter how much he loved her. She just made things harder than they had to be.
"Kaoru!" he called, hoping to get some sort of response out of her. But he didn't.
"Dammit, I'll find you, and then I'll tell you how much I truly love you....."
Aoiya..........
"Oh, Sou-chan," Misao whispered, in tears. She threw her arms around him and cried into his sleeping yukata.
"Uh....." he said.
"Oh! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to, it's just so sad!" she told him, moving away from him.
"I didn't mind, it's just your the only other girl to hug me other than Kaoru-chan. I guess it's just a little weird," he explained.
"I feel so bad for you," she murmured.
"Don't. It's all in the past now. Never to happen again. I saw the error in my way and I moved on with a little help from Himura-san," he assured her.
"That's good to hear. We should get some sleep," she suggested. He moved to get up, but Misao grabbed his sleeve.
"Don't leave. Stay with me, onegai," she pleaded.
"Alright," he settled down next to her.
Kaoru........
She fell asleep on the train. The conductor came over and shook her awake, noticing that she looked familiar. Again she thanked him. She went to a local rest room (A/N: did they have them back then? kaoru: ask Watsuki) and changed into the other outfit Misao had given her.
"Mou, what will Gensai-sensei say when he sees you?" she asked herself. She hadn't felt right ever since she left Kenshin. She didn't think it had anything to do with illness rather a broken heart.
'But I got sick this morning,' she reasoned, 'Probably too much crying, it's happened before.' She made her way to the clinic and Gensai-sensei examined her without question of her outfit.
"Kaoru-chan, you don't have anything wrong with you, however......."
A/N:
ducky: bwa haaa haaaaa! i so evil
kaoru: tell me about it
kenshin: now, now, you two, settle down before another fight breaks out
kaoru: ya know u really are better as the battousai
kenshin: ORO?!
ducky: don't you think so? he's so aggressive........
kaoru: tell me about it
ducky: i would if i wasn't taken, Oh, AOSHI-SAMA!!!
kaoru: oh please
aoshi: please, please, i no u luv me, just let me meditate
ducky: wasn't it u who said man cannot survive on meditation alone? ( for u shorty!!!! "Man cannot survive on meditation alone")
aoshi: not in this fic
ducky: the word is ficcie
aoshi: watever. where are battousai and kamiya?
kaoru: just turn into battousai already!! beating kenshin over the head with her bokken
kenshin: orororororororo!!! That hurts kaoru-dono, that it does!!
battousai: u r such a loser! just let me show her wat i can do for her.....
kenshin: ewww! get back you blood thirsty beast!
kaoru: battousai! u've come to rescue me from this hell hole!
ducky: hey! u can't leave, i need u to remind me of all the stuff i didn't do!
kaoru: she's rite. i'll be back my next chappie, now let's find a room and.........
ducky: hey!!! u guys!!! this is rated PG-13! I'm not moving the rating so u guys can have fun!
battousai: then don't follow us
ducky: fine! but u both better be back by next chappie or your asses are mine! especially urs battousai wink wink nudge nudge
aoshi: only have eyes for me, my ass
ducky: is lovely. i do only luv u but u can be so cold........
aoshi: until next time then....
ducky: luv ya lots!!!!!!!!!! especially u aoshi-sama!!!!
aoshi: help
