Chapter Two - Dreams and the reality

The morning in dojo Kamya was unusually quiet, Kaoru was still sleeping, and Kenshin was doing the breakfast (Sanosuke had left the city, and was travelling around the Japan, and Yahiko was in the Akabeko helping Tae.)

Kaoru was having a dream, she was dreaming that she was in a wonderful Black ship, with black sails, it was a little bit scary, it was freezing, but for any special reason she fell secure, suddenly she found herself in a beautiful room.

"Do you like it?" a voice said behind her, it was a familiar voice, "it's all for you, the ship, the crew, the room……" She turned around and saw Jack.

"I don't believe you're back!" she run to him and hug him with all her strength. "I miss you a lot! I have so many things to talk to you! What take you so long? How many times will you stay here in Japan?"

"Depends."- Jack answered.

"You always say depends, depends on what?" Kaoru questioned

"I had lots of questions in my mind, Kaoru I need to ask you something."

Most part of the time Jack use to be very cheerful, doing all sort of stupid things to make her laugh, but this time she could see that he was about to ask her something really important.

"So, go ahead, ask me!"

"Kaoru, What do you fell for me?"

"You're one of my best friends, you're very special for me, Jack! " Kaoru knew that meant to her more then a friend, but she was afraid to tell him.

"I see… you still love him!"

"Love who?"

"Kenshin, the swordsman."

"I don't think he loves me the same way I love him, perhaps… "

"What?"- Jack asked

"Kenshin disappointed me……he treat me like a sister…if Kenshin love me he never shows that."

"Honestly, I think he loves you, but he is afraid to tell you that….but, continue… "

"I think that my love for him is not so strong, like was in the past."

"For what reason?"

"I think….I had fallen in love with another man." – Kaoru said hesitantly

"Who is he?"

"Well……….. It's …. You Jack!"

When she said that, Jack get closer to her, in fact, he was so near her that now she was no more cold, because she could fell the warm of his body. Jack start to kiss her face softly, then, face to face he look deeply into her eyes and said:

"Kaoru, runaway with me, lets runaway together… "

"Runaway with you! But… but…Jack...I can't!" Kaoru said almost crying.

Jack felt a big disappointment: "Why? Oh! Wait…. Oh! I know, you still love him, isn't it?"

"No! It's not that!" Kaoru screamed. "I can't leave my dojo, I can't leave behind the place where I grow up! The place where I leave!"

"So, I should not see you again Kaoru." Jack sadly said

"But why? You can't leave me now! Please!"

"Goodbye, Kaoru"- after said this, Jack disappeared

Kaoru fall to the floor crying and screaming "No, please Jack, come back, Please come back……. No don't go away, I need you! "

"Kaoru what's the matter with you? It's everything alright?"

Kaoru woke up and realized that she was dreaming.

"Oh my God, it was a nightmare!….Kenshin what are you doing in my room?"

"You were screaming, and I thought that something bad was happening to you! I was worried about you! Are you sure it's everything alright with you?"

"You don't need to worry about me Kenshin, it was just a bad dream, just that!"

"Kaoru, you're so strange these last days!"

"Strange! How!"

Kenshin looked at her with his stunning lavender eyes and said: "You're so distant from me, have I done something that hurts you?" he put his hands above her hands- "Please, tell me? I will make everything to repair the worst I did. Don't be afraid to tell me, Kaoru."

Kaoru took a deep breath and said: "What do you fell for me Kenshin?"

Kenshin looked a little puzzled by her question, but after a while he looks deeply at her and said:

"You're a wonderful girl, the most wonderful girl I ever met."

"I didn't ask you WHAT YOU THINK about me, I asked you what YOU FELL for me?" Kaoru release her hands from Kenshin's, and furiously shouted - "But if you don't want to answer my question, you don't need to…" She was interrupted When she felt Kenshin's hands around her waist, he whisper in her ears: "I love you, I love you with all my strength!" Then, he tenderly started kissing her neck.

She couldn't believe Kenshin was doing that!

"If you love me, why you had never told me?" She questioned

"I was afraid that you didn't fell the same for me, and I think that I'm not worthy of your love."

Kaoru turned to Kenshin and start caressing his face and then Kenshin gently put his hand in her neck, trying to get his face close to hers. He kissed her cheek, and when he was almost in her lips, she step back.

She was a little surprised for what she had done, but she couldn't control herself, when Kenshin was almost kissing her, the picture of Jack and she, in Black Pearl, appeared in her mind.

Kenshin was completely shocked, he had a confused look in his eyes.

"I thought you said that you loved me Kaoru!"

"And I love you, but…."

"But what? Are you afraid of something?"

"No, no, Kenshin. I'm not afraid of anything. I'm just a little………confused."

"Confused?" Kenshin turned back to Kaoru, and with a serious tone of voice he asked her: "Had you fallen in love with another man? Maybe…..the pirate? Jack Sparrow! "

'Seems like he could read my thoughts! What can I say now? I love Kenshin, but, I know that I fell something for Jack too! Think! Kaoru think!'

Kaoru was awake from her thoughts by Kenshin's anxious voice:

"Answer me! Kaoru, do you love him? That scalawag pirate? "

"Kenshin I love you! It's all I know now, but until today, you had never given me any prove of your love for me! You had never show to me that you loved me, like you showed today! And Jack, Jack was a very good friend that helped me in very difficult situations; he gave demonstrations of his love for me! But when I told him what I fell for you and that you didn't love me, Jack was the one who said that he could see that you loved me, but for some reason you didn't evidence that!"