Disclaimer: uhm know what? JUST SUE ME! Bring out the best lawyers if you want but I'm not gonna say it this time! Oh no I'm definitely not! I mean I said it thousands of times! What difference would it make… now on with the chapter...
A walk turns into… a run!
Normal POV
Kaoru took Kenshin's hand innocently and pulled him out until they were in the street.
"Oro…" Kenshin muttered.
"Arigato!!!" Kaoru yelled effusively at the smiling receptionist, waving. "This street is a lot nicer by day!" she appreciated.
"You're right Kaoru-dono, de gozaru…"
Kaoru looked around "Oh look! Those kimonos are so beautiful!" and headed towards the kimonos tent. "Oh and look at that!" once again she ran toward it and so on and so on. She was still holding Kenshin's hand when all of a sudden she saw something cute in one tent started running to there but also she let go of Kenshin's hand who fell with his face right on the ground…
"Crash!"
"Ororororoooo…" Kenshin was lying on the floor oroing when Kaoru turned to see where he was…
"Kenshin! What are you doing on the floor baka? I mean you could have just told me you were tired!" she said innocently and honestly.
"Oro?!"
She got down on her knees and asked gently "Did you get hurt?" he shook his head and started getting up, she helped him promptly.
A group of rude boys approached "Hey! Girl! Let the looser and come with us!"
Kaoru turned to them even though Kenshin tried to stop her "Are you by any chance talking to me?" she asked in a menacing tone.
"Yeah why?"
"And did you by any chance just called him a looser?" she ignored their question and now she really was getting frightening.
The guys laughed "Yeah, why? Does that bother ya?"
"You have one only chance of apologizing to me, Kenshin and everyone else on this street for having bothered us with your disgusting presence or your dead…" she WAS murderous!
People had gathered a circle around them.
Kaoru's POV
'What JERKS!' I never had had the temper to put up with those kinds of people and I was decided to teach them a lesson…
"Kaoru-dono, onegai…" Kenshin tried to stop me but I didn't care.
"Well, well, well what do we have here? Why are you defending him girl? He's a looser… And what do you think you can do against us? You're a girl…"
"Look… apologize or I'll beat the crap out of you… it's simple! Or are you guys so dumb you don't understand what I'm saying?"
"That's beautiful, a slut defending her little boyfriend… what do you say guys, shall we take her home with us? She seems quite funny…"
Kenshin gave them a deadly gaze by the time they called me slut and coldly said "Answer her… now…"
"That's nice lover boy… I'm sooo frightened!" he laughed mocking us and closed the gap between me and him, I thought 'Perfect…'
He tried to grab my waist but before he could do so I caught his arm and oops…
"I didn't know you had them…" I said as he screamed his head off; I had just kicked him straight in his upper middle, let's say I kicked hard enough to make the possibility of him not having any children… 'Ouch! That must have got to hurt!' I thought amused.
All the others stared at me surprised…
"What are you waiting for? Beat the crap out of them!" the leader said, still on the ground.
What happened next was pure, dull fight… I positioned in a standard fighting position and almost after I made a guy fly over me… I'm sure sensei would have been proud of me if he had seen me kicking those guys' asses! And Kenshin… wow… he was amazing… I never thought he could fight like that… he had just started when one of the guys shouted "He's the Hitokiri Battousai! Run for you're lives!" they started running like cowards and I couldn't help but to shout "And keep this in mind, Kenshin is ten thousand times better than you jerks will ever be!"
I turned around and started to walk away when I noticed people were backing frightened.
I looked at Kenshin to see if he knew something and I noticed his eyes were amber once again… then my brain clicked 'The Hitokiri Battousai? I can't believe it…'
"So you're the legendary Battousai…" I remembered one of my history classes and smiled "That's why you became a rurouni, ne?"
He nodded, his eyes turned back to their beautiful violet color.
"Hey, don't take this personally but I do prefer the rurouni!" I smiled at him with ease.
Kenshin's POV
For a moment I was afraid she would run away like everyone else… but she didn't. she just smiled and at me with ease, tranquilizing me.
"So where are we going now?" she asked me.
I was about to answer when we heard someone shouting "That girl has my kimono! The one that disappeared last night! Officer get her! She's the one by the red haired man!"
"Oro!!!"
"Kenshin… where did you get my kimono?" she asked accusingly.
"No time to explain… just run!"
"But…" there really wasn't time to explain so I swept her up and started running with my god-like speed until we finally ditch them. Even after doing so I continued running until I completely got out of the village and had gained a safe distance.
"Kenshin, it's ok. You can stop running, they won't catch us…" I stopped "Oh and you can put me down, thank you…" she said.
"Gomen…" I apologized as I put her down.
"Kenshin! You don't need to apologize for everything! It's not like you've done anything wrong… You have to relax… Are you always this tense?" she said facing me.
She was right but I couldn't change…
We restarted walking, without paying much attention to where we were going, just like a rurounis do…
"Hey, that hitokiri thing… that explains a lot of you… you're tenseness, the sudden changes of personality and especially you're fighting way. That was awesome! Not even my sensei can fight like that…"
I thanked her 'She didn't fight badly either… she wasn't free fighting, she had the technique…'
"Kaoru-dono, where did you learn to fight like that?" I was curious.
"Well…" she stopped walking "My sensei taught me everything I know… but only because I was always obsessed with martial arts… I took lessons of all sorts of them 'till I found the one I preferred, kenjustu."
"You practice kenjustu?" I asked in disbelief.
"Yes. Why?"
"It's just that you're the first girl I remember meeting that fights like you do and learns kenjustu…"
"I can't believe it! You're not like them are you? Thinking that girls are weak and things like that! You baka!" out of nowhere she hit me with a stick.
"Orororororo…" my head hurt "Nothing like that Kaoru-dono! Sessha doesn't think such things of girls, de gozaru…"
"You better not!" she said waving dangerously the stick in the air. 'Kaoru-dono can be pretty dangerous, de gozaru…'
"Kaoru-dono please, calm yourself down!" I said "Sessha didn't mean to offend…"
Kaoru's POV
I stopped threatening Kenshin although it was being quite funny 'Me, threatening the battousai? This rocks!'. We resumed our walk and we reached this lovely wooden bridge with a stream of water flowing bellow it. We stopped to admire the lovely view.
"So Kenshin… what's with the sessha thing? And why do you call me Kaoru-dono? I would rather be called Kaoru…" I told him and it was completely true… it made me remember home… and all the restrictions and honorific things along. Since I had been sent back to the past, even though I had only got here yesterday, I was feeling much freer…
"Sessha does not feel worthy of treating you that way. Sessha doesn't even feels worthy of having your company…"
"Why Kenshin?" I pleaded for him to explain it to me 'I surely don't understand why all the formalities…'
"Well sessha is tainted with many deaths…"
"Yeah… probably being the hitokiri and all… but don't you think I should be the one telling if you're worthy or not? I mean I really don't care who you were in the past… it was not the battousai that helped me yesterday nor it was the battousai that comforted me this morning…"
"But sessha…"
"Gosh Kenshin if you don't want me around just say it! Now don't come and tell me you're not worthy cause last time I checked I still was the one who would say if one is worthy or not of my company!" I was afraid so afraid he would just leave me 'I don't understand why it was so hard to say this…' my eyes were shining with tears.
"G-gomen… Kaoru-dono please, don't cry… Don't interpret sessha wrong, onegai…" he let his hand rest on my shoulder "Will you give me the honor of your company Kaoru-dono?"
I looked at him and sobbed a little "Hai… gomen… for having said these things to you…"
'How can I be so stupid?! He has been so nice to me and he helped me, and now I'm getting mad at him for such a superficial thing!'
He muttered something but I wasn't paying much attention…
"Hey, Kenshin?" I asked
"Hai Kaoru-dono…"
"What does a rurouni do, anyway?"
"Personally, I just walk around Japan trying to help people…" he answered.
"Why's that?" I was almost sure of what he would answer, but still…
"It's a way of washing the sins I committed in the past away…" I smiled 'I was so right…'
"Just for helping me you managed to wash away at least half your sins!" I started laughing without any particular reason and just ran until I got distanced from him "Hey you slow poke! Are you coming or what?"
He reached my side in like… seconds. My jaw dropped but then… 'Hell why am I surprised? He is the battousai…'
"You know what?" I was jumping up and down, giggling like a little girl "Stick with me and by the time I solve my problem, you'll have no sins left!"
Kenshin's POV
"Oro…" this girl was unbelievable 'Maybe sessha did wrong in sticking around her… she seems to be of the problematic ones…' I smiled 'On the other hand she's so cute when she acts like that!'
"Where are we going Kenshin?" she asked me excitedly.
"Somewhere Kaoru-dono… there must be a village around…"
"Will we get there before sunset?"
"I don't think so but we never know…" she really was active 'Oh does she never shut up?' the battousai said annoyed 'Ma… ma… you shouldn't say that kind of things about Kaoru-dono, de gozaru!' the rurouni said calmingly 'Yeah whatever! I don't even understand what you see in this girl!' the battousai persists 'The same thing you do, de gozaru…' ok! One point for the rurouni!
30 minutes later
"Kenshin, are we there yet?"
"No Kaoru-dono…"
"Is it still far?"
"Yes, Kaoru-dono…" she was getting me kind of crazy with her effusive way of living.
15 minutes later
"Are we there yet?"
I shook my head 'Oh the pain!' the battousai growled.
"I'm tired. Can we rest for a while?" nothing could sound better…
"That would be nice…"
She pointed to a river passing near and walked there "Let's go by the river!"
"Whatever you wish to do Kaoru-dono…" I said still smiling, that was her way of being and that was precisely what made her special…
I was still walking calmly to where she was when…
Me: okay people this is it for this little chappie =) I wonder what's going to happen… think of the possibilities! Hehe well let's see if I can get you a new chapter… but only if you want to! Otherwise! Just beg for it! =P
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