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Ok it's like this I know I didn't update it as fast as I used to but I have an explanation! Read it in the end of the chapter if you want! =D

TimeWarper let's see what I can get… it was not in my plans but hey what the hack I can manage something… but not in this chapter… maybe in later chapters and I don't think it will be major stuff but I'll do my best! Hope you like this new chapter and thank you for the review!

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NOW OFF TO THE IMPORTANT MATTER!

What a day!

Kenshin's POV

"Splash!" she slipped and fell loudly on the water. My heart froze… in a matter of seconds I thought I was going to loose her. I ran to the river and dived. Quickly I grabbed her waist and pulled out of the cold water. Once we were on firm ground I finally breathed.

She was sprawled on the ground wide eyed, I got worried.

"Kaoru-dono daijobu?" I asked with my heart bumping.

For my surprise she started to laugh, laughing really hard. She was laughing so hard she curled up and held her stomach.

"Oro?" I said confused 'That's how she repays us for having saved her?' the battousai asked angrily 'Now don't jump into conclusions… Kaoru-dono must have an explanation…'

"Oh Kenshin… you didn't need to get all worried…" she said between laughs.

'How wasn't I going to get worried?' "Demo Kaoru-dono you fell into the river and sessha thought you were going to drow and sessha…" I stopped I had almost said something I shouldn't, gracefully as she was so lost in her laughs she didn't notice.

"Yes you're right… I fell into the river and I could have drowned… if I didn't know how to swim. I've learned how to swim very early Kenshin… and I used to swim very often. But it was really nice of you to jump off like that. You really worry about me don't you?" she spoke in a serious and highly sweet tone. Her words were dripping honey and she had just got near dangerous territory… feelings.

"Sessha… sessha… of course sessha worries…" I muttered I didn't know what else to tell her.

"Arigato…" she gave me a quick hug letting me perplex. "It's nice to have someone worrying for us, even if it's someone you just met…" she laid back down with a smile, closed her eyes for a minute or so then opened them and stared at the sky.

I was on my knees beside her, now looking at the river flowing peacefully and trying to calm myself down. 'She's alright… she's alright…' I thought 'Yeah… that's a pity, ne?' the battousai decided to once more say what he thought 'Kaoru-dono doesn't deserve to die… that's a weak thought!' the rurouni said enraged 'Who said I wanted her to die? If she only had drowned a little and was unconscious, you could at least do mouth to mouth breathing!' the battousai said happily 'Oro…' ok and that's another point to battousai…

I decided ask her something that had been on my mind for quite a long time "Why did you left home Kaoru-dono?"

She thought for a while "My father wanted me to marry… so he engaged me with some prick that got on my nerves right in the minute I first met him… he looked at me as if I were already his and I loathed him for that… demo… what hurts me the most is that otou-san was basically selling me… the man he engaged me with is rich, very rich…" her answer brought memories that I didn't wish for so I quickly changed the subject.

"Kaoru-dono, would you like to continue now or shall we wait a little longer?"

"I'm ok… I've rested long enough… how about you?"

"Sessha's ok…"

"Then let's go!" she got up "Oh, and you don't have to be so worried about me all the time… I'm not a little child you know?" she looked at me with a serious look on her face.

'Of course I know you're not a child…' I thought to myself 'But I also know that even if I wanted I couldn't stop worrying about you…' I got up and started to walk back to the path, hiding behind my bangs. 'She probably thinks I see her has a child… demo it's better for both of us this way…' she was upset with me and I knew it.

Kaoru's POV

'He thinks of me as a child when he doesn't seem much older than me… I wonder how old he is… I mean if I remember correctly the history class and he fought in the Bakumatsu period and now I'm somewhere in the Meiji era, he must be at least 30… oh my… it can't be!'

"Kenshin?" there was only one way to know "Do you mind if I ask you something?"

He looked at me smiling and… that smile could simply melt my heart… "Go ahead…"

"You don't seem much older than me and I just wanted to know how old you are after all…" I asked it timidly.

He thought for a while 'What the heck does he need to think? Doesn't he know how old he is?' "28…" he finally said.

"NANI?! 28? But you seem a lot younger! I mean if you're 28 and I'm 17 you're 11 years older than me!! Are you sure you are 28?" I just couldn't believe! Oh otou-san would kill me if he knew I was traveling alone with a 28 year old, hot, with a beautiful smile, that cares for me and I'm pretty much falling in love with, man. 'NANI?! What did I just thought? Ok rewind! "and I'm pretty much falling in love with"… is that it? Is that why I'm feeling so good around him? It can't be, besides it would only cause trouble! I'm from another time!' I shut the idea deep inside the darkest corner of my brain but still it managed to escape and I found myself always thinking about it.

If I had thought my life was complicated in the beginning of the way, now I looked at it as a complete chaos!

'Next thing I know I'm at home sighing for him with my history book open in the Bakumatsu period chapter!' I'm being so silly! 'Hey let's see how's my history… if I recall it correctly… he fought for the Ishin Patriots and then there's something about… uhm a last mission and then he disappeared… that's strange I don't recall reading anything detailed about a last mission…' I thought a little harder trying to remember something but couldn't 'Hey what am I thinking about this anyways! It's not like I care!'

Normal POV

They walked and walked for hours till it was lunch time. Kaoru was still fighting her thoughts and, also without acknowledging it, her feelings. Besides that she was really hungry so she told Kenshin.

"Kenshin… I'm hungry…" she said as she maid this huge sad puppy eyes that he couldn't just resist.

"Kaoru-dono we don't have anything to eat…" he said thoughtful "Unless you don't mind waiting a little while I catch some fish…" he looked at the river right beside them.

"Oh thank you Kenshin!" she threw herself into his harms for a quick hug, Kenshin once more was surprised…

Kenshin's POV

'…but hey I could get used to it!' was the first thought that occurred to me but then 'I should stop thinking this kind of things…' I walked to the river and got ready to catch some fish while Kaoru-dono went to get some firewood.

I stood there immobile until a fish approached not so carefully and in a matter of seconds I had catch it and tossed it to shore. The second one took longer to appear but it did eventually approached and I caught it and this time got out of the water. The two fish were big enough for a good meal.

When I got near Kaoru-dono she had made up a pyramid of wood but was having trouble at lighting it up also she had found some wild berries and caught them.

"Can sessha help with the fire Kaoru-dono?" I asked nicely.

"That would be great… I don't see how one can make fire without, well, fire." She looked at me and shrugged her shoulders playfully. I started to light up the fire while she got to sharp sticks and stocked the fishes into them.

"Here…" she gave me one and seated beside me putting hers into the fire.

A heavy silence surrounded us, only the river, some insects, birds and of course the wood burning was heard. 'I miss Kaoru-dono's voice. So gentile and sweet…' I realized that after a couple of minutes.

"Kaoru-dono, you seem thoughtful. Is something wrong?"

"There you go worrying for me like that…" she said stubbornly "I'm thinking about how to get home Kenshin…"

"Kaoru-dono I hate to insist but I feel like I must…" she looked at me "Kaoru-dono tell sessha where you live and maybe I can help you." She smiled sadly breaking my heart somehow.

"I would be glad to tell you Kenshin…" my heart lit up again "Demo… it's not possible. Even if you wanted to believe me you would end up thinking I'm crazy…" she finished and got her fish away from the fire to see how it was.

"Try me." I said defiantly.

"Well… today I won't tell you but as soon as I'm sure that you'll understand me maybe, and I said maybe, I'll tell you. I promise." She smiled at me. At least it was something… I just wished she would hurry up understanding that I would not take her for crazy no matter what. I knew she was special and different from everybody like from… another time or reality… I know it seems crazy but I don't even know how I got this idea…

We ate our fish "Thank you Kenshin for having caught the fish… it was really good. I'm gonna wash the berries. Wait a minute there." She said with a smile.

She got down by the river and I lost sight of her.

Kaoru's POV

'I really want to tell him… but I don't even have any proof! If only I still had my digital watch with me it would be some kind of proof but I don't know what happened to it!' I thought as I got down to the riverside.

I was washing the wild berries when I felt a hand covering my mouth, I wanted to scream but I couldn't. The person that was holding me pushed me up to my feet took of his sword and lightly pressed it against my neck. I saw my whole life flashing before my eyes but then the person whispered "Take me to where you're camped, give me all your valuable things and nothing will happen to you…" the voice made me understand that it was a man. I was about to say 'What valuable things?' because we didn't have any at all but then I thought 'Kenshin's up there, as soon as he sees him he'll take care of him.'

I walked with him right behind me still blocking my mouth with his disgusting hand 'I wonder if he even washes his hands… ugh…'

"Kaoru-dono?" Keshin asked when we got to the place, he still hadn't seen me. The man that was holding me prisoner ordered me to continue walking so I did.

Keshin was already on his feet holding the hilt of his sword "Let go of Kaoru-dono!" he said angered, somehow I didn't like to see him so angered even I was afraid of him…

"Give all your valuable things and I'll give you the girl back…"

Kenshin look in his face, he let go of the hilt and said with a confused voice "What valuable things? We don't have anything valuable…"

The man looked around and sweat dropped "Well it seems that you're saying the truth so I guess the only thing valuable here is the girl… I'll keep her…" Kenshin's eyes turned from gentile violet into deep amber.

'Ok now this is too much…' I thought annoyed.

"Let Kaoru-dono go." His voice was icy cold; I felt a shiver going down my spine.

I was afraid of the consequences but also I was tired of having the guy holding me so I gathered courage and bit his hand.

"Ouch! You little bitch!" he said while he pushed me and I felt his word going against my shoulder and cut it. There was a sharp pain and then I hit the ground and the pain got even bigger.

Kenshin ran to me "Kaoru-dono daijobu?" his eyes were still amber; his anger hadn't passed instead it was bigger.

"Daijobu… It's just a little cut…" I told him unsure. I knew how to act with the rurouni but I didn't with the battousai.

The man charged against Kenshin who amazingly quick took his sword out and stopped the strike easily.

"You hurt Kaoru-dono." He said in the same cold voice "I gave you a change to go away and you didn't; now you'll pay…" he was furious.

The man charged once and Kenshin stopped him easily, the man charged twice and nothing happened… I was afraid for Kenshin; afraid that he would change back into the battousai and it would all be my fault…

On the third charge Kenshin sent the man's sword flying through the air and the man fell on his back scared to death.

Kenshin sheathed the sword, for my relief and told the man "Go away and don't dare to come back again…"

Whimpering the man got up and ran away.

I had got up and was holding my hurt shoulder "Can I see your shoulder?" he came by my side and asked me gently. His eyes were once again friendly and he was once again the rurouni. I moved my hand away from the shoulder and he looked seriously at it.

For a second I thought I heard him mutter "That bastard…" so I looked at him.

"It's only a little cut Kenshin… it's ok! Really!" I tried to sound convincing but couldn't cause somehow I felt he could read me like an open book and wished that he couldn't.

"Gomen nasai Kaoru-dono…" he said with a hint of guilt.

"It's not your fault Kenshin!" I said horrified.

"If I'd acted sooner you wouldn't have got hurt…" he motioned me to seat down on a rock.

"Don't say things like tha…" he put his fingers on my lips shutting me up!

"Ma… ma Kaoru-dono we have to stop the bleeding…" he looked around for something to stop the bleeding.

"Here…" I gave him my hair ribbon letting my hair go loose from my usual ponytail.

I undressed part of my kimono blushing furiously while he used the ribbon on my shoulder to stop the bleeding.

"This has been quite a day…" he said when he finished.

"Yes… and you know what scares me most?" I asked him.

He shook his head "It isn't over yet…" I said with a frown. To my surprise he chuckled 'He never stops to surprise me… I wonder what's next…' "We better continue walking so tomorrow will be near enough the village…"

We walked side by side through the lonesome path. From time to time I would giggle or even laugh about something and I would see him smiling along. By noon all of a sudden I started singing…

"Tell everybody I'm on my way
new friends an new places to see
with blue skies ahead yes I'm on my way
and there's nowhere else that I'd rather be

Tell everybody I'm on my way
And I'm loving every step I take
with the sun heating down yes I'm on my way
and I can't keep this smile off my face" I was a complete addict with Disney films and movies so I couldn't help but to sing… sometimes it made me feel a lot better! Kenshin looked at me smiling.

"You sing very well Kaoru-dono…" I thanked him happy about the fact he had just praised me.

Kenshin's POV

'She sings like the angels…' I thought in awe. 'Don't get all mushy!' the battousai joked 'You continue like that and I'm gona puck…' he continued 'Baka! Just kiss the girl already!' he finished. I glanced over Kaoru-dono's smiling silhouette… I shook the thoughts away but it seemed to be getting harder and harder every time.

Eventually it got dark and I figured Kaoru-dono would be tired although she would not admit it herself.

"Kaoru-dono, are you hungry or tired?" I asked her carefully.

"Not hungry… but I could use a little sleep…" she said.

"Then let's stop here…"

I found some rocks that could give us some cover during the night and sat against one; she sat beside me.

I heard her mumbling sweetly "And to sleep under the stars, who could ask for more?" this girl was amazing, even in uncomfortable situations, yes because sleeping against a rock in the middle of nowhere even in summer was tough, she kept her moral and mine up just by singing…

"Do you have a music for every occasion?" I asked her curiously.

She turned her sapphire blue shining eyes at me "Almost every…" she smiled sweetly.

After a while I felt her head fall against my shoulder, my eyes widened then I glanced over at her, she was sleeping, her chest was going up and down softly. I wasn't sleepy so I kept quiet and still in order not to wake her up. She started shivering so I put my arm around her shoulders and pushed her near me until I was totally embracing her, lending her some heat.

I don't know how long it passed until I fell into a troublesome sleep.

Kaoru's POV

The sun first rays of light hit my face. I felt so comfy I didn't want to get up… 'I never thought that sleeping outside could be so warm and cozy…'

I drop of water fell on my cheek 'Is it raining?'

My eyes opened, the skies were clearer than ever! Then I understood something my head was laying on Kenshin's dull but yet soft shoulder and I was in his tight embrace. I felt my cheek get hot. 'He's so sweet…' I tried to get up but his grip tightened around me. I thought that was quite funny and it felt real good to have him hugging me… I looked at his face; my heart froze. 'He's crying…' I felt so useless… 'I want to help him… I can't stand seeing him crying like this!' his face was a mixture of pain and sadness 'I love him…' yes I couldn't deny it any longer… my thumbs stopped the tears running down his cheeks.

"SQUEAK!!!" he immediately grabbed my wrists scaring me to death. "Don't you dare scaring me like that ever again you baka!" I said angrily and still shaking.

"Gomen nasai! It's just that my reflections…" he tried to explain.

"Your reflections my ass!" I grabbed a stick and broke it on his head.

"Oroooooo…?!" he blacked out for a instance 'Oh goodness did I hit him that hard? WHO CARES?! He deserved it!'

"Stop fooling around Kenshin! Let's go!" I got up and started walking when I felt him pulling my hair "WHAT?!" I hated when people did that!

BLONDE GOTH thank you for correcting me! Otherwise I wouldn't have noticed! I'm so sorry for the "pushing" error! It was pulling that I meant! You see in my country there's a very similar word to push that means the same as pull! So I'm very sorry! I must have mixed them up! Sorry once more!

EXPLANATION!!!

First: I had like a million writers block (basically I almost banged my head against the walls); Second: like Saturday I had like a major insomnia like I only got some sleep near 7h am! So I woke up with this huuugeee headache so as it was near lunch time I went to lunch and right after it my head hurt sooo much I tough I'd better lay down and rest a little 8yeah right it was 2hsomething when I went to rest and my mother woke me up a quarter to seven in the afternoon, but I was better from my headache) and then I got to writte!; Third: today I went to a public pool with my friends to have some fun! I'm on holidays for pity's sake! See good explanations ne? =)

Other than that: I finally made her admit her feelings to herself! Geez it was without time already! You know she can really be stubborn! I remember talking to her and she was like "#$'/$&!" and I was like "$&%$!" so you see she really is stubborn!

Well not gonna waist more of your time!

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