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Now I'm very sorry I took soooo long to update but I have an explaination! You see my bro had to format the Pc cause it was having some problems and that took a lot of time cause then it gained another amount of problems and he had to do it all over again. Also I want to thank you all for your congrats! Me happy =D
TimeWarper once again i say 'You're a curious fellow aren't you?'. Yes i can draw anime although i never like my anime drawings i don't know why... i do prefer my landscapes drawings and paintings... don't worry about that school thing you mentioned: my school only starts in September between 16 and 23 =D! YAY! Also i always have time to update as i also hate those kind of authors who just forget they were writing a story =)
How time passes
Kaoru's POV
I couldn't sleep anymore 'What's she trying to tell me? I don't understand!' I was angry with myself.
I slowly got out of my room through the door that went directly to the garden. I sat on the porch in front of my room. I seated against a column, brought my knees to my chest surrounding them with my arms and laid my head there.
At some point I heard nearby steps but didn't mind them at all and kept in the exact same position. The weather was chilly at that time in the night and I was shivering a little but still I didn't want to move, the night was too peaceful.
I felt a warm and heavy blanket falling on my shoulders and before I could get my head up I heard his voice.
"Kaoru-dono what are you doing up so late?" his concerned voice made me shiver even more than when I hadn't the blanket.
"I could ask you the same thing…" my muffled voice said as I was still hiding my head on my arms to also hide the blush on my cheeks 'Yes I'm blushing just because he actually talked to me! And damn, is his voice sexy…'
"Ah-ah…" he chuckled while he sat down right next to me but maintaining a respectful distance. "I asked you first…" I felt his gaze upon me.
I sighed as I lifted my head now that I had more a less controlled myself "Dreams…"
He smiled sadly "About your mother?"
I looked at him surprised "H-how do you know?"
"I heard you dreaming… you where calling for her and then you just started screaming the word 'no'…" he continued gazing the back of my head as I still hadn't gathered the courage to look at him. I stared at the moon 'I just wish I could tell him… but I have no proofs until I fix that damn watch!' I felt so frustrated having him right there by my side and not being able to tell anything…
"And you? Why are you up so late?" I noticed from the day I'd met him that he hardly ever slept more than a few hours.
"I never sleep much these days…" he said quietly.
"Why?" I was still staring at the moon; a full silver moon, a beautiful one too. I couldn't bring myself to face him, inside I knew that if I turned my head to him that precise moment he would be looking at me with the same kind eyes he always did and above all things the frustration would be too big for me to deal… I would most likely explode and start crying.
He kept quiet so I repeated the question "Why can't you sleep?"
"I… I have nightmares… night brings up memories I'd rather not remember."
"Oh… gomen… I didn't mean to meddle…" I knew those nightmares had something to do with his past and so they were not things he liked remembering. In an act of compassion or most likely stupidness I turned to face him.
My heart froze; like I'd predicted he was starring at me with kind eyes but very sad ones. 'I provoked that sadness?' I felt horrible and wished I hadn't asked him anything. "Gomen nasai… I really didn't want to make you tell anything you didn't want to…" I lowered my head ashamed.
Kenshin's POV
When moments before I'd entered her room and didn't see her, I felt my heart shatter with fear that I could have lost her… Now there she was with the saddest eyes and apologizing me over something that wasn't worth apologies.
I lifted her chin gently so I was facing her; something was troubling her and I was sure it wasn't what she wanted me to think it was.
"You don't need to apologize to me Kaoru-dono… especially when something else is bothering you really much like now."
Tears formed in her beautiful eyes 'DAMN! I just made her cry!' I couldn't bear to think I had just made her cry… "Please… don't cry…" I pleaded to her softly. She closed her eyes and to lonely tears fell down her cheeks; I stopped them with my thumbs and then wiped them away. "Whatever is bothering you Kaoru-dono, you can count on me for help…" two more tears fell and I was starting to feel nervous about not being able to make her stop "Everything will be alright… really…"
"You think so?" her voice came in a choked whisper.
"Iie Kaoru-dono I don't think so, I'm sure of it." I cupped her face with both my hands and kissed her forehead softly, trying to comfort her. Her tears were now falling in a larger amount from her confused eyes.
"Kenshin?" she asked me.
"Yes Kaoru-dono?"
"You'll always be by my side, won't you?"
I nodded… she got closer to me, closer enough to lay her head on my shoulder and that's exactly what she did. We stayed like that for a long period of time. She was almost sleeping and her tears had stopped falling when she spoke again.
"How did you find me out here?" she asked in a sleepy voice.
I thanked the gods that she wasn't looking my way or she would have noticed the sudden blush that had hit me "I… I, well I woke up from a nightmare I had about you…" my voice was so low I almost couldn't hear myself.
"About me?" she asked surprised.
I swallowed hard 'Now that I started, I'll have to finish' "Hai…"
"And what happened that made you come to seek for me?"
"Y-you were killed and I couldn't save you…" I finished trembling 'More precisely I couldn't prevent you from being killed by me… just like Tomoe…'
"Oh… and that's why you came to seek me?"
"Hai… I was afraid that the dream had become true…"
"Gomen…" she whispered in my neck making me feel… well… aroused…
"Why are you apologizing?" I manage to reply in a completely altered voice.
"I wasn't in my room… you must have caught quite a scare ne?"
I sighed and nodded. The feeling of her smooth hair against my neck was so good… I turned to look at her; she had fallen asleep… and boy did she look like an angel.
"I wish you good dreams…"
I scooped her in my arms and took her to her bedroom. I laid her on her futon swiftly and covered her up. There were still a few hours 'till dawn… at least she would get some sleep. I walked to the shoji that gave to the garden and closed it then I walked to Kaoru-dono's side again and sat there watching her sleep. She was so innocent when she was sleeping. Even though it was still dark all the past ghosts that had tormented me all night, near her seemed to have disappeared. I knew that she was the one I wanted, she was the one that completed me again, she was the one that saved me from all those memories and brought peace to me once again…
In her sleep her hand gripped the air as she turned her beautiful face to me. I took her hand and kissed her forehead.
"Aishiteru Kaoru-dono…" I whispered with my heart beating fast and she smiled in her sleep leaving me quite confused but then I regained reason 'She must be having a good dream…' I thought happily 'I'm not worthy of you… I know I'm not. But I can't help myself…' I kept her hand through the rest of the night…
The day was called in when the bright sun started to rise. I got up and left Kaoru-dono sleeping. 'I'll go prepare breakfast and then maybe I'll do some laundry…'
Normal POV
Kaoru continued sleeping happily. She was enjoying her sleep but unfortunately not for long… Soujiro entered the room silently and crouched besides her for a minute absorbing the beauty she exhaled then he shook her lightly.
"Kaoru… you have to get up."
"Oh… just one more minute mom… school hasn't started yet…" she said half-conscious. (A/N: I actually do this very often… l0ol xx)
Soujiro looked at her strangely and tried again "Kaoru grandfather said you'd better wake up to go train with him."
"What time is it…?" she asked still with her eyes closed in a drowsy voice.
"Well about 7 o'clock in the morning. It's more than time for sleeping beauty to wake up, no?"
Her eyes flung open and she started cursing "What the hell?! It's 7 o'clock in the morning and he wants me to wake up?! I'm gonna kill Seta-san… I'm gonna kill your grandfather Sou-kun!"
He started to chuckle "You're so funny when you wake up all grumpy like this. He straightened himself and offered his hand "Here, let me help you get up!"
She took his hand gladly and got up. "Will you do me a favor?"
"It depends…" he said with a mischievous smile.
"Well actually is more do yourself a favor…" she looked at him with her deadly death glare and said "Next time you wake me up at 7 in the mornin' you better come dressed in a armor, I can be very dangerous at this hour in the mornin'…"
He chuckled once more "To be sure I don't get killed maybe next time I'll send grandpa, Kenshin or Myuki-chan to wake you up…" he then left.
Kaoru's POV
She stood there still cursing the world for a few seconds and then gave up "Well I might as well get dressed since they made me the favor of waking me up!"
I took a training outfit out of the closet and dressed it then tied my hair in a high bun and left the room.
I reached the kitchen "Yawn Ohayo minna-san…" I said to the three man in the room. Myu-chan was still sleeping.
"Ohayo…" they replied to me one by one.
I sat down and started to eat breakfast. 'It's delicious I wonder if Kenshin cooked it like last nights dinner…'
"Wonderful breakfast you made here Himura-san…" said Seta-san clearing my doubts. "I would never have thought that you cooked so well my friend…" he said smiling.
"Oro…" Kenshin was getting embarrassed "Sessha's master made sessha cook every day for him…" he said sweat dropping. An image of Kenshin's master passed my mind and also one with Kenshin wearing a pink apron. I couldn't keep myself from laughing out loud. The three men looked at me as if I was crazy but still I didn't mind. Soon enough I was rolling myself on the ground, crying with laughter.
"Kaoru-dono are you feeling ok?"
"Uhm… Kaoru is something the matter?"
"Kaoru-san… would you please tell us what's so funny?" interfered Seta-san "Not that we don't like seeing you happy my dear…"
"It's… just… laugh just that I was imagining Kenshin in a pink apron… laugh g-gomen nasai… I c-couldn't resist Kenshin… when you said laugh your master made you cook for him laugh I just couldn't help myself but to imagine you as a maid or somethin' like tha' laugh"
Kenshin turned crimson "Oro…? It's ok… really…" he said first smiling sweetly at me and then chuckling along with us. 'Ohhh he's sooo sweet… he doesn't even gets mad with me for laughing at him…' my heart beat fast 'That's why I like him… he's always so sweet to me.'
We ended up eating soon and I left with Seta-san to train with him.
Kenshin's POV
I eyed her well shaped figure get out of the room after Seta-san.
"What do you feel for her?" came Soujiro's clear voice to me.
"Oro?" I looked at him quizzingly.
Soujiro shook his head "Nothing…" he said and after a minute or so when we were washing the dishes "She's different from any other girl isn't she?"
"Hai…" I couldn't stop myself from agreeing with that. It was without any doubt a clear matter. He smiled at me with his always strange smile.
We finished cleaning the dishes only leaving breakfast for the still sleeping Myuki.
"I'm going to wake my sis up…" he left the room. 'He cares for his sister a lot… I wonder if Kaoru-dono's think's I care for her in the same manner Soujiro-san cares for his sister…'
I shrugged and left the room to go and do the laundry.
Kaoru's POV
--After 5 hours and a half of training--
I got out of the dojo sweating like a pig 'Oh man! Five hours of training! I wonder what Seta-san had in his mind! Gosh I don't think I'll be able to teach this goddamn afternoon!'
I sighted Kenshin sweeping the porch floor, the laundry was set drying and everything seemed a lot cleaner… or… I was just feeling too dirty…
"So how did the training go?" he asked me simply.
"Fine…" I muttered. He looked at me worried because of the tone voice I used 'Maybe I was a little rude… demo… after five hours of torture who could blame me? I'll apologize later… after taking a nice bath…'
"Is something wrong Kaoru-dono?"
"Iie… I'm just tired that's all…" I left him there starring at me. But what I had told him was really true. I was very tired...
Normal POV
Kenshin looked at Seta-san... "She's right to be that tired Kenshin... She manage to learn all the tecniques in one morning!"
"Oh... so that's why she's so grumpy..."
"Yes, don't worry she wasn't mad at you..."
"For one second I thought..." he silenced himself. Seta-san smiled at him assuringly and went inside the house.
Time passed quickly and soon enough was time for Kaoru's first lesson as teacher.
Kenshin's POV
Kaoru-dono was in her room preparing herself to go give a class.
"Knock knock" I knocked on her shoji "Kaoru-dono may I enter?"
"Hai..."
When I enter I was shocked to see her with Soujiro, somehow I hadn't felt his presence...
"It's time for your lesson..."
"I know..." she smiled at me and ME only 'Hmph...' "Wish me luck guys..."
"Good luck Kao-chan!" Soujiro said getting up and giving her a small nodd.
"I wish you good luck Kaoru-dono, de gozaru..." I couldn't resist but to lay my hand on her shoulder. Soujiro got out of the room ahead of us with a strange glint in his eyes after that.
Kaoru-dono got near me, my heart started beating really fast and I felt the air and myself suddenly get a lot hotter.
"Kenshin...?" she asked looking concerned at me.
"H-hai, Kaoru-dono?" I mumbled.
"Gomen ne... for being so rude at you before... you know, when I got out of my training..." she looked ashamed and that was a thing I couldn't bare to see her looking. All my life I've lots of wrong things and that was nothing comparing to what I had done before.
"You don't need to apologize, de gozaru..."
"But I want to!"
"Demo... you don't have to... anyone could tell that you were very tired, de gozaru." I took my hand off her shoulder and gave her my best smile "Now off you go! You have a lesson to teach 'sensei'!"
She giggled like a little girl "I do, de gozaru!" she grinned at me and took off running.
'Did she just mock sessha?', 'Of course she did! Anyone whose someone must mock you, you baka!' the battousai told him 'There's no need to be so insensitive!' said a hurt rurouni 'Oh gods help me... he wants me and pay atention ME, that's M-E to be more sensitive! Hmph! BAKA!', 'Ororororo...'
Normal POV
Kaoru was almost having an heart attack! Seta-san wasn't even going to enter with her! He had gone out to get some tofu for dinner...
"Konnichiwa..." she said entering the dojo trying to look confident but failing greatly.
Everyone turn their heads to her surprised. One of them was the boy, Sagara Sanosuke, the one that had talked to them the night before. She recognised him almost immediatly and smiled a little. The boy blushed his head off and then went to talk to her.
"Aren't you the girl that was with Seta-sensei yesterday?"
"Hai..."
"Uhm... could you tell us if the sensei is going to take long?"
"The sensei is already here..." she said getting a little acrobated but then she remembered they didn't know that she was the surprise Seta-san was talking about.
"He is?" the boy asked in disbelief.
"No he isn't..."
The boy looked confused now "Nani? Demo... you just said he was!" he looked at her as if she was crazy.
"I didn't said he was, I said the sensei was... And you're looking at the sensei this precise moment." all boys stared at her eyes wide.
"You've got to be kiddin'!" one of them exclaimed.
"No..." she tried to explain but was cut off.
"I mean a girl teaching kendo?!" another one said.
"Not a girl!" a boy with spiked black hair yelled "A busu! An ugly old hag! I bet she can't even lift the bokken!"
Kaoru was really pissed off "Look here you bunch of bakas! I'm the surprise Seta-san told Sanosuke about! He offered me his place as a teacher here in the dojo!" she stomped her way to the boy who had called her busu "And you! What's your name?"
"Yahiko..." he muttered gulping under her menacing glance.
She took his bokken from his hands and hit him with it on his head "That's what you get for calling me names!" she hit him again "And that's the prove I can lift a damn bokken!"
Everyone looked at her in awe except for Yahiko who was cursing under his breath.
"Now does anyone else doubt the fact that I'm your new sensei?!"
"NO!" they all yelled at the same time in fear.
"Good... Now lets start the damn class..."
She started giving the lesson right away. In the beginning it was awkward but then they started enjoying the class and by the end they were all more a less 'in love' with the beautiful new sensei.
They would do all kinds of things to get her near since faking that they didn't know how to do the move for her to go teach them singularly to faking that they had hurted themselves.
Kenshin entered the dojo without making any noise. He had finished his shores for the day and was very interested in watching Kaoru teaching. He couldn't help but to smirk at the boys attitude towards her, trying to get her atention all the time but at the same time he felt jealous that she was surrounded by so many boys. What really impressed him was the fact that she hadn't notice the boys behaviour towards her. She really was a naïve girl but in the matter of fact that was one of the things that he liked on her.
Me: Before i say the same thing always i just have a last announcement: the Olympic Games finally started! I love the Olympics cause i myself am a sportist... i practise gymnastic ( the same kind those guys do in the Olympic Games =) i just don't like entering competitions... =P i get way too nervous... My coach gets really pissed at me some times ... i wonder why =P
Well now to the normal thing:
REVIEW PEOPLE! IT'S NOT THAT DIFFICULT! sniff sometimes i just get the feeling you people don't like me any more BUAHHHHH
gets out of the room crying my friggin' head off
Ja ne!
