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Uhm let's see: firstly thank you all for your reviews! They have been a precious help! TimeWarper you're over reacting as usual but that's fine cause I just crack myself up when you do so! So continue over reacting cause it's really funny! I'm very disappointed at you! You didn't ask me to clear any doubt for you the last chapter! You're so good at being curious! L0ol
cincygurl22 I'm proud of you! At least you continue questioning my "motives" as in take doubts like a good student! =P and now the answer that I'm sure you realized be yourself to the half question half "I already know it to be true" question (so is sano really young in this story?). The answer is yes =D! Now continue like that and make me proud! I want you to question me again soon! As some people –cough- TimeWarper –cough- decided that questioning me is not important anymore!!!
kougacat01 you're a gymnast too?! That's like sooo cool! =D I mean I really love doing gymnastics! I like doing bars also but gosh once I fell doing one exercise right before I was going to perform it for the judges and I got really nervous cause it was a hell of a fall! As I pass to explain my right hand slipped from the bar and I was launched forwards in a very awkward sided position but actually managed to fall down on my butt… l0ol after everyone came to see if I was ok I just cracked myself up with laughter! Yep I started laughing but then the terror came I had to face the judges, it had just reached my turn to do the exercise! Theater's cool! This year I'm going to enter kendo and I'm gonna try do both gymnastics and kendo =)
Well to the chapter now!
That fateful day
Normal POV
Days turned into weeks and weeks turned into a month... Yes it had been a month since Kaoru was sent back in time.
She was happy with her new life but on the other hand she was feeling more and more miserable as time passed. Everyday she would try to fix the watch and everyday she would fail, she was getting crazy, she had tried everything from resetting it over and over again to smacking it against the walls and almost everyday she would cry, she had enough reasons to do so; first there was the fact she still wasn't able to understand her dreams, then she couldn't fix the watch and get some help from someone, and lastly her growing feelings for everybody were turning out to be a obstacle in getting herself out of there, specially her feelings for Kenshin, she was now completely and hopelessly in love with him and the fact that she didn't understand his sweet behavior towards her mistaking it for sister-brother care, didn't help her… in a matter of fact it only made her cry even more with heartache.
Kenshin also had found himself a new life and he liked it but only because she was there. He knew that wherever he was if she were with him, he would feel happy. At the same time he had begun worrying for Kaoru as the days passed. She was always tired and never seemed to sleep enough, he knew why, he heard her every night, dreaming and then waking up only to start crying afterwards. Some times he would go to her and comfort her but others he forbid himself cause he knew that sooner or later she would have to leave and the more he was in her presence, the more he got near her, the more it would hurt him to see her go and at the same time there were his memories, there was Tomoe. For many times he would curse himself for not helping Kaoru in her despair… also he had noticed that sometimes during dinner she would give some lame excuse to get out of the table to go to her room, only for him to find her crying. Finally he was now used to hear her smacking something against the walls in her room and cursing out loud. He had tried many times to ask her what was wrong but she would always give him the same response 'Everything was ok and he was only imagining things.'
Both of them had turned their lives into routines until that fateful day…
Kaoru's POV
"HEY AUNTIE KAO-CHAN!!!!" Myu-chan entered my room waking me up "Time to wake up!"
I yawned and rubbed my eyes "I'm gonna kill you…" as I quickly got up she had already run away but she didn't go to far cause the minute she passed my room shoji she collided against Kenshin and I that was after her also collided against him.
The three of us fell round on the floor with Myu-chan between us sort of like a sandwich.
"Ooops…." I and Myu-chan said at the same time and then we cracked ourselves with laughter.
"Oro?!" he looked confused but then he also started chuckling along with us.
We got up giggling and left Kenshin miserably oroing on the floor.
Kenshin's POV
'Sessha begun the day in a quite awkward way, de gozaru… demo… at the same time sessha felt good when sessha saw Kaoru-dono happy. It has been quite a long time since sessha saw her like that early in the morning…'
After lifting myself up of the floor I thanked Kami for the laughter coming from Kaoru-dono's room.
"Ohayo gozaimasu…" I said to Seta-san and Soujiro-kun as I entered the kitchen.
"Ohayo Kenshin-san…" Soujiro-kun replied smiling being followed by Seta-san who nodded with his head.
I helped them with the breakfast and when we had almost finished.
"OHAYO MINNA-SAN!" the two girls stormed into the kitchen.
All of us smiled. It felt good seeing them so happy…
"I'm glad that you're so happy today Kaoru-dono…" she sat down by my side as usual.
"What do you mean 'today'?" she asked me faking an incredulous tone.
"Nothing… just that I'm glad you're happy Kaoru-dono…" I smiled at her.
She smiled back, but it wasn't a true smile… no those were long gone. She then shrugged and started eating.
"Seta-san is there anything special to do today? Since it is weekend and I don't have to teach the boys…"
"If I need something, I'll ask!" he smiled at Kaoru-dono "Don't worry…"
"Hai…"
Kaoru's POV
As soon as the breakfast was over I excused myself and got out. Although I had wakened up fine I was feeling once again down. I felt happy in the morning because I had no dreams last night and I thought it was a good thing. I finally had a good night's sleep in at least one week! Demo… it isn't… if the answer is in the dreams… if the dreams don't come back…
Tears clouded my vision as I entered my room. 'It's all bottled up inside me!' I leaned against the wall and slid down. 'If only I could tell someone!'
"It's… it's not fair…" I sobbed "It's not fair!" I shook violently "I can't take this!!" I got up and walked to the closet.
"Where is it?!" I was looking for the watch. I lifted the shorts and found it.
I reset it… nothing "Why can't you just work!!!WHY?!" I threw the watch against the wall angrily. "It's NOT FAIR!"
I fell down on my knees crying desperately. I heard steps and from the other side of the shoji came Sou-kun voice "Kaoru? Kaoru, daijobu?"
I calmed myself down the best I could and answered him "D-daijobu, Sou-kun. I just tripped!"
Luckily a moment after he left. I got on my feet and walked towards the watch 'I have to be more careful with my outbursts… I'll get caught if I continue like this…'
"Piiipiii! Piiipiii!"
"Wha…?" I looked down at the floor. I started to shake uncontrollably as I reached for the watch.
The watch lay on my hand…
"It's working…" I whispered in an I-can't-believe-this voice as my eyes widened with surprise and disbelief. "It's working. It's WORKING!"
Without acknowledging it I was once again shouting and also jumping up and down in delight "YESS! IT WORKS!"
As I calmed down I prepared myself to set the defaults. 'Uhm let me see… which month are in?' I started to set the month, the year, the day and then I reached the hours and it hit me… I didn't have the slightest idea what time it was…
Kenshin's POV
I was peacefully doing the laundry when Kaoru-dono burst out of her room calling me.
"KENSHIN!!!"
I spun around as quickly as I could "Kaoru-dono? Daijobu? Is something the matter?"
"Hai! Come!" she took my wet hands without worrying about that fact and pulled me to her room.
She closed the shoji behind her "What time is it?"
"Oro?!"
"Don't oro me Kenshin! Tell what freaking time is it?"
I looked at her confused and then looked out the window to see the position of the shadows in order to tell Kaoru-dono the right time "It's… uh… around ten o'clock Kaoru-dono. Is that why you called me?" I looked at her when she did not answer me and for the first time I noticed a strange object in her beautiful hands.
"There…" she muttered smiling.
"Kaoru-dono, what's that?" I asked pointing at the strange object.
She stopped smiling and looked at me with a thoughtful look on her face.
"I might as well take the chance…" she finally said.
"What chance?" without understanding why my heart started to beat faster than I thought my heart could ever beat. 'What's she talking about?'
"Kenshin… I… I need to tell you something… do you think you have a little time to hear me?"
I shook my head "Of course Kaoru-dono. It seems serious, the laundry can wait."
She motioned me to seat and I did so. I sat in front of her ready to listen to her.
"Do you remember when you first met me? I said some weird stuff and also I never told you where my home is or why I don't know how to get back there. You remember that, don't you?"
I nodded. 'I could I forget the first time I had met you…' I felt my gaze soften at the thought of that.
"Well…" she swallowed hard 'I wish I could help you say whatever you want to say Kaoru-dono… it seems so hard for you….' "Kenshin, promise me that you won't think I'm crazy. Promise me you'll believe what I'm going to say. You once said you would be by my side always, you said you would believe me…"
"Kaoru-dono, trust me. I promise I'll believe you! I did say that and I will do it… onegai… trust me." I took her hand and squeeze it lightly.
"It's going to be a long strange story Kenshin… indeed very strange…" she muttered.
I nodded to let her know she could continue.
"Well… Let's start from the beginning... before you met me." She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
"I'm not from this era… I'm from the future Kenshin…"
Me: Konnichiwa! Well this one ends here people. Let's see how Kenshin will react to that! Anyway I know lately I take longer then in the beginning to update but it's just that I've been having real problems with this part of the story. It's being quite difficult cause it's a very important point of transition… and all that technical stuff I won't get into now. Well anyway I hope you like this new chapter as I put a lot of thinking into it.
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Ja ne!
