Xx Wedding Party xX
A couple of hours had passed, speeches had been said as well as the signing of the certificates and a really terrible and forced waltz. I had walked around casually nodding and smiling at the "congrats" I received from people, but was stuck in a small group of females who talked non-stop about knowing Aoshi in some tiny way.
"Ladies, I hope you don't mind me stealing the bride from you?" They separated and I smiled, as it was Sano who came to save me. I politely said goodbye and walked off with him. I hugged his arm and quietly spoke.
"Thank you so much for saving me."
"Come weasel…lets us dance." I was whisked onto the dance floor, well a certain section of the grassy area covered with wooden boards.
"Sano you know I'm no good at this stuff." I spoke desperately trying to get out of this.
"Hush! Even a weasel like you should be able to dance. You weren't that bad in the waltz." He spoke jokingly towards me. I giggled a little and rested my head against his chest, not really moving much at all.
"I'm so glad you're here…" I spoke softly once more. I heard him mumble something but was unable to comprehend any of it.
"May I cut in?" I turned around to see Megumi with a slight flush across her cheeks. I smiled and let go of Sano and watched as he pressed Megumi softly to him and they danced slowly together. I hope the two of you tell each other one day I spoke inside my head. I walked to a lightly lit area of the yard silently watching my parents, my in-laws, Kaoru, Kenshin, Sano and Megumi as well as many others dancing away happily.
"You know hiding away from everyone is not nice Misao." I jolted a little and turned around to see Aoshi stepping into the small amount of light I was standing in. His tie was loosened and away from his neck, the top two buttons were undone, his shirt was out but he still wore the coat over the top.
"Look who's talking..." I spoke while smiling softly up at him. We both stood in comfortable silence and another slow song started up and I felt a small tug on my right hand. I looked down to see Aoshi's larger hand covering mine and then looked up to see him staring at me with those intense eyes changing colours. His deep voice soon reached my ears as he began walking and I followed.
"Come on…maybe this will kill our parents for us." I silently walked beside him and glanced my eyes around to see people watching us walk to the dance floor. I had completely lost my voice as I was pressed against his warm body. My head rested against his chest and I closed my eyes and bravely wrapped my arms around his waist. I felt him stiffen and he had stopped "shuffling" for a few seconds. I bit my lip not daring to look up at him and froze as well when he wrapped his right bandaged hand around my small shoulders while the other rested on the small of my back pressing me closer to him. This feels so right... I snapped my eyes open when I heard the small voice inside of me say this. I glanced to my right to see other guests having stopped chatting amongst themselves to watch us. I felt a slight pressure against my head and Aoshi's warm breath trickled over my ear sending small shivers down my spine.
"Am I glad this is only happening once in my life. I really hate being watched." His voice was rich but spoken softly so only I could hear what he said.
"Agreed...you know, we could always whip out the kunai's and your kodachi's and tell them to start dancing or drinking without watching us or some serious ass kicking will happen." I spoke jokingly back to him saying this into his chest.
"Its worth a serious thought." I giggled a little and closed my eyes once again. This must be apart of the real him... I wandered to myself. I felt special that he was sharing it with me once again. The music had stopped and we instinctively let go of each other and silently walked over to where Sano was talking with my brothers. I received a bear hugs from the both of them and introduced Aoshi to them.
"Aoshi, these are my brothers Hayashi and Sachiko." I gulped silently when neither said anything as they all just stared at each other. My eyes widened when Hayashi soon smiled and shook Aoshi's hand speaking happily to him.
"Hey Aoshi! Man has it been a long time! Must be what 2 maybe 3 years?"
"Something like that." Aoshi had spoken back. Sachiko on the other hand was more sceptical but he soon shook Aoshi's hand anyway. Hayashi cut the silence and spoke looking over at me.
"Got quite a catch here Misao-chan?" I knew a blush softly broke over my cheeks at what he had said and I spoke softly to them, my head bowed.
"Ah, yeah..."
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"Misao sweetie…the car is here to take you and Aoshi now." I stopped my conversation with the group and turned to look at my parents and Aoshi's. I narrowed my eyes at them but said nothing. What the hell have they done now? I thought to myself. I hugged Sano, Meg and Kaoru as well as and my brothers and turned around to walk off but could see Sachiko grab Aoshi by the collar of his shirt reefing him closer. Although they were the same height Aoshi was clearly stronger, but that didn't seem to bother Sachiko. He spoke in a serious tone of voice making sure Aoshi caught every word.
"Take care of my little sister Aoshi." I was mortified and was about to open my mouth to give him a piece of my mind. I was old enough and very capable at looking after myself but was cut off by Aoshi's deep voice.
"Of course." I eyed him silently noticing a trace of something else in those two words as though he truly meant it. He took my brothers hands away from his coat and turned around to walk closer to me. I felt his hand on my lower back, as though being protective or possessive of me as he led me to the car. I figured he was doing this because I was now his wife. Wife…I'm HIS wife now! What the hell was I suppose to do? I spoke once more in my mind as we hopped into the car. What does a wife do? I was snapped out of my thoughts when I felt a hand on my shoulder and Aoshi's spoke.
"Are you alright Misao?" I nodded my head not able to say anything and looked out the window again.
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I closed the door behind me and Aoshi turned on the lights. It appeared that this was yet again our parent's doing. This was the honeymoon suite at some very expensive hotel. I took a deep breath and then opened my eyes again and noticed Aoshi had walked off looking around the place. So this is where we were staying for a full week. Next thing they'll want us to sleep together and start popping out grand kids in no time. I spoke sarcastically to myself. I walked into the one and only bedroom to find a couple of towels neatly folded on the bed with soaps and…my eyes widened and I snatched the items off the bed and threw them in the bin. How much time would I do if I killed my parents? I asked myself yet again while walking to the balcony and opening the door to step out onto it.
"Everything we use is for free." I turned to see Aoshi was now only wearing his trousers and his black shirt, with all the buttons undone. I turned back around and looked down over the ledge seeing the pool below while hiding my blush away from him. My heart pounded at the sight of him and yet I could do nothing. Misao he thinks you're a kid so why bother...plus we don't even know each other well so nothing is going to happen! I spoke to myself once again. I looked at my watch and realised it was 4 in the morning and turned around to walk back into the room. I clasped my hands to my chest, as Aoshi had fallen asleep on the bed. His face was so peaceful and all his muscles were relaxed. His head fell limply to his right shoulder as his arm was stretched out on the empty space of the bed. His left hand was pressed against his bare stomach and his shirt fell open giving me a view of his richly tanned muscles. I found myself standing near the bed and I silently climbed on hoping to god he was deep in sleep and wouldn't wake up. I brushed his long bangs away from his closed eyes softly and pressed my lips lightly against his forehead. I blushed realising what I had done and quickly got off the bed. I placed the covers on the unoccupied side over him and turned the light off while walking into the main room.
The room was rather warm so I took off my robe placing it on a spare hanger in the cupboard and hung it up inside. I was now only dressed in the ice-blue silk dress. I sat down curled up in the big chair flipping through the television channels realising that nothing was worth watching yet. I rose from the chair and padded silently to the kitchen searching for something to eat. I opened up some chips and brought them back over to the chair and sat down to flip through the channels once more.
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Sunlight filtered through the windows and I was still awake and watching some documentary on one of the channels. I walked to the window to look out at the scenery placing my left hand against the window glancing at the ring and spoke to myself.
"Good morning Misao Shinomori…"
My hair had become really annoying being placed up in a bun for so long so I took it all out and placed it in a low ponytail with the thick wavy mass falling down my back. I turned away from the window padding silently to the bedroom to see Aoshi lying on his stomach still asleep. I sat on the bed hugging my knees to my chest watching him silently. Minutes went by and then…
"Why are you watching me?" My eyes widened when I heard Aoshi say this but his eyes were still closed. It felt like déjà vu from the training hall a few of days ago and yet this time I wasn't going to be rude.
"Because I want to." I spoke quietly to him. I watched as he turned on his side resting his head on his bandaged right hand. He opened his eyes and I could see the great depths that lie in them as they deepened in shade and then returned to their normal colour. I smiled as he ruffled his hair making it stick up everywhere and he closed his eyes placing his head back down on the pillow not saying anything else.
"I'll make us some food…" I spoke absently while getting up and leaving the room.
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I came back minutes later with no breakfast but in my hands was the hotel's folder. I was reading the contents while walking to the bed and sat down on the spare side facing him.
"Let me guess...we have to place an order that hangs on the door knob or else we don't eat breakfast?" I looked over at Aoshi who was buttoning up three buttons to look a bit modest for some reason. You know you really don't have to do that... I frowned at that voice inside my head but quickly replied to what he had said.
"Exactly." I stood up opening the curtains and opened the door to the balcony and stepped outside. The wind ruffled my hair and the silk dress but and I closed my eyes turning my face up to the sky to feel the warm rays of sunlight. It never happened as storm clouds had rolled in blocking the sun and the breeze turned cold. I wrapped my arms around myself but was surprised when a pair of hands placed slight pressure on my shoulders. I turned my head over my shoulder to see Aoshi standing back in the room as he had placed his jacket over my bare skin taking away my shivers. I smiled shyly at him and walked back into the room closing the door. I looked in the bedroom mirror to see my body was literally engulfed by the large jacket.
"I don't think that's going to work." I spoke taking it off and hung it up in the cupboard. I began walking out the door and halted in my footsteps when I heard Aoshi's voice.
"Misao? I have training today and wanted to know if you'd like to come? We could probably ge-"
"I'd love to." I spoke smiling at him not letting him finish. I watched amused as Aoshi had to blink a few times to register what I had said. I saw him nod his head and I walked back into the living area and sat down on the coffee table. I hitched up the dress so it was punched up on my upper thighs and placed my sandals on. I finally stood up letting the dress fall back down to my ankles and looked up to see Aoshi standing in the doorway. If I didn't know any better I would think he was lightly blushing as though he had seen what I had done. I cast the thought aside thinking nothing more of it and walked to the kitchen to get a drink.
"Is that the rest of your dress...the under dress...since you decided to wear a type of kimono?" I looked up to see his face expressionless as usual as he was just trying to make general conversation.
"Yes...your grandmother actually made it for me. I didn't even know who she was until I invited her to the wedding a second time, since she was automatically coming. Shall we go n-" I was stopped by Aoshi as he placed his black shirt over my shoulders. I slightly blushed at being so close to him but controlled myself and looked questioningly up at him.
"We'll have to get ourselves some clothes later in the day, but for now put this over your dress so you don't look so stupid...ahhhhhh...I mean..." I shock my head placing my arms in the sleeves and spoke while walking to the door and doing up the buttons.
"Its alright...I will look funny walking down the street like this." Aoshi on the other hand looked pretty casual. He wore his trousers and a white undershirt that clung to his upper body showing off his muscles.
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We finally came to the training hall and hadn't said a word to each other at all. This was completely wrong. I should have just stayed at the hotel. We walked inside and I took my shoes off and looked around trying to find the large guy from days ago but he wasn't here. I walked in further with Aoshi and received stares from the other guys, some even drooling. I narrowed my eyes pretending to not have noticed the stares but stalled in my walking when I felt a hand grope my ass. My face turned red with anger and I turned around to give him a piece of my mind but realised he was turning a shade of blue from not breathing so well. Aoshi had placed his hand at his neck squashing his airways and spoke in a cool calm voice.
"I suggest you apologise to my wife as you are touching something that doesn't belong to you." He let go and the guy coughed for air falling to the ground. I watched as he walked over to his grandfather apologising about turning up late forgetting all about what happened seconds ago. I turned away from all of them and walked into the bathroom and sat down on the small bench near the window listening to the two words that Aoshi had spoken roam through my head, my wife, my wife, my wife, my wife, my wife.
My eye's shout opened as a hand was placed over my mouth as someone grabbed me from behind. I began to struggle trying desperately to get free but to no avail. I realised I was being pulled out the window into the back alleyway and kicked my feet into the glass window as a last resort to alarm the others that something was happening. It smashed and the large hand muffled my scream as glass stuck into the top of my feet. I was pushed to the ground and groped horribly hard by the large man above me. My eyes widened when I realised another two guys turned up obviously waiting for their turn. He pushed the side of my dress up scrapping his hand up my thigh getting dangerously close to my underwear. He grinded his clothed lower body against mine and I began to sob painfully at how much it hurt.
"GET THE FUCK OFF OF HER NOW!" I turned my head to the side and my blurry vision could make out a dark figure holding kodachi's. It was Aoshi. I was reefed up and thrown to the other two men who ripped open Aoshi's shirt so they could get a better feel. They too began scraping their hands over my breasts, to my butt, down to my hips and between my legs making sure Aoshi could see all of this. A pained moan escaped my throat as I tried to free myself once more but was unsuccessful and slapped numerous times. I was slammed against the brick wall and fell to the ground closing my eyes.
Misao...Misao you must get up! You can't let them win! You can't let them beat you! You can't let them hurt him! I opened my heavy eyelids to see two of the three mean knocked unconscious and bleeding near me. I lifted my head and noticed Aoshi was kneeling on his knees, various cuts etched into his chest as his shirt had been completely ripped. Blood flowed from a wound on the side of his head as well as some came from his lip. My eyes widened as the larger guy obviously had the upper hand as he held one of Aoshi's kodachi's as if readying himself to kill Aoshi. I heard sirens blazing as the cops had turned up trying to get this guy to calm down or else they would shoot. I watched as he turned to face them slightly and spoke in a loud voice.
"NOW YOU'LL WATCH HIM DIE BASTARDS!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" I screamed and gathered all my strength and stood up racing forward getting in the pathway of the sword. I turned my back to it and my eyes widened and my upper body jerked forward a bit when the blade embedded into my skin and came straight through so I could see it sticking out of my right shoulder just under my collar bone. One clear shot was fired from an officer's gun and he fell backwards yanking the sword out as well and I screamed in agony at the feeling of this. My eyes began to droop and my knees buckled not being able to hold my weight any longer and I fell to the ground in front of Aoshi. His face showed utter shock and surprise as his eyes glistened with tears at what I had done for him. I gave him a tired smile, lifting my hand to wipe the blood away from his lips and spoke softly to him and then blacked out falling closer towards his body.
"I wanted to protect you too..."
Xxx to be continued xxX
