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Escaping Destiny
By: Moon Baby Chapter 1
Well...
It had stopped raining thank goodness...
But Kenshin was still drenched from head to toe.
And that anger of his was getting the best of him, though he wasn't showing it on his outside mask.
He had just walked into a Pub in Kyoto, and it had just stopped raining.
Again Kenshin was livid...
' Geez it's like I am cursed for trying to kill the princess... BUT I didn't are you happy Kami!' Kenshin's conscience thought, as he looked down to the slumbering wet 'girl' in his arms. ' Yeah, but you still kidnapped the women, you should have just let her fall, and killed her when you had the chance! And you know that master Hiko isn't going to be too happy with you.' Kenshin's sub-conscience thought.
"But all the same, something told me not too, and I held back... damn, what was that." Kenshin whispered to himself.
He walked past the filthy Squabs that were the people in this part of town. All were staring at him, or more of, the beautiful, fresh, young women in his arms. The men were licking their lips, nodding in his direction, and whispering to themselves, as the hookers and whores were glaring at the Princess because the men they adored weren't paying attention to them.
Kenshin kept walking past them to the stairs, but as soon as he got there he turned on his heal and glared at them menacingly, with all of his pent up anger from earlier. He glared as if he would lose something precious to him if they even stared at her. Everything went back to normal in a snap, with all the loud yelling, laughing, and giggling, but Kenshin could see the fear in their eyes, he also saw how they didn't look at him, or his women again.
' WAIT!!! HOLD IT! Where the hell did that come from! ' Kenshin thought, as he disappeared up the stairs to get a room. ' She is NOT my women, she's a hell lot younger then I am, haven't I said that she's only a GIRL!! And on TOP of that all, she IS my enemies Daughter!!' ' Yeah, but she is very beautiful, more stunning then any WOMEN I have ever seen, and yes she IS a women, and is well past the age to be wed, and with child. You know that all to well. If only she wasn't your enemy... Oh and by the way she isn't the daughter of King Saito, she's his Niece. Man, you need to think strait.' Kenshin's sub-conscience thought back.
Kenshin was about to retort back, but his thoughts were cut short, as a girl confronted him.
"W-W-Welcome t-to the Akabeka, my name is T-Tsubame, How m-may I s- serve you, s-s-sir." The sweet, and trembling girl said.
Kenshin could smell the fear on her, it was obviously her first day working here, and him glaring at everyone was probably nerve wracking. But all the same Kenshin kept his glare.
"I'd like to have a room, a secluded room, if you please." Kenshin said, his voice gruff and dripping with anger.
"O-o-ok!" Tsubame's voice was high pitched as soon as she started talking, "Walk this w-way, s-sir."
'Yes', Kenshin mused with a frown,' she is very afraid.'
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Falling...
Kaoru was falling...
Slowly ...
As Kaoru looked around her all she saw was a big black abyss ...
As she floated down, wisps of color were shooting past her; obviously they were the premonitions of the future, but why weren't they coming toward her as they should be?
She found out when one hit her strait in the forehead... ^*^*^*(Dream)^*^*^
Kaoru found herself sitting on a huge rock looking at an ocean, sitting under a Sakura Tree. With a traditional kimono on, it was a beautiful sky blue and had one slit that went up to her thigh, with long angel wings like for sleeves. She noticed that she had a gold band around her left ring finger; she was obviously married.
She also felt older, and her raven hair was longer, and in a braid.
But as she got all of her senses back, her big surprise was that she was holding a sleeping little baby girl, with raven hair.
Kaoru looked around, she saw that it was a bright, warm, and sunny day. She saw a huge castle, she noticed that she was sitting in a garden and could see the castle patio from here.
But what was really interesting, and what caught her eye the most, was, the red-haired, blue eyed boy, about the age of six, running toward her, with her red haired savior from earlier running after the boy.
Each had the same huge grin on their faces, and each where laughing.
Her savior caught the boy and rolled toward her, when they stopped the boy was laying spread out on top of her hansom Knight's right arm, his left hand on top of the Knight's chest. Her savior was spread out the same way. Both where breathing heavily.
As soon as the boy caught his breath he ran forward toward her again, as he yelled out, "Mama, save me!" And hid behind her, laughing.
Kaoru got a bright smile on her face, ' This is my family?' She thought this as her savior walked toward her. She could see his grin become a smile that she new was only for her and the bright glint in his lavender eyes. ' Wait? Purple eyes?'
Then the image blurred, and she was plunged back into darkness.
(end of dream) ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Once Kenshin got to their room, he laid the girl in the bed, and undid his armor, while sitting by the fire to get dry. It would seem that the 'girl' only got drizzled on, and she had dried already.
As soon as Kenshin got dry, he picked up his sword (that he had laid down next to him), walked over to the Princess. He sat down next to her bed, with the sword propped up on to his shoulder, and his armor laying next to him.
Kenshin looked down to the lady lying next to him, and smirked, as she got closer to him, as if she was searching for something. She smiled as she grabbed his arm, but he frowned as he had an urge to – to – well to do something.
' Why is she affecting me like this? Did she cast a spell cause she knew I was there? I know that she's an Enchantress, Hiko told me that much.' Kenshin's thoughts were cut short once again as a loud sob caught his ears, and he lowered his face, to the princess', only to see a tear run down her face, she sobbed again and pushed him away from her, but he caught her arm as she was turning away, his momentum was enough to pull her on top of him as he fell backward. He saw her tears roll down her face, and felt them fall on his cheeks, and roll into his hair. He looked at her pained face, as she pounded her fists on his chest, he just now noticed that his arms were locked around her.
' What's going on? Why is she acting like this?' Kenshin was trying to figure it out. When he tasted blood on his lips, he immediately stilled.
'What...?' Kenshin looked franticly for where on her flawless skin she could have gotten hurt...
Then...
He spotted it, on her throat was a cut, but it looked as if it wasn't deep enough to kill her. The blood was dripping down her neck a little ways, and then dropping on to him.
Kenshin's eyes widened, ' How in the world could she have gotten that?'
Then as another drop of blood was about to fall, it disappeared, along with the cut, and all the rest of the blood.
Kenshin's eyes were the size of suckers. ' HOW...?'
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kaoru was in the cold dark abyss again.
And she wanted warmth, so she looked for it, but everywhere she looked all she saw was black.
But then she found something, it was warm and soft, so she held onto it like a lifeline.
But then she saw the colored lights whoosh past her again, and, as the last one had done, one hit her in the forehead
But Kaoru didn't find the warm, sunny day, and her future family she was expecting... *^*^*^*(Dream)^*^*^*^*
Kaoru looked around the pitch-blackness.
She felt cold, confused, uncomfortable, tired, and strained as though some one had drained all of her power, and strength.
She could hear chains' rattling, somewhere, there was a person locked up.
But then she felt cold, and rusty metal against her wrists, and as her senses came back to her once more, Kaoru could hear the rattles of the chains much closer then she had thought.
She put two and two together, and the truth hit her, she was that person that was locked up.
She heard her prison door creak open and she looked up to see, a torch, and a prison guard coming toward her. He unlocked her wrists and grabbed her upper arm roughly, and pulling her unfriendly out of the prison, all the while Kaoru knew that something horrible was about to happen, so she tried to get away, but the mans steel like grip was hard to escape from. Up cold stone steps they walked, down hallway after hallway, lighting flashed, and Kaoru could see gargoyles, and armored statues, she was still trying to get away.
Soon they got to an intersection of hallways, and the guard stopped.
He immediately unsheathed his sword and put it to Kaoru's neck. Lighting flashed again and Kaoru looked to her left to see her red haired savior coming at them with godlike speed, but he stopped abruptly when he saw the sword go to her throat.
Lighting flashed again and Kaoru could see his gold eyes flashing dangerously.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you Gohei." Her savior said venomously, Kaoru could hear his glare in his voice that was dripping with anger.
Kaoru looked at the red head stunned, never, had she heard him this way.
"And why the hell not Battousai, you've obviously grown attached to her, have you not? So that means that she is your weakness. I'll kill her slowly, and laugh as I see your pain, as you watch her die." The man named Gohei said.
Kaoru stood stock-still 'Battousai...? My savior is the Hitokiri Battousai? No! That can't be true! He is NOT my enemy!'
Gohei laughed in a sinister way, as he started to cut into Kaoru's pale flesh. And Kaoru sobbed in pain, shutting her eyes closed tight, and started thrashing about, trying desperately to get away. She screamed as Gohei cut deeper.
But that immediately stopped, when Kaoru heard a clash of swords, a thud of a body, and warm, sticky blood, ooze down her face, as if she was in a warm rainstorm.
Kaoru was trembling from head to toe; she knew that something horrible just happened.
Kaoru looked up, as she felt warm arms around her, and she looked strait into Battousai's gold eyes. Then something different happened then the last time he saved her, his eyes started to turn lavender...
'What...?'
"Come on lets go." The manslayer said, as they walked past the deceased Gohei on the floor. Kaoru shuddered as she saw the dead mans body on the floor and unconsciously walked closer to the Battousai...
And as she got closer to him, he grabbed her arm swung her around to face him, and...
Then as it had done before everything blurred. (end of dream) ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kenshin just looked at the 'girl' as she collapsed on top of him, but he noticed that she didn't stop shuddering, and shaking.
Kenshin put her in a sitting position in his lap, and stood up, with her in his arms.
He tucked her into the bed once again, but as he was pulling the covers up to her neck, her eyes opened, and she sat up so quick that, Kenshin, being so fast that he was, didn't have the time to move...
BAM!!
Their heads collided...
Kenshin was moving backwards as fast as possible, grabbing his head in the process, and moaning incoherent things, if you listened closely you could hear things like:
"Damn. That hurt." "Why did I take this mission...?" Or "My Head! How could she move that fast when she just woke up?" ^*^*^*^* And, Kaoru, just looked around herself, and noticed that she wasn't in her room at all...
"Where am I?" Kaoru thought aloud. She went to stand, but the movement made her head hurt, a lot. It felt like a javelin went through her head.
So she limited her movement to looking around, she noticed that she was in an Inn of some sort. It was a fairly clean Inn, but the spider webs on the walls were a bit distracting. She knew that she still had her dress on from earlier, good, at least she knew she wasn't kidnapped by a pervert.
Looking around more she saw a dresser, some candle fixtures, a coarsen lamp, a body, a bathroom, a balcony ----
Wait a second! A body!
She searched the room for an aura, and she found one, it was, at the moment, a nice dark blood red, and she could see the glint of the Battousai's wicked gold eyes, and the highlights of his moonlit maroon hair.
' Why would the legendary Battousai the Manslayer kidnap me? Besides the fact that I'm the next queen to the throne, since my parents were the original King and Queen, Uncle Saito is only taking over until I am ready to take the throne. ( Basically when she's 20 she'll take over.)' Kaoru thought.
'Well geeze! Think about it, every empire would want to kidnap you! You are an Enchantress that can see in the future, past, and present! You can cast curses, and spells of all kinds, and that includes healing people. And you're a mater at Kamiya Kashine ryu! (A/N: Tell me how to spell that please!!!) Now ask yourself, 'Why would someone kidnap you?' !' Kaoru mentally smacked her self upside the head.
Kaoru then remembered her latest dream, and her hands went to her throat, and gasped a sigh of relief as she didn't feel a cut of any kind. 'And that's another reason people would like to kidnap you, to take your instant healing powers in your blood.'
Immediately Kaoru sobbed, 'that was a premonition? Will that happen? Oh, God I don't want to die! If that sword went another way my head would have been sliced off...'
^*^*^*^*
Kenshin heard a fait, bell like voice say, "Where am I?" and he knew that it was the princess.
Kenshin looked up, and could see the princess try to stand, but she stopped. He could see her look around, skim him, but then instantly go back to him. He could feel her aura stretch out to him, brush his, then retreat a little, then become bolder and stretch out to him again, as if for comfort. Kenshin watched her movements, as he saw her quivering hand touch her neck, were the cut he'd seen was.
She let out a shaky sigh as she noticed it was not there.
But she let out a sob, put her head in her lap, as she brought her arms around her knees, her long tresses of hair coming around her as a curtain. It seemed that that ribbon she had in earlier wasn't in her hair any more...
But her aura stayed where it was, beckoning him to walk over to her, to protect her in some way from the future.
Kenshin knew it was that, stories told of a beautiful Princess born to the Osaka Castle that could see the future, he wasn't surprised that it was the Lady with him now.
Kenshin stood and walked over to her, he sat down next to her, and put a comforting hand on her shoulder.
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Kaoru knew that the man was watching her every movement, but she didn't care, she felt sick to her stomach.
But Kaoru didn't expect what he was doing now.
She heard Battousai get up and walk over to her.
'What is he going to do?' Kaoru thought drastically
But when she felt his presents close enough to touch her, and his hand on her shoulder, she looked threw the hole where her arms and legs connected. To see him sitting next to her.
Kaoru brought her head up from her makeshift cradle, turned to him, and looked at him with confused, teary eyes.
' Why is Battousai helping me? Why is he comforting me?'
But now, to Kaoru it didn't matter.
Kaoru let out a string of sobs, and flung herself at the man. Wrapping her arms around his neck and crying into his shoulder.
^*^*^*^
Kenshin was surprised at first, but as she let out all of her grief, he felt like he had to do more then just let her cry on him.
Kenshin started to rub circles into her back, say babyish things in her ear, and caress her hair, he felt her tears wet his black Gi.
As her tears, and sobs subsided to shaky breathing, and hiccups, she moved back into a sitting position in front of him, but her tear stained face was barely five inches from his face.
Kenshin saw a tear start to fall down her face, and he lifted his hand from rubbing her back and swiped it away with the pad of his thumb.
"Shh, it's okay now, would you like to tell me about it?"
"I-I saw (hiccup) I mean... I felt... I mean... Oh it was h-horrible , a man named Gohei d-died,"
Kenshin stopped what he was doing for a second, but recovered as she continued her head bowed with her head in her hands.
"A-And you... you killed him... and... he tried to kill me... and..."
Kenshin just sopped at that, ' What did she know? How much did she see? And why would Gohei try to kill her?'
As Kaoru fully recovered she asked him a question.
"Why?"
"What?" Kenshin asked
"Why would you, Battousai, try to comfort me when I know that you should kill me instead?"
Kenshin just looked at her stunned, ' So, she knows who I am, and why I am here in the in the first place."
"Why? I don't know why." Kenshin said his anger coming back full force. " You shouldn't ask stupid questions."
"Is it really a stupid question?" Kaoru asked.
"..." Kenshin didn't say any thing, as he got up and walked out the door.
As he was about to close the door, he heard something behind him, he moved his head to one side to see a knife hit the wall he was across from.
Kenshin looked back at the Princess with a furious glare, he saw that she had four more knifes in her hand and he knew that she had more stashed away in her dress some where. She was standing in a defensive position, and looking at him in a cold, ice blue glare of her own.
"We weren't done talking yet." She said her voice as venomous as her glare.
Kenshin just gave her a cool stare, and started walking out the door again when a knife grazed his ear and cut some of his hair.
There was a flash, and Kenshin was right behind her his sword out and by the back of her neck. And Kaoru had turned around with a knife at his throat...
WELL!!
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HI all!!!! It's so nice to know that people really like my first story!!!!!!!! Squeal!!!!!! I'm so happy! And I thought that no one would read it... Well I got more than I expected! Thank you SO much. And as I have said before, I'll try to write as much as possible and as soon as possible, and will use spell check as much as possible as well... And thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!! Read and review if you have the time to do so. And on with the story...
Escaping Destiny
By: Moon Baby Chapter 1
Well...
It had stopped raining thank goodness...
But Kenshin was still drenched from head to toe.
And that anger of his was getting the best of him, though he wasn't showing it on his outside mask.
He had just walked into a Pub in Kyoto, and it had just stopped raining.
Again Kenshin was livid...
' Geez it's like I am cursed for trying to kill the princess... BUT I didn't are you happy Kami!' Kenshin's conscience thought, as he looked down to the slumbering wet 'girl' in his arms. ' Yeah, but you still kidnapped the women, you should have just let her fall, and killed her when you had the chance! And you know that master Hiko isn't going to be too happy with you.' Kenshin's sub-conscience thought.
"But all the same, something told me not too, and I held back... damn, what was that." Kenshin whispered to himself.
He walked past the filthy Squabs that were the people in this part of town. All were staring at him, or more of, the beautiful, fresh, young women in his arms. The men were licking their lips, nodding in his direction, and whispering to themselves, as the hookers and whores were glaring at the Princess because the men they adored weren't paying attention to them.
Kenshin kept walking past them to the stairs, but as soon as he got there he turned on his heal and glared at them menacingly, with all of his pent up anger from earlier. He glared as if he would lose something precious to him if they even stared at her. Everything went back to normal in a snap, with all the loud yelling, laughing, and giggling, but Kenshin could see the fear in their eyes, he also saw how they didn't look at him, or his women again.
' WAIT!!! HOLD IT! Where the hell did that come from! ' Kenshin thought, as he disappeared up the stairs to get a room. ' She is NOT my women, she's a hell lot younger then I am, haven't I said that she's only a GIRL!! And on TOP of that all, she IS my enemies Daughter!!' ' Yeah, but she is very beautiful, more stunning then any WOMEN I have ever seen, and yes she IS a women, and is well past the age to be wed, and with child. You know that all to well. If only she wasn't your enemy... Oh and by the way she isn't the daughter of King Saito, she's his Niece. Man, you need to think strait.' Kenshin's sub-conscience thought back.
Kenshin was about to retort back, but his thoughts were cut short, as a girl confronted him.
"W-W-Welcome t-to the Akabeka, my name is T-Tsubame, How m-may I s- serve you, s-s-sir." The sweet, and trembling girl said.
Kenshin could smell the fear on her, it was obviously her first day working here, and him glaring at everyone was probably nerve wracking. But all the same Kenshin kept his glare.
"I'd like to have a room, a secluded room, if you please." Kenshin said, his voice gruff and dripping with anger.
"O-o-ok!" Tsubame's voice was high pitched as soon as she started talking, "Walk this w-way, s-sir."
'Yes', Kenshin mused with a frown,' she is very afraid.'
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Falling...
Kaoru was falling...
Slowly ...
As Kaoru looked around her all she saw was a big black abyss ...
As she floated down, wisps of color were shooting past her; obviously they were the premonitions of the future, but why weren't they coming toward her as they should be?
She found out when one hit her strait in the forehead... ^*^*^*(Dream)^*^*^
Kaoru found herself sitting on a huge rock looking at an ocean, sitting under a Sakura Tree. With a traditional kimono on, it was a beautiful sky blue and had one slit that went up to her thigh, with long angel wings like for sleeves. She noticed that she had a gold band around her left ring finger; she was obviously married.
She also felt older, and her raven hair was longer, and in a braid.
But as she got all of her senses back, her big surprise was that she was holding a sleeping little baby girl, with raven hair.
Kaoru looked around, she saw that it was a bright, warm, and sunny day. She saw a huge castle, she noticed that she was sitting in a garden and could see the castle patio from here.
But what was really interesting, and what caught her eye the most, was, the red-haired, blue eyed boy, about the age of six, running toward her, with her red haired savior from earlier running after the boy.
Each had the same huge grin on their faces, and each where laughing.
Her savior caught the boy and rolled toward her, when they stopped the boy was laying spread out on top of her hansom Knight's right arm, his left hand on top of the Knight's chest. Her savior was spread out the same way. Both where breathing heavily.
As soon as the boy caught his breath he ran forward toward her again, as he yelled out, "Mama, save me!" And hid behind her, laughing.
Kaoru got a bright smile on her face, ' This is my family?' She thought this as her savior walked toward her. She could see his grin become a smile that she new was only for her and the bright glint in his lavender eyes. ' Wait? Purple eyes?'
Then the image blurred, and she was plunged back into darkness.
(end of dream) ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Once Kenshin got to their room, he laid the girl in the bed, and undid his armor, while sitting by the fire to get dry. It would seem that the 'girl' only got drizzled on, and she had dried already.
As soon as Kenshin got dry, he picked up his sword (that he had laid down next to him), walked over to the Princess. He sat down next to her bed, with the sword propped up on to his shoulder, and his armor laying next to him.
Kenshin looked down to the lady lying next to him, and smirked, as she got closer to him, as if she was searching for something. She smiled as she grabbed his arm, but he frowned as he had an urge to – to – well to do something.
' Why is she affecting me like this? Did she cast a spell cause she knew I was there? I know that she's an Enchantress, Hiko told me that much.' Kenshin's thoughts were cut short once again as a loud sob caught his ears, and he lowered his face, to the princess', only to see a tear run down her face, she sobbed again and pushed him away from her, but he caught her arm as she was turning away, his momentum was enough to pull her on top of him as he fell backward. He saw her tears roll down her face, and felt them fall on his cheeks, and roll into his hair. He looked at her pained face, as she pounded her fists on his chest, he just now noticed that his arms were locked around her.
' What's going on? Why is she acting like this?' Kenshin was trying to figure it out. When he tasted blood on his lips, he immediately stilled.
'What...?' Kenshin looked franticly for where on her flawless skin she could have gotten hurt...
Then...
He spotted it, on her throat was a cut, but it looked as if it wasn't deep enough to kill her. The blood was dripping down her neck a little ways, and then dropping on to him.
Kenshin's eyes widened, ' How in the world could she have gotten that?'
Then as another drop of blood was about to fall, it disappeared, along with the cut, and all the rest of the blood.
Kenshin's eyes were the size of suckers. ' HOW...?'
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Kaoru was in the cold dark abyss again.
And she wanted warmth, so she looked for it, but everywhere she looked all she saw was black.
But then she found something, it was warm and soft, so she held onto it like a lifeline.
But then she saw the colored lights whoosh past her again, and, as the last one had done, one hit her in the forehead
But Kaoru didn't find the warm, sunny day, and her future family she was expecting... *^*^*^*(Dream)^*^*^*^*
Kaoru looked around the pitch-blackness.
She felt cold, confused, uncomfortable, tired, and strained as though some one had drained all of her power, and strength.
She could hear chains' rattling, somewhere, there was a person locked up.
But then she felt cold, and rusty metal against her wrists, and as her senses came back to her once more, Kaoru could hear the rattles of the chains much closer then she had thought.
She put two and two together, and the truth hit her, she was that person that was locked up.
She heard her prison door creak open and she looked up to see, a torch, and a prison guard coming toward her. He unlocked her wrists and grabbed her upper arm roughly, and pulling her unfriendly out of the prison, all the while Kaoru knew that something horrible was about to happen, so she tried to get away, but the mans steel like grip was hard to escape from. Up cold stone steps they walked, down hallway after hallway, lighting flashed, and Kaoru could see gargoyles, and armored statues, she was still trying to get away.
Soon they got to an intersection of hallways, and the guard stopped.
He immediately unsheathed his sword and put it to Kaoru's neck. Lighting flashed again and Kaoru looked to her left to see her red haired savior coming at them with godlike speed, but he stopped abruptly when he saw the sword go to her throat.
Lighting flashed again and Kaoru could see his gold eyes flashing dangerously.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you Gohei." Her savior said venomously, Kaoru could hear his glare in his voice that was dripping with anger.
Kaoru looked at the red head stunned, never, had she heard him this way.
"And why the hell not Battousai, you've obviously grown attached to her, have you not? So that means that she is your weakness. I'll kill her slowly, and laugh as I see your pain, as you watch her die." The man named Gohei said.
Kaoru stood stock-still 'Battousai...? My savior is the Hitokiri Battousai? No! That can't be true! He is NOT my enemy!'
Gohei laughed in a sinister way, as he started to cut into Kaoru's pale flesh. And Kaoru sobbed in pain, shutting her eyes closed tight, and started thrashing about, trying desperately to get away. She screamed as Gohei cut deeper.
But that immediately stopped, when Kaoru heard a clash of swords, a thud of a body, and warm, sticky blood, ooze down her face, as if she was in a warm rainstorm.
Kaoru was trembling from head to toe; she knew that something horrible just happened.
Kaoru looked up, as she felt warm arms around her, and she looked strait into Battousai's gold eyes. Then something different happened then the last time he saved her, his eyes started to turn lavender...
'What...?'
"Come on lets go." The manslayer said, as they walked past the deceased Gohei on the floor. Kaoru shuddered as she saw the dead mans body on the floor and unconsciously walked closer to the Battousai...
And as she got closer to him, he grabbed her arm swung her around to face him, and...
Then as it had done before everything blurred. (end of dream) ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kenshin just looked at the 'girl' as she collapsed on top of him, but he noticed that she didn't stop shuddering, and shaking.
Kenshin put her in a sitting position in his lap, and stood up, with her in his arms.
He tucked her into the bed once again, but as he was pulling the covers up to her neck, her eyes opened, and she sat up so quick that, Kenshin, being so fast that he was, didn't have the time to move...
BAM!!
Their heads collided...
Kenshin was moving backwards as fast as possible, grabbing his head in the process, and moaning incoherent things, if you listened closely you could hear things like:
"Damn. That hurt." "Why did I take this mission...?" Or "My Head! How could she move that fast when she just woke up?" ^*^*^*^* And, Kaoru, just looked around herself, and noticed that she wasn't in her room at all...
"Where am I?" Kaoru thought aloud. She went to stand, but the movement made her head hurt, a lot. It felt like a javelin went through her head.
So she limited her movement to looking around, she noticed that she was in an Inn of some sort. It was a fairly clean Inn, but the spider webs on the walls were a bit distracting. She knew that she still had her dress on from earlier, good, at least she knew she wasn't kidnapped by a pervert.
Looking around more she saw a dresser, some candle fixtures, a coarsen lamp, a body, a bathroom, a balcony ----
Wait a second! A body!
She searched the room for an aura, and she found one, it was, at the moment, a nice dark blood red, and she could see the glint of the Battousai's wicked gold eyes, and the highlights of his moonlit maroon hair.
' Why would the legendary Battousai the Manslayer kidnap me? Besides the fact that I'm the next queen to the throne, since my parents were the original King and Queen, Uncle Saito is only taking over until I am ready to take the throne. ( Basically when she's 20 she'll take over.)' Kaoru thought.
'Well geeze! Think about it, every empire would want to kidnap you! You are an Enchantress that can see in the future, past, and present! You can cast curses, and spells of all kinds, and that includes healing people. And you're a mater at Kamiya Kashine ryu! (A/N: Tell me how to spell that please!!!) Now ask yourself, 'Why would someone kidnap you?' !' Kaoru mentally smacked her self upside the head.
Kaoru then remembered her latest dream, and her hands went to her throat, and gasped a sigh of relief as she didn't feel a cut of any kind. 'And that's another reason people would like to kidnap you, to take your instant healing powers in your blood.'
Immediately Kaoru sobbed, 'that was a premonition? Will that happen? Oh, God I don't want to die! If that sword went another way my head would have been sliced off...'
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Kenshin heard a fait, bell like voice say, "Where am I?" and he knew that it was the princess.
Kenshin looked up, and could see the princess try to stand, but she stopped. He could see her look around, skim him, but then instantly go back to him. He could feel her aura stretch out to him, brush his, then retreat a little, then become bolder and stretch out to him again, as if for comfort. Kenshin watched her movements, as he saw her quivering hand touch her neck, were the cut he'd seen was.
She let out a shaky sigh as she noticed it was not there.
But she let out a sob, put her head in her lap, as she brought her arms around her knees, her long tresses of hair coming around her as a curtain. It seemed that that ribbon she had in earlier wasn't in her hair any more...
But her aura stayed where it was, beckoning him to walk over to her, to protect her in some way from the future.
Kenshin knew it was that, stories told of a beautiful Princess born to the Osaka Castle that could see the future, he wasn't surprised that it was the Lady with him now.
Kenshin stood and walked over to her, he sat down next to her, and put a comforting hand on her shoulder.
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Kaoru knew that the man was watching her every movement, but she didn't care, she felt sick to her stomach.
But Kaoru didn't expect what he was doing now.
She heard Battousai get up and walk over to her.
'What is he going to do?' Kaoru thought drastically
But when she felt his presents close enough to touch her, and his hand on her shoulder, she looked threw the hole where her arms and legs connected. To see him sitting next to her.
Kaoru brought her head up from her makeshift cradle, turned to him, and looked at him with confused, teary eyes.
' Why is Battousai helping me? Why is he comforting me?'
But now, to Kaoru it didn't matter.
Kaoru let out a string of sobs, and flung herself at the man. Wrapping her arms around his neck and crying into his shoulder.
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Kenshin was surprised at first, but as she let out all of her grief, he felt like he had to do more then just let her cry on him.
Kenshin started to rub circles into her back, say babyish things in her ear, and caress her hair, he felt her tears wet his black Gi.
As her tears, and sobs subsided to shaky breathing, and hiccups, she moved back into a sitting position in front of him, but her tear stained face was barely five inches from his face.
Kenshin saw a tear start to fall down her face, and he lifted his hand from rubbing her back and swiped it away with the pad of his thumb.
"Shh, it's okay now, would you like to tell me about it?"
"I-I saw (hiccup) I mean... I felt... I mean... Oh it was h-horrible , a man named Gohei d-died,"
Kenshin stopped what he was doing for a second, but recovered as she continued her head bowed with her head in her hands.
"A-And you... you killed him... and... he tried to kill me... and..."
Kenshin just sopped at that, ' What did she know? How much did she see? And why would Gohei try to kill her?'
As Kaoru fully recovered she asked him a question.
"Why?"
"What?" Kenshin asked
"Why would you, Battousai, try to comfort me when I know that you should kill me instead?"
Kenshin just looked at her stunned, ' So, she knows who I am, and why I am here in the in the first place."
"Why? I don't know why." Kenshin said his anger coming back full force. " You shouldn't ask stupid questions."
"Is it really a stupid question?" Kaoru asked.
"..." Kenshin didn't say any thing, as he got up and walked out the door.
As he was about to close the door, he heard something behind him, he moved his head to one side to see a knife hit the wall he was across from.
Kenshin looked back at the Princess with a furious glare, he saw that she had four more knifes in her hand and he knew that she had more stashed away in her dress some where. She was standing in a defensive position, and looking at him in a cold, ice blue glare of her own.
"We weren't done talking yet." She said her voice as venomous as her glare.
Kenshin just gave her a cool stare, and started walking out the door again when a knife grazed his ear and cut some of his hair.
There was a flash, and Kenshin was right behind her his sword out and by the back of her neck. And Kaoru had turned around with a knife at his throat...
WELL!!
That's it for now I'll try to get the next chapter out on Thursday or Friday. All readers!! Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much!!! Review if you have the time. And if you want, give me some tips on what to do next...
Special thanks to Lindsey for helping me come up with a few ideas.
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Moon Baby.