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Escaping Destiny
By: Moon Baby
(Warning: Major oocness and might be a little graphic. -__-;;) Chapter 5
"My name is Kaoru. What is yours?" Kaoru asked the woman she had saved earlier.
"My name is Galadriel... but you can call me Yuki, that's my middle name." Yuki stated with her best smile plastered to her face.
"Okay Yuki." Kaoru said with a bright smile on her face, obviously fooled in Kenshin's eyes.
Kenshin looked back at the two with a tried temper as they got into small talk. Ever sense that damned woman got stuck in his head it has been hard to keep his emotions under control, and now she has found a dangerous woman that he was sure he had seen before. Can't Kaoru even feel this lady's dark aura!
'You do know I can hear you, right? It's not nice to judge people you don't even kn-' Kaoru gave him an angry stare to the back of his head.
'No, I don't know her personality...but I can feel her inner aura, and that is what I judge.' Kenshin stated giving her a cold, analyzing stare over his shoulder.
'I know... I can see it too, but this is a woman that can change her way-' Kaoru was furious when he cut her off again.
'You know, people never change. And you never think that about people that have that much of a black heart.' Kenshin stopped walking, turned on his heal and gave her a serious glare. All the while she almost ran into him, because she was looking everywhere but him.
'Kenshin! Will you listen!!! Don't you see it? The small light under all that black? This is a woman that can change her ways. She isn't evil... yet. I am on my guard... She seems too- well- relaxed after that incident I supposedly saved her from back there. It's easy to see through people like her. Now you... well lets just say you're harder to crack.'
'Do you want to crack me?' Kenshin looked at her with a smirk. He noticed that she cringed and gave him a stern look.
"What is it with men and sex! Are they buddies or something?! Tell me I'd really like to know!!" Kenshin's smirk turned into a grin when she blinked at him. And he smiled when she blushed as she found out she said that aloud.
'You are the one who was thinking about it, not me.' Kenshin stated in her head as his eyes bore in to hers. Something was wrong; he had a nagging felling that there was...
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Yuki... meanwhile was very flabbergasted. 'What the hell is going on...?' She was blinking rapidly from the Red Dragon to the Jasmine Blossom. Kaoru just cut off from talking and glared at the Red Dragon. Then Yuki felt the Jasmine Blossom's ki rise.
'What is she so mad at?' Then she felt Battousai's ki rise to meet Kaoru's, but no further. Yuki saw him glare threw his bangs at Kaoru over his shoulder. 'She is angry with Battousai.. But why? Is it possible that the Jasmine Blossom is reading his thoughts and stumbled across something she didn't like? But then why would he be so mad at her to give her a death glare back?'
Yuki was scratching her head. She felt Kaoru's ki rise higher; as Battousai walked forward once more ... They were acting like they were talking to each other. Then Yuki felt Kaoru's ki fall, as she looked thoughtful...
Then all of a sudden, the Red Dragon turned on his heal, and walked toward Kaoru with that dangerous glare on his face. Kaoru kept walking, but Yuki stopped and walked in to the tree's shelter. Yuki saw the Red Dragon stop the Jasmine Blossom from running in to him by grabbing her shoulders.
Yuki noticed that Kaoru thought the ground looked more interesting then the hansom man in front of her. Yuki smiled evilly at Kaoru, as she now knew that Kaoru liked the man in front of her, or at least it seemed that way... ' This is perfect! Now I know Battousai's weakness.' Yuki gave an evil cackle... but Battousai and the Blossom didn't seem to notice.
Then Kaoru had a disgusted look on her face, as she looked up at the Red Dragon. And he smirked back.
Yuki raised an eyebrow as she started to get nervous... 'I wonder if they figured out my secret. I know I'm not that great at hiding my inner self from people, but I'm better then some.' Yuki saw Kaoru give a stern look to Battousai that said, ' You-disgusting-old-man,' and breathed a sigh of relief as she figured that they wouldn't be talking about her with that look. Then the Jasmine Blossom blurted out a sentence that came out of no- mans land.
"WHAT IS IT WITH MEN AND SEX! Are they buddies or something!? Tell me I'd really like to know!" Yuki saw Battousai's smirk turn into a grin, as Kaoru slapped a hand over her mouth after she stared stupidly at the Battousai's golden eyes for a moment. A blush seemed to spread over the Jasmine Blossom's whole body as she turned to look at Yuki. Yuki saw the Battousai's grin turn into a ghost of a smile.
Yuki just looked stunned, 'Of all the things to talk about in their heads, they talk about that!' She rolled her eyes, 'So the red dragon still likes me dose he...' Yuki gave him a seductive smile. 'I'll play along with this then break his heart in the end, when he finds out that I'm taken.' Yuki threw her head back and cackled iniquity to the world.
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Kenshin and Kaoru just looked at Yuki like she was a psychopath.
'What the hell...?' Kenshin thought to Kaoru nervously. Kaoru looked at Kenshin, 'Why did she look at you like a whore would, Kenshin?' They both sweat dropped. Kaoru looked at Kenshin, then looked away. Her pale face and clouded eyes were giving her away.
'What's the matter?' His eyes narrowed in her direction. He had this nagging feeling that he was sick ever since she used Refute, and he was sure that it was coming from her. She also was paler then usual.
''It's nothing...!' Kaoru sounded distraught, 'I'm fine, really, I'm okay.' Kaoru looked at him strait in the eye. But again Kenshin saw threw her act. He took in her whole appearance; she was pale and wavering, could hardly stand. Her hair was messy from her hands wiping away her cold sweat. Her eyes were clouded over in sickness, and her body was giving off an unnatural heat.
Kenshin narrowed his eyes more so that it looked like a stern glare, but Kaoru saw the worry in it. 'It's not nothing, and you are not okay. Why are you lying about being sick, and why did you hide it for so long?'
'I-I'm... I'm not lying!' Kaoru thought to him hoping to be successful in convincing him.
'Kaoru...' Kenshin thought to her in a voice that left no room for arguing.
But some how Kaoru found a way to, 'Really I'm fine, it is nothing, just a little trade of using minor spells...'
Kenshin saw threw it, he saw threw it all. He wanted to yell at her, saying that this wasn't a little trade, she was sick, and at this time there was no place for them to make a stop and get medicine for her. And even the medicine would be bad for her. He wasn't about to let the doctor drain her blood saying that it would get rid of the evil that had bestowed upon her, a sickness. Plus, it was not a minor spell she casted, it was a summoning spell. And this link to her... Damn it! She was getting him sick!
'Kaoru...' He said in the same voice. He felt the hope in her that, he would leave her alone about it. But he knew better, if he left her alone now, she could die. His little control on his anger was sliming down, but he still had some restraints. Thin ones, but they were enough, for now...
'Why do you care any ways? I thought I was just a burden to you.' Kaoru was trying to act as if nothing has happened and that every thing was calm. But on the out side she didn't notice a tear that had fell down her face, from her headache, and rejection.
'Don't you want to kill me? To you, I'm just a wench that always screws up her spell-' Kenshin looked at her with a life defying glare. His restraints had broken. (A/N: Man he didn't last did he?)
'DAMN IT PRINCESS!!' He saw her grab her head in pain, as tears spilt down her face. He sighed guiltily as she bent her knees reedy to fall, but when she was expecting the ground, Kaoru felt a rush of wind under her self, and felt a pair of strong and warm arms surround her. They lifted her up bridle style. 'Now will you just listen to me...?' Kenshin looked at her and sighed... 'Please?' He added in hope that she would.
Kaoru looked at him through blurry sapphire eyes. 'Lets go some where else so Miss Seductive,' Kenshin tilted his head to Yuki, 'over there wont pay attention to us. Is that okay?' He saw Kaoru nod. 'Good.' Kenshin took off, he felt Kaoru grab his armor and shirt tightly and bury her face in the crook of his neck. Kenshin felt her tears drop onto his neck and trail down under his armor, down his chest, and only to disappear when his cloths brushed it away. Kenshin hugged her to him tighter, he hated it when woman cried, but he'd never show it, 'So why am I showing it now?'
Kenshin looked down at Kaoru and noticed that she was falling asleep, 'What is it about you? I feel like I have known you forever, and I have only met you five days ago. Why is it that you can brake the barriers that I have carefully put around my life...?' Kenshin looked back to where he was running. 'I'm so confused. What is this that I'm feeling? And why do I only feel it around you?'
These thoughts only made Kenshin run faster to his destination.
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Yuki just stood there, confused, as she looked at the spot were Battousai and the Jasmine Blossom used to be. She was cackling to the world, and when she looked back...
They were missing... 'Where'd they go? Tomoe isn't going to be happy with me. I let them escape. I guess I should tell her pronto...' And Yuki used her magic and disappeared with out a trace, while wincing at the ways she was expecting Tomoe to react. 'This is not good, not good at all.' ~*~
"YAHIKO!!"
Yahiko jumped in his seat when he heard his mother's voice, and tried to ignore her booming voice, as he was finishing up his studies he was assigned to.
Yahiko got up and grumbled as he walked down the winding stairs to the study...
'Boy I'm in for it now. Only Kaoru would yell at me like that, and if Mom is doing it... I don't even want to think about what she's planning.'
Yahiko got to the study and nervously walked in. He saw his mother sitting at the tea table along with his father; they had her finest china cups and plates out.
"Ah. Mother," Yahiko bowed to his mother, "Father," and he bowed to his father, "You called for me?" he looked at his mother.
"Don't be nervous, dear, you are just late for tea." Tokio smiled at her son. "Won't you sit down?"
Yahiko walked over and sat down. All the while, watching his fathers eyes glisten at him.
"Yahiko, I have a proposition for you," Tokio served them tea, and the small cakes that went with it, all the while smiling at Yahiko.
"Yahiko, We'd like to talk to you about your training." Saito stated, getting right to the point.
Yahiko rolled his eyes... 'Here we go...'
Saito narrowed his auburn eyes at Yahiko at the sight of defiance.
Yahiko was looking for a way out of this, and escape, but he never found one. 'This is not good. I need Kaoru right now. She'd always help me when mom and dad get this way. And now she's not here.' On the outside Yahiko looked clam except for the fact that his eyes kept looking everywhere but his parents.
Tokio smiled, she knew her son would rather be with the local farmers daughter, Tsubame. She was visiting from Kyoto, something about being too scared on her first day of work. Tokio knew her little boy had a crush on the cute little girl.
Tokio's smile grew wider to see Yahiko nervously eat, and Saito saw his wife's amusement. "Yahiko, We'd like to keep up your training, and since your cousin was training you, and she's-" Tokio looked at the table then at Saito for help.
Saito looked at his wife to see her near tears. He hated it when she was like that. 'God I miss her...' Tokio stated in his mind. ' I know you do, love, but we have to stay strong for our son, and for the country. We wont be weeping all the time, okay? For our little one,' Saito patted her stomach. ' And for our growing one.' Saito looked at Yahiko.
Yahiko could tell something was up between his mother and his father, with his dad patting her stomach and all... Yahiko had a feeling that this wasn't just about his training.
"Well Yahiko I'll be training you for now, but in about four months your father will be taking over, until Kaoru comes back."
Yahiko looked at his mother, then at his father, they were hinting at something... "Mother, why, may I ask, that in four months Father will be taking over?"
Tokio beamed at her son. "Well, dear, because I'll be too, well, immovable to train you. And your Father will step up your training."
Saito looked at Tokio and wondered why she was only skimming around the subject. So he answered for her. "Yahiko you are going to be a brother. Your mom is going to have a baby."
Yahiko blinked rapidly between the two of them. "Um... what?"
It was Saito's turn to roll his eyes. "You heard me."
It took a second for Yahiko to digest the information, and when it hit him his eyes widened, 'I'm going to be a brother?' He looked up at his mom and smiled at her. He got up from his seat and ran over to her. He hugged her on the spot. She smiled at him. "So are you up to it?" Tokio whispered in her son's ear.
"Yes Ma'am." Yahiko answered to her double meaning sentence. He was going to need the strength to help his mom and the strength to train with his dad.
Saito smiled a ghost of a smile at his family. Yahiko looked up at his dad and got up and hugged him too. Saito was surprised; he never really got a hug from his eldest son.
Saito hesitantly wrapped his arms around his son, and really smiled this time.
Then the moment was gone and Yahiko let go, as did Saito, and Yahiko beamed his biggest smile at his mother, and ran up the stairs to his chambers, to finish his studies.
But then his mind began pondering. His mind was telling him he shouldn't be this happy. Kaoru was out there, probably being treated horribly. At this he felt guilty, here he was acting like he didn't care about her, when he did care! He was probably the one that took her disappearance the hardest. But his cousin and teacher once told him that when she gets kidnapped to not to worry about her and that she would came back... This Yahiko understood, but this time, he had a nagging feeling that she wasn't going to come back... And if she did he knew that she wouldn't be the same...
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Kaoru woke up with the last rays of sun hitting her face.
She became awake little by little and noticed that she was feeling much better than before. She smelt insents beside her and a cool washcloth upon her fore head.
She also noticed that she was in a comfortable bed and that she was staring at what seemed to be the sun set.
Kaoru rubbed her eyes and got a better view of what she thought was there. But it wasn't the sunset she thought.
Kenshin's golden eyes was staring right at her, his red hair looking more like fire in the sunset behind him. His black armor was off and on the floor beside him, and his black cloths were contrasting to his flame like hair and his golden eyes were half shut from drowsiness. He was sitting backwards in a chair, from the room. His arms were propped up in the back of the chair, his head lying on his arms.
Kaoru smiled and sat up to get a better view of him. 'He looks so adorable. Like a child.' She put her washcloth on the bedside stand. She looked at Kenshin again and smiled as she saw his sleeping face. 'What a demon he can be... But he looks so hansom, and cute like this, that it makes me wonder. Is he really the Battousai?' She got up, walking over to him. She knelt down in front of Kenshin and looked at his face. She smiled more and touched his face. She noticed a single scar running along his jaw. It started close to his ear and ran down to a little bit before his cheek ended. She traced her fingertips along this scar and wondered how he got it. Before she could get to the end of it, though, his hand abruptly came out and grabbed her wrist.
His golden eyes opened instantly and he looked at her with a menacing glare. It happened so fast that Kaoru didn't have time to react, to even gasp. Her startled wide sapphire eyes were looking right in to his golden ones. She looked as if she was caught like a deer in the light of a hunter's candle.
"I'm s-sorry... I didn't mean any harm, I j-just was... umm..." She looked away ashamed. Her mind wasn't working; it was just a bunch of confused nerves. 'I sorry,' She managed out to him, 'It wasn't polite of me, and I shouldn't have in the first place.' Kaoru whispered in his mind.
Tears were falling down her face, she felt so guilty. Kenshin let go of her arm and stood up. She shut her eyes and turned away even more. Expecting him to hit her, to leave, well to do something. He did the one thing she didn't expect. Kenshin wrapped his arms around her, and she took in a gasp of shock. Her eyes opened wide in utter disbelief.
Her head turned to look at him; his eyes weren't the color she'd expected them to be. Instead of the blazing gold, they where a soft lavender like the husband in her dream had. Tears trailed down her face and he wiped them away with the pads of his thumbs. He smiled at her, "It's alright," He whispered in her ear as well as her mind. "If I wanted you to stop I would had stopped you before you had touched me." He said in the same whisper.
Kaoru's eyes widened even more. Kenshin lifted her up bridal style and put her on the bed. She now noticed that she was in a nightgown, instead of her warrior's dress she had on before. She looked up at him confused.
He gave her a small smile. 'The Inns Owner daughter came in here washed you and dressed you in that nightgown, your new set of cloths are right next to your bed,' His eyes pointed to were her cloths were. 'and your old cloths are next to the new ones. I suspect that you want to get dressed so I'll leave...' Kenshin turned to leave, but was stooped by her angelic like voice.
"Wait! I'm so confused... Where are we? What inn are we at? How long have we been here?" Kaoru's hand was on her head as she looked at his back.
'We are no were near your castle, princess. And we have been here for 4 days, which you have slept, and recovered.' Kenshin thought to her in a gentle and soothing voice.
Kaoru's eyes widened again and she looked up again to see him, but he was gone. Kaoru sighed and dropped back on to the bed. She smiled; at least he was opening up to her now...
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Kenshin got up at dawn. And put on his armor, as he put his emotional barriers back in place. 'No more screwing up and letting your emotions go like last night.' Kenshin thought to himself, he walked out of the room he had rented for them.
He had woken up to see her sleeping peacefully in the security of the bed. And he sat there admiring her from afar. Then his commonsense broke in and he got up.
So far, to him this trip has been a total failure. Kenshin walked down the steps of the inn until he got to the inn owner. He gave the owner the keys to his room.
"Is the lady fine?" The owner asked Kenshin and a worry filled tone.
"Yes, she is alright now. I thank you deeply for your help." Kenshin bowed to the man.
The man smiled a knowing smile. "Anything for a pair of sweet hearts." The man chuckled and walked behind the counter.
Kenshin just stood there and glared at the man, but the man didn't catch the golden eyes glance. Kenshin walked back up stairs and into the room. When he got there, he packed all the things he needed in to a small pack that he had gotten over the four-day period. He put Kaoru's cloths in there too, except for the outfit that he had bought the day before.
Kaoru's sickness had affected him more then he thought he would. He had gotten to the Inn right when he was going to collapse him self. He was right Kaoru had gotten him sick too. He had passed out right when the owner's daughter came out, to go home. It had been their first visitor in ages and she helped them out with the room until they could get better. Kenshin had woken up the next day, feeling better from his sickness, but Kaoru still was thrashing about in fever.
Kenshin tooled the Inn's owner not to get the doctor because that would get her fever worse, he told him to get this list of necessary supplies. The Inn owner did as told.
When the owner came back Kenshin looked through the things and nodded his head. The owner and his daughter did as told, the daughter, washing Kaoru's sickness off her with a special lather, and the Owner, putting up the insents and oils about the room then lighting them. Kenshin bought out the room for as long as needed, then said he needed to get some thing. He asked the owner where the nearest market was. The owner told Kenshin that it was five miles to the north of the Inn.
Kenshin thanked the man and walked out of the Inn and headed toward the market.
When Kenshin got there, he walked into a clothing store. That's where he got Kaoru's new cloths. He let the owner of the store wrap the gown in brown paper, and he was on his way.
When he got back to the inn, Kaoru was in a state of calm and sleep. So he let her sleep, and watched her in the night.
After that, Kaoru didn't wake up, and Kenshin was getting worried. The inn owner on many occasions has to calm Kenshin down from being hysterical. The owner gave Kenshin some advice.
"My boy, you need to calm down. I sense that you are a warrior; feel her aura, it is strengthening. If you would only calm down you would see, and feel it."
Kenshin had calmed down after that, and he checked after that. The owner was right her aura was strengthening. But every time Kenshin walked out of the room, or couldn't feel her aura, he was a total wreck. So, Kenshin stayed by her bedside that whole time, and watched her and her aura get better.
Then she finally woke up after the two and a half days he was by her. He was really happy and scared at the same time. He felt her get up from her bed, and walk over to him. He felt comforted by her warmth that he didn't do anything the stop her. She touched his cheek and felt his scar. This he couldn't stand, when she was almost done tracing it he grabbed her hand. He hadn't meant for her to feel so guilty to cry. His barriers broke again, he really was just so happy she was alive. All in four days, the Battousai had softened...
Kaoru was string; he could feel it in her aura. He looked to her form on the bed to see a pair of sapphire pools staring at him, from a laying down position.
'Good morning.' She whispered in his mind.
'Good morning, we need to get on the road in an hour, you have to get ready.' Kenshin said to her.
Kaoru took in his appearance, but she really took a look at his eyes. She sighed they were golden again, but there was a little bit of purple in them. She smiled brightly.
'Alright.' She said to him back. He nodded to her, and left the room. Kaoru felt an unbelievable cold go up her spine when he left, like apart of her was leaving.
Kaoru reassured her self that every thing was fine. Then his voice entered her head. 'You okay?' Kaoru smiled as part of that warmth came back. 'Yeah, I'm fine.' She said back to him. 'Just feeling a little cold.'
'I'm right out in the hall if you need me.'
'Okay.'
Kaoru smiled more; she got up from the bed and looked around the room. There was a dresser by a person-sized mirror. She looked around the room more, confused. 'What am I going to dress with?'
'There is a brow paper parcel on the nightstand. Your cloths are in there.'
'Oh. Thank you.' Kaoru walked over to the nightstand. She opened the parcel and gasped. The gown was so pretty. It was made of beautiful sky blue velvet, with a strip of white velvet in the middle. Silver thread outlined the gown, and four small sliver ropes pulled the blue velvet together in two places at the chest. The rest of the gown was flowy and very movable in. This wasn't a normal Japanese kimono. It was European she had read up on these dresses, they fascinated her. Now she had one. She looked at the selves and saw that they were made of the sky blue velvet and looked like angel selves, she had read up on that religion too. But the selves went tree inches pass her fingertips. As she put on the dress she noticed that every thing fit her every curve. The selves were the only thing that seemed too big, but they weren't she knew that that's how the English wore their dresses.
Kaoru had a very big and bright smile on her face. 'Thank you, Kenshin.'
'Your welcome.'
Kaoru fixed her hair up in to a ponytail with a white ribbon.
She walked to the door, opened it, then walked out. Kenshin was leaning against the hall wall with his left leg propped up against it. He looked up to her and gave her a ghost of a smile.
'You're blushing.' He got up and handed her a black cloak. It had a huge hood on it, and a string at the top to tie it with.
She looked at him skeptically, 'I am not. I think you are seeing things.'
Kenshin grinned at her. 'So maybe I am.'
Kaoru's jaw dropped. 'What?'
'It's nothing.' Kenshin looked at her with his full golden eyes.
'We are leaving now, you need to put that on.' Kenshin pointed at her cloak.
'Okay.' Kaoru though to him and put it on. She put the hood over her head, just stopping short of her bangs.
They walked out of the inn, the owner, and his daughter waving, Kaoru waving back.
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It was getting dark by the time they finished eating dinner.
And they were well on their way to Kenshin's land. Almost out of Kaoru's, not close, but almost.
Kenshin looked back at Kaoru and saw her stumbling after him to drowsy to walk. Kenshin walked over to her and picked her up, and stared walking that way.
Kaoru whispered her thank you to him. She was well wiped out from their travels; they had been traveling all day nonstop save for breakfast and dinner. Some times She and Kenshin had to run because hunters were after him, and looking for her. She didn't know why she didn't stop and yell out to them, and let them take her back home. All she knew is that when she saw them she didn't want Kenshin to get caught, so she kept on with him.
Kenshin looked down at her, he found she was sleeping. So he kept on walking.
But then he heard rustling in the trees around them, and looked around them, he felt a harm full auras coming toward them at a fast speed.
So he started running, he didn't want to put Kaoru in danger. He ran fast, tapping in to his godlike speed. The auras ran faster after him. A voice behind him yelled, "Now!" He looked ahead of him, then, out of nowhere, an unexpected arrow hit him in the left chest.
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Tomoe looked in to her seeing glass and snickered with vengeance.
"M' lady, the plan has been put in to action."
"Good, very good, they shall be dead by morning."
"Yes, M' lady."
'Battousai, you will pay for what you did to my life, to my family. I shall look at you and laugh on your death day.' Tomoe laughed, as she saw her hunters take down the Battousai.
Yuki smirked at her master; she did the right thing by coming to her right away.
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Kaoru had woken up, and was alert, due to landing so rudely on the branch littered, dirt smeared, mossy ground. She looked up from where she was to find out that she was no were near her future little boy, or girl, or her husband...
'Kenshin... Kenshin...' A searing pain came to her chest when she thought about him; she brought her hand up to her chest...
Only to feel blood oozing out of her... Of a wound that was unknown as to how it got there. Kaoru looked around for Kenshin, what she saw devastated her. Kenshin was lying face down in the dirt, an arrowhead sticking out of his back, with a puddle of blood surrounding him, and it was only getting bigger. Kaoru stood up in haste to get to him, only to fall back to the ground on her hands and knees, panting. 'How can this be?' Kaoru saw her own puddle of blood on the ground, the same size as Kenshin's and getting bigger.
But there was no arrow in her chest... 'Can it be that we share wounds as well as minds? But that can't be! I didn't cast that kind of spell!' Kaoru looked up at Kenshin again. 'I have to save him, this is all my fault. If only I hadn't- oh!' Kaoru started crawling to Kenshin, standing was too much to bear. Small puddles of blood dripped from her wound every time she moved her body. Kaoru was just about to touch Kenshin when an arrow hit the ground a mere millimeter from Kaoru's hand. Kaoru gasped and reeled her hand back to her chest, as now she had a small gash at the side of her hand.
Then Kaoru saw the tips of arrows pointing at her face. Kaoru looked up to see seven women in blending huntress outfits. One looked like their leader, dressed in red and black... She seemed intimidating, and not really the nicest person to talk to. But the fact that this huntress had a glowing arrow, and that her eyes were the darkest red, was terrifying... "ïï©ï®ï¤ï ï´ï¨ï¥ïï¬ï ï·ï¥ï ï·ï©ï¬ï¬ï ï´ï¡ï«ï¥ï ï´ï¨ï¥ïï ï´ï¯ï ï¯âï²ï ï²ï¥ï¡ï¬ï ïï¡ï³ï´ï¥ï²." The Huntress commanded, and Kaoru watched helpless as the other six women stalk toward her and a half-dead Battousai......
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A man walked down a god-forsaken path. Not knowing were he was going, but feeling were he was headed to. His tall, muscular build like a wall to a forceful wind, it was. His long black hair blowing in the wind as he walks to an unknown place, but knew that his son would be there. His son, he maybe wounded when he got there, but his son will be there... He knew that he would be, that creepy old witch told him that much.
'Idiot Student. You rush into too many things blindly, if only you would see the things around you, and you would be on guard all the time. This would have never happened.'
The mind bonding, Hiko knew, was inevitable. But it would help his adopted son. It will save him from his madness, and heal him of his pain...
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Escaping Destiny
By: Moon Baby
(Warning: Major oocness and might be a little graphic. -__-;;) Chapter 5
"My name is Kaoru. What is yours?" Kaoru asked the woman she had saved earlier.
"My name is Galadriel... but you can call me Yuki, that's my middle name." Yuki stated with her best smile plastered to her face.
"Okay Yuki." Kaoru said with a bright smile on her face, obviously fooled in Kenshin's eyes.
Kenshin looked back at the two with a tried temper as they got into small talk. Ever sense that damned woman got stuck in his head it has been hard to keep his emotions under control, and now she has found a dangerous woman that he was sure he had seen before. Can't Kaoru even feel this lady's dark aura!
'You do know I can hear you, right? It's not nice to judge people you don't even kn-' Kaoru gave him an angry stare to the back of his head.
'No, I don't know her personality...but I can feel her inner aura, and that is what I judge.' Kenshin stated giving her a cold, analyzing stare over his shoulder.
'I know... I can see it too, but this is a woman that can change her way-' Kaoru was furious when he cut her off again.
'You know, people never change. And you never think that about people that have that much of a black heart.' Kenshin stopped walking, turned on his heal and gave her a serious glare. All the while she almost ran into him, because she was looking everywhere but him.
'Kenshin! Will you listen!!! Don't you see it? The small light under all that black? This is a woman that can change her ways. She isn't evil... yet. I am on my guard... She seems too- well- relaxed after that incident I supposedly saved her from back there. It's easy to see through people like her. Now you... well lets just say you're harder to crack.'
'Do you want to crack me?' Kenshin looked at her with a smirk. He noticed that she cringed and gave him a stern look.
"What is it with men and sex! Are they buddies or something?! Tell me I'd really like to know!!" Kenshin's smirk turned into a grin when she blinked at him. And he smiled when she blushed as she found out she said that aloud.
'You are the one who was thinking about it, not me.' Kenshin stated in her head as his eyes bore in to hers. Something was wrong; he had a nagging felling that there was...
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Yuki... meanwhile was very flabbergasted. 'What the hell is going on...?' She was blinking rapidly from the Red Dragon to the Jasmine Blossom. Kaoru just cut off from talking and glared at the Red Dragon. Then Yuki felt the Jasmine Blossom's ki rise.
'What is she so mad at?' Then she felt Battousai's ki rise to meet Kaoru's, but no further. Yuki saw him glare threw his bangs at Kaoru over his shoulder. 'She is angry with Battousai.. But why? Is it possible that the Jasmine Blossom is reading his thoughts and stumbled across something she didn't like? But then why would he be so mad at her to give her a death glare back?'
Yuki was scratching her head. She felt Kaoru's ki rise higher; as Battousai walked forward once more ... They were acting like they were talking to each other. Then Yuki felt Kaoru's ki fall, as she looked thoughtful...
Then all of a sudden, the Red Dragon turned on his heal, and walked toward Kaoru with that dangerous glare on his face. Kaoru kept walking, but Yuki stopped and walked in to the tree's shelter. Yuki saw the Red Dragon stop the Jasmine Blossom from running in to him by grabbing her shoulders.
Yuki noticed that Kaoru thought the ground looked more interesting then the hansom man in front of her. Yuki smiled evilly at Kaoru, as she now knew that Kaoru liked the man in front of her, or at least it seemed that way... ' This is perfect! Now I know Battousai's weakness.' Yuki gave an evil cackle... but Battousai and the Blossom didn't seem to notice.
Then Kaoru had a disgusted look on her face, as she looked up at the Red Dragon. And he smirked back.
Yuki raised an eyebrow as she started to get nervous... 'I wonder if they figured out my secret. I know I'm not that great at hiding my inner self from people, but I'm better then some.' Yuki saw Kaoru give a stern look to Battousai that said, ' You-disgusting-old-man,' and breathed a sigh of relief as she figured that they wouldn't be talking about her with that look. Then the Jasmine Blossom blurted out a sentence that came out of no- mans land.
"WHAT IS IT WITH MEN AND SEX! Are they buddies or something!? Tell me I'd really like to know!" Yuki saw Battousai's smirk turn into a grin, as Kaoru slapped a hand over her mouth after she stared stupidly at the Battousai's golden eyes for a moment. A blush seemed to spread over the Jasmine Blossom's whole body as she turned to look at Yuki. Yuki saw the Battousai's grin turn into a ghost of a smile.
Yuki just looked stunned, 'Of all the things to talk about in their heads, they talk about that!' She rolled her eyes, 'So the red dragon still likes me dose he...' Yuki gave him a seductive smile. 'I'll play along with this then break his heart in the end, when he finds out that I'm taken.' Yuki threw her head back and cackled iniquity to the world.
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Kenshin and Kaoru just looked at Yuki like she was a psychopath.
'What the hell...?' Kenshin thought to Kaoru nervously. Kaoru looked at Kenshin, 'Why did she look at you like a whore would, Kenshin?' They both sweat dropped. Kaoru looked at Kenshin, then looked away. Her pale face and clouded eyes were giving her away.
'What's the matter?' His eyes narrowed in her direction. He had this nagging feeling that he was sick ever since she used Refute, and he was sure that it was coming from her. She also was paler then usual.
''It's nothing...!' Kaoru sounded distraught, 'I'm fine, really, I'm okay.' Kaoru looked at him strait in the eye. But again Kenshin saw threw her act. He took in her whole appearance; she was pale and wavering, could hardly stand. Her hair was messy from her hands wiping away her cold sweat. Her eyes were clouded over in sickness, and her body was giving off an unnatural heat.
Kenshin narrowed his eyes more so that it looked like a stern glare, but Kaoru saw the worry in it. 'It's not nothing, and you are not okay. Why are you lying about being sick, and why did you hide it for so long?'
'I-I'm... I'm not lying!' Kaoru thought to him hoping to be successful in convincing him.
'Kaoru...' Kenshin thought to her in a voice that left no room for arguing.
But some how Kaoru found a way to, 'Really I'm fine, it is nothing, just a little trade of using minor spells...'
Kenshin saw threw it, he saw threw it all. He wanted to yell at her, saying that this wasn't a little trade, she was sick, and at this time there was no place for them to make a stop and get medicine for her. And even the medicine would be bad for her. He wasn't about to let the doctor drain her blood saying that it would get rid of the evil that had bestowed upon her, a sickness. Plus, it was not a minor spell she casted, it was a summoning spell. And this link to her... Damn it! She was getting him sick!
'Kaoru...' He said in the same voice. He felt the hope in her that, he would leave her alone about it. But he knew better, if he left her alone now, she could die. His little control on his anger was sliming down, but he still had some restraints. Thin ones, but they were enough, for now...
'Why do you care any ways? I thought I was just a burden to you.' Kaoru was trying to act as if nothing has happened and that every thing was calm. But on the out side she didn't notice a tear that had fell down her face, from her headache, and rejection.
'Don't you want to kill me? To you, I'm just a wench that always screws up her spell-' Kenshin looked at her with a life defying glare. His restraints had broken. (A/N: Man he didn't last did he?)
'DAMN IT PRINCESS!!' He saw her grab her head in pain, as tears spilt down her face. He sighed guiltily as she bent her knees reedy to fall, but when she was expecting the ground, Kaoru felt a rush of wind under her self, and felt a pair of strong and warm arms surround her. They lifted her up bridle style. 'Now will you just listen to me...?' Kenshin looked at her and sighed... 'Please?' He added in hope that she would.
Kaoru looked at him through blurry sapphire eyes. 'Lets go some where else so Miss Seductive,' Kenshin tilted his head to Yuki, 'over there wont pay attention to us. Is that okay?' He saw Kaoru nod. 'Good.' Kenshin took off, he felt Kaoru grab his armor and shirt tightly and bury her face in the crook of his neck. Kenshin felt her tears drop onto his neck and trail down under his armor, down his chest, and only to disappear when his cloths brushed it away. Kenshin hugged her to him tighter, he hated it when woman cried, but he'd never show it, 'So why am I showing it now?'
Kenshin looked down at Kaoru and noticed that she was falling asleep, 'What is it about you? I feel like I have known you forever, and I have only met you five days ago. Why is it that you can brake the barriers that I have carefully put around my life...?' Kenshin looked back to where he was running. 'I'm so confused. What is this that I'm feeling? And why do I only feel it around you?'
These thoughts only made Kenshin run faster to his destination.
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Yuki just stood there, confused, as she looked at the spot were Battousai and the Jasmine Blossom used to be. She was cackling to the world, and when she looked back...
They were missing... 'Where'd they go? Tomoe isn't going to be happy with me. I let them escape. I guess I should tell her pronto...' And Yuki used her magic and disappeared with out a trace, while wincing at the ways she was expecting Tomoe to react. 'This is not good, not good at all.' ~*~
"YAHIKO!!"
Yahiko jumped in his seat when he heard his mother's voice, and tried to ignore her booming voice, as he was finishing up his studies he was assigned to.
Yahiko got up and grumbled as he walked down the winding stairs to the study...
'Boy I'm in for it now. Only Kaoru would yell at me like that, and if Mom is doing it... I don't even want to think about what she's planning.'
Yahiko got to the study and nervously walked in. He saw his mother sitting at the tea table along with his father; they had her finest china cups and plates out.
"Ah. Mother," Yahiko bowed to his mother, "Father," and he bowed to his father, "You called for me?" he looked at his mother.
"Don't be nervous, dear, you are just late for tea." Tokio smiled at her son. "Won't you sit down?"
Yahiko walked over and sat down. All the while, watching his fathers eyes glisten at him.
"Yahiko, I have a proposition for you," Tokio served them tea, and the small cakes that went with it, all the while smiling at Yahiko.
"Yahiko, We'd like to talk to you about your training." Saito stated, getting right to the point.
Yahiko rolled his eyes... 'Here we go...'
Saito narrowed his auburn eyes at Yahiko at the sight of defiance.
Yahiko was looking for a way out of this, and escape, but he never found one. 'This is not good. I need Kaoru right now. She'd always help me when mom and dad get this way. And now she's not here.' On the outside Yahiko looked clam except for the fact that his eyes kept looking everywhere but his parents.
Tokio smiled, she knew her son would rather be with the local farmers daughter, Tsubame. She was visiting from Kyoto, something about being too scared on her first day of work. Tokio knew her little boy had a crush on the cute little girl.
Tokio's smile grew wider to see Yahiko nervously eat, and Saito saw his wife's amusement. "Yahiko, We'd like to keep up your training, and since your cousin was training you, and she's-" Tokio looked at the table then at Saito for help.
Saito looked at his wife to see her near tears. He hated it when she was like that. 'God I miss her...' Tokio stated in his mind. ' I know you do, love, but we have to stay strong for our son, and for the country. We wont be weeping all the time, okay? For our little one,' Saito patted her stomach. ' And for our growing one.' Saito looked at Yahiko.
Yahiko could tell something was up between his mother and his father, with his dad patting her stomach and all... Yahiko had a feeling that this wasn't just about his training.
"Well Yahiko I'll be training you for now, but in about four months your father will be taking over, until Kaoru comes back."
Yahiko looked at his mother, then at his father, they were hinting at something... "Mother, why, may I ask, that in four months Father will be taking over?"
Tokio beamed at her son. "Well, dear, because I'll be too, well, immovable to train you. And your Father will step up your training."
Saito looked at Tokio and wondered why she was only skimming around the subject. So he answered for her. "Yahiko you are going to be a brother. Your mom is going to have a baby."
Yahiko blinked rapidly between the two of them. "Um... what?"
It was Saito's turn to roll his eyes. "You heard me."
It took a second for Yahiko to digest the information, and when it hit him his eyes widened, 'I'm going to be a brother?' He looked up at his mom and smiled at her. He got up from his seat and ran over to her. He hugged her on the spot. She smiled at him. "So are you up to it?" Tokio whispered in her son's ear.
"Yes Ma'am." Yahiko answered to her double meaning sentence. He was going to need the strength to help his mom and the strength to train with his dad.
Saito smiled a ghost of a smile at his family. Yahiko looked up at his dad and got up and hugged him too. Saito was surprised; he never really got a hug from his eldest son.
Saito hesitantly wrapped his arms around his son, and really smiled this time.
Then the moment was gone and Yahiko let go, as did Saito, and Yahiko beamed his biggest smile at his mother, and ran up the stairs to his chambers, to finish his studies.
But then his mind began pondering. His mind was telling him he shouldn't be this happy. Kaoru was out there, probably being treated horribly. At this he felt guilty, here he was acting like he didn't care about her, when he did care! He was probably the one that took her disappearance the hardest. But his cousin and teacher once told him that when she gets kidnapped to not to worry about her and that she would came back... This Yahiko understood, but this time, he had a nagging feeling that she wasn't going to come back... And if she did he knew that she wouldn't be the same...
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Kaoru woke up with the last rays of sun hitting her face.
She became awake little by little and noticed that she was feeling much better than before. She smelt insents beside her and a cool washcloth upon her fore head.
She also noticed that she was in a comfortable bed and that she was staring at what seemed to be the sun set.
Kaoru rubbed her eyes and got a better view of what she thought was there. But it wasn't the sunset she thought.
Kenshin's golden eyes was staring right at her, his red hair looking more like fire in the sunset behind him. His black armor was off and on the floor beside him, and his black cloths were contrasting to his flame like hair and his golden eyes were half shut from drowsiness. He was sitting backwards in a chair, from the room. His arms were propped up in the back of the chair, his head lying on his arms.
Kaoru smiled and sat up to get a better view of him. 'He looks so adorable. Like a child.' She put her washcloth on the bedside stand. She looked at Kenshin again and smiled as she saw his sleeping face. 'What a demon he can be... But he looks so hansom, and cute like this, that it makes me wonder. Is he really the Battousai?' She got up, walking over to him. She knelt down in front of Kenshin and looked at his face. She smiled more and touched his face. She noticed a single scar running along his jaw. It started close to his ear and ran down to a little bit before his cheek ended. She traced her fingertips along this scar and wondered how he got it. Before she could get to the end of it, though, his hand abruptly came out and grabbed her wrist.
His golden eyes opened instantly and he looked at her with a menacing glare. It happened so fast that Kaoru didn't have time to react, to even gasp. Her startled wide sapphire eyes were looking right in to his golden ones. She looked as if she was caught like a deer in the light of a hunter's candle.
"I'm s-sorry... I didn't mean any harm, I j-just was... umm..." She looked away ashamed. Her mind wasn't working; it was just a bunch of confused nerves. 'I sorry,' She managed out to him, 'It wasn't polite of me, and I shouldn't have in the first place.' Kaoru whispered in his mind.
Tears were falling down her face, she felt so guilty. Kenshin let go of her arm and stood up. She shut her eyes and turned away even more. Expecting him to hit her, to leave, well to do something. He did the one thing she didn't expect. Kenshin wrapped his arms around her, and she took in a gasp of shock. Her eyes opened wide in utter disbelief.
Her head turned to look at him; his eyes weren't the color she'd expected them to be. Instead of the blazing gold, they where a soft lavender like the husband in her dream had. Tears trailed down her face and he wiped them away with the pads of his thumbs. He smiled at her, "It's alright," He whispered in her ear as well as her mind. "If I wanted you to stop I would had stopped you before you had touched me." He said in the same whisper.
Kaoru's eyes widened even more. Kenshin lifted her up bridal style and put her on the bed. She now noticed that she was in a nightgown, instead of her warrior's dress she had on before. She looked up at him confused.
He gave her a small smile. 'The Inns Owner daughter came in here washed you and dressed you in that nightgown, your new set of cloths are right next to your bed,' His eyes pointed to were her cloths were. 'and your old cloths are next to the new ones. I suspect that you want to get dressed so I'll leave...' Kenshin turned to leave, but was stooped by her angelic like voice.
"Wait! I'm so confused... Where are we? What inn are we at? How long have we been here?" Kaoru's hand was on her head as she looked at his back.
'We are no were near your castle, princess. And we have been here for 4 days, which you have slept, and recovered.' Kenshin thought to her in a gentle and soothing voice.
Kaoru's eyes widened again and she looked up again to see him, but he was gone. Kaoru sighed and dropped back on to the bed. She smiled; at least he was opening up to her now...
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Kenshin got up at dawn. And put on his armor, as he put his emotional barriers back in place. 'No more screwing up and letting your emotions go like last night.' Kenshin thought to himself, he walked out of the room he had rented for them.
He had woken up to see her sleeping peacefully in the security of the bed. And he sat there admiring her from afar. Then his commonsense broke in and he got up.
So far, to him this trip has been a total failure. Kenshin walked down the steps of the inn until he got to the inn owner. He gave the owner the keys to his room.
"Is the lady fine?" The owner asked Kenshin and a worry filled tone.
"Yes, she is alright now. I thank you deeply for your help." Kenshin bowed to the man.
The man smiled a knowing smile. "Anything for a pair of sweet hearts." The man chuckled and walked behind the counter.
Kenshin just stood there and glared at the man, but the man didn't catch the golden eyes glance. Kenshin walked back up stairs and into the room. When he got there, he packed all the things he needed in to a small pack that he had gotten over the four-day period. He put Kaoru's cloths in there too, except for the outfit that he had bought the day before.
Kaoru's sickness had affected him more then he thought he would. He had gotten to the Inn right when he was going to collapse him self. He was right Kaoru had gotten him sick too. He had passed out right when the owner's daughter came out, to go home. It had been their first visitor in ages and she helped them out with the room until they could get better. Kenshin had woken up the next day, feeling better from his sickness, but Kaoru still was thrashing about in fever.
Kenshin tooled the Inn's owner not to get the doctor because that would get her fever worse, he told him to get this list of necessary supplies. The Inn owner did as told.
When the owner came back Kenshin looked through the things and nodded his head. The owner and his daughter did as told, the daughter, washing Kaoru's sickness off her with a special lather, and the Owner, putting up the insents and oils about the room then lighting them. Kenshin bought out the room for as long as needed, then said he needed to get some thing. He asked the owner where the nearest market was. The owner told Kenshin that it was five miles to the north of the Inn.
Kenshin thanked the man and walked out of the Inn and headed toward the market.
When Kenshin got there, he walked into a clothing store. That's where he got Kaoru's new cloths. He let the owner of the store wrap the gown in brown paper, and he was on his way.
When he got back to the inn, Kaoru was in a state of calm and sleep. So he let her sleep, and watched her in the night.
After that, Kaoru didn't wake up, and Kenshin was getting worried. The inn owner on many occasions has to calm Kenshin down from being hysterical. The owner gave Kenshin some advice.
"My boy, you need to calm down. I sense that you are a warrior; feel her aura, it is strengthening. If you would only calm down you would see, and feel it."
Kenshin had calmed down after that, and he checked after that. The owner was right her aura was strengthening. But every time Kenshin walked out of the room, or couldn't feel her aura, he was a total wreck. So, Kenshin stayed by her bedside that whole time, and watched her and her aura get better.
Then she finally woke up after the two and a half days he was by her. He was really happy and scared at the same time. He felt her get up from her bed, and walk over to him. He felt comforted by her warmth that he didn't do anything the stop her. She touched his cheek and felt his scar. This he couldn't stand, when she was almost done tracing it he grabbed her hand. He hadn't meant for her to feel so guilty to cry. His barriers broke again, he really was just so happy she was alive. All in four days, the Battousai had softened...
Kaoru was string; he could feel it in her aura. He looked to her form on the bed to see a pair of sapphire pools staring at him, from a laying down position.
'Good morning.' She whispered in his mind.
'Good morning, we need to get on the road in an hour, you have to get ready.' Kenshin said to her.
Kaoru took in his appearance, but she really took a look at his eyes. She sighed they were golden again, but there was a little bit of purple in them. She smiled brightly.
'Alright.' She said to him back. He nodded to her, and left the room. Kaoru felt an unbelievable cold go up her spine when he left, like apart of her was leaving.
Kaoru reassured her self that every thing was fine. Then his voice entered her head. 'You okay?' Kaoru smiled as part of that warmth came back. 'Yeah, I'm fine.' She said back to him. 'Just feeling a little cold.'
'I'm right out in the hall if you need me.'
'Okay.'
Kaoru smiled more; she got up from the bed and looked around the room. There was a dresser by a person-sized mirror. She looked around the room more, confused. 'What am I going to dress with?'
'There is a brow paper parcel on the nightstand. Your cloths are in there.'
'Oh. Thank you.' Kaoru walked over to the nightstand. She opened the parcel and gasped. The gown was so pretty. It was made of beautiful sky blue velvet, with a strip of white velvet in the middle. Silver thread outlined the gown, and four small sliver ropes pulled the blue velvet together in two places at the chest. The rest of the gown was flowy and very movable in. This wasn't a normal Japanese kimono. It was European she had read up on these dresses, they fascinated her. Now she had one. She looked at the selves and saw that they were made of the sky blue velvet and looked like angel selves, she had read up on that religion too. But the selves went tree inches pass her fingertips. As she put on the dress she noticed that every thing fit her every curve. The selves were the only thing that seemed too big, but they weren't she knew that that's how the English wore their dresses.
Kaoru had a very big and bright smile on her face. 'Thank you, Kenshin.'
'Your welcome.'
Kaoru fixed her hair up in to a ponytail with a white ribbon.
She walked to the door, opened it, then walked out. Kenshin was leaning against the hall wall with his left leg propped up against it. He looked up to her and gave her a ghost of a smile.
'You're blushing.' He got up and handed her a black cloak. It had a huge hood on it, and a string at the top to tie it with.
She looked at him skeptically, 'I am not. I think you are seeing things.'
Kenshin grinned at her. 'So maybe I am.'
Kaoru's jaw dropped. 'What?'
'It's nothing.' Kenshin looked at her with his full golden eyes.
'We are leaving now, you need to put that on.' Kenshin pointed at her cloak.
'Okay.' Kaoru though to him and put it on. She put the hood over her head, just stopping short of her bangs.
They walked out of the inn, the owner, and his daughter waving, Kaoru waving back.
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It was getting dark by the time they finished eating dinner.
And they were well on their way to Kenshin's land. Almost out of Kaoru's, not close, but almost.
Kenshin looked back at Kaoru and saw her stumbling after him to drowsy to walk. Kenshin walked over to her and picked her up, and stared walking that way.
Kaoru whispered her thank you to him. She was well wiped out from their travels; they had been traveling all day nonstop save for breakfast and dinner. Some times She and Kenshin had to run because hunters were after him, and looking for her. She didn't know why she didn't stop and yell out to them, and let them take her back home. All she knew is that when she saw them she didn't want Kenshin to get caught, so she kept on with him.
Kenshin looked down at her, he found she was sleeping. So he kept on walking.
But then he heard rustling in the trees around them, and looked around them, he felt a harm full auras coming toward them at a fast speed.
So he started running, he didn't want to put Kaoru in danger. He ran fast, tapping in to his godlike speed. The auras ran faster after him. A voice behind him yelled, "Now!" He looked ahead of him, then, out of nowhere, an unexpected arrow hit him in the left chest.
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Tomoe looked in to her seeing glass and snickered with vengeance.
"M' lady, the plan has been put in to action."
"Good, very good, they shall be dead by morning."
"Yes, M' lady."
'Battousai, you will pay for what you did to my life, to my family. I shall look at you and laugh on your death day.' Tomoe laughed, as she saw her hunters take down the Battousai.
Yuki smirked at her master; she did the right thing by coming to her right away.
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Kaoru had woken up, and was alert, due to landing so rudely on the branch littered, dirt smeared, mossy ground. She looked up from where she was to find out that she was no were near her future little boy, or girl, or her husband...
'Kenshin... Kenshin...' A searing pain came to her chest when she thought about him; she brought her hand up to her chest...
Only to feel blood oozing out of her... Of a wound that was unknown as to how it got there. Kaoru looked around for Kenshin, what she saw devastated her. Kenshin was lying face down in the dirt, an arrowhead sticking out of his back, with a puddle of blood surrounding him, and it was only getting bigger. Kaoru stood up in haste to get to him, only to fall back to the ground on her hands and knees, panting. 'How can this be?' Kaoru saw her own puddle of blood on the ground, the same size as Kenshin's and getting bigger.
But there was no arrow in her chest... 'Can it be that we share wounds as well as minds? But that can't be! I didn't cast that kind of spell!' Kaoru looked up at Kenshin again. 'I have to save him, this is all my fault. If only I hadn't- oh!' Kaoru started crawling to Kenshin, standing was too much to bear. Small puddles of blood dripped from her wound every time she moved her body. Kaoru was just about to touch Kenshin when an arrow hit the ground a mere millimeter from Kaoru's hand. Kaoru gasped and reeled her hand back to her chest, as now she had a small gash at the side of her hand.
Then Kaoru saw the tips of arrows pointing at her face. Kaoru looked up to see seven women in blending huntress outfits. One looked like their leader, dressed in red and black... She seemed intimidating, and not really the nicest person to talk to. But the fact that this huntress had a glowing arrow, and that her eyes were the darkest red, was terrifying... "ïï©ï®ï¤ï ï´ï¨ï¥ïï¬ï ï·ï¥ï ï·ï©ï¬ï¬ï ï´ï¡ï«ï¥ï ï´ï¨ï¥ïï ï´ï¯ï ï¯âï²ï ï²ï¥ï¡ï¬ï ïï¡ï³ï´ï¥ï²." The Huntress commanded, and Kaoru watched helpless as the other six women stalk toward her and a half-dead Battousai......
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A man walked down a god-forsaken path. Not knowing were he was going, but feeling were he was headed to. His tall, muscular build like a wall to a forceful wind, it was. His long black hair blowing in the wind as he walks to an unknown place, but knew that his son would be there. His son, he maybe wounded when he got there, but his son will be there... He knew that he would be, that creepy old witch told him that much.
'Idiot Student. You rush into too many things blindly, if only you would see the things around you, and you would be on guard all the time. This would have never happened.'
The mind bonding, Hiko knew, was inevitable. But it would help his adopted son. It will save him from his madness, and heal him of his pain...
Okay!!!!! That's it for now! ^_____^ I will up date as soon as I can. REALLY I will! Maybe next weekend, but I will up-date, promise!! If you have the time to review, REVIEW! By all means! ^_____^ I will up date as soon as possible!
As for now...
Ja Ne,
Moon Baby.
(I hoped you liked that chapter! ^-^)