Disclaimer: Guess what everybody! I don't own rk! What a shocker ne?

A/N: LAST CHAPTER! Okay that's not true... I have an epilogue and something special after that, but yeah...

I will be honest with you, I did not edit through this chapter so if you see any inconsistencies tell me... I am in the process of editing 'Oh Brother' and the beginning of this story right now so please bear with me.


"I wouldn't do that if I were you."

The hand slid from her mouth as the other let go of her wrist, Kaoru's first inclination was to whack the person who had grabbed her, but when she saw who it was she took a step backwards.

"Come with me," He started to walk away, but Kaoru didn't follow. "Do you want him to burst through that door? I won't rescue you if he does."

"Enishi." It was all that she could say as she stared at the white haired man.

"Nice to know you remember my name, now let's go."

Kaoru stared back at the door before she followed the man, 'From the frying pan into the fire is it?'

0-0-0

Kenshin made it up another flight of stairs and sighed when he realized that he was finally on the main floor. It was nearly sunrise now, and he had searched eight underground levels, why someone needed so many he didn't even want to fathom.

The sound of heavy pounding feet caught his attention. Kenshin scrambled to disappear into the shadows. As soon as he settled himself down, much larger than he remembered Subaru came charging down towards the main door and blindly flew it open.

"I will kill you!" He seemed to yell at no one, "Once I get my hands on-" Subaru may be a good manipulator, but when it came to not letting his anger get the best of him he tended to fail miserably, not to mention it made him a lot more stupid than your average person.

"Fucking idiot." That was all Saitou could say, he wasn't standing more than four feet away from the so called idiot as he burst through the doors and outside.

Saitou took advantage of his situation and easily knocked Subaru off of his feet and straight into lala land. "This is the great Subaru? Not much of a fight." Saitou sighed and lit up a cigarette, "So many people dead, because of this sick twisted bastard." For good measure Saitou kicked the man in the stomach before allowing a uniformed police officer to securely chain and gag Subaru.

"You can come out now Battousai." Saitou rolled his eyes staring at a deserted corner.

Kenshin appeared looking a little abashed, "Why did you ask for my help when you obviously didn't need it?"

"We'll talk about that later, but if I am correct your wife is wandering around here somewhere as well." Saitou gave directions to search every crevice of the mansion for anything that would be considered as evidence.

"Are you coming?" He shot Kenshin his usual wolf glare as he made his way upstairs.

0-0-0 ((a/n: can you say anti-climatic... don't worry about it though, I promise ))

"Where the hell are we going?" Kaoru glared at the white haired mans back as she followed him farther through Subaru's main garden.

"You'll see."

"You're not going to kidnap me again are you?"

"No, your much more trouble than you are worth, Battousai surely deserves you."

"I didn't know you had an actual sense of humor." Kaoru growled.

"Sshh, we're almost there," Enishi slowed his pace as they started to walk towards a section of the garden holding beautiful western flowers, it was a wonder such beautiful things could thrive in the presence of a man like Subaru.

Kaoru blinked and looked ahead of the white haired man. She almost cried at the sight; it was Kenji, and he was sleeping so peacefully on a little blanket. His red hair bound in it's usual fashion he was still wearing the purple gi that he had worn when she had lost him. Sitting next to her baby was Yuji vigilantly watching over the sleeping babe.

"My baby..." She forgot about everything else in that moment, and ran towards her child, cradling him close to her heart. "Never again," she whispered promisingly as tears of joy flowed freely down her cheeks.

"Ga!" Kenji gurgled waking up and recognizing her face automatically. Knotting his baby fists into her gi he snuggled into her chest for warmth and fell back to sleep.

"Enishi... why?" Wouldn't this be an act against his personal moral codes?

Enishi just smiled and looked up at the early morning sky. "You were right."

"Eh?"

"You told me that my sister, all she wanted was for me to live and be happy, I didn't believe it before, I'm not sure why, but I just didn't. My sister would want me to be happy, right?"

Kaoru smiled and nodded. It was about time that he finally understood!

"I know what I did to you and Battousai can never be forgiven, I wanted to try to make amends, I know that can never really happen, but it's a start. That child you hold he is the future, my sister would be proud to know that I helped save that, and that is all that I need."

"I..." Kaoru was at a loss for words. "But tell me... how did you know that Kenji wasn't dead?"

"Because I can think like a mad man. I was one ya know."

'Was?' Kaoru thought but she kept her qualm silent.

"I am going to leave now," Enishi smiled at nothing in particular. "Start my life over again, maybe I will go to America, I here it's the land of opportunity." Enishi gave Kaoru a genial smile and waved as he walked off into the distance. ((a/n: just wondering, would anyone else get creeped out by that or just me?))

0-0-0

Saitou peered out of the large window in one of Subaru's offices, it just so happened that this particular fourth floor window looked out to the gardens. "It figures."

"Oro?" Kenshin, who had been looking in the room across the hall, and walked in as Saitou motioned down towards a woman standing in the garden holding a flaming haired child.

Saitou rolled his eyes as he looked to the vacant spot where the rurouni had been standing moments ago.

0-0-0

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere a large chunk of the Kenshin-gumi was tired, sweaty and very, very lost.

"Broom why the hell aren't we there yet?" Sano mumbled as the trudged on.

"..." Chou had decided not to answer, his migraine had gotten much worse in the process of the journey back to base.

"Hey look!" Misao pointed at the tip of a mansion that could be seen in the distance.

"About time!" Yahiko said wiping the sweat off of his brow.

0-0-0

Kaoru looked at Yuji, "How did you get away from the mansion?"

"Mr. Enishi helped me, he told me that he knew where your child was, he lead me here where the kid was sleeping." Yuji motioned to the blanket that was still sprawled out on the ground.

"I see, thank you Yuji, um I think you should report to Saitou and tell him you found Kenji." Yuji looked about ready to argue but Kaoru held up a hand to silence him. "No one will find me out here, that is the reason why Enishi picked this spot."

Yuji reluctantly nodded his head and ran off to the front gate.

Kaoru looked down at her child sleeping peacefully and smiled softly feeling truly happy for the first time in a very long time.

"What a beautiful sight."

"Kenshin..." She didn't need to look up to see the look she knew was on his face.

"It's over now."

Finally it was over.

"I know." Kaoru looked up smiling sweetly.

"Saitou will want to talk to us it seems that we weren't as important as he pretended."

"Figures." Kaoru snorted rolling her eyes as she followed her husband back towards the mansion.

0-0-0

"It's over!" Sanosuke, Misao, Yahiko and Chou all shouted looking at the lack of battle and of the one and only Subaru bound in chains.

Aoshi just grunted as he headed towards the inside of the mansion, there was no use just gawking.

0-0-0

"So..." Kenshin and Kaoru were staring at Saitou, who was reading through one of Subaru's books. "Why exactly did you ask our help when you obviously didn't need it?"

"Logic."

"Logic?" Kaoru quirked an eyebrow as she shifted Kenji into her other arm.

"Do you think I could actually get by apprehending Subaru alone, when he had your spawn? Whether I included you or not you would have come here, and if I included you I could keep a better eye on you."

"I feel so honored that we're so predictable, how about you Kenshin?" Kaoru said as she refraining herself from choking Saitou with her free hand.

"..." If there was one thing Kenshin hated, it was being used.

"Raccoon," Saitou snapped pulling out a small note book and pen from his pocket, "Where did you find your brat?" Saitou was jotting down notes, obviously it was pertinent information, or at least Kaoru liked to pretend that's what it was.

"Yuji found him, you should give the guy some credit." Kaoru smiled at the visible twitch in Saitou's eyebrow. She decided that she would tell Kenshin about Enishi later, she felt it wasn't best to speak of it in front of Saitou at least.

"If you are done," Kaoru said tersely, "I think it is time for us to go home, don't you think so Kenshin?"

"There's not much else we can do." Kenshin smiled at his wife as he put his arm around her shoulders and headed towards the entrance hall.

0-0-0

"Kenshin!" Yahiko called from the base of the staircase.

"Oro?" Kenshin muttered characteristically "What are you guys doing here?"

"We came here to help you of course!" Misao exclaimed throwing her hands in the air.

"I hate to tell you all this, but there's nothing to do, it's time to go home." Kaoru said, trying not to laugh as her friends faces all dropped.

0-0-0

Days passed and things settled back in to what could be considered normalcy at the Kamiya dojo. Kaoru and Yahiko began to train students again. All of whom made the Kamiya Kasshin master proud.

Kaoru waved off her students at the front gate. She was still leaning against the dojo gates staring at nothing when her husband totting their child, and groceries from the market.

"Are you alright?" He asked noticing her glassy-eyed look.

Kaoru blinked and smiled at him, how cute he looked with Kenji on his shoulders playing idly with his father's hair. "I was just thinking."

"About what?" Kenshin asked curiously as he took Kenji off of his shoulders and let the child play with the caterpillar that was scooting past a crack in the walkway.

"How nice of a feeling it is not to feel lost anymore."

The End... (For now)


A/N: stay tuned! There is an epilogue/Subaru interrogation to come I promise you! Thank you to everyone who has reviewed.