Hey! Guess who? It's Rurouni-maxi again! This is my second story already! I'm so very sorry that this chapter is so short, but it's just a prologue… I'll update soon! (I hope…)
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Well, enjoy!
If I Loved You To Death
Chapter 1
Prologue
Kenshin and Kaoru had always been friends.
When they were little kids, a year or 3, they met.
Kaoru and her father had moved from a big house to a smaller house, because her mother died of a deathly disease.
Kenshin, the boy next door, was playing all alone on the sidewalk, and saw the removal trucks ride from and to the house next to his, with great interest. He had never seen such large cars before. Then he saw a little raven-haired girl, maybe a little younger than himself, but not much, stepping out of a car, holding her father's hand tightly.
The man saw Kenshin and said to the girl: "Hey, Kaoru-chan! There is a boy your age! Go meet him!" and the girl watched the boy with big, scared eyes. But there was also curiosity in her eyes.
'What a funny boy! He has such funny hair!' she thought.
"Okay, Papa!" she said cheerfully and walked to the funny-haired boy.
"Konnichiwa, I'm Kaoru Kamiya," the girl said and offered her hand to help him up. The boy took it.
"Konnichiwa, Kaoru-chan! My name is Kenshin Himura," the boy said and smiled, "Did you just come to live here?"
"Hai!" Kaoru said.
"Naze?" Kenshin asked. He was just a kid, he didn't knew he shouldn't have asked that.
"Because my... my mother died…" Kaoru said, a little less cheerful and she sighed. She didn't quite understand what that was, dying, but she knew her mother went on a trip and she never came back. "Do you know what that is?"
"Nani?" Kenshin asked.
"Dying… Do you know what that is?" Kaoru asked again.
"Hai… my parents died, too… they fell asleep and never woke up," Kenshin said and looked at the ground.
"Oh… I'm sorry… with who do you live, then?" Kaoru asked, as she lay her hand on Kenshin's back to comfort him.
"With my foster father, Hiko Seijuro. My father knew him well," Kenshin said, "But you shouldn't be sorry, I never knew my parents."
"Oh… well, do you have any friends out here?" Kaoru changed the subject.
"No… I know some kids, but we really aren't friends…" Kenshin looked to the ground.
"What do you mean?" Kaoru asked, her head bent to the side.
"Well… um… they tease me a lot, because of my red hair… they think it's weird or something..." Kenshin said and pulled his hair a little.
"Oh… well I think it's very cute!" Kaoru said and stroke it.
"Thanks!" Kenshin said and he got little sparks in his lavender eyes.
"So… wanna play hide and seek?" Kaoru asked.
"Yeah, why not?" Kenshin said and tagged Kaoru, "Tag! You're it!"
They both laughed and Kenshin ran away, Kaoru following him.
From that day on, they were friends.
Rurouni-maxi: Well, I told you! That was really short.
I made Kenshin and Kaoru of about the same age as each other. So this doesn't have to do anything with the series, except for the characters and their personalities.
Oh, yeah, this FanFic takes place in our time, so nothing with the dojo and samurai and stuff…
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