Authors Notes: Ok everyone! My two stories Goal by heart, and Light by Angel wings are up, but for some strange reason, they don't show up under Kaoru and Kenshin...only Kenshin and Kaoru oO so uhhh...it's strange that's all! Anyway, thank you all for the reviews!
Oh! My best friend Linette, a.k.a, Ditox, she posted a new story and she's hoping for better results on reviews! If you all could do me a huge favor, and read her story, and see what you think of it, Lin would REALLY appreciate it a lot! especially the popular story writers! Thank you so much! The name has rogues in it XD
Warning!: Might be some limey parts!
Chapter 23: A loss, a Gain
Kaoru was tied tightly around her wrists in the front, and she was tied around the waist to the back of a small hut. She was glaring at the men al circled around a camp fire as they were snickering at her. Kaoru just continued to glare at them, constantly scowling at their looks. One of them stood up and walked over to her. Kaoru quickly notified that he was the leader of the grimy bunch.
"Now, now. Don't be so distant, love." The man looked at her with a heated gaze, taking his hand and rubbing her chin. Kaoru jerked away quickly, scowling at him.
"Don't touch me with your filthy hands! Only one person is allowed to call me that. And it's not you! You bastard!!" Kaoru hissed at them. The leader didn't look put out as Kaoru had hoped. He actually had a smug look on his face, a grin forming slyly on his stubbly face.
"You're a feisty one. I like them when they're hot to handle." He then brought his hand back to her chin and started to rub in. "Sorry to say, love, but your words aren't going to send us packing. We just got here so relax, enjoy the fire." He then felt a pain jot through his hand and through his body when his head whipped in her direction from looking around before, now realizing that her teeth were chomped down on his hand, drawing blood. The man yelped and pulled his hand away.
"I warned you not to touch me!!" Kaoru barked at him, venom lacing her words. The man glared at her before raising his hand into the air.
"You...BITCH!" Whipping his arm down to her direction, his rough hand made contact with her delicate skin with an extremely large impact, causing her to repel to the direction of his hit. The smack he gave her hit her so suddenly that she was knocked out. The man, a/k/a Kuchiro, just glared at her, not caring about the swelling right red cheek that he had caused. Blood started to trickle down her chin from her pink lips, and Kuchiro just grunted.
"Serves that brat right." He said, holding his now bleeding hand. One of the men from the camp fire stood up and made his way over to the knocked out Kaoru and then glanced at his boss with a smug smirk.
"Now that she's no trouble to us and she won't scream or anything, let's have some fun with her. What do ya say Lord Kuchiro?" He looked at Kuchiro with a disgusting grin and lust filled eyes. The other men by the campfire were agreeing with him, shouting 'yeah' s here and there. Kuchiro looked at them with a smirk.
"Nah. It's much more fun when they're awake to squirm." His remark made all the men laugh with a greedy and lust filled aura around then. They decided to wait until Kaoru was awake to have their 'fun'. They drank sake until they were too drunk to even stand, so they decided they would sleep where they fell, and couldn't get up.
Unknown to then, Kaoru had been awake the whole time. She over heard what they said and decided that she would rather not get raped at the moment. 'for swordsmen who could capture me under Kenshin's nose, they're pretty reckless...' Kaoru thought to herself, shaking her head inwardly. Men...they could be so careless and cruel. But yet again, Kaoru had to take that back. Kenshin had taught her otherwise. She had grown to admire him so much.
Kaoru shook her head. As much as she enjoyed thinking about him, now was not the time. She sat up, cringing at the tightly wrapped ropes around he wrists. She carefully turned around so that the ropes around her waist wouldn't cause the wood it was tied to, would creak and awaken the drunken men. Kaoru learned in her swordsman training in the Kamiya Kashine Ryu style to be flexible. She bent her right wrist down and started fumbling with the knot. After many attempts to free herself, she finally loosened the knot to the point that she could slip her hands out of the tie.
She smiled as she quietly untied the knot that was around her waist. She was also successful with that knot as well. She stood up from her kneeling position and slid the looped rope down her legs and stepped out of it. She began to feel a throb on her right cheek. She held it gently as she felt the swell of it in her palm. She brushed the pain away, and slowly crept down the rotting steps of the small shack to where the men where. She quietly snuck past them, praying that she wouldn't cause any of them to wake. Once she was finally past them, she sighed silently and was about to break into a run when a dark voice emanated from behind her.
"Going somewhere love?"
She slowly turned her head behind her to face Kuchiro. She turned her whole body around, shuddering under his presence. He then grabbed her by her shoulders and pushed her back roughly against a near-by tree. The wind was knocked out of her, causing her to go limp for the moment. Kuchiro chuckled evilly, as his hands started to run all over her body. Kaoru's senses finally kicked in as he began to touch her. A callused hand then grasped one of her breast tightly as she shrieked in disgust. He continued to fondle them through her clothing. Only one thing rang through Kaoru's head. It was now or never...
"KENSHIN!!!!!"
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Rushing through the dark forest, trudging through the shallow snow, Battousai searched vigorously for the one who was taken from him. He had been searching all day for her, and only got small whiffs of her ki. He was too ruffled to concentrate on trying to sense her ki to do so. The temperature was dropping and his breath had become more visible in the moonlight.
If he could have, he would have shouted out her name. But he didn't want to let her captors know of him. He wanted to surprise them and then pummel them into the ground, gut them alive, and chop them into little twitching chunks for what they did. He continued to zip through the shadowy woods, golden eyes whipping this way and that.
He was just about to spring in a different direction when his keen ears picked up something that seemed to echo through the trees. His heartbeat started to race when he made out what he heard. It was clear as crystal now. It was a scream from someone. But...the voice seemed to familiar...
Kaoru!!
"KENSHIN!!!!!"
Battousai didn't waste another second! He sprang on his feet, straight to the direction where the scream had come from. Her scream for help seemed to put his speed into overdrive as he rushed to her cry for help.
He just hoped that he wasn't too late.
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Kaoru didn't let Kuchiro have his way with her. She wasn't just going to give up without a fight. She began to kick and punch and squirm and scratch as much as she could. But only causing him to slow down a little. Kuchiro just smirked as he continued to torture her by slipping his hand into her training gi.
"You shouldn't move around so much, love. It takes the fun out of it." Kuchiro's unpleasant voice snapped Kaoru out of her struggling thoughts. She looked at him and glared at him with pure hatred.
"GET OFF ME YOU PIECE OF SH-" Before Kaoru could finish what she was saying, she felt a hand start to slide up into her hakama. Kaoru froze. This couldn't be it could it? Would she lose her virginity only months before she turned fifteen? It just can't be...she wouldn't believe it. Kuchiro smirked at her again.
"What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?" His grimy hand slid it's way up to her thigh and stopped there. Kaoru was looking at him with pure horror in her eyes. He wouldn't...he wouldn't do this to her...would he? Kaoru's eyes started to well up as she though about what she could do, and couldn't. What she could do was give up, and unwillingly let this guy violate her. She could scream and squirm but it wouldn't make a difference. She could just deal with the fact that she was raped and move on. She could just let this guy have her and not complain. But what she couldn't do...was face Kenshin the way she ever did.
She couldn't look at him and smile with the same innocent smile. She couldn't dream of him looming over her, her heart pounding about him being her first. She couldn't wake up to him with a clear conscience anymore. She couldn't say he could be blessed about him giving her something such as another life to bring into this world. Because...it would already have been tried. She would already have been used and thrown away. She would already be another non-virgin girl who was just someone never the same.
She was almost too wrapped up in her own thoughts to notice that Kuchiro's hand continued it's way up her leg until it reached her inner thigh. Kaoru gasped and choked out a sob when he just let his hand sit there. His other hand was holding her shoulder down so hard that it seemed to paralyze her. Just when he was about to test her with his fingers, Kuchiro was suddenly knocked senseless by a sudden smash to the right side of his neck. Kuchiro flew to the left, smashing up against a tree, Kaoru left at the same spot she was in.
Kuchiro lifted his head painfully to gaze into blazing golden pools. The eyes of the man wielding them were filled with hatred, anger, furry, disgust, and loathing. Kuchiro wondered why he wasn't killed when the man's blade connected with his neck. But when he looked, he noticed that the guys blade was flipped so the back of his sword was the part that smashed into him.
"If you ever...lay a single finger on her again...I will kill you next time. Scum bastards like you don't even deserve to die. That's why you are still breathing, and your disgusting black heart is still beating..." The young mans voice was burning with venom.
Battousai's hatred filled gaze turned to that of Kaoru's horror filled eyes. Eyes changing from a blazing, molten gold, to a tender crystal amethyst, he lifted his hands and placed them gently on Kaoru's trembling shoulders. Her head seemed to snap up, gaze piercing into his. Kaoru's eyes seemed to question his. Like if he was real or not. Kenshin decided to reassure her.
"Kaoru...? Are you alright...?" His voice was tender and loving as he cupped her face with his gentle hands. Her unshed tears finally started to pour down her face as she suddenly propelled herself to him. She folded her arms around his neck and cried into his shoulder. Kenshin's hand wound around her waist, and the other cupped her head, cradling her. He could feel her sobbing form, wetting his gi, her shoulders quaking every time a sob was choked out. Her voice was a bit muffled by his gi, but still audible.
"Oh Kenshin...you don't know...how afraid I was..." She confessed her fear to him, choking in between words. Kenshin nodded his head in understanding.
"I know baby...I know." Just then, he felt Kaoru's head start to move back and forth as if shaking her head no. Kenshin brought back her head so he could see her face, and saw that she was indeed, disagreeing.
"No Kenshin...it's not that...I...I was so afraid...I would never be able...to face you again..." Kaoru sniffled as her droplet tears continued to stream down her face. Kenshin looked at her, eyebrows slanted upward, his facial expression looking like he had just lost everything. A surprised yet sad emotion. He pulled Kaoru back to his shoulder quickly but gently, now rocking back and forth, his face still bared the same look. Kaoru was still sobbing while he spoke.
"Oh Kaoru...don't ever say that...you hear me?...Never..." He tightened his grip around her as he placed a kiss on her head and buried his face into the crook of her neck, still rocking back and forth.
Kuchiro finally was able to regain his composure after watching the, in his opinion, the sickening love affair between the most deadly warrior, and his 'love' as he puts it. He stood up and walked over to them, his feet making a stomping sound on the snowy surface of the earth. It was a miracle that none of the other men were awakened by all the commotion.
"I'm sorry to disturb the moment but as you can see, you so rudely interrupted my play. So if you would just step aside-" Kuchiro's pitiful attempt to get Kenshin to move was interrupted by none other than Kenshin himself.
"I told you if you were to ever lay another finger on her again, I won't hesitate to kill you." Kenshin lifted his sword in front of him, readying himself for a fight. Kuchiro smirked as he reached for his blade that was strapped to his hakama belt. Kaoru never seemed to notice it. And now she regretted not knowing that he could have easily killed her if he wanted to do so. Kenshin's voice interrupted her thoughts, just as it did Kuchiro's talking.
"Come...if you wish to taste a sample of my blade then come forth. Or are you afraid...? Let's see what you've got..."
That's all for now! Sorry for the hold up! :D please review!
Oh! My best friend Linette, a.k.a, Ditox, she posted a new story and she's hoping for better results on reviews! If you all could do me a huge favor, and read her story, and see what you think of it, Lin would REALLY appreciate it a lot! especially the popular story writers! Thank you so much! The name has rogues in it XD
Warning!: Might be some limey parts!
Chapter 23: A loss, a Gain
Kaoru was tied tightly around her wrists in the front, and she was tied around the waist to the back of a small hut. She was glaring at the men al circled around a camp fire as they were snickering at her. Kaoru just continued to glare at them, constantly scowling at their looks. One of them stood up and walked over to her. Kaoru quickly notified that he was the leader of the grimy bunch.
"Now, now. Don't be so distant, love." The man looked at her with a heated gaze, taking his hand and rubbing her chin. Kaoru jerked away quickly, scowling at him.
"Don't touch me with your filthy hands! Only one person is allowed to call me that. And it's not you! You bastard!!" Kaoru hissed at them. The leader didn't look put out as Kaoru had hoped. He actually had a smug look on his face, a grin forming slyly on his stubbly face.
"You're a feisty one. I like them when they're hot to handle." He then brought his hand back to her chin and started to rub in. "Sorry to say, love, but your words aren't going to send us packing. We just got here so relax, enjoy the fire." He then felt a pain jot through his hand and through his body when his head whipped in her direction from looking around before, now realizing that her teeth were chomped down on his hand, drawing blood. The man yelped and pulled his hand away.
"I warned you not to touch me!!" Kaoru barked at him, venom lacing her words. The man glared at her before raising his hand into the air.
"You...BITCH!" Whipping his arm down to her direction, his rough hand made contact with her delicate skin with an extremely large impact, causing her to repel to the direction of his hit. The smack he gave her hit her so suddenly that she was knocked out. The man, a/k/a Kuchiro, just glared at her, not caring about the swelling right red cheek that he had caused. Blood started to trickle down her chin from her pink lips, and Kuchiro just grunted.
"Serves that brat right." He said, holding his now bleeding hand. One of the men from the camp fire stood up and made his way over to the knocked out Kaoru and then glanced at his boss with a smug smirk.
"Now that she's no trouble to us and she won't scream or anything, let's have some fun with her. What do ya say Lord Kuchiro?" He looked at Kuchiro with a disgusting grin and lust filled eyes. The other men by the campfire were agreeing with him, shouting 'yeah' s here and there. Kuchiro looked at them with a smirk.
"Nah. It's much more fun when they're awake to squirm." His remark made all the men laugh with a greedy and lust filled aura around then. They decided to wait until Kaoru was awake to have their 'fun'. They drank sake until they were too drunk to even stand, so they decided they would sleep where they fell, and couldn't get up.
Unknown to then, Kaoru had been awake the whole time. She over heard what they said and decided that she would rather not get raped at the moment. 'for swordsmen who could capture me under Kenshin's nose, they're pretty reckless...' Kaoru thought to herself, shaking her head inwardly. Men...they could be so careless and cruel. But yet again, Kaoru had to take that back. Kenshin had taught her otherwise. She had grown to admire him so much.
Kaoru shook her head. As much as she enjoyed thinking about him, now was not the time. She sat up, cringing at the tightly wrapped ropes around he wrists. She carefully turned around so that the ropes around her waist wouldn't cause the wood it was tied to, would creak and awaken the drunken men. Kaoru learned in her swordsman training in the Kamiya Kashine Ryu style to be flexible. She bent her right wrist down and started fumbling with the knot. After many attempts to free herself, she finally loosened the knot to the point that she could slip her hands out of the tie.
She smiled as she quietly untied the knot that was around her waist. She was also successful with that knot as well. She stood up from her kneeling position and slid the looped rope down her legs and stepped out of it. She began to feel a throb on her right cheek. She held it gently as she felt the swell of it in her palm. She brushed the pain away, and slowly crept down the rotting steps of the small shack to where the men where. She quietly snuck past them, praying that she wouldn't cause any of them to wake. Once she was finally past them, she sighed silently and was about to break into a run when a dark voice emanated from behind her.
"Going somewhere love?"
She slowly turned her head behind her to face Kuchiro. She turned her whole body around, shuddering under his presence. He then grabbed her by her shoulders and pushed her back roughly against a near-by tree. The wind was knocked out of her, causing her to go limp for the moment. Kuchiro chuckled evilly, as his hands started to run all over her body. Kaoru's senses finally kicked in as he began to touch her. A callused hand then grasped one of her breast tightly as she shrieked in disgust. He continued to fondle them through her clothing. Only one thing rang through Kaoru's head. It was now or never...
"KENSHIN!!!!!"
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Rushing through the dark forest, trudging through the shallow snow, Battousai searched vigorously for the one who was taken from him. He had been searching all day for her, and only got small whiffs of her ki. He was too ruffled to concentrate on trying to sense her ki to do so. The temperature was dropping and his breath had become more visible in the moonlight.
If he could have, he would have shouted out her name. But he didn't want to let her captors know of him. He wanted to surprise them and then pummel them into the ground, gut them alive, and chop them into little twitching chunks for what they did. He continued to zip through the shadowy woods, golden eyes whipping this way and that.
He was just about to spring in a different direction when his keen ears picked up something that seemed to echo through the trees. His heartbeat started to race when he made out what he heard. It was clear as crystal now. It was a scream from someone. But...the voice seemed to familiar...
Kaoru!!
"KENSHIN!!!!!"
Battousai didn't waste another second! He sprang on his feet, straight to the direction where the scream had come from. Her scream for help seemed to put his speed into overdrive as he rushed to her cry for help.
He just hoped that he wasn't too late.
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Kaoru didn't let Kuchiro have his way with her. She wasn't just going to give up without a fight. She began to kick and punch and squirm and scratch as much as she could. But only causing him to slow down a little. Kuchiro just smirked as he continued to torture her by slipping his hand into her training gi.
"You shouldn't move around so much, love. It takes the fun out of it." Kuchiro's unpleasant voice snapped Kaoru out of her struggling thoughts. She looked at him and glared at him with pure hatred.
"GET OFF ME YOU PIECE OF SH-" Before Kaoru could finish what she was saying, she felt a hand start to slide up into her hakama. Kaoru froze. This couldn't be it could it? Would she lose her virginity only months before she turned fifteen? It just can't be...she wouldn't believe it. Kuchiro smirked at her again.
"What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?" His grimy hand slid it's way up to her thigh and stopped there. Kaoru was looking at him with pure horror in her eyes. He wouldn't...he wouldn't do this to her...would he? Kaoru's eyes started to well up as she though about what she could do, and couldn't. What she could do was give up, and unwillingly let this guy violate her. She could scream and squirm but it wouldn't make a difference. She could just deal with the fact that she was raped and move on. She could just let this guy have her and not complain. But what she couldn't do...was face Kenshin the way she ever did.
She couldn't look at him and smile with the same innocent smile. She couldn't dream of him looming over her, her heart pounding about him being her first. She couldn't wake up to him with a clear conscience anymore. She couldn't say he could be blessed about him giving her something such as another life to bring into this world. Because...it would already have been tried. She would already have been used and thrown away. She would already be another non-virgin girl who was just someone never the same.
She was almost too wrapped up in her own thoughts to notice that Kuchiro's hand continued it's way up her leg until it reached her inner thigh. Kaoru gasped and choked out a sob when he just let his hand sit there. His other hand was holding her shoulder down so hard that it seemed to paralyze her. Just when he was about to test her with his fingers, Kuchiro was suddenly knocked senseless by a sudden smash to the right side of his neck. Kuchiro flew to the left, smashing up against a tree, Kaoru left at the same spot she was in.
Kuchiro lifted his head painfully to gaze into blazing golden pools. The eyes of the man wielding them were filled with hatred, anger, furry, disgust, and loathing. Kuchiro wondered why he wasn't killed when the man's blade connected with his neck. But when he looked, he noticed that the guys blade was flipped so the back of his sword was the part that smashed into him.
"If you ever...lay a single finger on her again...I will kill you next time. Scum bastards like you don't even deserve to die. That's why you are still breathing, and your disgusting black heart is still beating..." The young mans voice was burning with venom.
Battousai's hatred filled gaze turned to that of Kaoru's horror filled eyes. Eyes changing from a blazing, molten gold, to a tender crystal amethyst, he lifted his hands and placed them gently on Kaoru's trembling shoulders. Her head seemed to snap up, gaze piercing into his. Kaoru's eyes seemed to question his. Like if he was real or not. Kenshin decided to reassure her.
"Kaoru...? Are you alright...?" His voice was tender and loving as he cupped her face with his gentle hands. Her unshed tears finally started to pour down her face as she suddenly propelled herself to him. She folded her arms around his neck and cried into his shoulder. Kenshin's hand wound around her waist, and the other cupped her head, cradling her. He could feel her sobbing form, wetting his gi, her shoulders quaking every time a sob was choked out. Her voice was a bit muffled by his gi, but still audible.
"Oh Kenshin...you don't know...how afraid I was..." She confessed her fear to him, choking in between words. Kenshin nodded his head in understanding.
"I know baby...I know." Just then, he felt Kaoru's head start to move back and forth as if shaking her head no. Kenshin brought back her head so he could see her face, and saw that she was indeed, disagreeing.
"No Kenshin...it's not that...I...I was so afraid...I would never be able...to face you again..." Kaoru sniffled as her droplet tears continued to stream down her face. Kenshin looked at her, eyebrows slanted upward, his facial expression looking like he had just lost everything. A surprised yet sad emotion. He pulled Kaoru back to his shoulder quickly but gently, now rocking back and forth, his face still bared the same look. Kaoru was still sobbing while he spoke.
"Oh Kaoru...don't ever say that...you hear me?...Never..." He tightened his grip around her as he placed a kiss on her head and buried his face into the crook of her neck, still rocking back and forth.
Kuchiro finally was able to regain his composure after watching the, in his opinion, the sickening love affair between the most deadly warrior, and his 'love' as he puts it. He stood up and walked over to them, his feet making a stomping sound on the snowy surface of the earth. It was a miracle that none of the other men were awakened by all the commotion.
"I'm sorry to disturb the moment but as you can see, you so rudely interrupted my play. So if you would just step aside-" Kuchiro's pitiful attempt to get Kenshin to move was interrupted by none other than Kenshin himself.
"I told you if you were to ever lay another finger on her again, I won't hesitate to kill you." Kenshin lifted his sword in front of him, readying himself for a fight. Kuchiro smirked as he reached for his blade that was strapped to his hakama belt. Kaoru never seemed to notice it. And now she regretted not knowing that he could have easily killed her if he wanted to do so. Kenshin's voice interrupted her thoughts, just as it did Kuchiro's talking.
"Come...if you wish to taste a sample of my blade then come forth. Or are you afraid...? Let's see what you've got..."
That's all for now! Sorry for the hold up! :D please review!
