AC: Hey! arigato for reviews and reading my story! nothing else to say! on with the 10th chapter...!
i don't own rk
Kenshin slowly opened his eyes and found himself in a hospital room. He sat up rubbing his eyes from the sudden brightness.
"Man Kenshin! What the hell were you thinkin'!"said a voice in the room. Kenshin eyed the person and saw Sanosuke with Aoshi sitting next to him.
Kenshin blinked a few times for the blur in his eyes to go away.
"Sano? Aoshi?"he said. Sanosuke sighed.
"Ofcourse its me! Jeeesh!"Sanosuke said. Kenshin chuckled a bit,"You didn't answer my question Kenshin. What the hell were you thinking you almost died in that fire probably!"
"Gomen Sano, but Kaoru-dono was in that dojo. Do you think I would of let her stay in there and die?"Kenshin said proving a point. Sanosuke said nothing as Aoshi watched the scene between his friends.
From Kenshin mentioning Kaoru's name, he wondered if she was alright,"Wheres Kaoru-dono?"Kenshin asked.
"Shes in the next room"Aoshi stated,"She was very close to dieing, doctors say that her lungs were filled with smoke, but she managed to survive." Kenshin sighed with relief.
"I want to see her"Kenshin said. He moved his feet to the side of the bed.
"Kenshin! Don't be such an idiot! We told you Jou-chans alright"Sanosuke said running up to Kenshin. He didn't let Kenshin get up.
"I'll be fine, I just want to see her for myself"Kenshin said he moved his friend's hand out of the way and got to his feet walking to the door.
"Fine Kenshin be that way, but just so ya know...you're wearing a hospital gown I don't think anyone wants to see you're bare-naked ass"Sanosuke said. Kenshin looked down and noticed what he was wearing.
It was one of those hospital gowns that tied in the back, but didn't cover so well.
"ORO!"Kenshin ran back to his bed and pulled the covers over his body. Sanosuke laughed uncontrollably as Aoshi just sat there, smirking.
A chilly morning had arrived the next day, Sanosuke had brought Kenshin a change of clothes to the hospital to wear since his other clothing was stained with ashes which was his uniform. Kenshin wasn't too happy about that. It cost a fortune for those uniforms.
He was wearing white pants with a long sleeved maroon colored shirt. (hehe i tried for it to look like what he wore in the meiji era.)
He stepped out of his room and walked into Kaoru's. He saw Yahiko sleeping on the nearby couch in the room. Snoring away.
He then saw Kaoru in the hospital bed. She had an oxygen mask on. Kenshin walked over to Kaoru sitting on the stool that was beside the bed.
He watched as she slept. Her breathing wasn't steady. She coughed now and then, but barely.
Her hair was down, stands of hair were covering her shoulders and part of her neck. Her bangs covered her closed eyes.
Kenshin moved her bangs away from her eyes, the touch was silky. He suddenly touched her cheek. It was smooth and warm. Kenshin didn't take his hand away from her cheek, he could stay like that all day. He had grown to such a liking to her.
Suddenly, Kaoru opened her eyes slowly. Kenshin pulled his hand out of the way watching her eyes blink.
The room was slightly dark to Kaoru. Her blue eyes had opened all the way she faced Kenshin. Kaoru tried to speak, but she noticed the mask around her mouth. She kept her mouth closed.
Kenshin smiled sweetly. He then noticed fingers crawl up to his hand that layed on the bed. Kaoru placed her fingers between Kenshin's. Kenshin placed his hand over hers.
He had a gentle grip to her small fragile hand.
Kaoru removed the oxygen mask from her face and sat it down to the opposite side of Kenshin.
"K...Ken...shin"she said slowly, her voice was raspy. Kenshin placed a finger to her lips. He shook his head as for her to not talk.
Kaoru nodded. She felt tears trickle down her cheek. She felt so grateful to have Kenshin as a friend. She mouthed the words 'thank you' to him. She tightened her grip to Kenshin's hand.
Kenshin tightened his grip also. Kaoru was something more to Kenshin then a friend...she was so much more.
Kaoru had stayed at the hospital for a week. Having no where else to go, Kaoru and Yahiko were welcome to stay at Misao's house, until they could get settled into a new home.
"Make yourself at home!"Misao said cheerfully opening the door to Kaoru's, for now, room. Kaoru walked in. The room was rather plain, but it worked for her.
The walls were a light purple. The curtains were a see through white that touched the floor. The dresser, desk, and night table were also white, but a design was carved around the furniture to make it look not so plain. The bed was a light purple also. The bed was small, but it fit for Kaoru. The sheets were white and the main covers and comforter were a dark purple adding a small black pillow to bring out the colors and the rug was a shiny white.
"Arigato Misao-san, I owe you"Kaoru said gratefully. Misao waved her hand.
"You don't owe me anything! What are friends for"Misao said smiling,"I'm glad also that you're brother likes the other guest room"Misao added. Kaoru smiled.
Yahiko was in his room laying on the clean covers of the bed. The room was blue and black. There wasn't much, but a bed and dresser. Yahiko didn't care though.
There was a knock on the door that startled Yahiko a bit.
"Come in"Yahiko said calmly. Incame Kaoru and Misao, they looked like they were about to go somewhere, he suddenly noticed Kaoru's clothes. It wasn't to familiar to him he guess she must of borrowed Misao's clothes.
"Yahiko we're going shopping so we can get new clothes. You better come too"Kaoru said. Yahiko got up from the bed and nodded following the two girls that were infront of him.
Kaoru, Misao, and Yahiko had come back to Misao's house later in the afternoon. They had so many bags of clothes. Each of them were probably holding about four bags.
As Yahiko placed his new clothes in the room, Misao helped Kaoru with hers. They layed the bags down on the floor. Kaoru sat on the bed looking upset.
"Whats wrong Kaoru-san?"Misao asked. She gave Kaoru a cheery smile. Kaoru looked at Misao and gave her a watery smile.
"I feel so bad that you payed for all these clothes"Kaoru said. Misao looked at Kaoru and smiled.
"Don't be! I'm glad I could be of help! You're my best friend Kaoru-san!"Misao said. Although if you didn't know Misao's family were rather wealthy so that explained how Misao purchsed Kaoru and Yahiko's clothing.
Kaoru smiled widely after hearing the words 'best friend'. She felt so happy, even though she had lost her home. Misao had also purchased Yahiko and Misao new training outfits for sword training and new bokkons.
Kaoru knew that her life had just gotten harder.
Kaoru had gone back to school the following day, she had so much to catch up on. She had already missed more than a week of school.
She would skip lunch and use any of the extra free time in school to study and do make up work.
One day she was sitting on the floor infront of her locker making up assignments in physics.
"Mou! This is soo hard! I don't understand anything in this stupid book!"Kaoru said throwing her text book across from her.
She pulled her backpack closer to her and grabbed a small mirror out. She looked at her face.
She had a guaze bandage on her forhead from the cut she recieved from when the wood had trampled on her. She had also recieved a sprained arm, but she had a small cast over it and cuts all over her legs.
She felt so embarrassed to walk around with her legs like that, she remembered what Kenshin had looked like when she saw him during homeroom.
He had so many cuts and a few bruises on his arms also. He had a bandage on the side of his neck and he also had a guaze bandage on his forehead.
She remembered faintly of the fire.
Flashback
'Don't talk you'll inhale more smoke. Try and hold your breath'
'I can't cough help it cough cough'
'I'll get us out Kaoru'
End of Flashback
Kaoru clearly remembered Kenshin calling her by her first name only. It made her curious.
Could it be possible...
Kenshin lay in his bed at his apartment that night, he ached all over from the fire. He just layed there in deep thought of Shishio.
"Hn..." He became angry with himself, he remembered Kaoru's background, Shishio had killed both of her parents and burned down the only home she had.
He felt so guilty, he knew he could of gotten her out of the burning dojo quicker. He was filled with rage.
"Shishio...I promise to bring hell upon you"he said in a low voice.
AC: I finished finally...gomen i had the WORST writers block, umm also i would like to ask my reviewers about something, what does jou-chan mean? its what sanosuke calls kaoru...it means little then the jou is a complete blank to me...so if anyone would be so kind to answer me that question i would be most grateful!
