Chapter Four:

'heh..i was so certain that he liked me back then…but we still were friends… I just didn't talk to him for awhile…later on I guess I forgave him..' Kaoru finished erasing the bored, got the other eraser and pounded them together so that the dust would get out. Then she grabbed a chair to reach for the blinds. Stepping back down, she misplaced her foot and slipped. She closed her eyes waiting for the hard fall but a pair of arms caught her. Kaoru opened her eyes and saw Shinji. He gently put her down and put the chair to the desk.

"um..thankyou." Shinji just nodded. He then sat down on a desk Kaoru frowned.

'there he goes again…acting weird again!'

"Shinji what's wrong?"

"Kaoru I-…it's nothing..nevermind. I'll see you later." Kaoru grabbed his arm so he wouldn't leave.

"Now wait just a minute! Come on Shinji! Tell me!" Shinji turned around sighing.

" Kaoru..what happened long time ago…I didn't mean to hurt your feelings..the girl who kissed me knew that you liked me so she did it on purpose…"

"….But…there's something eles that's bothering you right?"

"Don't worry Kaoru. I'll tell you once I'm ready. How does that sound?"

"okay…" Shinji smiled.

"Kay..well ja ne." After Kaoru cleaned up she went home. On the way she saw Rei. Kaoru went up to her.

"Ah! Rei how are you!" The startled Rei looked at her.

"Oh hi." Rei bowed.

"You waiting for someone?"

"Actually yes. I'm waiting for Kenshin. I just wanted to surprise him and just say hi."

"Hmm. Well your not gonna find him here. He already went home."

"oh.." Kaoru smiled.

"Come on. You can still surprise him if you come with me." Rei just nodded in shock.

"So..you good friends with Kenshin?" Rei said looking at her feet.

"ya..i guess…hey Kenshin told me that you dated him before..how come you guys broke up?" Rei looked away.

"I met him in my school..when I saw him I thought he was the most handsome guy I ever seen. I immediately had a crush on him. Soon we introduced ourselves and I got to know him. Later on I told him that I liked him a lot but he said that he only liked me as a friend. So..i made a deal with him or a bet…and it was that I would be his girlfriend for a whole month and in that month he would fall for me but if he still doesn't feel the same way we would go back to being just friends. So he agreed. And through that whole month I had the greatest time with him. We studied together . We did a lot of stuff. ..and I really thought he fell for me…When that month was over..he told me that he had to leave the school for a reason, which he didn't tell me, ..and so we broke up and we just became friends." Rei closed her eyes. " When he moved I didn't have much time to talk to him or stuff." Kaoru didn't know what to say.

"ya..it's really nothing!" Rei said smiling.

"….you know what? Kenshin never said how he felt when he moved. So that means he still might like you! I'll help you get him back! " Kaoru said smiling. Rei looked at her surprised

"Really?! Wait…but why are you doing this?"

"He talked about you, but he didn't tell me what your name was. I think he wasn't ready for a relationship or something…I cant remember what he told me.." Kaoru opened the door to the house and they both went in.

"Ah. Kaoru. Your home." Mrs. Himura smiled.

"Hi. Um.. this is Rei. I think you might know her. She used to date Kenshin."

"Wow! Really? Hmm.. he never mentioned about dating…I thought he li-" Mrs. Himura quickly closed her mouth, for she was about to mention something that Kenshin didn't want her to tell.

"hm?"

"ohh! Yes! I remember now! Hi!" she said shaking her hand.

"But I've never met-"

"yes I know, but he did tell me about you." She said.

"oh is Kenshin here?"

"Yes. I'm here." Kenshin said standing near the door. He noticed that someone was with Kaoru.

"Rei! What are you doing here?!" Kaoru frowned and made a tsk noise.

"That's not very nice ya know. She just wanted to stop by and say hello. Is that a crime?" Kenshin sweat drop and Rei blushed madly. Kaoru smiled brightly.

"Well! Since you two haven't talked in like forever! I'll leave ya two alone! Come on Mrs. Himura lets go!" she said dragging her out the door.

"Eh…"

'hehe! This plan of mine is already working! Poor Rei! What was Kenshin thinking of just leaving like that! Baka!' Kaoru teleported to her room.

"um Kaoru.."

"hmm?" she looked over to find that she also brought Mrs. Himura with her.

"ops! Haha! Sorry!"

"haha. It's ok." She then went out of the room.

-the next day-

" So tell me again why you brought her over to our house?" Kenshin said kind of annoyed. Kaoru sighed.

" She wanted to visit you! I mean come on! You two haven't seen each other in a while! Don't you miss her a bit? Geez what kind of guy are you?...maybe that's why the elders sent me to be your guardian…but that's stupid! Just because Himura doesn't know how to get a girlfriend!" Kaoru started to talk to herself. Kenshin closed his eyes in annoyance while a vain popped out.

"Kaoru I'm still here. Talk behind my back when I'm not here!" Kaoru still kept on babbling. Kenshin sighed and left her.

"Ah! Matte!(wait)" Kaoru caught up with Kenshin.

'hmm…this will be a perfect time to ask him about the festival. Then Rei will come and they will be together!' Kaoru was so into her plan she didn't notice Kenshin staring at her. ,

"ha! Sorry. WELL since the festival is coming up you should stop by at my booth! I'm selling oden!" Kaoru said giving him a ticket.

"haha..you know how to cook now?"

"Hey!" Kenshin grinned.

"Last time you tired to cook you burned the food! Haha!"

"as a matter of fact, yes I do know how! I took cooking lessons!" she said hitting him on the head then ran down the hall.

"Hey! Come back here!" Kenshin raced after her while Kaoru started screaming once he was catching up, which made other students look at them. Kenshin caught up with her and wrapped his arms around her from her back.

"ahh!" Kaoru started to giggle.

"I got you now." He said as Kaoru tried to struggle out.

"ah! Gomen! Gomen! I won't do it again!"

"heh! That won't work. You'll just hit me again." He said pulling her closer to him. Kaoru heard some giggling straight ahead and saw two girls looking at them. She looked to her left and saw other students looking at them and whispering. Kaoru blushed.

"Kenshin let go! People are looking!" she said putting both hands on his arms.

"So what? Let them look." he said grinning. Kenshin rested his chin on her shoulder making Kaoru's heart speed up.

'wha-what's going on? Ah! I want to disappear right now! But if I do the students will see!'

"Kaoru…" Kenshin whispered to her ear which made her heart race faster. Just before he could say more Misao came interrupted.

"Hey guys!" both looked up a bit startled.

"What's going on here?" she said grinning at the sight. Kenshin smiled and let go of Kaoru.

"Nothing. Just messing around." Kenshin looked at his watch and then the bell rang.

"Well, I believe that was the bell for lunch! I'm gonna go ahead and line up. Oh and you might wanna get her out of Neverland." Kenshin said pointing at Kaoru who was just standing in shock with her hand on her heart. Kenshin gave a grin and then left. Misao waved a hand in front of Kaoru. Kaoru shook her head and looked at Misao.

"Hey there!" Misao said grinning.

"Eh….i don't want to hear it from you. Let's just go eat lunch."

"Hey Jou-chan! I saw that little incident down at the hall." Sano said sitting down near Keshin. Kaour blushed.

"heh heh..sooo what was that all about?" Kaoru kept quiet.

" Just getting back at her for hitting me on the head." Kehsin said taking a bit out of his sandwich.

"You know Jou-chan people are gonna be talking and not to mention Shinji's gonna find out." Kaoru chocked on her food and started to cough.

"Ahahaha! Sorry didn't mean that." Kaoru looked around to find some people looking at her but looked away once she looked over. Kaoru sighed.

'great…this rumor will be living for ever!'

"ugh…" anger rose and she looked at Kenshin angrily. Kenshin felt a glare and looked up to find Kaoru looking at him in a killing manner.

"Eh…Nani?"

"Kenshin no baka!" Kaoru got up from her table and went after Kenshin who already ran away.

-Kendo class-

"All right class. I want you to do 200 strokes and after that pair up with a partner and practice. If we have time we'll do some matches." Kaoru said. She was wearing a gi that was white on top and blue at the bottom.

"All right! Heh! I'll kick your ass Haku!" one of the students said as others got excited for the match.

"Okay then. Any questions? Good. You may begin." The students began their strokes while a student came up to her, or one of Kaoru's guy friends, Haku.

"Ah. Kaoru-dono. I know this isn't near the subject of Kendo, demo(but)," he started to blush a bit. ", is it true that you and Kenshin are courting?" Kaoru blushed.

"Umm actually no…we're not..so could you please tell everyone that we're not? Cause I don't want any weird rumors." She sweat dropped.

"Hai. Gomen-nasai. I didn't mean to bother you."

"ah…it's okay." Haku bowed and left to do his strokes. Someone then tapped her on the shoulder. Kaoru turned around to find Shinji.

"Hi!"

"Hey." He smiled a bit.

"What are you doing here?"

"Just visiting. The teacher let us out early so I thought I'd just drop by your class. So how is your students doing?"

"They're improving! We're soon gonna have a match."

"Ah. That means that you're gonna face the people who are still standing ne?" he said looking at the students as they practiced.

"Yup. oh! I heard that you were teaching your kid kendo. You should let him come here and practice with the other students. That way he'll be more experienced." (A/N: wen Kaoru said " your kid" I meant the person that Shinji was protecting…he doesn't have a son ; ya..just incase ) " By the way..what's his name? you never told me."

"Yahiko."

"Yahiko?! That little brat?! Why does he need protecting?"

"Who you calling little brat!" Kaoru turned around to find Yahiko walking over to them. Kaoru started laughing hysterically making them think she was crazy.

"Whats so funny?!" Yahiko yelled.

"I knew you were a brat, but I didn't think you were too much to handle that a guardian had to help you out!" Shinji let out a laugh.

"Shut up! The only reason I have a guardian is because my parents had to go out of town for a while! And how do you know about this whole thing about guardians?"

"Because she's a guardian herself." Shinji said.

"What?! Really?! All this time!"

"Shh! Yahiko don't be so loud! It's all ready enough about the rumors of me and Kenshin." She said shaking her head. She forgot that Shinji was with her and looked up but he was already leaving the place.

"Ah..Shinji! Where are you going?"

"Well the bell's about to ring soon. And I need to go to my locker to put my books away. And I think I'll let Yahiko train here. But only when he's ready."

"Ah about the rumors..i hope you don't take them seriously.." Shinji just smiled and then left. Kaoru sighed.

" So I'm taking it that he likes you?"

"Ya…"

"So…you can fly and teleport? And-"

"Yes.. just like Shinji said to you."

"Who's guardian are you?"

"Kenshin."

"Wow! Hahahahahahaha!" Kaoru hit him on the head and he instantly fell to the ground groaning.

"Don't laugh at Kenshin! And you better not tell anyone! I'm clearly sure Shinji told you the rules about guardians." Then the bell rang.

"All right class that was great. Since we could not do the match today we'll do it first thing tomorrow. How does that sound?" the students cheered.

"Okay. You are dismissed." The students bowed to her and she did the same. Then she went to the girl's locker room to change.

-hey guys! Sorry…this chapter was kinda short! And I haven't even posted in a looong time! It's the school's fault! Sorry! I'll try keep on postin! Plz! R&R arigatou!!!!-