AC: hey! thanks for the reviews peeps, oh and i changed the genre thing from romance/humor to romance/drama cause theres like barely anything funny well this chapter is intense especally the ending...atleast i think sooo...
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Kenshin eyes...they're amber again, and his voice has changed also, it sounds so...serious Kaoru thought as she looked at Kenshin.
"I'll start, Himura"Shishio said. Kenshin showed no emotion towards Shishio's remark.
Suddenly Shishio dashed lightening speed towards him. Kenshin dodged Shishio's attack and stood behind Shishio. Shishio turned around quickly, but Kenshin jammed his fist into Shishio's jaw.
Shishio landed on the ground, but soon got up and wiped the blood that came trickling from the cornor of his mouth. Kenshin just stood there and watched him get back into position.
Shishio began to run towards Kenshin once again, but suddenly disapeared. Kenshin looked around to see if he was anywhere in sight.
Kenshin then heard a small sound that came above him. He looked up, but didn't see anything.
Without even noticing Shishio all of a sudden punched Kenshin in the stomach. Kenshin nearly coughed up blood, the blow was that bad. Kenshin got to his knees while holding his stomach in pain with one arm.
He slowly got up, but Shishio made him stay down as he kicked Kenshin in the side and made him go tumbling back.
"Kenshin!"Kaoru yelled out, she saw that Kenshin didn't move. Tears started to overflow her eyes,"Kenshin! Get up! You have to!"Kaoru chocked back the tears, but they slowly fell down her cheek.
"Yes Himura, get up, listen to your woman"Shishio said waiting for Kenshin to rise up.
Suddenly Kaoru saw movement in Kenshin's hands. He slowly sat up and got to his feet,"Oh good, now we can fight again"Shishio said. Kenshin didn't listen to Shishio as he got into stance. Shishio read Kenshin's mind and got back into stance as well.
With god like speed Kenshin ran towards Shishio and punched him in the nose with such a powerful blow. Shishio began to fall backwards, but Kenshin continued to punch Shishio in the stomach several times. Finally Kenshin ended it with a powerful kick to Shishio's chest. Shishio was on the ground motionless. It seemed that he was unconscience.
Kenshin ran over to Kaoru and began to untie her.
"I'll get us out of here Kaoru"Kenshin said as he began to untie the cord that bounded her feet together. Suddenly a bullet shot towards Kenshin and skid across his left arm leaving a cut with blood smeared around.
"Kenshin!"Kaoru said as she held on to his other arm trying to see if he was ok.
"Hahaha! Don't think its over yet Himura"Shishio said holding his gun out. Kenshin slowly got up, his hand tightly around his wound trying to stop the bleeding.
Suddenly thunder was heard and instantly rain began to pour down onto the forest. The thunder became more intense and a flash of lightening filled everyone's ears.
"I can barely see anything now that its pouring rain!"Yahiko said as he blocked his eyes from the rain. Sanosuke looked around, but could barely see anything also.
Suddenly the four heard a loud shot.
"What was that?"Misao said looking around. Aoshi followed to where he heard the shot.
"They're close by, they're two miles north of us"Aoshi said sternly. Misao and Sanosuke just looked at him.
"Well lets go then!"Sanosuke said beginning to run again.
"Sanosuke don't! We can't be seperated we have to be together"Aoshi said. Sanosuke didn't say anything except nod his head.
"Alright lets go!"Misao said running in the lead. Yahiko followed behind her as well as Aoshi and Sanosuke.
"You best run Himura or you'll end up with a bullet in your head"Shishio chuckled. Kenshin just stood there. His hair was flat from the droplets of rain that rested onto his red hair. His eyes were still amber though and they were no where near of turning back to lavendar.
Suddenly another lightning had struck in the sky, but this one touched the ground in the forest. They heard an ear cracking sound as two large trees fell onto the muddy ground.
We could get killed...we have to get out of here before any of us gets struck...Kaoru thought. She noticed that her hands were free, but her feet were still tied together. She started to untie the cord not noticing that danger awaited her.
Shishio started to shoot at Kenshin, he dodged the bullets, but barely. Kenshin then decided to try and grab the gun out of Shishio's hands.
Kenshin ran behind some trees where darkness surrounded him to make sure that Shishio couldn't spot him. Shishio began to laugh.
"Ha! Himura's a coward! You can't hide..."he said slyly. Realizing that he was wrong Shishio began to panic a little bit not knowing where Kenshin could be.
Kenshin then ran out from behind the trees and went towards Shishio from the back. Shishio heard running steps from behind him and turned around seeing that Kenshin grabbed the gun out of his hands quickly.
Shishio was a bit surprised. Kenshin stood there holding the gun in his hand. He smirked slightly.
Suddenly another blast of lightening occured and it hit a tree about 10 feet from where Kaoru was. The lightening made Kaoru jump a little bit. She still hadn't freed herself from the cord...it was too tight.
Kaoru looked behind her and noticed that the tree that was hit began to fall towards her. Kaoru sat there frozen in place.
"Kaoru!"Kenshin yelled as he dropped the gun and ran towards Kaoru. Kaoru tried to untie the cord, but it was no use. Kaoru watched as the tree came down, but soon she felt someone's arms wrap around her and pushed her away from the tree.
Kaoru opened her eyes and noticed Kenshin on top of her. His eyes went back to lavendar,"Are you alright Kaoru?"he asked in his sweet tone again. Kaoru hugged Kenshin tightly as tears mixed in with the rain that was pouring down.
"Aww I'm sorry to break your little reunion, but..."Shishio said as he triggered the gun upwards towards the sky.
Kenshin parted his hug from Kaoru and stood up.
"Kenshin!"a voice was heard from behind the trees. Kenshin looked towards where the voice was coming from and could barely make it out who it was, but noticed that it was Misao, Aoshi, Sanosuke, and Yahiko.
"Sano! Take care of Kaoru!"Kenshin yelled out.
"What? Kenshin what are you talking about?"Sanosuke yelled back, but Kenshin didn't reply back as he ran into the dark part of the forest. Shishio smirked slightly.
"Hm..this should be interesting"Shishio said running after Kenshin.
"Oh no you don't you-"Sanosuke said running after Shishio.
"Sanosuke, this is Himura's fight! Leave him be! We have to think of the Kamiya girl"Aoshi said aloud to Sanosuke. Sanosuke nodded his head and the four ran over to Kaoru.
"Kaoru-san are you ok?"Misao asked as she kneeled next to her friend.
"I'm fine...We have to find Kenshin before he gets hurt"Kaoru said trying to untie herself.
"Here let me do it"Misao said as she untied the cord. Kaoru rolled her ankles around to give them a little stretch and stood up.
"Alright lets go"Kaoru said who began to run through the woods.
"Hold it Jou-chan!"Sanosuke said grabbing the hood of her jacket,"You could get lost in there or worse..get hurt!" Kaoru became angry just then.
"You don't tell me what to do!"she yelled kicking him in the shin. Sanosuke let go of Kaoru and grabbed on to his leg.
"Ah! Kami! That hurt!"he said in pain. Kaoru ignored his remark and ran off into the woods to find Kenshin.
-Kamigod
Misao, Aoshi, Yahiko and Sanosuke ran after her.
"Where'd she go?"Yahiko said loudly over the rain. Suddenly lightening struck and they heard a scream close by them.
"Thats Kaoru-san!"Misao said heading towards where the scream had come from. Misao ran for a few seconds until she found Kaoru on her knees.
Misao looked at her direction and found a man lying on the ground dead. Misao couldn't make it out of who it was.
Sanosuke went over to the body and saw that it wasn't Kenshin.
"Hey guys...its that Shishio dude"Sanosuke said. He checked Shishio's pulse on his neck and felt no pulse. Shishio was dead,"He must of gotten struck by lightening"Sanosuke said.
"Where's Himura then?"Misao asked Sanosuke. Sanosuke stood up and put his hands in his pants pocket.
"I don't know..."he said softly. Kaoru stood up and walked towards Shishio's body. She looked at him and saw that he was slightly burnt from the strike. Kaoru walked passed the body and saw something on the ground, but could barely make it out.
She went to her knees, and picked up a tear of a shirt. It was light blue just like what Kenshin was wearing and there was a big red spot stained on the shirt. Blood.
"Ken-shin...you can't be..."Kaoru couldn't finish her sentence as she began to cry histerically into the bloody stained tear of Kenshin's shirt in the pouring rain.
AC: i finnnnished! well i bet you were surprised at the end don't worry its not the end yet! theres no way i'm ending it like this...or my reviews will be filled with flames hides in cornor well this was sort of a cliffhanger not really... - well thaaaaank you for alllll of the reviews i've recieved yay! happy dance...until trips and falls i really didn't know that my story would be this good to all of you...well on with the 23rd chapter!
