Kaoru walked along the path to the cottage. Her mind was thinking about a particular name, Kenshin. Just as she pushed open the door, she saw Battousai standing in the middle.

"How do you know this place? Do you live here?" Kaoru asked curiously.

"No." Battousai answered. He was shocked when he turned around to the opening of the door and saw Kaoru. What shocked more were Kaoru's dull eyes.

"Then why are you here?" Kaoru asked again.

"Looking around. What happened to you?" Battousai asked with concern.

"Stop lying! Why are all of you hiding secrets from me?!" Kaoru broke down.

"Kaoru! Hold yourself! Where had the strong woman gone to?" Battousai said as he held Kaoru's shoulders.

"I'm not strong... not at all..." Kaoru continued.

"You'll be soon... I'll explain everything from the top once you see these tapes." Battousai said as he took out a rusted key from his pocket and opened the television table drawer.

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Amakusa had been on a bad mood. No one dared to look at him or even speak a word to him. He had said his first command the moment he stepped into his company. No matter how important they were, all his meetings were cancelled and phone calls rejected. He simply needed a place of peace.

He had a bad feeling towards Kaoru reactions to him. He regretted taking her forcefully but he was just too mad to even think of that. All he wanted was Kaoru to be only his again even if she did sleep with her dead boy friend's brother.

Everyone knew that their boss was having a major mood disruption and the main cause of it was always about his wife, Kaoru. As an unmarried man, their boss had never cancelled any meeting or rejected any calls that concerned the company but ever since he was married, everything changed. They knew Kaoru and liked her. She does not put up a snobby air around her. Her smiles, almost her everything was sincere. She was the first woman who got an approved from them. In the past, those women who their boss was with were all arrogant and had the likes to command them.

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"You got to calm down, Kaoru. Watch these tapes and you'll understand." Battousai said as he took put the first tape and played it.

Kaoru had been shivering in her seat on the sofa as numbers of tapes played over with tears welled up in her eyes. The scenes were replaying in her mind but she still could not figure out the feelings they had during the times of being together. Her tears rolled down. The connection touched her. Their every word hurt her heat badly. Unable to continue watching, she stop asked Battousai to stop the playing.

"I can't... there is nothing I can remember. I can't... I can't... Kenshin... I'm so sorry..." Kaoru sobbed.

"You will remember and I'll be here for you. There is nothing that a woman like you can't do. Don't forget that I knew you long before." Battousai said as he smooth her back.

"There should be frames hanging on the walls and all around but they were all gone. Sano and the rest should have come after the incident to clear up everything." Battousai explained.

"Why? Why must they keep him away from me? Why...?" Kaoru said when she heard him.

"That's because... you'll never be the same again if you knew what had happen. I would have done the same." Battousai replied.

Kaoru understood. She knew that everyone was always on the look out for her. She loved them deeply and treated them like her family. They were always there for her and would support her every decisions. It was then that she thought of Amakusa dying.

'No! He will not. I can't. He's strong and... and... I love him too much' Kaoru thought.

"You'll help me get my memories back? I'll ask no help form the guys. They had suffered enough for me. I want to know everything." Kaoru asked as she looked into Battousai's eyes.

"You can count on that. Now, wash that face of yours. It's gross and you make me think of a raccoon crying." Battousai teased.

"Hey! I'm not a raccoon! Fine!" Kaoru said as she left for the bathroom.

They talked and laughed. Kaoru had felt better. Battousai always had the thing on him that made her comfortable.

"You food is un-digestible, you know that? Are you trying to kill me?" Battousai said with a face when Kaoru had made lunch.

"Well at least I can cook! Can you? Stop fussing like a woman when you already look like one!" Kaoru counted back.

"Oh ya? Me, a woman? Care to find that out in a match?" He asked with challenge.

"Why not?! Better be afraid because I'm not going to bet soft." She replied and finished her food.

Although they were not in the appropriate attire, they cared nothing. Kaoru almost had went back into depression again when she saw the boken with her name on it and Kenshin's name on the other which Battousai was holding onto.

Noticing her change, Battousai said, "Now, who is the timid one? Well, we can match another day when you have practiced enough."

Knocking her out of her thought, Kaoru looked at him with a fiery aura and the match begins. No matter how many times they matched, Kaoru was always the one who was defeated.

"Last match, Kaoru." Battousai teased when he noticed the darkening of the sky.

Without replying, Kaoru charged at him. She had intended to give one last try without giving up. Battousai was amazed. 'Still the same old Kaoru; the woman who interest me with her strong determination and confident' He thought as they sparred.

Just as Kaoru noticed his distracted form, she lunged towards him. When Battousai saw that, he let off his boken and uses his hand to bring Kaoru down to the floor gently with his hands holding her neck. A flash passed through Kaoru mind. Although it was blurring, Kaoru remembered a couple falling like what she and Battousai did. They were wearing their training clothes. The man had fiery red hair and the woman with raven.

Just as the flash became clearer, Battousai shook her and both looked into each other's eyes when they were way too close. Both blushed and turned away. The match ended. Kaoru was pouting in the car when Battousai said to sent her home. She was figuring out why she didn't even win once.

Looking at her pouting face, Battousai let out a unnoticed small smile and turned on the disc-player. It was a sentimental song. He falls for the song when he heard Kenshin singing in his room when he walked pass his slightly-opened door.

Kaoru's pout disappeared when she heard the song. There was a triggered in her head and heart. Then, everything was cleared to her in an instant.

"Do you have any of Kenshin's photo albums? Can I have a look at them now? Please?" Kaoru said out suddenly.

Feeling something was wrong, he agreed and replied, "Yes, we still keep them but it's late. I'll bring them to you another day. You have been tired after all those matches."

"No... I'm not tired. Please....?" Kaoru pleaded with tears on the verge of her eyes.

The ride to the Himura mansion was deadly silent except for the music playing. Kaoru had kept her head facing out of the window. When they reached, Kaoru look all over the place especially the garden area.

Everywhere in the mansion brought back memories to her, memories of her and Kenshin's cuddling. She wiped off her tears when Battousai came down from the stairs with a thick book of album. She flipped them, looking at all the photos taken. The first few flips had been his younger times photos but the rest were filled with him and her.

Kaoru broke down. She cried. Unable to see her in that state, Battousai wrapped his arms around her. Needed a shoulder, Kaoru cried on him for hours until she fell asleep. Battousai then carried her onto the sofa, unnoticed that her eyes were open.

"Sorry, did I wake you up? You seem uncomfortable on my shoulder." Battousai said when he noticed her staring.

"I'm sorry. The scar is still here after all these years." Kaoru said as she placed her hands onto his scared cheek, shocking Battousai.

"Don't be. It's not you fault. So, I assume that you memory is back?" Battousai asked as he enjoyed the feeling of her warm hands on him.

"Yes but not all. Thanks to the song you played earlier in your car. That was the song that he sang to me when my father died. He used that to help me overcome the grieve I had and sang it whenever I'm feeling down. That was when I started noticing him." Kaoru explained.

Kaoru had remembered the times with Kenshin and the rest but the only thing she could not get through her mind was battousai. All she recalled was the scar that was caused by her.

"Don't be the person everyone was afraid that you'll become. Accept the fact. Don't deny. Face it like you used to in the past when you had encountered set backs. It's late, I'll send you home." Battousai said.

"I'll try. Thank you." Kaoru replied and followed him to his car.

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Amakusa was sitting in the hall. He was waiting for Kaoru. It was already pass dinner time and she was not back yet. He was worried when Misao called asking where Kaoru was. He was more angered when he heard the braking sound of a car and saw a maid walking towards him.

'Kaoru is not alone. She has no car. Who is she with all day?' He thought.

"Madam is back Sir." A maid reported.

"Alone? Who sent her?" Amakusa asked.

"No. It was a man with red hair but he drove off once Madam is off the car." The maid replied.

Not greeting Amakusa, Kaoru walked straight to the stairs but was stopped when she heard Amakusa's voice.

"Where do you think you are going? Where have you been all day? I'm being informed that you did not show up in any classes in school. Explanations?" Amakusa asked as he stood up and looked at Kaoru's back.

"Can't you see? It's the way to the room. It's not your business anyway whether I attend my classes. I paid my own fees. Where I am is also not your concern. It's for my legs to decide. Anything else? If not, I'm tired." Kaoru said coldly and started walking up the stairs.

She just got back her memories with Kenshin. She was married to Amakusa. She felt confused. Kenshin brought her many beautiful times as like Amakusa did too. She wasn't comparing. In her heart, she knew that she loved both man equally. Yet she couldn't face Amakusa due to the recent events that had happened. All she felt was tiredness.

Amakusa saw her restless form. He knew that he was wrong for whatever he had done but he will not take it when Kaoru treated him like a no body.

"You stop right there. Tired? What did that man of yours did to you? Fucking the whole day? Is that it?! Answer me!" He shouted.

"So what if we did?! Did that concern anything to you?! You don't have the right to ask me anything when you did the same thing! Go to your woman and see if I care! I will not!" Kaoru turned and looked at him for the first time.

"You are my wife in the eyes if law. What I can do is not approved on you. You are not supposed to step out of this door from this moment. You do not need to remind me of my women. I'm going to them every night and I'm going now." Amakusa said with a deadly tone.

"He is so much better than you. He trusted me. He treated me like a princess. You did nothing... nothing... nothing at all but only break me... break my heart..." She continued saying with a very soft tone that can hardly be heard when Amakusa walked out of the main door.

Thinking that she was saying about Battousai, he bit his teeth tightly. His anger and jealously was taking up his head. Since Kaoru had said that, he'll do what she wanted.

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"Megumi... what is happening? Something is wrong... Kaoru had not been attending her lessons in school. The principal told me that she is stopping for a semester." Misao said as she held a magazine in her hands with a worried look.

"I'm not sure too. Kaoru had not been switching on her phone." She replied.

"And she is not attending work too. She had asked for a break." Sano continued.

They had called up for a meet up to discuss about Kaoru. There had been no news from her. They had called Amakusa but he rejected all their calls. It had been weeks and they were getting worried.

"Look at this." Misao said as she handled the magazine she had been holding onto to Megumi and Sano.

"WHAT!" Sano exclaimed when he saw what was in the magazine when Megumi flipped the pages.

"I'm equally shocked too. It's all written in the magazine. Amakusa had been with different woman each night. He is worse than before." Misao said.

E-news magazines:

Whao! Look like the prince of the night is coming back to actions. Ever since the moment of his wife, Shougo Kaoru had modeled with a red-haired man, Shougo Amakusa had been seen with different woman each night.

According to a source, the red-haired man is known to be Himura Battousai, a lecturer in Tokyo University. Equally rich and have the looks that charms women. His golden eyes shone with death when stopped by paparazzi.

Tracking on Shougo Amakusa, he had been visiting hotels with those women during the pass weeks. The astonished thing was where was his wife over the weeks? It was said that she had not been to school and her work place. No one had seen her at all.

Not one woman accepted our interview like before. What had happened?

So, where is she? What had happen to the once loving-image couple? Is that the end of the marriage? Are they actually divorced and she had left for another country? Stay with us for the latest news again.