Kaoru on Call Chapter
Eleven: Battousai's Remedy
Note- Uh…Heh heh heh…I accidentally put chapter eleven on chapter ten…Gomen! In this chapter, Kenshin is going to be in it while he's Battousai…Just a little warning for the upcoming violent behavior. To my reviewers, thanks bunchies for sticking by while I try to pull these stories together! On with the story!
"No."
Sanosuke looked at Megumi, she looked at Kaoru. Kenshin should have expected her to reply to be just that, but something inside him kept screaming at him to find a way to make her say yes. A voice came into his mind, a dark, menacing voice.
"Make her say yes! Do it!"
It was Battousai, but Kenshin wouldn't allow him to get in this. He couldn't allow him to get involved in this. The inner killer began to put up a resistance to Kenshin's restraint as his voice grew closer still.
"If you won't, rurouni, I will."
Kenshin looked up at Kaoru, and they locked gazes. His eyes flashed amber, her's icy blue. But they returned to their original color in an instant. Battousai had begun to put up quite a struggle, causing his host to pick himself up off the floor and exit the car.
"Kenshin! Where are you going!" Sanosuke jumped up from his seat and started to move towards the red haired man.
"I'll be back later…Sano…" His reply was more of a growl than a reassuring answer.
Kenshin made his way outside of the train, watching as the scenery whipped by him. Battousai came back, and began to push him again.
"Why didn't you let me handle her, rurouni!"
"She doesn't need your interference now, that she doesn't."
"Do you not see it! Can you not sense it! The Battousai blood in her is causing her this pain! If she was being the same Kaoru you know, she would have broken down by now! The blood is causing her to relive her killings over and over again, and it will eventually cause her death if you don't stop it!"
Kenshin stopped for a moment, and remembered when he was still training under Hiko when he had said something that he would never forget.
"If you do not except all of you, you will soon fall victim to yourself."
"Exactly. And there is only one way to get her back to normal…"
"How?"
A chuckle later, and the Battousai gave his response.
"You have to let me free, and she has to let her Battousai self free…And we have to fight it out of her."
Kenshin looked down at his hands gripping the railing so tightly his knuckles were white. He was hesitant about his alter ego's remedy to Kaoru's problem, but if it was the only way…He had no other choice.
"Give me three days. And if I can't help her by then, we can do this your way."
Battousai gave another chuckle and left a final message before going behind the calm rurouni demeanor that had become his prison.
"I'll see you in three days."
Hopefully they wouldn't have to do this. Hopefully Kenshin wouldn't have to fight the woman he loved…Hopefully he could stop hoping and do something about it. He made his way back to the car and found Megumi and Yahiko asleep and Sanosuke getting to that point. He leaned the reverse blade against his shoulder and drifted off into a restless sleep.
Kaoru tried to ignore the menacing voice echoing in her mind, but it wasn't possible. The images of what she had done ran across her mind like wild horses. And the handler of the sword was her Battousai self, with eerie silver eyes and illuminating hair. Kaoru could only see the satisfaction on her face as her blade sliced into the flesh of the men she had destroyed. The silver eyed Kaoru eventually turned towards her, so it seemed., and began to taunt her.
"Remember how good handling your sword felt when it pierced armor and flesh? Muscle and bone? When it cut tendon and ligament? Remember how good it felt, Kaoru! Give into the urge! The urge to see and smell the blood of your victims!"
Kaoru squeezed her eyes shut and grabbed her head.
"Leave me be! I will never kill again!"
But the girl's killer instinct was persistent and kept on chipping away at her.
"Give in…You will not last much longer!"
"NO!" Kaoru screamed, and sent her fist flying through the smoky image, only to have her attempts laughed at by the female killer.
"Sooner or later, Kaoru…You will give in."
Kaoru sunk back into her seat and turned to the window, but quickly looked down at the floor. Because the only thing she could see was the silver eyed killer she was…
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Three days had passed since Kenshin and the others had retrieved Kaoru and Yahiko from Kyoto. Yahiko had managed to get over his wounds, physically and partially mentally. Kaoru had been a different story, however. The girl's mental instability, according to Megumi, had slowed her physical healing down considerably.
Kenshin had learned of these matters, and was waiting for the right moment to let Battousai do his thing. Kaoru had been moving over the dojo at night, burning remnants of her mother's memory at the temple. And tonight, Battousai had decided to give her a surprise at the temple, and get rid of the Battousai in her once and for all.
Dusk had fallen when Megumi and Sanosuke said their goodbyes and Sanosuke took Yahiko home with him. Megumi left more salve and bandages for Kaoru wounds and finally left for the clinic. When they were gone, Battousai came into Kenshin's mind and told him what was going to happen.
"Listen, rurouni. You will go in your room and fake your sleep. But whatever you do, don't fall asleep for real or this whole thing is going to be thrown to the dogs! I have sensed the presence in her growing stronger since we left Kyoto, and it needs to be taken care of tonight!"
"All right. We wait for midnight, then."
Kenshin took the reverse blade into his room, and made sure the shoji screen was left open a little intentionally so Kaoru could see in on him. And certainly enough, around midnight, light footsteps alerted his senses, and the faint smell of lavender reached him. Kaoru was leaving for her final burning ceremony, and the lavender smell was coming from Ukokia's wedding kimono.
He waited until the sounds of the front gate opening and shutting was completed before getting up, and letting the Battousai come out. His eyes went from purple, to deep blue, and finally made their way to Battousai gold.
"Heh, tonight Kaoru, you meet your match." With that, he bounded outside and bolted through the woods to get to the temple before Kaoru did.
Kaoru's silent form made it's way to the beginning of the seemingly endless stone steps that lead up to the temple. She carried her father's katana with her still, it seemed she couldn't let go of it after all. She started climbing the steps, slowly and steadily, when she heard something rustling in the surrounding forest. She stopped abruptly, her ears straining to pin-point the person, or thing, in the woods.
A red and white blur shot from amongst the thick leaves and landed in front of her. When she realized it was Kenshin, every emotion but happiness, love, and expectancy filled her…Pretty much every angered feeling she could feel.
"How dare you follow me here? Battousai?"
Kenshin looked up, his golden eyes piercing the darkness surrounding the two of them. From where he was standing he could see the cruel icy blue eyes of Kaoru's own Battousai.
"I have come to free the girl from your grasp. She has much more to live for than to be classified as a murderess!"
He leapt forward, flipping the reverse blade so quickly that it didn't give the moonbeams time to reflect off of it's polished surface.
Kaoru dodged the blow and pulled her own weapon from it's sheath and lashed out at Kenshin, catching and slicing off one sleeve of his gi.
"You will regret having your blade touch me!"
Kenshin slammed the sakabatou against the ground, hitting Kaoru with the Dou Ryu Sen.. A barrage of rocks and fragments of stone hit the female Battousai, flattening her on her back on the stone staircase.
She blinked several times, and opened them up on the fifth blink to reveal normal, deep blue eyes. Kaoru was back.
"K…Kenshin…"
Kenshin's eyes flew back to purple. He dropped his sword and raced over to Kaoru, taking her shaking form into his arms. He clamped his eyes together, but it didn't stopped the tears from pouring from his eyes.
"It's ok, Kaoru…She won't bother you anymore…I pro-"
"YOU IDIOT!"
Kenshin's eyes snapped open when he heard Battousai's angry voice.
"We have not defeated her! That was only the beginning! Look at her eyes!"
Kaoru began to laugh, her voice began to change.
"He's right, rurouni. Do you honestly think a mere Dou Ryu Sen would finish me!"
Kenshin pushed the laughing girl back and saw what Battousai was talking about. Her eyes were silver, instead of icy blue.
"That is the way a female Battousai's eyes are! That is the silver eyes of the female Battousai in the Nijoymo bloodline!"
Kenshin stood and took his sword in hand, Kaoru picked her's up from the ground beside her.
"Now, Kenshin, what will you do if this happens!"
She looked down, then looked back up with blue, tear filled eyes.
"Kenshin! Help me!"
Kenshin started forward, but Kaoru's eyes flashed silver again and she ran for him.
"You can never beat me, Battousai! Not as long as I have the girl!"
END! Yeeees…Meat locker….Oh, yeah…Sorry for another cliffy! But I hope you guy's enjoyed the chapter, anyways! PLEASE REVIEW!