Kaoru and Misao were now busy chatting in the halls on the way to their dorm.
"I can't believe you actually said that to Himura!" said Misao as she and Kaoru proceeded into their room.
The walls were painted a misty blue with various pictures hung up on the wall. The living room had a relatively plain area rug covering the hardwood floors with a small couch and chair and a good quality t.v. To the right would lead you to their shared bedroom and washroom and the left would be the kitchen space.
Kaoru closed the door behind them and started shedding her kendo clothes on the floor as she walked to the washroom. Misao also took off her clothes and gathered up Kaoru's from the floor and threw them into their bedroom hamper.
"Well, I can't believe the way you totally flirted with that Shinomori guy," replied Kaoru as she stepped into her shower.
Misao took a seat on the couch, only in her plain white bra and underwear, and flipped on the t.v. "I did not flirt Kaoru!"
Kaoru took on a mocking parental tone, "Now Misao, there's no need to be afraid of your emotions. You should just go tell this Shinomori character how you feel."
Misao sighed annoyed, "I did not flirt." She started to trail off, "I merely was…"
With only a towel on, Kaoru walked passed Misao in the living room and into their bedroom looking for something to wear. "Attracted to his appealing physique and handsome features," she finished.
Misao growled but couldn't help but be amused at Kaoru's truthful statement, "So?"
Kaoru reappeared beside Misao; her hair tied up in messy ponytail wearing a pair of gray shorts and a big t-shirt to match. Her typical I-don't-care-because-its-the-weekend clothes.
"Look just try not to get too lovesick for him, after all he is part of the boy's team. And go have a shower now, I don't think your prince charming would appreciate if you smelt like sweat."
Misao stood up and playfully threw the couch pillow at Kaoru and headed for the washroom.
Kenshin was busy sitting at his small square kitchen table with Aoshi while Soujiro was rummaging through his fridge.
"So are you going to talk to her?" asked Aoshi, rocking on his wooden chair.
Kenshin had his arms folding staring at a crumb on the table. "I don't know," he said sternly.
"Well if we don't get around to talking you could always send in Aoshi to go charm what's her name, Misao," chimed in Soujiro as he topped open a Coke from the fridge.
"Or we could get Sagara to go get you drunk and send you into the girl's change room," offered Aoshi.
Soujiro glared at Aoshi as he took a seat.
"The way I see it," said Kenshin finally looking up from his crumb. "Approaching the girls like we did today won't give us any results."
Soujiro burped. "So what are we supposed to do? Their tryouts are tomorrow."
Suddenly a light bulb went off in Kenshin's head, "That's it! Tomorrow we'll show up at the tryouts and have some friendly competition. We'll act like we really support this team and offer lots of help and hopefully Kamiya Kaoru will get so annoyed with our 'help' that she'll give up."
Aoshi smirked and Soujiro nodded his head in approval. Kenshin sat back in his chair quite pleased with himself, "Good. So get your kendo equipment ready guys, tomorrow's going to be a busy day."
Unexpectedly the door was flung open and in walked Sanosuke, in all of his drunken glory. "Hey guys!" He nearly tripped over himself and landed smack on the floor if Kenshin didn't grab his roommate and push him onto the Lazy-Boy. The others looked on with mild interest; this was Sano's usual Saturday tradition.
Kenshin watched shaking his head, as Sano roll his head back and close his eyes as he dozed off. "Damn Sano. Its not even five."
The next day Kaoru was awoken by the unwelcome sound of her alarm clock that was standing on the nightstand in between her and Misao's beds. She first yawned and stretched lazily before silencing the accursed thing. She sat up, her eyes still drowsy and looked to the Misao sleeping in the small bed next to hers with a pillow over her head.
Almost mechanically Kaoru moved above Misao and ripped the pillow from her grip and gave Misao a few good whacks over the head.
"Alright! Alright! I'm up!" cried Misao.
Kaoru yawned again and dropped the pillow on the floor and practically sleepwalked to the washroom. "Hurry up Misao…today's tryouts."
Back on the other side of the university Kenshin was already up and dressing in his kendo attire while buttering toast for himself and Sano, who was still snoring where he dropped.
After Kenshin finished his slice of toast and drank down his cup of orange juice, he walked over to the living room and smacked Sano upside the head and grabbed his cell and dialed Aoshi's.
"Ugh…Kenshin?" mumbled Sano as he started to wake. "What's going on?"
Kenshin ignored him for a moment when Aoshi finally picked up, "Aoshi?"
"Yeah Kenshin. Me and the squirt are ready to go," said Aoshi.
Kenshin heard Soujiro in the background, "Hey! What did I say about calling me squirt!"
"Okay, meet me at my room in a few minutes. I need to take care of Sano," said Kenshin eyeing Sano as he stumbled over to the kitchen in search of food.
Aoshi groaned, "Can't you call Megumi? After all she is his girlfriend."
"See you guys soon," and with that Kenshin ended the call.
He walked over to Sano, "Sano?"
Sano looked up with a piece of toast hanging out of his mouth, "Hmm?"
"I have to go out for a while and I'll call Megumi to come by and take care of you."
Kenshin looked through his cell's phone book until he saw Megumi and dialed her.
"Hello?" said a smooth voice.
"Hey Megumi? It's Kenshin."
"Oh hey Kenshin. What's up?"
"Well look I have some stuff to take care of and you know yesterday was Saturday…"
Megumi sighed, "Ugh, I've been telling him to stop drinking like that on the weekend. Okay Kenshin, I'll be right over. Just leave the door unlocked."
"Right. Thanks Megumi. Bye."
"Bye."
Kenshin turned his cell phone off and set it on the coffee table. "Alright, see you later Sano. And try not to give Megumi a hard time."
Sano simply waved while gulping down his glass of juice. Kenshin opened the door and found Aoshi and Soujiro walking towards him from down the hall. He made sure the door was left unlocked when he shut it.
"Ready to go?" asked Soujiro.
"Yeah. Come on, we better hurry," said Kenshin as he led the way to the kendo room.
Though it was only 8:00am the kendo room was starting to get a fair amount of girls coming in.
"Hi…Hello…Thanks for coming." Kaoru greeted everyone who came in. The tryouts were going to start in a few minutes and she was eager to get going.
Misao directed the girls to line up against the wall as she set out a few mats for safety. Kaoru took a glance at the clock on the wall, 8:05. She let in the last small group of girls in the room and was about to close the doors when she saw three familiar faces nearing.
Her eyes narrowed and she pursed her lips together. She met eyes with Kenshin. Damn you Himura, what he hell could you want now?
They stopped in front of Kaoru who was blocking their entrance.
"Good morning Miss Kaoru," greeted Kenshin politely.
"Morning," replied Kaoru with a deadly look in her eyes.
Aoshi, being as tall as he was, managed to glance in the room over Kaoru. He surveyed the varied collection of girls, some of which he was already acquainted with. Misao noticed Kaoru was occupied with someone at the doors and was curious to see who it was. The corner of Aoshi's mouth lifted a little to form something barely noticeable as a smile as his eyes settle on Misao. Misao gave a little gasp and her cheeks turned red. She nervously raised her hand in a wave and gave a quick smile before walking out of his sight.
"What are you doing here Himura?" questioned Kaoru.
Kenshin was amused by her threatening tone, "Well Miss Kaoru, I thought you'd like some assistance with today's tryouts."
Kaoru raised her eyebrow suspiciously.
"I was thinking about what you said yesterday, about you and your team not going anywhere so I thought that I might as well embrace this then try to fight it in vain."
Kaoru took a moment to think about what he said. "I don't believe you. But if you really want to assist with this tryout, I suppose you and your friends can help Misao and me." She stepped aside to let them enter.
Kenshin smiled, "Thank you very much Miss Kaoru."
Kaoru closed the doors and followed behind Kenshin, Aoshi and Soujiro. So he thinks he can mess up my tryouts? Well we'll just see about that…
A/N: So you guys like it? I'm quite pleased with it. Okay so I guess there is going to be a little SanoxMegumi in this too, but just a little. Oh and Sano's not on the kendo team. And I got a question about their ages, well I guess around the same as they are in the anime. Sorry but I'm not going to list them. So I guess their old enough to be in university so...yeah. Well the next chapter will be out tomorrow. So review and thanks everyone! Toodles!