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"You cheated." Kaoru stated flatly.
"I don't cheat!" Misao said, offended. "Look, this is the fifth time you've lost in a row, just
give it up."
"One more round!"
"No!"
"You're just afraid I'll beat you." Kaoru challenged.
"One more game, and that's it. If I win, we order take out for dinner. There is no way I'm
eating your cooking again!" Misao grimaced, and clutched at her poor abused stomach.
"You're on!" Kaoru said, determined to win the game. She shuffled the cards, and delt out
half to her and half to Misao. Kaoru quickly arranged her cards into five neat piles.
"One, Two, Three..." The two girls eyed each other "SPIT!"
Before Kaoru could comprehend what was happening Misao was placing her cards down with
swift hands.
"YOU'RE CHEATING AGAIN!" Kaoru cried, trying to place her cards, but being un able to do so because Misao was playing too fast.
"I'm not cheating. You're just slow." Misao smiled briefly before looking back down at the
game. Misao had one card in her hand, and Kaoru had no clue what it was. Kaoru knew that
the pressure was on. She had to slap the smaller pile before Misao did in order to win.
The question was: How was she supposed to slap the pile when she didn't know what Misao's
last card was? Plus, she was no where near as fast as her young friend. Kaoru frowned down
at the card game, and cautiously hoovered her hand above the smaller pile.
"You can't have your hand so close to the pile! THAT is cheating." Misao pouted.
"Can't you just let me win?!?!"
"Hell no!"
Both girls stared at each other, their eyes locked into a staring contest, their hands
ready at any moment to reach for the smallest pile.
Misao grinned widely and threw her remaining card down. As she stretched for the smaller pile a crash sounded outside, and her attention was diverted. Kaoru stuck her hand under Misao's
just as Misao hesitated.
"I WON!!! I WON!!! OH YEAH!!!" Kaoru jumped up and down in happiness, and began dancing in circles.
"THAT'S NOT FAIR! THERE WAS A NOISE OUTSIDE!"
"Life's not fair Misao." Kaoru said smugly.
Misao was about to retort when Sano ambled into the room, scratching the back of his head
nervously, "Um, Jou-chan, I think I may have broken one of your clay pots."
"You THINK you may have broken one of my clay pots?" Kaoru's eye twitched.
"Who the hell are you?" Misao asked, a kunai balanced in her hand.
"Hey there Weasel, maybe you should put the knife down." Sano said, holding his arms up
showing that he was unarmed.
"Did you just call me a weasel?" Misao's voice lowered in anger.
"Misao, I won't forgive you if u kill him and get blood on my carpet." Kaoru stated, as she
pushed Sano out of her living room, through the front door, and out into the courtyard, "Now you can kill him."
"Cool." Misao took aim.
"Miss Kaoru, may I ask why you're trying to kill Sano?" Kenshin asked from where he sat on the porch. Kaoru's head swiveled to where he sat. She hadn't noticed him when she had pushed Sano outside. She could feel her cheeks heat as she stared at the smiling red haired man. Kaoru forced back her blush, and explained that Sano was being punished for killing one of her many clay pots.
"Can someone PLEASE tell me what's goin' on? Kaoru, do you know these people?" Misao asked irritatedly. Her kunai was no longer in her hands. Instead her hands were planted firmly on her hips, and her mouth was set into a scowl.
"Sorry Misao, I guess I should have introduced you guys. Misao, this is Kenshin and Sano."
Kaoru pointed to each of them to distinguish who was who. "Kenshin, Sano, this is my
bestfriend, Misao."
"It's nice to meet you Miss Misao." Kenshin smiled politely.
"What's with the 'Miss' thing?" Misao whispered to Kaoru.
"He just says it, I dunno." Kaoru whispered back.
"Oro?" Kenshin said in confusion. Watching the two girls whispering made him uneasy.
"I like you." Misao happily declared to Kenshin. She turned to look at Sano, and cocked her head to the side, "You, I'm not so sure about..."
"Hey, I don't like you either! You were gonna throw a knife at me!" Sano accused.
"It was self defense."
"It was scary as hell! It's not everyday a guy walks into a room just to be threatened by
a weasel with knives!"
"If you call me a weasel one more time..." Misao was holding her kunai again, and was ready
to throw at any moment.
"So how exactly did you kill my pot?" Kaoru interrupted the arguement.
"I'm afraid it was my fault, Miss Kaoru. Sano offered to drive, and I let him. I should have known better then to put him behind the wheel." Kenshin said.
"What the hell is wrong with me being 'behind the wheel'?" Sano asked angrily.
"What's wrong with it?!?! You're a menace to society, broom head." Misao smiled at her new
nickname for the idiot.
"What did you call me, Weasel?"
"Want me to say it slower for you?" Misao's eyes gleamed with menace.
"Anyway, what are you guys doing here, besides running over my clay pots?" Kaoru asked stepping inbetween Misao and Sano before a fight broke out. Kaoru didn't know how well Sano could fight, but she knew Misao, and Misao fought with every dirty trick in the book. Even though Sano was a boxer, Kaoru would still bet her money on Misao any day.
"You said we should come by the dojo to train, so I looked you up in the yellow pages, and we
came." Kenshin stood up from his place on the porch, and went to stand in front of Kaoru. "I also brought this for you." Kenshin held up a brown paper bag.
"What is it?" Kaoru blushed at the thought of Kenshin bringing her a gift.
"Yeah, what is it?" Misao grabbed the bag out of Kenshin's hands, while ignoring Kaoru's
protests. Misao stuck her hand in the bag and felt around. She pulled out a small box of
"Pudding?"
"Chocolate pudding." Kenshin corrected, his eyes locked with Kaoru's.
"I don't get it." Misao looked confused, and began looking in the bag for something else, but all
that was in the bag was two more boxes of chocolate pudding.
"That's MY pudding!" Sano exclaimed.
"You don't need it. You're training remember." Kenshin said without breaking his eye contact
with Kaoru.
"I'm with Misao, I don't get it." Kaoru stared blankly at the box of pudding in her hand.
"The other day at the Supermarket, after we were done talking, you forgot your cart in the isle
with the puddings. I thought that since you didn't get the pudding I could always bring you
some." Kenshin smiled a bit, and watched Kaoru's face redden.
She looks so beautiful when she blushs, Kenshin decided.
"You forgot your cart at the supermarket?" Misao looked like she wanted to burst with laughter.
Sano face mirrored Misao's, red and puffed with the effort it took to not laugh. Kaoru broke eyecontact with Kenshin in order to glare at Misao and Sano.
"I had a lot on my mind, ok?" Kaoru growled.
"I bet you did." Misao smiled slyly.
"Anyway, I was hoping we could train in your dojo for a few hours, if that's alright with you
Miss Kaoru." Kenshin said, changing the subject quickly, seeing that Kaoru was extremely
embarassed.
"Of course it's fine. The dojo is right through there." Kaoru pointed at the dojo doors.
As she watched Kenshin and Sano walk away she thought to herself, this is going to be a loooong day.
oooOooo
"Love is in the air!!!! Everywhere you look around!!!" Misao sang as she entered the dojo with
Kaoru beside her. Kaoru shoved her elbow into Misao's side.
"You are so violent, you know that?" Misao glared, rubbing her side.
"You're just lucky I don't have my bokken." Kaoru muttered.
"Oro?" Kenshin asked. Kaoru immediately blushed.
"Jeez you blush so much that it must be some sort of world record by now." Misao whispered to
Kaoru. Kaoru answered with another sharp elbow to Misao's midsection.
"You two are so odd." Sano said. He was shirtless, sweating heavily, and his hair was
unbelievably MORE messy then it normaly was.
"I'm odd? Have you seen a mirror lately?" Misao settled her hands on her hips.
"Do you want to take this outside?" Sano was tired, sweaty, and hungry. He was in no mood to
argue with the weasel.
"Oh anytime!" Misao flashed her kunai in a flurish, and smiled.
"Let's go." Sano cracked his knuckles.
"Sano, we have to train. Also it is not right to hit a female, that it is not." Kenshin shook his
head.
"So what if I'm female?" Misao defended.
"Yeah, so what if she's female?" Sano was glaring intently at Misao.
"What's wrong with fighting a female? We can defend ourselves you know!" Kaoru's eye twitched in irritation.
"I was just... uh... Miss Kaoru, they cannot fight." Kenshin was cornered and was desperately
trying to get support.
"You're right. I agree. They can't fight. I don't want Sano getting hurt." Kaoru watched as
Sano's jaw dropped, and Kenshin began to sputter. Misao grinned widely. "Now, I have a class this morning, so if you boys want to you can train in the courtyard while I have my class in here."
Kaoru smiled and walked off with Misao in tow.
oooOooo
"Megumi! I'm so glad I found you!" A nurse named Mindy said. She was out of breath, and clutching at her round stomach. Megumi had been enjoying a magazine and some coffee in the doctors lounge when Mindy had shown up, and from the way Mindy looked Megumi could tell that she had been running. Megumi nearly groaned at the thought of having to give up her break. She hadn't had a break for the past 2 weeks because for some reason everytime something went wrong the staff went to her.
'I'm not even the head of the ER! So, why do they come to me?' Megumi thought bitterly.
"What's wrong?" Megumi asked as she sipped her coffee, praying that she wasn't needed.
"A badly wounded patient came in, and we need you right now!"
"No one else is available? I mean, I'm on a much needed break." Megumi had been stressed all day, and she badly needed this break. She was on the verge of screaming if she didn't get some time to think! Plus she was sure she had seen numerous doctors walk past doing absolutely nothing.
"I'm sorry, but all the other doctors are busy with other patients! Takani Megumi you cannot let some poor man suffer because you're on your break!" Mindy frowned at Megumi and gave her a look that said 'I expected better from you.' She treated Megumi like a daughter, and she would never let her daughter slack off on her work, even if it was her break.
"Lead the way." Megumi said with a sigh. She must have been stupid to think that she could
actually put herself before everyone else for once.
oooOooo
"Why don't you just take a picture?" Misao asked as she wiped herself down with a towel. She was tired and sweaty from working with the students. She'd gone a little over board with the students. She claimed that if they couldn't keep up with her then they should just leave. About 5 people had left. Misao smiled proudly at the few that had been able to withstand the class, and watched as they gathered their belongings getting ready to leave.
"Excuse me?" Kaoru said irritatedly. Misao had been saying stuff like that all day, and it had
been getting on Kaoru's last nerve. It didn't help that the girls of the class had egged Misao
on, and all the boys scowled at the man who had caught Kaoru's interest.
"You keep starin at Kenshin! He's nothing that great. Red hair, and a cute butt, you need more
then that in a man."
"Oh, so an extremely tall ice cube is better I suppose."
"You're mean."
"You're annoying."
"You have bad taste."
"YOU have bad taste."
"You can't cook!"
"Misao, what does that have to do with anything?"
"Nothing, I just wanted to put that out there."
"You need a keeper."
"As long as it's Aoshi, I have no complaints."
The two girls laughed. Kaoru decided that it felt good to laugh, and that she should do it more
often. Ever since her break up a while ago she hadn't laughed much. He used to be the one to make her laugh, and it had hurt when he left. For a while it had felt like she would never be able to laugh again. She never wanted to feel like that again. Kaoru wished that she could be with
Kenshin as more then just friends, but she doubted that she would be able to bare it if Kenshin
rejected her like her fiance had.
oooOooo
"Hey Kenshin, why don't you just take a piture?" Sano said as he wiped himself down with a towel. Now that the match was getting closer and closer he was trying to step up on his training, but it was hard to get into more intense training when your coach was constantly staring off at a girl.
"What did you say?" Kenshin's eyes narrowed in annoyance.
"All I'm sayin is that you keep starin at Jou-chan instead of training me, your loyal boxer.
She's nothing that great either. Blue eyes, and cute face. You need more then that in a woman."
"I suppose that a crazy fox is better."
"You're an idiot."
"You're irritating.
"You have bad taste."
"YOU have bad taste."
"You're short!"
"Sano, what does that have to do with anything?"
"Just thought you'd like to know."
"You need medical help."
"Just as long as the doctor is Fox, then I have no complaints."
The two guys chuckled, and glanced at the girls. Kenshin noticed Kaoru laughing with Misao and breifly thought how he'd love to be the one to make her laugh. He shook his head at the thought and went back to training Sano.
oooOooo
Megumi told everyone that she was feeling sick, and left the hospital early. As she sped to the
dojo she made a quick stop at the supermarket for a large tub of Triple Caramel Chunk ice cream.
oooOooo
"Hi sensei!" Lily chirped as she came to a halt infront of Misao and Kaoru.
"You seem extremely happy." Kaoru smiled down at her student.
"It's all thanks to you! I know I asked you to be less pretty, but this works too! Now that
you're interested in that red haired guy none of the boys in class are drooling over you! Now
they're jealous! And the guy I like is coming and talking to me about it. Talking to ME!!!" She
exclaimed excitedly.
"But he's talking to you about another woman, doesn't that bother you?" Misao asked,
sweatdropping.
"Not at all! After he spends enough quality time with me he'll forget all about sensei, and fall in
love with me!" Lily flashed a smile.
"Well, for the record I'm not interested in Kenshin." Kaoru said.
"Sure sensei." Lily gave Kaoru a wink that said that she didn't believe her, and jogged off to
the other students who were clearing out of the dojo.
"I can't believe she winked at me. I'm in no way interested in Himura Kenshin."
"Keep tellin yourself that." Misao muttered.
SMACK
"OWWWWW!!!" Misao cried.
"You deserved it." Kaoru smiled, and put away her bokken.
Next chapter- Why is Megumi's last name Takani and not Kamiya? Also, why is Megumi so pissed, and what in the world is Kenshin doing?
Happiness:
Sano ambled into the room, scratching the back of his head nervously, "Um Jou-chan I think I may have killed your pot."
"You THINK you may have killed my stash?!?!" Kaoru's eye twitched.
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