Hello my lovely fanfic reviewers! I have came out with the next chapter which is long! - yes everyone love me! Soooo once again I am asking you to REVIEW as soon as you finish! Its helps me so much! I hope you are enjoying the story so far and if I have made any mistakes please tell me! Thanks,

DarklilWanderer

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"Lanna" Kikari held back her tears and turned her sadness into fury. She could destroy her childhood, her friends, her whole entire relationships, but she would REFUSE to cry in front of a bastard of the female race. "Lanna…" Kikari's voice trembled she was so full of rage in her, she forgot Kenshin was there that or she didn't care.

"Listen I don't know who you are, but keep away from my Man." Lanna smirked, she had done her job, this should teach this little lowlife not to mess around with what was her's. Lanna looked at the girl she pushed and tried to remember a name to the face, but it never came, she knew her, she never did forget the face, but remembering name was another thing.

"You fucking lowlife bitch, you know who I am, and you dare touch me? You're going to pay." Kikari said lowly as she stared at the ground. She smirked as she saw a black high heel and slid her fingers around it. Lanna looked down at her and became shocked as Kikari yanked on her ankle and pulled her down with her into dirt.

Kikari stood up gracefully, but her eyes as a cold blue fire. She looked down at Lanna "this is the way it should be, I hope your slutty dress gets as ruined as mine did down there." Kikari sneered as she stared into the chocolate brown eyes of Lanna.

Lanna had to admit, the girl did seem familiar, but when she told her that she was lower than her and pulled her down to ruin her five thousand dollar dress, she decided to find that out now since she knew her so well. "Your wrong I don't know who you are, but you seem to know me, I demand to know, who are you. Tell me your name." Lanna sneered as she stared back into the girl's eyes, she had to admit they were very familiar in the way they looked so threatening.

"You don't even deserve to know my name." Kikari spat "and if you did it would be the last thing I would want to hear coming out of your dirty mouth." Kikari bent down to Lanna level and kept her gaze in Lanna's "Bitch" Kikari hissed

Slap

Kikari slapped Lanna's face so hard, a bruise appeared faster than normal as Lanna fell to the ground from the force of the slap.

Kikari's eyes came back to normal, as rain started to fall lightly, then harder as she looked down at Lanna, looking like she just went through a hurricane with the dry dirt all over her dress that turned to mud as the rain fell.

"LANNA!" One of her many Cheer freak friends screamed as she ran over to her. The girl picked up Lanna's head and then coaxed her other friends to come and help. They came and surrounded her, when they saw the bruise they glared at Kikari, but stop as soon as they saw instead she wasn't even paying attention. Instead Kikari was looking up into the dark mid-night sky tasting the raindrops that fell into her mouth. They quickly turned back to Lanna and carried her back inside the gym to stay dry and mostly…away from the 'new girl'.

'Just wash away everything…like the rain. I can't be that person anymore I have to be what the world wants me to be, I'm not strong enough to face the world to be myself.' Kikari thought as she closed her eyes and opened her mouth tasting the hard raindrops that landed inside it. 'I'll be like the rain and forget this night ever happened, then try and run away again so I never remember it.'

"Hey." Was all Kenshin could think of to say to this mysterious girl. Kenshin still didn't know her name, and that was the best he could come up with, here she had just knocked Lanna into unconscious and was acting like it never happened. She acted like a whole other person when Lanna showed up. 'Still she needs to get out of this rain so she won't catch something.'

Kikari's eyes snapped open as she realized that Kenshin was still there 'Oh god, oh god, oh god…How could I forget Kenshin was there? Oh yes…that's right, I have my wall back again that's why…but then why does it every time I look at him…that wall disappears like I don't need to protect myself from getting hurt?' Kikari looked over at Kenshin as she thought 'and he still doesn't know my name.' Kikari smiled.

Kenshin smiled back seeing her angelic like smile back on her face. He walked towards her and pulled her away from rain into the gym grabbing her wrist. "We don't want you catching something," Kenshin laughed a little to himself trying to lighten the mood.

Kikari nodded, she did feel a little water logged, even though that was weird since she loved the rain, it reminded her of a fresh start from something bad, a comfort that would sing to you with the different beats it made on the roof or on the window seal she watched it out of. "Thanks" Kikari mumbled as she stepped back into the gym.

She looked around expecting glares, but it seemed as if every one went to the after party at some poor sap's house, so all that was there was a couple of people and janitors cleaning up the busted balloons and confide left on the ground. Lanna wasn't in the gym Kikari thought to her self 'Lanna's probably acting it out now, thinking she'll get more attention by saying, "oh it hurts! Someone get me a boy so they can kiss it and make it feel better!" I hate her from the bottom of my heart' Kikari growled to herself as she walked away from Kenshin to the front door of the gym, that was on the opposite side of where she was.

"Aren't you going to finish the dance with me?" Kenshin asked smirking at her as he bent down leaning his hand towards her's catching it. Kenshin gently placed a kiss on it and looked up to her surprised bright blue eyes. "What? You didn't think you would leave without out dancing with me to a slow song did you and without a name to your beautiful face?" Kenshin asked as he placed her hand down and walked to the music stand and picked out a slow song. "Ah how about…Valentine?"

Kikari blushed even if she was pissed off beyond help Kenshin seemed to pretend that she wasn't and shower her with complements she felt weren't true. He made her feel 'wanted' she thought smiling at him to continue, she's never felt wanted in her life. Kenshin was different she could now say that in her thoughts, 'but then again…he could just be another heart breaker and then destroy me in the end after he's gotten what he wanted.' Kikari shook her head 'no…no not tonight, I'll dance with him once, and maybe then…then I'll feel like this dance will mean nothing, and become what I once was, and then continue my life the way it was, before I met him. I'll just prove to myself that he's wrong.'

If they're no words

No way to speak

I would still hear you

If there were no tears

No way to feel inside

I'd still feel you

And even if the sun refused to shine

Even if romance ran out of rhyme you would still have my heart until the end of time

You're all I need, my love, my valentine

Kikari smiled wider as her thought were erased as he took his arms and slid them around her waist, making Kikari slide her arms around his neck.

Kenshin smiled as he saw her blue eyes flicker with delight as he wrapped his arms around her tiny waist. She gently and slowly slid her own arms around his neck nervously, as they moved slowly back and forth in the room and Kikari silently cursed herself as she felt…perfect just being around him.

All of my life

I have been waiting for

All you give me

You've opened my eyes

And shown me how to love unselfishly

Kikari started to get tried from the events that happened that day, and started to lean more and more onto Kenshin, until she completely laid her head on his chest as they moved slowly to the song.

I've dreamed of this a thousand times before

In my dreams I couldn't loved you more

I will give you my heart

Until the end of time

You're all I need, my love, my valentine

Kenshin smiled a bit, he never ever felt as right as he did with this girl. The way she fit perfectly into his arms, and the way she was strong, but so fragile when he tried to hold or touch her. He could almost say he was falling for her, he thought before he closed his own eyes and danced to the music just enjoying the feeling of having her so close to him.

And even if the sun refused to shine

Even if romance ran out of rhyme

You would still have my heart until the end of time

'Cause all I need is you, my valentine

You're all I need my love my valentine

The Next Day

Beep, Beep, Beep

Wham

"mummit" Kikari mumbled in her pillow, before she looked at her poorly beaten clock. "Dammit, Dammit, Dammit" Kikari cursed herself as she did her usual stretch and pull herself from her bed.

Sigh 'just another dream I guess…I wish it was real…wait…HOW DID I END UP HERE?' Kikari looked franticly around the room for a note from her friends, usually when she would pass out or something Mya or Rena would bring her home, but they were busy during the night weren't they, 'Kenshin didn't…' Kikari looked around her dark room again near her pillow "there it is!" Kikari ran over to the pillow and grabbed it, but not before hearing…

"SHUT UP!"

From her parents down stairs. "I'm not sorry." Kikari mumbled as she read the note…

Dear Kikari

Hey it's Rena and me! You know Mya…no not Kenshin he found us a bit away from the gym and asked us to take you home, then for some odd reason he asked us for your name…

Kikari held her breath

But don't worry we didn't tell him, we knew you had some reason you were doing that to him, you player! (Wrote in little pink colored pencil 'ha ha ha ha you learn so much from me')

Kikari let her breath go and then sweat dropped

But we had to do something to keep him from bugging us, he wouldn't leave us alone so we just…OH WAIT, NO RENA! Tell you later and oh…good morning!

Luv your sister's Mya and Rena

Kikari at the last words dashed to her closest to put on the baggie blood red T shirt and the baggie blue pants and back to put her hair up in the usually ponytail, but for some reason left it down like…it didn't feel right 'strange, but…whatever' Kikari thought before she dashed downstairs and out the door before her parents could say anything.

At Mya's House

DING DONG, DING DONG, DING-

"STOP ALREADY I'M HERE-OH KIKARI!" Rena came to the door switching from the –I'm-going-to-kill-you mood to the hey-its-Kikari-the-evil-plan-starts mood.

Kikari ignored this by rolling her eyes then turning back to Rena's with the annoyed look.

"Don't give me that look or I'm not going to tell you anything." Rena pouted as she turned her back.

"You will anyway." Kikari smirked at her.

"Whatever, come on Mya was waiting all morning for you." Rena smiled while turning around and pulling her inside and up the stairs to Mya's room.

Kikari found Mya sitting on her bed fully dressed for spying mode. Kikari felt a strange feeling of sickness, and suspicion. "Tell me everything…" Kikari glared at Mya with the tamed cold blue fire in her eyes. Not the bad one, just enough to scare her.

"Kikari darling…" Mya started by patting the seat next to her on the bed ignoring the cold glare she was giving her.

"Don't darling me what happened!" Kikari hissed, she was really in a bad mood now, Kenshin meant a lot to her, and she really didn't want them to screw it all up.

"Fine, fine I'll tell you just sit down!" Mya snapped as Kikari sat down next to her, her glare never leaving her eyes. "Ok it started out with Kenshin holding you bridal style coming up to me, I knew you were asleep because of the way you were curled up against him, so sweet. Anyway he came up to Eien and me when we where kind of…making-out, but when I saw you I stopped and asked what happened. Kenshin said that you had fallen asleep while dancing with him, and I must say I saw a grin coming up on his face when he said it."

"You never miss anything do you?" Kikari raised a delicate eyebrow.

"Nope, so he asked where your house was so he could take you home. That's a no-no for sure, I said after that, that I should since your parents might get a little upset seeing a guy come with you to your house, he agreed, but as I lead him and Eien to my car he wouldn't let you go without knowing your fucking name! I used every known excuse I could find, but he cut through all of them like a knife through butter, so I had to do something…more like Rena when she dropped her date to come over…continue for me." Mya smiled at Rena.

"Ok then I came over…my 'big' date turned out to have a FUCKING GIRLFRIEND!" Rena picked up a pillow and threw it against the wall while huffing getting her anger out. "But anyway…" Rena acted like it never happened when she turned back to Kikari "I, being the smart one." Mya and Kikari rolled their eyes "I just made him settle for a date with you." Rena smirked as she saw Kikari turn to stone

"WHAT IN THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING DAMMIT!" Kikari shouted when she regained her senses. 'Oh god a d-d-date? Look I'm even stuttering in my thoughts! He will just not let me go will he? Without knowing my fucking name! The only reason I'm doing it is so I can protect him!' Kikari continued to think while her expressions on her face became more and more angered by the second.

Mya smirked, she knew what she did last night "so it was a one night stand huh? Without the night part in it."

"WE CAN GET YOU DRESSED!" Rena smiled an innocent smile, but Kikari was still in deep thinking to care until she finally got across what Mya said, making her whole face flush with a red blush.

"WHO IN THE HELL DO YOU TAKE ME FOR? I'M NOT EVEN GOING ON THIS…THIS DATE!" Kikari screamed at her friends knocking her out of her thinking mode.

"YES YOU ARE!" Mya and Rena said in unison looking worried.

"Why? What are you hiding from me?" Kikari knew that look, they were hiding something, something she needed to know.

"Uh-um…" Mya started turned away from her with her arms crossed.

"Well…you see, since Kenshin said that you wouldn't stand him up he made sure to get our names first and last to make sure that we couldn't hide from him, so since he so rich and could hunt us down with his agents. Then when he found us, he make us tell him your fucking name so he could find you anyway then kill us." Rena turned away from her too without crossing her arms, instead she played with her fingers.

"Oh really? Then good luck with his agents, I'm going to go and change my bloody name to Mary or something." Kikari got up and started for the door.

Mya and Rena both dashed in front of the door before she got there glaring at her in the eyes. "Then we will call you BLOODY MARY!" Rena and Mya yelled in unison.

"Fine, fine, whatever you guys are too into history, I'll be myself for just this date happy?" Kikari glared, she was only going to do this for her friends…but how was she going to keep this from Kenshin?

Rena and Mya relaxed a bit and stepped away from the door, then smirked.

"We have to-" Mya started walking towards her closest then started throwing clothes out for her to hold.

"Get you dressed-" Rena continued for her looking in the closest too. "Oh this one!" Rena voice was heard between the ruffles of clothes.

"No not short enough…" Mya's voice sounded like she was thinking to herself

"Guy's…maybe just the clothes I'm wearing-"

"NO!" Mya and Rena yelled without turning around to her in unison.

"Whatever" Kikari sighed 'its not like I can change their minds now' Kikari sat on the bed thinking to herself of plans that she could use to keep Kenshin from asking her name.

"PERFECT!" Mya and Rena shouted in unison while holding a shirt, pants, and shoes in their hands. "Put it on!" Mya pushed the clothes into Kikari arms.

"Ok…" Kikari said depressed, she didn't know what it was going to look like until she put it on anyway. So Kikari walked blindly into Mya's bathroom and came out feeling…like a modal. She had to admit she looked stunning in the clothes they picked out for her. They picked out a blood red tight cut sleeves T-shirt with a 'V' shaped neck with stings crisscrossing each other leaving it untied at the top. They also gave her cute short skirt, but not short like the cheerleader short up to your fucking butt, but a decent length it was pure black. Then she wore knee-high skintight blood red boots that showed off her shapely legs quite well.

Mya then smiled at her approval with Rena giving her some jewelry like some cute mood rings and some hanging sword earrings. Kikari decide to wear her favorite necklace she always left at Mya's house for some odd reason, it was a simple necklace, black, but with fairy dust in a little bottle hanging from it, a simple dark blue color having a figure of a fairy posing on it. The little paper that came with it said that you sprinkle a little dust on your hand and blow it making a wish it will come true. She never tried it because she didn't want to waste her dust, plus she never could find the right thing to wish for maybe she might regret it. Except one time she took just a bit, so she lied, she did take some when her parents beat her harshly because they got drunk one night at the same time. It made her just plain sick she couldn't do anything, she was just a kid, so instead she wished that they would just leave her, just disappear forever. So maybe somehow in so way she would feel like…herself instead of some scared kid in a corner that would take any blow blown at her.

She hated that side of her…

But no matter what she did no matter what happened to her they where always going to be her parents like it or not, it was something you can't change, just like the way she loved them. She hated it, but whenever they would yell at her and put her down, whenever they hit her or made her live without hugs or kisses every night she still loved them.

She still loved them…

"Kikari?" Rena asked worried

Kikari was just playing with the little bottle in her hand while thinking to herself, of how she felt, she usually did that. Even though she knew she shouldn't in front of her friends all they would do was worry. "Sorry, spaced out for a sec there." Kikari smiled at them erasing the thoughts put in to her head, and remembering the situation she was in right now.

"Worried about the date?" Mya asked feeling a little down. She didn't want to pressure Kikari into a relationship to fast, whatever Kikari was going through was bad, something so bad she couldn't tell her friends about. Rena and her talked about one day with Kikari of course, but there friend was hiding a deep dark bad secret and even if they used every thing in the book to make her talk, Kikari would get herself out of it by changing the subject, like she was protecting herself, a unbreakable wall not even her closest friends could break or climb. Then again Kenshin might could, he was different and Kikari seemed to show a side of her they couldn't even break, like that wall is falling slowly. Mya smiled to herself, she shouldn't worry she was doing the right thing, somewhere in her she knew.

"A little, but…how do I keep him from knowing my name?" Kikari asked looking over at Mya and Rena for an answer, she could wing it, but with Kenshin…just his staring made her rethink telling him a lie. Like he could tell. A sudden shiver when up he spine as she thought about his stare, her eyes became daze as she thought to herself 'his eyes, so… lovely something that could capture me, something…that sees me and forces me to be myself instead who I'm not. He's so cute and hott, but…its not right I don't care how much I feel right with him, I can't I just can't' Kikari shook her head and looked to Mya as she was talking.

"Um…well just wing it, I don't know" Mya said as she looked at her wristwatch "YOU HAVE TO GO! ITS TIME! HOP IN MY CAR I'LL BRING YOU" Mya shouted excited as she ran down the stairs and out the door to her car while Rena and Kikari followed.

When Mya stopped in the car

"Here we are!" Rena smiled, as she looked the window.

"Where are we?" Kikari looked out the window to see bright flashing lights and lists of movies on a billboard. "The movies?" Kikari asked rising a delicate eyebrow.

"Yup, go now you're almost late." Rena opened the door and pushed her out of it."

"Well thanks" Kikari mumbled at them while dusting of the imagery dust off her clothes.

"You're welcome" Rena said before Mya stepped on the pedal and was out of the parking lot before she could say "goodbye"

Kikari sighed, she still felt an excited and nervous at the same time. She looked around at all the teens hanging out around the theater staring at her. 'Am I just paranoid?' Kikari thought as she walked up beside the ticket booth awaiting Kenshin. As soon as Kikari looked around…she saw…

A crowd of girls…

'He's here' Kikari thought before she glared at the girls she could hear asking him his name and phone number "dammit" Kikari cursed as she continue to glare, she should have felt hurt, but somehow she made that feeling into hate. Then her spine shivered in a bad way as she turned around to find a boy around her age staring down at her with dark brown eyes, not in the least bit inviting. "What in the hell do you want?" Kikari hissed at this boy, she took the time to see that his hair was a bright green-ish color and his clothes…could be better since he wore the baggie blue shirt and baggie blue jeans…he probably thought he was worth falling for…like she would ever fall for him.

"Feisty one eh?" the boy smirked as he came to close for her comfort.

"Get away from me you bastard" Kikari spat at him backing away since he wasn't obviously.

"No need to be so bitchy, my names Roger what's yours baby?" He tried to close to her purring out the words as if he never heard what she said.

"Did you not hear me-" Kikari started backing away again under she backed into the strong chest of …

Kenshin

Kikari looked up to apologize until she felt like see couldn't move when she saw who it was 'but wasn't he just surrounded by a crowd of screaming girls?' Kikari thought before he heard his voice finish her sentence.

"She said get away, and I would advise you to do so." Kenshin growled at Roger the boy was stupid because he didn't back down from this football, muscular, sweet, hott, girl crazed, rich, sexy…ok she had to stop…guy.

"She ain't ya lady is she?" the boy glared back at Kenshin. Kikari just felt stupid being in the middle like this.

"Yes, so go and get your own." Kenshin growled again as Kikari blushed, making sure she hid it under her bangs since she didn't want anyone to see. 'I-I-I'M HIS LADY?' Kikari shouted in her thoughts 'since when? I…I don't know, he's just doing it to get that weird guy away from me…he's so sweet' Kikari smiled to herself as she saw the strangers feet disappear and she heard them walk away as she looked at the ground.

"Glad to see you showed up." Kenshin purred as he hugged her from behind.

"Like I had a-hey! Let go of me!" Kikari snapped as he hugged her, she didn't mean to sound so harsh, but people just don't come up to her and hug her, her friends don't even do that often, but from a boy?

"Fine I was just saying hello" Kenshin let her go out of surprise from her reaction. Usually girls would love that sort of attention from him, he could even see the girls from earlier glaring at her. "Still coming?" Kenshin asked hoping she wouldn't say no.

"Of course" Kikari tried to smile AND sound happy, but ended up smiling and sounding somewhat happy. She did like him holding her in his strong arm a lot, she fell asleep what does that tell you?

"What movie?" Kenshin as looking up at the sign above the ticket booth looking for the right movie, when he saw one that seemed to pop out he smirked, "never mind let it be a surprise." 'I'm so smart, this always works…at least that way all the other guys say.' Kenshin pulled her to the ticket booth and bought the tickets quickly before she had a chance to even see what movie they were going to.

"What is it?" Kikari tried to see the name on the ticket, but it was taken to quickly "come on Kenshin show me! I want to see where I'm going to waste about a hour of my time on!" Kikari wined from behind him.

"You'll see" Kenshin smirked and continued to pull her into the movie giving the tickets to the man before her turned her into the theater room laughing as she tried looking around him to see the tickets.

"Jerk" Kikari mumbled under her breath before her was rudely pulled into the theater and into a seat in the middle of the theater 'funny…I'm never that nice…' Kikari thought to herself.

"So…what's your name?" Kenshin asked out of the blue making Kikari feel pressured.

"Uh…that doesn't matter! What's the fucking movie we are watching?" Kikari demanded trying to change the subject. Only Kenshin just turned to her and smiled with his heart-melting smile.

"I would like to know the name of the one that I just saved from a female eating male and who I also took there first kiss." Kenshin smirked trying to get her back on the subject by putting out a fact. That kiss had to be the best he has ever happened like the one's in fairy-tales, but he could still taste the pure innocence in her kiss.

"You knew?" Kikari asked in a small voice as she ducked down lower in her seat feeling like she should hide in the girls bathroom through the entire movie, but then Kenshin would go in after her, for some odd reason she thought he would do that. She blushed as she looked at him with the corner of her eye and saw his answer was a warm smirk.

"The movie is starting" Kenshin said as the room got dark and the screen lit up with the title of the movie 'revenge of the vampires…WHAT THE HELL? IS THIS HORROR MOVIE THAT TYPE OF MOVIE I HATE? THE ONLY KIND THAT CAN SCARE ME?' Kikari shouted in her thoughts as the movie showed pictures of vampires ripping people to sheds and hunting the humans down. 'Yup…that fucking bastard' Kikari thought as she grinded her teeth from her anger.

As the movie continued Kikari leaned more and more over to Kenshin and was holding his arm with both her arms, you could almost say she was hugging him from her fear, and of course she had no idea she was. Kenshin enjoyed seeing her grab hold of him for dear life in all, but the nails digging deeper and deeper into his skin didn't help. Soon Kenshin felt that if she dug any deeper he would be bleeding, he hated to say this, but…the pain hurt like hell. "Your about to dig your nails so deep into my skin that I'm starting to bleed…" Kenshin whispered in Kikari's ear.

"That's your damn problem its your fault you picked a horror film, I hate horror films…they scare me." 'Dammit Kikari shut up…' Kikari rethought what she said as she took her nails from his skin.

"Thank you" Kenshin purred to her, just because he liked doing that to her making her mad.

Kikari just nodded her head while blushing still staring at the screen 'think god its dark in here, he can't see my blush, I wish he'd stop purring…'

After a couple of minutes Kikari started leaned towards him again, but without the piercing nails in his skin, instead she was cutting the circulation off from his hand to the rest of his body she was hugging his arm so much. "Hey…" Kenshin whispered again in her ear.

"Dammit what now?" Kikari asked while keeping her eyes on the movie since it was almost over and the hero was almost dead for some odd reason she did feel safer with Kenshin in a scary movie than anyone else...

"Hey…" Kenshin asked again trying to make her pay attention to him instead of the movie 'she impossible…but DAMN she's fine' Kenshin thought to himself as he remembered how she looked when he first saw her.

"Dammit Kenshin what do you want?" Kikari hissed as she turned towards his face to glare at him, but instead she got…

A kiss…

Kenshin had kissed her again…but even then she couldn't help, but fall into the kiss…again. The part that she thanked god for was as quickly as it began it ended as she broke the heart-melting kiss. If she didn't Kenshin might think that she actually liked the kiss, which…for some reason was a bad thing, she loved kissing him. So to make it up she smiled, then in a playful mean way she snapped as the credits were being shown "look now Kenshin! The movie is over and I don't know what happened!"

"Then I'll take you again." Kenshin said happily

"Fat chance" Kikari started to walk away "by the way, the dates over I'm leaving."

Kenshin out of shock of never going to see her again quickly grabbed her wrist and twirled her around to face him while holding her. "Not yet." Kenshin smirked "not until I know your name"

"Nope I'm not giving it to you." Kikari smirked at him, it was fun teasing him about her name, and he just wanted her name so badly he looked like he was about to do anything for it…

And she was just the type of person to play with that…

"Then our date is still on…hungry? Shall we eat somewhere decent? Or maybe casual, no you're too beautiful tonight to be seen by unworthy eyes." Kenshin smiled at her, 'that should get her to blush' he loved thinking of the ways to make her give in to him and even more doing them.

Kikari blushed over ten shades of red. "S-shut up…whatever I don't care." Was all Kikari could blurt out at the moment. 'You…why did you have to go and say that? Now I can't talk straight!' Kikari cursed under her breath as she thought to herself.

"Come on I brought my car." Kenshin lead her outside and to his car.

"No…you walked." Kikari's voice dripped with sarcasm.

"What do you like? Chicken, hamburger, or maybe steak?" Kenshin opened the door to his GT mustang for her as she stepped in.

"Oh your such a gentleman." Kikari's voice once again dripped with sarcasm.

"I know." Kenshin smirked at her making her blush again. It was almost too easy. Kenshin stepped into the driver's side of the car and started to leave, "would you like another surprise?" Kenshin asked keeping his eyes peeled to the road.

"Why not?" Kikari said staring out the window, 'resisting him is getting so much harder for me…' Kikari thought to herself when they finally stopped.

"We're here." Kenshin said happily as he got out of the car.

"That was fast." Kikari said amazed

"Well I'm a good driver." Kenshin smirked as he opened the door again for her and pulled her out by the hand.

"Kenshin!" Kikari said surprised "This is the most expensive place in the whole city! We can't go here!" Kikari wined as she stared at the building before her. It was big, one of the 'higher class' restaurants where just a salad would cost twenty bucks.

"Come on…I can afford it." Kenshin pulled her along as he saw her just staring at it. "I eat like this everyday." Kenshin continued to pull her, but she seem still dazed from the fact they were here, 'she acts like she has never eaten at a fancy restaurant before.' Kenshin thought smirking 'maybe I can think up something…'

Everything was mostly silence as they walked in and got seated, Kikari looked as afraid as a little bird surround by a thousand hungry cats. Kenshin soon got worried and thought to himself 'maybe I shouldn't have brought her here…but…every other girl would feel more than welcome to come in here' Kenshin slapped himself on the head 'she not like any other girl, she hasn't even told me her name.' Kenshin smirked, 'but by the end of tonight…I'll know her name.'

"So…you are going to tell me your name?" Kenshin asked as they were being seated to keep her mind off whatever she was thinking and for some odd reason he just loved staring at her eyes, they were so full of mystery and wanting…

"Uh…after I eat." Kikari lied, and boy did she feel dumb about it, usually she was so good it was like second nature to her, but ONCE again Kenshin was just staring at her again, making her stupid heart beat faster and making her worry about her appearance. 'Is my hair ok…is my makeup smeared? Oh…wait I don't have on makeup…what in the hell is he staring at?' Kikari wondered as she tried looking away from his ever-so heart-melting stare. 'I can't believe he took me here…this place was built for the richer half…I never ate at any place like here before….I don't know how to eat in a place like this, would if I use the wrong fork? Or maybe that's just in the movies…' Kikari thought to herself she really wasn't paying attention to what she was staring at…

"Hey?" Kenshin asked get her out of her trance-like state. "What's your name?" Kenshin crocked his head to the side trying to look cute…he didn't have to try to Kikari.

"Its K-" Kikari stopped herself forgetting she was talking to Kenshin… "Forget that." Kikari started to blush 'to close for comfort. I said that just because I'm use to.'

"Ah, so you gave me a clue? It starts with a 'K' huh? Karen?" Kenshin guessed he had nothing better to do, and even if he did guess her name she could still lie and say it wasn't…he really wasn't going to get anywhere from this, but at least he knew the first letter of her name. 'K…' Kenshin started to go over all the names he knew that started with a K.

"No…its not Karen" Kikari watched the waitress as she approached them, obvious to her staring at Kenshin hoping to impress him, Kikari couldn't blame her Kenshin was the best looking man she'd ever seen. Kikari was still a little jealous though she even thought about how she could look better, when she didn't even know what Kenshin thought of her 'maybe he's just playing with me since I won't give him my name or maybe he's with me because I'm 'the big challenge'.' Kikari sulked while turning her attention to the menu to order something, and for some odd reason she just wanted to buy the most expensive thing on the menu to make him mad, even though it probably wouldn't.

"Then what is it?" Kenshin smirked 'one down' when he thought of the names he had chased into his head looking at the menu.

"Not telling you until I eat I told you." Kikari snapped as she ordered one of the 'less' expensive things on the menu, other wise she wouldn't eat it, everything else seemed to relate to snails. She still glared at the waitress that never even once looked away from Kenshin as she wrote her order down on the little notebook. Kenshin gave her a questioning look before he gave the girl his order of something much more expensive on the menu.

As soon as the waitress left she winked at Kenshin that he seemed to not know or even care. This made Kikari feel a lot happier for some reason. Kenshin smirked "this is known for fast food."

Kikari raised a delicate eyebrow Kenshin was right the food was already there "what?" Kikari asked surprised.

"Told you." Kenshin started eating his food as so did Kikari.

After a few small conversations, laughs, and when they were walking to there car

"So…." Kenshin started as he walked her back to his car "your name and where to drop you off." Kenshin smirked 'she did say she was going to tell me after we ate.'

"Uh-uh" Kikari started 'maybe…if I tell him he'll leave me forever and never want to see me again, but if he's like that then, I don't want to see him again.' Kikari ran over to the busy street and waved to an empty taxi then as soon as it pulled up she turned around to smile at him.

"But I can take you home." Kenshin frowned, he didn't like this part, and this was the part in a movie where the hero would never find their true love ever again. So he ran over to her and stood just in front of her.

"Kenshin, if you want to know my name that bad…its-" Kikari was cut off as Kenshin wrapped his arms around her tightly, leaned down and kissed her on the lips. If she was going to leave him then he at least wanted one more of her earth-shattering kiss that tasted like pure innocence.

Kikari let him kiss her as she rethought about her decision to let him go. She kissed him with all her heart hoping it would last forever, even though she knew better it would only lead to him wanting her more, but she was stupid in the ways of romance.

They finally broke the kiss and she backed into the taxi sitting in it, but before she closed the door "my name is Kikari, Kenshin" Kikari smiled at him for the last time before she slammed the door to the taxi and drove away leaving Kenshin behind in his confused thoughts.

"Kikari…" Kenshin said to himself, almost hoping to scream her name to call her back. He had left her…forever? He prayed not. Maybe in all his confusion he loved her, that very first day he say her and heard her sweet voice, he loved her, and now

She was gone…

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