NEW STORY!!!
Authors Notes: Ok people! I have another new story up! It's called Tied between Tails and Treasure and I really hope that you guys like it! ok well here's chapter three of Light by Angel wings
(sorry everyone! my indenting isn't working! please bare with me!)
Chapter 3: Meeting the mysterious face
Kenshin walked along the halls with Kaoru right behind him. Kenshin kept a sharp eye out for anyone who seemed to give him that chill down his spine. Kaoru would have been doing the same if she wasn't so worried about Kenshin.
Kenshin was someone really special and she knew that. But he grew to be someone more than just a person to watch over. He grew to be someone she could look forward to being with and someone she could always talk to. But...that was all...wasn't it? Just last month she could have said that it wasn't anything more and be done with it. But something about him made her heart jump and her wings flutter every single time that he looked at her.
The feeling confused her. She had no idea what she was feeling and she couldn't talk to him about it! That would be so embarrassing! She shook her head to rid those thoughts to the back of her mind. Now was not the time to think about how he made her feel. And yet again, there wasn't anything wrong in that now was there? Kenshin was going to his next class and then to lunch so Kaoru decided that while during his class she could just try to find out just what she was feeling.
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Kenshin made his may to his next class. Science. He loved it. The teacher was nice and she had a great spirit. Her name was Tea Sekihara, and she had an Osaka accent. Kaoru was sitting up on a book shelf like the class before, this time thinking about what she was earlier.
'Why all of the sudden does he give me the jolt? I mean...I've known him ever since he were born. And I grew up with him too! But that still has never happened before. I mean yeah...he's made me blush before and done crazy things but...they never made me feel this way. What is it? I just can't figure out what?' Kaoru kept thinking about it until she gave up and watched Kenshin's class.
That day they were dissecting frogs. Kaoru decided to not watch as Kenshin skillfully cut through the guts and goo. Kenshin noticed a bit of a change in the way Kaoru was watching him and turned around to see her shivering a bit and looking a bit green. Kenshin at first was concerned. But then he remembered that what they were doing today really wasn't what you wanted to see before lunch. He snickered at her and continued cutting the frog.
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It was finally lunch time, and everyone was rushing to the lunch line. Kenshin had made his own that morning when Kaoru was too busy trying to get him to school. He was sick of eating the cruddy cafeteria food every week day. Kenshin sat down on one of the plastic chairs at a round table and Kaoru sat down on the back of it where the top of the stand was, directly behind him. Kenshin ate his turkey sandwich as Kaoru just watched. When he swallowed a mouthful, he decided to talk to her when he was able to.
"Hey Kaoru...I still have the chill in my stomach. And I'm starting to get a little worried. It's been getting stronger now. What could it be?" Kenshin's voice was serious and stern. Kaoru was just about to alert him about the dull girl that she had spotted earlier that day until someone familiar to her showed up at the table. Speak of the devil, it was that dull girl.
"Excuse me, but can I sit here?" Her voice was also dull. It didn't hold much emotion. But she did have a bit of a pretty face. Kenshin lifted his head from the ramen that he had started to dig into. Kenshin looked at her for a moment, and then slurped up his ramen and nodded.
"Sure. I mean it's sort of bland here so you won't get a thrill out of being here, but hey, more the merrier." Kenshin tried to sound welcoming. He hadn't seen this girl much before so he wanted to gain as many friends as he could. Kaoru didn't feel too sure about her. She did utter some unfriendly words earlier so she was going to be on her toes.
"Thank you. My name is Tomoe Yukishiro. And you are Kenshin Himura. Right?" She was sounding almost sly. And Kaoru didn't like the fact that she knew Kenshin's name already. Kaoru decided that she didn't like this girl.
"Er...yes. How would you know? We've never met and all." Kenshin seemed surprised but for some reason he didn't really mind. She just smiled, dully as ever, and answered.
"Well my mother used to know your family and told me about you. I think she was friends with your mom or something. But I don't remember what she said. She told me what you looked like so I could find you here and might become friends or something." She answered him. Kaoru was beginning to feel uneasy. She answered that way too quickly.
'What is up with me!? I'm so protective today!' Kaoru flushed a bit and shook her head. But something didn't seem too welcoming about her. Kaoru didn't want to be rude but she wasn't someone she would like to hang around with frequently. She watched and listened carefully as they conversed with each other.
"So um...Tomoe. Is this your freshman year?" Kenshin tried to sound friendly so she wouldn't be scare or something. Most freshman's where. She shook her head.
"Sophomore. I skipped. Is this your Junior?" She seemed to want to know everything about him, and that made Kaoru nervous. Kenshin nodded his head. That must of explained why he never saw her before.
"Yeah. Anyway, how old are you Yukishiro-dono?" Kenshin remembered about being formal when meeting a new person. But to his surprise, she waved her hand in front of her face with a disagreeing comment.
"Please. Stick to Tomoe. I don't like it when guys call me that." She was making a move on him. Kaoru could tell. And to that, she strangely got jealous. She felt like she was invading her territory. But...Kenshin wasn't Kaoru's territory...was he? Kaoru felt so confused at the moment. She also felt like she was being invaded by a new girl who was getting to know Kenshin faster than she would have liked.
"Er...okay...um...Tomoe. How old are you?" Kenshin didn't seem to at ease at using her name right off the bat, but he would try to if she were to get upset otherwise. She smiled at him and answered,
"Sixteen. I started school late, if that makes more sense." Her answer was yet again, quick and solid. Kenshin nodded again while again, digging into his ramen that had been sadly forgotten over the conversation. Kaoru was really starting to feel as if she had been violated. The Tomoe girl was learning about Kenshin way too fast. She was reading him like an open book, and the thing that bothered her the most...was that Kenshin allowed it. He didn't seem to care or mind. That was something new.
"So how old are you, Kenshin?" Tomoe asked him yet another question that bothered Kaoru. Now she was using his first name as well. Kaoru didn't want to listen to the conversation anymore. She slowly hovered up from her position on the chair, hoping to see Kenshin turn around with confusion in his eyes. But he didn't. And for some reason, her heart ached. She fluttered off somewhere in hopes to see Kenshin behind her, but to no avail.
"Well...I'm seventeen. My birthday is June 23." Kenshin decided to add that in while he was one ages and birthday connections. Tomoe nodded as he told her. She told him her birthday as well. During the lunch period, Tomoe had gotten over 3/4ths of Kenshin figured out. But before she could find out more, the lunch bell rang. She mentally cursed at her luck but was happy with the fact she got much information.
"Well it was nice talking to you Kenshin. See you around!" He waved to him and smiled the same dull smile and walked over to the trash cans and dumped her lunch away. Kenshin just watched her as she did all that.
'Well that was some conversation...I wonder why Kaoru's so quiet...' Kenshin's thoughts ushered him to take a look behind him. Expecting to see a beautiful angel seated on the back of his chair just floating elegantly. But when he turned around, all he saw was nothing but the commotion of the lunch room. He immediately got up, causing the chair to push back in a rigid way.
"Kaoru?!" His voice rang out in the crowd. His head whipped in every direction possible. When he noticed that she was no where in sight, his heart skipped a beat. He started to feel the panic rush through him. He raced around, glancing this way and that. But he still couldn't find her.
"KAORU?!" He kept calling her name, pleading that he would find her somewhere. He had just ran down a deserted hall way and figured she wouldn't be there. But when he was just going to turn back around, he heard a sniffing sound. He looked around and spotted something glowing from the corner of his eye. There, on the top of a locker, was a weeping Kaoru.
"Kaoru!" Kenshin raced over to her. His heart almost shattered at what he saw. Kaoru's slender hands were placed over her eyes, hiding her beautiful face. Her legs were a skew, hanging off of the locker carelessly as she wept gently. Kenshin then called her name softly, almost like he was scared to see what would happen.
"Kaoru?" To his luck, she raised her head slightly to meat his gaze. Her gleaming sapphire eyes were all red and puffy, and her porcelain face was streaked with fresh tears. Kenshin watched her as she just looked at him with a hurt gaze. Kenshin looked at her with confusion.
'Why is she so hurt? Did something happen?' When Kenshin thought this, Kaoru slowly drifted off of the locker and floated in front of him. She held her hands close to her face as he just sort of looked at him, hoping for him to say something. When she noticed he was going to say anything, she just slowly hovered forward, into his embrace.
He saw her come towards him and he lifted his hands to embrace her tightly. She began to cry on his shoulder. He hated it when his angel cried. And yes. She was his angel. He finally mustered up his courage to ask her just what was troubling her so much.
"Kaoru...what's the matter? Why were you just gone all of the sudden?" His question was also tender as the same was his calling of her name. Her quiet sobbing turned to some sniffles as she lifted her head from his now wet shoulder. Once she rubbed her eyes and sniffed one last time, her face then grew angry and turned away. Kenshin was surprised when she had such a change in her mood swing.
"Why should you care about me when you got that other girl! What's her name...Tomoe!" Kaoru's voice sounded like she had been insulted also offended. Kenshin looked at her now turned back with confusion.
'Is she...jealous?' Kenshin's eyes widened a bit as he thought about that for a minute. Why would she be jealous of a girl he just met? Kenshin placed a hand on her shoulder, turning her around to face him gently. At first he thought about teasing her, but then he heard her sniff again and thought against it. Part of him was hurt for seeing her this way, and the other part was confused as to why she was this way.
"Kaoru, what's the matter? What's with Tomoe that's got you so...uptight?" Kenshin tried to make the question easier to answer by making it more simple. Thus, trying to prevent frustration to emerge. Kaoru just looked down and shook her head.
"Well...she just made me feel like I was being violated. She was asking you way too many personal questions for my comfort. And what really upset me the most was that you allowed it! Kenshin...I don't like her..." Kaoru tried to sound reasonable for a girl who had just cried.
"Kaoru, we just met her! You don't know if she's someone you can like or someone you can't. We just met her." Kenshin tried to sound comforting but this was something new to him. Kaoru had never judged a person so quickly before. Kaoru then turned around with a huff and an irritated but depressed look on her face.
"You just met her." Kenshin was surprised to hear this. What did she mean? Before Kenshin could ask her exactly what she meant by that, she answered his question as if she had read his mind.
"Just a little while ago, when you and I had just come out of that storage closet, I spotted that girl. She was behind a corner of the wall, and she was looking right at you. That was something that I didn't like from the beginning. Now I can understand if it was some little girl crush, but she didn't have a look of a dreamy state on her face, it was a smirk. That sort of scared me." Kaoru told him about what she saw earlier and he only looked at her with a confused gaze.
"Did she say anything at all?" Kenshin had that question in his head and it was finally driving him off the wall. It was one thing when they were smirking at you. It was another thing if they say something and they are smirking at you. To his dismay, she nodded. He awaited what she was going to tell him, a feeling of dread in the pit of his stomach.
"She said 'this is going to be fun' that's something that I didn't really get a good feeling about. I don't know. Maybe she was just thinking about something else, but you can never me too sure. Kenshin, please be careful around her. She was asking you too many personal questions for my comfort." Kaoru's eyes turned from irritated to worried and sad.
"Kaoru, I'm not going to avoid her because of something that happened before. She's now my friend, and I can't just abandon her like that." Kenshin placed his hand on her shoulder, but she shrugged it off.
"Yeah...I guess it's like you to by this loyal. But I'm warning you Kenshin...she could be someone you want to stay away from." With that said, Kaoru flew off in some other direction. Kenshin's eyes widened when she just sped off like that.
"Kaoru wait!!" But even though he called that out, he knew she wouldn't. He sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. Maybe Kaoru was right. But he wasn't going to confirm things this quickly. He decided to leave Kaoru on her own to just blow off some steam. He started to walk back down the hall to his next class. He stopped, glanced back the way she darted off to, then continued on his way.
Kaoru was hovering behind a locker, watching him as he walked off. When he did, she slumped down on the ground, hugged her knees and buried her face into them. She began to weep again. Everything was changing. And she didn't like it.
That's all for now :D please review!