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R- contains suggestive material and contains some 'stuff'

Chapter 21 —Awaking the real Hitokiri Battousai (Part 3)

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KENSHIN AND KAORU ROMANCE IN THE CHAPTER!

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He was practicing with his bokken. Proudly being held from his hands. He continued to slam the bokken into the invisible target showing no mercy as he seem totally relentless. Indeed she had to admit, he looked a bit like Kenshin when he was ready for battle.

Seto felt eyes burning on him until he turned around in a stance only to peer at the little female he had met the day before. According to his friends she was Kogoro-san's daughter. That meant there should be no relations with her, no matter what came up.

"Good morning Seto-san" came her gentle voice. It was like a child's. It was buried in so much—kindness and peaceful nature, how could anyone have such a voice in such a bloody era?

He never responded. He turned his back from her and began walking into the fog of the morning.

Kaoru grew a bit sadden by his cause of actions. She wanted to speak to him and now look at him, he's just walking away. 'Oh please don't walk away…' Kaoru practically begged.

To Kaoru's unknowing she followed him. The more he walked the deeper she got trapped in the fog.

"Seto?" she called…unsure where she was.

"Seto?" she called again. A hand came to her shoulder and she jumped at least two feet from the person.

Turning she saw him standing before her…

"That's my name, don't wear it out onna." He walked pass her.

Kaoru like a little puppy following her mean master, cutely looked on. Maybe it was her stubbornness that people fell for, yes she had to admit she was extremely annoying at times, but she only did it to know people for the better.

Seto could hear her footsteps as she followed him. He rolled his eyes.

"You're following me onna…I don't like that" he coldly said…

She giggled.

Seto thought to himself, was this a joke to her, maybe she didn't hear the tone of voice he was carrying. It was either she heard him and chose to ignore him, or it was either she was a bit delirious.

He continued walking knowing well she was following him, "stop it onna" he increased the tone of his voice.

She didn't listen, how customary!

He stopped and so did she. 'This onna!' he practically screamed in his mind.

"Why are you so mean Seto-chan?" she asked innocently with large eyes

'Mean?' 'Chan?' he narrowed his eyes. 'How dare she?'

Turning around he met her innocent eyes…looking up at his…

"How dare you onna?" he snarled coldly in front her bright innocent eyes.

Kaoru blinked back cutely, 'I didn't do anything' she thought

"I—I" before she could say one thing he interjected.

"No one and I mean no one calls me chan, get that through your head onna" he practically shouted in her face. Kaoru was a bit shaken from his outburst. I mean she didn't mean to upset him.

'I'm sorry' her mind apologized…

Seto felt the silence and saw the way her face quickly etched into pain. True, Seto hurt tons of women, but what he saw was never the picture before him. A face of classic sadness. With eyes that shimmered from wanting tears, the hint of redness on her cheeks, made Seto derive…this woman was indeed an evoker of emotions. It was either she was a good liar of her actions or her sincerity was indeed great. Then in the beating of his heart, a single tear from her eyes cascaded down her perfect porcelain cheek. Never had he seen such grace and beauty colliding.

"I'm sorry Seto-san…" she weakly smiled.

He said nothing for a moment.

"Why are you so stubborn onna?" he couldn't help saying it. I mean, she really was stubborn not to mention infuriating…

Kaoru bowed her head…slugging her shoulders in a defeated manner.

"Yes you're really annoying you know" he knew he made her feel bad but he was teaching her a lesson.

"Give people space to breath…its not hard onna…is it?" he asked realizing she was now crying.

He huffed. Some how her tears did affect him, but he wanted her to be stronger than this.

"Come now onna, is that something to cry for…?" he asked putting a hand on her shoulder.

She nodded.

"Then why are you crying huh onna?" he paused, "…look at me" he spoke…

She didn't comply.

"Come on, look at me" he spoke. His voice contorted from a rough plain to a soft tone.

Kaoru hiccupped holding her mouth cutely. 'It starts' thought Kaoru.

Seto found her very amusing, oh yeah, she was good medicine for a man with a bad past.

"Onna…" he called again…

She sniffed, "I have a (hiccup) name you know (hiccup)" she hiccupped.

Seto laughed, in a hysterical manner.

Kaoru found this most rude. 'How dare he laughs when I am upset. Humph' she thought.

"What's so (hiccup) funny?" she asked angrily yet cutely. Her cheeks were puffed and her face was just adorable. She looked like a stubborn toddler who didn't get what she wanted.

"Sorry onna, its just you sound so funny" he spoke halting his laughing.

"Well excuse me" she rolled her eyes.

"Now now, no need to get so pompous, I'm just saying you know" he added.

Kaoru nodded acceptingly.

Impress that even if she was angry, she still accepted what he said, he took her patience in account.

"You're so mean…why?" she furrowed her brows looking into his face.

"Well excuse me" he pushed his face closer to hers looking at her in a manner of 'look whose talking'

"I'm not mean" she huffed.

"Oh really, that's a first" he rolled his eyes…

She gasped, "how dare you say such a thing…" she battled him.

"Because I happen to be a damn daring man who says anything I like…" he rattled.

"Meanie" she stuck out her tongue…

"Careful now…" he spoke in an advising tone…

"Of what? Hmm, you can't do me anything" she stuck out her tongue yet another time.

"Is that so?" he came closer to her…

Realizing their contact was a bit too close to even breathe, Kaoru found herself a bit stupefy. His face was directly in front of hers and she became mesmerized by those intoxicating pools of midnight blue.

"Uh—huuh" she whispered…

"Go ahead. Make your move" he whispered in a daring tone. One she couldn't say she trust. His eyes accenting those words really set off a fire in her and indeed brought one or two dirty things to her mind.

"I—I" she couldn't do anything.

"What's that onna. Losing to the champ are you?" he asked sarcastically.

For some reason she understood that sentence and she was brought back to reality.

"I won't lose to you" she punched him in the shoulder.

Seto took her weakling blow looking back at her in a neutral manner.

"Is that suppose to hurt?" he asked…

"I don't want to hurt you" she layered.

"Really…?" he asked

"Really!" she sharpened her voice…

"Well then, we'll just see now won't we?" he pushed her shoulder. Kaoru went all wobbly until she hit the floor, buttocks first.

A bit shaken at his actions, she looked up at him. The same cruel smirk being worn.

"Defeated you are onna" he said matter-of-flatly.

'Well see about that' Thought Kaoru.

Pushing her feet between his, she pushed it through trying to bring him down.

To her amazement it became the reverse. Kaoru was now being pinned to the floor painfully with Seto's feet between hers. Her face and chest was buried in the ground.

Liking how inviting the odds had become he wanted to savoir the moment and torment her to his best. Pulling her head back she hissed in pain.

"That's hurting you know." And with that she sent her hands whacking him straight in the snooze (nose) .

Her move was so suddenly and so random that he didn't even know she would do/done such a thing. Feeling the stinging sensation in his nose, he hissed out at the alarming pain.

"Oh shitt" he held the bridge of his nose.

Kaoru afforded herself little time to react.

"Oh my! Seto-san, I'm so sorry" she grimaced at what she had done.

"You're dangerous onna…" he spoke staring at her in the face.

"Look whose talking, you're the one who likes to horse-play" she added flatly. He growled.

"Oh we shouldn't fight" she took his hand and led him to the steps.

"Sit down." She ordered.

"Why?" he opposed

"Because I say so…"she pushed him back on his butt.

"Wild onna" he muttered.

"I heard that…" she pointed a finger.

"Ohh I'm so scared" he sarcastically added.

"Well you should be" she paused, "lean your head back" she said….

"Why?" he asked.

"Would you just listen to me. We shouldn't have to fight for everything, now do we?" she asked.

There was a huge silence until he gave his answer, "oh onna you're dense! I just like troubling you. Wow, such a massive party pooper you are" he added.

Kaoru gritted her teeth, he really knew how to get under her skin. Realizing that he was doing this for spite she kept quiet emerging the wiser as a result.

Kaoru watched him for a couple minutes until she left him, returning only to find him gone.

'Didn't I tell him to stay?' she asked herself, I mean what's so hard in that? 'Oh he's really gonna get it' she thought.

Walking out into the yard she searched high and low for the audacious young man.

The sudden touch of hands around her made her scream.

Seto laughed loudly, his laughter in her ear.

Kaoru practically screamed, "you meaniee" she clobbered him with her pathetic lashes.

"Oh give it a rest onna" he laughed.

She sighed seeing some things wouldn't change.

"Come on Seto time for me to clean your wound" she spoke…

"What if I say I don't need it…" he asked with a smirk on his face.

'Oh he's really liking this' thought Kaoru.

She narrowed her brows, "if you don't need it" she started sweetly, her words dripping in angelic manner. "Then I'll get really violent with you" she pulled him by the hand. He sat down on the step. Kaoru took the wet tissues and gently began dubbing the soar area around his nose.

"Ouch onna" he spoke…

"Sorry"

For a couple of minutes the couple coped with each other until Kaoru blew on it and said she was done.

"You know you owe me onna" he started.

"Owe you?" she looked up at him in a quizzical manner.

"You owe me anything I ask for until this wound of my mine heals…" he spoke…

"Really, so tell me" she paused, "which planet does that rule work on, newsflash not Earth" she was being rude with him but she knew he was just the same way.

"Oh you'll listen to me unless you want everyone knowing you're a really violent, vehement young woman. And surely you wouldn't want your angelic title to all of a sudden just go poof!" he added.

"Poof?"

"Yup, poof! So you be a gal and listen to me, 'k?" he asked…

Knowing that she had caused him to pain and what she did was indeed uncalled for, she decided she owed him and even bigtime as he placed it. Who knew she was capable of such acts.

"Fine" she wagered.

"But remember you tell no one of what I did" she spoke biting her lip in uncertainty.

"Deal…" he spoke.

The two heard sounds of the footsteps. People were up and preparing themselves for the morning meals.

Kaoru decided that she would help this morning.

"Oh onna…" came his cruel voice…

"Yes Seto-san?" she obediently answered.

"You'll be here this morning, eating breakfast with me. Comprendes?" he asked…

"Si, comprendo." She bitterly responded taking to her heels.

In the shadows of the early morning vicious eyes of a certain fellow looked on. His amber eyes saw the entire thing, how Seto now command Kaoru? Kenshin was a light sleeper and really no assassin had sleep, but he couldn't deny he did sleep. When he awoke he saw Seto ordering his Kaoru to have breakfast with him. What was that? Thought Kenshin. All this was new, only yesterday he engaged in an unspoken hatred for this Seto.

To Kenshin, Seto was a seventeen year old who like Kenshin shared a violent miserable past. One that never seems to exist but is present in the eyes. Kenshin was never really the type of person to become extrovert with what he had, regardless if it be good points or his relationship. What mattered was like he acted like a shadow. Where his comment was last and never important. He never tried to be out-spoken with Katsura or people, for he knew every word an assassin says will be weighed some day against his soul so he afforded little to none of it. But looking at the situation yesterday, the way how Kaoru practically and freely threw herself out for Seto, hurt him, greatly.

Now she's doing it all over, obliging to Seto, offering herself to him, willingly and quickly. To him, this was not his Kaoru. His Kaoru was a lover only to him and became subjected to no one but him. She loved no other and owed nothing. She was free yet owned to him.

The woman below wasn't his Kaoru, she was someone else. Someone he barely understood any longer. It confused Kenshin because first to start off with, Kaoru doesn't fall for men easily unless they are complete bishouhens, but even if, she's not that shallow to fall for a boy with just looks. She chooses and samples, and when she finds her fit she's not afraid to show it. When she fell for Okita, a huge Shinsen, Kenshin was a bit shock, but come on, she's a girl and Kenshin understood she really didn't know how the true enemies of the Ishin looked. That's understandable, but now there's this instance. The one of Seto, it wasn't even 24 hours later that she found someone. How could someone move on so quickly and fall so easily for anyone. For all Kenshin knew Kaoru could be crushing on several other men.

In that instance, Kenshin's soul burned. It was crude to imagine that, but there's always a possibility that she's not that innocent. Maybe she wasn't.

His eyes flickered back and forth from dark blue to amber eyes full of putrid hate. Like crackling flames of a fire Kenshin felt something in him scream. Violently it shook him making him clench his hands in a tight fist. Nothing could prepare him for the strongest emotion of hate in his soul. It was like something being convulsed from him.

Shaking his head he reassured himself it was okay. Suddenly, the images of a smiling Kaoru came to his mind, she was happy, elated and beautiful. Then he saw himself kissing her. His body calmed at the image, until the image of what he thought to be him, was now Seto. Seto and his Kaoru. It blazed and scorched his soul on fire.

"Enough" he held his head.

It was a little too much for someone like him to cope with.

'Know this Toshiba, you can try your stunts but she will always be mine'

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Ninsuko boiled the water.

Kaoru she chopped the carrots.

Sakura diced the potatoes.

Ayami made the green-tea.

Matsura boiled some eggs making sure they didn't over-boil.

"Okay girls I'll watch the food for the while. I want you girls to go upstairs and wake up the Chosu and Ishin boys. And to think they didn't hear me screaming wake up, but oh well, boys will be boys" she spoke. The girls giggled.

Sakura and Ayami took to the left while Kaoru took the left and Ninsuko took the bottom. Kaoru knocked on the shoji of one residents, hearing no sound she opened it. There was no one there. 'Well at least he listened'

One by one she would knock and notify the warriors it was breakfast. There in front of her, her eyes zeroed down on a certain fellows door. 'Kenshin'

She looked around seeing no one. Slowly and yet quietly she opened the door. The room was dark. Completely dark. She could make out a form on the futon. Kenshin. She walked to the body, able to see him just barely from the dull light through his dark somewhat opaque curtain. Sitting down next to him, she placed her hand against his cheek. So smooth. Pushing her head forward she kissed his cheek, "wake up koishii" she pushed the sheet back allowing the cold air of morning to touch his skin. Realizing he didn't budge, she joined him, lying next to him. Placing her head against his shoulder, she kissed the muscular area before trailing up. Feeling him stir, she continued.

Kenshin was already awake. Already he knew he could never sleep, since some maniac called Seto was after his woman. He was glad the room was dark.

He turned his face to hers. Kaoru made out the shadows and lightings on his face as he turned her direction. His hands came around her, pulling on over his body, Kaoru whimpered when she felt his hands on her hips where he classically stroked her. Kaoru jolted from his electric touch. Even through her kimono she could feel his touch. She lay against him, trying to find his face. Somehow Kenshin knew what she wanted. Pushing his lips against hers, she sighed in relief feeling him switch positions. Kaoru now lay beneath him, feeling him take control of everything. She wrapped her hands around his neck drawing him closer to her. His tongue slid sensually across her bottom lip, and to her unknowing her knees buckle. His tongue as devilish as it was never failed to impress her as it danced into her mouth, stroking her tongue wildly. He boldly swept his tongue across her teeth and it was then she felt herself becoming warm inside.

Pulling back slowly, Kaoru whispered in the darkness, "I missed you…" she raised her hand to his cheek, he held it to his cheek tightly. Kissing it, he whispered he missed her too.

Inside Kenshin was angry with Kaoru, but she was his regardless.

He kissed down her cheek to her neck then back to her ear, taking the lobe in his mouth he whispered, "take off everything—I want you"

Kaoru shivered… "koishii" she panted…

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An: (Fhb blushes like a little girl) And to think I didn't get over the lemons I made. Heheehhe! Okay, I must say, I'm a bit fedup of the Seto too. I know the story is getting stubborn to follow but please stay with me please. I am trying to make a pretty good story and I need you peeps to tell me what you think. Okay, so here we see some Kenshin and Kaoru action and it goes out to all of you. I'll do a lemon later on my site so watch out for it. Pretty much there will be a big chapter coming up and I need the parts of 'Awaking the real hitokiri battousai' in part of the preparation. So sit back and relax. It'll be fun! Let me take you on a wild journey!

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