Bakumastu's Best Romance Novel.
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R- contains suggestive material and contains some 'stuff'
Chapter 22 —Awaking the real Hitokiri Battousai (Part 4)
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BATTOUSAI COMES ALIVE, ALAS!
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She would gladly done as he said but she knew people would come looking for her.
"No koishii, everyone is up…" she whispered…
He understood her and began getting up. Had she upset him? Touching his back, he whispered he's okay. Kaoru got up, hugging him from behind. Her hands went under his arms where she touched his muscles and stomach.
"Come on koishii, lets go eat…" she spoke.
The couple got to their feet, leaving the dark room silently. Kenshin browsed the hall, it was empty. Pushing Kaoru against the wall, she quizzically looked at him. His blue eyes ventured into hers, before he took her lips to his own, rudely and unnaturally. He greedily took her, where he felt her responding to his intense kisses. Tying her hands around his neck, she moaned into his mouth before having him trail lower down her neck. The sensitive and neglected skin was skillfully tortured and enjoyed. Kaoru primitively exerted moans across the hall, feeling the bliss rushing to her head. Sliding down the wall in a tired and delirious manner, she felt Kenshin jolt her straight back onto his sturdy form. She felt every impression of his body on hers, her soft body sent messages of incontrollable desire flashing throughout his veins, one in which usually meant a solution of making love, but he couldn't. Not this way. Kissing her one last time on the lips, she opened her mouth to receive his talented tongue. And slowly her wicked tongue joined his…
"Kaoruuu" someone shouted from down below.
The couple jumped. Laughter escaping their lips.
"I think we had enough fun for the morning, hmm koishii?" he asked seeing her bite her red lips in naughtiness.
"If you say so" she teased…
They walked down the hall and down the steps until they made a left where they now stood in the meal entrance. They entered where Chosu and Ishin sat together in a cluttered room. Kaoru saw their seats where not kept since the Chosu officals now sat there. Kenshin walked first seeing many of young men looking at his tempting girlfriend. Kaoru followed Kenshin's queue. She stumbled a bit knowing if she kept that up she would fall. Kenshin offered her his hand, she took it and together they walked through the group of people. Even when they found themselves some seats, he didn't let her hand go. Kaoru was impressed at this. Ninsuko came out of the blues handing the couple a bowl of miso soup and some green tea. They bowed lightly and dug in. Before Kaoru could sip her tea, she heard a familiar voice. She stopped in her tracks. Kenshin paid no attention to the voice. Kaoru turned to her left only to see Seto, he was calling her to have breakfast with him. Kaoru turned to Kenshin who ate silently.
"Kenshin…I, I'm having breakfast with Seto. He –urh, he planned for us to have breakfast this morning. Since yesterday he planned the whole thing, I'm sorry" she bowed.
"It's okay Kaoru" he spoke.
She took her meal and followed Seto.
Nothing hurt Kenshin more than what just happened, she actually lied. Lied to me he thought.
'We'll see about this now won't we Mr. Toshiba'
Around half past ten where everyone had finished eating a simple breakfast, the men thought it was time to start with the morning's practice. Indeed for some reason, Kenshin was very eager to spar. Spar with the devil himself.
Iziuka did the conventional thing, he lectured while the Ishin boys practically yawned at the man. Kenshin on the other hand kept his eyes on Seto who was watching 'his' Kaoru.
"This morning lads we'll be doing something a wee bit different. I know you gentlemen are suppose to be swinging your heads off but that's no fun. So then, I've decided with the permission of Kogoro-san" Iziuka looked at his boss, "that you boys deserve some fun, say—some sparring?" he asked.
A loud boisterous cheer rose in the air as the men couldn't deny fighting was the ideal resolution. Iziuka smirked at the positivity of the young men.
"Okay okay enough celebration its time for the rules. The rules are going to be a little different in this sparing game. First off, this will be the area in which you'll be fighting, this huge circle." Iziuka spoke, unsheathing his blade, he drew a large circle with the blade's tip. The diameter was close to sixteen feet and to Iziuka it was a bit too large.
'Anyways…' thought Iziuka.
"Now the instructions are simple." He sheathed his blade, "rule number one, no swords are permitted only bokkens will be accepted. No daggers, shurikens, ninja smoke or any weapon or artillery will be permitted into this sparring tournament. Okay?" he asked
"Hai" the boys responded curtly.
"Good. Rule number two. You'll be placed on sides with captains but here's where the rule comes in, we need two volunteers…anyone?" Iziuka asked.
Chazu came forward.
"Very good, anyone else, I want someone from the Chosu clan…erhh anyone?" he asked.
To Iziuka all boys were headaches, but the Chosu boys were migraines. Maybe their nature was more of a posh, snobby and quiet kind, indeed Iziuka thought their attitudes and participation reeked but again who was he to say!
"Fine! Be that way gentlemen, since I don't know who is who right now, I'll pick that hott-mouthed boy, Seto. Where are you kid?" Iziuka asked.
"Correct yourself old man, I am no kid…" Seto showed himself, blue eyes flaming…
"Look I don't even want to start with you so let the rules continue." He paused fearing Seto would like to say something, however the boy kept quiet. 'Thank God' Thought Iziuka.
"Right, so here's what you gotta do. Chazu you must and I mean MUST, pick members from both the Ishin and the Chosu, you must have an even amount of Ishin and Chosu on your side and the same goes for you Seto. If you don't listen to my rules then I'll be glad to kick your ass out and select a new captain. Yeah?" he asked.
He saw both captains nodded.
"Okay, we'll flip a coin to see who picks first. Chazu and Seto, heads or tails?" he asked
"Heads…" Chazu said.
"Tails…" Seto answered.
"So be it" Iziuka spoke flipping the coin in the air, almost immediately the coin came back down into Iziuka's palm where he slammed his palm on his wrist. Raising his hand he saw it was Tails.
"Your call Seto"
Seto smirked. "Very well, urh…Tidus" he called. Obviously his first man was a Chosu member but it wasn't against the rules to pick your best friend.
Chazu looked through the lines of soldiers resting his eyes on his friend, Kenshin.
"Himura-san" Chazu chose, though Chazu was the captain and didn't need to respect anyone at the moment, Chazu always felt it in his duty to respect the one person he thought ingenious, Kenshin.
Whispers traveled from person to person as Kenshin approached his friend. Regardless what, Iziuka knew the game was already won with a certain fellow on their side.
"I pick Ryu" Seto spoke.
"Maijut" Chazu spoke.
The process went on for a while until the battle begun. The battles were usually short since the Chosu did an easy job of finishing and 'crippling' the poor Ishin. The only persons who hadn't lost in the Ishin was Chazu and Kenshin. They stood strong against a ten man army of the Chosu. The odds were cruel with ten against two, and the famous Battousai against ten.
Ninsuko and a couple of the other girls looked on at the battle knowing someone could get hurt and that this was indeed a tense battle. One of these girls happen to be Kaoru. In her mind she cheered both Kenshin and Seto but the odds were detrimental. To Kaoru the battle was already over as she conceived the winner.
Chazu entered the ring, knowing that the rules had changed quite a bit. If he needed help he would have to stick out his hand for Kenshin to touch it and therefore be able to help him. A bit dizzy from all the lashes, cuffs and kicks he had received, Chazu confidently wore the features of a winner as he took in the best thing he had, which in a sense was already victory, Ninsuko's face. Her face was wretched in pain as she saw blood and gashes everywhere, it frighten her to see her boyfriend so battered and in that, confident?
Trusting his expression, she weakly smiled.
Lowering himself into a stance, he readied his bokken and waited for his clever opponent to duel with him.
"Confident I see" a boy spoke, supposedly known as Tidus, Seto's best friend. The boy was a black head with dark eyes and a strong muscular body, one that was perfect to swoon young girls.
"Indeed" Chazu curtly spoke, his eyes narrowed into focus.
"Well, we'll see now won't we?" with that Tidus ran in, his bokken clenched tightly in his hand. Chazu waited, sweat falling meticulously slow from his brow as he waited for the blow. Closer they drew into each other until a perfect block of both bokkens were formed.
"Come now, is that all you got?" Tidus exclaimed, gritting his teeth as both bokkens kneaded against each other in a collision.
"Oh I got more punk" Chazu spoke kicking Tidus straight in the gut. Tidus wobbled a bit before crossing over the ring. He was out the ring, where the next person was a brown head boy who Chazu could say he knew nothing about. The boy was smaller in frame but wore features of steel in confidence.
Chazu gave no large welcome to the battle field as he ran with his bokken in a protective manner. The boy swung his bokken head first at Chazu, who by wits of steel, was shock. Chazu ducked, sending a foot under the feet of the boy. Indeed, he fell in a huge heap where Chazu placed his bokken on the boy's throat reenacting the motions in war. The perfect look of defeat was present as Chazu wore stone features. Kicking the boy out the ring he readied himself for his third opponent not merely amused at the lame moves the Chosu boys used.
A young boy brought himself on the field where his black eyes glanced at the battered Ishin.
'Time to meet your end Ishin' the boy drove in with his bokken hidden in his loop. Chazu came in seeing the fist that came his way. Being tricked by the boy's hand, the bokken magically appeared in his face. Blood splattered on the floor and bokken. Chazu fell to the floor. The boy spared Chazu little time to understand what happened. Sending his bokken across Chazu's body repeatedly, nobody had any control over the actions. What Iziuka tried to do was reenact a real battle where you are left on your own.Yet, what the Chosu boy was doing indeed was merciless and it brought tears to a certain female.
"Stop itt" she screamed. Ninsuko got to her feet seeing her boyfriend being beaten senseless. Kaoru held her back, so did some of girls.
"No Kaoru-chann.." she cried, burying her face in her best friend's neck. She couldn't see Chazu be beaten this way.
Chazu dizzy and hurting, heard her voice. Strength that was perhaps used for running his vital organs, he used to stick out his hand for Kenshin to touch. Before Kenshin could touch his hand, the young boy pulled Chazu's foot where a blow was sent to his face. He cried out, knowing that he was going to faint from the loss of blood. The boy smirked, 'taste my skill weakling.'
Chazu couldn't take this. He was practically being crippled. He couldn't move anything, he was dense and open to all blows. The boy stood over his defeated antagonist. He placed a foot on Chazu's stomach. He pressed down making him groan in pain. Chazu needed help.
"Chazu…use what you have…open your eyes" Kenshin finally spoke.
Chazu didn't understand. Half wincing and seeing, Chazu realized what Kenshin was speaking off. Though the foot on his stomach hurt him incredibly, Chazu couldn't deny he had the upper hand.
And he knew exactly what to do.
Assembling all the strength in him, Chazu looked at Ninsuko one last time before taking in a deep breath of air. In speed Chazu executed his deadly plan. Twisting the boy's foot, the boy stumbled to the floor crying out in pain. Chazu crawled to Kenshin's hand and held on it.
"Get them in their ass Himura-san" Chazu spoke huskily.
Kenshin helped Chazu out the ring where Ninsuko and Dr. Tiki took him indoors for cleaning up.
Kenshin proudly entered the ring. So did one of the Seto's boys.
For Kenshin this was all good and easy. One after the next he finished them off like sushi. It was now the last person on the list for the assassin himself to taunt. To Kenshin this was what he wanted, what he'd been waiting for, a battle with Seto. To show him, taunt him…mindlessly hurt him and cause him the pain he felt for what his girlfriend did. This was Kenshin's true smile as he placed his bokken slowly into his loop.
Kaoru now stood at the edge of her seat as she watched both Kenshin and Seto in the ring. It made her swallow deeply.
"Ready to meet your doom Himura-boy?" asked Seto as he smirked evilly.
Kenshin never answered. Silence was the best deception as it was.
"Your choice" Seto charged in with his bokken ripping through the air at its target, Kenshin. Kenshin closed his eyes waiting for the bokken to break his aura. And in that one perfect moment, Kenshin felt it. Like a ripple into his aura, Kenshin dodged the blow sending his bokken across the back of Seto with great power. Before Seto could fly out the ring, Kenshin was not over. Pulling him by the arm, he vigorously grabbed his hair and spoke in his ear, "when you mess with what's not yours asshole…you pay a price" and with that he pushed him to the floor.
"Get up Toshiba…" Kenshin ordered walking from his body to stand in a far corner away from him.
Seto felt the pain in his back 'yup, this is really gonna leave a mark', slowly he drew to knees, breathing deeply, he stood on his feet weakly and shakily. Bringing the bokken in front of him, he held it squarely.
"What is it that I have, which is yours Himura?" he asked…
"You know quite well Toshiba…" Kenshin coldly trailed off…
"If I knew I would gladly hurt you some more with it, but since I don't know it complicates me. Is it your sensais you want?" Kenshin decided he would play with his prey…
Seto dived in with his bokken, where with ease Kenshin blocked it.
"No…I don't fight for those things Toshiba…" Kenshin pushed him off looking him into the eyes hatefully.
"Well then…lets see, is it the fact how I take the respect of your soldiers or is it that you're forgotten for your skill by my skilled expertise…?" he asked running in yet another time.
The bokkens met again, but Kenshin smirked, "but of course, not" he slammed his bokken lightly into Seto's shoulder. Seto groaned holding his shoulder in pain.
"That would be wrong Mr. Toshiba" Kenshin spoke flatly…
"Then I really give up asshole" Seto turned around where he met Kenshin, with his foot aiming for his face, Kenshin duck sending his white knuckles of fury into Seto's face who also ducked.
"Come on Himura-boy, is that all you have…what are you a mama's boy? A chicken, puck puck puckkk!" Seto knew how to egg someone on, especially a murderer.
"Look who wants attention…?" Kenshin added coldly.
"Let's finish this Himura…" Seto held his bokken tightly where in a vertical slash he came down at Kenshin. Kenshin blocked the bokken, sending his bokken in a perfect diagonal slash across Seto. Just like how he slashed in war. Usually bokkens don't draw blood, instead they usually cause serious pains. But with Kenshin's technique and skilled hand, he was able to do quite the opposite. Again and again he would slash Seto with his bokken until some blood if not any blood was seen. Kenshin remembered how he groaned, to Kenshin this was all perfect.
He senselessly, and murderously cold beat the boy until he called mercy.
Kenshin buried deep in his deft hate, heard nothing, felt nothing. All he wants is blood of his enemy to fall. And it falls and it puddles.
Katsura stands on his feet at the scene of the merciless Battousai. For the first time Katsura sees that Kenshin does not exist when he allows himself to become stained and soiled with blood. He just simply works with his enemy and slowly yet surely, kills them with his most precious blow.
Iziuka looked on in horror as the young boy begged for mercy but Kenshin never gave him any.
"Iziuka stop it noww! Hurry up" Katsura sounded frantic as he watched the blood on the floor. Kenshin slammed his perfect bokken into Seto's bloodied face again feeling the warm blood sprinkle against his face. A smirk dance his way across his features, 'how perfect.'
Their in the crowd, still looking on with respect of both these men, was Kaoru. Enthralled by the descriptive scene, she stopped to swallow the moment before her. The blood…the hate…the Battousai.
With tears in her eyes that he would not listen to a man that begs for mercy, she felt something tight in her throat.
Standing to her feet, she broke free from the chain of girls.
"Kaoru-chan…Kaoru-chan…?" Sakura spoke as the young girl didn't listen and continued to walk.
With each lash that was administered to Seto, Kaoru felt more shame –more guilt for Kenshin. How could he be so cruel…so merciless. What was he?
"Stop itt" she shouted at Kenshin. She was a few feet from the ring.
"How dare you Kenshin…how dare you be so low?" she swallowed and walked forward, "a man begs for mercy and you continue to effortlessly beat him? Who are you..what are you?" she paused taking in the pitiful sight of Seto.
Tears fell from her eyes and she couldn't help it.
"I use to think I could save you…but looking at it more carefully, I didn't do anything now did I…?" she removed herself from him. She went to Seto where her kimono touched blood. Immediately Dr. Tiki along with some of the boys helped the young boy out the ring. Before Kaoru could leave, Kenshin held her hand back.
"You don't understand…" he said…
"What is there to understand…?" she asked…
"What I did…it was meant only to show him that he can't have what he wants" he spoke.
It was the most hurtful thing she heard. Not even sure what he meant, she gritted her teeth.
"You animalll" she screamed out before slapping him solid across the face.
Everyone saw it and surely they wouldn't forget it.
Kenshin stood there, silently in shock. 'Wasn't I suppose to win which I did and feel victory, where my girl runs up to me and hug me?' he pauses to ask himself, 'then why…why does it feel, like I lost everything?'
Standing perfectly still, Kenshin waited for everyone to go inside. Inside of him, he felt everything emerging once again. A blinding white hate flashed into his soul making him ache.
Gritting his teeth, he hissed when he felt it rippling throughout him recklessly. Everywhere within him felt strong hate. What was this?
To Kenshin he wasn't sure. And again his eyes flashed from blue to amber in a back and forth notion until they settled back into a colour no one would ever forget.
Blinking open his eyes, a brilliant gold, more powerful than the shade of amber itself glinted with freedom. Today he had done it, today his last nerve was crossed, his last emotion was kept in check…
Today he was the real and awesome, "Hitokiri Battousai" he spoke coldly, like never before….
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An: Okay peeps, this chapter was important to show that Kenshin can't take any more of Kaoru's skimpy-movements with Seto. This chapter is an important chapter because it is a chapter which brings the end to Seto and Kaoru's relationship as whatever they were. A reminder, Kaoru is not attracted to Seto, she only wishes to help him. Seto is a lot like Kenshin with a dark past and hateful attitude, all she's trying to do is help Seto, but Kenshin is misunderstanding. So don't feel any hate peeps, it was all good mirth she had for everyone. Also a reminder, as I said, this is the last chapter with Seto and Kaoru being so 'gushy' as I made it, this now brings in a next exciting chapter where the real Battousai comes to play with his girl…so I hope it excites you more now.
Okay, so thank you so much for reading and I wish all of you guys a best time on earth!
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