Aoshi is engaged to Meg arranged by their parents and who is in love with him but Aoshi doesn't return the Feeling. Meg can't strand her sister Misao whom she didn't see for years. What happens when Misao shows up. Not for Megumi fans. AxM. RxR.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters of Rurouni Kenshin.

Let Your Heart Be Known.

Chapter-1

There he was sitting in the beautiful living room of Shinomori mansion deep in thought of the event that took place about a week ago. He had his dark bangs covering his ice blue eyes. He was wearing a neat deep blue shirt and black trousers all ready to go else where. but he "Aoshi Shinomori" was still in his thoughts.

'Is this what I wanted in my life?' these are the thoughts that ran through his head. why? because he got engaged to Megumi Makimachi, the eldest daughter of Morio Makimachi. Apparently, his father Reizo Shinomori and Morio are best friends and this marriage is an enhancement to their friendship and business. And as an excellent businessman and for the love of his family he was willing to go through this.

The only problem was "Megumi" he finds her absolutely annoying. He found no difference between her and all the other girls that would want him all to themselves for his looks, his status and of course his money. 'they are all the same' He just doesn't find himself comfortable around her and not only that, he also has a bad feeling about the wedding. 'no..lets not think about this anymore. I will go through this for the business and for my family. I will make my family proud'

"Aoshi Darling are you ready" his mother called all set to go.

"Yes mother"

"You look as handsome as ever my son"

"Thank you mother, and you look beautiful today" he said and gave his mother kiss on her chick.

"Come on you two, I don't want the makimachis to wait any longer, we are late already" said his father and thus they all walked out of the door and drove off towards the Makimachi Mansion.

As they reached the Makimachi mansion they were welcomed open heartedly.

"Aoshi, what took you so long? Didn't you know that I was waiting for you?" Megumi said as she hugged him and after pulling away and holding both the sides of his face, she press her lips to his. Of course their parents stood there staring at the couple they had thought are having a lovely moment which was obviously only being a great moment for Megumi and not for Aoshi.

"Oh I missed you so much" megumi said as she stopped kissing.

" Megumi, we met just this afternoon for lunch" Aoshi not showing at all how disgusted he felt at that moment and took out a hanky wiping of the lipstick from his face.

"But Aoshi you know how much I love you"

"Uhm… why don't we move into the living room where we can sit comfortably" Megumi's mother suggested to which they all agreed.

As they sat there in the living room quite comfortably conversing about several matters about the marriage and the business and family.

"Morio?" Reizo asked

"Yes?"

" Why didn't we see your daughter..umm..a..a yes Misao at the engagement. wasn't she informed of the engagement"

That caught Aoshi's attention. 'megumi never mentioned about a sister' out of curiosity he glanced at the side table and saw some pictures of the family but there was none with the so said sister in it.

" Ah..yes of course she was informed. in fact megumi herself mailed her didn't you Megumi" said Mrs. Makimachi with a bit of hesitation. Right at this point of the conversation Megumi paled. It seemed she was not at all comfortable with the said name and as everyone kept on staring at her with curiosity and waiting for a reply.

"Umm why yes mother, I did but I don't know why she didn't come " 'damn, that bitch'

Aoshi stared at megumi clearly seeing the lies coming out of her mouth ' I wonder why'.

"Hmm, anyways, morio what is it that misao is doing?"

"Oh she is in New York studying fashion designi…." Morio was cut of by chuckle. they all looked toward the person the sound came from. Megumi couldn't hold back her laughter and who knows why.

" Oh I am sorry father for so rudely interrupting you, well you see misao, was always known as a tomboy. I just cant believe why she all of a sudden wanted to be a fashion designer, don't you rather think it is weird, well I find it absolutely funny. oh I wonder how she is doing….a fashion designer oh hohoho" and she continued on laughing.

" Aa, yes actually she was always fond of arts maybe that is where she took her turn into fashion designing though I myself was quite surprised when she informed us that she has received a full scholarship at one of the topmost fashion designing schools in New York"

Morio explained "Not that she was a bad student as a matter of fact she was a brilliant one at school and also a wonderful painter" Morio finished yet with a sad smile thinking of his young daughter whom he hasn't seen heard from for a very long time. 'why' Morio asked himself 'why didn't she write back to us, not a single letter not even a call? why? Didn't we give her enough love or is it that she doesn't find us important anymore? may be Megumi is right Misao doesn't care about us anymore" he thought and frowned. He was snapped out of his thoughts by Reizo

"Really, is that so, why don't you show me some of her paintings then"

"Ah yes. Well Megumi knows where they are kept. Well you see, Megumi adores her sister so much that she had put the paintings away for safety, right Megumi?"

Aoshi looked over to Megumi who was sitting in silence and cocked up his brow 'really' he thought.

At this moment megumi was fuming with all the attention that misao was getting even though she was not here.

"Of course I will show them but may be after the dinner" she said hoping that everyone will forget about the whole topic later.

"Mrs. Shinomori, that is a very elegant dress you are wearing" Megumi asked to draw everyone attention away from Misao.

"Oh this one isn't it nice, I bought it when I went to New York with Reizo on his business trip there, meanwhile I just wanted to go around shopping. Well this one I found at this store called MM designer's collections it was newly opened though. But the dresses are beautiful and it had become famous already at that time. Everyone was talking about it. Isn't it a brilliant work?"

"Yes, it is indeed"

"Well they said that they hardly gets to see the designer, but I will tell you, when I bought this dress she herself chose it for me. She is a very young designer and when I asked her why she never showed herself off to the public, when her store is becoming so famous. She told me that she is not really fond of fame. She just loves her work and that's all"

DING DONG.

"Oh my who could that be, I surely didn't invite anyone else at this time.. hmm beshimi will you please see who it is at the door" Megumi's mother called out.

"Yes of course" Beshimi their butler replied walked of hurriedly towards the door.

"Huh, why miss…" they heard Beshimi gasped.

"Yes, it has been a long time hasn't it" said a female voice and they all waited for the guest to be brought into the living room.

to be continued..