Dragostea Nu Are Ochi

Chapter Five

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Must I say it again! Translations are on the bottom you divio dinilo! Look THAT up!

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Kenshin's face paled. Not only was this man incredibly suave and good-looking but he spoke perfect Romanian. On top of that, he had just proposed to Kaoru.

Bloody hell, was the first thing to come to Kenshin's mind. He rarely spoke with his British accent, never mind curse with it. "Con-congratulations..." he stuttered.

Kaoru looked at him as if he were insane. Surprisingly, she responded in broken English, "I don't say yes."

"You didn't?" he asked. "Doesn't he speak English?" he motioned to Nanosh.

"No, and I don't get married. I can't." She tried to make sense between her accent and broken dialect.

"Then tell him that," Megumi piped in. "Tell him you're not ready."

"I don't ever be ready, Megumi," she said to her sister. "Not for him."

"Excuse me," Nanosh cut in, speaking in Romanian. "It's terribly rude to leave others out of a conversation."

Kenshin rolled his eyes, Tell me about it…

Kaoru looked at Nanosh, her eyes showed no pain. "Na," she told him no, in her native tongue.

Nanosh looked at her in disbelief. "S-So?"

"Na," she repeated.

Koshijirou shouted, "So keres! Si tut divio!" He asked Kaoru what she thought she was doing.

"Phen?" Kaoru turned towards her sister. Megumi nodded to Sanosuke who stood.

Sanosuke stood over Nanosh and placed a hand on his shoulder and told him to go, "Za." Nanosh didn't move and Sanosuke tightened his grip, "Za, dinilo."

"Na," Nanosh said firmly, still not moving.

Koshijirou looked at Nanosh, "Za."

"Vaida!" Nanosh asked, shocked.

"Za!" the leader shouted. Nanosh hung his head and left the room.

Kenshin watched the scene play out and became incredibly confused. He then felt that he was no longer supposed to be in the room so he quickly excused himself. He headed upstairs, where he collapsed on his bed and sighed.

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"Raklo..." someone whispered in Kenshin's ear. "Psst, Raklo, wake up."

Kenshin sat up and looked around the room. Kaoru was sitting on his bed. He reached for his glasses and saw her better.

"What?" he whispered.

"I'm leaving," she told him, "to find Yahiko."

"What!" he gasped. "How the hell did you come to that conclusion while talking about marriage?"

Kaoru sighed and stood, "Dinilo…"

"You're calling me the idiot? You're the one that is making no sense what so ever." He stood up and fixed the buttons on his shirt. "Why are you going after Yahiko?"

"So I don't have to get married, of course," she said blatantly.

"That's what I don't get!" Kenshin yelled, extremely confused.

"Look, if my brother was here, he was to take over the kingdom, and now that he's not, either me or my sister has to, but we have to be married. Megumi isn't expected to get married early, because she's a woman of science, and no one really would want to marry her anyway. So it falls on me," she explained. "Now I have to go find him."

"Does your father know your going?" Kenshin asked.

"No… and he won't find out," she smiled at him, "now will he?"

Kenshin rolled his eyes. "Who's going with you?"

"No one. I don't need anyone." She got up and headed for the door.

"Hold on," he blocked the door. "Your telling me that you're going out on some crazy trip, chasing after the Nazi's who took your brother, all alone?"

"Yes, and their not Nazi's, per say." She tried to get past him but he didn't move.

"Nazi-like people, ok? And that doesn't change the fact that you're doing this alone. You could get hurt."

"Are you kidding?" she starred at him. "I could get killed. Getting hurt is expected."

"Oh God, you're joking! You can't possibly expect me to sit here and let you do this to yourself!" he shouted.

"It's not an expectation, it's a requirement." She jabbed him lightly near the wound on his stomach and he buckled over. "I'll send Megumi up here for you."

She stepped over him, to leave, but he grabbed her ankle, causing her to fall. "Let me come with you."

"Are you kidding?" she exclaimed, now on the ground next to him. "You're seriously asking me this, even though you are so wounded, you fell when I barely touched you!"

Kenshin got up with a smile, "You're the one who fell for it, which just proves that you shouldn't go out there alone."

"You're not coming with me,"

"You're not leaving alone."

"Fine!"

"Good."

They both fell silent for a moment and starred at each other. Kaoru stood up and brushed off her pants. "Then I guess I'll be leaving in the middle of the night, so no pests follow me."

"Then I guess I won't be sleeping much for the next few nights." He walked over to his bed and sat.

Kaoru crossed her arms. "That might just be a trick, you know."

"Then I guess I'll have to be on guard all the time." Kenshin leaned back on his bed and closed his eyes.

"You don't seem to be on guard to me," she said, putting her hands on her hips.

"You don't seem to be leaving to me," he told her.

"Well, I just might!" She turned around started walking down the hall.

"I doubt that!" he shouted to her. "Pain in the-…"

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Kaoru snuck down the halls of her large home. The sword at her side lightly tapped against her leg as she walked towards the door. Before she opened the massive passageway, she checked that she had everything with her. She had a sword, dagger and handgun, for protection. She also had a bag with some food and a book with a black cover.

She opened the door slowly, and slipped out into the night. She began to make her journey down the long dirt road that lead to the outskirts of the village. When she reached the edge of the forest she planed to cut through, to make her journey shorter, she stopped. She sensed something was not right.

"Where you going?"

Kaoru jumped, startled, and turned on her heel. Kenshin stood behind her, arms crossed and a smug smile on his face.

He walked up to her and took out a map from his pocket. "Won't you be needing this?" he asked, dangling the paper in front of her.

She smiled sarcastically, and took out the book with a black cover. "Won't you be needing this?"

Kenshin stared at his copy of Les Miserables. "I knew you took it!"

"I didn't want you telling my father that I left, so I decided to give you a little hint that I was leaving." She threw the book at him and turned to continue on.

Kenshin followed her into the woods and grinned. "So you didn't want to go alone!"

"Please, Raklo. Even if I didn't, I'd ask Sano to come with me because he'd be better protection then you!" She rolled her eyes and pushed back a tree branch. "I just didn't want you to talk!"

"Sure, princess," he said mockingly.

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Back at the castle, Megumi began picking up on strange things about Nanosh. While she was up in the middle of night, walking around because she could not sleep, she heard him talking in his sleep. At first, she didn't think anything of it, but when he started speaking in an odd language, she became worried. He had told her father he only spoke Romanian and Romany, but this language was neither. Word's like, anschlag and jetzt, came up in his vocabulary. Megumi had never heard these words before, and became confused by this.

The next odd thing to happen was before breakfast. Megumi went to Nanosh's room, to inform his that breakfast was ready, but when she got to his room, he quickly jumped and covered up something that he was writing. He shouted at her as well, which he had never done.

"Abschied!" he shouted. "Uh… Va!"

Megumi quickly closed the door and walked down the hall. He had spoken in the same strange language, but she couldn't place it.

I suppose I should go check on Kenshin then, she thought to herself. However, when she arrived at the room, she found it empty. She didn't think to much of it at first, but when she saw that his book and glasses weren't there, she began to worry. Then she saw a book on the table with a page ripped out. She turned the book over and read the title. "Regions of Romanian, Part I"

Oh no…

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"Should we rest?" Kenshin asked, holding his side, lightly.

"What wrong, Raklo, tired?" Kaoru laughed. "That's what you get we you take on a long journey and your still wounded."

"It's been almost a month and a half! I'm fine! I was just worried… about you. You know, you might be getting tired or something…" he said, trying to make it sound believable.

"Fine," she laughed. "I have some food, if you want some. It's almost lunch now, I suppose, so you must be getting hungry."

"Yes, please," he answered, while collapsing to the ground. She handed part of her lunch and sat next to him. He looked over at her, his mouth full of food, and asked, "Where do you expect to find your brother?"

Kaoru looked up and answered, "I really don't know." She took a bite of her lunch. "There was some rumor of a Nazi camp that still running about 25 miles north of here."

Kenshin took out his map of Romanian that he had ripped out of a book. "We are here," he told her, pointing near where the Arges River and the base of the Carpathian Mountains met. "You're telling me, that you expect to climb straight over the mountain and get to around this area?" He point to a spot on the direct opposite side of the mountains.

"Yes."

He looked at her for a few moments. "You're nuts."

"Yes."

"Well," he turned back to the map and studied it, "we could head towards the Olt River and follow that through the large valley in the Carpathian Mountains."

"But that's almost 15 miles from here! We'd be going out of our way." Kaoru whined and took the map. "Why can't we just go through the mountains?"

"Because, if we did, we'd be trying to go over the highest peaks in the mountain range, Moldoveanu, which 8,346 feet high," he said, matter-of-factly, as he pointed to the peak on the map.

"Fine," she muttered. "To Olt it is, then."

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A few hours later, they had reached the Olt River. The afternoon was turning into evening slowly, so Kenshin and Kaoru decided to stop and make camp for the night in a small clearing next to the river. Kaoru started a fire, with the help of some matches, Kenshin had in his pocket, from New York. Kaoru brought some water from the stream to the fire in a canteen she had. They sat and watched the fire burn, not saying a word, while sharing the water.

"Kaoru, I don't get something," Kenshin said, suddenly. "If you didn't want me to come with you, and you didn't want me to tell your father, why did you tell me your plan in the first place.?"

Kaoru looked up at him and he notice her cheeks turned a light shade of pink as she tried to think of an answer. "I-…. I didn't want you to worry about where I was…." she lied weakly.

Kenshin laughed, "I thought what you did wasn't any of my business. And, why would you care if I worried. The one you should be thinking about it Nanosh."

"Well…" She starred up at the stars.

"You didn't tell him, did you?" he noted.

"Nope." She smiled and leaned back on a tree. "After asking me to marry him, I don't know if I could face him."

"Why?" Kenshin looked at her. "Are you afraid to turn him down or… afraid to tell him yes?"

She smiled in a way that Kenshin had never seen before. It was sweet, and thoughtful. "I don't really love him, but I am apprehensive about saying no."

"Why?" Kenshin questioned, seeing how far he could get her to open up.

"I guess I just don't want to hurt him, and I don't want to let down my father. He thinks that Nanosh is the only man that would ever want to marry his rough daughter." She sighed. " I wasn't always 'rough', you know."

Kenshin sipped from the canteen. "Really?"

"No," she continued, "I used to be a very sweet little girl. I always acted like a princess because I was my father's favorite. However, when my mother died when I was sixteen, I… changed a bit. I realized that I have to take care of myself and be independent, because no matter how much my father loved my mother, it didn't save her. I started to learn how to wield swords and shoot then, so I could be self-sufficient."

Kenshin looked into her eyes, and for the first time, understood her a tiny bit more.

She smiled again and looked at the fire, "That's when I really started to bond with Yahiko. So when he was kidnapped five months ago, I was devastated and I became even more…. 'rough' and cold then I was before." She looked back at Kenshin and laughed, "I'm sorry, I'm rambling."

"No, it's ok, I understand," he said, while putting his hand on hers. "I was married before."

"What?"

"Yeah, when I was much younger, I was married. She was the love of my life, but she passed on." Kenshin sighed and leaned back on the tree as well.

"How?" Kaoru asked, sympathetically.

"Brain aneurysm. They couldn't explain exactly why she died when she did, but they said it was something that you can't really prevent all that much. She had been home alone, and when I got back from work, she was on the floor."

"That's terrible," Kaoru said, placing her hand on his shoulder.

"At least the last conversation we had was a good one. I had asked her if she was happy. The last thing I said to her before I left was that I loved her. She had smiled and said she loved me too. She knew I cared about her, and that's all that really matters, I suppose." He faced Kaoru and shook his head. "It's just weird. I never thought that was going to be our last conversation. Makes you realize how precious life is."

Kaoru nodded and asked, "What was her name?"

"Tomoe."

"Such a beautiful name…" she said in awe.

"Yes. She was Japanese. I met her when in Japan studying kenjutsu when I was fifteen. Soon after I turned seventeen we got married. She died when I was twenty, after only three years of marriage." Kenshin smiled at Kaoru. "I guess I should be over it, but once in a while I have nightmares about her death."

"No, it takes a long time to heal from a loved ones death," she said as she leaned closer.

"Yeah…" Kenshin leaned in as well. Their noses almost touched. "You have really pretty eyes," he told her.

She leaned forward more. "Thank-…"

Suddenly a twig snapped in the forest and they heard a growl coming from the trees. The two jumped to a standing position and held out a weapon; Kaoru with her gun and Kenshin with her sword. They heard another nasty growl and then a bark.

"Wolves," Kaoru whispered. They heard an unearthly howl that confirmed Kaoru thought. "What should we do?"

Kenshin looked around as a few pairs yellow eyes watched their movements. "I'mlive inNew York! How should I know about wolves!" he whispered hoarsely.

"Are you good for nothing!" she whispered back, which made him realize the tough Kaoru was back.

Kenshin looked at the river behind them, the look at the wolves as the began to come out from behind the trees. He looked at Kaoru and then looked back at the river again.

"Oh no, I'm not doing that," she told him, as she figured out his plan.

"You got another idea?" he asked as he back up to the edge of the deep river. He smiled and grabbed her by the waist. He looked down into the ravine of water. "Ready?"

"No!"

"Now!" he shouted as he jumped backwards. The wolves chased them to the edge of the river then stopped and left.

"See!" Kaoru shouted when they both resurfaced. "Even the wolves weren't stupid enough to jump in here! And now our food it soaked!"

"I left my book there!" Kenshin grumbled. "Damn it! That was a limited edition copy! Bet it's wolf food now…"

Kaoru splashed him and shouted, "Forget about your damn book! We have bigger problems!"

"Like what!" he yelled back.

"We're in the middle of a damn river!"

With a bit of effort, Kaoru grabbed a rock and hoisted herself up out of the river. Kenshin tried to follow, but ended up back in the river. Kaoru lent him a hand and he made it to land. They continued on their journey, after a brief argument on why Kenshin shouldn't go back to retrieve the book, and hoped that what they were about to go through would not be in vain.

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A/N:

Long time no write, eh? Well this old thing was just sitting about in my computer and I just thought I'd finish it and update, for my fans (hahahahahha, me, having fans…. Hahahah)

So, I hope you liked it, because it was actually fun. And, in case you didn't know, the epilogue of Gunshot Roses was posted. A crappy chapter, but it wraps things up nicely. It also leaves room for a sequel. So that may be in your future.

What also may be in your future is a new and different version of New York and Cherry Blossoms. I believe what I may do is delete the whole damn story and rewrite it differently and better. I think that it is what my "fans" deserve. (hahahahahh "fans" hahah) So be on the look out for that!

Translations:

Divio- crazy (Romany)

Dinilo- idiot (Romany)

Raklo- non-gypsy boy (Romany)

So keres- what are you doing? (Romany)

Si tut divio- are you crazy? (Romany)

Phen- sister (Romany)

Za- go (Romany)

Va- go (Romany)

Vaida- leader (Romany)

So- what? (Romany)

The language that Nanosh was speaking isn't gonna be translated just yet! Keep reading to unravel the mystery!

Well, that's all from me for now!

-Ciao