Dragostea Nu Are Ochi

Chapter Six

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If you don't know where to find translations by know… go look 'em up in a dictionary, Who knows, you just might learn something… but I doubt that.

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"So what are you're plans?"

Kaoru looked up from staring at the path. It was early morning, and they had just started walking again. After a long silence Kenshin had spoken to try and lighten the mood.

"My plans for what, Raklo?" she asked, watching him from the corner of her eye.

"Saving your brother, obviously! What do you think? We're just going to waltz into a heavily guarded Nazi camp and retrieve your brother?"

Kaoru made a guilty face, "Well I expected there to be some fighting…"

Kenshin rolled his eyes and said nothing. He thought for a long time before announcing, "We need a plan."

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Back at the Kamiya home, things became stranger and stranger. Nanosh seem even more high strung then ever. Megumi tried to tell Sanosuke what she thought was going on with Nanosh. However, every time she tried, Nanosh would come down the hall or walk into the room.

He also started constantly looking for Kaoru. He would search the castle and shout her name. Megumi finally told him that she went to a nearby village and that maybe Kaoru needed some time away before she would say yes to him. He didn't entirely believe her, so he went to ask their father.

Their father agreed with Megumi's story, only because Megumi wrote him a letter, as Kaoru, and told him the same exact thing. Nanosh believed this for a while, but then realized what was going on. That's when things started to get dangerous.

Megumi walked upstairs to retrieve her medicine bag. She had left it in the room Kenshin had been staying. She opened the door, only to find Nanosh standing over the bed, reading something.

"What are you doing?" she asked him.

He turned around and Megumi saw the disgruntled look on his face. "Where's the idiot American?"

"What business of yours is that?" she told him icily. She picked up her bag and walked out of the room. Before she reached the door, Nanosh grabbed her arm.

"Tell me, now."

She laughed in his face, "Don't try to play these games with me. You know who my father is."

"Where is he? He's with her, isn't he?"

"Let go of me, now."

"Where did they go?"

"Release me."

"Where are they!"

"Let me go, bastard!" she shouted and slapped him hard on the cheek. He let go of her and stared at her with livid eyes.

"Know your place!" He punched her in the jaw. She fell to the ground and cradled her cheek in her palm. Nanosh grabbed her hair and pulled her up to stand. She fought back tears as he brushed some of her hair out of his hand. "Where the hell are they?" he asked, grasping her neck. "Where would she go with that son of a bitch?"

"What the hell is going on here?"

Nanosh immediately let go of Megumi and she turned around.

"Sano!" She ran to the tall man and hugged him. "Thank God."

He put his hand on her back. "Either she's some kind of masochist, or you were hurting the poor woman."

"This insolent woman slapped me," Nanosh said. "She should know her place. I swear, education is wasted on women. They only become bolder."

Megumi's jaw dropped and she ran to attack him. "You pig stealing, son of a bitch!"

Sanosuke grabbed her and held her back. "I want the whole story, now." he said.

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Kenshin and Kaoru sat behind very large tree, just outside of huge metal gates. Inside the very large gates, was the Nazi camp they had been searching for, and the place, Kaoru believed, where they we're keeping her brother. Kenshin looked at Kaoru and sighed deeply.

"This is a ridiculous plan," he told her, leaning his head on the tree. "I don't look like a Nazi."

"Raklo, stop pouting for a minute and look at it from my point of view." She turned towards him. "My brother is in there, and I can't very well waltz in there and ask for him back."

"You're right. I highly doubt you can waltz at all." He laughed and felt the edge of a sharp piece of metal next to his throat. "Put the dagger away. You need me to help you."

She sheathed her dagger. "I wouldn't be asking you this if you hadn't followed me. It's your own fault."

"You deliberately took my book, so I would follow you!" he said in a horsed whisper.

Kaoru suddenly covered his mouth with her hand. Kenshin heard soldiers talking a familiar language. She huddled close to him and motioned for him to be quiet.

The guards, after hearing something, walked towards the tree Kenshin and Kaoru were hiding behind. Kenshin could feel Kaoru's heart racing as she inched closer to him, so she wouldn't be seen. The guards were talking to each other and moving closer to the tree.

They stood right on the other side of the tree, and Kaoru hid her face in Kenshin's shirt as he began to feel his pulse race. They could hear the guards footsteps come closer and closer, until-…

Another voice, from far off, shouted to the guards and they answered back. After a moment's hesitation, they turned back towards the gates and went inside. Kenshin and Kaoru sat there, breathing heavily and trying to get their thoughts together.

"That was way to close," Kaoru sighed.

"Mph hmph ph." Kenshin tried to talk through Kaoru's hand, which still happened to be covering his mouth.

"Sorry," she laughed lightly and moved her hand. They looked at each other for a moment, realizing how close they actually were, then Kaoru turned a light shade of red. "I was trying to…"

"I know."

"I wasn't…"

"I know."

"You're so…I mean…urgh!" She went to stand, but Kenshin caught her wrist and gave her an odd look. He placed his hand lightly on her cheek and she tried to pull back a little.

"Just for a second," he told her. "Who knows if we'll see each other again."

She relaxed and leaned her head on his shoulder, slowly. "We will."

He placed his arm around her back and sighed, "Maybe."

"Why are you doing this?" she asked him suddenly.

He answered with a grin, "To help you."

"You don't even know me, or my family. You never met us before, and I'm mean to you all the time. What reason would you have to help us?"

Kenshin laughed half-heartedly and said, "Maybe because I just honestly care. I honestly want to help, just for the sake of helping. Besides," he continued, moving his back a little, "I never turn down a lady in need."

"I don't need your help," she told him again while moving closer to him.

"I know you don't." He smiled softly.

Kaoru suddenly felt tears swell in her eyes and her throat tightened. "You're risking your life to help us."

"Are you crying?"

"You have nothing to gain and yet you continue to try to help, like the dangers that are present aren't even here." She brushed the tears in one eye away.

"You are crying. Weird."

"No one has ever done something like this. Not even Nanosh. He was the one hunting with Yahiko. He didn't even offer to go after him. Yet, here you are, a stranger, and you are marching into a place where unspeakable things take place, just to help us."

"I actually had this theory that you didn't even have tear ducts."

"What's wrong with you!" she shouted, smacking him hard in the face. He fell backwards and she sat there with her hands on her hips. "I'm baring my soul and you… you're just…"

He propped himself on the tree and pulled her down to him. Her cheeks held a twinge of red and he smiled as he wrapped his arms around her waist. She laid her head on his chest and didn't say a word. Kenshin stroked her hair while his mind raced with questions.

Will I be able to do this for her?

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Nanosh laughed in Sanosuke's face. "Why am I going to waste my breath on you? You're just a lowly peasant and the only reason I know you is because you're hopelessly trying to have your way with Megumi."

"That's not true!" Sano shouted.

Nanosh reached into his jacket and pulled out a gun. "Regardless," he pointed the firearm at Sanosuke and Megumi, "I want to know where Kaoru went with that American bastard, and I want to know now."

"Calm down, man." Sano said. "Let's just relax and-…"

"Listen… I've been working towards the moment where I marry Kaoru ever since I arrived in this village. It would mean control of a huge population and land. Think of the power I would have if I owned the land your family does…" Nanosh made a disgusted face. "However, that stupid woman had to go, be all self-righteous and try to save her dumb brother. That's where she went, right? That's the only place I could think of. She finds him, she doesn't have to marry me."

Sanosuke shook his head, "You're confusing the hell outta me, so just tell me what's going on!"

Nanosh smirked. "I'm a bad guy and I'm going to lock you two up in the dungeons downstairs, so you don't squeal to that pathetic leader of yours."

Nanosh lead them down the stairs and into the dark prison chambers. He shackled Megumi to the wall by her wrists, and Sanosuke next to her.

Nanosh grinned devilishly. "Now, I'm going to leave you two here to chat while I go to find your sister and her pathetic little 'Raklo,' as you people call him."

"Who are you?" Megumi asked weakly.

"I'm just a follower of Hitler, trying to finish the job." Megumi turned white when he answered and Sano's mouth hung open in shock. Nanosh had a sadistic look in his eye as he turned to leave. "You wanted to know, and now you do."

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"Speak Romanian," Kaoru told him, as she fixed his shirt collar. " If you speak English your accent will give you away."

Kenshin looked anxiously at the gates. "This isn't going to work."

"Let's pray it does," she said hopefully. Kaoru brushed off his shit and looked at him. "Tuck your shirt in." Kenshin mumbled something under his and shoved the ends on his shirt into in pants. Kaoru shook her head and fixed his shirt. "Much better."

"What are you going to do here?" Kenshin asked.

She shrugged her shoulders, "Wait for you, I guess."

"What if I don't come back?" He looked at the ground.

"Then I'll go to Plan B."

"Marry Nanosh?"

Kaoru looked at him like he was crazy. "No, raid the place."

"Kaoru, if I don't come back but tomorrow morning, go home and settle down. Find someone nice. Not necessarily Nanosh, because I hate the guy, but someone." Kenshin kicked some dirt on the ground.

"Are you kidding? Abandon my brother like that?" she said, shocked.

"It's not abandoning him-…"

"What are you trying to say then?"

Kenshin crossed his arm and closed his eyes. "That your brother might not be alive."

"What!" she shouted. "You don't think he's alive?"

"I'm just saying that it's a possibility that they killed him by now," he coughed, trying to cover what he said.

She stared at him and said, "If your too afraid to do this, I'll be happy to."

"No, I'm just-…" He sighed heavily. "Just forget it. I'm going in there. Just… don't get caught out here."

Kenshin turned to walk on the path to the gates but Kaoru put her hand on his shoulder. He turned and she looked down at her feet.

"Be careful," she said quietly.

"I will."

She smiled and leaned in towards him. She kissed his cheek and pulled back to look at him.

"Was that a 'good luck' kiss?" he asked, smiling. She laughed and he turned to leave. She watched him walk down the path, from the protection of the trees, and felt herself get choked up.

"Akana mukav tut le Devlesa," she whispered.

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A/N:

I don't pretend to know the true horrors of the Holocaust. I don't pretend to know what it's like to have to live in the grotesque and disturbing places that are concentration camps. I'm not even going to go into the living conditions too much next chapter, because I just don't know what it was like. I wasn't there.

Also, I don't pretend to know everything about Romany (Gypsy) culture. If I get something wrong, feel free to tell me so, just don't flame me.

Anyway, all in all, it was a good chapter. This fiction might be shorter then I had anticipated, but hey, if I get everything in there, it doesn't really matter.

The original plan for this chapter was to have some K&K action (no wam bam thank ya ma'm, but you know, maybe a kiss), but I watched Sleepy Hollow last night (I am a Tim Burton groupie! His movies always give me inspiration!) and I just decided to change it up a bit. I love that movie so much. Anything with Johnny Depp and Tim Burton is the greatest. Like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Tim Burton's films will forever give me the boost I need to write.

However, changing that part might cause a friend of mine to kill me, since she read the original… oh crap…

Definitions:

Raklo- non-Romany boy

Akana mukav tut le Devlesa- And now I leave you to God (A funeral comment)

That's all from me!

Ciao