CHAPTER FOUR.
Tonight would be the night that he would leave this place that he had considered his home for the past year and a half. There where many good times and bad times at this place, and hopefully there will be good times once he was gone, far, far away from the people he loved. He sat on the porch and watched as the two young children played and begged him to play with him. "Alright, alright, sessha will play with you."
"YEAY!" The two young girls shouted happily. "You're it!" The oldest girl said and the two ran away happily.
"Yahiko, do you want to play to?" Kenshin asked the young samurai in training who was sitting on the side.
"No, that's fine, I'm worried about Kaoru." Yahiko said sighing. "When I saw her earlier today, she was running back and looked like she was about to cry. I wonder why?"
"I wouldn't know, Yahiko." Kenshin lied.
"Women are so strange, I don't think that I'll ever understand them." The young boy said as he crossed his arms and shook his head.
"Even us older men don't understand women, Yahiko-kun." Kenshin replied.
"Come on oni-chan!" The two little girls called.
"Hai, hai, coming!"
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Sano and Megumi came as they said that they would, and seemed to make a cheerful face, acting like nothing was wrong. "I wish I knew that Megumi-San was coming." Kaoru sighed. "Oh well." Kaoru said and headed in to the kitchen silently.
"Kaoru-Chan, wait up! I'll help." Megumi offered and hurried after the younger woman. 'Maybe I'll be able to get her to confess what really happened.'
"Sure!" Kaoru said as she forced herself to smile. "Thanks."
"Jo-Chan is putting on a pretty good face." Sano whispered to Kenshin after he made sure that Yahiko was gone.
"Yes, I'm surprised that she can."
"She can what?" Yahiko asked as he now popped up behind the two older men who turned their heads to see the younger boy.
"To be able to cook since she's just gotten over being sick." Kenshin managed to think quickly and Yahiko gave him questioning eyes. "Not to mention her cooking is bad already, can you imagine if she sneezes in it or something?" Sano asked.
"Maybe I should go…"
"No, you can stay with us, that's why Megumi-Dono went to help."
"Oh…"
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Kaoru was a little too cheerful or at least Megumi thought that she was. "Are you sure that nothing happened between you and Ken-san?" The older woman asked Kaoru who stopped cutting the vegetable that she was cutting and seemed to stare out somewhere. "No." Kaoru lied not wanting Megumi to know that she had actually confessed her feelings for the red head rurouni. "Nothing, he just said that he was ready to leave, and then I told him that I wanted him to go now before any of us got any closer then we already are. And just because he leaves this dojo, it doesn't necessarily mean that he has to leave Tokyo."
"Kaoru-Chan, Sanosuke baka told me what happened." Megumi said and then she watched as Kaoru dropped the knife, letting it bang against the edge of the counter until it finally slid off on to the floor, landing next to Kaoru's foot. "What really happened?"
"It's none of your business." Kaoru snapped and picked up the knife and started to chop again.
"If you love him, stop him before he leaves." Megumi continued.
"He doesn't want to stay, he was the one who had first insisted that he was going to leave, I just gave him the shove on his wish."
"Is there some reason that he has to stay? Besides the fact that he had became very close to all of us with in this past year?"
"No, I don't really see any."
"Maybe he's just not willing to admit it?" Megumi asked. "Maybe…"
"I know what you're trying to do, Megumi-Chan, I've already confessed if that's what you mean. He still wanted to leave."
"Kaoru-Chan…"
"I'm not going to be the reason why he feels obligated to loosing his freedom as a rurouni, a wandering samurai Megumi-Chan. I know that you mean well, but if he won't listen to reason, then there's no point in making him stay." Kaoru said as she tried to keep herself from crying once again. "If he ever decides to come back to me, well then that's his choice."
"Wow, Kaoru-Chan, I never knew that you could be this blunt!"
"Kenshin only thinks of me as a child, Megumi-Chan, so get ideas like those out of your head. He admitted it himself, if Sanosuke baka didn't tell you that."
"Kaoru-Chan, I think that Ken-san's just doing that to protect you."
"Just mind your own business, Megumi-Chan, I know that you mean well, but I just don't want to hear it right now."
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Dinner went as normal as usual, besides the fact that Kaoru decided to get herself drunk by drinking just a little cup of wine (I can't remember how the Japanese word for wine is spelt so here's the English word.) that Sanosuke had brought over. Yahiko sighed and shook his head at the female who was suppose to be his sensei. 'Sometimes I wonder why I agreed to this in the first place.' Yahiko thought to himself and sighed again. She was all over Kenshin, which was really annoying, though Kenshin didn't seem to mind it though, or at least that's what Yahiko thought. 'Grown ups…' He thought and sighed once more. "Geeze Kaoru baka! Get a hold of yourself!" Yahiko shouted across the table to the only drunk there.
"Who are you calling a baka, baka? I'm your sensei! Show some damn respect!"
'Did Kaoru just curse?" Yahiko asked Kenshin who was also staring at Kaoru in surprise. (I can't remember if Kaoru curses a lot or not. It's been a little over a year since I've seen the small part of the anime that I have… only up to episode 34 I think since I refuse to watch the English version.)
"Maybe you had a little too much to drink, I wouldn't drink that next cup, Jo-Chan." Sanosuke suggested and tried to coach Kaoru out of drinking the cup of wine in her hand, but she did it anyway. "She's a bad drunk."
"Only a kid would be this bad at being drunk, Kaoru-Chan." Megumi said slyly, trying to get the other female to loose her temper, which was so easily done.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY DRUNK? MEGUMI-CHAN?" Kaoru yelled and Kenshin's face once again had that look on his face as he did "ORO?" (I'm sure that you can imagine the face by now. It's difficult to describe…)
"YOU'RE DRUNK YOU OLD HAG!" Megumi shouted back.
"I'm NOT DRUNK, AND I'M NOT A HAG!"
"YES WELL WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU BE THEN? A KID?" Megumi shouted back which made Kaoru's eyes widen and then she suddenly fell silent.
"Yahiko's the kid around here." Kaoru said finally, now being a little calmer. "WHY THE HELL DOES EVERY ONE THINK THAT I'M A KID?"
"Everyone, calm down, I think that Kenshin's…." Sano started to say but was ignored.
"WHY? THAT'S OBVIOUSLY WHY KEN-SAN DOESN'T WANT TO STAY HERE WITH YOU AND…" Megumi had said it, Kaoru stood up quickly at the point, even if she was drunk, she could still understand what Megumi had just said. She turned her back and clumsily walked to another part of the dojo and stumbled a feel times as walked.
"What does she mean Kenshin? That you don't want to stay here?"
"ORO?" Kenshin's eyes where swirling around. and he finally sat up once the yelling had stopped. "You didn't have to go that far, Megumi-Dono."
"Yes, well she needs to stop acting so childish and act more like an adult."
Kenshin didn't say anything but walked over toward where Kaoru was now sitting, in the dark, and rather alone. "Kaoru-dono…"
"Don't…" Hiccup. "Even…" Hiccup. "Speak to…" Hiccup. "Me… Ken…" Kenshin couldn't believe that he had done it, but he did it. He had just kissed Kaoru, which instantly shut the young woman up. He could feel three sets of eyes on them but didn't care.
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This has gotten really ooc… I didn't realize that it was so much ooc-ness… at least Yahiko, Sano, and Megumi are sort of more ic instead of Kenshin and Kaoru ne?
XKenKao12X: Um… if you decide to kill yourself… it's not my fault for thinking of such things since I never told you "Go kill yourself." Or anything like that. So I am not responsible for any deaths, addiction to drugs, drinking, etc.
ss1128: You really haven't been paying attention to the anime/manga have you? I have only read volume 1 of the manga, but in the anime, there are sooooooo many freaking hits… it takes like… forever I think… I never seen the ending so I don't know what happens. O.O
Emotional: Yes I agree, he is so damn dense. He's that way in the anime to remember? So I got that part IC at least. XD!
Universal Fighter: Well actually you do have a point there that Kaoru would never confess her love like that but maybe if a person is in extreme emotional stress, she might… even Kaoru ya know? People in love do weird things when they think that their about to loose someone that they love. I never personally been in love before, but this is what I have observed and such. Maybe me being single is the reason why I like to write fan fics that always are romantic? Interesting thing to think about.