Ok yeah hi it's me Darkia-San. Yeah, well let me just say wow, I'm surprised to how many reviews I have been getting with so few chapters…. I'm impressed! Seriously!

Dark Anime Love: That's where I got the name Setsuna from actually. I figured or assumed that Setsuna was a popular Japanese name, or at least in mangas/anime's and couldn't get in trouble if I used it since well I've seen it in more then one anime/manga.

royal blueKitsune: Um Ok just for starters, DO NOT tell me how to write MY Fic. Whatever you do to any of YOUR fics is fine but DO NOT tell me how to write my fic. It's not like I'm a novice at this and can't think of what to do on my own. It really ticks me off when people try to tell me how to write it or what to write in it. If you haven't notice, this isn't my first fic as my stories list will tell you.

Reignashii: Yes I did because I'm an evil woman who has nothing else better to do then besides leave cliffies for her fic fans.

Mabuimiyoko: Um I write when I want to so don't push it or I'll wait a whole month or more to post the next chapter. Just because I don't have it up, doesn't mean that I don't already necessary have it written.

saskia2: Um… I really don't understand what you where trying to say, but the only part that I understood was jerk…

Dar Sel'La: It's kind of like that in the anime/manga to if you haven't noticed. She hints at him so much and yet the baka can't figure it out. :sighs: As either Sano or Yahiko said. "He's the worlds best samurai but as a man, he's just an idiot." Or something like that… I don't remember the exact words.

Emotional: Bold… I don't really think so, it's just want he wants to say but can't say it. Or at least this is how I think of it.

Dark Anime Love: To be honest with you…. I don't really know where this fic is going. O.O

I think I'll leave it there for now…. If I go on…. Well it could get pretty long and all of you will get bored of me rambling on and on and on…. Wait I'm already doing that! Hehe : innocent look: Yeah right. . Anyways before any more typo demons decide to pop up, enjoy. (Just so you'll all know… typo demons will most likely come even after I stop rambling.)

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CHAPTER NINE

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When Kaoru woke up the next morning, she blushed at the thoughts to what happened the night before. Was that really Kenshin, or was that someone who just looked and acted like Kenshin? Kaoru wondered as she stared up at the dark ceiling. For years she had been trying to tell the red head rurouni how she felt and wanted to know his feelings, and he had showed his finally, even though it was a little more then she expected. (In case you peoples didn't get the HUGE HINTS… they slept together…. Go re-read the ending of the last chapter if you're not sure!) Her eyes moved to where Kenshin had fallen asleep when they where done yesterday and her eyes widened noticing that he wasn't there. "Ken…shin…" Was all that she managed to say before she quickly got dressed in her kimono and hurried out the bedroom door. "Kenshin?" She asked as she looked through the dojo. He wouldn't leave her again, not after she had just showed her feelings to him. Or would he? Her heart began to race as she searched around the dojo for him in any of his usual spots to where he could be.

"Something wrong, Kaoru?" Kenshin asked which made Kaoru's already beating heart beat even faster.

"Thank goodness…." Kaoru sighed in relief as she spun around to look at the red head rurouni.

"Something wrong?" Kenshin asked with confused eyes and nearly fell over once the woman he loved almost literally jumped on him. "ORO?" He asked as he tried not to fall over and now noticed that Kaoru was crying. "Ka..oru…."

"I thought… I thought that you left again." Kaoru said crying in to his chest. Kenshin couldn't help but place an arm around her.

"Would you be mad, if this one had to leave?" Kenshin asked which made the tearful Kaoru look at him. "This one will be back."

"Kenshin, but you… we…." Kaoru studered to say, still embarrassed about last night.

"Sessha knows, Kaoru." Kenshin started to say but was interrupted.

"That.. is all rather amusing." Said an all too familiar, un-wanted voice which quickly made Kenshin's eyes jerk over toward the top of the dojo and saw an unwanted guest squatting on top of the dojo's wall.

"Setsuna…" Kenshin growled dangerously as he now stood in front of Kaoru protectively. "Kenshin, Kenshin, Kenshin, you never did change well besides the fact that you no longer kill people and well the part with women never changes for you anyway." Setsuna said with a grin on his lips.

"What does…" Kaoru started to say but was interrupted by Kenshin. "Leave these people out of it, Setsuna." Kenshin ordered the man who now jumped down from the dojo's wall and landed a good distance away from the couple.

"I see that you haven't told your little female friend there… what was her name? Ah yes, I think you called her Kaoru right?" Sestuna asked and enjoyed looking at Kenshin's emotional-less eyes as they stared at him. "Tomoe, so you never told her about your first love?"

"Tomoe?" Kaoru thought somewhat painfully as she stared at Kenshin with questioning eyes. (You can correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard that Tomoe was Kenshin's wife in Samurai X or wherever that was that they mentioned Tomoe… I don't know… I haven't seen that far in to the series.)

"So by your silence Kenshin, you never told little Kaoru here about your Tomoe." Sestuna said smirking.

"I'm warning you Setsuna, you have your chance to get out of here unharmed." Kenshin warned with an unfriendly growl.

"Unharmed, if I remember correctly it was you who got injured in our last battle or correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd say that you're still hurt since well it hasn't been that long since our last encounter." Setsuna continued. "Tomoe, Kaoru-San, was Kenshin's first wife, a long time ago."

Kaoru stared at Sestuna with wide, shocked eyes not knowing what to say or even believe him. There where many things about Kenshin's past that she didn't know about, she never even asked him. He was nearing his thirties so it could have been possible, but if he was married, and they just did what they did then… Oh god, she didn't know what to do, her head was spinning like crazy. All this time she had been flirting and trying to get an already married man to confess his feelings to her. Why didn't she think that he never said anything was because he was already married! She… she wanted to cry, run away, something, she didn't know how to face Kenshin now. He could have had CHILDREN with this Tomoe woman already and she had just slept with him last night. She felt hurt, and dirty, she had given up her virginity to an already married man. This was against her morals, even if she did love him.

"I'll give you time for your wound to heal Kenshin, and then I'm coming back for you. Or I'll just send for you, to where and when I decide to continue my little game, I don't even know, but I seem to be wining already since well there goes one of the people that you love. Seriously Kenshin, or is it Himura-san? Or does it really matter what you are called?" Setsuna asked with laughing eyes. "Good day, until the next time we meet, try to stay alive." With that Setsuna was gone, and a cool autumn breeze blew by the almost empty dojo.

Kaoru just stood there unmoving, and not being able to say anything. She didn't know what to say or what to even do. 'Ken… Kenshin… Kenshin's married…' Was the only thing that went through her mind as she now felt really sick to her stomach. She was still standing so close to him, but yet, she didn't know what to do or why he had even agreed to her selfish favor yesterday. "Let me be with you…" She had selfishly asked him with out thinking. Warm hands suddenly touched her shoulders which instantly made her look up in to the rurouni's eyes. She knew that he could tell what she was probably thinking and feeling since he was usually good at that type of thing, when it came to things other then love.

"We need to talk, Kaoru-Dono…" Kenshin said softly, almost in a whisper.

Kaoru-Dono, he had called her just by her name earlier and now he was calling her Kaoru-Dono again. She must have done something horribly wrong last night with him. "H..hai!" Kaoru agreed.

Kenshin could see the look of hurt, confusion, and loosing trust in Kaoru-Dono's eyes. He should have told her before he had agreed to be with her when she asked him, but he couldn't help it. He couldn't stop himself, and now Setsuna had told Kaoru about Tomoe, a name he hadn't brought up in a very long time.

Kenshin managed to sit Kaoru down after making some tea to calm her and poured her a cup and handed it to her. She seemed to be in a trance like state to him, and he couldn't get out of answering this, he owed Kaoru-Dono this much. But where to begin? His past was long and bloody, even his short life with Tomoe had been a dangerous one. "Tomoe…" He started to say as he stared at Kaoru and was somewhat relief when she finally looked up at him. "It's true that I was married to Tomoe, but that was a long time ago, Kaoru-Dono." Kenshin finally managed to say and could watch Kaoru's trance like eyes turn in to questioning ones. "It was during the war that I was married to her, and she ended up being killed by enemy samurai at a young age. " Kenshin said. (I don't know if this is true or not but hey this is what I'm sticking with for the fic.) "She was the reason why sessha had vowed never to love again, but this one seems to have broken his promise on that." Kenshin said.

"Why didn't you tell me, Kenshin?" Kaoru asked. "Why?"

"Kaoru-Dono never asked." Kenshin replied. "When we first started living together, wasn't it Kaoru-Dono who said "I don't care about your past?" Kenshin asked which made Kaoru look at him.

"Sorry, Kenshin…" Kaoru apologized which made Kenshin make those weird confusing eyes of his. "Oro?" Was all that Kenshin said.

"I was beginning to accuse you of… of… using me even though you where an already man." Kaoru said almost silently.

"There is nothing to apologize for so there's nothing to forgive." Kenshin answered the young female. "However…" He said seriously. "Setsuna appearing here will force me to leave sooner then I wanted."

"No!" Kaoru protested. "Stay, I… I want you to stay…"

"Kaoru…" Kenshin said only his lover's name this time which made Kaoru look at him. "Sessha will come back." Kenshin promised. "Though there are a few things that this one has to take care of first, before he comes back."

"Kenshin, he already said that he would…." Kaoru protested but was silenced.

"This one will not play Setsuna's games." Kenshin said coldly and Kaoru could tell that there was no argument in this. "I will not play his games." Kenshin repeated and Kaoru could tell that there was a tint of gold in those wonderful purple eyes of his.

"Just promise me that you'll come back to me." Kaoru said sadly as she now stood up and moved over to his side of the table.

"Sessha promises, Kaoru." Kenshin said as he could now feel Kaoru's head rest against his shoulder. "However there is one errand that this one has to run before sessha leaves town." Kenshin said sweetly.

Kaoru wondered if she should have asked but decided against it.

"This one will not leave until tomorrow, and this time, it's a promise." Kenshin said as he stood up. "Sessha will be back later this evening, Kaoru." He said and bent over to kiss Kaoru on the forehead.

Kaoru sat there not knowing how long even after he left. "Kenshin…" Kaoru said to herself, not afraid to say what she meant to think to herself out loud since she was alone. "Open your heart to me." She stared at the close door waiting as if he would come back the next moment. 'You are a man of too many secrets.'

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Cute huh? I was trying to be. Kenshin/Kaoru, the best Rurouni Kenshin couple ever! If you are a Tomoe/Kenshin fan… I say FORGET YOU! I mean geeze… Tomoe isn't even a main character in the story and well what can I say? Don't dwell on the past or you'll never be able to move ahead. Wow… I'm too hyper for my own good. O.O Well anyways I hope that you enjoyed this LONGER chapter. Please leave a review.