Time for A New Beginning Chapter 12, a rurouni kenshin fanfic

CHAPTER TWELVE

Kaoru sighed as three months seemed to go quickly by and she seemed to start to get bigger, just barely, but she was noticing it. She had no way of contacting Kenshin who had never responded to her at all since he had left three months ago, and she was having a hard time from keeping herself from crying at night when she was alone. She had never relied on Kenshin this much, but now that they where husband and wife, it seemed like she wanted him around more, to hold him, to do anything that a wife should do. Everyone helped her whenever they could, but it still wasn't the same, with out Kenshin. Her cuts on her wrists had healed and left two white scars on each one of her arms which where easily covered by her kimono.

"KAORU!" She heard a voice yell out to her which made her head turn around. "Kaoru!"

"What is it, Yahiko-Chan?" Kaoru asked since he appeared to be all out of breath. She wondered if it was from him running all the way over here or if it was from him screaming so loudly, something must have come up.

"A letter, came today for you." Yahiko said. "Though it has no return address on it." The young boy said as he handed Kaoru the letter and she snatched it out of his hands and quickly opened it, and she recognized Kenshin's hand writing immediately.

I know that this may not be enough but I hope that this is better then nothing,

I hope that you can find it in your heart to forgive Sessha's selfishness by running away like this to go fight a shadow from the pass, but Sessha hopes that in the end that you will forgive Sessha since Sessha is doing this for you. Sessha may write to you from time to time so you do not worry as much, but Sessha knows that you most likely will worry no matter how many letters come your way. Sessha misses you dearly and hopes to return home soon.

Love

Kenshin

Kaoru read the letter once again and tried not to cry. There was no return address so she assumed that he didn't want a response back from her. "It's from Kenshin." She finally said to Yahiko who blinked.

"What does it say?" Yahiko asked with out thinking.

"That's private." Kaoru snapped and the young samurai fell back in his place. "Though it appears that he will most likely be gone for some time. I just hope that he will be home in time to see his child after it's born." Kaoru said blushing as she rested a hand on her stomach.

"That baka." Yahiko accidentally thought out loud. "Hey, Kaour-san, if you want, when you're not able to teach any more when you're later on in your pregnancy, I can teach your students if you want."

"Nice try, Yahiko, but I'm teaching as long as I can. I don't want to go soft just because I'm married now." She said.

"Soft, you're already…." Yahiko shut up once he felt Kaoru's fist punching him in the head. "ITAI!" (Ouch) He shouted in pain. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?"

"For what you where going to say!" Kaoru snapped back. "I have students to teach, excuse me."

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Months had passed and Kenshin hadn't spotted Setsuna since that time when he should have killed him right then and right there. "HEY YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO CARRY A SWORD!" A policeman suddenly shouted at Kenshin who quickly turned around to see the man coming at him.

'Not this again!' Kenshin thought rather annoyed of this bothersome no sword law since he got stopped in every town! "ORO!" Kenshin suddenly said as a man tackled him down and pinned him to the ground.

"You are under arrest for the banning sword law." The man said.

Kenshin was dragged up to his feet and the sword was taken away. "Not this again!"

"What makes you think that you can go around and carry a sword, swords are against the law now, you should know." The man said.

"Sorry, but can I have it back? This one is a simple rurouni." Kenshin said which made the police officer look at him furiously.

"What did you say?" The man asked.

"Is there someone higher up that I can speak to?" Kenshin asked and laughed nervously.

"Oh, so you're wanting to be a smart guy now huh? You think that you can just get away with this?"

"Just let him go, Mamoru." Another police officer ordered the man who had tackled Kenshin.

"But sir…"

"Can't you see who he is?" The older man asked.

"No…" Mamoru replied.

"Himura-san, sorry about that, but Mamoru-san (This is in more animes then besides Sailor Moon. UU) here is a little too up tight.

"But sir… wait did you just call him Himura-san?" Mamoru asked.

"Yes, I did, now give him back his sword, it can't kill anyone."

Mamoru unsheathed the sword and looked at it strangely. "So it really is true, the former Hitokiri Battosai, is you?" The man asked as he re-sheathed the sakabato and then handed it back to Kenshin.

"Himura-San, what are you doing in these part of the woods?" Yamagata asked.

"Personal business, Yamagata-San." Kenshin replied.

"I'm surprised that you're not with that woman and child that I always see you with, I hope that I haven't said too much." Yamagata said almost forgetting his manners.

"I had to leave them at home since this is a surprise for my new wife." Kenshin lied. "If I brought either one of them with me then there would be trouble if they found out."

"Ah yes, so you're finally married?" Yamagata asked. "I'm sorry, I'm asking too much." He apologized.

"No, it's fine, we are old friends after all, Yamagata-San and yes, it's been a few months now." Kenshin said not exactually sure how long he had been away from home.

"Well, I'm sure that you'll be a happy couple, if you'll excuse me, I have business I need to look in to if you know what I mean." Yamagata said.

"Yes." Kenshin replied.

"Good bye for now, Himura-San." Yamagata said as he headed for a carriage that was waiting for him, got in and left.

'My business is more personal then yours.' Kenshin thought as he headed back on to the path and hoped that no more cops would come to bother him about the sword.

Megumi as Kaoru's doctor had ordered her to eat healthier and not to work as much but it was difficult to do both since she had to run the dojo to make money for her and Yahiko to live off of. Sanosuke was being overly helpful and it made Kaoru wonder to where he had gotten the money from time to time. Kaoru had now been pregnant for five months and it had been two months since she had got a letter from Kenshin. Three more months until their baby was born, and she had no way to let Kenshin know that she was even pregnant. She cried often at night, especially when she could feel the emptiness of their futon with out him there. He had left the ring with her, which she still wore around her neck, waiting for him to come home so she could give it back to them and they live as a happy family.

"Jou-Chan, you shouldn't be doing that, let me do that for you." Sanosuke said as she tried to sweep the floor of the dojo trying to get the absence of her husband off of her mind.

"No, I got it!" Kaoru protested and was quickly sat down by Sanosuke who took the broom out of her hand.

"Kenshin would kill me if any thing happened to you." Sanosuke said as he started to continue where Kaoru had left off. "Besides I'm surprised that you can hardly stand with all of that extra wait that you're caring." He had done it, he had said something he would soon regret he hadn't.

"So you think I'm fat do you?" Kaoru snapped at him as she stood up as quickly as she could.

"Umm…" Sanosuke studdered.

"THAT'S NOT MY FAULT! IT'S NOT LIKE I ASKED TO BE PREGNANT!" She shouted at him and chunked the nearest thing at him that she could reach which happened to be a small pebble. She then walked as quickly as she could to her room and slammed the door shut. She tossed herself gently on to the futon and cried. "Come home soon, Kenshin, I need you."

There really isn't much action here but that's because I have a reason for that. Well here's your next chaptie! MWHAHAHAHAHAHA Don't ask… I'm hyper, I just had oh 8 cookies. O.o