Time for A New Beginning Chapter 13, a rurouni kenshin fanfic

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Kaoru's seven month came quickly, quicker then she thought it would, she was ordered to stay in bed all day only to get up for a short walk and things like that. She hated to waste the money to do it, but she had to get a bigger kimono since her other ones no longer fit her. She gasped as she suddenly saw Setsuna standing at her bedroom door. "What are you doing here?" She asked as she managed to stand up and reached for her wooden sword which hung on the wall. "Why? Kenshin left so you would leave us alone!" Kaoru said.

"No, I never agreed to that or I can't remember that I did." Setsuna said as he moved closer to Kaoru. "And I don't think you can do very much harm to me in that condition of yours. Does you're beloved Himura-San know that you're with his child?"

Kaoru stared at Setsuna somewhat coldly. 'I can't call Yahiko to help since he's not here, and then Sanosuke's not here either.' Kaoru thought nervously. He was right about two things, Kenshin didn't know, and she couldn't fight very well like this. Her heart raced as Setsuna easily knocked her sword out of her hand and pinned her to the wall. 'Kenshin, Kenshin…' She thought panicking as he leaned closely over to her and put his hand on her stomach which made her glare at him furiously. 'Kenshin hasn't been able to do that yet but this man, this man…'

"Lively isn't it?" Setsuna asked. "However, you will be the last thing that Himura-San will ever see again." Setsuna said and Kaoru looked at him fearfully as he knocked her out, hitting her in the back. He caught her as she fell and didn't even bother to look around as an unwanted guess came along.

"KAROU!" Yahiko yelled as he pulled his sword off of his back. "Let her go NOW!"

"Oh, this woman, does she really mean that much to you?" Setsuna asked mockingly.

"LET Kaoru-San go!" Yahiko called and watched as Setsuna lifted Kaoru up in to his arms and walked toward him.

"No, I don't think so, Himura-san needs to suffer and I guess like that means that I'll have to get you as well." Setsuna said smiling crookedly as he carefully put Kaoru down and looked at Yahiko. "I wouldn't even try that you know, you won't even touch me." Setsuna easily dodged Yahiko's attack by moving to the side and knocked Yahiko's wooden sword out of his hand by just barely hitting Yahiko's arm and broke the sword in half. "Now what are you going to use?"

Yahiko clenched his fists together as well as his teeth The next thing he knew, he could feel himself being hit in the head and the light around him disappeared. Yahiko's body fell to the ground with a thud and Setsuna laughed. "Pathetic, you're ways of Kamiya Kasshin ryu." Sestsuna said laughing as he once again picked up Kaoru and left the dojo, stepping over Yahiko. "I think I will leave you here, helpless and defenseless of not knowing what to do, this is my way of torturing you."

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When Yahiko woke up he didn't know how long he had been knocked out or even how long he had been there. "KAORU!" He shouted and noticed that the female was gone. "Shit… Kenshin's going to kill me!" Yahiko thought as he looked around the dojo helplessly looking for his sensei. "KAORU!" He shouted again and jumped once he heard footsteps behind him. "Whose there?" He asked before he quickly spun around to see Sanosuke and Megumi standing there.

"Yahiko-kun, what's wrong?" Megumi asked as she bent down to Yahiko's height and put a hand on his shoulder.

"SETSUNA TOOK KAORU!" Yahiko shouted which made Megumi take a step back and Sanosuke just stared at him.

"What?" Sano asked.

"Hai! He knocked me out… itai…" Yahiko said just now feeling the pain in his hand and in the back of his head to where Setsuna had hit him.

"Why would he want Jou-Chan?" Sanosuke asked over protectively.

"I don't know." Yahiko said and then felt Megumi's hand on Yahiko's shoulder again.

"I hope that she's alright since she's seven months now, she shouldn't be pushed too hard." Megumi said. "For now we can only hope that she'll be alright and that Kenshin will find her soon."

When Kaoru woke up she was tied by her hands and her feel and was in some sort of wagon. Her mouth was gagged and she glared up to find Setsuna driving the wagon.

"We're almost to where you're husband is now, Kaoru-dono." Setsuna said mockingly and Kaoru's eyes showed great anger. Only Kenshin was allowed to call her that. Just like Sanosuke was the only one allowed to call her Jou-chan.

Silent tears came down her eyes as she felt her baby kick inside of her. 'Kenshin, please, I need you.'

Setsuna stopped the wagon some where in the forest and then picked Kaoru up who would have fought back if it weren't the fact that she was afraid that she would fall and end up landing on her stomach and would end up hurting the baby. She felt sick beyond belief and she wanted to get away from this man so much, but she couldn't. Her hands and feet where tied together and he then started to tie her against a tree. Her eyes widen in fear when she saw the rope and wondered where he would put it. She was surprised that he had tied her hands and feet to the tree rather then around her waist or her stomach. He also tied her right below her chest, being sure not to hurt the baby, but why would he do that? He could just easily kill her baby and her if he wanted to so why was he being so careful?

"We are now in Kyoto." Setsuna whispered in Kaoru's ear. "Now you wait there and watch me and you're husband fight, this will be it whoever lives through this will be the one who wins." Kaoru didn't know when she became so weak since she was never this weak and could barely help herself but to pass out.

Kenshin once again stopped walking as he sensed another's ki around him, two of them, both oddly familiar. He then saw Setsuna sitting carelessly on a rock eating an apple. "Setsuna we finish this now and I mean now!" Kenshin said angrily as he glared at the man.

"Come now Himura-San, is this the way you treat someone who holds your wife captive?" Setsuna asked as he took another bite out of his apple. "You can kill me now but if you kill me you will never learn where in these woods to where I have left your wife."

"Take me to her." Kenshin ordered as he tried to calm himself, his eyes flashing dangerously from purple to gold. "NOW!"

"Perhaps, after my meal."

Kenshin pulled out his sword and sliced the apple in two, he had reversed the blade. This weapon was no longer just one to protect others, it was a weapon to kill another.

"Very well now that I'm finished." Setsuna said sighing sarcastically as he whipped his hands off on to his shirt and walked Kenshin through the woods.

Kenshin's eyes widen once Setsuna stopped and he saw Kaoru tied to a tree, what more was that he saw how large she had gotten while he was away. "KAORU-DONO!" Kenshin yelled at his wife who rested there unconsciouncely. "KAORU-DONO!"

Kaoru woke up at that moment to find Kenshin standing a distance in front of her and didn't know what to do. "Ken…shin…" Kaoru muttered and blushed even in this situation he could make her blush like that.

"What did he do to you, Kaoru-Dono?" Kenshin asked angrily as he walked forward to go to his wife but was stopped by Setsuna. "If you want her you'll have to finish our little fight, if you don't then you'll get killed by me and I get to kill you're wife and you're child with in her."

"Child, Kaoru-Dono?" Kenshin asked somewhat shocked as he stared at the woman who was tied up against the tree.

"Yes, Kenshin." Kaoru said quietly and tears came down her eyes.

Battousai came out as Kenshin's eyes now turned red and fierce as they glared at Setsuna. "You will not lay a hand on Sessha's family." Battousai ordered. "This one will kill you for what you have done to Sessha's family."

"Ah, good, you're angry, that's what I wanted to see in this fight. That I did." Setsuna said in a mocking tone of voice as he with drew his blade which had no reversed side. Setsuna's blade, was a blade meant to kill and hurt others. "I have been waiting too long and I can see that you are now healed and mended completely. NOW KAORU HIMURA WATCH AS YOUR BELOVED HUSBAND DIES!"