CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Kaoru watched in horror as the batousai part of her husband clashed swords with Setsuna. Each person's style was the same, since they both had the same teacher. Each one seemed as equal in strength, but that wasn't it, they just knew what one another's moves was going to be. Kaoru just stared wide eyed at the two and could feel her heart race. "KENSHIN!" She screamed as she watched Setsuna's sharp blade cut against Kenshin's arm.

Kenshin ignored the "scratch" and just ripped the remaining piece of his sleeve off and let the wind take it away. His eyes where a dangerous red color, and he stared at Setsuna almost with out blinking. His reversed blade was calling for blood, the blood of the man who had threatened his family and friends. The man who had wanted for countless years to take everything away from him. All emotion but hatred left his being, leaving him an almost emotionless shell as sakura petals started to fall from their trees and blew in the wind. (I never really set a specific season in this fic so :p you can't stay anything about that! MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA) The two men paused only for a split second before clashing together once again with their swords.

Kaoru's breath heaved as she watched the fight, she couldn't help but to panic, she didn't want Kenshin to loose and she didn't want Kenshin to kill either. He had promised never to kill again, her heart felt like it would pump out of her chest.

Setsuna smiled wildly as they fight continued and the evening changed in to the night. "Just like old times, right Himura-San?" Setsuna asked as they blocked swords once again but he received no answer from Kenshin who just gave him a cold stare.

"This will be you're last fight battousai!" Setsuna shouted as he plunged forth with the blade in his hands and Kenshin easily dodged it by jumping up in to the air, letting the night sky cover him. Normally in a normal battle Kenshin would have shouted the name of his attack but this time, he wanted to kill Setsuna in one clean sweep. He brought the blade down to kill Setsuna but almost stopped when he heard Kaoru screaming.

"NO KENSHIN DON'T!"

Kenshin quickly reversed the blade once more to where the blade was back in its original spot to where it couldn't kill as he heard his wife's pleading voice somewhere in the darkness and hit Setsuna with the attack and watched as Setsuna flew backwards, and was knocked unconscioucne. Kenshin's eyes turned back to normal once he realized that Setsuna was knocked out cold and walked over to his wife and made his sword to where the blade was where it was suppose to be and he carefully cut Kaoru free.

Kaoru stared at Kenshin with teary eyes once she was on the firm ground and in his arms. "Ken…shin…." She whispered as she rested her head on to his shoulder which she had been waiting to do for so long, to touch him in any way.

"It's over." Kenshin said and blinked a bit as Kaoru brought his hand to her stomach and rested it there. "ORO?" Kenshin asked confused.

"Our child Kenshin." Kaoru said blushing fiercely and he could barely see it in the moon light but he could tell that his young wife was blushing.

"I will protect you love." Kenshin promised as he pulled her in to a kiss, which Kaoru had waited once again to receive.

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The two had returned home and Kenshin had spent just about every waking moment with Kaoru as he could, expect for when he had to go to the market to buy things for that nights dinner and he noticed how he had to buy more then usual since Kaoru ate a lot more then usual now but he didn't mind, as long as she was happy. She was with his child, their child! Kenshin now felt like he could be at ease with his wife now that the danger of Setsuna was gone. When he had got back home however, Megumi scolded him for leaving Kaoru un-protected and ended up beating him aside the head a few times.

Kaoru smiled at Kenshin as they shared their first dinner together as husband and wife. "Kenshin, this is nearing my eighth month." Kaoru said as she once again placed Kenshin's hand on to her stomach after Kenshin had put the food down.

"Sessha knows, Megumi-Dono told Sessha." Kenshin said happily.

"This belongs to you." Kaoru said almost forgetting about her father, no Kenshin's ring around her neck and she took off the chain and held the ring out to her husband. She smiled happily as Kenshin took it and put it on his finger. "Make sure that it stays there for now on for now on ok?" Kaoru asked as she looked in to his violet eyes.

"Promise." Kenshin said as he put it on his finger. "Anything to make you happy." Kenshin said actually smiling, being happy for the first time in a long time. The newly wedded couple ate quietly through out the rest of the meal, each one just glancing at one another every once in a while and little things like that.

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I'm making this fic short so that I don't loose fans and so that I don't loose self interest. This should end in another chapter or so. I'm not making any promises to how many chapters there will be after this one. I have been getting very few reviews on the past few chapters so I must be loosing people's interest already on this. Well I hope that you enjoyed this chapter.