Title: Close to you
Author: Shibo-chan (formerly Dori-chan) (and Shinichi – Sometimes only. Only the eechi part)
Rating: PG-13 (rated for some foul language)
Pairings: Soujiro/Misao, Aoshi/Misao, Sano/Megumi, Kaoru/Kenshin and maybe other pairings on the side
Status: Work in progress
Summary: Aoshi, Sanosuke, Kenshin and Soujiro were a new band called Assassins. Now they must encounter with Japan's most popular Divas in turn to be the number one in Japan. But what if they suddenly fall in love with the Divas? AU with lots of OOC
Disclaimer: Rurouni Kenshin© belongs to Watsuki Nobuhiro Sensei, Sony Entertainments, Jump comic etc. I'm just a little girl with no money. So don't sue me.
Note: words in Italic means individuals' thought
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Chapter 03
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~~01 25, 18.12.2003, Assassins' Apartment's living room~~
"Oi, Shinomori! When are you going back to Kanagawa?" Sanosuke asked as he saw Aoshi walked to the front door.
"Maybe the next weekend," Aoshi said while wearing his boots.
"Oh… where are you going?" Sanosuke asked again.
"My bag," Aoshi said while he walked out the pavement to the garage.
"Oh," Sanosuke said again. Sanosuke was about to drink his wine when Misao shouted.
"Sano!! Could you please take my bags from the car?! I'm sort of naked here!!" Misao shouted from the bathroom.
"What do you think I am?! You personal assistant?!" Sano yelled back.
"Please?!!" Misao shouted again.
"This is the last time I'm helping you!!" Sanosuke yelled while standing up from his chair. He then put down his glass and walked out the door and straight to the garage.
"Thanks!!" Misao's shouts faded as he walked away.
~~01 28, in the garage~~
"Oi, Shinomori," Sanosuke said as he saw Aoshi closing his black Lamborghini's bonnet with his Adidas bag hanging on his left shoulder.
"What are you doing here?" Aoshi asked as he walked pass Sanosuke.
"Itachi wants her bag," Sanosuke replied shortly while opening his Mustang's bonnet and brought Misao's bag out.
"Aaa," Aoshi said while turning to walk back into the house when Misao's screaming was heard telling Sanosuke that she want her bag.
"Ok Ok I'm coming!!" Sanosuke yelled back while grumbling.
~~01 30, inside the house~~
"Hora," Sanosuke gave Misao her bag through a small gap of the door Misao opened.
"Arigato Sano," Misao said while closing the door. Then there were some sound of shuffling clothes showing that Misao was dressing.
"Itachi you could use Sou's room, you know where's his room is right?" Sanosuke asked.
"Emm! Heki heki," Misao replied from the other side.
"Yeah like I would be worry about you," Sanosuke muttered under his breath.
"What did you say, Sano? I can't hear you!" Misao said as she heard Sanosuke's muttering.
"Nothing," Sanosuke said while walking away to his room.
"But I swear I heard you saying something… Sano?" Misao said as she opened the door to see that Sanosuke already left.
Misao decided that she would have a cup of milk before going to bed. Then she walked to the kitchen.
"Don't you even dare to scare me again!?" Misao said while turning around when she felt someone behind her but didn't saw anyone. So she started walking again.
"Do you study martial art?" a voice suddenly asked behind her. Misao jumped as she heard the voice behind her. She quickly turned around to face the man.
"What the hell are you doing scaring me like that, Shinomori Aoshi?" Misao yelled at the person who was none other than Shinomori Aoshi.
"For fun," Aoshi replied while smirking. Aoshi thought that Misao didn't hear the question so he decided to drop it.
"God damn you," Misao said while glaring at him. She then turned around and walked to the kitchen followed by Aoshi. Then Misao felt Aoshi was following her very closely
so she abruptly stopped. Aoshi had stopped in time before he slammed onto her. "Would you just stop following me so close?!" Misao said while turning around.
"It's because you're walking like a tortoise," Aoshi replied calmly.
"Grrr… I hope I could just strangle you here and now and cut you into pieces and throw it into the ocean for the sharks to eat," Misao said voicing her thought out while holding her anger at the calm person.
"If you could," Aoshi said out. She glared at him for the last time before turning around again and resumed her walking to the kitchen. Aoshi couldn't do anything but staring at her retreating back while smirking. He then started walking again when he saw Misao entered the kitchen.
~~01 35, in the kitchen~~
"That bloody damn Shinomori, if he's not my partner I would had use my kunai to kill him. No, I should use Himura's Sakabatou; it should cut him down easily. Now where is that bloody damn carton of milk?" Misao muttered while searching the refrigerator for milk.
"It's not inside there," Aoshi said as he had been there looking at her for the last five minutes from the doorframe. Misao jumped again and turned to look at Aoshi.
"Would you just stop scaring me like that?!" Misao said while standing on her full height. This time she was thinking just to bite his head off.
"But I had been standing there for the last five minutes. You should have sense me from the beginning or you were just busy insulting me," Aoshi said while smirking.
"Grrr…" Misao said while fisting her palm. A vein was popping on her forehead.
"If you looking for the milk it's inside the third top cabinet to the left," Aoshi said as he returned to the cold, calm façade.
Misao raised an eyebrow at him before walking to the cabinet he said just now. Her anger at the person was now gone but it is replaced by suspicion because he could just make fun of her because she couldn't even find the milk. Then she slowly walked to the cabinet and opened it. Inside it, she saw three cartons full of milk. "Why didn't you guys put it in the refrigerator, it will be sour by now," Misao said while taking out all three cartons of milk and transferred it into the refrigerator. She then stuffed two cartons into the refrigerator while looking at the expire date of the milk on the other carton.
"It's new and we got no place to put it inside the fridge," Aoshi replied as he walked to the cabinet next to where Misao took the milk from and took a packet of instant noodle from it.
"You eat those unhealthy things?! Let me cook for you," Misao said while taking the packet from Aoshi's hand and put it back into the cabinet. Then she wore the apron she found behind the door and started looking for ingredients she could use. She then took all the ingredients to the stove, started to cut vegetables, and cooked it. Aoshi watch with amazement how this 17 years old girl cooked for him and as well for herself. He himself could only cook instant noodle. But he would never admit that. (Like he would say out his own weakness ^__^)
A few minutes later she took two bowl of ramen and chopsticks to the table and put a bowl down with a pair of chopsticks in front of Aoshi before sitting down to eat her own bowl of ramen.
"Itadakimasu!" Misao said before slurping down her ramen. Aoshi then took up his own pair of chopstick and start eating his own ramen. After swallowing a mouthful of ramen, he put his chopstick down.
"It's not delicious?" Misao asked curiosity. She was worrying that her cooking had gone bad over the two-week holiday in America she and Kaoru had with Misao's mother. She didn't had any chances to cook because her mother said that she will manage the kitchen herself.
"No, it's delicious," Aoshi answered flatly. She only sighed in return.
"Then?" Misao asked again. This time thinking that he couldn't eat hot things.
"Nothing," Aoshi said while taking his chopsticks and started eating again.
Man, you're strange Misao thought in her mind while continue eating her ramen again.
"You're always like that?" Aoshi asked Misao while looking up from his bowl.
"Hmm? What do you mean by that?" Misao asked while biting on her chopstick.
"I mean being that nice to people you don't know," Aoshi explained while looking into her emerald eyes.
"Huh? Can't we be like that? If we are nice to other people, people will be nice to us," Misao confessed.
"You are strange," Aoshi said while playing with the soup.
"You're the one who is strange!" Misao said back playfully.
"Hmm," Aoshi said while smirking.
"So you know martial arts?" Aoshi asked the question again.
"Yeah, why are you asking me that?" Misao said before slurping another mouthful of ramen.
"Nothing, just curios," Aoshi said before starting to eat his ramen again.
"And I presume that you also know martial art?" Misao asked while smiling.
"How did you know?" Aoshi asked.
"Well, you always hide your Qi whenever you saw me, and I think you do it because you wanted to scare me?" Misao said while glaring at him. Aoshi only smirked in return.
"Great job at detecting that," Aoshi said, still smirking.
"Of course," Misao said before she slurped up all the soup left inside the bowl.
"Well I think you could clean your own bowl, right?" Misao said while standing up from her chair and carried her empty bowl and chopsticks to the sink. She then washed it and put it back into the cabinet where she found them.
"Oyasuminasai," Misao said while yawning.
"Oyasumi," Aoshi replied but she was already gone. Aoshi just returned back eating his half-empty bowl of ramen.
~~the next morning about 0700hrs~~
"Ohaiyo!!" Misao said as she rushed into Sanosuke's room. Sanosuke just cuddled more into the bed when Misao opened the curtain.
"Come on wake up! Wake up!" Misao called Sano.
Sano just mumbled sleepily "Go away mum… its Sunday… no school."
"I am not your mother!" Misao said angrily. Then she got an idea. Smirking evilly, she went into the toilet and took a basin of water. She poured all of the content onto the happily sleeping Sano. "Wake up!!!!" She shouted as she is pouring.
Sanosuke jumped up in surprise and started cursing "You mother f**ker!! What is wrong with you?" He non-consciously screamed at her. He was so shocked as the cold contents touched him.
Then Misao (Who was so angry that Sano cursed at her) used the basin and knocked on Sano's head. "Haven't your mother taught you not to cursed AT A LADY!!!"
"ITAI!!! Misao you are not a real lady… you are a tomboy" Sanosuke said back.
Misao threw the basin onto his face, causing a nosebleed and screamed "HOW DARE YOU!!! Are you trying to meet death???" She glared at him and trying very hard to hold her temper… Slowly taking in a deep breath, she said "Get up! I will get you a bandage for that." After saying that she left the room. Sano glared at her. Now he is wet, bleeding, and having a bump on his head… great!
Misao closed the door with a thud. Outside Aoshi was wearing a short pants, he wasn't wearing only a black singlet which make him look very sexy. Misao blushed. His build mesmerized her. Soujiro was different; he was a smaller size with little muscle. But Aoshi was hot! She could not deny it even though she was supposed to hate him.
"What happened? It seems to me like the third world war taking place in there."
That snapped Misao out of her daze, "Oh Sano didn't want to wake up... I just need to use my special technique. Oh yea which reminds me I need to get a bandage for his poor nose after losing so much blood. Ja!"
Aoshi's eyebrow shot up. Nosebleed? What is her special technique? A stripping show? He thought as he walked back into his room.
A few minutes later Misao came back with the first aid kit and some tissue. Inside the room, Sanosuke was still sitting on the bed with his head up trying to stop his nosebleed. Misao then took the tissue and put it into his bleeding nose. "It's your fault that you didn't wake up just now," Misao said as she tended Sanosuke's nose.
"Hey how could I know, you shouldn't be using the water to wake me up. You could just scream into my ear, my mom always use that to wake me up… Opsss," Sanosuke said unconsciously.
"Ok, then next time I'll use that," Misao said while clapping her hands.
"Please don't use that one, please!!" Sanosuke begged but Misao only hummed and sang her song in return.
"I can't hear youuuu…" Misao said while singing.
"I'm dead," Sano said as he slapped his forehead.
"Done!! Now come on put on some clothes. I have to go to the studio today," Misao said while pulling at Sanosuke's Roster head-like hair.
"No way!! I'm going back to sleep," Sanosuke said as he covered himself with his blanket while lying back onto his bed.
"Then who would driving me to the studio?!" Misao said while snatching his blanket away.
"Shinomori will…" Sanosuke mumbled while pulling his blanket back.
"Oh yeah, I forgot that he need to go to the studio too," Misao said while hitting her fist on her palm. She then ran out of the room and to Aoshi's room but suddenly the phone rang so she had to answer the phone.
"Moshi moshi," Misao answered.
*Misao-chan?* a voice said through the line.
"Jiiya?!"
*Good that you are here!! Tell Aoshi to take the phone!*
"Oh Ok!" Misao happily said. Then she put the phone handle on the table next to the phone and ran to Aoshi's room. Misao reached in front of his room door in no time. His door was slightly ajar. She was thinking to just enter it but it is very rude so she decided to knock. But the door opened further as her hand touched the door. Feeling curios, she entered the room. He was not inside the room. Wow, his room is clean and empty, not like some man… Misao shuddered as she remembered Sanosuke's and Soujiro's room. But it does look lifeless almost. Hey, hey, what's this? Misao thought as she saw a picture hanged on the wall. It was a picture of a looking thirty something years old woman standing in a middle of a park hugging a mischievous one or two years old kid with an eight years old boy. She presumed that the boy was Aoshi because of his ice blue eyes.
"You do love to enter people's room without permission, don't you?" Aoshi's voice shot out. Misao jumped, as she had not expected him. Quickly she turned around only to find an extremely naked and wet Aoshi -which is not good for her imagination- only covered by a towel. His broad chest… so many scars she realized. Suddenly he smirked and said, "Have you quite finished? I asked you a question."
Misao blushed then turned around. "Jiiya is on the line now and he wants to talk to you." Misao said while trying badly to stop her blushing.
Aoshi looked at her before answering, "Tell him to wait for another three minutes; I need to put on some clothes."
"Ah, hai," Misao said while walking out of the door but before she walked away she bowed down and said, "I'm sorry for entering your room without permission." Then she ran away.
Aoshi looked at the door for a while before closing it and started wearing clothes.
Misao was beetroot red when she ran away. She then ran to the phone and took it from the table. "Okina?"
*Misao? Where's Aoshi?*
"Ahh… he needs to put on some clothes. He just finished showering, I think."
*Oh, I know you peeked on him!*
"No I didn't!!" Misao exclaimed.
*Hohoho*
"Jiiya!! Ah, here he comes!" Misao exclaimed happily. She was sick of being accused by Okina.
Aoshi took the phone from Misao and answered it. Misao just stood beside him looking at him as he and Okina talked. Aoshi then hanged the phone and turned around to face Misao. Misao looked at him with her big emerald eyes, which are full with curiosity.
"We need to go to Hokkaido now," Aoshi said to her.
"Huh? But how are we going to get there? It will be about nightfall when we reached there!" Misao said.
"Okina had booked tickets for us and the plane leaves exactly two hours later. Pack your clothes up we'll be going in the next ten minutes," Aoshi said while walking back into his room.
"Huh?! Wait a second!! Ten minutes?! Are you crazy?!" Misao cried out but she still managed to run into 'her' room to pack the stuff she used last night.
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TBC
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Haha!! I finished it!!
I only received three reviews for the last chapter, I am crying now…*sob* *sob* Well anyway thanks for the reviews.
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This is the translation.
Aaa – yes; usually used by males
Hora – here
Arigato – thank you
Emm – yes; often used by females. Hai is more polite than this
Heki heki – don't worry
Sakabatou – Reversed-blade sword; the one Kenshin used.
Ramen – Japanese noodle that came from China.
Itadakimasu – bon appetite; said before a meal
Oyasuminasai – Good night
Oyasumi – same as Oyasuminasai
Ohaiyo – Good morning
Ja ne
P/s: - Some of you might say Aoshi is OOC but you might never know what he is thinking right… The thought that Aoshi thought about Misao stripping… is just one sick idea of my sister Shinichi. I have no idea what she is thinking; but I guess I can never figure out what she is thinking in her sick perverted mind right!
Pp/s: - Next chapter is humour (In a very sick way) and a LOT I repeat A LOT of one character's bashing!
Shibo-chan and also Shinichi (which is busy stuffing tissue paper in her nose… not because of nosebleed silly… she is sick from flu, Haha)