Tenshi: This is the last chapter that Julie-dono wrote before she deleted this, so here it is then the next will be all my ideas …ahaha…thank you so much Julie-dono for letting me use this story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Rurouni Kenshin and chapter 1-8! Chapter 1-8 was written by Julie–dono I just correct them and use it with her permission…bais!
My heart my world my son 8
"I trusted you! But your just some killer named Battousai! How could you?" Kaoru yelled as tears streamed down her flushed cheeks. Kenshin froze in place. "Get away from me..."she said as she ran away into the dark distance.
"What! Kaoru?" Sanosuke was baffled from what Kenshin had told him, Yahiko and Megumi the next day.
"Yes…"the red-haired relied sadly lowering his head.
"Kaoru? Jou-chan? What!" Sanosuke blurted out.
"Give it a rest, Rooster head!" Megumi said whacking the back of Sanosuke's head.
"Ouch! You're too strict fox! Can't I be surprised for once!" Sanosuke complained.
"So...Ken-san, are you going after her?" Megumi asked Kenshin ignoring Sanosuke's bickering. Kenshin didn't say anything.
'Get away from me...' those words rung in Kenshin's head over and over. He still couldn't believe that Kaoru...his Kaoru...had said those words.
"Ken-san?" Megumi called to Kenshin. He looked up at the doctor. "She didn't mean it...I mean she lost her memory. So it wasn't the Kaoru you knew." Megumi couldn't find the exact right words.
"Arigatou, Megumi," Kenshin smiled slightly.
"So are you going to look for her?" Yahiko asked after a few moments of silence.
"Ken-san,"-Kenshin looked up at Megumi again-"If you were going to go after Kaoru, what would Kenji do? With no mother or father and all..."
"I'm...not going after her..."Kenshin replied. Everyone stared wide-eyed at him. "Even though Kaoru has lost her memory and is frightened by me...I still love her. But if I choose to go and find her, that would only make matters worse."
"So right now you won't go looking for her until you think it's the right time?" Sanosuke asked.
"I'll wait for Kaoru to come to me," Kenshin said as his tone became lower.
"What makes you think she'll come after you?" Yahiko asked.
"Kaoru might have lost her memory, but she still has the same personality. She wouldn't just stand there...I would know," Kenshin muttered the last words to himself. He remembered when he had left her for Kyoto to fight Shishio and Kaoru had gone back after him.
Everyone, once more, just stared at Kenshin wondering what he muttered about.
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"That...bastard!" Kaoru roared in anger kicking the dirt below her. She wiped several tears from her reddened eyes. "I can't believe him!"
Kaoru walked around the outsides of the forest trying to calm herself down from the anger that swelled up in her, but it wouldn't leave her. She felt so betrayed...
"He's such a liar! Claiming that I lived at that dojo and that we were married! He's such a...!"Kaoru yelled to herself.
Suddenly she noticed someone staring at her...
She looked around noticing what looked to be just a normal old man walking to his destination, but he stopped in his tracks and was staring at Kaoru wondering what was wrong with her since she was talking to herself.
"What're you looking at?" Kaoru yelled. She didn't mean to yell at him, but she had to let go of her anger on someone. The man gulped noticing she was staring daggers at him and soon fled from her. Kaoru watched the man run away as she realized how rude she was to him.
"No wait! I'm...forget it…" she sighed.
'Ain't so tough now, Battousai?' Rang the man's voice through Kaoru's head.
"Hn...I need to find out more about that name…"she said and then began to run to the nearest Inn.
She entered a small inn call Owagi Inn, meeting the owner of the inn there.
"Hello," the man greeted. Kaoru smiled.
"Hello. I was wondering if you have any information on a certain man called 'Battousai'?" she asked. The man stood there in a bit of shock.
"You mean Hitokiri Battousai?" the man asked. Kaoru nodded.
"I guess..."Kaoru said. The man simply gestured her to follow him and she did.
They came to a shelf that seemed to be in a small dark corner where it looked to be that no one ever noticed.
"Here..."the man said blowing the top of the book cover that was covered in dust.
"Thank you," Kaoru said as the man walked away.
She opened the book and browsed through the pages until a certain section caught her eye.
"Many, many years ago in the streets of Kyoto there was a man known as Hitokiri Battousai who fought in a war with the Imperialists. He would slay all men that would get in his way. He had become the greatest assassin in Japan when suddenly after the war he had disappeared never to be heard again..."Kaoru read. Besides the writing was a small painting of what Kaoru guessed to be was the Battousai.
Red hair in a high ponytail, a cross-shaped scar on his left cheek and fiery amber eyes...
"Kenshin...is Battousai," Kaoru whispered.
'That...bastard! Slaying all those poor men! He probably doesn't give a care in the world that he slay all those men! I shouldn't just sit here and wait for him to attack again...!' Kaoru then closed the book and put it back on the shelf walking out of the Inn.
To be continued...
Tenshi: I didn't change much here either…just the library part the most…ahaha…well after this, it's all up to me I guess… and again thank you so much Julie-dono for letting me use this story…