Author's Note: My very first fic under this category. Please forgive me n advance for all wrong Japanese terms…I'm kind of new to this. If you want to, you can flame me about them, I'd really want to be corrected
Disclaimer: I don't own Rurouni Kenshin.
I was sitting along the edge of the steps of the Kamiya Dojo, hearing footsteps behind me. I knew, for a fact, that that was Kaoru…she was the only one who had the courage to come near me. I was, after all, Battousai. I am the killer, the slayer, and she probably just felt sorry for me. I understood so well why people despised me, and why they still do. And that was what I loved so much about Kaoru. She would talk to me every single day, carrying a tray with two cups of tea. She would sit beside me, and just talk.
In
love, In no belief
Never found inside of Me
Built these walls
up so high
Needed my room to breathe
"Konnichiwa,
Kenshin. It's a very beautiful evening, ne?" she kneeled down for
me to reach my cup. I lifted it, then supported it with both hands. I
felt as if the piece of china was so fragile in the hands of
Battoussi the slayer.
I nodded, as I watched her sit beside me.
You
tear them down
Can't believe you've changed my mind
Oh Baby, Oh
Baby
I saw your smile
Stay with me a while
I watched her long, slender fingers wrap around the cup, then she lifted it up to her lips.
"I've been watching those fireflies for quite a while now," I said.
She looked at me with her round, dark eyes. She looked at me with curiosity…to have said something like that.
"They look so happy…" I continued.
All
things fall in to place
My heart, it feels so safe
You are my
melody
That's where you take me
She nodded. "They are. Aren't you?" she looked at me intently, trying to read my actions.
A breeze passed by, and a few leaves from the Sakura tree blew past.
"I am, although…people are still afraid of me…" I looked up at the stars. I smiled. "I am Battousai…"
"No…" she said with a smiling face- the smile that had been so comforting through the past days. "You are Kenshin."
I smiled. I didn't know if she was just saying that…maybe out of pity, but I didn't care. Hearing her say that made me feel a lot better about myself. To have myself seen in someone's eyes, not as Battousai, but as Kenishin Himura…the wanderer. The one who USED to be a wanderer. Now, I have a home, made a home on tea and sympathy.
I looked at her, lifting a hand to her chin to face me, pulling her close as I moved closer as well.
With
you I get so high
Lost in the crystal sky
You are this
melody
That's where you take me
I never fell before
How did
u find my door
The key up to my soul
To you forever more
You
make me rise
And never did I once think twice
You make me
smile
Stay with me a while
I
pulled her closer, feeling her long lashes on my cheek…and just as
our lips were merely inches apart, she stopped moving closer, and
instead, lay her head on my shoulder.
She intertwined her fingers into mine.
Afraid
to let it all inside
Now I wanna hear you'll
stay with me a
while
stay with me a while
My face was downcast, to have been rejected. How could I have been so stupid as to kiss her. She took me in, and this is what I do.
My mind filled with regrets.
Maybe it just wasn't the right time yet. YET.
Author's Note: Well, that was shorter than expected.