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Kaoru- 20 years old

Kenshin-22 years old

Chapter one.

Cool cold air woke him. Even with the intense was they had made love to one another the warmth could only last so long in this little cave. Kenshin sat up onto his elbow to look at the sleeping goddess before him. True he knew that she was only half asleep—meaning that she could wake up at a moments notice—but still she looked content, gentle, and innocent as if she has never killed before or seen the horror of this world. Though he knew that she has and will kill again as well as she has seen the trauma of this world.

He pulled her closer to him so as to keep her warm with his body heat and with his own content sigh he laid his face in the side of her neck.

She shifted bringing one arm around his neck and the other around his back while his arms snaked around her waist, one hand resting just above her butt and the other sliding its way up between her shoulder blades on her back. With another content sigh he held her for a bit longer before he whispered so as not to break the mood, "We need to head out and continue our travel."

After a pause she answered, "I know. Just...hold me for a bit longer please?" She said this with her eyes still closed. His reply was a smile and a nodding of his head pulling her even closer to him.

It was a special time in the mornings when they were able to hold one another and just be able to embrace each other before they stared their long travel to nowhere particular. As assassins they always had to be on the move careful about ever staying in one place to long. Eventually they would need to go back to their master's place and discus a full attack plain. They had all the support they would need; now it was time to plan.

"Today is the day that we begin our travel back to Master Hiko's place is in the high mountains. It's a five days walk from here. The next town is a two days walk from here so we'll have to find shelter when we rest at night until we get to the next town."

"Thank you Captain Obvious." Kaoru responded jokingly. Of course she had know the distance from here to the next town and to Hiko's place. It was a necessity when you're a traveling assassin to know directions, short cuts, and the time it takes to get from one point to another.

He chuckled into her hear understanding what she meant by the comment. Realizing they needed to get dressed Kenshin sat up bringing Kaoru up with him. Quickly putting on some bottoms while Kaoru stretched he then held up her clothes and made a move to throw them across the cave to make her get up and get them. He grinned at his plan.

She looked at him almost daring him to and as he tossed them she jumped up hoping to catch them but caught only air as she landed on Kenshin with the blanket rapt around her.

"Kenshin you jerk!" Kaoru started to pound him in the head playfully then got up to go get her clothes. He just sat there innocently. "Oh don't look so innocent you pervert." Kaoru shot at his direction.

"Well from last night I would say I'm not the only pervert around here..." He said drawing closer to her. She had her top on and was in the process of putting on her bottoms when he came from behind her and started to hug her lovingly stopping her from putting the bottoms on.

"Nnnnn stop that. We've got to get going you know."

"Yes I know. You just smell so nice...and even better after we've..."He trailed off letting her mind fill in the rest.

"Kenshin. Let me get into my pants or your gonna wish you had when you had the chance." Kaoru wasn't agree—quit the contrary actually she was melting inside about his sweet comment but she knew that they had to leave soon and he knew it. So he let go heeded his loves warning.

As they walked through the snowy forest each had a hand on his or her sword just in case their enemy hid their ki power. They walked close to one another neither one breathing hard even after walking all day with no rest. They finally decided on a place to rest would be in a small clearing where they could find some dry would and build a fire to help keep them warm at night.

Kaoru built a stone circle where the fire would be places. Kenshin came out from behind a few trees with some relatively dry wood. After building the fire up the next thing to do was to get food. Kenshin pulled out some rice a small canister of water to boil it with and then got out the small pot out of his sling over bag. Kaoru set up a sleeping area for her a Kenshin to share while he backed the food.

Some time later while they were eating their dinner of rice Kenshin and Kaoru heard a noise. It was a snapping of a twig. Instinctively they both grabbed their swords that lay beside them just incase something like this happened. A small pack of wolfs came out in the opening all bearing their teeth with some saliva dripping out of their mouths. They glared and growled at the two.

Kaoru liked wolfs because of there beauty and cunning attacks though this was only the case when seeing a tamer one or when reading about one in a book. So when she saw one in the wild like this it meant that that wolf—or wolfs—had found their next meal. Well that was not going to happen tonight so she prepared to fight though it was in vain because all Kenshin had to do was to go Battosai on them and they paused and stood still. Golden eyes blazing Battosai let out a low powerful growl and the wolfs turned and ran the other direction.

"Who do you do that?" Kaoru was amazed. They didn't even have to pull out there swords to scare them. All he had to do was glare and growl back and the wolfs were afraid.

"Well I thought that if growling and having golden eyes turned you on then it would surely scare the hell out of a wolf." Kenshin said a smirk coming to his face at seeing Kaoru's blush.

"Kenshin you pervert!" Kaoru through her now empty rice bowl at Kenshin's head hitting dead on and leaving a swirly-eyed Battosai on the ground as she prepared for bed. "Hmph." Kaoru turned her back to Kenshin's now swimmingly dead body.

Not thirty seconds later Kenshin was in his sleeping uteri and crawling under the covers to try a make his love happy before she went to sleep. He didn't like it when she went to bed angry with him. For one it meant the possibility of no sex for while and two it meant that she would be angry in the morning to. "Oh come now Kaoru you know I was only joking." Kenshin whispered in her ear and snaked his arm around her waist to bring her closer to him while his other hand massaged her thigh. 'This has to work.' Kenshin smiled against her shoulder.

Kaoru gave in after a moment and turned in his embrace to face him. "I hate when you do that." She said looking away stubbornly knowing that she had lost. Fist she heard his chuckles and then she heard his deep lawn. Realizing just how tired she to was she through her stubbornness out the window deciding that it was better to snuggle up with the one she loved then to sleep without his kind arms wrapped around her. So she snuggled closer wrapping herself around him while he pulled her even closer to him.

"Kenshin?"

"Yes?"

"What do you think that it will be like after the war? If we win?"

After a moment of thought he replied, "It'll be great and it will also be tough. After the war there won't be a need for assassins so I'm not sure what we'll do for jobs but sense there won't be a dictator in control then we can walk the streets freely. There won't be any more war either so we will finally be able to relax."

"Mmhmm. That sounds nice."

After another moment Kaoru spoke again. "Kenshin?"

"Yes?"

"I love you."

"I love you to." Kenshin pressed a kiss to her forehead and then to her lips. "Now good night love."

"Good night beloved."

Authors note: Hehehe I know I know this is a short chapter but I haven't updated in forever so I thought that I should update what I have at least. Hey just so you know if you're on my favorites list or somthin and you've updated your story recently (in the last month or something. O.o) And I haven't left you a review it doesn't mean that I didn't like your story/new chapter it means that my computer is being a jack ass and when I click the review button at the bottom it says down on the status bar that 'pop up was blocked' and then gives me a real pop up. So yeah I hate my computer and all its jackass glory.............................ok I'm done. Btw it's my birthday today so if you could please don't leave me a mean review (it hurts ya know.)

Special thanks to: half-breed-demon-fox, hotohori :P, Jisusaken, and horse-crazy-gurl (btw I have read your stories and there great but sorry I can't leave a review because of the evil computer. Just thought you should know) For reviewing and I hope you review after reading this chapter again thanks!

Till the next chapter!

Kimi-chan!