Innocent Seduction
by: purplerose28
Disclaimers: I do not own any characters of Rurouni Kenshin. As much as I wanted to own Aoshi and Kenshin I can't, they belong to Nobuhiro Watsuki-sama.
… Chapter V: Not little Misao anymore …
It's the same feeling again. Warmth. Contentment. Satisfaction. A completely foreign feeling but at the same time very well-known. He always feels this way every time he dreams about her. It's her… only she can make him feel this way…
Long flowing hair… soft and silky skin… long lashes… thin soft lips… sea green eyes…
It's her… her face embedded on his mind… He knew her by heart, no need to look at her.
He opened his eyes and there she was asleep so soundly, sprawled on top of him… A smile appeared on his face on the lovely site before him… such a lovable being… His arms tightened around her body that seems to fit perfectly against him… she sighed contentedly as she snuggles closer to him… He closed his eyes again letting her warmth envelope his whole being…
Knock… Knock…
The sound of reality… calling him! He knew he have to leave her in the dream world and wait till the next time she will visit him in his dream… until tonight.
Knock… Knock…
Until then…
"Aoshi-san…"
Aoshi opened his eyes when he heard Kenshin call out his name…
"Hey! Aoshi! Wake up. Lunch." Aoshi sat up upon hearing Sanosuke's annoying loud voice.
He heard the door open. "Hey! Wake u––-" Paused. He didn't even look at them. They are such a nuisance sometimes.
"Umm… I see your already awaken. That's good… we'll leave you, just go downstairs for your lunch or would you like me to bring it up here for you and the young lady?" Kenshin asked. Still Aoshi's eyes were closed. He can still feel her warmness and the feel of her soft body against his as if she was really there. Aoshi opened his eyes and then quickly shut it again.
'What was that?' Aoshi asked his self, surprised. He pushed all his emotions aside as he opened his eyes. He looked down at person straddled on top of him with her cheek against his bare chest. A pleased smile on her face. He was sure he was supposed to see little Misao but… He looked at Kenshin and Sanosuke. They don't look shock at all. Sano even has a smirk on his face. "I'm going downstairs. Bring her something to eat." He said flatly. Kenshin nodded and before he closed the door Aoshi saw a knowing smile on Sano's face. He heard their footstep…Kenshin's more fluid and more discreet steps than Sano's. Silence… the only sound was fast beat of his heart as it thundered against his chest and resonate on his hears. He can clearly hear her even breathing and feel the steady beating of her heart against his upper body. He looked down at her again. 'Am I still dreaming?' He asked his self. He placed one of his hands that were wrapped around her waist into her loose hair. He examined her sleeping face to make sure that it was truly her.
Long flowing hair… soft and silky skin… long lashes… thin soft lips…
It's her… He knew he could never be mistaken… her image clear and vivid in his dreams… it's her.
'Why are you here?" He whispered. He buried his face against her neck and let her scent envelope him… her scent so familiar… He felt her arms wrapped around him. A soft moan escaped his lips when he felt her soft curves against his. The thin clothing she wore barely separating his naked torso against her. He lay down again with her still straddled on top him. 'This must be another dream.' He thought. He heard a knock and when he looked at the girl on top of him it she was still there. 'Maybe not.'
"Aoshi-san. I brought her breakfast." Kenshin said.
"Just a minute." Aoshi said blandly. He got up and carefully placed the sleeping girl on top of the bed. She was supposed to exist only in his dreams but here she was sleeping so peacefully. Aoshi looked at her from head to foot. Her body barely covered by a sheer white polo shirt that only reached a few inches passed her upper thigh. She has perfectly curved long legs, round hips and small waist, round breast that were perfect for her built and her swan-like neck that makes him want to shower with kisses. He was surprised by his thoughts and quickly pushed it away. He felt his body heat up when he saw clearly her whole body through her clothing and he suppressed a blush from appearing on his face when he noticed she wasn't wearing anything underneath the long-sleeved polo shirt. But he can't seem to command his eyes to stop from starring at her perfect breast that was barely covered by the polo shirt that has its three upper buttons unfastened. It gave him a nice view of her cleavage and the swell of the sides of her breast up to her flat stomach. Even her long bare legs were so appealing to him.
"Aoshi-san… the door please." Kenshin's voice interrupted his wonderful observation. He covered her with a blanket and quickly composed his self and made the blush on his face leave his cheeks. He opened the door for Kenshin who has a relieved look on his face.
"I'm sorry." Aoshi said.
"That's ok, that it is." Kenshin said with a smile. He placed the tray of food on top of the study table beside the bed. He looked at the girl. 'She looks familiar.' He thought. He then looked at Aoshi and noticed him observing the sleeping lady. He noticed an amiable and affectionate look on Aoshi's face that quickly left his face when he noticed that Kenshin was observing him. Kenshin couldn't help but smile. "Your lunch is ready. We'll wait for you downstairs, that we will."
"Thank you." Aoshi said.
Kenshin walked to the door and before he closed it he looked at Aoshi again. 'Aoshi-san obviously like her very much, that he does.'
Aoshi heard the door closed. He looked at her again. 'You're just a dream. When I come back here you'll be gone.' He thought. He sat beside her and gently touched her cheek. It felt so soft and so warm to him. It felt so real. He looked at her slightly parted lips. He touched it too. Slowly without his knowledge he has moved closer to her. He can feel her breath against his lips.
"Hey, Aos-SHIT!" Aoshi's face quickly moved away from her. The door closed with a bang. "Sorry!" He heard Sano apologized and heard his quick footsteps as he walked away.
'What's happening to me?' Aoshi thought. He got up and put on a black shirt. Before he went out of the room he looked at her one last time. When he was downstairs Sano and Kenshin looked at him.
"You have a good taste? Where did you meet her?" Sano asked. Aoshi sat to Sano's right side and Kenshin placed his lunch in front of him. He thanked him and proceeded to eat. Sano faced Aoshi with his head supported by his left hand that was on top of the counter. "You really are a quiet guy Aoshi. I didn't hear a single sound last night." Sano said with a huge grin.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Aoshi said. He drank his tea.
"Aww… come one! You're always very secretive. Tell us, Kenshin also want to know. "
"Oro?"
"There's nothing to tell."
"Spoilsport!" Sanosuke knew he can never forced Aoshi to say anything that he doesn't want to talk about so all he can do was to drop the subject.
"Where's Misao?" Aoshi asked. He was so surprised to see the lady in his dream that he didn't noticed Misao was not around.
"You don't know. We thought she was with you." Sano said.
"Didn't you notice her leave?" Kenshin asked.
"How will he notice if the weasel is missing if he has a beautiful lady keeping him busy." Sano said. He received a blank look from Aoshi but clearly meant: one more word from him and he's dead.
"I'll call Omasu." Aoshi said.
"Weasle is not there." Sano said. Aoshi sent him a how-did-you-know-that look. "Omasu called just minutes ago. She said she has somewhere to go and Misao has to stay here until Thursday. She said she'll drop by later with Misao's clothes."
"How about Kaoru?" Aoshi asked.
"She left with Dr. Gensai, Tsubame and Yahiko to visit Tae-dono and her baby." Kenshin answered. Aoshi was silent. His face calm but inside him it was a complete chaos. He doesn't know where Misao could be. How could he be so careless? Suddenly footsteps echoed from upstairs, heavy and noisy footsteps running downstairs. All sighed in relief.
"There's the weasel girl." Sano stated. Everyone waited for the door to burst open and see a disheveled Misao on her Akebeko uniform. The door opened. Everyone gasped. Even Aoshi's always deadpan face has his mouth slightly opened from shock while Kenshin 'oro-ed' and has a stunned look on his face as well. "That's absolutely not weasel girl but DAMN she's sexy!" Sano said. There stood in front of them in a disheveled Akebeko uniform a girl but definitely not Misao. Aoshi couldn't stop his self from checking her out. She wore the same uniform as Misao but Misao's clothes were all a little loose while hers were all too short and too tight for her but for him it fit her perfectly.
'Sano's right! She's so damn sexy.' Aoshi looked at her from head to foot again. Even though he had seen her close to naked just a while ago her look right now has totally left him speechless. The black turtleneck undershirt and off shoulder blouse that reached Misao's waist has only reached several inches below her breasts totally exposing her flat stomach and slim waist. The skirt that reached above Misao's knees now covered only half of her thighs exposing her smooth, creamy and long legs that made Aoshi's head spin. Everything was so tight that it outlined her beautiful body.
The girl looked at the three guys before her. All mouth slightly open and they look as if they saw someone they haven't seen before. 'Why are they looking at me like that?' She thought, totally clueless on the look that was aimed at her. She has gotten up scrambling to get dress; she almost banged her head on the door just to hurry down here to help them in all the work here in the restaurant and now that she's here they'll just stare at her. 'What's going on here?' Before she can ask anything somebody beat her to it.
"Anou… why are you wearing that?" Kenshin asked. 'Why is she wearing Misao-chan's clothes? Does she want to help us?'
'What kind of question is that?' She thought surprised. "No reason… I just feel like wearing it." She said in a bored voice. Kenshin blinked and just stared at her again. 'She's just like…' He thought.
"It looks great on you." Sano said with a smile.
"Sano!"
"What? It really looks great on her." Sano turned to a still speechless Aoshi. "I'm so envious of you man. Your girl is really hot." Aoshi looked at him then to the girl who seems to be totally confused on the way they deal with her.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Aoshi said now with a composed face. He looked at her. 'She's still here? How could that be? She's just a dream.' He thought. He observed her again. She has long tousled wavy hair that reached up to her bottom, thin soft lips that only minutes ago called him to kiss them. It was the same girl with her long lashes and beautiful sea green eyes that were directed to his with confusion on it.
"Hey Aoshi! Why don't you introduce your girl to us?" Sano asked. He observed Aoshi. He has a surprised look on his face again. Doesn't he remember her when only moments ago she was so intimately close to him?
'My girl.' Aoshi thought. He liked the sound of that. He wants her to be his girl. Only his and no one else. He was about to talk when the girl spoke first.
"Introduce?" The girl exclaimed. "What on earth is happening to all of you?" She looked at them. Their faces confused on her sudden outburst. She shrieked in annoyance. 'Ok. Maybe this is some kind of a game or they are trying to tease me again.' She said to herself. She looked at them again, all quietly sited in front of her. "Fine! I'll introduce myself." She paused and breathed in then out calming her nerves. "You guys really don't know me?" She asked. All together they shook their head. She sighed again. "I can't believe this. I can accept it if this is all rooster head's idea but Ken-nisan and Aoshi-sama… unbelievable." She was blabbering to herself that she didn't noticed when the eyes of the guys in front of her widened almost popping out of the sockets.
'Rooster head? How did she know that?" Sano's mind asked.
"Oro!" Was all Kenshin was able to say.
'Rooster head? How did she know Sanosuke?' Aoshi looked at Sano and glared at him. But the said man was totally lost on his own confusion to noticed Aoshi's fierce look. 'She's my girl!' His mind screamed and then the last name she muttered echoed on his mind. 'She said Aoshi-sama! How did she…'
"Hello everyone. Good mor-wait it's afternoon already." She paused and tried again. "Hello everyone! Good afternoon! I'm Makimachi Misao, 9 yrs old. I'm originally from Kyoto but I tran––-"
"MAKIMACHI MISAO!" Sanosuke shouted. The girl that called herself Misao looked at them and now noticed the extremely shocked look on their faces. 'Nine years old? Who is she kidding?' Sano thought.
"ORO?" Kenshin can feel his head spinning. 'What is happening?'
'Misao? My little Misao? Impossible.'
"Ok. This is not fun anymore. I'm quitting this game." She threw the shoes that they didn't noticed she held before. The shoes landed on the floor as the girl seated herself beside Aoshi. "Ken-nisan, where's my breakfast?" Kenshin absentmindedly handed Misao his own breakfast. "Thanks." The three watched as the girl ate her breakfast. "Good thing there's no customer yet. I overslept." She said to herself and then she turned to them. "I can't believe you Aoshi-sama you didn't wake me up." She returned her attention to her food. "Aomshmi-shma––-"
"Don't talk when your mouth is full." Aoshi suddenly said. He said it on reflex and in the way he said it to little Misao when she talked with food on her mouth. Misao grinned at him that made his heart skip a beat. 'She's so pretty.' He thought. They watched her as she eat. She swallowed a half bread that she didn't even chewed well that it got stuck on her throat.
"Umm!Um!" Kenshin quickly handed the glass of water to the choking girl. She drank it down in just one gulp that some of the water spilled from her mouth and slither down to her neck. Aoshi's hand automatically went to the side of her lips then glide down to her neck to wipe the excess water. Sano and Kenshin noticed the change in Aoshi's eyes, the color of his eyes changed into a darker shade, but she didn't notice. "Arigatou." Misao said with a smile. She resumed eating while the three guys watched her.
"Are you really weasel girl?" Sanosuke asked. The Misao he knew was not more than four feet five inches tall but this girl that said she's Misao has a height that reached Aoshi's shoulder. Even her voice was different and her body, there's no way that sexy body belonged to the nine-year-old over energetic Misao that he knew. Too impossible… very impossible!
"No! I'm an alien from outer space who came here on earth to eat your hearts." Misao said then she laughed maniacally.
"I'm not joking! Who are you!" Sano shouted. Misao was totally taken a back. Sanosuke's face looked very serious.
"I am MAKIMACHI MISAO! I'm not joking!" Misao exclaimed right in Sano's face. "What's wrong with you guys?" She said exasperatingly and drank another cup of tea. "I'm MISAO is that so hard to believe?"
"Yes!" The three said in unison.
"What in Buddha's name are you talking about?" Misao asked. She 'eked' when Aoshi suddenly carried her bridal style upstairs to their room. Kenshin and Sanosuked behind them, both men surprised on Aoshi's gentleness on the girl. Aoshi opened the door and placed Misao in front of the full body mirror.
"Look." Aoshi said simply. He liked the feel of his hands on her and wondered what it would feel like on the other parts of her body. When he realized where his thoughts will lead him he quickly shoved it out of his head.
"What's to look? I am Misao! The cute, bouncy and charming Misa-AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Misao bellowed and then she fainted. Before her body hit the floor Aoshi caught her.
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"No. No! NO! It just CAN'T be!" Sano, Kenshin and Aoshi were sited on one of the round tables in the restaurant. All with a cup of tea that Kenshin made. They've closed their restaurant already since no one seems to want to eat today and they're thankful for that since they still have a problem to solve "That girl can't be Aoshi's weasel girl." Sano added.
"Aa." Aoshi second the notion and drank his green tea. He too strongly believed that that lady now asleep on his room was not his little Misao. But the idea of her being his was not a bad idea at all. 'Definitely not.' Aoshi thought.
"She being Misao is like saying that Aoshi is a very friendly and sociable person or like saying––-"
"Sanosuke is benign." Sanosuke's jaw tightened at what Aoshi said.
"It's like saying that Aoshi is compassionate and warm-hearted." Sanosuke countered.
"Like saying Megumi is in love with you." Aoshi retorted calmly. Sanosuke has a darkened look that he sent to Aoshi. Before Sanosuke can say another word Kenshin felt it was the perfect time that he cut in.
"It's really hard to believe that she is our little Misao…" Kenshin looked at the two, a very calm Aoshi and a very annoyed Sanosuke. "But truth is when I first saw her I felt like I know her…" Kenshin paused. He remembered that when he first saw their unknown visitor she looked familiar to him and "…the way she behave she's really like Misao-chan, that she is."
"But weasel is nine years old and that girl doesn't look like nine to me at all."
"She talks like Misao-chan too. She called you rooster head and she called Aoshi-san, Aoshi-sama. We all know she's the only one who addresses Aoshi-san like that, that she does." Everything about her fitted Misao.
"You have a point." Aoshi said.
"He has a point? Are you nuts icicle?"
"No I'm not rooster head." Aoshi received a glare from Sano as he sent Sano his famous cold stare while Kenshin sweat-dropped. He knew he has to interfere again.
'"Aoshi-san." Kenshin gulped when Aoshi's cold stare was suddenly directed to him. "If you don't mind, will you tell us if you know how she ended up with you?"
"Yeah, tell us! How come she's in your room on top of YOU scantly clothed? Who is she? When did you bring her here?" Sano interrogated then he leaned closer on the table towards Aoshi and asked. "Where can I meet someone like her?" He received another cold stare from Aoshi and another one from Kenshin whose eyes slightly turned close to amber. "Hehe… Just kidding." Sano said and then sited his self properly.
"Aoshi-san." Kenshin turned to Aoshi and waited for his explanation.
"I really don't know where she came from." Aoshi said. 'All I know is she's supposed to be just a dream.' He wanted to say out loud.
"Then how come she's with you? What exactly happed after you came home last night" Sano asked. 'Why can't I wake up with…" Aoshi butted in.
"Megumi on top of you."
"…with Megumi on top of me." Sano stopped shocked on what he said and a blush on his face.
"I won't forget to tell that to Megumi-dono, that I will." Kenshin said with a grin.
"Don't!" Sano exclaimed very embarrassed.
"So it's true, you do want her on top of you." Aoshi said. Sano's face reddened more.
"Of course not!" Sano exclaimed but that only proved that it's true. He quickly changed the topic before anything else come up regarding his feelings for a certain fox. "What happened last night?" He asked.
"Kenshin opened the door for me. He told me about Misao's crying. I went to our room but she wasn't there. I noticed that the balcony door was open and found Misao outside. I bathed her, changed her clothes and then sleep."
"So you really have no idea where she came from." Kenshin said. Aoshi nodded.
"You're not lying, aren't you?" Sano asked unconvinced.
"I'm not a liar like you." Aoshi said.
"At least I'm friendly to everyone and I don't have a sign on my forehead with 'Back off. I'm a cold-hearted ass.' written on it. "
"At least I didn't get rejected nineteen times."
"What?" Sano can feel his blood boil with anger. 'How dare he say that!' He thought. "It's only eighteen, EIGHTEEN times only!" Aoshi just shrugged his shoulder that angered Sano more. Kenshin intended to break the argument before it goes any further when somebody did it for him.
"Aoshi-sama…" Said a soft and hesitant voice that made Aoshi's heartbeat quicken. He knew that voice very well that if he looked behind him he will see little Misao and that everything that happened just moments ago were a fragment of his imagination… that she will only exist in his dreams. But a part of him knew, due to the hastened beat of his heart, that when he looked behind him he'll see not Misao but her.
'No. I didn't hear anything.' Aoshi told his self.
"Aoshi-sama…" She called again. Silence. Aoshi looked straight to the far wall. He can see Sano whose eyes fixed to the person standing several feet behind him and Kenshin who looked at him and then at her. "Aoshi-sama… I… I don't know what happened. I am Misao. I… I don't know how I turned this way." Kenshin looked at him who told him without words to at least look at her. Aoshi remained stoic and still didn't look behind him. He just doesn't know what to do. He's confused on what he wanted to believe.
'She can't be Misao but her voice… and this feeling.' Aoshi thought. Everything is so familiar and at the same time very new to him. Her voice tells him it was Misao and he can feel it as well. A very acquainted feeling that only Misao can elicit from him but also feeling very unknown to him.
"I am Misao… please believe me. You know I will never lie to you. I beg you Aoshi-sama believe me. I am Misao… Aoshi-sama…" The distress in her voice and her desperate plea made him set aside the questions that nagged his head. He got up and turned to her. He saw tears and in three quick strides he was before her.
"It's ok. Don't cry." Aoshi said as he wiped her tears. He drew her close to him and hugged her tenderly. He can't just stand to see her sad and see her tears.
"You believe it's me? That I am Misao?"
"Aa." Aoshi replied. She smiled at him and wrapped her arms around him tightly.
"Arigatou Aoshi-sama." She whispered. Her voice muffled because her face was buried on his chest. "Thank you Aoshi-sama for believing me." She said and when she looked up at him she smiled. The same dazzling smile. Misao's smile. "Aoshi-sama, I want to eat." Misao said. She let go of him and went to their cook. "Ken-nisan is there something to eat?" Aoshi watched her. Saw her still in her Akebeko uniform that made her not look like Misao at all but it doesn't matter how she look like for him it's her.
'She is Misao.' Kenshin was right he felt it too the familiarity… the unexplainable emotion that you just knew and that's all what mattered. Aoshi believed it now. No proof or any explanation needed. He just knew it. He just knew and no one will understand it… only him. He smiled as he continues to watch her. His bubbly, over energetic, charming Misao but… 'She's not little Misao anymore.'
To be continued….
AN: Hohooo! Another chapter done… hahaha! I'm so happy coz I got so many reviews and my thesis defense is finished too! Wohooo! Finally I can sleep normally again!hehehe… and I can continue writing my stories. Sorry if I haven't updated my Ranma ½ fanfiction. To those who are waiting for the next chapter please be patient with me… my mind's not working too well!hehehehe! I want to make the last 2/3 chapters better so I'm going to rewrite the last chapter that I've done before posting it… so please wait for it, ok. What do you think about this chapter? I'm not so sure if it's that exciting and nice. The truth is I'm not so sure if you'll like this chapter. I'm not so confident with this one but still I hope you'll like it. Hehehehe… Now for the review response…
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