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Kaoru POV
I lay at night thinking about you. I see your face in the stars and I think maybe I have done the wrong thing, and that I should go back and run to your arms and say that I love you, but then I wake up from the thought and I realize I can't. I want t be home. I want to smell the wind from the river. I want to see the grass shine in the sun. I want to see the flowers sway in the breeze. I want to see the tree shelter you from the rain. I want to see you Kenshin. I want to hug you and smell the sandalwood and forest. I want to go home. I want to love you, but not just yet.
Kenshin POV
God, I wonder if I am going insane. I see your face in everything. I see your eyes in the blue sky. I see your hair in the ebony trees. I see your pale skin in the shining moon. I smell jasmine in the wind, and I only see emptiness and I realize I am lying to myself and I was only dreaming again. I remember your pained expression on your beautiful features, the blood on your small hands and I wonder if that was a dream as well. But there was no trace of you anywhere. You had disappeared into the setting sun. You blew away with the northeast winds. You vanished with the morning fog. You faded in the awakening dream. You slipped through my hands like water. You died like the winter flowers. I need to love you again, I need to be with you again.
Regular POV
"Thank you so much for letting me stay here Motikio-san." Kaoru said thankfully
"Please, come again, and for different reasons and all." Eji said reassuringly
"I promise, I will try." Kaoru said promisingly
Kaoru-neesan! Please don't cry anymore, I heard you cry at night and I don't like when you cry, I love you neesan and I don't like tears!" The child said caringly
"I will try not to cry ever again, I will try." Kaoru said holding back tears.
"Goodbye, thank you again for your hospitality." Kaoru said
"Bye bye Kaoru-neesan!" she said as Kaoru walked away toward the town
"Yo Kenshin?" Sano said loudly
"Yes Sano, you called?" asked Kenshin
"I have some great news!" Sano said excitedly
"What is it rooster-head?" Yahiko said annoyingly
"Shut up kid, I have some friends who said they knew these people who had friends who think they saw Missy in China." Sano said breathless
"…Sano, they "think" they saw her?" Yahiko said skeptical
"I trust my friends, friends, who have friends…and…I think I got nowhere." Sano said sadly
" You think she is in China? Well you are wrong." Said the shadowed voice.
"Well then where is she?" asked Sano
"Not in China." Said a shadowed voice.
"Who are you?" Yahiko asked
"You stupid kid, its me.." said the shadow
"….who?"
"Its Misao you stupid boy!" Misao said obnoxiously
"Oh, weasel, were doomed." Yahiko said rudely
"Oh you pathetic…" she screamed
"Misao." Said the other shadow
"I am sorry Aoshi-sama." She said politely
"What do we owe the pleasure Aoshi?" Kenshin said
"I know where Kaoru is." He said plainly
"Where!" Kenshin asked breathless like a punch to the stomach
"In Osaka, heading toward Kyoto, where her fiancée is hiding." Aoshi stated
"Then that's where we are going!" Yahiko said happily
"Wait, her fiancée? I guess we will ask here when we see her!" Yahiko said
"Yeah!" Misao screamed
(Everyone is cheering and being loud…especially Misao and Yahiko)
Kenshin POV
Why are you seeking out Mamoru? Are you going to fight him? Where have you been?
Kaoru, are you coming home? Am I going to see you again? Will I hold you like I dream I do? Will I kiss you like I dream? Will I tell you I love you? Will you tell me back?
"So Raven is coming to me." Said the voice that sent shivers down your back
"Yes sire it seems that way." Said a droned voice
" And her friends?" the chilling voice said
"They too are coming, they are all coming here to find her." Said the servant
"Good….send Gohan ( I know that's from DBZ and all, but I couldn't think of a name!) I don't want his sword skills getting rusty. Tell him he will find his father's murderer." Said the voice.
"But sir…she didn't …?" asked the servant puzzled
"You fool, I know, but why else would he kill her?" asked the shadowed man
"Yes sire." Said the droned voice of the servant
The chilling Voice POV
I will find you love, and this time I won't leave you half-dead. I will personally cut your head off and give it to the Battousai. I will have my revenge on you. And Tokyo will feel my wrath. Kaoru, you will feel my wrath.
Kaoru POV
Achoo!
Oh someone must be talking about me.
Its Yahiko, he talking about my food.
Or Megumi with my tomboyish ways
Or Achoo! Goodness they are talking about me!
OH KAORU HOW RIGHT YOU ARE! WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT? WILL KAORU BE FOUND BY THE KENSHIN-GUMI? WILL MAMORU FIND HER FIRST? AND WHO IS GOHAN? AND WHAT WILL KAORU DO WHEN SHE SEES KENSHIN? WHAT WILL HE DO?
TILL NEXT TIME!
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