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Author's Notes: I know that Chapter 5 is really boring. Sorry that it there wasn't much KK action! But a lot of KK action is coming up!!

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Chapter 6

"Battousai, it didn't take us long to figure out that you were here all along. We've been watching you for a while now." Aoshi said coldly, emerging from the many men.

Kenshin just stared back dangerously, his eyes in a bright, piercing amber colour, with golden sparks within them which could cause others who look into them to flinch. Aoshi, however was not affected by him.

"I'll finish you once and for all, and I'll make sure you and Sohjiro die a painful death." Aoshi smirked, a cruel smile on his lips.

"Shut up and let's get this over and done with. You and your men will all be dead in..." Kenshin said mockingly, a small chuckle escaping from his mouth. " Ten minutes."

The Aorta's members screamed again and they all attacked at once...

Sanosuke was punching all the man out of the way and Sohjiro was occupied with all the others. Sohjiro used his disappearing act again, and Sanosuke was enjoying the fight. He doesn't look serious at all.

"Ha! You all are useless! What dangerous assasins?! Don't make me laugh!" Sanosuke exclaimed.

Meanwhile, Aoshi was focusing his attacks on Kenshin. His fighting power so strong that he is almost crazy. Kenshin at this time was truly Battousai. He fought back mercilessly, threatening to kill Aoshi any moment.

"The last time you almost did finish me was that you're in luck..." Kenshin smirked. "You're not so lucky today, Aoshi."

With that he flew into the air and came crashing down, slashing Aoshi's sword, injuring him across the chest.

Aoshi fell on to the floor with a loud thud, his eyes wide, shocked that he had been beaten so easily. The men stopped attacking each other and looked at Aoshi anxiously.

Aoshi said slowly, blood trickling from his lips. "Get the boy."

The training room's door flung opened and in came Yahiko with two man, holding him down fiercely. Yahiko was struggling fiercely. The men had punched him in the stomach. He was hurt.

Aoshi stood up slowly, "Drop your swords, and stop attacking. Or the boy will die..."


Kaoru was in her room sitting at the dressing table, brushing her hair. Then, it came all of a sudden, catching her off guard, she gasped and choked. Air wasn't coming through...no matter how hard she tried. She picked up her inhealer and puffed in as much as possible. It wasn't helping at all. She staggered to her bed and laid down hoping that it will calm her down. She was panicking...would she die at any moment?

She closed her eyes, willing herself to rest, but something was troubling her. Someone was trying to reach into her mind. Someone was calling to her....

She reached up weakly to her temples and gathered as much strength as possible to locate the men in the house. The vision was blurry, and she could hear shouting filled with anguish.

I need to focus! What is happening?!

She frowned and pushed herself harder to see more clearly. She saw them now. Kenshin, Sanosuke and Sohjiro was surrounded by a large group of men dressed in all black. The three of them looked angry and sad at the same time. Kenshin and Sohjiro had dropped their swords, and Sanosuke was looking worriedly at a corner of the room. She turned her focus to that corner and saw Yahiko, two men was holding him. And he was hurt, very badly hurt....blood was dripping and he was unconscious. There was blood everywhere....

So much blood....!

A sense of déjà vu swept over her and her eyes snapped opened...her eyes were no longer a soft, dark blue...they were shining dangerously...


The three men had dropped their weapons, looking at Aoshi angrily.

"You leave Yahiko out of this. What happened to your honor?" Sanosuke spat at Aoshi.

Aoshi, raised an eyebrow and laughed, a high cold laugh. "Honor? What honor? You won't be able to accomplish anything if you think about honor all the time, little boy."

Sanosuke clenched his fists, too angry to say anything...he was ready to punch that smile off Aoshi's face.

The training door burst opened again. But no one was there...there were just a blinding light, it was coming further and further into the room, forcing the men to make way for it. The men gasped and Aoshi stared at it unbelievingly. Kenshin, Sohjiro and Sanosuke were equally shocked and curious.

When the light reached the middle of the room, the intensity of the light slowly fades, revealing Kamiya Kaoru.

Her face was covered by her hair, which was longer than ever. Her skin was pale, an absolute white. She was clad in a white robe, her body floating in the air. In both of her hands she held a samurai sword, purple light escaping from her grip. She was floating in the air, her body so still. Suddenly, a violent swirl of wind blew into the room, causing all the men to cower down trying very hard to hold on to their places.

Then, the wind stopped all of the sudden...like it was controlled by her presence.

One of the Aorta's man stood up bravely and looked at her with interest.

"Ehh, such a pretty little thing...let me see what she can do..." he murmured greedily, moving closer to Kaoru, the rest of the men stood up as well and moved towards her...

One of the man grabbed her wrist roughly.

"Kaoru-dono!" Kenshin shouted. "Don't touch her, you bastards!"

The men just sniggered and some of them started grabbing Kaoru.

"Ahh, gentlemen...I'm not so pretty and little if you look closer." A voice came from Kaoru's body. The voice was Koaru's but it doesn't sound like it was coming out of her mouth. It was an echoing voice....radiating power and command, yet teasing and sweet...

Suddenly a bright light burst from Kaoru's chest. She screamed a piercing screamed, shattering the light bulbs. Kenshin gasped...

She is releasing a lot of stong Ki energy....

Kaoru disappeared again, no one could see her, except for the light radiating from where she was flying around. But no one knew where her attacks were coming from. She attacked unpredictably, all the men were in pain. But there where so many of them against her. Suddenly they could see her again.

"Ahhhhhhhh!" She screamed, thrusting her swords into the air, letting the purple light flow to the swords, she pointed the swords at the massive men against her...the corrosive light shot through the room, and long, loud cries echoed in the room.

Her eyes shone a blinding blue and her body lifted higher into the air. Then, she vanished again, this time round their wasn't even light guiding them where she might be. All the men fell onto the floor, they were badly wounded. The room was in darkness, the smell of blood thick in the air. From the moment the man angered her, she was screaming continuously, like she was finally releasing all the incredible amount of anger and hatred that she had kept to herself for so long.

Suddenly, she light up again. Aoshi were gathering his men, he was too scared and shocked to say anything. He never knew such a power existed. She was good...very good...she didn't kill a man at all, just injuring them enough to make them pass out. She never meant to kill anyone at all.

"Get them out as soon as possible...or else you might find them all dead very soon..." A voice came from Koaru's body. Aoshi immediately called for backup, and a large aeroplane appeared beside the balcony of the training room.

Some men appeared from the plane and begun to help Aoshi to load the man onto the plane.

Just before Aoshi got onto the plane himself, he took one more look at Kaoru...

Who the hell is this woman?


When all the Aorta members disappeared, Kaoru begun to gleam in purple, then the light faded into a light blue...she came down to the floor, her feet resting on the ground.

"Riu—"she murmured, after saying that she fainted...like as if all the powers just shut off. The three men stared at her dumbfolded, they located her in the dark and Sanosuke carried her out of the training room. And Sohjiro carried the also unconscious Yahiko.

Yahiko woke up while Sohjiro was carrying him.

"Ahh! Put me down! I'm fine! Put me down!" he shouted.

Sohjiro dropped him onto the ground. And Yahiko noticed Kaoru in Sanosuke's arms.

"Ehhh...so sweet eh, Sano? With a witch ah?" he teased.

Sanosuke glared at him. "Shut up, Yahiko. In case you don't remember, we just had a major fight in Jou-chan's house. And if it weren't for her, we'll all be dead. Especially you..."

Yahiko scratched his head, yes, he remember now...men had awoken him from his sleep...punched him in the stomach and.....

"Busuh?! What did she do?" Yahiko asked

"You were captured by the bad guys and we were forced to surrender...but Jou-chan came...will I think it is Jou-chan anyway...that thing doesn't look like her...yet, it was her..." Sanosuke said.


Yahiko listened intently to Kenshin.

So Busuh had released a incredible amount of Ki energy to beat all the men. And that sudden burst of energy was probably because she had kept it in her for so long...and she is so weak now...like she could die any moment...

"That is why we can never detect her Ki energy, she had somehow locked it away from her body..." Kenshin said

"And maybe what we just witness was what my father told be about...and she is so weak now...maybe that is why this kind of power isn't good for her...she wasn't able to contain it..." Sanosuke said.

"I'll watch over Kamiya-san tonight...." Sohjiro said quietly, tears forming in his eyes. Seeing Kaoru, lying on the bed, panting and sweating...and yet her body was as cold as ice...her pulse weakening...

I can't let her die...Kaoru! And yet there is nothing I could do.....

"No, we can't just leave you here doing all the work....I'll saty and keep watch as well...I know this special herb" Kenshin said, fingering out something from his pocket. He gave it to Sohjiro.

Sohjiro took it eagerly,and began to grind it with a spoon. He helped Kaoru to drink it down with water. She coughed, and lie back onto the pillow again.

Kenshin looked at her sleep...She looked so peaceful...like some of the innocence that he had seen in the family picture had returned to her. Her skin milky and smooth...her hair flowing beautifully...she was a goddess...and angel..

No, both ways of describing her wouldn't do her justice...she was far more special...

"Sohjiro...I want to apologise for saying all those awful things about Kaoru-dono...I mean, she wasn't lying...she is really powerful, even more stronger than she said she is..." Kenshin said quietly, his head bowed.

"It's all right, Himura-san...." Sohjiro said softly, smiling sadly. He was silently praying for her.


Kenshin woke up slowly. Some one was shaking him....

Stop it, I want to sleep....

"Wake up, Kenshin! Jou-chan is gone!" Sanosuke shouted, panicking.

Where could she have gone to?

Kenshin got up quickly.

Kaoru....gone?

"We fell asleep last night, watching over her. When Sohjiro , Yahiko and I woke up this morning, she was not in the bed anymore..." Sanosuke explained.

Kenshin's eyes darkened, "Let's go look for her now." His voice filled with urgency.

The four of them went together to search for her in the house...they dare not split up as the house was too big...they might get lost in there forever. But, no matter how hard they tried, there isn't sign of Kaoru anywhere. Like she just vanished...like yesterday...

"Do you think that busuh is like really gone? Like because she is a witch...her body goes with her when she dies?" Yahiko said cautiously.

Kenshin glared at him. "No, she is not dead." He said firmly.

No, she is not! She can't be!

Sanosuke and Sohjiro looked at Yahiko...

"Let's continue searching..." Sohjiro said calmly.


"Come on, Sanosuke, admit it! We're lost!" Yahiko grumbled.

Sanosuke looked at Yahiko in frustration. Now , that he see it properly...yes, they are lost... "Oi, Kenshin...where do you think we are now? This place is giving me the creeps..."

Kenshin remained silent...he doesn't know where they are as well. This house was like a fortress...so many hidden things, weapons, traps and weird witchcraft supplies...it was creeping him out as well. Sohjiro, however was smiling...

"Maybe we should go that way..." Sohjiro suggested, pointing at a dark passage of corridor.

The others nodded and walked towards the corridor slowly.


The corridor seemed to go on forever...and then, finally there was a light at the end of a dark tunnel. The four of them noticed a room with light coming out from it. They looked at each other and nodded solemnly. They all charged in at the same time.

And there was Kaoru, standing against a door, looking at them, confused.

"What are you guys doing here?" she asked.

The four of them stared at her and then at themselves, dumbfolded.

"No, what are you doing here?" Kenshin asked, his eyes changing to a dangerous golden colour. Kaoru noticed this and stared back bravely, her eye colour changing to a queer violet-blue..

"I am packing, we have to leave here as soon as possible. They will come back, once they are ready. I suppose those are men that are after you and Seta-san?" Kaoru replied coolly.

"Yes," Sohjiro replied for Kenshin. "But, Kamiya-san aren't you very sick?"

"Ah, forget about that. I very weak already before I released my power, that is why, I was barely alive after I beat off all the men..." Kaoru replied. " The power is not suppose to be released...I could have finish them all without using the powers...but I lost control when I saw Yahiko being hurt by those men...than I lost even more control when those men grabbed me...then, it all burst out...."

"How did you know that I was captured?" Yahiko asked.

"I told the others already, I can read minds and see visions that I want to see..." Kaoru said. "Though not all of you believe me... I had a major asthma attack last night when the men came in...but I feel someone trying to reach into my mind...which one of you is it?"

Sanosuke put up his hand. "Me...I wanted to get help..." Kaoru nodded.

"Okay, I'll be leaving soon. You gentlemen go have some breakfast that I've prepared in the dinning room..." Kaoru said.

"Wait, where can you go?" Kenshin asked.

"Anywhere, somewhere I can find peace again..."

"No, you can't the Aorta will hunt you down. No matter how powerful you may be. They are treacherous....they will do anything to get you elimated."

"Where else can I go. I can't stay here, they'll be back..."

"I think we should stay together. I'll give a call to my father...I hope he will take me in again..."

"Hiko Seijiro?"

"How did you know that?"

"I told you, I read minds and can listen to any conversation I want..."

"Okay, whatever. I'll go give him a call...."

They walked out of the room and went to the dinning room.

"So, busuh, all this while you were reading our minds?" Yahiko asked curiously.

"No, I only read minds when I want to. I don't like to pry into people's personal matters unless I have to, you know..."

"Ahhh..you know, since you haven't choose to read my mind yet, let me tell you what I think ....I think your cooking sucks!"

"Really?" Kaoru laughed "Too bad, I can't offer you anything nicer..."

Yahiko stucked out his tongue at her.

Kenshin came back to the dinning room after he made the call.

"He was reluctant...but he said that we can all go...and that we better have a good explanation when we get there..." Kenshin said glumly. He and his father definitely had a serious argument just now.

The rest nodded.


They were outside the house, ready to set out to Kenshin's father's house. Kaoru was carrying six really heavy looking bags. Kenshin glanced at her, amused.

"What the hell do you have in there?" he asked, smiling.

Kaoru was startled, and saw that his eyes were a gentle violet.

"I...have..." she stammered. His tone of voice was affecting her...

Why is my heart beating so fast?

"I have weapons, and herbs and some things... the Aorta will surely be after us...and I'm sure they will search my house when they realized we are not there anymore...so I make sure that I took all the weapons and the witchcrafts..you know...." She stammered again.

Why the heck am I stammering?? He is teasing me.....ahhhh!!

"Ahh,I guess you'll need so help with the bags...." Kenshin smiled, teasing her, trying to reach for one of the bags. Kaoru pulled away, flustered.

"You know, I'm stronger than I look...I can carry the bags myself"

Kenshin laughed at her embarrassed face.

She looked so adorable, where she is shy...like she had multiple personalities...

"No, no. I insist, I just can't let a lovely lady like you carry that much load of things..." Kenshin teased again and pulled at the bag harder. Kaoru let the bag go and she was even more flustered than ever...

Ahhh what is he doing!?

Sohjiro was watching them silently all the way....his eyes narrowing...


Author's notes: Ahhhhh!! Okay people, please review!!!!!! Will really appreciate it!