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Author's notes: Hello again. You reviewers are great! I love the romantic part so much as well, but than again, so many people helped me with that last chapter. I had made many people read through it to look for mistakes, and to give me suggestions : like changing how some of the sentences are phrase and stuff, so believe me, I am really not that good with writing, eventhough I did improved a little ever since I started this fanfiction. I feel so flattered by you guys' AWESOME comments! Really made my day! Thank you!
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Chapter 11
Kaoru walked back to her room dreamily, but her heart was jumping fast, aching so bad. What is this feeling?
She knew now that she loved Kenshin, she had even told him! It just came out of her mouth, she could not believe that she said it!
FlashBack
Kaoru was hugging herself fiercely against Kenshin's chest, and his hand ways on her back, rubbing her soothingly. He felt so warm, and being so close to him set her body on fire. She had looped up to him, reached up, cupping his face in her hands.
"I love you so much, Kenshin…"
She had said it so passionately. But he did not say it back. He had laughed, like he was amused, and just hugged her tighter.
End Of Flashback
Kaoru sighed as she started unlocking the door to her room. She had wanted him to say it back to her, but than…she knew that she couldn't possibly expect that from him. They've just known each other, things were going too fast and she was already hopelessly in love with him. She knew that she should not have gotten herself involve from the beginning and yet, she did…here she was, feeling confused and sad…and worried. What is going to happen next? She knew that if Kenshin come to her again, she couldn't possibly resist him. She was in love with him, too in love with him that her heart ached and threatened to fall when she thought what might happen if Kenshin just decided to ditch her after he is done with her.
"…He had lots of girlfriends and after he used them to the most, he just dumps them ruthlessly…" Misao had said.
All this time while Kaoru was deep in thought and sadness, she did not notice a tall figure hiding in the dark shadows at the end of her room.
Someone grabbed her from behind and her mouth was covered by a large cold hand before a cry could stifle from her mouth. The man hit her sharply on the head and she passed out immediately, limp in his hands. Stormy, green eyes stare down at the small petite figure, a thin smile formed on his lips.
Kamiya Kaoru…I got you now.
Open your eyes…
No, just let me be…
Open your eyes…
Let me be, I want to be gone, I don't want to be here anymore…
Kaoru's eyes snapped opened and all she saw was darkness. A piercing pain was strumming badly at the back of her head… what happened to me?
She looked around, the pain cutting in deeper with every movement. There was nothing there. She could not even see herself. She reached up slowly to the source of the pain and felt a huge bump forming.
Her eyes were beginning to focus…she could see a dark, black glass-like wall. She walked towards it cautiously and touched it gingerly with her fingers. She will be able to break this apart with her powers and who ever did this to her is going to pay. Anger mounted in her as she remembered distinctively how she was knocked in the head…
Damn, this person is so going to be sorry that he was ever born…
She glared at the dark-glass wall. They were watching her, she could feel it… well, they can keep watching…and face the consequences.
Her eyes became a blank flashing bright blue. Kaoru's body lifted up into the air slowly and she screamed angrily. Yellow, liquid-like light flowed from the palm of her hands. Her face twisted in rough anger. She gathered the yellow light into a ball with both of her hands, and with a howl she tossed it against the dark-glass wall. The glass creaked abd broke into several pieces. She could see them now. These group of men, all dressed in black. One was taller than the rest…he was staring at her straight in the eyes, unafraid. He looked familiar. He was the one she had spoke to when he had attacked Kenshin at her house.
The bright, blinding blue begun to fade in her eyes. She glared at him angrily. He was the one who had knocked her so hardly on the head and brought her here.
What does he want now?
Yellow, light begun to form at her hands again and she floated nearer to him…
She was about to toss it against him when he held up a hand, and laughed lightly. Mocking her.
"Kamiya Kaoru…you sure impressed me.." he said, looking at her challengingly.
"You," Kaoru hissed. "You again…"
"Yes, me again."
"What do you want with me? I can kill you very easily, so you better just forget about anything you have in mind."
"Don't worry, we can't afford to hurt you. We just want you to do something for us…"
Kaoru laughed. " What make you think that I'll do anything for you?"
Aoshi stepped closer to her and smirked, "Because I know you can't bear watching an innocent person die, especially if that person is your friend."
Kaoru's face became a deathly white. "My friend?" she stammered, her hands shaking in anger.
How dare he? Threatening me with someone else's life. Cowardly Bastard!
She sank to the floor and stood very still, lifting her chin up high. Even if they'll make her do their bidding, there was no way she was going to make things easy for them.
Who do they have?
All the men in black loomed over her petite form, looking down at her with force. Suddenly a door flung opened violently and Kaoru saw two men carrying a struggling figure. Kaoru sweatdropped. Could it be Yahiko again? She had not been thinking much of him the past few days, in fact she had not spoke to him for a while…she had always been thinking about Kenshin. Could he be thinking of her as well? Now that she was in danger,could he be looking for her? She closed her eyes in frustration and reminded herself furiously that she may be nothing in Kenshin's eyes and that she was alone in this and need to handle it on her own. She could easily be just another one of his new toys, though she wanted to believe very badly that she was something to him too. Her eyes opened when the men with the struggling person came closer to her.
"Let go of me, you bastards!"
Kaoru recognized that voice. She narrowed her eyes to focus on the girl's face. "Misao!"
Misao stopped kicking at the men and looked at Kaoru with surprise, her eyes traveled to the glowing yellow light at Kaoru's hands, and her eyes widened even more in fear.
"Kaoru?" Misao mumbled, her body shrinking away from where Kaoru was standing.
"As you can see, Kamiya Kaoru here did not tell you that she is a witch and a skilled swordsman. Apparently she can also read the minds of others and see visions with her mind…." Aoshi explained.
Misao turned her attention to Aoshi and gasped."Aoshi-sama! What are you doing?"
Kaoru looked at Aoshi in surprise, so this was the 'Aoshi-sama' that Misao had talked about. The 'beautiful' man...
"Do I know you?" Aoshi said.
Misao stared at him in disbelief. He doesn't remember me?
"Remember? Makimachi Misao?"
Aoshi stared at her hard like as if she was mad and shook his head lightly. He turned back to Kaoru. "Let's go somewhere more comfortable to talk, shall we?"
The rest of the mean dispersed off and Aoshi ushered Kaoru and Misao forcefully towards another door. In there, already sat another man, also dress in black.
"Enishi!" Misao gasped. "You are also in The Aorta?!" Enishi looked up and smiled sadly. Kaoru stared at him, speechless. Aoshi went to stand next to Enishi.
"Sit." Aoshi said to Kaoru and Misao.
"I prefer to stand." Misao retorted stubbornly. She cannot believe that Aoshi-sama had forgotten her! Kaoru sat down and stared curiously at the two men.
"Enishi, I think you can handle it from here…" Aoshi said, patting Enishi lightly on the shoulder. Enishi nodded and Aoshi went out of the room.
Kaoru and Misao continued to stared at Enishi, angry. Enishi looked at them and sighed. "First of all, I know that you ladies are shocked that I am with The Aorta…I've been watching you guys, and of course Kenshin ever since he came back to his home. I know that you ladies are angry with the way you've been brought here, but Aoshi insisted that it is the only way we could get you to come…"
"Your point is?" Misao said sarcastically, finally sitting down on a chair next to Kaoru's.
"My point is that if you ladies co-operate with us, we'll be able to help each other out…" Enishi continued.
"Really? How the hell is that suppose to work?" Misao interrupted. Kaoru just sat there, still in a daze.
Enishi looked gently at Kaoru. "I know that you are 'involve' with the Battousai, but do you really know him? And what he is capable of?"
Kaoru glared at him. What does my relationship with Kenshin has got to do with anything?
"Answer me, has he ever told you about his past?"
"No, he hasn't ," Kaoru replied. "But whatever that is between me and Kenshin is none of your business."
"Well, it is now. You see," Enishi said, taking out papers from a thick folder. " I think you know that he is a player, involved with several women.."
"Yes, I know that. I still don't see what that has got to do with anything at all." Kaoru cut him off dangerously.
Enishi ignored Kaoru's comment and continued to take out the papers. He stashed it all at Kaoru. "Look at the profiles of all the women that he had involved with the past few years. Apparently, he wasn't just using them for sex but for other purposes as well. The Aorta had found out that all of these women possess unique qualities about them and that they all lost their powers after Battousai was through with them…"
Kaoru picked up the stake of profiles and begun to read through them. Misao leaned in curiously. Kaoru noticed that all of the women are drop-dead gorgeous, unlike her and that they all have special powers. Some of them possess powers of invisibility, being able to manipulate fire or having photographic memory. Their were at least 100 or more profiles there.
"There are more, but I think you get the picture now." Enishi.
"So, are you telling me that Himura somehow took away the powers of these women?" Misao asked, Kaoru was too shocked to say anything.
"Yes. We noticed it after the first few women he gone through but we weren't sure, but after a while we decided that it can't be sheer coincidences that ALL the women loses their powers after he was done with them. In fact, most of these women are members of The Aorta, and so we kept a close watch on Battousai, and decided to take him out before he causes more damage to the organization."
"So, what does it have to do with me and Kaoru?" Misao asked.
"Kamiya-san possess much more incredible power than any other powers of the other women. After Aoshi saw Kamiya-san's powers, we were sure that Battousai is the culprit all along. Isn't it obvious? He is trying to get Kamiya-san's powers as well!"
Misao gasped. " Oh my god!"
"Shut up!" Kaoru shouted, she stood up violently. " I do not believe anything that you are telling me."
Enishi stood up as well. He walked over to Kaoru and touched her cheek tenderly.
"I am sorry that I am the one telling you this. But it's true…"
Then, he walked out of the room, locking the door behind him.
"So, what happened?" Aoshi asked when Enishi came out of the room.
"Told her about it, she refused to believe me though, but it is working. She isn't so sure about Battousai anymore."
"Good."
"And that small girl? Why does she know your name? Did you know her from somewhere?"
"I do not know. I don't recognize her at all. She must have mistaken me from someone else." Though she does looked a little familiar…
"I think we'll just leave them alone for a while. And maybe we can bring Kamiya-sama in."
"Yeah, maybe he'll make her change her mind. She sure wouldn't give in so easily…she loves Kenshin a lot, I can see that."
"Kaoru? Kaoru? Are you all right?" Misao asked, shaking Kaoru lightly on the shoulder.
Kaoru was sobbing quietly. She looked up tearily, and wiped off the tears with her sleeves. "I'm okay. I'm sorry for not telling you about my powers, Misao..I was scared that you'll resent me if you knew."
Misao shook her head vigorously. "Of course I won't! I mean, having the powers that Aoshi-sama said that you have is so freaking COOL!"
Kaoru laughed, "It's not so cool…actually…do you think Kenshin is really trying to be close to me so that he could get my powers?"
"Well, I don't know…" Misao said doubtfully, she wanted to tell Kaoru that Kenshin wasn't that sort of person…but than again, she didn't know what he was capable of.
Kaoru sighed sadly. "Ah! I shouldn't be making myself so pathetic! Let's talk about something else! Is that tall, icy guy your 'Aoshi-sama'?"
"You shouldn't force yourself to be cheerful you know, Kaoru…"
"I'm not forcing myself! I mean, what good will it do if I continue to cry? Whatever Enishi said may be true or may not be true…but we'll know the truth sooner or later…so we shouldn't worry about it now. Besides, they haven't tell us what they want us to do."
"Oh well.." Misao murmured, still looking at Kaoru doubtfully. "To answer your question, yeah that is the 'Aoshi-sama' I told you about. He had forgotten me already…after all, it had been 3 years since I left The Aorta…and I was really short than, a damn midget! He never really took notice of me last time, but he was the one who got me out of The Aorta when I realized the danger I was in when I got myself into The Aorta. Luckily I was just playing a small role in the organization or else they'd have never let me go…"
"Oh…"
"So, are the things that Aoshi-sama said about your powers true?"
"Yeah…"
"Are you really a witch?"
"Well, yeah…"
"Could you show me your powers?"
"Well…" All the questions were coming at her so fast that she can barely stop to think before she day anything more.
"Show me! Show me! Or else I will get angry again about you not telling me about your powers!"
"Okay…" Kaoru said. She walked away from the table and held up her hands slowly. Flames of purple light came from her palm and they traveled all around her hands.
"Wooww…" Misao exclaimed, awed. " Why is the purple coloured now? The colour just now was yellow!"
"I actually do not know…they just appear to have different colours…I think it is according to my emotions at that time…"
"So is this magic?"
"Yes."
"And the sword skills that Aoshi-sama said that you know?"
"I do know how to fight with a sword but I can't show you caus there isn't a sword here…"
"And he said you can read other people's minds?"
"Yes…"
"Have you read my mind?!"
"Calm down, I have not read your mind! I mostly do not read other's minds, unless I feel that I need to. Besides, reading what others are thinking are too much trouble, not knowing what they are thinking make everything simplier…"
"Phew…I have many and very bad thoughts you know…it's a relief to know that you do not know what I was thinking of…"
Kaoru laughed.
"And visions? What visions do you see?"
"It's really hard to explain…"
"Come on! Give me an example!"
"Well, like when I want to locate someone, I can see them in my mind…"
"Really?!"
"Wow!"
"Yeah…"
"That means you can see where Himura is now, right? Maybe you can send him a sign or something and he can come rescue us!"
Kaoru's face darkened again, she bent her head. " I don't think that is such a good idea…"
"Do you really believe what Enishi had said?"
"No!" Kaoru murmured. "But somehow, I just feel that contacting him won't be a good thing…"
"But, Kaoru!"
"Misao! We are suppose to talk about something else right?"
"Well…okay, I'm sorry…"
"It's all right…"
Kaoru suddenly noticed something on her wrist. It was thin metallic bracelet, tightly clung to her skin. She touched it, it wasn't hers, and she don't remember ever putting any bracelets.
"Misao…did I wear this to the party?" Kaoru asked, showing Misao the bracelet.
Misao looked at the bracelet closely and shook her head. "No, you didn't…I couldn't possibly allow you to wear such a hideous thing with your beautiful dress."
Kaoru looked down at herself and realized that she was still wearing the lemon-chiffon dress.
"Hey," Kaoru exclaimed, grabbing Misao's wrist. "You are wearing one just like mine!"
Misao looked at the bracelet on her wrist and gasped. "Crap! The Aorta put this on us!"
"Huh? Why is this so bad?"
"I invented these while I was working here…only now that they are a little different…I think they 'upgraded' it…"
"What do these do?"
"These have many uses, they are trackers…so they'll always know our every movement. These are also bombs, though it is tiny…the explosion is definitely enough to tear us into pieces…"
"What else?"
"Argghh! I forgot! When I invented these, it was when I was trying to qualify to get into The Aorta…I've forgotten most of what I actually did…plus they have added a few new things to it…"
"Oh my god…Misao! You've invented something that can kill us at any moment!"
"Yes, yes I know! I am feeling really shitty about it right now as well…and damn Aoshi-sama still doesn't recognized me!"
"Hey, aren't your Aoshi-sama our enemy now?"
"Well, he is just doing what the boss is asking him to do…it not all his decisions you know…"
They were interrupted by the door opening again. Three men walked in. The first was Enishi, the second, Aoshi and the third was an elderly man with graying hair a slightly slouched back. His eyes was an intense dark blue. Kaoru looked at him…there was something about this man that was bothering her…
"Kamiya-san…Misao, this is our elder..Kamiya Koishijiro…"
Author's notes: Hahaha!! This chapter is finally finished! Yeay!! Please review and tell me what you think! Yes, Go ahead and press the review button!!!
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