A.N

Ok this is the next chappie, I hope ya like it and yes Kenshin appears in this chappie! Yay! lol. I recently got all obsessed with the series and I just had to do a fic, so I hope ya all like it and it doesnt murder ther charachters or anything. I'd hate to think I ruined Samurai X/ Rurouni Kenshin. Cya'z wavles

Oakami.

Chapter Two – "My thanks to you"

Kaoru sat up in bed that night still thinking, who was she? In all honesty she didn't know. Kaoru didn't remember anything about her life until she woke up here. It was all a confused blur of faces she didn't know the names of, and names she didn't know the faces to. For example who was Sanosuke? And Yahiko. Those names cropped up more and more, but she had no idea who they were.

Laying back on the bed she sighed, how she wished to remember who she was. Kaoru couldn't even remember the attack though that was one thing she was greatful for. Brushing a piece of hair behind her ear she silently got out of bed. The night air was quite warm and she wanted a walk.

Padding across the room she picked up a magazine from the table and flicked through the pages, nothing of real interests just a load of things about celebrities she didn't know and places that only faintly registered.

"You shouldn't be out of bed you know" the male voice rang out again. The magazine fell to the floor and the man saw her visible jump. Inwardly he sighed, talk about being nervous.

"I'm sorry did I wake you?" she asked and looked over to him, his bed was right next to hers. His face was hidden by shadow but she could see he was laid on top of his covers his hands behind his head. Seeming to only relax with no intention of sleep.

"No" he said simply and not carrying the conversation any further. The man sat up and got off the bed. Leaving his curtained cubicle he walked out onto the ward, walking straight up to her, he bent down and picked up the magazine she had dropped and held it out to her.

"Oh" Kaoru said. It was all she could think off. Silently she watched as he walked over to her. Kaoru was slightly shocked by his bright red hair and how much of a feminine appearance his face held. Kaoru took the magazine off him as he held it out to her. "Thank you" she said softly.

Kaoru placed the magazine back on the table as he moved back over to his bed. Kaoru stared for a moment and then moved to the end of his bed. Again he was laid there with his hands behind his head.

"Are you going to stay there all night?" he asked well aware she had been stood there for the past five minutes.

"Um…No" she said her voice seemed warm and soft. Kaoru bit her lip and continued to stand there anyway even when she had just said she wasn't going to.

"Excuse me…" she began. The man on the bed sighed a little "Can I ask you a question?" she asked.

"Well your going to ask me it anyway" he replied coolly. He opened his eyes to look at her, she was stood there looking as nervous as a mouse. Again he sighed inwardly and sat up. "What?" he asked.

"Well I was just wondering if…" she shuffled uncomfortably and bit her lip again looking anywhere but the man on the bed.

"I cant answer if you don't ask me" the man commented his eyes narrowing slightly. Why the heck was she so nervous, what was she going to ask anyway?

"I was just wondering if you knew my name or if you knew me" she finally said her gaze now attached to the clean floor as though highly entranced by the little sparkles in it. "I cant remember anything, I cant remember my name or how old I am. I don't even remember why I'm here. The doctors told me I was in a fight but I just don't know" she shook her head tears in her eyes.

The man stared at her his face cold and impassive his eyes letting nothing away. Finally he answered. "No" he said clearly. "I don't know you and I don't know your name" he said. Then after a brief hesitation he continued. "Yes you were in a fight, it was me who found you" he told her leaving it there. Well he wasn't going to tell her he fought six men to actually bring her to the hospital.

"You found me?" she asked her eyes finally looking at him. He nodded. Kaoru smiled a little. "My thanks" she said softly. Then she looked at him again a slight frown upon her face. "But why are you here?" she asked. "Are you hurt?"

"Its fine" he said quickly. Well she was going to notice the obvious, this was a hospital. "I got slightly injured nothing more" he laid back down on the bed again signifying it was time for her to leave.

Kaoru inclined her head "I am sorry" she said softly and turned to walk away. Kaoru couldn't believe it, no one knew her at all. Kaoru didn't even know

the man, she thought about asking for his name but thought he wouldn't give it her.

"Kenshin" the man said behind her. "My name's Kenshin by the way" he told her still not opening his eyes or sounding in any way as though he had a single emotion.

Kaoru smiled as she got into her own bed. Pulling the covers over her she rolled onto her side. The pain wasn't that bad. "I've had worse than this" she thought but couldn't remember when or where she just knew she had. Finally she drifted into an uneasy sleep.

Kaoru lifted her head from the wet cold concrete her body was filled with pain and her head felt like it was about to burst into flame. Men were scrambling around her she thought for a moment and then rembered she had been surrounded on the way home.

At the end of the Alleyway there was a grate that seemed to be pumping out something like steam or smoke, something hit her in her back and she screamed in pain, through watering eyes she saw something that both terrified and entranced her. Through the smoke a lone figure emerged clad entirely in black. Only his red hair provided colour to him.

Scuffling sounds could be heard and the man went from her vision. Someone yelled out and collapsed to the floor. Kaoru's body twitched a little and everything went silent. "Help…" she whispered. "Please…"

Into her field of vision she saw a pair of knees and she felt herself being rolled onto her back. A face appeared in front of her but it was blurred as she fought to stay conscious. The face cleared only once, a handsome face with red hair.

"Please" she said so quietly she didn't really hear herself. Kaoru's body twitched again as she tried to move it was painful.

"Its alright" Kenshin said quietly blood dripping from his shoulder. "Its alright, I'm here. Its alright"