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A.N. Here's chapter three! Sorry for the delay but I just finished finals so I was busy with them. But not anymore! I should be updating a lot faster now. It all depends on my life and how hectic it becomes. ANYWAYS!

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A Forgotten Night

Chapter 3

Kenshin visibly winced. His shoulders hunched as he turned towards his shocked friend.

Kaoru felt like a large bucket of cold water was dumped over her when she heard Sano yell out the word 'hitched'. She whirled around to see the tall man sitting on the edge of the huge bed with a piece of paper in his hands. The same piece of paper Kenshin had been holding moments before. She stalked over to the man and snatched the paper out of his hand.

Certificate of Marriage.

Kenshin Himura.

Kaoru Kamiya.

The only things that stood out to Kaoru were the calligraphy written words.

She was married.

"Oh my God." she whispered, looking over the paper. She had married some STRANGER! "OH MY GOD!"

She was panicking. Not that Kenshin could blame her. She had just been delivered a rather shocking blow. Yesterday she had been single, today she's married to some strange red-head. Waking up next to a stranger was bad enough. Finding out you were married to said stranger was even worse!

"Kaoru! Don't panic!" Kenshin said soothingly.

"Don't panic? DON'T PANIC!? Don't tell me not to panic! I'll panic all I want you jerk! I married some stranger last night for God only knows what reasons!" Kaoru shouted. Obviously the painkillers had taken effect, either that or women really WERE better at resisting pain then men because each word she yelled caused Kenshin to winch and grip his head in agony.

"Okay! Okay! Panic! But please! I beg of you! Stop shouting!" Kenshin exclaimed. He seriously needed this girl to stop shouting or else his brains would ooze out of his ears and tell him off.

"Stop SHOUTING! Why should I stop shouting, HUSBAND?" Kaoru yelled. She too was in a lot of pain, but the bit about her being married had thrown all thoughts and physical aches out the window as panic took root in her person. She didn't care if she was shouting, she was MARRIED!

Kenshin winced again. Her use of the word 'Husband' combined with her tone made it seem like a profanity.

"Kaoru, please don't yell, I can fix this!" Kenshin pleaded again.

"Kaoru, Kaoru, Kaoru! You know my name! You knew it when I woke up! You did this! You forced me to marry you, you old pervert!" Kaoru yelled, ignoring the pained expression on her husband's face as well as the 'I can fix this' statement.

"Hey! I am NOT an old pervert, girl! I didn't force you into anything I'll have you know! So don't go pointing fingers at me and trying to blame me for all this! You were willing as well, or need I remind you about my current state of dress?" Kenshin replied, the 'old pervert' remark brought him back into a fight with her.

'Geeze, she calls me an old pervert and I feel compelled to defend myself!' Kenshin thought.

"I am NOT taking any blame for this. You knew my name! You probably remember most of last night, don't you!? What happened?! Where are my clothes? Why did you force me to marry you, you old pervert!?" she yelled, throwing the insult back. She knew it pissed him off, but she didn't care. She also knew fully well that he wasn't an old pervert. If he had been, she would have woken up to him crawling all over her, either that or he would have ravished her at the first opportunity.

No, Kenshin Himura was certainly not an old pervert. He had been nothing but a gentleman since she woke up.

"Hey! I did not force you to marry me!" Kenshin repeated. "You're name is on the marriage certificate! That's how I knew it! I DON'T remember much of last night, and I certainly don't know where your clothes are!"

It was Sano's hysterical laughter that brought them both back to reality. The newlyweds stopped yelling and turned to the brunette as he rolled on the bed, clutching his sides and roaring with laughter.

"What the hell are you laughing at Sano?!" two voices yelled. Kenshin and Kaoru glared at the man on the bed as he tried in vain to control his hysterics.

"You'd never say you guys were newlyweds! You two can't seem to stop arguing! Now c'mon! That's not how a couple on their honeymoon should act. Now kiss and make up!" Sano said grinning like an idiot. Kenshin and Kaoru didn't hesitate for one moment when they both grabbed the nearest object and threw it at the man.

Sano leapt off the bed and dodged an empty bottle of water that Kaoru had thrown, but was hit squarely in the head with some soft fabric. He pulled the white bra off his head and looked at it.

Kaoru flushed a brilliant red when she realized what Kenshin had picked up and thrown.

Kenshin merely groaned and covered his eyes with his hands at his own folly.

Sano burst out into laughter again. He twirled the bra around one finger and shoved his free hand into one of his pockets.

"I'll leave you two alone now. I gotta find Aoshi. I certainly hope my encounter with him will be just as fun!" Sano exclaimed. He threw the bra and Kenshin and without thinking, Kenshin caught it. "Here, have fun with your wife! Take care of your hubby, missy, if you know what I mean." He winked at the couple and left the room.

Kenshin stared at the door Sano had just left through and sighed. He turned back to his.... gulp..... wife. She turned her eyes from the door, and looked at him. He flushed red as he handed her the bra. Kaoru suppressed a groan of her own as she embarrassingly took her bra from the man.

"I'm sorry." he said softly. Kaoru shook her head and clutched the sheet close.

"I'm sorry, you're not a perverted old man. You've been nothing but a gentleman towards me and I've behaved appallingly towards you. Please forgive me?" Kaoru said softly. She had been looking down at her feet where they peaked out from under the sheet, but at her apology she turned her eyes back towards Kenshin's.

Kenshin's breath caught in his chest and his heart skipped a beat. She was a sight to behold. Midnight black hair tumbled down her back and over one of her exposed shoulders. Her blue eyes screamed sincerity and apologies. It was in that brief fleeting moment that Kenshin truly wished they had married under better circumstances so he could take her in his arms and kiss away her troubles and her apology.

"Don't apologise. You had every right to react in that way. It was a huge shock for me too. But don't worry, we'll fix it."

"Fix it?" Kaoru asked dumbly. Finding herself married was a shock indeed, but for some strange reason, she didn't view it as something that needed to be fixed. And as the saying goes 'If it's not broken, don't fix it'.

'ACK! Kamiya! How dare you think like that!' her conscious screamed at her.

"We'll get an annulment. It's easier that way." Kenshin said. Even as the logical words crossed his lips, he felt a pang of something akin to heartache shoot through his chest.

Annulment.... as if the marriage didn't exist.

"Annulment?" Kaoru asked dumbly... AGAIN.

"Well, we didn't...... ahem..... consummate.... so.... uhm.... yeah, an annulment." Kenshin said, flushing a brilliant red, his face rivalling his hair. Kaoru blushed at his implication and lowered her eyes.

There was a very long, very uncomfortable silence between the pair.

"Uhm.... well.... it will take a few days to get all this straightened out. And well.... I was sort of wondering, that is..... if you'd... I don't know... like to grab breakfast? Or something? But that's only if you want to! I mean we don't have to, you may not want to associate with me anymore and I would fully understand...." Kenshin stammered out.

'What's WRONG with me? I'm acting like a silly school boy asking his crush out for sodas!' Kenshin thought.

"I'd like that." Kaoru said softly. Kenshin's eyes shot up from the floor, where they had glued themselves as he stumbled over his invitation, to the woman before him. She was smiling!

She had a beautiful smile.

Kenshin wanted to kiss her... BADLY.

"I would really like to get to know my husband." Kaoru joked. Kenshin smiled at her.

"I'd really like to get to know my beautiful wife, too." Kenshin replied.

'Wait... beautiful? Did I say that out loud!?'

Kaoru blushed and lowered her eyes again.

'Yep. I did.'

Kenshin cleared his throat.

"Uhm... well, if you'd like to get a shower or something you're welcome to use ours. I mean! Mine! Mine. My shower!" Kenshin stumbled over his words again. Kaoru giggled a little at him and his very endearing stammering.

"Thanks, but I need to change clothes, so I should go to my room. What if we meet in the lobby in an hour?" Kaoru suggested. Kenshin smiled and nodded.

So Kaoru managed to maintain her composure in a situation like the one she was in. Kenshin, on the other hand, turned into a bumbling idiot who couldn't string a simple sentence together. Completely out of character for someone who was always in control.

But it was only proof that there was something about the woman before him. She was special; Kenshin could feel it, deep within his heart. There was something there. Something he couldn't put his finger on. All he knew was that he wanted to know the woman before him more than he wanted to breathe.

"Okay... then... I'll go get ready..... I'll meet you downstairs in an hour?" she asked.

"Right.... an hour." Kenshin said.

"Now, seriously, where are my clothes?" Kaoru asked, dangling her bra on one finger and smirking at her new husband.

'May as well make light of a rather amusing situation when you think about it', she thought.

Kenshin blushed at the bra, again, and turned about himself to scan the room. The only other article of clothing he could see was his shirt. He went over and picked it up off the floor and slipped it on, rather than carry it about. It was his favourite casual dress shirt, navy blue, button- up, collared shirt. However, upon closer inspection all the buttons were missing.

He smirked at the implications and followed Kaoru's lead at making light of the situation.

"I think someone was a little eager last night." he said, grinning, as he turned to Kaoru and pointed out the missing buttons. Kaoru had come up behind him and noticed the missing buttons. She flushed a brilliant red at his words and gently smacked him on the arm.

"I'll buy you a new one." she said, bending over and picking up a button that was on the floor. Kenshin merely grinned and looked down at the shirt again.

"Actually, don't. I like it better this way." He winked at his wife and turned to exit the room. Kaoru took the momentary opportunity to let her eyes rove over his body. The muscles of his chest and stomach were still exposed, but the blue that framed his body suited him perfectly. He was so unbelievably sexy with his red hair cascading down his back only to be a sharp contrast to the darkness of his shirt.

Make no wonder she had been 'hot and heavy' with him the night before. At least according to Sano.

"Me too." she said softly. Kenshin pretended not to hear her, or notice her eyes as they roamed over his form, but he did, and it took every ounce of self control to keep him from tearing the sheet away from her and making love to her on the floor.

Kaoru followed him out into the living room area and was shocked once again at the elegance and size of the suite she had woken up in. It was a full living room area, complete with a fireplace, couches, tables, and off to the side was the dining area. The first thing she noticed was something blue draped over the back of the couch. She picked it up and discovered it was what left of her favourite blue shirt.

From the looks of it, it had been torn off. She smirked, just like Kenshin had moments before, and turned to him, holding her ruined shirt out before her.

"You were saying something about someone being eager?" she asked innocently. Kenshin had crouched to pick up his pants which were at rest by the door that lead to the hotel hallway when he heard her speaking. He turned to see her holding a piece of blue..... fabric.

Memories flooded his mind.... Kaoru pressed fully against him, her hands seeking inside his shirt..... Growling in frustration and passion as he ripped blue fabric from her shoulders....

Her lips....

Kenshin shook his head.

"Apparently, we're both guilty of being eager." he replied sheepishly, blushing slightly. Kaoru giggled and turned to look for her skirt.

In a matter of minutes, their clothing from the night before had been found, as well as some more of Kenshin's buttons and the remaining pieces of Kaoru's shirt. The couple laughed about it but were extremely embarrassed at the same time.

Kaoru slipped into the bathroom to put on whatever clothes she still possessed and make use of the facilities. Her lack of shirt bothered her only momentarily, but remembering the face that Kenshin had already seen her topless, plus the complete trust she had developed towards the man in the half hour since she woke up, she left the bathroom wearing only her bra and skirt.

"I need to borrow one of your shirts." Kaoru said, grinning. Kenshin turned to her voice once again, away from his overnight bag where he had been looking for a change of clothes, and froze.

'Oh.... my.... God....'

Kenshin's mouth ran dry and he turned away once again. He rummaged through his bag and hauled out a pair of jeans and held them out to her.

Kaoru looked at the jeans in confusion.

"I said a shirt."

"Oh... right."

Kenshin held out a pair of socks.

"Just give me the one you're wearing."

She watched as he held out a pair of black boxers. Sighing, she grabbed him by the shirt and hauled him to his feet. He dumbly followed her actions and turned to face her. She grabbed both edges of his gaping shirt and pushed it off his shoulders, dragging the material down his arms and following the movement of his shirt with her eyes.

'If I die now, I'd be very happy', Kaoru thought as she drank in his appearance.

The cuffs cleared his wrists, signifying his shirt had been completely removed, when in a lightning fast movement, Kenshin grabbed both Kaoru's wrists with his hands.

At that point, Kaoru had weak knees and a bad case of dry mouth and it wasn't because of the hangover. Her heart leapt to her throat when she felt his strong hands clutch her wrists. She stared at his hands and allowed her gaze to travel up his muscled arms to his face. She was met with amber eyes burning with desire.

Amber eyes....

Kaoru audibly gasped.

Memories.... Kenshin.... his face buried in her neck, his lips moving over her skin.... amber eyes staring at her in hunger.... her own moan of pleasure as she pressed herself fully against him....

Amber eyes....

Kenshin moved slowly, bringing Kaoru's hands up and wrapping her arms around his neck. He released her wrists and traced his fingers down her arms, over her shoulders and pressed his hands firmly against the small of her back, dragging her to press firmly against him.

Kaoru was frozen. She didn't move, nor did she break eye contact with Kenshin. She couldn't, even if her life depended on it.

"You are so beautiful." Kenshin growled huskily and moved to capture her lips with his own.

"Hey! Kenshin! I can't find Aoshi!" Sano exclaimed, bursting into the suite and disrupting the couple again.

Sano's presence was like a bucket of cold water on the pair. Once again, they leapt away from each other, blushing furiously. Kaoru quickly donned the navy shirt and grabbed her shoes.

"I'll meet you in an hour downstairs." she said to Kenshin and practically fled the room before she threw herself at him again.

The two men stared at the door in silence.

Sano turned to his friend, another huge grin plastered to his face.

Kenshin glared at his friend.

"Give me that spare key you have so I can ram it down your throat." Kenshin growled.

Sano threw back his head in laughter.

"Oh man, this is too good! Where's Aoshi? I have GOT to find him!"

Kenshin growled again and stalked off towards the bathroom leaving his friend, and boss, in the bedroom still laughing his head off.

Kaoru fled down the hallway towards the elevators as fast as she could. Part of her was shocked at her actions minutes beforehand. She didn't even wander around in her bra at HOME let alone in front of people. Had she been trying to entice him??

Yes.... yes she had.

Part of her wanted to go back, tell Sano off, and then have her way with her red-headed husband.

Part of her was still shell-shocked.

The memories, for every passing second she was with Kenshin, memories had cropped up, brief instances from the night before.

"What happened last night?" she whispered to herself.

She rode the elevator down a few floors to the 14th where she was staying with her best friend. She needed Misao. There had been too much going on the night before, maybe Misao remembered.

She exited the elevator and ran down the hall to her room. Ignoring the 'Do Not Disturb' sign hanging on the doorknob Kaoru fumbled with the key-card. She inserted it in the lock, the light turned green and she burst into her room.

There was no one there.

The double bed closest to the door was a mess and the sheets were thrown off and bunched on the floor. Misao had defiantly been there, she was a tosser. Her bed was always a mess in the mornings.

The next thing Kaoru noticed was that the shower was going. She needed to talk to her friend, BADLY, so she entered into the bathroom. She opened her mouth to call out to her friend but froze.

There were two people in the shower, Kaoru could make out the silhouettes behind the shower curtain. But it was Misao's impassioned moan 'Aoshi' that caused Kaoru to clamp her mouth closed and exit the bathroom immediately.

Closing the door to the bathroom silently, she leaned against the wood and covered her mouth with her hands. Only one thought crossed her mind.

'I have GOT to find Sano!!!'

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A.N. Oh me, Oh my.

Okay, for some reason, I'm not that happy with this chapter. I've got a bad case of writers block but I did get the basics out there. I'm trying to keep this as funny as possible but it's kinda hard at times, especially when I want to write K&K romantic/passionate crap. Well, not crap, but you know.

Note: this will NOT become a lemon. There will be lots of innuendos, kissing, sexual tension, but I won't write a lemon.

Also, don't worry, I haven't forgotten about Katsu, he'll pop up in the next chapter.

I hope you still like this!

R&R pls!