Disclaimer: RK isn't mine, I merely borrow the characters for my story.

A.N. Well, here's the next chapter of this story! I hope you like it. I'm having a lot of fun with it. Sometimes its hard to write this though. I usually look for inspiration in the weirdest places. :P

Anyways! On with the story!

RR!

Enjoy!


It's very disconcerting to be standing in a hotel suite, wearing only a bed sheet, with your kid brother in the same room as you. That was pretty much how Kaoru felt at her present moment. Her husband stood before her, wearing his pants and holding an empty bucket of cold water. In front of him stood a wet drippy Sano.

"Explain what?" Sano asked, wiping some water out of his eyes.

"Don't play innocent with me, Sagara! Something stinks around here." Kenshin replied, tossing the empty bucket onto the bed.

"Why Kenshin, I have no idea what you're talking about." Sano replied again. Sano's motto when it came to many things in life: When all else fails, deny everything.

He used that motto a lot when he was dealing with Megumi.

"You're a terrible liar, Sano, I'd know. I'm your lawyer." Kenshin replied, grabbing his shirt and pulling it back on. It looked like he was once again not going to be able to sleep with his wife. That tidbit of information put him in an even blacker mood.

"Why would I lie! Look I just ran into him at the elevator, thought it was odd for the kid to be there so I talked to him. He turned out to be your brother, raccoon girl, and told me you were changing your wet shirt, Red." Sano replied innocently, wringing out his shirt and allowing drops of water to fall to the floor.

"He's telling the truth! I met him at the elevator." Yahiko piped up.

"Don't you start you little brat! You stay where you are!" Kaoru said, pointing at Yahiko.

"Saaaaannnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooo." A voice whined from the living room. Sano breathed a silent sigh of relief. Thank god, an interruption. Something to take the heat off him for a moment!

"Katsu! In here!" Sano called out to his partner in crime. Katsu strolled through the door and stopped when he saw the group of people.

"What's going on, have a party and didn't invite me? Whoa, Sano. You wet yourself or something?" Katsu smirked when he saw his soaked friend. Sano was less than impressed with Katsu, but anything to take the red-head's attention off himself and the kid was good.

"Yes Katsu, I wet myself, and it was centered entirely on my upper body." Sano replied.

"Sano, that's just gross." Katsu replied. His eyes left Sano, and moved to see an angry Kenshin, and a very sexy Kaoru wearing only a white bed sheet. "Woo! Nice dress! Very sexy!" Katsu exclaimed to Kaoru.

Kaoru then realized, once again, that she was in only a sheet. Her face started to burn with embarrassment, turning the same colour as her husband's hair. She had imagined donning the sheet, and seducing her husband. It had started to work too...

She crooked one finger at him, beckoning him closer. As if being pulled by an invisible line, Kenshin felt himself walking towards her.

Kaoru watched in fascination as amethyst eyes melted into burning amber as Kenshin drew closer. Her heart pounded furiously in her chest and she felt breathless. She had hoped that Kenshin had gotten the hint and sent Yahiko on his merry way. She knew the kid would have been scared of her temper, but she figured Kenshin wouldn't.

Kenshin came to a stop directly in front of his wife. He didn't touch her, but his body was a hairs breath from hers. He simply stared down into her hot blue eyes and waited for her next command... waited until he could wait no more.

"We better get you out of those wet clothes." she whispered.

"Go ahead." was the husky reply.

Unbearably sexy, he was!

Kaoru's hands trembled as she reached out to unbutton Kenshin's soaked shirt. It was plastered to his frame, so she could already see his form. Her hungover state earlier that morning had caused her to semi-overlook his gorgeous body. Flat chest, muscles, Kaoru had to catch herself before she made a complete fool out of herself and literally DROOLED over the man before her.

"Kaoru." Kenshin whispered. Kaoru raised her eyes to his, and found them to be a mix of hot amber, and gentle amethyst.

Kenshin raised his hand and brushed his fingers gently against her smooth cheek. In the back of her mind, Kaoru was aware of Kenshin's shirt falling to the floor but it barely registered. She was captivated by his eyes.

"You are so beautiful." Kenshin whispered and leaned forward for a kiss. Kaoru closed her eyes, anticipating another searing kiss from her gorgeous husband.

Kenshin brushed his lips gently against hers. The softness of his lips, the sweetness of his caress, made Kaoru's toes curl. A warm sensation grew in her stomach and spread to every inch of her being until she was a mass of tingles. The kisses they shared in the past made her want to rip his clothes off him and simply have her way with him. But this one was different, this kiss made her feel safe, comforted... loved.

Kenshin pulled away from her, the look of contentment made him want to sweep her off her feet and make love to her all day, but he knew that he would have no such luck in that until they figure out what Sano is up to.

"Kaoru, I want nothing more than to spend my life making love to you, but we both know that someone will barge in on us at any given moment." Kenshin said. Kaoru closed her eyes, regret quickly forming in her heart. Of course Kenshin was right, someone always barged in on them. It was as if everything was a set up to spoil their time together.

Kenshin ran his fingertips gently across her lower lip, still moist from his kiss, and smiled down at his wife. He had purposely said 'spend my life' because the moment she had slid that wedding band on his finger, he knew that he would do everything in his power to spend the rest of his life with her.

"Well then, we should get them before they get us." Kaoru replied, reaching for the ice bucket and presenting it to Kenshin. He gave her a mischievous smile and quickly kissed her, before going to the bathroom to fill the bucket with cold water.

Kaoru had noticed the 'spend my life' comment too. Did he really mean that or was it just the heat of the moment? Kaoru worried at her lower lip, where she could still taste Kenshin. Could she spend her life with him?

'YES.' her mind screamed.

Was she falling in love with him!

'You already are in love with him, Kaoru.' she told herself.

It was like a cloud over her brain just evaporated, and a huge ton of bricks fell on her. She had somehow managed to fall in love with a man in less than 24 hours.

So there she was, in a sheet, with ten million thoughts all jumbled together in her head. She was surrounded by men, one was her brother, one was the man she loved. And she had never been so scared in her life.

What if he didn't love her? Sure he said 'life' in that statement, but could that just have been the heat of the moment? These questions and more flew through Kaoru's mind as she continued to worry her lower lip.

Kenshin saw the strange look on Kaoru's face. She looked terrified, happy, and worried all at once. Her teeth were visible as she chewed on her lip. Her eyes were directed at the floor right in front of her. Had she caught onto his "life" statement and gotten freaked out? Or was she happy about it? Was she as terrified as she looked?

Ignoring the two men arguing back and forth before him, Kenshin took the two or three steps that separated Kaoru from himself. Reaching out he gently took her hand in his, raised it to his lips and gently grazed the back of it. Kaoru's eyes shot up to his.

"You shouldn't chew on your lip like that, Kaoru. I'll have nothing left to kiss." Kenshin said teasingly. As soon as he said it, Kaoru stopped. She hadn't even realized she had been chewing on her lip. It was a nervous habit. With his free hand, Kenshin cupped her face and brushed her lips over with his thumb.

It was then that Kaoru had some sense in her head that she realized just how rough Kenshin's hands were. Before, whenever he had touched her, she had been so wrapped up in all other things going on that she hadn't noticed.

She really didn't know a whole lot about him, and yet there she was, completely ready to spend the rest of her life with him. She knew he had red hair, that he was a lawyer for Sano and Katsu, and that his amethyst eyes would melt away to burning hot amber in an instant. But that was it.

"Why are your hands so rough?" Kaoru whispered, pressing her face into his palm. She felt Kenshin try and pull away, but she put her own hand over his to keep him there.

"I'm sorry; I didn't realize they were so rough." Kenshin apologized. Kaoru had such soft skin; his callused hands must have felt like sandpaper to her.

"Don't apologize, I like them. But what have you done to make them so rough? Don't lawyers usually get manicures and have soft hands?" Kaoru asked. Kenshin laughed gently and pressed his hand against her face.

"This will sound corny, but I practice swords. I have for most of my life. I often find myself in competitions too" Kenshin replied sheepishly. Kaoru's eyes snapped open.

"Swords!" Kaoru asked sharply. Kenshin blinked at her sudden change.

"Yes... swords."

"Are you good?" Kaoru asked. Kenshin grew confused. But he was confident in his swordsmanship, so he answered truthfully.

"Yes."

"How good? Like have you won any tournaments?"

"Yes." Kenshin replied, again.

With that Kaoru pulled away from her husband and marched over to her little brother. Yahiko was too engrossed in the banter between Sano and Katsu to notice his angry sister approaching until she had him firmly by the hair and yanked... hard.

"YOUCH! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" Yahiko cried, attempting to pull himself away from his sister. The whole room fell silent at Yahiko's cry. Sano and Katsu froze in their argument, and Kenshin stared at his temperamental wife with wide eyes.

"Oro."

"YOU BRAT! You know Kenshin don't you!" Kaoru yelled.

"OW! You ugly hag! Let go!" Yahiko yelled again. Instead of complying, Kaoru's fingers tightened even more and yanked again.

"DON'T YOU?" Kaoru yelled.

Kenshin stood in dumbfounded silence.

"I've never met him before in my life!" Yahiko cried, finally able to extract himself from his sister's iron grasp.

"Liar! You are obsessed with swords and swordsmanship! You would know of Kenshin! You know the names of every person who has won every type of tournament since they started!" Kaoru exclaimed.

"So what if I knew Kenshin, that doesn't mean anything!" Yahiko yelled.

"Now, now. It's fine if he knew about me. There are a lot of people still involved in swordsmanship." Kenshin replied, attempting to extract Yahiko from his enraged sister's piercing eyes. "It would be suspicious if he knew someone like..." Kenshin paused, looking for someone who wasn't even here. His eyes landed on Sano and Katsu and he thought of the first person who popped into his head. "Megumi!"

"Megumi? Megumi Takani?" Kaoru replied.

"You know her?" Kenshin replied incredulously.

"She's our cousin!" Kaoru replied.

'Oh shit.' Yahiko thought.

'Busted.' Sano thought, and broke into a cold sweat. He was a walking dead man.


A.N. Well, this is starting to get interesting. :D I'm enjoying the addition of Yahiko immensely. I loved his character in the manga/anime so I'm quite happy to have him in this story. So I hope you like it. I'll get the next chapter out as soon as I can!

Sakura-san