Disclaimer: I don't own Rurouni Kenshin

Rating: T some swearing and lime

A Fight for Love

By The Dead Writer

Summary: How a one month vacation turned into another life. KxK


PART V – When I'm Not With You

(POV Kenshin)

DAY 17, when Kaoru took residence in New York.

"I saw you."

"What do you want, Sano."

"A small woman pushed you in the fountain."

Shit!

"Do you have your report for me? The one about Sukawiski Corporation?"

"No, I haven't finis…"

"Then, what are you doing here!"

"Don't change the subject, Kenshin. What does she mean to you?"

"That's none of your goddamn business!"

"I'm your friend. You never showed so much interest in women before. Is she that great of a fuck?"

That got me. I jumped over my desk and punched my best friend in the stomach.

"Don't you ever speak so low of her. She's more than that!"

"Chill man, I didn't mean it like that. I'll come back when you're cooled off."

Jeezes, what does she do to me. I can't stop thinking of her.

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"Hey man, are you cooled off?"

"Sano, I'm sor…"

"Don't sweat about it. We're still cool."

"Thanks."

"So where did you two meet?"

"Sano!"

"What? I'm your friend. I want to know why you're so relaxed after you're lunch break. So tell me!"

"Fine. Do you remember when Candice came to the office, about a week ago?"

"Yeah, was that the same time when Mikuno Corporation wanted more benefits from us?"

"Yes. She made up a story about me knocking her up and wanted to go to the press with it. She would drop it if I married her without a marriage-contract."

"What! Money-sucking woman! I never knew you two fuc…"

"I never touched her!"

"So did you get rid of the problem?"

"Yeah, I wanted a lab result that said it was my child. She was out of the office before I could call a doctor. But that's besides the point. That day I got sick of greedy people so I went for a walk. That's when I saw her, sitting on a bench, reading a book."

"So you two talked."

"Euh, no."

"No?"

"She looked so serine that I couldn't disturb her. She was in her own world. She… Because of her I went to the park, every chance I got."

"So when did you two talk."

"About four days ago."

"What did you two talk about?"

I sighed. "She's different from the others. She looks at life in a refreshing way."

"So refreshing that she can perhaps understand you and your euh, night job?"

"She has this fantasy about a shadow-walker that she can save."

"A… A shadow-walker? Does she know that she met one?"

"No, she has just an over-active mind. She's fun to talk to. I don't talk about politics, money or business with her. It's just simple amusing subjects that we don't consider in this life, because we live it too fast. The other day, I took her to the Menington estate. You had to see her face when I told her the story. She was living on my words." I laughed with my next memory.

"Kenshin?"

"You should have seen her with the candy stick."

"Kenshin!"

"Mmm, yes?"

Sano mumbled something like: "You should see your face when you talk about her."

"What did you say, Sano?"

"You have no idea what I'm talking about. I'll put it in a straightforward question. What does she mean to you, Kenshin?"

"…"

"What does she mean to you?"

"I don't know."

"You have to answer that question and you alone can do that."

Sano left, just when I came up with the answer.

She's my salvation. I love her. I love her, but can she love me? Can she love the daytime-me and the night prowler?