Disclaimer: Alas, I do not own such a valuable treasure that is Rurouni Kenshin
Me: Hey there folks! Love the reviews!Yay for me! Not to mention how lucky you are to have this chapter. My computer had a virus, and ate everything and that's why it was such a long delay. But it's all better now and has been for...three hours, so I decided to celebrate with this chapter.
Sabbi:And we're very glad we had such a good response to the fic.
Corey: We had a request for translations of the Japanese words. They shall be listed at the bottom! There is no spoon…
Me: Enjoy! And once again, please don't take anything Battousai says personally...he can get a bit out of hand -sweatdrop-
Sabbi: Relax, Read, Review!
You're reading on? Good. I'm glad you can bear my wonderful personality. I also heard from the authoress that she's getting complaints. Complaints! Can you believe that? People are saying they don't know the Japanese words I use. It's called "context clues", use them or a Japanese dictionary. If you can't figure it out, then look it up! You have enough time to read my story, but not enough to go to some website to look up a word? Personally I don't think she should even give you a translation. I should probably stop talking, I want you to review now don't INow where was I…?
Oh yes, one of the most horrifying moments in my life.
Now I know I normally enjoy screams. I love the way faces scrunch up in agony; I love the sound that cuts through even the loudest of nights. But this particular time did not strike me as amusing. That sound shook me to the bone, and made me pause before a boiling rage consumed me, giving me most of the control. My name was being hollered desperately.
Kaoru was in danger.
But when I found her, I was caught by surprise. There she stood, clad only in skimpy clothing, a red boa draped around her neck and over her breasts. Got that picture you perverted readers? Well get it out because that's not what happened.
We followed her voice as it echoed along the abandoned streets of an area of which we knew so well. Darkness did not hinder us what so ever, and it was like the old times of the Bakumatsu. But this is no time to remember the glory days; I'll do that later maybe. After all, I am telling you a scary scene. My eyes scanned the alley ways when I saw it. And at what we saw, the rurouni was gone.
And I was pissed. And when I get pissed, I will not be held responsible for my actions. I should really put that in writing someday. It would save me a hell of a lot of lawsuits.
Now imagine for a moment this scene I'm going to give to you because I really don't want to be descriptive. Just plop it into your flimsy minds and use your fucked up imaginations. I saw a man, his fat ass mooning me, his pants gathered at his feet. He was bald for kami's sake! Disgusting I know. The pants part, not the bald part.
It gets worse…much worse.
Now picture that beautiful woman. My Kaoru with her kimono torn down to her waist, pulled off to either side of her body. In her hand she clenched a wooden beam in her hands, but it seemed to not have worked to save her. I swear, at the tiniest thought of what was going on, I thought I was going to break the hilt of my sword. Instead I just broke his arm…and leg…maybe two…he was also missing an important part of his body in the morning that I'm sure his wife didn't like.
After my blind anger subsided and I actually thought about what I was doing (not that it changed anything) I rushed to the side of my Kaoru.
Her eyes glistened with rivers of tears dripping down from her face and onto her bare chest. I did the gentleman thing and took off my kimono top and wrapped her in it, and I did not peek-- I swear.
…you don't believe me? Say that to my face you stupid reader. Oh look! You can't! HA!
Her eyes locked with mine, and I saw fear once again come over her face. Damn these stupid amber eyes. It's not my fault I look like a demon…though I've heard some find it rather attractive. I guess I'll have to live a few hundred years and wait for normal colored contacts to come out, won't I? But at the sight of my face, she began to shake. Her whole body trembled and her eyes widened with her mouth as she tried to speak.
"K-ke-ken-ke-"
"Far from it," I said and tried to ease my eyes out of their fixated battle mode, "Try to rest Kaoru…dono."
Whether it was from the whole trauma, the fact that it wasn't the ruro that saved her, or whatever, but she fell limb in my arms. She was out like a bad anime on Cartoon Network.
…That was a joke….laugh.
But anyway, to sleeping beauty. I cradled her in my arms for a moment, and after kicking the guy on the ground a few times so I felt better, I rushed down the road towards Megumi's.
We werein Megumi's waiting room when the ruro decided to come back. I was so pissed at him, I actually considered suicide.
How is she?
'She's fine no thanks to you.'
Thank kami.
'You better be thanking more than kami ruro.'
Is she…?
'Pregnant? No idea, Megumi's trying to figure that out now.'
Poor Kaoru-dono.
'What would you have done you fuckin ruro? Huh? What would you have done if I hadn't the right sense to follow her?'
Sessha…Sessha does not know.
'Damn right you don't know. You don't know anything.'
…This one was surprised you didn't kill the guy who raped her.
'Damnit! I knew I was missing something. I guess I was too sidetracked with Kaoru.'
You better give me control back before Megumi-san comes back. Sessha thinks she saw your eyes when you came in.
'Yeah whatever.'
One of these days I'm going to take control and not give it back; but I let him take control as Megumi-san walked through the door.
"How is she?" he asked. He sounded like he was going to cry.
'If you cry, I'll give you something more to cry about.'
He chose to ignore me and looked towards Megumi expectantly.
"Well, I can't tell at the moment. Only time can tell in this kind of situation." She had taken off her gloves and tossed them aside.
"You know Sir Ken," she had said as she bent towards the ruro, "You were very brave to save raccoon-girl." her fingers trailed up his leg, "Very brave. I admire that in a man."
Who the fuck does this woman think she is! Kaoru's laying not even 20 feet from where I'm sitting, and she's trying to seduce me! That's was it, no soup for her.
I grabbed the collar of her kimono and brought her to my face.
"I admire Kaoru you whore. Now back off before I "forget" my vow not to kill."
God I can't stand that kitsune. The ruro quickly put his hands to his mouth before I could say anymore, and apologized to the Kitsune-wench. She had backed up and looked carefully into the ruro's eyes.
"Sir Ken, is something wrong?"
"No, no sessha is fine, that he is."
"Your eyes…they seemed to have changed colors…"
"This one has no idea what Megumi-san is talking about."
The Kitsune-wench gave a heavy sigh and paused before she had spoken again.
"You can go see her if you want."
"Thankyou, Megumi-san." Yeah thankyou for being a shrewd wench...and saving Kaoru.
He made his way into the room, and shut the door behind him. Her deep blue eyes followed us as we entered, and continued to until we were next to her bed.
She looked…well let's just say she had had better days. Bandages were wrapped around her head, arms, and chest. Large bruises peeked from the white cloth wrapped tightly around her forehead. Her left eye was black, and her lips swollen. But the worse things of all were her eyes. They looked at me fearfully and if she were able to move, I believe she would have been far, far away from me.
"Kaoru-dono, how are you feeling?" asked the ruro quietly, fully aware of her fear.
"K-K-Kenshin?" she said her voice barely above a whisper, "Is that really you Kenshin?"
"Hai Kaoru-dono." he said kneeling down next to her as she lay on the futon.
"Where…where were you? I…I saw…eyes…amber eyes…"
What's wrong with my eyes? I mean really, tell me now. Do you know how rare this color is? Especially natural? Always the fuckin' eyes…geez…
Sorry, I'm ruining the drama. Let me continue.
I remember thinking of how the ruro was at a loss to answer this question. I couldn't wait to hear him answer this question.
"It must have been Kaoru-dono's imagination. This ones eyes are purple not amber."
Damn, clean getaway. But there was still time to screw it up.
"But they could be amber if you want."
She shrank back in fear from me; she tried to move her body away from me and failed. Her eyes had begun to water.
Am I really that scary of a guy? I mean sure, I have been known for my death glare. After all, I learned it specially. My master didn't create it. The style's been past down from a guy named Sesshomaru…I heard all he had to do was look at a guy and he would go running. But other than that, what's so scary?
I'm digressing again aren't I?
"B-B-Battousai!"
I gave a smile and ignored the ruro's demands to be in control.
"But Kaoru, I can see the desire in your eyes. You would prefer me to the rurouni, would you not?"
She didn't answer. She didn't have to. The kami-damned Kitsune-wench walked in at her cries.
That was it; the fox was on my shit list.
"Sir Ken, I think it's time you let Kaoru-san rest."
"This one agrees." I said mimicking the ruro's form of talk. I got up from her side and opened the paper door.
"Get well soon Kaoru…." I gave a wink, "…dono."
Now I want to say something before I continue. The ruro is a fuckin PRUDE. God forbid I make a sly comment, or wink, or kiss. He completely flips out. What guy in his right state of mind does that? It's a proven fact that guys think about sex every few minutes.
Well, of course there are exceptions.
But you can only imagine the hell the ruro gave me even weeks later.
'Oh for kami's sake, calm the fuck down ruro!'
This one will not! How could you reveal that to her! Now she'll be scared of this one! Not to mention how you talked to her! What will she think of this one if sessha is not a gentleman?
'Well you wanted to know.'
Know what?
'Which one she likes better.'
…you didn't have to be so abrupt.
'Look, it was going to be abrupt no matter how we brought up the manner. And about the gentleman part, that's only because you've only been laid once.'
Well…it's true folks. Sad isn't it? I'm sure the guys know my pain…
It does not matter if this one has been...active…only once. Besides, you're changing the subject. I don't think we should have brought up the subject so soon after her accident.
'Look, now's as good a time as any. Besides, you really are beating a dead Saitou. It's been about three weeks since that incident.'
But Kaoru-dono's coming home today.
'I know.'
And this one thinks that we should give her more time to think about it.
Man was this guy a pansy or what? I wanted an answer, and he wanted time. Let me give you an idea of how I felt. Say you had an ice cream. You wanted to eat it, but your friend wanted it too. So do you eat it, or wait 'til it melts?
…I confused you more didn't I? Well I was never good at example situations, so just smile and nod like you understand.
…nod damnit…there ya go.
So anyways, I was waiting for our lady to return. I leaned against the door outside, enjoying the fresh breeze bringing the scent of cherry blossoms. I kept in the shade of the patio over my head. For some reason, the sun and I never really did get along. I glanced down the road leading to the dojo…and saw…
The Bird-Man-Gangster.
Credit to Refrences:
- "That was it, no soup for her." reference to the show "Seinfeld"
- "beating a dead Saitou"Battousai's making fun of the phrase "beating a dead horse" by using Saitou instead
Me: I hope you guys like this. I put aside all of my other fics for this. You can say I've grown a bit attached to it.
Corey: TRANSLATIONS!
Kimono: a type of clothes
Sessha: a polite way to say "I"
dono: Miss
san: it could mean "Mr." or "Mrs.", but it can also be used with friends.
Kami: God
Futon: a type of bed
Sesshomaru: a reference to the anime Inuyasha (check out those fics of mine!)
Kitsune: Fox
Kitsune-wench: Battousai's nickname for Megumi
Ruro: Battousai's nickname for Kenshin. It's short of "Rurouni"
The "Bird-Man-Gangster": Battousai's nickname for Sanosuke.
Sabbi: wow Anzu, there's a lot of Japanese words….
Me: Well I didn't know what you guys knew or did know.
Corey: FUDGEMONKEYS!