Authors Notes: Ok everyone! I just created a new story!! It's called Tied between Tails and Treasure. The old title was going to be Thief who stole heart. But I decided other wise hope you like it! Thank you all SO much for your reviews!!

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Chapter 7: A normal night call

Kenshin and Kaoru had finally reached his home, and once they reached the from step of the stoop, Kaoru decided to speak up.

"Thank you so much Kenshin." Her voice was sweet and was filled with gratitude. Kenshin looked at her a little confused, still fumbling with his keys.

"For what?" He was really drawing a blank. What had he done that she would thank him for recently? The ice-cream? Nah...she was the one who bought it. Kaoru then started to giggle which brought Kenshin out of his thoughts.

"You really don't have a clue do you?" Kaoru's giggles grew when Kenshin shook his head. She then smiled up at him and answered his questioning eyes.

"For letting me stay here, for saving me from my father, for some how getting me onto your team, and for just being you." Kaoru said, counting her fingers along with her statements. Kenshin's violet eyes widened a bit and a blush crept onto his well toned cheeks as he stuttered with his next sentence.

"Well I mean...I wasn't going to let your father take advantage of your state, and I wasn't going to leave you either so...y-yeah." Kenshin then crossed his arms over his broad chest and nodded his head, proving that he was certain on his response. Kaoru's sweet voice was heard again.

"No I guess not...well anyway, it's starting to get a little chilly. Kenshin could we head inside now?" Kaoru asked tenderly so not to sound rude. Kenshin snapped out of his position.

"Oh!...uh...yeah! Of course!" Kenshin finally found his key and placed it into the key whole, turning it this way and that. After about two seconds, a little click could be heard and Kenshin pushed the door open. When Kenshin noticed that Kaoru was just standing there, he decided to give her a little hint. He bowed down and put his hands in front of him.

"Ladies first!" His response held mock nobility, and Kaoru giggled at that. She then curtsied with her soccer shorts and walked in.

"Why, thank you." She responded in the same, mock nobility. He smiled as he lifted his head from his bowed position. She looked at him and glared, while a smile also played on her lips. She placed her hand on his head and forced it back down. He made a small grunt that made Kaoru laugh a little.

"I think it's rude to lift your head while bowing!" She replied while walking in, her nose lifted. Kenshin's next comment then made her loose her style and she cracked up.

"I shall remember that the next time I bow down to thee...oh mocking one." He was still bowing down, his voice sounded unclear because having his head down for a while caused the blood to rush to his head, and Kaoru's laughing didn't help. Kenshin couldn't hold it in for much longer, and started to crack up himself.

After laughing hysterically for a while , once the joke was old, laughing at each other, they took deep breaths, almost cracking up again in the process. They finally cooled down after a long line of laughing. Kaoru told Kenshin she was going to hit the shower, then go to bed. Luckily for her, no homework was assigned which was like a god send.

After Kaoru was done, she scurried into his room with a thin cotton towel around her so she would be seen. As she was changing into his pj's, since she had non of her own, she heard the shower start again. Most likely he was taking a shower himself. She hoped into his bed and started to read a bit, a book she picked up off of his book shelf in the right hand corner of his room, right next to his clear sliding doors that led out onto a small balcony. She read while waiting for her hair to dry.

While Kenshin was in the shower, the phone rang.

"What the- ...why would someone be calling at this late of an hour? Maybe it's the wrong number..." Kaoru decided that since Kenshin was unable to answer it, she would do so. She picked up the phone with her slender hand and answered in a drowsy yet soft voice,

"Hello?" To Kaoru's surprise, a woman's voice was on the other end of the receiver. The woman's voice was empty sounding and dull. Kaoru had a feeling that it wasn't sleepiness that made the woman's voice that way.

"Oh...I'm sorry. Is this Kenshin Himura's house hold?" The woman questioned. Kaoru didn't really like the tone that she was using, but decided that it would be better if she just played it cool.

"Yes it is. May I help you?" Kaoru tried to sound normal but the aura that she was getting just from the voice the girl made her uneasy. She could hear her gasp quietly on the other line.

"Is this his new girlfriend?" The woman's voice was tinged with surprise, sadness, and....jealousy and disgust? Kaoru had no idea how rude a person could be! Even if she was his girlfriend, the tone that slipped from that...bamboozle's mouth was just plain rude! But she had to admit, she was flushing red when she asked that.

"Oh, no. I think you have the wrong idea miss. He's just being generous to me and letting me stay here while...my house is reconstructed. Him and I are friends you see..." Kaoru had a bit of trouble choking out miss and lied about her house. At that point, Kaoru noticed that Kenshin had just walked through the door, towel around his waste and another towel, drying his fluffy orange red mane.

"Oh hold on he just walked in." Kaoru said, putting her hand on the receiver so the girl wouldn't hear. Kenshin looked at her in confusion.

"Who's that? Why would they call this late?" His voice was almost concerned. Kaoru didn't seem to be afraid so it couldn't be her father or a threatening call. But she did have annoyance in her eyes.

"The phone is for you. I don't know who that rude woman is, but she could at least let the tone in her voice be less audible!" Kaoru huffed out, handing the phone and placing it in his palm that was connected to his out stretched arm, then snatching her book up again. He chuckled a bit at her actions and placed the speaker over his ear, still towel drying his hair.

"Hello?" At first his voice was relaxed and calm, his face synchronized with it. But as Kaoru watched him through the pages of her book, his face turned from relaxed at blissful, to stern and almost surprised. He turned to Kaoru's face and she mouthed 'who is it?' he then whispered back to her, his hand on the receiver, a sneer in his tone,

"...My ex-girlfriend...the heart-breaking two-timing snob..." Kaoru gasped a little bit. No wonder that girl was so rude to her. She probably thought she was his girlfriend and was getting jealous! Well...of course she thought she was his girlfriend! She even asked it! Kaoru glared at the phone.

"What is it...Tomoe...?" Kenshin's voice dripped with venom and seethed out a hateful fire as he hissed her name that Kaoru suspected he now loathed to speak. The conversation weren't filled with long sentences. It was a quick answer conversation with 'no's and 'stops' and 'shut ups' and things like that. After what seemed like a life time, Kenshin finally ended the conversation. If that's what you wanted to call it. His voice was filled with annoyance, irritation, and hatred when he told this Tomoe before he hung up.

"We've had this discussion more than enough times for you to understand. It's over. And I'm not going to fall victim to your dirty tricks again." And without hesitation, he hung up the phone and started to rub his eyes as if they were sore, letting out a puffed sigh. That's when Kaoru decided to speak up.

"I'm sorry. I should have known that the call wasn't a pleasant one because of the time." Kaoru's eyes drooped to the bed's comforter that was a dark hue of blue. Kenshin was upset by her words and corrected her.

"No! Don't think it's your fault! She always calls like that. I caught her cheating on me with another guy, and I broke up with her. She got all surprised and she suddenly decided that my break up with her was just an invitation to get clingy. And god did she get clingy...

She would call unexpectedly and show up unexpectedly as well. She would act as if we were together still and I just couldn't get her off my back! I gave her a second chance, but yet again, I caught her making out with the same guy. That's when things got bad. When she would show up at my house, and I would ask her to leave, she would blow up.

'No Kenshin! I'm not leaving!' that's exactly what she would say. She wouldn't too. Finally I had enough. I took her shoulders and led her out my door, and told her 'good bye' and closed the door. I didn't shove her, I didn't slam the door in her face, nothing. I just showed her the way out of my house, and told her goodbye, shutting the door. The next day at school, the school police men asked for me in the middle of one of my history class's. That was something that was way out of line.

She had told the police that I had assaulted her, shoving her out of the door and hitting her. Once I was able to tell them what really happened, they believed me and looked out for Tomoe from then on. She supposedly put on some red makeup making it look like I hit her on her cheek. They found that out because when she began to get nervous about the polices questioning, her sweat made it streak down her face.

Ever since then she's been calling me and never leaving me on my own...I don't know what to do! It's literally driving me insane!" Kenshin was pacing the room, his towel still tied tightly around his firm waist, hands streaking through his silky fluffed hair. Kaoru watched him and she could just imagine how hard it must have been. Trying to get someone off your back and them refusing.

(A/N: My sister's best friend, now her boyfriend, (they're 17) that's exactly what happened to him. He's a really nice guy! Funny too! (I wouldn't mind if he became my brother in law one bit :D) But I just thought that I might use what happened to him in this story so that Tomoe would be considered a really twisted girl. Sorry Tomoe fans!)

Kaoru got out of the bed and walked over to him, stopping his pacing by placing two of her slender hands on his broad shoulders, causing them to go from tense to relaxed within a second or two. She looked into his eyes for a moment, just gazing at him was enough for her for the moment. Finally she spoke up.

"Kenshin,....relax. I'm not surprised that that rude brat would do such a thing...she needs help. Not from you, but from someone with profession. Just breathe...she won't haunt you forever. I'm sure of that...now...get...some...sleep!" Kaoru's little speech brought his mood up right away, her last words causing a chuckle to erupt. She smiled and let her hands fall to her sides.

She skipped over to his bed after turning out the light, letting the moon shine brightly into the room, hopped in, snuggling into the covers. She closed her eyes but re opened them when she didn't hear any movement. When she looked up at Kenshin, he was just standing there, smiling at her.

"...What?" Kaoru asked in a confused voice. He shook his head and chuckled.

"Since when did you suddenly dominate my bed?" He asked with a bubbly voice. There was a pause before Kaoru just shrugged her shoulders and snuggled back into the covers. He wouldn't accept that for an answer. He smiled slyly when he jumped onto the bed, making her bounce up a little bit.

"Well I'll just have to fix that. Right?" When Kaoru got a little hint about just what he was going to do to her, she shook her head violently, brining the covers up to her nose. Kenshin then smiled slyly and nodded his head. He grabbed the covers off of her and started to attack her ribs with his fingers, tickling her. He had no idea that she was that ticklish! She was laughing hysterically like earlier and tossing back and forth violently with his attack.

He finally caused her to roll off the bed onto the floor. Kenshin then rushed to the side of the bed with concern, but almost choked on a laugh that was about to come out when he saw Kaoru pop up, hair a skew and her face red with tears in her eyes; her face still holding that of laughter.

"No...fair!" She managed to huff out, collapsing on the bed, unconsciously landing on Kenshin, making him flop over onto his back. He started laughing until he noticed the steady breathing coming from her, her back moving up and down because she was laying on him with her stomach facing down toward the bed. Kenshin propped himself up onto his elbows and poked her about two times, softly saying her name. She didn't respond, only sighing a bit.

She was fast asleep...on top of him...not good.

Kenshin didn't want to wake her up because she was probably exhausted from the tickle fight they had, so he decided that he better not move. So me dragged himself, Kaoru and all, onto a pillow. He rested his head onto it and sighed. If he was going to sleep tonight, he better pretend that the soft lump that was on him was some pet dog or something.

With a sigh, he closed his violet eyes and waited for sleep to capture him. This was going to be very odd in the morning...that was for sure.

That's all for now! Please review! :D