Authors notes: OMG!! I am SO SORRY! I haven't updated because 8th grade is murder! Math is as boring as hell, L/A has been boring too because we only got to do ONE thing on writing sizzle and science...well...I love my teacher and science is awesome so no complaints there - well, better get started on chapter umm...looks at chapters 9!! Yeah 9 n.n; thank you all for your reviews!!

NEW!!! TIED BETWEEN TAILS AND TREASURE!!! Just a reminder n.n

Chapter 9: hit and run

Kaoru was awakened by the soft streaming of the sun light. But she stubbornly refused to open her eyes. But then she realized just how she had awoke to one of the strangest positions in her life time. She really never took track of how she woke up, but this one was definitely good enough to mark in the book of 'how I woke up today' journal...which she had just decided to start. She awoke on a soft 'pillow' so to speak, and she had no complaints. She felt a gentle stroking of someone's hands run through her hair gently. She was a bit cold, but she noticed the covers to the bed weren't on her at all. In fact her head wasn't even near the pillows! Let alone on one...

'then...what am I...?' Her thoughts drove her to crack open her dead weight eyes open just enough to determine exactly what was giving her this comfortable hair massage. She noticed that the first thing that really stood out and came into view was a big lump of red hair that was carelessly tussled out of it's high pony-tail. She followed it's source until a handsome face came into view, peacefully sleeping.

'Wait...if Kenshin's the one who's stroking me like this...does that mean that he's asleep while doing it?...Gods I just noticed how wrong that came out...but...he's so sweet...' Kaoru was too busy complimenting Kenshin on his 'sweet' actions to notice just exactly how they had fallen asleep.

Kaoru was partly on top of him at the moment, and they were somewhat off the side of the bed. Kaoru's leg had somehow snaked it's way to cuddle near his which were beneath hers. Without her knowing it, during the night her knee had found a comfortable place right between his legs, and his found it the same way.

Kenshin shifted in his sleep while still stroking Kaoru's hair tenderly. This caused Kaoru to feel just exactly where his legs were located...and by that time, it was already too late. The alarm had just set off its shrilling ring, signaling a new day. Kenshin jolted awake, surprised at the fact that he set his alarm on a weekend day. (A/N: If I said that it was a school day, I lied XD I'm sorry!) Kaoru squeaked in surprise at Kenshin's sudden awake, and clung onto him as if he were a life line.

Kenshin reached over to his stand and banged his hand onto the alarm to shut it off before it woke up the whole neighborhood. He yawned and ran his hand through his ruffled loose hair, totally unaware of the weight that was placed on top of him at the moment. He shifted a bit, then felt something shift almost painfully against his groin.

What the...what's that? The sudden pressure sent shivers down his back as his lazy eyes scoped out the source of the weight on his sensitive region. His eyes then locked onto Kaoru's petite form that was still clinging to him. His sleepy mind was suddenly very, very awake.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!! Slow down! Back up! Kaoru's in my bed...well...not exactly, but she's on top of me, which I'm on my bed. D-did we...REOGOe45t3q#B&63 q5$ !! NO!!! don't think that way...ok...take a deep breath Kenshin...

Kenshin then checked himself and found himself clothed and also Kaoru. He sighed in relief, figuring that nothing happened if they were clothed. (A/N: If I didn't tell you, he somehow magically got dressed before pummeling onto Kaoru for a tickle attack. I don't quite remember if I told you guys o.o; looks at last chapter ) Kenshin then blushed as he felt his knee comfortably placed between her lean legs.

"Um...K-Kaoru?" His voice was un easy and stuttered out her name as she glanced up at him. His face was flushed and cherry red as he tried to point out their current position. At first her eyes were filled with confusion when he was flushed and gulping loudly. But then she noticed what he was getting at. Her face lit up a bright red as she scrambled to get off of him.

Kenshin slowly supported himself up onto his elbows and coughed un easily as Kaoru stood, looking off to the side and rubbing her arm.

"So...um...d-do you want breakfast...?" His voice was quiet and embarrassed. She nodded her head gently as he slowly got up and walked passed her into the kitchen. His thoughts then went into a hectic rampage. He felt like ramming his head against the wall. Kaoru probably thought that he was some pimp looking for some girl to befriend just to get into her pants. He sighed and grabbed the ingredients to make buttermilk pancakes.

Kaoru paced around the room as her mind tried to register what just happened in an organized fashion. Unfortunately for her, her mind wasn't doing exactly what she was hoping for. When her mind finally processed what position they were in just this morning, bad mental images of a certain someone wouldn't leave her mind.

There was one image that she particularly liked. Even though she would never really admit it, and that she was begging to disagree with the fact that she liked it, it was still something that made her stomach jump when she thought of it.

Kenshin was standing bare chest and a towel was placed over his head carelessly; his strong arm strung over it. He had boxers on but those weren't really focused on much. He was damp and steamed from what was most likely a shower he had just took. But his face was something that Kaoru was mostly fond of, next to his chest. His face held a sexy grin and his eyes gleamed with a lustful glitter; the color a mixture of violet and gold.

Kaoru then shook her head of the thought that reluctantly left her mind. She kept pondering exactly how they ended up that way. She didn't remember falling asleep on him at all. But no matter how hard she tried, her mind kept referring to him romantically dragging her onto the bed, and lulling her to sleep whispering sweet nothings into her ear. She had to get a check up on her over active imagination.

Kenshin was hastily gathering the ingredients and pouring them into the mixing bowl. He wanted to get this alone time to himself quickly over with. It was giving him way too much time to think. Geez! He had no idea just how vivid his mental images could get!

His mind, against his will, was creating naughty pictures of Kaoru right off the bat. There was one where she was just standing in his room, her back facing him. But that wasn't much of a naughty picture. What made it NC-17 was that she was bare bottom. Nothing on from head to toe. It didn't start out that way though...

In the beginning of it, she had a large button up shirt that covered what ever was indecent. Suddenly, she very slowly started to remove the garment. All that was revealed was her back...but that was soon to change in Kenshin's mental image. It dropped to the floor and his 'mental video camera' started from her feet up. It then stopped on her perfectly formed buttocks. Kenshin could feel himself drooling. She then turned around slowly, looking right at him with a seductive stare that was working wonders.

"Kenshin..." Her voice was silky and filled with a sweet tone. Kenshin was drawn into her beckon.

"Kenshin..." Her voice were laced with a passion that Kenshin couldn't quite put his finger. HE slowly walked to her and took her bare form into his arms as she stroked his chest sexily and purred.

"Kenshin...Kenshin...Kenshin!!" Kenshin was suddenly awoken from his daydream when the same voice, only a lot louder and less seductive.

"Kenshin!...Hello?! You there?" Kaoru waved a hand in front of his face as he finally snapped to it and glanced at her with wide eyes.

"H-huh...? O-Oh! Yeah! I'm fine!" He then laughed nervously as his smile wavered a bit. Kaoru looked at him in an uncertain gaze.

"You sure...? Cause you're beating the crap out of the pancake batter..." She pointed to the bowl that he was stirring into, and where he was, all of the sudden, stirring wildly as if he was in some sort of turmoil...or in his case, a sexually pleasurable position. He then slowed his hand down to a slow stir.

"Oh...uh...that! Y-yeah...um...I was trying to mix the ingredients better so they would cook more...thoroughly!" Although Kenshin's answer was filled with vocabulary and logically understandable information, the very opposite would happen if he beat the batter too much...

Kaoru then nodded her head slowly as if hardly buying his attempt to convince her of the impossible with a lopsided grin and a nervous laugh. She just shook her head and sat down at the table and ran her fingers through her hair. Her face then scrunched up into a scowl.

"I need to take a shower...it was humid last night..." Kaoru then slowly got up and walked down the hall until she reached the shower. She was a little displeased with the fact that she had just taken a shower the night before, but she didn't mind taking another one just to be clean.

Kenshin was left in the kitchen to himself and his thoughts. Something that he much wanted to avoid at that point. He decided that he'd just wait until she was done, and try to keep his mind off...certain things.

After about ten minutes or so of the shower running, the sound of it turning off had Kenshin sighing in relief at the ten minutes of torture, or in his minds point of view, ten minutes of pleasure.

He waited a little bit, but she didn't emerge from within the bathroom. He started to get a little bit concerned...what was taking her so long...? He slowly made his way to the bathroom door and knocked on it, calling her name. When he didn't hear anything, that's when he started to get a chill. He then opened the door without a second thought.

The scene that he walked into was something that he would remember for the rest of his life. There was Kaoru, dripping wet, and her face flushed from the heat. Her leg was perched up onto the countertop, and her ears were blocked with tissues because of the water that got in her ears as she applied the body lotion on herself. Her towel was flumped down on the floor next to her feet as her body was fully exposed to Kenshin's wandering eyes.

Kaoru's eye twitched as she frantically tried to cover herself. She finally found her voice as she screamed at Kenshin to get the message into his thick head.

"KENSHIN!! OUT!!" Her voice was accompanied by a painful blow to the right cheek as he went whirling out of the bathroom. Along with the throbbing pain on his cheek and the bleeding of his ears, bathroom objects started to fly out of the bathroom, along with things such as a shampoo bottle, towels, and a hairdryer.

Kenshin scrambled to his feet and ran into the kitchen, face stark red. He just remembered that his pancakes had been completely forgotten and he had the sudden urge to just wolf 'em down and run. Funny that he was intent of being with Kaoru, not he wanted to get away from her. The way life works is something he'll never figure out. Not in a million years.

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

A/N: This chapter was sort of a humorous chapter and a development of Kenshin's and Kaoru's relationship so it's nothing really important besides it's relationship growing thing. I'm only 13 so if it sounds a bit screwy, please forgive me XD!