A/N:D You're all going to kill me, haha!
So! October was the last time I updated?
Ah, well, I was lacking in Kenshin spirit for quite some time, ne? I dunno why, but Kenshin had just become a lost interest…BUT IT'S BACK WITH AVENGENCE! –grins like a psycho while avoiding pitchforks and other various pain inflicting items-
Anyway, I was reading the last chapter of Tn'T and I was trying to think of a way to start off the new chapter. I mean, c'mon. There are like…hundreds of ways you can start that off!...But anyway, I've come to a conclusion. I just hope you guys like it :D
Disclaimer- I do not own Rurouni Kenshin and all the loverlee characters within its story borderlines. –sighs and plays harmonica-
Warning – Cold icepacks, angry bosses and devious children
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Chapter 13 - Lock Away
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Kenshin groaned as he held a towel-wrapped pack of ice to his head. Underneath the numbing ice was a bump; a stupid, sore, bloody, aching bump. He hissed as he tried to shift the ice on his head a little as his arm began to feel tired. Did he really deserve such a hard blow? Seriously! A joke was simply a joke, even if it was rather vulgar! He snuffed in defiance as he took a sip of the orange juice he was provided with. As he swallowed down the orangey substance, he winced as a lump made its way down his throat. Perhaps too much orange juice at once?
He dismissed the insignificant feeling and shook his head, taking another sip of the fruit drink.
Then, setting his cup down, Kenshin slipped on a determined pout as he suddenly stood up from the lounge chair in Kaoru's living room and readjusted the icepack on his head. He wasn't going to let Kaoru have the last word, no sir!
He mustered up as much courage that was left in his soul, tipped the icepack forward onto his head and marched toward the kitchen where Kaoru was emptying her dishwasher. He walked in with a confident intention of getting the final word about the punishment he received for his comment.
"Kaoru!"
When he approached the back of Kaoru's busily working frame, he came to a stop and placed a defiant hand on his hip. She stopped in her stacking and slowly turned around with a static filled smile that was almost too sweet.
Kenshin cleared his throat, once again shifting the icepack on his head.
"I …want to have a word with you about what happened earlier…" A little less confident sounding than he would have liked…
Her smile broadened and it was only then that he noticed the utterly harmless steak fork and the doubtlessly risk-free cutting knife that were gripped tightly in her palms as a result from his stopping her emptying of the silverware.
"Yes? You have something to say…?"
He felt a small cough escape his throat as he nearly dropped the icepack, barely managing to catch it in time from falling off his head.
"Ah…well…I just wanted…to tell you that…"
"Yeeees….?"
He gulped slightly as he held out a finger and nodded his head vaguely.
"Thaaatt…I'll be in…the living room …if you need anything, okay?" He gave a nervous chuckle at the end of his sentence and slowly directed his path back the way he came. Once he was out of her sight, he sighed and rubbed his forehead.
So much for the last word…
He slowly let himself collapse onto the couch. The time had passed by, bleeding into the late hours of night. His son and Yahiko were comfortably situated in rather awkward positions on the remaining furniture in the room; one glance at them and he deemed them fast asleep.
He smiled at his son and sighed slightly. Lifting his hand from the couch, he reached over to the sleeping figure of his son. Gently tracing the outline of Kenji's figure, he smiled to himself and slowly let his sleepy eyes drift shut. He was suddenly so drowsy…
His breathing came out at an even pace in his slumber, and as he slept quietly, two pairs of eyes peered at him with wry smiles on their faces.
"Are you sure he won't wake up…?"
"Positive. Kaoru always uses that stuff for her headaches and she's out cold. Nothing wakes her up."
"Awesome. So how are we going to move him into the spare room…?"
"We could pick him up and drag him in…"
"…Well we can't really do anything else…it's not gonna be easy, getting him down the hall…and what about Kaoru? How are we going to lure her in there?"
"I'll think of something. Don't worry about that right now. Let's just get your dad in there first. He's going to be the harder one. Now. You get his head, and I'll take his feet…Got 'im?"
"Yeah."
"Okay. One, two, three, lift!"
Yahiko and Kenji gently lifted Kenshin from his sleeping place on the couch before slowly inching him out from above the cushions. Then, repositioning so that they could fit down the hall, they shuffled down the corridor quietly, making sure to be careful with the slumbering redhead. Finally reaching the end of the hallway, Yahiko set Kenshin's feet down with one hand and unlocked the door to the spare room. Then, picking him up again, they shifted into the windowless room.
"Just set him down over in the corner. He'll be asleep for about twenty minutes or so."
"Just twenty minutes? I thought you said nothing wakes someone up when they take that stuff."
Yahiko snickered. "I didn't give him a whole tablet. And besides; he's bound to wake up once we get Kaoru in here."
Kenji finally nodded and proceeded to drag his father over to the corner of the empty room and prop him up against the plain cream walls. He grinned lightly at his dad and snickered to himself as he stood up and brushed off imaginary dust that might have settled onto his shirt. His turquoise eyes gleamed mischievously as he quickly ran back to Yahiko's side.
Yahiko turned to him and slung a friendly arm around the boy, a smirk on his face.
"So, you got the DT?"
Kenji nodded and grinned, holding up a large roll of duck tape he kept hidden in his large back pocket. Suddenly, his grin drooped slightly as he turned to Yahiko with doubt.
"So you'll get Kaoru in here, right?"
Yahiko grinned in Kenji's direction and smirked, tracing his thumb along his jaw line.
"Sparky, with me, anything's possible."
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Kaoru sighed as she continued to file away the kitchen silverware. She shook her head as she remembered the events from earlier that same day. Sighing, she closed the silverware drawer and pushing the bottom rack of the dish washer, she closed the machine up and started to head out of the kitchen.
"Kaoru!"
Yahiko's voice startled her for a moment before she sighed and placed a hand on her heart to calm its excessive beating. Lifting her gaze to the brown eyed 'brother' of hers running toward her, she wondered what could have got him so worked up. Placing a hand on her hip, a habit she picked up whenever Yahiko came to her for help she raised an eyebrow as Yahiko caught his breath for a second or so.
"Kaoru…there's a huge ass spider in the spare ro-"
He was suddenly interrupted as a hand came down and whapped his head. He yelped and placed a hand on the terribly aching spot and whipped his gaze upward to glare at Kaoru; his nose scrunched.
"Whaddya do THAT for y'old biddy!"
Kaoru glared at the boy, making their height difference seemingly noticeable all of the sudden.
"Don't swear, you little brat. Now; continue what you were going to say…without the potty-talk."
Yahiko muttered something that sounded a little too much like 'old hag' to be a coincidence. With Kaoru's insistent glare, he sighed and rubbed his sore head one last time before standing up straight.
"There's a huge spider in the spare room. It's a monster! I dunno, but I think it may be poisonous!"
Kaoru raised her eyebrow once again as she gazed at the boy.
"…What were you doing in the spare room?"
The question didn't throw Yahiko off his course one bit. He was a sly little boy who was quick with his hands and even quicker with his tongue.
"Well, Kenji and I were playing that tag in the dark game…? You know, the one we used to play when I was-"
"Yes, I know, I know." She didn't want to be reminded of those times.
"Well, I hid in the spare room because, since there's not windows, it's pitch black in there. Kenji managed to find me and, as the game goes, you turn on the lights and that's when we spotted it; in the corner of the room."
The story was explained to her without the breaking of eye contact, though she didn't know if she could truly trust the little rascal in his story…and why the spare room of all rooms? There were other dark rooms in the house. She snuffed and raised her head a bit.
"You've never been afraid of spiders before."
Yahiko's shoulders dropped dramatically as he rolled his head in exasperation.
"C'moooon, Kaoru, it was huge!"
Sighing in vague annoyance, Kaoru nodded her head.
"Alright, alright; lead me to the offender."
Yahiko grinned as he took her hand and tugged her down the hall, a smirk replacing the smile that was on his lips as soon as his face was turned away from her. As he dragged her down the hall, they spotted Kenji standing outside of the spare room with a disgusted frown on his face.
As they reached the door, Kaoru sighed and looked at the two boys one last time. Seeing that their eyes never faltered in their staring, she sighed, rolled up her sleeves and headed into the room. She looked around the walls, squinting to try and spot the said spider and bring it to its doom. In the darkness of the room, it was hard to spot the insect.
"Hey Yahiko; flip the light switch, will ya?"
Silence was her reply.
"…Yahiko?"
She turned around, only to be greeted with the site of the door closing on her, leaving her in pitch darkness. She stared in the direction of the door for a few more moments, gazing at what would have been the outline of the cherry wood if she could see. Then she snapped and charged toward it with Yahiko's name on her angry lips.
"Hurry and tape the doorknob!" Kenji's voice was anxious and high pitched as he flailed his arms at Yahiko in his panic.
"Don't rush me and perfection! We don't work well rushed."
Kenji, though reluctant, obliged to his commands and stayed silent. Though a pout still marred his face and his hands still flailed in anxiety every other second. A sudden thump against the door provoked him to wail out his panic and push Yahiko into a faster pace but knew that his 'encouragement' wouldn't do much good. He simply bit his lip and continued to whirl his hands in fast circles.
The thumping against the door continued as Yahiko hurried to finish up his taping of the doorknob. Once he confirmed that it was securely taped, he stepped away and grinned at the door with pride; hands planted confidently at his waist, gripping the duck tape.
"You sure that's gonna hold her in there? I mean…Kaoru's pretty strong." Kenji tapped the door knob unsurely and jumped away quickly as it began to jerk violently from the insistent turning on the other end.
Yahiko wrinkled his nose and waved his hand as he laughed, a smirk plastered on his lips.
"Trust me, that'll hold her."
Kenji raised an eyebrow in doubt toward Yahiko.
"How do you know for sure?"
Yahiko turned his chocolate brown eyes toward him and contemplated on his next words to say. His air of jest had melted into seriousness for merely an instant before shrugging his shoulders carelessly.
"Let's just say I've got it all figured out, ok?" With that, he strung an arm around Kenji in boyish arrogance and led the brunette off down the hall.
However, as they sauntered down the hall with the air of sweet successes, Kaoru continued to yank on the knob, twisting it this way and that violently, though progressing very little if she were progressing at all. Finally letting go of the knob at the crying ache of her hands, she resulted in a loud howl of frustration and kicked the door in her bitter spout of anger.
"Damn brat…! I knew I shouldn't have trusted him!"
She began to fumble along the wall, running her hands over its smooth plaster texture in attempts to locate a light switch; only to find, seconds later that she had, for a reason beyond her minds ability to process rational thought, carelessly designed the switch to be outside of the room when it was built however many years ago.
She hissed a curse once more and began to feel her way around the pitch black room once again. As the dark started to form into a more comfortable shade to deal with in her eyes, her foot suddenly came in contact with something solid. And in her surprise of the unexpected collision with the object, Kaoru lost her balance and blatantly earned herself a one way ticket to the ground below.
When she hit the floor, a loud thump echoing through the room, she growled angrily and hissed a small 'dammnit' under her breath and proceeded to pick herself up until the small groan froze her where she lay.
She stared in the direction of the noise, but as much as she tried, she couldn't form a figure to the noise. In the unseen and unknown room, her imagination began to act up and she quickly scurried away. She heard another small moan and began to back up once again when a familiar, baritone voice halted the chills running up her spine.
"…Kaoru…?"
In her bewilderment, Kaoru was only about to stare into the deep blackness of the room as her mouth hung agape with utter surprise.
"….Kenshin…!.?"
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A/N: You're all going to murder me, aren't you.
-clears throat and puts a hand up, ignoring the torches and pitchforks- Well, let me explain myself. . .
It's the end of the year for school. One more day left and I'm out. After that, I have to take one final…and it's English, go figure. I might have to take the Science final too…god forbid.
Well, my school has this bull crap policy that is, 'END OF THE YEAR, LET'S PILE ON SHIZA LOADS OF WORK:)' It's got me staying up until around 3am every night. It's, quite frankly, idiotically ridiculous.
Well, aside from that, I'm EXTREMELY happy…and sorry. nn; I just got back at 4:30am on Tuesday from a 5-6 day trip to Mexico (the Country) for a wedding. We went to Cabo and stayed in 'The one and only Palmilla', a luxurious resort… people bowed to me when I walked by! Sheesh, I felt like a celebrity who wore a backwards hat and had Kenshin manga! XD
I turned fifteen on Sunday, June 4th so I spent it in Mexico.
So a Happy Belated Birthday to me. :)
It definitely beat my last one…I thought no one knew about it! But I got a cake delivered to mine and my sister's room, I got another cake at dinner and everyone in my family sang happy birthday. (Everyone on my Dad's side was in Mexico for my cousin's wedding.) I even got 'Happy Birthday Alendra' on the top of my menu…And of course, I couldn't eat anymore by the end of the night. I don't have a very big stomach, but I'm sure it super sized over my vacation. –laughs-
Well, I'm so sorry for taking so gosh darn long. I've been exhausted because of all the work I've had to do. I have to study for two tests on my last day, in French and Honors Science…lovely, eh:)
OH! I GOT A CELL PHONE, FINALLY! I've needed one for so dang long...It was really funny that some friends on IM from like…half way across the country wanted the number. XD
I suggest, to make you all feel better for waiting so long, download the song 'Geek in the Pink' by Jason Mraz. I found a Kenshin amv with that song and I fell in love with it. It's a lot of fun:)
Anyway, I'm really, really sorry. Please forgive me and review:(