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Hearts Desire
Her heart began to beat wildly in her rib cage threatening to break a few ribs if she didn't calm down. Her blood pressure shot through the roof and the machines next to her began to beep loudly and quickly. The wide friendly smile that was placed upon his pink full lips slid off into nothingness as he turned to monitor her machines. His brow furrowed in concentration as he watched the confusing signs then laughed lightly and the gorgeous smile danced back onto his lips.
"Try not to get to excited, it affects the machines." He said calmly writing some things down on a clip board. Kaoru smiled sedating her heart but still falling in love with this man. His deep sensual voice wouldn't leave her thoughts as she watched his every move. She nodded absentmindedly as she finally looked over at Misao who was memorized by the doctor as well. Kaoru heard some stirring and figured the loud fighting with Cindy and the interruption of the doctor must have woken her friends up.
She focused back on the doctor seeing him looking her over for any changes but she blushed lightly anyway. "You took quite a fall Kaoru." He said referring to her bandaged head. She blushed deeper.
"Yea. Will I be ok? Can I go home with you?" She asked letting the words come out of her mouth normally without thinking. She gasped slightly when she realized what had come out of her mouth and wished she had hit her head harder so she would never wake up.
"What?" He asked his voice a few shades higher in tone. He laughed a bit as he said it and looked up at her his eyes twinkling. From somewhere in the background, or maybe just in her imagination Kaoru heard someone cough lightly in surprise. She dismissed it assuming it was Megumi or Misao.
"I said can I go home today?" Kaoru asked as she heard Misao's suppressed giggles. He just looked surprised for a few more seconds then smiled deciding he would let that slide.
"Yes, but your injury may require a few house calls." He said winking playfully at her. He smiled widely to make sure she understood it was only a joke, poking fun at her in a somewhat honest way. She blushed lightly and laughed.
"Of course." She said slowly playing along. "You're the doctor, you do know what's best." She added a smile spreading permanently across her face. To the blind eye it would seem like a normal conversation between a patient and a doctor and it was intended to seem that way, but to those paying any attention at all, such as Misao, it was major flirting.
Kaoru knew she was leading him on into a potential relationship that would never work. Not only did she not live in her own home but she wasn't in the position to have a man. Even if she seemed to put up the appearance of being single and wanting more but really on the inside she was loving single life. At least, that's what she made herself think, but since Kenshin came along he was warming her frozen heart. However...don't tell Kaoru that, she's in denial.
(Wow...let's stop being in third person) "But seriously Kaoru, I will be making contact with you...to make sure everything is functioning correctly and you have all your memories." He said pausing for a bit still joking but attempting sincerity. Kaoru smiled and nodded.
"Yea, I'll be looking forward to it." She said a hint of seduction in her voice and she heard the cough once more but a little louder and more like a surprised fake cough. She smiled and the doctor looked up at the interruption and then looked back at her and grinned wildly.
"Well, I must be off to help Cindy. Im sorry about her, she's an intern." He said nodding slightly as if to acknowledge it himself. It was almost as if he was reminding himself. Kaoru laughed harshly at the memory feeling the anger spark up within her. He held his hand up in a wave and left the room walking down the hall. Both Kaoru and Misao leaned on her bed watching him walk down the hallway.
"You can stop drooling." Came a haughty female voice. It was sharp and pierced through the dense haze of love in the air like a guillotine. And just like that Kaoru was throne out of her dazed fantasy world and she snapped her head around but not without bringing her hand up in attempt to ease the pain of moving so fast.
Megumi was sitting up in her chair her arm crossed staring a hole into Kaoru. "Hey...your up." Kaoru said quietly in a guilty tone. Megumi nodded her lips rising in an furious smile. Her whole image was like a beacon of all excellently aggravated friends.
"Kaoru, I can't believe you" Megumi screeched in more of a hushed scolding voice. Kaoru seemed to crawl into a shell awaiting the blow so she could try to manipulate her words to make it seem like she was right.
"You didn't even introduce me" Megumi said unfolding her arms and her tense body relaxing and jumping up and gliding over to sit next to Kaoru and Misao. All three broke out into a fit of giggles and quickly crossed their legs and sighed in unison.
"I can't believe he picked you. I tried to flirt with him when he was telling us you were OK." Megumi said slowly and somewhat resentfully. Kaoru was a bit shocked.
"What a period of mourning." She said quietly.
"I flirt when I mourn. I was so devastated I had to throw myself on the first hot thing I saw." Megumi said smiling widely.
"What about...your boy friend?" Misao whispered looking over at Sano.
"He was to distracted worrying about you." Megumi said pointing to Kaoru. Kaoru gulped hoping not to get another 'if I wasn't going out with Sano he would be all over you' speeches. Periodically Sano would do something nice for Kaoru that he would never do for Megumi because he is stupid and Kaoru would get a speech to stay away from him and that if Megumi saw Kaoru even give him ONE seductive glance she would break up with him so fast and Kaoru would be left with two sobbing best friends.
"Oh my gosh he was hot." Misao said swooning all over again just thinking about him. But she was partly just trying to get Megumi back onto subject. Kaoru sighed once more the throbbing pain had gone away just thinking of him.
"Do you think he was serious?" Kaoru asked without having to explain what she meant.
"I hope not. You don't exactly have a place of your own." Misao said looking sternly at Kaoru. "I know you like him but you have much bigger issues to deal with." Misao said her attitude much calmer and almost scarily solemn. Kaoru looked at the floor her heart rate slowing to normal and the magic dissipating.
"Misao your such a wet blanket." Megumi said trying to cheer Kaoru up.
"No, she's right." Kaoru said reassuringly with a smile. A nurse walked into her room and smiled this fake cheesy smile towards Kaoru.
"You can go home now. All of you." She said bringing her eyes up to the rest of the room. Kaoru turned her head slowly to see the rest of the room alive and alert. It was kind of shocking to see them moving and stretching their limbs when only a few minutes ago they seemed to be dead to her. Kaoru sat up fully her head still throbbing but medication had been pumped in her IV. Speaking of an IV, she looked down to her hand to see the nurse pulling the tape off of her skin and extracting the painful IV. Kaoru winced a bit and looked up at the kind old woman. She grinned at her while she placed a band-aid on top of her bleeding puncture wound.
The guys who had been silently ease dropping walked past her in a single file line smiling and, in their own way, saying farewell to her. Sano used a large wave and a huge grin, Aoshi nodded, Soujiro already was smiling and he replied later, and Kenshin awkwardly smiled and said good bye. They all left the room and Megumi and Misao stepped off her bed and waved happily.
Kaoru watched them all leave and sighed as she waited to leave herself. The Nurse smiled at her as if she knew every detail of Kaoru's life.
"He's your boyfriend?" She asked nodding to Kenshin standing outside the closed door. Kaoru blushed a bit half from embarrassment and half from anger.
"NO" She said loudly startling the nurse.
"Well, just- the way your eyes lingered on him and how his good-bye seemed to be hesitant like he really didn't want to leave." She said trying to explain her accusation.
"He's my bodyguard." Kaoru said quickly her eyes shooting up to the woman's kind but worn out ones.
"That's all?" She said a mystery lingering in her voice that seemed to hang in the air. Kaoru nodded trying to get the woman to just go back to her work. "I can tell this is difficult for you. Keep your head wrapped up for the rest of today and put on a bandage tomorrow, keep it covered and be careful for the next couple of weeks. Your friends left you some clothes over on that table." She said walking to said table and fetching the clothes and throwing them on Kaoru's lap.
"Put those on, and you should be good to go. Here's a prescription for painkillers that you should take when you feel intense pain. Just give this to your nearest pharmacist and you should be good to go. Check yourself out at the front desk and come back in a week or so for a check up." She said in a very cheery tone. She smiled feeling like she had helped another patient and she let the room quickly after she pointed the bathroom out for Kaoru.
Kaoru stood up and felt the blood rush to her head and was forced to quickly sit down her body beginning to tingle and her vision turning green. She stood up slower and felt a bit wobbly on her feet but was soon back to normal. She grabbed her clothes and quickly changed in the bathroom.
She walked out of the room greeted by the smiling faces of her friends. She checked herself out and they all jumped into their separate cars. Kenshin and Kaorus ride home was very quiet.
"How's your head?" He asked and Kaoru quickly responded with a fine.
"Mind telling me what happened? Your friends would budge." Kenshin said slowly hoping it wasn't something bad.
"I saw something I shouldn't have," She said quietly.
"What?" Kenshin asked his voice filling with strained dread.
"Just...something I never expected to find. Its really noting you need to concern yourself with." She said harshly. "I just took a rough fall." She said repeating the doctors words ans smiling in remembrance.
"If it had to do with my im sorr-" He began.
"Shut up Kenshin. You don't care, you just..."She trailed off, "don't care." She finished quietly.
"You found the ring..." He said slowly her head snapping up the tears threatening to fall suddenly held themselves back so she could see his expression clearly.
"I was worried you would just by being in that room but I never thought this was going to bloom like this." He said shaking his head at his own amazement. He kept his eyes on the road.
"And what did you think I would say? If you knew I would find it why the hell did you lead me on?" She said her voice wavering and slowly rising in pitch and volume.
"Kaoru, I didn't lead you on. She-" Kenshin cut off feeling tears of his own threatening to fall. However he wasn't going to cry, he was a man.
"What Kenshin? She what? Dumped you, said no, is married?" Kaoru asked harshly in an almost scream.
"No she-" Kenshin began but Kaoru interrupted him again.
"I don't think I want to hear it. You always find a way to make something worse...to make me feel horrible." She yelled resting her head on her hand and leaned against the door of the car.
"Kaoru! She's dead" He yelled his voice so loud it squeaked in a low grumble which sounded like crushed ice. Kaoru's blood froze and her angered face quickly switched to sock as her eyes widened. Kenshin stared at her for a wile until he heard a loud horn then looked at the road and swerved back to his side of the road.
He pulled into his drive way and looked at her. "Satisfied?" He asked as he stood up and slammed the door stalking angrily towards his door.
"Kenshin..I didn't know." Kaorus said in a shocked but factual voice. She was defiantly right, he did always make her feel even worse.
"I wanted to keep it from you. I didn't want it to get in the way." He said turning around glaring harshly at her.
"When did you plan on telling me Kenshin? On our wedding night? Oh by the way, I was once engaged but she died...you don't care do you?" Kaorus shouted in a lower voice to act like him.
"NO I didn't want this to happen. I would have told you, when our relationship was more stable if we even made it." He said slowly.
"What are you saying?" She asked laughing in a hysterical tone. "Are you saying it wont work? That there is no use?" She demanded.
"Yes! Because of stuff like this. You go snooping through my things, point fingers at me, make me the bad guy when I wasn't the one rummaging through your things and claiming that you had another lover!" He shouted throwing his arms to the side of him angrily. Kaorus jumped out of the car and walked quickly towards him.
"You had a wedding ring and a love note in a small velvet box to a woman named Tomoe."She spat wildly in a whisper. "What was I supposed to think?" She asked pushing past him into the house.
"Kaoru!" He yelled as he heard her hurried footsteps treading down the stairs. "This is what I was trying to prevent" He said quietly to himself but she was gone.
'Not good...he'll know she got hurt, he will most likely strike tonight. I better get down there.' Kenshin thought as he ran down the stairs.
It was late and Kaorus had already done enough crying and sobbing and being in the hospital. She jumped onto her bed and quickly feel asleep. Kenshin sat outside her door protectively a gun placed in a pocket in his jacket.
4 AM
Kaorus slept peacefully her raven hair pulled out of her pony tail and spread over her large white pillow. She looked like an angel laying on her white bed with her pure worry free porcelain face poised in a natural position. In her sleep she felt the warmth of someone fingertips touch her cheek and make a trail to her chin them it vanished. She snuggled into the hand finding it had gone.
She turned over and fell back into a deep sleep. The hand patted her hair lightly and she turned and pressed her warm silky skin against the soft manly hand. She moaned lightly and smiled beginning to rise out of her slumber. Her large blue eyes fluttered slowly open her vision blurred. She saw that the room was very dark and her eyes were not yet used to so little light. She could see the shadowy outline of a man. She hoped it was Kenshin but she soon found that the red head of hair was absent and replaced by spiky brown hair.
She sat up and rubbed her eyes staring disbelievingly at his fuzzy face. She saw beautiful dark blue eyes, familiar dark blue eyes. Her eyes widened as his figure began to transform into a tall slender man she had seen before.
"I told you I'd see you again." He said calmly in a low sultry voice she recognized from only a few hours ago.
"I didn't think it would be so soon." She said trying to act naive and open-minded incase her hunch was wrong.
"Ill be staying with you for some time. Now if you wouldn't mind coming with me. I want to show you something." He said standing up revealing his thin but muscular form. She shuttered happily in seeing him in a tuxedo instead of a doctors coat.
"Sure!" She said happily. "But, I need to grab a coat." She said but he handed her a furry bunch that she found to be a mink coat. "I need my purse. I know you don't have that stashed away somewhere." She said and they both laughed. She stood up wearing a long button up tee shirt of Kenshins. She acted like she was excited about to go on a date with a hot doctor she didn't know knew her address.
So she pulled on a pair of jeans quickly and ran out her door closing it tenderly to look as if she was being quiet. She quickly turned the corner ready to fly up the stairs when her arm got caught on something. She turned around quickly and gasped loudly.
"Kenshin! You scared me." She said in a pushed whisper. His face was stern and his grip firm.
"Were are you going?" He asked his eyes shining gold through the darkness. It was a bit creepy like a horror movie come to life, but Kaorus stayed brave and stood strait.
"I was looking for you." She whispered glancing at her door and keeping her voice a low mummer. He gave her a puzzled look and let go of her arm. "My doctor is in my room. I...don't know how he got in with you outside my door..." She said the last part bringing fear to the surface of her words.
"Kaoru...I want you to get whatever you told him you were getting. Go with him, I'll trail you, don't be scared." He said slowly reassuring her that he would keep her safe. It seemed like for this moment neither of them were scared or angry any longer. Kaorus grabbed her purse off of a small table near her door and turned to look at his smiling face one more time.
'Don't let me die...' Kaorus thought sadly as she turned quickly and opened the door slowly to find there were two more men tall and clad in black. She smiled kindly to the doctor pulling of the child like innocents of a girl who has a crush on a hot doctor.
"Ready?" He asked her his beautiful smile spreading across his face. She nodded and melted for just a moment allowing herself to let go just this once then she snapped back.
She had to stay alert.
She had to stay calm.
But most of all...
She had to trust.
A/N: Hey! So how did you like it? I was getting sick of just fighting and making up and actually explaining things, I might be more vague, maybe not though. I just wanted the plot to go somewhere and I think im losing a lot of my reviewers. I seem to only get a few each chapter and yes, that builds up but it is still depressing to just see a few reviews when I take my time to write this thing. So since I get so few reviews ill be giving thanks to all those worthy of my praise.
I love you:
Kean- Chyeah...sorry about the chapter re-post, I didn't think it came up so I posted it again to find now I had one to many. .;
Seishun Gakuen- Yup, I realized I posted chapter 12 again, im sorry I got mixed up.
AOD- Im sorry I vanquished your hopes of a new update but I am working on it!
LazyHop- Ha. Yea, I know it's a repeat and I really appreciate you reading my story, sorry.
Lady Dark Angel- No, the doctor isn't Enishi, he has white hair and green eyes, the doctor is hotter. Of course there are some secrets about the doctor I cant reveal at this point in time but you'll understand soon. Yea, And the ring thing is explained here too, thanks for the review!
Joann- Thanks, its nice to know people like my story!
Erica6060- Yea I wanted Cindy to be very rude, I don't know exactly why I put her in the story at all, maybe ill think of a good way for her to come back later on...thanks for the review.
That's all folks! I guess I do get reviews they just all tell me how stupid I am for re-posting, so once again for the final time, IM SORRY! You may flog me at will...