Countess Of The Night

By:dead countess 25

All rights reserved to Sony Inc. and Watsuki Nobuhiro

Chapter One

Kaoru was running away from a group of men as her father tried to fend them off. Kaoru then heard the faint cry of her father "Kaoru... run... hide yourself from these men..."

Kaoru woke up screaming.

"FATHER..." As tears streaked down her ivory face.

The nightmares still haunted her even though it had been so long ago since her father died.

Misao ran into Kaoru's room along with Misao's parents running in after her.

"Oh God! Kaoru are you alright? Was it another nightmare?" Misao asked as she held her best friend in a close embrace.

"...Yeah...I think I will be fine." Kaoru said shaking.

Misao look at her friend with concerned eyes. "Are you sure you are going to be okay?"

"yeah...I'll be fine... it's nothing new ya know." Kaoru gave a weak smile.

Misao said nothing, for she knew very well what had happened to Kaoru's parents so long ago, even if Misao's own parents didn't. Both of Kaoru's parents murdered right in front of her. Kaoru being only a child at the age of nine when her father was murderd, no child should never have to witness something so horriable.

Kaoru looked at her friend, who was so lost in thought, didn't hear her calling her name.

"Misao!"

"...Yeah?"

"You looked a little lost, I just told you that you could go back to bed. I will be fine now thanks."

Misao looked at her friend and said, "Alright, try to get some sleep. Okay Kaoru."

"Okay"

Misao walked out of Kaoru's room shutting the door behind her. Kaoru slid back under the covers to get comfortable. Kaoru tossed and turned most of the night. She had finaly drifted off to sleep.

Later that night Misao woke up to the sound of someone talking. She walked around until she placed her ear on the wall that conected to Kaoru's room. Misao heard faint whispers of some sort of anicent lauguage.

"Cat...Lubit?"

"Nu...don't leave me my stapan!"

Kaoru had soon quited down enough for Misao to go back to sleep. Kaoru woke the next morning and got ready for school. In the middle of eatting breakfast Misao had told Kaoru about her talking in her sleep kept her up half the night. Kaoru didn't remember talking at all. Kaoru finished eatting and got up to finish getting ready. She was soon in her car and ready to leave. She arrived at school and it was the same as every other day, lecter about this take notes about that.

Kaoru had deceided instead of going straight home she was going to Megumi's house. She had not been at school and it had her and Misao worried. Misao said she would go with her but she had already made plans with Aoshi. Misao had also noted to her that she really needed to get a boyfriend and get out of the house more.

Kaoru had soon found herself in Megumi's driveway. She got out of the car and went to knock on the door. Kaoru knocked a few times before anyone answered her. A guy came to the door. ' This must be Sanosuke' The guy, Sanosuke, looked at her.

" Um... you must be Kaoru or.. Misao, Megumi is upstairs I'll go get her."

"It's Kaoru and I'll wait for her okay."

He let her in and Kaoru went to sit on the couch while Sanosuke went upstairs to get Megumi. She sat for a few minutes when she noticed another guy walk out of one of the down stairs rooms. 'Good lord Megumi how many guys do you live with?' He was wearing nothing but a pair of blue jeans. He walked into the kitchen grabed a glass off of the counter and opened the frige door. Pulling out a gallon jug of water. He poured himself a glass and begain to drink when he saw Kaoru sitting in the living room watching him. He placed the glass down on the counter. Opened the frige door again to replace the jug of water he had pulled out moments before. As he turned around to face the frige Kaoru observed him; red hair that glowed when the afternoon sun hit it, beautiful violet eyes with specks of amber, and a scar on his left cheek in the shape of a cross. When he turned back around he grabbed his glass off the counter.

"Oh hey sorry I didn't know anyone else was here." he said as he walked over to Kaoru and held out his hand.

"I'm Kenshin. I'm a friend of Sano's."

Kaoru stood and shook his hand. "I'm Kaoru. Megumi's fr.." He interupted her. "Friend from school right?" She looked at him with a surpised look in her face. "Yeah." She smiled it seemed like it had been forever since the last time she truely smiled. "She talks about you and Misao a lot here." Kenshin said as Megumi walked down the stairs.

"Hey Kaoru. I'm sorry I wasn't at school today I kinda had a hangover this morning, so I stayed home."

Megumi lived with Sano. She had moved out of her parents house beacuse she got tired of all the hell they put her through.

"It's alright you just had me and Misao a little worried."

"Where is that weasel girl at anyway?"

"She's with Aoshi, you should know that duh!"

Kenshin looked like he felt out of place. He had started to walk off when Megumi had said. "Oh I'm so sorry Kenshin."

He turned around to look at Megumi and smiled. 'He has a nice smile.' Kaoru thought. Megumi began saying.

"Kenshin this is..."

"Kaoru" Kenshin finished for her. Kenshin smiled again and looked at Kaoru. 'He has a bad habit of that.' Kaoru thought.

"Oh so you two have already met?"

"Yeah while you were taking so long to get down here. I had happened to walk in and introduce myself." Kenshin said sarcastily.

"Oh...okay."

Kaoru looked at Megumi and asked her.

"Hey Megumi do you want to go out for a while? Sano can come if he doesn't have anything to do so you two won't be apart."

Kaoru then looked at Kenshin.

"Oh, you can come too if your not busy."

Kenshin smiled "I would like that. It would be nice to get out of the house and actually do something."

Megumi gave a sly-fox smile as she looked at Kenshin and Kaoru. 'I haven't seen her smile like that in a really long time.' "Kaoru can you come over here for a minute. I need to talk with you...alone."

"...okay" Koaru said as she gave a confusing look at her friend.

They walked over into the next room. Megumi shut the door behind her. She gave another sly smile. Kaoru saw this.

"Alright whats on your mind Fox?"

"You like Kenshin."

"Wh...What? NO!"

"Yes you do don't lie to me raccoon girl" Megumi said fox ears showing.

"Well even if I did you know I can't do that I might scare him off because of my 'big secret'. Hell Megumi, I've tried this before and we ended up having to erase that guy's memories with that weird potion you made." 'It smelled like shit if you ever asked for my opinion.'

"You don't have to tell him. Just get to know him so you can at least have someone to go to when me and Misao are err... busy."

"You mean have someone to hang around with while you and Misao are out fucking Sano and Aoshi?"

"Well I wouldn't put it like that."

"Just give me some time to think about it. Okay? Get ready so we can go already."

"Alright."

Kaoru walked out the room and shut the door behind her. She walked back into the living room. Snatching up her purse and dug around for her pack of cigerettes. She grabbed the pack and got one out for her and threw the pack on the small table that sat in front of her. She lit up the cigerette and sat sown just as she did Kenshin walked in. He looked as her.

"You know thats not good for you."

"Yeah I know."

As he grabbed the pack and got one out for himself.

"Oh your one to talk look at ya your smoking too."

"Yeah...and?" Kenshin said laughing. "So when are we leaving?"

"Just as soon as Megumi and Sano are ready."

Kenshin looked up toward the top of the stairs.

"That might be a while..."

Kaoru looked at him confused. "...Why?"

"Because they are... um taking a shower from the sounds of it." he said as he nodded towards the upstairs bathroom.

"...Uh... oh" Kaoru said laughing.

She could hear giggling coming from upstairs. Kenshin looked at Kaoru again and said.

"Yeah they will be in there for a good while."

"I can't believe them!"

Kenshin looked at Kaoru as he sat next to her on the couch.

"Why can't you? Beacuse she's having 'fun' in the shower and your not?"

"WHAT! You don't even know me or who I am with or anything about me. So DON'T go judging me!"

"Oh?" Kenshin laughed. "I could tell by the way you were looking at me earlier that you DON"T have anyone in your life. Not as a lover anyway."

Kaoru knew that he spoke the truth. She was so shocked that he already knew so much just by looking at her. Then Kenshin looked at her with a serious gleam in his eyes.

"And also I can tell that you hide something that you don't want anyone to know. Some sort of secret? Maybe because your scared that it will push others away if you told them."

Once again Kaoru was shocked at his remark. 'How is it he knows so much just by looking in my eyes? And there not even my real eyes, he saw the contacts not the ones that are hiding behind them.' Kaoru snapped back to reality as Kenshin turned on the T.V.

"What do you want to do while we wait for those two?"

"I don't know." Kaoru said nervously as she lit up another cigerette.

"Why are you suddenly so nervous?"

"How did you...?"

He looked at her with knowing eyes.

"Did you think that I wouldn't notice?"

"So what do you want to do?" He asked again. "Talk?"

"Sure. Why not?"

He looked at her curiously. "What about?"

"How about we talk about you?" She said happily

Kenshin had noticed the way her dark blue eyes glittered in the sunlight though that they were kind of darkend by the make-up she wore. He noted that they make her look like a raccoon. She didn't have much of what you would call a tan. Her skin glowed like ivory, the all black clothes she wore made her look more paler than she really was.

"Kenshin?" Breaking his observation of her. He looked up at her and smiled.

"Lets talk about you" she said again.

Kaoru didn't want to talk about herself, she was afraid that her secert would slip and that she would push him away, just all the others that she had told with the acception of Megumi and Misao.

"Okay." He smiled again. What do you want to know?"

Kenshin and Kaoru talked for what seemed like forever. Kaoru noticed that they had a lot in comman. They didn't even notice that Megumi was watching them from the top of the stairs. She walked down to inform a laughing Kenshin and Kaoru that her and Sano were ready to go.

"It's about time Megumi, kinda sounded like it was a bit more than 'just a shower'." Kaoru said bursting into laughter. Kenshin smirked at her remark.

By then Sano had walked down stairs as he buttoned up his shirt. Kenshin then realized that he too needed to go get a shirt on. Kenshin walked to his room and grabbed the first shirt he saw. Putting his shirt on as he walked down the hall, he didn't see Kaoru walk straight toward him. Kaoru was too busy looking back and arguing with Megumi that she didn't see Kenshin right in front of her. They bumped into each other, Kenshin shirt half way buttoned, Kaoru's hand had somehow found it's way into Kenshin's shirt. Her hand had gentley glided across his chest. She felt the smoothness of his skin and the ripple of his muscles. Kenshin liked the way her nails lightly brushed across his bare chest, making him shudder in pleasure. She blushed as she was caught in his arms, she felt so safe, even for those so few seconds. Kaoru then looked up. "I am so sorry I didn't see you I was..." "its alright I wasn't paying any attention either." Kenshin said smiling.

"Hey are we leaving or what?" Sano asked in an agravated tone.

"Yeah" Kaoru called to him. She walk back into the living room and grabbed her purse and keys off of the table in front of the couch. Kaoru was the first one out of the house. 'Its nearly nightfall' She thought to herself.

And thats the end of the first chapter. SOOOO what do ya'll think? Send me your compliments and reviews of it and please break it to me easy this is my first fic. Look for the next chapter soon.

dead countess 25