Love... Hate... and Then There's You
Written by: JadeFoxxx (AKA: Devil-Babe-911)
Summary – She had been betrayed by everyone she had ever let close to her heart, never trusting them or anyone else again...until she met him. Battousai the Manslayer...Can she find the trust and love that she's longed for...in an assassin sent to kill her? Kagome/Kenshin RKIY
Anime – Rurouni Kenshin/InuYasha
Main Couple – Kagome/Kenshin
Genre – Romance / Action / Adventure
Rated – M (Medium Violence) (Medium Sexual Themes) (Excessive Blood and Gore) (Attempted Rape) (Excessive Language)
Hello Kenshin!
We really don't have enemies.
It's just that some of our best friends
Are trying to kill us.
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Kagome was happy that her travels were going so well. She now stood at the front entrance of the Kamiya Dojo, where she assumed Kenshin was staying. 'Kenshin Himura...it'll be a fair battle using our skills in the Hiten Mitsurugi style. You and I both haven't learned the final technique of this style, so it's an even playing field.' She smiled to herself.
"Kagome, you coming?" She nodded and followed Yahiko inside. "Kenshin! Kenshin, you have a guest!"
"Eh, a guest? I can't say that I was expecting anyone; that I can not."
Kagome knew that voice, she would never forget that voice, never in a thousand years, the once cold yet soft voice, now with a friendly underlining, "Here I thought you would be happy to see me, I'll leave then."
He moved out to the door where he could see who was there and stared for a while. "You...are still alive?"
She laughed out loud, watching as a few others came to see who was at the doorway with Yahiko, "Do you say that to all of your guests, Battousai the Manslayer?"
His eyes narrowed. "Do you pay all of your assassin's visits after ten year intervals, Akuma Hime the Manslayer? Or am I special?"
"You're special," She said earnestly with a twinkle in her eyes. She watched a tint of pink color his cheeks and smiled.
A woman stood with Yahiko watching with wide eyes at the events that unfolded. "Kagome...?" Yahiko curiously called in a low whisper which didn't go unnoticed by Kagome.
"Don't worry Yahiko. I didn't come here to kill him." She turned back to Kenshin, "I trained for ten years...Kenshin Himura...so that I could face you in a fair battle. I had no intention of letting you try to kill me, so I waited until this war was over, so that you could fight me fairly. No assassination tricks or anything of the sorts." Gracefully, she jumped back and landed steadily on one foot. "Fight me, Kenshin Himura...or I'll pick away at those closest to you."
"...I understand. I don't wish to fight you, Miss Kagome; that I don't. But I will protect Miss Kaoru and Yahiko."
"..." Kagome watched as Kenshin stepped slowly before her, his movements a refined stride. "I do hope you don't hold back...it would be a shame if I killed you due to underestimation."
"The same to you, Miss Kagome."
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Sanousuke walked through the streets down to the Kamiya Dojo, making his way towards the home of his friends. He made it just in time to see a cloud of dirt fly upwards in the air. "What the hell!"
He moved forward and ran inside. He stared in surprise; Kenshin had apparently dodged a hit that would have split him in half. In the ground was a sword held by a beautiful young woman around his and Kenshin's age. The earth that held the blade had split drastically and Kaoru and Yahiko looked disorientated and panicked with the girls' attack.
"Yo, Yahiko!"
"Sano!" Yahiko called, "Get out of the way!" Sanousuke looked up in time to avoid a Kenshin and the girls charge. "What the hell is going on?!" He asked Yahiko.
"Kagome came to battle Kenshin."
"Who is Kagome, Kenshin's ex-girlfriend?"
Kaoru hit him hard on the head. "NOW ISN'T THE TIME SONOUSUKE! Kenshin could get seriously hurt if he's hit with one of those attacks!"
Yahiko stared at the techniques of both fighters, "It's the same,"
Kenshin had noticed to and had jumped back and landed carefully out of her range, "You learned...the Hiten Mitsurugi style?!" Kenshin was staring with his eyes wide; surprised and confused.
"Yes, unintentionally, and through some rather...embarrassing events, I managed to stumble across Master Hiko...He told me about his idealistic student who foolishly ran off to a war in hopes of saving lives, not realizing that he was taking them in his efforts...but through traveling here, I have heard nothing but good things about Kenshin the Wanderer. Of course, I never had the intention of fighting you to kill you, and still I don't...but humor me...fight this levelheaded girl, my dear naïve Kenshin."
"I am sure, Miss Kagome...that though our ideals were different, we still wanted the same thing, that we did."
She smiled at the way his sentences came out, "What do you think it was that I wanted, Kenshin?"
"The war to end of course."
"Humph, no. I hadn't a care in the world about that war; my attention was on getting stronger. I am no longer human, so I have no right to fight in a human's war; no...I am...Akuma Hime."
"I don't think that's true, Miss Kagome. You and I are more alike then you think. You are not a demon...you are like everyone else who fought in the War."
She laughed, "I didn't care who died in that war; again, don't compare me to something I used to be." Kagome charged him and Kenshin was forced to turn his blade and side sweep hers to the left; ducking down and crashing his shoulder into her stomach. Kagome was knocked back, flipping before landing on her right foot and pivoting to the left before sending a blast of her energy through the Tsukihime and in a very 'Inuyasha' like move, throwing Kenshin off his feet and into the tree. The two guys', and the young girl moved quickly to Kenshin's side when another woman came to see them. Behind her were an old man and two young girls.
"Oh! Sir Ken!" The woman with long hair ran up to Kenshin who was being supported by Yahiko and the other man.
"Do you see, Kenshin, I can't be compared to human's anymore."
"Y-you're wrong, M-Miss. Kagome, you a-are more h-human...than I am~"
Kagome watched as everyone gathered him inside and sighed, following, she glared when the girl with the ponytail perched herself in front of her.
"You've done enough! Leave Kenshin be, whoever you are!" She cried out, tears forming pathetically in her eyes.
"...right," Kagome jumped over her and made her way to the room Kenshin lay in. The woman, Kagome saw, was a doctor, as was the old man. Kagome saw the gash from her attack and cringed. 'Sorry Hiko-Sensei...I used my demon energy again...' She stepped forward and sat down next to Yahiko who looked at her from the corner of his eyes when she placed her hand over the wound Kenshin now had.
"Don't touch his injury! You could cause bacterial infection if you don't wash your hands before handling any type of wound, that's common sense!"
"Megume," Yahiko said to the woman.
"She did this, Yahiko, let her feel b─what?!"
"Sanousuke, what's wrong?" Megume turned and her eyes widened at the pink light coming from Kagome's hand. Her eyes shut and the wound closing.
Kagome opened her eyes and took the wet cloth from Megume's hands and wiped clean the blood on his chest. "That's...a demon's wound. Your human tools couldn't of helped him at all."
"HEY!"
"WHA!?" Sanousuke and Yahiko stood at the sudden interruption, "I told you to leave! You have already hurt Kenshin! GET OUT!"
"Hey, little missy, she healed him too," Sanousuke pointed to the no longer injured, but still out cold Kenshin. "Cut her some slack."
"Yeah, a pretty light made Uncle Ken all better,"
"Yeah, pretty light made Uncle Ken better,"
"...Kaoru, you owe her a thank you," Megume said in a reprimanding tone.
"I do not! If it wasn't for her he wouldn't have needed to be healed in the first place!" Kaoru was seething.
"I know when I'm not wanted," Kagome smiled and pat Yahiko on the head before leaving. Sanousuke chased after her and caught up quickly.
"Hey, look. If you need a place to stay, you can stay with me at my place. I mean, it's at Ruffian Edge, but it's still safer than being on the streets."
"..." Kagome stared up at the taller man and smiled, "You sure it won't be a problem?"
"No problem at all!"
"Yeah," Kagome smiled as Yahiko came out from around the corner, "Kaoru may not like you, but we do! Besides, Kaoru's probably just jealous. How do you know Kenshin?"
Kagome smiled, "He was an assassin sent to kill me...ten year's ago."
"..." Sanousuke blanked, "And you're still alive?"
"I am," She laughed, "I fell asleep with him watching me, knowing he was watching me, and woke up with him sleeping across from me. His assassin outlook was a little...well...it wasn't normal." She smiled, "But...I'm glad it wasn't, otherwise...I may not be here today..."
"Kenshin's a good guy...I'm sure he felt something from you...and chose to go on that feeling." Sanousuke put a hand on his neck awkwardly, "Or something like that. I mean, I'm not saying he fell in love with you at first sight...not that you aren't cute!"
Yahiko laughed, "She's more than cute Sano,"
"Yeah, I'll give you that." He coughed behind his hand. "Little Missy is cute, Megume is beautiful, you..." He frowned, "You're...above and beyond,"
Kagome blushed, "Am I now...well, thank you. You're bold, but your compliments are...appreciated."
"Just call it as I see it. Shall we?"
"Can I come with you!?" Yahiko asked Sanousuke who laughed.
"Normally you don't ask to come to my place, throw in a pretty girl and you practically beg."
"I'm not begging!"
"Yahiko!"
Yahiko turned to see a furious Kaoru. Kagome looked and saw Kenshin smiling sheepishly behind her. She moved around Sanousuke and Yahiko, passing Kaoru until she was standing in front Kenshin who smiled kindly at her. "Feeling any better?"
"Yes, thanks to you."
"Kenshin Himura, if there's anything you need, please, don't be disinclined to ask. I am still very much in debt to you."
"To me, oro?!"
Kagome smiled, leaning forward till her lips were brushing his ear, she whispered, "You...never did...take my life...that day..." then pulled away and started for the blushing duo that stood watching from afar. Kenshin himself wasn't doing to well either. Kaoru punched him hard in the cheek and Kagome stared at the girls' furious glare. Now twenty-eight years old, Kagome had seen all types of hatred and glares this particular glare was one she dubbed, the little green monster. A-K-A: Jealousy.
"Sanousuke, shall we?"
He gave a nod and Yahiko followed them as Kagome glanced over her shoulder, "Fare thee well, Kenshin,"
"Fare thee...well..." He mumbled from his injured spot of the ground.
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Me: Long, Long, Long time since I've updated, I know. But hey, look on the bright side...I UPDATED!