a/n: Hello mina-san! A pleasant day to you! This is the forth chapter of my fan fiction. The thank you is at the end of this chapter.

Warnings: Possible rape situations and again OOCness…(better safe than sorry)

Disclaimer: How many times to I have to say this?! I do not own Samurai Deeper Kyo! If I did Demon Eyes Kyo would have at least known I existed.

Chapter Four: The Kiss

Was there reason needed to kill someone? Once the sword is unsheathed, rationality is lost. Everything inside a person focuses in just one thing: Cut him down. Finish off the opponent before he finishes you off. That is the rule of the sword. That is the rule of a warrior. Why? The strong shall live and the weak shall die. That is the closest explanation there can be.

Is there a reason then not to kill someone, especially if that person drives you down the road of insanity; especially if that appears to make you weak and destroys you slowly from the inside? That person is apparently your weakness. Ironically, this person brings out the best in you and makes you strong. This person's very presence makes you weak in the knees and your words stumble, yet somehow you long for the feeling. This feeling is not bound by anything; rationality or irrationality. Love, it is the closest word that can describe it.

Sanada Yukimura smiled at the jade-eyed woman. This time satisfied with her answer. The general regained his mischievous grin. He merrily walked out of the room as he gulped from his sake jar. He passed the red-eyed samurai standing behind the sliding door and greeted the man by a pat on the shoulder.

"Kyo-san should thank me for this." The sapphire-eyed samurai teased.

The ungrateful red-eyed samurai grunted. He did not ask for anybody's help. Furthermore, Yukimura should learn to mind his own business. "Well at least" Kyo said to himself he did not have to go through all the trouble to be sure that the woman was indeed crazy about him. The only problem was how the heck was he going to show to that wife of his that does care about her without having to confess his feelings?

Demon Eyes Kyo waited a while before he decided to enter the tatami matted room. He watched as Sanada Yukimura left. The general, before vanishing, bumped into a young woman. And being Yukimura, he did what did best. He talked the young woman into drinking with him. Demon Eyes Kyo laughed. Yukimura never changed.

The red-eyed samurai walked inside the room. He flushed out from his little theatre of thoughts off the words his woman said. Yes, it was tantamount to her saying that she did love him. However, she did not say the three forbidden words, per se. She just said, 'I would'. It really shouldn't get into his head. Besides, whether Yuya liked him or not was irrelevant. She was already married to him. She can't do anything about it.

Kyo mentally shook his head to hopefully get rid off the thoughts regarding Yuya and his feelings for her. Great, he was already referring to her as Yuya. What was next? Would his inner voice begin calling her his lo-? No, Demon Eyes Kyo told himself that he should not create a path in his head like that. He pushed all the thoughts regarding his woman at the back of his head and deep under his thoughts of his being the strongest. He gathered the coldest and most indifferent tone he could find at the moment, yet a tone of concern for the woman escape his voice. He just hoped that his wife did not notice the subtle caring tendency.

"Woman," Kyo said in a low gruffly voice. "Pack our bags. We are leaving."

The bounty hunter frowned and crossed her arms. Kyo raised his eyebrow a little tempted to touch her frown with his lips. He decided against that action and opted to just tease her. Just as he was about to remind her that she was still his flat-chested servant, Yuya stomped on her way to pack up there luggage.

"Finally," Demon Eyes Kyo smirked. "I get the treatment a master should deserve."

"Whatever, Mr. Pig-of-an-idiot." Yuya said not caring whether Kyo heard her.

Kyo did hear her insult and decided to make it his own. "If I'm Mr. Pig-of-an-Idiot, it makes you Mrs. Pig-of-an-Idiot." The demon chuckled. He just enjoyed teasing the woman. The woman sighed and continued packing their stuff. Kyo sat down and lit another pipe. Neither of them said a word afterwards.

Settling down for the day, Demon Eyes Kyo and Yuya Shiina set up their so-called camp. They rested at a little clearing in the middle of the forest. They were a few days further from the nearest town and more than a hundred miles away from the village stopped by a few days ago. They were in the middle of nowhere.

The day was already nearing its end. The sun's colours were slowly changing from the golden colour of rice fields to fiery red colour of Kyo's eyes. The woman decided to gather firewood for the chilly night ahead of them. The samurai grunted and watched the woman disappear in the woods.

It was almost a week since she and the brutal samurai were married. There hasn't been much change in their relationship (if that was what it was called.) The only notable change was the more frequent invasion of Yuya mouth by Kyo's tongue. Kyo's interpersonal skill's were still the worse there was. He was still rude, conceited, self-centered, and everything in between. Kyo was pretty much the self-proclaimed strongest that he was a few days ago.

Why did Yuya say again that he wanted her to be his wife?

"No." Yuya argued with her conscience. She debated with herself countless times. And she told herself many times that regardless whether Kyo wanted the marriage or not, she would continue to put her faith in Kyo as much as she entrusted him with her heart. She had confidence in her husband that he would not let anything bad happen to her. Well, at least that was how she interpreted what he said to her a few says ago.

"I am very possessive. Once my property, always my property. Remember that, woman"

Yuya blushed at that words the samurai said. She was daydreaming as she was picking up dried-up wood for the bonfire. She hummed a soft tune barely audible. A stranger interrupted her train of happy thoughts.

"Konbanwa." The stranger greeted the young woman a good evening. The stranger seemed to be a normal looking rurouni. Much like any free samurai, he wore weathered clothes. His zorii were worn out with his endless travels. His eyes were dark blue in color that somehow lacked a spark that Yuya saw in most wandering samurais. This man had dull blackish brown hair that was tied in a bow. Yuya did not care much about the man but she was polite enough to greet him.

"A pleasant evening to Rurouni-san." Yuya decided to head back to her husband. Her woman's intuition sensed something amiss.

"Is the beautiful miss without company?" the samurai shouted but Yuya pretended she did not hear. She reached for her pistol. However to her dismay, she did not find it. Damn. She must have dropped it on the campsite. The jade-eyed woman opted to take her steps as fast as she could take them. Suddenly, she felt a little sting in her neck. She assumed it to be a mosquito until she felt her legs go heavy. She had been poisoned.

She fell to her knees unable to sustain the growing weight. Soon after, her entire body was growing heavy. The blue-eyed came nearer her, taking his steps slowly. The sweet look in his face was gone. The man licked his lips uncontrollably and his eyes flowed up and down Yuya's womanly body. She could read only one thing: lust. The look was different from the way Kyo looked at Yuya. It struck Yuya.

The way Kyo stared at her had that unexplainable tingle in heart. It made her heart beat faster. Though Kyo's eyes were piercing her, she was able to breath. She felt not only calm but confident whenever Demon Eyes Kyo gives her that look. This wandering samurai was different. She had only one feeling left in her heart: fear. She was unable to breath. Though her heart beat faster, it beat for another reason: dread.

The stranger took out his sword gliding it gently over Yuya's kimono. Yuya felt her obi loosening and her kimono opening. It was one of those moments when the only thought in her head was fear. She needed a plan to save herself. She knew she cannot always depend on Kyo. She calmed herself down and began her plan of action.

As the man enjoyed slowly unravelling her red kimono with his bare hands, she tried reaching for anything hard she could get her hands on. Fear screamed in her head. She forced back the tears in her eyes. She had experience near death situations. This, however, was different. She could not explain it. For the second time in her life she felt helpless.

As the rurouni carefully unclad the exotic woman before him, he felt an unknown presence in the vicinity distracting him from what he was doing. Upon noticing the samurai being distracted, Yuya stabbed herself with whatever she was holding. Regaining the strength of her body, she bashed her head with his forehead causing the man to have a headache. Yuya got up and ran her way back to the camp to get her pistol.

Limping away from her assaulter, she did not notice her husband walking in her direction. She bumped into Kyo causing her to stumble. Everything was followed by pure impulse. She snuggled herself behind Kyo while she tried keep her kimono from showing her sacred parts.

Demon Eyes Kyo was a bit startled with his woman reaction. Though he had seen her in similar predicaments, he had never seen her so afraid and defenseless. Her eyes exploded fear and insecurity. The sight made the demon swear to Izanami that he would slash into pieces the one who was responsible for this. He felt a string from his heart. Who dare touch his property? Whoever he was, he was going to pay.

"Come on." A blue-eyed samurai said. "Let's play with her."

Kyo raised an eyebrow. A rurouni appeared. This insect was idiot he was going to kill? This one dared to touch his prized possession? He clenched his sword. He stole a glimpse of the woman behind. He felt the woman hide her head behind his back as if asking him to take care of the idiot in front of them. The unwanted feeling inside Demon Eyes Kyo spoke to him.

"Woman," Kyo said implying that it would be all right. "This lowlife will not survive nightfall."

Demon Eyes Kyo situated himself approximately two meters in front of the rurouni. "Nobody touches my property." The man opposite him unsheathed his sword. The wanderer pointed his sword to the red-eyed man accepting the challenge. Demon Eyes Kyo smirked. He poised to unsheathe Tenrou. He waited for his opponent to attack.

Gathering all he had learned in his wonderings, the blue-eyed man knew that the person before him was Demon Eyes Kyo. And being able to defeat such a monster would further glory to his name. No more the days that he would be called Matsumoto Hideki, the wandering samurai. He would be called Matsumoto Hideki, the slayer of Demon Eyes Kyo. He pulled his right elbow behind his shoulder. He readied to thrust his sword into his opponent's heart.

"And soon Demon Eyes Kyo," The rurouni said. "Your head and your so-called property will be mine." With speed faster than the wind, he forced his way to pierce Demon Eyes Kyo's heart. He was blocked, however, by the demon's sword.

"With that level of strength do you really think you can break my blade?" Kyo grinned. This little pest sure had guts to challenge him and to touch his wife. This little insignificant bug would suffer for what he has done. Demon Eyes Kyo clenched his teeth. He formulated in his mind how going to make the man suffer. He would tear him limb from limb and spill his intestines out. Then, he would cut off his head. Yes, this trivial creature will pay.

"End this?" Kyo spoke again. "Very well then I shall end it with my sword." He need not use his special attack to finish him off. He can finish him off in just one blow. He dare not waste his time on it. The irritating feeling told him to immediately attend to the woman standing behind him traumatized.

With light speed, not wind, Demon Eyes Kyo thrusted his sword into the man's left chest. Kyo turned the sword and pulled it out. Blood rained like a fountain. The rurouni, half dead, fell to the ground and remained motionless forever. Kyo watched the ill-fated man as he spent his last moments. Kyo murmured something about the prize an insect would get if they mess around with Kyo. Kyo turned his back around and walked towards the woman.

"Woman," Kyo asked as he tried to hide his worry for the woman. "Make sure this never happens to you again." Yuya, still wide-eyed, could not say a word. She stared at the lifeless body a few meters away from her. She escaped her death also by a few meters. If it were not for Kyo, she would have not only been assaulted but also killed. She owed her life to Kyo again. She depended on Kyo. She needed Kyo. And furthermore, she wanted Kyo to know that.

Kyo watched the woman stare into nothing. He decided to pick her up. ""Do you have any idea how much trouble you caused?" He grunted. His one arm supported her back and the other carried her two legs. She was surprisingly heavy considering her small size. Kyo did not mind that. He knew it was he chance to do what he planned to do; to show her that he was indeed a husband good enough for her.

The red-eyed samurai carried her to a lake not far. With the unexplainable feeling still taking over him, he tended the woman's wound. Yuya, though surprise, did not comment on Kyo's kind actions. She still traumatized by the earlier incident. She looked at the wide lake and watched the stars appear from the orange sky. The moon smoothly appeared from behind the vast sky. Night already fell.

Demon Eyes Kyo and Yuya Shiina sat there, not saying a word to each other. Kyo looked at her. There was something her eyes; a look that Kyo had never seen there before, not once. As if instinct, his lips moved towards hers. And as if also by instinct, the woman responded to the kiss. He bent his face towards hers. She closed her eyes and the lids fluttered with a tremulous movement at the touch of his light kiss.

Kyo pulled away. "To kiss well, one must kiss solely." Yuya blushed hiding her liking for the kiss. Kyo continued his lecture. "No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Remember that, woman."

Yuya blinked in confusion. She was about to thank Kyo until he hushed her with his lips. He again bowed her head and his lips to his. She closed her eyes, surrendering herself to him, body and mind. This kiss was her promise to Kyo. This kiss would tell him that she relied on Kyo. She needed him. And furthermore, she loved him. It was an action where words are superfluous. It was something that needed not any further explanation.

That kiss was just the anatomical juxtaposition of two orbicular muscles in a state of contraction but Yuya could not describe her feeling at the moment. After the earlier incident, it felt that all she ever needed to feel better had been narrowed to one perfect moment of sakura-coloured joy. It was a strange sensation, a clumsy stumbling falling being caught, the broad sunlit world narrowing to the dark focus of his cushiony lips on hers. It scared her to death for she wondered how she would breath. She reminded herself that it was much better not to think things through too much, just to do them. Of course, that was what Kyo said. So, she does. He continued to kiss her. His closeness must have an antihistamine effect, because, though they had been kissing for a long time, she was able to breathe.

It was a simple kiss. The inevitable simple kiss, the real first kiss, it started as a single spark or promise that, even in memory, heats the blood and fires the imagination. Though the married couple had touched their lips infinitely many times, this is sign of the eternal promise between the two. Yuya gave into Kyo. And it was the demon's promise to protect. It was amazing that in one simple kiss a lot could be said.

A kiss is something you cannot give without taking and cannot take without giving. It was something different from all things Kyo had given. It was a kiss, a mere senseless kiss. However, it was kiss he had been waiting all his life. It was the kiss that told him he had everything he needed. It was in front of him. Not only that, it was the shortest distance a person ever came close it him. It was a kiss: the shortest distance between two.

Demon Eyes Kyo has unsheathed his sword more than he could ever count. Every time he does, kills them. He may have conquered with the sword, but he was conquered with her kiss. However much like the sword that sealed the fate of Demon Eyes Kyo opponents, this kiss sealed the fate of the two of them. With a kiss, they set out for unknown world. They set out for a new beginning.

For whose life has not been changed by a kiss?

a/n: That was chapter four! Sorry if it was boring. I wanted to elaborate on some scenes but I made this rated T and I do not want to change the rating. I wanted though but I can't my inner self did not approve. I had a hard time writing this fic and I am not satisfied with the outcome either. I think it lacked the romance I was looking for. Anyway, I only read the fic twice so I am not sure about the spellings, grammar, punctuation and the like. Forgive me. Thanks for also for Byakuya Kuchiki for some of the dialogue. Now for the thank you!

In the previous chapter, it was Yuya, NOT KYO, who said 'I would'. Thank you for telling me that. I believe it was a fault on my part because I was not able to convey to you effectively that part.
I found two other mistakes. Thank you for pointing it out.
Thank you for not finding my fic OOC! That touched my heart!
Yes! I have updated!!! Thank you for the reviews!!!

P.S. I was thinking about adding an epilogue. Hehehe. PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO REVIEW!!! PLEASE TELL ME! THE NEXT FAN FICTION I WILL WRITE WILL BE BETTER!!! Thanks!!!