R.S.: Hey everybody. Just catchin up from things since I left for Penn's. I had so much fun up there, but now I gotta adjust back to my life here… I don't wanna do it! T-T.
Oh well. Here's the third chapter! Things get more intense.
Started on: Sunday, April 23, 2006
Finished on: May 3, 2006
I do what I want, when I want and how I want it. Any questions?
-Rampaging Sorrow
Who'll raise you to heaven and drop you to hell
By: Rampaging Sorrow
Chapter Three: I don't want to tell you, because I know how you'll react
"I'm not going! Are you out of your mind, Tytto!"
"Kaoru, Michael was dragged home by his father and his brother. Your father has your bedroom door handles switched so you can't get out unless he unlocks it. You've been on punishment for the past four days. Before we go back to school, you need to live a little."
"Yeah, but still… He's really pissed at me and there's nobody to really talk to with Aoshi going off to college again and the others ignoring me because of my attitude towards daddy."
"My god, Kaoru. Stop ranting and fix your clothes so we can get the fuck out of here! I haven't been hanging in this window for nothing, ya know. Michael is in the car and I had to sneak him out of his house too."
"… How'd you know where he lives?"
"Just get dressed!"
"SSSSSSH!"
Kaoru glared at her cousin from her window, navy blue eyes narrowed in annoyance that he would make noise like that and try to get her in trouble. They were all currently sneaking out to do some business and dance at a club that was in Michael's town. It wasn't the best thing to do, but Kaoru was tired of sitting at home without her sidekick and her regular phone.
As she put her shirt over her head, Tytto whistled at her chest and she kicked her shirt up at his face with a growl. She pulled it down and then she tied the straps around her neck before she sat down on the bed and tied her black shoe-laces, raven-black locks falling over her shoulder.
"Hurry up, Kaoru! We're supposed to be there on-time!"
"Shut the fuck up before you get me caught!"
Kaoru glared at him as he smirked and then she put pillows under her sheets so that they would think she's sleeping. She then looked around before she said 'aha!' and she pulled out a tape recorder. She pressed play and Tytto started to laugh in his hands.
"You recorded yourself sleeping? You're really smart, huh?"
"Of course. I love breaking out."
Kaoru went to the window as Tytto vanished from site and then she sighed before she climbed out and shut her window. Tytto whispered to her "fall and we'll catch you!" before she looked down. Instantly, she shook her head with fear.
It took another three minutes to convince the bad-ass to let go and fall. Kaoru sighed and as Tytto whined for her to come on, she said that she was going to do it. Michael and Tytto both grabbed the thick blanket and they held it out for her.
"Wait! We gotta move it so you'll be directly in the middle!" Michael knew it wasn't a good idea, but he couldn't convince his cousin otherwise. He was too persuasive for Michael's mind to handle.
"One!... Two!... Three! Jump girl!"
Kaoru let go and she bit her lip to force her scream back as she fell from high up. They shifted a little bit and then they heard her give a small scream before she hit the blanket and bounced a little in it. They looked at her face, eyes screwed shut and her body curled up. Once she opened her eyes curiously, she gave a smile and said something that made them laugh at her stupidity.
"I knew I wasn't going to hurt myself. I was just testing to see if you would calm me down."
Soothing, heart-warming, relaxing…
That's all that Kaoru and her male cousins felt as they danced around and waited for their business partners to arrive. Everytime they would talk and make deals, they were constantly fighting the deals because they thought that they were kids with no sense. Tonight, they were going to show that they were the real deal and if they had problems then the dealing was off.
Tytto gave a smile as Kaoru had her eyes shut with a soft smile since the drink and the music flowed through her and let her dance the way that the song asked to. People stood around her swaying to the beat and watching her do what they couldn't. Nobody knew that she made the dance, so they were mostly in awe that she had it perfect.
"You're the best at dancing to this song, huh!" Michael asked with a grin. Kaoru nodded with a smile as she put her hand against his and the two walked around each other and looked directly in each other's eyes.
"It is my song, so why not bring out the romance and dance to it! Some songs are meant to be danced to, no!" Passion blasted through the sound-system and let the English speakers hear a foreign language and a new beat they could dance to.
Kaoru smiled as she let go of his hand and she danced around his body before he spun her to him and dipped her backwards. She arched her back towards him and he pulled her up before he spoke.
"You're right on that one! Some songs are indeed meant for dancing and romance! Like us!"
Kaoru pulled Tytto into it as he knew the whole routine by heart and she then laughed as they danced in a circle, their movement flawless and genuine in the crowd's eyes.
"Exactly like us! Like the three of us! We're bound together by the love that we have formed through our year of selling and making money our way! Our tears, our pain, our fights; it's all been with us and we've stuck through it together!"
"Together! The Three Kamiya Musketeers!" they laughed amongst each other as they all separated and began to dance solo for the crowd to see more tricks to the new song that was playing. Tytto stopped once he saw three men dressed differently and he pointed to them before Kaoru pulled her hair behind her ears and tapped Michael to stop.
"They're here… you guys ready?" the two boys nodded before they put their hands in the middle of them and said 'Sell.' With a sigh, they headed for the VIP section and got their thoughts together on how to seal this the correct way.
"I just hope that this works." Michael nodded to Kaoru before they headed up the stairs and through the door.
"Hey there. You guys working for him?"
"Yeah. Let's just get this over with so I can go home." Kaoru said coldly.
"Ooo. I like feisty women." Kaoru glared hard at the man before she sat down in between the two and let them move closer to let her feel comfortable.
"Alrighty then. Let's get this deal done with. I don't wanna be here."
"Okay then. How many bags, Kaoru?"
"Kaoru… Kaoru… Kaoru how many fingers?"
"… Four."
"But I'm only holding up one! What happened to you last night?"
"Last night? …where am I?"
Dizzy light blue eyes blinked until they could focus straight and see the one finger that was being held up. She touched that finger slowly before she pulled back with a hiss. As she examined her finger, she saw that it was bandaged and had red slipping through the white cloth.
"Kaoru, try to relax and tell me what happened."
Her head moved up quickly and she let out a sigh of relief as she saw Misao sitting on the bed and looking at her with a concerned gaze, her hair swept up into a sloppy bun as she crossed her legs and watched Kaoru run her fingers through her hair and pull it back from her eyes.
"Where am I Misao?"
"You're at my house. I found you lying in my backyard when I was coming home from a rock concert with Aoshi. Your cousin Michael and his friend are on their way since they have your phone. You were really hurt. What happened?"
Kaoru shook her head. As Misao as going to tell her not to lie, she let out a sharp cry and gripped her head in pain. Misao moved back some as Kaoru pulled up her knees to her chest and dropped her head down. Misao went to her door as she heard footsteps and she then shut the door.
"Misao, who's that screaming?"
"It's nobody, old man. I just have the television on." Misao waited until she knew he was back down the stairs before she turned around to see Kaoru on her knees and bending forward into the blanket.
"It hurts… it hurts! Make it stop, Misao!"
"What is hurting you, Kaoru! You have to tell me!"
"Misao, open the door. We're here." Misao went to the door and she opened it to see Michael and Tytto standing there with a bag. A sigh escaped her lips before they quickly rushed over to Kaoru as she beat the bed with her fist and let out a choked sob.
"What's wrong with Kaoru?" Misao asked softly and they told her to wait for a moment before Tytto pulled Kaoru in between his legs and put her hands down from her head. Kaoru let out another cry as she shook violently and she buried her face into his neck.
"Calm down, Kaoru. Calm down."
Michael pulled out a bottle of water and he grabbed a few pills before he put them in her mouth and gave her the water. He rubbed her throat as he said, 'sssh' and it went down smoothly as Kaoru whimpered and Tytto rubbed her stomach. Misao just stood and watched the two boys take care of her.
"You okay, Kaoru?" Kaoru didn't answer and they knew that she was still a bit shaken up as she lay against the bed and she let the medicine kick in and calm her down.
The two rubbed her back in different areas until she was dulled out into a sleep. Misao let them into the kitchen after turning on her bedroom fan and she began to make them something to eat as they thanked her for taking her in and not telling anything.
"What's wrong with her?" Misao asked again and she put their sandwiches down before she grabbed her own and sat across of the two hungry teens.
They bit into their sandwiches and made noises of approval as they nodded to her. She thanked them before they swallowed and they looked at her.
"If we tell you something about Kaoru… do you promise not to tell anybody? Not even her family?"
"Of course I'd promise that. Kaoru's my best friend and I love her to death. I want to know what's going on with her so if this happens again, I can help."
The two Kamiyas looked at each other with nervous glances before they mentally prayed that Kaoru wouldn't kill them for telling about what's happening to her. Once they got that out of the way, they made her swear on her life and sign a napkin not to tell. Misao was getting irritated and they saw it as she tapped the table impatiently.
"Tell me dammit!" they smirked at her in the same way and if Misao was stupid, she would have sworn they were twins.
"Okay. While we were in Italy… we weren't just going to school and getting the education over there. We did things on the side. Crazy things. Things that are not really accepted in the Kamiya way of life."
"What did you guys do?" Tytto drank down his water and it washed down all the food before he gave the sexiest smile he could and he brought her hand into his, his fingers moving until their hands were together tightly.
"Well while we were in Italy, Kaoru wasn't exactly being committed."
"What do you mean by that?" Tytto's smile never faded as Michael began to chuckle.
"After four months passed, Kaoru found a boyfriend… a black boyfriend, to be specific. And his name was Allusius…"
Kaoru gasped as Misao jumped on her and hugged her with a squeal. She then glared at the two boys that slipped her secret out and pushed Misao off gently. Misao giggled and she then let out another squeal before she held up the picture that Michael had handed to her when they were in the kitchen.
"Kaoru, why didn't you tell me when you were over there? He is so hot! Damn you got good taste, sis!"
"Misao, ssssh! Your grandfather likes to repeat everything he hears so keep it down while I tell you what happened, okay?"
Misao nodded and right before she was about to speak, Kaoru's phone went off. She answered it absent minded and then she froze once she heard Kenshin's voice screaming on the other end for her to get home as fast as she could. She hung up and then she got up and she put on her shoes that the boys had brought her.
"What's going on?"
"My father… he's out searching for me and he's with police."
"What the fuck is he with polizia for!" Kaoru gave a worried look to Tytto before she let out a sigh and pulled on her jacket.
"He's going to arrest me."
"Hands above your head and keep your mouth shut."
"Who the hell are you to tell me what to do? It's a free country, buddy. Get off my back."
"Hands above your head and keep your mouth shut!"
"I don't have to do anything you tell me to do."
Kaoru glared at the police officers that currently stood in her house with cuffs waiting for her to return. Once her father saw that she had was gone and she took the car under his name, he went ballistic and he decided that if he was going to tame her, then he'd better do it at the earliest point of her actions.
"Kaoru, just do what he says. You'll be in better shape if you just agree."
"Excuse me? You really expect me to be cuffed just like that?... I'm shocked, Kenshin."
Kaoru gave Kenshin a glare and she said 'no' before she sat down on the floor and she folded her legs. The small six-man squad glared at her before one went for her. She smirked as he came closer and then Shinji backed up once Tytto told him to move out of the way.
"Get off of me." She barked as he held her arms behind her back and once he was leading her towards the other officers, she got angrier than she was in the beginning. She dropped low and she kicked her leg out as her hands touched the floor and gave her balance to spin her whole body as she tripped the man and rose to her feet.
"You little-" Kaoru dodged the other officer's arms and she grabbed one before she twisted it behind his back and she gave a lop-sided grin.
The man let out a grunt of pain before Kaoru kicked him forward and turned so that her other leg was up as she kicked him again into the ground. He slid across the floor in pain at the other's feet and then Kaoru pulled her hair behind her ears as she whistled.
"Who's next?" she asked innocently and she put her hand on her hip as she held her other in a fist that was ready to strike. Tytto laughed softly with Michael, but a glare from Kenshin and Shinji made them both shut up.
"Stop this." Kenshin said and he got up before walking over to her. Kaoru's body relaxed as he gave her a smile, but then she gasped as he pulled her into a hug and cuffed her hands. She was shocked that he would cuff her and as Tytto got up angrily, Kenshin glared at him.
"The police won't be taking her. I'll take her around myself. Come, Kaoru." He turned around before he started to walk towards the door. Kaoru smirked to herself before she went and followed him, the cuffs holding her arms behind her back as she almost lost her balance.
"Hop in." Kenshin said coldly and Kaoru pouted before she sat in the car and she heard the door shut hard. Kenshin walked over to the other side and he got in the car as well before pulling on his seatbelt and starting the engine.
"Don't say anything at all." He looked over to her mouth shutting and he just glared at the road as he went off driving. Kaoru let out a sigh and said 'finally' before she held the cuffs up. Kenshin looked over at her as he slowed the car down.
"How'd you do that?" Kaoru only gave a smile as she buckled up and watched the streets change.
'You've learned some criminal tricks, Kaoru… bad criminal tricks.'
"So you're saying all you did was party, make friends, and go to school? Besides the music, you did nothing bad at all."
"I would say nothing, but that's basically it. I promised myself to be good."
Kenshin frowned at Kaoru's lying as she gave him a sweet smile and put her hands together. They'd been driving around for a good half an hour and Kenshin was currently getting gas since he was already low.
"Kaoru." He said and he let out a sigh as he shut his eyes and started his car up.
"Yes?" she answered and her light blue eyes showed false happiness as he drove out of the gas station.
"Don't lie to me."
Kaoru's eyes hardened at the stern voice and she leaned back into her seat before she looked out the window in silence. Kenshin was annoyed that she was hiding from him and he wanted her to open up because he wanted to be there for her when something bad was happening. He could tell by the distant gaze that her mind wasn't right.
"Kaoru, will you sit and talk to me? At the house I need to know what's been going on. You're really worrying me."
"There's nothing to talk about, Kenshin. There are just some things I can't tell you right now."
He was shocked at her response and as he looked over at her, he turned his car off and watched her get out of the car. He got out himself and as she gave him a smile and waved, he could only frown. Kaoru stopped walking as she felt it and she turned around to face him with an angry look. Kenshin was taken aback by the sudden anger.
"Naze watashi o shinrai shi nai ka? Watashi ga itte iru tango o shinji nai."
Kenshin glared at her and he couldn't help but bark at her. She wasn't expecting him to be so angry, but it made her even angrier that he was starting to yell.
"How can I trust your words when you go missing for three days? How can I trust you when you're using Yahiko for some stupid purposes! Tell me!
"How can I trust you, Kaoru, when you break out of your house and you come back with bandages on your fingers and arms! You need to start telling the truth and stop lying to yourself and others!"
"I'm not lying to myself! I know what the truth is, so don't tell me that I'm lying!"
"You haven't spoken to me truthfully ever since you've gotten home!"
Kaoru froze as the realization hit her that he was right. His fists were balled up now and as he panted from screaming and he looked at her, she realized another thing. Kenshin wasn't just angry because she was sneaking out and doing things that weren't right.
Kenshin… was simply hurt that she didn't acknowledge him.
"For the past week, you haven't sat down and talked to me. You haven't hugged me, we haven't gone anywhere, and you haven't even stopped to press a kiss to my lips.
"We haven't gone anywhere, we haven't showed any affection, and we haven't even spent time with one another! You've been ignoring me to hell and you've been brushing past me as if I were some piece of trash on the street."
"That's not true… I've just been working-"
"Nani ni torikumu koto ka! Itte iru doko de watashi ni iu koto ga deki nai! Watashi ga anata ha mou hoshii to omowa nai omocha de aru you ni choudo zutto watashi o enji te iru! Watashi ha anata ni omocha ka aru! (Working on what! You can't even tell me where you're going! You've just been playing me off like i'm some toy that you don't want anymore! Am I some toy to you!)"
"No you're not some toy to me! Just because I've been going away and doing things doesn't mean that our relationship has changed!"
"It has changed, Kaoru! Don't you see it with your own eyes! You don't show any affection!"
"I am tired of showing my feelings to people when they just end up screwing me over in the end!"
Kenshin opened his eyes wide as he heard the comment and Kaoru put her hand over her mouth. Once the shock passed him, he pulled out his keys and went back to his car.
"Where are you going? Why don't you just stay and talk to me! Isn't that what you wanted!"
"Shut up, Kaoru. You think I'd screw you over?... You must think I'm Enishi or something."
Kenshin got into his car and he started it up before he reversed out and drove off down the street. He knew that his name was a soft point in her heart, but at the moment he didn't care. He was upset that Kaoru would think such a thing about him and he was even angrier that she was lying.
"I need to go to sleep. Maybe that will help me relax my thoughts and talk to her."
"I don't want to stay here! I really want to just go back to Italy! I can't deal with this change! It was better when I was over there doing what I could do without problems!
"They keep asking me questions, they're getting mad at me when I don't answer them, and they think I'm just going to tell them everything like it's no big deal! How can I tell my father that i'm doing jobs that aren't allowed in the family!"
"Stop crying, Kaoru. It's going to be alright, okay? Once you're done with everything, you'll be okay. I'm almost done finishing you up over here. I promise that I won't involve you in anything else, baby-girl."
"But still… it hurts when he looks at me like that. He's disappointed and I don't want him to feel that way about me. I really want to tell him… but how can I just say it?"
"I understand you, Kaoru. I really do. Just… just try and calm your nerves and finish up everything, okay? I hate to hear you crying. It makes me want to cry too and you know that."
"I know, Allusius. I'm sorry if you're getting emotional with me."
"I love getting emotional with you. I love everything about you, Kaoru. I just wish that we were still together as lovers. Sigh Even though we're separated, you're still my best friend and my little girlfriend."
"Heh."
"Don't laugh like I'm lying. I'm telling the honest truth… do you feel the same for me?"
"Of course, Allusius.."
"…I gotta go, babe. I'm on the job and I was just taking a break. I'll call back later on tonight, okay? I'll always love you, my little asian-italian-spanish-white girl."
"I'll always love you too, my austrailian-italian-black boy."
"You'd better. Bye."
"Bye."
Kaoru hung up the phone and she wiped her eyes as she put her sidekick on the charger and she spun a ring on her pinky. It was gift given to her by Allusius and she loved it dearly as he had it custom made before she left. She slipped it back on her middle finger and she got up before walking over to her desk.
"Where's his CD? I love to hear his music."
Kaoru searched around before she found it and she pulled the case out. She went to her boom box and she placed the CD inside before pressing play. It loaded quietly and with another second passing, the rock music that her past lover made in Italy began to play a song called 'Worthless'
She went into a small book bag before she pulled out an album for photos and she sat on her bed and opened it. A soft smile came over her face as she began to look at the picture of her and her friends.
"Sarilia is so crazy…" she said with a laugh before she turned the page and she stopped to brush her fingers over a picture. Her light blue eyes were light with happiness as she did it and then she pulled it up to look closer.
"Gasp! Allusius is such a liar! His eye does have that gold line in the middle! Lying fucker."
Allusius, Kaoru's old boyfriend, was a sight to be seen. Sexy, stunning, spectacular; he could have many names given to him and it still wouldn't be enough to her about him. To Kaoru, even if you used words to talk about him, it wouldn't matter because he was indescribable.
Allusius had nice brown skin and his body had a sexy shape. You could tell he was athletic by the way his muscles were and in the picture his shirt was off so you saw each line under the tight under armor. His hair was black and he had a haircut with waves spinning all around his head.
His eyes were… well freaky looking. But in the most amazing way if you got up close. Kaoru had been drawn to him by those eyes and she still was attracted by it as she looked down at them and let out a happy sigh. The color was blue and gray… but it was blue in one eye and gray in the other.
The reason for this was his mother was a white and black Italian while his father was a white and black austrailian. His family was filled with different races and his grandfather's had the eyes. His mother's father had blue eyes since he was white and his father's father had gray eyes because he was mixed with black. It was confusing, but Allusius and Kaoru understood it and let it be.
Besides. What girl doesn't want a sexy man with mixed eyes and is the only one in his whole family who has it?
"I love his eyes… Oh my god I can't wait until he comes to visit me… we're going to have so much fun!"
"Kaoru! Kaoru its Misao! You and I are going to party with your cousins and a few of their friends and mine! You in or out!"
Kaoru thought about it and then a big smile came over her lips as she thought about what she was going to do. As she went to the door, she knocked on it a few times and Misao unlocked it from the outside and opened the door. She put her hands on her hip impatiently and as Kaoru nodded, she smiled and squealed happily.
"I was hoping you would go! I didn't want to be the only girl from here and-"
Misao's sentence was cut off as she heard things breaking and yelling.
"Look here, punk. I don't give a fuck who you are and where you're from. Fuck with me again, and I swear that you're going to end up with some stitches."
Kaoru's face paled as she heard two male voices. Misao frowned and then took her hand before the two rushed down the hall to the stairs, Kaoru hoping she could see what was going to happen.
"You act as if you know me! Don't sit here and talk like you know my lifestyle, dammit!"
Tytto raged and his teeth were grit as he balled his fists tight and kept himself from just swinging and starting a fight that he didn't want to start. He and Kenshin were just going at each other with words and once Kenshin had touched something inside of him, the two went from just talking and arguing to screaming and cursing each other out.
"I don't give a fuck what you think of me! I'm not here for you! I'm here for Kaoru because nobody knows what to help her with but me!"
"Why don't you just stop thinking that you're some savior! You're just some punk who was sent here to baby sit just like his mommy ordered. The year's over, and your babysitting is done. Get out of here and go back to where you came from!"
"I don't have to do shit!" Tytto barked and Kenshin glared harder as he knew that this wasn't just some argument with a friend. This was just an argument out of hatred for another person.
"I can't stand people like you. Thinking that you know everything about a situation. Trying to force people to follow your ways." Kenshin growled.
"And what the fuck are you! The savior! You think that just because Kaoru's been gone for a year and what you thought you know about her is now wrong that you can just hate me because I know it and you don't?"
"This has nothing to do with Kaoru, so don't you dare try to put her in this!"
"Oh, but I think it does." Tytto began to walk around him and as Kenshin just stood and watched him, he got angier and angier by the second; gold eyes flaring in heat of battle. An evil smirk covered Tytto's face and he soon got under Kenshin's skin as Kaoru and Misao sat on the stairs and watched in silence.
"Let them fight this out, Misao. This needs to be handled with now. I won't have them kill each other later." Misao nodded as Tytto laughed softly and began to speak.
"This is about her… and your jealousy. Why did I not think about this earlier? My, my, my, I really passed this over when I thought about why we hated each other."
"Go to hell." Kenshin barked, but Tytto just let out a sigh and kept walking around him.
"You're jealous of me because of Kaoru and how much she's changed that you don't know about. You don't know what her favorite food is anymore, what her favorite music is, what her favorite style is. Hell, you probably know her favorite color… but then again, it changed. Tell me, what is her favorite color?"
"This is the first thing she told me. It's blue." Tytto made a buzzer sound and Kenshin opened his eyes as he was looking down with them closed to calm his nerves.
"Sorry, dear Kenshin, but it's black. See what I mean? You didn't even get that right. Kaoru's changed so drastically that it scares you that you can't do anything about it. I know about her changes, and it angers you. It honestly does."
"I know how she feels, what shade her eyes turn with that feeling… how she dresses… her favorite music… what type of touch she likes… how she dances-"
"Shut the fuck up!" Tytto dodged a hit and the two began to square off and circle each other as Tytto gave a soft laugh.
"Ah! I finally got something out of you! It's burning that you don't know, huh? Look at you, Ken-shin. You can't even control your emotions. Kaoru's told me so much about how you're calm and it takes so much to set you off. Yet here, from what I see I can get underneath your skin quickly. Where's your control, reddy-boy? Left it at home?"
"Oh I have control… just not with you." Tytto dodged another hit, but wasn't expecting Kenshin's leg to clip him and sent him onto his back.
"Like I said before, I'm not one to be fucked around with and you're lucky you're her family. Otherwise, I would fuck you up."
"Treat me like I'm not her family then. I just wanna tear you to fucking shreds. You good for nothing states boy. Allusius is better for her than you'll ever be."
"Who?" Kenshin lost his track of thought and as Tytto connected with his stomach, he got up and Kenshin went and just missed the top of his head by a few centimeters. Tytto swung at him and the two just began to throw punches and hits. Kenshin then backed up and smirked as he cracked his fingers.
"Look at you. You can tell just by the way you carry yourself that you're a spoiled brat. Daddy left you lots of money, so you say. You've always had your way, huh?"
"I've never gotten what I wanted. I have to fight for what I believe is needed."
"So you're fighting because you believe that I need to obey you. That's basically how this looks. People like you make me sick. Hiding behind daddy's rule. He must've been big in Japan, huh? Too bad it's a small place."
"Shut up… you don't know anything…" Kenshin could tell that it was a soft spot and he continued from there. Kaoru saw Tytto's shell slowly crack. It was… scary to see him breaking with the words Kenshin was saying. He never broke under pressure and here he was starting to shake with anger at Kenshin's teasing and rude comments.
"You know how they say like father like son? It makes me think and see that if you're a rude, ignorant fucker than maybe he is too. That hurts huh? To know that you're just like your father. What's wrong, Tytto? You a daddy's boy? You love your father too much to hear me degrade him? Nobody's ever put you in your place, huh? Must be hard to know that."
"I won't stand this anymore!" Tytto punched him in the arm and the two began to just connect with hits until Tytto pushed Kenshin back and the two caught some air. Aoshi and the others entered the house to see them just demolishing each other and as they split them apart, Tytto barked at him.
"How dare you talk about him like that! You have the nerve to speak of my father like he's some loser who hangs around these parts!"
"What's wrong, Tytto! Daddy taught you to fight on impulse! He taught you to be a bitch when others speak badly of him! Man up, faggot, this is the real world! You think I'm the only one who will tell you that your father's some bitch!"
"My father is dead, so get the fuck out of my face talking as if you know about him!"
Kenshin, even though he was angry, instantly felt bad about taunting him and making him come out of his shell into an angry person. Aoshi, Michael and Shuichi were holding him back and having some trouble as Kenshin was pulled back by Josue and Tommy, Genia in front of him holding his arms at his sides.
"That's right, Kenshin! A dead person! You don't know shit about my father, so don't ever talk about him as if you were on name-to-name basis! I will tolerate everything else, but leave him out of your mouth. You can talk about me, my life, and you can talk about my other family. But you don't ever ever talk about him like that!
"Stop it, Tytto. Stop it!"
"No! You stay out of this!" Kaoru came up and as she made them let their hands go, Josue smirked and Tommy gave an evil grin as he let Kenshin go. Immediately the two came upon each other with a roar and they began to fight each other hard.
"Stop this!"
"Leave em' fight it out!" Kaoru told them and she made them back up with Michael's help as they fought it out on the floor. Both were equal in anger, equal in strength, equal in hatred. Nobody would ever be able to tell who could win.
"We're hom-what the fuck! What's going on!"
"Let them fight it out, daddy! This is the best way!" Kaoru pushed her father back and he just stood up straight as Yahiko was cheering for Tytto and Kenshin to do their best. He didn't realize that they were really fighting.
"Get em, Uncle Tytto! Get em!"
Tytto pinned Kenshin down and Kenshin rolled them over before Kaoru saw that it was getting nowhere. The two punched each other in the face before scrambling to their feet and going at each other even worse.
"Stop it." Kaoru said and once they didn't, she got louder.
"Stop it." They still refused.
"STOP IT." She barked, but as Kenshin punched him in his face and Tytto head butted him, she got mad.
"STOP IT!" the two boys froze and as Michael pulled Tytto and Tommy got Josue, Kaoru began to bark and scream at them both angrily.
"You two are such idiots! Fighting for no reason at all! It's pointless to keep beating each other to death, so just stop it! I shouldn't even put my foot in to stop it because I don't care if you two kill each other! You're both so hot-headed and quick to act! You're a couple of Mercutio's!
"Tytto, leave Kenshin's mind alone and let him be the way he is. Don't have him worry that he's losing me because he won't lose me. And I know that you don't accept him, but he's my life. You have to learn that and if you don't, then just don't talk to him.
"And Kenshin, I can't believe that you sunk to his teasing. I thought you had more control than that. You know damn well he's doing this to test you and you know damn well that this doesn't mean a thing to you. You just wanted to vent your angers out with him and that's wrong. Even if he started it, it's wrong.
"Would your father be pleased, Tytto? Would he? I think not and I know Uncle Ayako very very well."
"But Kao-"
"But Kao nothing. The two of you are pitiful right now. Come, Tytto. You're leaving with me."
Kenshin wiped the blood from his mouth as they pressed ice to him and Tytto got up as Misao gave him some ice. Kenshin could only glare as Kaoru gave him a jacket and she got her keys. He felt betrayed for some reason and Kaoru could tell by the look she gave him. As she sent Tytto out the house with Michael, she went to him and she sat down on the floor.
"Don't touch me." He said and he flinched away from her touch before she slapped him upside his head. He wanted to hit her so badly, but his morals tamed him instantly as she looked at him with some anger.
"Watashi ha choudo watashi no moraru ni tsuduki, jibun jishin no tame ni migi de aru mono o suru beki de aru koto watashi ga itaria ni itsui ta ka watashi ni itta. Watashi ga sore o suru node, hoshii nani ga aisuru tame ni... kibun o gaisuru ka. nani ka. Junsui ga aru watashi no tame ka. sono baai, sorekara mata mou ichi nin no koibito o mitsukeru kamo shire nai.( You told me when I was in Italy that I should just follow my morals and do what's right for myself. Now that I do it, you're upset... what do you want, love? What? For me to be pure? If so, then you might as well find another lover.)"
"Maybe I wouldn't act so upset if I knew what the fuck you were doing! You haven't told me a fucking thing and as I pull my hair out and fight over you, you tell me to find another lover since you're not pure! Nobody's pure, you stupid girl! Everybody sins in one way or another so don't you dare tell me that I want you to be pure"
"I'm tired of your yelling!"
"Oh, you think I'm not! And who the fuck is Allusius! What the fuck was he talking about!" Kaoru had frozen up, but she caught herself quickly and answered.
"He was my best friend and Tytto thought that I should go with him. He didn't like the fact that you didn't come to visit me when Allusius drove two hours everyday to just spend ten minutes. He was my brother over there besides the boys. My black brother."
"… My head is throbbing." Kenshin leaned back before Kaoru gave a sigh.
"I'm taking Tytto out of the house because I don't want you two together. Unless you just want me to keep him in my room." She pointed the last sentence to her father and he nodded to that before Michael went for him. Kenshin just shut his eyes and Kaoru frowned as Tytto walked slowly and spoke to Michael in Italian as he was sad.
"È il mio padre, ya know? Non reagirei quel Male se fosse vivo. Ma è stato guasto per tanti anni ora. Poiché ero tredici. Non sa, Michael. Che cosa deve come avere un assassino di Yakuza per un padre. Non capisce che lo ho visto passare attraverso il portello e dirmi che non stesse ritornando. Non vede che mi sono sentito che le sue ultime parole... non conosce appena.(It's my father, ya know? I wouldn't react that bad if he was alive. But he's been dead for so many years now. Since I was thirteen. He doesn't know, Michael. What it's like to have a Yakuza murderer for a father. He doesn't understand that I saw him go through the door and tell me that he wasn't coming back. He doesn't see that I heard his last words... he just doesn't know.)"
Kaoru turned back to them and before Kenshin could speak and apologize for going too far, Kaoru used her voice and she spoke so that only they could hear her.
"Tytto's life has never been straight. He's a bipolar and the real reason he came to Italy was to be with family that could make him happy. Protecting me was only half of it. He thinks that it's why, but that's the other half. Tytto doesn't really mean harm, he's just looking out for something that he doesn't want to loose.
"Uncle Ayako was under a Yakuza lord. The one he was in was one of the worst at the time. They were some pure murderers in that. And Tytto's father was one. Tytto had to come home to see his father's hand covered in blood all the time when his mother was gone and he had to help his father and learn the bad ways.
"Tytto's an adult outside, but he's a child on the inside. Uncle Ayako told him before the day he died that he might not come home. Tytto didn't understand and he was scared. He looked through the window every ten minutes to see if he was coming home. And he did come home that night to Tytto."
"What else happened?" Aoshi asked since she had paused in sad thought. Kaoru was looking down, but as she had looked up, they saw her light blue eyes filled with sad tears.
"When Uncle Ayako got through the door, he knelt down to hug Tytto. Once he did… he was shot in the back and it went through Tytto's leg. It caught him in the heart and Uncle Ayako couldn't even fight to stay alive. He died after telling Tytto that he loved him and his mother."
"Tytto's never been the same after that. His left leg is strong, but he has a part inside just to help him out. His heart is bad now from that incident as well and that's why he reacted the way he did. Because of his disorder and because he was protecting you from hurting his heart."
Kaoru turned around and with a sigh she exited the room. Kenshin watched her retreating form sadly as she wiped her eyes and went up the steps leaving the others in silence. Shinji let out a soft sigh and as Yahiko jumped down from his lap and to Kenshin, the red-head gave a soft smile as Yahiko hugged him around his neck.
"Its okay, Uncle Kenny. Our mommy's gone too, so now we all lost somebody special, right? Tytto's not different anymore?"
"… Right, Yahiko. We've all lost somebody special and Tytto's just like us."
R.S.: Finally this chapter is done! Took me a while 'cause I had to keep stopping, but I'm finally finished! The two fought and Kaoru puts out his past. Also, we learn a little secret about Kaoru!
What's next to come? The last part of Kaoru's settling in is here and after that it really gets started. Are we ready! Woohoo!
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Chapter Four: I'll never tell my secret; you'll kill me if I do
"You can't kill what you can't see
I'm your conscious baby, listen to me."
"That song is killer. Allusius knew what he was doing when he sent this, Kaoru. He wanted to make you know something."
"What the fuck are you doing, Kaoru! If you jump out that window, I swear I'll tell on you!"
"I just wanted… I just wanted to go out."
"So you leave at three in the morning! The only thing at that time is drugs! Are you taking drugs! Answer me Kaoru!"
"STOP TOYING WITH MY HEAD!"