DEEP SEA

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Kaoru turned slightly registering what her 5 senses were picking up.

Wherever she was it didn't have the familiar bittersweet smell she was used to. Instead a constant sickly sweet odor drifted about her.

A thin material clung to her body making her feel sticky and hot, so unlike her home in the sea where she could feel the cool water embrace herself.

She strained her ears for the sound of waves lapping against one another, but everything was dead quiet.

She opened her eyes slightly and narrowed them against the bright morning light. She cursed at this land and at the man he had forced her to emerge from her safe haven of water.

She threw off the thin silky sheets and sat up. Fury rose as she glared around her defiantly, she hurled a soft pillow across the room at a bright pink vase. She smiled as she heard a satisfying crash.

She stood up and walked past the shattered pieces smoothly. A soft knock touched the door before a small head popped in.

"Kaoru? You okay?" Misao asked uneasily eyeing the shattered vase.

Kaoru smiled as she addressed the young maid. "Of course. That thing was bothering me that's all."

Misao started picking up the pieces. "Of course it was. Wasn't too fond of it myself either." She hummed briskly.

"How long have you worked here?" Kaoru asked suddenly.

Misao paused and glanced up at her. "Why...since I was 12 perhaps." She answered evenly.

She dumped the remains of the vase into a wastebasket then walked over to Kaoru.

"What makes you ask such a question?"

"Just wondering I guess." Kaoru returned.

"I see." Misao murmured picking up a silver brush to straighten Kaoru's messy hair.

"Leave it be." Kaoru ordered with a small smile twisting upon her red lips.

"But it's not fit to walk around with such messy hair." Misao stated raising her eyebrows.

"Cut the formal talk Misao it's bugging me."

Misao blinked then started laughing. "Me too! But to me it's second nature, being raised as a servant!" Misao gasped in between laughs.

"I guess it would be." Kaoru mused.

"So you want me to leave your hair messy?"

"Yep!"

"What 'bout clothes?"

"Give me the plainest most casual of all. Something that would be a definite disgrace." Kaoru said looking into the mirror and watching a smirk appear on her features.

Misao raised an eyebrow but walked over to the wardrobe.

"There is nothing plain here." Misao commented running her hands down one of the gowns wistfully. Kaoru didn't miss the look in her eyes.

"Guess I better work on it myself then, huh?"

"I'll be going then." Misao said skipping out of the room.

Kaoru stood up and grabbed two of the dresses and pulled out a small knife. She sat down on the floor and immediately went to work.

Kenshin fiddled with the pear he was holding then looked up as he heard someone enter the room.

Kaoru walked in holding her head high and smirking as the servants stared openly at her in an appalled way. Only Misao was looking at her with awe and amusement.

Her long hair was in knots and fell to her waist messily. Her gown seemed like it had been cut in half and sewn to a clashing dress. Random orange patches spotted the disfigured gown. Not only that, but you could plainly see her bare feet as she had cut her dress a few inches off the ground so that it was no longer fashionable.

She pulled out a chair that had been neatly pushed into the dining table and flung herself down, sitting with her legs open and her shoulders slouched.

She threw a scowl at Kenshin and helped herself to an apple from the fruit bowl.

She opened her mouth wide and bit into it very unlady likely.

"What are 'ya starin' at?" Kaoru asked with her mouth full.

Kenshin's dark eyes looked her up and down slowly.

Kaoru smirked broadly.

"Gross! This apple tastes like crap!" she scoffed loudly and then threw the apple across the hall and watched as it splattered messily against the wall.

Kenshin scowled. "You just made more work for your little friend to do." He raised his hand and beckoned for Misao to come forward.

"Clean this up. I don't want to see even a hint that it had ever been there." He ordered lazily waving his hand toward the sticky mess of an apple.

Misao nodded obediently and scurried of to grab a scrub brush.

Kenshin turned his head slightly to look at Kaoru who was staring at Kenshin in open fury.

"You asshole!" She growled staring daggers at him.

"Someone was going to have to clean it up, and watch your mouth blue-eyes." He waved off.

Her eyes narrowed angrily and she spat out every colorful word she knew directing them all at him creatively.

Kenshin watched her curse with mild amusement until she was out of breath and ideas.

The servants were now smiling slightly and turning giggles into small coughs.

Kaoru sat there growling, waiting for him to react.

He smiled smoothly at her and stood up calmly. "Come." He commanded.

Kaoru sank lower in her chair making a point that she had no intention of obeying him.

"I said to follow me." He said icily.

"Yeah, I heard 'ya the first time." Kaoru retorted looking at him in an unconcerned way.

"When I say something you will listen."

"I did listen dumb ass, I just chose to not obey."

"Do you ever want to see your belt again?" he questioned coldly.

Kaoru's lazy manner shattered instantly. Her eyes bore into his sharply.

"We made a deal." She said in a dangerously soft tone.

"You never shook my hand." He said smiling.

Kaoru stood up suddenly knocking her chair down. "Are you saying there is no deal?" She demanded angrily.

"I had chose to uphold the deal even though it was never official, but if you give me this kind of attitude I could call it off." He said straightening his jacket.

Kaoru's clenched hands shook as she controlled her fury. She strode to him with the darkest look imaginable upon her face. When she reached him she hissed into his ear, "I despise everything about you."

He smirked and wrapped his arm around her.

Kaoru's eyes blazed as he touched her but she did nothing and said no more.

"That's better. Now why don't you go back and change into something else and put some shoes on." Kenshin whispered into her ear.

Kaoru squirmed out of his grasp and headed back to her room. But that wasn't what astonished the watching servants the most; it was the small smile forming on her face and the wicked glint in her eyes.

Kaoru returned to Kenshin wearing yet another hideous dress, but this time she had shoes on, more like boots anyway.

"Didn't I say something different?" Kenshin snapped.

"I changed into something different just like you asked. And you never said what type of shoes." Kaoru replied silkily.

He pressed himself up against her. "Maybe I should help you dress, then you'll know what I mean."

Kaoru pushed him away with a sick look on her face, and turned back to her room.

Kenshin watched her go and smiled to himself. He would get what he wanted, one way or another.

Kaoru Gal: I hope that was long enough for you peeps! Review, review, review!