Battousai: WHERE IS SHE?
Enishi: who Battousai?
Battousai: YOU KNOW WHO I'M TALKING ABOUT
Enishi (smiling innocently): I'm afraid not
Battousai: ANTICA…THAT'S WHO…I'VE BEEN CHASING HER EVER SINCE I READ THE LAST CHAPTER
Enishi: where is she?
Battousai: HOW THE HELL SHOULD I KNOW…..SHE DISAPPEARED A WHILE AGO
(Hiding in a hole in the garden)
Antica: whew I finally lost him….god I got to remember not get Battousai angry…..if he got mad now what will he do to me when I make Enishi more evil….I have to type this chapter fast before he finds me and kills me
(Antica starts typing quickly)
Antica: finished…luckily Battousai haven't found me yet
"THERE YOU ARE"
Antica: oh no…me and my big mouth
Battousai (raises his sword): PREPARE TO DIE
Antica: wait please read this chapter first then decide if you want to kill me
Battousai: NO WAY…..YOU'RE DEAD
Enishi: you never know Battousai…this one may be good
Battousai: alright I'll read it…but if I don't like it…..your head is mine Antica
Chapter 17: Corpse
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Enishi had stopped whipping Kaoru after noticing that she had lost consciousness. Tears were now staining her beautiful face.
"I thought she would hold out more….I guess the whip was too much for her," he thought as he threw the whip back to his men.
"Get out, all of you," he commanded. The men immediately dropped Kaoru on the floor and left Enishi alone with the poor hurt and exhausted young woman.
Enishi kneeled down and firmly grabbed a handful of her hair. She whimpered under the harshness of Enishi's grip.
"What is it about him," he hissed in her ear. "Why do you choose to suffer for him?" He tightened his hold on Kaoru's hair.
Kaoru bite her bottom lip, refusing to give Enishi any response.
"No matter, I will break you eventually…..you will become mine…….Kenshin Himura will become a memory for you," he finished before taking her battered body and tossing her carelessly on the bed before leaving the room.
Enishi was walking towards his own room when he bumped into Kanryu.
"That was a splendid job you did back there."
"Kaoru needs to know that refusing me means suffering….the more she rejects me…the more she will be hurt," said Enishi
"Enishi….there has been something I wanted to ask you."
"What is it?"
"Well……Why don't you just take her to a priest and forcefully marry her," Kanryu asked after inhaling his cigar.
"You idiot…I already asked some priests to marry us even though she is unwilling…they all disagreed to do that…..I threatened to kill them but they still refused to force a woman into marriage…..of course I killed them after that."
Kanryu pushed his round wire glasses upon the bridge of his nose. "So, what are you going to do?"
"Either convince Kaoru to marry me on her own free will or find a priest that will be too scared to lose his life." Enishi walked into his room and sat on the chair facing the window. Kanryu followed him into the room and sat opposite Enishi.
"So are you still going by the principle of not bedding a woman until after you get married?"
"No. After the wedding the situation will be different. Kaoru will be my wife and I will have every right to sleep with her." Enishi smirked as images of Kaoru lying naked in his arms filled his head. "But enough of that…tell me do you have what I told you to bring?"
"Yes I do," came Kanryu's reply. "it was a little……challenging to obtain the last item you wanted but nothing is too difficult for me."
"Good…..bring them to me," Enishi ordered.
Three days later, Kenshin woke up from another weird dream. It seemed that every time he fell asleep, he became haunted by images of beautiful raven-haired woman.
"Who is this woman who haunts my every dreams? She keeps asking me to save her…. But I don't know who she is…..If only I could remember I would save her…. I just don't remember." Kenshin signed sadly as he stood up and got dressed.
As Kenshin walked out of his room and onto the porch he felt a gentle breeze. He cast his eyes into the yard and saw Megumi hanging the laundry and Dr. Genzai playing with his two little brown haired girls.
"Might as well make myself useful…..they did so much for me….I have to do something to repay them back" thought Kenshin as he made his way towards Megumi who was just about to start washing some clothes but moved her gaze towards Kenshin when he stood in front of her.
"How are you feeling today Shinta," Megumi asked as she stood over the laundry tub.
"A lot better, thank you," Kenshin simply answered.
"That's good……do you need anything?"
"No……I was going to ask you if I may do the laundry for you…since you've been taking care of me….I figure I have to do something to pay you back."
Megumi opened her mouth to protest but a noise from the gate interrupted her.
"OI"
They turned toward the gate to find a tall, thin guy walking thought the yard. He had a fish bone in this mouth and brown hair that stood up wildly. He looked towards Megumi, trying to know is that guy who just came in. he saw Megumi's lips tuned into a sneaky smirk.
Kenshin cast his eyes between the two people in front of him. "I don't like that smirk…..something tells me that it will be trouble."
"So I see your feeling better," he said bring Kenshin out of his inner musing.
"Thank you …..ummm…," Kenshin said with a brief nod of his head.
"The name is Sanosuke Sagara...you can call me Sano."
"Pleasure meeting you Sano……I can't exactly remember my real name…so you can call me Shinta," smiled Kenshin as he rubbed the back of his head.
Sano gave him a quizzical look. "You can't remember your name?"
"Unfortunately, I lost my memory after a bad accident...but Miss Megumi and Dr. Gensai really helped it get better."
"Looks like the fox lady really good at some things," said Sano as he turned toward Megumi.
Megumi frowned and yelled at him. "Don't call me that you rooster head! Now what do you want."
"Just wanted to stop by to see what's going on."
Kenshin never, in a million years, expected the reaction that Megumi gave Sano. Before he knew it, Megumi launched herself in his arms, wrapping her arms around his neck and started to nuzzle his neck. Kenshin stood in shock.
"W….w….w….w.w.what the…..h...Hell? What is this woman doing? Why did she get all clingy all of a sudden?" He tried to remove Megumi's arms from around his neck but Megumi kept clinging to him.
"ohhh….Shinta-san was just offering to do the laundry for me……..that was so sweet and considerate of him…..unlike some people I know….Shinta doesn't want me to work hard," Megumi purred as she shifted her eyes toward Sano. Sano stood at a distance with steam coming out of his ears. Kenshin could see what was going on and didn't want any part of it. He tried again to get away from Megumi.
"Ahh…Miss Megumi…," Kenshin started, "can you please get off me?"
Sano stood across the yard fuming. He didn't seem to notice that Kenshin was trying to get away from Megumi. All he could think about was seeing his woman with her arms around another man.
"YOU BASTARD! GET AWAY FROM HER!" He rushed over to Kenshin and grabbed Megumi and pushed her aside. "You're going to pay for what you did to Megumi!"
Kenshin stood in shock. "What the...?" Before he could finish his thought, he saw a fist flying into his face.
"Futae no Kiwami," yelled Sano as he delivered a powerful punch to Kenshin's forehead.
Kenshin's body went flying across the yard and smashed through the wooden wall of the house. As he lay with his eyes close, he heard the voices of Ayame and Suzumi. One of the girls cried while the other was calling for Dr. Genzai. He also heard Megumi yelling at Sano. Everything started to grow darker. Before he slipped into total unconsciousness a name suddenly flashed into his mind.
"K…..k…..k…..Kaoru"
Dull sapphire eyes slowly fluttered open, Kaoru groaned as she felt intense pain coming from her back and shoulders. Tears filled her eyes, she blinked them back, making them disappear. Kaoru had promised herself that she wouldn't cry anymore, she wasn't going to be weak. No matter what Enishi did to her, she would never cry again.
Kaoru sat up slowly as she heard footsteps coming towards her room.
"Great….what kind of torture will he do to me today?" she thought as she cast her eyes towards the door. Enishi stood in the doorway.
"How are you feeling?" he asked trying to sound concerned.
"As if you care," she snapped in response.
"Now, now Kaoru…lets not get into a fight again," he said as he sat at the edge of the bed. Kaoru glared daggers at him as he tried to move closer. Enishi gave her a quick smile as he moved back. The two sat in complete silence. Kaoru kept her eye fixed on the bed sheets. She clutched them in her hands while Enishi sat gazing at her. Slowly, Enishi leaned in and caressed her cheek as a sign of gentleness.
"If I can show her how kind I am then she may change her mind about me," was Enishi's thoughts as he tucked a strain of her hair behind her ear.
"Do you need anything," he asked
"What I need is for you to let me go in peace and not bother me again," was her brusque answer.
"What?" Enishi was surprised that his tactic didn't work.
"Oh please…do you really think I would actually believe that you changed and will be kind to me….that I will change my mind about you and marry you?... …..that's the oldest trick in the book so think again," Kaoru yelled in response.
Enishi was beyond angry. He was really pissed. He actually thought being kind to her would work. Seeing that his first plan didn't work, he decided to go to his other plan. He grabbed Kaoru's wrist in a painful grip and forcefully dragged her out of her room.
"Hey….where are you taking me…let me go," screamed Kaoru while trying to get her wrist free from Enishi's grip.
Enishi ignored Kaoru's protest as he continued to drag her down the hallway. As they reached the door to his room, Kaoru began to panic.
"Oh my god….why did he bring me to his room...did he change his mind about not wanting to rape...oh god help me"
Enishi slammed open his door, and threw Kaoru on the floor, she stood up and looked around, the walls were colored navy blue and the furniture looked very fancy. She turned around to find a long white sheet covering something that lay on the table.
"Why don't you get it through you head that your lover is dead….he isn't coming back for you…so forget about him," Enishi yelled as he grabbed Kaoru's elbows breaking her thoughts.
"I will never forget about Kenshin….he is not dead…..he is alive and will come for me," Kaoru yelled back as she struggled to get away from Enishi.
Enishi smirked at her. "Ah... I see. Do you want me to give you proof that he is dead?"
Kaoru froze at that statement "proof? What does he mean by proof? Can he actually prove that Kenshin is dead?"
"You want proof…I'll give you proof," Enishi smirked again as he released Kaoru's arm and walked over to the table. He cast his eyes over to the pale young woman in front of him before pulling the white sheet away, revealing what was underneath.
Kaoru's body suddenly went numb and her eyes began to dilate. There, laying on top of the table was the lifeless body of...
Kenshin Himura.
Antica: I think I'll stop here…hehehe….I'm getting good at cliffhanger aren't I?
Kaoru 0.0: WHAT?
Enishi: how could that happen? The Battousai isn't really dead? How could I have gotten his dead body?
Antica: everything will be clear in the next chapter….if the readers reviewed
Kaoru: PLEASE REVIEW READER…..IM BEGGING YOU
Antica: thank god Battousai is knocked out right now…otherwise he'll bit the shit out of me ……thanks Sano
Sano: anytime Antica
Antica: oh and to make things clear, Kenshin wasn't flirting with Megumi as Sano thought….he was just being his nice Rurouni self
Kaoru: SHUT UP SO THAT THE READER CAN REVIEW
Antica: she is almost as worse as Battousai
Sorry readers if there are any mistakes….I really wanted to get this chapter out…I hope you enjoy it
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