Summary: 50 stories about Kenshin and Kaoru, sometimes meandering to include the other Ruroken cast. A mix of canon and AU one-shots. Some crack can be expected. Read and Review!

Rating: T

Characters: Kaoru and Misao

Disclaimer: Anything you recognise here belongs to the one and only Watsuki Nobuhiro.

This is a continuation of Drabble #13, part IV of Case of Mistaken Identity.

"What do you think of this?" Misao held up a bottle of electric blue nail paint. Kaoru pretended to gag and retch. Misao put the bottle down and rolled her eyes at her best friend.

"Oh, that's so funny Kaoru."

"That's disgusting, Misao."

"Whatever. You still haven't told me why you sounded like your cat died on the phone yesterday." Misao shook the bottle, shaking up the little sparkly bits floating inside the sea of electric blue shimmer.

Kaoru groaned and rolled over on her stomach. She buried her face inside a pillow. Misao frowned as the unmistakable sound of mumbling emerged from her friend. She poked Kaoru with a finger.

"Speak up, Mumble. I can't hear you."

Kaoru lifted her face from the pillow and turned to Misao. Propping herself up on an elbow, she rested her hand on her hip and shook her head slightly. "It's so stupid. I feel idiotic just telling you about it."

Misao grinned. "Okay, you have officially stoked my curiosity. Spill!"

"Okay." Kaoru sat up and crossed her legs, pulling the pillow into her lap. Pulling a deep breath, she shut her eyes and bent her head as she spoke, "IkissedShinta'sbrother."

Misao blinked, thinking that she clearly imagined what she had just heard. "What?"

Kaoru bit her lip. "I kissed Shinta's brother."

Misao felt her jaw drop, "What? What are you….how could you…I mean…wait a minute! Since when does he have a brother?" Misao waved her hands about.

Kaoru felt her forehead crinkle as she considered the question. "Since this morning, as far as I'm concerned. He says he 'forgot' to tell me about Kenshin."

Misao's eyebrows shot up. "He forgot? What sort of lame-ass excuse is that? And how in the world do you forget that you have a brother?" Misao shrugged her shoulder in derision. Then thinking something completely different, she asked, "What does his brother look like? Is he cute?"

"They're twins, Misao. They look exactly alike."

"Wow that is so cool."

"Yes well, it's not so cool when you don't know that your boyfriend has an identical twin." She sighed. She didn't miss how Misao's eyes seemed to brighten with mischief.

"Oh. My. God. Don't tell me. That's why you kissed him!" Kaoru bit her lip sheepishly. Misao roared with laughter and rolled back. Kaoru flushed as Misao continue to laugh uproariously.

"Oh gods….my cheeks hurt….I don't believe it." She sat up again. "You finally scrounge up the courage to commit a PDA and then you do it to the wrong brother! Only you, Kaoru, only you ..."

Kaoru rolled her eyes. "It's not funny! I was so embarrassed I wanted to die."

"Okay, okay back up, back up. Tell me from the beginning." Misao scooted forward and propped her chin in her hand, her eyes wide and bright.

"You're taking way too much pleasure in my misery." Kaoru replied drily.

"Oh, unclench. Tell me what happened."

Taking a deep breath, Kaoru began, "I was so happy that I was going to see Shinta and I wanted to surprise him….do something that was totally uncharacteristic of me. So….I show up at his house, ring the doorbell, and launch into a kiss the moment he appeared." She shook her head.

Misao's eyes grew wide. "Go on."

"And I'm thinking – this feels so good, this feels so perfect…and so I pull away and he's looking at me with the most adorable, stunned, shocked-into-silence expression that I have never seen on him." Kaoru smiled at the memory before her face fell and she turned to Misao with a pout, "Then, of course I realized that it wasn't Shinta that I'd kissed….but his twin, Kenshin."

"How did you figure it out?"

"I didn't. Aoshi walked in on us and called him 'Kenshin'. That's how I knew I'd made a mistake. I swear it was so awkward."

Misao nodded. "I can imagine. How did Shinta take it?"

Kaoru started playing with the corners of the pillowcase. Misao frowned. "Kaoru?"

She sighed. "I sort of haven't told him yet."

Misao gaped at her. Kaoru rushed to explain, "It all happened so fast. And he didn't give me the chance to explain, and then we were having lunch, and then I had to leave, and I forgot."

"You forgot?"

"Yeah." She replied in a small voice.

"How could you forget? Kaoru, you have to tell him."

"I know."

"Better he finds out from you, instead of his brother, or worse Aoshi. What were you thinking? You should have told him at once. You guys could made a joke about it and it would be over."

"It's weird. I don't how to tell him." She looked away, avoiding meeting Misao's eyes.

Misao frowned and looked closely at her friend. Finally, she cleared her throat, "Kaoru, why haven't you told him yet?"

"I will. I just haven't found the right time."

Misao rolled over and poked her in the shoulder, hard enough to hurt. "What are you not telling me?"

"Nothing! And ow, Misao that hurts!"

"Tell me what you're thinking."

"Nothing, sheesh."

"This isn't nothing."

"It's nothing."

"Kaoru!"

"…."

"Tell me…."

Kaoru sighed. "Well, the reason I haven't told him yet is….if he asks me how it was….I might not be able to lie…."

"…"

"…."

"Oh, Kaoru…"

Author's Note

Hi everyone, sorry about the long delay. It was just New Year's, some celebration in the family, Lohri, and my adorable tornado turned two!

I have some more one-shots planned out, hopefully I'll upload them later today or tomorrow, oh and sorry to alarm everyone but I think I've fallen for a completely new fandom. Zutara! So I am writing a one-shot type thingy thing for it and hopefully it'll be ready in another two or three days. I am so excited! yeah, Zuko and Katara...they totally rock yeah? Any fellow Zutara fans out there? This space will soon be filled with fic recommendaions, oh if you want to recommend some to me, that'd be great!