Fall from grace
By hye-kyo
Disclaimer: Nope, RK isn't mine…
Author's notes: Okay this is different from the others, this is waff, light, funny (I hope), so different from what I had been doing for this series. But anyway, humor is something more natural to me than angst, so it would be a sort of a break…
Anyway, hope you like it.
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Title: Abrupt
Genre: Humor/Romance
Rating: T
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Kaoru didn't hear the breaking of glass nor the footsteps on her wooden floor that when she stepped out of the shower in a towel she didn't expect anything unusual. But unsuspecting as she was a hand quickly shot up in front of her and pinned her against the wall, a mouth suddenly covering hers, while her body went rigid to jelly until she felt like collapsing.
"Don't make any sound," the man hissed. Under normal circumstances Kaoru would have raised a brow, for saying something like "don't make a sound" and having a mouth over her own mouth was redundant. Regaining a bit of her presence of mind, her eyes flew open and she saw the most gorgeous man she had ever seen in her entire twenty-three years of young life.
"Don't move," and yet again her brows would have shot up higher under normal circumstances, for pining her against the wall and saying "don't move" would be too much redundancy for her vocabulary. She frowned a little. Good thing he was a redhead, with a perfect nose, sexy mouth and oh-so-possess-me golden eyes, if he wasn't she would have showed her some black-belter moves. But he was so she stayed still and realized that since she was the "victim" here she might as well make the most out of the circumstances. She leaned closer, her body forming against his and started kissing back.
She imagined she heard a little chuckle and felt her own lips forming a smile against the kiss. The redhead released her hands to have his own settle around her waist, one moving up to cradle her neck while hers found their way up to his chest, to grab on to whatever rough material he was wearing since her legs are starting to buckle under her from the intensity. The stranger was a good kisser. She told herself the redhead smelled nice too, sandalwood, pine. She liked it and she tilted her head to let him have better access.
The man had her against the wall, the push reminding her that she was wearing nothing but a towel and that in fact it was threatening to fall off any minute now. She wanted to hitch it up but her senses were all blown away when his tongue invaded her mouth. A few more seconds of his mind-blowing stunt and her knees gave out and he caught her, along with the towel and he smiled at her as he tried to haul her back to her feet. She knew her face was so red and she couldn't quite look up and she couldn't move her arms to adjust the towel, the arm around her ribcage was the only reason why it wasn't falling off. She felt him adjusting her towel with his free hand causing her to blush but she nevertheless looked up at him and she saw him smiling, watching her intently and she found herself blushing even more.
He slipped a hand through his pocket and flipped open a badge. Police? Her brows furrowed. And as if on cue the redhead started, "We got a situation. For your safety and for the success of our mission please don't make any sound Miss." His voice was low, deep and she found herself nodding. After a few more straightening of her towel and after making sure she could stand on her own, he pulled back and removed his jacket and settled it around her.
Stepping back he went to her front door and unlocked it. Two men appeared, one lanky with spiky hair (she decided he resembled a rooster), the other stoic with dark hair (and she thought she looked like an ice cube). She thought she liked the redhead better, not because he had shown her already how a good kisser he was, but because she wasn't into tall men. She doesn't like men towering above her. And so she liked the redhead more, even though all were good-looking, it was just that redhead was more homey looking albeit the dangerous glint in his eyes, but that made him sexier, edgier, more intense. She couldn't quite grasp how it is possible to be more homey looking and at the same time dangerous looking.
"The target?" the stoic one started speaking. She noticed the redhead standing in front of her, as if covering her lack of clothes from the other men.
"Next door." The redhead beckoned to the wall.
"We have Saito and Seta at the fire exit," the rooster said.
"We move in at fifteen hundred sharp," redhead took the lead, standing against one corner of the wall while the other two stayed at the other side.
"Time?"
"Eleven minutes," rooster brushed his long sleeve to look at his watch.
"Ready," ice cube turned to her and he frowned.
Kaoru's eyes widened, frowning back she almost started speaking but the redhead quickly said, "Stay hidden in the bathroom." It sounded like an order and being a woman raised unused to receiving orders from men she almost gave a retort but since it wasn't some normal circumstance she realized she would save the retort for later. She almost turned towards the bathroom when redhead walked in front of her and placed a watch on her hand.
"What is this?" she asked, annoyed. She thought of something wickeder to say but it was all that came to her mind.
"I'll get it back after the mission," he said with a smirk, "Now go inside."
She frowned but nevertheless followed his order. It didn't take long before she started hearing a loud crash, gunshots, some shouting, sounds of rock and wood falling, crashing, plates and glasses breaking. She groaned when she realized that it was her apartment breaking. She almost cried. Now what?
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The door opened abruptly, just as the noise ended unexpectedly. The rooster-head was standing by her doorway and with her anger raising she quickly grabbed whatever she first got her hand on and threw it on his face. She realized that it was a porcelain mug when she saw it hitting him in between the eyes. The rooster fell with a loud groan.
"That's for ruining my apartment you thugs," she panted, anger coming out in short uneven breaths.
"Missy," the rooster tried sitting up but was once again hit, by a bucket this time.
She had broken a couple of things herself throwing stuff at the rooster-head. Eventually a scary looking man and a smiling young boy came in without even knocking, as if knocking would be of use to her already brought-down door. They handed her a huge sum of money, for the repairs the young boy said and the scary one handed her another mug, to throw at the rooster-head some more for he deserved it.
In anger she let out a scream and in a fit of adrenaline rush started hauling whatever stuff she could grab among the ruins that she once called her apartment and hurtled them essentially driving everyone out. She collapsed as soon as she was left alone.
Alone, she realized she still has the redhead's watch and jacket.
Two weeks and there was no sign of him. She was beginning to lose hope, not that she hoped or anything. She just thought he might drop by to get his watch and his jacket and maybe they could go to dinner or see a movie or movies and then resume whatever they were doing the last time. No Kaoru wasn't hoping.
She stepped into the bathroom, turned the shower tap on and took in a deep breath. She hasn't even gotten his name and she hasn't even told him her name. How utterly stupid.
She had turned the shower full blast and she didn't hear the sound of her window sliding and her bathroom door creaking. She was only aware when the shower curtain flew open and she was pinned against the wall. Her heart pounded and blood rushed into her ears, she couldn't open her eyes.
"Your window is so easy to unlock."
She frowned. Of course she knew the voice. She opened her eyes , "You..."
"Yes," he smirked.
And in relief, both in seeing him and in realizing it was just him and not some thug, and in extreme vexation at having been both frightened and left alone waiting, she jerked her hand up and in a swift movement hit his beautiful face. He cringed.
"Bastard," she cursed heavily, breathing hard.
He smiled, laughed a little and moved closer, liking the challenge, "I am Kenshin." He was starting to get wet, water dripping from his hair. Kaoru suddenly realized how extremely naked she was this time and started to blush. "And you are?" he was still smiling, his eyes starting to roam her.
"Kaoru," she arched a brow, Kenshin, it sounded nice. She tapped his face away from her, "And look away. I could sue you for sexual harassment and trespassing you know."
"Hmm..." he moved closer, literally speaking into her mouth, one hand moving to touch her from her arm down to her waist, "I like your name. Nice meeting you Kaoru," and he had his mouth against hers.
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A/n: You know the drill guys…