Chapter 4 – At Dinner
The dinner was very agitate, Yahiko was eating all the food, Asuka and Sano were flirting, Kaji and Enishi were trying to amuse Misato, but with no results, Kenshin was staring at Misato, and that made her feel so uncomfortable:
´Why is Kenshin staring at me? Did he recognise me? No. That Baka, after all the things he did to me! It's better start a conversation, he can see that I'm uncomfortable with his presence, and I don't want that.
"So Kenshin why you come to this city? What are you doing here?"
"I'm searching for a person that I really need to find, miss Misato ." Kenshin asked
"Oh, I see." 'Who is he talking about?' Kaoru thought to her self, 'Could be me? Let's try to discover!'
"And who are you searching for Kenshin?"
"He is searching for Kaoru, the girl he loves and she runaway without ANY reason and even said goodbye!" said Sano
"Yeah! I didn't finish my lessons! I hate to admit but…. I miss that old hang"
´OH! It's good to hear that little brat say this! He says that I'm useless, but they need me!' thought Misato
"It's not that way Sano…"Kenshin shouted "She had a reason! I did something that hurt her a lot, I'm sure that was because of that, she runaway, but I wish I could talk with her, ask her to forgive me, it was not my fault…."
'WAS NOT HIS FAULT! That baka! I'm sure Megumi didn't force him to do anything' at this time Misato was fuming.
"What have you done Kenshin?" questioned Enishi
" I was trying to show Kaoru all my love for her, I was so close to tell her how much I love her, I was all the party by her side, but then, Misao called her, and Megumi come by my side and offered me sake. At first I said no, because I had already drunk a lot of sake (I needed that, to give me courage, to show Kaoru how I fell) but, Megumi almost forced me to drunk. After that, I felt a little dizzy, I was not felling well, and I tell Megumi that I was going to my room, and asked her to say to Kaoru that I wanted to talk with her later." Kenshin put his head down, showing how painfully was to him, tell this incident "I was in my futon, I was not better, I didn't see anything, my head was almost exploding… I felt someone entering in my room, I could sense that was a girl and I realise was Kaoru, she started to kiss me, and we end up making love. When I woke up in the morning, and saw that was Megumi that was by my side, not Kaoru, I feel so bad. I run to Kaoru's room, but she was gone."
Misato was almost crying, 'That fox! I will kill her for that, how could she! I lost Kenshin because of her, it was all her fault!'
'What is this?' Kenshin thought 'Why is Misato so upset, I could feel her rage, anger, pain, hate, and……… Love? That can not be!'
"Battousai you're a bad boy, trying to show your love to the tanuki and end up making love with the fox!" Said a familiar voice "Well its not that bad, they're all pets."
"What are you doing here?" shouted everyone
"I asked Saito to help us to find Kaoru, I asked Aoshi too, but until now we didn't find anything!" Kenshin said with a sad look in his eyes.
'At least they didn't know anything about me. I feel so scared when I saw Kenshin and the others here. This make me feel better, but now that I know all the truth, when I look into Kenshin's eyes that make me feel so guilty! Oh!'
"So, you put Aoshi´s ninjas, and all the Japanese police, looking for a little girl? You must love her a lot!" Kaji said with a grin in his face "The same way that I love Misato!"
"Hey, you're blind? She doesn't love you, she treats you like a DOG!" said Enishi making all the people in the room start laughing.
"Hey, Saito! Do you have notices about Kaoru?" questioned Kenshin
"You will not believe in this, Battousai!"
"Stop making suspense, and tell me what you know!" screamed Kenshin with amber eyes
"Tanuki is HERE!"
'OH MY GOD! That stupid wolf knows everything!' Misato started to cough.
"What? She is here! Where? Tell me Saito! I need to find her! " demanded Kenshin
"She is here, in Osaka, I don't Know exactly where, but I'm sure she is here! My partners told me that! When I show them the photograph you gave me, they said she entered in this city, at almost 3 moths." answer Saito
"Oh! I'm safe!" Misato said with a sigh of relief
"You are safe from what, babe?" asked Kaji
"Don't call me babe, ok? I'm not your baby! Got that? " screamed Misato
Kenshin was staring at Misato. "What's the matter Kenshin?"
"No, nothing, you look like…. No, well, Dinner was very good, thanks Misato."
"I don't know how to cook, Shinji did the dinner! Not me! "
'She don't know how to cook! She is so similar to Kaoru! When I saw her for the first time I could swear that was Kaoru, the way she smile, the way she blush…' Kenshin's thoughts were interrupted by Kaji's voice:
"Me, Misato and my bro. Enishi, we all work in NERV, we can help you to find your friend Kaoru. You just need to give us information's about her. How she looks, colour of hair and eyes…. You know."
"We will be very grateful if you do that for us! She has black hair, blue eyes, a little shorter than me…. " Kenshin was trying to describe Kaoru, but then, he had an idea.
"Kaji, look at Misato…" everybody turned their attention to Misato, and that made blush a lot "Kaoru is just like her!"
"Kaji, I know that you want to help Kenshin, but I don't know if it's possible to us waste time searching for that girl, we need to think about EVA project, and Shinji, and Asuka train" said Misato trying to change Kaji's mind, but he had already decided to help Kenshin in his search.
"No, no, no… we will help him, I can do that, you don't need to anything, it's decided! I will do it by myself, I will bring your lady back to you Himura and it is a promise!" Kaji said
Kaoru was felling awful because now she knew that she left Kenshin and he was innocent. But there was a question in her mind:
'if he find out that I am Kaoru, and that I hide my truth identity from him all this time, what he will do?'
"Do you already have any place to live here in Osaka?" Shinji asked
"Actually, we were trying to find a place to stay, but the prices are so high!" whispered Yahiko.
Sano that was anxious to stay the night in Misato's house shouted "The problem is, that we don't have any money!"
Everybody starred at Kenshin, Sano, and Yahiko. Then, Enishi asked:
"Where did you sleep all this days?"
"In the forest."
Shinji declared: "If that is your problem, we have space enough for you, here! Isn't it Misato? "
When Asuka herd that she yelled: "YEAH! It will be awesome, if you stay here, we need happiness in this house, we are always so worried about our work and some people like you living in our home will be wonderful!"
For some reason Kenshin wanted to say yes, he felt good by Misato's side. She made him remember Kaoru. Then he looked at Misato and said:
"Boys, that will be to bold, we don't want to annoy Miss Misato and her friends!"
Without looking at Kenshin Misato said, "You can stay here! Everybody here likes you! The only problem is that I don't know if we have food enough to feed your friends Sanosuke and Yahiko!" Everybody started laughing and then she adds: "But I think, that we can resolve that problem! Tomorrow we will do some shops!"