Konnichiwa! ^_^
So sadly...This is the last chapter! But I tried my best not to mess it up, so I do hope you'll like it!
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Well you know that I don't like to keep you waiting, so...On with it!
I DONT OWN ANYONE OF THE RUROUNI KENSHIN CHARACTERS!
Mine!
The following morning Kaoru slowly woke up to the sound of chirping birds. She blinked and stared at the ceiling. As she tried to move she whimpered. Her back hurt and so did her arms. Actually...Her whole body ached. Her wounds seemed cleaned and taken cared of. She closed her eyes and sighed heavily, trying to remember how she got to her bed last night. He probably carried her home. He...He hadn't meant to loose it and she knew it. She felt the first tear slide down her cheek.
'Kenshin...'
Ignoring her pain, she curled up into a ball and let out a strangled sob letting the tears run down her cheeks. Where did he ever get the idea that she ever even looked at another man than him? What had she possibly done to him to cause such doubt against her? She covered her mouth with her hand, to try to calm down.
'How could he think so little of me?' she cried silently.
'I would never do that!'
She would never cheat on him...And with Sanosuke? Her thoughts travelled to what he had done to her in the forest. Shamefully she admitted to herself, that she had wanted him as much as he wanted to possess her. It had been raw, uncaring, and rough, but she had wanted it badly. She had wanted to show him how wrong he was. How much she only wanted to be with him and no one else. She felt herself get wet at just the thought of it all. But he accused her of something that she hadn't done. Something ugly, and foul. She grabbed her covers and squeezed her eyes shut.
Unsure of what to feel, she had to talk to him. To try and understand why he had done what he had done to her. She pushed the heavy fabric out of her way and got up on wobbly feet. She grimaced in pain as she slid the bedroom shoji open. It seemed like he really did a number on her. A lingering smell of food hung lightly in the air, but she didn't see her husband anywhere.
Resisting the urge to call him she opened the next door to the kitchen and there he was. He sat quietly on the floor, staring into the cooking fire, fidgeting with the hem of his yukata. Since she didn't want him to disappear from her life, she decided that they really had to talk. Kaoru took a brave step forward and reached out her hand to touch his slumped shoulders.
"Kenshin."
He flinched, but didn't look at her. Kaoru sighed tiredly and sat down in front of him. His hands were roughed up, bloodied and the skin had broken in several places.
'He must have done that after he helped me. Oh Kenshin...' she thought sadly, shaking her head.
He hid his face behind his bangs and breathed deeply. It looked like he was struggling with himself. She decided to sit back and wait for him to open up. So the both of them sat there in silence and listened to the rain that still fell on the roof.
Moments passed before he finally mustered up some courage to say:
"Are...Are you hurt?"
She smiled vaguely and put her hand on his. The tender movement of her hand, caused his own to twitch in surprise.
"I'm sore. But it's nothing I haven't been before."
He looked up at her and into her eyes. She gasped at the intensity his held. The devastated look on his face made her heart ache. He looked so guilty and regretful, and fragile in front of her. She had never seen him this upset.
"Kaoru, I'm so sorry! I had no excuse what so ever to treat you that way...I...I'm sorry!" he ranted as the first tear slid down his cheek.
"Kenshin..." she squeezed his hand.
"No! I had no right, I...Kami...Kaoru..." he whined and buried his face in his hands and cried. Kaoru didn't move.
"You hurt me."
He looked up again, with a broken look on his face. She withdrew her hand, and she could feel his insecurity increase. Kenshin bit his lip anxiously, waiting for her to yell at him. But then tears brimmed her eyes again and she hung her head.
"Nan de? Nan de Anata..? What did I do that was so bad, that you would treat me this way...? That made you think that I would actually be able to betray you..?"
Her voice broke and she hitched a breath. Unable to stand the look in her face, he grabbed her and pulled her into his arms with a small cry. Then he buried his face at the crook of her neck. His thumb carefully stroke her cuts and bruises.
"Nothing! You did nothing! I'm sorry...please Kaoru..."
"You didn't actually hurt me with what you did, it's what you said thathurt . Why would I cheat on you?" she said quietly and wiped away a stray tear on her cheek.
He put his forehead against hers and she kissed him lightly on the nose. Then he sighed and leaned back.
"I...I told you how insecure I was about letting the battousai out, ne? Well...lately he's been trying to resurface every now and then when other men talks to you, or holds your hand...He's possessive and jealous, and when I saw you kiss Sanosuke on the cheek, he lost it."
"He should trust me."
"He hasn't trusted anyone since the war. After being constantly betrayed, he just stopped caring and trusting the people around him, as they constantly sold him out, so he ended up feeling that he had to be alone. He just couldn't risk having others around him."
She nodded understandingly. Then she took his hand and kissed it. The battousai was a part of Kenshin that would never go away, so the only thing to do, was to keep on working to gain his trust. He cupped her cheek and dried her tears with his thumb.
"I'm so sorry. If I just get another chance, I swear to you..."
"It's okay anata. I forgive you." she said hushing him with her finger.
" Ano...let's not redo it. "
"You do? Really?" he asked in surprise, eyes widened like he couldn't understand a word his wife said. She really forgave him?
She nodded and smiled. Then she interlaced their fingers and dragged him off the floor.
"Obviously we have some things to work on...But we can do it if we are together. Okay? Promise you won't leave?"
He chuckled lightly and embraced her again mumbling quietly.
"Not in a lifetime koi, I promise you. I want you forever!"
Then his face grew serious and his eyes narrowed.
"Ano Kaoru. I don't know if I can promise that something like this wont happen again." he whispered grimly.
"We'll deal with it then. I love you and trust you." she smiled.
'Yes. But I don't trust myself...' he thought, looking at her beautiful face.
"I...I don't deserve you."
She just smiled kissed him passionately and caressed his cheek. Then she leant back into his loving embrace.
Lifting her up Kenshin held her tight and slowly made his way to their bedroom. He was going to make up for what he had done, and he needed her to know how sorry he was.
It had been a while since that day and being Kenshin, he was ridiculously careful with her. She wanted that spark of his back. Sure it was amazing, it always was. But she missed that part of him that he hid from her.
So how? How did she get it back? He had been so afraid and unsure about the whole thing from the beginning, that if she wanted it back, she had to work twice as hard. She wanted to prove to the battousai that she could be trusted.
She yawned and stretched herself as she stood up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. Kenshin was wearing her out every night. She smiled and blushed intensely at the thought of his very delicate actions. A warm feeling coiled in her soon wet cave and unknowingly she placed her hand over it. She longed for him, again. Kenshin slid the shoji open and found his naked wife standing in the middle of their room. A wicked smile spread across his face and he placed her breakfast tray on the floor. She looked at him. To her he looked gorgeous in the morning sunlight. His white hakamas were tied on perfectly, but his dark blue yukata hung loose, untied. And his red hair, cascaded down on his shoulders, and his muscles moved as he straightened back up. He noticed the hungry look in her eyes and grabbed her wrist to pull her closer.
"See anything you like koishii?" he murmured.
"Hai." she said seductively.
"Then please, help yourself."
She grabbed his yukata and kissed him passionately. He gathered her in his arms and kissed her back with the same fierceness. His hand wandered down her back and up again, squeezing and pinching, teasing and pleasing.
"Oh kami..." she whimpered.
"Kaoru..."
He grunted and licked the sensitive curve of her ear, and she shuddered in delight. Then he froze and let her go, cursing.
"Nani?"
"We've got company. It seems like Sanosuke, Yahiko and the others are coming." he smiled and fixed himself up. Before leaving their room he turned around.
"You should eat. And get dressed, you might catch a cold while looking that good." he chuckled and slid the shoji shut again.
Kaoru smiled and did as told. She had to come up with a plan. This just wouldn't do. She wanted to prove how much she loved him, All of him. Leaning back she suddenly grinned widely. She knew just the thing! She might need some help from her friends though... But that shouldn't be a problem.
After waving him of to the market, Kaoru closed the gate after him. She had decided that she would take the whole thing back to where it had started: The kitchen. She rigged the whole room with lanterns and then she spread out a white blanket with small water lily's embroidered on it, over the staircase. She put a chair in the middle of the room, and on it she hung her obi. Kaoru smiled widely, she intended to give him one hell of a show and knew he was going to love it. She left the kitchen and got to the bedroom to make herself ready.
Kenshin balanced the bucket with tofu elegantly on his sakabatou. He could see the dojo now. He knew it was silly but he really missed Kaoru when he wasn't with her. He controlled battousai a lot better now, better than ever actually. If he had a say in it he would never resurface again. The thoughts of what he had done to her, as he came to his senses that night, made his stomach turn.
Kenshins eyes widened and he carefully let her down.
"Kaoru..?"
He caressed her cheek, and searched her wrists for a pulse. As soon as he found it he knew she was okay. She had just passed out. He took a step back and looked at her thoroughly. Her kimono was torn in more than one place, blood was smeared on to in from her wounds. Her face was bruised, probably from the trees. And her hair was a complete mess. It looked like something one of his fated enemies would have done. But they hadn't. He had. To her.
The guilt caught up to him and he staggered backwards, before turning around heaving his stomach contents on to the ground. Breathing heavily he straightened back up and crashed his fists into the nearest tree trunk so many times that he lost track of the time and amount he had hit it. He turned around and gathered her in his arms. She was soaked from the rain, and he didn't want her to get sick. A quiet tear slipped down his cheek
"Gomen Kaoru..." he whispered before burying his face in her hair.
He had never felt so broken, or lost. He wouldn't blame her if she never wanted to see him again. He would understand. His heart was in a million pieces, but he deserved it.
He stared at the spot where he had dragged her in to the forest, then turned around and kept on walking forward, blinking away the small spots of gold that had emerged in his eyes. Refusing to let him out.
He closed the gates and made his way to the kitchen. He came to a halt in the doorway when he saw the lanterns.
In the middle of the room was Kaoru, resting her body on one very long leg that was positioned on a chair. She had on a pink revealing kimono and her hair fell down her shoulders in wavy lengths. When she saw him, she smiled and walked up to him. Kenshin stepped in and closed the shoji behind him, swallowing hard.
"K-Kaoru?"
"Mmm?" she purred as she untied his obi, grabbed it and led him into the room.
"Welcome home Kenshin..."
He smiled and sat down. Kaoru leaned forward and covered his eyes with his obi.
"Kaoru I don't know if this is..." he started hesitantly.
"Trust me."
He felt how she grabbed his hands and tied him up. He grinned to himself, thinking:
'That's not going to hold .'
But it was her night it seemed. So he let her have it her way. She untied his blindfold and threw it aside. Then she moved to the stairs and sat down in front of him.
"Now... I'm going to have some fun, and you can't touch anata."
He watched her suspiciously, but leaned back. Kaoru positioned herself on the stairs and let her fingers slowly trace her legs from her ankle up to the opening of her yukata. Well there, she dipped her fingers down between her legs and spread them with her hand. Then she smugly watched his reaction and smiled.
"My turn to ask, ne Kenshin? Do you like what you see?"
He nodded mutely, and she noted the small tugs of his hands behind his back, he was itching to touch her. Grabbing her kimono, she pushed it of her shoulders so that she could reveal her breasts to him. Kenshin swallowed hard, again and again.
"You are going to regret it..." he mumbled vaguely.
"I don't think so. But either way..."
She let her fingers touch her now very wet core, hissing in pleasure of the sensation it brought her.
"You'll do as I say. Understood?"
He looked her in the eyes. She could see his inner struggle and brought her finger to her lips, licking it oh so slow. Her scent hit him like a ton of bricks, and he growled.
"I..."
"Shush. If you don't, I'll have to gag you. And it won't be pleasurable, I assure you."
He clenched his jaw in anger and desire. Kaoru however threw her head back and moaned as she pinched her stiffened nipples with one hand, while letting the other one spread her glistening folds. Playing with herself and murmuring his name, she inserted a finger and gritted her teeth, writhing on the staircase.
His breathing caught in his throat of the sensation of seeing her. She looked him dead in the eye as she let her thumb rub her sensitive clit. Panting heavier and heavier she suddenly cried out his name and leaned backwards.
Kenshin wanted her. Kami he wanted her! Since the moment she spread her legs, he had been hard as a rock. He wanted to join her now! Kaoru looked up and got on her feet, throwing her kimono aside.
"Feeling left outside, Koishii?" she whispered seductively in his ear.
"Let's see to that."
She untied his hakamas, licking her lips. Then she held her fingers up in front of him, offering him a taste. Kenshin devoured them, desperate to taste her. He sucked on them greedily before she pulled them away, causing him to make a sound of distress. She smiled and tugged the hem of his pants, causing them to come down. Her fingers teased him by making circles around his sensitive area , touching anything but him. He breathed heavily and moaned her name.
"Please Kaoru..."
She stroked him with her hand and gently held him still as she lowered her lips over his head, letting the moist heat of her mouth cover him. It really took all it had for him not to rip of that stupid obi right there. She worked herself up and down his length, making sounds of pure pleasure, taunting him in the process.
She let go and began licking her way up and down the shaft, and seconds after she held it and sucked and nibbled the top with an unknown hunger for him. Kenshins vision blurred in and out as his eyes flashed between gold and purple.
'As long as you're at risk of hurting her, you'll never come out.' he said to himself calmly.
As if on cue his spirit seemed to calm down and when he opened his eyes again, they seemed to be more of a metallic lavender. It felt like the battousai understood where Kenshin came from, and actually listened.
Kaoru deepened her sucking with long languid pulls, stroking his balls at the same time.
"Kaoru..!" he choked out, tugging at that damn obi. He wanted...no needed to touch her!
And so he was done. That was it! He needed her and he'd be damned if she didn't comply. He pulled with all his might and ripped the obi apart. Kaoru looked at him in surprise as he pushed her down on the floor. She smiled as she saw his eyes.
"Your eyes..!"
He kissed her roughly while separating her legs with his knees. She bit his lip and whimpered sensually in pleasure. Without further notice he pushed himself inside of her, burying himself deep. Thrusting in and out, full and deep every time. His eyes never left hers and he could feel the tension rising between them. He reached his hand down and helped her with his thumb, suddenly she cried out loud as she came. He tried to hold back, but totally lost it when he felt her shuddering walls milk him to his own release. He spilled his warm seed inside of her and collapsed on top of her panting.
"How was that, ne?" she smiled.
"Very...very much okay, my Koishii."
"So you're not mad?"
He shook his head, gently kissing her hand, then her cheek and at last her lips. He captured them carefully while savouring the last moment of the aftermath. He rolled of of her and pulled her close. With a chuckle he pulled the blanket around them.
"Nani?"
"You're quite the woman Kaoru."
She smiled with tears in her eyes.
"Really?"
"Hai. Amazing, beautiful, talented. Arigato."
"For what..?" she whispered, caressing his cheek before kissing it.
"For being who you are and being mine. I can't say it enough but I'm lucky. Thank you for loving me. Aishiteru Anata."
"Aishiteru Kenshin..." she sighed happily and laid her head back down on him.
He yawned and pulled her close and drifted away slowly towards his sleep. Kaoru smiled and made herself comfortable on his shoulder, only to follow him. It took some time but finally her work paid off, now they really would live happily ever after. A bird landed in a tree outside, and began chirping. Suddenly the sun broke through the clouds shining on the small dojo. Yes, it seemed like things were finally at peace, the way it was suppose to be.
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~OWARI!~
That's it! I hope it wasn't to long and boring, but I really enjoyed writing it!
Hopefully now I'll return to my other stories... tehe...^_^'''
Thank you so much for all the love and support!
Yours truly, Menomaru-Sama.
