Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ Heavenly Lost ❯ As Far As Hell Goes ( Chapter 7 )

A/N: I don't have much to say except for WAFF ALERT!!!

Chapter VII

As Far As Hell Goes

Kenshin really didn't know where to go. He had Kaoru in his arms and he just kept walking without knowing where was he headed. He wanted to stop someplace and let Kaoru and himself rest but where? The time he had spent in hell he spent it wandering around, going from place to place, stopping momentarily just to remember her and then carry on, but now everything was different. She was with him.

Kenshin lower his eyes to look at the woman in his hands. Her long black hair was still loose and her deep blue eyes stared at him with a sparkle he didn't thought he'll see again.

"Kenshin I can walk, you don't have to carry me anymore"

Kenshin didn't stop walking and just looked at her intensely. His eyes stumbled upon her injury. He wanted to examine it more carefully. He knew she wouldn't get weaker by it but he also knew it wouldn't heal and it would hurt forever. He looked back up and searched the street. It looked empty, he couldn't sense any other presences near so he walked into a near by alley and stopped.

He carefully put Kaoru down in the ground with her back resting at the wall and then he sat beside her.

"Thank you Kenshin" She said in her soft voice without ever taking her eyes out of him.

He smiled at her and let his hand touch very gently her face, his hand kept going felling her soft skin, her chin, her neck, her collar bone and then he stopped as he noticed once again her wound. Her gi was torn and covered by blood. He kindly untied it and then moved his hand to the bloody bandages. A soft hand was placed on top of his and he looked up.

"Kenshin we are out in the street, what if somebody sees me?"

"Well it doesn't get more private than this" He answered with a playful smile on his lips but when he saw the serious look on her face he added. "I just want to make sure you are all right."

Kaoru giggled.

"Is not like I can die again Kenshin"

"I know that but you are hurt and I want to help you."

She removed her hand from his and nodded when she saw the worried expression on his face.

Kenshin carefully untied her bandages, Kaoru remained still but he could sense the soft shakes on her skin whenever he unwillingly caused her pain.

The injury wasn't very deep but it was long and, he knew, painful too. There wasn't any water in hell so he couldn't clean the wound but then again it wouldn't get infected. He was about to tear his gi apart so he could use it to bandage her injury when she stopped him. Then she handed him her blue ribbon.

"Here, use this"

"But that is your favorite ribbon, I can't…"

"Yes you can, I'm not going to let you tear down your gi. I want you to use it, please"

He just did what she said; there was no refusing those beautiful sapphire eyes. Then he helped her get her gi back on and she kissed him softly in the cheek as she whispered a "thank you" in his ear.

He seated beside her and put his arms around her small figure. She let her head rest in his chest and put her hands on top of him. They remained silent for only a few moments and then he spoke.

"Kaoru… what are you doing here, you don't belong here"

She turned her head around so she could stare into his violet eyes.

"I came for you"

Kenshin watched the smile in his wife's face as he felt his heart beat harder and harder. He tried to speak but he couldn't, he was speechless.

"Don't look at me like that Kenshin. You don't belong here either and I don't care if you want to admit it or not but you aren't staying here… at least not alone"

Kenshin couldn't take his eyes out of hers. She had that determent look on them. He slowly felt his ability to speak coming back to him.

"Kaoru… you didn't… I mean you were supposed to be in heaven and… but now you are here… why, how, why…"

"Kenshin a long time ago I promised I'll stay with you forever. I said I wanted to be with you, to share everything with you, your happiness and also your sufferings. Believe me, there isn't any hell that would keep me away from you."

"Kaoru… you chose hell over heaven just to be with me? Is your love that strong? You believe in me even when I don't, you have always been my support but now you are my angel. You descended from heaven just to share your brightness with me. Now I have you with me, what I love the most but I made you sacrifice everything. Now you are here with me but you'll have to share my destiny. I'm responsible for your suffering. Our love dragged you here and now there is nothing I can do but hold you tight. Why? I can suffer an eternity, miss you forever and have the joy of knowing you are happy somewhere, now I can be with you but I've hurt you too."

Those words were left unsaid but she could read them in his eyes. She rose and threw her arms around him. She ignored the tears falling from her eyes as she spoke.

"Kenshin there isn't a heaven if you aren't with me. My hell is being apart from you. I love you to much and the most painful thing that could happen to me is be force to live an eternity without you. This is not your fault, it is my choice and I hope you'll respect it. Please just love me the way you did and that'll be my heaven."

He stared at her face and then kissed her passionately. With that kiss he vowed to make her forever happy.

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"Oro? Kaoru I don't think that's possible"

"I know it is. I found you didn't I?"

"Yes but we are talking about two very different things"

"I know there is a way for us to get out. I just know it. Would you please believe me?"

"Kaoru I want to believe you but I don't…"

"Stop that talk!" She said shooting him her beautiful blue eyes. Kenshin took a step back and stop complaining. She did have a point. He never heard of a pure soul going to hell or two souls finding each other there so maybe there was a possibility of getting out but then what?

"Then we'll be reincarnated… somehow" She answered as if reading his mind.

"Oro?"

"Well Tomoe-san said that…"

"To…To…Tomoe?"

"Yes Tomoe-san"

"You met Tomoe?" Asked Kenshin with a fear tone in his voice.

"Yes, back in heaven"

"How is she?"

"Dead"

Kenshin looked at his wife deeply into her eyes with his own pair of violet ones. She saw the silent meaning of the stare so she spoke again.

"I'm sorry… you obviously know… she is fine, she is happy… she is reunited with… her… boyfriend… Akira…"

Kenshin remained silent for a minute just staring blankly at her. His mind was still processing all that new information he received in such a short amount of time. Finally after arranging the thoughts in his head and thinking of them carefully for a while he gave her the most coherent response he possibly could.

"Oro?"

A boken flown to Kenshin's head but stopped just some millimeters before hitting him.

"Here he can't heal so I have to control myself"

"Well as I was saying" She continue ignoring the confusion look in her husband face, but was cut off by the scream of the man carrying a sword that had approached them without them even notice.

"DIE BATTOUSAI!"

She blinked once and when she opened her eyes it had passed. The man was laying on the floor and Kenshin was back in his confusion state. Now she felt like saying `Oro' herself but she just tried to speak to Kenshin again and explain him the plan Tomoe had told her about in heaven.

After telling him all the details and getting him to focus his attention back to her they continued discussing what to do next.

"That is al fine Kaoru but how do we get out of here? Witch is the way out?"

"Maybe I can help you with that." Kaoru looked at the street trying to find the source of those words and then she saw her. She was standing at the end of the alley and approaching them.

She was a very beautiful woman. She was wearing long sleeved red Kimono with a purple obi that showed her white shoulders. Her hair was violet and she had it tied in a bundle up her head so her neck was showing too. Her eyes were a kind of violet and her lips were painted in violet as well, she had a mole beside her mouth. She walked slowly towards them in a very elegant manner. Kaoru knew the instant she saw her that the woman was well educated. Kaoru didn't know her but knew there was more to that woman that it showed.

"Yumi-dono"

Kaoru turned to look at Kenshin. He had seen the woman too but he wasn't looking at her anymore, he was looking pass her. His hand was in the hilt of his sword and she could tell he was in a ready stance, as if he was waiting for something or someone else.

"Yumi… I know I've heard that name before but I don't know that woman, where have I heard it before?"

Kaoru's eyes opened wide when she realized who was the woman in front of her. She got closer to Kenshin and waited for the woman to talk again.

"You can relax" she said when she was close enough. "Shishio-sama isn't with me right now"

Kenshin nodded and took his hand of the hilt of his sword. She was telling the truth, he couldn't sense Shishio's ki near by.

"So this is your woman" Yumi said looking at Kaoru. "Very nice, she came down here just for you?"

"Kamiya Kaoru" She said while bowing slightly to Yumi.

Yumi just ignored her and continue addressing Kenshin.

"I've heard of a way to get out of here so I can help you if you want"

"Oro?" Said Kenshin "Why would you want to help us."

Yumi remain silent for a moment and then sighted.

"Since we got here Shishio-sama and I have been really close. Hell isn't such a bad place, we are together, he can fight to defend himself or just to have fun and his body isn't hurt since no one is skilled enough to hut him. He is the only soul on hell that doesn't have to endure the coldness of this place. His body is still burned here so he can remain warm and he warms me too. Hoji is here too and now he is in the middle of his preparations to… Well you don't have to know that. What I'm trying to say is that hell isn't big enough for the both of you. I don't want Shishio-sama to get badly injured in a fight with you and I know that if he sees you he'll want to fight. I know there is a chance for you to leave, I heard you talk to her so please go and let us be."

Kaoru heard Yumi speech and felt like they both share something. They were both so in love that hell wasn't an obstacle, they both followed their love one and neither of them wanted them to get hurt.

"Yumi-san, I can understand you and I trust you. Would you please tell us what you know?" Said Kaoru getting close to her.

"I've only heard rumors. No one from heaven has ever come down here so I suppose that would be an advantage to you. It is said that if there is a way to leave the city it is at the end of it."

"Yumi-dono, do you mean we have to cross the city?"

"That's exactly what I mean"

"But the city is suppose to be gigantic and also built up like a labyrinth. There isn't a way to reach the end"

"Yes it is. As you said the city is built like a labyrinth so the only thing you have to do is choose the right path. If you accomplish that you'll be able to get to the end in a reasonable amount of time. I'm not saying it'll be easy, as you know the city holds deep secrets and you never know what is coming up next, I'm just saying is possible."

"Well, let's say we get to the end of the city, then what?"

"Don't you think I told you a lot already? I don't have all the answers."

"Thank you Yumi-san" Said Kaoru before Kenshin could reply again. "You've been a lot of help to us"

"Well I'm not doing this for you" She said as she was leaving "I'm doing this for Shishio-sama. Now I only ask one favor of you, when you get to the end of the street go right, I'm going left and I plead you to stay away from our path."

"Thank you Yumi-dono, we'll do it" Said Kenshin as Yumi was disappearing into the city.

Kenshin turned and looked at Kaoru again.

"Now what?"

"Now we go deeper into the city."

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