Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ How the Past Can Change ❯ Unusual Relationships ( Chapter 5 )

How the Past can Change

A K&K Rurouni Kenshin Romance FanFiction by: bunny ;D

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Disclaimer: Rurouni Kenshin is the creation of Nobuhiro Watsuki, with the manga and anime rights belonging to Jump Comics and Sony Entertainment, respectively. I do not own and did not create the series or its characters...I'm just a fan, and I have no money anyways, so NO SUING ME!! :D

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AN: This story is altering the original story of Rurouni Kenshin / Samurai X. It also has some OOCness, (especially with Battousai.) If you don't like that idea, or can't handle it…I would advise you not to read this fic. If you are a hard core Tomoe and Kenshin forever kind of person, I would advise you to not read this fic. Don't get me wrong, I like Tomoe, this is just a different story ok?

Ja ne,

Bunny ;D

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Kaoru threw her arms around the other woman "Oh Tomoe-san!! Thank you so much!! It was so fortunate for me to have ran into you!!!" Kaoru gushed.

Tomoe giggled and returned Kaoru's hug. "Oh, Kaoru-chan, you are so sweet, you have made this depressed woman happy and smiling again, and for that I thank you very much!!" Tomoe said. Then she took her hand and they ran down the hall giggling like school girls over the outfit Tomoe was going to lend Kaoru that she was sure would look so cute on her.

On his way back to his room, Kenshin witnessed the scene between Kaoru and Tomoe and smiled. He was very happy that Kaoru had been able to cheer Tomoe, who had seemed so terribly sad. Disappointed that he wouldn't see Kaoru for a few hours, he slightly dragged his last few steps into room, but he felt grateful that he at least knew where she would be, and that she would be ok.

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Chapter Five

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Kaoru stepped from behind the changing screen in Tomoe's room "Well, Tomoe-chan, how do I look?" she asked her new friend.

Tomoe turned from where she seemed to be writing something in some type of journal to inspect how Kaoru looked in one of her most favorite kimonos. She smiled at her cheerful companion. "Oh, Kaoru-chan!! You look just as cute as I thought you would in that kimono!! The blue butterflies really bring out your eye color!!" Tomoe complemented her.

Kaoru squealed excitedly. "This is so much fun Tomoe-chan!! I've never done anything like this with a girl friend before!!" she confided.

"Really?" Tomoe questioned.

"Yeah, really, my mother died when I was very young, and I've had a lot of responsibilities since then…I'm also the assistant master of Kamiya Kasshin Ryu and run my family's dojo, so I'm some what of a tomboy." Kaoru offered.

"Wow!! You're a swordswoman?" Tomoe asked.

Kaoru smiled. "Yeah, I am…pretty silly right?" she giggled.

Tomoe giggled too. "Actually, I think that's really good. You know how to defend yourself."

Kaoru's smiled disappeared. 'No, not really…Kenshin is always saving my pathetic butt in the future,' she thought. 'Mou!! I'm not a good swordswoman at all!!! Always being captured…I hope he's not too worried about me back in the future…oh Kenshin…' Kaoru let out a sigh.

Tomoe noticed how Kaoru's face fell, and decided not to press. "So, tell me how you first met Himura-san" Tomoe said.

Kaoru's face brightened again. "Well, um," she began, and then paused, 'what do I say to her?' Kaoru asked herself. 'I suppose the truth can't hurt…I'll just leave out the location, and our ages and stuff like that.' She decided before continuing, "a couple of years ago, there was this horrible rumor going around about my dojo…and I was determined to kill the one who had been spreading this rumor…so I was walking around the streets at night to try to find this person killing in the name of my dojo. When I found the horrible beast spreading these rumors, he injured my hand, and almost killed me, but Kenshin came out of no-where with his God-like speed and saved me.' Kaoru paused to smile at the memory. "He carried me back to my dojo and then the next day helped me by defeating the bullies. I asked him if he would like to stay with me and he said that he would…at least that's the summarized version." Kaoru finished.

Tomoe smiled. "So how did you end up getting engaged?" she asked Kaoru.

'Mou!! Now what!! There is NO WAY I can tell her about that. It simply doesn't fit in with this era!!' Kaoru's stomach growled…she smiled…"Ah, Tomoe-chan, I wish I could tell you, it's a wonderful story, but my stomach is very upset with me right now and if I don't eat something I'm going to faint." Kaoru complained.

Tomoe giggled. "I'm sorry Kaoru-chan!! I completely forgot that you have not eaten anything yet." Tomoe got up and led the way to the kitchen where Kaoru stuffed her face, while making appreciative noises.

-------------------------------------------------------------- < p class='c4'>Quietly, in the hopes to not wake Kenshin, Kaoru slid open the paper screen door of "their" room. Kenshin was, as always leaned against the wall with one leg and one arm, supporting his sword, sleeping soundlessly. Kaoru smiled lovingly at him before changing into the extra nightclothes that Tomoe had lent her. 'I have to avoid talking with Kenshin' she told herself 'if I tell him anymore about the future it could very well drastically change, and not necessarily for the better…already Tomoe is telling me what a cute couple we make and how happy she knows we will be. I was quite shocked to hear her story, of her fiancée that was killed, I never knew that Tomoe had been engaged before she was married to Kenshin…this puzzled me greatly, but they were things of the past, that I had chosen in the future to not know about, and now, here I am…learning all about the past…first hand, and becoming a part of it myself. Mou!! This is terrible!! I'm supposed to be with Kenshin now, I'm supposed to be enjoying my honeymoon right now…instead I'm stuck here in the past…true, I have Kenshin here too, but…it's not the same.' Kaoru frowned. She slipped under the covers on the futon and dozed off into a troubled sleep.

Kenshin heard Kaoru's deep steady breathing, indicating that she was sleeping and slipped out the window to meet with the others to complete the mission given to them by Katsura-sama earlier that day.

Kenshin blocked all thoughts of Kaoru from his mind as once again, he completed his nightly tasks. On his way back to the inn, his scar began bleeding again and absently he wiped the blood away. Kenshin allowed his thoughts to return back to Kaoru, wondering what she would say if she knew he had been out for the last hour completing his assigned assassinations…somehow, he didn't think that she would approve. Kenshin sighed, and wished that Kaoru really was his wife…she would be able to erase all these bad times for him, and remind him of what he is fighting for…Katsura had mentioned something about a wife acting as a sheath…Kenshin wished that Kaoru would be his sheath for him.

Quietly and with practiced skill, Kenshin re-entered his room by the window, and upon setting down his feet, he was plummeted onto the floor.

"Kaoru?" he questioned returning her hug.

"Oh Kenshin!!" she exclaimed. "I was so worried about you!!" she explained.

Kenshin couldn't help it, he grinned. 'I didn't know she cared THAT much…after all, she knows who I am,' he thought. "Kaoru, there is no need for you to worry about me…remember…the greatest swordsman in Japan speech you gave me earlier today?" he asked her, trying to be comforting.

Kaoru was crying onto his gi, holding on to him for dear life. "No, Kenshin, it's so much worse when I see it first hand!!" she sobbed to him.

"Now, now…" Kenshin said patting her hair…'I suppose we're going to have another night where she cries herself to sleep in my arms' he thought. "No need to worry Kaoru…you know, you know me in the future right? So that means that I live through all this right?" he said trying to calm her.

Kaoru sniffled. "Well, I suppose your right Kenshin, but I can't help but worry, and me just being here could be changing the future!! I know already of some changes that have occurred from me being here with you…in this time." She said worriedly.

"And what would those changes be?" Kenshin asked his curiosity once again aroused.

Kaoru lifted herself up slightly from her position on top of Kenshin, propping up her upper body with her arms on either side of his head and shook her own head. "No, Kenshin…there is no way that I'm going to tell you." Kaoru replied. 'Yeah, like I'm going to tell him that he shouldn't like me right now because he's supposed to marry Tomoe, only to kill the poor woman…besides…I have an inclining that there was something a lot deeper than just that after hearing about Tomoe's dead fiancée. I'm not going to place either of them in danger of hurting each other…even if it means I don't get to meet and marry Kenshin in the future' Kaoru mentally noted to herself. Then she frowned…'not ever knowing Kenshin?' She sighed, "'I'm too nice,' she thought, beginning to feel somewhat depressed.

"Are you thinking about your real fiancée again?" Kenshin asked Kaoru, noticing the frown and the long sigh.

Kaoru's eyes met back with Kenshin's. "Kenshin…" she began "please promise me that no matter what changes might happen from me being here right now…that you will be walking at night in the streets of Tokyo on April 22, 1878." Kaoru requested.

Kenshin smiled knowingly at Kaoru. "Is that how we first met Kaoru?" he asked her.

Kaoru smiled back. "Yes, that's where we first met Kenshin." Kaoru replied.

"Well then, I will most certainly be there, because there is no way that I would not want to meet you, and find out all the details about how we met," he paused "I promise."

"Thank you so much Kenshin!!" Kaoru said squeezing him in another big bear hug.

"Oh Kaoru, you're so cute." He sighed into her hair, although he didn't think she heard him.

Kaoru disengaged herself from Kenshin's embrace and stood up.

"Good night, Kenshin." She said walking towards the futon and slipping back under the covers.

Kenshin stood and followed Kaoru to the futon. He took his swords out of his belt and placed it next to the side of the futon and slipped under the covers with Kaoru.

Kaoru rolled over and faced Kenshin. "Himura Kenshin, what do you think you're doing?" she asked quite calmly.