Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ Rurouni and Battousai ❯ The trouble starts ( Chapter 2 )

Rurouni and Battousai     Chapter 1: The trouble starts   Kaoru opened her eyes and groaned. She blinked owlishly up at the ceiling, only to find a worried rurouni by her side. She closed her eyes and breathed deeply and looked up at him again. She smiled weakly.   “Kenshin… I just had the weirdest dream… I thought I saw two of you when I came into your room.” She chuckled as she sat up on her futon… or so she thought.   As she looked down on the futon below her, her eyes widened when she realized that it wasn’t her futon, looking to her left, she gasped when she saw that it wasn’t her room she was in. It was Kenshin’s.   Looking at the rurouni sitting quietly beside her, she opened her mouth to ask him what had happened when her sapphire orbs registered another figure sitting behind him. Her mouth remained open as the other figure lifted his head and stare at her with glittering amber eyes. She uttered a faint shriek as she moved to the wall behind her.   “Nani??????? Two of you?!!!” she stuttered uncontrollably as she pointed from one to the other. “What happened?!”   The rurouni merely shook his head. “I don’t know Kaoru-dono. When I woke up… I had a major headache, then I came face to face with my other persona… literally.”   She blinked again. “Demo… how…”   “That sessha doesn’t know.”   Kaoru slowly composed herself and looked directly in his eye. “Don’t you remember anything that might have caused this?” she asked him   “Nothing. It’s been quiet these past few months. I don’t recall anything unusual around the dojo.”   Looking past Kenshin her eyes locked with that of amber. “Demo… if it wasn’t done by anyone, do you remember anything unusual, anything that you’ve done?”   Both men looked thoughtful for a while before battousai snapped his fingers. “Oi, rurouni! Didn’t you read something yesterday?”   The rurouni looked thoughtful for a moment before realization dawned on his face. “Hai. I remember de gozaru! It was written inside that worn out notebook that Kaoru-dono passed to me yesterday inside the storage room.”   Kaoru stiffened at the mention of an old notebook. She eyed the rurouni warily. “Did you mean of a very, as in very, very old notebook?”   Both looked at her. “Hai.” As Kenshin answered her, she jumped up and raced to her room and come back after a few moment with the aforesaid notebook in hand. Flopping down beside the rurouni she showed them the notebook.   “Is this it?” she asked him a bit nervously   “Hai. That’s the one.” Battousai told her   “Can you remember just exactly what you read in this notebook?”   Battousai took the notebook in her shaking hands and flipped through the pages until he found the page he was looking for and showed it to Kaoru.   Her sapphire eyes widened, “Please don’t tell me that you read this out loud…”   “Sessha did de gozaru… doushite?”   Kaoru groaned and shook her head. This was trouble.   Battousai looked at her and frowned. “Just what is this notebook exactly and what happened to us?”   Kaoru looked from one to the other. “This is a notebook which my okaasan gave to me when I was still little. I remember that she used to be a priestess at the water temple. She passed this notebook down to me in hopes that I would follow her footsteps in being a miko.” She shook her head ruefully, “Yeah right, miko. If she only knew what her daughter had become of today…” she muttered under her breath, “Anyway, this notebook is filled with all sorts of spells and incantations… and the one you’ve just read, is the one responsible for your current position. It’s a spell to separate two souls.”   Looking at the two men seated beside her she looked at them worriedly. “And the reason that this page is marked,” she showed the red mark on top of the page, “is because my mother have never found a way to reverse this type of spell.”   Amethyst and amber eyes widened at her words. “Are you telling us that we are going to be stuck like this forever?!” they both shouted   The rurouni looked flabbergasted, so did battousai, except battousai’s shock turned into a dark smirk.   “So does this mean that I’m totally separated with this nitwit seated beside you?”   Kaoru’s eyes widened at what he said and nodded mutely. “Hai. As the spell goes, the two of you have now been completely separated. Two hearts, two souls… each with your own will.”   The rurouni stared at his second persona. “Just what the heck do you mean by that?” he asked battousai.   Battousai smirked as he eyed Kaoru hungrily as she stood up and made her way out of the room, turning back to the rurouni he eyed the other to try and stop him. Standing to follow her he smirked darkly and left the gaping rurouni inside the room.   “Kaoru.”   The young kenjutsu shihondai turned slowly when she heard his deep, husky voice behind her. She stood stock still when Battousai came closer to her and grasped her chin, tilting her head to meet his.   “You won’t have to worry about me leaving, Kaoru...” he whispered huskily to her ear, “I’m quite comfortable with this arrangement.” he told her before landing a chaste kiss on her soft lips.   Kaoru stood dumbstruck even after he had left her. As she shook herself back into reality, she flushed brick red when she saw the Rurouni standing outside his room and having seen the episode between her and Battousai, now had the fringes of his blood red hair covering his eyes, hiding whatever emotion he was feeling at the moment.   Kaoru flushed deeper and she consciously tucked a stray hair behind her ear. “Ummm… I’ll go and tell the others what happened here so that they’d know what to do…” she whispered in a rush. “and I’ll try to find a way to reverse this spell…” she added the last more to herself than to anyone.   As she turned, the rurouni lifted his head and gazed knowingly at her. “Hai… you do that Kaoru-dono, and make it fast before Battousai could do something he shouldn’t do.” He whispered as he looked directly to the tree where Battousai could be seen smirking dangerously at him.   Now that the Battousai has full reign of his actions, there was no way of telling what he would do. Especially to a certain blue eyed swordswoman.   =0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=   AN: Whoeeeeee!!! A new story to add to the last! Hope you guys enjoy this… lemon chapies again in later parts and again, me not post it here. You‘ll find it in my yahoo group. Ja ne!!! revies again!   Aoi-chan