Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ Rurouni and Battousai ❯ truths ( Chapter 8 )

Rurouni and Battousai   Chapter 6: Truths   A knock on her door woke her up, blinking groggily awake, Kaoru turned her head towards the door and groaned, she was about to yell at the person on the other side of the door to wait when she felt a something wrapped around her waist. She looked at it for a while before she snapped fully awake when she heard the person on the other side of the door speak.   “Kaoru-dono, breakfast is ready, you should wake up de gozaru, or Yahiko will finish it all up.” Came the rurouni’s voice.   Kaoru nearly bolted up right when the arm around her waist tightened, bringing her back on the soft futon with an ‘oomph’. Battousai smirked at the panicked expression on the woman beside him, he raised his head a bit to answer the rurouni’s call when a small hand clamped his mouth shut.   “I’ll be there in a minute, Kenshin!” she called out, almost too cheerfully while she glared at the red haired assassin who merely raised a brow at her. She held her breath until she heard the rurouni’s footsteps move away from her door. After that did she only release her hand from Battousai’s mouth, glaring at him all the while.   “What the heck do think you’re doing?!” she hissed at him, her eyes shooting off blue sparks.   Battousai merely stretched like a cat beside her and regarded her with gleaming amber eyes. “What’s what? I was merely about to tell him that we’ll be there in a minute.”   Her eyes blazed even more. “Nani?! Are you crazy?! Then he’ll know that you’re here the entire evening! What will he think?!” she growled at him before she stopped, “wait, again, scratch that, what will he say?!” she added after a while   He merely looked at her smugly before he grabbed his gi and hakama that had been tossed aside carelessly the night before and started to dress. “So? He’s bound to find out sooner or later…” he drawled out casually.   She stopped in mid-motion with the tying of her obi when she felt his arms wrap around her, nuzzling her neck. “I wouldn’t worry about it, Kaoru, everything will turn out alright…”   She looked at him suspiciously, “Define ‘alright’?”   Amber orbs gleamed mischievously at her. “Trust me…” was all that he told her before he released his hold on her and quietly made his way out of her room.   She glared at the slightly open shoji and muttered under her breath, “Yeah, alright… speak for yourself. You’re not the one who’s handling one man with two different personalities.”   =0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0= &nbs p; The Rurouni eyed Battousai as the latter sat on his place around the dinning table with something akin to smug amusement. Something was definitely out of place here. He thought, and his suspicions rose even more when Kaoru entered the room. A slight flush colored her expressive face when she looked at Battousai, and his eyes narrowed at the reason for that slight coloring of her cheeks. He had seen the way Battousai looked at Kaoru, even fleeting as it was, he had caught it. It was a look filled with barely controlled hunger, a look he knew only all too well for he had have that same look every time he knew Kaoru wasn’t looking.   Breakfast had gone peacefully enough, but with every moment that had passed, his suspicions only grew even more. As the rest of the occupants left the kitchen and he was left to finish cleaning the place, he stopped short when he realized one thing…his other half had not entered his room last night. The chopsticks in his hand broke with barely concealed fury. He had better not have touched her or else I wouldn’t be responsible for my actions. came the dark thought as he hurriedly finished with his chores. Just as he had finished drying the dishes, he heard Yahiko yell out to Kaoru that he was going to spend the rest of the week at the Akkabeko because Tae needed help at the restaurant.   The rurouni stepped out of the kitchen just as Yahiko sped past him. A startled oro was all that can be heard from the rurouni before he fell flat on his face.   Oro oro…. Sessha definitely has to watch out for anything whizzing by him… these things are actually starting to hurt. He thought before he slowly lifted himself up, still swirly eyed, he had managed to upright himself in a sitting position before gentle hands held his face.   “Mou, Kenshin… I can’t believe you let Yahiko mow you over just like that? What had happened to your legendary god-like speed?” she berated him as she gently wiped his face free from the dirt. The swirls in his eyes disappeared before he chuckled embarrassedly at the woman before him, a hand scratching the back of his head accompanied the embarrassed laughter.   Kaoru looked at him and shook her head ruefully, “Then again, I think it all went to Battousai after the two of you got completely separated.” She mumbled under her breath unknown to her that the man before her had heard every single word. Tapping his head as she rose, Kaoru held her hand out to him. The rurouni ground his teeth soundlessly as he heard her mumbled comment but took the hand offered to him as she helped him stand up.   “I’m going to the market today, Kenshin. I’ll be back later this afternoon.”   The Rurouni stared at her retreating form just as he saw the glittering amber orbs observing them from a tree ahead of them. “If Kaoru-dono won’t mind, sessha would like to accompany you to town.”   Kaoru blinked at him before her lips parted to a wide grin. “I’ll be ready in a second!” she called out to him as she raced towards her room to change.   The Rurouni smiled at her retreating form before his gaze settled coldly on the tree before him. “Where were you last night, Battousai?”   His other half emerged from the branches of the tree and jumped gracefully before him, “None of your business.”   The rurouni’s normally gentle violet eyes shone with an unknown fury. “It will be my business if you had laid one single hand on Kaoru.” He growled out.   Battousai’s brows rose a bit, “Is that a threat, Rurouni?” came the soft response   “If the shoe fits, the by all means, wear it!” came the answer, this time it was just as soft as the Battousai’s response.   The amber eyes assassin merely smirked at him. “What if I told you that you’re already too late with your pathetic threats?” he crooned silkily at the other man.   The Rurouni stood there for a while, almost paralyzed with Battousai’s words before his control snapped and his hands went to his sakabatou, but just before he could grasp the hilt of his sword, Kaoru called out cheerfully from her room. His hand dropped to his sides as Kaoru emerged on the porch and stood by him, she looked at both him and Battousai before she tilted her head in question.   “Is there anything wrong?” she asked them both, “You two seem quiet… as if some thing’s going to happen...” she whispered as her hand unconsciously grasped the Rurouni’s sleeve.   The rurouni merely smiled at her and shook his head, “Daijobou, Kaoru… everything’s alright.” He told her before lacing his hand with hers, startling the young kenjutsu shihondai, her eyes darted from one to the other before she settled comfortably in step beside him as they made their way outside.   Battousai couldn’t help but smile coldly at the Rurouni’s back. He had almost broken that damned idiots control if only Kaoru hadn’t arrived just in time, he thought darkly but couldn’t help smirk. They wouldn’t mind if he tagged along now would they… especially if he stays out of sight. He thought before disappearing to catch up with the other two.   =0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=   Kaoru watched the rurouni from beneath her bangs and knew that there was something wrong. He had been unusually quiet ever since they had left the dojo, just as she stood beside the Rurouni, she had felt the huge amount of tension emanating from the two swordsmen and shook her head. Two men of the same body only with different personalities could have so much trouble with one another. She shook her head again, this time, capturing the attention of the man beside her.   “Daijobou ka, Kaoru?” he asked her gently, and softly, too softly for Kaoru’s peace of mind. She looked up at his amethyst eyes and frowned, grabbing his hand, she pulled him along with her back to the dojo to get some answers.   Just as she pushed the gates shut, Kaoru looked around and noticed that Battousai was not inside, stomping past him, she spun around and glared at him just as she reached the middle of the yard.   “Alright, out with it!” she growled out loud. “What the hell’s wrong with you?!”   The rurouni hadn’t expected this reaction from her. “What do you mean?”   “I mean… you’ve been stone cold quiet ever since we left the dojo a while ago, it’s already grating on my nerves!” she yelled at him   The Rurouni merely looked at her and made his way to the porch where he sat down and looked at her, as in really looked at her.   Kaoru blushed a bit with the look he was giving her but refused to back down from the subject. “Out with it,” she spat out, “I know something’s bothering you! And I want it out now!”   “Was Battousai with you last night?” came the blunt question   Kaoru stood stock still with shock as his words sunk in. She could feel her face heating up, “What… what gave you that idea?” she asked him softly   He merely shrugged but refused to take his eyes off of her, even as she slowly moved towards him, settling on the wooden floorboards.   Kaoru looked at the yard ahead of them and sighed mentally. So, that’s what happened between those two earlier, battousai no baka. she thought, looking at her companion, “Why do you want to know?”   The Rurouni gritted his teeth, So it seems that Battousai had indeed won this little cat and mouse game of theirs. He thought darkly, So, what happens to me now? He gritted his teeth and stood up, hands clenching into fists. “Why did you let him take you?” he managed to ask her through clenched teeth   “Because I love him…” came the soft answer and he felt as if the ground had disappeared from below his feet. She loved him… loved battousai… not him… he could barely feel the wind around him, he had lost…   “Just as I love you…”   His head snapped back up and he turned around so fast that his hair had whipped through the wind, he stared at her disbelievingly, “What…”   Kaoru shook her head and smiled sadly up at him. She stood up and held his face in her hands. “I thought I could go along with this little game for a little while longer but I guess I couldn’t help myself.” She traced the cross scar on his left cheek, “You idiot. What did you think? That I couldn’t love one without loving the other? Kenshin look at me, I’ll repeat myself alright, I don’t care about our past, I only care about you… both you and Battousai. The two of you have been through too much, the only thing I want is for the two of you to be happy… it’s the least I can do…”   The rurouni wrapped his arms around her and buried his face on the crook of her neck, his breath shuddering and he hugged her close. He then lifted his head and looked at her misting sapphire orbs and smiled before claiming her lips in a soft gentle kiss. Lifting her lithe form, he carried her then to his room and shut the door tight.   From roof of the dojo, Battousai smiled and felt something slide on his check, startled, he wiped the wetness from his face and stared at it in surprise and realized that the wetness on his face came from him. Teardrops. He hadn’t shed tears since he had accidentally killed Tomoe. He stared at the wetness in his fingers and realized that the tears that fell from his eyes were those of happiness and not that of sorrow. He had heard everything Kaoru told the Rurouni from his perch up on the roof, he could never have thought that Kaoru’s feelings ran that deep. That she would want nothing more than to give him happiness… no one had ever done that for him. Not even Tomoe.   He laid down on the roof and looked at the sky, closing his eyes, he uttered a silent prayer to Kami for bringing him this wonderful gift of happiness… a gift in the form of a raven haired kenjutsu shihondai who could not cook to save her life and who could punch with much force that it rivaled even the combination of his shishou, Shishio, Saitou, Aoshi and even Enishi and Sano.   Happiness… now he truly knew what that meant. His time for redemption has passed, it was time for him to face his own future and happiness… he owed himself just as much as well as Kaoru.   =0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=              AN: whaaaaa!!! At lat Chapter 6 is out! Sorry if took me this long to finish this, I’ve been doing a lot on school… again sorry! And I really want to thank all of those who reviewed, my huge thankie, thankie, thankies!!! Anyweis, about that part where I let battousai have Kaoru first… well… it’s the only way I can think of battousai… straight to point and aggressive. Get what I mean? Hehehe, If not, just keep reading and I hope I’ll be able to explain it on the next chapters. Ja ne! revies please!    Aoi-chan