Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ Second Chances ( for now...) ❯ The day part 2 ( Chapter 4 )

A/N: Right somewhere in here is my very first *LEMON*, be warned!

Disclaimer: I don't own Rurouni Kenshin or any of the characters, I mean really…If you're seriously thinking of sueing, you probably read way down to the bottom of this chapter, ne? Well then, if I owned ANY characters…wouldn't I be waaaaayyy too busy to be writing this? …I thought so…^_^

~@#The day II…#@~

Kaoru found herself wrapped in his arms and grinned widely as he kissed her.

"I know we've only just met…ano…five hours ago? But…I've loved you for more than a lifetime…So I suggest you get used to it," Kenshin chuckled and looked at her with a proud and still questioning look in his eyes.

Kaoru beamed at him, still grinning and nodded.

"I'll try…"

She watched as Kenshin tried to stifle yawn and picked up the blanket from the floor.

"I went to get you this, you'll catch a cold, " she wrapped the blanket around him and laughed at the expression on his face, "Ne Kenshin, if you get to call me `koishii', I can worry about you, can't I?"

"Alright, but then I get to make us breakfast!'

"Deal! I still can't cook, you know…Look!" she pouted and extended her scalded hand for him to inspect, "I made you tea last night…"

Kenshin smiled and kissed the slightly red mark.

"Better now?…I don't remember tea?"

Kaoru grinned.

"Believe me, if you'd drank any of it, you'd remember."

He chuckled and let himself be guided towards the kitchen, ignoring the way she giggled at him when he immediately grabbed a couple of pots and pans and got to work.

`How on earth am I going to explain this all to Tae-nee-chan…? Oh hell! She'll be back soon and I haven't even started cleaning yet! She'll have killed me before she notices the gorgeous man in the kitchen cooking breakfast! Kyaa! How am I going to explain Kenshin to her?! It's not like we've done anything, though…'

Quietly she blushed before diving into a cupboard behind him and emerging with a bucket and mop.

She hurriedly filled the bucket with hot water and shuffled into the restaurant area.

"Oro?"

Kaoru wheeled around to see Kenshin standing behind her, a puzzled look on his face wiping his hands on the teacloth.

"What's wrong koishii?" Kaoru sighed and smiled at the concern in his voice.

"Nothing's wrong…yet. My sister, you met her I think, is going to be here in a few hours…When she sees this mess, she'll get angry…And that's not good, ne?", Kaoru sighed and looked into his eyes.

Kenshin's protective instincts kicked in the moment he saw even that slight hint of fear in her eyes and he walked up to her, instantly sweeping her up in a protective embrace.

"Daijoubu, I'll be here," he told her firmly.

She pried herself loose and turned away.

"But that's what I'm afraid of…I want you here, but when Tae sees you, us…I don't know what'll happen," she quickly turned and looked at his face, hoping he hadn't misunderstood, and encountered a smile.

"She's your sister, she'll probably protect the ones she loves with all she's got. Like you do."

Kaoru sighed, `Every girl should have a man like him, no-one would ever be depressed! I won't lose him this time. There's no way I'm letting him get away again. I'd rather have him drugged and tied to the bed than anywhere on this planet that's anywhere that I'm not at. Tied to the bed? Why-`

"Koishii? Why are you blushing? Are you ill?"

"Ah…No! I was just…um…Well, you see, when Tae gets back she'll probably think we…um…anoooo…"

Kenshin was on the verge of grinning like a maniac when her blush increased, but thought it better not to…'Let's not go there until later, ne, Himura?'

He chose to ignore her last comment and picked up the mop, smiling his best smile at her, still trying to control the more interesting thoughts running rampant in his mind.

"Sou de gozaru. Well, breakfast won't be done for a while, let's get this place cleaned up? I'll do the floor if you'll take care of the tables."

Now Kaoru was confused. `He was always good at cleaning floors…But didn't he hear what I said? Or maybe he's not interested in me like that…I'm just the tanuki after all…I know he loves me, but does that include…it? I bet he'd be amazing though…' she looked up from the table she was wiping down and caught him watching her, ` How can he possibly look that sexy… He's mopping a floor for Kami's sake! There's nothing sexy about mopping is there? It's the grin…definitely! Wait…why is he grinning? At me?!'

She defeated her blush and asked him, not really prepared for the answer.

"I was just thinking…I'm almost done with this floor, and you only need to clean two more tables, and breakfast won't be ready for another hour. So since we need to talk to your sister…we've got some time left…

I was just thinking of ways to fill it…"

He fell silent, then grinned again more fiercely and got back to mopping with even more enthusiasm.

Kaoru let go of the mental grasp on her blush and it surfaced with a vengeance as she swiped her cloth over the table's surface and her mind reeled at the possible innuendo she thought she might have caught but suddenly wasn't certain about anymore…

One thing was certain though: she found herself thinking of ways to fill the rest of her entire life if not more.

The problem was that her thinking was going to have to end sometime.

Sooner or later she was going to run out of tables and Kenshin was going to run out of floor and he was going to ask her what they should do next and then she was going to have to come up with an answer.

Another problem was that that scenario wasn't actually the real problem.

The real problem was that it had just played out and that Kenshin was looking at her with a very confusing and…well distracting look on his face, which Kaoru just happened to find…distracting, even without the look.

There was no escaping it, nor did she really want to, she suddenly realized. Just after she started panicking.

`Yare yare…If you can't beat them, join them! Ne?!'

~@#*#@~

Kaoru was trying not to fall down, desperately. But she was discovering how incredibly difficult it is to walk up a flight of stairs seductively when you're extremely nervous.

Well, it seemed to be working.

Kenshin was still smiling, looking a bit confused instead of confusing, but slowly following her up the stairs. Slowly…carrying a bucket of steaming water and a mop…

`Okay, so maybe telling him that we had to clean in the bathroom yet was a bit harsh…Well he shouldn't tease me!! I'm sure I can make him forget…'

Trying to prevent herself from experiencing the extreme difficulties of walking up stairs seductively when you're nervous and giggling, she sprinted the last five steps and dove around the corner.

Kenshin followed suit and found himself in a small, bright hallway with five three doors on either side.

And no Kaoru…

"Koishii? Where are you?"

He put down the bucket and turned quickly, moving towards the small sound of rustling cloth he had heard.

"Ah! Kenshin! Could you wait in my room for a second? It's the one straight across from the staircase, just leave the bucket in the hall, alright? I won't be long, I promise…"

Kenshin sighed and dropped his chin to his chest as he walked into the room he was told to.

`I know we only just met, but…I waited so long and I just wish…'

He sank down onto the only furniture in the small room: the bed.

Noticing it how very soft and bouncy it was, he let himself fall backwards, suddenly thinking various purposes for a soft and bouncy bed.

"Oroooo…"

"Anata? You can come in now…"

He stood in an instant, and found himself in that same small hallway, confronted with the reason he was in her bedroom in the first place.

"Eto…koishii? Where are you?"

`Kami, that sounded pathetic…' Kenshin mentally slapped himself and set to work.

There was another small sound from the right end of the hallway and he followed his instincts, silently stalking up to a shoji to his right and swiftly shoved it open.

"I've got you…now?"

He blinked rapidly…'Tiles…furo…a shower…No Kaoru? But I was so sure.'

"Yes…you've got me."

It was a soft touch on his shoulder and a warm breath near his ear, he turned and wrapped his arms around her, grinning again.

"You know me better than I do…"

She smiled and turned her face into his neck, he felt her trembling and the release of her shuddering breaths against his skin.

`She's nervous…'

He smiled and kissed the top of her head.

"Koishii…why are we in a bathroom?"

Kaoru took a step back and tilted her head with an amused smile pasted on her face.

"I don't suppose you've seen any mirror's lately, ne?"

She grabbed hold of his hand and dragged him towards the opposite wall, to face a large oval-shaped mirror.

Kenshin mouthed an `oro' at his reflection and nearly fell over laughing.

His reflection wasn't looking too good…First off, he was covered in paint, and then there was the tangled mess on his head that he used to refer to as `hair'.

Suddenly his dishevelled reflection was joined by a beautiful young woman.

"So you agree with me that you need a bath then?"

He watched his reflection as the beautiful girl started to unbutton his shirt slowly.

`Oro! She's wearing a yukata…a…thin…yukata? So that's what she was doing…'

As soon as she could Kaoru ran her hands over the corded muscle of his chest.

"Kaoru…"

She finished with the last button and pushed the shirt off his shoulders and down his arms to lay on the tiled floor.

"Maybe…"

Her hands rested on the small of his back now, as she lay her head against his chest.

`Why isn't he responding…or something? I thought he wanted this as much as I do…I thought he wanted… me…I must have b-`

She had started to back away slowly, avoiding looking into his eyes…feeling suddenly that this used to be her greatest fear, apart from losing him altogether: him being there, but not with her.

Focusing on keeping her tears behind her closed eyelids she never actually felt his arms suddenly shoot up and wrap around her.

But before she knew it she was crushed to his chest as his lips instinctively found hers.

It only took her a moment before she realized and leaned into his kiss, wanting it to last forever.

Of course, it didn't and she did realize she needed to breath.

She looked up and finally looked into his eyes. Kenshin was looking at her with a look made up out of love, disbelief, lust, and for some reason uncertainty. Kaoru did the only thing she could think of at the moment; she held his face between her hands and kissed him lightly before turning away and walking to an apparently prepared basin of hot water in the corner of the room.

She picked up a comb and a bottle of conditioner she had put down earlier and beckoned for Kenshin to come, which of course, he was already doing.

Grinning she took the comb in her hand and pulled it gently through his hair, adding conditioner in the worst places, finally leaving him with his hair smoothed down. She could have sworn she heard him make purring sounds now and again.

`Well, I'm glad he likes it! Here comes the difficult part though…How am I going to rinse his hair like this??!'

She tried forming a cup with her hands and transferring it to his head and succeeded to get herself soaked.

Kenshin watched her in amusement and gently squeezed her waist to get her attention as he sank to his knees in front of her.

Nuzzling the side of his face into her stomach he absently rubbed her hips in circles.

Kaoru sighed, glad he was holding on to her, because she would probably have fallen over, and raised the basin carefully over his head, pouring small streams of warm water over his head. It still soaked her, but Kaoru had never enjoyed the feeling of water on her skin as much as now, it soothed her.

Kenshin sighed contentedly and waited for her to finish drying his hair before he got up.

He watched as she refilled the empty basin and took a washcloth, her yukata was clinging to her skin where it had gotten wet, her body responding to the cold fabric in a way that made her look even more tempting than she already was.

"You're soaked." His voice felt and sounded as if he hadn't used it for years but it was enough to make Kaoru look up at him in surprise.

"So are you…"

Kenshin chuckled. "I know a way to get dry…"

Kaoru threw an accusing look at him but grinned all the same.

After soaking the washcloth she raised it to his face and carefully wiped away the streaks of paint from his forehead, right cheek and nose. Her fist clenched at her side she let the cloth hover over his left cheek, but couldn't let it touch his skin.

`But if I wipe this mark away…will the meaning still be there. It should, it's gone so deep into his heart…and mine. But then…why am I afraid to?'

Kenshin sensed her struggle and it's source, it made him smile. Gently taking her hand and the cloth in his, he placed it against his skin, his eyes never leaving hers.

He saw how her eyes widened and tears started to well up in them and smiled even wider.

Leaning down he kissed her eyes and every inch of her face before finally reaching her lips. Pulling her closer to him he felt her gasp as her cool, sensitive skin came into contact with his body warmth.

Kaoru entangled her hands in his soft fiery hair and arched into his hold as he took advantage of the small sounds escaping from her to deepen the kiss.

"Kaoru-koishii…Are you sure about this? We can wait…"

Kaoru tugged on the locks she was holding and kissed along his jaw until she reached his ear.

"No we can't, anata. I want this…Get me dry?"

Kenshin groaned into her hair and lifted her up in his arms.

"Aa…"

He carried her out into the hall and back to her bedroom, where he put her down again. She smiled at him and held onto his arms to steady herself. She hadn't expected to be effected by him in this way, of course it made sense that if anyone would make her feel like this, it would be him. The fact that she apparently had the same effect on him only served to increase the steady ache building in her stomach. It felt as if she would explode any minute now, but she wasn't afraid anymore.

She spread her arms to the side and waited for him to untie the sash to her yukata and unwrap her.

Kenshin took his time, slowly peeling the wet fabric off her lithe form and stepping back to watch her in awe. A small blush spread itself over her cheeks and down to her breasts but she still smiled and wasn't too shy to look him in the eye. She trusted Kenshin to love her no matter what, as she would him. Walking closer, she tugged on the button to his dark jeans, causing him to gasp at the sensation.

"Your pants are soaked, anata…Shall I help?"

Kenshin chuckled at the mischievous grin that graced her lips and nodded. Kaoru was a lot of things, predictable was not one of them.

"Please…but be careful?"

Kaoru had kneeled and was now looking up at him, innocently batting her eyelashes at him.

Kenshin grinned and untied her hair, gently running his hands through it and spreading it around her shoulders…

She leaned forward to kiss his stomach just above the line of his pants and tugged the button loose, enjoying the way he responded by lightly squeezing her shoulders. Carefully she undid the zipper, her stomach fluttering when she accidentally brushed over the evidence of his desire and heard hid breath catch. Hooking her thumbs into his pants and boxers she lifted them over his erection and dragged them down his legs until he could step out of them.

Slowly getting up again she placed a light kiss on the tip of him before continuing her journey upwards, hearing his breathing growing more laboured when she did.

She only stood for a moment because Kenshin lifted her again and carefully draped her across the bed and sitting beside her, lightly tracing her curves with his hands.

"You're beautiful…you know?"

Kaoru arched her back, trying to get more than just these fleeting touches and moaned lightly.

"Patience, koi…"

He grinned at her but stretched himself on his side next to her all the same, propping his head up on one arm.

`I can never deny her anything anyway…'

Giving in to his own desires as much as hers, he nibbled along the column of her neck as he brushed his hands over her breast more firmly, circling the nipple with his thumb and earning himself more needy sounds from his lover.

Kaoru buried one hand in his hair as she held on to his shoulder with the other.

He slid his hand lover to draw lazy circles over her stomach, feeling the strong muscles underneath her soft skin flutter with each passing. Kaoru was losing the power of thought, she'd never imagined anything like this would ever happen to her. She whimpered when Kenshin moved his hands away only to wrench her eyes open violently when the rough touch of his callused hands was replaced by the velvety strokes of his tongue over her sensitised nipples.

She was so caught up in this new sensation she hardly noticed his hand was gradually moving down, circling the sensitive skin around her bellybutton before dipping lower and gently cupping her womanhood, not wanting to scare her.

Kaoru nearly tore an entire patch of hair from his head as her hips bucked up into his hand of their own accounts.

Kenshin grinned and rubbed the sore spot on his head as she started to relax under him again and smiled apologetically.

She leaned up a bit to kiss him and promptly fell back as Kenshin rotated his hand against her.

"Payback…"

Looking up at him when she'd somewhat caught her breath again she was confronted with something that couldn't be defined as anything other than an `Evil Smirk'. `It would have been extremely funny if it hadn't been so damn sexy…'

She wrapped her arms around his neck and succeeded in getting her kiss this time. Kenshin rubbed small circles around the sensitive bundle of nerves between her folds in time with the strokes of his tongue against hers.

Kaoru wasn't naïve, she knew enough about sex to know that this wasn't as good as it was going to get, but how that could be possible. When they broke for air she couldn't help but cry out in ecstasy, something was building, fast.

Suddenly Kenshin stilled his hand and she felt his weight shifting around on the bed.

`He isn't-`

Distantly she registered the warmth of his breath against her just before he reached out his tongue and white light exploded behind her eyelids, carrying her away on it's shockwaves as she cried out his name.

"Beautiful, koishii…"

Kenshin held her close as she shivered and brushed the hair out of her face. Kaoru sighed and opened her eyes smiling widely.

"Ai shite Kenshin…"

"Mo aishiteru, koishii…Are you ready?"

She nodded, "Always, anata…" and let him roll her back onto her back again.

Carefully he positioned himself at her entrance and gently pushed inside until he suddenly met a resistance.

Kaoru suddenly felt guilt behind the pleasure that was filling her and looked into his eyes as they widened.

"Kaoru…!"

She smiled.

"Hai…you're going to be my first… I trust you, anata!"

He leaned over and took her mouth in a gentle kiss, clasping their hands together when he pushed thrust in in one swift move.

Kaoru winced slightly, but it definitely wasn't as painful as she thought. `Kenshin probably thought it would be even worse than I did originally…So sweet…This feels so good!'

She opened her eyes and raised her hand to his cheek. He was leaning over her shaking with repressed need as he struggled to keep still and not hurt her.

At her touch he released a breath and opened his eyes.

"Anata…let go? It wasn't that bad…Daijoubu!"

She emphasised the last phrase by experimentally lifting her hips towards him, eliciting a gasp from both.

There was no stopping Kenshin now. He moved gently at first but Kaoru wouldn't have it and wrapped her legs tightly around him, pulling him in deeper.

"Onegai, anata…Let go…for me…" she gasped.

The burning feeling was building again, but she wanted Kenshin to feel free for once. `Somehow…he always finds ways to burden hims-Ah!-self…'

Kenshin was sucking at the pulsepoint beneath her chin and speeding up his thrusts an he let go of his control. She was clinging to his back as she felt herself hovering on the edge of orgasm.

"Anata!"

Kenshin wrapped his arms tightly around her as she came, her contractions around him sending him over the edge as well. He growled her name before collapsing to the bed, turning over so she rested on top of him.

Kaoru sighed contentedly and languidly ran a hand through his hair, feeling happier than ever resting in his loose embrace.

Kenshin steadied his breathing and lifted her chin so he could look at her. He kissed her lovingly and pulled a blanket over them.

"Arigato,koishii…"

Kaoru buried her face in his chest and giggled.

"Kenshin no baka!"

"Oro?!"

~@#*#@~

A/N:

Kyaa! Right so I finally did it…I hope it worked!

Please let me know if you think I should try more of these, or if you think I should dig a big hole in the backyard and bury any concept of me ever doing a lemon again, okay?

Anyway if you have any tips on keeping parents from reading your stories, please let me know. My father's getting hopelessly curious and I can only hope he doesn't find this chapter because then I should probably pack my bags and go look for a new home, ne?