Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ The Twisted Rose ❯ Battosai Karou ( Chapter 1 )

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Karou had gone into town for a few hours to buy tofu for dinner and was on her way home. It was dark out and strangely only a single light in the dojo was on. Curious she headed towards the dojo instead of the kitchen. As she approached, she heard strange noises from within.

`Yahiko must be training,' she thought, `but, where's Kenshin?' Karou went inside to ask Yahiko, but when she stepped into the dojo she gasped in shock. She saw two bodies pressed against the floor in the dim light, weapons cast aside.

"K-K-K....", she trailed off.

"Oro?" exclaimed a confused voice. The other body moved to turn up the oil lamp. At first repulsed, Karou's disgust soon turned to anger, as her vision became blurred with red.

"YAHIKO!!!!!HOW DARE YOU TOUCH KENSHIN!!!!"

She chased him around the dojo with her wooden sword in hand. She was one swing away from beating him to a pulp, when Kenshin grabbed her wrist.

"I'm sorry you had to find out this way Karou, that I am." This statement only caused Karou's anger to increase. She picked up Yahiko's sword and hit them both over the head with it with a single swipe.

*Kenshin and Yahiko fall over*

Karou stormed out, and then went to her room only to collapse in tears. "I'll get them back, just you wait Kenshin Himura, I can surprise you as well."

Karou was at a lose for what to do! Kenshin had just betrayed her… with YAHIKO!! She was exhausted… feeling drained and depressed… but she needed to occupy herself. She needed to keep working to prevent the image of their bodies intertwined from searing her mind. She knew she wanted, no needed revenge. The heart-broken Karou looked down at the tofu in her hand and hurried to the kitchen.

She dumped the tofu into a pot filled with water and starred blindly into the churning liquid. Blinking her eyes furiously, she began grabbing spices from all over the kitchen and dropping them into the pot. "This is for you Yahiko," Karou muttered ominously as picked up a packet of pepper and dumped all of it into the pot. "And this is for you Kenshin," she said murderously as she ripped up the paper packet and dropped it into the pot. She smiled wickedly as she began stirring it.

"So, Yahiko doesn't like my cooking, does he? We'll see if his opinion will change after tonight." Karou began to laugh, the type of hysterical laugh of someone who has been pushed too far. One thing Karou knew for sure… if Yahiko and Kenshin thought they were staying at KAROU'S dojo… they had another think coming!! Yahiko and Kenshin could carry on their relationship in the sewers for all she cared!!

Dinnertime arrived, and Karou acted like nothing was wrong and placed the meal on the table. They all sat in silence, but before they could take a bite, the door burst open.

"ALL RIGHT! Free food! It's probably good, unless the missy cooked it..." Sano exclaimed as he stuffed the tofu into his mouth. Karou hit him over the head, one bite too late.

"That's not for you idiot, it's Kenshin's. Give it back!" Grudgingly, Sano returned the half eaten food. He glanced over at Kenshin, but he didn't even get a smile of gratitude from him. Suddenly, he turned bright red and started stripping off his clothes and running in circles.

"What the hell is that little missy? I didn't think even you could cook food that bad." Sano proceeded to curse while jumping into the pond. He drank the pond water, and the others watched in horror as the shoreline slowly receded. Once his thirst was quenched… and the pond somewhat drained, he got out and stumbled to a corner to curl up into a ball. Whimpering in his `special place' he began to rock himself back and forth, very slowly. The rest of the gang ignored him and went back to eating the only thing left untouched by Karou… the fish Kenshin had cooked. None of them mentioned the fact that Karou had tried to kill Kenshin with her appallingly worse than usual lack of culinary skill.

A/N, Ame to Zan: Is that possible?

A/N, Ame to well…herself: Only in hell!

A/N, Z to A… all of the A's: Once again the schizophrenic Ame strikes again!

A/N, A to Z: There are only two, thank you!

Karou allowed them to stay in the dojo, because she had great plans to torture them during the upcoming night...

Night fell, and Karou emerged from her room wearing a ninja ensemble carrying a variety of items. She had string, dog food, gasoline, matches, and nails, along with a full bag of things she had just grabbed from the tool shed. The image was completed by her fearsome red-eyed warrior defiant stare. The kind of glare that would make even a battosai cry himself to sleep, shortly after he wet himself. Kenshin! Yahiko! BEWARE!! She was a woman with a mission. She swore to make Yahiko and Kenshin's night a living hell.

A/N, from Z to A: You know, Ame, I'm not sure they had string, dog food, gasoline, matches, nails, etc. back then in Japan.

A/N, from A to Z: Well Ms. Know-it-all string was definitely not invented too recently, so there!

Incase your wondering, Sano remained curled in a ball in the corner… whimpering… who knows if he will ever move again… poor Sano…v_v

Karou stood before the dojo looking down at her various tools. She was somewhat bewildered by the fact that she had NO idea what half of these things were, seeing as not all of them had yet been invented...

A/N, from Z to A: Ha ha ha ha! I win!! It's my part so I can justify your random tools anyway I want!

...Despite this she persevered. She approached the futons fearlessly… but cautiously. Karou angrily noted that Yahiko slept with his head on Kenshin's shoulder. 'How could I have missed such an obvious hint,' she thought to herself as she stared down at them.

"Here goes nothing," Karou mouthed. Karou popped the top of the gasoline can… soundlessly so as not to wake up beauty and the beast.

A/N, from Z to readers: I'll live it up to your discretion to figure out which is which!

Into the gasoline can she soundlessly, of course, dropped the nails, dog food, string, and bag full of other things to form another mixture (A/N from Z to readers: as we all know of her culinary talents). The matches; however, she threw out… not knowing what they were for having depended upon flint.

Smiling wickedly, she poured the mixture down Kenshin's throat as he lay there slumbering peacefully.

The next morning......(A/N, from A to all: That should be read ominously.)

A/N, from A to Z:...Won't this be fun?

A/N, from Z to A: Umm… yeah that's a scary thought.

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