Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ Time Changes All ❯ Walk to School ( Chapter 7 )

Author's Note: I have this major writer's block! It's still not gone! I can't figure out a good way have it lead up to the next `situation'! Argh! So, I decided to put this chapter in. . . I know it's a really short and bad chapter but I thought with this filler in between the gap of home and school maybe I can figure out how to get it to the next step! Do not fear this will not be a fic lost in the sea of unfinished fics. This will be completed!. . . someday. . . I hope you enjoy the chappie that has little to know use except as a filler and possible fuel for my writer's block. . . with this in I might be able to write the next chapter soon! Oh! And Kenshin's thoughts can be seen from now on too!

Disclaimer:

". . ." dialogue

`. . .' Kaoru's thoughts

*. . .* Kenshin's thoughts

(. . .) authors useless commentary

Walk to School

By Hoshi-ni-Onegai

Kaoru and Kenshin walked to school in a comfortable silence (to honestly tell you I have never found my self in comfortable silence. . . oh well). After Kaoru said her parents died, Kenshin felt awkward asking her questions so he let the matter drop and so they started their walk to school.

*Should I ask her? Will she get mad? Why didn't she contact me? Was it because I was so young?*

`Should I tell him about my parents? Wouldn't he feel guilty?'

They continued walking until they heard a voice from behind them. "Kao-chan!"

Kaoru and Kenshin whipped their heads around seeing Soujiro running towards them. "Ohayo Kao-chan! Ohayo Himura-san!" He bowed slightly to Kenshin with his famous smile plastered on his face.

"Ohayo Sou-chan. How can you be this awake in the morning? I barely get out of bed every morning and you're here jumping around like you're on a sugar high."

"You're just not a morning person Kao-chan. . . Oh, Himura-san, are you enjoying your new school?"

"Um. . . you can call me Kenshin, I don't like formalities. . . I guess I'm enjoying the school. . . last night I did find another reason to be happy with it."

At this comment Kaoru blushed. `He's happy to have met me~! Yay~! I'm not an idiot being happy all alone~!' The blush did not go unnoticed by Soujiro who continued to smile.

"Kao-chan, where did you end up meeting Kenshin-san this morning? I thought you woke early for nobody. . ."

"I don't! And I never will! Hahaha~! I am the early bird that defies all laws and only fully wakes up around one o'clock~! I am the super-anti-early-bird!!" Kaoru does the superhero stance of having both hands as fists resting upon her hips. Kenshin and Soujiro look at her as sweat drops.

"Koi- I mean Kaoru, I thought you said you were energetic in the morning. . . you seem to have plenty of energy." Kenshin said this chuckling.

"Don't mind her, she always has energy to have a small WEIRD outburst in the morning. . . but it seems to drain out all her energy because she's mostly zoning out until, like she said one o'clock."

*She seemed pretty awake yesterday when she saw me. . . I guess I came as a shock to her. . . hehe* Kenshin gave out a small chuckle. (ok, so he chuckles a lot in this fic, I can't have him giggling can I?)

Kaoru glares at Kenshin, "Stop laughing Ken-chan! I'm not weird and my daily morning revelations are not weird!"

"I would call giving yourself a unusual superhero nickname as a revelation, Koishii." (Enter continued chuckling here.)

"Like you could come up with something better!"

"You're weird Koishii. . ." (continued chuckling. . . I'm not sure why he's laughing the situation isn't all that funny)

"I'm not weird! I'm normal! The rest of the world is weird! I'm surrounded by you freaks and I'm the only sane one on this planet!"

Kenshin continues chuckling and Kaoru is continuing on with her rambling on how she is normal. Soujiro finally speaks up, "Um. . . Ken-chan? Koishii?"

At their realization of their slip in using their nickname they blushed. Kaoru's nickname for Kenshin wasn't bad just like `Sou-chan' but Kenshin's was a bit to intimate for two people who had just recently met.

*Oh no. . . I can't believe I let that slip! Now I've embarrassed Koishii in front of her best friend. . .*

"Kao-chan, can I assume that your famous `Ken-chan' is back?"

"You've mentioned me?" Kenshin asked a bit shocked to Kaoru.

Kaoru still blushing because Soujiro hear the `Koishii' shrugged. "Of course I've mentioned you! All my friends know about the little boy that was my best friend that got constantly lost in the park." Kaoru was smiling, a darker shade of red creeping up across her already tomato like face.

"Trust me, we've all heard of you. . . CONSTANTLY~. . . there is not a single person that knows Kao-chan that doesn't know about you."

Kenshin looked genuinely happy. *She never forgot about me.*

"No they don't! Not everyone knows! Ken-chan don't listen to him, he enjoys exaggerating~!" Kaoru at this point had tackled Soujiro by the side and was clamping a hand over his mouth.

Soujiro desperately trying to pry her fingers away from his mouth finally was able to get out, "She's--- even told us --- about the ring---- Stop that!" (All this is said muffling.)

Kenshin froze. "Y-you still remember that?"

"Of course! It's not everyday that a boy gives up snack money to propose to a girl! I still have it, see!" She pulled that silver necklace chain from under her shirt, and there it was. The same small metallic ring that Kenshin had given to her over a decade ago.

"You still have both?"

"Yu-"

"Sorry to interrupt you Kao-chan, but we really need to get to school or you'll have to spar with Saitoh again."

Kaoru looked down at her watch. "Shit! Come on guys we have to run like there is no tomorrow!"

As they run to school with Kaoru leading them and Kenshin and Soujiro running next to each other. "Koishii, doesn't change does she?"

"She doesn't need to."

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