Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ Time Changes All ❯ Breakfast at Kaoru's ( Chapter 12 )

Author's Note: I'll be gone for a week to a summer program in a near by college. . . I may be the only high schooler that is dumb enough to sign up for summer courses, willingly. . . I really am dumb. . . I should be using the precious time to sleep. . . oh dear. . . well enjoy the chappie~ R&R~

Disclaimer: *glares* of course Kenshin belongs to me. . . what you don't believe me? Do u dare defy me? *stands up and glares down at ppl shorter than me* (problem is I'm 158cm and practically no one is shorter than me. . . I see no threat). . . fine Kenshin doesn't belong to me! Happy now? I think I'm going to my room to cry ;_;

". . ." dialogue

`. . .' Kaoru's thoughts

*. . .* Kenshin's thoughts

(. . .) author's useless commentary

Breakfast at Kaoru's

By Hoshi-ni-Onegai

"Battousai?"

Kaoru stared into Kenshin's amber eyes that were slowly turning amethyst once again. He visibly gulped and looked nervously into her eyes that betrayed all her emotions. Surprise, fear, sadness, worry, and relief. "That was you. . ."

Kaoru embraced him even tighter and let tears fall down the sides of her face. (she kinda cries a lot in this fic, but it's not going to be like that the whole time)

"I worried about that boy in the alley for the longest time. . . I thought he had died. . . it would have been my fault. . ."

Kenshin gazed down at her with a confused expression, "Why would I have died? I knocked them out if memory serves me right."

"You were stabbed!"

"Only in the arm."

Kaoru turned her head up so quickly it would not have been surprising for her to have gotten whip lash. "I-in t-the arm!?"

"Yeah. . . it left a scar but I lived as you can tell."

"B-but you got stabbed in the chest. . . in the heart. . ."

"Um. . . not that I know of. . . unless you met another Battousai that night."

"Don't mock me Kenshin!" *she's using my name again. . . I don't like the tone at the moment but oh well. . .*

"Sorry, old habit. . . I assure you it was only my upper left arm."

Kaoru not at all convinced did a very bold move. She ripped his black button up shirt apart letting the buttons fly across the room and yanked out his left arm form its sleeve. And sure enough there was a scar about half an inch long, but that wasn't the only scar there. Here and there on his shoulders, back, chest, arms, neck there were scars. Scars as a result of a blade.

"How did you get all these?"

"Uh. . . bike accident?"

"Unless you were biking down a razor covered street you need to come up with a better story."

"Paper cuts?"

"Kenshin. . ." Practically growling his name as if a threat, she glared him straight in the eyes.

Sighing, he tilted his head down allowing his bangs to cover his now closed eyes. "They are from my past."

Kaoru stopped glaring but now wore an expression of curiosity and worry. "Your past?"

"Yes, scars of the past."

She reached up to caress his left cheek, "Like this one?"

He gently pulled her hand away from the cross-shaped scar and brought it to his lips and kissed her palm. "No, not like this one. I got this one protecting someone much like the one on my arm, but the others. . ."

Kaoru was now blushing at Kenshin's affectionate actions but continued on. "H-how are the others different?"

"I think it would be best if you didn't know."

"Why?"

Kenshin stared deep into her eyes and replied, "Because ignorance is bliss."

With that he stood up carefully depositing her off of him to sit on her own and headed towards the kitchen. Kaoru was left alone to think about what just transpired or what remained not transpired. `Why won't he tell me. . . what could have happened in the past? We didn't see each other for ten years, okay so we saw each other two years ago without knowing but what was he doing in Matsudo-shi? It's in the Chiba prefecture that right next to Tokyo, but what was he doing all the way there from Hokkaido? I got off on the wrong stop that night. . . ` Her thoughts trailed off as she smelled something coming from the kitchen. She stumbled her way in there seeing Kenshin standing over the stove with the pink frilly apron that Kaoru usually used.

Sensing her behind him Kenshin turned around with the spatula in his right hand an egg in his left. "How do you like your eggs Koishii?"

Not being able to contain herself she started laughing clutching her stomach from so much laughter. "Y-you look so cute!!! Hahahaha!"

Kenshin blushed slightly and stood proud and tall. "What are you talking about, pink and frills are very manly and becoming. Now woman tell me how you like your eggs."

Kaoru burst into another round of laughter and struggled to speak, "S-scrambled p-please! Hahahaha!"

"You can't stand the masculine and tough sunny side up, gotcha. Scrabbled it is, you still have a few minutes before I'm done go take a shower and get ready for school."

"Okay mom."

"Don't take that tone with me young lady."

As Kaoru headed toward her room laughter could be heard echoing through the house. `Ken-chan is so cute sometimes. . . and hot all the other times, he had a nice chests, arms, abs. . . WHERE DID THAT COME FROM!? Stop thinking like that Ken-chan is that red-headed little boy you played with as a child. . . Ken-chan equals little boy, Ken-chan equals little boy, Ken-chan equals little boy' And so she continued on with that mantra going through her head. Gathering the necessary clothing she went to the bathroom to take a quick shower.

As she was taking her shower she continued on in her head. `Ken-chan equals little boy, Ken-chan equals little boy, Kenshin equals little boy, Kenshin equals boy, Kenshin equals boy, Kenshin equals man. . . Wait that can't be right!' Frustrated and slightly blushing she wrapped the towel around her and stepped out. There was a knock at the door just then and a voice, "Koishii breakfast ready."

"I'll be right there~!" She responded cheerfully back. She dressed in record time and sprinted her way toward the kitchen. Getting there he was met with a very inviting smell and a smiling man. . . err little boy.

"Would you like some coffee Koishii?" He asked holding up a pot of coffee.

"I need coffee~ life! Must have~!" Kaoru desperately reached for it with an empty mug in her hand.

"Sorry no coffee for you." Kenshin replied with his famous smile.

Kaoru's jaw hit the floor. "WHAT!? You dare deny me my daily dosage of caffeine!? Why did you ask me in the first place!?"

"It's polite to ask."

"And since when is it polite to deny!?"

"Since the person is watching out for your health."

"My health? Huh? What are you talking about? I'm not pregnant or anything."

"Haha, pregnant. . . I'll keep that in mind. I meant more along the lines of the coffee stunting your growth." He said this while he poured himself a cup.

"Ok doc, why are you drinking it? If you keep this up I'm going to grow taller than you from my coffee deprivation and you'll be stuck short forever. I'll look down at you and I'll be at the perfect height for people like Sano, Aoshi, or. . . Takaomi." Suddenly the cup that Kenshin had in his hand magically appeared and she happily drank from it.

"You wouldn't go with them would you?" Kenshin asked nervously as he looked at his partially eaten plate.

"With who?" Kaoru was a bit too distracted in her coffee bliss that she forgot what she had said.

"With. . . Kobayashi-san. . ."

"What about him?"

"Would you go with him?"

"Where?"

"Like on a date. . ."

"If I stay sane I won't. . . but then again I might lose my mind actually go somewhere with him."

"Oh no."

"What? You want me to go out with him?" Kaoru asked a bit depressed.

"NO!" Kenshin knocked over his seat from standing up so abruptly surprising Kaoru from almost dropping her mug.

"Damn Kenshin! You almost made me spill my precious coffee!" Kaoru hugged her mug and petted it. (this actually happened to me. . . the growth spurt conversation and all)

Kenshin calmed down and put his chair in its upright position and went over to Kaoru and took the mug from her hands. Even with her pouting he placed the mug calmly onto the table and gently tilted her chin so her eyes looked straight into his. "I'm just worried that I'll lose you. . ."

Kaoru looked at him with wide eyes, after a few moments of silence she spoke up. "Am I something you have? For you to lose something it would have to be yours."

"I'm not sure if you are mine, but. . ."

"But?"

"But you had me from the first day I met you."

"W-what are you talking about? We first met when I was 11 days old."

"You had my heart since then."

"Kenshin you were 4 months old."

"Love has no age limit. You might not have known it but you've had my heart in the palm of your hand for 17 years."

Kenshin gazed into her drowning sapphire eyes and slowly inches forward till their his forehead lay on hers and their noses touching and whispered his breath tickling her face. "I love you. . ."

He closed the remaining gap allowed his lips to touch hers. Kaoru's eyes fluttered shut. A kiss that was delicate and innocent that lasted only a moment. Kenshin opened his eyes and saw Kaoru still in the same position in which they kissed. Her eyes fluttered open seeing his eyes she didn't know how to react. Seeing her state of shock he, of course took it the negative way.

"I'm sorr-" His words were cut off as Kaoru leaned in once again initiated the second kiss.

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A/N: *blush* first ever to write a kiss scene I know some of you ppl right it so much more graphically and even allow your characters to go further, heck some ppl write lemons. . . but with me blushing after just writing about a simple kiss I might die from all the blood rushing to my head so here is the promise of this fic will not get to racy. . . but then again I might toughen up (but still no lemon) and let them go to second base. . . I have no idea, at least I let them go up to bat and get to first