Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ Time Changes All ❯ A Date ( Chapter 19 )

Author's Notes: I'm sorry about the late update u guys, I was writing my Inuyasha fic and that took a week to write, the chapter was 27 pages long! Longest chapter ever written by me. . . no I am back to this fic and you guys are the end is coming near. . . the thing is I think I have about ten more chapters left. Haha, ok the end is no where near but it's planned out in my head, I'm getting ahead of my self. . . I'm not even sure if this fic will done by the end of the year. . . well I hope u enjoy the chapter and plz review! Also thank you all for I got to my 300-review mark! Yay! Love to all!

Disclaimer: Kenshin! Belongs to me~! Why? I dunno, I should have a kid named Kenshin, then I can say I own him. . . yeah. . . I need a husband first.

". . ." dialogue

`. . .' Kaoru's thoughts

*. . .* Kenshin's thoughts

(. . .) author's useless commentary

A Date

By Hoshi-ni-Onegai

After the event in the bathroom they both decided to leave the house and go shopping for food supplies to make dinner. Since grocery shopping really doesn't take very long Kenshin had a bright idea, "Let's go on a date."

Kaoru looked at him as she was sitting at the kitchen table drinking a glass of water, "A date?"

"Yeah, we've never been on a date before." He tugged her out of her seat by her hand and made his way towards the front door. There he slipped on his sneakers and she pulled on hers as well. They both had changed sometime in the morning. Kaoru was wearing a knee-length khaki skirt with a pastel green three quarter length shirt. Kenshin wore a pair of baggy jeans and a navy blue polo with a white undershirt.

As he pulled her down the steps of the apartment Kaoru started laughing, "Calm down Kenshin! You don't have to drag me there. Where are we going anyways?"

"Not really sure. We can just walk around the city and hang out." He no longer dragged her but he still held her hand.

"Sure." As they were walking they talked about this and that until they came to a department store. They made their way in and went to the top floor to play at the arcade. They tried to play DDR (the dancing game), Kenshin seems to have found a hidden talent while Kaoru kept on tripping. She fell on the floor, other people, and Kenshin; and she took it with grace by laughing it off every time. After about thirty minutes of falling and tripping on Kaoru's part and dancing on Kenshin's, they went over to take a purikura (photo sticker, very popular in Japan). When the picture developed they peeled one off and stuck it on the machine (something ppl just do).

They made their way towards the CD section of the store and they started sampling CDs. They had a debate on which band was better; Kenshin though Siam Shade and Kaoru thought Do as Infinity. It wasn't settled but they made their way out of the department store. They kept on walking around and ended up at a park. At the park there was a crepe stand. Kenshin offered to buy, what girl would pass up a chance to eat for free?

"What flavor do you want?" Kenshin asked her as she gently pushed her into a bench.

"Um. . . strawberry. No. . . chocolate banana. . . strawberry?. . ."

"Do you want to have half of mine? I'll be getting chocolate banana."

"Okay!" With that he smiled and walked toward the stand. "Thank you!" Kaoru called after him.

Kenshin waved without turning around and made his order. As he was standing there waiting for his order he turned around and saw Kaoru surrounded by three guys. He was about to go over there and confront them for hitting on Kaoru, but then he noticed that she was laughing and talking with them. Kenshin didn't know how to react, be confused or jealous. The reason for his confusion was because these three guys didn't look like your average guys, they were gang members. How could he tell? They each had a tattoo on the outer palm of their right hand with the symbol for `bad' in red. (the character on Sano's shirt) Seeing that they seemed to not be threatening Kaoru he decided to wait until the crepes were done to get back to her. A few short minutes later the lady at the stand gave him the crepes and he made his way back to Kaoru. As he got nearer to them Kaoru noticed him coming their way and gestured from him to come. When he reached them he gave the strawberry crepe to Kaoru who took it willingly and immediately started eating it. The other three guys laughed at her quickness when it came to food, realizing they were laughing at her she looked up from her crepe with strawberry smudged at the corner of her lips.

"What?" They started laughing louder and Kenshin just got even more confused.

"Um. . . Kaoru?"

She turned to look at Kenshin, "Yes Kenshin?"

"Not to seem rude or anything but who are these people?"

Kaoru smiled and gesture towards her three friends. "Oh, I'm sorry these are a few friends of mine."

"We're your friends? Did you here that guys Ne-san considers us her friends!" The guy with sticking up blonde hair said. (Ne-san is a term that ppl use when they refer to what ppl might call the Alpha-Female in a gang)

"Thank you Ne-san!" The one with the black hair laughed.

The skinhead remained stoic.

"Of course you're my friends, I'm yours too!" She smiled at them with her blinding smile.

`She could befriend anyone, even gang members.' Kenshin thought as they heard this exchange. Then something donned on him. "Ne-san?"

The three guys and Kaoru looked at him, they started laughing and Kaoru started blushing.

Trying to avoid that particular topic Kaoru went around to introducing the three guys, "Kenshin this is Katsuhiro, Cho, and Anji. Anji and Cho go to our school. Guys, this is Kenshin."

Cho sized up Kenshin then smirked, "I thought you would have better taste Ne-san. For your boyfriend isn't he kind of scrawny? He won't last a month, you'll end up accidentally killing him with your temper."

Katsuhiro laughed and put in his two sense, "You need someone to protect you Ne-san. I'm available." He wiggled his eyebrows at her and she began blushing but puffed up in mock anger.

"Oh be quiet Katsuhiro." Kenshin could be seen fuming at the sidelines eating his crepe with steam emanating off of him.

Cho turned to face Kenshin, "So are you her boyfriend?"

Kaoru froze at that, `What will he answer?' (can anyone tell that Kaoru is very insecure when it comes to their relationship?)

"Yes I am." Kenshin glared Cho in the eyes then added as an afterthought, "I could probably whip your ass any day."

Cho looked at Kenshin, returning his glare, until Cho and Katsuhiro started laughing. Even Anji gave a slight smirk.

"I take it back! You're perfect for Ne-san! Very few people would threaten a gang member, then again you probably didn't know."

Kaoru was blushing and covering her face with her left hand as she held her crepe in her right. Kenshin walked over to her and gave her his half eaten crepe and traded it for hers. Then he spoke to her, loud enough so everyone heard. "How did you get mixed up with the Sekihoutai?"

Everyone froze. The only person still moving was a smirking Kenshin that was exchanging crepes with an also frozen Kaoru. The stoic Anji was the first to move, he stood in front of Kaoru, hiding her from Kenshin's view. He was trying to protect her from this outside force. This hit Kenshin somewhere personal. When someone thinks you're a threat to the person you love, you don't like that person, namely Anji, that much.

"How do you know about the Sekihoutai?" Anji was still standing in front of Kaoru not allowing Kenshin to reach for her.

Kaoru didn't know what to do, these were her friends and Kenshin knew about the gang they were in. Considering how gangs go the Sekihoutai wasn't a bad group; they brought the responsibility upon them selves to be the ones to control the other gangs from getting out of hand. Even though they were considered one of the `better' gangs they were still to be feared. The Sekihoutai were famous for having branches in most major cities in Japan, and once you're on the bad side of the Sekihoutai you stayed that way forever. They knew how to hold a grudge.

Kenshin smirked, and it scared Kaoru. It was an arrogant smirk that she had never seen him have, it seemed as if he was afraid of nothing. He stood up tall; although measuring short compared to the other guys, they backed away. He looked down for a slight second, eyes covering his bangs but then the next second he brought his gaze back up. Amber. This was not the Kenshin that Kaoru knew so well. His smirk was gone when he had brought back his gaze. The warm aura that he emanated was replaced with a cold one. The words that slipped from Anji's mouth echoed around them, "Hitokiri Battousai."

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A/N: I'm sorry about the short chapter! Can anyone figure out what's coming up soon? Think about it, Katsuhiro, Cho, and Anji are there and they're in the Sekihoutai. . . hmm. . . maybe Sano will come up? I dunno. . . hehe