Chapter 15: I hope you don't mind
A fanfiction by Kyo
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So here is chapter fifteen (finally!). I
apologize for taking soooooo long in taking this out. I have had too much work
for the past couple of weeks. (Would you believe me I started this chapter
right after I posted the last one and took me this long to finish it?) I hate
school. I simply loved this chapter. And for those of you who were worrying
about if I would write a chappie for the End of Semester Ball . . . OF COURSE
there will be one *grin*
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"Maybe I should go see if they are alright
. . ." A worried Aoshi murmured to his girlfriend's ear as they danced to the
rhythm of a slow song. But Misao would hear none of it.
"They can take care of themselves Aoshi.
They don't need you to baby-sit them." She said with a slight frown on her
young face. "You should trust Kaoru-chan if you don't trust Himura. And I think
you should trust Himura too, you know he would never do anything to harm her.
SO could you please forget about it and enjoy yourself?" Misao finished,
leaning on his shoulder, knowing full well that he would accomplish her
request.
"You are right Misao-chan." He murmured
softly, still not very used to talk.
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Kenshin was taken aback by her sudden
request. He had not expected that at all.
"I'm tired of running away from each
other. I don't even know what I'm running away from or why."
"It's true. Everything I said back there
is true."
"I'm glad to hear that." She said simply,
a smile in her lips.
Kenshin, on the other side, was shaking in
nervousness and fear. What did that mean?
"And . . .?" Kenshin asked through his
clenched throat.
"And what?" Kaoru asked, making as if she
did not know what he was talking about.
"Kaoru!"
"Well, it's not like I can say anything
about it. You haven't asked yet."
Kenshin arched an eyebrow. "Asked what?"
"I tell you, you are a baka."
"Well, it's not like I know how you women
think."
Kaoru tapped his nose. "And it's not like
you men think at all."
Kenshin groaned and Kaoru giggled. He
would never win one. Kaoru sat down and placed her arms on his chest so she was
looking directly into his eyes. "You have to ask me if I want to be your
girlfriend."
"Oh! That's all?"
Kaoru slapped his shoulder in annoyance.
He chuckled, recovering his confidence. She was just teasing him. She really
wanted him. "Okay, I'll ask you that." He helped her stand up as he did the
same.
"Do you want this all solemn and proper,
or romantic and passionate?" He asked, teasing her as he held her hands with
his own.
Kaoru squeezed them tightly, almost t the
point of being painful. "That's for you to decide and for me to judge."
"Judge? You are going to judge me?"
Kaoru giggled at his suddenly panic
stricken face. "Just say it Kenshin." She said, mock annoyed.
He eyed her suspiciously from the corner
of his eyes, but then grew serious.
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"Where do you think those two are?" Sano
asked his girlfriend while he quietly nuzzled her neck.
"About which two are you talking about?"
Megumi countered, trying to get him lift his face from her neck, imaging all
eyes were on them.
"K&K, which two are you talking
about?" Sano asked, finally lifting his face upon her insistence.
"Yahiko and Tsubame. I haven't seen them
in quite a while." She said as she pushed a stray strand of his copper hair
from his face.
"Ah, those kids. I'm sure they are fine. I
told Sou-chan to keep an eye on them." He said with a coquettish smile.
"I wouldn't trust Sou-chan on that task,
Sano. I just saw him asking for another flute of champagne." She said,
following the guy in question with her eyes. Soujiro indeed, had a flute of
champagne on his hand as he walked to his table with hesitant steps, his
ever-present smile melting a few females on the way.
Sano laughed heartily. "Haha! Let him have
his fun. Tomorrow his head will weight a ton and it'll explode!" He predicted
jokingly and gained a gentle slap on the shoulder given by Megumi, but she was
smiling and nodding.
"You are right. Poor Sou-chan, he will
swear never to touch champagne again!" Megumi laughed, then she grew serious.
"Now that I think about it, I haven't seen those other two kids in a while."
"K&K? I'm sure they are all right.
C'mon, I love this song." Sano said with a grin as she took her to the center
of the dance floor.
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"You may not have realized it, but I liked
you the very first moment I saw you." Kenshin said sincerely. "From that moment
I wanted to be a very close person to you, but I realized that you did not need
a boyfriend, but a friend, so I never gathered up the courage to ask the
question."
"Ever since? Nobody can say you are not a
patient person." Kaoru said teasingly.
Kenshin chuckled and kissed her hand. "I
love you, I hope you don't mind." He said sweetly, planting butterfly kissed
over her hand, her palm, her fingers.
Kaoru sucked in her breath as he continued
his gentle ministrations. "I don't mind. I love you, too."
"You wanna be my girlfriend?" Kenshin
asked, tilting his head cutely.
"Only if you wanna be my boyfriend." Kaoru
said, pushing him on his back and leaning close to his face.
"Fair's fair." He said with a grin and
leaned closer to her.
Their breaths mingled, caressing each
other's lips as they leaned closer.
They both closed their eyes, waiting
impatiently for the moment their lips would meet. Kaoru felt an incomparable
jolt of electricity as she felt the first brush of their lips. It was every bit
as she had imagined and more, much more. In a second he had her forever, love
sealed with the lips.
She was like a drug, it makes you feel in
other planet, completely addictive. She was his only drug and he couldn't have
enough of her. He slid his hand over her shoulder, her neck, till it was on her
nape, caressing her midnight black hair. He pushed her closer to him, inciting
her to part her lips to allow him inside.
She did so without hesitation and shivered
doubly when she felt his sweet tongue inside her mouth and the smooth caress of
his strong hand on her back. She leaned on her hands fisting the white sand as
she shivered again.
They separated for a second to breathe and
they did so in gasps, not yet believing this had been their first kiss. Both
were flushing red and were breathing heavily.
"You are blushing." Kaoru pointed out with
a mischievous grin and leaned on to his neck with a soft kiss.
"You are too." He countered and mirrored
her attentions. She blushed redder and he smiled.
"We are now official, ne?" Kaoru asked in
a soft voice as she hid her red face on the crook of his neck.
"Hai."
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Misao took a hand to her
mouth and yawned cutely. She leaned her head on her boyfriend's shoulder and
did not even try to keep her eyes open. It was very late, almost everybody was
gone already and Tomoe and Akira had already departed. Megumi was helping Hiko
say goodbye to the rest of the guests and Sano tried to keep Yahiko and
Soujirou upright on their seats. Tsubame was trying her best to help him, but
even Yahikp's weight was too much for her.
Miaso snuggled closer to Aoshi, muttering
something about wanting to go home. He surrounded her with one arm and kissed
her temple, saying that they were going soon.
"Where is Kaoru? I haven't seen her in
hours." Aoshi asked with a tiny bit of irritation in his voice.
"She went with Kenshin. Tomoe told me. No
need to worry." Megumi said immediately in a low voice, so as not to disturb
the very tired Misao. It seemed that all her genkiness had taken its toll.
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"Kenshin, even if I love you I should sooo
kill you!" Kaoru protested as she tried to squeeze dry the hem of her dress.
Kenshin chuckled as he shook his head to
make the water go away, wetting Kaoru more. "I'm completely soaked too! And you
made that on purpose, not like mine, which I did by accident."
Kaoru glared at him from her spot, trying
to warm up her arms by rubbing them. Kenshin saw this and drew near. "Still, it
was your fault that I ended up in the lake."
Kenshin seemed to think of this as she
wrapped her up in a sweet but not really warm embrace. "Well, yeah, but I
didn't do it on purpose. Your hand just went out of my grasp." Kenshin
explained with s sheepish smile. "But you pulled me in when I tried to pull
you out."
Kaoru rolled her eyes. "You know the
saying: revenge is sweet."
"Mou!" Kenshin said, imitating her with a
grin.
"Kenshiiiiiin!"
He laughed. "C'mon, I have some spare
clothes in my car." He said as he dragged her gently by the wrist. Kaoru struggled
with her now-very-heavy dress (it kept falling down, so she had to pull it up
so as not to reveal anything) and tried to keep up with him, while putting her
shoes on.
After some yelps and almost falls from
both parties they arrived panting to the street, where they had parked the car.
Kenshin leaned heavily on his car as he pulled up is pants, which were falling
down too due to the weight, then he shut off the alarm and opened the trunk.
He held out a pair of sweatpants and a
sweatshirt and handed them up to Kaoru. Kaoru took them automatically as
Kenshin took another set of clothes for himself.
"Kenshin, where do you plan me to change
my clothes?" She asked with a cocked eyebrow.
"Er- don't know." He said with a
sweatdrop.
Kaoru sighed. "Let's go Genzai's house,
there we can change."
"But!" Kenshin protested as Kaoru was
going to step into the car. "My car!"
At first Kaoru did not understand the
expression. Then she sighed. "You have any towels or something?"
"Er—maybe. I think I have one or two from
the time we went to the pool and we couldn't get in cuz it started raining and
they closed it."
"Those will work." Kaoru took the newly
discovered towels and extended them on the leather seats. "There! Now get in
and drive me home cuz I'm freezing here." Kaoru said with a small shiver for
emphasis.
"Yes, ma'am!"
Kenshin turned on the calefaction to the
highest and took the wheel. Kaoru snuggled as best as she could on the warm
towel and turned as many vents as she could to her. Every red light Kenshin
would lean on to her and kiss her quickly on the lips, making her blush.
In half an hour they were at Genzai's
house (after getting lost a couple of times, you didn't need the lack of sense
of direction of Sano to get lost in Kyoto). The first thing Kaoru did was get
into one of the showers, and Kenshin got in the other one.
Kenshin came out first, even though he had
gotten in afterwards. He put on a pair of blue swaetpants and a shirt and went
to the living room to turn on the TV while he waited for Kaoru to come out.
Kaoru joined him on the living room a few
minutes later wearing the sweatpants he had given her before and a sport shirt.
Then, without hesitation she went to snuggle in the arms of her boyfriend,
hiding her face in the crook of his neck. Kenshin surrounded her with his arms
and forgot completely about the movie he was watching, though he kept looking
at the TV.
She ended up sitting on his lap with her
arms around his neck. "Kenshin, we should tell them we are here. We went away
hours ago."
"Mmmm, yeah, we should."
"They must be worried." Kaoru stated
sleepily.
"Yes, probably. Here." He said as he
handed her the phone. Kaoru took it in her hand sleepily, not really
registering what was happening. However, she woke up when she felt Kenshin's
arms slide under her legs and behind her back and lift her in the air. She
didn't have time to protest, though, because Kenshin left her down a second
later, after he stood up from the sofa.
"I'll get us some chocolate."
Kaoru smiled brightly upon hearing that
statement. "Eh!"
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"Hello?" Misao said sleepily into her cell phone. She
could barely keep her eyes open, but upon hearing the voice of her best friend
she woke up instantly.
"Kaoru!"
She exclaimed, and Aoshi almost crashed in a pole. After stabilizing the car,
Aoshi extended a hand toward Misao to take the phone from her, but Misao
refused plainly.
"Kaoru-chan!
We were so worry about you two! Himura is with you, right?" Misao near screamed
in the phone while trying to keep Aoshi's hand away from it.
"You
in Genzai's house? That's good! Where have you two been all this time!? Wait!
Don't tell me! You'll tell me extensively later!!!" Misao said with a squeak of
delight that almost left Aoshi deaf.
"Tell
Himura to hide cuz Aoshi is ready to kill him!" That gained her an Aoshi-glare
but Misao did not even notice.
"We
are coming there, we will be there in two minutes! Ja ne! See ya!"
Aoshi
started to protest the moment he heard he heard the click of the closing lid,
but there was nothing he could do now. He grumbled under his breath as he
stopped for a red light.
"Aoshi,"
Misao started seriously, "promise me you won't go looking for Himura to try and
kill him, alright? Kaoru-chan and Himura are alright and that's what matters.
They did nothing wrong, ok?"
Aoshi
continued grumbling under his breath, refusing to meet her eyes, because he
knew that if he looked into her eyes he would be lost. But Misao did not wait
for that to happen, before the light turned green, she kissed his lips lightly.
"Promise
me." Misao said with a whisper.
"I
promise." He said against her lips without even thinking about it.
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"Kenshin!!!"
Kaoru said right away after she hung up with Misao. "Onii-chan wants to kill
you!" She said, running to the kitchen.
"Oro?"
Kenshin asked with wide eyes as he held two chocolate mugs. "Why would he want
that?" He asked innocently.
"Thanks."
Kaoru said as she took one warm mug from his hand. "Do you realize we left the
party at 1 and it's 4 in the morning?"
"Ororororororo!
Really?"
"Yes!"
Kaoru near screamed in exasperation but didn't know what to do. Reasoning with
his brother was out of question as was hiding Kenshin somewhere in the house.
She was already stressing out when she felt Kenshin's strong arms surround her
warmly from behind.
"No
need to worry de gozaru. The worst thing he can do is kill me and I'm not about
to die now that I got you, ne?"
Kaoru
raised her arms and put them around his neck. "You got me, ne?" She asked
mischievously.
"Hai!"
"I
got you, ne?"
"Hai!
That too."
Kaoru
giggled. "Then let's go watch a movie, ne? And drink our chocolate."
"Hai."
He said as she followed her like a lovesick puppy.
No
later they had arranged themselves on the loveseat the whole troop came inside.
Aoshi was wearing a glare but he made no move to kill Kenshin, mainly because
Misao was holding him so tightly by the hand her knuckles were turning white.
Sano was wearing a somewhat knowing grin and Megumi was smiling almost
stupidly. Soujiro and Yahiko were tumbling upstairs already, not noticing the
scene and Tsubame was giggling like mad. Hiko was the last to come in. He
smiled somewhat proudly but made no comments.
"Kaoru-chan!
You sooo have to tell me!!!" Misao started, finally letting go of Aoshi's hand.
Aoshi gave a last grumble and went upstairs to take a bath. Megumi followed
Misao's steps and began drowning Kaoru with questions. She blushed like amd but
refused to answer anything till later. And she was right too, because some of
the girl's comments were not only making Kaoru blush, but Kenshin and
Sano.
After
what seemed like hours, the three of them decided to go away and leave them
alone. They congratulated them both and went to sleep.
"Umm."
Kaoru started, blushing. "I think I better go to sleep too."
"Umm,
why don't you stay here and we finish the movie?" Kenshin asked looking away
and his red hair cascaded over his chest.
After
a small moment of hesitation Kaoru smiled. "Okay, I like this movie!"
Kenshin
grinned at his triumph.
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Soooo what do you think?
Review please! I makes me sooooooo happy! Anyways here is a question for you:
Which
song you like better:
Don't
wanna miss a thing by Aerosmith
Truly
Madly Deeply by Savage Garden
Thank
you for loving me by Bon Jovi
Always
by Bon Jovi
Iris
by Goo Goo Dolls
And
for which couple you think it fits better?
Tell
me will ya? Your opinion is very valuable to me!
Ja
ne! Review, ne?