A/Cries of help: Orororororo!!!! I'm soooooooooooo sorry!!!!!!! *Hana Himura watches, popcorn in hand as Firuze Kahnume strangles Bao and shakes her about.* Gomen nasai!!!!!! Perdonenme!!!!! I'm out of languages… I'm so sorry!!!!! I know it has been forever!!! But I'm here again!!! But hey! You haven't finished your story either! Or sent me the next chapter! *Firuze glares at a sweating Bao. Hana comes up and shoves the popcorn to Firuze* "But I have!" *Hana now strangles Bao as Firuze watches merrily enjoying her popcorn.* gomeeeeeeeen!

He could lie again… it was a miracle! If he had only know this terrible curse only lasted a day!

"Um… I'm sorry Kenshin…"

'Oh yeah…' he had forgotten about the current situation. His eyes bulged. She had just asked him if he had feelings for her! Baka baka baka! What do I do?!?' he thought frantically

"it's… getting late, ne?… ano… I guess I'll be off now. Oyasumi…" she said getting up quickly

Kenshin reacted quick and grabbed her wrist. It wasn't over yet! He couldn't let her go like this. True it would be the easy way out, but how would things be afterwards? He would be all shy around her because he hadn't said anything, and she would try to avoid him, but then again what was he going to tell her? That he loved her? How would she react? He would feel like scum accepting her feelings… but a very happy scum… arrrgg! Think dammit think!!'

"Kaoru… I can…" he started

Her wrist trembled under his grasp making him even more nervous. 'Why do I have to tell her that I can lie again? What the hell am I doing?!? Think!!!' Tell her, and feel insecure about having all her wonderful feelings just for him. If anyone knows he didn't deserve them, it was him, on the other hand don't tell her and get off easy, free her from loving such a horrible man… he shouldn't tell her… he doesn't deserve her.

"You… you don't…" started Kaoru

"I love you!"

'Oro! You blithering moron! I said think! Not blurt everything out!' he drew in a deep breath and sighed. Then gasped. He had done it… he had actually… done it… was that all? All these years he was dreading to say 3 miserable words…

He looked up to Kaoru and saw sad eyes. His heart sank. 'What have I done?' he asked totally confused. Kaoru reached her free hand over to Kenshin's left cheek and stoked it lightly. He felt his skin tingle under her touch. She released her wrist from him and did the same with her left hand. They traveled down his neck onto his gi.

"YOU BAKA!!!!!!!" she yelled at the top of her lungs gripping his gi and shaking him so hard he could not see strait.

"Ororororo!!!!!!!!!!"

"I cannot believe it took a damn curse for you to confess your feelings!! Do you know how long I had asked myself?! Do you know how scared I was?! Do you know how many night I did not sleep at all?! All to hear those three simple words?! When were you going to tell me?! Did you want me to become an old maid, die, reincarnate and then tell me that you loved me?! If this stupid thing hadn't happened to you, you wouldn't have even told me then would've you?!" she yelled at him through tears.

Kenshin kept oroing through her whole speech, her words sinking in. Kaoru stopped shaking him and sniffled loudly, then threw herself into Kenshin and cried some more. He recovered quickly, a bit dazed but quickly, and set his arms around the shivering little thing in his chest.

"Do not be upset Kaoru-dono…" he tried

"Don't… call me… *sniff* dono!" she said in a voice muffled by his clothes.

"Sessha has loved you ever since he saw what kind of an amazing woman you are…"

Kaoru cried some more. "It's just that… love had not been kind to sessha…" he continued feeling his shoulders slump a bit. "Besides the fact that sessha would not be worthy of Kaoru-dono even if he would establish world peace… I was… afraid, for you… and me too I guess… and I never would have imagined that revealing my feelings would make Kaoru-dono happy, or very sad if I didn't de gozaru yo."

Kaoru had stopped her sobbing, now reduced to an occasional sniffle. Kenshin stroked her hair liking the sensation of Kaoru in his arms.

"You're even more baka than me…" she said silently

"Oro? Doushite de gozaru ka?"

"Gomen nasai Kenshin… I didn't realise how you had to look at things… but Kenshin…" she lifted herself up and looked at him with sparkling sapphire eyes "The idea of you not deserving me is just plain stupid. And never in my right mind would I even dream of hurting you again… not if I could help it. I would do everything for you, give everything for you."

Kenshin felt something very warm spread from his heart to the rest of his body… it felt wonderful. He let out a soft chuckle and took her hands in his. Looking down at them to hide his blush. A though occurred to him and he blushed even more at what he was about to say.

"Kaoru-dono…?"

"Kaoru…" she said

"Gomen… it's a habit..."

She smiled and waited for him to continue. "Ano… may sessha… sessha has to… " he realised one hand from hers and cupped her jaw.

Kaoru's eyes twinkled and she shut them tight leaning on his hand and moving towards him. 'Oro! she thinks that I… wanted to kiss her? I just wanted to apologize…' he mentally smacked himself in the head 'And I am complaining because???' and leaned in turning his head slightly when their noses touched.

"Thank you so much Kaoru-dono…" he whispered once they had parted.

"For what?" she asked back just as silently.

"For existing… for loving me… for just being who you are…… for everything…"

It was Kaoru's turn to blush as she giggled softly. And sighed… no wait, she hadn't sighed. Kenshin turned to his right with utter horror. There standing a few feet away were Sano, an evil grin plastered on his face, Megumi, her hands over her chest and sighing again, and Yahiko making gagging noises. How in the world did they get this close without him noticing.

"You sure know what to say to make a woman happy Ken-san…"

"Why did you wait so long to kiss her?" asked Sano

"And why on earth was Kaoru screaming when we came in? ………… wait don't answer that…" said Yahiko looking uncertain.

"Oro…"

"Do you mind?!" yelled Kaoru at them

"Aw come on Jou-chan! That was the best event of the day… even better than Saitou! You made him blush fer cryin out loud!"

The couple turned red, Kenshin from embarrassment and Kaoru from anger.

"I just love it the way everyone respects my privacy!" she yelled sarcastically, her eyes shooting daggers at them.

"Hey not every one enjoyed it!" said Yahiko

Kaoru slapped him across the head. "May I ask now what on earth are you all doing here?!" she shrieked

"We came to drop Yahiko off…" said Megumi innocently with fox ears popping out. "Remember you smacked him over the head with a table…"

Kaoru's eye twitched. "Yeah! Just because she forgot to close the door when she was dressing herself!" blurted Yahiko "You think the sight of you naked was pleasant for little innocent me?"

Kenshin cranked his head as if it were a hinge that needed oil towards Yahiko. "You saw… Kaoru-dono naked?........................... before me?"

Sano and Megumi immediately doubled over each other laughing so hard it scared Kenshin. Yahiko looked insulted, and Kaoru…

"KENSHIN!!!!"

"Oro!" his eyes swirled as a bokken (lord knows where it came from…) connected with his head, a panting Kaoru above him. Sano and Megumi were still on top of each other laughing there heads off. A vein flared in Kaoru's head and grabbing them both headed for the dojo door and shoved them out on the street, closing the gate with a slam.

"You! Bed! Now!" she yelled at Yahiko. He would have come back with something but a gleam in her eye told him to keep quiet. So he left without a word. The last he saw before turning the corner was Kaoru lifting up the sleeves of her kimono and placing her hands on her hips. Getting to his bedroom he heard Kenshin's last desperate call…

"Oro!"

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In the morning when Yahiko got up he noticed something was wrong. The dojo was too quiet. Kenshin was always up by the time he was awake, and Kaoru as well. But Kenshin wasn't in the garden doing laundry, or in the kitchen making breakfast and Kaoru wasn't in the dojo or the yard practising, and there was no one in her room. 'Maybe she killed him…' Yahiko thought, approaching Kenshin's room.

………………………………

"AHHHHHH! Dammit when will you two give me a break?!" yelled Yahiko covering his eyes

Kaoru yawned and looked confused. 'What the hell is he talking about.' She looked under herself and got the point, taking what little cover Kenshin had to cover herself. Yahiko was till cursing running down the hall making noises as if he were trying to get something nasty out of his stomach.

"Oro!"

"Yahiko you little puberty stricken gaki! Don't you dare think what I know you are thinking!" yelled Kaoru at him

She fastened her Yukata around her body and sat up. "really! How could he have come to that conclusion?!"

Kenshin looked at the situation himself. There was a futon in the middle of the room, which was supposed to be for Kaoru… she had abandoned it in the middle of the night. She refused to let Kenshin sleep in her drafty room and they made an arrangement. He slept against the wall, not at all bothered by it and Kaoru was supposed to sleep at the futon. He woke up with her arm on his, and her head on his shoulder. After Kaoru had fallen asleep she kept slipping towards the floor dragging Kenshin along with her. And they ended up laid down completely Kaoru practically on top of Kenshin with a small blanket for both of them.

"Well… the situation…" he started.

"Oh Kenshin don't start! Is that the first thing that would have come up to your mind if you saw me sleeping with a stranger?"

Kenshin smiled and shook his head, that would be the second, the first thing would be 'kill!' Kaoru stood up completely and made her way out of Kenshin's room, probably to go dress up. It was very late, and even though he had been awake since probably 5 in the morning, he had no intention of getting up.

Reluctantly Kenshin too made his way over to his own gi and hakama and got dressed, he didn't know why but he had a very positive feeling that today was going to be a great day. Smiling like an idiot to himself he made his way to the kitchen.

"YOU HAD SEX?!"

He sighed, recognising that voice and it's agonising cry as Kaoru hit him with who knows what over his thick head.

"Of course we didn't have sex! Don't listen to Yahiko listen to me!" she yelled

"They were on top of each other!" pointed out Yahiko

"So?! We just slept together!" she defended

Kenshin could picture Sano lifting an eyebrow.

"No it is not the same thing Sanosuke you hentai!" yelled Kaoru before Sano spoke

"Ohayo gozaimasu minna" said Kenshin stepping into the kitchen

"Did you really knock up Jou-chan?" Sano asked a strange gleam in his eyes

"Oro! Sessha would never claim her his own until we were married."

"Claim me your own?!"

"Oro!"

"I guess that's a no…" said Sano looking back at Yahiko as a dust ball, with a bokken, a ragged doll that looked like a Rurouni, and a nasty looking Kaoru, grew behind them. "With all that no lying shit and stuff."

Kenshin turned to Sano, his gi held up by Kaoru bokken in the other hand, various lumps on his head already.

"Ano… the curse had been broken de gozaru… sessha can lie again." He informed them.

Everybody turned to look. "What? Since when?" asked Yahiko

"Yesterday night."

Kaoru stood shocked. "last… last night?"

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A/N: hey wadaya know! It didn't turn up to be the last chapter! ^^ actually me and some great authors and friends are planning the sequal…. ¬¬ well sorta! After we're finished with it I don't know if it still will be but anywho, sorry again for the delay and I hope you enjoyed! Don't forget to review please! ^^ hey! Wadayano! I made a cliffhanger! *evil grin* promise I won't take as long to post up the next chapter though ~_<