Hello minna-san! This is a songfic about Kenshin and Kaoru's first meeting. The song "I Knew I Loved You" is by Savage Garden. It's from their album Affirmation. It's a good album, and the song is almost always shown on MTV Asia. Anyway, Rurouni Kenshin is by Nobuhiro Watsuki. It's not mine, and this songfic is purely for pleasure.

I Knew I Loved You

It was a cold and foggy night. The young woman gripped her bokken firmly as she trained her eyes on the short man walking ahead of her. He had long red hair gathered in a low ponytail hanging down his back. A long sword at his side swung with each step of his. She narrowed her eyes. She could not be mistaken this time. He was the one she had been looking for. She called out for him to stop.

[Maybe it's intuition

But some things you just don't question

Like in your eyes

I see my future in an instant

And there it goes

I think I've found my best friend.]

He turned to her, and she was momentarily paralyzed by his soft violet gaze that seemed to see right through her. His violet eyes reflected deep wisdom that showed how much he has seen and endured. She stood there transfixed.

[I know that it might sound more than a little crazy

But I believe]

He was the one she had been looking for.

[I knew I loved you before I met you

I think I dreamed you into my life

I knew I loved you before I met you

I have been waiting all my life.]

He sensed her first before he saw and heard her. He turned around and saw her, a young girl with a bokken which she was waving around threateningly. He realized that she meant to attack him, but he merely stood there gazing at her fair complexion, her soft hair bobbing in its ponytail, and her blue eyes which were fiery with determination. He suddenly didn't know what to do except…

[There's just no rhyme or reason

Only this sense of completion

And in your eyes

I see the missing pieces

I'm searching for

I think I've found my best friend.]

He jumped onto a crate of boxes to avoid her rush, only to fall off clumsily in front of her. He was sorely embarrassed, especially when she came over to help him up. He could only offer a tentative smile and a confusing explanation about his sword before she realized that he was not her culprit and ran off. He could only look after her admiring her courage and will yet at the same time growing uneasy at the thought that she was endangering herself by following a killer at night.

[I know that it might sound more than a little crazy

But I believe.]

He followed her and arrived just in time to rescue her from the blade of the killer she had been searching for. He spirited her away in his arms and watched her concernedly as she fainted.

[I knew I loved you before I met you

I think I dreamed you into my life

I knew I loved you before I met you

I have been waiting all my life.]

Through his own efforts, he found out where she lived and he took her home. He put her down on an unrolled futon and tended to her before walking out and waiting for her to awake.

[A thousand angels dance around you…]

She came out a few moments later to see him cooking something.

[I am complete now that I've found you…]

Their eyes met, and both could not help but feel the warmth between them though they were still strangers to each other.

[I knew I loved you before I met you

I think I dreamed you into my life

I knew I loved you before I met you

I have been waiting all my life.]

End.

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