Be Careful
What You Wish For
A Rurouni Kenshin fanfiction
By Chibi Tenshi and Kirstian
Chapter
Seven
To keep herself safe, Kaoru once again headed
for the trees. Finding the tallest and most sturdy, she assigned Kenshin to stay below and stand
guard though he offered the most pathetic look.
She cursed the gods long and hard.
How was it that her once complacent though adorable rurouni had turned
into this ladykiller with more than a bagful of tricks up his pink pink
sleeves?
One thing was for sure – it was damn hard to be
as attractive as she was.
As she settled as comfortably as it was possible
to have branches poking your ears, flies buzzing around your head despite the
altitude, and bark rubbing the wrong end of your body, she prayed to god she
wouldn’t topple over while sleeping. At
the very least, there would be a rurouni at the bottom to cushion her fall.
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Kaoru found herself being surrounded by
warmth. The soft scent of soap wafted to
her nose as Kenshin moved closer. Love
was shining brightly from his eyes, and he held her hands gently.
“Kaoru-dono… iie, Kaoru…”
Ah yes, the ever-familiar dream – perhaps this
one would have a better end than the disaster that was her life.
“Hai Kenshin?” she asked expectantly. Everything was building up to this one
moment. He cupped her cheek and stroked
the skin tenderly.
“Sessha…”
She reached up and put a finger to his
lips. “Iie, don’t call yourself that
anymore. You are Himura Kenshin. That is all I have always wanted you to be.”
The leap of happiness that sparked in his eyes
thrilled her, as did the gentle motion of his lips against her finger. It seemed like he was kissing her
finger. Shivers shot up her toes, and
then suddenly, his face was right next to hers.
“Forgive me, Kaoru. You are too irresistible for me to hold back
any longer.”
Then, he kissed her. His mouth slanted over hers possessively, and
his hands stroked her back. She lost
herself in the sensation, loving the feel of his fingers traversing down her
back, and lower still. She pulled away
and gasped.
If she wasn’t mistaken, the dream had most
definitely taken one step further than it usually did. Kenshin’s other hand was now groping at her
chest.
Her eyes flew open, and she found Kenshin
practically on top of her. She shrieked,
and kicked him from the tree.
All she heard was him screaming “It was worth
it” all the way to the bottom, where she hoped he landed on his fellow lechers.
Then, she blushed. Though it felt wonderful, it still wasn’t
proper. Plus, she sure as hell wasn’t
going to let him sample any goods before getting a wedding proposal, or see his
stuff – whichever came first.
Chuckling, Kaoru fell back into a slumber,
resuming her dream of redheaded rurounis with tantalising fingers and large
sakabatous.
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Kenshin must’ve fallen on his head a lot harder
than she expected. She laughed to
herself as she stretched out lazily.
Peering below, she groaned when she realised her fan club had long
awakened. Bunch of eager beavers, she thought
nastily. How on earth was she to get
herself out of this?
“Kenshin?” she hollered down.
Sanosuke, Saitoh, and Hiko waved merrily at
her. “Hello baby!” they chorused.
“Cursed with such beauty”, she muttered. Damn you, ancestor Kamiyas for being as
hot as you are.
“Where has my ru-”
As if in synchronous movement, they pointed to a
rather large tree that had been stuffed with a rurouni. She gaped at them. Flinging pine cones down at them, she yelled,
“You jerks!!! If you harm a single hair on him…”
A muffled voice said, “No need for woe! My
sakabatou is still good to go!”
“ARGH!!” She kicked the tree in frustration and sent a
rainshower of pine cones on them.
“Love pricks my darling!” Sanosuke cooed. The idiot was actually standing there
welcoming the objects hitting his hard head.
“Prick this!” Angrily, she broke off a branch
and hurled it at him.
In a full fledged sulk now, she wondered how on
earth she would get away from them. Then
she heard a sound that would terrify most females.
It would appear that they had regrouped. She screamed and hung on for dear life as the
sounds of chopping echoed through the woods.
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While they may have coined her Tanuki-chan,
Kaoru had never been that great at leaping from tree to tree in the first
place; it didn't help any that they had, apparently, managed to cover the
entire forest. Even as she scrambled
across onto the branch of a new tree, it was being sawn to the ground - she was
only glad she had gotten away from Hiko, Saitoh and Sano. While the ax-wielding villagers were
worrisome, the other three were capable of taking out a tree in one fell swoop,
and she was in no mood to fall into their grasps. And there was an advantage to having all the
trees she was jumping from cut down; there was no way that they could follow
her through the branches.
"Why can't
you people just LEAVE ME ALONE?!" She screamed, wrapping her
arms around the trunk of her current tree as it shook.
There was no way out of it; she would most
definitely have to find somewhere to hide in the city. It was a busy enough place; she could blend
into the common public, even if she was
still the most beautiful person on the planet - growling, she banged her head
against the tree. Now really wasn't the
time to be thinking about things like that.
Finding a nice, sturdy looking branch on a tree
across from her, Kaoru took a deep breath and flung herself onto it just as the
other tree tipped over to the ground - hopefully catching a few of her admirers
underneath it.
"What could I have possibly done to deserve
this?" She whined as she climbed through the branches. "All I wanted was Kenshin! Not the whole of
Her luck was running out, and she knew it - the
trees were starting to get sparse. She
could see
"How can you people be so fast?!" She snarled furiously, trying as hard as she
could to catch her breath and calm herself.
Plan, plan, she needed a plan. Kenshin always had strategies, but he was behind
her somewhere, fighting to get through the crowds, and she really didn't know
if having him there would have helped her, in any case.
The tree began to wobble precariously, and then,
she thought of something, and hoped to high heaven that it would work.
A final chop echoed at the base of the tree, and
it started tipping, and as it did, Kaoru threw herself in the direction of the
gates, still holding onto the branches of the tree, giving it a helping nudge
in the right direction - and then she jumped for her life, barely clinging onto
the side of the city wall.
The tree crashed down in front of the gates, and
as she scrambled onto the edge of the wall, Kaoru gave a whoop of joy. "How d'ya like
that?!"
"Very much thank you!" Someone responded eagerly, and she growled,
her victory spoiled.
Turning around, Kaoru crawled to the other side
of the wall and looked around, and then down - if she jumped down, there was no
doubt she would hurt herself, and she didn't need Megumi fussing over her at
that moment; the only thing left to do was hop onto the nearest roof.
Grumbling about never having to do this at home,
Kaoru stood up carefully, took a few steps backwards, and then made a flying
leap to the roof of the closest building - and was quite surprised when she
landed.
Not quite as surprised as she was when the roof
gave way, though.
"Damn it, Kenshin was always better at
those types of things," she screamed in her frustration, waving the dust
away from her face as she lay in a heap of rubble inside the house. About to get to her feet, Kaoru shook her
head and then moved - only realizing afterwards that the pressure on her hips
wasn't just fallen shingles, but someone's hands.
"Never seen a pretty lady fall from the sky
like that," the man laughed - and then coughed up a chunk of the wall as
he went flying into it.
"... I can't believe it," Kaoru
groaned, dusting her sleeves off. If she
had to keep punching out every person she met, she was going to be stronger
then Sanosuke by the end of the day. "This
is crazy!"
Well, the best way to deal with it was to get it
over with - and, taking a deep breath, Kaoru stumbled outside into the street,
arms stretched to either side to bash anyone who dared get too close - and she
ran, screaming out apologies to everyone she clubbed as she passed, stopping
only to kick someone in the face when they managed to grab her foot, saying as
sweetly as she could manage through her teeth, "I'm so sorry about that,
you dumb oaf!"
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Disclaimer: We own no part of Rurouni Kenshin or any other presences, other then
Tenshi and Kirstian themselves, who will appear in this fic. If we did, Kenshin wouldn't be as clueless as
he normally is, and he'd be called Tub-by.
In any case, we have no money. We
spent it all on Sesshoumaru's spandex Halloween getup. XD So don't sue. We'll sick Vash on you.