Be Careful What You Wish For

A Rurouni Kenshin fanfiction

By Chibi Tenshi and Kirstian

Chapter Nine

Crouching behind some deserted buildings, Kenshin had one arm around her protectively while she was breathing in some lovely male chest. In fact, Kaoru was trying desperately not to hyperventilate at the fact that she was just positively buried in lovely lean muscle. Who knew what other things he was hiding on that slender frame of his?

She blushed at the direction of her thoughts – now was really NOT the time for this. “Are we safe yet?”

“Soujirou was probably the closest to getting us, but thankfully I think Misao-chan ambushed him. She said something about that grin annoying her.”

Kaoru shuddered – Misao had no idea how a once terrifying unemotional boy turned into this sex fiend.

“Thank god.”

Was it just her or did his chest seem to move up and down a little more? It must’ve been from his exertions of carrying her and leaping around from rooftop, to ground, to temple, to ground, carriage, and so forth – not that she weighed that much, mind you. Anyone would’ve been tired jumping around for that long.

“Ah, Kaoru… I never knew.” His hand began rubbing her back in a most delicious yet entirely inappropriate way.

“What?!” She attempted to pull away before getting smothered with more lean muscled chest.

“Kissing my chest like that… tsk tsk, naughty Kaoru. I knew you had it in you, my sweet little shihondai.”

She realized a little belatedly that each time she tried to speak to Kenshin, that would be what it would’ve felt like for that overexcited rurouni.

His fingers were moving far too low. Kaoru moved away from him and grabbed his sword, smacking him promptly on his head. “No trying before you buy!!” she hollered, and sat down next to a semi-unconscious rurouni.

“Really now… at the rate you’re acting, one would think you haven’t gotten any action in over ten years…”

Kenshin moaned, “It has been over ten years. Can you blame sessha?”

She glared at him fiercely. “You mean ANY other girl would’ve been fine?”

He gulped. Spell he may be under, and concussion he may be suffering from, but he recognized trouble when he saw it.

“I-iie! It has to be Kaoru. It has to be you.”

“Why?” she asked, narrowing her eyes suspiciously.

“Because…”

“Because?” The sakabatou was ready in hand. Lord would he ever get a thrashing if he said anything other than what she wanted to hear. Say you love me, you moron! Her mind screamed.

“Because… you really have the best view.”

She looked at him in confusion before the light went off in her head. “WHAT?!” she shrieked. Leaping away, she found that her yukata had indeed gaped open, offering Kenshin a cinematic view of everything. Clutching her yukata in mortification, she smacked the glassy-eyed, drooling rurouni repeatedly.

When she had finally run out of strength, she fell back down. She was going to cry. Frustration (of a different kind) was rapidly mounting. She was getting tired of hitting and punching everyone, though now she pretty much had to contend with one person only. At least Kenshin’s baser (not quite the BASIC) instincts were still in tact, and he still wanted to protect her beautiful body. She really couldn’t help being the mankiller than she was. But wasn’t there something she could do?

The briefest glimmer of light against her face caught her by surprise. Then, she nearly shrieked as Kenshin bolted awake, and reached down to find only a saya.

“Kaoru, my love. Now’s not the time to be playing with my sakabatou!”

Kaoru saw red and mashed him with it.

“Kaoru-chan,” Misao said, slightly out of breath.

“Ano… ahh heh heh… a funny thing happened on my way to Kyoto…”

Misao narrowed her eyes. The kunai were indeed poised in her hand, ready to strike. “I can see… Aoshi-sama… is missing.”

Kaoru gulped. She kicked the hand that was trying to stroke her calf, and distract her to no end. “You know I have no intentions towards that oversexed, er I mean, frigid icicle! He’s all yours right!”

“Oversexed?!”

Uh-oh. Bad move on my part, Kaoru thought inwardly. Could this day get any worse? Instead of Misao behaving anything like Megumi and Tae, she was going to get slaughtered by the leader of the Oniwabanshu.

“How would you know?” Misao shrieked.

Kaoru wailed, “It wasn’t my fault, I swear! I mean, in a way it is, because I’m so beautiful, but Aoshi just came on to me! He was supposed to be this guy with no sex drive, but then, he started coming on to me and… why do I have to be so beautiful?”

The frantic nodding done by a fallen rurouni went unnoticed by either of them. “Did you touch him back?” Misao demanded fiercely.

Kaoru looked astonished. “Why would I? You know I’ve only wanted to be with one man…”

The “me?” piped up by a squeaky voice went unheard by either of them – again. The grin that flashed across his face was also ignored.

“You know Kaoru-chan, maybe that IS the problem.”

She blinked at her friend in confusion. She screamed as the kunai went flying in her direction. She opened her eyes in surprise when she found no blood on her. Instead, one redhead was pinned into a building – rather securely.

Misao strolled over. “You have such narrow minded thinking. Really, you should broaden your horizons, experience new things. Afterall, how would you know if you don’t try?”

Kaoru gulped. This was Misao. Misao loved Aoshi. Misao could not possibly –

The hand that slammed on the wall on the right side of her face confirmed her worst suspicions, along with the husky voice that emitted from her friend. “Bigger isn’t always better you know. I mean really, look at the size of Himura. He’s positively tiny!”

“Sessha has a large sakabatou!”

Kaoru flung the closest object she could at Kenshin, which unfortunately for all present, was Misao. She winced at the crunching sound they both made.

“Ugh! The kunai is stuck up…”

She plugged her ears. She didn’t want to hear. At the thundering sound, Kaoru groaned inwardly. “Oh great, now what? A storm?”

As she looked upwards, she was surprised that no storm clouds were in the sky, which could only mean one thing. “Oh shit!!” she muttered. “Kenshin!!!”

He had somehow extricated himself from the wall and left Misao still implanted in there. He tossed the kunai up and down in his hand, and within a second was by her side. “Yes, my love? How can I be of service?”

She pointed downwards. “Look!!!”

“Never fear. Sessha is here!”

Was it just her or were Kenshin’s lines growing worse by the minute? She slapped a hand against her forehead – there would be great indents there soon enough.

He grabbed her by the waist and scanned the rooftops quickly. Then, they were off and leaping once again. For some reason, an image of vines and trees came to mind. Kaoru grinned wickedly and reached into his gi, nearly causing Kenshin to drop her.

“Kaoru!! Later my love,” he winked lewdly.

She rolled her eyes, pulling out the kunai, and flung them down below. What she also didn’t realize was as they leapt over her rapidly growing fanclub’s heads (which had now grown to include several other small villages nearby), she sent quite a few noses exploding in violent nosebleeds.

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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.