Lost and Lonely

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Throwing her apron into a pile of laundry Kaoru goes to the one place she is sure Misao would be, the temple. Walking closer to the small temple that sat on the back portion of the property, Kaoru can see Misao peaking at a certain Ice man whom Kaoru is more than certain must be sitting there. ‘Typical Misao, always where Aoshi is when she doesn’t have any work to do.’


Before Misao has a chance to go into the temple and bother Aoshi Kaoru grabs hold of her friend’s shoulders affectively making Misao jump a mile off of the ground. Trying hard not to burst out in laughter so she doesn’t disturb Aoshi, though she has the sneaking hunch that he knows they are there and that Misao’s presence alone had disturbed the man even before Kaoru had arrived. In order to save the poor man from losing more concentration due to her hyper best friend Kaoru drags Misao away from the door closing it as quietly as possible.


Inside the small room Aoshi sits shaking his head and lets out a small sigh of relief. ‘I’m glad she was intercepted, I did not want to be bothered today. Even if it is Misao.’


Bringing Misao into the spare room and shutting the door behind her Kaoru attempts to shut the girl up. “Listen Misao I have something really important to talk to you about. So shush and listen okay?” Once Misao nods her consent Kaoru starts talking a mile-a-minute relaying all of the current events and a rather detailed account of Kenshin. By the look on Misao’s face it might have been a little too detailed. She then fishes out the make-shift note and shoves it at Misao before continuing her tirade. Taking a deep breath and slumping her shoulders Kaoru slows down and gets out the only coherent words thus far. “So what should I do?”


Blinking and looking at the paper Misao slowly grins at Kaoru and goes running off. It took Kaoru a second to comprehend just what had happened, realizing that her friend just took off with a mischievous grin on her face, Kaoru bolts off in the direction Misao has gone. “Where...is she?” Kaoru pants between steps. Stopping in the hallway she tries to compose herself. “That twerp better not be doing anything stupid!” Taking off again Kaoru runs around the building for another minute or so before finally screeching to a halt outside of a door where she can here Misao talking to someone. ‘Oh No!’ Kaoru walks into the room and sure enough, there’s Misao…on the phone.


“Hi! Is this…” Misao looks at the paper to check the name, realizing exactly what Misao has done she takes the opportunity to snatch the phone and slip of paper out of Misao’s hands. “Hey! I was talking!”


Covering the mouthpiece with her hand she reprimands her friend, “Shut up Misao! What exactly do you think you’re doing!”


On the other end Kenshin sits at a stop light looking at his phone and grins. ‘Well this is interesting.’ “Hello? Is anyone there?”


Kaoru looks at the phone and panics, realizing that Kenshin is still on the other line just sitting there. “Ummm…” Kaoru hesitantly speaks into the phone. “Uh….”


“Oh good I wasn’t hung up on. But I do know I am not speaking to the same person. May I enquire as to your name?” Kenshin grins at the pause on the other end.


“Um…I’m sorry…” she sighs realizing that she can’t hang up on him now. Glaring at Misao one last time Kaoru speaks up and begins the awkward conversation. “This is Karou Kamiya…I don’t know if you remember me…but I waited on you at the Aioya today.”


Smiling at his phone Kenshin answers the young woman on the line. “Of course I remember you. It isn’t every day that I give my personal number out to strangers.”


Blushing Kaoru nods, realizing that it’s a phone and thus he can’t see her reactions she speaks up, “yes I would imagine not.”


Chuckling Kenshin continues, “I was wondering if you would like to join me for dinner tomorrow night.”


Giving Misao a death stare, who was currently sitting in a chair grinning for ear to ear at her best friend and obviously thinking that this was more amusing than reality tv, Kaoru comes up with the first excuse she can find, “Well…while that would be nice but I am working tomorrow night.”


‘Stubborn isn’t she? I bet she wasn’t even going to call. Heh, she should be interesting if I can just get her to say yes.’ “That’s no problem; we can go after you finish work. I saw on the sign that the restaurant closes at 6:30 on Tuesdays…so how about I pick you up at 7?”


“Well…I...umm…” Kaoru mutters as Misao just rolls her eyes and then takes the phone away from a mystified Kaoru.
“Kenshin right? This is Misao.”


Sighing Kenshin wonders what happened to the beauty he was just speaking to. “Ah yes Misao I was just saying to Kaoru that I would like to take her out tomorrow at 7. Do you know if she agreed or not?”


“She’d love to. Uh huh…Yup…okay she’ll see you at 7.” Blinking Kaoru is shook from her daze and stares from the phone to Misao as she hangs up with a short good bye.


“Misao…what..did you just do!” Kaoru stands over her friend with her hands on her hips. If looks could kill Misao would be on the floor gushing blood.


In the most innocent and childlike of voices that misao can muster she states, “I simply finished the phone call that you were to chicken to do. He sounded happy that you could go out with him and he said he’ll pick you up here at 7 o’clock tomorrow night.”


“Misao! I didn’t even know if I was going to see him again!”


“Well now you do.” Ginning Misao leaves the room with Kaoru standing there gapping at her back.
“Damn you Misao!” Kaoru bangs her head on the wall lightly. ‘What am I going to do?’




(Where ever Kenshin is):




Kenshin hangs up his cell phone smiling to himself. He hadn’t expected a call about her for another few hours. But then he was pretty sure it was due to the high-pitched girl who called him. ‘What was her name again? Oh right Misao’ He laughed to himself as he remembered hearing Kaoru berate Misao when she had obviously found her on the phone speaking to him. ‘Apparently her “friend” doesn’t consult her on matters like this.’ He parks his car across from a small building and gets out grabbing a large duffle bag in the process. ‘Well I’m glad her friend called…It enabled me to speak to her again. She is filled with a great spirit. Tomorrow night should prove to be much fun.’ Walking into the building Kenshin quickly disappears from sight.




(Back at the Aioya):




Sighing to herself Kaoru leaves the room to go and check on Yahiko and Sano. “They better not be getting themselves into too much trouble, that would be the last thing that I need today.” Opening the door Kaoru walks in to find Megumi tending to Yahiko and the little brat complaining about the pain but there is no Sano to be found. “Hello Yahiko-chan…Megumi.” Grinning at Yahiko’s hatred of the nickname Kaoru continued. “How is everything Megumi? And where is Sano?”


Megumi shrugs at the girl as she finishes up tending to the howling child. “Who? That gangster rooster head? How should I know? I only saw him on my way in.” Packing up her things Megumi hands Kaoru some medicine. “If the pain gets bad just have him put this on it. His wounds aren’t too bad, just mainly bruises and such but make sure he gets enough rest before doing anything major.” With that Megumi leaves Yahiko and Kaoru alone.


Looking at Yahiko Kaoru tries to figure out where Sano might have run off to. ‘He seemed worried about the little brat so why would he just up and leave like that?’ Sitting down next to Yahiko and helping him to sit up a little in the bed she asks him if he knows where Sano might have gone.


“Yeah, on Mondays he always goes out at this time of day. He says he has to go meet someone about something or other and that if he didn’t go the person would get mad at him or something like that.”


Handing Yahiko another pillow she thinks to herself. “He’s probably just going to see some girl or something.” Nodding to Yahiko Kaoru gets up.


“Alright, well you heard what Megumi said…you’re supposed to stay in bed and rest. I’ll come back and check on you when dinner’s ready.” He nods his consent and grabs a book that Misao has let him borrow.


Leaving Yahiko to his reading Kaoru goes about her job at the Inn. “I can’t believe Misao. I just can’t believe she would call Kenshin like that! Grr…now I’m set up for a date tomorrow that I don’t even know what I’m going to do about. It’s worse than a blind date for heaven’s sakes! And where did that damn Sano go? I was counting on him to be here to take care of Yahiko! Now I’m going to have to do it along with the rest of the things I have to do today.” Sighing Kaoru does all of her work her mind racing on the day’s events.




(Meanwhile):




Sano gets out of the cab he has taken to get to the small building. Looking up at the windows that seem to make up the sides of the building Sano curses himself. “Damn I’m probably late. He’s gonna kick my butt. I hope the little missy can take care of Yahiko for me for a little while.” Grabbing his things Sano heads into the building to find his companion who he knew would be ticked at him.


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Well there you have it folks! Chapter two. I know it's short and all but I'm the author! Again; if you liked the story please review it!