Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:29:00 -0400 From: The Fox Subject: (darkfic)Dancing Madly Backwards .................................................................. Okey.....enough humour. This is serious and so dark as I can. And PG 18 I think. Thanks to Edgar Allan Poe for the idea.This story happens two years after Enishi's Jinchuu. .................................................................. DANCING MADLY BACKWARDS by Fox Lady. Chapter 1. Welcome to my nightmare There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea. You became the light on the dark side of me. Love remained a drug that's the high and not the pill. But did you know, that when it snows, My eyes become large and, the light that you shine can be seen. Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey. The more I get of you, stranger it feels, yeah. And now that your rose is is in bloom. A light hits the gloom on the grey. There is so much a man can tell you, So much he can say. There's so much inside. You remain, you... My power, my pleasure, my pain! To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny.. Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby? I've been kissed by a rose ...been kissed by a rose on the grey. Seal, "Kiss from a Rose" "Kenshin!!" ::Kenshin...:: It's snowing slowly ... cold to the bones ... :: Kenshin, I'm here for you ... :: Tears falling warm in his skin. The scent of a beloved woman in his side . Kaoru-dono...? "Kenshin, wake up, dammit!!" :: Please don't deny me ... don't say to me no ... I need to be with you... :: "Kenshin, you're scaring me !! Wake up +++ NOW!!" Love ... the touch of a woman, the lips of a woman, the body of a woman ...loving ... caressing ... so warm ... Her touch ... A light moan in the deepness of his throat. How much time without any... Oh, koibito... :: I love you so ... say you're mine ... :: Yours ... always ... SLAP! - Itai de gozaru!!!!!- Kenshin jumps fully awake just to see Sanosuke kneeled over his futon, ready to slap him again. He raises his arms in pathetic surrender, feeling his muscles whine and wail in displeasure. So tired. So tired ... - Sano ? Why did you slap me de gozaru ? - - Because you never wake up, baka.- The light is dim. So why...? Kenshin open wide eyes. Isn't dawn. Is late afternoon. - What the gozaru...?- - You've sleeping all day. The girls are worried since you don't wake up... Foxy's opinion was letting you sleep till you wake up but I think it's no fair . They'd never let me sleep in that way...-Kenshin smiles, but with a tired smile. - Thanks for worry yourselves. I'm sorry de gozaru . I don't know what happened to me. I'd never slept in this way.- he supress a yawn and then scracht his hair, who loose and free looks like a lion's mane. Sano shrugs and pats his head like a puppy's. -You look unbereably cute in that way.- he aparts the red silk from his face and then frowns, a strange look in his warm chocolate eyes.-Hey, you don't look fine. Maybe Jou-chan was right and you're sick.- -Daijobou de gozaru Sano. I don't know why I slept so much.- Kenshin raise in his feets, in his old sleep kimono of ligth blue and suddenly all the world goes gray. He just feel something strange in his waist and hips, like a burn , and a wave od dizziness sought him. -orooooo....- -KENSHIN!!- Strong arms catch him and nest him , a voice near hysterics in his ear. Kenshin, afraid of Sano's yells attracted the girl's attention tries to get a grip in himself for no worry his family. But is hard even for him finds strenght in a world that's is spinning and dancing. - Daijobu de gozaru... don't call anyone... Daijobu... -he pleads. -I'm maybe a bit tired after that robbery last Monday... I just want to wash my face... - he insist hoping cold water would make the weakness wave go. Sano give him a skeptical stare. But for Kenshin'surprise he doesn't argue, just lifts him in his arms like a baby and goes straight to the bathhouse. -Maybe was Kaoru-dono's eggplant recipes...- he mutters softly . Sano looks at him with surprise because Kenshin was the one who never criticize Kaoru's damned cooking. But really that recipe was the worst thing she never...aw he refuses to call it "cook"... In the bathhouse Kenshin manages to walk to the water tube and kneels to wash his face with trembling hands. After that he feels better and goes to stool in private . Sano shrugs again thinking in the stomach ache he and Yahiko gets with that dammned recipe. No wonder Kenshin doesn't sleeps well, because he haves dark circles under the eyes so darks he looks like a panda. Or Anji. A terrified low cry dove himself in the compartiment. Kenshin was looking his front bareness with the open kimono hanging from his shoulders, wide eyes, mouth open. Sano takes a look and feels chills in his spine. Kenshin's thighs are covered with bloody scratchs, his hips too, and his sex are all swollen and purple like it was hitted. And the paleness of his body was absolutly worrying. He closes his kimono and sits in the floor, face pale, eyes still wide. Sano kneels in his side and take his hand feeling fear and a sudden anger in his chest. WHO did made THAT to Kenshin? Just look these ... injuries... sends him in pain. No wonder he looks like a ghost! -Kenshin ... who did do to you that ?- he answers uneasy but determined. Kenshin closes his eyes and breaths like trying to calm himself, but Sano can feel his hand trembling -Kmaisama, was a woman? Was ... Jou-chan ... ? - Kenshin eyes went wide and a furious reply goes to his lips, but then just deny with the head. His voice trembles when he replays with a deep breath: - Of course didn't was Kaoru-dono, we'd never ... I ... don't know. I haven't ... - - Isn't a ... chance of ... somebody ... did it to you ...- Kenshin looks the uneasy Sano rigth to the eyes, his own eyes pure and serious. - I haven't had sex in more than ten years , Sano.- Sano blushes hard . -I didn't want to ... - he eaves his head and then lift carefully again the rurouni in his strong arms - Don't you have a clue about how did it happen?- - None de gozaru.- - You need medical help, Kenshin. Looks pretty bad.- Kenshin eyes go even wide and blushed furiously - I can't ask to Megumi -dono ... - -Baka Kenshin. I'm thinking in Genzai-sensei.- Kaoru shifts rather uneasy. In someway the sundowns, even with the snow outside makes her feels ...hot? Maybe she is going sick . Damn, maybe Kenshin is going sick, he looks pale when she tried to wake up in the midday before Megumi stops her ... She yawns. -You look tired too, Kaoru ... - Megumi, cleaning the dinner table with Yahiko give her a glance . - Maybe I must to take a look over you. And a GOOD look over ken-san doesn't seems futile neither ... - she give in her trademark fox laugh who this time really irritates Kaoru after dissapear in the kitchen leaving her alone . -Stops chasing Kenshin- she growls in a clearly menacing way, strangly serious, her hand a fist in his kimono, her eyes darkening .-He is MINE. Like he always did. Try to apart us and I will kill you . To anybody who dares to try.-Kaoru trembles. And then she begins to cry in a scared way. What I'm saying? I'm menacing MEGUMI!! What is HAPPENING to me ??? .............................................................. End of 1 part. The next: Kenshin goes sick. And the responsible of that marks appears.