One time encounter Two of a kind. A shortfic by The Fox all flames to bgalv001@xxxxxx.xxxx.xx. .......................................................... No, is not Sanosuke....I'm a crazy fan of Megumi,all her treachery and independant way.Her charm radicates to me in her crush with Kenshin, truly hopeless and truly understable(who don't get one ??) She can be a real bitch or the sweetest woman: like any girl. Like every girl. Just depends how you are with her. Many people loves the idea of Sano & Megumi together. I agreed, they seems cute,and I like Sano very much,he is handsome and tender and lovely,but...it's somebody else in my mind for her. This stories are rated in crescendo . The Misao/Soujiroo is all spectator, the Aoshi/Megumi is older than twelve years old and the Saitoh/Yumi is older than 18. Anyway. Love , The Fox. ............................................................. Here come the woman With the look in her eye Raised on leather With flesh on her mind Words as weapons sharper than knives Makes you wonder how the other half die Other half die Here come the man With the look in his eye Fed on nothing But full of pride Look at them go Look at them kick Makes you wonder how the other half live INXS,Devil Inside. Aoshi sat heavily in the floor. He was alone at end, everybody taking care of the unconscious battousai or the battered Sano. Even Misao was giving orders and helping Kaoru with the blood flow of Kenshin.So at end he can just sit and rest. His Ama-kakeru-ryou-no-hiramekied ribs sang his displeasure loudly and his legs are shaking from exhaustion. Good in no one to see the Okashira rolling to his futon because he can't get up. The ceiling...one he knows well. The old Aoiya. Even when they're at charge of the Edo's Castle, he knows himself,as the rest of the clan loves this old place where the older members retires to study and develop plans and the youngest members begin his training. This old home... He did grow here. Okina trained him and here the conseil of the clan choosen him for the Okashira title. He rid of his trenchcoat and blew his bangs cutely.Almost imposible to believe, he is here again. Bruised, battered and in turmoil with himself but he is here again. Forgiven. The prodigal. Okina and the Oniwabanshuu receive him back like a dead son or brother who appears alive suddenly.Not even a reproach look,just smiles and hugs ,still calling him "Okashira". Okashira. I almost kill Okina,I almost turn Misao crazy,I almost lead the JupponGatana attack myself and they still smile to me. I have to teach them to be more critical. Aoshi muffled a grin, and his ribs again protest. Nobody never saw him like this: just when he was alone he let himself be the real Aoshi: relaxed,calm and collected,but smiling. Just Hannya sometimes, or Okina. I need to think a lot about this. I'm not worthy of be here, but Himura makes me learn that the people who cares about me don't give a damn about it. Himura. How much he changed in ten years.I met him in that crazy years and he was a cold katana with red tail.And know, he worry about others more than his life. He worried for *me* more than his life .He let me kick him till manage to come to my senses,till the madness go away. Why he cares about Misao and me? Why Okina help him? Why everybody forgive me and let me back with open arms? - Gomen nasai - a sharp voice was accompanied of a figure entering to his room without hesitation, closing the paper door and facing him - Shinomori-san, please remove all your clothes.- Just YEARS of Zen training let Aoshi put his mask of coldness fastly and maintain it when Megumi Takani burst in his room in the middle of the night and order him to get naked. - šExcuse me,Takani-san?-he asks softly. Is not he don't want to sit for greet her, is just his body isn't given permission for it. -I'm here for revise your wounds. Sanosuke says you receive quite a beating from Ken-san and Shishio.- Oh,great. That Sekihou-boy surely is happy to announce it to the world,I was kicked for his adorated Kenshin. Surely that brat will never let me forget it, smile secretly Aoshi. (Cute Sano and Katsu SD's yelling in a street corner with newspapers in their arms "AOSHI'S BUTT KICKED!!!""AOSHI'S BUTT KICKED!! !") Great. -It's Ok, Takani-san. Better care about Himura-san and Sanosuke . And I'm sure the other Oniwabanshuus need your skills more.- -Of course I cared about them first. You're the last one about I will care tonigth.- Auch. That woman didn't change a bit, even living with that happy bunch. Megumi kneels beside his futon and not so gently tugged the ripped shirt out of him. When Aoshi tries to stop her she just pressed one finger in the long gash given by the ougi and the Okashira can't help - Zen or not - a whiny noise. -Ken-san really kick your butt,do you know?-grins Megumi fox-lish and begin to prepare some bandages, a damp clean cloth and some strange looking liquids. Aoshi just give her a cold stare. But inside, he doesnt offended. In fact, he was busy looking her with a sligthy interest. The last time he saw her - not the time he threatened her in the Kamiya dojo,before - she was a desperate woman trying to suicide. Kanryuu, that bastard, manages to dirt them with the same mud. Megumi, a doctor's family daugther, turned in a opium maker. He, the pride of the Oniwabanshuus a bodyguard mercenary. The war don't feed anybody, specially to losers. - Kanryuu is dead- he states softly . She stops for a moment, putting some healing oil in the long wound. - I killed him.- Megumi stares at his eyes with a strange look. Then, her beautiful brown eyes back to the wound she was nursing in his slender but strong chest and says with death clarity: - Good- - Strange words for a woman in love with Himura.- Auch. Surely it hurts for Megumi,because she pull the bandage hard enough for make him gasp. - DONT MESS WITH ME AGAIN,SHINOMORI.-she threatened harshly. He remains quiet. Like he guessed, Himura doesnt return her love. He is hopessly in love with the racoon girl.Amazing. Megumi Takani haves all for be loved by a man. She was strong, skilled, intelligent and beautiful. Maybe just her tongue was a bit sharp, but she has a hard life. He still remembers the time her pain touch him. The time he give her a dagger. Is not just for her honour: was for his. Suddenly, when he saw Kanryuu slapping her, he fall in the fact he was wrong. He didn't must work for a bastard like that, not even for the money or the purpouse. He guessed than any work can be done with honour but his teachers was wrong. And he did send all the Oniwabanshuu to the abyss with his fault.He knows in that moment he didn't want to be responsible for her suffering or dishonor. Or Kanryuu dirty bussiness. He needs to get out of all that mud but he realizes so late. I wished save your honor, Takani-san, since I can't save the mine. - And maybe Ken-san and everybody are now celebrating your return, but I'm-Not-Forgetting the fact you almost kill Okina or Ken-san. Do you hear me?- Her fury was sarcastic and sour,but he can see genuine worry for the others there. She was kinda similar to himself.The two of us was touched for Kanryuu,the two of us worry for others more than we wants to admit, the two of us use a mask. You a sarcastic one,I a cold one.In some way I understand you very well...you act so much...like me. - I can hear you pretty well, Takani-san, and I'm not expecting any less from you.- - Damn ice-cube.You're a damned cold fish ,and you don't give a damn for anyone,clearly - she finishes the bandaging fastly and rise to his feet with a scorn look.- Is better you looks before step, because I will be watching you.I don't trust in you, Shinomori, a single bit.- - And why don't convince the others of get rid of me?-he says ] calmly,raising too to his feet. After bandaged and treated, the wound fells better, and at least his head stopped his spinning. Megumi just look at him coldly. -I just failed yet.- Aoshi can't help but smile at her frustration. So her anger boils and slap him with all her strength, truly furious. - Why do you hate me so much still, Megumi-san?- - You ruin my life.You hurt Ken-san and you're a cold fish without feelings interested in nothing more that his own benefit. And you're responsible of the death of the Oniwabanshuus and almost of the Oniwabanshuus' remain members.- Auch again. That really hurts. Aoshi suddenly feels his mad rage rose again but remembering of sudden Himura'words took a grip of himself. But he still haves his pride, and a ninja can't let a woman insult him. He already pay his debt to her killing Kanryuu. But now she needs to be punished or will be repeat this scene as long as she can. Megumi is that type of woman that put her hand over the fire till burns herself. The ninja movements, even bruised and battered was swifts like the wind itself. Aoshi just took a step, with a exquisite economy of movements and took her in his arms, pressed her against the door frame, and bent down his head for kiss her .Isn't a silly matter for any Oniwabanshuu: he was taugth how to make a woman melt...and he remembers clearly all his lessons. Mercessly , he send his tongue inside her mouth,with a hungry kiss possesive and demanding, truly erotic, and then his cunning hands get into action, one skillfully going to the exact point for lift her weigth into him catching her buttocks and the other pressing and squeezing forcefully her breast. He supress a smile when felt her nipple hardenning in his touch . Just a second. Megumi almost fall when he release her and sits calmly. Blushed and without breath she almost tripped and try to catch her breath under his tranquil eyes. Then she looks at him truly amazed and shocked, almost like she can't believe what did happened in less of a second. -Well I'm still a cold fish to you?- ask him, secretly amused, but his face perfectly straigth. -No...-the flushed Megumi seems forgot all about she was so angry-...you're...well,pretty passionate,do you know...- - You was wrong in one of your acussations. Maybe you was wrong in other.- he says icily. Silence. Megumi glazed him with her hardest look. But them she softening her eyes for give him a tentative nod. -It's alrigth, Shinomori. I will give you one chance. But just one.- Aoshi's mouth don't smile,but his eyes softens, smiling in someway. And amazingly,Megumi's eyes return some type of smile too. ================OWARI!!!======================================= all flames to bgalv001@xxxxxx.xxxx.xxxxxx