A/N: This is my first really serious fanfic and I hope you like it. I was listening 'Beauty From Pain' by Superchick and thus... this fic was born!
Screaming for Help
Dedicated to Mrs. Jan Goodrich
Note: A good song to listen to while reading this is 'The Real Folks Blues' from Cowboy Bebop and 'Beauty From Pain' by Superchick
By: rurouni madness/battousai obsession
Angst/Romance:
It was raining outside. All day she had been getting bad omens; something was going to happen. The phone rang and she went to answer it.
"Is this Miss Kaoru Kamiya?" a strange voice asked.
"Yes it is," she replied cautiously. She was on a cordless phone so she picked up a glass to get herself some water.
"Miss Kamiya, I'm sorry to tell you but your boyfriend, Mr. Yukishiro, has been in an accident."
She dropped the glass she was holding and it shattered.
By the time she came into the hospital she was soaked. Her normally bright happy blue eyes were filled with dread and panic. Enishi had been her friend since childhood and her boyfriend for two years. Kaoru couldn't imagine her life without him.
The rain had merged with her tears as she ran up to the front desk. "Please! Tell me where Enishi Yukishiro is!" she must have looked crazy because her ebony hair was soaked, tangled and ratty from the rain and her lime green t-shirt and jeans were completely wrinkled.
"I'm sorry ma'am, but you're going to have to wait! I can't tell you anything now, but I'll try to find out what I can. Please sit down!" The receptionist shouted trying to calm the petite girl down.
Kaoru didn't want to, but she backed off a little bit. There was nothing she could do. She felt so hopeless. She slumped over to a near-by ugly orange couch and sat down. She saw a magazine and tried to read it, but it was hopeless. She looked around and saw a red-haired man enter. He tried to look calm, but it didn't fool Kaoru for a moment. She could she the restless pace of his step.
"Is there a Miss Tomoe Yukishiro here?" the man asked in a nervous tone.
Kaoru gasped. Tomoe was Enishi's sister!
"I just told the girl over there that I'm trying to get as much information as possible. But I can't give you any information right now!"
The man got a look of intense anger on his face. It almost appeared like his violet eyes had turned amber for a split second and he sat down next to Kaoru.
Slightly afraid of him, she asked him in a timid voice, "How come you're looking for Tomoe Yukishiro?"
"She's my fiancée and she was just in a car accident. That's all I know," he replied as quickly as he could while glaring at the lady at the front desk. Kaoru thought he was done talking, but he went on, "How do you know her?"
"I'm her little brother's girlfriend. They must have been in the accident together," she tried to stay calm and not loose it, but tears were starting to leak from her eyes again. She put her head in here hands and went into full out weeping.
Suddenly she felt strong arms around her shoulders. He hugged her and she cried into his chest. After a few minutes she had calmed down and she wiped her tears.
"I'm so sorry. I don't even know you."
"It's fine, you needed to let it out. My name is Kenshin, Kenshin Himura," he grabbed a tissue from his pocket and offered it to her.
She took it and gave Kenshin a small smile and said, "Thank you. My name is Kaoru Kamiya."
He gave her a gentle smile back. He had the most beautiful features she had ever seen. He had extremely long red hair and comforting violet eyes. He also had a small yet very muscular figure. But he had a cross shaped scar on his left cheek. For the rest of the time they both sat silently and waited for the news.
Hours went by and there was still no word on what had happened. The waiting room walls were a terrible dark yellow color and it wasn't the most pleasant thing to look at. A woman on the other side of the room was watching a loud obnoxious game show and Kaoru was getting a terrible headache. It was partly from her surroundings, stress, and the crying she had done. Kenshin was reading a historical novel but he didn't seem to be paying that much attention to it because he was getting a nervous tick in his left leg. Kaoru shuddered. She had always hated hospitals. The last time she was in one her father died.
Flashback:
She was fourteen years old and was swinging her legs back and forth on the hospital seat while she tried to concentrate on her English book and it wasn't working. Her father had just had a heart attack and she was more scared than she had ever been in her life. Her mom had been murdered when she was younger and he was the last person she had. She had no brothers or sisters and all of her friends were always busy.
She loved her father more than anyone in the world.
She was about to stand up and leave the room when her friend Enishi came sprinting in.
"Kaoru!" he yelled and he ran to hug her. She had been completely taken by surprise and gave him a hesitant hug back.
"I thought you were supposed to be at practice," she commented, glad that he was here. They parted and Enishi sat in the chair next to her.
"I skipped it; this is much more important." Enishi's mother and father were both dead and he had only had the support of his sister.
Kaoru was petrified. What was going to happen? She nervously paced and Enishi glared at the ceiling.
Thirty minutes later a doctor came up to her.
"I'm very sorry Miss Kaoru, but we lost your father."
The world stopped turning for a few seconds before she fainted.
Enishi had been the only means of her world not collapsing. He was her best friend and her lover. He had helped her survive the turmoil of her father's death and he helped her survive going from foster home to foster home. No matter how far away it was from his house, he would always go to her foster home once a week; even if it meant spending all of the money he had earned at his low-wage job on a train ticket. She loved him more than anything and would easily die for him. But now…
She couldn't finish the thought; it was too painful. She was going to go to and see what was taking the doctors so long, but a physician entered the waiting room and stopped her. She had long black locks and her lips were a bright scarlet color. Even though it looked like she was experienced, she seemed really uneasy.
"Are you Miss Kamiya?" The woman asked.
Kaoru slowly nodded. She felt like she was going to vomit. Her headache was pounding and her face was pale. She even had a slight fever, but she tried to stand up straight.
The woman closed her eyes and took a deep breath, preparing for what she was about to do. She pulled out a small object from her pocket and gave it to Kaoru. "Mr. Yukishiro wanted you to have this," she whispered.
Kaoru slowly took the object and saw that it was a small jewelry container. A feeling of tremendous anxiety came over her. She opened it and inside of it was a ring. She picked up the ring and saw that it said: May we never part, my love. It was an engagement ring.
Kaoru's eyes covered in tears and she didn't notice that the doctor was wiping away her own.
"Why didn't he give me this?" Kaoru asked in severe denial.
The doctor was trying to talk to Kenshin.
"Listen to me!" Kaoru demanded "Why didn't he give me this?"
"I have bad news for both of you... Miss Kamiya! Please calm down!"
Kaoru was in a rage and looked like she was about to slap the doctor. But Kenshin grabbed her arms and made sure that she didn't move. He didn't look too happy either.
"Mr. and Miss…" Megumi turned away for a second and tried to stop her tears. She turned back and started again. "I'm afraid that Mr. and Miss Yukishiro are gone."
"What do you mean 'gone'?" Kaoru eerily giggled. "Did they leave the hospital without telling me? Did they go to the bathroom?"
Kaoru was loosing it and Kenshin was holding onto her shoulders.
"What did you say your name was, doctor?" Kenshin asked coldly
She quickly replied, "Megumi Takani."
"Miss Megumi, what do you mean by gone?" Kenshin hissed through his teeth.
"They're… they're dead. We couldn't save them," Megumi replied. She was starting to shake. She had been in medicine for years and she had never felt so much sympathy for other people.
"No!" Kaoru screamed. "No he's not! He promised! He promised!" she was trembling uncontrollably and tears were streaming down her face, dripping with mascara. "He promised he wouldn't leave me!"
Megumi answered, "I'm so sorry." She bit her lip to stop weeping.
Kenshin was trying his best not to holler in pain. He had lost everyone in his family and now he had lost her, the only one who had ever truly loved him.
The thunder roared outside. Kaoru's knees were about to give out, but Kenshin held her tightly to his chest. He was sobbing into her hair and she was clinging tightly to him. They didn't know each other well but Kenshin gripped onto Kaoru tighter and Kaoru hung onto him. Their world was shattering. The only thing that was keeping them from completely breaking was each other's arms.
I hope you liked it! I know it was really depressing but I kind of had to get that out. Kenshin's story will be in the next chapter (that is if you want me to continue). Please leave me a review!
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