ROPE AND EXPERIMENTS
By Sessha Kenshin

Summary: Kaoru manages to get herself stuck in some tight ropes, and Kenshin walks in on the scene. Why hold himself back when his prey's spread wide open for him?

Disclaimer: I do not own Rurouni Kenshin, nor the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

Warning: This story, after chapter 1, will contain very explicit sexual encounter (between Kenshin & Kaoru only).

A/N: just a few details I could not tie together. Let's just assume Kaoru's not wearing a fundoshi/underwear under her kimono. And I absolutely have no idea how Kaoru did this to herself. I hope you'll let those details pass.

Chapter 1:

The room dimming in the late afternoon, Kaoru hears the gate opening as someone she knows comes in. 'Oh no… he's coming!'

She could hear his feet padding down the hall soundly on purpose so as not to startle people when he comes in, defying his instinct as a former hitokiri with cat-like feet. Kaoru could sense that this inevitable discovery would surely humiliate her! 'Ugh baka! You should have read the instructions more carefully! Now I'm stuck…' Her husband would surely be oro-ing instead of… Well, not really sure now why this would have been a good idea to begin with. Kenshin might not like the idea of doing it in-…

And the shoji door to their room was opened. "Kenshin, wait!"

"Kaoru? Where are…you…" And his train of thoughts was lost at the sight that greeted him in their bedroom.

Kenshin stood by the door and was shocked to see his wife, dangling from the ceiling, ropes bound to her body. She didn't seem to be in any pain, nor did it seem like a kidnapping of the sort, if what the deer-caught-in-the-headlights look on her face seemed to be telling him. She was wearing her kimono albeit misplaced and messed up.

She was hanging in mid-air, facing parallel to the floor, held bound by the ropes looped around her shoulders, waist, ankles, as one hand tied to her thigh, one hand loosely tied to her knees. Her legs were spread apart, one bent seemingly stuck, the other straining to reach down the floor, her kimono half open with her legs apart.

"Kenshiiin… it's not what it looks like… I.." blushing to her roots as she rambled to explain her predicament and have her husband not mistake it for dangerous things. She strained her body to stretch but she gasped in the failed effort. "Kenshin… could you help? I'm a little stuck"

Sliding the shoji doors closed behind his back, Kenshin trapped out what little light came from outside. And he took his time in assessing the scene.

Kaoru frowned at his subtlety, 'He's taking his time! Oh this is so embarrassing!' She blushed and looked away, inwardly begging to have him just release her and laugh to get it over with. 'Tanuki no baka! You shouldn't experiment with things you don't understand!'

But Kenshin was still not over his shock. His wife… his little Kaoru… Does she know what she's doing?

A little non-innocent looking book was on the floor, it would be what his little wife had been reading then. Oh, she should have just told him, he would be more than happy to assist. Thoroughly caught off-guard by the shock, his mind overloaded and stopped. Something in him suddenly clicked, abruptly awakening his deep, dark desires he tried to keep hidden.

A sinister grin formed on his lips, as he padded down to her form… trapped… his prey… alone… and he'll enjoy his meal. The rurouni in him heard his wife's plea to be freed from the ropes, but the battousai was too distracted with the way her body squirmed.

Instincts unleashed, he slithered to her form, not daring to come within reaching her… yet. His prey is caught, and he'll savor each moment. His eyes roving her disheveled form, almost as if he could undress her with his stare.

Still no movement. Kaoru peers to her side for Kenshin, surprised to find him already beside her, heatedly gazing at her body with restrained burning passion, his eyes no longer the innocent blue-violet of her sweet rurouni, but a hardened amber of the battousai. 'Oh, he's not… unaffected then?' Amber eyes suddenly caught her staring, and she immediately looked away from his intimidating gaze.

He rarely loses self-control, rarely letting Battousai out. And he overwhelms her. She knows Kenshin loves her. She knows he accepts her. At least the rurouni does. But Battousai, he seems to always challenge her. Pushing her limits, but never actually letting himself lose control. She wanted him to… appreciate… the woman that she is. Surely Battousai would prefer really sexy, foxy women over clumsy her, stuck in this attempt. 'Oooh, what was Megumi thinking giving me this manual. She didn't really say how it was supposed to help her get closer to Kenshin, but just to follow the instructions…'

Battousai seems to be taking his sweet time though, taking it all in, like memorizing the scenery of her trapped form. He observed carefully, cautiously, stepping forward, stealthily rounding her as he studied the intricate ropes tying up his wife, as if uncertain how to go about touching her… without setting her loose. He could almost smell her sweet intoxicating scent that he couldn't help but peer closer, yet pulled himself from nuzzling her neck.

Kaoru's eyes snapped back to her side as she felt him almost touching her, surprised to see him up close as he retracts his hand from temptation, teasing her. She becomes more wary as he restrained himself tight as a bow, whose strings could snap if she just makes one small wrong move.

"Are you in any pain?" his voice deep, curious, distracted and unfocused.

"Um… no…?" 'Why's he asking it for? It's not painful but not most comfortable either'

He hides his smirk, tilting his head away slightly and instead resumes studying the ropes binding her form… still not doing much to let her go.

"Let.. me.. down… Kenshin." Kaoru demands in low voice, wary of the way his eyes are roving on her figure, as he slowly moved about, seemingly contemplating on what to do. She quite admired how intimidating he can be when calculating how best to attack.

A brief silent moment passed, "Hmm... doushite? (why?)", Kenshin whispers uncaring for her demands, curiosity driving him as he looked up and experimentally tugged at the rope tied to the ceiling, trapping his wife.

Kaoru gasped at the teasing tone, finding his deep voice familiar then she suddenly felt herself slightly sway with movement and hears him whisper, "Ah… sturdy." Amber eyes flashed a challenge to Kaoru's cautious stare. His eyes blatantly predatory, as if daring her to escape... that he might enjoy the capture even more. In turn, Kaoru meets his gaze with absolute no intention of bowing down so easily.

He went behind her again, touched the rope and slid down and traced her hip down her bent leg.

"Battousai…", Kaoru hissed in warning. "What are you planning?' she growled to escape the tingling sensation his fingers tracing her form while she couldn't turn her head enough to see.

Unknowing to Kaoru, intense stare fixed on her, in the darkening room, Kenshin's eyes seemed to glow amber, his gaze dominating and his features more vicious, barely restrained. He rarely shows this side to his wife but in her current… position, he really shouldn't be blamed, right?

Kaoru didn't speak, waiting patiently for him to gather his thoughts, perhaps he was just considering where best to release her from her ropey experiment? She gulped nervously from her denial, as it hit her. Fingers slowly tracing down to slip under her kimono skirt, she braced herself, her breath getting caught from anticipation or from holding giving off any sounds that would… encourage.

Based on the heated way Battousai was looking at her form, he was more likely thinking how best to release into her at this point as she heard him licked his lips.

"You're the one playing with fire, koishii…", Kenshin's voice whispers gentle and low, but heated and possessive, it in itself sent a pool of heat in her belly leading straight to her middle….

He moved up to her front to face her. Her head tilted slightly low as the angle of her body raised her buttocks up. The way her whole body aligns provocatively to his hip area had him burning up. She seems distracted though, like anxious of the appearance of his feet on her line of sight. That wouldn't do.

He bent down as he gently caressed her pretty face into his calloused hands. Lifting her up gently by her chin so he could peer down into those blue orbs he could drown into. Her face, expression turning to pleading, was so tempting he tentatively tasted her sweet mouth.

She tried to squirm away from his advances, whimpering when he wouldn't let lose the gently yet firm grip on her chin. And Kenshin drank from her like he wanted to just keep on tasting her, tongue swiping in to tangle with hers and mouth puckering hers to respond. With a few last longing pecks onto her mouth, he lets go with a sigh, both their breathing heavy.

"Kenshin…?" Kaoru breathes out softly, seemingly unaware of her tone begging for more.

He chuckles and whispers teasingly, "Yes, my wife?", like nothing's wrong. Kaoru frowns as she got a good look on the Battousai's lustful smirk.

"Mooou, Kenshin…Let me loose." She tells him again exasperated, yet he just kisses her once again and blatantly looks down her front, like imagining molesting her for a few seconds. Then he let go of touching her face to tracing her neck and shoulders down her back, as he slowly traced a path to stalking back behind her.

'Just… a small touch…' Battousai's fingers could feel her heat under the skirt. Determined, he carefully traced gentle fingers on her inner thighs. Feeling her so soft like wet skin, he wants to be in-between those. Like a toy he wants to open and play with, yet withholding himself back to savor the present more, he pulled away.

His fingers slipping out from her skirt, she held in a moan and closed her eyes to try and block the sensation of his touch away.

'Great, Kaoru. You've stepped into a trap.' She tried to wiggle out of the firm knots tied onto her. Trying to find which part would be loose enough. One hand was un-neatly tied, she could try stretching it a bit, but alas, she couldn't reach anything.

Kenshin merely watched for a bit, admiring how her body slightly swayed as she wriggled and twisted her body, her thighs and legs contracting, tightening then releasing, as she gasped slightly in exertion from trying to get the knots loose. She still has her kimono on, fully clothed yet it had his imagination running heatedly, straight to his groin.

'Mou… he's not helping-', Kaoru thinks as she still attempted to get some semblance of control in her situation. Her stretching the ropes had her dangling unsteadily, slightly swaying.

Suddenly she feels him stepping into her space… between her legs from behind. She gasped as her hips bumped straight into his that she immediately stopped squirming. The material of her kimono and his hakama seemed too thin if she can feel him.

Kenshin bends forward, avoiding the tied ropes, onto her back to whisper into her ear, "You shouldn't struggle so much Koishii…" His hands very softly graze onto her hips suggestively rounding her bottom, hip still pressed intimately onto hers. "I might… like it."

Kaoru's eyes slightly widens in shock at Battousai seducing her like this. She didn't think he'd arouse her so much despite being stuck in ropes. But she won't be able to respond this way!

'Shimatta!'(Oh no!), her eyes widen in slow realization of what's about to happen.

"Oh yes, my wife," Kenshin smirks at her expression, his hand now firmly slides to her waist and breasts, a gesture exuding his power over her, "I'll enjoy this." I'll enjoy you. A heated promise he never fails to fulfill.

Owari.

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Kidding! To be continued...

A/N: How was it so far? Other chapters already written but ongoing for improvements..