Herald News

Big time assassin and Drug dealer Kessler put behind Bars!

Kenshin Himura, local Detective and full time special police officer, finally busted one of this

towns biggest drug rings. "It wasn't as hard as it was long," Himura says, "I've been pulling this operation for a few months now." Mr. Himura has been under cover as a hit man for the Mafia, and he didn't realize that one day when he was talking behind a local flower shop to other under cover cops that Kaoru Kamyia would be such an important person in this bust. This young woman has had a rough life, living on her own for nearly all of it, and working long hours to pay for a small home near the outskirts of town, but all of that changed the day she met Kenshin.

She ushered them in from the cold rainy wind and offered them some tea, "I thought he was rude and inconsiderate," she said "That is until I was involved in a shoot out in which I nearly lost my life. It was then that I knew something was wrong with the whole situation." Kamyia recalls. She was told that she "knew to much" as the popular mobster saying goes and was forced to live in the home of Kenshin Himura. Himura, being the good cop he was, tried his hardest to be hospitable to this unknowing innocent woman who was incessantly pestering him about his work.

As Kenshin kept the innocent bystander safe in his home from any dangers there may be a friend of his made a background check on her. Kaoru Kamyia, 19-year-old billionaire. Her father had passed away and her greedy step mother had managed to drop the poor woman when she was only a child, but was unable to escape with more than a few hundred of her dead husbands money. As soon as Kenshin heard that the minor that was staying in his house was a billionaire he knew he had to keep her safe. Pleading to his boss and explaining the situation he was able to let Kaoru stay and room with him.

Now that the two were living together, and all the minor criminals had fled the town, realizing that the "Mafia" was there and they couldn't compete Himura got back to business. The word "escaped" to Kessler that Kaoru was to be a billionaire and anyone who adopted her, being the minor she is, could claim it as their own. Of course the greedy man seized the opportunity and lured her away from long time rival Kenshin's watchful eye.

"He told me that I was beautiful, that I shouldn't be with someone like Kenshin, and that I should come stay with him." Kaoru said shaking her head, "But I know now that if Kenshin hadn't warned me he was dangerous, I might be chained to a wall penny-less." Kaoru had said voicing her happiness about being warned. Kaoru made it safely home but she soon was taken to Kessler's once again, this time it was forced during her sleep. She awoke in his giant mansion and was greeted by the young Yahiko, another under cover cop who was unable to reveal himself to Kaoru. He had been working for Kessler for a very long time, acting as a snitch for Kenshin and his crew.

Kenshin was captured as well, however he was beaten and bruised in the dripping wet cells of Kessler's dungeon. There was virtually no way out of this cell except through a latch in the ceiling, used only to drop him into the cell and to feed him. Himura, using his cunning police skills, managed to escape through that latch door in the ceiling and found his way up to Kessler. Just after Kaoru had run from a disturbing conversation with him, Kenshin found him.

"I hurt him pretty bad, but it was necessary," Himura informed us. "He's a ruthless killer and, though I admit tying him upside down to the ceiling in my cell was a bit harsh, but if he hurt another innocent victim because I didn't act when I should have, I wouldn't be able to live with myself." Mr. Himura managed to free Kaoru and many other prisoners who were suffering in his dungeon with the help of a few colleagues.

Kenshin emerged from the home, his prize a smiling Kaoru, and a long time rival put in jail. Himura was awarded from his boss, General Gordon, a higher rank, a few metals and a raise. Kenshin has informed the press that he should soon be retiring with Kaoru, making sure she will always be safe. This remarkable story tells us that lives can be saved, even if you have to trick a few people.

-Reporter Trisha Takanawa

"They made me look like a ditzy damsel in distress." Kaoru said her mouth twisted in a frown. She set the news paper down on the round wooden table and looked up at Kenshin. He turned his head to look into her crystal blue eyes and smiled. "It makes a good story though."

"No all my quotes are stupid. I sound like I'm a porcelain doll that gets thrown around." She said angrily, her features scrunched and her eyes looking back down at the paper.

"They left out a lot of stuff we said. It's all to appeal to the public, honey." He said adding the pet name to the end of his sentence to try and calm her down. He patted the soft white cushion next to him to tell her to sit down.

"Public my ass." She said as she walked over and sat down on the couch. Curling up next to him, her legs folded onto the large couch. She was wearing a white shirt with red sleeves and long blue jeans.

"Maybe I should become a feminist." She said angrily to herself, looking up at him, her head tilted. "What would you think of that?"

He kissed her forehead tenderly. "Maybe I could become a maleist." He said smiling cheekily.

"There's no such thing." She said confidently crossing her thin arms over her chest.

"Then I'll be the first one." Kaoru released a loud laugh, it was short and dry but when she opened her joyful eyes and looked at him and saw the seriousness on his face she laughed harder.

"Yea, it looks just as ridiculous when you say it." He said grinning at her. Kenshin leaned in and kissed her happy pink lips quickly. "You know what else they didn't put in that article?" She hummed as a response, her mouth cocked in a smile, her thoughts of feminism vanished in the kiss.

"When I told them that I love you and I couldn't live without you...that's why I risked my life." He said nodding as if to agree with himself.

Kaoru enclosed her arms around his shoulders and kissed his mouth tenderly. "I love you." She replied, ever since that whole ordeal they had made sure the other knew how they felt. It had been about two weeks since then and they had been inseparable.

"Go get ready." He said kissing her forehead again, he couldn't help himself, sometimes she was so irresistible.

"Get ready for what?" She asked innocently, her large blue eyes inquiring up at him. Her body straightened up and she peered over his shoulder at him.

"Tonight." was his simple answer. He stood up holding his hand out to her. She accepted it and pulled herself up. She ran down the stairs towards her room to get ready for an unexpected night.

Kaoru, dressed in a short, strapless light yellow dress that had a lot of fluffy ruffles at the bottom. Her hair was up in an elegant pony tail as usual and she wore clear high heels. She sat in a embellished limo, the cushions a dark gray.

The limo was black and Kenshin sat next to her. He was in a black suit and his tie was a dark red. His fiery mane was pulled back into a low pony tail and his lavender eyes watched her carefully. He didn't want to stare at her, but it shocked him to find he could be with a woman for so long and she could still take his breath away.

They sat in silence, Kaorus silky white arm rested upon the door and her head resting on her hand as she gazed out the tinted window at the night. The stars shone so brightly that night, and the milky moon looked so big.

She glanced over her shoulder and caught Kenshin's stare. Quickly becoming self conscious she turned her head to face him. "What?" She asked in a low quiet voice, as if she didn't want anyone to hear her.

Kenshin, noticing her squeamish antics leaned in to whisper in her ear. "You just look so beautiful. Thanks for coming out with me." He said causing her to shiver with excitement. It was a somewhat chilly night but it was warm in the limo.

She blushed and grinned leaning back on the door and looking out at the night. "Your so pathetic." She said still smiling to herself. This night was already so romantic, she couldn't think of a way it could be better.

"I am not!" He said defiantly, crossing his arms and looking down his nose at her with an almost angry stare. She turned her head lazily and her eyes danced up and down his stance with glee.

"I never said it was a bad thing..." She trailed off the shadow of a seductive smile glinting across her features. She looked back out the window at the lighted town and she felt his hand encircle hers, in a gesture of acceptance.

The limo slowed and pulled into the parking lot of a beautiful place. The walls of the tall square building were of a red brick and the concrete sidewalk looked new. The place was ablaze with lights and had a very welcoming look to it.

The lights were dimmed but they made up for the lack of wattage with the amount of lights they had. The place, simply put, glimmered. There were valet, but a limo did not need one, so they stepped out from the car and it pulled away instantly.

There was two large glass doors encrusted with sliver and gold but were not tacky or gaudy. Kaoru and Kenshin dashed towards the doors quickly so they could remove themselves from the biting cold. The thick doors were pulled open for the pair and Kaoru and her cold red nose looked about the place with awe.

Though she had been with Kenshin and to places similar to this one many times she still never got used to the glitz and glam. There was a large chandelier in front to greet them and the red carpet was thick and fuzzy. The clicking sound of her high heels were muffled by the floor as she took a few mesmerized paces into the restaurant.

There was a woman standing near the door to seat them, dressed in a white and black uniform just as the rest of her colleagues whom Kenshin was speaking to. There was a slow quiet waterfall on the right corner of the large room, a wooden dance floor to the far left and in the middle where long square tables with plush chairs set about them.

They were covered in deep red table clothes, almost identical to the floor and the tables held elaborate center pieces intricately folded napkins and fancy china. Somewhere towards the back of the room an ice sculpture slowly melted. She quickly noted where the lavatory was, for future reference, and found it to be closer to the dance floor than to the waterfall. Which was good incase there was a line, she wouldn't want to have to stand near running water while nature was calling.

Her smile had only grown as her studious eyes scanned and overturned the room, Kenshin had been standing there waiting for her for some time. A light pink tint covered her already rosy cheeks and she took his out streched hand and he led her to their table.

It was a small table, nestled in between several others identical to it, towards the back of the room. There were two chairs waiting for them, the black seats looking comfortable and clean. Kenshin gripped the back of her chair and pulled it out for her to sit upon then sat down himself.

There were two small pristine white menus placed on top of the fine china in front of the pair. Kaoru reached out, afraid she may spoil the pure white color of her menu but took it up anyway and opened it. The words were small, the prices weren't, but the lay out and design of the menu itself was astonishingly beautiful.

She felt very out of place in a fancy restaurant like this and he could tell by the way she nervously bit at her bottom lip while searching the room uncontrollably every few minutes then glancing back down at her menu, only to look up again.

"Relax Kaoru, would you like me to order for you?" He asked politely, in a quiet and reserved voice. She smiled and nodded her head, not yet trusting her voice to sound calm and respectful. He took one last full look at the menu and set it down upon Kaoru's, and watched her fidget in her set until the waiter visited their table.

Kenshin mumbled something in what sounded like French to the man, they both shared a laugh and the waiter seemed to ease out of his refined, straight back, head up, chin out stance and into a friendly one. Kenshin smiled and thanked the man in his native tongue and he was off, smiling more comfortably than before.

Kenshin had successfully caught her attention with his foreign tongue and the laugher only further intrigued her to know what had gone on between the two men.

"What did you say?" was her quickly reply as she hung slightly over the table as if it were a secret only she should hear.

"I ordered you chicken...is that ok?" He asked adding the last part with a bit of sarcasm but mostly concern. Kaoru leaned back in her chair crossing her thin arms over her chest as she had earlier and tossed her head to the side, her pony tail flicking with her anger.

"I don't find chicken to be very funny." She said quickly, hardly looking at him.

"Well, my French isn't as good as it once was, and we laughed about it. I just want you to be happy and I thought if our waiter wasn't so stuck up and acting royal then you'd feel better." He said waving it off. Quickly, before she could say anything against his argument he started on a new subject.

"Gordon told me that he doesn't want me to quit the force. He says I'm to good to waste my life away at home...rotting is how he put it I believe." Kenshin said putting a thoughtful hand to his chin recalling the mans words.

"Rotting?" Kaoru asked in a quiet yet shrill voice, clearly offended but knowing when she could yell and when she couldn't, and now wasn't the time to yell. Kenshin only nodded, a small smirk of knowledge, like he expected this reaction from her crossed his lips.

"Yes, of course I wouldn't call spending time with you rotting, but I would need something to do or I might get fat and lazy...then I'd be worthless. So there is some truth to his words." Kenshin added, clearly he had thought it over.

"I think you and Mr. Gordon just like to tease me, you don't actually do work you and Gordon sit in an office and think of things you could tell me to get me all worked up like this." She said defensibly as usual.

"Don't say that. You know it's not true. We just think I need to stay in the force." He said his calm air still about him, acting as if Gordon was sitting right next to him.

"Oh, so now it's we. What happened to Gordon?" Kaoru asked incredulously, causing Kenshin to hesitate, she had him now.

"Well, I think so to. Not that I would rot, just that I love my job and want to stay with it." He said his voice growing more innocent with each passing word. He knew what to say and how to say it to manipulate the situation to his advantage.

"All you had to do was tell me that. You're not old enough to retire anyway, you'd end up taking up some extreme sport like sky diving to pass the time, I think catching bad guys is better than falling out of a plane don't you?" She asked tilting her head and leaning on the table with both of her elbows, staring at her prey just waiting for him to slip up.

"Yes...I'm glad we're on the same page." Kenshin said a bit uneasy. Their food came and Kaoru removed her elbows from the table but never unlocked her gaze with Kenshin. She looked at him with such venom yet such love.

"But if you start to overwork yourself or think that you can stay real late at the office or where ever I wont be scared to march over there and take you home, or yell at your boss for that matter!" She said in a forceful manner yet her smile and pleasant tone never changed.

She looked down at her food then up to the waiter and thanked him, dismissing him with her eyes and tone. He walked away quickly when hearing her sentence feeling sorry for the charming red head who she was with.

"Don't worry about it. I love you to much to stay away from home for to long." He said trying to ignore her tone but found the under lying threat to be very intimidating.

"Hmm." was her response looking down at her delicious master piece that was food. Though she was snapping at him like she was in a bad mood the atmosphere around her was so uplifting and she had already been in such a great mood that nothing could bring her down.

"I was about to put in my two weeks notice to the flower shop today, but I couldn't." Kaoru said, allowing Kenshin to know that she had felt the same way about work.

"I couldn't leave Megumi and Misao like that. Also, who would I gossip with?" She asked as if she hadn't just yelled at him for the same reason.

"Well, I guess no one. But don't think that you can stay late or work to much because I wont hesitate to march over there and take you home, or yell at your boss." He said in a light tone, making fun of her but being serious at the same time. Kaoru blushed, more from anger than embarrassment and set her fork down looking up at him with kindness but her eyes flared with rage.

"I'm working part-time. And I don't see how I could stay late at the flower shop. I'm serious Kenshin, you're not going to ignore me. I love you." She said seriously, her eyes shining with doubt and concern.

"That sounds more like a threat than a term of endearment." Kenshin noted pointing his fork at her and tilting his head almost to warn her that her words were becoming more forced than true. She leaned back in her seat and took a slow deep breath to calm her anger then gave him a pleasant smile. She did love him, and he was right, she needed a bit more patience.

She cut into her meant finding it to resist but was a smooth slice and when she took a bite of it she nearly fell from her seat with delight. "Kenshin." She said quietly in amazement. He looked up and seemed to search her over for the reason of her tone, then when he saw her chewing he smiled.

"I-I can't eat this." She said slowly, the smile of delight still on her face and he lowered his own fork.

"What? Why? What's wrong?" He asked finding that nothing but questions seemed to flow from his mouth.

"If I get used to food like this I wont be able to eat my own cooking." She said taking another bite as she said it and caused a deep chuckle to emit from Kenshin's throat. He shook his head and continued with his eating.

Casual conversation filled the air and Kaoru's seemingly sarcastic and threatening language seemed to stop. They finished quickly and Kenshin ordered them some dessert. The chocolate dipped dessert seemed to disappear into Kaoru: the human vacuum and soon it was just down to the conversational part of the evening.

Kenshin seemed a bit fidgety in his seat, looking around the room at the people then back at her. She was suspicious and looked around as well, almost assuming to see some sort of crime lord that Kenshin was looking for. However she didn't see anyone to suspicious looking, besides the drunken hobo who tried to get into the restaurant, but he was quickly taken care of.

The conversation seemed to dip into a lull and Kaoru looked around once more before she felt and saw a shadow overtake her figure. She looked up, shocked until she realized it was her partner who had stood up. She cocked an eyebrow, tilted her head and gave him a curious look.

He opened his mouth to say something and instead took a deep breath and bent down so one foot was on the floor as was one knee. For a moment Kaoru seemed to black out with her eyes open, or at least that's how she tells the story. When she finally regained mental control her shaking hands flew to her mouth to cover her quivering lips. Her glassy blue eyes were peeled in astonishment as she stared hard down at Kenshin.

He reached into his tuxedo pocket and it seemed like the whole room was watching them, but Kaoru could only see him as she mumbled incoherent words of shock and excitement. He pulled out a small black box, velvet and just the right size for a ring. At this point Kaoru knew what was coming for sure, there was a possibility in the start that he had tripped and landed that way, and then was smiling so sweetly at her to try and cover it up. But there was no way in hell he pulled out that box by accident, happened to have a ring.

He snapped open the small box and looked down to it then back up at her, her eyes were glued to the large ring. The main diamond, which glimmered in the many lights of the room was adorned with many smaller diamonds that seemed to strech all the way around the golden band.

She was shaking, not because she was cold, though she felt like she had gone numb, but because thrill and adrenaline had pumped so quickly throughout her whole body. She hadn't meant to, and if she had known about this prior to the evening she would slap her head in embarrassment, but she cried. Small tears of joy rolled down her grinning cheeks as she stared into his purple eyes which seemed to say everything for him. Though it still needed to be spoken.

"Kaoru, I love you, and always will. You work at a flower shop, but are more beautiful than all the flowers combined and I only hope that you'll share that inner and outer beauty with me. Kaoru Kamiya, will you marry me?" He asked, trying not to make it to long and cheesy, he wouldn't want her to remember this as the high point of his ridiculous flattery.

Her shaking eased up a bit as he addressed her specifically and swept her away with his words. She opened her mouth to speak and moved her hands but found no words would spring from her throat so she nodded her head vigorously and lunged towards him, wrapping her arms tightly around his neck and nearly knocking him over.

Cordial clapping ensued, some couples exchanged anxious glances, others remembering, and some just plain avoided the others looks, but most returned to their meal within minutes.

Kaoru didn't seem to want to let go, she hugged him so tightly, tears rolling down her cheeks despite the happy laughter emerging from her mouth. Kenshin was relieved, and somewhat happy she wasn't looking at him for a slight blush remained on his cheeks. "I love you so much Kenshin." She said into the crook of his neck as she hugged him tighter. He smiled widely and his arms tightened around her waist. "I love you too Kaoru."

A/N: I've never been good at ending stories. If it sucks, now is the time to tell me. I am open for flames at this point...bring it on! Be as mean as you'd like because I'm not coming back to this story, so I have no way of yelling at you. Because if it makes me mad I wont respond personally because I'll get myself into some trouble

I hope this story was at least satisfactory. I know I haven't been good on updating this story, so I thank you with all my heart for dealing with it.