Honjo Kamatari falls for Kenshin: A Rurouni Kenshin Comedy

Part 2: I Love Kaoru

Kenshin rolled onto his back, then onto his side, no matter how moved, the chain on his ankle was painful. He sighed and sat up, he walked to a corner of the room and attempted to sleep sitting up, he groaned when no even that would work. Kamatari was sitting on the futon looking at him worriedly. "I'm sorry, I guess I didn't know what I was doing," Kamatari whispered and looked upset. "How about I help you."

"I got enough help from you," Kenshin whispered feeling groggy, that was when he noticed Kamatari taking out something and opening it. "What is that?"

"Takes down irritations of the skin, my sister used to use it when I tried to turn myself into a girl," Kamatari whispered and wiped the stuffed onto the sores on Kenshin's ankles. "This should ease the swelling at little."

Kenshin woke and found Kamatari had pulled him into his bed, he sighed wondering what happened. Was I raped? He turned to see Kamatari had taken up Kenshin's futon and was sleeping soundly. "Oro?"

"I didn't do anything to you, don't worry, I would only do anything if you wanted it." Kamatari was smiling at him. "I just thought you were cold, so don't worry about a thing."

Walking out of the room, Chou was giving them looks, "Okay, now let's get to Hiko's before someone else thinks Kenshin is gay or something," he put his hands on his hips and started to pack up some spare food.

"Alright, I just hope Master Hiko isn't going to have a laugh at this."

Walking up to the mountain was a bit much, Kenshin's ankle was still sore from the chain and it started to bleed. Kamatari wouldn't have him move wounded and thought it would attract dangerous things toward them. He bound Kenshin's foot in a cloth and Kenshin had to limp a little. He found that this was even more painful and realized that chain was digging into the skin and if they didn't get it unbound, he would lose his foot.

They made it to the hut and found Hiko standing waiting for them. Next to him was Misao who was looking rather unnerved that Kamatari was now carrying Kenshin. "So, what the hell happened to you?" Hiko looked calm.

Kamatari explained what he had done and Hiko finally looked shocked and then assumed. "Kamatari, you do realize that Kenshin is in love with Kaoru, right?"

The cross-dressing fighter nodded his head sadly and didn't say much. "You just thought that Kenshin was like you, didn't you?" Chou blinked as Kenshin's ankle was finally free from the chain, but infection had set in.

Kenshin groaned a little feeling the cold water from the spring near the house going down over his foot, he turned to see people talking to Kamatari who was crying. He really is like a girl, he noticed something weird, he knew what if felt like to be backed into a corner. "Kamatari-dono made a mistake, it isn't his fault, it could happen to anyone, so don't be so angry with him. I'm not."

It was still not going to do much good, Kamatari was upset though, he really wanted Kenshin for himself. He giggled though in his mind that he was close to making Kenshin his, if he could only get the sympathy he needed from his former enemy.

Hiko sighed and took Kenshin into the hut. "I have to warn you about him, Kamatari may seem gentle and kind at times, but remember he used to work for Shishio. Right now his emotions are in turmoil and he feels you are his only link. Don't let him take advantage of you."

"Master, I know how to handle him," Kenshin smiled.

"No, you don't, Kamatari latches onto someone he likes and tries to steal them from the people who love them the most. Chou takes care of him like a big brother, he doesn't give Kamatari the affection he craves. So when he heard that you defeated Shishio, he wanted to see you and then it looks like he fell in love."

Limping back to the Aoiya, Kenshin felt though still that Kamatari must have been devastated that he could not give him what he wanted. "Are you upset, Kamatari-dono?"

"Nope, not really, by now, I'm used to this rejection," the other responded, sitting down in the dinning area of the Aoiya, he looked out the window. "You know it was the strange the first time I let a man have me, being 12 I suppose that is too young now." Turning his head, he smiled a little like a girl. "Sorry, that's embarrassing, you know, I really thought that I met someone just like me, you seem so much like…"

Kenshin blinked and looked away. "Kamatari-dono, I'm not like that, even when during the Bakumatsu the first time doing it, was with a man, but it was more out of force, I was raped."

"I'm sorry, that is horrible to have happen," the other gave a cry. "I promised that I would only give the person I love pleasure because he wanted it from me, I would never force him. I want him to love me."

"That is very noble," Kenshin got up as dinner was brought up to them and they sat there eating quietly.

Kamatari sat in his room the next morning and turned to look over at Kenshin, he wondered if it would hurt him. He reached over and kissed Kenshin on the lips lightly and smiled putting the blanket over his shoulders. You truly are adorable when you're asleep, hard to believe you were once a heartless murderer, he thought and turned to see the door open and saw Aoishi standing in the hall. "He loves Kaoru, not you," he whispered.

"I know that, but I love him too, can't he have both," Kamatari whispered and go up, he turned his head to look at Kenshin who was still sleeping. "I will do anything for Kenshin, now that I know he is nothing like Lord Shishio."

"Shishio didn't care about you at all, all he wanted was for you and your friends to die, don't you realize that?"

"I know that, Kenshin told me that already. I don't care, I want to stay with Kenshin no matter what."

There was the sound of someone waking in another room and Aoishi was gone to tend to that person. Sitting there still Kamatari turned to look back at Kenshin and sighed remembering that someone had done something to the person he loved.

1864

Don't cry, Kenshin told himself as he washed himself, his body ached, but somehow he managed to get back to the inn. He ran into his room and slammed the door, the attendants wondered what the matter was, he would not let them see him. He lay on the futon and buried his head, he knew why his body hurt, he knew who had done it, but he could not say why or how.

He walked from his room and saw Yoshida, another one of the assassins looking at him. "What is wrong, you look like something a cat dragged in?"

He went back into his room and shut the door.

"Deflowering Katsura's favorite was easy, the boy is so trusting," said one of the men down the hall, he knew who the person was, it was Goru who had done it.

Kenshin wept more as he hid in his room, he wanted to die, he wanted to commit seppuku for what happened to his body. Yoshida who had always listened to him walked into the room. "So that is what happened? You should tell Katsura that someone took advantage of you."

Being only fourteen, Kenshin did not know who to trust, he stared out the window of his room and shook his head. "But he will just do it again to someone else, Katsura can't stop him."

"Yes he can, Kenshin, listen to me, your virginity was special to you, Goru had no right to take it from you."

"No, I deserved it, I trusted him," Kenshin whispered and went back to his room and tried to put on a stone face.

1878

Memories of the rape were still in Kenshin's mind, he remembered that it took Tomoe a long time to keep him from thinking on it. Now that Kamatari was around, the whole concept of it was back in Kenshin's mind, he had shivered and was afraid of what would happen. What if I do like it? Kenshin sat there in his room, his eyes on the window. What if I don't love Kaoru-dono like I think I do?

"Kenshin, I'm sorry, I must seem really stupid to you," Kamatari was sitting next to him, his hands were folded in his lap.

"No, you're not, I'm just not sure how to handle this problem we have. You are not going to simply leave, that you are not. I don't want to hurt your feelings either," Kenshin whispered to him and blinked.

"I don't care if you hurt my feelings; you should just speak about how you feel about it and then just leave it at that."

"Kamatari-dono, that is not how it works, if you love someone, you tell them that you love them, even if the person does not feel that way toward you. In truth, I care deeply for Kaoru-dono, that I know I do. Seesha will do anything for her, that he must," he whispered and noticed Kamatari took his hands into his.

"Then you don't know if you love her or not, caring and loving is not always the same thing. You have to know what your heart tells you."

Kenshin fell backward onto the floor staring up at the ceiling, his feelings were conflicted as Kamatari rolled onto his side and looked at him. "You know, the first time you admit something is always the hardest, I don't want to rush you into something that I know you will feel hurt afterward."

Kenshin walked out of his room the next morning, his gi was wrinkled, he noticed it in the mirror and then tried to fix it. Did I enjoy what Kamatari did? He thought about it, but in truth, the advice worked, he did feel better, even though he fought to sleep only to have himself woken by Kamatari too early in the morning. "Now I should tell Kaoru-dono how I feel," he whispered.

"Good, then you will love her forever," Kamatari did not seem hurt in the least, he put his hands on the door frame and leaned on it.

The advice was to just go up to Kaoru and tell her everything that was in Kenshin's heart, that was the decision, even though it took a gay guy to push it out of him. They walked to the train station and found that Saitou was bringing Kaoru out of a train. Kenshin's eyes were wide and he rushed to help her, she smiled at him.

Walking back to the Aoiya, Kenshin and Kamatari took a few minutes to prepare for what was going to be the longest moment of Kenshin's life. "Just try what you did to me when we rehearsed, this should be a piece of cake," Kamatari giggled his hands wiggled into the obi's knot to make sure it was tight.

Kenshin fidgeted a little, he was nervous, his sakabatou was to remain in the bedroom until then. He felt rather unsure of himself without. "You don't need it to ask the person you love this," Katamari had said this as they prepared, but in a sense Kenshin was not sure why he allowed Kamatari to pick out the gi at all. "Blue is really your better color."

Walking out of the room, Kenshin went up to Kaoru's room and knocked on it. "Come in," he heard her voice and blushed a little as Kamatari pushed him into the room and shut the door.

"Kaoru-dono, er…this one wishes to say something in prefect honesty, that he does," he muttered trying to keep from feeling his body trembling. "I, I really do care for you more and more that I know you, and I would die if anything were to happen to you. So this one is trying to say that he truly loves you and it would be an honor if you would marry me."

Kaoru's face was bright, she couldn't believe it, all this time in Kyoto, Kenshin and Kamatari were not doing what she feared. Her arms flew around him and held him tightly, her eyes filling with tears. "Kenshin, YES!"

This was the simplest of all things that Katamari wanted to see, but in truth, he wanted Kenshin for himself. He sighed and leaned against the door to the room watching them. "So this was what you and him were planning from the beginning, you were not seeking his bed," Chou gasped when he looked at his friend.

"Nope, I knew he was in love her, he just did not know how to express it to her, so I kind of gave him a push in the right direction. You know, that Sanosuke guy is pretty damn cute, I might try him."

Chou started to laugh. "Come on, you know that he's not your type."