This chapter is short compared to the others (not including chapter 1 and two), but yeah. Anyway, the lies collapses and the truth is revealed! :DD Ik that there isn't much reviews for my story, but I'm glad you guys took the time to review it! It makes me really happy and continue to keep writing this story! This chapter is the best so far (well to me). I started shedding tears when I wrote this chapter because I can never imagined the though of-Never mind. I won't spoiled it for you guys :P since I love you guys.

The Earth's tears kept falling. The teardrops kept hitting the surface with a splash. However, in the rain, there laid a boy and a girl. They both stared at each other intensely, but both of them had different looks displayed on their face. One's face had color drained from their face, mouth hung open. It was like they were just paralyzed from the fear that had just overwhelmed her. The other one had pair of dagger glares at the girl, expect more deadly. His amber golden eyes glowed in the rain, causing the aura around them different than the Earth's.

Kaoru didn't breathe. She hesitated on breathing, not knowing what to do. The man before her was exactly a wolf. No, it wasn't a wolf. It was a ryuu that was in front of her. Kaoru wanted to swallow the fear down, but she was frozen in place. Her mind wasn't interacting with her, not obeying the commands that she demanded in her head.

She saw Battousai looking at her like she was a prey. His breathing wasn't steady, and she can smell blood in the air. Kaoru reached to pinch her noses, but she realized that Battousai had a grasp around her wrist.

"Pay back?" She finally said, breaking the silence between them. It seemed it was ages since Battousai said it was pay back time.

He didn't answer her. The answer she just received was a simple glare before he lit a fire bolt on his finger. It danced around in the air. The fire caused Battousai's amber eyes to glow even more.

At this time, Kaoru wished she had a gun in her pocket but what can she do with it? She was frozen in Battousai's eyes that almost made her shed her to tears. The girl always hated seeing in those boy's eyes. It was too painful, seeing the eyes that belonged to the boy who-.

"I told you not to call me by that name! You know how embarrassing it is when I have a person that tries to kill me?" Battousai yelled at her, interrupting her thoughts. Kaoru could feel tears slipping off of her eyes and clenched her fist.

"What bad reasons I have that is too kill you? I have every right to kill you!" She shouted at him and finally yanked away from his grasp. "Is it me or you have forgotten completely? You know why I ask? At first look, you barely even recognize me, and I knew that!" Kaoru stopped for a moment to catch her breath, but she stopped when Battousai grabbed her wrist again- tighter.

"Is that the way you speak to someone who is on a higher class of nobility than you?" He demanded. Kaoru growled at him and tried to jerk away from him, but it was impossible.

"You are just one upper-class than me! Plus if you-," Kaoru stopped for a moment. The nightmares started coming back in her head, and more tears came out. She tried to wipe them furiously, but it only made the tears come more. "You bastard!" Kaoru started charging lightning, and the sky flickered with a clasp of thunder.

The lightning ran through Battousai and his eyes widen in shock. He tried to let go of her, but he was too late. The lightning sent a shock towards Battousai, and Kaoru was finally let go. His arms were all crisp and burnt, and he could feel his body going numb. Battousai growled under his breath and realized the fire bolt still dancing in the air.

"What did I do? From what I recalled, I don't remember anything about your stupid life." Battousai said bitterly. He saw Kaoru glared at him with tears running down. Battousai didn't know what to respond to that, but he didn't care. All he wanted was that key that leads to Seraph of Paradise village.

Kaoru finally stop shedding tears, and she glared at him with fiercer. She folded her arms and said, "Let's see what you have to say to my stupid life. After I tell you what happened, I wonder how you reacted because when you were there, you didn't give a damn." Battousai narrowed his eyes and waited for her to tell him. Kaoru took a deep breath before she started.

It started eight years ago, with the sun shining with its smile and the grounder greener than ever. Kaoru didn't expect for a storm to come by since it was such a beautiful day. She was holding hands with her two lovely handsome and beautiful parents. King Kamiya had her left hand, while Queen Kamiya had her right hand. They were tightly secured around Kaoru, who was skipping around with a bright smile.

"Mom! Dad! Why are we going over to Chibisuke's kingdom?" Kaoru asked curiously. She stared at her mom and dad with her sapphire eyes that glowed. Her dad kneeled down on his knee so Kaoru and him will be on the same level of height.

"Prince Kenshin got a new baby sister! We have to go see the baby under King Hiko's request." Her father said with a smile.

"You got it wrong, Darling. They got twins, and both of them are girls." The Queen corrected them. "We should keep walking now. It's such a-" The lady stopped when she saw Kaoru tearing up a little. "What is going on?" She asked as she kneeled towards Kaoru, trying to see why she was crying.

"I don't want to walk, Mom!" She wailed and was about to sit on the grass before her father picked her up. The king carried her on his shoulder and started walking.

"It's such a beautiful day. I don't want to miss that day, Kaoru. That's why we are walking," her mother continued. Kaoru nodded in agreement and grinned onto her father's back.

They reached the kingdom and entered the ballroom. There were tables around, and people dancing in the main area. Everyone was so in high spirits today, and Kaoru couldn't help but stare in amaze as the people danced. It was so graceful in many ways, but there was something more to it than graceful.

She saw King Hiko walking around the room with his little bakadeshi, Kenshin. Kaoru groaned and turned away so she wouldn't have to see him. It was also horrible at looking at his face. The only thing Kenshin did to her was always teased her countless of time.

Kenshin looked around the room and sighed tiredly. There was nothing for the little boy to do. His father strictly told him not to use fire in front of people so he can't do anything. Sano was chained to his father so he wouldn't leave his side. It was the worst day ever! He was too excited when he heard about his new twin sisters. There name was Ayame and Suzume. Kenshin didn't understand why it was such a big day.

"Kenshin, be on your best behavior. You have to remember that you will be their future king after me. You have to set up a good example for yourself so people wouldn't think you are just a selfish brat that asks for power ranger toys everything." Hiko said. Kenshin shot him a glared and lit a spark of fire behind his back. His father scents the smoke and frowned at the boy. "I just told you not to go messing your ability!" Kenshin just shrugged his shoulders and walked away from his father.

When he walked around the room, Kenshin saw a girl with a blue indigo ribbon that tied her hair in a ponytail. She was happily holding hands with her parents and laughed like a silly girl. Stupid girl was all Kenshin thought about her. What was she so happy about today?

Kaoru noticed that Kenshin was looking at her and immediately stuck her tongue out at him. Kenshin flinched and stomped towards her. "Tanuki!" He grabbed her ponytail, causing Kaoru to yelp. It was good thing that the people were talking loudly or else they would have heard Kaoru.

"What, Chibisuke?" She screamed at him. Kenshin's eyebrows narrowed and made a reach to pull her hair again. She moved away quickly, realizing that she lost her parents. Kaoru caught up to her parents and made a grabbed for their hands. Somehow, Kenshin got a hold of her hand and so now it's Kaoru holding Kenshin's and her mom's hand, while Kenshin is holding her's and her dad's hand.

"What are you doing here?" She whispered bitterly.

"It's my house, you know," he replied back. Kaoru just sighed and went along with the flow (if you call that).

"Why aren't you with Hik-I mean- your dad…" She stuttered, biting her lips in embarrassment.

"He's talking to some old people about his new twin babies…I can see that you still view him as a prince…" Kenshin snickered. Kaoru shot him a look before she responded to that.

"Hiko is a prince…" She muttered under her breath, but Kenshin could hear it.

"He's a king, Kaoru. My old man use to be a prince during his young ages, but now he's a king. He's married already, and you can't come and take him!"

"I know that!" Kaoru yelled. "I know that! How many times do you got to tell me that? I'm not stupid, you know?" She glowered at him, and Kenshin shot her a glare back.

"Then stop with your fantasy view of everything! It bothers me a lot! All girls bother me with their stupid dress, face, and personality!" Kenshin started yelling at her.

The King and Queen of Kamiya looked down, only seeing what was going on. "Prince Kenshin, you should calm down." The Queen said with a soothing voice. Kenshin didn't hear her though.

"Tanuki, you are just like them as well!" Kaoru's eyes widen and she bit her lips harshly.

"How? How am I'm like the other girls? I barely hang out with the other girls since I'm the weird girl! I'm a girl who is learning kendo! I'm a girl that is learning how to use a freakin' gun! I'm a girl who does their hobby different from other girls!" She yelled at him. Kaoru realized the room was quiet and looked around. Every single eyes in the room were focused on the two little kids. She realized how loud she yelled and blushed furious. She knew that she won't forget this day-ever.

"The girls always played with their Barbie dolls! They always carry it around with them as if it were their best friend! The girls act like a snob towards girl that doesn't share their interest! I'm considered the weird girl, okay? You don't know how much I been through! Unlike me, you are liked by everyone! The girls think you are sooo cute. The boys think that you are soooo cool. They think everything you do is heroic and king-like! I'm a princess too, but people always made fun of me because of what I am!" She panted and her sapphire eyes were reflected in Kenshin's eyes.

"I don't care. Even if you have hobbies that are strange from girls, you are still like them no matter what," Kenshin said coldly. It sent a shiver towards Kaoru's spine. She felt butterflies flying around in her stomach and clenched her fist.

The next thing Kaoru heard, she heard a wave of fire blasted from someone's hand. One of Kenshin's hand wielded fire and it kept growing and growing as the seconds passed.

Kenshin glared at her mother and father and the parents of the Kamiya flinched. "You can't hide the truth, Kamiya! You may have fooled others, but I know what you actually are!" With that, he sent the ball of fire towards them. Kaoru was wondering what was going on! Why was he suddenly talking about her parents? Before Kaoru could respond what to do, she saw the flame engulfed her parents. Her heart stop, her breath was hold, her eyes were trembling, and her body wouldn't move.

"What are you doing, Kenshin?" Hiko yelled, and the people around them started screaming. They tried to head towards the door all at once. Kenshin just stared at his father, cold-eyes. "Kenshin, your eyes-" He stopped when Kenshin went towards the fire.

He eliminated the fire with a swipe and there were only bones remaining on the floor. Kaoru's eyes were stinging so badly and the world became so blur to her. "Mom? Dad?" She went over to the bones and sat on the ashes that once use to be their bones. "Mom? Dad? Mom! Dad!" She screamed with her lungs. Kenshin stared unimpressed until he saw the tiles started picking up. The surrounding area of tiles started picking up, and Kenshin's eyes widen when he saw something unexpected. Her hair started rising up with frizzes and he heard static shocks from the hair. A spark snapped on Kaoru's hair, and she rushed towards Kenshin. With a blast of a lightning, he was sent flying in the room. He crashed into a wall and slowly tried to get up, but Kaoru sent another blast of lightning towards him. His body couldn't take the shock's heat that started traveling up. Kenshin couldn't move a bit and Kaoru was about to give him another strike but Hiko stopped her.

His hands were on Kaoru's fist that was filled with lightning. Hiko twitched when the lightning traveled up his body but he didn't show it on his expression. "Kaoru, I'm sorry what my son has done to your parents…" He then shot a glare towards Kenshin, but Kenshin didn't flinched.

"Forget this!" Kaoru yelled. "You ruined my life, Kenshin! You ruined it!" She started choking on her tears, and she jerked away from Hiko's grasp. "The next time I see you, Kenshin, I will make your life suffered." She sent a cold glare that was different the usual glare that she gave him. Kaoru slowly walked out of the room, feeling the pain started to eat her.

Battousai just sat there with his eyes widen. "I never remembered that! Kaoru, stop with your lies!" He yelled at her. The raindrop kept hitting the surface still, and Kaoru just sat there with her damp hair that hidden her face.

"I'm not telling lies, Kenshin." She said softly.

"I told you that I would never do that! I don't go killing people with fire without any reasons!"

"Well you did kill them! You killed them right in front of me! You killed them so I can suffer Kenshin! I know that better than anyone else! You would also teases me and make live a life filled with pains. What other reasons would you that for?" She asked with tears taking over her eyes.

Battousai didn't know how to respond to that. He knew he always tease her and made her live a horrible life, but he wouldn't take it this far. He would never do that. "I'm sorry what I've d-."

"You think that apologizing is going to make it all up?" She interrupted him. "You can never bring them back to life, AND you can never take back all the things you have done to me!"

Battousai knew it was true and stopped talking. He took shelter from the rain under a large tree that seems to shot up 40 feet in the air. Battousai hid his face and stared at the floor. I'm sorry, Kaoru. I didn't know I did that. Wait, I never did anything like that! I was smarter than that. Plus Kaoru just said that I said that the Kamiya couldn't hide the truth from me. What was the truth?

He glanced over to Kaoru who was sitting on a log. She was shivering and hugged herself. Battousai didn't know what to do without getting yelled out and her starting to cry again. He could smell blood staining the forest and a shock hit him. Battousai turned around, feeling someone's presence was here.

"Kaoru!" Battousai yelled at her. She looked up, and the next thing she knew, Battousai lunged towards her. She was pushed off the log and they were hidden behind it. BOOM! Kaoru tried to get up and see what was going on, but Battousai clutched her tightly against his chest. She looked up to see Battousai and saw his amber eyes were started to glow even fiercer.

"Ken-shin?" She felt throbbing against her chest loudly, and her face was burning. "W-What are you doing?" She hissed but came out more whimpered.

"Sssh! Be quiet!" He whispered and clutched her even more against his chest. Kaoru gulped and stayed silent. Battousai heard some leaves crunched under someone's footstep.

"Sojiro, didn't you say Battousai was here?" A female's voice broke out in the rain.

"I did sense him here, and I-" The voice stopped. Battousai was about to jump and tell his friends he was here, but Kaoru clutched onto his shirt. She shot him a look that said don't go. He didn't know whether or not he should listen to her, but at the end, he chose to listen.

"Akira!" Sojiro kneeled down towards his body and hold him. His blood got on Sojiro's clothes, and Yumi came up behind him.

"What happened?" She almost screamed, but Sojiro sent her a glare that told her to be quiet. "OMG! Anji is dead too!" She walked over to the fallen monk and gasped.

"I guess they failed their mission." Sojiro said. "Anyway, we need to keep going forward in order to get the Tenshis to collapse." Yumi nodded and stopped for a moment.

"Sojiro, let me see Akira and Anji!" She pushed Sojiro away from the two people and smiled. "I can bring them to life! Akira got stabbed in the shoulder and in the stomach. Akira got stabbed in the stomach. I can bring them to life!" She repeated in glee. Sojiro narrowed his eyes in confusion.

"Huh?"

"I can only bring back people to life, depending on where they got killed at. If it's the heart or head, I can't do that. Anywhere is else is able to [bring back to life]." Yumi explained.

She put her hands over Akira and started chanting. A heart started forming around them. The spirit of Akira came out of his body, eyes closed, and Yumi shot the heart towards the spirit. It sent a big shockwave towards the spirit that it literally renewed. The spirit went back into the body of Akira's. Yumi did the same exact thing to Anji.

Akira and Anji slowly sat straight up. They both stared at Yumi and Sojiro, who surrounded the two. "Where is Battousai?" Akira yelled and stood up from he was.

"He's not here when I got here," Sojiro answered.

"Anji, what happened here?" Yumi asked and grabbed a bandage from her bag. She started mending Akira's shoulders.

"Akira and I found this girl in the forest. She seems to be a Tenshi and we started messing with her, but Battousai was here. He hit Akira and I don't know what happened next." Anji said and looked around the forest.

"Wait!" Akira looked around the forest. "I still feel their presence around here. They are really close." He gritted his teeth and got up again.

"Wait Akira! I'm not done mending your shoulder!" She grabbed Akira but he jerked away from her.

"Yumi is right, Akira. You need your shoulder to be mended. I will go and search for Battousai." With that, he disappeared in a flash.

Battousai could feel Sojiro's presence roaming around the forest to look for them. He looked down on Kaoru, who was still holding onto his hoodie. The boy's eyes rose when he found some blood stained on the clothes. He tapped on Kaoru's shoulder, and Kaoru looked up at him with her sapphire eyes. Battousai softly pushed Kaoru so he could take a good look at her and frowned.

"You were bleeding this whole time?" He hissed at her, and Kaoru just glared at him.

"Yeah I was bleeding this whole time. What does that have to do with you?" She questioned him, who groaned.

He quickly took his hoodie off and shivered when the cold droplets hit his arm. The hoodie was all wet, but he squeezed the water out and gave it to Kaoru. "Just take this. I know it's not going to um…help, but it's better than um…" Battousai blushed when he saw the cut on her chest. It showed some part of her bare skin, and Battousai gulped.

She took it and flashed him a smile. "Thanks, Kenshin." Kaoru slipped the hoodie on and pushed herself against Battousai even more. "Thank you a lot." She whispered, and Battousai felt his heart running really fast.

His heart froze when he heard the footsteps coming towards their direction. "I found you….BATTOUSAI!" Battousai quickly grabbed onto the girl and unleashed his wings all at once. He flapped his wings, and Kaoru closed her eyes shut.

"You can't hide from me, Kenshin." Sojiro said as he flew right behind them. "Or am I not allowed to call you that now?" He shot a blast of water towards Battousai, but he quickly evaded it.

Kaoru looked behind from Battousai's shoulder and saw that the boy was in her magic class. He had pure darkness of black wings. Kaoru stared in amazement at the boy's wings. It was beautiful but evil at the same time.

"This whole time you were an Akuma?" Battousai yelled at him. Sojiro just kept his smile on, but you could tell that it was tense.

"Now, Battousai, we can always keep secrets from each other. So don't act surprise because I know your secret too." Kaoru felt Battousai tensed a little. She slowly pulled herself away from Battousai and quickly unleashed her wings.

"Kenshin, fight." She said when Battousai looked at in confusion. Battousai just nodded and started wielding fire in his hand. With one charge, he landed a punch on Sojiro's face. Sojiro touched the burnt mark on his face and winced when it sting upon his touch. He glared at Battousai and a whip of water started forming.

"I was going to go easy on you, Battousai, but I guess I can't now. You already unleashed a big ball of fire and you girl-" He pointed towards Kaoru who stared in confusion. "You are thinking that water doesn't have a chance with fire, but water can." Kaoru flinched, not knowing how he read her thoughts. "Ready, Battousai?" He didn't wait for his reply though. He disappeared in a flash, and Battousai frowned. The young Tenshi remembered teaching the boy that move this year.

Smack! A swirl of water hit Battousai in the face, and Sojiro came in and gave a big punch in the stomach. Battousai quickly backed away and glared at Sojiro. "Come on, Battousai. You fight better than this! What is holding you bac…?" He stopped when he realized about the girl in the distant. The obstacle to his fighting is that girl over there.

Sojiro smirked before the water disappeared. "I got better things to do than mess with you, Battousai or else the missio-." He stopped, but he smiled again. "Cross that out. The mission already failed with you killing Akira. Well, goodbye, Battousai!" He slowly lost his altitude and landed on the floor.

Battousai let out a big sigh before he turned to Kaoru. He noticed a bandage on her cheek and quickly yanked it off. Kaoru yelped and rubbed the area. "Did Akira give you this elimination bandage?" He questioned. Kaoru just shook her head and nodded in thanks. He picked her up again before he started flying again.

"I will let you off this time since I'm already in a bad mood," Kaoru muttered softly against his chest. "I will kill you one day Kenshin, so watch out…" The next thing he knew, he felt his shirt wetter than before. Battousai saw Kaoru shedding tears again and patted her softly in the head.

"Even I say sorry a million times, it will never make you stop shedding tears. I'm sorry, Kaoru. I'm really sorry, Kaoru…" She just kept sobbing onto his shirt and clutched onto his shirt tightly.

"Why did you that? Why?" She questioned him, but Battousai didn't answer. Kaoru kept repeating the question many times, but she will always receive the same answer: I don't know. I never remembered it, but I'm sorry what I've done.

I hope you guys loved this chapter alot! :D I also hoped you guys shed some tears (don't hate me please! ). So yeah. It's really sad, isn't? And there is a reason why he killed them but you are just going to have to stick and stay tuned for the upcoming chapters!

Translation:

Tanuki- Raccoon dog

Bakadeshi- Idiot student [training]

Chibisuke- Dwarf

Akuma- Demon

Tenshi- Angel

Kendo- A swordsmanship that uses Kenjutsu (a sword style fighting) that uses brokken (wood swords)

Ryuu- Dragon