AU Enishi/Kaoru; Stranded on a deserted island by forces they couldn't control, Enishi and Kaoru try to make the best of a bad situation. Not quite naked and afraid, but certainly partially clothed and moderately traumatized.

AU Enishi/Kaoru, In which Lady Kaoru Kamiya is trying to navigate life running a manor and the land surrounding while the new white haired priest in charge of her soul seems more sinister than helpful. But Kaoru finds the good in everyone, even as Enishi dearly wishes she wouldn't bother because all her attempts just remind him how forbidden her fruit is. (Rating up for Ch.2)

Works written for a drabble challenge. Contains both miscellaneous one-shots and WIP drabble series of Kaoru, Kenshin and Tomoe in various AU and Canon settings.

AU Enishi/Kaoru, Kaoru is finally home from college, attempting to fix up her childhood home to make a sale, and finally getting her life off the ground. Meanwhile that strange gym across the street sure seems to lack the business needed to keep it open, but when did a little suspicion stop Kaoru from doing exactly what she wanted to do. Oneshot.

They've had their great epic, their saga of terror and violence. This story is just for the two of them.

Post-Jinchuu. The world, for once, in perfect harmony.

While waiting for Kenshin to arrive for their final battle, Enishi amuses himself by buying Kaoru expensive gifts.

Short pieces, for Ruroken Week 2017.

AU, Enishi/Kaoru, oneshot; In which the Jinchuu Arc replays itself in every universe, but in this one it looks a lot a bit like common problems. What starts with manipulation could always end with compassion, and maybe something more if you look out of the corner of your eye.

After opening his laundromat, Kenshin has a surprise visitor: the local kendo instructor, Kamiya Kaoru. Modern AU, written for Ruroken Week 2016.

He is injured, hunted, and wordless. Those who care for him search for him, and time is passing and hope is dying. But even should they find him, how can they repair his shattered mind?

But her heart was screaming that she had lost something important. Something precious and she hadn't even realized it. The girl inside, the dead girl with two slashes on her cheeks and a pierced heart, that girl could have been like a sister to her. [Post Jinchuu]

AU, Kaoru finds herself at a loose end before a major heart-themed holiday and appeals to Enishi to help her figure out what it is she actually wants. Major life decisions are best made in saner moments by saner people. Possibly also comedy.

AU Enishi/Kaoru-ish, Halloween challenge, Let's pretend Enishi was not the most terrifying thing on his own island. How long can Kaoru resist her own nature and retain her humanity?

AU, Enishi/Kaoru, Life goes on even when a loved one dies, but for Kaoru it feels like she's stuck between the past and the present. With everything the same but totally different at the same time she picks at a scab on her heart only to find that the only person who really gets her pain is the one she was always told to avoid.

It was Tomoe who had taught him how to love, but it is Kaoru who has taught him how to live. [A series of interconnected oneshots/drabbles; ratings may vary.]

"It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live."

Rough sketches of characters, ideas, storylines. In other words, a drabble dump. Canon/AU; canon pairings. Sketch Fourteen: Initiation. Because safe was never a word that applied to him, and what made this the exception?

In which Hiko tries to understand with all of his brilliance just what his stupid pupil sees in this girl. [Oneshot, companion piece to chapter 7 of "Adventures In Solitude"]

There are many ways to be forgiven, but none of them are fulfilled until one forgives themselves. This is the story of how Kenshin did. A collection of stories of the atonement Kenshin found in his life after Jinchuu. This week: Kaoru is setting to burst any day now, and Kenshin deals with the struggle of pregnancy mood-swings.

CANON. Passing through the four seasons, here is a short story telling Kenshin and Kaoru's marriage, her pregnancy, the birth of Kenji and possibly life after that.

"Two views of the same thing; being inseparable like the two sides of an object; two sides of the same coin." Fall approaches after Jinchuu and when unexpected houseguests arrive at the gates, Kaoru must learn to accept the face under Kenshin's façade just as he must come to understand the true power hidden in the history of the Kamiya Kasshin Ryuu and its adjutant master.

How could he have ever believed that maybe, just maybe, the sun could shine, even for a monster?

Through feigned oblivion and measured distance he had tempted fate; through selfishness he had stayed by her side, tempting himself. Ultimately it did not matter, all his efforts crumbling as the precious woman before him extended a loving hand despite everything, binding her happiness to him – the one who had stolen the happiness of many. Oneshot.

His hair… it looked like it had grown considerably longer during their brief separation. She has always had an urge to run her fingers through it, rough strands tangled by toil and sweat and wind-swept all those years. K/K Post-Jinchuu

There were days in which she would allow herself to think that she was pretty. Not beautiful, or extravagantly above average, but certainly acceptable by most social standards. (Kenshin x Kaoru, One-sided...ish?)

It was strange to him how a man who has learned never to wish for anything would be granted infinitely precious things.

"They're already Kenshin-and-Kaoru in Misao's social vocabulary, and usually so pink with satisfaction it would be embarrassing if everyone didn't already know they were going to end up married someday." -In which Kaoru is pregnant, Aoshi is confused, and Kanryuu is very, very foolish. A Christmas fic two months too late. Kenshin/Kaoru, Aoshi/Misao. Rated for sex.

It would be fair to say that Kaoru fell in love with Kenshin after three days of knowing him. Sometimes, she was sure he felt the same. Really, it all would've been wonderful if it would just go somewhere. ONE SHOT

"Through long days of labor/and nights devoid of ease." It hurts, coming back to life, but not many people get to do it twice. Kenshin, Kaoru, and a long-earned peace.

"I'll do it, so long as no one walks away with recorded evidence. I don't need this getting me fired if pictures end up on facebook, or worse—" she levels a glare at Misao—"on Okina's hard drive." -Kenshin, Kaoru, and wayward strippers. Modern AU. (Warning: they talk and talk and talk. Politics, poetry, and the occasional Dan Aykroyd movie. You have been warned.)

Kaoru and Kenshin finally get some time alone together after Jinchuu.

A short and sweet story in which Kenshin starts a garden, and a family. "The farmer's orphan in him felt somewhat hurt by her comment. He paused for a few moments, unsure of how to respond. 'I was a farmer's son a long time ago. I see nothing shameful in raising one's own food.' "

They say kitsune are cursed to be alone forever. A year in the life of one very human Takani Megumi.

Rules that Megumi has lived by, and how Sanosuke Sagara makes her break every one of them. Oneshot. Rated T for some language and some sexual themes, but very vague... Limes, if you will . Follows the manga, but includes a bit of the anime as well.

Tension crackles across the school, and even Kaoru—oblivious, sporty, no-nonsense Kaoru—can feel it. -obligatory high school AU. Kaoru being a grump, various characters, and not nearly enough exposition.

Post-Jinchuu. Oneshot. Kaoru basks in the quiet of their newfound domesticity - but still, there's something missing.

A tribute to the girl who makes a family out of nothing. She is not perfect. But she is more than enough.

The rurouni walks a road well-traveled, but the path to redemption is a twisted one. There are so many truths left to discover and build from.

An afternoon on the engawa. Post-series, canon-compliant. T for a single instance of swearing.

At night, in the silent spaces they cherish as husband and wife, he tells her stories. Features Kenshin-as-Traveler as opposed to Kenshin-as-Wanderer. Canon, Ken/Kao, series of one-shots.

Canon, Post-Jinchuu, Ken/Kao, one-shot. In which Yahiko asks Kaoru a question, and the latter is made aware of her ever-sharpening instincts.

It's the 1940s and Enishi kidnaps Kaoru from the Kamiya dojo for his revenge against Kenshin. All goes according to plan until his private plane crashes in a storm-leaving them both on an inhabited island with nothing but their wits and each other.

A city girl is forcibly plopped into suburbia, where she'll learn a thing or two about life, death, love…you know, the usual.

Kaoru has never been afraid of asking for guidance. But with her own feelings threatening to overwhelm her and Kenshin being non-too clear about his own, things don't quite come as easily this time around. Canon KxK

After a little more than a year since he arrived, the room was finally empty again.

It was going to be a lucky day. Something good was bound to happen. Canon timeframe romance. Repost

AU Chance encounters while at college lead Kaoru to take a more assertive stand to gain the attentions of the one person she's interested in. A collection of oneshots that are somewhat in order. KxK Complete for now.

A series of Kenshin-centric drabbles, KK and KT. Manga canon. Based on a 'word of the day' format.

In early 1830s Missouri Kaoru tries to make farm life function with a childish brother and a lazy cousin. When circumstance has her asking for help from a near stranger, life suddenly changes for everyone. But is it for the better?

A quiet, introspective one-shot set sometime mid-manga. Mostly a friendship piece :i.e. Kenshin/everyone: but with strong Kenshin/Kaoru leanings. WAFF, one-shot, KenKao.

Kenshin/Kaoru. The many shades of red in Kenshin's life. ONESHOT.

What are neighbors for, if not for a cup of sugar? AU. KxK. One-shot.

One-shot. Kaoru ponders on the amusing relationships she has with her newfound family and begins to fathom their underlying depth. Set sometime in the Tokyo Arc.

ONESHOT - When Kaoru gets stuck in the elevator with three people she'd never met before, she gets more than just a headache and cold coffee...which was all she'd really bargained for.

A grumbling red head meets a blue eyed girl as he falls out of a window. AU. One-shot.

Playdates, is a horrible word in Hiko's opinion. But somehow also turn out to be...interesting. KK. AU.

Words are fleeting. Moments are forever.

She can never be him. He can never be her. But Kaoru and Sanosuke knew Kenshin needed them both. My attempt at a 100 word ficlet.

Short Drabble. The scent of rain lingered long after the morning’s deluge, a fresh, enticing fragrance that demanded an active body be out of doors. Kaoru could not help but move to obey the call.

What Kenshin believes, he believes with all his heart. Even when it is contradictory.

Modern AU. After years of running, Himura Kenshin's past finally comes back to haunt him.

Leave it to Sano to look for shelter in a bar owned by a succubus.

[to love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.] KK, romance, post chapter 254.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.

It seemed like all the appealing ones were taken these days. Or gay. [KK]

It's easy to lose sight of yourself through your own eyes.

[KxK] What is love, really? Drabbles describing her love for him, and his for her.

England. 1821. She’s a painter who has lost her meaning in life. He’s a former sea captain trying to redeem himself for past sins. The collision of their lives leads the pair down an unexpected path. [KK]

[Is it everything you dreamed that it would be, when the world was younger, and you had everything to lose?] A year in the life of Kamiya Kaoru, who has nothing left to lose. [KK]

For the first time in seventeen years, Sano's most precious tradition has been unforgivably disrupted by someone he thought he could trust.

KK PostJinchuu... 'The only thing that's clear now is that suddenly everything is different. Suddenly, impossibly.' After everything that happened, Kenshin could never just go back to how things were before...even if sometimes he badly wanted to...

Quietly, the dearest hopes are met, the most distant goals achieved.

[Complete Epilogue Up] One teacher, one student. A forbidden love, against the societal rules. Yet love can never hide beneath rules and regulations, it smothers and smokes, entwining the two. Years later, will they find each other again? EK

Ficlet' He never meant to fall in love. He meant to be cool, polite and impersonal. But time and change have their ways, and we can never really see what's best for us when we're in the moment...

[Twoshot, moderntype AU] What might it take for Kenshin to realize that there will be times when he doesn't always know what is best?

[Complete ] AU Kamiya Kaoru is the young owner of a flower shop. Every day of the week, her customer, Himura Kenshin, comes to pick up fresh white roses, a dozen of them, for his late wife. Kaoru can’t help but fall in love with this mysterious customer

FINISHED, AU, EnishiKaoru, an RK spin on the beloved fairy tale, Kaoru is the fairest in the land but who's to know when she works in the stables, maybe some disgruntled men in the woods can give her a new start. . .

[one shot] “It was simply absurd, really. So of course, in the grand scheme of things, it made perfect sense.” A look at opposites and the strange harmony that results when they fit.

Kaoru flees from Japan, from Kenshin's love, and goes to America where she is forced to become a prostitute. Six years later she is sent to Tokyo with a man who has rented her to be his escort. Full Summary Inside. KK.

ONE SHOT - Response to the MT April Challenge. Kaoru takes advantage of a reasonably quiet dojo to broach an awkward subject to a certain clueless samurai. Or at least, that's the intent, right?

[KK] She couldn't tell herself that it was always be like this or that it was going work out one day, because it wouldn't.

[Complete] [AU] A chance meeting at a local Laundromat brings two unsuspecting people together. Their differences draw them to each other and bind them with an invisible tie. See what happens in this 3-part story of discovery and love. [KK]

(Modern AU; One-shot) In which Kaoru has a run-in with destiny, Megumi and Sano have a clever plot, Misao shows off her polish, and Kenshin demonstrates why he's not a man to be Trifled with...

When Kenshin's guilt won't let him leave Rakuninmura, Kaoru finds herself drawn to the emotional wounds of a man consumed with revenge. Confused by her altruistic gestures, Enishi lets his guard down. His heart latches onto her. Enishi Kaoru

AU. I'm just your typical college student. Nothing special. Boring even. But you never know... sometimes something interesting will happen. After all... it's my life. Ch. 35: Life continues.

EnishiKaoru; oneshot; AU, One troubled by his past, another by her future. . . love sometimes takes more than first sight to realize its potential

May 8th, 1878. After the emergence of the hitokiri, some messes have to be cleaned up. (Oneshot, KK.)

A love triangle, and the third speaks out. How long can a person keep such emotions inside? Short drabble, maybe one-shot.

Seisou Hen spoilers. Friends gather after many long years to mourn the passing of one and of another soon to follow. In the darkness before the dawn, is fifteen years enough time to forget and heal? COMPLETE.

Ten years ago, Kaoru met and fell in love with Battousai. But he dies in an accident, leaving her heartbroken. Now, engaged to someone else, she meets Kenshin, a splitting image of her old love. Will history repeat itself?

[COMPLETED!] AU-Kenshin is a captain in the Imperial Navy, Kaoru is the leader of a group of pirates. Fate has thrown them together, but can they ever be more than enemies?[EDITED 042404]

A night in the rain. A tortured conscience. And what makes a good man? One-shot. KK; standard disclaimers apply.

Completed. AU. Kaoru, Kenshin, and Tomoe discover that some truths are inescapable.