"(IN THE MIDDLE OF) A RAINY SUMMER NIGHT". A Rurouni Kenshin lemon by Hikaru Shidou. All apologies to NON Hentai Kenshin fans and to Watsuki-sensei, I meant no harm by writing this...   "BO...OOOM!!". Anyone knows why nearly all girls hated so much thunders and lightnings, like Kaoru.  She was calmly sleeping that rainy night (it was the best that she could do) and then... "Why does this always happen to me?", she moaned sitting in the futon.  "Now this summer storm won't let me catch any sleep.  I suppose that Megumi-san and Genzai-sensei are having now problems to put the girls to sleep again.  I hope the guys are aright...". Pricking up her ears, Kaoru heard Yahiko's sleepy voice whining about the storm ("what fucking kind o' evil spirit would send us such a big and wild storm with all its weapons...", and it kept going).  Sanosuke, who was staying by them that night, was snoring loudly ("how can he calmly sleep and even snore?!", she thought to herself). But Kenshin... Kaoru did her best to hear his voice, or at least his snores, but it was impossible.  She forced herself awake to get a good result, but again she couldn't. "... Don't tell me that he's gone again!", she nearly cried.  "Kenshin! No, please not, if he leaves me again I'm sure he'll never be back...". Something inside her snapped as she was on her feet and tore out her room.  Tears were willing to roll down her cheeks but Kaoru did her best to suppress them as she reached to the door that led onto the garden... and she could see him. Kenshin was standing in the middle of the summer rain, letting it run through his body and his magenta and gray hakama.  His long, silky red hair was free, and it sticked to his skin, his clothes, and also to the X-shaped scar in his cheek.  His blue-violet eyes were closed as he braced himself and threw his head backwards, feeling the water also in his face.  He looked rather handsome but strange, Kaoru thought, his attitude has something wild as she never saw in Kenshin before, not even in his Battousai state. "Rain...", he whispered, his voice strangled.  "Rain, wash away the blood I still have in my hands, purify my whole self, make me forget...  ORO?". The rain somehow stopped showering him.  Kenshin opened his eyes to see Kaoru, covering him and herself with an umbrella. "I thought you were gone, Kenshin", she whispered.  "Don't you scare me like that again". "No, Kaoru-dono. I was here, just standing in the rain", he smiled.  "I couldn't sleep becau...". BO... OOOOOMMM!!! A lightning crossed the sky.  This one was more powerful and noisy than the one before, and its light and noise filled the darkness engulfing it all for a second. "KEEENSHIIN!", Kaoru cried in horror, releasing the umbrella as she threw her arms around him.  He gasped in surprise, but soon he recovered control and also hugged her tight, leaning over her. "Kaoru-dono?" Kaoru loosened her grip on Kenshin, leaning her head on his chest, and stopped.  This wasn't the first time that she was in his arms, but in the middle of a rainy summer night, with a twinge of anguish and fear in her heart, it was different.  Her cheek was pressed against his chest, and his chin rested on her own head: the feeling of his warm skin and his wet hair made her feel an unfamiliar pressure on her body. Kaoru's face turned violently hot, and she thanked the gods that Kenshin couldn't see her.  Then she heard his voice calling her. "I... I'm okay", Kaoru managed to whisper. "Sometimes you're such a child, Kaoru-dono", and realizing that she was still scared, he ran his hand through her black hair, now also WET.  Kenshin broke slowly their embrace and saw Kaoru as soaked as himself, but smiling. "Let's enter home Kenshin, or soon we'll be sick". They walked toguether in the rain, what was now much weaker than before, and as they entered, they could hear Yahiko and Sanosuke snoring in a perfect rhythm (and Sano's snores were louder than before).   Kaoru handed Kenshin a big towel to dry himself, then walked to her room.  But as she half-opened her night yukata to take it off her body, letting one of the sleeves slip off her shoulder and half of her arm, she left a sob escape through her lips, and cried.  It was a relief to see that Kenshin wasn't gone, but who could assure her that he wouldn't leave again? She was so afraid of it... Kenshin took off the top of his kimono and dried his hair, walking to his room.  But then he heard Kaoru's sobs.  He tossed the towel aside, opened the sliding door (closing it immediately) and walked his way to her silently, kneeling next to her. "What's wrong, Kaoru-dono?", he whispered from behind.  She stopped sobbing, but not only by hearing his voice, confirming that Kenshin was still at home; it was also by the sensation of his soft, warm breath on her neck, sending shrivers through her. To confort her, Kenshin leaned his hand on her shoulder.  Kaoru could only brush it with her own one... Should she tell him now the way she wanted them both to feel that rainy and now quiet night? It was now or never. "You... always make me feel worried about you, Kenshin...", Kaoru managed to said, seconds after, and turned to confront him.  He stared at her and blushed: she did it forgetting that she still had her yukata half open, so despite the darkness he was having a VERY nice view of her, so nice as the one she had of him in between the rain.  But now she didn't ever notice that. "Kao--", but he was cut off when she, giving him no time, lifted her face and made their lips meet.  Kenshin's eyes flew open, it had been much more than a while since he had last kissed any woman's mouth, and he had yet forgotten what was feeling a pair of lips pressed against his' like.  And it didn't feel much like the lips of her, of his former love Tomoe... She broke the kiss and looked at him with teared eyes. "Kenshin", she said in a low voice.  "Now you get why I was crying, what's the way you make me feel like?". He stood motionless.  Kaoru, unable to continue, buried her face on his bare chest and said nothing, waiting for a negative answer.  But then she felt his hands placed in her back, stroking her as if she was a kitten. "Oh, Kenshin...". Words weren't needed at that moment, so Kenshin showed her that he perfectly got her idea, by leaning over Kaoru and kissing her back.  But now that he had remembered how to kiss, he slowly stuck his tongue inside her mouth. She was more than surprised as she felt his tongue parting her lips ("that was his plan?  I thought he was a naive boy..."), but she welcomed it, letting it dance with her own one.  To kiss him more deeply, she leaped over his lap and it made Kenshin lose his balance, falling backwards and onto the futon.  Reflexively he grabbed her wrist, and she fell over him, her head again pillowed over his chest. "How much I've been waiting for this moment". "Shhh, Kaoru-dono, I know now", he said brushing her tears with the back of his hand.  "Maybe since that time when I opened the door of the bathroom and then you were naked before my eyes?". "Ma...maybe.  But now I don't have any other thought... than being in your arms.  You make me feel so good, I want you so bad...". "That's not what you told me minutes ago". "But...". "But since you've been waiting, I shouldn't waste any time". He pulled her slightly apart of him, then sat up with Kaoru sitting on his lap. "Kenshin --" He slipped a hand underneath the yukata, letting it run over her damp body while he kissed her lips again, cutting her off.  Kaoru moaned in his mouth and that gave him enough courage to try another move.  Now that his body remembered what those feelings and sensations were, how did Tomoe teach him to use them, he also wanted her to feel it, knowing that they maybe wouldn't have any other chance to uncover themselves without words. Kenshin left his hand get out of the yukata and, with trembling fingers, searched for the knot of her obi and undid it.  She slipped both arms out of the sleeves and left the yukata slide down off her.  It revealed her fully naked body to him, but this time he didn't blush.  Nor did he stop. "You're... beautiful, Kaoru-dono.  Beautiful like an angel", he smiled and began moving his hands down her lovely body again.  Kaoru ran her hands up his own one, feeling the firmness of his muscles and how still wet was his hair. "Don't make me blush saying things that I've always known!", she teased to hide his nerves. Kaoru's hands made their way to his gray obi and, as he just did, undid it.  But Kenshin had no intention to let her undress him... yet.  He placed his hands in her back and pulled her against him again, a little more forward than before. "Nobody would imagine that I, a man once known as Hitokiri Battousai, the most cold-blooded assassin, could want so bad to make a girl's night one to remember forever", he whispered, his voice deep and tender, as his bangs touched her neck.  "I made you cry and suffer while I was searching for the Ippon Gatana and Shishi-o Makoto, Kaoru-dono...  Then let me return that feelings to you, but turned into love". "Is that true?", she asked half teasingly. He got her meaning.  "This will make you find out, I hope". Her nipples were rubbing against his chest, so he lifted his hands and ran his fingers hesitantly up to her torso.  She was breathless for a moment, but even more as Kenshin reached to her breasts and gently began to squeeze them.  A whimper grew in her throat as her tender nipples hardened at his touch.  True - no one, even his or her friends, had to know how much or in which way Himura Kenshin would even dare to think about making love to her.  And neither better if nor even Megumi or Misao did. Kaoru's eyes closed, then squeezed shut as Kenshin leaned forward, pushing her onto the floor and positioning her under him.  Soon his tongue was active again... circling a nipple in quick motion, teasing it, nibbling on it, making her whimper and moan.  She pressed into Kenshin slightly, pushing all other thoughts off her mind.  Except one. "I PRAY THE GODS THAT YAHIKO AND SANO ARE STILL ASLEEP...". And the gods heard her plea, because Sano began to snore EVEN louder than before, as the rain also fell down harder covering her moans...   Relieved, Kaoru ran her hands through his red hair, grabbing his head and trying to bury his face between her breasts, allowing him a better access.  Of course he didn't refuse it and, while kissing and licking one breast, he caressed the other, loving to hear her voice calling softly his name.   After a few more minutes, Kenshin lifted his head and looked right into Kaoru's black-bluish eyes, enjoying the sight of her.  God, she was beautiful like that, smiling in the darkness, her body glistening with sweat, her long black hair spread around her. "I... I love you Kenshin", she whispered.  "I don't mind who you were and what you did.  I love you just the way you are now". "I know.  And that was the reason because I came back to you, Kaoru-dono", was his answer. She ran her hands over his body again.  "He's made of stern stuff", she thought as she felt his muscles tensing, and he held her in his arms as if he had to do it to survive to the fire raging within him.  Though Kenshin had a light complexion, his muscles were strong and firm like steel.  His skin was coarse, however, and she could feel also a lot of scars on it.  That made Kaoru remember the X-shaped one, and she kissed it. "It's your trademark, Kenshin.  With it, people recognize you everywhere you go.  That includes me...". He replied by kissing her hard and holding her tight again.  That gave Kaoru a chance to undress Kenshin... by wrapping her thighs around his waist and softly, but firmly, pulling all his clothes off and down his legs, using her feet and ankles. Kenshin noticed this when it was too late but didn't stop.  When she kicked his kimono aside, he broke the embrace and looked astonished, his eyes fully open and panting heavily.  Now he was naked before her eyes, and his shaft was now pressing hard to her thigh! "Oro?!... No fair, Kaoru-dono", he half pouted, not knowing what to say. "You know you HAVE to be naked before doing this.  You wasn't, I did it for you", she giggled, her eyes gleaming mischievously, but secretly hoping that he wasn't disappointed of her.  And he wasn't feeling down, but also planing something.   Meanwhile, Kenshin's hand reached to her crotch and went even lower.  Kaoru's thighs reflexively spread at this strange sensation. "KENSHIN!", she said tensing. "This is my way to take you by surprise", he replied with the same mischievous grin planted at his face.  His fingers touched delicately her clit and Kaoru's whole body shuddered.  She had to bite down her lip not to let escape a cry of pleasure. "Ken...shin...", she whispered passionately, lifting her hips.  Kenshin sighed deeply, moved down, and began to flicker his tongue around her pussy lips and clit in a circling motion, slowly, tenderly, his breath brushing over her crotch and the layer of black hair of her womanhood... Hearing her moan and feeling her thrusting her body at him, made very hard for Kenshin to control his own body, but he forced himself to control.  His member was getting harder and harder, painful by seconds, but he wasn't willing to lost control, not now that she was melting under his touch... If Kenshin had to come, it would be inside Kaoru, for sure! Kaoru panted even heavier than before nearly lost in that wave of heat, love, and desire.  From time to time, while practising her Kamiya-Kashin moves, while seeing him perform the Hiten-Mitsurugi style, while daydreaming, while tensing because of Yahiko's continous teasing, while talking about him to Misao and making the Oniwabanshu tomboy swear secrecy, she secretly wondered to herself how would be Kenshin's lovemaking like.  Now she was experiencing it, wondering now how a former bloodthirsty, cold assassin like him could be able to be such a tender, but also passionate, lover.   Kenshin suddenly stopped to look at her again. "Kaoru...", he began, but she put a finger over his lips. "I know what comes next, Kenshin... and I'm ready for it". He nodded, knowing that the moment had come.  Then he put himself in between her open legs and began to enter Kaoru, taking her hips in his hands, slowly sliding his member inside her tight, wet cunt, not wanting to hurt his lover, nor to give up too soon. Suddenly Kaoru shuddered and gritted her teeth, eyes wide shut.  Kenshin stopped and looked at her.  Tears were rolling down her cheeks.  It confirmed Kenshin that Kaoru was a virgin, and made him feel guilty. "I...  I'm sorry". She briefly kissed his scarred cheek.  "I told you that I knew.  Now don't worry, everything will be okay". At that, Kenshin continued plunging himself into her until he couldn't give her more, while she frantically dugged her nails in his skin and wrapped again her legs around his strong body as if willing him to crush her.  It relieved him from his last worry, and Kenshin began to thrust in and out of her. "You feel... so good...", he moaned before kissing her, and she could taste herself in his mouth.  Her own musk and juices.  Sweet as they could be. "What?", she thought.  "You think I just feel good?  Then you'll know what's the meaning of the word BETTER, Kenshin!!". Kaoru's pain quickly disappeared, as the pleasure came back to her, making her gasp for breath.   Using her legs and thighs, she began to follow Kenshin's rhythm that increased a bit every time as he thrusted, and she was sliding up and down his shaft.  Both were nearly lost, slamming their areas and mouths toguether, kissing wildly and invading each other... "Kenshin... my love... hope this... rainy night never ends...", Kaoru moaned, sent into a world of heated madness that she never thought that she could reach... He couldn't reply in words, but after some more minutes of thrusting, kissing, caressing and entering her, he was overtook by desire and came, shooting his fire inside of her.  She desperately kissed him, shutting again her own voice up in order not to wake the others up, and also to tell him how that fiery, wonderful pleasure was driving her mad...   But everything comes to an end.  It was after their orgasm faded slowly, and Kaoru found herself tightly wrapped in Kenshin's arms. "... I love you...", she whispered softly. He kissed Kaoru, and pulled back his now semi-hard member out of her.  Then he gently rolled over her, reversing their positions, and she was again leaning over him.  He waited to let the sweat and passion cool a bit...   Minutes later, Kaoru lifted her face from his chest, smiling again.  Her long black hair was forming a blanket over them. "It was now or never, wasn't it?", he said softly. "You never know when you have to fight for your life", she said sliding her soft fingers across his muscles.  "And you don't even know if you'll win that battle.  I didn't want you to die before telling you how much I loved you, Kenshin". "We were one by a moment, Kaoru-dono.  Thanks...". "You're thanking me?", she blinked. "Not only for this...", he kissed her forehead, "but for all you've given to me since we met.  A place I could call 'home', friends, a chance to re-start again, hope... and your love.  If most years of my life were a bloody inferno, this whole night is the beginning of my happiness.  Our happiness". His face was radiant with a deep emotion, and his smile was the most true and tender that Kaoru have ever seen. "Thanks to you and the Gods...  Kenshin...  I love you...", she whispered while a tear of joy fell down her cheek, and she put herself to sleep in that arms that cradled her like a little child.  The arms of her beloved, of the man that she would love until the end of times.   Kaoru woke up as early as usual.  But something was different from the last night. First, she was totally dressed in the same yukata that she was wearing then. Second, she was in her futon, covered with the blankets, as if nothing had happened. And third... Kenshin wasn't there. She sat up shocked... then realized that the person who dressed her tied the obi as if it was the obi of a male kimono, not the way that she used to tie it. Kaoru got up and run her hand up her neck.  Yes... she was still able to feel the warmth of his skin, the touch of his gentle hands, his tight embraces... She smiled tenderly and sighed. "It wasn't a dream after all", she whispered. Kaoru tied the obi in the right way and was about to go out of her room when she heard three voices.  Yahiko, Sanosuke and Kenshin! What were they talking about? She was curious, so she pricked up her ears again... "Heh, what a terrible storm!", Yahiko said sleepily as he stretched himself and yawned.  "Today I'll be totally out in the training, I couldn't sleep at the whole night". "Hmmm, sounds funny", Sanosuke said.  "Last night I slept as normal...". "But snoring as if you were a dragon, Sano!  I wonder how could Kenshin and Kaoru sleep, I'm sure your snores were loud enough to fill the whole house!". "Why you...". Kenshin also stretched himself.  Sano and Yahiko looked at him wide-eyed. "Hey, Kenshin, you're also about to be out?", Sano asked.  "Were you the whole night up?". "Oro?!" "Guys, I think that Kenshin has a hidden secret", Yahiko in a said mocking-serious tone.  "I'm sure that I heard a voice moaning loud in the middle of the night, maybe...". "SO YOU... AND JO-CHAN...?". Kaoru nearly fainted, then opened a bit her door to see the three friends looking to each other.  For a second, silence fell over the whole Kamiya Dojo.  But after that, Kenshin laughed and said loud... "That's not of your business, Yahiko-chan!!". "DON'T YA CALL ME YAHIKO-CHAAAAAAN!!", and Yahiko tried to hit Kenshin but he avoided his fist playfully and went running, laughing, with Yahiko and Sanosuke chasing after him. "Dear, dear Kenshin", Kaoru whispered.  "You're still here by me...". That rainy summer night began with thunders and lightnings, and ended full of the most pure and fiery feelings.  Kaoru had nothing to regret, and she smiled as she went out and ran to them. "HEY YOU GUYS!  KENSHIN!  YAHIKO!  SANO!  WAIT FOR ME!! HEY, MEGUMI-SAN, NOW THAT YOU'RE COMING IN, CLOSE THE FRONT DOOR!!".   AUTHOR'S NOTES: And... yeah, I re-wrote this story with the help of my friend Minako.  By the days I wrote it I wasn't the Kenshin hardcore expert I am now * giggles *, so I made some mistakes.  I corrected them and added some more phrases to decorate it, so Kenshin fans, go and enjoy! And you * blink * Slam Dunk fans, read also the Hana-Ru lemon I'm also sending to you!!   Any comments to: Amy, AKA Hikaru (arod_conde@hotmail.com).