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    The Blanket Scenerio
    Kaoru and Kenshin

            a fanfic by Chelsea






    Kenshin looked down at the object held in his hands.

    “Ano… Kaoru-dono, I could only find one blanket de gozaru.” he
    muttered apologetically.

    Kaoru rolled her eyes as she listened to the wind howling around
    the cabin.  “Great.  NOW what are we going to do?”

    Wordlessly, Kenshin held the blanket out to her.

    Kaoru stared at it in shock.  “You don’t really mean…”

    He continued the silent offer.

    “But you’ll freeze!”

    Kenshin looked up at her and smiled reassuringly.  “I’ll be all
    right, Kaoru-dono.”

    Kaoru shook her head at him.  “It wouldn’t be fair, especially
    since it’s my fault we got into this situation in the first
    place.  You take it.”

    “You know I would never allow that, Kaoru-dono.”

    She knew, and that knowledge was both sweet and infuriating.

    “So what option does that leave us?  Share?”  A faint blush crept
    onto Kaoru’s cheeks.

    “That would seem to be the best choice, Kaoru-dono.”  Kenshin
    watched as her blush deepened.

    That shy blush was immediately replaced by a look of shocked
    amazement as in a single, fluid movement Kenshin tossed up the
    blanket, drew his sakaba and sliced the cloth in two.  Calmly
    sheathing the sword he caught the halves and offered one to Kaoru.

    She looked at the limp offering for a while, then began laughing.
    And laughing.

    I thought he meant… and then he went and… I can’t believe it…

    Kenshin was utterly confused, but continued to hold out her
    portion of the blanket.

    Kaoru finally managed to get herself under control and accepted
    Kenshin’s offering.  The two wrapped themselves up as best they
    could, trying to ignore the light chill of the floorboards.

    “Oyasumi, Kenshin.”

    “Oyasumi nasai, Kaoru dono.”

    They lay in companionable silence until a thought struck Kaoru.

    “Nee… Kenshin…”

    “Hmmm?”

    “Do you think you’ll get into trouble for ruining the blanket?”







    Author’s notes
    Like I said, this one’s cute.  And I’ll be saying this on every
    fic… send me your version.



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