Subject: [KFFDisc] Blanket Scenario: K&K Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:48:12 -0400 From: Nadya Reply-To: kenshinfanfics@egroups.com To: kenshinfanfics@egroups.com Hiya minna! ^_^x Well, Egroups seems to be fixed now.. *knock on wood* Gomen for sending Lily chapter 4 twice... ^.^;; And thanks Elizabeth for the suggestion for it! ^^v Anyhoo, after reading the latest sweet Blanket Scenarios, I finally decided to write my own take on it. E-he.. This scenario has so much potential! *.* Of course, mine is about Kenshin & Kaoru, my favorite Anime couple in the world. :) WAFFy (is that the right abbreviation for 'warm and fuzzy fic' or something like that?) warning.. :P Oh yes, Deena-san, a few sentences in my fic about the 'flame burning in the winter' might strongly resemble your (sugoi) Aoshi&Misao BlanketScenario fic.. I didn't intend to copy it, it just sorta turned out that way, honest.. *cowers* ====================== The Blanket Scenario - Kenshin & Kaoru By Nadya N. On March 16, 1999 (RurouniKenshin and its characters created by the genius Watsuki Nobuhiro. Standard disclaimers apply, yada yada yada. ^^;) "Melting Hearts" Kaoru shivered, forcing herself to go on, struggling to keep her balance in the harsh, biting wind. She knew Kenshin was just ahead, but she could barely see him through the densely falling snow. Snow was everywhere - it started at first with gentle snowflakes, which grew unnoticeably into a fierce, raging snowstorm. The world seemed colorless, everything painted a sparkling shade of constantly moving white. For a minute, Kaoru could not make out where the horizon was - everything was so blindingly white... and cold... She seemed to float on the cold winds, as if they were all around her, consuming her, threatening to freeze her forever... She couldn't even remember why she was out here in the cold. 'No...too cold to remember...what...who...?' "Kenshin..." she whispered, but the wind snatched away the quiet words and tore them into tiny white pieces. Kaoru did not realize that she collapsed into the snowbank until she felt Kenshin's gentle arms carefully lifting her up, brushing the show away from her pale face in vain. His worried voice calling her name, as if from a distance, drawing closer... "Kaoru-dono... Kaoru-dono! Kaoru-dono!! Kaoru!!!" "What... what happened? Kenshin?" she dared to open her eyes, but the prickly snow forced her to shut them again. The blank landscape didn't change at all, the only way it changed was that Kenshin was there. 'Kenshin...he must be freezing too...' "Oh, Kaoru-dono... thank goodness!" Kenshin sounded truly relieved. "You collapsed in the snowbank... It took me a bit of time to find you... I'm sorry. I'll never leave you behind again..." He almost embraced her, but backed away in the last minute, as if afraid of something. 'So that's what it feels like to freeze', Kaoru thought weakly. The reason for being out in the blizzard didn't matter anymore... as long as they could both make it to somewhere warm... she didn't think she could last much longer in this weather. It felt like they've been walking for hours... Her thoughts dragged on lazily, just as cold and tired as she was. She stumbled, but forced herself to regain her balance. 'If Kenshin can go on... then so can I!' she thought fiercely. 'How could I collapse like that... and I thought I was stronger than most other girls! Kenshin had to come to my rescue again... I'm so sick of being a weak maiden in distress...' Suddenly, she felt another hand touch hers, first lightly, then gripping her own hand reassuringly. 'Kenshin...' she realized as she held onto that hand. The hand was as cold as her own, yet it sent sparks of warmth and reassurance flying through her. "L-Look, Kaoru-dono! There's a house over there..." she heard Kenshin say. Kaoru still kept her eyes closed and held onto his hand firmly, afraid of losing him again. 'How can he see it?' she thought in amazement. 'There's too much snow...' Suddenly she stopped, bumping into the wood right in front of her. She only had time to think 'Oh thank goodness...' before Kenshin pulled her inside the building through the door he found. Kaoru finally dared to open her eyes when the door slammed the freezing winds behind her. She heard Kenshin sigh with relief, and felt him slowly release her hand. She looked around the room cautiously. It was an old wooden log cabin, with pieces of crumbling wooly material sticking out in between the logs. The room was small and, though the blizzard was shut outside, it was still freezing. The room itself was plain - no doors, no furniture, no fireplace - nothing of interest of any kind, besides one tiny, dirty glass window. There was hardly any light in the cabin. But something was laying, crushed and crumpled up, in a corner of the room. As Kenshin went to pick it up, she realized what it was - a small wool blanket. Only one blanket. Kaoru's thoughts raced. Nevermind why this cabin was here, or who left the blanket so conveniently. The room was freezing, and so were both of them. The blanket would surely keep them warm enough until the blizzard wore itself out and they could return to the dojo, but it was only big enough for one of them... the other would undoubtedly freeze to death. Freeze. To death. By the way Kenshin stood gazing down at the blanket, he obviously was thinking the same thing. An awkward pause passed by. The wind howled outside, like the freezing, wailing ghost of a lost soul. Kaoru's eyes met Kenshin's uneasily. Kenshin finally said, teeth chattering: "H-here you have this." Kaoru shook her head. 'He's so selfless... so sweet... without him, I would still be lying dead in that snowbank.' "No," she said, "You keep it. I-I don't deserve it." They both sat down next to a wall silently. Kaoru sat, her eyes boring into the floor in shame. "W-what d-do you mean, Kaoru-dono?" Kenshin wondered, still holding the blanket and shivering. "Of course you deserve it... you're..." he seemed to try to say something, something very important to him - but held it back at the last second. 'Why?' Kaoru wondered. 'What was he trying to say? And why didn't he? Is he...afraid of it?' "No I don't!" she exploded. "I collapsed in that snowbank like...like... like I was some weak damsel in distress. I always thought that I could take care of myself... I hate this! I hate myself!" She kept her eyes aimed at the floor, a betraying blush creeping over her flaming face. 'Kenshin...' he thought in the silence that followed, looking at Kaoru in wonder. She was so strong...yet so vulnerable. 'You're an idiot. Tell her... tell her how glad you are that she is alive. Tell her she means everything to you... Forget the past... you've got to move on. You've got to move on!' He sat there in silence, pushing back that little voice in his mind that warned him of what happened last time he loved someone. 'No,' he yelled at that voice in his head. 'No. That won't happen. I won't let it! No!' Kaoru's thoughts were racing furiously, despite the freezing cold. Here she was, in her dream come true. Stuck alone with Kenshin, with no place to go. Yet this was turning into a nightmare. Here they were, together, alone, forgotten to the world, lost in the middle of nowhere, but all they could talk about was arguing about a stupid blanket? She was so mad at the situation - no, at herself - that she didn't hear how Kenshin finally won the battle with himself and whispered "you're everything to me." "I said... you keep the blanket," she continued. "I don't deserve it. I... what?" Kenshin's words reached her mind just now, and once again she felt like a complete, utter idiot. "You're everything to me." Kenshin repeated, his shaky voice growing steadier, determined. "You really are." Kaoru's involuntary blush grew deeper, as she refused to believe her ears. Kenshin had just said almost the words she was forever longing to hear, yet she still stared at the floor as if ignoring them, nevermind the cold, feeling like the stupidest girl on the face of the Earth. 'What is wrong with me? Say something!', one side of her mind, or perhaps the same, was saying, while the other overflowed with joy: 'I can't believe it... I don't deserve it... please say he meant it...' The words that burst from the bottom of Kenshin's heart were finally spoken. Words are like a bird, he heard someone say once, if they fly out, you cannot catch them again. Only he didn't want to take them back. He believed what he said. But Kaoru...she still sat there, unmoving. 'I knew it,' a little voice spoke in his mind, 'she doesn't want me.' He'd listened to that voice all his life, believing he was unworthy of Kaoru, or that she wouldn't accept him. Perhaps it was right all along... Suddenly he was feeling like the stupidest man on the face of the Earth. 'Why doesn't she answer? Does she hate me now?' He tried to catch the expression in Kaoru's eyes, unsure of what she was feeling, or what to say next. Kaoru finally forced herself to look at Kenshin, unsure of what to say. A nightmare was turning into a miracle, yet she still refused to believe it. The blanket was long forgotten, though the room was still freezing cold. Her blue eyes slowly turned, as if afraid to meet Kenshin's. Finally she realized she was gazing straight into the wash of the deepest, most sincere purple she had ever known, and that were Kenshin's eyes, gazing right back into her own. Despite the darkness surrounding them, their eyes seemed to have a newfound glow of their own. They both discovered at that moment that words were unnecessary, even an annoyance. Their eyes told all - because they are the windows to the soul. They both understood. Fears and worries were cast away, and the only true feeling left was newly discovered love. Or had it always been there? Slowly, uncertainly, their lips met, and this simple gesture grew into an eternal promise. In the darkest hour of night, ignoring the fierce winds blowing, howling like ghosts in the snow-buried world, a newfound flame was burning, and though frail and uncertain, it was more real and lasting than any spirit of winter. * * * The morning light, bursting through the small, stained window of the log cabin in the middle of nowhere, found Kenshin and Kaoru peacefully asleep. They both still sat against the wall, Kaoru's head resting on Kenshin's shoulder, the only blanket they found clumsily draped over both of them. ======================= Heeheehee.. it's so fun to write about K&K in romantic situations. :) I love giving them the kind of love I will probably never have.. But enough about me. ^^;;;;; What do you think? ^.^ Overly sweet? Too much like the other scenarios? ^^; I didn't mean to copy off of them, honest! I was simply..inspired. :P Take care minna! ~Nadya, half proud of herself for finally writing the scenario thingy, half embarassed ^^; -- ************************************************************************ NADYA aka ESTELLE aka KAORU-CHAN aka ANGEL MERCURY aka MOKONA NO MIKO aka YURI-CHAN aka TRIBBLE47 "Are you sure you won't change your mind?" -Gillian "Is there something wrong with the one I have?" -Spock (StarTrek movie 4 "The Voyage Home") RUROUNI KENSHIN PAGE: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/2572/ MADLY IN LOVE WITH KENSHIN SOCIETY: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Subway/7423/ ANGEL MERCURY'S TEMPLE OF CREATIVITY: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/2657/ MOKONA PAGE: http://members.tripod.com/~mokonapuu/ KAMATARI SHRINE: http://come.to/kamatari FUSHIGI YUUGI PAGE: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Garden/3100 NOVA SCOTIA WATERFALLS PAGE: http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Rapids/6683/ RING OF DARKNESS (Russian continuation of "Lord of the Rings") TRANSLATIONS: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/2572/ring/index.html ************************************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet FileZone: Always FREE! 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