What every eye see's.

Everything is chaotic.

I have not even finished unpacking or even decided what I should do with all this space since Uncle Goji decided to move into Kaorus home until they find a place better suited to them,a real home that is them.

"I am still surprised that your landlord told you both to leave after  the wedding.Like so what if she did not respond to your perv letter anyway,not everyone wants a creep to be obsessed with them."

I nod in agreement with Oiha,We all still wanted to stay at the apartment but now over the letter issue we are here.
With so much space.

She and I are becoming more comfortable with each other now,we unpack my last bag of clothes while my stuff is still boxed away and I don't have much time left before I have to get ready so I try another bonding method.

"Will you unpack some of this for me while I am at the party?I will be twenty before I can get down at this rate."

Oiha looks almost stunned before it turns to understanding and..
 Lastly touched.
A display of trust is being shown that neither of us really show anyone and it is new but so truly rewarding to feel,together now.

She nods,I walk behind her after we hang up the rest of my clothes,she leads me to Kaorus room while messaging her brother.

"He said he will be there a little after you get there.Okay?"

I nod,trying to swallow back my apprehension over it.
Two conversations by phone,he seemed like a whole different person than when the incident happened but I can only take so much new at once,But.

Oiha is like a new person now.
So..
Maybe I should be too.

She is waving bye to me,studying her phone hard suddenly and I am sitting on Kaorus bed staring out her french windows.

Uncle Goji is working and she is rummaging through box after box looking for something but when I tried to ask I got an indecipherable sound for an answer so I go to the mirror and look at the reflection,glancing to the left to really closely look at the kimono that Kaoru gifted me.

 It was my birthday present and my first traditional formal wear to have for the event tonight.

I use unsteady hands to begin applying the makeup that matches the golden hues of the small hand-sewn sunflowers.
Gentle coloring of pale pink to match the cherry blossoms that are the majority of the kimono and putting on the blue drop earrings that Mom bought me after the wedding to be for this very occasion.

"Be the showstopper and prove to them that you are more than a past and a future to watch."

I am still thinking about that now.

"Where ever did you get the idea you were less than stunning."

I jump,the chair swivels with the force of it which allows her the moment to giggle happily like she were the one going to her first actual event.

 Not only as the face of the writing campaign to bring this program to pass(Almost successful enough now to the point we believe that Kenshins father will fully back it)but also as a public statement that Kenshin and I are really together.

Not playing around but a couple,not a long together couple but still  a two member party he and I are now.

"I only see what I see K,I just see the girl none of you do.Boring and broody."
"Liar."

She keeps eye contact with me,smiles softly as she starts to comb my hair,twists it into a soft but almost loose bun that makes my eyes stand out and my cheek bones so pronounced I would have thought myself to be a model with such a drastic change.

"Let me redo the makeup with the same colors but softer and you will make the entrance you have dreamed of.Okay?"

I nod,then try to pause her so I can ask about it.

"I have it clean and in the main room for you to take when he picks you up,I got you doll-face."

Is it normal to feel so strangely over kindness?
My eyes are watering and I should not be feeling this way and I do not fully understand why my heart feels so thump,thumping like this.

It is not the usual kind for me.


KENSHIN

I am happily surprised at how large and equally modest Kaorus home is.
Two levels but it is compact,colorful in a pale yellow color with bold orange as the front door color.

Nod to her former self I suppose.

Before I get a chance to even ring the bell Yukihana is at the door breathless with a delicious bit of extra color to her cheeks,she appears she ran down here when she heard I arrived.

If my brain were operating at full capacity I would have said something flirty but my words fall rather flat.

"You are lovely...Lovely."

Her eyes seem to dart from one thing to another to avoid my direct gaze,which will linger because I can not get enough of the sight of her in a powdery blue kimono with small embroidered sunflowers and small cherry blossom blooms that she coordinated to match with her make up and earrings.

I hold onto Grandmothers bracelet softly,waiting for the right moment.
Lovely look at me...

When she finally does it is almost to much for me,her eyes are glowing like she is relieved and to my much pleasure not at all offended by the sight of me in traditional dress of a black hakama that Father and Grandfather had made for me when I turned sixteen.

"I look like too much color,your father already hates me and I look like a piece of candy."
"Maybe I will take a bite later but we need to go or he will be rather unpleasant."

I whisper to her,that color of hers brightens even more and Kaoru looks from her to me and back as she steps downstairs and smirks knowing full well I said something a little improper but not too much.

"Going or what?"
"He is making it hard for me to walk past him!He will not move."

She is right.
I froze on sight of her,the kimono and that little bit of color begging to be brightened more by a bit of contact by my lips to her face.

Calm down...

"Where is your mind wandering to?"

Yukihana asks me after I moved and waved bye to Kaoru, walking  to the car I smirk like I could try to take over the world and give her the one little signal to tell without any words where my mind was wandering to.

I caress her hand,using my thumb to make far too many circles for being decent.
The code is more than readily understood.

If blushes could be heartbeats then mine would be never ending and I adore her the more for it.