Disclaimer: Soujiro and Rurouni Kenshin do not belong to me. If You Give a Moose a Muffin and If You Give a Pig a Pancake do not belong to me either. This is my disclaimer for the entire fic (can you call it that?)/Collection of poetry.
If You Give Soujiro a New Beginning
By Meii-chan
Prologue:
June, 11th year of the Meiji era.
If you give Soujiro a new beginning,
He'll want a new philosophy to live with.
But it's your belief that he should find his own,
So he'll become a rurouni.
He'll traverse the country,
And He'll see many things.
He'll see the Past and the Future;
Anger and Retribution;
Abandonment and Friendship;
Confusion and Truth…
There are as many truths in the world,
As there are drops of rain falling into the sea.
Maybe he'll find the wrong truth,
And he'll relapse into darkness.
But maybe he'll find the real one,
Whatever that may be.
You won't be with him,
So you can only wonder…
To be continued…
Author's notes: This is not meant to be funny, like the other one.
As a result of my current obsession with theme, I decided to do yet another Soujiro story! Except for this one, I'm going to try a new format! Since Lilac Fire Blossom has been almost dead for two years now, and Healer has too many themes I don't even want to think about…(which reminds me, do authors actually write thinking, this is a symbol of that or something? It's probably the byproduct of people like me who overanalyze everything… :P) Ah, I'm too overly ambitious…
And I wrote all the chapters ahead of time before putting this one up! Yay for me! (if you know how rarely I update, this is a good thing)
The point of me writing this fanfiction is not to build plot but to analyze the change of Soujiro as a character through different circumstances through his wanderings. You have to admit, Soujiro's one of the best characters to write an essay on character change/development on (which I utterly failed in all my other fanfictions, since he remained a static character). And the situations that I'll make are pretty much mundane Soujiro fanfiction events, with no mention of character names or anything, so it would apply to pretty much any Soujiro journey people think up of. It's like a fill-in-the-blank fanfiction! Yes, this is meant to be analytical…please don't think it's dull because it's in poetry format.
And no, I did not write this for English class.
This is a sequel to If You Give Soujiro a Sword (although you do not need to read the prequel to understand this, because they are totally unrelated. I'll be happy if you did, though). And with that, I feel like I should answer all those reviews that have piled up on that parody. (Thank you so much! It's naturally a wonder how any one-shot can get over ten reviews, much less twenty-one!)
Hypokritika: Why, thank you!
Kurtain: Hmm, I'm sorry if I spoiled it for you, but have you seen it yet?
Blaze Coyotlhart: Yes, the part where Soujiro went insane…I didn't think that it would flow as nicely, since I didn't want to put in too many flashbacks.
April-san: Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed reading it.
myvan: Again, I hope I didn't spoil much…
DuoChan: Why am I even typing this when I could just go talk to you? The book is about a mouse.
Kenkaya: Well, since you sort implied having a sequel, here it is!
ChibiTenshi: Thank you!
Kai-Aki Ti: Yes, any children's book would have to be extremely cute for me to read it now.
Rice Cake: Look! Another work! (Not exactly the same format, but still…)
just a reader: Yes, I did alter the book more darkly. But at least it isn't angst.
sasori: sad…I was sort of aiming for a circle, but I guess anything with Soujiro's past has to end up sad.
ShilviGrl/Amyjenc1: Thank you.
Zill: Thanks!
XIII: Thanks for your support!
Chibi-Tenken: (since an update on Hourglass is unlikely) Thank you for both of your reviews!
SamuraiGirl: Thanks, I wrote it in a short span of time, so it wasn't as edited as it would have been.
Trista: Wow. You couldn't have said it better (even I didn't realize it.)
Shimizu Hitomi: Thank you! (I'm running out of things to say too.)
LotR-Redwall-Obsessive-Child: I can just walk outside and talk to you, but, your sister being a fountain of inspiration isn't that disturbing, is it? And what do you mean "not-quite-innocent?"
audra no baka: Thank you!