The night sky was beautiful..

With the brook nearby..

The fireflies dancing..

And it would be much more beautiful if he was here.

And so I waited for him..

Watching the stream pass on by, the fireflies casting their spell..

And I stood there.. waiting for him to arrive..

And yet nothing..

Nothing..

Eagerly, my ears snapped to a noise.. a voice.

"They're beautiful.. aren't they?"

Kenshin...

I turned my head..

There he was.. serious and yet so sad..

The kind of sadness that he held in his heart all his life..

The kind of sadness I wished to relieve him of.

We walked towards each other..

He tells me some words.. some words I wished I never heard..

Some words that tore me away from my dreams..

Hellish words..

Closing my eyes, I say, "I.. I understand.."

I tried to hold back my tears, I really did!

But..

Kenshin reached for me.. taking me by surprise..

And there, we lingered, desiring this moment to last forever..

He told me how happy he was... When I said I didn't care of his past..

He told me thank you.. That he was so happy when I said that..

If he was so happy with me..

Why isn't he staying..

Sure, I said that I understood...

But..

"Goodbye.. Kaoru.. I am a rurouni.. And I will return to my journey.."

And he leaves me, wandering into the night..

He leaves me standing alone, with only the firefly's spells to hold me up..

But all my sadness, all my hopes destroyed breaks that spell..

And I fall to my knees...

Crying.. crying hopelessly..

I want to wake up..

Please say this is a dream..

Kenshin..

Come back..

Please..

Kenshin..

Don't leave me..

Please..

I don't want to be alone again..

Please..

Kenshin....