A Rourni Kenshin Fanfic by me Rhai
Chapter 1: The forgotten girl
She sat down slowly at the bottom of a fairly large tree as memories from the past seared through her mind. Even if she was only two then, her parents death remained fresh, circling her mind. As did her rescuer from then, the only things she could remember about him was a little about his sword technique and his purple eyes that immediately turned red as he began to fight, eyes that not only showed that he has killed many but eyes that also said he regretted it. Ever since her rescuer had left her she had lived on her own, teaching herself the difficult art of sword fighting. Even if, now, swords and the samurai were banned, she still needed some line of defense, after all she was an eighteen year old young woman traveling alone. Though she travels alone, many people knows her, for two reasons, either they feared her or they praised her. For those who feared her or were after her (the police, etc.) knew her as akuma (devil) for at points she destroyed, killed, stole, and sometimes even kidnaped. While they knew her as akuma others knew her as the exact opposite, kakudo (angel) for some of the villages she came across she protected instead of destroyed. She protected them against people like her who killed for money. She was only eighteen and she had already stained her hands with hundreds of victims blood.
She sighed as she slowly stood up to continue her journey. The only thing willing her to stay alive was to find out who her red eyed rescuer was. As she stood up her long brown hair came loose, she was about to put it up when she heard voices, she quickly grabbed her sack and jumped up in the nearest tree.
"So who are we looking for again?" she saw them come into view as they spoke. The second one answered "he's suppose to be wanted in over 25 villages. He wears a mask that has the sign of the devil on it and they call him akuma."she smirked asshe slipped outher mask,she then jumped down fromher tree and shocked both men as they saw the symbol onher mask. "Sorry I listened to your conversation boys but thought I'd correct you and say the akuma is a she not a he." at that she yet again smirked at them and then took off running. She quickly hid behind a tree and looked back to see if they had followed. She looked and no one was there, she smiled to herself as she turned around and bumped into someone. Slowly looking up she saw one of the men. Wanting to be freed of this mans grasp she pulled out her sword and he laughed. She probably could of taken this guy if it wasn't for the fact that he had a partner and that both were rouge samurai promise to have a spot in the army if they caught her.
Laughing and pulling out their own swords they took hers and pinned her to the ground. "At first I wanted a space in the army but then I decided, I muck rather cut you up than turn you in." the one that talked was big and half his face had burn marks on it, he was the one that caught her. The second one was different, he was big and muscular, his hair was a murky brown, he slowly stroked her left cheek. "She has such soft skin, yes we should cut her up. Then claim that we almost caught her but she got away." They both smiled as the bigger one took out a small dagger and the smaller one took out a long sword. Slowly slicing her, starting from her face slowly moving down to her stomach.After much slicing and groping they finally stopped aftertwo hours. "Disappointing, there wasn't one peep from her, well lets throw her and her stuff into the river so there no proof." at that the bigger one picked up her up and threw her into the river, throwing her stuff in afterwards they watched as her limp body washed down steam.