A/N: HELLO HELLO HELLOOOOO! I am Artemis, and I write fanfics! I finally decided to write a Kenshin fanfic! Based entirely on the Live Action 2012 one! KYAAAAAAAAAA!

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Here is the story of Kenshin and my character, Saya-Denka-Hime. Yes, sounds complicated. I want her to sound complicated, because of her old royal bloodline and all the old laws and all Feudal status and all. I was hoping that I won't OOC her too much you know? I mean, I love Kenshin-sama. He is just so... you know? You just wanna reach out a hand to him and say everything is gonna be alright because you are finally here for him and all and...

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Enjoy the read! Do leave a review and tell me of your opinions on this new fic of mine. I do hope it sounds, looks and when you've finished reading it, it woulda sound awesome enough for me to just go on writing on and on and on just like how I have loved to write In The Light -MAN fanfic and SARANG HAE YO CITY HUNGER fanfic... so cool.

So cool...

Kenshin-sama...

Yummy...

*drool*

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Fanfiction Title: As The World Falls

A Rurouni Kenshin Romance Fanfic
Main Characters: KENSHIN AND OC (SHIRATOE SAYA)

Chapter 1: Before the Era ends…

"For the sake of a new era… can you work as an assassin?" the man said to him while he drew calligraphy.

The light noise coming from between the doors were a strange comfort to him. White noise, something to drown out the insistent ringing in his ears when he is in a tight closed room... He didn't like that kind of noise, and so, he liked to be in a place where there is just the right amount of noises to make it just a bit more bearable to live out this life.

There were a few people in a room. One is the man writing calligraphy, while there is another man sitting beside him. Both young and handsome... The helper is the man's most trusted servant, also a bodyguard to his master. Apart from Kenshin himself, there is another person in the room, sitting just right in a spacious corner with a transparent blind set up in front of her. Kenshin can make out that she is sipping her tea from the soft lights of the candle in front of her, and she is graceful with the way she handles her tea. Her stature appears to be small… short, even. Maybe she is the master's child…?

"Beyond those lives sacrificed. If there is a new era where people can live in peace…" he said quietly, his head still looking down on the floor.

And he heard a small laugh from behind the door, and from the silhouettes of the blinds, he could make out that the girl is nodding her head in agreement to what he had said. The master looked at her briefly through his eyelashes, and seemed to saw her giving him a signal or so, and he nodded his head at her and looked at Kenshin.

"Commence the plan then, Battousai Himura…" the master said to him solemnly.

This were his thoughts before he killed the young samurai, so brave and determine to not die until he were to see his fiancée for the last time.

As Kenshin sat on his knees with his back straight and his head looking down on the tatami mat (Tatami mat – Japanese floor board) in the private room in one of the most famous high class restaurants in Kyoto, he ponders on the thought on whether killing people as the Battousai Hitokiri is appropriate. There is a major conflict in his head right now, and his heart constricted against his ribcage within his chest when he thought back about how he had killed the young Samurai, who is going to get married to the girl of his dreams just the day after tomorrow.

And Kenshin had crushed the young couple's dreams to be wedded to each other by killing the groom the night before the big day…

For that sin, he received the first scar ever from the groom, right on his face.

And for the second scar, he got it from the bride-to-be of the groom, deep and obvious on his face. Now, he is marked. A huge 'X' on his left side cheek...

He kills, yes, and the first time he killed the young samurai, it had been his first assignment to be an all out assassin. And to kill a man who had made an unbreakable promise to someone he loves, his heart contracted tightly against his ribcage. And it had hurt to breathe.

It hurts to breathe.

"Killing the young who have their future ahead of them... Assassinations to bring a new era... I have my doubts. Am I doing the right thing…?" he thought to himself.

"You're nothing more than a murderer…" these words rings in his head constantly.

"You're not," said the girl from behind the blinds suddenly, surprising Kenshin.

For all the times in their private meetings, the girl has never said anything. She is just there, sitting in a corner to sip her tea quietly, as if to be the sole listener to their private talks and deals between he master and Kenshin himself.

Servants suddenly came in through the door and quickly removed the blinds from her way. She had stood up, and Kenshin had almost balked at the sight of the young child standing up with her back straight and eyes looking as wild as if there are fire burning inside those light brown eyes. Her painted red lips were a sight to behold, and alongside her light brown eyes – which were peculiar enough that it sent a shiver down his spine as he regards the young child who looked no older than 11 – she looked like a spirit of sort, staring down at him and regard him with her very light brown eyes.

The master stood up to regard her as well, and everyone bowed to her. Kenshin followed suit, and bows to her. She went up to him and sat in front of him on her knees. Her yukata were perfectly made – expensive and made from silk, with golden embroideries and lotus flowers blooming everywhere on her yukata. She is someone important, he regard to himself quietly; Important enough that the Master, the lord himself would bow to her…

"Kenshin-san," she calls on him. "I permit you to look at me, so please look up and stop looking down on the floor…"

Kenshin had no choice but to obey to her command. He looked up, and he is struck with the fact that despite her being young, she is already a blooming beauty. Her fair cheeks seems aflame with the permanent blush on her cheeks from the light fire from the candlelight. Her eyes were ethereal, her lips are red, and she is a young and beautiful child.

Young and beautiful…

"This is the last Feudal Princess of our great Nihon country, Saya Hime-sama (Hime – Princess)," the lord introduced her to him, and his heart skipped another beat.

Feudal Princess…!? Why, her status alone spoke powers beyond his imaginations, and, so far he knew, she is the one and only person powerful enough to overrule the King's words, if ever they were to have a King, and in this case, the Lord himself. If she so wanted to, she could command the Lord to come down from his throne and let her sit on it. The powers of the Feudal Lord and Ladies were powerful enough, and not to mention that this is not just any Lord and Ladies…

She is a Feudal Princess.

A Princess… A direct descendant of the old King from the old royal bloodline... There writes a law for all of Nihon people to take note of. All of the direct descendants of the royal bloodline, namely all the Feudal Lord, Lady, Prince and Princesses, have the most utmost powers to overrule the current ruler's words and, if they so wishes to, they themselves can make themselves as the ruler with their words alone. Their existence is infinitely more important than anyone living at this moment in Nihon, and their words are power enough for the country of Nihon.

And this law is to live forever…

"I am Shiratoe Saya," she said to him, bowing to him slightly. "I am the last Feudal Princess from the old royal bloodline. And here I offered my support to you, Himura Kenshin, so as to bring peace to this land, where war and blood has been raging on since the day I am birthed by my deceased mother."

She reaches out for his hand and held them in hers. She turns his hand around, running a soft hand over his calloused ones. Kenshin is surprised, but he kept quiet, letting the princess do as she wants with his hands.

"These hands were not the hands of a murderer…" she said to him. She looked up at him and into his face, and reaches out a small hand to brush his hair away from his face. She looked into his eyes and touches his face, and the light scar that had begun to heal on his cheeks. "These are not the eyes of a murderer…"

"Hime-sama…" the Lord calls to her from the sides. She clicked her tongue at him and shot him a glare, and he quiets down.

And it impresses Kenshin to no ends.

No one can make the Lord do something he doesn't like. Yet, this young girl, barely of age, has managed to make him back down from speaking with a glare and a click of her tongue alone. Impressive…

She returns her attention to him, and smiles at him a bright soft smile that Kenshin remembers up until now.

"These are the hands and eyes of a hero… a hero of Japan that no one knows of but me…" she said to him. He is quiet and surprised and thoroughly shocked by what the Feudal Princess had said. Not that of a murderer but a… hero?

"I am sorry that you had to be the one to cleanse this land from its respective filth and from evil influences. I am sorry that you had to be the one to carry out our dark and evil deeds. I am sorry that you have to be the one to stain your hand with blood of the innocent and the evil ones…What you're doing right now is, yes, I know… not something to be proud of…" she said to him, looking sad and forlorn with the thought that he is going to kill people with these pair of hands. "You would be killing someone's loved ones. You would be killing a father, a brother, a lover… You would be killing them and take them away from their loved ones forever… and they would not ever again see these people again… This is a cruel world, Himura Kenshin-san. A cruel world where people like me and you are there to make sure the balance of this nation, the balance where evil and good, and the balance between what is right and what is wrong is set right with… I am afraid… that there is nothing we can use but a sword stained with blood and a pair of hands willing enough to do so and a shoulder to shoulder all the burden of the sin and the guilt. And… and of me… the Feudal Princess, who's words and power I am going to utilize to the fullest to save this nation from collapse… and to bring about a new era for the new government to govern."

She looks into his eyes deeply, and he is struck by just how sad they are.

Just like mine, he thought to himself. She is just as guilty as me…

It was then he thought of something. She just might be the one who is orchestrating these whole assassination and massacre project, funding the clans and group with powers and funds and making sure that those who want more war would stay cold in the grave. Her eyes were the eyes of a sinner looking at the world with the hope that it would become a better place if she were to give a hand in making it a better place.

By bringing death around those who wreck havoc and refuses the new era to come to them peacefully without a good fight.

"Himura Kenshin-san… I promise you, as the world falls down, you may come to me, and I will offer you my greatest support. I shall give you everything you ever wanted… be it money, fame, status, or freedom. No one will ever hunt you down, and no one shall ever again speak of the name Battousai Himura when this all ends. Due to the old King's words, we Feudal descendants of the old royal bloodline can never be another person with another status apart from the Feudal status we all are born with, no matter how much the era has changed or how modernize Nihon is. I am forever a Feudal Princess, no matter how the time and era changes. My influence will forever be strong and powerful and know to all that my words are as powerful as the words of a Lord and the King. I will protect you, Himura Kenshin-san, as the world falls down around you. You have my word…"

She looks at him and held one side of his face with her palm. He almost closes his eyes from the heat of her warm hand. They were so hot, scorching and burningly so. It was a comfort to know that someone as cold as him right now would and could receive the warmth from the Feudal Princess herself. The warmth and the words and the promise that she would protect him with all she has.

"I promise you, Himura Kenshin-san…" she said to him. Holding his hand with one hand and squeezing it slightly, she ran her thumb across his scarred cheek and smiles at him in a forlorn smile, sad for his fate to shoulder the burden as an assassin. "I promise you with my soul, Himura Kenshin-san. I swear on my soul…"

What happened was roughly around 14 years ago, when he started to become an assassin, and slowly, his reputation precedes him so much that people in the whole of Nihon (Japan) begun to hear of his fearsome name, and shivers in fear whenever someone said something about the Battousai.

Up until this day, people were still afraid of him.

Battousai Himura. Hitokiri Battousai (Manslaughter Battousai, also known as Assasinator Battousai)

The greatest assassin in Nihon... The murderer... Nihon's very own Dark Knight...

Nihon's silent and unknown hero, Himura Kenshin.

Just give me a reason to keep my heart beating,

Don't worry its safe right here in my arms,

As the world falls apart around us,

All we can do is hold on…hold on…

Take my hand…

-The Beginning, ONE OK ROCK-
Started Writing On: 18th of September 2014
Finished Writing On: 18th of September 2014

A/N: Well, now that the first chapter ends, please leave a review ya? No matter what! Zettai ni de gozaru yo! De gozaru yo! De gozaru yoooo! Orororoororo!

So cute. Kenshin-sama...

You'd realize it if you've been my fan for all of my works, that I like to reuse the names of my characters. My most famous characters are...

Shiratoe Saya

Kaguya

Laia

And... Well... I can't remember much. Lol!

I like to think that my characters are reborn again and again into my other fics, in another timeline, in another era, and into the future. In this way, one day, maybe just one day, I would write a fic connecting all of them together.

Lol!

Thanks for reading!