She knew him to be kind but she wondered if he cared about her like she cared about him.
It was hard to decipher his long glances, his gentle touch, his shy smiles.
However, behind that gentle exterior, her rurouni had a fierce persona.
She saw his gentleness fade when Jinei kidnapped her.
His terrible howl of fury.
Maybe it was fascination as she watched his that gentle purple change to a glinting amber.
The way his lips tightened, his voice became more drawling, like steel against velvet satin.
His voice made her shiver with something she could not identify.
The look he gave her once he rescued her was knowing but her rurouni came back after that and that hard eyed stranger whose eyes promised pleasure and pain was gone.
However, she would often find him watching her thoughtfully.