Obituary
At 10am on Sunday the 19th of October 1924, Himura Kaoru was declared dead, having dies peacefully in her sleep of an unknown illness. Himura Kaoru was survived by her husband of 45 years, Himura Kenshin (Age 75). Himura Kaoru married Kenshin at the age of 19 in 1879 and gave birth to their only child, Himura Kenji, a year later. She then spent the rest of her life as master of her family kenjutsu dojo with her first student Myojin Yahiko. She will be sorely missed by her husband, family, friends and former students. It is said that she truly touch everyone she met in her life.
It took a number of weeks for Kenshin to wrap his head around the fact that Kaoru was dead, in his mind Kaoru was still the young woman who offered him a room in her dojo. She couldn't be dead, he was supposed to have died first, he was the one that had used and abused his body, she wasn't dead, and she had just gone out to visit another dojo like she had when they were younger, that was it, and she would be back for dinner. The most heart breaking part was that she wouldn't be back for dinner, or any other meal, she would never walk through the dojo gates again.
It's a little bit different but I had fun writing it. There's a small part of me that likes the idea of Kaoru dying first as one final fuck you to Kenshin from the universe. Also, if it wasn't obvious, Kaoru died of a type of cancer.
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