AU, sequel to Invictus. Six years later, the war is over. But the fight hasn't ended - dark plots and old grudges simmer below the surface, and the sweet peace of the new world might be nothing more than pleasant incense masking the rot of of the old. The inhabitants of the Kamiya dojo would rather nurse their wounds, but they may have no choice but to take up arms once more...

AU. Early summer, 1601. The Western Army is defeated; the country stands, uneasy, under the hand of the Tokugawa. Kaoru Kamiya, whose family was on the losing side, has been sold into marriage for the sake of peace. Her new husband is a legend, a demon bound in human form, marked by his blood-lust and his bright red hair. However, legends have a way of being not exactly... true.

Every marriage has two people in it; every story has two sides. Companion piece to Through Long Days of Labor, from Kaoru's POV

AU. In the eleventh year of the Meiji, 1878, Japan still practices chattel slavery. The Tokugawa shogunate still reigns from Edo castle, backed by the infamous Kanryu family and their merchant empire. And Kaoru Kamiya finds an abandoned slave hiding under the docks as she's walking home...

"Through long days of labor/and nights devoid of ease." It hurts, coming back to life, but not many people get to do it twice. Kenshin, Kaoru, and a long-earned peace.