Bakumatsu Time
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Focus: Anime/Manga Rurouni Kenshin, Since: 01-30-05
Love reading Rurouni Kenshin? But that one day that you want to split from all the romance and giggles and settle down with the angst and horrors of Kenshin's path through the Bakumatsu? Well these are a few of the stories that we have brought to you for their great quality and having just what your looking for. |
The PBKB Club by Author-chan reviews
During the Bakumatsu, there was a group of prominent individuals. How were they all connected? Simple: They were all killed by Battousai. Now they must spend their afterlives with their killer, unseen, but for how long? Side story to Like Father Like Son
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 3 - Words: 8,966 - Reviews: 45 - Favs: 24 - Follows: 33 - Updated: 11/9/2005 - Published: 5/26/2005 - Kenshin
Dead by Maeve Riannon reviews
Kenshin has started his new peaceful life with Tomoe in Otsu, but worry eats his heart. Based both in the OVA and in the manga, as difficult as it might seem.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,977 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 8 - Published: 12/26/2003 - Kenshin, Tomoe
Future Promise by Calger reviews
Kenshin's thoughts after the final battle of the revolution.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,178 - Reviews: 15 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 2 - Published: 9/3/2001
Phantoms by amamiya reviews
What is it like to be on the receiving end of Battousai's sword? One-shot.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 940 - Reviews: 16 - Favs: 20 - Follows: 3 - Published: 6/16/2003 - Complete
In The Shadows by omasuoniwabanshi reviews
On a routine mission, Kenshin unexpectedly bumps into a lone Shinsengumi captain. What will he do? Mild OAV spoilers, nonshounenai Complete.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,868 - Reviews: 58 - Favs: 145 - Follows: 22 - Published: 6/30/2005 - Kenshin
Paper Thin by Wicked Enough reviews
/OneShot/ The difference between life and death is paper thin, and as you lie dying, so many questions arise. Captain Sagara Souzou ponders about life moments away from his tragic death.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,193 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 2 - Published: 6/28/2005 - Complete
Into Ashes by Mir reviews
Takes place after the events in the Forest of Barriers but before Kenshin returns to Kyoto. A short reflection of burning and ashes.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,519 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 1 - Published: 6/28/2005 - Kenshin, Tomoe - Complete
His Longest Walk by SiriusFan13 reviews
Kenshin's thoughts as he carries Tomoe back to the cottage. Brief one shot written for a friend as a spur of the moment write it now type of story. Sorry if it's rough... Please R&R!
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 558 - Reviews: 18 - Favs: 14 - Published: 6/28/2005 - Battousai, Tomoe - Complete
Rurouni Inuyasha by DeadEye JoChan reviews
Inuyasha somehow survives to the bakumatsu era and meets, guess who? Kenshin! The scary one, that is. *SPOILERS*
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 8 - Words: 23,087 - Reviews: 143 - Favs: 68 - Follows: 37 - Updated: 6/28/2003 - Published: 4/14/2003 - Kenshin
Youth by Wolfgirl13 reviews
We all know that Kenshin was the Hitokiri Battousai and at the same time, Karou was only a small child. But what if Little Karou met the Battousai one night, while her Father was out to War? Then two years later,at the end of the Bakumatsu,the Battousai r
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 2 - Words: 5,044 - Reviews: 36 - Favs: 10 - Follows: 12 - Updated: 12/9/2003 - Published: 11/28/2003
Sacrifice of Life by emptyword reviews
[Oneshot] In the bloody world of the Bakumatsu, Saitou and Okita find that there is no room for love, only duty and death, and perhaps sacrifice. You will come after me, I am sure, to save me from whatever folly I have brought unto myself. You will be too late. Saitou/Okita, unrequited.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,362 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 3 - Published: 4/13/2004 - Saitou, Okita - Complete
Eyes by misaoshiru reviews
(Bakumatsu vignette) Why is it that we face the toughest decisions on the nights that start out completely normal? (Kenshin's POV; oneshot)
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 985 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 3 - Published: 2/19/2005 - Kenshin, Tomoe - Complete
Effortless Truths by YamiPaladinofChaos reviews
The pain of effortlessness. [Third in the Truths series.]
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 215 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 1 - Published: 6/10/2005 - Complete
Ikedaya by Mir reviews
It was the night that won the Shinsengumi their fame, a festive scene of celebration consumed by bloodshed and disaster. This was the Ikedaya Inn affair: a nightmare come true. Complete.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Drama/Adventure - Chapters: 5 - Words: 13,395 - Reviews: 25 - Favs: 10 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 12/25/2005 - Published: 2/11/2002 - Kenshin, Tomoe - Complete
Only the Beginning by lolo popoki reviews
After the battle at Toba Fushimi, what might have happened if Kenshin had chosen a different path to redemption?
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 15 - Words: 50,569 - Reviews: 448 - Favs: 271 - Follows: 147 - Updated: 1/27/2011 - Published: 1/4/2005 - Hiko, Kenshin - Complete
What the Day Demands by Meriko reviews
Two Shinsengumi Captains (Saitou & Okita) with too much time to think, and just enough time to talk. Best-friends, semi-angst vignette. Bakumatasu time period, obviously. The day after the Ikeda-ya massacre. Status: Complete.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,818 - Reviews: 41 - Favs: 75 - Follows: 4 - Published: 12/4/2001 - Complete
Mentors by Unseen Watcher reviews
Young Kenshin has answered only to two men. What might happen if they met?
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,130 - Reviews: 36 - Favs: 114 - Follows: 20 - Published: 7/17/2002 - Hiko, Katsura - Complete
Bitter Truths by YamiPaladinofChaos reviews
In wine, there is truth. But some truths make the wine bitter. [Second in the Truths series]
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 537 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 2 - Published: 5/27/2005 - Complete
Getting Noticed by Krista Perry reviews
14 year old Kenshin wants to join the cause of the Ishin Shishi, but first he must catch the attention of their leader.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 515 - Reviews: 29 - Favs: 38 - Follows: 7 - Published: 4/24/2001 - Kenshin, Battousai - Complete
Proceed to Heaven by narie the waitress reviews
Just a little attempt at playing 'fill in the big hole in the timeline' after a certain event in the Tsuioku OVA. Alternatively, my version of what happened after the battle in the Forest of Barriers
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,042 - Reviews: 16 - Favs: 9 - Follows: 4 - Published: 1/21/2002
Bloody Truths by YamiPaladinofChaos reviews
A mirror of blood and water shows the vicious truth. [Part One of the Truths Series]
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 796 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 1 - Published: 5/20/2005 - Complete
Starless Times by CeeCee reviews
In the chaos of the Bakamatsu, the Battousai returns from Otsu... into the katanas of Saitoh and Okita. Wha? Why is Tokio in the Shinsengumi? And who is the spy?
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Adventure - Chapters: 8 - Words: 11,355 - Reviews: 54 - Favs: 13 - Follows: 13 - Updated: 10/29/2003 - Published: 8/8/2003
Innocence by PraiseDivineMercy reviews
Battousai encounters Innocence personified. What will he learn about himself? What bearing does this have on his future?
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 6 - Words: 9,261 - Reviews: 58 - Favs: 23 - Follows: 11 - Updated: 5/15/2004 - Published: 12/3/2003 - Kenshin, Tomoe
Still Waiting for Salvation by Hitokiri Gentatsu reviews
A piece on Kenshin's thoughts during the Bakumatsu just after he kills Kyosato
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,233 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 3 - Published: 12/15/2001
Never Enough by Colleen reviews
Kenshin contemplates his sword in a brief break in a battle during the Bakumatsu
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 427 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 11 - Follows: 2 - Published: 12/7/2001 - Complete