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Forever Stained by Yuki885 reviews
Bakumatsu Mud Fight by H2O-Melon reviews
marionette by misaoshiru reviews
Into the Night by lightning-storm reviews
Bloodstained by misaoshiru reviews
Um Little Heaven by Duo-dono reviews
Smoke by Author-chan reviews
Under The Weather by xZig-zagx reviews
The Inner Rurouni by Terry-McElrath reviews
Out of Time by SiriusFan13 reviews
Pay Attention, Class by Emiri-chan the GREAT reviews
Rended by Emiri-chan the GREAT reviews
Questions Left Unanswered by Lirpa Eus reviews
Evening Encounter by Maeniel reviews
Past and Future by Hitokiri-san reviews
The Snow Raven by Krista Perry reviews
The Courtship of Lady Tokio by misaki-toyodome reviews
Descent into Madness by Conspirator reviews
The Choshu Chronicles by omasuoniwabanshi reviews
Soul of a Hitokiri by hakubaikou reviews
The Darkest Shadows, The Brightest Lights by Naga reviews
Kyuushutsu by Terry-McElrath reviews
The Reason by Becky Tailweaver reviews
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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. |
Forever Stained by Yuki885 reviews
An exploration of the mind of the Battousai during a pivotal moment in the Bakumatsu...
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 550 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 2/17/2004
Bakumatsu Mud Fight by H2O-Melon reviews
Humor. During the Bakumatsu, Battousai and Saitou are in an honorable duel to the death, but somehow the situation ends up becoming less than dignified for the two swordsmen
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,802 - Reviews: 50 - Favs: 52 - Follows: 18 - Published: 2/20/2004 - Battousai, Saitou - Complete
marionette by misaoshiru reviews
What do the Hitokiri Battousai and a puppet have in common? Quite a bit, actually. Very short introspective oneshot set towards the end of the Bakumatsu. Kenshin's POV. Hints at K&T
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 513 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 1 - Published: 8/20/2004 - Complete
Into the Night by lightning-storm reviews
Towards the end of the Bakumatsu, Battousai roams across Kyoto at night, not expecting what he'd find. Pg-13 to be safe. Two-shot. And please READ and REVIEW
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 2 - Words: 5,559 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 14 - Follows: 3 - Updated: 10/29/2013 - Published: 12/23/2004 - Kenshin - Complete
Bloodstained by misaoshiru reviews
Bakumatsu vignette. Just a brief look at Kenshin's thoughts during and after an assignment. Very stream of consciousness.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 530 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 2 - Published: 1/24/2005 - Kenshin - Complete
Um Little Heaven by Duo-dono reviews
During the Bakumatsu, Katsura trusted only one person with the important assignments...Himura Kenshin. On one such assignment Katsura sent Kenshin to find the loyalties of a dying fortress as well as a piece of the former hitokiri's soul.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 2 - Words: 4,279 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 8 - Updated: 3/17/2005 - Published: 2/5/2005 - Kenshin
Smoke by Author-chan reviews
In the fiery chaos of the Bakumatsu, no one knew who to trust and the truth was never what it appeared to be. Saito reflects on his life in the Shinsengumi and realizes nothing is black and white and everything is still enshrouded in smoke...
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,660 - Reviews: 23 - Favs: 39 - Follows: 7 - Published: 3/24/2005 - Saitou - Complete
Under The Weather by xZig-zagx reviews
Back during the Bakumatsu, it was kill or be killed. You used your enemy’s weak point against them. No one gave any pity when your life was on the line, and if your nickname was Hitokiri Battousai, you didn’t get sick days. Complete
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 10 - Words: 33,285 - Reviews: 240 - Favs: 172 - Follows: 36 - Updated: 7/18/2005 - Published: 2/16/2005 - Kenshin - Complete
The Inner Rurouni by Terry-McElrath reviews
During the Bakumatsu, before Tomoe. Battousai and Rurouni— the two halves within the same mind. What happens when the Rurouni gets a day out? Will the Ishin Shishi ever view Battousai the same way again? One-shot.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12,622 - Reviews: 53 - Favs: 154 - Follows: 15 - Published: 12/19/2004 - Complete
Out of Time by SiriusFan13 reviews
COMPLETE! During a trip to Kyoto with his friends, Himura Kenshin winds up in deep water... thirteen years in the past. How will Kenshin deal with the Revolution again? And how will his friends deal with Battousai, who has traded places with him? R&R!
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 31 - Words: 110,937 - Reviews: 1334 - Favs: 1,397 - Follows: 306 - Updated: 3/3/2008 - Published: 11/28/2004 - Kenshin, Battousai - Complete
Pay Attention, Class by Emiri-chan the GREAT reviews
Kenshin is stuck teaching a bunch of amateurs sword techniques. How will the men tolerate being taught by a kid, and more importantly, how will he tolerate them? Guest appearance by Hiko! Ch. 7 up!
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 7 - Words: 14,199 - Reviews: 187 - Favs: 58 - Follows: 49 - Updated: 11/4/2002 - Published: 4/11/2002
Rended by Emiri-chan the GREAT reviews
A 16 year old Kenshin is wounded in battle against the Shogunate, and now the Aizu have got a hold of him. But their captain is curious as to the dying warrior's shadowed past. (Don't worry, I won't kill Ken-ni. Maybe.) CHAPTER ELEVEN UP! FINISHED!YAAY!
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Angst - Chapters: 12 - Words: 27,118 - Reviews: 209 - Favs: 168 - Follows: 34 - Updated: 10/15/2002 - Published: 3/28/2002
Questions Left Unanswered by Lirpa Eus reviews
One reaching the end of his life. The other just learning how to live. Two warriors discuss the past and the future.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,237 - Reviews: 17 - Favs: 18 - Follows: 3 - Published: 6/19/2003 - Kenshin, Okita - Complete
Evening Encounter by Maeniel reviews
A little what-if kind of thing. Okita's heading home at the end of the war and encounters a certain redhead. What do they say to each other? (Not shonen ai. Just two people talking.)
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,242 - Reviews: 56 - Favs: 136 - Follows: 24 - Published: 8/14/2002
Past and Future by Hitokiri-san reviews
CH19. When Battousai the hitokiri is sent to his future self in a time error, both hitokiri and rurouni find intense problem in adapting to their counterpart's beliefs. How will they fare, when Saitou is added into this hectic affair?
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Angst/Adventure - Chapters: 19 - Words: 82,203 - Reviews: 219 - Favs: 114 - Follows: 57 - Updated: 8/27/2005 - Published: 7/9/2003 - Kenshin, Saitou
The Snow Raven by Krista Perry reviews
After months of searching and planning revenge, Yukishiro Tomoe has finally found her fiance's killer. He is nothing like she imagined.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 5 - Words: 22,085 - Reviews: 159 - Favs: 297 - Follows: 102 - Updated: 2/3/2001 - Published: 5/1/2000 - Tomoe, Battousai - Complete
The Courtship of Lady Tokio by misaki-toyodome reviews
The story of the courtship of Saitou Hajime and Takagi Tokio. A fictional account based on historical events of the Shinsengumi and the years of the Bakumatsu. Action, politics, and old fashioned Japanese romanticism.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 35 - Words: 218,212 - Reviews: 638 - Favs: 447 - Follows: 194 - Updated: 9/7/2012 - Published: 9/8/2004 - Saitou, Tokio, Okita - Complete
Descent into Madness by Conspirator reviews
When Kenshin first came to Kyoto, he was a wide-eyed, idealistic youth. How did he change into a hardened hitokiri?
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 16 - Words: 92,543 - Reviews: 313 - Favs: 434 - Follows: 58 - Updated: 7/2/2003 - Published: 3/8/2003 - Kenshin - Complete
The Choshu Chronicles by omasuoniwabanshi reviews
Complete! This story continues where the OVA movies 'Samurai X Trust and Betrayal' left off, so there are LOTS of spoilers. See chapter one for a better summary.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 27 - Words: 69,817 - Reviews: 358 - Favs: 165 - Follows: 22 - Updated: 3/4/2005 - Published: 12/30/2004 - Kenshin - Complete
Soul of a Hitokiri by hakubaikou reviews
Katsura Kogoro sends Ikumatsu on a rather daunting task: To heal the soul of a broken-hearted Battousai and to bring the young man back to the world of the living. One shot.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,970 - Reviews: 47 - Favs: 123 - Follows: 19 - Published: 6/2/2003 - Kenshin - Complete
The Darkest Shadows, The Brightest Lights by Naga reviews
Bakumatsu Kyoto, 1865 - Kenshin had barely time to grief before he was plunged again into killings and conspiracies.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 15 - Words: 80,441 - Reviews: 143 - Favs: 145 - Follows: 68 - Updated: 6/13/2004 - Published: 9/28/2001
Kyuushutsu by Terry-McElrath reviews
Katsura Kogorou, leader of the Choshu Clan, is captured and under a death sentence! Can Kenshin find and rescue him before he is executed? Set during the Bakumatsu, after Tomoe's death.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 13 - Words: 155,507 - Reviews: 451 - Favs: 327 - Follows: 228 - Updated: 2/3/2008 - Published: 12/29/2004 - Kenshin, Katsura
The Reason by Becky Tailweaver reviews
In the dark bloody days of the Bakumatsu, the lone and weary Hitokiri Battousai is sent a single light of the future. This gift may give him the hope and heart he needs to survive the war - but only if the teenage manslayer can handle the responsibility!
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 7 - Words: 53,420 - Reviews: 330 - Favs: 467 - Follows: 293 - Updated: 11/4/2004 - Published: 8/28/2004 - Kenshin, Kenji