Death by the moon
Disclaimer: * opens up a book and starts reading it * Yes ... I see! Uh huh. Ok I don't own kenshin. This cool person does. * points to a line * I want to be like that person! ^_^
Authors note: Wow...chapter five...Thanks to everyone who reviews, Nicky9 I'm so honored that you read my story, ive read a lot of your stories and reviewed under my old Author name ( Shinori-the-bunni ) and wow...I really feel honored...and that people want to know what happens.
Alright so...here I go...
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Sano stared at Kenshin, who immediately backed away in fright. He thought about reaching for a blade, but couldn't imagine hurting someone who loves Kaoru the way he does. Sano let go of Kaoru, who was then held by a dark eyed Tomoe, who held her hand tightly, not letting her interfere.
"But...Tomoe-san...Kenshin will get hurt!"
"Don't underestimate Battousai the Manslayer my dear...Worry about Sano..."
"But...but..."
"Listen Kaoru, I want to stop them as much as I can. But it was Kenshin's decision that caused this so happen. He knew it was to happen. Sano stands no chance...either takes Sano and run...or let Sano be free and make his own decisions dear..."
"But Tomoe..."
"Kaoru, every sword has a sheath. Maybe its time you be Sano's and move on. Forget me and Kenshin both. "
Kaoru suddenly felt the urge to cry again. Leaving Kenshin after she had found him after so long? She suddenly felt the urge to run in and hug Kenshin, and never let go. But tomoe was right. It was time to part...
Kaoru walked forward, fighting back tears, to no avail. They continued to slide down her face. However, silently as she may, she rested her hand on Sano's arm, who quickly turned around and lightened up at Kaoru. Sano figured a reason for her crying immediately.
"I wont get hurt don't worry about me! "
Kaoru shook her head, and pulled at Sano's shirt, his jacket, and looked up into his chocolate-brown eyes. She stared into them, feeling a sensation of weakness sweep over her. She would never be the same...not without Kenshin. ...
"Please...Sanosuke...if you love me...than just take me from here...and never speak word of Kenshin or Tomoe again..."
"Ok love." he whispered soothingly.
He picked her up just as she passed out. He walked through the door and locked eyes with Tomoe for a minute. He nodded to her, and turned the corner, walking off. Tomoe looked around the corner, and saw Sanosuke heading down the stairs, and out the door. The last thing she heard before her peace was interrupted was the jingle of the bells from the door.
"Some Christmas..." tomoe muttered.
Tomoe looked into the eyes of Kenshin, but he wasn't there. She turned around, eyes widening, and suddenly felt a pair of warm hands envelope her from around the waist.
"Kenshin..." she whispered softly.
"Tomoe...I myself may know barely any about my past, but it is evident that you know much of it...please tell me...how do I know Kaoru? She seems strangely familiar..."
"Kenshin, I'm not sure if you are aware, but after Shinori left us, you left me. You left me there...on my own...to cry..."
"Tomoe I'm sorry, but even then I'm positive you know. I can read it in your eyes..."
Tomoe quickly looked away. Maybe she should tell him. She shook her head. It would The same way her story had: in pain. Killing loved ones.
"Tomoe..."
"Alright kenshin...I'll tell you. But to understand your own past you must understand -"
"-yours. I understand Tomoe...go on"
Tomoe took a steadying breath, and began the story...
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A frail four year old looked around, and saw a glass door. She shivered with excitement. It was the best day of school ever! She had gotten the best finger painting in the whole entire class! She trudged through the grass, and knocked on the door.
When no one answered, she knocked again. Still no answer. She blinked, and tried the door, which opened. Inside she saw her mother sitting on a chair, smiling. However, when she met eyes with Tomoe, she immediately stopped. No not now.
'Don't come home now! 'She thought.
Tomoe curiously looked at her mother, and ran at her yelling like the child she was.
"Mommy mommy mommy! Guess what! I gots a new certicafite for the best finger painting today! Aren't you proud? Look mommy! Ill show you! "
The young girl had spoken so fast she had no time to talk. She immediately began searching her teddy bear book bag for the paining and pulled it out.
"Look! The sun mommy! And there's the pretty mountains, and there's you and daddy sitting under a tree! LOOK! "
She continued onwards with her excitement, when her mother finally shut her up by slapping her. Across the floor she fell, and immediately she broke out crying.
"Okaa-san hates me? Sessha no understand! "
"Tomoe, hun, I'm going to have to kill you tonight. You came at the worst time..."
"Kill? No mommy! Don't hurt me! "
She began backing towards the door, crying hysterically. Tomoe's mother came closer, bringing out a knife. She bent down beside Tomoe, and instantly stabbed her in the arm. Tomoe cried out in pain, and fell to the ground with loud shrieks and screams, crying at the top of her lungs.
A wooden door opened, and immediately, her father ran out. Seeing tomoe on the ground he nodded grimly to Tomoe's mother, and took out his sword. He threw it at Tomoe, and then closed his eyes.
Tomoe shrieked loudly, as the sword missed her by a hair. The sword embedded into the wood. She pulled it out with her right hand, and began crying again.
Tomoe's mother shook her head, and brought up the knife again, before lunging it down at her daughter. Tomoe could not pick up the blade. The dagger was coming nearer! She couldn't pick up the blade! She was going to die!
Suddenly, she found herself looking her father in the eye, as she managed to run aside. She had a pencil in her hand form her teddy bear book bag. She was angry: real angry.
Her father shook his head, and thrust his hand at her, smacking her hard across the face. However she did not flinch.
"Why father...why?!"
"Tomoe, we work for an organization called Satsugai inc. a team of assassins...we told you we were doctors so you wouldn't find out..."
"What do you mean?"
"Meaning, we were to kill someone close. You. Apparently, you were too close to an assassin, and we were not supposed to bear a child. However, we did. And in order to keep out own lives, we must take yours! Goodbye child! Rest in pea--"
He never got to finish, because Tomoe's mother had stabbed him in the back. She smirked as he fell down, breathing heavily.
"I only loved you for your money. Now I can go and marry Shinori, bwahahaha!"
She then lunged at Tomoe and stabbed the dagger into her. However, she did not aim well; she only got her other arm. However, the child would be disabled for some time. Tomoe fell once more to the ground, crying so hard she had no time to breathe. She passed out.
~`~
She awoke to find her mother piercing the skin of her arms. She yelled in pain and terror! Her mother was skinning her alive! She cried out once more, yelling for help. However, her mother was continuing to pierce through her skin. A dark figure stood behind her with gleaming amber eyes. Shinori.
She cried so hard that even one of those fiery amber eyes twitched. The mother was almost done with her left arm and was ready to go to the right when a small creature intercepted her.
The boy took out a dagger, and stabbed the ropes holding tomoe, who then fell to the ground. She looked up evilly, as anger took over her pain. She got up, and took the dagger from the boy. She walked over to the figure that was her mother on the floor. She thrust the dagger into her heart, and a loud shriek pierced the air. She looked at the boy who was fighting with Shinori. He came flying back into her arms, and suddenly she regained feeling, crying out in pain. The boy leaned down at Tomoe, took the dagger and her, and ran away quickly.
A few moments later, outside the warm house, she asked the boys name.
"Akira..." he had said
She had nodded, and led herself to an orphanage...
~~~~~*~~~~~
Tomoe looked over at kenshin, who was staring at her with full sadness. If he thought that was a sad story, wait until he heard his own. She bit her lip, not sure to tell him. She hugged him, and he held her tightly.
"Tomoe-I love you."
She gasped and looked up into his eyes. They were extremely soft. Wondering about what he said she took a deep breath and continued her story...
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Shinta looked around, carefully eyeing a particularly rusted dagger. He was in his father's bedroom, who would be furious to know he was there. Taking it he squealed with joy. He took it out and jabbed it into the wall. It got stuck. Uh oh.
He pulled with all his might but simply could not pull the dagger out. Suddenly he heard the pounding of feet. His father was coming! Oh no! He pulled furiously, tugging at it with all his might. Finally it came out, and he fell back. Getting up immediately, he heard the door slide open as he sheathed the dagger, and threw it back in his place.
He missed, and hit the vase next to it and kenshin fell on the floor as the glass shattered. The dagger fell to the floor and its sheath got bent out of shape.
"SHINTA KENSHIN! I WILL HAVE YOUR HEAD FOR THIS!"
Shinta knew more than to think he was lying. Squealing he ran from the room and into his own. He shut the door.
He was used to beatings from his father. His father whipped him every day. At the same time. He claimed it was to get evil out of him...though Shinta did not believe it.
After a few hours, he walked outside of his room carefully. His father leapt around the corner, and grabbed Shinta by the neck of his shirt. He slammed him into the wall and beat him furiously. However, Shinta had learned not to cry: crying was over.
His father led him downstairs, and tied up his hands, and threw him against the wall, tying him to the wall. There he hung by his wrists, suspended in midair. However, it was about to get a lot worse.
Shinta's mother could only watch as her only son was ready to be whipped senseless by his father. However, there was something different, when she heard her husband take out the whip. It sounded like...metal.
"I got a new whip today boy; think you can do more evil? I'll whip you even harder today! You will be wanting to die bitch!"
Then, the father cracked the whip at him. The chain whip hit his back with a loud snap, he felt his spine cringe, and he held his tears at bay. This hurt a lot more than the normal whip. His father brought up the whip, and lashed it forward once more, and Shinta not able to resist, howled in pain. Blood spurted from his back, and new scar marks appeared. Great. The first two whips of a hundred and he was crying. He tried not to sob though, just let out gasps of pain, though failing each time.
By the last ten whips, Shinta knew that his back would never be the same. A few more days and he was likely to die of blood loss. However, his father was not relenting.
'Oh no, not two hundred whips, not today! Please don't be stressed!'
Then Shinta did something he had never dared to do before. He spoke to his father while being whipped.
"Father...if you want me not to be full of evil...then find another way to do it...ill go to a religious ceremony every day! But please, no more whipping! It hur--"
He was cut short when the father whipped as hard as he could at Shinta's back. Shinta broke out crying and fell unconscious from blood loss right then and there. The ropes cut through his wrists, and ripped through the muscle, as chunks fell to the floor. Shinta fell to the floor.
Shinta's father nodded approvingly, and put the blood stained whip away. Shinta's mother rushed to the boy, and broke out in tears. She looked up at her husband and glared at him.
"That's it! Just because you're stressed doesn't mean killing our only boy! "
"Bitch, never argue against your husband."
"I'm sick of this shit! Never come near me or my son again!"
"You mean our son. Ill do as I please, you can't stop me fucking bitch."
"What has Shinori done to you? Tell me! What have Shinori and Shishio done? They have made you into a monster! "
Shinta stirred and awoke. He was crying as soon as he awoke. His mother tended to him like always. She wrapped his back in bandages, and stared her husband in the eye.
"These whippings stop today. "
She got up took her purse full of cash, all of their hard-earned cash, and walked out of the house. The father ran after them, but she was running so fast so distraught, that he had no chance of catching her. After an hour or so she stopped, crying for her little son.
From then on he led his life in the dark, always hiding living mostly in poverty. When they met Tomoe, they only got poorer having to feed another mouth.
When Shinta's mother died he hardened. However he was sold into slavery, where the whippings continued. His life slowly led to death, and he attempted suicide. However his master caught him. She could not believe it.
However, she did not whip him for it. She raped him.
His life slowly worsened even more, as he was raped and whipped every day. One day, during lunch he took his plastic knife and kept it with him. Practicing some sword techniques, he mastered the art of... the plastic knife. However, because his master was so intent on raping him often, she kept him inside the house.
There, he got a hold of a real knife, and once his master ordered him to take of all his clothes and get in bed with her; he did so, but held the knife behind her back. Then, he killed her, stabbing the knife into her chest. He then ran.
From then on he lived his life as an outlaw. Soon after, a man named Hiko Seijuro found him and taught him the Hiten Mitserugi Ryuu. He mastered it and soon mastered it better than Hiko himself, and lived his life all around killing.
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Tomoe looked up into Kenshin's eyes. It seemed his memory had come back to him. However, he looked up at her.
"But what about Kaoru?"
"Kaoru...you do not remember?"
"No."
"When you were a slave, she was the girl who kept you alive, who was a free girl, giving you proper food and clothing. Who took care of you? Who loved you? "
He winced. He remembered it all now. He had made a promise to her, that he'd come back to visit...and love her. He had broken that promise now.
He looked up at Tomoe who seemed to be knowing quite well his thoughts.
"Kenshin, no, Shinta, you have changed a lot. I love you...and will therefore let you choose...who do you want to love? Me...or Kaoru..."
She looked at the floor waiting for the word Kaoru. However when it came, it came in a different form.
"Tomoe, I have loved her in the past. However, right now, you are my love. I love you Tomoe. I may love Kaoru...but she is a fragment of my past. You are my present...I love you"
He didn't know why he had to keep lying. He knew deep down he'd do anything just to love Kaoru. To even let her know. But her life was going well...loving an assassin would complicate ones life, and even mess it up. He nodded, and embraced Tomoe.
"I love you tomoe. "
Kaoru stood in the doorway watching the whole scene. She had told Sanosuke that she didn't love him. It took all her strength. She grew stiff seeing Kenshin express his emotions. So he did love her.
But...she was just his past...she didn't matter to him anymore. She couldn't control herself. She let herself be known by throwing herself into the room and screaming, at the top of her lungs,
"KENSHIN! You claimed you loved me! You told me so, many years ago! You came back to me, and you DO love me! But I'm just your past? That's it? I don't matter to you anymore? You came back to me, but engaged to another woman? Don't you love me? "
"Yes...but kaoru-dono..."
"NO YOU DON'T! Otherwise...otherwise...forget it. I shouldn't have done anything. You don't love me like you used to. We're over. Kenshin I just want to let you know something. I love you. With all my heart. And I will forever...Aishiteru koi...Good-bye."
She walked out of the room, and she looked ahead, hoping to never see Kenshin again. She hated him.
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Authors note: Ok, well that's it for now! Yes it's a k/k fic don't worry! But I really did like Tomoe, she was a charrie I did like a lot. However I love kaoru much more so...yea! don't worry I won't ditch her out the dark like I did to Sanosuke...OR IS SANOSUKE GONE FOR GOOD?! Dun dun dun! Haha...alright later!
Please review!
Thanks to nicky9 and wistful, you guys really did motivate me to write this!
Thanks to Arinaye and Silvergoddess too, you got me all the way to chapter four!
Thanks! 3 you all
Oh yah! Almost forgot! Dictionary!
Sessha - Unworthy one
Koi - love
Aishiteru - I love you
Thanks! Please review!
Disclaimer: * opens up a book and starts reading it * Yes ... I see! Uh huh. Ok I don't own kenshin. This cool person does. * points to a line * I want to be like that person! ^_^
Authors note: Wow...chapter five...Thanks to everyone who reviews, Nicky9 I'm so honored that you read my story, ive read a lot of your stories and reviewed under my old Author name ( Shinori-the-bunni ) and wow...I really feel honored...and that people want to know what happens.
Alright so...here I go...
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Sano stared at Kenshin, who immediately backed away in fright. He thought about reaching for a blade, but couldn't imagine hurting someone who loves Kaoru the way he does. Sano let go of Kaoru, who was then held by a dark eyed Tomoe, who held her hand tightly, not letting her interfere.
"But...Tomoe-san...Kenshin will get hurt!"
"Don't underestimate Battousai the Manslayer my dear...Worry about Sano..."
"But...but..."
"Listen Kaoru, I want to stop them as much as I can. But it was Kenshin's decision that caused this so happen. He knew it was to happen. Sano stands no chance...either takes Sano and run...or let Sano be free and make his own decisions dear..."
"But Tomoe..."
"Kaoru, every sword has a sheath. Maybe its time you be Sano's and move on. Forget me and Kenshin both. "
Kaoru suddenly felt the urge to cry again. Leaving Kenshin after she had found him after so long? She suddenly felt the urge to run in and hug Kenshin, and never let go. But tomoe was right. It was time to part...
Kaoru walked forward, fighting back tears, to no avail. They continued to slide down her face. However, silently as she may, she rested her hand on Sano's arm, who quickly turned around and lightened up at Kaoru. Sano figured a reason for her crying immediately.
"I wont get hurt don't worry about me! "
Kaoru shook her head, and pulled at Sano's shirt, his jacket, and looked up into his chocolate-brown eyes. She stared into them, feeling a sensation of weakness sweep over her. She would never be the same...not without Kenshin. ...
"Please...Sanosuke...if you love me...than just take me from here...and never speak word of Kenshin or Tomoe again..."
"Ok love." he whispered soothingly.
He picked her up just as she passed out. He walked through the door and locked eyes with Tomoe for a minute. He nodded to her, and turned the corner, walking off. Tomoe looked around the corner, and saw Sanosuke heading down the stairs, and out the door. The last thing she heard before her peace was interrupted was the jingle of the bells from the door.
"Some Christmas..." tomoe muttered.
Tomoe looked into the eyes of Kenshin, but he wasn't there. She turned around, eyes widening, and suddenly felt a pair of warm hands envelope her from around the waist.
"Kenshin..." she whispered softly.
"Tomoe...I myself may know barely any about my past, but it is evident that you know much of it...please tell me...how do I know Kaoru? She seems strangely familiar..."
"Kenshin, I'm not sure if you are aware, but after Shinori left us, you left me. You left me there...on my own...to cry..."
"Tomoe I'm sorry, but even then I'm positive you know. I can read it in your eyes..."
Tomoe quickly looked away. Maybe she should tell him. She shook her head. It would The same way her story had: in pain. Killing loved ones.
"Tomoe..."
"Alright kenshin...I'll tell you. But to understand your own past you must understand -"
"-yours. I understand Tomoe...go on"
Tomoe took a steadying breath, and began the story...
~~~~~~*~~~~~~
A frail four year old looked around, and saw a glass door. She shivered with excitement. It was the best day of school ever! She had gotten the best finger painting in the whole entire class! She trudged through the grass, and knocked on the door.
When no one answered, she knocked again. Still no answer. She blinked, and tried the door, which opened. Inside she saw her mother sitting on a chair, smiling. However, when she met eyes with Tomoe, she immediately stopped. No not now.
'Don't come home now! 'She thought.
Tomoe curiously looked at her mother, and ran at her yelling like the child she was.
"Mommy mommy mommy! Guess what! I gots a new certicafite for the best finger painting today! Aren't you proud? Look mommy! Ill show you! "
The young girl had spoken so fast she had no time to talk. She immediately began searching her teddy bear book bag for the paining and pulled it out.
"Look! The sun mommy! And there's the pretty mountains, and there's you and daddy sitting under a tree! LOOK! "
She continued onwards with her excitement, when her mother finally shut her up by slapping her. Across the floor she fell, and immediately she broke out crying.
"Okaa-san hates me? Sessha no understand! "
"Tomoe, hun, I'm going to have to kill you tonight. You came at the worst time..."
"Kill? No mommy! Don't hurt me! "
She began backing towards the door, crying hysterically. Tomoe's mother came closer, bringing out a knife. She bent down beside Tomoe, and instantly stabbed her in the arm. Tomoe cried out in pain, and fell to the ground with loud shrieks and screams, crying at the top of her lungs.
A wooden door opened, and immediately, her father ran out. Seeing tomoe on the ground he nodded grimly to Tomoe's mother, and took out his sword. He threw it at Tomoe, and then closed his eyes.
Tomoe shrieked loudly, as the sword missed her by a hair. The sword embedded into the wood. She pulled it out with her right hand, and began crying again.
Tomoe's mother shook her head, and brought up the knife again, before lunging it down at her daughter. Tomoe could not pick up the blade. The dagger was coming nearer! She couldn't pick up the blade! She was going to die!
Suddenly, she found herself looking her father in the eye, as she managed to run aside. She had a pencil in her hand form her teddy bear book bag. She was angry: real angry.
Her father shook his head, and thrust his hand at her, smacking her hard across the face. However she did not flinch.
"Why father...why?!"
"Tomoe, we work for an organization called Satsugai inc. a team of assassins...we told you we were doctors so you wouldn't find out..."
"What do you mean?"
"Meaning, we were to kill someone close. You. Apparently, you were too close to an assassin, and we were not supposed to bear a child. However, we did. And in order to keep out own lives, we must take yours! Goodbye child! Rest in pea--"
He never got to finish, because Tomoe's mother had stabbed him in the back. She smirked as he fell down, breathing heavily.
"I only loved you for your money. Now I can go and marry Shinori, bwahahaha!"
She then lunged at Tomoe and stabbed the dagger into her. However, she did not aim well; she only got her other arm. However, the child would be disabled for some time. Tomoe fell once more to the ground, crying so hard she had no time to breathe. She passed out.
~`~
She awoke to find her mother piercing the skin of her arms. She yelled in pain and terror! Her mother was skinning her alive! She cried out once more, yelling for help. However, her mother was continuing to pierce through her skin. A dark figure stood behind her with gleaming amber eyes. Shinori.
She cried so hard that even one of those fiery amber eyes twitched. The mother was almost done with her left arm and was ready to go to the right when a small creature intercepted her.
The boy took out a dagger, and stabbed the ropes holding tomoe, who then fell to the ground. She looked up evilly, as anger took over her pain. She got up, and took the dagger from the boy. She walked over to the figure that was her mother on the floor. She thrust the dagger into her heart, and a loud shriek pierced the air. She looked at the boy who was fighting with Shinori. He came flying back into her arms, and suddenly she regained feeling, crying out in pain. The boy leaned down at Tomoe, took the dagger and her, and ran away quickly.
A few moments later, outside the warm house, she asked the boys name.
"Akira..." he had said
She had nodded, and led herself to an orphanage...
~~~~~*~~~~~
Tomoe looked over at kenshin, who was staring at her with full sadness. If he thought that was a sad story, wait until he heard his own. She bit her lip, not sure to tell him. She hugged him, and he held her tightly.
"Tomoe-I love you."
She gasped and looked up into his eyes. They were extremely soft. Wondering about what he said she took a deep breath and continued her story...
~~~~~*~~~~~
Shinta looked around, carefully eyeing a particularly rusted dagger. He was in his father's bedroom, who would be furious to know he was there. Taking it he squealed with joy. He took it out and jabbed it into the wall. It got stuck. Uh oh.
He pulled with all his might but simply could not pull the dagger out. Suddenly he heard the pounding of feet. His father was coming! Oh no! He pulled furiously, tugging at it with all his might. Finally it came out, and he fell back. Getting up immediately, he heard the door slide open as he sheathed the dagger, and threw it back in his place.
He missed, and hit the vase next to it and kenshin fell on the floor as the glass shattered. The dagger fell to the floor and its sheath got bent out of shape.
"SHINTA KENSHIN! I WILL HAVE YOUR HEAD FOR THIS!"
Shinta knew more than to think he was lying. Squealing he ran from the room and into his own. He shut the door.
He was used to beatings from his father. His father whipped him every day. At the same time. He claimed it was to get evil out of him...though Shinta did not believe it.
After a few hours, he walked outside of his room carefully. His father leapt around the corner, and grabbed Shinta by the neck of his shirt. He slammed him into the wall and beat him furiously. However, Shinta had learned not to cry: crying was over.
His father led him downstairs, and tied up his hands, and threw him against the wall, tying him to the wall. There he hung by his wrists, suspended in midair. However, it was about to get a lot worse.
Shinta's mother could only watch as her only son was ready to be whipped senseless by his father. However, there was something different, when she heard her husband take out the whip. It sounded like...metal.
"I got a new whip today boy; think you can do more evil? I'll whip you even harder today! You will be wanting to die bitch!"
Then, the father cracked the whip at him. The chain whip hit his back with a loud snap, he felt his spine cringe, and he held his tears at bay. This hurt a lot more than the normal whip. His father brought up the whip, and lashed it forward once more, and Shinta not able to resist, howled in pain. Blood spurted from his back, and new scar marks appeared. Great. The first two whips of a hundred and he was crying. He tried not to sob though, just let out gasps of pain, though failing each time.
By the last ten whips, Shinta knew that his back would never be the same. A few more days and he was likely to die of blood loss. However, his father was not relenting.
'Oh no, not two hundred whips, not today! Please don't be stressed!'
Then Shinta did something he had never dared to do before. He spoke to his father while being whipped.
"Father...if you want me not to be full of evil...then find another way to do it...ill go to a religious ceremony every day! But please, no more whipping! It hur--"
He was cut short when the father whipped as hard as he could at Shinta's back. Shinta broke out crying and fell unconscious from blood loss right then and there. The ropes cut through his wrists, and ripped through the muscle, as chunks fell to the floor. Shinta fell to the floor.
Shinta's father nodded approvingly, and put the blood stained whip away. Shinta's mother rushed to the boy, and broke out in tears. She looked up at her husband and glared at him.
"That's it! Just because you're stressed doesn't mean killing our only boy! "
"Bitch, never argue against your husband."
"I'm sick of this shit! Never come near me or my son again!"
"You mean our son. Ill do as I please, you can't stop me fucking bitch."
"What has Shinori done to you? Tell me! What have Shinori and Shishio done? They have made you into a monster! "
Shinta stirred and awoke. He was crying as soon as he awoke. His mother tended to him like always. She wrapped his back in bandages, and stared her husband in the eye.
"These whippings stop today. "
She got up took her purse full of cash, all of their hard-earned cash, and walked out of the house. The father ran after them, but she was running so fast so distraught, that he had no chance of catching her. After an hour or so she stopped, crying for her little son.
From then on he led his life in the dark, always hiding living mostly in poverty. When they met Tomoe, they only got poorer having to feed another mouth.
When Shinta's mother died he hardened. However he was sold into slavery, where the whippings continued. His life slowly led to death, and he attempted suicide. However his master caught him. She could not believe it.
However, she did not whip him for it. She raped him.
His life slowly worsened even more, as he was raped and whipped every day. One day, during lunch he took his plastic knife and kept it with him. Practicing some sword techniques, he mastered the art of... the plastic knife. However, because his master was so intent on raping him often, she kept him inside the house.
There, he got a hold of a real knife, and once his master ordered him to take of all his clothes and get in bed with her; he did so, but held the knife behind her back. Then, he killed her, stabbing the knife into her chest. He then ran.
From then on he lived his life as an outlaw. Soon after, a man named Hiko Seijuro found him and taught him the Hiten Mitserugi Ryuu. He mastered it and soon mastered it better than Hiko himself, and lived his life all around killing.
~~~~*~~~~
Tomoe looked up into Kenshin's eyes. It seemed his memory had come back to him. However, he looked up at her.
"But what about Kaoru?"
"Kaoru...you do not remember?"
"No."
"When you were a slave, she was the girl who kept you alive, who was a free girl, giving you proper food and clothing. Who took care of you? Who loved you? "
He winced. He remembered it all now. He had made a promise to her, that he'd come back to visit...and love her. He had broken that promise now.
He looked up at Tomoe who seemed to be knowing quite well his thoughts.
"Kenshin, no, Shinta, you have changed a lot. I love you...and will therefore let you choose...who do you want to love? Me...or Kaoru..."
She looked at the floor waiting for the word Kaoru. However when it came, it came in a different form.
"Tomoe, I have loved her in the past. However, right now, you are my love. I love you Tomoe. I may love Kaoru...but she is a fragment of my past. You are my present...I love you"
He didn't know why he had to keep lying. He knew deep down he'd do anything just to love Kaoru. To even let her know. But her life was going well...loving an assassin would complicate ones life, and even mess it up. He nodded, and embraced Tomoe.
"I love you tomoe. "
Kaoru stood in the doorway watching the whole scene. She had told Sanosuke that she didn't love him. It took all her strength. She grew stiff seeing Kenshin express his emotions. So he did love her.
But...she was just his past...she didn't matter to him anymore. She couldn't control herself. She let herself be known by throwing herself into the room and screaming, at the top of her lungs,
"KENSHIN! You claimed you loved me! You told me so, many years ago! You came back to me, and you DO love me! But I'm just your past? That's it? I don't matter to you anymore? You came back to me, but engaged to another woman? Don't you love me? "
"Yes...but kaoru-dono..."
"NO YOU DON'T! Otherwise...otherwise...forget it. I shouldn't have done anything. You don't love me like you used to. We're over. Kenshin I just want to let you know something. I love you. With all my heart. And I will forever...Aishiteru koi...Good-bye."
She walked out of the room, and she looked ahead, hoping to never see Kenshin again. She hated him.
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Authors note: Ok, well that's it for now! Yes it's a k/k fic don't worry! But I really did like Tomoe, she was a charrie I did like a lot. However I love kaoru much more so...yea! don't worry I won't ditch her out the dark like I did to Sanosuke...OR IS SANOSUKE GONE FOR GOOD?! Dun dun dun! Haha...alright later!
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Thanks to nicky9 and wistful, you guys really did motivate me to write this!
Thanks to Arinaye and Silvergoddess too, you got me all the way to chapter four!
Thanks! 3 you all
Oh yah! Almost forgot! Dictionary!
Sessha - Unworthy one
Koi - love
Aishiteru - I love you
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