AN: A really short Rurouni Kenshin fic. Based on the manga.
Review please!
With Honor
By: Lady of Earth
Disclaimer: Rurouni Kenshin is (c) of Nobuhiro Watsuki
Kaoru Kamiya held her head up high as she walked by the crowd of people,
all of who were whispering about her.
It did not pay to have a Battosai running loose around town, screaming
that he was a member of the Kamiyakasshin after his killings.
She will not have the name of the dojo her father created in the purpose
of defending people be dirtied by that of the ruthless assassin.
The name that sent fear to the hearts of people,
even after the Meiji restoration.
The Battosai.
She will not...cannot have someone using the name of her dojo after their
kill.
She hated killing, but the thought of someone using the name that she held
dear for years, the name her father fought hard to obtain...
She simply could not forgive.
Her main aim was clear this time.
Find the Battosai and making sure he pays for what he has done.
Leaving the dojo empty, without a single soul.
Of course, if her students had really been loyal, they wouldn't have left.
In the time of her dire needs, they left her.
No one to help her uphold the name.
She had to do it on her own.
Then again, hadn't she been doing that ever since her father's death?
She stood strong on her own, knowing she had to move on.
She couldn't even spill a tear.
No, it was simply a waste of time.
Waste of energy, definitely not worth it.
Years of struggle that her father had spent perfecting the method of sword
fighting,
the agony of defeat after defeat...
And finally, the victory.
But there he lay,
in the killing arena, far from where he wanted to be...he had died.
He died in the center of a killing field, somewhere he never wanted to be.
And she is NOT going to just sit and wait, while the good name her father had
built was bathed in blood.
Blood of the innocents.
Blood of those who needed protection.
Kaoru stopped in the midst of the whispering crowd.
She turned her head sharply at two men in particular.
She had overheard them discussing some gossip about her father.
That he had set up the dojo not to protect people, as he had told, but as a
ploy. It was all an act for another step...a massacre.
She gritted her teeth but held her anger in.
She glared at them with all the hatred she could muster.
But showed no tears in her eyes.
One cold, stoic glare, caused the two men twice her size to shrink back.
And she turned back and walked away from them all,
with honor.
Review please!
With Honor
By: Lady of Earth
Disclaimer: Rurouni Kenshin is (c) of Nobuhiro Watsuki
Kaoru Kamiya held her head up high as she walked by the crowd of people,
all of who were whispering about her.
It did not pay to have a Battosai running loose around town, screaming
that he was a member of the Kamiyakasshin after his killings.
She will not have the name of the dojo her father created in the purpose
of defending people be dirtied by that of the ruthless assassin.
The name that sent fear to the hearts of people,
even after the Meiji restoration.
The Battosai.
She will not...cannot have someone using the name of her dojo after their
kill.
She hated killing, but the thought of someone using the name that she held
dear for years, the name her father fought hard to obtain...
She simply could not forgive.
Her main aim was clear this time.
Find the Battosai and making sure he pays for what he has done.
Leaving the dojo empty, without a single soul.
Of course, if her students had really been loyal, they wouldn't have left.
In the time of her dire needs, they left her.
No one to help her uphold the name.
She had to do it on her own.
Then again, hadn't she been doing that ever since her father's death?
She stood strong on her own, knowing she had to move on.
She couldn't even spill a tear.
No, it was simply a waste of time.
Waste of energy, definitely not worth it.
Years of struggle that her father had spent perfecting the method of sword
fighting,
the agony of defeat after defeat...
And finally, the victory.
But there he lay,
in the killing arena, far from where he wanted to be...he had died.
He died in the center of a killing field, somewhere he never wanted to be.
And she is NOT going to just sit and wait, while the good name her father had
built was bathed in blood.
Blood of the innocents.
Blood of those who needed protection.
Kaoru stopped in the midst of the whispering crowd.
She turned her head sharply at two men in particular.
She had overheard them discussing some gossip about her father.
That he had set up the dojo not to protect people, as he had told, but as a
ploy. It was all an act for another step...a massacre.
She gritted her teeth but held her anger in.
She glared at them with all the hatred she could muster.
But showed no tears in her eyes.
One cold, stoic glare, caused the two men twice her size to shrink back.
And she turned back and walked away from them all,
with honor.