Disclaimer: Rurouni Kenshin doesn't belong to me.
Author's notes: this is what i sumitted to my teacher for an eassy...just wnat to know how is it...
Visions
by golden_flame4
"I have a dream of doing great things. I will be remembered for doing great things. I will be remembered for bringing the people out of their suffering!' That was what I had said to my master, my teacher, just before I ran away.
I sighed, and remembered. "I remembered when he had first found me."
(Flashback)
I am sitting in a field of dead bodies, staring at the bodies of three females; Sakura, Akane and Kasumi, the three sisters who wanted to protect me from the bandits. He is there, standing behind me, he tells me to go to the village to seek help.
A few days have passed. He comes back, I am standing in front of three stones, he asks me whether I was the one who had dug the graves for all those people who where killed in the massacre, including the bandits. I told him that I did and he asks me why did I do that. I said that I did that because that there is no difference when someone was dead, after all bodies are just bodies and they deserve a burial. The man just smiles and declares that I will be his successor.
(End flashback)
"And from that day on I was under his care…and I trained under him, learning the deadliest sword style ever known."
"When I had ran away from him, I came to Kyoto, the capital of Japan, and I was discovered at the recruitment for an anti-Tokugawa regiment, and so I start my life as an assassin. I was only fourteen, when I was recruited. Now I'm sixteen, I am old enough to kill, love and be loved… Love… Tomoe…" I shut my eyes, thinking about her… "My wife… the only woman whom I have ever truly loved, the one which I had sworn to protect…I had told her that I would do anything to protect her happiness…but…but I had failed… Instead I was the one who destroyed her happiness… She was my sheath, my love, my happiness and joy… she was the only one who could control that raging madness in me…" I sighed. "Why? Why did all that have to happen?" I questioned myself. Thoughts of Tomoe flooded my mind, her happy smile, her way with the children…I smiled a little. "Although she did not know how to express herself much… she was the only one whom I truly trusted… Why? Why did she have to do that? She helped me so much, in so many ways, helping me to get over the madness in me and, finally, taking away the sent of blood which had followed me for so long… She was the only person to accept me for who I really am… Everybody sees me as the bloodthirsty assassin, the assassin who was above all other assassins, the one to be feared amongst all…"
"She didn't have to die… it was all my fault… MY FAULT! It was never hers…never her… why did it have to be her? It should have been me who died… my life should have just ended there…just…there…" Tears crept out of my closed eyes. "She didn't have to try to defend me… Why did she have to jump between my sword and the enemy? Why…why…why? I know that she told me that things would be better this way…but why her? WHY? It should never be her…it can be anyone but her… it was not right for her to die… I love her…"
Right now I am sitting in our hut…I fingered the new cross-scar on my left cheek, I gingerly took my sword and stood up, I wore my sword and walked out of the house. I looked up towards the hazy sky, then I looked towards the ground, which was blanketed with snow, I immediately thought of Tomoe.
~the end~
Author's notes: this is what i sumitted to my teacher for an eassy...just wnat to know how is it...
Visions
by golden_flame4
"I have a dream of doing great things. I will be remembered for doing great things. I will be remembered for bringing the people out of their suffering!' That was what I had said to my master, my teacher, just before I ran away.
I sighed, and remembered. "I remembered when he had first found me."
(Flashback)
I am sitting in a field of dead bodies, staring at the bodies of three females; Sakura, Akane and Kasumi, the three sisters who wanted to protect me from the bandits. He is there, standing behind me, he tells me to go to the village to seek help.
A few days have passed. He comes back, I am standing in front of three stones, he asks me whether I was the one who had dug the graves for all those people who where killed in the massacre, including the bandits. I told him that I did and he asks me why did I do that. I said that I did that because that there is no difference when someone was dead, after all bodies are just bodies and they deserve a burial. The man just smiles and declares that I will be his successor.
(End flashback)
"And from that day on I was under his care…and I trained under him, learning the deadliest sword style ever known."
"When I had ran away from him, I came to Kyoto, the capital of Japan, and I was discovered at the recruitment for an anti-Tokugawa regiment, and so I start my life as an assassin. I was only fourteen, when I was recruited. Now I'm sixteen, I am old enough to kill, love and be loved… Love… Tomoe…" I shut my eyes, thinking about her… "My wife… the only woman whom I have ever truly loved, the one which I had sworn to protect…I had told her that I would do anything to protect her happiness…but…but I had failed… Instead I was the one who destroyed her happiness… She was my sheath, my love, my happiness and joy… she was the only one who could control that raging madness in me…" I sighed. "Why? Why did all that have to happen?" I questioned myself. Thoughts of Tomoe flooded my mind, her happy smile, her way with the children…I smiled a little. "Although she did not know how to express herself much… she was the only one whom I truly trusted… Why? Why did she have to do that? She helped me so much, in so many ways, helping me to get over the madness in me and, finally, taking away the sent of blood which had followed me for so long… She was the only person to accept me for who I really am… Everybody sees me as the bloodthirsty assassin, the assassin who was above all other assassins, the one to be feared amongst all…"
"She didn't have to die… it was all my fault… MY FAULT! It was never hers…never her… why did it have to be her? It should have been me who died… my life should have just ended there…just…there…" Tears crept out of my closed eyes. "She didn't have to try to defend me… Why did she have to jump between my sword and the enemy? Why…why…why? I know that she told me that things would be better this way…but why her? WHY? It should never be her…it can be anyone but her… it was not right for her to die… I love her…"
Right now I am sitting in our hut…I fingered the new cross-scar on my left cheek, I gingerly took my sword and stood up, I wore my sword and walked out of the house. I looked up towards the hazy sky, then I looked towards the ground, which was blanketed with snow, I immediately thought of Tomoe.
~the end~
