Left Behind
Disclaimer! Rurouni Kenshin doesn't belong to me, but to Nobuhiro Watsuki. Darn, maybe some day ^_^x
Left Behind-Chapter 3: Tomoe
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His letters were all basically the same. He wrote to me all his thoughts and feelings throughout the week, it was like I was in Kyoto with him. I, in turn, wrote him many letters back, telling him most of my thoughts and feelings. I say almost all, becuase if I had told him all my thoughts and feelins, I doubt we would still be friends.
If I had told him straight out, 'I love you' I know exactly what would have happened. First an extended 'oro', either orooooo or ororororo then there would be heavy tension for a few weeks which would inevitably grow in heavy discomfort, which would only end in us not speaking to each other anymore. That, of course, would have been rejection, and I could not have stood rejection.
Especially rejection from him
If he had, by some miraculous chance, mirrored my feelings, well, I'm not exactly sure what would have happened. He had never had any sign that he was even mildly interested in my that way
Anyway, going back to the main point, I recieved many letters, about two and a half months worth. All of these letter did not contain any sign that he had taken even the slightist intrest in a girl. But the next week he sent me a letter all about this one girl.
Tomoe
He had bumped into her in the hallway on their way to class. He, being the gentleman he is, offered to walk her to class and she accepted. She did not smile much, but carried herself with grace and dignity. Her dark black hair highlighted in a deep violet color. And she had the scent of white plum around her. He had said her beauty rivaled mine.
Her beauty rivaling mine? I was sure she was much more beautiful than me. Why else would he have chosen her over me? he had also wrote that she was at the top of the class. And he raved about her for the rest of the letter. And I read it. I read it all. I had to know what he found so fancinating about her. She was a goddess to him.
It was easy to tell. And the last line made my heart stop. "I think that when I see her tomorrow, I will ask her to join me for dinner at the Shirobeko that night."
Despite what you may think, I did not hate Tomoe. I was jealous, yes, but never did I once hate her. Hating Tomoe, in a way, would be hating Kenshin. Hating what he thought was so magnificent. And I could never hate him. So I could never hate Tomoe. I was only insanely jealous.
I was so shocked, I didn't even write him back that week. Instead the next week I told him I was so busy studying for midterms that I didn't get a chance to read his letter or write him one. I think he might have know I was lying, but he never said anything
I just needed time. Time away from him. Or merely thoughts of him, since I was already away from him. Thought of him and Tomoe. Thoughts of him and Tomoe as a couple.
Throught the next month or two, he kept me updated about his relationship with Tomoe. They had gone out many times, and both liked each other very much. Kenshin said he had thought about marriage, afterall, he didn't know what else to do after high school. Tomoe, on the other hand, was planning on applying to the University in Kyoto. And he would follow, get a job, work, and still see her.
After so much of this new, unwanted information , I stopped writing, or I wrote him once a month or less. But I had to keep appearances up. He didn't know, I never planned on him knowing. Eventually, I started to write regularly again, but everyone had noticed a change in me. I was not as happy as I used to be, but nevertheless I finished high school at the top of the class and got a scholarship to Tokyo University where I planned to study journalism.
I was ready to leave everything I had here to go to Tokyo University. I was ready to leave all thoughts of Kenshin behind. Leave everything I had known and start an entirely new life.
Two months into summer, I was all ready and packed to leave. My father had bought me a small apartment by the campus as a graduation present. I planned to work as a waitress at one the nearby cafes to pay for the bills.
I recieved a letter the next day. A letter from Kenshin, he had started to write me less and less one every other week at the very most, other times it was every three weeks or less. I felt a pang of regret for all the times I didn't write him when I probably should have. I had, over the year wrote, him less and less as well. But he didn't forget about me still.
He said he had extremely happy news. Last week he proposed to Tomoe and she accepted. They were to be wed next July. And he wanted me to come.
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A/N: AHH!! I know Kenshin and Tomoe are getting married. But I'm a K/K fan and trust me in the end there will be K/K okie? I see no more than five more chapters for this story. I don't really plan for this to be an extremely long fic. Soon Aoshi and Misao will be appearing! YAY!! I just love A/M, but not to worry this will be a strict K/K/T love triange story. And also to answer a question that might be coming, no Kenshin will not be cheating on Tomoe. That would too OOC. and yes there will be a wedding, Kaoru will not be breaking it up. that would also be too OOC
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