How Can I...
Chapter 1
Betrayal

"Slaughtered! Slaughtered! Did I really kill Tomoe?" Warm blood streamed down the Hitokiri's face. Tomoe looked up at him and cut a long line across his face and smiled.

"Tomoe?"

Tomoe's face became as pale as the snow that fell around them. The slasher knew she was dead. The hitokiri walked off to the distance. Yukishiro Enshi knelt slowly down to Tomoe's side and whispered the words.

"I will kill Himura in the name of revenge sister! I want to see your smile once more..."

"I slaughtered Tomoe?" Kenshin's face was soaked in the warm blood of Tomoe. He reached into his kimono for the scarf Tomoe had given him. He clenched it in his fist.

"I'm empty... it's all gone..."

Kenshin washed the blood off his body but the smell still remained there. Kenshin fell to the ground motionless as the blood poured out of him. He silently fell asleep on the cold ground. Distorted images of the people he recently killed popped into his mind. He felt the pain of when he received his scar. Kenshin woke to see wolves gathered around him.

"Is this how my life is gonna be like? So be it!"

The wolves charged toward Kenshin ambushing him from every corner. Kenshin got his sword and slashed through them all with ease.

A flock of birds flew from the forest frighten for the horrid screams of Enshi.

"AHHHH!!! I'll defeat that Hitokiri if that's the last thing I do!"

Nerves from his brain appeared on his face and arms.

"What is this? Is this the effect of my anger?"

Kenshin stood up and walked back to Tomoe's body, he looked at it sadly and picked her up. He walked to the cabin and looked at the perverts who he had talked to earlier then looked at the land lord and asked if he could get Tomoe cleaned up. A few hours later the Land lord walked out. "You may enter."

Kenshin nodded and walked in. Tomoe lay there on the grass mat.

"She's so peaceful." Kenshin sighed.

Kenshin knelt down to Tomoe. "I'm sorry..." Kenshin put his had to his face and touched his scar. Kenshin stood up immediately and walked out of the cabin. After Kenshin left the cabin he was overwhelmed by the scent of White Cherry Blossoms. Kenshin looked up into the sky trying to trace where the scent was coming from. Kenshin fell to the ground pounding his fist into the ground.

"Tomoe... Tomoe... Tomoe..." Kenshin cried.

Just then a dagger brushed against Kenshin's face. Kenshin looked up into the air. "Someone's here." Kenshin whispered to himself.

"Show yourself!" Kenshin yelled out.

"I know your afraid Battousai!" The voice yelled.

"I'm not afraid!" Kenshin replied.

Then, the smell of White Cherry Blossoms grew stronger. Just then three more daggers hit Kenshin, one in his arm, and two in his left leg. Kenshin started coughing from the perfumed air. Suddenly another dagger zipped past Kenshin's hair making his hair fall straight down; the wind blew his long red hair over his face.

"Attack me! That wench, Tomoe probably wasn't afraid of anything!" The voice shouted.