Disclaimer: I do not own the series, and like I have said before if I owned it would I be writing this? pause ok so maybe I would... but that doesn't matter.

A/N: well this is the last installment of Oh Brother (sorry this chapter is so short), but do not fret there is a sequel! And I will be editing this story also (I looked back at the first chapters the other day and shuddered at all of my errors.) Now on with the story!

For a long time Kaoru sat against the wall holding her brother. She didn't move she felt like her soul had been shattered into a thousand pieces 'How could this have happened? Why when everything seemed to be going so right, why did they suddenly turn so wrong?' She brushed her brother's hair from his eyes. She sat with an emotionless glimmer in her eyes, it wasn't fair she didn't want this; her mind was clouded by emotions that she tried so quickly to put a barrier against feeling that threatened to tear her heart apart.

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Not long after Kenji's death the police had found their way up to the hall. They apprehended Subaru with little resistance (the fact that he was out cold helped a lot). The chief spoke to Kenshin, but he only half listened still fretting over Kaoru's state of mind as she sat in her turmoil, he knew all to well what it was like for her right now.

Kenshin only heard fragments of what the Police Chief was telling him and Yahiko but he nodded anyway. "...We found over thirty men they called themselves 'Servants of Lord Subaru'..."

Even after the police left, even after they had taken Kenji's body away. Kaoru still sat against the wall with the same glazed expression on her face, she looked at her blood stained hands and crimson soaked Kimono. 'It's my fault' she thought 'If I hadn't been so careless if I hadn't tried to stop him... It's all my fault...'

"Kaoru?" Kenshin questioned cautiously, they where alone now Kenshin had sent Yahiko to go with the police when they had taken Kenji away.

She fidgeted in response to his inquiry, she didn't look up it was to hard she felt if she looked up at him he would break the barrier that she had tried to put up to protect herself from feeling.

"Kaoru I know you can hear me..." Kenshin bent down and put his hand on her cheek coaxing her to look at him. "It wasn't your fault, nothing you could do would have stopped this from happening." She looked up at him as if to say "Why?"

"Kaoru I know it hurts, it's killing you inside, you have to live." They where words that Kenshin knew all to well, and he sought to share this bit of knowledge with her, "Kaoru, You have to live, that is why your brother sacrificed his life for you, it was so you could live and be happy, he wanted you to be happy. Do you want to disgrace your brother's memory by denying yourself what he wanted for you the most?"

Kaoru looked into his lavender eyes his expression bore into her soul along with the words that he had said, they made an imprint within her heart, and her barrier broke, she buried her head into Kenshin's lap and cried letting him console her, letting him share the pain she felt, as she now shared a fragment of his.

Nearly a year has passed since the tragic events of that day. It was a warm day in late spring. Some figures made there way down a road not worn by many travelers. The figures turned into the woods and headed towards a clearing where two graves sat side by side.

Dressed in a lavender kimono with wisteria flowers littering their way across the fabric, Kaoru walked up to the graves and sat white flowers at the base of each one and started to pray but then she stopped.

"Are you all right?" Kenshin asked he was standing behind her holding a bundle in his arms.

Kaoru smiled lightly and motioned to take the bundle from her husband's arms. She held it lightly in her arms removing the blanket from it revealing a red tufted hair with bright alert eyes. The baby cooed in its mothers arms. Kaoru nuzzled the baby, "Kenji, meet your nephew, he's cute isn't he? I hope you don't mind that I gave him your name... Thank you, if it weren't for you I don't think we would be here, thank you for giving me the chance to be happy..." A tear fell silently from Kaoru's face.

She stared at the grave for a moment lost in thought then she felt two arms wrap themselves around her waist. "Thank you for giving us all the chance to be happy" Kenshin whispered as he leaned his head on his wife's shoulder.

Kaoru moved away and turned around to face Kenshin. She shifted the weight of her baby onto her shoulder and put a hand on Kenshin's cheek and smiled. "I should be thanking you as well, even when everything had collapsed in a single instant you where there. I don't think anyone would have gotten to me at that point but you did."

Kenshin smiled at her. "As human's it is all that we can do," He picked up his son and held him in his arms. "Besides what would I do without either of you." Kenshin went to snuggle his son but Kenji grimaced and grabbed Kenshin's hair and yanked as hard as his baby hands could before he started to cry. Kenji doesn't like his father.

"Oro?!" For a three month old he had a strong grip and Kenshin knew this all to well.

Kaoru giggled lightly and grabbed her son rubbing his back soothingly to calm him down. Kenji loves his mother.

Kaoru walked to the edge of the clearing before she turned around and looked at Kenshin who was looking pensively at the graves. "Are you coming?"

"Yes ma'am!" Kenshin said as he glanced over at his son who was glaring at him over his mother's shoulder. Kenshin squeaked another "Oro?!" before he smiled wearily, 'Just like his namesake...'

THE END...or is it?
A/N: Well that was the end, I hope you enjoyed it, the sequel to this story will be called: 'Lost' I hope that you will like this one as much as Oh brother it'll be up in the next couple of days. I am putting the sequel as rated R for well for various reasons devilish smile

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