**Disclaimer – Rurouni Kenshin doesn't belong to me at all (I'm so un-
creative, I can't even come up with a good disclaimer!)

Which one?

I want to learn

Strength – like Raijuta-sensei
And the Shinko Ryuu
I know I can be great
With the sword he gave me

Heart – like Kaoru-san
In the Kamiya Kasshin Ryuu
Driven by the love of those I protect
And a wooden sword, not to kill

Raijuta-sensei said to me
A wooden sword is for children
And as he handed me his katana
I became part of the Shinko Ryuu

Kaoru-san shows me
Strength of the heart
Using a "child's" wooden sword
Protecting life, to continue living

Shinko Ryuu – the true sword
I want strength
But I feel so empty
Kamiya Kasshin Ryuu – the sword that revitalizes
True strength
I feel truer, more whole

Which one is right?

**A/N: well, this has got to be the longest poem I've written (for fun). I
will say that I considered making this rhyme, but it was so long, and I'm
so lazy (bad me!), besides, I'm not good at rhyming, I'm better at freeform
anyway. If you don't know, this is from Yutaro's POV.
If you don't know who Yutaro is, he appeared in the Tokyo Arc. I
personally named those episodes "The Hot Springs Episodes" because, if you
know episodes from the inside out after seeing it only once (ok, I saw it
three times, then recorded it, and now I lost track of how many times I
watched it) it's when they go to Aizu (I think, they pronounce it
EEzu)visit Genzai-sensei's little sister, and Kenshin (HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!)
has his little hot spring moment (I won't say more, you have to watch it,
but STUPID CN CUT OUT A CRUCIAL PART!). They meet Yutaro, the young master
of a large amount of land. He wants desperately to learn swordsmanship to
be strong (sound familiar?) and more like his father. They meet Raijuta,
master of the Shinko Ryuu (style )and Yutaro trains under him using a
[real] sword Raijuta gave him. After losing a match to Yahiko, he reveals
{more like Kenshin says) that he never had a real lesson, and Kaoru begins
training him in the Kamiya Kasshin Ryuu. In the end, Yutaro loses the
ability to use his right arm (I won't tell you how, you have to watch it
for yourself) and he goes to Germany. Later, during the Filler/Christianity
Arc (I can't remember the Japanese word) he comes back, but in the manga,
he doesn't till the very end. I am such a bad person, spoiling the story,
bad me, bad me! I won't say any more then.
This was kind of inspired by the moment in the rain where he's training on
his own, and he looks happy (not "happy," he looks like he's enjoying the
training). I was planning to do a fic on that, but I'm not quite sure how
or if I will yet. Oh, and Shinko Ryuu is [roughly] translated to "True way"
or "True sword" (at least that's what it was when I looked it up) Hope you
enjoyed is! Salamat to all of my supporters and for reading!