summary: Kenshin is the new twenty eight year old husband of Kauru. Kauru is two months pregnant and they have adopted two children named laurel and yahiko. but what happans when kenshin gets a deadly new type of cancer that noone can heal? will the three children grow up without a father? will kauru be able to bear the pain? find out in this story. laurel is a real person based on, you guessed it, me!! This story does NOT have anything to do with the events of 9/11.
The Tragedy That Changed Us All
By Laurel Deysenroth
written in kenshins pov
tradgey/romance
ken/kauru
r rated for slight language, possibly a tiny bit of lemon and death
As I gazed into the beautiful stars, I thought of my new wife Kauru, and how much these stars matched her eyes. I loved her very deeply, but there was something that I regretted ever having to tell her. I had a disease. A serious one that could not get better, but could only get worse with time. It was a new type of cancer that they were still trying to understand, so there was no medication to help stop it or slow it down. I love Kauru, I really did, but I just couldn't find it in my heart to tell her that her new husband, supposedly healthy, was really a cancer stricken twenty-eight year old who was given only three years to live. My now two month pregnant wife, would not be able to bear the loss of her new husband. We have adopted two children, they are aged four and three. The four year old is a girl named Laurel. The three year old is a boy named Yahiko. "Kenshin are you ok?" I hear Kauru call to me. "Yeah I'm perfectly fine, no need to worry at all about me." Real smooth Himura, real smooth. "Kenshin, I know that somethings wrong and your gonna have to tell me sooner or later." Kauru says in a huff before finally leaving the backyard. Oh, my dear dear Kauru, I wish so deeply that I could tell you, but i can't, I won't be able to find the right words to say, or the right things to think about.
The next morning, I wake up with Kauru at my side. I rub her stomach gently, massaging her and my little son. She rolls around in her sleep. I am planning on telling her about the cancer today, shortly before breakfast, so I have an excuse not to eat, I haven't been feeling very good lately and I don't want to worry her more than she already will be. She wakes up. We both walk downstairs to wake up our daughter and son. I want so badly for time to stop in its tracks, I'm deeply wishing the time wouldn't come when I need to tell this to Kauru.
In the kitchen, all four of us are seated. I raise my hand, signifying that I had something to say. "Family, you know I love all three of you but, I have some not so good news. Recently, as you guys know, they discovered a new kind of cancer, most popular in men of their late twenties." I began hoping there would be no intteruptions, but as always, exactly what I wanted is exactly the opposite of what I got. "Daddy, Uncle Sano isn't sick is he?" my daughter asked me. I chuckled inwardly at her innocent little mind, completely unaware of what I was about to say. "No, hunny, I'm happy to say that your Uncle Sanosuke is in perfect health, I however am not." Kauru got the message. "Oh, no, Kenshin you have that dreadful thing???? This is terrible!!! How long will the cure take?" She asks all at once. "I'm afraid that it's a new disease and that there is no cure for it at the present time," I say quietly. I walk away as my family begins to sob quietly. They all know I love them, but I just couldn't bear to see their pain.
"How long, Kenshin?" Kauru asked when she came into our room to talk to me. "How long what?" I ask back. "how long do you have to.....live?" she asks hesitantly. "Three years," I say with pure shadows in my voice. She begins to sob again. I hug her, I can't think of anything else to do, I wanna make her feel better but I know that nothing could ever ease her pain. I was to die in three years, and there was nothing we could do about it.
a/n, I know I know, this chapter was short, but It's my first Rurouni Kenshin fan fic and I'm having some trouble with the wording, if you could give me some ideas it would be great, thanx plenties, mirokusbabe.