this is gonna be the last chapter of the story. there will be a sequel that has the POVs of everyone after....well why spoil the story?? and fyi in the sequel it will be more than just POVs, after I have done everyones POV it will be an actual sequel and it will be the story after this story, in the sequel, it will be a cross-over of rurouni kenshin, inuyasha, yuyuhakusho and dragonballz! I hope you enjoy this last chapter and the upcoming sequel!!!!!!
chapter 5
final chapter
kenshins death
I'm training Laurel today, she is doing great, I know that she already learned the Ama Kakeru Ryu No Hiremeki but she wants to train for as long as she can. I did what I had been been doing on and off for the past few months and go into a coughing spell. There's one problem. This coughing spell is the worst I've ever had. It's hard for me to breath and I feel like I'm going dizzy. Everything is going black and I hear faint cries and screams. I faintly hear Laurel's voice say 'Mommy, mommy something is wrong with daddy!!!!!!!' Then the world goes black and I lose conciousness.
Kauru's POV
I'm scared. I had to send Laurel and Yahiko to school even though their father is dying. Shinta is at preschool as well. I wish I could have kept them home today but all three of them had big tests plus I needed to get their minds off their father. I hear Kenshin coughing some more, Megumi is in the room with him trying to get him better, truthfully I still don't trust that woman around my Kenshin, but there is no one else. I feel this must have been the way Kenshin felt when I was in labor with Shinta, not being able to see the other, hearing screams, or in this case coughs, of pain and anxiously waiting to see if the other will be ok.
I hear the dojo door open with the normal "Mommy, Daddy, we're home!!!" as Yahiko and Laurel walk in. Shinta will not be home for another two hours, it's hard to believe our two year old is already smart enough for preschool. I am now in Kenshin's room, anxiously awaiting his awakening. I'm scared. He might not ever wake up, then I see him stir. He is waking up and I will see those beautiful eyes again.
Kenshin's POV
I wake up to the sounds of my house, plenty of commotion, Kauru and Ms. Megumi are leaning over me, the kids are in the doorway, Shinta is still at school. "Whats going on?" I ask, but no sound comes out of my mouth, in fact....this is strange, I'm looking at my own body....but I'm right here it's not possible......I look down to the me on the mattress on the floor. I am moving around, like a child having a bad dream. My body is squirming and I don't understand why, I suddenly feel a sharp pain in my heart and I'm out of it again.
Kauru's POV
"KENSHIN!!!!! KENSHIN!!!!" I am yelling. Kenshin has blacked out again and I can't help but think he is going to die. "DADDY!!!!" I hear Laurel and Yahiko yell in unison. "KIDS STAY BACK!" Megumi yells to them. They both start to cry. I hear Kenshin gasping for air, this is it, hes gone. "Let them come over to their father Kauru." Megumi says quietly. I am sobbing, as are the children. It's too bad that Shinta isn't home yet. He should be able to see his fathers last moments like his brother and sister. Well he's too young to understand anyway, I will explain it to him as best I can when he gets home. "Daddy, Daddy," the kids are crying, I wish there was a way to make this easier for them. Then before any of us can do anything about it....he dies. We all cry. We think of nothing more than of how unfair the world can be. I'm sobbing the most. I miss him and always will.
We hear the door to Kenshin's hospital room creak open. I look up. Shinta is standing in the doorway. He sees our crying faces. "What wrong Mommy?" he asks. "Son, you know that your Daddy was very sick right?" I start to explain. He nods. "Well something happened today, your Daddy has died," I finish. "Mommy what die mean?" he asks. I stop crying long enough to explain. "Die is when you go to sleep, but you don't wake up, ever. You stay asleep forever, and you go to a pretty place called Heaven," I explain. He too starts to cry. There is nothing more I can do to make anyone feel any better.
I am looking through Kenshins things, I find a piece of paper I have never seen before. It is folded. I open it. There is writing on it and I am curious. I sit down on the bed that Kenshin and I once shared and read what was written on it. It is dated October 6 1870. 'Yesterday', is the word that floats through my mind. I read the rest of the paper, it was a song this is how it goes (i dont own josh gracin, the song i want to live or anything else to do with country music)
sometimes i feel like i need to wake myself
to shake myself
i feel like im just sleep walking through my life
i feel like im swimming in an ocean of emotion
but still somehow slowly going numb inside
i dont like who im becomin
i know ive gotta do something
before my life passes right by
i want to cry like the rain
cry like the rain
shine like the sun
on a beautiful mornin
sing to the heavens
like a churchbell ringin
fight with the devil and go down swinging
fly like a bird
role like a stone
love like i aint afraid to be alone
take everything that this world has to give
i want to live
sometimes i wonder why
i work so hard to guard my heart
till i hardly feel anything at all
ive spent my whole life building up this ivory tower
now that im in it
i keep wishing it would fall
so i can feel the ground beneathe me
really taste this air im breathin
and know that im alive
i want to cry like the rain
cry like the rain
shine like the sun
on a beautiful mornin
sing to the heavens
like a churchbell ringin
fight with the devil and go down swinging
fly like a bird
role like a stone
love like i aint afraid to be alone
take everything that this world has to give
i want to live
i want to live
something deep inside me keeps saying life is like a vapor
its gone in just the twinklin of an eye
i want to cry like the rain
cry like the rain
shine like the sun
on a beautiful mornin
sing to the heavens
like a churchbell ringin
fight with the devil and go down swinging
fly like a bird
role like a stone
love like i aint afraid to be alone
take everything that this world has to give
i wanna take every breath i can get
i want to live
yeah yeah
back to Kauru's POV
I slump down on the bed, so that I'm laying down on it, and begin to cry. The last verse continues to ring in my head, 'something deep inside me keeps saying life is like a vapor, its gone in just the twinklin of an eye' This is what he wanted. To know that he lived his life to the fullest, as long as he knew that, he wouldnt need to be old, this was his life and it still is, his spirit still lives and he will always be, in my heart, and the hearts of my children.
a/n well thats it. the story is over, i know it was highly over dramatic, but there will be a sequel that will also have some humor and action in it, as well as romance and tragedy. thanks for reading my story and stay tuned for the sequel, More and More Life, Without Kenshin. pls review.