Author's Note: Well everyone Happy holidays to you all!! This is my gift to those of you who do read my fan-fics and review! All these fics are all AU and are Usa/Serena centered. Each containing a holiday song with a guy from any show that I feel matches the song. I will update this…I think everyday each time with a different song, guy and story. Hope you all enjoy, now Tennki would you?
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SK: Thank you Tennki now onward with the chapter! As well as Happy Holidays to all of you and a Happy New Year!
This fic is a Usagi/Kenshin with the song O Come, All Ye Faithful
Memories………….
The cries of a battle were herd……the clashing of swords……fire burning around the scenery. Two standing men standing off in the center of the whole battle field. One man's face covered in shadows wearing a yukata with a sword in his hands……the other man had wild flaming red hair tied in a tight pony tail. Hard violet eyes that were serious, showing no emotion at all. On his face on his left cheek was a cross shaped scar.
Wearing a yukata and in his hands was a sword as well…fire burning around them, trapping them almost but more like the fire was a boundary…only one man the victor shall cross the flames of this battle and will live…the other shall die. Time standing still for a moment until both men went to strike the other…………
The battle scene began to fade quickly as the youth who dreamt memory like dream began to awake. But it was no dream….no it was certainly a memory. The youth was like in the dream had flaming red hair, wearing a yukata with a sword at his side however. His eyes were now more soft holding a caring look and his hair was in a low pony tail. Yet the scar was still there.
If a warrior would look at the scar they would know who this man was…….this man was once the legendary Hitokiri Battosai or in English The legendary Man Slayer other wise known as Kenshin Himura. The man during the revolution who killed his opponents using the Hitenmitsurugi style of swordsmanship.
But the revolution ended 8 years ago….and the man known as Kenshin has become a wandering swordsman…yet he can not forget the things he did in the past that now haunt him. In retribution for the many lives he has taken he took a vow never to kill again…and to help those in need.
As Kenshin awoke form his memory of a dream he looked around to the location his was now in. He had decided to sleep in the forest for the night…he looked down to make sure his sword was still there and it was. He sighed and slowly stood up as he grabbed his sword to place at his side.
You may wonder if he has taken a vow to never kill them why does he have a sword…the weapon of choice that he used to kill so many? But you see the sword he now carries is a reverse blade sword meaning it couldn't really harm anyone.
Kenshin thought nothing of his dream and pushed it to the back of his mind. He began to walk deeper into the forest. To where he didn't know and at the moment didn't care. He didn't think to what he was doing as he walked.
The wind began to blow cold. Ah yes winter season of the year had come again. Making the forest mostly covered in a blanket of snow. Kenshin didn't mind the cold, no that he did not. He didn't shiver as the cold wind blew his way.
After sometime of walking he soon came up a town in which he saw a building with a cross upon it. I see……so this is one of those 'Churches' that people who believe in Christianity go to…I've herd of the Americans who are trying to spread of this religion… Kenshin thought as he watched people walk about with smiles on their faces. He saw children playing around dressed warmly with their mothers at which Kenshin gave a soft smile at.
Kenshin soon herd the bells of the church ring signaling that mass would soon start. It was about the time the sun would start to set. Kenshin didn't even notice that he had been walking around all day but he did stop once in a while to rest or to eat. Again the church bells began to ring and some people went into the church.
His curiosity in the church grew a little and thought to just sit in for a while. He went in and saw an alter and candles around. He took a seat in the back and waited for the priest to begin the sermon. The priest came in with a smile and soon started to talk about how God would always be forgiving.
How no matter how black the sins of one can be, if they only ask God to forgive them he would. That God would never turn his back on those who ask of him. Kenshin listened but thought his sins were to black for him to ask for his forgiveness of the ones he killed or ask God….
He sighed quietly and thought he would leave soon. Yet before he could leave the priest said that tomorrow would be the birth of a great man. He talked about the day and what it meant to the religion and the church. He soon moved to the side to let one girl sing a song that had to deal with the birth of this great man.
As the Priest moved Kenshin saw this girl…long blonde hair that shinned like gold no even brighter than gold or sun. From his view he saw her creamy skin and the kimono she wore. A pale pink kimono with a white obi. She soon began to sing.
"O Come, All Ye Faithful:
O Come all ye faithful
Joyful and triumphant
O come ye o come ye
To Bethlehem
(Oh come he)
Come and behold him
Born the King of Angels
Oh come let us adore him
Oh come let us adore him
Oh come let us adore him
Christ the lord.." her voice was sweet and heart touching. She sang with her blue eyes shinning brightly. Kenshin looked at her as she sang and noticed how innocent she looked. How her soul was so pure.
"Shout for us sinners
Poor and in the manger
We would embrace thee with love and joy
Who would not love thee
Loving us so dearly
Oh come let us adore him
Oh come let us adore him
Oh come let us adore him
Christ the lord
Sing, choirs of angels,
Sing in exultations,
Sing, all ye citizens of heav'n above;
Glory to God
Glory in the highest:
O come let us adore him
O come let us adore him
O come let us adore him
Christ the Lord…" she ended her song and the Priest declared mass ended. The girl slowly went out after everyone else left the church. Kenshin who left the last was the first to meet with the girl who sang as she went to the exit.
She was surprised to see him waiting for her but then not really surprised. She saw him in the back and as she sang she was really speaking to him. She knew from the moment she set her eyes on him this man before her must've had a horrible past. She could tell his sins were many but could also tell he was trying to repent for them.
"I herd you sing Miss and it was beautiful that it was.." Kenshin spoke politely and softly with a small smile on his face.
"Usagi….my name is Usagi and thank you." She replied with a bow.
"My name is Kenshin that it is. And Usagi…that is a wonderful name…that it is." He replied back. Usagi smiled and something about her drew Kenshin in. Her aura so pure and innocent much like her soul that shone through her crystal blue eyes.
"Again thank you Kenshin…and I'm glad you came today." She spoke with sincerity and innocence.
"What do you mean?" Kenshin asked.
"Because I've been waiting for you…I knew I would see the man who saved me during the revolution."
"You were in the revolution?" Kenshin asked. Surely she was joking because if she were in the revolution then he would surely have remembered her. He never forgot a face much less one as beautiful as Usagi's.
"…I was alone and asleep during one of the attacks in Kyoto…I saw fire burning around and I saw you…. In a stand off with another man…I remember it so clearly…I meant to warn you because someone was behind you as you were about to attack man in front of you…as I yelled to say look out the man saw me and went to attack me instead…but you got in his way……and saved me…told me to run as you were hit with a wound that was meant for me…." She explained as leaned onto Kenshin.
Kenshin listened and then remembered his memory in his dream was just that. But he woke up before he ever got to the part of him saving Usagi….but now that he thought about it he did remember….earlier that day before the attack he saw in the market place…so innocent and then he saved her life later that night….but then he forgot….he pushed that thought out of his mind.
Usagi wrapped her arms around Kenshin and leaned in to give him a kiss but before she did she whispered: "This is to say thank you for saving my life…and I give you my heart as well…"
Usagi gave Kenshin a deep and passionate kiss in which Kenshin wrapped his arms around her…she gave him her heart…as she kissed him he felt a wave of water wash over him. Feeling as though his sins had been repented by this girl…he knew from this moment…he couldn't live without her….His Usa….
THE END
AN: Now tomorrow I will update one last time because I won't be able to update on Christmas eve and Christmas day. But I hope all of you enjoyed this one shot of Kenshin and Usa!