Disclaimer: I don't own Rurouni Kenshin, but that's okay. I like fantasizing.

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Forest of Barriers:

Setting Out

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He wakes in their bed to find her gone. The rest is like a blur. He reads the letter telling of her capture. He is numb, and then the fury sets in, quicker than expected. He crumples the paper with its taunting ink strokes.

We have her. We have stolen her from right under your nose.

You have allowed her to be in danger.

He is angrier than he has ever been before. The one he has sworn to protect is in danger. The one he loves is being used against him.

Armed with his katana once again, he sets out to retrieve her. The young healer disappears and Hitokiri Battousai walks the earth once more, with only a boy to witness his revival.


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.......The boy being Enishi, in case you didn't know.

I was a little scared when I read the transalations. Kenshin so furious is pretty shocking, isn't it? Half the things he did to those ninjas... and yet it just makes my heart go out to him even more. :P Heh.