Disclaimer: I own nothing Ruroken. That is the great Watsuki's. And I do not own the original song, "We Didn't Start the Fire" which these lyrics are based on (and which the chorus is nearly quoted from, only slightly changed). That would be Billy Joel's.
Author's Note: This is a song to be sung to the tune of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire."
HE DIDN'T START THE FIRE (KENSHIN STYLE)
Bandits
Three graves
Shinta gets a new name
Sword skill
With Hiko till
Kenshin leaves and has to kill
Tomoe
Saves his soul
Is killed before her little bro
She dies
Kenshin cries
Her spirit's with the fireflies
Ten years
Shogun gone
Now the Meiji lives on
A wanderer
No one knows
With a sakabatou
Meets a girl
There's a fight
In the middle of the night
No one dies
Big surprise
Rurouni is Battousai
He
didn't start the fire
It was
always burning
Now
Japan is learning that
He
didn't start the fire
Well,
he didn't light it,
Now
he's tries to fight it
Yahiko
Proud boy
Son of a samurai
Pickpocket
Was a pro
Now lives at the dojo
Zanza
Tough guy
From the Sekihou-tai
Wants revenge
Makes amends
Funny how these things end
Showdown
Men slain
Jin-ee playing mind games
Doctor
Dark past
Makes opium or breathes her last
Get through
Kan-ryu
And the Oniwaban-shu
Gatling gun
Aoshi-kun
Vows vengeance for everyone
He
didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Now
Japan is learning that
He
didn't start the fire
Well,
he didn't light it
Now he
tries to fight it
Next comes
Yutaro
Swords is all he wants to know
Raijuta-
Sensei
Will use the boy to get his way
Wound from
Satsujin-ken
May never use that arm again
Sword skilled
Weak willed
Raijuta finds he cannot kill
Saito
Comes to town
Plans to take Battousai down
Rurouni
Starts to fade
Hitokiri is remade
Kenshin
Hesitates
Can he still assassinate?
Has to try
Says goodbye
To Kaoru in the fireflies
He
didn't start the fire
It was
always burning
Now
Japan is learning that
He
didn't start the fire
Well,
he didn't light it
Now he
tries to fight it
Ninja
Named Misao
Searching for Aoshi now
Himura
Knows the truth
Hides it to protect this youth
Hiko
Trains him more
When Kenshin shows up at his door
When they part
This new art
Is left to purity of heart.
Yumi
Plays the guide
She could always turn the tide
Anji
Soon will find
He'll lose a battle of the mind
Usui's
Second sight
Will fail in his and Saito's fight
Finally
Aoshi
Is brought back to reality
He
didn't start the fire
It was
always burning
Now
Japan is learning that
He didn't start the fire
Well,
he didn't light it
Now he
tries to fight it.
Tenken
Fights with style
All behind a deadly smile
Soujiro
Starts to crack
As memories come rushing back
Kenshin
Wins their fight
Leaves the boy to choose what's right
Have to go
Now they know
That next's Makoto Shishio
Explosives
Flaming blade
Looking like he's got it made
But allies
And his friends
Give Kenshin strength to fight again
Yumi
Gladly slain
Kenshin lives through that again
Yumi's stand
Tomoe's brand
He finally starts to understand...
That he
didn't start the fire
It was
always burning
Now
Japan is learning that
He
didn't start the fire
Well,
he didn't light it
Now he
tries to fight it
No, he
didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Even
Kenshin's learning that
He
didn't start the fire
Well,
he didn't light it
Now he
tries to fight it.
He didn't start the fire...
Author's Note 2: Thank you so much for reading this. I started it a looooong time ago, when this silly little idea popped into my mind. My friend, FrostPhoenix, enjoys Billy Joel very much, and we were listening to "We Didn't Start the Fire" and it just sort of occured to me that I could write something like that for Kenshin. So here it is. Thanks for reading. Please review!