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Regular POV

"Sir, Muegan failed, he was killed by Raven."

"Mmm, he was weak, well, if no one can do it right, then I will kill her myself. I am tired of her, she needs to die. And while I am at it, I will kill Battousai if he stands in my way."

"Sir, she has been missing for nine months, not even her friends have found her. And our men have yet to find a trace of her, she disappeared!"

"To you, but I know exactly where she is. She always goes back there, even back then."

"Where Master?"

"She is in the place where I died, Osaka."

"Died sir?"

"Yes, she murdered me there ten years ago, and I wish to repay her."

"Ye sire."

Kenshin POV

I wonder if Kaoru is looking up at the same sky? I started looking for her again. It is a little bit more difficult because of the snow. I wonder if she is warm? I wonder I wonder if she knows that I love her? I wonder if she knows that I am looking for her? I have traveled all over Japan. I am coming back from Kyoto and I stopped in Osaka for the night. She wasn't there, for the third time. But I had to check again. I miss you Kaoru and I want you here with me.

Kaoru POV

I wonder if Kenshin is looking up at the same sky as me? I slept all day, and I dreamed of him. The dream that tells me I am fool for leaving him, and also the same one where I die by his hand. I wonder if he is warm? These nights get colder and I know he never cares for himself…I was the one who told him to wear a jacket. I wonder if someone is there to tell him to be warm? Have I been replaced? What am I kidding, I told them to move on, of course he found someone else, and I wasn't irreplaceable. I miss him. I do want to hold him, just for one second, only to see him. I wish he was here by my side. Kenshin, I need you here with me, I miss you.

Kenshin POV

I can't stay I have to walk around. Little things here remind me of her. There are jasmine flowers next to my room; fate put me here on purpose. They laugh at me in spite of everything.

Kaoru POV

I am tired of sitting here, I guess I might visit his gravesite while I am here, I mean that is why I stayed here; no one knew this place but me and him. We where going to raise our children her, and grow old and die here together, and yet here is also where I killed him, ten years ago. Irony is a silly feeling.

Kenshin POV

I am a loser. I mean I am lost. I wandered for ten years and never did I get lost. But then I never had a place that I had to stay at. I guess I will have to ask someone, but who is out in the middle of the night? A loser like me. Well then there is a loser right there…

Regular POV

"Miss, miss can you help me I seem to be lost! Do you know where I can find the Rose Petal Inn?"

Kaoru POV

That voice, it couldn't be him; I mean I am hearing things. Don't turn around Kamiya; it is only an illusion, a dream that you have yet to awaken from.

Regular POV

"Miss, did you hear me?"

"Um, I don't think I have heard of that, I am sorry I couldn't be more help."

Kenshin POV

That voice, it can't' be…

Regular POV

"Kaoru! Kaoru is that you?"

"Kenshin?"

(Kenshin runs up and hold her in his arms)

"Oh god Kaoru, I have been looking for you, I had to tell you I am so sorry for breaking my promise. I do love you Kaoru, no matter what has happened or what will happen."

"Kenshin, you have been looking for me?"

"All over Japan. I have been to Kyoto three times."

(Kaoru laughs)

"Kenshin, I am sorry, I never thought that…"

"Please, let me just hold you, I dreamed this, but you always disappeared before, let me hold you and tell you that I love you, and I always will."

"Kenshin, you shouldn't love me."

"Why, Kaoru I don't care about your past. I once knew a beautiful woman who told me the same thing, and then I fell in love with her. So here I am telling you, I don't care about your past."

"You should."

"Then tell me."

"I, don't know if I can?"

"I wanna know your past Kaoru, let me understand you."

"I don't know if you would love me after Kenshin, I have done too many things for you to love me."

"Please, let me love you."

It all started almost 20 years ago……………..

"Mama, do I have to learn this style?"

"Yes Kaoru, this style has been passed down through the women in my family for generations. And now it is my turn to teach you."

"Ok mommy, I will be the bestest there ever was!"

"I know Kaoru, I know."

(3 years later)

"Kaoru, I want to tell you something."

"Yes mama?"

"Have I told you about my mother?"

"No mama, what was she like?"

"She was a killer, just like I was."

"What, what do you mean?"

"Kaoru, I was an assassin, and still am, our family has been the assassin Winged Raven for more than four generations. And the style I have been teaching you, Kaoru, you are the next generation."

"I am the next Winged Raven…I will be the best one yet."

"Kaoru, you have a choice, are you sure?"

"Yes mama, I will be the best ever."

Regular POV (In present time)

"So the women in your family have all been assassins?"

"Yes, and I was the next in line."

"But what about your father, didn't he decline in killing?"

"Yes, but that is next in my story."

(Back 17 years ago)

"Mama?"

"Yes Kaoru?"

"Does papa know?"

"Yes, he does, but I thought he didn't like killing?"

"Kaoru, he knows what I was, but he doesn't know about me teaching you, so lets keep this our little secret, okay?"

"Alright mama."

(That night)

"Kaoru, get up and hide in the closet, and hurry!"

"Mama, it's so early."

"Kaoru do it now!"

"Yes ma'am!"

"Oh look boys; it's a little birdie here to play with us!"

"What so you want Kiro?"

"Oh you remember me? And here I thought you and that stupid husband of yours gad forgotten me."

"How could I forget you…you killed my brother."

"Oh, still touchy about that, well lets get to business, I am here for your daughter, where is she?"

"I don't know she ran away last month, I haven't heard from her."

"Really, that's sad, I mean and yet you keep her room and her clothes all around here like she just left. That seems strange? Check the house boys; look for a little girl, careful, I hear she's feisty!"

"Stop, she's not here!"

"Oh really? Well then you have a stow-away in your house, and I guess you won't mind if I kill her."

"………"

"Nothing to say? Well here let me slaughter her!"

"NO! Stop, she is my daughter."

"Mama, no."

"Oh, well sweetie, say goodbye to your mommy."

"NO!"

(Kiro stabs her)

"MAMA! MAMA SAY SOMETHING! MAMA, YOU, WHY DID YOU KILL HER!"

"Because I don't need the Winged Raven fiddling into my plans anymore."

"Lets leave boys, well leave the girl her, she isn't a threat to us."

(the men leave)

"Mama? Mama I am so sorry, I promised you I would be the best, but I haven't learned everything yet! Mama, please come back to me."

"Kaoru…"

"Mommy?"

"Kaoru, I am sorry I broke the promise."

"What promise mommy?"

"The…promise I made to you, the one that I would be there for you forever, unlike my mom, I'm sorry I can't do that."

"Mama, don't talk like that, you will be fine, I promise!"

"I am sorry I broke my promise, I hope you never have to break one, they are hard to replace…………"

"Mama?"

"…………"

"Mama, no, mama, no, mommy, I need you."

Regular POV (Back to present)

"I haven't told anyone that story, no one."

"Kaoru, I am so sorry."

"Papa came and saw me there with me covered in mama's blood. He told me I was to forget this and never look back. We moved from that house to the dojo there. That is when Papa came up with the Kamiya Kasshin, he wished he was there to protect mama, so there came up with the motto, To protect the on you love. I practiced mama's sword style and papa's everyday. I promised mama that I would be the best. And soon I was."

"I was perfect, until, the war came. The day papa said he had joined and was leaving. That day I became a little girl again, I was 13 and I had no one then."

"So you where left alone while your father was in the war?"

"Yes, until I met Mamoru."

"You was he?"

"He was my best friend, my partner, and then my fiancée."

Kenshin POV (P.S Batt. Is in italic)

WHAT! SHE WAS ENGAGED! OH I WILL KILL THIS GUY WHEN I SEE HIM!

Regular POV

"Yes he and his father had a, how you would call it, a gang? He and I became friends and when his father found out that I could use a sword and quite well he signed me up in the Blood Dragons."

"The Blood Dragons! The group that came to the dojo?"

"Yes, the wanted revenge for not only leaving but for killing their leader."

"Is that why you knew so much about them?"

"Yes, I was one of them. Muegan the man that I killed, he grew up around Mamoru and I he was like my little brother."

"Why where the after you?"

"I killed their leader."

"Mamoru's father?"

"No….I killed Mamoru."

"You killed your own fiancée?"

"I had to, it was my job."

(Back 10 years ago)

"Kaoru?"

"Yes Mamoru?"

"I am thinking about taking over my father."

"Why!"

"He is too weak, these times call for power and blood, the old fool is too stuck in his ways to change, a new era is coming; why not shape it in our ways?"

"Mamoru, you can't, I mean that is the government's job!"

"You think I can't do it?"

"NO, I mean, can we not talk about this? I mean we are getting married in less than a week! We should be happy, not fighting!"

"Your right love, I am sorry, it's just that this war, it's made me think, and I want it to be perfect for you."

"I am fine in your arms Mamoru that is all I need."

"I love you Kaoru."

"And I you Mamoru."

"Raven, there is someone here to see you!"

"Thanks Muegan!"

"Can I help you?"

"Are you the Winged Raven?"

"Who wants to know?"

"The government."

"Ha, you have a lot of nerve to come into a place where you are probably on a list of who to kill!"

"I need you to kill someone for us. We have plans that he might change the whole direction of this war from good to bad."

"Why, there are thousands of men who would do it, why me?"

"Because only you would kill your fiancée."

"WHAT! I will not kill Mamoru."

"You have to."

"NO I do not, all I have to do is scream and men coming running and will kill you."

"Then your father and everyone you know will die."

(Is now REALLY MAD AND HAD SWORD AT THROAT)

"Was that a threat?"

"No, only what is to come."

"Speak quickly or die."

"Your Mamoru has bombs all over Tokyo and they are set to blow tonight."

"Why?"

"There are government officials there tonight at the palace. He wants them dead. There are so many bombs that the whole town will blow, and everyone you know will die."

"So, I kill officials why should I care?"

"Because then your family will die."

"You liar, my family is dead!"

"No, your mother, we found her and saved her!"

"You, I saw her die, she died in front of me!"

"No, she is alive! And you father!"

"Really!" Well what body is in the grave right now?"

"That is a doll, created by Mamoru!"

"Oh, now you are to die!"

"Wait! How is it that your whole family dies and the Mamoru and his father find you in the same month?"

"That is only a coincidence."

"Let me ask you, do Mamoru's eyes remind you of anyone?"

"No…oh my god. His father, and him, they, they came to my home, and the army official who told me about dad, they were his eyes! Oh god how could I be fooled?"

"Will you kill him?"

"I will slaughter them all; they will feel my blade against their skin. I will enjoy killing them starting with you!"

Regular POV

"That night I slaughtered the whole town till I found him. I murdered everyone; all I saw was blood that night. I needed to end my pain, so I caused it. I went from home to home killing everything. I knew no difference. But no matter what I did, my family died, because I had killed the official. I ended up killing everyone I every loved."

"Kaoru it wasn't your fault, they used you. The government used swords men like us for there own purpose."

"That night I will never forget."

(Back ten years)

"Come out Mamo-chan! I need to…speak with you."

"To speak with me, is that why you have your sword in your hand covered with the blood of thousands?"

"Only because you where so hard to find love!"

"Why are you going to kill me?"

"Why, you ask me why?"

"How about I as questions? And you answer!"

"How did you know I was here to kill you/"

"Your sword."

"Really?"

"How is it that you and your dad new my father and mother where dead?"

"I had heard from the town."

"But yet you had just moved that day and knew no one!"

"And how is it that I have never seen your father? Is it because I know what he looks like. Because he was the one who came to my house and killed my mom, or the same man who told me my father was dead? Is that why I never saw him? Because I knew him. And is that why you knew everything ABOUT ME?"

"Now Kaoru, don't get ahead of yourself!"

"I loved you, and yet you planned to kill my parents?"

"Darling, it is for the greater cause, the war needs it!"

"No, the war needs more blood, ending with YOURS!"

"NO, KAORU, THINK ABOUT THIS!"

"I am! NOW DIE!"

Regular POV

"That night the rain washed away all the cherry blossoms in this place. The ground was filled with his blood. With my blood. I stayed here for three years. I couldn't live with myself. The remaining Blood Dragons fell apart and hated me. I didn't care, I had killed him. My love because I was bloodthirsty. I wasn't me. I had become what I had promised my mother. I was the best, and yet it got me no where."

"Kaoru, I."

"I still cry at night for what I did, and when I found you I knew that maybe my heart had healed, but when they came back for me, everything fell, I had to come clean."

"I will love you no matter what ever you have done, you are still pure and perfect in my eye."

"Kenshin, I love you….AHHH!"

"Kaoru! Why did you hurt her?"

"Oh I just wanted to give my payback to my fiancée."

"Kenshin."

"Kaoru, god, your bleeding so much."

"Oh, that stomach wound looks like it hurt, you should get that checked."

"You, why did you do this?"

"Because she killed me ten years ago."

"It can't be, I killed you, how are you alive?"

"How? You missed my heart my a few centimeters."

"But I watched you, I buried you!"

"One of these days I will tell you, maybe when you're dead."

"Why Mamoru, why?"

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NEXT TIME:

"Kaoru hang on we are almost home."

"Home, I forgot what it looks like."

"Kaoru, no, you are not leaving me here! "

"You promised Kenshin!"

"I guess I am breaking that promise………"

TILL NEXT TIME READERS!