I approach Enishi.
"Enishi, no matter how many times I say this, Tomoe will not come back and I cannot bring her back, but I want you to know that I am truly sorry for taking her away from you. I am not asking you to forgive me, what I did has no forgiveness, even if it was an accident, but you and I have to learn to live without her."
Enishi looks up; his eyes hold an unbearable amount of pain and hate. He let's out a dry laugh.
His revenge was not done, he'd said he wanted me to suffer and he was going to make me pay. He couldn't strike me because Kaoru would just get between us, but in his mind he had an even more sinister plan.
In a deadly calm voice he said things that I wish I'd never heard, for they stung in the farthest regions of my heart.
'I cannot believe that you threw my sister's memory out like that and for who? You traded my sister for somebody like her!' he said pointing at Kaoru, 'It wasn't enough for you to kill her, but you still had the nerve to fall in love again and with
something…somebody so…insignificant?' he finished, his words like virus, spreading and corroding all that it found in its way.
I am left speechless, Kaoru insignificant? No of course not.
"Enishi, do not insult Kaoru-dono." I say coldly. "Nobody can ever replace Tomoe in my heart, and Kaoru-dono is no exception. The place that Tomoe occupies in my heart is irreplaceable, but now Kaoru-dono occupies another part in my heart."
"Tomoe, Tomoe are you hearing what they are saying about you?" Enishi asks. I do not know what he saw or thought he heard, but he suddenly smiled and his eyes filled with warmth. "I understand sister." He said.
"Tomoe wants me to leave you alone, or she threatened never to smile at me again and I cannot let that happen." He said and left.
Enishi is gone now, but he left a void in my heart and mind. I cannot take the words he told me out of my head, and they are causing me an unbearable amount of pain.
After the fight, Kaoru came to me and asked if I was fine, I could see the worry in her eyes, and as to not worry her anymore, I nodded and smiled. Still she called our friend Megumi-dono, to tend to my wounds. Yahiko hadn't said anything all the while; maybe it was too much for a child to handle.
"What happened?" Megumi-dono asks.
I tell her what happened and she has a worried look on her face.
"You can't keep doing this or you'll die." She said gravely.
I give her a weak smile, "I do not think that I will be picking up my sword for another fight Megumi-dono, I have finally put the ghosts of my past to rest."
"I hope you are right." She says.