Summary: Drabbles from the Love, Lies n Empire universe. All characters. Situations and events referred to in the main story. Read n Review.
Disclaimer: Rurouni Kenshin belongs to Watsuki Nobuhiro. I borrow the gang for my fics.
Rating: T
Drabble 4: Saitou
Annals of Empire
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Drabble 6: Resolve
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"The armory is on the opposite side of that courtyard. Walk straight down this street and you'll see it." A sentry pointed down a street. The small group of peasants who had been asking for directions thanked him gladly and went on their way.
Saitou watched them enter the courtyard silently. A few months back, Kamatari had set up a special armory in the eastern sector of the citadel where peasants and farmers from all over Konan were given weapons and basic training. With the ever-present threat of Kutoe looming over them, the men and young boys from nearby villages had eagerly attended the training classes.
Kamatari was a sly one. He had announced a tournament for amateurs during the festival. The king himself would present a reward to the winner along with offering a chance to become a junior officer in the army. The numbers had come pouring in. After all, Shishio was exceedingly popular with his people.
It was a brilliant strategy. They were turning their weakness into their strength. They were turning their peasants into soldiers. Soldiers that would fight, not because of an order given by a superior, but because of their need to be free, for the love they had for their land.
The fight would come and they would face it. It did not seem as impossible as it had when he had first arrived. They were fighting on their land, for their homes, their families. They would fight with everything they had.
Hiko Seijurou never lost a fight. But now that didn't matter. He wasn't concerned with what had happened in the past, he only cared about what must happen in the future. What he had to do. He smiled.
Glory and immortality awaited him, if he lived, he would break the stranglehold that choked Konan, if he died…it would be a death worth remembering.
Author's Notes
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