Thanks to Syolen and geckohawaii for their reviews on the last chapter, and to all those who have alterted/favorited this story! I am blown away by your support.
This drabble is for Crau-san, who taught me a new word. ^_^ As always, concrit is appreciated.
I do not own Rurouni Kenshin!
Metanoia
-noun
1. a profound, usually spiritual, transformation; conversion.
He has never hurt so badly before in his life; he has never before been so injured broken back lacerations stab wounds near-blindness broken eardrums exposure.
Nor has his heart ever been so broken. The place in his soul where Tomoe used to be is raw, a gaping rent the smell of her perfume the feel of her skin the softness of her hair the way the her voice rises and falls, oh God I can't stand it-
Had she not asked him to live, he would have put himself out of his own misery days ago.
He does not know what he will do now; oaths sworn to free and protect the people of Japan war with a horror of ever taking another life. He believes he will see her face in every strike, hear her scream in every death-cry.
He does not know what to do, only that he must not continue as he is. He will find a way to atone.