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I do not own Rurouni Kenshin... *Stalks off*

Minim

-noun

0. the least quantity of anything.

Side by side in the garden, they say very little. By nature they are both quiet, melancholy people, made more so by the trials life has given them. Instead they listen to the wind in the trees, the sound of the spade striking good damp earth, the distant chatter of a stream.

The silence is a balm to his battle-torn soul, a poultice to her grief.

They don't say much, but then, they don't need to.