The Cross-Shaped Wound
Kenshin in his fidgety following Tomoe to the a cottage in the mountain, along the way he got a sight when he killed Kiyosato, Tomoe’s fiancee. Kenshin’s heart was broken into pieces, he didn’t know what he supposed to do. It’s the same feeling as the night when they first time met. Kenshin somehow couldn’t and didn’t want to kill her, he had just found a love that he never felt before. But he had destroyed Tomoe’s first love and now he fell in love with her. On the way to the cottage, 3 ninja were waiting patiently. Kenshin, though was depressed, still capable to kill them all, but he was bloody wounded because of the battles. Meanwhile in the cottage, Tomoe was shocked to know that she had actually been tricked. For this such a long time, she was only being used to weaken Kenshin’s spirit and made him fell in a deep anguish because the women he loves had betrayed him. She tried to commit suicide but her kaiken was seized. At the meantime, Kenshin finally reached the cottage, it’s snowing heavily, a man had already waiting for him. Then the battle began, Kenshin was troubled to defeat him, he was beaten many times. Then the man pick up Tomoe’s kaiken and prepared to stab him, Kenshin collected his remained power and gave the final blow as a sight of Tomoe’s grave flashed. He opened his eyes and saw Tomoe standing in front of him, holding the kaiken to protect him but… she was bleeding hard as his sword sliced through her shoulder. Then they all fell to the ground, Kenshin put her on his lap and weep. Tomoe with her last strength slit Kenshin’s cheek over the wound made by her late fiancee and make a mark of cross, then she passed away. After saying his final thoughts, Kenshin burned the house with Tomoe in it. He returned to his former job as hitokiri, believed that it was the reason why Tomoe saved him, because he still had another battles. Day by day he passed to bring on the new era, killed anyone who stood in his way. The Ishin Shishi finally won the war and as what Kenshin had promised he will no longer kill. Then that’s the beginning of a resigned hitokiri as a rurouni Kenshin we all know today
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