Characters:
maashiro and
givingswordLocation: around Death City, wherever Kaoru drags Kenshin
Rating: PG
Time: January 11
Description: "Kenshin, get outside and do things."
Clothes dry, apartment (finally) clean, sakabatou safely on his hip, Kenshin was ready to see the sights with Kaoru.
For a man who'd been in a place for two months, he was shockingly unfamiliar with what the city had to offer. He knew the places well enough, sure, how to get around, but little of what to do in those places. Kaoru it seemed had been more adventurous in that area, and it was on her he was now relying in that regard. But it really wasn't the places that concerned him so much as the company.
Kenshin remembered everything that had happened inside his mind the night he had succumbed to the madness and reverted to the Battousai. He hadn't told Kaoru--didn't know how to, didn't know how she would take it or what she thought of it. Maybe she didn't remember it, herself, and he hadn't wanted to bring that up; but it had been that moment, that very clear moment, that had made his path forward in life very clear. And it was forward for certain he needed to go.
For that, he needed Kaoru.