{Kaoru had left the room for a bit to get some tea. Kenshin had been rather quiet the whole day after the encounter with the ghost, and for the most part she had just left him to his thoughts. It was a huge thing, and obviously took a while to digest.}
{However, she didn't plan on letting him spend the whole day wrapped up in his own thoughts. As
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Out of everyone he'd killed, Kiyosatto Akira was one of the only two he had actually feared the arrival of. The visage of a happy, smiling man had not been what he was expecting. He had never, ever, truly considered that that man out of all he had killed could forgive him, considering the circumstances of his death, and what occurred afterwards. He had always believed that Tomoe had forgiven him, even if he didn't forgive himself--but not her fiance ( ... )
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"Well...I wasn't expecting that this morning," she said finally, smiling. "But it's a good sign, don't you think?"
It was actually a curse that had done more good than bad. (Well, at least for them; others hadn't been as lucky it seemed.)
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He smiled and nodded to her statement. "Aa, a very good sign de gozaru."
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He couldn't look away from her now that she was there again. He had been lost in thought most of the day. He hadn't been very vocal. He simply couldn't put his thoughts into words.
And now he thought on her again. Where would he be had he not been walking down that one particular street in Tokyo that night? More than likely alone and cold somewhere in Japan, suffering through yet another lonely winter that only made him think of the horrors that happened on that one snowy day.
But here he was, in the company of a woman that for all intents and purposes completed him--a woman who was able to not only hold his broken pieces together, but actually made the whole shine like new. She probably didn't know--couldn't know--how much she meant to him. And because of that how it would destroy him if something were ever to happen to her. He would shatter like so much fragile ( ... )
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