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Lost Splendor

Authors Note: Warning: Contain's Spoilers For The Rurouni Kenshin Manga. Proceed At Your Own Risk.

Disclaimer: I do not claim any rights to Rurouni Kenshin. It is souly owned by Nobuhiro Watsuki :)

'What good is Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu... What good is Himura Kenshin... Again, I... failed to protect the one person who is most important to me... Miss Kaoru... Kaoru...'

-Kenshin Himura...Chapter 207: A Dark Change Unto Death...

My entire world fades to nothingness.

I am nothing more than a mere inhabitant, surrounded and torchered by a Lord they call Grief.

This heart, this body, this soul...

I have lost all meaning to them now.

My restless soul lingers in this corpse of a fallen samurai.

I am nothing without her.

Why, I ask myself countlessly...did she have to go?

Life is a difficult burden to bare when there is no one to share it with.

I wanted to say it... I wanted to...so badly.

But - I just couldn't pull the words from the lump in my throat.

All those times they were left unsaid.

These lifeless words that mean nothing to me now.

...Happiness...

...Peace...

...Love...

These are merely just a few of the words I can think of to describe the life I could have had with her.

If only I hadn't arrived too late..

No.

There is no point in reliving painful memories that were never worth living for from the beginning.

Especially, the day I first saw those mystifying blue eyes-

Hm...those eyes.

To how strangely they held precious meaning to me, but now are only a void of emptyness in the pit of my heart.

I wonder...whether her spirit in a better place than here...?

Here, in this unforgiving world, where nothing can be held sacred before it is taken...?

Where she can endure no more suffering...?

One could only hope for her safe arrival to the Afterlife.

I do.

Every waking hour of my life that ebbs away,

I never not hope for her safe journey into the Afterlife.

Abandoning her as I so selfishly did,

My soul should be punished a thousand times fold.

I can never forgive myself for what happened.

...Not Now...

...Not Ever...

-Owari-

A quite interesting thought which occured to me upon taking a glimpse through this chapter just today...

Please, let me know what you think. I will greatly appreciate it, indeed I will ^-^

Ja ne!

-MrFoshizzlePro