Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ The Wolf and His Tamer ❯ Chapter 1

Title: “Coming Together”
Fandom: Rurouni Kenshin

Characters: Saitou Hajime/Saitou Tokio

Prompt: 001. “Beginning”

Word Count: 132

Rating: PG

Summary: Saitou Hajime, Saitou Tokio, and their coming-together as a family. [Ballad]

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Author's Note: “Coming Together” is being written in poetry-form; in this case, I am writing it as a ballad, in which there are four lines per stanza: the first and third do not rhyme, while the second and fourth do. There is no particular “meter” for this, as there is for cinquains and sonnets. This was written for the “fanfic100” Livejournal community.
Disclaimer: Rurouni Kenshin belongs to Nobuhiro Watsuki.

 

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“Coming Together”
By Shieldmaiden18
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Long ago, a brave warrior lived and
“Saitou Hajime” was his name.

Yet they called him Miburô, a wolf;

And by the sword he rose to fame.

 

“Behind every great warrior,”
As it once was said,
“lies a woman” - and a woman there lay,

Takani Tokio, in his mother's stead:

 

She was a woman of infinite grace,
And she was very loving and kind.
For those who did not notice her beauty,
Hajime considered to be very blind.

 

In late eighteen seventy-four,
Or was it early eighteen seventy-five?
Hajime and Tokio met, were betrothed,
And that was when they both felt alive.

 

Such as thus in our mentioned date,

A maiden and a swordsman kissed:

It was the beginning of their coming-together,

And it was then that they lived, several wars amidst.