I loved this! "Don't run to me" -Great line! My favorite, actually. Great drabble!

wait that's it?

That was awesome! Poetic. Beautifully written. I love the first and last paragraphs! Thank you for sharing.:P

great fic

As sadly lyrical and graceful as Tomoe and Kenshin's marriage. It's a lovely bably.

I enjoyed reading this. It's interesting to see that you prefer the Tomoe and Kenshin pairing, and yet you can still write Kaoru and Kenshin as a pairing. Not many people are willing to do that. Maybe it comes from your respect for Kaoru. (I personally prefer the Kenshin and Kaoru pairing, but Tomoe still seems like quite a kind person. Instead of the Kenshin and Tomoe pairing, I prefer the Tomoe and Akira pairing. Some of the Kenshin and Tomoe stories - usually one-shots - that I've read are quite sweet, though.)

I think the imagery was very well-done. The word usage was wonderful. It really painted pictures in the mind. I think most of the story flowed quite well. Did you intend for the ending to be happier than the beginning? I'm not sure, but is that why you had 'raccoon'? That was probably the only thing in this one-shot that kind of prodded at my mind, but I'm guessing that you had personal reasons. Maybe you wanted to emphasize that Kenshin finally realized that he needed to wake, and you wanted to include something abrupt to make that clear...? Hm...

Why did you want to baby this story? (I can guess the probable reason, but I was interested in what you wanted to say. Well, I guess I'll only know if you ever post another Rurouni Kenshin story. Oh, well.)

Thank you for posting this!

Good luck.

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Well let me just say I am VERY glad you decided to share this with the rest of the world. Or rather, the people here on

I loved the first italicized line "We are not Gods." The description of Tomoe's death was really done artistically, as well as very visually. You've got great use of language and imagery. I've always felt that the whole Reflections arc was very Shakespeare-esque...the fact that you describe it, more than once, as a 'fairytale' really brings that feeling back to me. Shakespeare's tragedies are sort of fairytales in themselves, except instead of the prince marrying Cinderella happily-ever-after, everyone, uh...dies.

I really liked the line "He wasn't broken by his loss. He was repaired."

That speakes VOLUMES about what Tomoe did for him, how her life and her death changed him.

The end with Kaoru is beyond sweet. I love reading about how Kenshin can move on and step forward from his past. (Which is why Seisohen was such a cop out!)

The only thing I didn't like was referring to Kaoru as "a raccoon." It was like a sudden jolt of absurdity in the middle of this beautiful piece about Kenshin's, well, waking up. I don't know, maybe that's why you put it in, but I thought it was a little odd, and a bit disrupting.

Anyway, this is a lovely, well-written and beautifully crafted piece. I do hope I've raved on enough about it. Ha ha.