
The series starts off with Kenshin running into Karou Kamiya. She thinks that Kenshin is the Hitokiri Battousai. She pulls out Kenshin's sword and sees that it is a reversed blade sword and that it was hardly used at all. She then runs off at the sound of a police whistle. She then attacks a huge man claming to br called the Battousai. She gets cut and is about to be killed when Kenshin Himura jumps in a picks up Karou and runs away with her. Kenshin goes back to the Kamiya Dojo with Karou. A while later when Kenshin isn't at the Dojo the fake Battousai shows up. Karou attacks but is easily defeated. She is about to die again when once again Kenshin shows up. Kenshin easily defeats all the men. Then the Battousai attacks and Kenshin jumps in the air and defeats the fake Battousai. Kenshin then says " The Battousai doesn't use the Kamiya Kashin style or any other style. He uses the Hiten Mitsurugi style." Karou then sees that Kenshin is the real Battousai. She doesn't care and even though he is the Battousai she asks him to stay. Kenshin ends up staying.
Now Kenshin and Karou are in town and a pickpocket boy called Yahiko pickpockets Kenshin. Karou gets it back and gives it to Kenshin. Kenshin gives it back to Yahiko and says don't get caught next time. Yahiko then throws the wallet at Kenshin. Yahiko goes back home only to get beat up. Karou comes and finds Yahiko. When she does she tries to free him from the men who have him as a slave. They play a game of dice and Karou wins but they don't let her go. They try to keep her to untill Kenshin shows up. Kenshin knocks out everybody. and walks up to the boss. More men show up but the boss says let them go with the kid because he looked into Kenshin's eyes and knew if he decided to fight for real they all were doomed. Kenshin leaves with Yahiko and Karou.
Now its time for Zanza to come. The fake Battousai Gohei decides to hire a fighter-for-hire. Zanza. He hires Zanza to kill the Battousai once and for all. Zanza goes and fights Kenshin. Zanza lasts a long time but Kenshin ends up beating him. Now Zanza joins Kenshins group with his new name Sanosuke Sagara.
Now Jine comes. The police chief shows up at the Kamiya Dojo to see Kenshin. The cheif tells him that a man has been govement officials. Kenshin and Sano(Sanosuke Sagara) decide to go and fight Jine. Jine Kuragasa appeared at 12 midnight. He used the Shin No Ippo to freeze his victoms. Kenshin wasn't froze and he attacked Jine. Sano then broke out of it and attacked Jine with a statue. Jine dodged the statue and cut both of Sano's wrists. Jine decieded to make his next target Kenshin. Jine told Kenshin to become the Battousai or else he wouldn't stand a chance against him. Kenshin told Sano to tell Yahiko and Karou that he wasn't coming back. Sano told them and Karou didn't listen she ran off to find Kenshin. She found him and gave him her favorite ribbon. Jine then came down and took Karou away down the river. Kenshin went to fight Jine. Kenshin found Jine and attacked him. Jine then used the Shin No Ippo on Karou. A stronger version that freezes the lungs. Kenshin gets real made and turns back into the Battousai. He tells Jine to attack him. Jine sees that he is in the stance for the Battojutsu. He knows that the Battojutsu is a single strike attack. Jine then sees that the speed of the draw will be slowed down because of the reversed blade sword. Jine attacks Kenshin and says that he won. Jine dodges Kenshin Battojutsu. Kenshin then attacks Jine with his sheath. " Hiten Mitsurugi Soryusen. i know very well that Battojutsu is normally a single strke and that the sakabato(revesed blade sword) is unfit for it. One who has mastered everything of Battojutsu. That is the meaning of the name Battousai. I crused your elbow and severed your ligaments. Your life as a swordsman is over same as your life as a human being." said Kenshin. He flip over his blade and swung down at Jine. Karou then broke out of the Shin No Ippo and screamed no and Kenshin returned to himself. Kenshin ran over to Karou. Jine drew his short sword and said " It's clean up time." Jine stabed himself and died.
Kenshin and Sano were playing dice when a woman named Megumi Takani came in and saw that Kenshin had a sword. She jump on him and said help. Two men came in and attacked them. Kenshin and Sano defeated them. Beshimi posioned two of Sano's friends and got Sano real mad. Sano punched him and Kenshin hit him with his sword. Beshimi returned to his master Aoshi Shinomori. Aoshi sent Beshimi, Han'nya, and Hyottoko to the Kamiya Dojo. There Kenshin and Sano defeated them and Han'nya took them back to Aoshi. Megumi was then captured and Sano, Kenshin, Karou, and Yahiko left to rescue her. Sano fought Shikijo and won and Kenshin fought Han'nya and defeated him. Kenshin made it to Aoshi. He fought Aoshi and it was one of the hardest battles he fought in. He finally defeated Aoshi. Then Kanryu Takeda showed up to kill Aoshi with a Gatling Gun. All of the Oniwanban group protected Aoshi with therte lives and Kenshin defeated Kanryu. The police showed up but Aoshi and all the Oniwanban group were missing. Aoshi made a grave for his group and swore he would defeat the Battousai.
Now Kenshin is on a trip and he ends up at a mansion owned by Yutaro. Yutaro is a boy who really wants to learn how to weild a sword. He asks Kenshin to cut down the lights. If he can he could be Yutaro's sensei. Kenshin refuses to. Yutaro gets mad and kicks them out. Yutaro then goes in the woods and is attacked by some bandits. Then a man named Raijuta comes and saves Yutaro. Yutaro asks Raijuta to be his sensei. Raijuta becomes Yutaro's sensei and gives him a real sword. Kenshin meets with Raijuta because Raijuta wants Kenshin to join his army to defeat the govement and create a new kingdom. Kenshin refuses. Raijuta's men attack Kenshin and Kenshin defeats them buy Yutaro falls off the cliff and Kenshin goes and saves Yutaro. Yutaro woke in the Kamiya Dojo and found everybody there. Yutaro was going to leave but Yahiko stopped him and said you can only leave if you beat me. Yahiko won and Yutaro stayed and Karou offered to teach Yutaro the Kamiya Kashin style. Yutaro decieded to join the dojo. Yutaro was a good student but he decided to go back to the mansion we he got news from the police cheif. Kenshin and the others followed him. Kenshin ran into Raijuta and found out that he was just using Yutaro for his money. Raijuta attacked Kenshin with the Izuna. Kenshin dodged the attacks. Yutaro stepped in and told Raijuta to stop. Raijuta used the Izuna and cut Yutaro's right wrist so he couldn't hold a sword. Karou and Sano took Yutaro top the hospital. Kenshin and Yahiko stayed back to fight Raijuta. Kenshin beat Raijuta and headed for the hospital. They learned that Yuatro was headed for Germany to live with his grandpa and to get his wrist fixed. Yahiko caught up to Yutaro before he got on the boat and said " You better come back so i can beat you loser." Yutaro decieded that he would come back and the first thing he would do is defeat Yahiko.
I'm going by the book series of Rurouni Kenshin and not the anime show. In the show there is a whole saga thing that deals with pirates. Basically Kenshin goes on a boat trip to protect a boat from pirates. The ironic thing is that Karou is also on the boat. Kenshin gets posined and captured. The captin of the pirates is a and ends up liking Kenshin. But she ends of going out alone in the sea after her crew turns on her for being a . To find out more about this you'll just have to watch the series. In the books there are no pirates and the book jumps right into Shishio.
Kenshin finds Sano injured in the Kamiya dojo and starts contemplating on who did it to him. The one who did it to him was Saito. A police cop who took the name of Goro Fujita. Kenshin finally figures it out and knows that it was someone from the Shinsengumi. So none other than Hajime Saito. Now Kenshin gets a note that tells him to meet Saito but its a trap. Kenshin goes as the note directed but is ambushed by Arundo Akamatsu. Kenshin is tied in chains then plays so he can figure out what is going on. After Arundo tells him everything thinking he killed him Kenshin gets up and defeats Arundo with ease. When Kenshin gets back to the dojo he finds that Yahiko and Karou let Saito in not knowing who he really was because he is a police officer. Kenshin fights with Saito and during this fight Battousai is brought back. Saito uses his Gattosu and Kenshin uses Hiten Mitsurugi. Saito's sword breaks. He throws it at Kenshin. Kenshin uses his knuckles to block it so he wouldn't let his gaurd down by useing his sword. Saito pulls out his belt from his suit and starts chocking Kenshin. Kenshin uses his sheath and hit Saito. Then Lord Okubo comes in and says stop. Saito leaves and Okubo asks Kenshin to talk to him in the carriage. Kenshin then punshes his face so he reverts back to a rurouni and says that everyone should hear what he has to say.
Lord Okubo then told Kenshin about Shishio a manslayer they burned alive that survived. He ask Kenshin if he would asasinat Shishio. Okubo told Kenshin he would comebackin a week to get his answer. A week past and Kenshin decieded to go meet Okubo himself. He found Okubo is his carrage. A boy then said a couple words to Kenshin about Shishio. Kenshin went back to tell his friends that he was going. Kenshin only told Karou that he was leaving. Kenshin then left for Kyoto.
I'm going to make this next part real short because there is alot of things that happen and would takeme forever if I went into detail. Okay Kenshin meets a named Misao. Misao is aprt of the Oniwaban. She follows Kenshin to a place called Shengetsu village. Here Kenshin fights Senkaku. He beats Senkaku and then fights Sojiru The Tenken. Sojiru breaks Kenshin's reversed blade sword. Kenshin leaves Shengetsu village. Kenshin makes it to Kyoto. In Kyoto he goes to where Miaso leaves. He asks Okina there to find two people the man who made his sword and the one who trained him. Kenshin finds the son of the man who made his sword and asks him to make him a sword. He says no. Kenshin leaves and a guy named Chothe Sword Hunter of the Juppongatana shows up. He takes his son Ori. Kenshin then tries tosave his son. In the middle of the battle the man runs and gets his fathers last sword and gives it to Kenshin. Kenshin wins and also has a new reversed blade. You need to watch the series to get a more indept storyline because I don't have much time to write this.
Kenshin now leaves Misao and her gramps to go and meet Hiko. Kenshin finds Hiko sitting on a log. Kenshin attacks him. Hiko jumps up into the air to dodge his attack. Hiko says why would you attack a potter. Kenshin replays by saying Hiko is no potter.
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