Jeeeze lousie was that some trauma. Holy goodness. Kudos to giving her sorry-excuse-for-a-human-being-much-less-a-father a taste of his own medicine. Very sly of them with the entire inheritance thing too. I agree that Kaoru isn't going to jump at idea of a perfect happy ending right away. Poor thing needs some time to heal too many wounds just yet. I believe you ended it just the way it should be. Kudos to making me laugh a number of times despite the dark nature of the story. I have every faith that Kenshin will get his "defined relationship" one day :) Kaoru is going to want it one day as much as he does. Cheers and thanks!

On a side note, I adore how you write Aoshi and Misao together. :3

Holy mother of heaven...you weren't kidding about the violence. More of Kaoru's past is revealed, and it's a wonder the girl is still breathing, let alone anything else. Damn. Seriously. I can't wait until Kenshin, or someone else, kicks the guy's ass a few good times before he meets his own finale.

This story is dark, tragic, and tantalizing with its mysteries... It's also funny as hell. Can't wait to read more!

I am pretty impressed with this story! It flowed really well, and it got my nose stuck in this story. It's a nice fiction to read. I am off to read your other stories!

you really need a proofreader. I believe you meant medical prodigy, not protégée?

A great story :)

Loved this story!
Really loved the interaction between Kenshin and Kaoru: Kaoru is so independent and, nevertheless, Kenshin is there, to take her of her! So sweet!
I think that the end was kind of perfect: Kenshin giving Kaoru the space she needs! However part of me was hoping to see her finally accepting Kenshin as part of her life!

This was so freaking scary- I mean, the way you always had us on the edge of our seats, keeping it all suspenseful until the end. You always expected someone to answer the door, but you never knew who it would be.

I was surprised when you actually let her father go into the slave ring. I thought he was going to die by the law, but hey, slave ring sounds better to me.

Well I liked it and I completely understood the ending you gave it. After all not tying herself to someone completely had kept her alive for so long since if she had found someone she liked other then Kenshin most likely she would have died. Not to mention what she went through isn't something someone can recover from quickly.

It was nicely written and I enjoyed reading it so thank you very much for posting it up here and sharing it with everyone :3

Caught a few mistakes but with this being almost seven years old I'm not quite sure you would want them pointed out since your writing most likely has improved greatly (and if it has then DAMN your probably a VERY talented writer by now xD)

Okay first off thank you so much for keeping Kaoru a fighter. I had literally just stopped reading one Fan Fiction because she was in a similar situation as she is on yours, but had stopped fighting completely and I could never see her do that.

Now to the real review :3. The story is well written though I did spot a few places where sentences didn't make much sense because there where words there that didn't fit them. They didn't appear very often and even then the only reason I spotted them was because I do it all the time when I write so I always have to hunt them down for myself xD, but with how old this is I doubt I'd spot them if I read your newer work. I love how you are writing the characters as like I said I had just dropped a fan fiction because of Kaoru being OOC.

The only real mistake that I could find that by now someone might have pointed out to you already or you have found out yourself is it's actually a bad idea to bind ribs. During research for something I was writing I asked my mom who is a nurse if that was really how you treated broken ribs and bruised ribs and she told me no. The only thing a hospital would do would be to give you pain medicine to deal with it and order bed rest until they where healed. In fact from what I under stood about her explanation it's actually a bad idea to bind the chest because it can actually cause complications for the lungs.

Now that I have reviewed this chapter on to the next one!

It isn't a disney ending, but i still think it's still really sweet, and happy.

what I love about this and Shadowed Mountain its the given time for their relantionship to develop.

Its not like 'oh my god,lets get married,have 237973 NOW'hahah

I've been a fan of yours for a long time,just now I tought you should know how much you've inspered me (and helped me improve my english)even without knowing it.

Cell phones...ah, just enough comic relief to keep me away from my sketchbook.

ah that was sucha good story i loved it so much!

it was so sad :/ but great!

Beautiful story. Your stories really are amazingly done. Your writing talent is so amazing. Thank you for your time, effort, and each story you share with everyone.