To My Dearest Makoto…

*Letter* How are you little one? It’s been quite a long time… How is the rock collecting? Perhaps when I get back we’ll have to…

June 8, 1885 – Monday – Visiting Tokio

?EURoeMou! I am starving! Hajime-han?EUR? Lets go to your favorite soba stand!?EUR? Saya clings to me like her usual self and I do all I…
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June 6, 1885 – Saturday – Out of Kyoto

“Don’t bring too much. We do not have a lot of room and I do -not- want to lug your stuff around.” He peers into…

May 21st, 1885 – Evening – Kawaji Needs a Drink

A long day at work… home later but first… A quiet sake at a place where they know me but leave me alone! I know…

May 7, 1885 – At the Machiya

The sunlight, it burns through my eyelid as they slowly opened. I look out towards the source and realize that the sun is now high…

Wednesday, May 6th, 1885 – He Who I Once Was

I take the girls to school, and hold Makoto-chan back before she runs off. “I’ll see you Thursday night.” She nods, and then looks up…

May 6, 1885 – Loitering

Nothing?EUR? Suddenly everything is back to how it was. Ah?EUR? But here in Tokyo, it?EUR(TM)s been like this since I can remember and here familiarity…

April 28, 1885 – Letters and what nots

The letters I mailed last Friday should be in Ito by now… I scowl slightly, I’m at work and should be thinking about it but…
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April 25, 1885 – Saturday Morning Rain

Rain… Morning rain that pours from grey skies. I stare as they fall by the hundreds and scatter on the ground like glass. Sitting on…

April 23, 1885 – Thursday Night – Tokyo

Hastily I shut the door close and head straight to a lamp by the corner. In my hand is a much awaited envelope addressed from…
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April 22, 1885 – Wednesday – An Event at the Precinct

I play with the wooden plaque with it’s bronze finish. Running my fingers on the metal hammered with my name Fujita Goro. My gloves are…

Tuesday, April 21st – Letters Sent

“You’ll sent the letters today?” Makoto-chan asks me. “Yes, I will…” It’s the first thing I do after dropping the girls off. It’s a pleasant…
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April 16, 1885 (Thursday)

Some things never change in the Keishikan, paperwork for one but today I shunned it and decided that it’s time to patrol. At least get…
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April 14, 1885 – Tuesday – Night

I watch as the cigarette slowly burned itself out… How ironic that somehow I can relate to that inanimate object. My purpose and my life…
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April 9, 1878 (Thursday) – Tokyo Machiya

Returning to the Machiya, I head to my room at the back. It is a small room but well lit. When I sit by the…
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April 7, 1885 – Tokyo Precinct

I get back to Tokyo early in the morning and went straight to the Precinct. It’s not the same as back then when I’d be…

The Past Six Years (Summer 1879 – Early Spring 1885)

That day when Hide and I were supposed to meet to go to Sasaki, Kizu gave me a note saying that it has been postponed…

Summer 1879 – Early Spring 1885

Summer-Fall 1879 That day when Hide and I were supposed to meet to go to Sasaki, Kizu gave me a note saying that it has…

Signs

This post is for Kizu -only-. Before we left for Kyoto, I checked my notes and did the calculations again… second month now. Signs, signs……

Lunchtime

hime__sama (hime__sama) wrote in samurai_orchids, @ 2005–01–26 10:21:00 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Current mood: cheerful…

Forgiveness in the Garden

Hajime: how’s hide doing? *smirks* Hide: She’s doing quite well. Hajime: good. just wanted to know. *chuckles* Hide: *Hide pops in* And how’s Hajime? Hajime:…

Ah… so, here I am, resorting to having a journal like the others have. *laughs* Writer, the things you drive me to… but I didn’t…

The Worst Crime He’s Committed

Hide: *IC Hide pops up, ever helpful. “You have the internet, you know, right, Safety-san? You could look things up?”* Hide: IC Hide is so…

No Discipline

Hide: *OOC Hide pops back* She will later. No, I was cheering on IC Hide for kicking ass. There might be hope for her! Hide:…

Crossing the Line

Hajime: you women drive my wolf crazy…. Hide: *OOC Hide breaks out of the closet where Safety locked her in* You think you’re the only…

What’s in a name?

In the early autumn of 1872 I was released through the good grace of Matsudaira Katamori and find myself once again Aizu. “I’m glad you’re…
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For there are many reasons…

Having just returned from an assignment, I knew they would all be sleeping. I open the door slowly and see Tokio laying on the futon…