A Rurouni Kenshin fanart based on an excellent story on fanfiction.net called "Only the Beginning" (by: lolo popoki). I have her written permission to post a picture based on her fiction. Please check her out at:

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Just so you can understand the picture. Her story is an alternate universe fiction where instead of becoming a wanderer who protects to atone for his sins as an assassin, Kenshin tries to atone by killing himself. This picture is the scene where his master, Hiko Seijuro is grieving over the body of his apprentice, Kenshin who had abandoned him years ago.

Drawn in pencil. Background coloring done with chalk pastels. Characters colored with colored pencil.