

She had initially wanted to avenge the death of her 1st fiancé whom Kenshin had killed, but instead they both fell in love and she got proposed to.

At this point it is revealed that, during the Bakumatsu, Kenshin was to be married to a woman named Yukishiro Tomoe. When Kenshin and his friends return to Tokyo, he finds Yukishiro Enishi, who plans to take revenge by killing his friends. However, he also deals with his fair share of enemies, new and old, including the former leader of the Oniwabanshū, Shinomori Aoshi and a rival from the Bakumatsu turned police officer, Saitō Hajime.

Kenshin accepts and begins to establish lifelong relationships with many people such as Sagara Sanosuke, a former Sekihō Army member Myōjin Yahiko, an orphan from a samurai family who is also living with Kaoru as her student and a doctor named Takani Megumi, caught in the opium trade. After discovering that Kenshin is the real infamous assassin, Kaoru offers him a place to stay at her dojo noting that he is peace-loving and not cold-hearted, as his reputation implies. Kenshin decides to help her and defeats the fake Battōsai. When arriving in Tokyo in the 11th year of Meiji (1878), he meets a young woman named Kamiya Kaoru, who is in the middle of a fight with a murderer - who claims to be the Hitokiri Battōsai - tarnishing the name of the swordsmanship school that she teaches. In the early Meiji era, after participating in the Bakumatsu war as the assassin ' Hitokiri Battōsai', Himura Kenshin wanders the countryside of Japan with a reverse blade katana, offering protection and aid to those in need as atonement for the murders he once committed.
