vengeful brother

Enishi appeared in the story as a cold, seem-
ingly insane villain who seeks revenge on 
Kenshin for the death of his sister Tomoe. 
Enishi had witnessed the scene when Kenshin 
slices his katana down Tomoe's body and there-
fore, he believed that Kenshin had intentionally 
murdered his sister. Sadly he did not know 
the truth behind it, so he came back 10 years 
later after he fled to Shanghai to accompish 
his revenge, the Jinchu. His plan was to kill 
the closest person to Kenshin to make him suffer 
the pain of losing someone special.  After 
their battle, Enishi successfully killed Kaoru 
and ran away. Actually, as everyone had hoped 
for, Kaoru is alive, in fact, Enishi had kept 
her alive so that he could carry out his plan 
of killing her in front of Kenshin when he came 
to her rescue.  In the end Enishi forgives Kenshin 
because when Kaoru gets between them during their 
fighting to protect him... in Kaoru's place he 
envisioned Tomoe... protecting Kenshin just as 
she was doing when she died by his sword... 

forgotten memory

Tomoe is the older sister of Enishi 
Yukishiro. In Edo, Tomoe was engaged 
to a man named Kiyosato Akira, a 
childhood friend, whom she was in 
love with. However, Tomoe's cold and 
calm disposition lead her fiance to 
believe that she was not content with 
his position as the next successor of 
a Shogunate family. Therefore, he 
decided to leave for Kyoto, to prove 
to her that he was a warrior worthy of 
her love. Unfortunately, Akira was 
murdered by The Battousai and in hear-
ing of the tragedy, Tomoe decided to 
leave for Kyoto to avenge her fiance's 
death by finding a way to kill The 
Battousai. With revenge on her mind, 
she agreed to be The Yaminobu's spy. 
Her mission was to find a way to get 
near The Battousai, so that she may 
seek out his weakness. Eventually, 
Tomoe came to learn that the fearsome 
Hitokiri Battousai was only a 15 year 
old boy who hides behind the mask of 
an assasin. She became more concerned 
with the boy and finally helped 
Kenshin to gain back happiness. 
Kenshin knew Tomoe was the only 
person who understood and cared about 
him, so his emotions became dependant 
on her.  When he found out she was a 
traitor aiding in an attempt on his 
life and his informant gave him her 
whereabouts to see for himself Kenshin 
made a long trek thru a snowy wood 
and was ambushed several times by men 
from the Yaminobu.  Since Kenshin was 
overcome with so many emotions upon 
finding out that the love of his life 
was actually a spy and that her 
intention was assassination he was 
distracted and therefore badly wound-
ed by the time he got to their leader.  
During their fight Tomoe, having 
actually fallen in love with Kenshin 
over the time they'd spent together 
tried to stop the leader from stabbing 
Kenshin.  Kenshin, not having  realized 
that she'd gotten between them, followed 
thru with his attack accidentally killed 
Tomoe along with the leader in that 
single stroke.  Tomoe's little brother 
Enishi was watching from behind a tree 
in shock.  As Tomoe lied dieing in 
Kenshin's lap they stared at each 
other but said nothing... she brought 
the knife she had pulled out of the 
leaders hands to Kenshin's face and 
made the second scar on his cheek... 
then she died.  After her body had been 
laid down in preparation for burial 
Kenshin sat by her and promised 
that soon he would kill no more...