Kenji Himura

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SPOILER WARNING He is Kenshin and Kaoru039s son who appears at the end of volume 28. He likes to climb things but cries whenever he can039t get down. He loves his mother but doesn039t like his father. He likes to pull Kenshin039s hair In Samurai X: Reflections he is still a toddler but some scenes skip to the when he is fifteen years old and trains with Hiko. In the OVA time line Kenji grows up without Kenshin039s presence. He watches as his mother mourns his father039s continued absence. Kenji grows to resent his father039s selfishness and his mother039s continued depressions. At age 15 he runs away to Kyoto to train under Hiko Seijuro XIII in the art of Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu. Kenji displays a lot of promise as a student just as his father had 30 years before but Hiko decides to honor Kenshin by not passing the school on to Kenji. Hiko basically keeps Kenji busy until Myoujin Yahiko shows up to take him home. Kenji refuses to leave saying that he wants to experience true strength and surpass his father039s legend. Yahiko and Kenji duel. Kenji shows his promise and his genius but Yahiko uses his beliefs and experience to conquer the teen. After Kenji is subdued Yahiko passes on the Sakabatou to him. Kenji then returns to Tokyo with Yahiko to be with his dying mother. At the end of the OVA we see Kenji with a girl named Raikoji Chizuru. Kenji now wields the Sakabatou and seems to be at peace with his father.
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