The Spy and the Hitokiri
Characters/Pairings: Kenshin/Kaoru, Sano, Yahiko, Saitou, OCs
Warnings: Mentions of sex, unusual sexual tastes, child molestation, and general dark issues. Also deliberate OOC-ness of one character, and unintential minor OOC-ness of other characters.
Summary: Kaoru has been hiding a dark secret: that she was a genius child-spy during the Bakumatsu. When her fellow spies start dropping like flies, Kaoru realizes that she is in danger.
Comments: Okay. This is a fic that I had major, major issues in reccing, despite the fact that I enjoyed it. One is the deliberate OOC-ness and MarySue-ization of Kaoru. I partially forgive it because it’s kind of necessary for the plot, but it’s still annoying. The other is frankly, that I disagree with her characterization of most the other characters as well. Saitoh, in particular, bares little resemblance to how I think of him. Sano is forgotten throughout the fic, Yahiko is barely mentioned, and the fic never makes more than a faint nod in the direction of dealing with the fact that Kaoru has been deceiving them for all the time that they knew her. Also, that not even Kaoru’s father or Doctor Genzai knew just strains the suspension of disbelief.
    On the other hand, the plot’s well-done and interesting, if you accept the premises it’s based upon. It’s the research that really tipped me over the edge into reccing it. The research footnotes about everything from the tunica molesta to the birthdates of the real-life Saitou’s children just made me grin. Because yes, I am a sucker for people who do their research. And it’s just a long, enjoyable, well-reseached mystery fic that did surprise me at the end at who was responsible (if only because I was so discouraged by her characterization of Saitoh that I found it believable that she would make him the murderer.
    So, yeah, a very mixed review. It really is an enjoyable fic; I just rather wish that she’d made it an original fic loosely based off the Rurouni Kenshin characters rather than change the characters around like she did.
Multi-chapter, complete.

The Art of Not Killing
Characters/Pairings: Kenshin
Warnings: None
Summary: After the Bakumatsu, Kenshin learns a new style of fighting.
Comments: Oddly enough, it had never really occured to me that Kenshin would need to practice not killing after the Bakumatsu. Except I’ve more than once noticed that even with the dull blade, Kenshin could easily have killed someone during a fight, if he’d used too much strength in a move. So it kind of made me realize something that I hadn’t fully realized before. And I don’t see enough really well-done fics between the Bakumatsu and the main part of the series.
One-shot, complete

The Geas
Characters/Pairings: Kaoru/Kenshin, Misao/Aoshi, Yahiko, and Yumi
Warnings: None
Summary: Kaoru is bound by a geas to serve her stepmother Yumi, when, one day, she runs into a mysterious red-haired man with an entirely irritating tendency to flirt with her. A Cinderella AU.
Comments: …I really kind of feel guilty for liking this. But I like fairy tale novelizations, and that tends to lead to me giving more fairy tale AUs a chance than I really should. And it’s well-written. It’s just…I’m reccing a Kaoru Cinderella fic. I feel unclean. (I’m joking. Mostly.)
Seriously though, it’s well-written, and the scenes with Kaoru and Kenshin arguing just sparkle. And the Misao/Aoshi subplot is fairly well-done as well.
Multi-chapter, incomplete.

Just a Knife
Characters/Pairings: Kaoru-centric. Kenshin, Yahiko, Sano, Megumi, Tsubame, Ayame, Suzumi.
Warnings: None
Summary: One day at the Akabeko, Kaoru gives her family a lecture on the philosophy of the Kamiya Kasshin Ryu, and the use and purpose of a knife.
Comments: A very nicely done look at the philosophy of the Kamiya Kasshin Ryu, and at Kaoru. To be honest, I kind of dislike Kaoru in the original series (…No, I am not a Tomoe fan either. And the Kenshin shipwars are completely and utterly inane and stupid), because I found her naive, and frankly weak. Collapsing into bed because her boyfriend left her just irritated me. And she never really did anything to change my opinion of her. But this fic still manages to make me like her, at least briefly, whenever I read it.
One-shot, complete.

That Which Lingers
Characters/Pairings: Kenshin/Kaoru, Misao/Aoshi, Saitoh/Tokio, Sanosuke, Megumi, various OCs
Warnings: A little dark, although not that dark.
Summary: Kenshin has a new enemy. One that not even death has stopped.
Comments: If you read one Rurouni Kenshin fanfic in your entire life, you should read this one. This is intriguingly plotted, well-characterized, and created a Tokio characterization that I have never been able to convince my subconscious isn’t canon. It hasn’t been updated since 2001, hasn’t seriously been worked on since 1999 or earlier, so far as I can tell, and I still have been checking it for updates every six months or so for the last five or six years. If that doesn’t tell you it’s good, what would?
Multi-chapter, incomplete.

The Trap of Innocence
Pairings: Misao/Aoshi. A little side mention of Soujirou/Misao. (I almost wrote Soujirou/Aoshi. Come to think of it, I sort of want to see a threesome with those three.)
Warnings: Vampire AU
Summary: Misao is a guardian of a realm, a half-breed vampire who protects the human world from the vampires. Aoshi is a vampire lord. When Aoshi becomes dangerously obsessed with her, what happens?
Comments: Okay, I’ll admit it. I usually hate hate hate loathe vampire fics. THey’re a stupid, cheap excuse for angst, and are frequently about as well-done as your standard high school AU fic. But this is well-written, and I’m finding myself intrigued. I’ve always had a weakness for Misao/Aoshi fics. God only knows why.
One-shot, complete.