About Soujiro's sword...

[HiToKiRi_08]

Kiku Ichimonji Norimune is the 2nd sword of soujiro... they say that it's the sword of Okita Soushi... how the heck did soujiro manage to get that??? HOW?????

[Kenshin]

from Shishio i guess

[HiToKiRi_08]

maybe... but it was never mentioned in the show ryt?
do you think saitou is the one? maybe one day, he's drunk and saw soujiro having tea, he thinks he's okita and gave him okita's sword and what the heck am i saying? and yet... it's still a mystery... nobuhiro watsuki really did a good job of hiding things...

[Kenshin]

but wasnt that why Soujiro gave back the sword to Shishio after the fight with Kenshin so isnt it Shishio who gave it to him

[HiToKiRi_08]

hmm... you've a got a point there kenshin... so, the first question is answered... but how did shishio manages to get okita's sword?

[Kenshin]

that part i dont know

[Soujirou_San]

dont know if it will be a spoiler or no but here is my guess.

Maybe when kenshin stop being an hitokiri, and after shishio been trained by katsura and turned the next hitokiri for choshu clan, shishio fighted whit the guys of the squad one of shinshengumi (the one leaded by okita souji) and when okita died from tubercolose shishio take is sword...
so... shishio saw that seta soujirou was some kind similar to okita souji and shishio gave him is sword.

just my 2 cents

[HiToKiRi_08]

maybe ur right... but i think it's not the way of a samurai to take other samurai's sword... stealing isn't in their vocabulary right?