and defeats him. While Yahiko rests from to his injuries, Kaoru is kidnapped by Enishi, and Yahiko and his friends start searching for her. When another of Enishi's comrades, Kujiranami Hyōgo escapes from jail and goes on a rampage, Yahiko stands up against him. However, he is not strong enough on his own to defeat him and Kenshin saves him at the last moment. After he and Kenshin recover from their fight injuries, they go to rescue Kaoru from Enishi. While on his island fortress, Yahiko defeats one of the four bodyguards from Enishi's partner, Heishin, and witnesses Kenshin's fight against Enishi, which Kenshin wins. Five years later, he is the acting instructor at the Kamiya Kasshin-ryū dojo. One day Kenshin calls him to test his skills; when he lands a hit on Kenshin, he gives Yahiko his own reverse-blade sword as a present for his coming-of-age ceremony. In other media In Rurouni, Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story, he is known as and is the brother of Takani Megumi and Kaoru. Yahiko also appears in all of the Rurouni Kenshin video games, including the crossover game Jump Ultimate Stars. After the manga serialization ended, Watsuki authored one-shot chapter from the series in which Yahiko goes to take care from the people of dojo, but ends confronting a former soldier from Shishio who takes as hostages the students from the dojo. In Requiem for the Ishin Patriots, Yahiko joins the samurai Takimi Shigure's group in their attempt to overthrow the Meiji Government, but Shigure later knocks Yahiko out to make him stay out of danger. In Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection, set various years after the manga's end, a now adult Yahiko lives with Sanjō Tsubame, a childhood friend he met who works at a restaurant where both worked together. He starts taking care of Kaoru when she suffers from an illness while Kenshin went to assist people injured in wars. Due to Kaoru's suffering, Yahiko goes to Kyoto to request Kenshin and Kaoru's son, Himura Kenji, to accompany his mother. In order to make him accept, both have a duel, and Yahiko wins. In the reboot Rurouni Kenshin: Restoration, he works for Takeda Kanryu. As Kanryu plans to kill Kaoru who is fighting for her dojo, Yahiko requests Kenshin's help to save her. After Kanryu's defeat, Yahiko stays in Kaoru's dojo alongside her and Kenshin. Yahiko was featured in the live action film