Any devoted Saito alternate pairing author has several stock ways, as Tokio simply MUST be taken care of.
These are (some of) mine.
~ Food poisoning
~ Snake bite
~ Spider bite
~ Disease
~ Murdered:
~ by poison
~ by sword
~ by dagger
~ strangulation
~ Political assassination.
~ Tripping on a lady bug and impaling self on a piece of grass.
~ Falling out of a building.
~ Trampled by a horse.
~ Shipwreck.
~ Drowning.
~ Trapped in a burning building.
~ Eaten by wild ducks.
~ Attacked by sea turtles.
~ Crushed under a boulder.
~ Avalanche.
~ Sucked into a black hole.
~ Skull grated away by a cheese grater.
~ Hearing "It's a Small World" one too many times.
~ -Walking in on- Kenshin and Kaoru.
~ Tree limb falls on head.
~ Gets a paper cut and dies of blood loss.
~ Pricks finger on spindle of spinning wheel.
~ Chokes on a grain of salt.
~ Gets beaten by a piece of soba.
~ Lung cancer from living in the same house as Saito, the Human Chimney (TM).
~ Strangled by drapery.
Do YOU have more? ^-^
