Chapter one: two little samurai demon girls.
"Ari-hime! Yuki-hime!" we hear our tutor call us and he made us dress in regular Kimono's which were red for me and sky blue for Yuki. Yuki and I are twins but I have lighter hair than her… Plus we are two demon princesses of the Rune Clan.
It's our birthday today… Our tenth birthday. "Ari-nee we better go to Hisami-san." I nod and we walk to the meeting place… The Grove of Sakura Trees near the back of the compound. "Hisami-san!" I saw him talking to Father and Mother. "Ari-hime, Yuki-hime… We have decided you must know what humans are like so you are go to a friend's dojo to live in Edo. Hisami is the only one who will know your heritage along with yourselves of course. HE will also teach you self-defense with different weapons." Father said and I wonder if we're in Hakuouki? Nah… We nod in unison as Mother hugs us and Father ruffled our short hair… We knew the advance moves of Swords and Spears but we were packing to go learn throwing knifes, shuriken, and needles along with medical things. WE go pack our Hakama's we use for training and pack food, money, and Yuki loves her spear as I carry two matching swords from our family since I am the Heiress because I was born first. "Ready Sensei!" We say and Hisami-san nods as we head out. "Our first stop is Okinawa." Okinawa is right below our village that is hidden in a Grove of Sakura Trees, it's a farming town and we walk the short distance in our male Hakama's, we look like pupils as Hisami-san is a famous samurai that served the emperor. He's from the second branch of the clan which interacts with humans more. I see the market and buy a green and black Hakama at a discounted price thanks to Hisami-san. I place it in my bag and we continue until we reach Edo at Dinner time. "OOF!" I fell to the ground and saw a girl our age who had the scent of a demon from the Yukimura-clan. I help her up and she bows. "Sorry! I was in a hurry but I bumped into you… Sorry!" I smile and she smiled back. "I'm Chizuru Yukimura… Who are you?" I see my twin walk over and she smiled at Chizuru. "I'm Ari Rune, this is my twin Yuki Rune. Nice to meet you Chizuru Yukimura!" "Ari-nee! Sensei is waiting for us at the dojo!" I nod and we can tell her we're female. "We're girls too so no problem, Nice meeting you Chizuru! Want to be friends?" I ask and Yuki nods in agreement to my statement. "Yes please!" Chizuru is from the main branch… I can sense it. "Great! Our first friend!" We all giggle and we wave bye to Chizuru as we ran to the dojo down the street.
"Ari-nee! No fair!" I won the race and I wasn't called sky runner for nothing. My sister and I have different powers we learned o control since we were four. I can manipulate air and Fire runes as Yuki can manipulate water and earth runes. I see Hisami-san talking to a man. "Sensei!" We chirp in unison and their attention was directed to us. "These are my Pupils Ari Rune and Yuki Rune. We ask your permission to stay here, we will pay-?" The man held up a hand and I look at Yuki. "You are my friend, and these young boys will get along fine with my students… You may stay for free." I bow and so does Yuki. "Thank you Isami-kun, Ari-kun and Yuki-kun will share a room?" Hisami-san asked and his friend nods. "Let's get you two some dinner-!" He stared at the door and opened it seeing twelve boys fall over, the smallest on the bottom. "Sorry Kondou-san… Is he another teacher? And who are they?" "This is Sonui Hisami and his pupils who will be living here with us… Ari and Yuki Rune." The youngest- a boy our age saw my swords and the red haired twelve-year-old saw Yuki's spear. "They have weapons already?!" "Ari-kun and Yuki-kun will train separately from us." "Excuse me, Sensei… it's our birthday today so we were wondering if we could go to a friend's house?" Yuki asked and Hisami nods, but he wants to meet Chizuru. "We'll be back Isami-kun" Hisami-san said and they both nod as the boys watch us leave the dojo compound.
We saw which house she went into and we knock. "Hello, how can I help you?" A bald man asked kindly and he looked shocked after he sensed us. "Kodo-kun, how is your little one?" Hisami asked and he smiled. "Father! Who- Ari and Yuki!" Chizuru smiled and hugged us tightly as the three of us laugh. "Chi-chan! We forgot to tell you we turned ten today!" Yuki said and I nod as Chizuru smiles softly at us. "Please come in!" Yukimura-san said and we all nod. "So why are two lovely girls dressed as boys?" Yukimura-san asked after we ate and he whispered to him our situation, thanks to my wind rune I heard it. I ignored it and Chizuru gave us two different handmade bracelets that were really strong and hard to break. Mine was red and Yuki's was blue. We both hugged her happily and she hugged us back. "Ari-nee, Sensei said we need to leave. I nod and put on the bracelet. "Thanks Chizuru-chan… Here! It's a gift from us!" I gave her a hard-to-break bracelet made out of pink stones. "T-thank you! It's really pretty!" I smile and saw Yuki smile also and we head out promising to come visit when we can.
We walked back to the dojo and Kondou smiled as Yuki yawns, "Come young ones." I hold Yuki's hand and put her on my back as I walked easily to the room next to Sensei's. I place Yuki on the futon and I took the other one next to her.
