Hand of Doom
It's the late afternoon, and the body of a young woman is spotted in the forest outside Manjidani Kouga by the village guards. She was taken to the hospital and put in the care of Kagerou.
"How's the girl doing?" Hyouma asked,
"Well, she seems to be in good health, but it seems like her body is refusing my healing medicines,"
"What? Let me have a look at her," Hyouma went into the unconscious girl's room and messaged her body for any abnormalities, "just as I thought...this is why her body is refusing medicine, it's her special ability; her body, it has the consistency or form of a shadow, its cut trying to cut air,"
What did you find out Hyouma-sama?"
"Her body, I can't make any surgical procedures on her, the scalpel won't even cut her skin," He stated, "there's just something strange about this girl's body,"
Chapter 1
"Huh? Where am I...?"
"Oh, it's good to see you're awake," said Kagerou cheerfully watching over the young kunoichi, "you had quite a nasty wound in your back when we found you, I must say you're lucky to be alive,"
"I guess I should thank you for healing me," she said sitting up in her bed putting back on her simple clothes consisting of a white cut-off tank top and black pants with deep cuts on the sides, widely exposing her thighs.
To protect herself, she wears armor which included rounded steel shoulder guards and steel forearm protection with elbow plates and steel gauntlets which had thick, 2½ in long spikes on the knuckles.
"Well, I best be on my way, it was a pleasure making your acquaintance," she bowed and was about to head out the door
"Wait a minute, who are you?" Kagerou asked stopping her
The woman turned around and winked, "Just a traveler," she said nodding to the medical-ninja and picking up her 8ft long scythe by the door whose blades were on both ends of the weapon and faced opposite directions.
She stepped out of the Kouga Danjo's estate and onto the streets and alleyways of Manjidani. She stopped and looked down noticing her stomach was asking for food; so she stopped in a local house and sat down for a meal.
"Excuse me; i'm hungry can you spare me some food?" the kunoichi said levelheadedly but with slight bit of polite etiquette and sassiness
"Oh? Are you that new girl everybody is talking about?," said Okoi getting a closer look at her, "wow, you're very pretty for such a tomboyish girl,"
"Thanks...I think," She said nonchalantly pulling off a gourd of bootleg hanging from the shaft of her scythe
"You don't seem to be from around here," said Saemon taking a clump of rice with his chopsticks, "I'm Kisaragi Saemon, and you are?"
"Hmm...aren't you the observant one?" She said jokingly looking at the teenager with a relaxed look in her eyes and running her hand through her scruffy, boyish-cut, black hair which was as spikey as a porcupine's hide. She also has two long, smooth hair locks in the back that went all the down to the backs of her thighs.
She ate her food quickly and went on her way, "Well, it's nice to meet you, good sir, but I must take my leave," she said grabbing her scythe leaning against the table.
"Wait, who are you anyway, what's your name?"
"I'm just a traveler, Saemon-kun," She turned around and winked, "now I must not be wasting any more time, for the road is long and calls out to me,"
"Hmm...a traveler?" Okoi said to herself, "wait...something doesn't feel right, since when do travelers carry such large weapons?" she thought watching the buxom girl walk away,
She continued to walk the streets as evening fell on the village, "Hey, scythe-woman!" said a tall, bald muscular man whose voice appeared to be coming from the walls.
"Yes...?" she said turning around looking over shoulder, "I have no beef with you, what do you want?"
"Nothing, I just need you to tell me who you are,"
"I'm not obliged to answer," the girl scoffed
"You're a beautiful girl," said Gyoubu getting a firm grib on her from behind, "but I hate to mess up that pretty face of yours, so don't make things difficult,"
Crowds of Kouga shinobi on the walls around the two ninja, the young woman shifted her eyes from left to right and spotted Okoi on the sidelines. With the utmost speed, she fled from Gyoubu's sight. He followed the young traveler to the fields outside the village walls.
"I think something is wrong," Kagerou said bumping into Hyouma watching Gyoubu chase after the kunoichi on the rooftops and streets.
"Is it about that new girl?" Hyouma asked, Kagerou nodded yes, "I noticed there was something weird , Kagerou, Okoi, let's go,"
"Hai!"
Meanwhile in the fields outside the village, "Where do you think you're going?" Gyoubu said sarcastically,
"I don't want to fight you," the girl said with a fire of anger burning in her eyes, "but you're starting to make me angry, you won't like it when I'm angry,"
"I'm sorry to hear that...come on don't make things difficult!"Gyoubu replied with his cheeky attitude and attacked, "huh, what the...?"
The girl's body faded like wind to dodge her fist, "Hit me if you can," the girl said cleverly unscrewing her scythe and fusing them to her arms, giving her the look of a praying mantis.
"What the hell kind of ability is that!?" Kasumi blasted
"Gyoubu-sama!" Kagerou cried
"Hey, it's that traveler who ate at our house, ha! I knew she was a shinobi!" said Okoi
"Hayate no Kuro-Youkai," She said with her voice echoing in the wind as she swirled around the Kouga shinobi, "my clan's fighting style..., it's simply a technique to kill quickly and efficiently,"
"That's kind of you, now I can find a way to defeat you," Gyoubu sassed
"I can transform my body into an air-like state," She explained snickering while Kasumi was failing to hit her, she finally she bared the blades against the man's neck, "which is why that fist of yours will go right through me, you will inflict no damage to my internal organs, in retrospective it's like fighting a ghost wouldn't you say so?"
"Whoa cool!" said Okoi watching the girl's rather interesting techniques
"You're very strong," Gyoubu complimented,"but as I said don't make this difficult, just tell who you are,"
She kneed in respect to Hyouma and the other ninja in Manjidani, "Alright....my name...is Akabane,"
Hyouma lightly touched Akabane's back which was covered by a large tattoo of an eagle-winged dragon clutching a sword going through a decapitated demon's head. He recognized it immediately,
"Hey, hey, that tickles," she chuckling feeling the touch of the blind shinobi's hand on her back
"No way, she's a Kageyasu..." He said in disbelief, "no....that...that's not possible,"
"What do you mean, Hyouma-sama?" Okoi asked, "who are the Kageyasu?"
"The Kageyasu Clan were a group of hired executioners from the north," Hyouma explained, "they were in the service of the Kouga clan before Danjou-sama, i never thought they would return,"
"Your knowledge of my family is indeed intriguing," She nodded at Hyouma-sama; he maybe blind but he still blushed looking at probably one of the most beautiful women he had the pleasure of talking to judging by her voice, "but I feel its best you keep that kind of information under wraps,"