Sitting on his knees a long Indigo haired man sat quietly submersing himself in the beauty of the flowery meadow he was in and the rustling of the golden autumn leaves. He was wearing a traditional light red umanori hakama and kimono, light red tabi and black geta with red haori and black tekkou. Defining him as a man from the orient most likely Midi, Sin or Enca. Rested against his shoulder was an overly long Monohoshizao nodachi blade in its sheath with a couple of cord tassels hanging from the pommel.
Hearing a slight rustling of leaves that had fallen on the ground in the short grass made the man glance out the corner of his eye revealing his previously closed eyes to be purple in colour and to be partially hidden by his indigo bangs that framed his face.
"Kojuro come on the boss wants you to come with us on today's raid, time to earn your pay." Shouted a man obnoxiously being flanked by four others all men looking rough and arrogant.
Slowly standing Kojuro strapped his sword to his back "Gauge, your presence is ruining the natural beauty of the meadow…" he quipped mockingly as he walked forwards.
"Why you arrogant." Gauge growled angrily
Plastering an arrogant and mocking smirk on his face "What's the matter Gauge are you're just realising your mother was a sow and your father a Vulcan, don't worry as far as Vulcan Sow's go your pretty smart and rare."
Clenching his fists in anger so wanting to wipe that holier than thou look of the bastard's face Gauge reined it in before stomping off with his cronies who were trying not laugh.
Making it to the town they were to raid on their boss's orders well Kojuro was only a hired mercenary and was being paid good money to help the idiots he was currently following. Moving forwards Kojuro stood by and allowed the bandits to do what they did since his job was to take care of any mages who might be around.
Walking along one of the pathways that wound through the quaint little town Kojuro slowly moved towards the town square where they corralled the townspeople to while they raided the homes and business, as far as bandit groups went these ones were a lot more organised and if he remembered correctly quite a few of the members the leader included were former Fiore Royal Knights.
As he made it to the square he heard a scream and growled when he saw Gauge holding a woman by her hair and grinding his boot into the back of a small child's head. Allowing his magic to flow through his body he appeared behind Gauge and rested his sword point on the nape of the man's neck "Let the woman and child go Gauge or did your small brain forget we don't harm civilians."
Smiling a little Gauge also gulped not knowing Kojuro heard it and saw through his smile was smirking "Oh really and if I don't let her go what are you going to do about, the way I see it your outnumbered, so back off you oriental country hick swordsman."
It was then Kojuro's eyes gained a deadly glint to them as his smirk diminished a little at Gauge's taunting "Tell me Gauge do you have dreams?" He then chuckled a little bit when he saw the man in front of him widen his eyes as he applied more pressure on his sword drawing blood from the man "Of course you do I mean even a simple minded fool like you has to have them…" his voice then dropped a little as he spoke to the woman and child "You two close your eyes…" he then redirected his speech to Gauge when he saw their eyes close "…Your dreams…"
Kojuro then looked around and saw that the other bandits had started to encircle him and if he had to guess there were about 12 nearly half of the entire compliment meaning the others were back at the cave hide out "…All your dreams…end…here!"
As he said that he applied pressure to his sword and watched as it slid through Gauge's neck like a hot knife through butter. He then saw the other bandit lunge at him screaming profanities at him. Pulling his sword free and seeing the woman and child scurry back and join the other citizens who watched with fear and awe as Kojuro allowed Gauges body to slump before spinning and ripping another man's guts open making him cry out and fall to the ground. Kojuro then stood there and waited for the others to come at him before stepping to the side and idly bringing his sword up and slashing the man's chest before shuffling a few steps and ducking a lateral strike of a knife and then bringing his sword around in an arc and nearly bifurcating the poor man in the process.
This trend continued until there none of the bandits were moving and were all lying dead on the cobble stones. Walking back over to Gauge he picked the man up by the collar of his shirt and began to drag him away while talking as he felt a soft south breeze ruffle his hair and clothing. "An hour south of here is a cave go there in two hours and you'll find everything that was stolen."
Using his magic again Kojuro and Gauge's corpse disappeared in a flash of purple lightning.
Getting to the cave he had mentioned Kojuro saw that the leader was waiting as usual for their group to return. He watched as the man's smug grin receded and slowly morphed into a scowl before shouting when Kojuro was a mere three meters away "Kojuro what the hell…Ack!"
Having had enough of the bandit group finally Kojuro swung his sword so fast that leader didn't see it coming and slashed the man throat making him slowly scrabble at the cave entrance wall as he slid down to a sitting position "Shut up, trash and corpses don't have the right to speak."
Kojuro dropped Gauge's body on the ground next to the leader before slowly walking into the cave, pretty soon the sound of screams echoed about for about five minutes before utter silence.
A figure soon walked out the cave with a bored look in his eyes 'Not a worthy adversary amongst the lot of them how annoying.'
He soon started walking away with a slightly larger than normal pack he had stored away at the cave. While he was walking Kojuro couldn't help but wonder "Who were they working for anyway."
Spending a further hour walking he made it to Oshibana and smirked a little when he saw a TV lacrima displaying the news and picture of the railway between Oshibana and Clover Town being destroyed, moving onto the train he smirked "Now if I could only find an adversary worthy of my skills."
Sitting down in one of the available booths Kojuro rested his sword against the wall and closed his eyes not really caring about who would sit near him. While he was on the train he did however hear an interesting conversation that a couple of people were having.
"Hey did you hear Titania of fairy tail took care of the whole Eisenwald guild while her team went to take care of the leader."
"You mean Erza Scarlet right, yeah she's supposed to be the best swordsmen in all of Fiore. She hasn't been beaten yet."
"It's a proud day to be a citizen of Magnolia City right now, they should be proud they boast the strongest guild."
Smirking at what he was hearing Kojuro made his mind up it seemed 'Magnolia, Fairy Tail Guild, Erza Scarlet the Queen of the Fairies huh, let's see how we compare'
About an hour and half later Kojuro opened his eyes when he noticed that he was in Kunugi, the announcement system soon crackled to life "PLEASE NO WE ARE TERRIBLY SORRY BUT DUE TO WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN OSHIBANA AND CLOVER A MAGIC BUS FULL OF PASSENGERS IS SCHEDUALED TO MEET US HERE AND THEREFORE THE TRAIN SERVICE TO THE NEXT TOWN WILL NOT COMMENCE UNTIL TOMORROW PLEASE ACCEPT OUR APOLOGIES."
The announcer voice soon disappeared making Kojuro sigh before standing and walking off the train intent on finding a place to sleep for the night and considering Kunugi station was just a station for the small townships that were spread about the countryside he didn't fancy walking to anywhere. So, he decided to pull up a patch of grass by the track side and wait until dawn came with a bus full of people.
Waking up the next morning Kojuro was looking at the train schedule and figured he should be in Magnolia by late that afternoon depending on when the bus showed up that is. Turning around at the sound of a rumbling sound that wasn't coming from the train in front of him allowed a smug smirk to make itself present on his face since he was hoping it would turn up sooner than later.
Watching as the double decker magic vehicle unload its cargo of people Kojuro boarded the train and sat in the same place as yesterday. It wasn't too long that the train was moving at a pleasant pace through the country side that was showing the first signs of autumn. Spending most of the ride staring out the window Kojuro ignored the woman who sat opposite him, she was reading a book of some kind not that he cared to much.
Before long they had passed through Onibus station that was still in a slight uproar about what had happened nearly a week previous with the Dark Guild Eisenwald and Legal Guild Fairy Tail. That caused a slight delay but that was fine. The train was soon going again and Kojuro continued looking out the window happily watching the peaceful nature filled Fiore landscape roll by a much better sight than the barren deserts of Desierto and Bellum, or the frigid temperatures of Iceberg.
It was around mid-afternoon when the train pulled into the Magnolia train station and Kojuro had finally hopped off the train and began walking about the populace of Magnolia looking at the various stands and stalls that littered the roadsides. He soon found himself outside the Fairy Tail Guild Hall but shook his head it would probably be a bad idea walking into her home and challenging her outright.
Continuing his way not noticing the small old man looking at him from out one of the second storey windows. Making his way along another roadway he patted a horse that was pulling a cart along making it snort a little.
He soon found himself looking out at a sunken park that was circular and had multiple stairways that led down into it properly and dominating the park was a large tree of some kind. Walking down the stairs he began walking around the park with a calm smile plastering his countenance. Sitting down on some steps, after visiting a bagel stand, he was happily eating the one he had purchased when he sighed seeing four Fiore Royal Soldiers walking towards him with weapons drawn.
Standing up Kojuro glanced over his shoulder and saw another four soldiers coming from behind him, sighing he saw that they were drawing quite a crowd well all the park goer's and looking at the buildings people were lining the window's and everything. He then looked forwards when one of the soldiers spoke up "Are you Kojuro Sasaki?"
Shrugging Kojuro looked at the soldier boredly "I think you already know the answer, but I don't think bringing only seven soldiers as back up is very smart."
The soldier gulped and pointed his own sword and Kojuro "Are you Kojuro Sasaki or not?"
"And if I am what do you simpleton's want with me then?"
The soldier hurriedly pulled out a slip of paper while fumbling with his sword at the same time read "Kojuro Sasaki wanted by the magic council for 50 counts of magic related crimes as well as 24 counts of murder. Kojuro Sasaki you are hereby under arrest, please come quietly or we'll be forced to bring you in with force."
Smirking at his supposed captors Kojuro who was holding his sword in his hand still sheathed slowly drew it allowing the sun to glint off, of the blade "sheep should learn not to challenge a lion, tell me is there anyone in this small flock who is a worthy opponent."
Pretty soon the soldiers attacked him, not wanting to spill senseless blood Kojuro spun his sword in his grip so his blade was reversed, not bothering to flow his lightning magic through his body Kojuro stepped around the first attack and laughed when two of the soldiers collided with each other which was emulated by the crowd, deftly dodging around an over extended thrust he used the flat of his sword and tapped the young man who looked to be a teen on the small of his back none too gently making him stumble and fall over his comrades who were untangling themselves.
Ducking a swing aimed at his neck Kojuro took a step going down one before leaning forwards and dodging the same man, Kojuro continued to dance between the two steps even after another pair of men came to help their fellow soldier. By this time the people assembled were thoroughly amused and outright laughing at what they were seeing. Kojuro getting bored and seeing that the first three he had knocked over weren't getting up except for the teen who had rolled away a little and was groaning most likely from his head clash. Sighing Kojuro ducked again before reversing his blade and buried the hilt of his sword into one's gut making spit fly from his mouth, at the same time Kojuro mule kicked another in the chest sending him back onto the grassy sloped edge of the park allowing him to roll all the way to the bottom. The third guy pulled the short straw gained a lightning fast blunt edged blade edge to his side making him crumple with a groan before sliding down a couple of stairs before stopping.
The last two looked absolutely fearful at the thought of trying to fight him turned and ran in the opposite direction and towards the fairy tail guild hall. Straightening Kojuro pulled his sheath from his back and sheathed his sword and sat down "Good, now I can enjoy my Bagel in peace. Dam cockroaches."