As the angry sea waves crashed against the brown wooden boat; the ship's crew flailed from one end to the other; using buckets to get water off the deck.
The fierce winds shoved cool salty air into the face of a boy with fluffy grey, bedhead like, hair. He stared off into the sea, watching the grey waves build into a wall, and attack the boat. He had a black handkerchief covering most of his face, and a grey cloak, protecting his body from the sea water that splashed at him. A shiny bit of silver peeking out of the bottom of the cloak, and a gold handle out of the top.
"How fair the, Kana?" Someone asked, as they approached him.
"I-I'm fine Uncle Odin." Kana sighed, not turning around. The only reason he knew who it was, was because of the weird way the person spoke to him, "I'm just watching the waves."
"If you're interested," Odin said, leaning against the side of the boat, beside Kana, "I was able to acquire a room for you to let the dancing demon within you free."
"I really feel like dancing right now, Uncle Odin." Kana sighed, walking away, "I-I just want to be alone for a little bit."
Odin watched as the ten year old walked away, and down the steps leading into the ship.
If only my darkness was darker. He thought to himself, staring at his empty hands.
"Odin!" His friend called to him.
"What is it." Odin asked, skidding to a stop and turning to his friend. A blazing fire, that reached up into the night sky, burned behind his friend. In, his friend's arms, was a child. The child's grey hair and face was stained with stripes of white and black from the ashes.
"I-I need you to take Kana." He said, smiling.
Anyone else who saw him smiling while he said something like that, would think that he was just trying to get rid of his son and run off. But Odin had known this man for their entire lives. The smile he was giving, wasn't a smile of joy. This smile was to hide his sorrow.
"You must be joking!" Odin said, his eyes peeled fully opened.
"Ah, how I wish I was." He said calmly, but holding Kana tighter, "B-but I have to go back for her!"
"No, you take the boy and I'll-!"
"Owain!" He snapped; the light from the fire approaching them showed the tears on his face; but he continued to smile, "Please I ask you as my friend. I can't leave her."
"Of course, Inigo." Odin submitted.
"Thank you!" His friend said. Before handing his son off, he pulled him into a hug, "I swear, one day we will all be reunited, Kana." He hugged Kana as hard as he could, falling to his knees. His smile disappeared, and was replaced with a frown as tears streamed down his face, and falling down to the earth under him.
"Take him! Take him now, and go!" His friend command, standing up and handing him Kana.
Odin took Kana, and watched his friend run back towards the fire.
"If only I had been stronger." Odin spat at himself, curling his hands into fist and pounding them down on the ship's wood railing.
"Pirates!" The person up in the crow's nest announced, "Pirates approaching fast!"
Odin looked past the front of the ship, and saw a ship in the distance. They had a flag with something designed in red, on it. Odin couldn't make out what was on the flag.
"It's not pirates!" The person announced, "It is Hoshido royalty! Prepare for full stop.
As the crew of the boat ran around, to stop the boat, Odin felt the color leave his face; and he ran to the steps and made his way down them.
Down in the ship, there wasn't anything to interesting. There was just the small rooms where the passengers were staying, and the storage room where a few barrels of food and water stayed. The entire inside was lit by tourches, that hung on the walls.
"Kana?" Odin whispered, peeking his head into the room that they were given to stay in. But the bed was empty, and the room looked abandoned. Going back to the steps, Odin dwelled deeper into the ship, finding himself in the storage room, and peeking his head in to make sure that Kana was in there.
The young boy was in the middle of the room, spinning in a circle with one leg in the air and pressed against the other one, and arms folded in. Then he leaped into the air, and floated down to the grown, bowing. Odin recognized the dance, it was the on his friend had always danced.
Kana, who had his cloat off, wiped a layer a sweat off of his fore head, and leaned against a barrel. His cloat, and sword, stood beside him.
"Do you think they would've like?" Kana asked, sniffling and wiping his eyes.
"Sadly, I was only to catch the ending of it." Odin admitted, "You shall show me later, so I can tell you. But as for now, I bare ill news. A Hoshido royalty ship is approaching. You must disguise yourself, quickly."
"Y-yes." Kana said, grabbing ont his cloat and sword.
"Meet with me when you are done." He instructed, climbing back up the steps. When he reached back up to the ship's deck, just to see Hoshido soldiers littering it.
"Thank you for giving me this, Legends." Odin said, pulling up the hood of his jacket. It's brown and purple design was the marking of a taction.
"Everyone line up!" A Oni-Chief command the crew, "My lord is about to appear before all of you. If you do not what he says as soon as he says it, lets just say there will be consequences."
"Enough, General Akio." A deep voice said, crossing the board that had been place, so people could get across the two ships.
Stepping onto the deck of the ship, with his brown leather boots, was a face that Odin could never forget. The record breaking grey hair that fell down the back of his knees, and his animal skin attire was something a lot people wouldn't fear. But a lot of people didn't know the monster that was wrapped in the animal clothing.
"L-Lord Takumi!" The General said, falling to his knees, "You were supposed to wait on-!"
"Silence!" The archer snapped, "I come and go on these boats as I please. Now listen here peasants," He demanded, "I'm in search for a child. He'd be, I don't know, tenish. He has puffy grey hair."
"Why do you need this child?" One of the crew member bravely, or foolishly, asked.
"That's for me to know. Just bring me every child aboard this ship to me."
"Whats going on?" Someone asked from behind Odin, making all the hairs on his body stand at attention.
"Dear gods!" Odin yelled, turning to see what little of Kana, thanks to his cloat hiding him, as he could, "Child, do not do that!"
"I'm sorry!" Kana laughed. After two months of seeing the grim look on the ten year old's face, it was a breath of fresh to Odin to hear the child laugh. But it wasn't really the time or the place for it.
"Hey, you two!" One of the Hoshido crew members said, "You're ordered from the King of Hoshido to grant him an audiance!"