Disclaimer:

I do not own Sengoku Basara or its characters

Claimer:

I do own Fuyu ( even though she was real person technically ) and Jinsui

Summary:

A new Lord is wreaking havoc across Japan and Masamune has his eyes on that head, but of course so does young Yukimura. Too bad their hearts are on the line as well.

Remember what I state below:

Italics and ' ' Means thinking! The person is talking to themselves, sounds a bit weird, neh? Example: 'Dammit.' Masamune thought.

((Author Speaking))

Note:

This is after the first Sengoku Basara

Chapter One:

Date: The One Eyed Dragon of Oshu

"My Lord!" called the samurai as he knelt before the higher up before him, his armored glistened from the full moon above them. He and the other soldiers were in a camp, ready to settle down in Kiyosu Castle. This was the castle of former lord Nobunaga and was given to her by Takeda Shingen who took over this land after Sanada Yukimaru and Masumune Date defeated the sixth Devil King. The Lord of this castle now was a former samurai for Takeda, an for their incessant loyalty and never wavering spirit, they were given this castle because Takeda believe that this former samurai could help bring about peace to Japan and so did Takeda's retainers. The Lord sat in a lotus position on a mat as their eyes never left the samurai who was in dire need to tell them something. Lifting their right hand gracefully, they left their hand open with their palm expose and moved it in a circular motion, telling the samurai to continue what he had to say. "Takeda says he needs your assistance for the battle of Mikatagahara," the samurai explained, his lord stood and turned to look at the window behind them, looking at the sunset.

"I will assist him, tell General Jinsui to prepare my samurais. Ready rifles or canons for this time no swords, pikes, and arrows are needed for this war," the voice was soft, something lingering within that voice. The Lord seemed to be remincscing of something but this was no time to question his lord, so the samurai ran out of the room.

"It will happen soon," said the Lord, forming a small smile.

"My Lord!" shouted Yukimura as he ran to his Lord Takeda who was standing, debating on how he was going to do in this battle. After all, Takeda was known to be the best military strategist in Japan, especially with his Calvary Tactics. When the red clad samurai finally reached his lord, he knelt down with his face looking down at the ground, showing respect. Takeda turned to looked at him with a smile on his face and after sensing this, Yukimura stood up and looked as his lord with his dual spears tightly gripped in his hands, "What are we going to do? Our samurai are ready for battle."

"We are waiting for our allied units, Yukimura." said the man known as the Tiger of Kai kept his arms folded, still waiting for his allied units. This man was highly feared after the defeat of Nobunaga Oda due to the fact he had taken over the land that was previously owned by the sixth Demon King.

A samurai came running towards Takeda and Yukimura, "They are here. Our allied units, Lord of Suzume residence has arrived!"

"Lord Takeda, I see you have been doing well since my absence," said a woman who bowed respectfully to the Tiger of Kai and he did the same. The female wore a form fitting kimono, similar to Nohime's. There was a long slit at the right side revealing the cherry blossom insignia tattooed on her thigh It was a sky-blue color with a ocean blue colored ribbon - like obi, the designs on the Kimiko were white lotus flowers at the end of the kimono and at the end of her butterfly ( meaning they went passed her hands; really long ) sleeves. Her hair was style in a Hime cut as her big almond shaped eyes held mischief and excitement, something that Takeda had missed seeing in his fief. The female tilted her head to the side, her crimson colored eyes dancing from Takeda to Yukimura, "Well, hello Yukimura - kun, it has been a long time, no?" a Kitsune smile formed on her face.

Yukimura wasn't really good at talking to women, especially to women with such a high status like her. He cleared his throat and put on his cheery attitude, "Yes, it has been such a long time Lady Fuyu."

"You can just call me Fuyu-chan, Yukimura - kun. We were friends at one time, weren't we?" she tilted her head to the side, waiting for her response as Takeda continued to smile through this conversation.

"Isn't that disrespectful? You're a Lord of a damiyo." Yukimaru argued, not wanting to seem like a manner-less fool.

"But I insist that you call me this. Isn't it disrespectful to call someone a name they don't wish to be called?" was the quick response Fuyu gave, her smile not faltering. "Sorry Lord Takeda for wasting precious minute with childish conversation, what is your plan and I will act anyway you wish me to."

Takeda folded his arms, speaking of his plan to her as she requested and as necessary, "I planned that you will move go south, so you can attack Tokugawa's fortress Hamamatsu and my unit will go west and he will never see this coming. If we win this war, which I know we will, I will give you this castle for I see your army and fief is growing largely and if it weren't for you, we probably would of never won this war."

Fuyu smiled, "Why thank you. Another fief would be really great for me, many ronin have come to join me and so my Infantry and Calvary keeps expanding as well as my people. But yes, we will go south but I suspect that me and Tokugawa will meet at Mikata, so maybe you should meet us there instead of going straight to his fortress. We will surely outnumber him and with my mass amount of infantry with rifles, I'm sure he will go down like a drunken fool."

"Why didn't I think of that?" Takeda asked himself aloud, "Well done Fuyu - sama. We will meet at Mikata plain, Yukimura will you assist Fuyu?"

Yukimura's eyes widened, shocked by what was asked him. "As you wish, my Lord."

Takeda and his unit had left leaving Fuyu's unity and Yukimura standing there, waiting to leave on Fuyu's order. Fuyu merely smiled at the nervous Yukimura, he only seemed to act that way when she was around. "No need to be tense, this isn't your first battle Yukimura - kun."

"I'm not tense!" he defended himself, narrowing his eyes at her before calming down, "How come you make everyone call you by your first name, Fuyu - chan?"

The woman looked at him with a smile on her face, "I have no last name but Suzume as the name of my residence since I find that appropriate."

"Are you saying that you have no family?" asked the brown spiky - haired man, his eyes softening as she looked away as he asked her this.

"You are correct. Now, we should get moving." Fuyu said while jumping onto her white horse, riding off into the forest.

Yukimura and Fuyu had rode on their horses side by side as the sun had began to set and soon they would need to make camp. Yukimura looked at Fuyu, her eyes seemingly looking off in a daze and this was how he usually saw her. Her expression seemed sad as if she was remembering something and since he found out that she had no family, he assumed she was either thinking of a family she once had or the hardships she had to go through to be where she was today. When she had joined their lord, she was only twelve - years old and she was determined to be in Takeda's good gracious. They were similar but very different for Fuyu seemed cool, calm, collected, and mysterious while he was loud, brash, impulsive, and an open book. Would his lord try to make them be together? Is that why he made them go to Mikata together? Yukimura shook these thoughts away, he wasn't worried about falling in love or anything after witnessing the death of Nagamasa of Azai because of Nobunaga using his sister, Oichi, against him.

"Yukimura - kun?" called Fuyu, seeing him look out into space.

"Uh... Huh? Oh, yeah?" said the young man, snapping out of thoughts and looking at the female warrior who was smiling at him.

"You seemed troubled, is there something wrong?" she asked him.

"No, I'm okay."

"Well, if it isn't Yukimura - san." said a familiar voice, Fuyu raised her hand to halt her troop as they were now surrounded by blue armor clad warriors.

"Date..." Yukimura smiled as the one - eyed dragon of Oshu now appeared in front of them.

Date looked at Yukimura was his signature grin before looking confused looking at Fuyu, the new Lord of Kiyosu castle. He wondered what Yukimura was doing with her and now with his Lord Takeda since wherever Takeda was, there was Yukimura beside him. They must bee in the middle of something was the first thing Date could guess, "What's up?"

"I'm traveling with Fuyu - chan to Mikata plain where she thought we will meet Tokugawa," Yukimura explained as Fuyu looked at Date with a skeptical look, not sure if she could trust him or not but she heard that a man such as Date wasn't into the whole betrayal thing and assumed that the man would not help Tokugawa due to Tokugawa's being once loyal to Nobunaga.

"Ah, well, I want to join the party. I have nothing to do and a little battle should be fun, don't mind if I join in, Lord Fuyu?" Date asked, his eyes roaming over her figure as he tried to read her body language, the woman was calm and had no sense of fear of him which was good on his part but kind of disappointed him to some degree.

"More allies are welcomed, Lord Date." Fuyu answered him and kept riding forward leading her army to the front.

Yukimura looked at Date who whistled as he watched Fuyu leave, "That is one pretty gal, huh? I wonder why she's so... so..."

"Regal - like? Well, she's a lord now despite her being the same age as us. I guess she has to look strong in front of her soldiers but usually, she's pretty upbeat although I rarely get to see it." Yukimura and Date rode their horses side by side.

Soon, Fuyu declared to make camp. As the camps were set, Fuyu sat inside her tent looking over scrolls of information of Tokugawa, of course had to been yards ahead of her enemies, right? Looking over the brief bits they had of his life, she found that in the battle of Sekigahara that there were 160,000 men on the battlefield facing each other. So, he had a lot of soldiers which placed no fear to Fuyu for she had 200,000 samurai's in her army and once she got the second fief, she would expand even more.

"My Lord," said a voice outside the tent, Fuyu didn't bother to turn to see the figure since she knew who it was as soon as he approached the tent.

"You may enter, Yukimura." Yukimura entered the tent and walked toward the female, her eyes leaving the documents and rolling the scrolls back to the way they were, so they weren't damaged.

Yukimura looked at her with curious eyes, "If you're busy then I shall leave and return when you are finished."

"No, its fine. Is there something wrong, Yukimura - kun? Is the Dragon of Oshu causing any trouble?" asked Fuyu, obviously not serious because she knew that the two were friendly with each other.

"No, he's just curious of you since you've been in this tent for a whole two hours. Have a drink with us, please?" asked the Takeda samurai, waiting for the woman's decision and he knew it once she stood up and walked towards the exit of the tent. Yukimura smiled and ran after her.

"Ah, seems like the foxy Lord as decided to join us," Date said with a cup of sake in his hand with Katakura Kojuro, his retainer and brotherly-like figure at his side, "How do you think this war will end, Lord Fuyu?"

Fuyu sat down with her exposed leg bent and her left leg lying flat. She placed her right elbow on her leg while resting against a tree with her eyes soley on the One - Eyed Dragon, "Why, was that a compliment? I think you like me Lord Date," a smirk formed on the Oshu dragon's face as the woman received a cup of sake, "Of course I believe Takeda and I will lead to victory, why would I have any doubts? Do you speculate a lost?"

Yukimura sat down in between Date and Fuyu and supped some of his alcoholic beverage, he saw the a gleam in Date's eye, "Well, you are one pretty lady but I like the dainty type, my woman should be a princess not a warrior. Confident and no, I don't think we'll lose."

The black - haired woman smiled, "Oh, so you like the prissy ones? Sorry I like pocking up swords instead of arranging flowers. A man like you would only liked to be warmed in bed but not intellectually stimulated by someone of equal power," Fuyu tilted her head to the side, acting seemingly innocent, "Is that right, Lord Date? Well, then if you think that is so then my thought was unnecessary. The Great Dragon of Oshu has an eye for victory, does he not?"

Yukimura chuckled, "Wow, I think you met your match, Date. Fuyu - chan is a real smart woman."

Fuyu smiled at him, "Thank you, Yukimura - kun."

"Hey, hey, hey... Why do you greet each other like this? How come I can't get the same treatment? I want to live a little." Date frowned, "I didn't say I didn't like smart women but as I man, I wish to be the provider and the protector." Date quirked a brow, "Well, you always have a quick come back ready all the time, eh?"

"This is no woman to be taken lightly one, Date - sama." Kojuro said admiring the woman as well.

The female lord finished her Nigorizake sake, "Well, I'm sure you boys wouldn't be able to handle a woman liked me in or out the bed, I don't like to be dominated over. Just because my physique maybe weaker than yours, my endurance, my brain, and my sword handleing is twice as strong as any man's," Her eyes closed halfway, not feeling a bit drunk but becoming more relaxed around the men. The group of samurai's were all into the conversation of the quad, "Date - kun is what you want, huh? I guess that makes us friends."

"Why, there's nothing wrong with that," Date said.

Yukimura shook his head, trying to steer the conversation to another direction due to his curiosity, "What made you become a samurai, Fuyu - chan?" asked Yukimura as Fuyu looked up at him, her eyes glossed over in a daze. Even though she seemed to be not in the conversation, she was aware of what was being said to her.

"Revenge," she answered.

"Revenge? Against who?" Date asked, now curious.

"Against the men who killed my father, mother, and brothers," Fuyu tilted her head back, looking up at the sky, "I was sent to away so that I could live."

The three men looked at her as she closed her eyes, "Who was your father?" asked the Takeda warrior.

"My father was not a kind man, but he was not all that evil. He was a simple samurai, a name not remembered but hated in his clan," she answered, trying to keep this subject short and sweet.

Date frowned, "Sad. Its hard not to lose a family in how Japan is today, but you have to keep fighting or party's over."

"You're right, but what makes it easier to lose a family are simple samurai's who don't see the kindness in one's heart, they just assume that person is evil because they happen to see the wrong side of them or maybe these wars are driving people to be evil." Fuyu clenched her teeth, feeling anger building up inside of her as she tried to keep it down.

"Hey, I knew I'd fine you here, Yukimura - san." said Sasuke as he leaped from a tree, the faithful ninja of the Takeda clan has arrived.

"Join us," Yukimura said with a smile as Fuyu stood.

"I am going to bed, we have war tomorrow and I have an army to lead. Good night, boys." Fuyu waved and walked away.

"I swear she's something else," Date added once the woman was out of their vision, "Seems like Yukimura isn't gay afterall."

The group of men laughed as Yukimura narrowed his eyes, "I have nothing but respect for Fuyu - chan, I'm not even sure she would even like someone such as me,"

"Don't give up before trying, my friend," Sasuke suggested while guzzling down some sake, "Woo, she has a body on her... Nothing like my Kasuga's though."

"Your still on that boat? She doesn't want you, she never did," Yukimura told him while shaking his head.