The Journey Begins
A dark night looms over a bamboo forest in the middle of Japan. The moon looms heavy as clouds begin to cover the stars that fill the night sky. The chatting of two young girls fills the endless forest of bamboo stalks, striking the silence into bitter pieces so the forest didn't seem so empty of life.
"Hey Natsumi?"
"Yea?"
"Where exactly are we going this time?"
"Back to the Ronin Village of course, we have to pick up my kodachis."
Natasha looks over at her friend Natsumi, who's long black bangs start to fall in her face, and almost trips over a fallen bamboo rod, as they walk through the empty bamboo forest. Natasha has long black bangs like her friend, her blood red eyes staring at Natsumi as she almost falls on her face.
"What did you do to those kodachis anyway?" Natasha raises a brow as she watches Natsumi stand up tall, looking up at the sky and blushing in embarrassment as she combs her fingers through her black locks. Natsumi's brown eyes glistening in the light of the stars, though that glow slowly dieing as the clouds start to cover the midnight sky.
"I broke them both in two." Natsumi face flushes with a bright red, Natasha staring wide-eyed at her friend.
"How could you have managed that?" Natasha chuckles a few times, Natsumi looking back to her, her eyes narrowed.
"Oh come on, its easy to break some old blades into two different pieces."
"Only you Natsumi. only you." Natasha chuckles a bit before sighing loudly, "Plus, how are you going to pay for this all?" She raises a brow as she looks forward towards their path, Natsumi looking back to the sky, sighing slightly.
"The sword smith I'm staying with says it would be an honor to fix them."
"You're Lord Gohda's oldest daughter. why not?"
"Yea. but he's the only person in the village that knows. I hope. I'd hate for that nice man to get himself killed cause of me." Natsumi sighs, and stretches her arms out yawning as they come upon the outer walls of the city, but seem to be nowhere near the gate. The tall walls are smooth, unable to be climbed up by hand, and the edges are far out from the slanted roof of the walls, being to high for one to jump to grab.
"So how are we going to get in.?" Natasha looks over to Natsumi, raising a brow to her yet again.
"Easy Natasha." Natsumi reaches into her kimono, drawing a grappling hook, and throws it to the top of the wall, the hook grabbing hold of the other end of the rooftop. She pulls herself up to the top, though leaving the rope hanging after rising to the top for Natasha, pulling her up also.
"Do you always sneak in?" Natasha finally reaches the top, grabbing hold of Natsumi's hand as she helps her rise to her feet, giving Natsumi the sarcastic look, as always.
"Do you have to ask?" Natsumi gives her a sly grin, winding up the rope from her grappling hook.
"Point taken." Natasha sighs and shakes her head, knowing her friend is right when she says things about that. Natsumi gazes upon the village, looking around at the small part of town as the cool breeze blows upon them.
"It's a nice little town. Yea I know; that's why I chose it. And I'm close to my father also, so he'll never look here for me."
***
The girls continue to gaze upon the city, while someone gazes upon them from afar. Though his eyes are blocked by the shadows of his basket hat, he would be hard to spot from his long black robe, bearing the symbols of evil spirits.
"My lord. I have found to girls on the roof of the outer city. One girl has very long black hair, it to a bun to the side, wearing a purple kimono and holding a double blade." The man lowers his hat a bit, tilting it as he takes his gaze from the girls, listing to the wind as if he was standing with another, though being all alone. A voice from nowhere speaks back to the man in a deep tone, a presence of darkness filling the air as this voice echoes through the wind around the mysterious man wearing the basket hat.
"Good. but what about the other one.?"
" The other also has long black hair, a braid under her ear down her front. she's wearing a dark blue Kimono. I believe its Gohda's daughter my lord." The evil voice from the air laughs maniacally, though calming moments after.
"Good. Good! Bring the daughter to me, in any means necessary."
"Yes my lord." The leading warrior from the roof waves his hand forward as he raises his head to fix his gaze upon the girls before him, though far away. His warriors filling into the town, gowned in dark blue, and armed with katanas, bows, and spears. But these warriors are unnoticed by the people of the town since these warriors bearing the Ronin symbol are common to be found inside the village. They walk into all the allies, archers, samurai, and lancers all waiting for the young girls to walk strait into their little trap.
Natsumi jumps from the city wall, along with Natasha following.
"Hey Natsumi. is it always this quiet.?" Natasha looks over at Natsumi, raising a brow a bit as the cold wind blows upon them, the faint echo of thunder filling the air.
"No. I don't think it ever has been. Something isn't right." Natsumi jumps up onto a roof of a small hut, giving a quick look around before she takes another jump up onto a two story building, looking around from the tall roof. Natasha jumps up onto the roof that Natsumi first jumped on.
"See anything Natsumi!?" Natasha calls out, loud enough for Natsumi to hear, but silent enough so no one else would be able to. Natsumi jumps down from the roof, landing next to Natasha as she brushes her fingers through her onyx bangs again.
"Yea. There are Ronin warriors crawling all over town, and they don't look like the normal ones that always seem to be here. They seem to be looking for something." Natsumi sighs as she looks around their surroundings to the guards that fill the city streets.
"We better rush to the smith's house, just in case. You're unarmed anyway Natsumi." Natasha points to Natsumi's sides, being bare of course.
"No I'm not unarmed; I just don't have any close range weapons." Natsumi grins and jumps onto another roof, Natasha following as her hand grabs hold of her double blade.
An archer from the distance looks up into the distance, spotting the two girls roof hopping. "I found them!!" And he grabs his bow, aiming at the running girls, firing arrow after arrow at them.
"Shit, looks like we've been spotted." Natasha sighs as she dodges the arrows, slicing through some with one side of her double blade, being calm, and not impressed at all. Some samurai warriors draw their katanas, jumping up and surround the girls on the long roof.
"We're surrounded Natasha." Natsumi reaches into her kimono, drawing some shuriken stars between her fingers as she stands back to back with her friend, looking over her shoulder and giving a small grin to Natasha.
"Yes I know." Natasha holds her blade over her head over slightly; ready to attack the oncoming warriors. "Shame isn't it?"
"Yes, I'd have to agree, oh well." Natsumi jumps into the air, throwing the row of shuriken down at the warriors, pegging each one in the forehead and killing them instantly from either the blast to the skull or from the enormous blood loss they recive moments after. She then lands on a warrior behind them, wrapping her legs around his head and twisting it so his neck snaps, and jumps off his skull, totally shoving his broken neck downward, the sound being loud enough to hear across the town. The man slumps to his knees as he sits on the roof with his head facing backwards, warriors behind the corpse looking in fear as they stair into the white of his eyes.
Natasha quickly spins her double blade, slicing some men in half, and injuring the others badly, the blood of the injured and the dead spreading across the rooftop and covering the blade of her double edge. She round kicks one in the back of the head, spinning on her foot and bringing down the blade so she slices off the head clear off his shoulders, though not being done with her attack as she stabs forward into the back of one and stabs backwards the chest of another warrior.
Natsumi ducks under a mans blade, brining the bottom of her palm into his nose, forcing it into his head, and she grabs his head, slicing his throat with a longer shuriken, some blood spilling upon her face though she doesn't care. A warrior tries to attack Natasha from behind, and Natsumi draws her grappling hook, throwing it at the man and it hooks onto his clothes. She pulls it back and upward hard, hurling him into the air, over her head, and right back, face first into the ground, the smashing of his skull upon the cobble stone being as loud as the snapping of the other mans neck. Every man in that sector that dared to attack either lay or sit in a pool of blood of others as well as their own, the red flowing into the river as the rain starts to increase.
"Well that was exiting. To bad you didn't have many close range weapons." Natasha sighs a bit as she puts the double blade over her shoulder, brushing some bangs from her face as she looks upon the bloody mess of corpses.
"Yea tell me about it. Oh well, I had fun anyway. And dad said that hanging around Rikimaru and Ayame was bad for me." Natsumi chuckles a bit and puts away her grappling hook and her shuriken into the hidden pockets of her now blood stained kimono.
"What does he know?" The girls laugh a bit as the jump down from the roof, walking to the gate to the next sector of the city.
*** To Be Continued***
A dark night looms over a bamboo forest in the middle of Japan. The moon looms heavy as clouds begin to cover the stars that fill the night sky. The chatting of two young girls fills the endless forest of bamboo stalks, striking the silence into bitter pieces so the forest didn't seem so empty of life.
"Hey Natsumi?"
"Yea?"
"Where exactly are we going this time?"
"Back to the Ronin Village of course, we have to pick up my kodachis."
Natasha looks over at her friend Natsumi, who's long black bangs start to fall in her face, and almost trips over a fallen bamboo rod, as they walk through the empty bamboo forest. Natasha has long black bangs like her friend, her blood red eyes staring at Natsumi as she almost falls on her face.
"What did you do to those kodachis anyway?" Natasha raises a brow as she watches Natsumi stand up tall, looking up at the sky and blushing in embarrassment as she combs her fingers through her black locks. Natsumi's brown eyes glistening in the light of the stars, though that glow slowly dieing as the clouds start to cover the midnight sky.
"I broke them both in two." Natsumi face flushes with a bright red, Natasha staring wide-eyed at her friend.
"How could you have managed that?" Natasha chuckles a few times, Natsumi looking back to her, her eyes narrowed.
"Oh come on, its easy to break some old blades into two different pieces."
"Only you Natsumi. only you." Natasha chuckles a bit before sighing loudly, "Plus, how are you going to pay for this all?" She raises a brow as she looks forward towards their path, Natsumi looking back to the sky, sighing slightly.
"The sword smith I'm staying with says it would be an honor to fix them."
"You're Lord Gohda's oldest daughter. why not?"
"Yea. but he's the only person in the village that knows. I hope. I'd hate for that nice man to get himself killed cause of me." Natsumi sighs, and stretches her arms out yawning as they come upon the outer walls of the city, but seem to be nowhere near the gate. The tall walls are smooth, unable to be climbed up by hand, and the edges are far out from the slanted roof of the walls, being to high for one to jump to grab.
"So how are we going to get in.?" Natasha looks over to Natsumi, raising a brow to her yet again.
"Easy Natasha." Natsumi reaches into her kimono, drawing a grappling hook, and throws it to the top of the wall, the hook grabbing hold of the other end of the rooftop. She pulls herself up to the top, though leaving the rope hanging after rising to the top for Natasha, pulling her up also.
"Do you always sneak in?" Natasha finally reaches the top, grabbing hold of Natsumi's hand as she helps her rise to her feet, giving Natsumi the sarcastic look, as always.
"Do you have to ask?" Natsumi gives her a sly grin, winding up the rope from her grappling hook.
"Point taken." Natasha sighs and shakes her head, knowing her friend is right when she says things about that. Natsumi gazes upon the village, looking around at the small part of town as the cool breeze blows upon them.
"It's a nice little town. Yea I know; that's why I chose it. And I'm close to my father also, so he'll never look here for me."
***
The girls continue to gaze upon the city, while someone gazes upon them from afar. Though his eyes are blocked by the shadows of his basket hat, he would be hard to spot from his long black robe, bearing the symbols of evil spirits.
"My lord. I have found to girls on the roof of the outer city. One girl has very long black hair, it to a bun to the side, wearing a purple kimono and holding a double blade." The man lowers his hat a bit, tilting it as he takes his gaze from the girls, listing to the wind as if he was standing with another, though being all alone. A voice from nowhere speaks back to the man in a deep tone, a presence of darkness filling the air as this voice echoes through the wind around the mysterious man wearing the basket hat.
"Good. but what about the other one.?"
" The other also has long black hair, a braid under her ear down her front. she's wearing a dark blue Kimono. I believe its Gohda's daughter my lord." The evil voice from the air laughs maniacally, though calming moments after.
"Good. Good! Bring the daughter to me, in any means necessary."
"Yes my lord." The leading warrior from the roof waves his hand forward as he raises his head to fix his gaze upon the girls before him, though far away. His warriors filling into the town, gowned in dark blue, and armed with katanas, bows, and spears. But these warriors are unnoticed by the people of the town since these warriors bearing the Ronin symbol are common to be found inside the village. They walk into all the allies, archers, samurai, and lancers all waiting for the young girls to walk strait into their little trap.
Natsumi jumps from the city wall, along with Natasha following.
"Hey Natsumi. is it always this quiet.?" Natasha looks over at Natsumi, raising a brow a bit as the cold wind blows upon them, the faint echo of thunder filling the air.
"No. I don't think it ever has been. Something isn't right." Natsumi jumps up onto a roof of a small hut, giving a quick look around before she takes another jump up onto a two story building, looking around from the tall roof. Natasha jumps up onto the roof that Natsumi first jumped on.
"See anything Natsumi!?" Natasha calls out, loud enough for Natsumi to hear, but silent enough so no one else would be able to. Natsumi jumps down from the roof, landing next to Natasha as she brushes her fingers through her onyx bangs again.
"Yea. There are Ronin warriors crawling all over town, and they don't look like the normal ones that always seem to be here. They seem to be looking for something." Natsumi sighs as she looks around their surroundings to the guards that fill the city streets.
"We better rush to the smith's house, just in case. You're unarmed anyway Natsumi." Natasha points to Natsumi's sides, being bare of course.
"No I'm not unarmed; I just don't have any close range weapons." Natsumi grins and jumps onto another roof, Natasha following as her hand grabs hold of her double blade.
An archer from the distance looks up into the distance, spotting the two girls roof hopping. "I found them!!" And he grabs his bow, aiming at the running girls, firing arrow after arrow at them.
"Shit, looks like we've been spotted." Natasha sighs as she dodges the arrows, slicing through some with one side of her double blade, being calm, and not impressed at all. Some samurai warriors draw their katanas, jumping up and surround the girls on the long roof.
"We're surrounded Natasha." Natsumi reaches into her kimono, drawing some shuriken stars between her fingers as she stands back to back with her friend, looking over her shoulder and giving a small grin to Natasha.
"Yes I know." Natasha holds her blade over her head over slightly; ready to attack the oncoming warriors. "Shame isn't it?"
"Yes, I'd have to agree, oh well." Natsumi jumps into the air, throwing the row of shuriken down at the warriors, pegging each one in the forehead and killing them instantly from either the blast to the skull or from the enormous blood loss they recive moments after. She then lands on a warrior behind them, wrapping her legs around his head and twisting it so his neck snaps, and jumps off his skull, totally shoving his broken neck downward, the sound being loud enough to hear across the town. The man slumps to his knees as he sits on the roof with his head facing backwards, warriors behind the corpse looking in fear as they stair into the white of his eyes.
Natasha quickly spins her double blade, slicing some men in half, and injuring the others badly, the blood of the injured and the dead spreading across the rooftop and covering the blade of her double edge. She round kicks one in the back of the head, spinning on her foot and bringing down the blade so she slices off the head clear off his shoulders, though not being done with her attack as she stabs forward into the back of one and stabs backwards the chest of another warrior.
Natsumi ducks under a mans blade, brining the bottom of her palm into his nose, forcing it into his head, and she grabs his head, slicing his throat with a longer shuriken, some blood spilling upon her face though she doesn't care. A warrior tries to attack Natasha from behind, and Natsumi draws her grappling hook, throwing it at the man and it hooks onto his clothes. She pulls it back and upward hard, hurling him into the air, over her head, and right back, face first into the ground, the smashing of his skull upon the cobble stone being as loud as the snapping of the other mans neck. Every man in that sector that dared to attack either lay or sit in a pool of blood of others as well as their own, the red flowing into the river as the rain starts to increase.
"Well that was exiting. To bad you didn't have many close range weapons." Natasha sighs a bit as she puts the double blade over her shoulder, brushing some bangs from her face as she looks upon the bloody mess of corpses.
"Yea tell me about it. Oh well, I had fun anyway. And dad said that hanging around Rikimaru and Ayame was bad for me." Natsumi chuckles a bit and puts away her grappling hook and her shuriken into the hidden pockets of her now blood stained kimono.
"What does he know?" The girls laugh a bit as the jump down from the roof, walking to the gate to the next sector of the city.
*** To Be Continued***