Hikari no tamashi soul of light
chapter #1
by Yuri Muto
Even I was confused when I was given an actually body. Apparently blades who have not seen battle in many years were been given a body to fight once again. Any guy would like this reasoning, me on the other hand did not. It's not that I haven't seen battle before it's more that no one has ever used me for good only evil.
My name is Hikari no tamashi, and this is my story living a new life not as a sword but as a teenage female human. I woke to a strange room with two guys standing inside with me. Now don't get me wrong I thought one of them was cute however they scared me so a course I was going to scream at the top of my lungs.
"Not cute at all." one of the two guys said, after I had stopped screaming. He had black hair and ruby red eyes, he was wearing informal Japanese clothing. He wasn't cute, I could tell just by looking at him that he was very vane and put a lot of time into his looks. Now the other one from what I could tell was like me stick to the shadows.
"Kashuu, now is not a time to be making jokes." The other guy said. He was the one that I thought was pretty cute. He had blonde hair and blue eyes, he was wearing strange clothing. I was breathing deeply hoping to mask my voice like my last master did before been killed for fighting when no woman should fight.
"So what is your name?" The black haired guy asked.
"Hikari no tamashi." I said quietly, my voice was light and airy but it seemed these men are thick head as they were back in Edo period of Japan. Or I thought before a guy with red hair and also in strange clothing burst into the room.
"Kari." He said picking me up and spinning me around. My hair which was hidden with my hood was reviled. My secret had been brought to light by my idiot of an adopted big brother.
"Nii-san put me down." I said growling under my voice. He literally put me down and ended up going through the wall when I did a round house kick to his chest.
"Wow I have only ever seen one person do that and it was the former master of that cursed blade Yami no tamashi..." Another guy said. Okay so I now see why my former master had wanted to kill her whole clan but love for her father was the only thing that kept her from doing it.
"That's not my name. It had been my twin brother's name, my name is Hikari no tamashi." I said before storming off and heading for the beautiful cherry tree. Why did they all have to be here, not like it matters, after all I was a cursed blade than and I am now. I didn't realize that a storm had been moving in shortly after making me way to the cherry tree. It wasn't until I heard my name being called that I was scared and alone with no hope left to survive the storm. I was was terrified and for once I wanted my stupid big brother.
"Hikari where are you?" Several people called looking around for me. I would of said something but do to my fear of storms I literally could not say anything. It was than that I notice that some one had a light with them, taking my tachi out of it stealth. I quickly angled it just right to reflect the light on the ground below me. Thankful the one caring the light, notice and ran over towards me.
"Sayo be careful." a mono tone voice said.
"Big brother I think I found Hikari." a little boy with deep blue hair said. I heard cracking from above me. Looking up I notice that the branch above the little boy was about to come crashing down, I put my fear of storms aside and literally throw myself over him. I held my body up even if the branch hurt a lot where it fell but the kid was more important than my life, he still had a long life ahead of him.
"Can you claw out from under me?" I asked the young kid. He nodded his head before clawing out from under me and the heavy branch. I made sure that I could hold it up until he was out from under me. So once he was out from under me; I let my screaming muscle relax and fell under the weight of the branch.
"Sayo, Hikari are you two okay?" another mono tone voice asked, running over to us. I could just make out the boy nodding his head before he looked at me with fear lacing his big blue eyes. It reminded me of my former master's father, he had been a good man that expected respect form those around him. I remember that he was a brave man who loved his only child, his daughter.
"Hikari stay with us..." I could hear but everything was muffled so bad that I couldn't make anything out after that. However I was still awake, and although most people would pass out from the pain of having a branch nearly crush you. I could with stand it to the point of death, which no one would have been happy about. I notice my older brother's red hair, and I thought that he was going to yell at me for the most stupidest of reasons, but instead he just took my hand and help pull me out from under the branch. The guys however did not know that the branch had torn into the skin on my back, so when they pulled at my upper body it just caused more pain to running through my back.
"Kari what's wrong?" Nii-san asked after they stopped trying to rip anymore of my back up.
"You have to remove the branch." I whispered feeling the blood lost take affect. I wasn't sure if it was black spots dancing in my vision or people's shadows, now if only that annoying buzzing sound would go away so I could think straight. It was than that I notice a lot more people coming to help.
"Ookanehira, the storms getting too rough, we have to get back to the citadel..."Kashuu said over the now raging storm.
"Like hell; I have never left my men behind so I defiantly not leaving my baby sister." Nii-san said taking my hand, into his.
"Yamabushi take that side, and we'll get her out of here." A giant man said standing on my left side. While another man stood on my right side and they lifted the branch off of me. Nii-san quickly gathered me into his arms being very careful of the open wound on my back from where I had been hit after throwing my self over the kid.
"It's okay Kari. Everything is going to be okay." Nii-san said gentle. It sounded like he was trying to reassure me but I know he was really doing it for him self.
"Nii-san, it will take more than a branch to take me down. But How is Sayo, I don't see him. While I can't see much as it is." I said struggling to sit up in my brother's arms. Or that was until a pair of smaller hands took my left hand. I could just make out the deep blue hair that Sayo had.
"Iwatooshi, Yamabushi thank you for your help. Sayo are you okay?" Nii-san said lifting the small child also into his arms. It was than that I notice that the small boy was only a few inches shorter than me, and that my brother could carry each of us in one of his arms. As he walked by some of the people that had help search for me, it became clear that the Swords at the citadel was pretty much one big happy family, all having seen battle and been used to kill, but that does not make these people evil or bad. The Citadel was a second chance for a lot of us.
"I'm sorry Nii-san." I whispered softly into his shoulder.
"Everything is alright Kari, after all you are my everything." Nii-san said before placing Sayo on the ground before kicking off his shoes.
"Sayo you go with Souza and get a shower. You can come visit Hikari tomorrow okay." Nii-san said bringing me closer to his chest. I had literally gone numb from the blood lost, and so much pain. My vision was black and everything sounded far away. So when I was lied down on my back the massive amount of pain brought most of my senses back to me. I was in a large room laying on a white futon, however the pain was to much and I ended up rolling onto my side before emptying my already empty stomach. I felt someone pull my long thick brown hair out of the way so that it didn't fall into the mess.
"Kari it's okay you're going to be alright. Yagen know what will help." Nii-san said rubbing my upper back. I know he was trying to make me feel better but right now it wasn't he was only making it a worst, all of my muscle were tensed and even the lightest touch caused a lot of pain.
"Please stop, it hurts." I said in between dry heaves.
"I know baby girl but everything is going to be alright. I just need you to trust me and stay with me okay baby girl." Nii-san said helping me to lay down on my side. I don't know what happened after.