A/N: Hi everyone!! Man I'm on a role here! Mostly because I recently saw the movie and haven't stop writing for this story yet and since it was the willing vote in my poll, might as well continue it. Anyway! I have an announcement to give out that's really, really, REALLY important.

I am so sorry!! You all must be confused with some of the details in the prologue. Okay here are some facts! Izanami is the Goddess of Yomi, or the underworld. She was once the goddess of creation but after she died, she took over the underworld and went against her husband, Izanagi but that's a different fact. Yomotsuhirasaka is the entrance to Yomi and since I have no idea what it looks like, I decided to make it a small island with a huge mountain, white sands, and lots of vegetation. I picture the entrance to Yomi, or the main part of it on the top so Kisshu's shrine should be in between the solid ground and the top of the mountain. There are also stairs that leads up to the entrance, just to add that in. Anyway, Onogoroshima is the first island that Izanami and Izanagi created and lived on during their married lives. That is also unknown of where the true destination is so I made it up.

Besides that, please enjoy!! I do NOT own TMM or the songs I use in my stories, or the movies I use. They all belong to their original owners. I just think of everything as if it were a play. Thank you all for the wonderful reviews so far and please keep them coming! I love reviews and sometimes, I get a bit discourage with the small amounts. Thank you please enjoy!!

Ch. 1: The Island, Yomotsuhirasaka

Yomotsuhirasaka, 500 years later…

"You let everyone call you 'Mumei'? Why?" Oni asks out of curiosity.

Pai sharpens his sword with his rock as he answers, "Because I have no last name so they prefer to call me that instead of my first name. I was an orphan. I never knew who my mother or my father was and never tried. Thus never knowing my surname. Only so few know my first name." He puts his rock sharpener away and pushes his sword back into its sheath. He checks to make sure that the rest of his weapons are where they're supposed to be as Oni puts on a small.

"Well I'm glad that you've told me. Now I can stop calling you 'Mumei'," he tells him, patting his shoulder.

Pai just looks at him blankly as he answers, "I rather doubt it." His voice sound like he doesn't believe Oni one bit.

Pai, or known as Mumei, a sword master working for the American army and Oni Akuma, a solider of the American army and apparently, Pai's friend. Both men are resting inside their tent on the island of Yomotsuhirasaka for some rest for the big battle at dawn, which won't be long now. But as Pai was going to reach for his canteen of water, he hears something. Oni did not.

"Must you have such little fate towards me, my friend?" Oni asks. But then Pai turns to him and holds his index finger in front of his lips.

"Shh.." he tells him. Oni looks at him in surprise as Pai grasps his sword and crawls to the exit of the tent. Oni quickly fallows behind him.

For 500 years men and armies fought over this land, never knowing what evil lay beneath it.

Pai steps out of the tent and examines the area. His eyes are slightly wide with shock as he continues to step out into the open. Oni soon fallows and his expression betrays how shock he is with the scene before him. When they stepped out, they see a bloody scene. Besides their own tent, there are other tents and they are decorated with blood. Bodies lay everywhere and there are blood splatters on the ground as well as weapons. Pai examines the scenes before him in confusion as Oni look scared.

"Wh-what the hell happened?" Oni asks.

Pai goes over to one body and kneels down before it. In the bodies back, there are shuriken sticking out. However, they appear to have penetrated the body deep into the flesh. Pai grabs one and pulls it out as hard as he can. He examines the shuriken.

Oni asks, "Is it the enemy's?"

"No," he answers. "I'm the only one who uses shuriken. If it was the enemy, they would have used bullets and I would have heard that a lot sooner." 'Whoever did this was silent,' Pai concludes in his thoughts.

Oni tells him, "There's a first time for everything. Maybe the guy who did this is their secret weapon." Then Pai hears something else.

Pai quickly turns around and throws the shuriken at Oni. Since Oni sees that, he ducks down as the shuriken ends up hitting a tree. Oni asks, looking up, "What are you mad?!" Right after he asked that, a bullet was heard and it hit the tree Oni was just in front of. If Oni was still standing, he would have been hit. Oni looks from the tree to where the bullet came from, where Pai's eyes are already gazing at. There they see boats filled with men holding guns coming towards them.

"There's the enemy," Pai tells him, standing up. He goes to his belt and takes out four shuriken. Six boats, four people in each. Easy shooting, it he didn't have only six shuriken.

Pai aims them at the four men who already have their guns ready and aiming at them. Direct hit and those four men fall into the water, dead. Oni goes to his belt and takes out his gun. He recklessly shoots out of fear and out of the six bullets he has, he only shot two. Eventually, those boats came to shore and those men jump off the boat and started shooting at both Pai and Oni. Oni ducks and starts running away. Pai ducks as well but he stays and takes out his sword.

When one man came at Pai with a sword as well, Pai instantly sliced him and the man dropped to the ground in half. Three more came and Pai was able to instantly kill them no problem. But then a gun aims at Pai's hand and it hits the sword from his grasp. Pai goes to his belt and takes out his last two shuriken. He aims and throws. Direct hit but there are still twelve men to go. At least he has six daggers.

Pai takes out three daggers and aims them at the soldiers coming at him. As they threw across the air, one hit the heart, one hit the skull in the middle of the eye, and the other hits collarbone. One man gets close to Pai and he had to quickly grab his fourth dagger to stab him in the chest. Pai pulls the dagger out and flips the man over. Another came and Pai throws the dagger at him. Hits the man in the stomach and he falls down backwards. Pai takes out his last two daggers and he aims them both at two men, one got hit but the other ducked and it missed. Great! Pai now has no weapons and there are still seven men left to go.

Pai goes to his pockets and belt for anything as the men aim their guns at him. When Pai finds one thing, he takes it out and it's a smoke bomb. He quickly throws it at the ground and the smoke bomb exploded. The warriors got confused and blinded by the smoke as Pai began to run pass the Shinto shrine entrance and up the one thousand steps of stairs as fast as he can while the smoke distracts the warriors. When he was up by at least five hundred steps, he starts yelling.

"Oni! Oni!!" he calls, but no answer. He stops and looks around for any signs of his companion but no sight.

However, in a tree not too far from him, Oni is holding onto the branch for dear life. When he sees Pai looking for him without much luck, he smirks evilly. "Good day to you, Mumei," he whispers.

Down at the bottom of the stairs, the smoke finally clears and the warriors can now see Pai on the stairs. When Pai looks down and sees that the warriors have noticed him, he forgets about looking for Oni.

"Shit," he mumbles as the warriors start to climb up the stairs or shoot him. Pai backs away when they tried to shoot him and looks to the side. He needs cover. He starts running in that direction and jumps over the bushes and passes the tree branches. The warriors start running up closer to him and pass Oni.

Pai keeps running and it appears that he's running through a path. That's interesting and perfect. It's interesting that there is a hidden path here, covered by the protection of the vegetation but the perfect part is that if the warriors so happen to find him now, he's a sitting duck because he'll be an open target. The great news! They found him.

Pai hears the shouting of the enemy and turns around to see them yelling each other to come this way as some start climbing over the bushes and push aside the tree branches. Now he's in trouble. Especially when the path ends.

When Pai reaches the end of the trail, there's a shrine in front of him. The kind of shrine that's the size of a small house with chained life six doors. Pai looks to the left and sees more vegetation and starts running. But a bullet shoots at the ground before his feet stops him from entering that way. He turns to the right but another bullet stops him. He stands in front of the shrine doors and turns around to meet his fate as the warriors stop running and aim their guns at him. Pai grunts in anger as he stands where he is. Then something weird happens.

A strong gust of wind blows from behind Pai and hits the warriors. Their eyes get dry fast as small pieces of twigs or dirt hit them in the eye as well. Some walk backwards from the sudden irritation as Pai looks at the scene in confusion. He's supposed to be shot now. Then from the bushes closest to the enemy, snakes come slithering out and they bare fangs at the men, dripping with venom. Some got spooked and got away immediately, some got bitten and fall to their knees from the pain of the venom. Pai watches now in amazement of how now it looks like nature is protecting him. The remaining soldiers start running away for their life as the men who feel from the venom then get bitten at the neck and other limps of their bodies.

Hahahaha

Pai hears that and it distracts him from the weird scene. He turns around to where he hears the sound from and he looks up at the shrine before him. Then he starts to hear chanting in a language he knows of but doesn't speak or understand it; ancient Japanese.

Then the mood in the voice has changed.

"P-Pai?"

Pai's eyes widen in surprise as then he hears hissing. He looks down and he sees snakes baring their fangs at him. Instantly, he jumps up before they could bite him and he starts running. The snakes started to chase after him as the wind suddenly blows stronger. When he started to go down the stairs, the wind blew harder and for an moment, he flew up in the air. He ended up jumping over fifty stairs. If it weren't for his quick reflexes of landing on his hands and pushing himself up to do a flip, his feet would have landed on the edge of a step and he would have slipped and either twisted his ankle or worst, fall down and broke his neck.

When Pai finally landed on the safety of solid dirt ground, he didn't stop running. The wind died down the moment he got off those stairs. He ran all the way to the white sands and the blue waters. Meanwhile, in the dark shadows of the forests, there are men in black robes watching Pai leave.

And for 500 years, we, the priests, descendants of the Emperor's samurai, kept watch.

Right before Pai was going to dive into the waters, he stops running. He feels something and it's not the feeling he got when he thought he heard the wind call his name. It was the feeling of being watched. He turns around back to the forest. Besides noticing that the boats that the enemy came in are either gone or busted, he sees shadows.

One of the shadows he was looking at was one with tan skin. His black robes makes his skin look lighter but his blue eyes stand out on his face and his golden hair compliments the color and form of his face. Pai stares at him intensively.

One shadow reveals a shuriken, the same kind that killed Pai's men and asks, "Shall we kill him?"

The golden hair one answers, "No."

"Master Ryou!"

Ryou does not look at his comrades. His dark ice ocean eyes are glued to Pai. Pai stares at him a bit longer before jumping into the water and swim away.

Ryou tells his men, "The ocean will kill him."Him and his man stand their ground and watch as Pai swims his way back to land. Which happens to be hundreds of miles away.