A/N: by demand here you go. Keep in mind this is fan FICTION lol I know full well this is NOT how it happened. :D If you like this story, add it to the watch I am very spontaneous as to when I post new chapters…you never know. I still am green to the series so pardons.
My lovely Kirara is truly enchanting. She entered my wonderful capital in search of vile unwashed samurai thugs to free her village from the bandits. Many simply ate of her rice and denied aid, but there were seven who did accept a foolish fling with death for mere gratitude and all the rice they could eat while they stayed. They returned to the village and caused so much trouble to our humble plans. They taught the villagers how to use bow and arrows and made their village into a mighty fortress. Instead of making rice like good little peasants, they spent their time making weapons and traps for us.
Hayashida Heihachi the traitor taught the villagers how make powerful weapons, mighty defenses, and a powerful ballista which destroyed one of our most powerful bandits. Kyuzo the traitor (oh so painful he was such a fine guard) taught the villagers how to fire arrows without fail. Shichirojo the traitor oversaw building the village into a powerful fortress. And well, the other samurai were doing what they did best, being thorns in the side of the capital. The thing is, she almost succeeded in avoiding the loving embrace of my arms….almost…
"Look out!" a farmer shouted just as a Nobuseri warrior brought down his sword giving Rikichi mere seconds to dive out of the way.
"We can't take much more of this!" Rikichi cried covering his eyes as the robotic footman to the bandits raised its sword to strike. He opened his eyes to see a blade protruding through the smaller robotic warrior which was then thrust into an upward motion causing it to be spilt in half, the man inside of it split down the middle also. "Great Samurai Kikuchiyo!" he cried in relief not thinking he would ever be so relieved to see the giant bumbling samurai cyborg who had a bad habit of charging blindly with his powerful sword and messing stuff up in the process.
"Get up you fool we are going back to the elder's house, there has been a change in plans." Kikuchiyo said in his same bellowing voice, his head spouting out steam like it did every once in awhile.
All the villagers crowded in the elders house waiting for Kanbei to speak. "Like you all have been told there has been a change in plans. The Nobuseri are more numerous than we originally anticipated and we have arranged to surrender."
The villagers gasped and cried out objections, but it was Rikichi's voice that was heard over them. "Great Samurai we can't give up now, all will be lost."
"We will arrange a meeting with the bandits and you will hand us over to them." Kanbei said with the same flat, emotionless voice he always spoke in, taking no heed to the panicking villagers.
Kirara who had been spying from the window (for she was the only woman who had sneaked out of the place where the women were told to hide for their safety to see how the battle was going) gasped. "No." her frightened whisper went unheard. "They can't. The bandits would still destroy them." she ran off in haste not bothering to stick around to hear the rest of what was being said.
"-But we will not all be going." Gorobei said with a chuckle, scratching the scar that made a white streak against the dark skin of his face. "We will be participating in a most momentous ruse." he said with great show, a side affect of his years of being an entertainer after the great war. "Everyone here will declare surrender and bow before the bandits where you will be presenting them with myself, Kyuzo, and the little guy over here tied up."
"My name is Katsushiro." the young samurai cut in.
"I was only teasing." the older man laughed.
"What about the rest of you?" the elder asked with a frown.
"The rest of us will be hiding in the rice you present to them. We will be carried off and while we are in we plan on taking them all down." Kanbei answered unaffected by the villagers excited cheers for this clever plan.
Kirara sat at the edge of the small pond in the woods behind the village, her feet in the water, this being what always set her spirit at ease. "No, they can't. All our work for nothing." she said slumping a single tear created ripples in the water. "I can't let the bandits destroy our village. I have to do something." she remained slumped. The bandits were ruthless. Lust driven for both power and-. She paused her head raised in determination. Rikichi had suffered the bandits when they attacked the village years ago and his wife saved them. She stood and headed back to the village. She would save them all as well, just like his wife had.
"I hardly believe you." Kirara dove behind a tree hearing the clear voices of the bandits and turned to see the villagers on their knees.
"Oh please mighty bandits have mercy!" Rikichi begged bowing down lower in the dirt. "We give you the samurai and this peace offering of rice." he gestured to the large bundles of rice.
"Hmph." the bandit snorted. "I hardly believe you. I counted seven and there are only three samurai here."
"We slayed them as soon as we realized we were wrong to betray you. They died by our arrows when they tried to flee."
Kirara covered her mouth with her hand. They said they would surrender! They said nothing about killing! She stared up at the massive bandits. The large robotic Nobuseris who were taller than any building she had ever seen cast an imposing figure over the groveling farmers.
"We shall take your offering none the less. We can not sit passively though, your betrayal must be punished. We will make an example of this village."
"NO!" Kirara cried running forward falling to her knees in front of them. "You must spare them!"
"And why should we do that?" the Nobuseri asked with a snort.
she lowered her head. "I offer to give myself up to whatever fate you would have for me in exchange for my people's safety."
"You would give yourself in exchange these filthy peasants?" the bandit asked skeptically pausing, his voice sounding smug and amusing from within the massive bandit whose shadow almost covered the whole village. "I like that. Good little girl, you belong to us now ." he turned to the foot men. "Take her."
"Lady Kirara!" Rikichi cried out.
"No!" Katsushiro gasped struggling against the bonds that tied him to the other samurai.
"Grab that rice and the samurai when we leave." the bandit orders and Kirara was pulled onto the transport.
Oh no! Katsushiro thought in panic. What was she thinking? With us being carried off in different transports there will be no way we can get to her!
The air was thick and being so high made Kirara dizzy as she struggled slightly against the tight hold of the bandit footmen who each held one of her arms. She was afraid, unable to believe she was actually riding on one of the massive robotic monsters through the air. "Don't get too cozy." the smug voice of the bandit who declared she belonged to them sounded. "We are taking you to the capital."
"Capital?" she asked, her voice taking on a tingle of worry.
"You sound surprised." his voice said drenched in such vileness she wanted to cry out in fear. " You didn't think we would put you in with those samurai did you? After all, sweet girls and sweet rice both catch a high price."
"So is that where you've taken all the other women you've abducted?" she cried out in rage trying to struggle which only earned their hold on her tightening.
"You mean saved. Their in paradise now compared to the dung heaps they called home." his voice seemed to smile in misgivings.
"How could they possibly be happy when they have been torn away from their homes and families?!"
"You'll see for yourself soon enough." she was turned to see a lovely areal view of her village. She cried out when she felt them dropping yet nowhere near the peaceful rice farms. "Take a good look. Soon your memory will be all that is left of this village and its people."
"But that's not the deal we made!" she cried. "You said you would spare them in exchange for my life!"
"I agreed to nothing. All I said was that you belong to me."
"Please don't do this to them I'm begging you!" She pleaded struggling even harder.
"Move in a little closer." the bandit ordered and the massive flying machine obeyed leveling its guns and missals at the city.
"Please Nobuseri I beg you! Where is your honor?!" Tears flooded her vision as she felt a sword swiftly brought up to her throat.
"Shut up and watch." he said coldly all fire unleashed on the village, her screams over heard just barely over the weapons as fire spread throughout the land.
"Nooo!" she screamed. "…..No." she wept unable to fall to her knees because of the soldiers hold on her arms.
"Now that that ugly business is taking care of we shall head to the capital." He said and it turned around and headed away from the village's burning remains. "The master Lord Ukyo is always looking for a lovely new gem to adorn his house. He shall pay a fine price for her."
L..Lord Ukyo? She thought unable to stop weeping her village, her family..gone. No. she remember Ukyo well. He had tried to capture her before, to add her to his collection. Was that what the bandit had meant when he said that the women were taken to paradise? Ukyo had called where he was taking her to before the samurai saved her…he called it paradise.
Ukyo lounged back in his chair unable to fully enjoy company of anyone. His heart bled for her. "My lord." Tessai , his hired body guard and loyal minion said coming in and bowing down. "A word."
"Speak." the young man said tangling his fingers in one of the silky locks of blue hair.
"The farm girl you spoke of-"
"Ah, my lovely Kirara. Is there any news?" he asked sitting up at the mention of her.
"We have just purchased her from the Nobuseri."
"REALLY?!" Ukyo stood up in disbelief jaw dropped and his heart momentarily forgetting to beat.
"She is waiting outside."
"Wonderful! I do hope you paid those filthy bandits well, or killed them if she had a single mark." he followed Tessai anxious to finally see her. "Well where is she?" he said in an annoyed voice.
"We are holding her in the back."
"that filthy awful place, how dare you!" he cried turning quickly on the man that was leading the way.
"Sir she was grief stricken, too unstable to present to your lordship as she was."
"Hmph." Ukyo snorted. "I shall decide that." he smiled hearing soft weeping behind the door. "Leave us. I shall call you when I am ready."
"Very well sir." the older man bowed and left.
"Well you have met an unfortunate fate haven't you my dear?" he asked in a cooing voice and she looked up from where she had been chained to the wall with her hands bound above her head. Ash covered her face which had been sloppily washed by her tears. Her hair was messy and her eyes blood shot. "Oh damn those filthy bandits to hell just look what a mess they left you in." he stepped forward and caressed her cheek frowning when she turned her head away and wept, her warm tears bleeding through his red glove. "Don't worry my lovely Kirara. You are in paradise now and you will never have a want in the world again." his hand moved behind her head and pulled her forward as he met her mouth in a kiss. She struggled with all her might to scream or pull away to no avail. Amazing. I had been right. He thought feeling his heart do leaps and he pressed harder into the kiss, the arm of the hand that was not behind her head had wrapped itself around her and pulled her close. She tastes just like heaven.
This is my first non Nintendo series (also I am new to samurai 7) and I have to say I am pleased. Funny how one small change such as choosing to carry the rice on a different ship could so drastically alter the future. As you can tell I love the villains winning. I changed some things, it was the way my story was originally going anyways. Please tell me what you think. Good stuff only I could never handle rejection. I saw that the views for this past chapter were very good and after seeing ep. 14 I said "NO! This will not do at all!" and thus you get chapter two here. Sorry for the long talk here I am such a nut. Oh yes did Ukyo's two lead women have names? If not I shall give them nasty Japanese names because I really don't like them.