Chapter 8
The Demons Rage, The Seed of Change Planted…
I had been three weeks and my body had healed nicely, during this time I did short intervals of training gradually adding a little more each time till I was almost back to what I was before the betrayal of the Fire lord.
I had also frequent visitors from Yanagi who had seen me once to twice a day; they were only short checkups and tests or simple conversations of how I was feeling. Hana also had been constantly by my side every seeing waking moment. I was surprised she had never once mentioned Geruto again since his offer or whether I would accept it or not, her conversations were constantly talking about the village, her likes, dislikes and other useless things as well as once in a while prying into my own history which, I had yet to confide in her and doubted I ever would.
The final visitor I had received was the young child from the shrine Higeki, She had begun coming in frequently at least once a day to my room always with the same cheerful greetings and offers of a single yellow flower, by the end of the three weeks I had already had a large vase of these small gifts. I wouldn't admit it out loud by I grew to like the little girl a little, she was sweet innocent a type of child that gives you hope for the next generation.
It was finally the last day of my hospital stay already having signed the papers for my release and was already packing the few things for my journey, behind my Yanagi walked into my room with a soft smirk across her lips.
"So your finally leaving us eh Dallas-san?" she asked before my eyes trailed back to her before giving a nod in response then looked back down packing a few kunai I was able to bargain off of traveling merchant that passed through lost in the mist.
"So where will you go...are you going to accept Geruto's offer?" she asked me plainly the question I think Hana had been too afraid to ask.
"I'm not sure…I will listen to what he's offering ,but as of right now my main objective is taking care of the Fire lord…as of right now it seems he is a man who has the resources to do this. "He admitted to her knowing she already knew full well of my intentions.
She nodded softly I could see the sorrowful smirk on her old wrinkled face." I understand Dallas-san... but you know...even revenge is a strange thing...after you achieve it what will you do then…Dallas…no Demon King?"She smiled a little more pushing off the wall " Either way it's something you have to decide for yourself…no one else can for you" She told me in her words of wisdom before a Hana had ran into the room breathing hard sweating showing she had ran full speed to get there.
"Hana...you don't have to rush Dallas is still here" Yanagi said with a smile seeing Hana's hands on her knees as she tried to catch her breath enough to talk.
"No…In the village...Higeki and Dora…gone!" Hana finally got out through her heavy breathing. Yanagi's eyes went wide at the news" What are you talking about?" the elder woman asked before taking Hana's hand" Take me to Shiya" She said as Hana nodded in response Leading Yanagi out the hospital yet now before Yanagi invited me to accompany along.
In the village the people were in a stir as we came upon a scene, Higeki's mother, Shiya was crying frantically in the middle of the street as people around her tried to console her.
"What's going on here?" Yanagi asked as Shiya latched onto her robe squeezing the fabric for dear life." They took them...they took my Dora and my baby!" She cried "Please...do something Yanagi-sama…Pease bring back my family" She yelled in desperate straits.
I stood back a few feet away from the scene but I could see Yanagi kneeling down wrapping her arms around the girl" Calm down who took Higeki and Dora...tell me?" She asked softly.
Shiya had looked up her eyes red from the hard sobs" GETURO! "She yelled before sobbing again into Yanagi's shoulder."They took them cause Dora couldn't pay the taxes...we asked for time but they just took them and said they would take it out of them" She explained in her hysterical sobs.
I could see Yanagi's defeated look, she knew she couldn't go take on Geruto with his power it would only cause more problems for her people or herself seeing her main skills were in the medical field and her elder age she knew she wouldn't be able to take on all of Geruto's followers. Her eyes faded back to me looking with a quizzing gaze" Dallas-san...will you please try and return Higeki and Dora...if your planning on joining him...he might be a little more happy to do so" She asked me in a hopeful tone.
The mother had turned her eyes up and quickly crawled to me bowing low to the ground "Please Dallas-sama...bring back my babies...please I will give you everything I own I will do anything" She cried hanging on the sleeve of my shinobi pants.
I sighed closing my eyes, "This has nothing to do with me...it's not my problem "was the only thought that kept running through my head but I gave in anyways. I knew I needed Geruto's help if I was to get into the fire country and penetrate the fire lord's fortress, asking about the girl and her father wouldn't hurt while I was there.
"I give no promises…but I will ask" I told them turning my back away walking toward Geruto's mansion letting the mother drop against the ground to wallow in her grief.
30 minutes later...
I finally came upon the entrance of the mansion, in the sky dark clouds had already gathered and a down pour had begun. The lightning and thunder and lit up and roared over the sky , I looked over this area it was like two different worlds from what the village looked like and what this monstrous construction was.
While the village was cold, dark and poor, this building was well kept up rich in soil as well as decorations yet it still held that same soiled atmosphere of turning what once was a great shinobi home to a politician's playground.
As I walked to the entrance I noticed to the side of me a large dumpster left open as a flock of buzzards had already being perched on the sides diving down to take off pieces of whatever rotting meat they had found. As I took another step to the entrance something clicked in me making me look back over to this dumpster my eyes peered curiously at what they were eating making me walk over.
As I got to the dumpster the buzzards flew off into the stormy dark sky giving me a clear view of what they had been chewing at.
It was Higeki…
Her body was torn up, partially from the birds chewing at her skin yet there were parts of those cuts that were to clean signaling the use of a blade. Her clothes torn up and ripped leaving to show all her wounds and the blood that stained not only to her face that had shown signs of the beating she took but also all down her body from cuts and stained between her legs showing signs of rape..
I stood there for a moment as I stared down as this child who only yesterday had given me another flower and was always so cheerful and loving laying in a pool of her own blood at the abuse she had received for what, a rich man's sadistic wish for entertainment? My eyes turned to the door way towards the mansion, I could hear them laughing and cheering in their drunken stupors, a voice inside my mind began to echo repeating the same thing over and over getting louder and louder as I my eyes closed listening close to its message..
Destroy them
Destroy them
DESTROY THEM!
Inside the mansion as they all had their fun, the guards drinking and taking turns fucking the slaves of the mansion, women forced on their hands and knees taking whatever in them that the men of Geruto desired. In the middle of the room a tall strong looking man was on his knees, his hands tied behind his back even though it seemed redundant anyways as his arms were both broken in a sadistic way. Tears ran down his face showing the sorrow you would expect from a man who had just watched his daughter tortured and raped right in front of him.
One drunk guard who was busy getting his cock sucked by one of the slaves before he back handed her hard and stood up announcing in a loud tone showing just how inebriated he was" I need to take a piss!" before he began staggering out, a beer in one hand his cock still hanging out of his pants in the other hand.
As he came right to the door placing his hand on the handle it shot open, the heavy metal doors slamming against the wall with enough force to almost tear through the hard cement walls, and the guards crushed between them both, and I stood in the entrance way my eyes glowing dark red cutting through the darkness of the night.
I stepped forward into the light as Geruto smiled brightly" Ah now that's an entrance...welcome Dallas...have you made your decision" he said in a cheerful voice not seeming concerned at all that one of his men was crushed beneath the door and his blood began running across the rock tiled flooring of the mansion.
"Geruto" My voice barely louder then a whisper to its tone at this point unable to get beyond that." You killed an innocent girl…you raped an innocent child" I said my eyes rising to his as his expression was still that of a smug confidence.
"Well my men needed a little entertainment...so I figure let them take turns" He said with a chuckle" Don't worry there's plenty of women here or if your taste is young...plenty in the village I could have one here in a minute...anything you want when you join me" He said with a grin.
I raised my eyes to him the black tomoes spinning wildly not able to control it at this point, my chakra began to feel different, darker more potent even the men with minimal training in under the stubby ones charge had felt it."Join you Geruto?" I asked "I am going to kill you" before with a flash a sped forward to one of his guards who stood a few feet from me, I grabbed him by his face then with every bit of my strength I slammed into the wall crushing the back of his head against the now crator of a wall before releasing him letting him slowly slide down to the floor leaving a trail of blood and brain matter.
Geruto fell back in fear at my actions seeing I was intent on killing him" Guards...kill him NOW!" his voice raised as he curled up like the pathetic coward he was.
The men charged , one group of four all unleashing their blades coming at me with two in front and two a few feet behind them. The first group swung their blades, but in the drunken state as well as my complete superiority in speed I easily dodged them spinning underneath side stepping and finally jumping over the last two as I placed my hands on their shoulders to flip over landing a few feet behind them. They were so pathetic not even noticing the explosive tag I put in each of them as I dodged until I put up a single hand seal 'Kai" I said softly as I set them off each one blowing in such fiery force that it expanded pass me almost hitting Dora in the process before extinguishing leaving four fried corpses in its wake and me ever so slowly walking to my prey.
As I walked to Dora I looked down, his sorrowful eyes staring at me as my hate filled eyes stared right back" I reached down to his binds breaking them off before standing up" Get out of here" I told him in a tone telling him it wasn't wise to argue. As he ran out another guard came behind me his blade poised to strike me down, but again to drunk...to slow.
I would seem to disappear moving too fast for his eyes as his blade clinked against the rock floor before I came right back up behind him my hand palming his head squeezing tight, so tight, before long my fingers broke through the thick bone of his skull digging into his brains before letting his already dead body fall to the ground. My eyes turned back over my shoulders as another barrage of men charged their blades ready only making me turn around my hands stringing a set of seals before dropping my hand down and my palm up, quickly a ball of electricity strung up my are turning a pure white stringing out into a circle of this electricity at my feet. As they came closer my eyes turned to them before flashing from their sight.
So slow
Before they would even know what happened I lopped off limb after limb body part after body part before finally reappearing to all sight right behind them right before each of them fell either dead of from the blood loss of losing their arm or leg.
I stared forward at the scared men before me all finally getting the wakeup call knowing they couldn't win against me, against the demon king. One man dropped his blade holding his hands straight up in the air giving up." I give up I'm done" he said.
Geruto's eyes went wide" What are you doing you fool" He yelled only to get a wave off by the man." Screw you...I'm not dyeing for this" he said walking calmly towards the door. This coward actually thinking I would let him live quickly getting the message I was trying to send as my arm shot out right to his throat staring deep into his eyes "You were a part of this...you and everyone here dies" I finished before I tossed him like a rag doll to the side impaling him on one of the sharp decorations of the mansions pillars.
At this the others went crazy attacking me out of blind fear, fools, I killed them all snapping their necks , tearing them in half, crushing their skulls. I only took me 15 minutes before I dwindled down to four all shaking in their boots one pissing him as I stepped closer. That was until one I had not seen stepped out from behind Geruto's giant throne, He was large near 7 feet tall easily 300 plus pounds of throbbing muscle, he wore what you'd expect of a barbarian as he smirked" Demon king now you die!" he yelled at me before taking his large fist throwing it straight at me with everything in his power only to have it stopped against the flat of my palm.
He looked at me with an expression of shock my eyes never even raised from the ground, around my body a strange dark chakra began to raise circling up my legs slow. Throughout my years I've never seen this chakra on me, never felt the evil the darkness the pure power that it emanated.
I liked it…
My hand would grip down around his massive hand as I added more pressure hearing a snap after snap breaking more and more bones in his hand before they began to stick of his skin as I crushed it with in my grasp. He screamed in agony in pure pain as I crushed him underneath my power then my left hand rose up to his throat grabbing his windpipe with my index finger and thumb before ripping it straight out of his throat before dropping him to the ground letting his blood splatter at my feet.
I didn't even wait as I turned my eyes to the last four men frozen in their spots my hands raising in a quick set of seals before raising my first two fingers of my left hand up" Doton: Ganban Kyu (Earth Release: Bedrock Coffin)" I yelled out as two separate sections of tall flat rock raised each side of them before they crushed together smashing the four into a bloodied heap of what they use to be.
After I finished with them my eyes immediately turned up to the final one, Geruto who had been trying to hide behind his chair. I could hear his pathetic sniveling behind the throne as I moved closer my hand would reach down grabbing him by his hair pulling him out then tossing him hard into his chair before resting both arms at each side of him giving him nowhere to run.
"Please...I'll give you anything...everything ...whatever you want" he pleaded with me.
"Anything?" I responded leaning into him more my red glowing eyes stared deep into his before a smirk rolled over my lips" What I want…is to hear you scream" whispered the last part darkly before his entire world would go black. He would be standing in nothing but darkness before he would feel a burning on his insides, it got hotter and hotter until hit it a flame screaming in agony and pain as he burned for a few minutes before succumbing to death only for his world to come back to view and I still standing in front of him.
He shook in agony his body frozen still feeling the genjutsu I could have finished him but no, I wanted him to feel pain...
One Hour later
I had continued to use different genjutsu on him, creating more illusions so he could feel every bit of pain and agony he deserved. He was now a pile of mush, already having crapped and pissed himself from the repeated exposure to my ever so painful imagination.
After I was finished I grabbed the man by the color of his jacket dragging his limp but still breathing body outside through the mud before tossing him into the street leaving him for the buzzards to gnaw at his still breathing but utterly useless body.
I finally left the mansion after retrieving Higeki's body covering her in my short and carried her in my arms back to the village. The rain poured hard, for the first time in my life I believed what my mother once told me that it rains because the gods cry for my targets...but in this case they didn't cry from my targets the lifeless bodies of those pathetic men , but instead it cried for the innocent life that was taken.
The Innocent life of Mino Higeki…
