Disclaimer: I do not own Samurai 7 or any characters affiliated therewith. I only own Miyuki.
Chapter dedicated to Jihoo. Keep smiling and laughing like a monkey.
Miyuki froze, dropping her sword and dagger as she looked into his cold, blood red eyes. The man removed his sword and Miyuki fell to her hands and knees.
"NO MIYUKI!" Heihachi shouted.
"LADY MIYUKI!" Katsushiro cried out. In that moment, the man he was fighting took advantage of Katsushiro's distraction and knocked him to the ground, pinning Katsushiro's arms behind his back. Katsushiro cried out in as the man pulled his ponytail. Miyuki coughed up a mouthful of blood as Heihachi was thrown in front of her, pinned down by his assailant.
"Miyuki! Please, Miyuki, look at me!" Heihachi said to her. Miyuki weakly lifted her head and saw fear in Heihachi's eyes. The red-eyed man picked her up by her collar and slammed her against the wall. She coughed up more blood as her breathing became slightly ragged. The men restraining Heihachi and Katsushiro made them kneel in front of her and Miyuki was also forced to her knees.
"Girl, you are going to see your friends die before you," the man holding her whispered into her ear. Miyuki turned her head away, feeling sick.
"I couldn't have failed… I didn't mean to do this… Where did I go wrong?" she thought, racking her brain for ideas.
"Get away from her!" Heihachi shouted, thoroughly pissed off. The three men laughed and signaled for the rest of the guards to leave the room. When they did, the man holding Heihachi threw him to the floor.
"What? She your girlfriend?" he asked. Heihachi and Katsushiro bit their tongues to keep from replying back. Heihachi looked up at Miyuki to find she was looking at him as well. Miyuki's eyes had become bright, brighter than Heihachi had ever seen. Suddenly, he understood what she was going to do.
"Don't do it," he thought, and Miyuki shook her head slightly. A single tear fell, as her eyes seemed to apologize to him.
"I'm sorry," she whispered, and she said it for Heihachi alone.
"What did you say gir-" The man's voice was cut off as Miyuki spun around with surprising speed, a dagger in her hand. Katsushiro and Heihachi's eyes widened. They didn't even see her move to grab a dagger. Before the man hit the ground, Miyuki had already slit the throat of the man holding Katsushiro and broke the neck of the one holding Heihachi. All three men lay on the ground and Miyuki was still standing.
"I've done it… I… killed them…" she thought. Heihachi and Katsushiro looked at her, feeling numb. Slowly they looked at each other in amazement.
The thoughts in their heads were exactly the same, "SHE'S BETTER THAN KYUZO!" Suddenly, Miyuki dropped her dagger and fell to the ground. Heihachi ran to her and picked her up. Katsushiro was right next to him.
"Miyuki! Miyuki wake up!" Heihachi cried. Miyuki's eyes fluttered open and she smiled a small, sardonic smile.
"Hayaku (hurry)… You've got a job to do. Leave me here… I'll stay for as long as I can…" she whispered. Heihachi's eyes filled with tears as he lifted her up and walked back to the control panel.
"Katsushiro, we need to blow this place up again. Can you place these for me? I need to kill the engine completely," Heihachi said to Katsushiro, handing him a string of explosives. Katsushiro nodded and ran off behind some huge gears. Heihachi tore some cloth from the edge of Miyuki's kimono and wrapped it around her wound. When he finished, he let Miyuki lean on him as he started to destroy the controls.