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Perviously on Phantasy Star Universe The Untold Legacy

Kuro is called to Parum to start his training and encounters his brother, well Cain begins training with his Uncle and is told about his families own created Photon Arts – fast step, photon shield and the spirit shot


Episode 11 – The Hatred of Brothers

Kuro Charges in against his brother but before he can make contact, Kura uses his beam saber to deflect to shot and push his brother back. Kuro regains his footing and charges again, this time there weapons clash and Kuro tries to push back his brother only to find he is unable. Kura kicks Kuro away before lunging at him; Kuro just manages to deflect the attack. Kuro rolls away to get some distance before getting back to his feet and starts to plan a new strategy. Kura doesn't wait and starts attacking wildly, Kuro for multiple minutes is forced to block and dodge as his brothers attack continues. Kuro swings his sword wildly making a gap between them. Breathing heavily Kuro drives the blade of his sword into the ground and takes a small pocket knife from his pocket before cutting the material on the lower part of his jeans. As he does it cuts loose the weights from his legs, Kuro smiles and says "you are a lot better than I thought Kura but this is where I get serious. I can now move more than double the speed than before; I give this fight 2 minutes at best before I beat you."

Kuro starts running as fast as he can in a circle which is gradually getting small as he goes round, finally Kuro gets close enough and swings his sword only to have it stopped by the tip of Kura's beam saber. Kura says "you always were the one to try flashy stuff over effective stuff. This is why you need the training, it is important to learn the basics over the more advanced flashy stuff."

Kuro growing angry shouts "SHUT UP, YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT WHAT I CAN AND CAN'T DO…"

Kura looks to the ground and thinks 'this is not how I expected him to be, could really what happened to him make him this bitter.'

(Flash back 11 years earlier)

A 7 year old Kuro stands with a 17 year old Kura as well as a older man who has a number of scars on his face, they are in a hospital, the man speaks to Kura saying "I don't know how long your mother will live for, she is dying of a very rare disease. When she is dead there will be no one left to watch over Kuro, I can not stay in one location for to long less I be located, so I can't look after him, it is to much for me to ask you to look after him, the easiest way for us all is if he goes into care. The guardians have an orphanage he can stay at; they will keep watch on him until he decides what he is going to do with his life."

Kura nods and says "yes father, but I think it would be wise for you to find a safe house on each planet, the collective won't find you easily if you go into hiding in a remote location. But before you go it will be best if you inform Nav or a high ranking official in the guardians you are going into hiding."

His father shakes his head and says "no, I can't tell anyone, I'm afraid that includes not been able to tell you where I am going son. It is merely for safety reasons, if Magashi knows some one has my location he will torture them into telling. I have to go now Kura, please make sure he gets into care, I doubt he will understand why but it is for his own good"

Kura watches his father walk away, he then turns to Kuro and indicates to his younger brother to follow him.

(End flash back)

Kura looks up at his brother and says "why do you want to kill me so much? Is it because you were left in the care of that orphanage? If so that was for your own good, there was no one left to look after you, I was away most of the time, father was been hunted so was in hiding, mother died the day after you went into care. There was no one left"

Kuro lowers his guard slightly before saying with pure malice in his voice "I don't care about that, I was happy to go into that care, maybe you didn't realise it but I was the youngest of 7. When I was young our parents hardly acknowledged I was even alive, they merely saw me as another future Guardian. Now remember back to my first birthday what happened that very same day."

Kura takes a second to think before saying "on that day Father announced that he was been promoted to an S Rank… yes I remember that."

Kuro lowers his guard completely before saying "yes that's right he did, because of that one cared that it was my first birthday. The same happened with my second birthday, Kimo announced he had passed his entry test to the guardians, I was completely forgotten about it was a big achievement for the retard to have even answered one question on that test correctly. Then again when I was 3, Hitomi announced she was getting engaged to that jack off, again any thoughts heading in my direction were diverted else where. It seemed after that even without any important news I was forgot about. Then the fucking collective started killing are family members trying to find father. Yes I remember that, that's because it was when I stopped caring. That day you announced I was going into that orphanage I was happy."

Kuro looks up towards his brother before raising his sword and pointing it at Kura, he merely says "you and me are the last of are family now, I will seek my revenge and find my worth by proving that I am better than you"

Kura says with hurt obvious in his voice "you know, you only look back at the bad things Kuro, you were always like that, it was true that you never received much attention, but it is a fact that are parents loved you more than the rest of us. They never wanted you to become a warrior, father was tough on me and the other because he wanted us join the guardians. He trained us every day harder than you can imagine. We were his own private army, he never viewed us as his children… we were nothing but people to bring fame and fortune to him."

Kuro shouts "SHUT UP WITH YOUR LIES…" Kuro in a fit of rage that had been building up his entire life charges forward swinging his sword violently. Kura easily dodges and says to kuro well still dodging "I am sorry you turned out this way, I truly am."

Kura goes to knock the sword from Kuros hand but the younger swordsman move out of the way in time. Kura takes a few steps back and says "Kuro now I will correct you with another mistake you said earlier, you said we are the only two left, the truth is there is 3 of us left, Father is not dead, he was never caught by the collective. He is also the one who is going to train you not me. But I think now it is time to end this fight"

Kura deactivates his beam saber and says "hit me with your best shot"

Kuro smiles with an evil intent before charging in, the split second before Kuro's sword hits him. kura dodges out of the say and uses a photon storage unit to release a rifle. Before firing Kura says "it's over"

He fires at Kuro but before the bullet hits it's target, someone dives in knocking Kuro from his feet, the bullet misses both of them by mere inches. Kura returns his gun to the storage unit before walking over to Kuro and the figure who saved him. Kura picks up the man first and says "that was pretty reckless father, any later and you would have been hit."

The man looks at his son before sitting up and saying "it will take more than one bullet to kill Jiro of the 4 Swords."

Kura laughs and says "you haven't called your self that in years, you don't even have the 4 swords anymore. And you sounded a lot like Kuro then; he calls himself Kuro of the 3 Swords now"

Jiro laughs for a second before both of them look towards Kuro who hadn't moved since been pushed out of the way. Jiro says "we best make sure he is not hurt."

(One hour later, Parum, Holtes City, Guardian HQ)

Kuro wakes up suddenly in a bed of the medical wing of the guardian HQ. He looks around to see if anyone is around, the last thing he could remember was been pushed out of the way of a bullet and hitting his head hard on the ground. He had no idea who had saved him or how he had gotten to the hospital. He hears voices nearby and strains to hear who they are, one of them he knows is Kura but the other he doesn't

"We need to be careful with him, Kuro may seem tough but he has been under a lot of stress for years"

"I agree; we shouldn't tell him about it yet, just teach him what we planned to from the start"

"That will probably be the best idea for now. He is likely to snap if we try to do anything else"

"Kura, you wait here for him to wake up, and tell him to pack up his stuff and meet you by the flyer base in the morning. Tell him he is going to be beginning the toughest training of his life."

Kuro hears on of the people walk away before hearing the curtain which surrounds his bed open up to show Kura, he sees Kuro is awake and say "come on get up, you need to go back to the colony tonight, in the morning you are to meet me at the flyer base and bring some clothes and all 3 swords that back up the TriSword you are so proud of. You won't be going back to the colony until your training is complete." Kura leaves after finishing what he had to say, Kuro throws the covers off himself, he finds his sword by his bed and straps it to his back before heading out.

(Guardian Colony, the Next morning)

Kuro puts the last of his clothes in a bag, Kuro had seen Dawn leave early in the morning to training, he had pretended to be asleep the entire time as he didn't wish to speak to anyone, Cain had not come back yet and carnage had left with Dawn. Kuro starts writing a note to the others to let them know he was leaving and wouldn't be back for sometime. Just as he finishes the note he hears the door open, he quickly turns around to see who it is, he sees Dawn starting there with her hands behind her back. Kuro puts the pen down he was using to write and picks up his bag, he starts to walk to the door before Dawn says "so were you just going to leave without saying goodbye to anyone?"

Kuro stops and says "pretty much yeah. How did you find out I was leaving"

She looks at the floor and says "I heard Nav and Tonnio talking about it"

Kuro laughs which makes Dawn look up at him before she says "the least you can do is say bye to me. I'm right here so it isn't like you have to go searching for me."

Kuro puts his bag down on the floor and turns around before saying "ok, Dawn, goodbye for now, I hope to see you again in the future."

Dawn shakes her head at Kuro and whispers "Baka" before hugging him. She rests her head on Kuro's chest, she feels him put his arms around her. She releases him from the hug after about a minute and says "I brought these for you out of some of the money my father gave me, I'm just lucky I caught you before you left."

Dawn takes 2 beam sabers that are attached to the back of her dress and give them to Kuro before saying "good luck Kuro" Kuro smiles and says "thanks Rich Girl." Kuro picks up his bag and leaves the room. Dawn sits down in a random chair and places her head in her hands thinking 'after everything, both Kuro and Cain have gone. I just have to train hard so that when they both come back I can show them I am just as good as they are.' Dawn stands up brushing her hair out of her face before heading out the door to go training.


End of Episode

Next time on Phantasy Star Universe – The Untold Legacy

Kuro returns to the Guardians after one year of training and is able to meet up with his old team, he also has a surprise visitor who he did not expect

Next time in Episode 12 – Homecoming