Declaimer: I own nothing in this fanfic, but my created characters they abilities and Jutsu and that is about all I own "Goes to corner and starts crying"
Writing: Italic: thought, Bold: Bijuu or summoning speaking
"Let the gates of oblivion slam open and the jaws of hell shall spew forth fire and wrath." - My most disturbed frienf Undead Yeti
"Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception."-Alan Moore
"What do you mean his dead?!" Arashi asked with a scared tone in his voice.
"He was poisoned by ninja," Hana said while not looking at Arashi not wanting to see the pain she had caused him.
"There is no way he would die from someone poisoning him he's to strong for that." Arashi said with more pain in his voice.
At this Hana looked at Arashi and from that signal look Arashi found that she was telling the truth. "I'm sorry, but it is tru-." She never got to finish as Arashi ran from the house in search of more answer.
Nami was about to go after him, but was stopped by Hana. "LET ME GO!" Nami yelled out. "He needs someone with him." Hana only shook her head.
"You may be on the same team." Hana said as she watched Arashi "But you know nothing about him. When ever he is hurt emotional he likes to be alone and figure things out."
Nami was about to respond again, but Unabara beat her to it. "Well if you know so much about Arashi then why don't you enlighten us?" Unabara said with a raised eyebrow.
Hana released her grip on Nami. "Well come on inside and I will tell you." She said with a sad smile. She led the team into her living room where she gave them some drinks. "Well I think the best thing is to start from the beginning. It all started…"
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Flashback (13 years)
Everyone was looking at the man who was walking through the town. He had a long black hair, black body armor, two swords one on his back that was blue and the other one on his side that was black, and his eyes were pure red. This man's name was Muramasa.
He was known for being one of the best swordsmen in the entire country. He was a vicious man in battle who showed no one any misery which led to him being feared where ever he went. People told stories of how he fought an entire town of ninja and still came out alive leaving behind a bloody trail of death. Parents would tell their kids that if they misbehaved that the blood-stained demon would come for them.
Muramasa chuckled at the thought of his nickname. "The blood-stained demon." Muramasa thought as he laughed a deep soul echoing laugh "Where do these people come up with this shit." He looked around and saw moms and dads give there kids hugs and try to swiftly walk them away from the man's gaze.
Muramasa found what he was looking for and entered the small bar. The effect was almost immediate as soon as he walked in people began to storm out except for a select few. Muramasa walked to the counter and yelled for someone to take his order.
The bartender ended up being a woman in her mid-twenties with long brown hair and black eyes. She looked at Muramasa with a look of disgust while Muramasa only looked at her with a small smile.
"I can see you don't like me." Muramasa said with amusement.
"What gave it away blood-stained demon Muramasa?" The woman said with sarcasm in her voice.
"Well you seem to have caught me at a disadvantage." Muramasa said with a smile. "You know my name, but I don't know yours."
"My name is Hana." Hana said with disgust. "Now tell me what you want or get out." Everyone was looking at Hana as if she had just lost her mind. Muramasa lend back and laughed.
"You got spunk it has been some time since someone spoke to me like that." Muramasa said while his red eyes seem to gleam with a dangerous fire. Despite herself Hana felt herself drawn into them, but before she lost herself completely she snapped herself out of it. "Any who I would like the strongest drink you have and please live the bottle."
Hana got his drink and sat it in front of him. "So may I ask what the special occasion is?" Hana said with hate. "Go and murder another town of innocent people." Muramasa looked at her directly into the eyes and what she saw shocked her. He didn't show hate, anger, or bloodlust what he showed was sadness.
"No, I just want to forget." Muramasa said with sadness in his voice. "I want to make those faces disappear." For the first time since he walked in Hana felt sorry for the man.
"Well in a way you deserve to be haunted." Hana said with a little bit of pity in her voice.
Muramasa once again found himself laughing, but this wasn't like the last one this one was a sad laugh. "I guess your right." Muramasa said while taking a drink. "I do deserve what I get."
Hana slowly nodded her head. "Well you know what to do when you leave." Hana said has she turned her back on the man.
"Yeah pay." Muramasa said with a slight chuckle. Everyone by this point has finished what they were eating and walked off, but unknown to Muramasa and Hana someone else was still in the bar. A dog that was red and white had snuck into the bar and was sneaking up on Muramasa. Muramasa was so immerse into drinking that he did not hear the approach of the dog until it was too late. The dog managed to bite the sting holding Muramasa black blade the blade then dropped into the dog's mouth. When Muramasa saw that the dog had his sword he went running after it screaming to Hana that he would be back to pay in a minute.
"STUPID MUTT GET BACK HERE!" Muramasa screamed out as he chased the dog. The dog would here and there and look behind it to see if Muramasa was still chasing him and would then run away again. Muramasa put some chakra into his feet and with a burst of speed final was able to catch the dog. He held it by the scruff of its neck and lifted it off the ground until he was face to face with the beast.
"My sword now." Muramasa said as he held out his hand. The dog instead of dropping the sword swung its head to the right and swung the sheath at Muramasa's head. The sheath hit Muramasa with a crack and as a result Muramasa dropped the dog who once again ran off into the woods.
"THAT FUCKING HURT!" Muramasa yelled at the dog. "When I get my hands on you I'm going to make you into a fur coat." Muramasa said this as he gave chase again.
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After a two more minutes of chasing the dog it final stopped next to the ruins of a house. It laid Muramasa's sword next to a bundle of cloths and ran off again. Muramasa came out of the words and saw his sword he walked up to his blade and picked it up. He was about walk away when he heard a small noise coming from the bundle. He walked up to the bundle and carefully unwrapped it and revealed a baby with tufts of white hair and green eyes looking at him.
Muramasa picked it up and a piece of paper fell out he picked it up and read it.
"Hello Muramasa the baby you are holding is named Arashi Tekiatsu. His parents are dead and there is no one to take care of him. You keep talking about wanting to make the faces disappear well I promise you that if you take care of Arashi that there will indeed go away. It is just a thought oh and one more thing do not change his name the reason why I will keep to myself. Anyway have fun because he loves to pull things."
Sincerely,
Unknown
Muramasa was confused about the have fun part until Arashi grabbed a handful of Muramasa hair and pulled. Muramasa yelped and pulled the child away from his hair and looked at him with his red eyes. Arashi just looked at him and giggled and clapped his tiny hands together. Muramasa couldn't help himself and smiled at the tiny child. He turned around with his sword and baby in hand.
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Hana heard the door open and turned to yell at Muramasa only to get a shock. He was holding a small infant in his arms.
"Do you know how to take care of babies?" Muramasa said with a hopeless tone in his voice.
Hana stared at him in shock. "What?" was Hana's response? Muramasa then proceeded to hand her the note. She read the note and was once again shocked. "Who in their right mind would let you raise a baby?" Muramasa just shrugged his shoulders.
"I have no idea." Muramasa said while holding the small child in his arms. "Maybe the guy's crazy." At that Hana gently took the sleeping child away from Muramasa. Muramasa put some money on the counter and began to walk out the door when he heard Hana say something.
"Where do you think your going!?" Hana asked while tapping her foot.
Muramasa looked at her with a confused expression. "You said it yourself." Muramasa said. "I won't make a decent role model so I'm leaving."
"Oh no you're not." Hana stated "You are going to help me take care Arashi."
"And what if I refuse." Muramasa said with an air of confidence, but that was soon replaced with fear when a knife sailed by and nicked his cheek. He looked at Hana to see that she had managed to get into range with another knife aimed at his throat.
"Because if you don't help me." Hana said with a dangerous edge to her voice. "I will kill you understand." At that Muramasa only nodded his head this brought a smile to Hana's face while Arashi only giggled. "Good now here is a list of things I need you to get."
She handed Muramasa a list and sent him to go get the needed supplies. "She is a spiteful little girl." Muramasa thought with a smile appearing on his face. "I could get use to that."
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One week later
"WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS I THINKING?!" Muramasa thought to himself as he was running around carrying various things while people only watched and chuckled silently. Arashi was giggling to himself while Hana began to make cooing noises at the young baby. They arrived at Hana's house and Muramasa proceeded to drop the items onto the floor. Hana then handed him Arashi who immediately began to pull Muramasa's hair much to his discomfort.
Hana only watched with a smile as she watched Arashi hanging on to Muramasa's hair while the man in question began to call Arashi a leech.
"He's not like the stories made him out to be." Hana thought with a smile. "He is actually quite sweet." She heard a thud and turned around to see Muramasa on his stomach while Arashi was on his back bouncing up and down giggling repeatedly.
"Could we go out to eat this time?" Muramasa with a frown on his face.
Hana only smiled. "Sure we can." Arashi smiled at Hana and bounced harder on Muramasa back.
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They were leaving the restaurant with Arashi sitting on Muramasa's neck and Hana smiling at them. If you didn't know what Hana did to keep Muramasa from leaving you would actually believe that they were a family. That was when all hell broke lose explosion sounded off all around the three scaring everyone, but one Muramasa only glared at the figure that was coming out of the smoke.
"There you are Muramasa." The figure said with a strange tone of happiness. "I was wondering when we would be able to finish are little game." When the smoke cleared you saw the man wearing a black cloak with an Iwa headband tied o his belt. He had blue eyes and short black hair.
"Raiku." Muramasa said with as much venom as possible. While Hana gently took Arashi from Muramasa this was not missed by Raiku who smiled a predatory smile.
"I would never picture you as a family man." Raiku said. "But that doesn't matter Muramasa I'm here for your head which is worth ten-thousand ryo now please come quietly." Muramasa response was drawing both of his swords. Raiku smiled at the fact he was going to fight Muramasa again.
"There they are." Raiku said with envy. "Tenro the sword that is said to be indestructible and Juuchi Yosamu (10,000 Cold Nights) the sword said to cut through anything in its path. It's no wonder why you became so feared."
Muramasa only glared at Raiku. "If you want to live you will leave NOW!" Muramasa said while his red eyes gleamed. Raiku only laughed and looked at Muramasa with a insane look.
Raiku put his hands together in a tiger seal then a hilt of a sword burst from the ground in front of Raiku. Raiku grabbed the hilt and ripped the earth based sword right from the ground. Muramasa shook his head at the idiocy of this ninja.
"Stay right there this won't take long." Muramasa said as he ran at Iwa nin who casually raised his blade up as Muramasa brought Juuchi down, but instead of cutting through the earth weapon it stopped a few inches in. Muramasa looked at Raiku with a confused look.
"I compressed the hardest minerals in the earth into my blade." Raiku said with a sinister look in his eyes. He swung his sword and swung Muramasa blade of his and swung the blade at Muramasa head only to meet Tenro, but the force of the swing still sent Muramasa back a few feet.
"I see how you fight now." Raiku said much to Muramasa's surprise. "You use Juuchi Yosamu for offense while you use Tenro for defense. So all I have to do is take one of your arms and then you will be mine."
"My after only two fights you figured out my style." Muramasa said with a smile. "But that doesn't mean anything if you can't stop my assault."
Raiku didn't say anything, but he glanced over to where Hana and Arashi were. Muramasa noticed that the look in his eyes got darker and right before he could do anything he threw his earth sword at Hana and Arashi.
"Damn!" Muramasa thought as he ran at the two.
Hana watched the sword inch closer and closer towards her and Arashi. She covered Arashi and braced for the impact that never came. She looked up to see Muramasa standing above her with the sword in his shoulder holding Tenro. She watched his hand slowly release its grip until the black sword hit the ground with a clank of metal. The sword in Muramasa shoulder broke apart into small pebbles. He turned to his left to see Raiku laughing Muramasa began to growl at him.
Raiku looked at him with a raised eyebrow as another sword began to emerge from the ground. "Don't growl at me." Raiku said as he rested the sword on his shoulder. "You are the one who went to protect them it's your fault."
"I will not let you leave here alive." Muramasa said with a voice that was so cold that it sent chills down everyone's spines. "You don't attack a woman and child for no reason."
"Oh, is that so." Raiku said with sarcasm. "Don't act innocent you killed lots of families on your bloody rampages. So don't you preach to me about whom to kill and not to kill."
Muramasa saw flashes of people covered in blood dying in the streets. A signal tear fell from his red eyes. He looked at Raiku while he put Juuchi in from of him.
"Hana shield Arashi's and your eyes." Muramasa said with a smile. "I don't want you to she what is about to happen."
Hana nodded and closed hers and Arashi's eyes.
"What do you think you are going to do with just one arm?" Raiku said with sarcasm. Muramasa answered by moving his sword in a full circle like a shield leaving behind afterimages of his blade. He stopped when the blade went to his right side and he positioned the sword on the length of his sheath.
"This is a joke." Raiku said as he also got into position.
Muramasa responded with one word. "Mizuchi." He said his voice barely above a whisper. He soon disappeared in a burst of wind and reappeared behind Raiku swinging his sword to the left.
"That was fancy and all." Raiku said with a smile. "But you didn't even scratch me."
Muramasa responded by sheathing his blade. "I wouldn't try and move too much." Muramasa said with a deadpan voice.
"What are you talking about!" Raiku said as he swung himself around only to see his sword cut in half. "Wha-." Raiku's arm fell off at that moment in a gush of blood.
"What you said was right." Muramasa said with sadness. "I did kill families on my rampages, but no more. I will never harm another family for as long as I live and I will be damned if I let you. The first time we fought I spared your life on a whim, but not this time."
Muramasa then looked at the bleeding Raiku with a smile. "You heard it too didn't you? The voice on the wind." At that Raiku tried to move forward, but as soon as his foot touched the ground cuts appeared on his entire body. He looked at Muramasa one last time and smiled as his body fell to the ground in pieces. Muramasa took one last glance and walked over to Hana. He gently grabbed her shoulder and led her away from the sight. The people were amazed at the fight that they could and couldn't see, but they took one glance at the dismembered body of Raiku and covered him up in a white sheet.
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When Hana awoke she was told exactly what happened and what Muramasa said.
"Is that why he's so sad?" Hana thought. She decided to try and find Muramasa and ask him she took Arashi from his crib and went off to find the swordsman. She looked around everywhere to find him, but he was gone. She asked a villager and he said that he was leaving town heading north.
Hana's eyes widened at that and ran off to find him with Arashi in tow.
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Muramasa took one last look at the river town and began his trek to other lands. He stopped to hear someone calling his name he turned around to see Hana running at him.
"MURAMASA STOP!" Hana yelled out as she took her free hand and wrapped it around his back. "Please… don't… go." She said in between sobs she looked at him and he was shocked to see her crying.
"Why are you crying?" Muramasa asked while he brushed a tear from her face.
"Because I don't want you to go." Hana said with a pleading look.
Muramasa only shook his head. "I can't stay. Muramasa said with no emotion. "It'll be too dangerous for you. More people will come looking for me and they will be more dan-." Muramasa didn't finish as Hana gave him a kiss on his lips.
"I don't care." Hana said as she broke the kiss. "When you first came into town I hated you, but over the next couple of days I saw you plying with Arashi. I knew then that you were not like the stories said you were. You are not this great tyrant that crushes anyone who walks in his path. You are not a demon that devours the souls of humans. At that moment I saw the real you the good side of you. I fell in love with you."
Muramasa only looked at her with his red eyes. "It's not real-." He never got the chance to finish when she punched him in the chest. Even with his armor he felt the blow.
"DON"T TELL ME THAT!" Hana yelled out as Arashi began to cry. "I see the way the you look at me when I'm playing with Arashi. It's a look of longing as if you wish you had a family."
Muramasa didn't say anything as he looked at the ground with tears. "If I stay you will be hurt and I can't let that happen." Muramasa said with pain in his voice.
"I will never be hurt." Hana said with tears. "I promise you." Muramasa was going to respond when he felt both Hana and Arashi give him a hug. He felt his arms wrap themselves around both of them and they stayed like that for awhile until Muramasa felt something tug on Tenro. He looked to see what and saw that Arashi was pulling on the black handle while he was giggling. Arashi looked up and smiled while Muramasa did the exact same thing. He took Arashi into his arms unstrapped Tenro and let Arashi hold the blade.
"Do you like Tenro Arashi?" Muramasa asked the tiny baby who only responded with a giggle and gripped the sword tighter. Muramasa laughed while Hana smiled. "Then I shall teach you the way of the sword. I shall teach you how to fight with Tenro."
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Unknown to the three a figure was watching them. He was in a tattered gray cloak the only part of him you could see was his mouth which was in a smile. Next to him was the red and white dog that sat on his hunches with a tilted head.
"I think are work here is done." The man said with a gruff voice the dog looked at him with a confused face. "Don't you agree?" At that the dog gave an excited bark and with that the two turned around and began to walk towards the mountains.
"I hope this helps you Muramasa." He said with a sad smile. "Train the young one well because he will be needed in the dark times ahead."
And with that the two vanished within a swirling mist cloud.
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Unabara and the remainder of his team looked on with surprised looks as Hana finished her story. Unabara was the first to snap out of his thoughts.
"That is very interesting." Unabara said.
"Love does work in mysterious ways." Hana said with a faraway look in her eyes. "After that Muramasa waited until Arashi could swing a sword. When that happened he trained Arashi on how to use Tenro properly until he could teach him no more."
"But if Arashi was your adoptive son then why let him go?" Nami asked with a confused look.
"Believe me I didn't want to let him go." Hana said with sadness. "But Muramasa convinced me that it was for the best. That he needed to explore and get stronger and learn new things. So after much fussing and auguring I eventually gave in, but before he left he told us that when he got back he was going to be stronger and would challenge Muramasa to a fight. Muramasa accepted we watched him walk over the hill and out of sight."
The team nodded their heads. "So where is Muramasa's grave at?" Nami asked hoping to find Arashi there.
Hana knew what she was up to. "Arashi and Muramasa had a training spot." Hana said. "It was next to the river where they could relax. It was a hill that the sun always set on." She saw Nami run out the door before any of them could stop her.
"Be careful Nami." Unabara said with a worried tone.
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Arashi looked at a mound of dirt with a blue sword sticking out of the head with tears in his eyes.
"He really is gone." Arashi said while he heard Nami approach him.
"Do you want to be alone?" Nami asked with a sad tone. Arashi just shook his head while Nami stood beside of him as they watched Muramasa's grave.
Hey everyone I finally got the other chapter done. The name Mizuchi and what Muramasa said "You heard it too" thing It was all from a manga and anime called Samurai deeper Kyo so As a result I do not claim it as my own. So until next time have fun Read and Review. Oh, can anyone tell me what Mizuchi means in Japanese.