A/N: Mild violence warning.
There was blood, ringing of swords, she glanced to where her husband had been but he was gone. She looked to her other side but the small girl was gone as well.
All she could think to do was try to run for the coverage of the trees that surrounded the path. She hitched up the many layers of her kimono turning away from the fighting that had erupted only to trip a few feet away.
Her eyes rested on a fallen hollowed log where she met and locked eyes with the small girl peering out frightfully. It seemed like an eternity as a few seconds passed and they simply stared at one another.
She knew what she had to do. She couldn't let them find the little girl. In an instant, acting entirely on instinct, Lady Mayumi gathered herself and ran back towards the commotion, away from the child.
It was only then did she stop and begin to shake. The men were dead it seemed. She heard screams, women's screams from all sides of her...her sisters' screams. She made to run towards the sound when she was hit roughly in the back of the head by something hard.