I was thinking about doing a none fighting chapter next. Give you some variety.
I have a Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki one on the works, a Haikyuu (Two different versions), Big Windup, Ouran High school Host club, Free! Iwatobi Swim Club, ooooooorrr...
...uh...Well, thats all I can think of the none violent-
AH WAIT THERE'S ALSO 'Kiss Him, Not me!'...And...Tanaka-kun is always listless...
There maybe more...somewhere in my head.
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...Wow...I did not know how many actions manga's I read until I try and List all the none one's I've had...
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Huh.
Welp, here you go. a Drifter story-
OH WAIT SKIP BEAT-
Drifters
Kaname gave a slow blink at what she was seeing, making her tilt her head in thought as she remembered dying again. She was confused as to why she wasn't waking up as a babe again, and instead inside of a long hallway filled with different doors lining it.
Looking at herself, she quirked a brow at how she was wearing a mix of her Kingsglaive armor but also seemed to have small aspect of her Miko outfit in it. Instead of the steel toed boots, they had become opened toed sandals and now had the traditional samurai shin guards. Her left gauntlet was covered by a black kimono sleeve, and her right had prayer beads and sutras wrapped around it. A long ribbon of purple silk wrapped around her hips and shoulder's, on the end was the design of a great white dog demon running through the sky. Under the hips ribbon were light but strong leather tassets that went to her mid-thigh.
She frowned at the missing raven feather tasset that use to be there, mostly because Nyx had made it for her, but other then that everything else was there.
Her bangs and fringe seemed to be in the Hime-cut, but it didn't seem to work so well with how curly her hair was. It was the same color as her first life, as was her skin tone (Although tanned from working outside), and she even had some scars from both lives the mix of outfit came from. At least I don't have the scars Ravus had given me. She mused, lifting her hand to touch her scar free face and letting it run to her hair, which came into contact with the horn she had as Lux. "I assume I am 'Kaname' once again, just a little different."
"Next."
Kaname turned towards the voice, noticing the desk in the middle of the hallway with a European man reading a news paper.
"Oya? You Almost feel like Truth." She noted in amusement. "But you aren't the gate keeper, but you do have some power over death if you can pull my soul to this place. Then I am here for a reason, yes? If so, just point me to where I need to be and I shall be on my way." she spoke, lips twitching at the smile she received from the being who had put down the paper, and instead started to write something down. A door of stone opened next to her, she could feel it trying to suck her inside, so with a huff she turned to it and stepped inside.
Kaname stepped out of the door into a field. Glancing behind her confirmed that the door had already disappeared. Grunting she started to walk, wondering why a being had dragged her soul to this place. "What say you Sō'unga?"
Sō'unga made a humming noise in thought, Mayhaps they need something eliminated? He pondered. It is the reason why most god's and beings in charge of a realm lead your soul to them.
"Valid point." she mumbled, "Or they could be one of the ones who disliked fate and decided to fuck it over."
An hour of walking through the forest brought Kaname to the sight of two elven looking children dragging the corpse of a samurai with them. And what is this? She mused, quickly and quietly making her way to them until she was just behind the three. "And what are you two doing I wonder?" she questioned, making the children 'eep' and almost drop the- apparently not dead- man in the process.
They twisted around to look at her, blinking and gawking as they seemed to try and understand why she was there.
She stared, making them flinch, and had her wondering what color her eye's were for that reaction.
They started to point and talk about the man they were carrying. She recognized the language, and thought it was weird for the common tongue of middle earth to exist here. She knew she was no where near that world.
{I do not know this man,} She started, chuckling at the surprised faces when she spoke their language. {Nor do I know of what a 'Drifter' is, or why you call us both that, but you do seem to be having trouble with carrying him. Would you like some help?} she questioned.
Blinking and coming out of their bewilderment, the two boy's nodded and helped maneuver the samurai's arm over her shoulder. Making sure the man was secured, she started to follow the two to where they were bringing him. Along the way they had started to explain what a 'Drifter' was, why they were leading her and the man to the castle, and how bad it would be if it was found out that they came into contact with Drifters.
{Oya? That is fairly young to be so far out here by yourselves. Are your parents not worried?} she questioned.
{We're old enough to do simple things like this, and it takes time to gather the plants that we need so it's to be expect to take a while.} one shrugged.
{I see.} She muttered, seeing the ruined castle coming up. {Well, there it is. I think it best if I went on alone. You best hurry back before you are discovered, and if you and in need of help then come and fetch me. I will deal with them.} the children smiled and hurried back to where they came.
Sighing, she adjusted the man on her shoulder's and kept walking. A few yards from the structure Kaname heard the telltale sign of a bow being drawn. She paused, gently putting the samurai down on the ground, using her reiki to heal his wounds over so they wouldn't bleed so much, before turning towards the person aiming at her.
{If you go any further towards the castle, I'll kill you!} the boy- he sounded young to her ears- stated.
Her brows furrowed at the horrid accent, along with the clearly Asian clothing he was dressed in, and figured he was not native to the land they were in.
{What have you come here for?!} The boy demanded again.
"I was lead here by two children. They were having trouble carrying this samurai to the castle, which I was informed 'Drifters' like ourselves were to go." She then gave an unimpressed look to him, "Unless I am mistaken?"
The boy seemed shocked, lowering his bow and observed them. "A warrior? You are both from the land of the rising sun?" he questioned.
"Yes." she replied, turning her back to him and kneeling next to the downed man. She put her hands on his chest and slowly started to push the bullets out of him before healing the wounds closed.
"A Miko?" Oda Nobunaga questioned in shock, Nasu no Yoichi reflecting it as well at what they heard the girl tell them. "You do not dress like one."
The girl smirked, leaning against the wall behind her, hood covering her features and the unconscious samurai laying next to her, then nodded. "I am aware of that. But Miko robes are not the most...protective of wear. My clothing may look weak in the middle, but neither your blades or arrows will pierce it as it had protection spells weaved into it."
Yoichi hummed at that, leaning in and observing the clothing. He got an arrow out and quickly jabbed it at her stomach, eye's widening as his arrow broke on the flimsy looking clothe. "Amazing." he mumbled.
Nobunaga grinned, "That is fascinating! Just think, with such light clothing- more impenetrable then full armor- troops could be swifter, travel longer distances, fit through crevices easier, swim! The enemy wouldn't know what hit them when they would try and cut you down, only to fail and be beheaded themselves!" he cackled.
"What did you say your name was again?" Yoichi questioned, ignoring the cackles and muttering of Nobunaga.
"Higurashi Kaname. Pleasure to meet you." she said, bowing a bit.
Yoichi and Nobunaga blinked at the name, "Oh, a Higurashi is it? That would explain the powers then." Nobunaga commented. He remembered the clan, they were healers and warriors at the same time. It was fairly hard to gain any type of footing in their land.
"...Higurashi...Kaname...?" Yoichi muttered, brows furrowed in thought. He had heard of the clan as well, they helped his own family with their archery on occasion, but he was more focusing on her name. He had heard of a Kaname somewhere before. Tapping his chin in though, he went back to his lessons and the books that his friend, Higurashi Kimi, had shown him. "...Wait..." he mumbled, eyes widening as he remembered the legend the Higurashi's had about a certain warrior woman. His eyes snapped to her, "HIGURASHI KANAME?!" He gasped, gaining the other two's attention.
Nobunaga quirked a brow at him, "Whats with you Yoichi?"
"Do you not know who this is?!" he questioned while pointing at- a silently laughing- Kaname. "That is Higurashi Kaname! The warrior Priestess from the Asuka Era! The Priestess who found the lost Sword of Kusanagi!"
"The one who slayed a thousand enemy's in a single stroke?" Nobunaga questioned in awe.
"It was closer to two-thousand, actually, before the clan thought it was a horrible idea to spread it around. But, yes, I am that same Kaname." she answered. "Also, he is not named 'The sword of Kusanagi' nor 'The sword of Murakumo', I have no idea where they had gotten those names from. He is named Sō'unga."
"...It had been three hundred years since you've passed in my time." Yoichi said blankly.
Nobunaga snorted, "over eight hundred in my own." scratching his beard in thought, "Although, if you really are Higurashi Kaname, then where is the sword?"
Kaname smiled opening her hand as ominous purple smoke formed in it, before disappearing and leaving a Nodachi with a glowing red jewel in its wake.
The two jerked back at the magic they witnessed, before scooting closer to see the famed sword.
"This is Sō'unga. I advise you not to touch him, as you will be possessed and made into his undead slave." she advised when Nobunaga reach out to it. He quickly snatched his hand back and gave her a look. "I find it funny that they deemed him heavenly."
"Why?" Yoichi questioned.
"Because Sō'unga is an ancient evil dragon sealed into the sword."
They had no idea how to react to that. Yoichi decided to go out and hunt for dinner, it would give him time to adjust from what he had learned. Nobunaga just chuckled, running his hand through his hair and wondered how anyone could mistaken the demonic blade for heavenly.
"You would think a god like Susanoo would have noticed." He muttered.
"He wasn't."
He looked at her, "What."
She shrugged, "He was nothing but a powerful priest of the time. But he was raised into god-hood after defeating Orochi."
And then the samurai woke up.
Shimazu Toyohisa had awoken in a start from the smell of smoke in the air. He, Nobu, Yoichi, and Kaname ("BUT YOU'VE BEEN DEAD FOR OVER 800 YEARS!", "Do I look even remotely dead to you?") going to the window and spotting the pillar of smoke.
"Smoke is rising." Nobu observed, "It'd from the village of them 'Elves', beyond the forest." He informed the two newcomers.
Toyohisa had not listened anymore, instead racing off to where the battle was being held. Looking to his right had him realize that Kaname had also started to run towards the village, although she had overtaken him.
When he had first set eye's on the woman, he had thought her a harlot with such a tight and revealing top, but then Nobunaga and Yoichi had informed him about who she was. He had not believed them, how could someone from the Asuka Era still be alive today? But then she had shown him Sō'unga and her mark, along with punching him into the ground for daring to call her a harlot. She had even shown him how much stronger her armor was then his own.
He was reluctantly impressed.
And once her hood was down, showing her whole head, he had been shocked. The Shimazu knew of her tale, hell he didn't know of any clan that didn't know who Higurashi Kaname was since her whole clan had based their training on her own, thus making them a feared enemy to have. The books and records had described how she looked, how her eye's were so dark that they let no light escape them, that her hair moved like smoke floating about her head, that the blood red mark on her forehead was like a third eye. There was more, but it had become flowery and he had glossed over it to go straight to her battle records.
He had the brief memory of the women in his clan striving to imitate her. To be as beautiful and strong as she was described to be.
I do not think they could have attained that. He mused, flickering his eye's towards the woman running a bit ahead of himself. And he would admit, she was rather beautiful, if she was covered in the blood of her enemy's he would bet she'd be perfect.
Despite how his uncles, grand-uncles, cousins, grandfather, and father may tease him about never having laid with a woman before, they all knew he had. Quite a few times. He did have an interest in woman, and he did have a desire to have a wife and sons to continue the Shimazu line, it was just...
No woman had ever caught his interest. And when he had tried they all shrieked whenever he would gift them with the head's he had taken when they were courting, or even pale and faint from the blood he was soaked in.
One had even run as if a youkai were on her heels when she had taken a look at him after a particularly bloodied battle.
His uncles had laughed when he questioned why she had run.
Women. He mentally snorted. So confusing. "SLOW! YOU'RE SLOW, ODA NOBUNAGA!" Toyohisa smirked, noticing the man slowing down from the corner of his eye. "What's wrong, demon king?"
"SHUT UP!" Nobu snapped, huffing as he tried to keep up with them. "I'm already in my 40's stupid!"
Yoichi had gotten a strange look in his eye's as he turned to the samurai. "Toyohis-dono, your age?"
He gave a wary look back, "...30." he finally said, quirking a brow at the triumphant look being sent his way by the archer. "WHAT'S WITH THAT SMUG VICTORIOUS LOOK?!"
"Hee~hee~!"
"He's completely different from Genji's war records."
Yoichi then turned to Kaname, "And you Kaname-dono?"
Kaname stared blankly ahead, before glancing back at them with furrowed brows, "...Physically, or in actuality?" she questioned.
The three stared at her in confusion, wondering what she meant, and was about to ask when they spotted two elf children running from a man on a horse along with a group trailing behind.
{H-HELP!} They called, eye's seeming to go towards Kaname's figure out of all of them.
Toyohisa watched, transfixed as Kaname's black eye's turned a startling purple, and her aura turned into cold violence. "Disgusting. Targeting ones so young, to even try and snuff out the future of the people." She didn't bother to call out her weapon, instead she seemed to have disappeared, before re-appearing on the horse before the man. Wicked gauntlets dug through the mans armor, the sound of flesh, muscle, and bone tearing echoed through the trees. {You are not even worthy of my sword.} She jerked her hand out, clenching a beating heart and killing the man.
He would admit, that was amazing, and not to be outdone he unsheathed his nodachi and ran past the children. "Hey there, brats." he greeted as he passed them before cleaving the first man in two. The second was able to stop his strike, yet the unusual looking man before him was trembling. He 'tch'ed, this man was obviously weak, and so he quickly decapitated him. Huffing, he turned back to the children he remembered seeing trying to help him, only to pause at the soft smile Kaname was giving them. He observed how she checked them over, hands glowing with the Reiki she was famed for and healing their injury's.
Then he noticed that she seemed to be conversing with them in that strange language.
"Well at least one of us knows what they are saying." He grumbled. He tilted his head towards Yoichi, hearing a strange noise coming from him, and was bewildered by the tears going down the boy's face while staring at Kaname in despair. "What the hell?"
"Ah, well, Yoichi spent so much time just trying to learn a few words of their language." Nobu chuckled, scratching his chin as he regarded their younger member. "Yet here Kaname is, speaking it fluently, when she has been here for all of a day at most."
Toyohisa stared for a moment, "His pride is hurt?"
Nobu grunted a yes.
Then they were off, Kaname having taken the horse for the children to ride, before continuing their running. He listened as Kaname explained the situation, how the elves were slaves because they were considered lesser beings then humans, and that it was like that for most of the races that weren't human themselves.
He didn't like how such a warrior race was reduced to powerless farmers.
Change needed to happen.
Toyohisa was disgusted with what he assumed was the general of this small platoon. Killing defenseless innocence? Children?
No, his head wasn't worthy of getting.
Toyohisa observed how Kaname narrowed her eye's once she got a look inside the room, she had already been enraged when they learned that the people of this land were denying the gift of children to the elves, and they all had a vague sense of what to expect when they finally found the women...
But that didn't stop the heavy aura of death from spreading like a disease around the castle once Kaname saw the state they were in.
Toyohisa was just as infuriated, ordering the men to be gathered in the courtyard to be executed.
"Shhh, shhh, shh~ It is alright now. They will never touch you again." Kaname stated soothingly,cutting open their shackles with Sō'unga, and having gathered some cloth to cover the naked girls. She patiently waited for the women to react.
A hiccup.
A sob.
Before crying could be heard through the room as they gathered together. Mourning for the years lost, for being violated, for the missed children they couldn't have, for their pride being broken, for the shame of being used for such a vile act, for the women who were beaten to death because they did not submit.
All the while Kaname was in the middle of the group, comforting the younger of the women, calmly letting them release the despair they had to hold in for over 30 years.
Her eye's glowing an ominous lavender.
Once they arrived outside, with the disgusting men backed up into the wall and the women behind the elven men, Toyohisa decided now would be a good as time as many. He ignored the pathetic men pleading, their threatening about some government he cared nothing about, and looked towards his enraged men.
"Toyohisa, Sir! Give us the order to shoot, now!"
"Please let us kill them!"
"Ri-" He started, only to get cut off by Kaname.
"No."
Silence.
"WHAT?!"
"But Lady Kaname-!"
"Silence!" She growled, emitting that deadly aura. The elves fell silent, and everyone watched as she snatched a bow and quiver of arrows from one of them before walking up to one of the women. "Come here." She commanded softly, holding out her hand to her.
The girl, with long hair, doe green eye's, and a nasty split lip, hesitated slightly before taking Kaname's hand.
What is she doing? He wondered, hearing Nobu arriving behind him. He watched as she smiled at the girl, positioning her in front of the men and started to carefully instruct her on how to hold the bow. Ah. I see. He thought, understanding what she was doing.
"Now, pull back. Yes, good, just like that. It is a little difficult because you do not have the developed muscle to draw the string, but that could be fixed with practice." Kaname stood behind the woman, adjusting her aim to a specific spot. "Let go when you are ready."
"I-..." The girl gulped, trembling at what she was about to do.
"Remember," Kaname said, voice carrying through the silent courtyard. "Remember you are doing this for you. They deserve this, do they not? They took you from your villages, your family, denied you the children you long for. You could have had one- maybe even two or three- children right now, with the man you love. You could be in your home with your brother's, sister's, parents and enjoying a warm meal together in the safety of your own home."
The trembling stopped.
"These men deserve execution. But not by the hand of others, they did not have to endure what you did. They were not raped, were not beaten, not starved, were not robbed of the chance to carry a life inside of you. They did not have to live with the shame of your body being nothing but a toy. They do not have to carry the memory's,the scars, inflicted upon you. Did not have to hear the cries and pleas of the other women as they were violated and robbed of their innocence."
The girl was glaring, angry tears welling up in her eyes at the memory of what the monsters did to her. Toyohisa glanced at the other women who were listening, their own expression's darkening, and while he did not think women should be holding weapons (With Kaname as an exception) he would not deny them this. They needed to do this.
"Let go." Kaname encouraged.
And with a scream of rage, the girl let go of the arrow, and watched as it met it's mark. Right in the mans crotch.
The man howled with pain, screaming as he fell to the floor.
Kaname smiled gently at her, "See? They cannot hurt you-" She looked towards the rest of them, "Any of you anymore." she turned back to the girl, "You did wonderful. Would you like to try again?"
"Yes!"
Kaname then turned to the other women with a smile, "Would any of you like to take up some archery?" and as one, the women started to walk towards her. They were determined to do this, to get a smidgen of their honor back.
"Give them your bow's and arrows." Toyohisa ordered to the solemn men. They did not fight his orders, instead they had helped their women use the bow's, as quite a few did not have the strength to draw the string back.
One of the enemy men tried to flee, thinking it was his chance as it was the inexperienced women who had the weapons at the moment. He was about to do something about it, but Kaname had quickly snatched one of the bow's from an elf, and in quick succession fired two arrows through the man's kneecaps.
"AUGH!"
"Do not worry about them escaping. I shall make sure they cannot, so take all the time you need, pick your target, there is no rush."
Enchanting. Was all the general could think as he stared at the only warrior woman he would acknowledge.
"It's not hard to see how she was able to make her clan so fierce." Nobu noted wryly. "She probably could have ruled all of the land if she wanted. I am glad to never have been her enemy."
Yoichi- who had arrived some time after Nobu- nodded. "And we haven't even seen her use Sō'unga yet."
"Why did you not pick Kaname for general then?" Toyohisa questioned.
"Because according to records, she is fairly...disinterested when it comes to people she doesn't seem important enough to care about." Nobu said with a sigh.
"It was written that if she didn't like you enough, then she wouldn't bother to protect you like she does to those she likes- like her clan. It was why The Higurashi's were able to exist so long, she focused on them and not anything else."
Toyohisa blinked, "...huh."
"Oya?" Kaname hummed, looking out from the window as she saw her barrier activate. A red dome appeared around their camp, stopping the blazing flames from harming anyone. Kaname peered at what caused it, and found it to be a woman who was on fire, viciously attacking her barrier in hopes to collapse it. "They are here."
"So they are." Nobu commented, getting up and going to give out orders.
"Time for some fun~" Yoichi cheered.
"Which do you think is the general?" Toyohisa questioned, following Kaname as she jumped out the window and made her way down to the source of fire.
"I've no idea, but I claim the woman who is using fire." She responded.
"...Thats a woman?" Toyohisa said in bewilderment.
Kaname gave him a look.
She arrived in front of the women from behind the barrier, "Let's have some fun, Sō'unga~!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahaAHAHAHaHAhhaaHAAHAaAAhhaaaAA!"
Sō'unga's eerie laugh reached the ears of everyone within ten miles, sending shivers down their spines, before Kaname sent a dragon twister their way.
A maniacal grin stretching her face at the howls of pain and fear.
