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Unravel

Another path. A dirt road that curved in odd directions. It looked like no one had used it in years and I was probably the first to tread through it.

I had gotten up at the first crack of dawn wanting to leave the town that brought back too many memories. Not because of the town itself but of the people in it. I had thought I would run into them and I thought I would have been prepared but I supposed I was wrong in assuming that. Looks like I was still the naive young girl that foolishly charged into battle, thinking she could take on the world. But I guess anyone in my position would have reacted the same.

To think that all these years I had thought he found happiness with that woman. But the fates were cruel. I felt like they were playing a game with my life and taking bets at how much I could take. And trust me when I say a girl can only take so much. I could feel my sanity hanging by a single thread and it would snap at any moment. I hadn't slept but a few hours and my eyes felt heavy. I had too many things to think over and the fact that I had to relive parts of my past one too many times was wearisome. For kami's sake I was only twenty and I felt like I was going on sixty!

He didn't say much though. I think I didn't want him to, it hurt enough and if he made it worse or better I wouldn't have felt satisfied either way. All I knew was that I didn't want to see him, not for a while. But I knew it would be inevitable, I could feel it. Perhaps it was the fates again, or maybe not.

"Oi, jou-chan!"

I lifted a brow hearing someone call me by a name only one other person had called me by. Turning to the source there were three bulky men leering at me. Chains and a mace? That was new. But I was too drained to deal with them. "Maybe another time," I shouted back as I continued my way down the dirt road. Boy, I really was tired.

"Get back here!" One of them shouted. I only managed to anger them.

Sighing I turned once again and saw them head straight towards me. I groaned. "Not now!"

The first one was easy, he was slow and not much of a fighter. "Just because you're a woman doesn't mean I'll go easy one you!" He said. The chain around him was like an extension of his body but he never managed to get a hit in. "Stay still!"

The other two were watching us, I'm assuming they were surprised by my skill. I didn't get nothing out of three years of wandering but that didn't mean I was anywhere near Battousai's league. As skillfully as possible I dodged his chains and unsheathed my weapon. Really, all he did was twirl the thing in the air and throw it at me. It didn't take much effort to draw my weapon and hit him across the chest. A couple of more times and he was out.

"You little bitch!" I had almost forgotten about the other two.

This time they both came at me. I really never found out their purpose for attacking me but I could guess. It wasn't the first time after all and it wouldn't be the last.

I dodged the mace that was as big as my head as the first guy tried to break my arm. The other tried to swipe at me with a dagger. It wouldn't be as easy as I thought. I don't think I ever fought two large men at the same time with fatigue, among other things, plaguing me.

Ouch. The small blade of the dagger bit into my arm. I was getting careless and that was when I snapped.

"I said Not NOW!" I swung at them with my sakabatou in a rage. I told them I didn't want to fight. I didn't want to deal with these idiots.

"Now she's getting feisty!" The first one kidded.

They kept swinging at me but I continued to deflect them. "You'll pay for what you did to Nero!" The other screamed but I wasn't listening.

I was in a daze and deep down it scared me because I had been in a daze that time too. They wouldn't back down and I didn't want them to. I wanted to continue the fight despite my aching need to end it. I thrust the sakabatou upward hitting one of them in the chin then spun around to slam it against the other's neck. They were down but not out.

My eyes grew wide with excitement as they came at me again, enraged. I didn't know why but it was fascinating at the time, I wanted them to come at me, to attack me.

They shouted their obscenities about what they would do to me, how they would kill me. I merely ignored their words and continued. I knocked one of them out by hitting him across the back, like I had done so many times in the past.

The battle cry behind me did not go unheard and I turned just in time to block a hit from the giant mace. But his strength was proving too much for me, after all that I was a petite woman. I maneuvered my weapon so that it would throw off his grip on his own. Rolling out of the way my eyes met his and we lunged at each other. My leg swept under his bulky form and knocked him to the ground, his mace falling several feet away from his reach.

He looked at me like I was insane and maybe I was. I was so tired of it all. I wanted to end it with him, beat the frustration out of myself by using them. He shook his head, as if telling me no because I could not hear his words, I had stopped listening. The sakabatou poised above my head I slammed it down and knocked him out.

That was when it hit me. It was like a ton of bricks being thrown onto me. What was I becoming? Why did I feel the need to fight them and use them like that?

"What's wrong with me?" My eyes watered a bit but I didn't cry. The question was meant for my ears alone and not for the man standing in front of me. Compassionate violet eyes shinning with his own questions and answers.