Chapter 5: Training, slaughter and capture
That night an evil presence loomed, Siye had felt that same evil presence earlier when eating dinner, she could feel it coming closer and closer to her. Then with that bad feeling she heard big footsteps approaching her porch. She then approached the door and slowly bent down to pick up her father's sword and opened the door pointing the sword towards the visitor. No one was there. She closed the door and then decided that she wasn't going to go to sleep.
Then just as she was going to light a candle she heard the sound of screams outside her door. She then pulled out her sword once more and ran outside the door. She ran out into the middle of the street only to see that no one was there. " I know your out there!!" She yelled being on guard at all costs. Then she heard screams coming from behind her and just as she turned around she saw a shadowed figure look at her then run into the alley. " oh no you don't! come back here!" She yelled running after him. She ran into the alley and not to her surprise he wasn't there. " This is so stupid! I am not going to keep playing these games with you if you are just going to keep running away!" Just then from up above she heard a screetching sound, he was attacking from the air, she then blocked the attack with her sheath and automatically slashed upward causing the man to holler in pain but come back for another attack.
He had nun-chucks for his weapon and he hit her across the face with it, she then grabbed a hold of the nun-chuck and used it to throw him into the alley wall. Just as she was off guard four more men came down from the air and attacked her with their daggers, she had got several cuts, one of which was on her right arm, another on her back and another on her leg, it bleed through her shirt and pants but she was still fighting, she used the nun-chuck to her advantage and hit one of the men up under then chin, and she did a circle slash around the other men. They all fell to the ground. She knelt down and examined the men, " they must be out for a slaughter or something, cause no normal people would just go out and slaughter out of spite,"
She searched their weapons and clothes for some kind of indication of where or who they work for. Nothing. She then stole some of their weapons and fastened them to her belt, " I better check out what else is going on, no surprise there is probably more of them." She thought. As she was running she remembered earlier that morning when she couldn't even break the board in half and now she was fighting off bad guys, " Maybe it is my courage that has brought me up to this point," After running over the bridge she heard several shrieks of women then as it subsided she heard a few manly voices coming up towards the bridge. " That was indeed fun wasn't it?" " Yeah nothing beats a good night slaughter!" Siye growled at the man and ran up towards them, " Hey look there is a stray! Lets kill her too!" " Wait! She is heavily armed! We need to be careful!"
Siye grinned, " Bring it on!" She yelled as they all ran towards her, " ::I think I will try the attack that Yahiko showed me, okay lets see, there got the stance right now lets do it!::" She then swished her sword towards them and the impact nearly threw the men off the bridge, " It'll take more then that to take us down!" One yelled as they shot some bullets her way. She dodged the bullets and jumped up in the air. " Hiten Misterugi style!" She yelled smashing her sword down in between the two men. Then as nothing happened the two men laughed and pointed their guns at her face. " Ha! Not a scratch!" the other man yelled until a burst of light emerged from the bottom of the bridge, causing the two men to be blinded by the brightness. She then grabbed one of the guns and slapped them in the back of their heads with it and kept running down the road, putting the gun on her belt as well.
She then made her way to the Kamiya dojo seeing a shadowed man enter through the door. She then shot a bullet his way, which caught his attention, his pale blue eyes reflected off the moonlight and glared at her. " Get away from there!!" She yelled. The man then pulled out a bow and arrow and shot one her way, she blocked it with her sword and saw that he was making his way in to the Dojo. " Oh no you don't!!" she yelled running inside the door of the dojo as well. She made her way inside and met up with Megumi and Yahiko, whom were at Kenshin and Kaoru's side.
" Is something wrong?" Megumi asked. Siye was panting, " There is a slaughter going on!!" she warned. " What?!" Yahiko yelled as several flying arrows landed upon the door. " He must be outside, but I saw him come!" Siye yelled pulling out her sword and gun. In the blink of an eye the man entered the room, his pale eyes fixing on Kaoru and Kenshin. Yahiko and Siye got in battle stance, " Siye stand back, let me handle this guy," Yahiko ordered. " no way! I have come this far to-
The man walked closer, each step increased the pump of the heartbeat, now it was pounding. The man walked up to Siye and hypnotized her with his evil stare, " I see the tea worked perfectly, both Kamiya Kaoru and Battosai the legendary manslayer have fallen faint to this poison. " You're telling me that Kenshin Himura is Battosai?!" Siye asked shocked. " I speak the truth, but answer me this, if you weren't even able to break a block of wood, how could you get past all my men?" " You!!!! I despise you!" She barked. " Nevertheless I shall claim what I want here, Siye, do you wish to see your father again?" Siye gasped, " How dare you keep my father as a hostage!!" Siye snapped, " Oh don't think of him as a hostage, think of him as my minion. He does what I desire, now that I will kidnap Kaoru I shall lead the Battosai to my hideout it shall lead to the grand duel!" " I won't allow you to Kidnap Kaoru!" Yahiko shouted. " I get it, you are just using my father as a tool to kill the battosai! He is just doing your dirty work!!" Siye protested.
"Presicely." Megumi was horrified and she could barely even utter words to speak. Just as Eshingi was about to make his move, Yahiko and Siye stood in the way, " Siye I told you to stay back, go help Megumi!" " No I refuse to!" in a split second Eshingi then made his move and swiftly lunged towards Yahiko, what Yahiko couldn't see was the dagger that Eshingi had hid under his cloak, " Selfish brat, I have no use for you!" " Yahiko!!!" Siye yelled catching him when he fell, and watched as the dagger fell to the ground. " Now, nothing shall stand in my way," Eshingi said shoving Siye and Yahiko into Megumi. And with that, he picked up Kaoru and was making his exit until Siye jumped up and grabbed the still bloody dagger and stabbed Eshingi in the side.
Eshingi made no scream, nor did he show any sign of pain, he turned and glared at Siye, then within a heartbeat he threw a mean punch at her, she winced and instantly fell unconscious, and before Yahiko could do anything, the man disappeared into the moonlight.
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When Kenshin had finally awoken he felt slightly dizzy, " Where am I?" His vision then came back to him and he saw that Megumi was wrapping bandages around Yahiko's stomach, Yahiko had an angry displeased look on his face. " What happened?" Kenshin asked. Yahiko grunted, " Some guy came in and kidnapped Kaoru," Kenshin sat up, " What?!" "While you and Kaoru were asleep from the tea you drank, there was a slaughter going on last night, for reasons I am not quite sure they took Kaoru and Siye-chan," " how could this have happened?!!" Kenshin said, " look Kenshin, there was nothing you could have done about it, but the one thing that I am wondering about is when he mentioned the 'battosai" he didn't kill you while you were asleep,"
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Kaoru woke up inside a cold dark room. " Good your awake," Siye said, " Siye! Where are we?" " We are inside Eshingi's prison, or something along those lines I guess," " I, don't get it, one minute I am at the Dojo drinking tea, the next I am here, " Well what I think happened is that the tea salts you were given was actually some kind of poisonous-sleeping thing, well worse came to worse and you fell faint, and when you were being treated to your poisonous wounds some guy came and tried to swipe you, but it ended up where we were both taken," Kaoru was still confused, siye took a deep breath, " It doesn't matter now, all that matters is that we need to find some way to get out of here," She said.
" I know Kenshin will save us, he won't let anything happen to us," Kaoru paused in mid sentence to feel the groans and stomach pains from the tea she drank. " I bet the tea hasn't worn off for Kenshin either, I wouldn't be surprised if he spent a few more days regaining his strength and trying to get better from this," Kaoru was still wincing but she looked straight into Siye's eye, " I know Kenshin better then anyone and I don't think that will even stop him, I just know he will get us out of here,"
" I wonder what will happen to Yahiko." Siye said softly, " What happened to Yahiko?! Did he drink the tea too?!" Kaoru asked with a great urgency in her tone. Siye paused then faced the ground, " Well he was so determined to protect you that Eshingi stabbed him with a dagger he had hidden, I'm not worried too much because Megumi is still back at the Dojo and probably is tending to him and Kenshin at the moment,"
Kaoru nodded and chuckled, " What are you laughing at?" Siye asked. Kaoru's pain melted by her laughter, " Oh its just funny to see him acting so grown up, he is a good kid but sometimes he can become a pain," " What do you mean Kaoru?" " Oh well never mind that," Kaoru said trying to change the subject, " no please tell me, I probably wouldn't be able to go to bed anyway," Siye insisted.
That night an evil presence loomed, Siye had felt that same evil presence earlier when eating dinner, she could feel it coming closer and closer to her. Then with that bad feeling she heard big footsteps approaching her porch. She then approached the door and slowly bent down to pick up her father's sword and opened the door pointing the sword towards the visitor. No one was there. She closed the door and then decided that she wasn't going to go to sleep.
Then just as she was going to light a candle she heard the sound of screams outside her door. She then pulled out her sword once more and ran outside the door. She ran out into the middle of the street only to see that no one was there. " I know your out there!!" She yelled being on guard at all costs. Then she heard screams coming from behind her and just as she turned around she saw a shadowed figure look at her then run into the alley. " oh no you don't! come back here!" She yelled running after him. She ran into the alley and not to her surprise he wasn't there. " This is so stupid! I am not going to keep playing these games with you if you are just going to keep running away!" Just then from up above she heard a screetching sound, he was attacking from the air, she then blocked the attack with her sheath and automatically slashed upward causing the man to holler in pain but come back for another attack.
He had nun-chucks for his weapon and he hit her across the face with it, she then grabbed a hold of the nun-chuck and used it to throw him into the alley wall. Just as she was off guard four more men came down from the air and attacked her with their daggers, she had got several cuts, one of which was on her right arm, another on her back and another on her leg, it bleed through her shirt and pants but she was still fighting, she used the nun-chuck to her advantage and hit one of the men up under then chin, and she did a circle slash around the other men. They all fell to the ground. She knelt down and examined the men, " they must be out for a slaughter or something, cause no normal people would just go out and slaughter out of spite,"
She searched their weapons and clothes for some kind of indication of where or who they work for. Nothing. She then stole some of their weapons and fastened them to her belt, " I better check out what else is going on, no surprise there is probably more of them." She thought. As she was running she remembered earlier that morning when she couldn't even break the board in half and now she was fighting off bad guys, " Maybe it is my courage that has brought me up to this point," After running over the bridge she heard several shrieks of women then as it subsided she heard a few manly voices coming up towards the bridge. " That was indeed fun wasn't it?" " Yeah nothing beats a good night slaughter!" Siye growled at the man and ran up towards them, " Hey look there is a stray! Lets kill her too!" " Wait! She is heavily armed! We need to be careful!"
Siye grinned, " Bring it on!" She yelled as they all ran towards her, " ::I think I will try the attack that Yahiko showed me, okay lets see, there got the stance right now lets do it!::" She then swished her sword towards them and the impact nearly threw the men off the bridge, " It'll take more then that to take us down!" One yelled as they shot some bullets her way. She dodged the bullets and jumped up in the air. " Hiten Misterugi style!" She yelled smashing her sword down in between the two men. Then as nothing happened the two men laughed and pointed their guns at her face. " Ha! Not a scratch!" the other man yelled until a burst of light emerged from the bottom of the bridge, causing the two men to be blinded by the brightness. She then grabbed one of the guns and slapped them in the back of their heads with it and kept running down the road, putting the gun on her belt as well.
She then made her way to the Kamiya dojo seeing a shadowed man enter through the door. She then shot a bullet his way, which caught his attention, his pale blue eyes reflected off the moonlight and glared at her. " Get away from there!!" She yelled. The man then pulled out a bow and arrow and shot one her way, she blocked it with her sword and saw that he was making his way in to the Dojo. " Oh no you don't!!" she yelled running inside the door of the dojo as well. She made her way inside and met up with Megumi and Yahiko, whom were at Kenshin and Kaoru's side.
" Is something wrong?" Megumi asked. Siye was panting, " There is a slaughter going on!!" she warned. " What?!" Yahiko yelled as several flying arrows landed upon the door. " He must be outside, but I saw him come!" Siye yelled pulling out her sword and gun. In the blink of an eye the man entered the room, his pale eyes fixing on Kaoru and Kenshin. Yahiko and Siye got in battle stance, " Siye stand back, let me handle this guy," Yahiko ordered. " no way! I have come this far to-
The man walked closer, each step increased the pump of the heartbeat, now it was pounding. The man walked up to Siye and hypnotized her with his evil stare, " I see the tea worked perfectly, both Kamiya Kaoru and Battosai the legendary manslayer have fallen faint to this poison. " You're telling me that Kenshin Himura is Battosai?!" Siye asked shocked. " I speak the truth, but answer me this, if you weren't even able to break a block of wood, how could you get past all my men?" " You!!!! I despise you!" She barked. " Nevertheless I shall claim what I want here, Siye, do you wish to see your father again?" Siye gasped, " How dare you keep my father as a hostage!!" Siye snapped, " Oh don't think of him as a hostage, think of him as my minion. He does what I desire, now that I will kidnap Kaoru I shall lead the Battosai to my hideout it shall lead to the grand duel!" " I won't allow you to Kidnap Kaoru!" Yahiko shouted. " I get it, you are just using my father as a tool to kill the battosai! He is just doing your dirty work!!" Siye protested.
"Presicely." Megumi was horrified and she could barely even utter words to speak. Just as Eshingi was about to make his move, Yahiko and Siye stood in the way, " Siye I told you to stay back, go help Megumi!" " No I refuse to!" in a split second Eshingi then made his move and swiftly lunged towards Yahiko, what Yahiko couldn't see was the dagger that Eshingi had hid under his cloak, " Selfish brat, I have no use for you!" " Yahiko!!!" Siye yelled catching him when he fell, and watched as the dagger fell to the ground. " Now, nothing shall stand in my way," Eshingi said shoving Siye and Yahiko into Megumi. And with that, he picked up Kaoru and was making his exit until Siye jumped up and grabbed the still bloody dagger and stabbed Eshingi in the side.
Eshingi made no scream, nor did he show any sign of pain, he turned and glared at Siye, then within a heartbeat he threw a mean punch at her, she winced and instantly fell unconscious, and before Yahiko could do anything, the man disappeared into the moonlight.
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When Kenshin had finally awoken he felt slightly dizzy, " Where am I?" His vision then came back to him and he saw that Megumi was wrapping bandages around Yahiko's stomach, Yahiko had an angry displeased look on his face. " What happened?" Kenshin asked. Yahiko grunted, " Some guy came in and kidnapped Kaoru," Kenshin sat up, " What?!" "While you and Kaoru were asleep from the tea you drank, there was a slaughter going on last night, for reasons I am not quite sure they took Kaoru and Siye-chan," " how could this have happened?!!" Kenshin said, " look Kenshin, there was nothing you could have done about it, but the one thing that I am wondering about is when he mentioned the 'battosai" he didn't kill you while you were asleep,"
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Kaoru woke up inside a cold dark room. " Good your awake," Siye said, " Siye! Where are we?" " We are inside Eshingi's prison, or something along those lines I guess," " I, don't get it, one minute I am at the Dojo drinking tea, the next I am here, " Well what I think happened is that the tea salts you were given was actually some kind of poisonous-sleeping thing, well worse came to worse and you fell faint, and when you were being treated to your poisonous wounds some guy came and tried to swipe you, but it ended up where we were both taken," Kaoru was still confused, siye took a deep breath, " It doesn't matter now, all that matters is that we need to find some way to get out of here," She said.
" I know Kenshin will save us, he won't let anything happen to us," Kaoru paused in mid sentence to feel the groans and stomach pains from the tea she drank. " I bet the tea hasn't worn off for Kenshin either, I wouldn't be surprised if he spent a few more days regaining his strength and trying to get better from this," Kaoru was still wincing but she looked straight into Siye's eye, " I know Kenshin better then anyone and I don't think that will even stop him, I just know he will get us out of here,"
" I wonder what will happen to Yahiko." Siye said softly, " What happened to Yahiko?! Did he drink the tea too?!" Kaoru asked with a great urgency in her tone. Siye paused then faced the ground, " Well he was so determined to protect you that Eshingi stabbed him with a dagger he had hidden, I'm not worried too much because Megumi is still back at the Dojo and probably is tending to him and Kenshin at the moment,"
Kaoru nodded and chuckled, " What are you laughing at?" Siye asked. Kaoru's pain melted by her laughter, " Oh its just funny to see him acting so grown up, he is a good kid but sometimes he can become a pain," " What do you mean Kaoru?" " Oh well never mind that," Kaoru said trying to change the subject, " no please tell me, I probably wouldn't be able to go to bed anyway," Siye insisted.