HEAVEN CAN WAIT
VOLUME ONE ~PAST AND PRESENT~
Prologue
" It's been seven, long years, since I was exile from my home...from Kyoto. I was to be crown heir of the Mikado Clan, but my fa..my father betrayed me and gave it to my brother, Vega.
His supposed reason for doing so, was because of my inner hatred, but I know the REAL reason. I and I alone knew that he feared what I was becoming. For, I was becoming the perfect samurai.One, who would put the legendary, Karasu Mitsuhide to shame. Yet, because of this...he gives it to such a WEAKLING!!!
Yet, I understand why...it took me seven, long years, but I now understand you, father. For, one who knows nothing...can never understand nothing. So, you gave it to Vega, because you couldn't understand, father...YES!!!THAT IS THE REASON!!!
But, because of it....father, I will make you understand. By killing every man, woman, and child for you to understand. Yet, if that doesn't work...my dear, father. Then, you leave me no other choice, but to kill you, mother, Vega, Aris, and the rest of our clan for YOU to understand."
Chapter One
" RUN!!!RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!" said the villager frightenly.
Hundreds of villagers ran through the firy paths of Nagasaki. Tripping over barrels, chairs, and tables. Women screaming for their children, while the men frightenly stood their grounds with pitchforks and broomsticks.
" GO TO HIROSHIMA!!!" yelled a man," WARN THEM OF DEATH!!!"
The women and children ran as quickly as their scared legs could out of the burning village .Yet, unknown to them was within the firy inferno was a hooded man watching and waiting to make his move.
" At least, they will be safe," said a villager.
" My...my God...LOOK!!!"
As the frighten men turned to look. The hooded man ran quickly across the rooftops. Jumping from one to the other as if the fire below wasn't even there. The men were pale as ghost for this was their first time seeing him. Yet, they knew as well, that all who seen him have died such horrible deaths.
" NOOOooo!!!he's heading for the women and children."
They all turned and realize he was heading for them and ran with everything they had and prayed that they get to them before him.
" So, you wanna race me???" said the hooded man," then the loser gets to do what the winner says....meaning you will DIE!!!!!"
The hooded man started picking up speed. Turning to see where the village people were at. When suddenly a burst of fire and smoke broke thought the very rooftop he was on. The men looking at this were happy and overjoyed. Until, they saw a figure engulfed in flames shoot out from within the smoke and land on one knee, right in front of them.
" I guess this is where are race ends," responded the hooded man sadly," and we didn't even find out who wins."
The hooded man stood back up and slowly took off his scorched robe and trough it into a collapsing house. The villagers grew even more frighten and knew that their final hour was at hand.
" We must stop him for he is only human," said a man.
The hooded man only smiled, as the man with broomstick in hand ran to the hooded man. Then suddenly another and another and another and then finally all followed in pursue.
" Only human," said the hooded man silently," yet, another who..."
As the villagers approached, the hooded man started slowly drawing out his katanka from his side, while tightening his gripe on it's wooden handle.
" Take this you MONSTER!!!"
As the villagers were right up on him. He leaped forward with his katanka completely drawn out and within a flash. He was behind them, putting away his katana and as they turned and blood slowly coming out their eyes, mouths, noses, and ears. His murk disappeared and an angry frown appeared.
" Knows nothing," said the hooded man angrily.
Then all the men fell to the ground in a pile of blood and body parts. With the hooded man gone.
~In the outskirts of the village~
" Stop....stop....I have to rest a bit," said a woman.
" Come on, we can make it to that riverbed."
The tired women walked a step at a time with their children sleeping nicely on their backs and shoulders. As they approached, a strange figure standing next to a tall tree appeared right in the front of them with only a half of a mile to go before they reached the riverbed.
" Are you not from that village?" said the man.
All the women looked at him strangely and started suspiciously backing away from them. Yet, for every step back they took, the man took two more steps. The woman in the front of the group stop in mid-step, shocking all the other women, but it only made the man smile like a newborn baby with his mother.
" WHO ARE YOU!??!" yelled the woman," WHAT DO YOU WANT!??!"
Suddenly, the man stopped and the smile that was once on his face, disappeared and only a serious, yet angry frown appeared. Which made the woman back up in fear.
" I am the MIRAI NO SHI!!!" said the man angrily," and I want to help you see your husbands, sons, and fathers again."
A young girl ran up to the front, while the other tried to pull her back. She ran right in front of the man with a smile on her face. The man looked downward and slowly kneeled before her.
" You really wanna help us?" said the young girl," you promise?"
The man started to smile, which confused all the women. Thinking he might be the legendary Future Death.
" Yes, child," said the man," I am a man of my word."
The young girl smiled and walked closer to the man and started searching through her pockets. The others were too scared to get her, since she was right in front of him and they didn't know what he might do to her.
" Stick out your hand," said the young girl happily.
The man did what the girl said and she put a Sakura leaf in his hand.
" Remember, you promised."
The man stood up and looked at it. Then he glanced at the young girl and for a split second, she resemble somebody he once knew.
~ FLASHBACK~
" Brother...big brother...where are you?"
A girl with dark pinkish ran to a Sakura tree looking all around it. While a small boy with blackish hair was sitting atop a small hill.
" Where is he?" said the girl.
" Over here," answered the boy," what took you so long?"
The girl turned and smiled as she ran towards the small hill, where the boy was atop on.
~ FLASHBACK ENDS~
" Aris..."
" Who's Aris?" asked the young girl.
The man snapped out of it and looked at the girl again. Only for it to be the young girl, who gave him the Sakura leaf.
" Go down this path," said the man," you will find what you seek there."
Everyone was in shock by his answer. Thinking he would kill them, but instead, showed them the path to the next village.
" Thank you."
" Yes, thank you."
They thanked the man as they walked by him. Yet, he would give no reply back. The last person, who hadn't walked by him was the young girl. As she walked by him, she thanked him and he smile and nodded.
" She was like you," replied the man." my sister, Aris."
The girl stopped to hear what he had said, but by the time she had. He was already gone and so was the Sakura leaf.