Betrayal and Escape
Daisuke arrives back at Tenrai's castle, looking into the dark room where his master Tenrai is, seeing Satoshi there, already talking.
"Soooo. you have brought the daughter I see?" Tenrai asks Satoshi, his voice low as it echos throughout the room.
"Gohda did not know of the location of the jewel." Satoshi says, still in bowing position as he looks to the ground with his eyes closed, "I believe the princess knows for it was very strange how all of a sudden she was forced to return. She was not very willing and kept escaping. So I believed it would be much easier if I brought her here for interrogation."
"Well-done Satoshi."
"Thank you Lord Tenrai."
"But. You shall not be paid till I have information on the jewels location. I would like for you to do that Satoshi. Since I am worried that my other men might use methods to make her talk that will not please me."
"Alright my Lord. I shall do that for you." Satoshi stands and bows slightly to the shadowed figure, and leaves. As he exits the room, he sees Daisuke standing outside the door a smirk upon his face.
"Hmm. you look empty handed." Satoshi says, raising a brow to Daisuke as he stands there alone.
"Oh you think so?" Daisuke shakes his head, looking up to the ceiling away from Satoshi, "I'm just waiting for my prey to come here, with the Jewel."
"You mean.?"
"I believe she does know. So I played a little tune for her."
Satoshi shakes his head, smirking under his scarf to Daisuke, "If it weren't for that eye of yours I'd say that you're pathetic in ways of getting what you want."
"At least I can get a woman." Daisuke grins, turning about and walking away from Satoshi, "If you need me I'll be on the roof waiting for her." Daisuke walks away, humming a really strange dark and gloomy tune.
"That man. is very strange.." Satoshi walks in the other direction, heading into the shadows, and arriving in the basement of the castle, where the holding cells are. He looks downstairs, coming upon the cell that Natsumi should be in, but as he looks inside, the cell is empty. He grins and walks away, fading into the shadows once again to hide himself inside Natsumi's cell. From the ceiling falls the foolish Natsumi, falling onto her ass.
"Dammit." Natsumi mutters to herself, laying her head in her hand, "I swore that he was going to come inside. I would have had him." She closes her eyes, folding her legs and arms together, her face serious. "He took my weapons. my tools. I have nothing left to use." She sighs loudly as she puts her head in her hand again, groaning a bit in frustration. Satoshi steps from the shadows, still being perfectly silent, but she senses his presence right after he steps out, and as his hand reaches for her she jumps up, spinning on a finger to face him as she stands in a defensive fighting stance.
"What the hell do you want!?" Natsumi screams at him, still keeping a good distance from him.
"It's not me." Satoshi explains silently as he approaches her, "My lord desires me to retrieve the Jewel of Virtue from you."
"Well you're a little late. I don't have the jewel on me so you might as well let me go." Satoshi disappears into the shadows once again, and she looks about for him, and he falls from the ceiling, landing on her so she falls onto her front. He takes some ropes, tying her hands tightly behind her back and her feet together also. He ties both the ropes to the bars on a wall, keeping her hands behind her, and her seated upon her knees, as she struggles franticly to get free.
"That should keep you still." Satoshi says as he gets up onto his feet, looking down at the tied up Natsumi.
"What makes you think that this will keep me here?" Natsumi asks, giving him a look of frustration, not believing that he actually tied her up.
"Because you're unarmed and the knots are to far from your hands for you to reach." Satoshi's face still seems expressionless as he looks down at her with calm eyes.
Natsumi looks away from him, biting down on her lip, "Well you should know that I won't let you have the jewel."
Satoshi sighs loudly, not surpised from her reaction. He brushes his fingers through his red locks as he looks down at her, "It would make it so much easier on you if you'd just tell me where the Jewel is."
"Like you would let me go."
Satoshi bends down, trying to act casual but not forcing upon her, "If I make a promise to let you go. Will you just please tell me where the jewel is.?"
Natsumi blinks as her eyes open wide suddenly, surprised at what he just said, "Did you just. say please?"
"Yes. now just tell me. my master is not giving me much time."
She looks down, totally suckered, "Alright. The jewel of Virtue is hidden under a flat stone in the garden." Satoshi rises, turning his back to her, and grins under his scarf as he heads towards the cell bars.
"Thank you princess. Now I think I'll keep you here so that you don't mess with our plans." And he opens the cell door with his key, and walks out, closing the cell and locking it again.
"HEY YOU LIAR!!!!!!! GET BACK HERE!!!!!!" Natsumi continues to bitch and scream as she tries to get free of her ropes, having no chance of doing so. Satoshi walks upstairs not a care in the world for her, though he finds as he gets to the top he's blushing.
"What is wrong with me.?" Satoshi stairs down at the floor as he walks back to Lord Tenrai's hall, his mind wandering, not noticing Daisuke leaning against the wall in front of him. Satoshi passes right by him as Daisuke tries to ask what happened down there, so in reaction, Daisuke grabs Satoshi's hair as he passes, stopping him from continuing, "Hey are you listing?" Satoshi looks up at Daisuke, not saying anything.
"What happened down there?"
"I know where the jewel is."
"How did you get the info from her?"
"I told her that I would let her go."
"Lying to a woman?"
"Like you should care."
"Satoshi that is lo." Daisuke narrows his eyes as he looks closer at Satoshi, his nose just inches away from Satoshi's, "Say are you.?" He then quickly rips off Satoshi's scarf, seeing the red cheeks, "Oh my. you like her don't you!!!??"
"NO!!!" Satoshi grabs his scarf back putting back around his neck so it covers his mouth again, "Why would I like that stubborn bitch?"
"Because she's just as stubborn as you, that's why," Daisuke grins at his comment as Satoshi raises a brow. But he leaves him guessing and he walks away, humming the tune again as he heads for the roof. Satoshi just stares at him leaving, and then sighs.
"I have a job to do. I can't think about. Girls." And he heads into Tenrai's Hall, bowing before the shadowed figure once again.
"Lord Tenrai. I know the location of the Jewel of Virtue."
"Excellent Satoshi."
"It is under a flat stone in the garden inside her home. A good hiding place indeed."
"I shall send my minions to retrieve the jewel. Your pay is in your room, and you may do what you wish until I call for you again."
"Yes my Lord." Satoshi rises, giving another slight bow as he walks out of his room. He heads up a long flight of stairs, going into his silken quarters. The walls are covered in rich red painting, marked with the eternal red dragons, and hanging on the walls are collections of different weaponry. He looks upon the pedestal bed with the red silken sheets, seeing the cloth bag upon it, and opens it to find his pay has doubled.
"Today has been a good day." And he sits upon the bed, putting his kodachis beside him, and starts to count the money. He sighs a few moments later after he finishes.
"I've gotten double the money as usual. so why am I still so tense.?" Satoshi lays on his bed, taking off his scarf and bandana, closing his eyes as he tries to put the scattered pieces of his mind back together and try to make sense of everything that has been going on.
*** Daisuke still sits on the roof of the castle, sighing as he waits for Natasha to arrive.
"When she gets here. I'll have to kill her. Most likely." He says to himself, sighing again as he stairs up at the stars above his head.
"Ag. Why couldn't it be a delivery boy instead of a babe.?" He lies down on the roof, still looking up, and draws his harp, playing a soft sparkling tune as he hums the harmony to the tune. Though he stops playing again, laying his arms across the roof.
"What am I thinking? I can't kill her, no way I could. but if she stays with me Lord Tenrai will kill her. AG WHAT AM I TO DO!?!??" Daisuke stops as he hits his head against the roof, "THINK DAISUKE! THINK!!!!" He slams his head really hard, creating a small hole in the roof and his eyes start to spin, "Too. hard." But suddenly he hears a footstep behind him, and looks up, the first thing he sees is up a girls kimono, but sits up quickly, blushing madly at the sight he just got. Natasha stands behind him, her hand on her kimono pushing it down, her own cheeks are red.
"Uhhh. sorry that I snuck up on you like that." Natasha says, her cheeks becoming even more red as she pushes against her kimono. Daisuke gets up, turning about to look at her.
"It's. it's no problem. don't worry." He coughs a few times, getting his serious seductive face on as he gets up close in her face once again, "Did you bring the jewel.?" Natasha nods, her cheeks still red as she reaches into her kimono, drawing the clear white jewel into her hand, holding it out to him.
Daisuke thinks to himself 'If Tenrai doesn't get the jewel. then he won't have the power. and he can't and won't attack me.' Daisuke takes her other hand, putting it over the jewel and holding onto both tightly, "I need you to hide the stone."
"Wha.?" Natasha looks in confusion to Daisuke, blinking a few times.
"Your life and your friend's are in grave danger. She's being held in the prison of the basement where Satoshi left her."
"Your partner?"
"Yes. but of course he denies that he really has the hots for her. And left her there." Daisuke's eyes grow wide at what he just said, now realizing something, "She's in more danger than I thought. Oh no." Just as he finishes his sentence, there is an ill shrieking scream that echoes all the way outside the temple.
"Ag! We have to hurry!" Daisuke grasps Natasha's hand tightly as he dashes down the stairwell from the roof, rushing to get to the basement where they hold her captive. As they reach the dungeon they find Natsumi laying on the floor, her ropes have been retied to keep her hogtied and she has slashes, stabs, and bruises all over her body, her eyes staring at the floor under her.
"Natsumi!!" Natasha runs over to Natsumi as she draws her double blade to cut through the bars with ease. She goes over to her side and lays her on her lap, whipping the blood drooling from her mouth. "Come on Natsumi. These little injuries shouldn't hurt you that much."
Daisuke pulls a black cloth from the ground, looking at it closely, "It seems that the bored ninja had some fun with her. Satoshi shouldn't of left her alone. that was a dumb mistake." Daisuke goes over to Natsumi and Natasha, drawing a small square canteen from his long jacket.
"Here. this should help with her wounds." He puts the bottle to Natsumi's lips, pouring the liquid into her partially open mouth. He then closes her mouth, forcing her to drink it. A few seconds later her eyes regain their life, and her wounds slowly heal.
"Wha.? What the hell happened?" Natsumi looks around confused at Natasha and Daisuke.
"The perverted ninja warriors took advantage of your bound situation and beat you up," Daisuke tells her, throwing the canteen away into the corner of the cell.
"Yea. what he said." Natasha says, looking worried at the wounds that used to cover her body, "Are you all right Natsumi?"
"Yes." Natsumi says, brushing her fingers through her hair before she looks serious again, "And I am soooo going to kick that red head's ass for leaving me here." Natsumi jumps onto her feet, Natasha standing behind to make sure that she doesn't loose her balance and fall. "But where are my weapons?"
"They have them in the weapons hall; it shouldn't be too hard to get you to them." Daisuke tells her, standing up also. He leads the girls out of the cell, Natasha following with Natsumi, Natsumi's arm over Natasha's shoulder in case she is to trip up since she is still very weak.
Daisuke arrives back at Tenrai's castle, looking into the dark room where his master Tenrai is, seeing Satoshi there, already talking.
"Soooo. you have brought the daughter I see?" Tenrai asks Satoshi, his voice low as it echos throughout the room.
"Gohda did not know of the location of the jewel." Satoshi says, still in bowing position as he looks to the ground with his eyes closed, "I believe the princess knows for it was very strange how all of a sudden she was forced to return. She was not very willing and kept escaping. So I believed it would be much easier if I brought her here for interrogation."
"Well-done Satoshi."
"Thank you Lord Tenrai."
"But. You shall not be paid till I have information on the jewels location. I would like for you to do that Satoshi. Since I am worried that my other men might use methods to make her talk that will not please me."
"Alright my Lord. I shall do that for you." Satoshi stands and bows slightly to the shadowed figure, and leaves. As he exits the room, he sees Daisuke standing outside the door a smirk upon his face.
"Hmm. you look empty handed." Satoshi says, raising a brow to Daisuke as he stands there alone.
"Oh you think so?" Daisuke shakes his head, looking up to the ceiling away from Satoshi, "I'm just waiting for my prey to come here, with the Jewel."
"You mean.?"
"I believe she does know. So I played a little tune for her."
Satoshi shakes his head, smirking under his scarf to Daisuke, "If it weren't for that eye of yours I'd say that you're pathetic in ways of getting what you want."
"At least I can get a woman." Daisuke grins, turning about and walking away from Satoshi, "If you need me I'll be on the roof waiting for her." Daisuke walks away, humming a really strange dark and gloomy tune.
"That man. is very strange.." Satoshi walks in the other direction, heading into the shadows, and arriving in the basement of the castle, where the holding cells are. He looks downstairs, coming upon the cell that Natsumi should be in, but as he looks inside, the cell is empty. He grins and walks away, fading into the shadows once again to hide himself inside Natsumi's cell. From the ceiling falls the foolish Natsumi, falling onto her ass.
"Dammit." Natsumi mutters to herself, laying her head in her hand, "I swore that he was going to come inside. I would have had him." She closes her eyes, folding her legs and arms together, her face serious. "He took my weapons. my tools. I have nothing left to use." She sighs loudly as she puts her head in her hand again, groaning a bit in frustration. Satoshi steps from the shadows, still being perfectly silent, but she senses his presence right after he steps out, and as his hand reaches for her she jumps up, spinning on a finger to face him as she stands in a defensive fighting stance.
"What the hell do you want!?" Natsumi screams at him, still keeping a good distance from him.
"It's not me." Satoshi explains silently as he approaches her, "My lord desires me to retrieve the Jewel of Virtue from you."
"Well you're a little late. I don't have the jewel on me so you might as well let me go." Satoshi disappears into the shadows once again, and she looks about for him, and he falls from the ceiling, landing on her so she falls onto her front. He takes some ropes, tying her hands tightly behind her back and her feet together also. He ties both the ropes to the bars on a wall, keeping her hands behind her, and her seated upon her knees, as she struggles franticly to get free.
"That should keep you still." Satoshi says as he gets up onto his feet, looking down at the tied up Natsumi.
"What makes you think that this will keep me here?" Natsumi asks, giving him a look of frustration, not believing that he actually tied her up.
"Because you're unarmed and the knots are to far from your hands for you to reach." Satoshi's face still seems expressionless as he looks down at her with calm eyes.
Natsumi looks away from him, biting down on her lip, "Well you should know that I won't let you have the jewel."
Satoshi sighs loudly, not surpised from her reaction. He brushes his fingers through his red locks as he looks down at her, "It would make it so much easier on you if you'd just tell me where the Jewel is."
"Like you would let me go."
Satoshi bends down, trying to act casual but not forcing upon her, "If I make a promise to let you go. Will you just please tell me where the jewel is.?"
Natsumi blinks as her eyes open wide suddenly, surprised at what he just said, "Did you just. say please?"
"Yes. now just tell me. my master is not giving me much time."
She looks down, totally suckered, "Alright. The jewel of Virtue is hidden under a flat stone in the garden." Satoshi rises, turning his back to her, and grins under his scarf as he heads towards the cell bars.
"Thank you princess. Now I think I'll keep you here so that you don't mess with our plans." And he opens the cell door with his key, and walks out, closing the cell and locking it again.
"HEY YOU LIAR!!!!!!! GET BACK HERE!!!!!!" Natsumi continues to bitch and scream as she tries to get free of her ropes, having no chance of doing so. Satoshi walks upstairs not a care in the world for her, though he finds as he gets to the top he's blushing.
"What is wrong with me.?" Satoshi stairs down at the floor as he walks back to Lord Tenrai's hall, his mind wandering, not noticing Daisuke leaning against the wall in front of him. Satoshi passes right by him as Daisuke tries to ask what happened down there, so in reaction, Daisuke grabs Satoshi's hair as he passes, stopping him from continuing, "Hey are you listing?" Satoshi looks up at Daisuke, not saying anything.
"What happened down there?"
"I know where the jewel is."
"How did you get the info from her?"
"I told her that I would let her go."
"Lying to a woman?"
"Like you should care."
"Satoshi that is lo." Daisuke narrows his eyes as he looks closer at Satoshi, his nose just inches away from Satoshi's, "Say are you.?" He then quickly rips off Satoshi's scarf, seeing the red cheeks, "Oh my. you like her don't you!!!??"
"NO!!!" Satoshi grabs his scarf back putting back around his neck so it covers his mouth again, "Why would I like that stubborn bitch?"
"Because she's just as stubborn as you, that's why," Daisuke grins at his comment as Satoshi raises a brow. But he leaves him guessing and he walks away, humming the tune again as he heads for the roof. Satoshi just stares at him leaving, and then sighs.
"I have a job to do. I can't think about. Girls." And he heads into Tenrai's Hall, bowing before the shadowed figure once again.
"Lord Tenrai. I know the location of the Jewel of Virtue."
"Excellent Satoshi."
"It is under a flat stone in the garden inside her home. A good hiding place indeed."
"I shall send my minions to retrieve the jewel. Your pay is in your room, and you may do what you wish until I call for you again."
"Yes my Lord." Satoshi rises, giving another slight bow as he walks out of his room. He heads up a long flight of stairs, going into his silken quarters. The walls are covered in rich red painting, marked with the eternal red dragons, and hanging on the walls are collections of different weaponry. He looks upon the pedestal bed with the red silken sheets, seeing the cloth bag upon it, and opens it to find his pay has doubled.
"Today has been a good day." And he sits upon the bed, putting his kodachis beside him, and starts to count the money. He sighs a few moments later after he finishes.
"I've gotten double the money as usual. so why am I still so tense.?" Satoshi lays on his bed, taking off his scarf and bandana, closing his eyes as he tries to put the scattered pieces of his mind back together and try to make sense of everything that has been going on.
*** Daisuke still sits on the roof of the castle, sighing as he waits for Natasha to arrive.
"When she gets here. I'll have to kill her. Most likely." He says to himself, sighing again as he stairs up at the stars above his head.
"Ag. Why couldn't it be a delivery boy instead of a babe.?" He lies down on the roof, still looking up, and draws his harp, playing a soft sparkling tune as he hums the harmony to the tune. Though he stops playing again, laying his arms across the roof.
"What am I thinking? I can't kill her, no way I could. but if she stays with me Lord Tenrai will kill her. AG WHAT AM I TO DO!?!??" Daisuke stops as he hits his head against the roof, "THINK DAISUKE! THINK!!!!" He slams his head really hard, creating a small hole in the roof and his eyes start to spin, "Too. hard." But suddenly he hears a footstep behind him, and looks up, the first thing he sees is up a girls kimono, but sits up quickly, blushing madly at the sight he just got. Natasha stands behind him, her hand on her kimono pushing it down, her own cheeks are red.
"Uhhh. sorry that I snuck up on you like that." Natasha says, her cheeks becoming even more red as she pushes against her kimono. Daisuke gets up, turning about to look at her.
"It's. it's no problem. don't worry." He coughs a few times, getting his serious seductive face on as he gets up close in her face once again, "Did you bring the jewel.?" Natasha nods, her cheeks still red as she reaches into her kimono, drawing the clear white jewel into her hand, holding it out to him.
Daisuke thinks to himself 'If Tenrai doesn't get the jewel. then he won't have the power. and he can't and won't attack me.' Daisuke takes her other hand, putting it over the jewel and holding onto both tightly, "I need you to hide the stone."
"Wha.?" Natasha looks in confusion to Daisuke, blinking a few times.
"Your life and your friend's are in grave danger. She's being held in the prison of the basement where Satoshi left her."
"Your partner?"
"Yes. but of course he denies that he really has the hots for her. And left her there." Daisuke's eyes grow wide at what he just said, now realizing something, "She's in more danger than I thought. Oh no." Just as he finishes his sentence, there is an ill shrieking scream that echoes all the way outside the temple.
"Ag! We have to hurry!" Daisuke grasps Natasha's hand tightly as he dashes down the stairwell from the roof, rushing to get to the basement where they hold her captive. As they reach the dungeon they find Natsumi laying on the floor, her ropes have been retied to keep her hogtied and she has slashes, stabs, and bruises all over her body, her eyes staring at the floor under her.
"Natsumi!!" Natasha runs over to Natsumi as she draws her double blade to cut through the bars with ease. She goes over to her side and lays her on her lap, whipping the blood drooling from her mouth. "Come on Natsumi. These little injuries shouldn't hurt you that much."
Daisuke pulls a black cloth from the ground, looking at it closely, "It seems that the bored ninja had some fun with her. Satoshi shouldn't of left her alone. that was a dumb mistake." Daisuke goes over to Natsumi and Natasha, drawing a small square canteen from his long jacket.
"Here. this should help with her wounds." He puts the bottle to Natsumi's lips, pouring the liquid into her partially open mouth. He then closes her mouth, forcing her to drink it. A few seconds later her eyes regain their life, and her wounds slowly heal.
"Wha.? What the hell happened?" Natsumi looks around confused at Natasha and Daisuke.
"The perverted ninja warriors took advantage of your bound situation and beat you up," Daisuke tells her, throwing the canteen away into the corner of the cell.
"Yea. what he said." Natasha says, looking worried at the wounds that used to cover her body, "Are you all right Natsumi?"
"Yes." Natsumi says, brushing her fingers through her hair before she looks serious again, "And I am soooo going to kick that red head's ass for leaving me here." Natsumi jumps onto her feet, Natasha standing behind to make sure that she doesn't loose her balance and fall. "But where are my weapons?"
"They have them in the weapons hall; it shouldn't be too hard to get you to them." Daisuke tells her, standing up also. He leads the girls out of the cell, Natasha following with Natsumi, Natsumi's arm over Natasha's shoulder in case she is to trip up since she is still very weak.