I don't own Inuyasha or the shichinintai.
Lately I noticed a lot of bankotsuxOC fics so I was challenged by that to make my own. Im often told that I have a problem with being challenged by animate and inanimate things... I don't think I do...
(Family members and friends glare)
...(Innocent look) what?
. Sorry if this annoys ban/jak fans but im experimenting around with things, (im a ban/jak fan too so please dont kill me). Im trying to anti Mary sue my character. (Tries to ward away Mary sueness)
I SUCK at writing descriptions of OC's so here's a little about her
Eye color; brown
Hair; bluish black with two bangs one both side and Two buns on the back of her head tied up with light blue ribbons.
Outfit; light blue and white priestess robes with a wide ribbon thing in the middle, a small blue ribbon tied around her neck like a chocker
Age; 17ish
All in all lets just say I got my idea of what she looks like from Azumi of real bout high school
... Ok just read! Takes place b4 Inuyasha and the others. (Or does it. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...never mind.)
Chapter 1; introducing naganata jishuu master Mina
Fort Kyojaku, a place once considered the strongest fort on this side of Japan, yet all that was left of it were burning ruins. It had been raided. The responsible solders surrounded the abandoned fortress, searching for survivors.
Seven solders stood out in the crowd. One, the presumed leader spoke, "Why did they even hire us? We barely did anything, they could have done just as well on their own."
Another, more femininely dressed one spoke with a rather bored tone. "We are being paid aren't we?"
The leader nodded reluctantly. " We better be'' off to the side a man ran away unnoticed by the solders. The man wore enemy colors. ..........................................................................................................................
A young girl, seemingly sixteen or older, sat down at a table in the small restaurant she stood in. the other villagers didn't seem to notice her as she slumped into the chair.
Her name was Mina Mitsurgii, and she was just another ordinary waitress in that little restaurant, other than the fact that her father was a high ranked military commander, she had lived with the army practically all her life, and with her naganata she was considered a lethal weapon. She sighed. Another long day at the restaurant.
Her boss approached her with a kind smile. "Come now Mina-san, the days almost over anyways!" he chuckled helping her up.
" Sorry Mr. Hitomi", she said now smiling back," im just so excited that im starting to space out, my father is returning from fort Kyojaku today and I cant wait to show him how much ive improved with my naganata! He'll let me come to war with him for sure if he see's!" she began to imitate her naganata, childishly swinging her arms about.
Mr. hitomi sighed and crossed his arms. " You'll never find a husband if you act like that you know"
Mina blushed and frowned. "I don't want a husband, I just want to fight and if the guys don't like it, well tuff! I will be going back to work now thank you very much!" She saluted him enthusiastically and walked off to serve a customer.
WHAT CAN I GET YOU? She said forcefully with a slightly insane smile. The customer backed away in fear.
Mr. hitomi stared at his spunky little waitress. He had cared for her ever since her father left to war and her mother, who was once a priestess, died; she was like a daughter to him. Thus, he found it his job to make her have a happy life, fall in love, get married and have a family but there was a problem. She may be beautiful, and charming at first meeting, but she was also stubborn and gung-ho.
Mr. hitomi walked back to the storage room.
"Silly little min-Chan" Mina watched him go with a pout. It would be hard to leave her, as she called him "foster dad", but she still loved her real father so much. It hurt her when she was young to see how disappointed he was that instead of having a strong son to fight side by side with; he had a delicate helpless daughter. That was why she dedicated her life to becoming the strong fighter he always had wanted.
She watched as the last customer left waving at her. "We'll see how helpless I am father, we'll see," she said waving back.
Mina left the restaurant and walked down the street to her home. Then she saw a dark figure, coming closer. It seemed to be struggling. She soon recognized what it was.
"Oh my gosh! Sir are you okay!" she ran up and knelt next to the man, he was wounded and barely alive. She helped him sit up so she could see his face. "L..Lady mina...the fort.."
She gasped; it was one of her father's soldiers! "Tatsuya?! What happened! WHERE IS MY FATHER?
He looked at her pitifully and she got the message. She leaned back and appeared emotionless, her eyes were dull and pained.
"T..Tatsuya...what about the others?"
Shook his head sadly.
"Who did this?" He shuffled fearfully. "Many soldiers came...from a castle near, I knew no names." She looked away from him, afraid to show her face, afraid to show how weak she felt.
She lifted him up and brought him to a doctor. As she left tatsuya stared after her. "Are you thinking of getting revenge?! You wont be strong enough! You'll never survive!" She ignored him completely and ran out.. She walked silently to her house, changed into her mother's old priestess robes as a disguise, grabbed her naganata, and walked outside. " I couldn't bare to say goodbye to anyone anyways," she said softly as she walked towards the open road.
She continued to walk dramatically until she tripped and fell on her bottom. GAAAAAAAAAAAAH! IM SUCH A FRIKKIN KLUTZ!
She stood up embarrassed, completely ruining the dramatic tension and paced down the road.
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Bankotsu grinned at his reflection in his banryuu. This new polish works well, he thought and set his partner back down on his lap. He sat peacefully, or as peacefully as he could ever be, with his back to an old tree trunk and his legs crossed. Jakotsu sat beside him, the sadistic smirk still plastered on his face from the earlier battle. Mukotsu and Suikotsu both sat on his other side, Suikotsu cleaning his claws and mukotsu counting off his poisons and reorganizing them for quick use. The others were scouting the area for survivors. Bankotsu gave them all his award-winning smile before leaning back against the tree with his eyes closed.
Earlier that day they had been hired to help bring down a powerful fort. Even though it wasn't a great job, bankotsu accepted. It had a great pay anyways. The suspicious thing was that daimios army destroyed the fort without any help from the shichinintai.
In the end it turned out they were planning to betray the shichinintai and to kill them after the job was finished. Of course their plan was discovered and instead of the shichinintai dying, they did.
Bankotsu looked down again. He heard footprints approaching. Renkotsu walked up to the group with his usual smug look.
"There is a small group of escaped soldiers heading north, should we follow? They're probably looking for reinforcements...the castle they came from is around there and if they regroup they could become much stronger..."
Bankotsu sat foreword a sighed resentfully.
" I suppose it would be best to follow them eh'? C'mon guys lets get going."
Just when I thought I was going to get to relax for a couple minutes! He thought sadly .The others stood, probably thinking the same thing.
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Mina walked along the old dirt road; positive it would lead to her father's murderers.
Father...
H deep in her heart she longed for her fathers encouraging words, his loving gaze, and his hearty laugh...
But your kindness was never towards me...
Should I even go through with this? A voice in the back of her mind sounded. Did my father even love me that much anyways, he always did want a boy... why am I so angry...am I just looking for a fight? Am I that desperate...to pretend he loved me?
She shook her head.
NO! Im not desperate! Im just...
DesperateWHY AM I TALKING TO MYSELF?!
A demonic roar interrupted her thoughts. She ran to see where it was.
Before her, a boy was being attacked by a large demon. The demon had an ogrish look and three horns on its forehead. It stood over the boy with a bloodthirsty look in its eyes.
As it lowered its head towards the boy mina decided to take action. With one swift swipe of her naganata she took off its head. The body fell foreword...onto the boy.
"WAH! NO!"
She ran and helped the boy out. From what she could tell he was about fourteen or thirteen. He had light brown hair and hazel eyes. Other than a couple scratches he seemed ok. He began to speak within a matter of seconds.
"WOW! Where did you learn those moves? Are you a warrior? A priestess? You're amazing! I mean you killed it with one strike! I bet you're the strongest ever of whatever you are! Are you a samorai?!Your really pretty too!"
"Um.i learned them from my father, no, no but my mother was, thanks, yes only one, maybe, no, and that's so sweet!"
The kid smiled happily and put out his hand.
"Im Kyuiiji! What's your name?"
"Mina, so what are you doing out here Kyuiiji? You saw that demon, it's not safe around here."
Kyuiiji frowned.
" Im lost."
"Oh, im so sorry, do you know anything about where your village is? Maybe I can help." she smiled reassuringly and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Well, I know its somewhere around a castle, a very bad castle."
".... A bad castle? Eh...I don't think I know any of those...."
He smiled again." so why are you here?" "Oh me? Im...uh well...heh heh..."
She couldn't let this kid blow her cover, one person could easily ruin her plans for revenge and she'd be dead. She smiled enthusiastically and stood strait up.
"Im afraid that is confidential information son! If I told you id have to kill you! Haha!"
A moment passed as he stared at her confused. She began to feel awkward.
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"So your in the army or something? Are you on a secret mission?! OHH! TELL ME TELL ME! I CAN KEEP A SECRET!"
"Uhhh I better get going...."
"Oh come on! I wont tell!"
" Can you go on on your own? Your not injured or anything is you?"
" No, ill be fine! I know the way to my village, I just wanted to see if I could fool you!"
She glared at him. "Oh?"
"Eh.... so I know this area pretty well, do you need help finding anything around here? You did seem lost and I need to repay you for saving me."
" Have you seen a group of soldiers pass by?""Yeah! They went that way" he pointed off to the side to a rather old looking road.
"Hmm thank you, ill just be going then! See ya Kyuiiji! It was nice meeting you."
She began to walk along the road.
"See ya later Miss Mina!"
She grinned and waved as the kid soon appeared as just a speck in the distance. She looked up, it was near sunset, and it would be a good idea to find shelter soon.
She started walking again, and then she saw them. She could tell it was the people who had killed her father and all of the other men. She recognized items they must have stolen from the fort. There was about twenty of them, all-sitting around a fire, only twenty? Oh whatever.... she walked out to where they could see her. One of the men noticed her.
" Huh? A girl?"
Another one turned around and smirked."Shes beautiful, bring her over here."
One of them began to walk towards her and she reached for her weapon. An uncharacteristly sinister grin graced her face.
Nothing will stand in my way of revenge now.
She swung her naganata around and killed the approaching man easily.
"Hey! What the hell do you think your doing girl!"
She swung her naganata again taking down more and more soldiers.
There's no need to think...if I just swing my naganata I can clear my head.
Soon she had already killed off every one of them.
"Ahhhh, that felt...great!? Finally, I can be at peace!
She put her naganata back onto the strap on her back and sighed happily. She was about to leave, when she heard a mechanical screech and a loud rumble in the distance. She then watched curiously as a strange group of men appeared from the shadows.
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Bankotsu entered the clearing, his men not far behind him. He was positive the soldiers they were looking for were here.
As he approached, he was taken aback. Countless bodies littered the ground.
"They're all already...dead?"
Jakotsu walked up behind him and poked one of the bodies with a stick.
"Yep"
Bankotsu stared at the countless bodies until his eyes came upon a lone figure amongst the bodies. Who, or whatever it was must have killed them. The others got in battle stance. The figure turned towards them and....waved?!
" Konichiwaaaaaaa!"
The entire shichinintai sweat dropped in unison.
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Yay! More shichinintai soon! Did you like my chapter? I hope you did, thanks for reading! Please review!
Naganata is a type of pole arm weapon