Authors note: Thanks each of you for you reviews! And then again, sorry… I have a problem whit the program I'm writing with, so some chapters may look bit of funny (all thought, I'm not laughing…) and updating may be delayed because of it. (same reason goes for editing my old chapters and) I have all ways been blind for my own mistakes. And… you reviews, is the thing that makes me write more… it's not extortion!! It's just nice to now that some one is actually reading this. =)
First proof of fifth chapter
Road of two shadows
-Dying slowly-
Ayame dawdled slowly. Every muscle of her body ached and the torturous sun
raised sweat drops on her forehead. She had walked hours in forest. She was
beginning to think that she was chasing her own tale. This forest would never
end. The sun burned her skin through her black clothes. Those were shattered,
left leg had dropped off and here and there were rifts like in her hands.
Aching get worse as he forced her way trough thick growth of pushes. Ayame had
tried to nurse her wounds, but swathes kept dropping. Day was only in half and
she felt like dying.
She didn't know where she was, not exactly at least. Trees were hovering above her. She would have liked just to wall under their shadows. She hadn't eaten for five days. She had drunk water from brooks, but she really couldn't hunt because there were hunters after her.
Most of them Ayame had gotten of guard and killed, but she couldn't be sure how many of them were still in the woods. Sometimes she had hallucinations and she couldn't be sure what was true and what was not. Poison in her weakened her and had started killing her slow and most painful way. She knew that she was starting to get close to Gohda's territories. Even as the poison purled her mind she did know that this was her only change.
Suddenly Ayame realised that she had came out the forest and was now standing edge of a small meadow. She looked ahead of her. Even as heaven and earth twisted in her eyes she could see that it was beautiful day to die. Ayame didn't hear any voices behind her so she dared to rest on her knees. Her breathing was heavy as she pushed her head down she hopped that the world would stop its reticules dance.
Wind cooled down her burning skin. Ayame guessed that she had probably come to the forests side. She thought of seeing one of the rooftops from her home village as in same time she heard leaves rustle behind her and behind the pushes. Couple seconds later a man ninja run to the meadow to kill her. Ayame had had a change to rest on her knees for a while and enemy had lost the prevent of surprise. Ayame throw her self to the crass at her back dodging the blade that was mend to cut her upper body. As the man had attack, he had bended just enough above her so she could stick her two sharp swords in his stomach. The man ninja yelled by the slipper of pain and fall all most over her.
She pushed the dead body off of herself. Only half of the small man's body was on her and still she had difficult time to get up. Ayame crawled behind a rock. It was big enough to cover her up and it had moss all over it so it hided her well to the ground.
Another man game out of the pushes. He went straight to his mate and checked was he still alive. Ayame couldn't breathe well as she tried to be quiet. Poison in her eat her alive.
She could only look how the man bow his head down and cursed;
"Damn you, you filthy slut!!! Where are you!?" Man stood up from the body. "He was my brother!"
Man's words echoed Ayame's ears and made her headache worse. Her wounds had stardet bleeding again. She leaned her back to the rock and looked around her heedless to the male ninja's threats.
She heard how the man was closing as he still kept cursing and shifting his sword trough the air. Soon he would find her. Ayame narrowed her eyes so she could she more clearly. She had heard some noise, like a waterfall… And there it was.
She could see it now very clearly. Only three feet away from where Ayame was, was a river and about ten feet away was the waterfall.
Now someone else was running from the pushes. The ninja that were just moment away from noticing her was now attacking the one behind him. His pray shouted poorly and the dead mans brother started to yell at him. Ayame looked over where the two men were standing. They were both stressed in dark blue clothes and they both were ninjas. What disappointed Ayame was that those man wouldn't kill each other by words. As they were arguing Ayame show her change to make a run for it.
She pushed her body moving and it made her fell such a pain that she clenched her tooth together.
Man's head's turned as they saw black clothed figure moving fast away from them. They forgot their differences as they started running, hoping to catch her. Water plashed under three running humans. Man's words stretched in mindless noise Ayame's ears. Everything seemed to be happening in low motion. Finally she reached the edge and made her jump.
The two men stopped to look down, it would be suicide to jump. Other one of the ninja's would have returned to their camp where he had left his dinner. But the other made him fallow him.
"We will finish that little stalker, if she survived the fall!"
Man carrying the bow had very little saying for the matter when his mate kept sword to his throat.
As they stardet coming down the small mountain, Ayame was already drifting away along the river. She had crapped a hold on some drift wood. She was so tired that she couldn't open her eyes. She remembered the rooftop's she had sawn earlier or were those just hallucinations? Ayame didn't have strength to think about it. Flow in the water was getting faster by every second. Maybe she could just let the river take her body back to her home.
(my proofreader is on holiday…)
