"Lord Tsuneske! What are you doing here?"
"Quiet you fool. I am here to finish what you were supposed to have started. You are worthless, Sinoha. You couldn't even crush this scrawny bug by yourself. You don't deserve to have the title Hinuda associated with your name. I think I'll kill you and this rat now." With that, he lifted his huge sword and swung. Kenshin and Sinoha moved out of the way fast enough to avoid being sliced in half. The bamboo trees that were directly in the line of attack were cleaved in half. "Do you like my sword? It was passed down to me from many a generation in my family. It has tasted the blood of everyone who has stood in its way. You two are next." He pulled back getting himself ready for another strike. He swung. Sinoha was too late to see it. Damn, he's fast, he thought. The sword was coming right for him. He didn't have time to react...
A loud clash of steel on steel was heard. In front of him, a slender figure was holding back the giant's sword with his own. " Quickly, while I have him subdued. Get out from behind me." It was Kenshin! The man that he was sent to assassinate had saved his life! "Attack him now!" Sinoha didn't think twice. In an instant, he was behind Tsuneske getting ready to execute one of his deadly attacks. Lord Tsuneske was too fast though. He had suspected this would happen and moved out of the way before the strike could be delivered. "Watch out!" Before Sinoha knew it, his strike was headed straight for Kenshin. He stopped before their blades touched. He glanced around. Seeing nothing, he stepped beside Kenshin once more prepared to defeat Tsuneske. "Where did he go?"
Kenshin closed his eyes. "I do not sense him," Kenshin said.
"That's because I've learned to mask my essence," came the booming voice of Tsuneske. Both samurai looked up to see Tsuneske falling towards them from an amazing height. Kenshin and Sinohajumped in opposite directions. An instant later, Tsuneske came crashing down with the force of 10 meteors. A blinding light had been emitted form his mammoth sword as it hit the ground. Then, complete darkness. He looked up from where his deadly attack had struck to see that Kenshin and Sinoha were nowhere to be found.
END CHAPTER TWO