Heart Of Blades
By Shirogami
Chapter 4: Brace yourself, Sakura-kun!
Times is just like stopped for a while, the two swordsmen won't dare to underestimate each other. They know each other's skill much, ever since they have been already fighting enemies side by side for long time, plus from Oogami's eye, Sakura knows that if she do not fight with her best, she will be seriously injured.
"Oogami-san..." just as Sakura expression changes to be slightly curious, Oogami suddenly attacks her without giving her chance to think. By waving his blade, he chops towards Sakura's head. But Sakura is a trained swordsman, she instantly raise her sword to block the attack, then try to lead Oogami's blade to side, then swing her blade and slashes towards his rips, Oogami quickly steps backward to avoid the attack, but as he reach the ground, he charges towards Sakura again and performs a left slash onto her. Seeing Oogami is charging fiercely, Sakura get her defensive stance back, block his attack by raising her sword vertically and hold it.
"You are too naive, Sakura-kun. Take this!!!" Suddenly, Oogami turns to his left to make a spin, it causes Sakura lost her balance, falls forward and leave her back open for Oogami to attack, and he take the opportunity to perform a slash towards her neck, but strangely, that Oogami just stopped almost an inch from his target, then hold his pose and stares at his opponent fiercely.
"Oogami-san..." When Sakura wants to thank Oogami for showing mercy, "Sakura-kun, you are too weak! If I am your real enemy, now your head is somewhere else!" he says this as scolding Sakura for not concentrating on the battle. "That will the one and only chance I'd given to you. Now, Sakura-kun, prepare yourself." After saying this, Oogami keeps charging at her.
This time, he uses his full force and attacks her non-stop, Sakura keeps defending his attacks and wait for chances to counter them. Iris become nervous and afraid for watching both of the people she liked fight each other, she never thought that when people use weapon to fight without mercy could be as horrible and frightening as the glaring swordsmen who stood in front of her, she also doubt when she saw Oogami had become very fierce that she never saw before.
"No, this is not Big Brother Iris knew, this is not..." Just as Iris looks into Oogami and Sakura's fierce expression, she keeps whispering to herself that the two people, who she knew are kind and caring, is not what she want to see from this fight.
"The game is over, Sakura-kun!" While dark clouds with roaring lighting start to gather above the fighters, Oogami get both his swords crossed in front of him, with aura starts to charge up around his weapon, he raise them up over his front, still in cross, then he steps one foot backwards, draw out the swords over half a circle and performs both of them pointing at Sakura.
"Ro-Kou... Mek-Kiaku..." As Oogami poses his stance, the sky starts to roar with thunder.
Knowing he is serious, Sakura also charges her spiritual energy around her blade as well, "Ha-Jya... Ken-se..."
"No, both of you, please..." Just when Iris still in her thinking, Oogami makes out a chance to attack Sakura, but, Sakura is also a swordsman, who had been trained since her childhood, also slash to Oogami to make a tie, which could results in great pain for both of them.
"KAIDOU... RANMA!!!" Oogami shouts as he swings both his swords at Sakura.
"OUKA... HUOSHIN!!!" Sakura yells, as she performs a hard slash onto Oogami.
"NO!!! IRIS DOESN'T WANT THIS!!! BOTH OF YOU! PLEASE!!! STOP!!!" Suddenly, Iris teleports in between Sakura and Oogami, holding Oogami's approaching body with all of her might, it eventually slows Oogami's attack, but not for Sakura, even though she wanted to stop, but it was to late for her to do that, her sword just about few inches before Iris. Just when everything seems too late...
Author's Note:
Greetings, everyone! Shirogami here and I would like to thank you all for keep reading this story.
My first time ever write a fighting scene, sorry if it confuse you guys about the scene.
The description below explains the Japanese phrase use in this chapter, for the gamer can skip this, if you wish to:
'Ro-Kou-Mek-KiaKu' is actually name for the sword stance used by Oogami when fighting. In My POV it either means 'Destruction of the Wolf with the fierce of the Tiger' or 'Destruction that destroy wolves and tigers', depends on how you guys judge it.
'Kai-Dou-Ran-Ma' is one of the skills Oogami used in the game, this skill name means, 'a clean slash solves a bunch of mess roots'
'Ha-Jya-Ken-Se' is the name of the sword stance used by Shinguji Sakura in her combat, it means 'the sword stance that destroys evil'
'Ou-Ka-Hou-Shin' is the skill used by Shinguji Sakura, it straightly means 'Cheery Blossom's Spirit Attack.
I don't owe the characters of Sakura Taisen, but I hope you enjoy this story.
Next chapter is up soon, please R&R, Thank you.