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As they waited the yelling grew louder. Sanosuke tried breath but couldn't because he was so scared. Over to his right Sano could hear Jyin's Heavy breathing. Then he heard his mother scream, then nothing.
Silence. Complete and utter silence. As Myo was about speak, the basement door flew open. His father walked in silently but could not escape Sano's excellent hearing. Myo who had suddenly sneezed from the excess saw dust, gasped. Sano found a small crack in the side of the barrel a looked out. HE saw his father charge toward Jyin's barrel.
"Well, what do we have here?"
Immediately Jyin emerged from the barrel,"W-What are y-you doing here?"
"Takin' care of business."
"W-What are you ta-"
Sanosuke didn't breath. His father shot his brother. At that moment he couldn't think until his father's rattling of the barrel on his left broke his trance.
"Come on outa there you little piece of crap!"
When little Myo did not come out his father simply shot at the barrel several times until a small hand fell to the ground. Sano, now crying angrily shook and did not dare move.
"Now… where's that other one?" his father asked to no one.
When he turned to shoot at Sano's barrel, he braced himself for the blow. Several seconds later Sanosuke heard his father make a choking sound, gag, and drop the gun. Then, when he worked up the nerve, he peeked out to see his father lying on the ground unconscious gun still in hand. Sano saw a pair of feet hovering above his father.
The person standing by his father lifted the barrel hiding Sano and said," You alright kid?" Sanosuke backed away not knowing how react.
"I, uh… Yeah" said a much shaken Sanosuke.
The man was Captain Sagara Sōzō.