"Aahhh!" a soldier flew through the paper door. His rolling body seemed to disappear in the night. Mugen and Jin ran outside a gang of soldiers after them. The soldiers formed a wide circle around them.
Surrounded by soldiers, Mugen and Jin stood back to back. Awaiting the first strike. Their eyes glance around the room and they look into the reflection of the swords to see the ones behind them as well.
The first move came from a soldier with a blue kimono he went straight to Mugen. Mugen quickly dodge the blow. Jin caught the man in the side.
"Grandfather how could you?" yelled Ito. The old man looked at her with evil betraying eyes.
"Shut up girl!" he smacked Ito across the face, she fell to the ground. Fuu caught her in her arms.
"Hey man! You shouldn't hit her like that!" she yelled.
"You! Girl! Shut your mouth and respect your elders!" the head soldier pulled Fuu by her hair messing it up.
"Ouch! Let me go! Dammit let me go!" she yelled her hands couldn't reach his face.
"Let her go! Let her go!" yelled Matsu. She rushed over to the man and began to hit him.
Meanwhile Mugen and Jin had narrowed down the soldiers to three. All of the soldiers looked into their sinister eyes. Mugen's cold lifeless eyes and Jin bold quiet eyes. One soldier was shaking at the knees.
"AH! Okay, okay I give up!" he fell to his knees and dropped his sword on the floor.
"Good idea." Said Jin.
"You traitor!" yelled one man. Mugen's sword was about to come down on their heads.
"AH! Okay we give up too!" they both said.
"Huh? Now who's the traitor?" said the first solider to give up.
Mugen and Jin heard a child scream!
"AHH!" Matsu was thrown to the ground and was too weak to pick herself up.
"Stupid child you were supposed to die with your damn mother!" he pulled his sword out. He lifted the sword above his head.
"Aahhh!" Matsu screamed. However the head soldier stopped. She looked up and saw that he was still and didn't plunge down on her. His eyes were wide and looked like they were about to pop out of his head. His mouth hung slightly opened, he had spat up blood.
"Eww." Said Matsu she had caught splatters on her face. Matsu got up as soon as she saw that his body was tipping over. His large body had made a hard thud…as it hit the ground.
In his back a small maroon dagger had stuck out of it. The one who held it was as shocked as everyone else, to see their hand clutching the dagger.
"Fuu?" Mugen and Jin's eyes were wide opened. Their mouths hung opened.
"I-I I didn't mean too!" she let go and pulled her hands close to her chest. She starred at the body and the pool of blood that lay next to it.
"Boss? Boss?" the soldiers had came to his side.
"You killed the boss!" Fuu never looked up from the floor. Silence was all around her. Everyone may have been talking but there was no noise around her. All she could think of was that dagger going into his back so easily. She felt moisture on her hands. She looked down to see blood on them. And tears fell.
"Fuu…" Finally a voice broke through her silence; she came into focus and looked up. She saw Matsu crouched in her face. She forgot about the tears that had been her eyes.
"Please Fuu don't cry." Matsu hugged her tight. Fuu prepard herself for the visions but they never came.
"Densuke! We gotta get out of here!" the soldier tugged on the other one's kimono.
"Not until I avenge our boss!" he pulled out a dagger almost like Fuu's except it was black the word "Black Night" was in scripted in the side.
"Get away from her!" Mugen had jammed his sword into his side.
Fuu didn't look; she kept her face in Matsu's shoulders. Mugen picked up the dagger that was clutched in his hand still.
"Hey lady?"Mugen came to Ito and put the dagger in her face. "Since you know everything…what can you tell me about this?"
TO BE CONTINUED…