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Kaoru Sagara: age 19.Traveling master swordswomen who does stuff like body guarding or defending innocent people against other fighters. She is NOT an assassin, but if she has to kill to protect a person she will. She travels with her brother Sano. Was taught her swords skills by her father.
Sanosuke Sagara: age 20. Older brother of Kaoru. Doesn't fight with a sword, like Kao, he likes to use his fists. They have been traveling alone after their parents died from Tuberculosis.
King Shishio: age 40. Evil king of Than. His greediness for power causes him to conquer other Kingdoms to expand his own. The only Powerful kingdom besides his own is the Kingdom of Rona. Once he has control of that he will control all of Konane. (I thought of a different place so Konane is the whole country.)
Princess Misao: Age 18. Princess of Nairi. She was given to King Shishio as a token of peace between Than and Nairi.
King Kamiya: age 54. King of Rona. Lost his wife and daughter, the only heir to the throne. He is sick with Tuberculosis, and is trying to defend his Kingdom from the Evil King Shishio, but will die soon and lose the Kingdom, if he does not find his lost daughter.
Royal Secrets
Chapter 2: Encounter
Kaoru rubbed her sore back as the trio rode under the hot sun. The whole day had been full of riding and now Kaoru was ready for a warm bath and a soft bed. Than, however, was still far away so the only bad she would have was a thin blanket and the hard ground.
Night came as they reached the Silvana forest, and at the edge they stopped. As the other two took care of the horses, Kaoru went to search for fire wood. "I'll be right Sano!" she called before wandering off into the dank forest.
As Kaoru picked up pieces of fallen wood she unknowingly trudged further into the forest. After gathering enough wood to last the night she turned around only to realize that she didn't know which way to go. Each tree looked the exact same and she silently cursed herself for not marking her way.
The last ray of light finally went down and Kaoru was lost in complete darkness.
Deciding not to venture any further, she leaned back against a large fur tree and fell asleep.
As soon as Kaoru could see clearly she set off to find her brother and Miss Misao. Noticing a few rocks that looked familiar she followed the course she felt was right.
Pretty soon the trees began to be more spaced out and light filtered through the canopy. Finally she was free of the dark forest. She roamed the edge until she found the campsite, but something felt wrong.
Thieves surrounded the camp, there were hundreds of them, and Sano and Misao were trapped in the middle. Sano was panting heavily as thief after thief launched themselves at him, misao stood behind him frozen with fright.
Knowing he wouldn't last much longer Kaoru drew out the kantana at her side and drove through the hordes of thieves. Reaching Sano's side they went back to back against their attackers.
Soon only ten thieves were left standing. Both Sano and Kaoru were completely exhausted, but continued to attack swiftly. . .Suddenly there was a blood curdling scream that ran up Kaoru's spine. She turned to find Misao in the clutches of the biggest man she had ever seen. He looked to be about seven feet tall; his face was covered by a large grizzly beard. His massive hands were wrapped tightly around Misao; he seemed to be squeezing the life out of her. Misao was gasping for air and she look pleadingly towards Kaoru, silently begging for help.
A sudden desire to hurt the asshole that was causing her new friend harm, overcame Kaoru. She burst into a fit of rage and struck the man hard in the chest. All air whooshed out of him, and Misao was released from his grip. Kaoru ran to her side and checked for fatal wounds, ands found only a few bruises. Breathing a sigh of relief she gave the petit girl a tight squeeze. This caused Misao to grunt in pain. Kaoru released her quickly, "Sorry," she murmured.
A cry of exhaustion emitted through the grunts of the burly men. Kaoru wheeled around to find Sano lost under a sea of thieves. She flung herself into the crowd to defend her brother, but there were too many. She wasn't used to fighting more than three fighters at a time and pretty soon they were overpowered, but she kept fighting until her body couldn't hold her anymore and she dropped to the ground.
The sea of thieves parted to reveal the giant who she had saved Misao from. His small beady eyes blazed with fury and he raised his sword above Kaoru's head. She closed her eyes and waited for cold steel to meet her flesh…It didn't come…Risking a glance at the thief she realized his complete attention was diverted elsewhere.
Thieves scrambled everywhere to stay out of the way of the oncoming horses; the thieves who didn't get away in time were lost under the hundreds of thunderous hoofs. Men atop the horses struck out at all the frightened thieves until there was non left standing. The leader was struck from behind causing him to fall on top of Kaoru, pinning her to the ground. She struggled to get out from under the dead man in fear of suffocating, but the body was too heavy for her to push. All air escaped form out of her lungs and she cried for help. Unconsciousness overcame her, but before she completely blacked out she saw a flash of crimson before darkness engulfed her.
AN: YAY! I finally updated this story! Aren't you all glad? Lol. I'm sorry for taking so long. For all those who read my new story's author notes you know why. Well just guess where I found the notebook!...LOGGED INBETWEEN MY BED AND THE WALL! LOL, and after I searched frantically through out my room and my friends rooms. The only place I didn't look smacks her head I felt so stupid. Well nobodies perfect. Ne ways I have already written half of chapter 3 so expect it soon and also chapter 2 of Assassin 8 (hint the more reviews I get the faster I'll update wink)
Ok well, see you all next chapter! I hope you enjoyed!