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And here comes another chapter…Chapter seven! Have fun reading!

Prev: Houji sighed. "You can go to my library and search some books to read, just leave me alone will you?" "I guess I will do that then." Said an annoyed Sora and walked away. She walked to the library, she knew were it was cause Sojiro told it. "Sojiro…"Sora thought. "What would he be doing now?" She got in the library and walked to one of the bookshelves. "Where should I start, there are so many books in here." she said silently to herself. And so Sora began her search.

Almost two weeks were past without Sojiro for Sora. She was mostly reading or training with Houji. She was on her way to breakfast when she saw Shishio appear at the end of the hallway. She walked hastily to Shishio and Yumi, who was of course next to Shishio, and bowed.

"Hello Shishio-sama…Miss Yumi…good to see you again."

Yumi smiled and Shishio nodded shortly.

"Thank you Miss Sora." Shishio then turned to Houji, who was also walking behind Shishio. "But let us eat first, I have to tell something important after it."

Sora looked behind Shishio and Yumi. "Where is Sojiro?" she thought "…Maybe he comes a little bit later…"

After they had all finished there breakfast, they left the room again. They walked to a place in the hall were a lot of warriors of Shishio stood. When Shishio appeared before them, they al raised there hand respectfully.

"Houji, have you done what I asked you to do while I was gone?" Asked Shishio.

"Yes, I've bought all the weapons that were on the list. But Shishio-sama wasn't Sojiro with you?"

"I asked him to bring the Juppongatana from east-Japan here. Much of them are hard to find, like Anji."

Sora was happy to hear that she could finally meet the other Juppongatana members, but was a little bit disappointed too because it would take days more before she could see Sojiro again.

"I already send messages myself to the Juppongatana from west-Japan." Continued Shishio.

Houji took a step forward, a big smile appearing on his face. "But then…"

Shishio nodded. "Yes…from the moment all the Juppongatana are here…we take over Japan…"

All the warriors looked happy at Shishio and Sora looked surprised to Shishio too. Houji took another step forward.

"Did you hear that my friends?" Houji said looking at the warriors. "The moment to fight is finally there! The preparations must be finished!"

All the warriors began to yell in pleasure. "Shishio-sama! Shishio-sama!…"

Shishio turned around and left the place followed by Yumi, Houji and Sora.

"Then I will send messages to all our allies in Japan." Houji said

"Wait, I have one more thing to say." Said Shishio turning around to Houji. "It will take a while before all the Juppongatana are here. I'm certain that they thirst for blood. So before we take over Japan, we will let them fight against Himura Battousai."

"Battousai…It sounds familiar…" Sora thought when she heard the name Himura Battousai.

"But wait Shishio-sama! There is too much risk to let the Juppongatana fight against the Battousai, each of them has an important task…" Houji said protesting.

Yumi turned around to Houji as well. "First, I was surprised too. But don't worry the Juppongatana aren't that weak."

Suddenly a voice began to speak behind them. "Yes, just like Miss Yumi says, the Juppongatana can't lose from only one hitokiri."

They all turned around. Shishio smiled. "That was fast…Katanagiri no Chou…"

Sora looked surprised to the man that was standing before them. He had broom-like hair, one eye closed and a lot of swords.

"Yes, I maybe live in Osaka." Continued Chou. "But I wanted to show you the nice sword I just got."

Chou showed them a pretty nice sword and then he saw Sora.

"Who is that?" He nodded to Sora. Sora took her eyes of the sword and looked at Chou.

"I'm Saotome Sora…nice to meet you." She bowed a little.

"I see…but what are you doing here then?"

Before Sora could answer Shishio did. "Miss Sora is a new member of the Juppongatana…and don't begin with she is a girl and stuff…we already now she is a girl and a good fighter. And that's all that counts."

Chou was really surprised from hearing this news.

"Well, I guess you are right then…Welcome to the group then, I'm also in the Juppongatana."

Sora smiled. "Good, now I already saw three people of the Juppongatana."

"Sojiro and Houji are the other two, am I correct?"

"Yes, that's right."

Shishio turned to Houji again, causing Sora and Chou to stop talking.

"What is the Battousai doing lately?"

"We haven't located him yet. But we know he had contact with Seiku, the son of Arai Shakku" Answered Houji.

Shishio smiled. "He is looking for a new sword, Sojiro broke his sakabatou… And?"

"Seiku doesn't want to make the sword. There is also one remaining sword of Shakku, but he didn't gave him that either."

Chou smiled. "The last sword of Shakku?...I want to have it…"

Chou walked away and Shishio turned around.

"There is an important fight waiting for us Chou. Don't screw it up…"

Chou raised his hand, not looking back. "Don't worry."

When Chou was out of sight Shishio turned to Sora.

"It's time to train, I want to see how strong you really are."

"In that case I'm going to sleep for some hours. I'm tired from the journey." Yumi said bowing to Shishio and walking away.

Houji also walked away saying that he had some thing to do for the take over of Japan.

So it came that Shishio and Sora walked to the training room. They stood across each other.

"Get your katana's Miss Sora. And try to kill me." Shishio said looking at Sora without any expression on his face.

Sora was confused. "Kill you Shishio-sama...?"

Shishio nodded. "That's the only way I can compare my strength with yours. I'm certain that you are not strong enough to kill me. So I don't have to worry too much. Now…attack and try to kill me."

Sora knew Shishio was absolutely right. She wouldn't be abele to kill him. Sora took her katana's in her hands and got in an attack position. Shishio got his katana but didn't do anything more. He just stood there looking, waiting...

Sora attacked, keeping here eyes on Shishio. She tried to hit him in the neck, but he simply blocked her, pushing her away with the strength he used. Sora attacked again, again trying to hit his neck. Shishio blocked one sword with his katana and the other one with his hand.

"Once I have seen an attack, it doesn't work on me. Remember that very good…" He held the sword strongly, swinging it to the right causing Sora to go to the right as well. Shishio attacked too, hitting Sora in the arm. Sora opened her mouth, refusing to scream from pain, and fell on the ground. She sat up looking at the wound on her arm. It was on the same place as the other wound was. The wound was open again and began bleeding as hell.

"Get up…In a real fight you will not have the time to look at your wounds. Attack me."

Sora got up, ran to Shishio and held her swords next to each other above her head. Right in front of Shishio she jumped and with a strong hit she tried to slam her swords in Shishio's head. Shishio jumped away, causing Sora's swords to hit the ground.

Sora pulled her swords out the ground and again ran at Shishio.

"Now he will expect that I'll do the same…But I'm going to change my attack a little." Sora thought again raising her swords above her head.

Shishio grinned. "Again that one…"

Sora was almost right in front of Shishio.

"I just told you before an attack…"

Shishio stopped talking his eyes growing in surprise. Instead that Sora jumped, she tried to slash Shishio trough. With a powerful hit, she swung her swords away from her head trying to hit Shishio. Shishio jumped back.

"Very good…I must say that I am impressed. Only Sojiro was able to hit me like you did now."

"But I missed…" Sora said confused.

"Not really." Shishio pointed at his purple kimono.
( AN: I thought they called it a kimono, sorry if I'm wrong )

Then Sora saw what Shishio meant. There were two cuts in Shishio's kimono. Sora smiled at this. She was able to hit Shishio, not really like she had planned, but she hit him anyway.

"Don't smile too much Miss Sora."

Sora looked up surprised. "What…?"

"I'm certain that you are fighting at your top strength. But that doesn't mean that I'm fighting at top strength as well."

Sora's happiness disappeared. "He must be bluffing…It can't be…He must been fighting a top strength …" She thought looking at Shishio.

"Attack me again, now we will really see what you are capable of."

Sora got in an attack position again. She ran at Shishio again and when she was right in front of him, she jumped to the left. Sora tried to hit Shishio in his arm. Shishio blocked the hit with his katana. Sora tried to hit his arm with her second sword but was stopped by Shishio holding her by her neck. Sora couldn't breathe that good anymore, she gasped for air and tried to pull Shishio's hand of her neck.

"And what are you planning to do now? You have swords, use them." Shishio said getting more strength at the grip on Sora's neck.

Sora tried to hit Shishio in the face, swinging one of her katana's around. She started to see everything blurry. She felt so helpless, hanging there, waiting till Shishio would let go of her neck. Sora felt her strength disappearing. One of her katana's fell on the ground. Suddenly she was thrown away powerfully. With a slam she hit the ground. She gasped for air, her eyes wide from fear.

"Get up!" Shishio kicked the katana that Sora dropped back at the girl.

Sora crawled from the ground, standing shaking on her knees. She got her katana's back in her hands and ran at Shishio again. She jumped trying to cut of Shishio's head with both of her swords. Shishio attacked too. Before Sora could strike, she screamed in pain and fell on the ground again. She grabbed her legs in pain, blood was flowing out of her upper legs. Shishio had cut both of her upper legs and just looked at the girl that lay on the ground before him. Before Sora could do anything more, she fainted…

Tun-tun-tun-TUN… That was the ending of chapter seven I hope you liked it. Till the next chapter!