Chapter 1

"Hi, do need help with anything "I asked the man with a red ponytail "No," he said his back turned towards me "I'm…

he turned towards me & the happy smile I had consumed he had before slid of his face & he stared at me. His red hair covered half his face & his other purple eye. I looked down for a second & he was still staring at me.

"Hello, sir", a voice came from behind breaking his gaze finally a time when I was happy to hear Miruno's voice "Do you need any help sir?"

"No," the man said quickly

"Well of course not," she panicked for a second "but a big, strong man like you wouldn't, would you?" Me and the guy both seemed to stare at her…& she seemed to notice.

"Wow, is that a sword? She shouted covering her mouth & painting. I looked down & she was right: the middle of his sword was sticking out. The only sword I had seen like this was…. my fathers. It had been his best & only sword ever before the worst thing the Battosai, the Manslayer a monster, killed him. My father, leader & founder of the Kattori Alliance, an alliance of 7 men made especially against Battosai's. One night my mother & father had insisted me & my brother, Kansai, hide in a closet & when I ask why before slamming me in a closet my mother answered "Because we care about you more than we care about you more than we care about ourselves," and she shut the door. I spent that night comforting my brother until we both went to sleep.

That morning I had opened the door to find everything destroyed & my mother & father…. killed, laying beside each other. I had cried all morning until an old wondering woman had found us & we stayed with her & she had raised us until she died. She had also told us that the Hikotori Battosai had killed our parents & all my fathers' money had been stolen. Till' this day I have vowed to have revenge on the Battosai for what he did.