AN Sorry, looks like I'm using excuses myself. It's time I used the defibrillator on this fic and brought it back. Thanks to all reviewed and gave me the encouragement needed to start writing this story again. The general has returned to his battlefield.
"What!" Sheena looked bewildered after what she had just heard. Could it really be true?" Sheena stood at the entrance to Mizuho, next to her stood two of Mizuho's ninjas. Across from them stood three men wearing black suspenders, red work shirts and large steel helmets on their heads. The men all held torches in one hand and large, steel swords in the other. The swords were skinny in the beginning and weighted at the end, probably meant for attacking those who were already knocked down.
"That's right. By order of Cruxis this village is to be burned to the ground. That is, unless you give us the location of Yuan." The men all looked exactly like renegades, but the way they carried themselves and the way they talked was all wrong. Sheena was looking a little befuddled after that question
"How should WE know, he's YOUR commander!" The three men began to advance on the ninjas. Sheena drew her cards, as the ninjas each drew a three-foot, straight, watered steel blade.
"Heh, wrong answer little lady. Hope you're ready to meet your maker augh" The man's fellow soldiers turned around to see another man clad in red holding a long assassin knife that was currently positioned in the soldiers throat.
"Hold your tongue. Not a person on this planet shall destroy my home so long as I breathe." This newcomer stated, his voice chilling the bones of his enemies, yet bringing hope to his comrades. He stood at about 6', clad in a full-body red cloth that hid light armor underneath. A hood was attached which hid his hair, and a small patch of cloth that hid his mouth. Everything about the man was plain and yet his true nature was completely hidden.
"Kuchinawa!" Sheena cried out to her former friend, former compatriot, former enemy, and now mystery. "You haven't forsaken us?" Kuchinawa smirked under the guise of his mask.
"There are some things a person can never leave, one of those is home, Mizuho is my home. You may have gotten my parents killed, but you are still my friend, my brother is still my brother, and the chief is still my leader." Kuchinawa said, a look of seriousness and determination now in his eyes.
"You done yet speech boy?" One of the two remaining soldiers charged at him, swinging like mad. Kuchinawa sidestepped him and threw a metal knife into the man's side.
"Raiden!" These were the last words heard by the man as lightning split clouds. Electricity coursed through every inch of the man's body as the lightning connected with the metal part of the knife.
As soon as the man was electrocuted Kuchinawa wasted no time. Moving so quickly that he left a mirage in his wake, he stabbed the man in his lung. Kuchinawa pulled out the blade and went to work again, leaving another after image behind. His other lung, his heart, his stomach, his kidneys, his throat, it was all an expendable target to him. Normally Kuchinawa would have deplored such unnecessary force, but he needed to put fear in the other man.
"Do you still wish to fight?" Kuchinawa gave the other man a stare that bore into him. The other man quickly turned tail and ran. 'Damn, I can't let him report anything, oh well.' Without another second of hesitation, Kuchinawa tore after him, his own speed shielding him from the man's gaze. He grabbed him threw him to the ground and stabbed the man in throat, efficient, but merciful. Kuchinawa turned to Sheena. "Chief. I have a lot to report." He made a small bow as he said this and walked towards the chief's house.