"Yo! Slave!"
"Nani Mukotsu sama?" Yuki had learned the hard way that if she fails to add the honorific suffix she will pay dearly.
"Today you will have the honor and pleasure to accompany us on a field day."
They all laugh.
'He means they want me to come with them on one of their insane killing sprees?
I do not wish to be a witness to this massacre!' she thought grimly, knowing she had no other choice.
"Are you not glad, wench?" Mukotsu asked, "You should be grateful, not many have the fortune to see us work and live to tell the tale."
Yuki also knew the consequences of not responding or answering with spite.
"Hai, domo arigato for this great honor and fortune."
She began to comprehend the rules of this cruel game- they held her life and perhaps more, and she must obey their every command and do as they please.
Several hours later, after a long tiring walk towards the north there was a village in the distance.
Yuki was worn out. 'After yesterday's impossible work and these last hours of walking it's no wonder that I am so tired. And my cloths… I worked these, they're a bloody mess!'
And indeed they were. Suikotsu's claws left rips in the kimono and it was also dusty and blood stained from the previous day's cleaning job.
"Oo-aniki!"
"Nani Jakotsu no aniki?"
"Is this the village?" he said pointing to the one below the hill the were on.
"Hai."
"Do you think they have kawaii men there?"
"Uhg Jakotsu…you are a very strange man…" Renkotsu commented.
"At least I don't follow a psycho kuro miko like a little puppy!"
"Of course doing so to a MAN is very normal…" he said venomously thinking to himself: 'Baka Jakotsu! One of these…'
His thoughts were cut of by the young leader's voice.
"Stop this at once you two! We have a village to raid, let's have some fun!"
They quickly forgot about the quarrel and proceeded on to the village.
When they got to the gates Mukotsu speared of his poison killing the two guards quickly. After that was done they scourged the land like a horrible plague.
Yuki saw a couple of children, not older then seven or eight playing some game, enjoying themselves but then, the shichinintai appeared and the children froze, their eyes were filled with fear, no sheer horror.
The gigantic Kyoukotsu did the most monstrous thing Yuki could imagine;
He picked up the two petrified children and put them in his mouth.
Beyond the screaming and battle cries Yuki could hear the sound of bone crushing.
She fell on her knees sobbing and shaking.
'Perhaps my death in my benefit over my life…'
A short while later the whole place was burned to the ground. The smell of scorched flesh reigned the air, but Yuki did not smell. She heard nothing but the dreadful sound of crushing bones and threw up for the god knows which time. The loathed group of men were standing in front of her.
"What's wrong with you woman?" Bankotsu asked.
SILENCE.
"Yo! Baka onna! Oo-aniki is speaking to you!"
SILENCE.
"You should be glad," Suikotsu said, "Nothing to clean today!"
The men laughed. SILENCE.
"C'mon let's go! I heard this village's daimyo has lot's of good sake!" Bankotsu said.
Yuki just continued staring blankly in to space. One thought crossed her mind:
'Bankotsu…Jakotsu…Suikotsu… they did not slay any children…' she then fainted, falling into a puddle of her own vomit.