Tsubasa Akarou was heading for the Shogun's mansion when he was suddenly attacked by three men, two of which he knew to be warriors of the Shinsen-Gumi, while the other's identity was unknown to him. The latter's Ki was exceptionally strong, almost forcing the inner-coward that everyone in the Tsubasa clan possesses.

"Gatotsu Zeroshiki!" Okita shouted, but the attack was being blocked by Akarou's katana.

"You'll have to do better than that if you want to kill me" he exclaimed.

Saito wasted to time, and used the famous Gatotsu Ishiki on him. At least he was able to stab him in the shoulder. He would've successfully killed him, if Akarou's footwork wasn't so wild.

"Hiten-Mitsurugi Ryuu" Hiko chanted softly as he raised his sword to attack Akarou, "Ryu-Chou-Sen!" He could've killed the latter, if his blow wasn't stopped by a pair of whips used by a bodyguard. However, it took him mere seconds to cut the whips with the use of his own Ki.

"You are well-trained with the sword" Akarou said, trying to attack Hiko simultaneously. "I seriously did not know that a mere ceramics artist like you is able of such powerful attacks"

"There is a lot about me that you will never know" Hiko said, signaling Saito and Okita to attack him together. Within the blink of an eye, three separate attacks were launched on the man, namely the Gatotsu Ishiki and Nishiki, along with the Hiten-Mitsurugi Ku-Zu-Ryu-Sen.

Then Akarou lay dead on the streets, where his blood was splattered in the liters. He was literally cut up into several pieces. The next thing to do, as any idiot could tell you, to get rid of the mutilated corpse. This final step of removing Tsubasa Akarou from the world was exceptionally hard to commence, as the Tsubasa clan spies were literally crawling everywhere.

As dawn came, they buried the body in a secluded patch of forest in the mountains, not far away from the one that Hiko lived in. Then, as planned they headed back into the city, but were confronted by at least twenty people, all of which were wearing black clothes with the word "Tsubasa" inscribed on the back.

"We know that you are the ones who murdered Akarou-sama!" said their leader, who wore red wrist guards.

"Yare-yare" Saito said, "Unfortunately, we do not have time to fight with you kids just as it is. So, you'd better shut up, and forget about the whole incident where you said that we were the ones who disposed of your master"

"Uh, Saito-san" Okita whispered. "I don't think that we should anger them. They look exceptionally dangerous, and not to mention, heavily armed"

Hiko was silent. Now that Akarou was dead and gone, he only wanted to go back to Ryumiko's side. Nothing was more important to him at that moment. Thus, he raised his katana, and attacked the spies. As Okita had foreseen, those spies were not ordinary swordsmen, their Ki was stronger than the average level, but their speed and power proved to be a match for Hiko,

Okita was now struggling to fight, as his tuberculosis attacked his body again. The boy was literally coughing up blood while spilling those of his enemies'.

"Okita, you must go back now!" Saito commanded, as he was worried of his comrade's safety. "Everyone will have my head if you return a dead corpse"

The child remained adamant to remain, but Hiko and Saito had already killed all of the Tsubasa clan's servants. "Come on, let's get back to your head-quarters" the former said, with Okita's arm over his shoulders.

Twenty minutes on, the threesome came to a complete halt. They saw a familiar sight, Ryumiko standing in front of the Shinsen-Gumi head-quarters waiting for them. But, the expression on her fair face was one of shock and terror. They did not know why, but they did feel the presence of an unfamiliar Ki coming from behind them

Ryumiko sent her katana flying towards them, which all of them dodged just in time. Each of them thought that she wanted to kill them. Instead, she smiled at them when they stood up again, with joy inscribed deeply in her fair face. They looked around them, and saw one of the Tsubasa clan's servants, with her katana stuck in his throat.

"Welcome home", she said, "all of you"