Leo sat quietly absorbing the shock while Miha went to fetch more tea. It had never occurred to him that she may have had other lovers, other ninjas, for a fleeting moment he felt betrayed but he shook it off it was silly of course a women like her would have attracted other lovers. She was beautiful and skilled and determined, the image of her slicing through the rotting carcass played behind his eyes and he found himself feeling jealous, she had killed him without hesitation because it was what needed to be done, he wondered if needed could he do the same?
His train of thought was broken by the opening of the door, Miha slipped through with more tea, if the telling of an old lovers death had moved her she didn't show it. She sat down across from him again taking great care pouring the steaming liquid into the tiny cups before speaking.
"They are the Fumeiyo" She said shattering the silence.
" Corrupt warriors who have traded their honor , their souls in the question for greater power." She said shaking her head slightly.
"And power is what they get, great terrible soul cursing power…… under the oppression of Teeg".
Teeg. That name Leo remembered, the red eyed fighter who had tried to kill him the night he found Karai.
"They serve Teeg?" He asked, trying not to reveal how little he knew of clans like the Yokoshima.
"They all do, Teeg is there master" She said swirling her cup. " Teeg controls the Yokoshima, from the lowliest fighter to the most powerful Fumeiyo" She confirmed with a nod.
"How?" He asked simply stunned that any one man could control what he had seen that night.
"He is a Fumeiyo" She said a hint of something unnamed in her voice " He is invincible, no man can kill him"
Leo felt his stomach turn over, for the first time since he saw Saki's tower burning against the cold New York skyline he felt the weight of the situation pressing down on him, it made it hard to breath.
He waiting a moment in the silence feeling slightly ill , he had fought the Shredder many times and had begun to think that he may have been invincible , but he was not. Knowing how easily Teeg had put an end to Saki put the word invincible into perspective for him.
"Then .. why" He began but Miha finished for him.
"Why do we fight knowing we cannot win?" She smiled slightly " Because we can"
They spent hours talking , talking about past battles and old wars and then Miharu told him about the Fumeiyo. There were always five she said, five to serve Teeg, they would be looking for a new Fumeiyo now after the death of Doku.
The oldest of the five was little more than a shadow she said, the brother of Teeg, cursed to slip between the world of the living and the dead a shapeless solid, a deadly assassin.
"Beware the darkest shadow" She said solemnly
The next a women, pale as ice and twice as cold, washed of color and devoid of emotion cursed to drain the life force of anything she can touch.
"Beware the hand kindly offered"
The third was thin and fragile, by far the most helpless looking creature ever to face a battle field. Cursed to wander the minds of others, locked out of his own body his essence hovering before his frail malnourished form.
"Beware the illusion of weakness" She warned.
The fourth and now final member of Teeg's cursed assassins stood the tallest. Her appearance almost completely untouched by the curse laid upon her at two young an age, save for a eerie green glow which danced in her eyes. Chishi, the daughter of Teeg. Miha could not explain to him her powers, no one knew…. Or rather no one lived to tell.
"Beware" Was all she said in a foreboding voice.