WARNING This chapter contains graphic content!
Miharu had fallen into the role of Master without challenge, the clan was used to taking orders from her, she had always commanded more respect that most. Kaito had naturally fallen in line as her second and one of Yun's honor guard in training Yumi had fallen in as his.
Unlike the old master Miharu did not let the clan sit idle waiting, she was already beginning to mobilize that clan, by tomorrow night things would be in order for a first attack.
She had begun breaking the clan down into attack groups, Kaito and Yumi had each taken one and in addition she had named Takumi and Akira as commanders of the remaining two, 5 groups one for each Fumeiyo.
And so when Leo and Raph returned they found the warehouse to be a bee hive of activity, ninjas scurrying this way and that a firm chain of command in order. They had stood for a minute in the middle of all this activity afraid to move for fear a stray ninja would run into them.
Leo wondered idly how many ninja he would have to speak to before some one would actually stop from their task and tell him where he could find Miha. He didn't in fact have to bother anyone , before eh had a chance to speak he heard a women's voice greeting them.
It was not Miha as he had hoped but the girl Raph had been seen eating breakfast with Yumi. She greeted them warmly but in a proper manner, Leo got the impression that if her troops had not been watching Raph would have received a much warmer welcome.
She smiled at Leo and directed him as to where he could find Miharu. He nodded and left his brother standing there with the girl as he jogged off down the hall in search of Miha. It didn't take him long to find her.
"Leonardo" She said in shock as he entered the room. She had been giving orders and there we at least a dozen ninja in the room including Kaito, they all turned to look at him and then in a matter of seconds finished their business and excused themselves.
"What's going on?" he asked after noting that several of the ninja had addressed her as Master.
"Master Yun is gone" She said " He has left us , betrayed his clan…. I am master now"
"And does the master of the clan still wish us gone?" He asked trying to hold back any bitterness from his tone.
She shook her head fiercely and was in his arms in a matter of minutes whispering an apology. He hugged her tightly running a hand through her hair, she was defiantly having a worse day than him.
"So uh, what's with all the buzz all of a sudden" He asked after she pulled away kissing him briefly.
"I am mobilizing the troops " She said " Making them ready for battle……. I do not know why but I sense that Teeg will make his move much sooner that master Yun expected.
On the other side of town Kash sat in the grand room Teeg had provided him with, he had been impressed with his performance the night before, so had he in fact. He smiled to himself Karai had been surprising in her actions, she had submitted to him without protest. He chuckled just goes to prove every women no matter how powerful just wants some one to come along and give her a good fuck, it was bitter but she had made him that way.
He popped a piece of fruit into his mouth as he reveled in his triumphs, he didn't need her ninja training now…… not after what Teeg had done to him.
Flashback
"Its Kash" He said to figure in the alley. The hulking red eyed man had stepped out from the shadows and made him an offer, an offer he couldn't even think of refusing. This man Teeg would give him power more power than he could dream of, power and Karai he promised in exchange for one small thing.
He had agreed without hesitation and without asking the details of that one small thing, and now he regretted it. He was tied to a pole in the middle of field in central park, stripped naked facing an open fire just a few feet away.
An old man in a cloak was hunched over the fire heating various items and herbs most of which looked ancient and lethal. In the shadows beyond the fire figures moved in unnatural ways occasionally he heard a small child's tinkling giggle on the night air, he was terrified.
After a long time the man at the fire became still and a figure approached from the shadows, a women he saw after a moment a beautiful Japanese women about his age dressed in a traditional robe.
There was something eerie and unnatural about her it made the hairs on the back on his neck stand up as she approached, she reached out and ran her hands over him like he was her own personal play thing. He resented that and made to tell her so but found that he no longer had a voice, she giggled at that the cold child like giggle he had heard earlier.
The old man rose from the fire behind her carrying a dagger and something steaming and fresh form the fire. He stood a little behind the women and knelt holding up the dagger for her, she smiled innocently and reached back for it.
She looked him straight in the eye as she took a long slow lick of the dagger from end to end, and then without warning she drove it into his chest. He tried to scream but he had no voice, she slowly cut a perfect square from his chest with the same calm manner with which one would slice a cake and popped it out carelessly exposing his heart to the cold night air.
The shock of it hit him gasping as his heart beat exposed to the night chill blood spilling out and over his stomach as steam rose from the wound. The old man held up the steaming object from the fire and she reached back and took it with one hand.
She smiled again before seizing his heart with a savage grip completely unnatural for a woman of her size. She ripped the still beating heart from his chest and plunged the steaming pile from the fire in its place.
Pain , burning stinging pain was all he knew as he felt the object in his chest take hold of the severed pieces and take root there. He watched in horror as the smiling women grinned like a child and took a bite from his heart.
End
She had made him what he was that night, it had hurt like nothing else in this world could. He had screamed silently in disgust as he watched her devour his heart. They had repeated the process to several other organs until he knew he was no longer human.
It had taken a few days of practice to get the art of changing shape down, but he had done it. Teeg was most pleased it was his own daughter Kash had learned who had performed the rites on him.
And now he was one of them a cursed being a Fuymeyio.