Chapter 2a. Sasami's Past- Crimson Saber
Five old men were waiting inside their house. It was near the Autumn festival and they were waiting for their two brothers to come back. They were afraid that harm had already fallen upon the two. During these two years, someone posting by the name of Souja had been killing off their family members whenever a holiday arrives. Nobody was allowed to leave the house unless they were doing something extremely important.
In the backyard, two girls were swinging. They were Aeka and Sasami. Aeka is 16 while Sasami is 9. They were both dressed in kimonos. Sasami was unhappy because she couldn't swing as high as her sister, and, therefore, couldn't see what is happening outside.
" Wow!" Aeka said, as she swung really high up.
" What? What? What do you see?" Sasami asked anxiously.
" I see boats of every kind and children playing and…" Aeka informed.
" That's enough, Aeka," a voice behind them said.
Aeka and Sasami stopped swinging and turned around. Their mother was standing there, shaking her head disapprovingly.
" I'm sorry, mom." Aeka said.
Her mother smiled and wrapped her arms around Aeka, giving her a light hug.
" It's alright. I know how much you would love to see the world that's outside. If your dad wasn't so strict, I would have let you out already." Funaho said.
Aeka nodded and Sasami smiled.
" Does that mean that we still get to celebrate the festival, but just inside our house?" Sasami asked.
" I'm afraid not, Sasami. You know who Souja is, right?" Funaho said.
" The mean, scary person who kills off our family members?" Sasami asked.
" Right. And every time a festival comes around, it's like a funeral for one of our relatives. We wouldn't be celebrating this year." Funaho explained.
Sasami's head dropped. Aeka suddenly remembered something.
" Is our fourteenth uncle back yet? He promised to bring me a doll this year."
Funaho slowly shook her head.
" Then is our seventh uncle back?" Aeka asked.
" I..." Funaho was cut short by Azusa and Misaki's appearance.
" Your seventh uncle is here, Aeka, come meet him." Azusa said. Then they all left for the living room.
At the living room was their seventh uncle. He had a coffin beside him.
" Why in the world did you bring a coffin in here?" The first brother asked.
" Well I had to find some way to transport all the treasures I found. Besides, people don't go robbing and stealing coffins." The seventh brother answered.
Aeka and Sasami entered the living room with their two mothers and their father.
" I brought a gift back to you, dear sixth brother." The seventh brother said to the sixth one.
" What is it?" #6 asked.
" Wait and see. You can come on in now." #7 called to the door. And, emerging from the door was the two kidnapped wives of the 6th brother.
" Dear!" They both cried as they ran towards him. All were engulfed in tears and laughter for a while.
" Oh my gosh! I thought I'll never see you two again after you were kidnapped by Souja! How in the world did you manage to escape?"#6 asked.
The two wives were silent. Then the seventh brother said, " You know what these two were when I found them? These two cheapskates were cheating on you, bro. They were prostitutes!"
" What?" Everyone from the room said.
" It wasn't our fault! We woke up and there we were!" the two wives explained.
" How dare you two dirty our doors like that! Six, you know what to do." #1 said.
The sixth one nodded, took out the sword from one of the guards nearby and beheaded his two wives. Aeka screamed and Sasami covered her eyes. Aeka ran to the two corpses on the ground.
" How could you be so merciless! It wasn't their fault that they were there! They were always so loyal to you, why didn't you just listen to their explanations? How could you bring yourself to kill them off?" Aeka said with tears in her eyes.
" They were just women. I can live without them. The important thing is that they're not dirtying our doors." #6 replied.
" But..." Aeka started to say. #1 interrupted and scolded Aeka.
" It was their fault. They should have committed suicide the moment they realized that they were in that kind of place. And listen, all of you, if something like that ever happens to any of you, commit suicide immediately." #1 said.
" Why? Just because we're women? We have a right to live too, you know? And whoever put you in charge?" Aeka said.
" Azusa. Take away your daughter." #1 said.
Azusa nodded and towed Aeka away with her screaming threats back at her uncle.
#7 said, " let's forget about the bad stuff. Look what treasure I bought back. I robbed the richest house and murdered the guy since he refused to give the money to me."
" Good job, seven. I never thought you would be capable of robbing a house all alone without our help." #1 said.
They all moved to examine the treasure. They were taking out bunches of pearls, diamonds, jade, gold and silver when they noticed a hand. They all looked over at #7, who was calmly drinking tea. They then brushed aside all the other jewellery and found an exact replica of #7 in the coffin. They slowly took their weapons out and walked to the #7 who was drinking tea.
" Hey, what's with all the swords?" #7 asked.
They then took out their weapon and, before #7 could say anything, they have stabbed him in the stomach.
" Why..." #7 choked out before he collapsed onto the ground.
" You can't fool us, Souja. 2, go and rip off his mask." #1 ordered.
#2 went and tried his best to peel off the fake skin, but realized that there was no fake skin. He gasped.
" That was really our brother!" #2 cried.
All the others looked shocked. Then, out of nowhere, 'Souja' popped out of the coffin...
Back at the Masaki house...
" Isn't that..." Mihoshi began.
AN-so...who do you think that is? And aren't Aeka and Sasami's uncles just plain evil? Well, here's a little background info on them. They were the most powerful thieves during this time period. They rob the rich and poor, rapes the girls and basically kill off everyone. They were greatly loathed by everyone; therefore, the Souja could have been anyone. But I assure you; it's one of the main casts. And if anyone have any idea of where they've seen/heard something like this before, you're probably right.