Once upon a time, there was a man and his daughter visiting japan. One day they came across a weapon's smith and teacher of Kenjutsu. The man presented the man with a full plate of armor tasking the man to produce the smith's greatest creations. The man's task was not as simple as the smith thought, four weapons were forged in time from the armor, all with a specific goal in mind. Taking the two arms the smith created twin blades one that granted the user the ability to see the unseen and to do as they desired, the other granted the user the power to see the will of others and act upon it, the smith named the first blade Kage and the second Kaihō-sha. The helm came next, with it he created an eye worn around the neck. The eye was a gift for the man's daughter, a gift to foresee danger in order to protect her and those around her in which he named Kami no Me. Lastly came the chest plate the smith made in the form of a blade from the man's homeland. This blade was for the man himself, from what he told the smith it was to protect those he called his home theirs through his own will. The smith took that to heart and created the best blade he could manage that required an equal will to that of the gods themselves which he named Tsuki no Ishi.

Several months later the man and his daughter returned. Amazed by the craftsmanship of the smith the man offered the smith a place at his side, but the smith refused, claiming that it was the place that his school and his wife needed him most at the moment. Disappointed but not discouraged the man commanded the smith for his dedication to his family and students, after the rejection the man took it in stride promising to come to visit the smith and his family, telling the smith not to worry about his daughter, that her traits were to better protect his gifts that she will inherit from the smith from the world around them. When the smith spoke confused, not having a child let alone a girl, the man smiled and said nothing else on the matter and left shortly thereafter.

A couple of years passed without seeing the man the smith now called a friend, over time his work began to slip as he was haunted by the offer to him by the man. He now wished to see the man, wondering if the man was able to protect his homeland. As his days continued his wife became pregnant and not before long the smith's family had been visited by the man's daughter who now wore the eye he created. Happy to see her, the smith asked the daughter about her father, but her news saddened the man. She spoke of a war that took her father away and the loss of his blade, apologizing for not being able to come earlier in his stead. The smith was saddened but did not let it show. He invited the girl into their home to stay as long as she wished. Not before long, the girl became like family helping to tend to his duties and becoming a student at his school. One day the girl left suddenly during training the smith thinking nothing of it continued with his day. It was when he returned home that he saw that his child had been born in his absence and to see that his wife suffered a great deal as the man's daughter tended to the smith's wife and newborn daughter.

Outraged, the smith pulled the man's daughter aside asking in a muted breath why she did not say anything about the smith's wife and if this was why she left so suddenly in an angry voice. The man's daughter broke down as she pointed to the smith's creation, the eye she wore saying that she knew the pain of loss and what it did to people, that she couldn't stand it and she could not let the smith go through the same thing. After a brief moment, the smith took the girl into an embrace thanking her for what she did. Returning to his child and wife he saw his daughter for the first time, but something was off, the child had the ears of a wild animal... A fox and nine tails. Fearful he looked at the man's daughter remembering her father's words. She gave him a gentle smile as he took the child in his arms as he named the newborn Yasaka. Over the next several months Yasaka grew attached to the man's daughter crying if she or the smith and his wife were to leave the room, the smith began to see the man's daughter as his own despite her appearing as a foreigner going as far as calling her a member of his family. One day however she vanished without a word, that day he was woken up in the middle of the night by Yasaka crying. Apologizing to the infant for the disappearance of a family member he found a necklace in the shape of a star at her bedside. Smiling he returned the child to her bed, feeling inspired he took the necklace to his workshop and what remained of the armor creating a bow in the necklaces' image. The smith decided not to name the bow but left the name up to the man's daughter when she returned.

With the bow being finished he hung it over the bed of Yasaka in hopes that it would become the shield of a protector like the man said Yasaka will become, and like the man's daughter was for the smith's family.

A/N: back to what these extra chapters were meant for, plus an apology for not finishing the next chapter at my usual pace.