Tora Clan's Massacre
Chapter 1

On the night after the incident with the Tora Clan's tiger specialist, Moukoshi struggled to sleep, but the words of the specialist continued to run through his mind.

[flashback]

"She… possesses… a… white tiger, but that's… not what I'm mainly… worried about, there is… something else about her…"

"Something else? What is it? Is it bad?"

"The white tiger… is rare… it has been centuries… since the last one… was possessed."

[end flashback]

"What could it have been?" Moukoshi thought furiously. He rolled to his side and found himself starting at the little baby resting quietly. Moukoshi sighed and closed his eyes trying to sleep, but couldn't. Fed up, Moukoshi got off of bed, got dress, then ran out the door.

"I'm going to find out what is going on!" he said under his breath and walked towards the old lady's shop. When he arrived, he knocked on the door loudly, he saw the lady checking who it was.

"I need to ask you a few questions," Moukoshi plead, "…about Tetsumari."

"I told you, it's nothing!" she replied annoyed yet a little scared.

"Please, you've got to tell me; I can't rest without knowing what's wrong with my baby sister."

"Fine, but I'm giving you only five minutes." She mumbled and opened the door for him. They both went to sit down around the kitchen table drinking tea.

"Please tell me what you felt besides the white tiger that she possesses."

"Okay… during the procedure, I had found her tiger spirit easily, but then I felt something else. I decided to dig in deeper to see what it was." The specialist took a deep breath, "Not only does she possess a white tiger, she possesses the spirit of the Bijū no Fuushuku in other words, the Tailed-Beast Maiden."

"Tailed-Beast Maiden?"

"Yes, the Tailed-Beast Maiden shares a special bond with all the Tailed-Beast Demon and is also able to control them and their movements."

"I don't get it, what's so bad about it?"

"She could easily choose to use that power for good or evil. If she chooses to use it for good, she can help and control the demons from destroying and doing bad things. But if she uses it for evil, she could turn the demons against everyone and kill us."

"She wouldn't do that!"

"Yes, but also if she were to be held in the wrong hands, let's say someone that craves for power, then they could either take the spirit of the maiden out, killing her, or trick her into thinking that they are good then use her powers to control the demons. Also, this is the spirit that caused your mother to die as a sacrifice."

"What! That can't be true…"

"When one of those tailed beast demon or the maiden's spirit gets sealed in someone, a sacrifice is needed to get the job done. For the maiden's spirit though, it chooses the person it wants to be in and does it unwillingly. But that isn't what you must worry about, soon, people are going to start going after her. I advise you to keep her close to you at all times or you won't ever see the face of your precious baby sister anymore. Now leave." The old lady warned as she stood up and walked him to the door, "Be careful."

"Thanks…" Moukoshi said politely and walked home.

[Five Years Later]

"Tetsumari, Let's rest for a bit," a handsome young man with long burgundy hair that was tied back into a pony sat down on a small bench.

"But Moukoshi!" a young little girl with beautiful long, light purple hair and shiny purple eyes whined to her older brother.

"It's getting late; I promise I'll train you tomorrow."

"Fine," Tetsumari replied and gathered up her bow and arrows. She walked over to Moukoshi and they both began to head back home after their long day training together. Moukoshi was teaching her how to use the bow and arrows because it was one of her favorite weapon to use.

"You've improved a lot in a week, you should be proud of yourself," Moukoshi commented his little sister.

"Year, I'm tying really hard! I want to be as good as you Moukoshi!" Tetsumari gave her brother a big smile. They were walking in town now and stopped in front of a small shop.

"Wait here real quick, " Moukoshi said and walked into the shop.

"Okay." After a couple minutes, her brother came out with two ice creams in each hand.

"Here's for your hard work!" Moukoshi exclaimed and handed Tetsumari one ice cream.

"Thanks!" They both ate it while walking home talking and laughing.

Early the next morning, Tetsumari, set out to go train by herself. On the way, she bumped into a girl around her age that was walking with her mom.

"Hey!" Tetsumari said putting her best smile on, "I'm sorry about that. I was sort of in a…"

"It's Tetsumari!" the mother said cutting her off; she was frightened when she looked at her, "Come on honey, let's go."

The mother nearly ran away with her daughter close to her.

"Wait…" I was sorry…" Tetsumari looked down and walked slowly away while people began to whisper to others about her.

"It's that cursed girl, " One man whispered to his friends.

"Monster!" a little boy yelled.

"Stop it she'll curse us all!" the little boy's mother said. Everyone always seems to have something against Tetsumari. They were always either treating her bad and calling her names or frightened of her. All she could do was ignore it. When Tetsumari finally arrived at the training area, she went straight to training to release all her anger and sadness with every hit she threw. She wasn't aware that someone had come and was watching her, waiting for the right time to come out. When Tetsumari was too tired to move, she sat down to rest.

"I thought you would be here, " It was her brother who was the one spying on her.

"Hey Moukoshi…" Tetsumari was a bit upset still.

"What's wrong?"

"Moukoshi…"

"Yeah?"

"Why does everyone… treat me so… differently…?"

"You're just special…" her brother tried to think of the right words to say to her, "They just don't know or see you the way I do."

"So if they just got to know me more, they'll like me?" Tetsumari was getting a bit happier.

"Yeah, who wouldn't right?" Moukoshi smiled, "But it's best not to worry about what others think of you too much because you should be happy with who you are."

"Oh, okay brother, thanks," Tetsumari hugged him. He returned the hug with a kiss on the forehead.

"Okay let's start training now, I'll teach you a couple of new moves." Moukoshi pat his little sister's head.

"Alright!" Tetsumari wasn't sad anymore. Moukoshi taught Tetsumari how to aim and take control of her arrows better. The two siblings began to train extra hard together. However, they were interrupted by a man yelling out Moukoshi's name.

"Moukoshi!" it was a yell from their father. He came running to their training area panting heavily.

"What's wrong?" Moukoshi walked over to his crouching father.

"Hurry! We have to get back to the clan quick! There's war going on against some unknown enemy!"

"What?!" Moukoshi and Tetsumari yelled confused. Moukoshi turned to look at his little sister who was shaking unbelievably and grabbed her.

"Come on Tetsumari!" They ran back to their can clan and saw people fighting everywhere. Moukoshi carried Tetsumari on his back and knocked out any enemy that came close to them. Soon, they stopped in front of their house.

"Get inside and hide Tetsumari!"

"But!"

"Just do it! Don't come out until I tell you to!"

"Okay." Tetsumari did as her brother told her and looked for a good place to hide. It was all horrifying for Tetsumari to hear all the yelling and screaming coming from everyone. Soon after a long time, it was getting quiet. She decided it was safe to go out. Tetsumari searched around to see if her brother had came back yet, but the house was empty. She then checked outside, but the sight she saw was unbelievable.

"What… What happened to everyone?" Tetsumari said shocked and scared at the same time. There were dead people lying on the ground everywhere.

"Tetsumari, watch out!" it was Moukoshi. She turned around to see an enemy going at her with kunais and her brother who was running over to her. Tetsumari turned to run, but her legs felt like they had tons of brick tied to them. She closed her eyes knowing that this will be the end of her, but Moukoshi had come just in time to pull her away quickly. Unfortunately, he didn't make it that far until he was hit by more kunais that were thrown towards them.

"Moukoshi!" Tetsumari began to cry.

"Watch out!" Moukoshi yelled again, the guy was about to attack again, but Moukoshi performed some seals that made sand appear from the ground around them. The shield reflected the kunais and killed the guy. When it had finished its job, it dropped back down to the ground along with Moukoshi.

"Moukoshi…" Tetsumari sobbed even more.

"Tetsumari…"I don't have much time, " He pulled something out from his pocket then pulled out his sister's hand. Moukoshi placed a necklace with a big tiger eye stone hanging in the middle and a few smaller ones on the string where it was supposed to go around the neck in her hands and closed it.

"What is this?"

"It's called the tiger eye necklace; it's able to make copies of itself."

"Huh? How?"

"No one is sure exactly how, we just know it copies itself only when it feels that the owner is having feelings towards another. Like for instant, mother to child, friend to friend, and lover to lover. It could also be sibling to sibling like right now; older brother to younger sister."

"Oh…" Tetsumari puts the necklace on, "Thanks big brother."

Suddenly another enemy popped out. Moukoshi used his last few strength and stood up. Then, he pulled out a katana and ran towards the enemy, at the same time, the enemy was charging at him. They both stabbed each other with their weapons.

"Run Tetsumari!" Moukoshi yelled trying to keep his katana still in the guy's body and also trying to bear with the pain of the weapon in his own body.

"But, Moukoshi!"

"Run now! Listen to me! Run far away or they'll get you!" Tetsumari looked at her brother one last time and finally ran.

"You're not getting away!" the guy cried and pulled away from Moukoshi.

"No you aren't!" Moukoshi yelled at the guy and trapped him with one of his technique, "What do you want with my sister?!"

"It was for an order," The guy replied.

"Order? From who?"

"Orochimaru."

"What? That traitor! What does he want with her?"

"He wants her power!"

"Why? What have I done wrong to him!"

"Nothing. You did nothing wrong, she just has amazing power that Orochimaru craves for."

"That bastard! Too bad he won't get her!"

"You may have saved your clan once, young hero, but the second will never come again!"

"I fought for my clan with pride and honor back then and I'm willing to do so again, even if it cost me my life. However, I won't die until I kill you!"

"Stubborn boy, you will not kill me! Today will mark the end of you, your clan, and your sister!"

"I won't let you!" Moukoshi and the enemy fought each other with all the energy that had left.

"I don't know how much longer I can last," Moukoshi thought, "I'll have to use THAT technique, there's no other choice."

"This guy's really strong, no wonder Orochimaru took him on as his subordinate back then," The enemy thought, "I'll have to use that move Orochimaru taught me."

Moukoshi and the enemy jumped back away from each other.

"This is the end for you!" they both yelled and charged at each other. They had moved all their chakra to one spot in their body, their hands.

"Forbidden Technique. Chakra Rage stage 5, SEAL!" They both yelled and threw a punch at each other. An amazing amount of chakra flowed out and formed a seal all over their bodies. A huge blinding explosion surrounded them.

"This is it for you and me!" Moukoshi said as he slowly died along with the enemy, "Take care baby sister, I'll be watching over you…"