The Ancient Claymore...
Rating: M for gore, blood, language, and death
Author: Soul Teller
A/N: I think the character's I put in were a good idea. Hey, dlight thanks for reviewing this story... Tell me whose background you don't know and I'll explain it the best I can kay? Also I'm deeply sorry to say that Sasuke is in here... But I probably won't have him here for long! On with the story.
Disclaimer: I don't own Claymore, or any other anime or games being presented here.
Summary: His job was to protect, the best way to do that was to hide, now with another claymore and a human he must reveal himself.
Chapter 4, Part 2...
The Holy City
Clare nimbly leaped rooftop to rooftop, as she hurried to the cathedral. She slid to a stop when she reached the edge of a roof top close to the cathedral. She looked down at the front door, where she saw a whole group of guards clinking around. Looking left and right and 2 stationed by the door. 'The watch around the cathedral is tight, I should avoid going down there. In that case.' She thought reaching into cloak and pulling out a thick rope with a hook attached, she twirled slightly then threw it. It landed on target, she gave it an experimental pull, and she swung across. She landed on the building side with no incident, however she looked down to see if no one had notice. When no one seemed to be coming her way she looked up. "The south room on the top floor." She said, and with that she scaled the floor.
The priest stood in the tower alone, his head bent low his body still. He then heard a clattering sound and turned his head when he heard the sound of feet hitting floor. There she was, the Silver-eyed Witch, crouched low with her head bent. Then she turned her eye's up at him. "I've received orders from chief Rimuto... that were sent by the organization in Sutafu. The original request was sent from here in Rabona, isn't that correct?" The priest looked at her, shocked by this sudden change in character.
"Uh... yes that is correct. I was the one who wrote the request." He said.
"Tell me more." Clare said. The priest nodded then he gestured to a table and chairs, understanding that this story was going to take a while to explain she sat. The priest sat as well then crossed his fingers together in a tent like formation. He told the story to which Clare listened when he was finished it was then that Clare explained probably the only thing that Yoma had that truly made them better than human. Closing her eye's.
"Yoma treat all equally." She said simply.
"Huh?" The priest was confused, equally?
"Those who have money and those who don't, those with status and those without, whether they're believers or nonbelievers. Male or female, young or old, it matters not. As long as they have flesh they are all the same." That was they unique quality they did not discriminate. In a sense if they didn't have their hunger for gut's or any other form of flesh, they would've been the most fair people in the world. However the Yoma did hunger flesh so people like herself had to be created in order to combat them. The priest stood up fear now evident on his face.
"Help us, I beg of you! Please! I don't want to die! I can pay you whatever I want." He said, though this was a common thought, no one truly wanted to die although Claymore's were a slightly different story. "To die so horribly, the way the other's did... I... I just..." He said his voice weak.
"Keep the money." Clare said the priest looked at her, her silver blue eye's staring at him, "After the job is done someone will be sent to collect it. You will give it to him then. If I get killed there will be no reason to pay." She said in her usual cold blankness. She watched him, then said "Even though I'm in the cathedral where the yoma is hiding, I can't sense it's aura. To be honest I don't think I stand a chance." She said truthfully. The priest looked at her his dismay evident on his face, Clare bowed her head slightly, then she closed her eye's. "As a priest and an instrument of god... would you do me a favor?" She asked. "If I die fighting the monster," She raised her head, looking at the priest "Would you take care of the boy who's traveling with me?" The priest blinked.
"Eh?" A Claymore asking a human a favor? Now this was a first and a priest of all things.
"You needn't worry. He's just a a normal boy. But Yoma Killed his family. He has no one else left except his fox, and he's with me so there's no way he could turn into monster." She said, "He could be an attendant to the priests, or a floor sweeper anything would do. Just as long as he's safe here... will you accept him?" She asked looking at the priest. He stared at her in shock, then he gave a small chuckle.
"I'm humbled." He said, this surprised Clare. "Here I am, a servant of our lord... and yet I worry about myself." He said rubbing his bald head. "But you, a half-monster, a loathsome slayer who is forbidden to step foot in this town... you've resolved to lay down your life fighting this creature. You're more concerned about that young lad than you are of your own fate." He stood there silent his back to her. Clare watched him carefully, he turned to her a slight smile on his face. " All right I accept. But please forget about dying. While all of this must be kept secret I will do everything in my power to help you." His smile broadened slightly, Clare didn't know why but for some reason it felt good to see him smile. "Let's not do anything to make him suffer." He said gently. Clare bowed her head.
"Thanks I'm in your debt." She said, she bowed again then looked out the window. She pulled the hood over her head and then hurried to the windowsill. "I'll see you in the morning. Goodnight father." She said curtly, and she leaped from the window. The priest watched as she left then he sat down, and looked at the place where she had been sitting.
"Monster's are they? Well it seems they're not all monsters." He said looking at a mural on the wall.
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Clare's feet clattered on the roof as she ran at top speed now with her yoma senses back she was able to move quicker than she did before. Leaping onto another roof her eye's widened as she heard a high pitched whistling then she saw 3 blurs in the air, and they impacted on her. She slid on the roof using one hand for balance and the other as extra stopping it wouldn't be long before she took into the air again as a man in armor swung his sword down. It slammed into roof damaging it. Clare slid down the steep roof slightly then coming to a stop.
"You know you're breaking curfew, by being out at night. You'll only have to blame yourself if your mistaken for a monster and killed while you're running around up here." The knight said standing on the roof beam.
"Heh heh..." Clare turned her eye's behind her as another man not armored, pulled out 3 knives saying. "He's good, he dodged your first move. But all three of my blades should have struck him. Hurts doesn't it?" Clare didn't respond she didn't need to. The knight came again swinging his blade down again, Clare leaped back, the knife wielder threw his knives, Clare leaped again. The knight was behind her swinging his sword in a horizontal slice, however Clare blocked it with one of the 3 knives thrown at her before. "Eh? My knives...?" The knife wielder asked. Clare quickly threw the knives back causing the knight to step back. "Why that!" The knife thrower charged but then was stopped by something slamming into his face. He pulled it away to see the nimble form of a woman against the moon. "It's a woman!" He cried stunned. Clare vanished in a blur and leaped from roof to roof.
"You won't get away!" The knife wielder cried, however he stopped when the knight held out his sword.
"Forget it! It's too late." The knight said.
"My knives hit her! She's wounded we have a chance!" The knight then held up a knife, it's blade shone in the knight, perfect, and utterly devoid of any blemishes.
"She threw back your knives. There isn't even a single drop of blood on them." The knife thrower was flabbergasted.
"But... But that can't be! I'm sure they hit her! She must've pulled them out before she threw them!" Then another possibility occurred to him one that he did not want to believe but that could be the only other answer. "Could she have... caught them in midair?" He turned to the moon, a deep silence arose. "What on earth... is she?"
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Naruto opened his eye's, and he sat up from his comfortable position. He looked around to see Hiruma, his demonic face now blank turned to his. "Well I guess I should get going now... Remember you're part... Also make sure that Sena doesn't do anything... reckless. We need to be in the organizations good books from now on and it won't help if he screws it up." Naruto said. Hiruma nodded, Naruto opened the window, shrugging off the cloak and clothes and jumped down. When he landed he was the fox, with the golden tail. He looked up at the window, then ran off. Hiruma stared at the wall as if trying to destroy just by looking at it. Then he closed his eye's.
"Wake up fucking chibi..." Hiruma said. When he received no answer, he turned to Sena. A sharp sound rented through the air and Sena's body jerked then it moved seemingly of it's own accord. It staggered to Hiruma, then stood in front of him. Hiruma glared at the sleeping body, then he raised one foot.
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Raki snored lightly in his sleep. Then the light hit his face and he stirred.
"Mmm... It's bright... Time to wake..." He opened his eye's. Blinked then he sat up "Oh no! Clare's!" he looked at the window, and saw Clare sitting on the chair looking at the window. She turned to her head to him.
"Oh... you're awake." Raki stared at her, then he pointed at her eye's.
"Clare your eye's have changed back." He said.
"Oh yes. The pills only work for half a day. When the effects wear off. I have to take more..." She pulled out a small pack and shook it slightly, two small balls the size of peas of peas rolled out. "...So I always have some with me." she said, she then turned her head to the window. "My powers just came back but I since something, moving in the cathedral... and something else from somewhere..." Then the loud clanking of soldiers footsteps was heard. She quickly swallowed a pill and pulled up her hood. Two armored soldiers came in.
"Don't move! We're looking for Yoma." A soldier said.
"The half-eaten bodies of 2 soldiers were found yesterday in the cathedral. Stand up." Another soldier said. Clare stood obediently, Raki stood as well trying to stand next to Clare but a soldier grabbed him from behind.
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Naruto padded down the street, he had sensed Clare's Yoki. It was brief but it was enough to find her, he set out hurriedly however he slid to a stop when he saw several soldiers walking into an inn. Naruto watched, then as the door was closing he ran into the gap quick as lightning. He looked to see the soldiers walk up to the inn keeper and pull out a rolled up piece of paper unrolling it. The inn keeper looked at the paper then he nodded his face pale, he pointed up the stairs. The men thanked him and walked up the stairs. Naruto watched them then he slowly crept behind the soldiers.
Naruto listened to the men speaking, his ears twitching. Then he turned his head downstairs when he heard the door downstairs opening. Naruto ran to the edge of the stairs looking down at the newcomers. One was a short, untidy haired man, wearing a leather vest, a light shoulder guard, and a normal tunic underneath. The other was tall, exceedingly tall, with heavy armor, and a strong presence. The short one seemed to notice something and looked up but Naruto had pulled his head back before the man had even looked. Naruto crouched, twitching his tail then he ran into a darker part of the hallway to the door of another room. The two men walked up and went to the opened doored room. The short man looked into the room then he spoke.
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"Yeah! She was about that height." Raki turned to see a short man with a rather smug grin on his face. "Looked pretty suspicious, running around the rooftops last night. Didn't you two arrive in town yesterday?" The man asked, leaning against the door frame. He stepped forward and from behind stepped the largest human that Raki had ever seen. He had to be at least 7 feet tall! As they stepped forward a soldier turned a look of slight annoyance crossing his face.
"Sid..." He addressed the shorter man, "Galk..." He looked at the taller. Sid and Galk looked at them all. "Weren't you supposed to be on guard duty at the cathedral last night?" The soldier asked. Sid just shrugged his shoulders carelessly.
"Ah, take it easy," He said, he then looked at the girl, dropping his arms. "I'm not saying I think the girl from last night was a Yoma. It's not like the thing suddenly showed up today or yesterday." He leaned close to her and moved slightly in an attempt to see under the hood but the shadows it casted hid her face perfectly. "But for someone to catch my knives in midair with their bare hands... I doubt an ordinary girl could do that." Raki unconsciously gulped. Sid narrowed his eye's, "But say someone who isn't allowed here... say a silver-eyed half monster of a witch... I bet she could!" and Sid threw off the hood, grabbing Clare by her chin and tilting her head to look at him. She gave a slight gasped and opened her... light brown eye's? Raki sighed.
'Good the pills worked in time.' he thought relieved however Sid was not convinced.
"Heh... your eye's don't look silver." He turned her head slightly, "You're a pretty one aren't you?" he said his eye's gleamed malevolently in the light of the morning sun. Raki didn't like the look very much. "But we fought a half-breed who dirtied her body with monster flesh. It wouldn't be surprising if she could change the color of her eye's... Now would it." He said leaning even closer. It was in that moment that Raki broke loose of his holder and ran forward and bit Sid on his arm. CHOMP!
"OWW!" Sid released Clare and took a step back, "What are you doing? You little runt!" Sid cried holding his now bruised arm. Then a flash appeared in front of Raki. It was a fox, the fox glared at Sid with it's piercing blue eye's it's hackles raised in a snarl.
"Who are you calling 'runt!' you Pumpkin head!" Raki shouted. "Who the hell do you think you are? Talking to my sister like that! She's the kindest, most gentlest person that I know! Stop talking to her like you know her, because you don't!" Raki shouted at Sid now dubbed, 'Pumpkin head.' Clare however stared at Raki surprised by his words.
"Why you!?" Sid drew back a fist to strike the boy, but the punch was held back by Galk. "G... Galk..."
"Let's go... We're done here." Galk said releasing Sid and turning to leave. The other soldiers followed but Sid hesitated looking at Raki scowling then he left.
"Tch! What a jerk he only got here the day before yesterday!" Raki snarled pulling on his sleeve as if readying himself for a fight. Clare was still staring at him however the surprise was gone... slightly. It was then that Naruto nipped Raki's leg causing him to look down.
"! Naruto! Where were you?" Raki cried kneeling to pet the fox on the head. The fox konned and nuzzled against Raki's hand. Clare watched the pair.
"That was quick thinking..." Clare said, Raki looked at her confused.
"What?"
"That nonsense you spoke... You came up with it so quickly. What you told the pumpkin head..." Clare said quietly.
"Oh well the part about you being my sister was a lie of course... But I did mean it when I said you were kind and gentle... I... really think that." Raki said. Clare looked at him, a slightly pitting look in her eye. Raki couldn't see it, but Naruto could, however Naruto couldn't exactly do anything about it now... not yet.
"Even if... that man had hit you I doubt I would have stopped him. The same goes if he tried to hit me." Naruto looked at Clare, his eye's narrowed. "If my life isn't in danger, and my mission isn't at risk, I wouldn't do anything." She said, she turned her head slightly. "If you're looking for kindness form me give it up... you'd be hurt and betrayed eventually." She said quietly. Raki could only stare at her back, confused by this... rejection.
"C... Clare..." Clare turned to him.
"I've spoken with Father Vincent. If you like Rabona, you can stay here. Remember that." Clare said, and with that she left out the door, heading to the Cathedral.
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Sena looked at Hiruma, slightly nervous. "You sure this is gonna work?" Sena asked. Hiruma looked at him, then his infamous fanged grinned appeared.
"Of course... fucking chibi..." Sena once again knew true fear because of that smile.
Shyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu... ?? A bit longer than last time but you really wouldn't notice the difference... I've been keeping my chapter's in the 3,000 to 3,600 range... I'll try to go higher next time... Thanks again dlight for supporting me... I'll be skipping most of the conversations in the long arcs... Such as the church hunt as much as possible but I'll put them in if they're important... But I will not be skipping Clare's next discussion... Though it's very tempting to do so.
Soul Teller the corrupt Soul Weaver...