Hey everyone! Sorry about taking so long in making the next chapter. First it had gotten kind of busy after the last chapter, then soon I had broken my collarbone and could not really type on the computer very well. Then after I was recovering, it got busy again trying to get all my schoolwork from the days that I missed done and doing other homework and stuff. Then when summer came I had a big three week trip to Germany and when I came back I did not have much motivation to write (I've been into Dynasty Warriors a lot more than Samurai Warriors ever since Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires came out. LoL it's such a fun game! XD). But now I've found my motivation after seeing a picture a friend on Deviantart drew of Musashi and Kaitie together. Thank you so much to devilmaymeow! (that's the username of the person who drew it) I love that picture so much and seeing it made me want to write this story again! ^_^

Anyways, thank you all again for your comments and I hope you all are enjoying this story!

Disclaimer: All I own is my original character, Kaitie.

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"You stay here! Don't follow me!" Musashi called out to them as he ran off, leaving Kaitie and the villager alone.

Kaitie quickly stood up and was about to call out to him again, but he was too far away. "Musashi…," she whispered as she watched him disappear from sight. A look of worry was on her face. She wanted to help him, but then she thought of why he probably didn't want her to follow.

"Maybe it's because I'll only get in the way if I even try to help out," Kaitie thought "Why am I thinking that I should follow him? Maybe I should just stay here like he told me to."

She let out a sad sigh. The villager looked towards her, wondering what in the world could be bothering her. He shook his head. "I hope that young man can take on all those bandits by himself," he muttered. Kaitie looked at the villager.

"Are there… a lot of bandits attacking your village?" she asked.

"Well there are quite a few," he answered "There is even a possibility that there may be even more that are hiding, waiting for their chance to strike."

Kaitie's eyes widened. If there were really that many, could Musashi even face them all alone? What if he wasn't able to? Kaitie could not take it anymore. This must be the reason she wanted to follow him. She was worried about what might happen if he fought alone with no one to help him out if he needed it.

Without any second thoughts she grabbed her backpack, slinging it around her shoulders, and picked up the two bokkens that Musashi had left there. She ran off towards the direction that Musashi ran.

"Wait! Miss! He told you to stay here!" the villager shouted to her, but he got no response from her. She just kept running. The man sighed and ran after her, following her back to his village…

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Musashi had arrived at the village. He saw a group of bandits up ahead, attacking some villagers. Some poor unfortunate people had already been slain and as Musashi passed their bodies lying on the ground, anger started to grow inside him.

"Can you think of nothing better than to use your blades to attack the innocent!?" he yelled as he approached "Try me!"

As soon as the bandits noticed there was someone else coming towards them, it was already to late. Musashi came quickly, swiftly cutting down any of the bandits that were in his way. Soon he came upon the leader of this small group.

"You bastard!" he cried as he ran at Musashi, holding his blade up. But this man was no match for Musashi. Quickly dodging out of the way with ease as the bandit swung his sword at him, Musashi was able to easily take him down with a single strike to the bandit's back. The bandit cried out in pain before falling to the ground, the remaining bandits fleeing out of fear of this newcomer.

Musashi glared at the running bandits and once they were out of sight, he looked towards the peasants who were still alive.

"You all alright?" he asked.

"Y-Yes. Thank you stranger," one of them said gratefully while bowing his head "Please… Can you help us with the rest of the bandits? There are more attacking around here in the eastern village. There may be some more around western village and the town that lies in between the two villages may be in trouble as well."

"Okay, I'll do all that I can to help," Musashi replied.

"Thank you… thank you," the man thanked while bowing his head many times. Musashi nodded in response and went on his way.

"You better find somewhere safe to hide!" Musashi called out to the group before running off to meet the rest of the bandits.

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Kaitie had been running for awhile and she didn't realize until now that someone was following her. She quickly stopped and turned around, surprising the man that was following her. She was surprised that it was the villager. She didn't know he had followed her.

"What are you doing sir?" she asked.

"I'm following you, what does it look like?" he said while catching his breath "I can't let a young lady like you just run off by yourself, especially when there are bandits around. Who knows what they might try to do to you."

Kaitie shuddered at the thought of what could happen if she were caught by bandits. It frightened her.

"I… I'm sorry sir. I wasn't thinking," she apologized "I was just…"

"You were worried about that young man you were with, weren't you?" the man said "Worried he might get hurt or even killed taking on all those bandits alone?"

Kaitie nodded. "But… I know he is very strong. I know he will do his best to help your village," she said "I'm confident in him, but I guess I got worried when you mentioned how many bandits there are. Even if he is very strong, it just seems like it's too much to deal with all by himself."

The man nodded, seeming to understand. "Well I think maybe he was worried about you too," he said "He probably didn't want to risk having anything happen to you if you were to follow him. Maybe that's why he told you to stay where you were."

Kaitie thought for a moment.

"You still want to help him, don't you?" he asked. Kaitie nodded her head. "Alright, I'll take you to the village and I'll make sure you don't get hurt or anything," he said while placing his hands behind his head "If something happens to you, your man will most likely see it as my fault and take it out on me and if he is as strong as you say, then I bet I'll be dead then." The man chuckled a bit at his little joke. But Kaitie was not laughing. In fact her face was starting to turn red.

"W-w-what did you say he was?" she asked. The man looked at her strangely.

"You mean when I said he was your man?" he asked "Well isn't that the case? Aren't you two-"

"You misunderstand! It's nothing like that!" she interrupted, her face growing more red as she spoke "W-we just met each other recently! There's no way it can be like that!" The poor girl was so embarrassed. The man just took his hands from behind his head and laughed at her reaction.

"Sorry, sorry. I didn't know," he said "Well come on then. Let's go and help my village." He started to run off with a still blushing Kaitie following him.

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Musashi had taken care of all the bandits in the eastern village and was now headed towards the western village to check up on them. If any bandits tried to stop him, he would just take them down with ease. They were way more easier than fighting against soldiers. Maybe because soldiers had more and better training than some lowly bandits.

Musashi had gotten some advice from the head of the eastern village that one of the quickest ways to get to the western village was to go through the town and that is where he was heading.

Soon he could see the entrance of the town and, as he had expected, there were bandits there too, harming the innocent people, stealing anything the set their eyes on, and taking people hostage. Musashi quickened his run and charged into the town.

"You lowly bandits! How dare you use your blades to harm the innocent! You will pay for this!" he yelled as he charged. He was surrounded by some bandits immediately. One bandit came at him from the side. He moved out of the way and slashed with one sword in his side. Another came at him, swinging his sword down at him. Musashi blocked with one sword and used the other to pierce him through the stomach. He pulled the sword out and then turned to cut down a bandit who decided to sneak up on him. He took down another bandit coming to the other side of him by cutting his body with a downward slash. Then another came, jabbing his sword towards Musashi's stomach. Musashi quickly turned out of the way and slashing down on the bandit with both swords. As soon as he took down this group, another came.

Little did he know that the bandits had taken over the towers the controlled the gates to the town. Some of the bandits that were on top of the tower where Musashi came in were watching him fight.

"Hey, this must be the guy that they told us about," one of them said.

"You mean the guy that is trying to save all the villagers? The one they also say is pretty tough?" the other one asked.

"Yeah," replied the other one "But let's see just how tough he is when he's all locked up."

The two grinned as they lit a torch, a signal to warn the other towers of the mysterious stranger who was fighting to help the villagers. He was now in their trap.

Musashi looked up from the fight to notice that there were torches being lit at the gates that were around all sides of the town. "What's going on?" he wondered. Suddenly the gates started closing, trapping him and any other villagers that were still in there with the bandits. But there was more to happen. Soon even more bandits appeared. They climbed from down the walls that surrounded the town. Musashi looked around as the bandits came. The remaining villagers were all huddling together in fear as they were surrounded by bandits, swords and spears pointed at them. Children cried as the tried to stay close to their parents. Women screamed as they were being kidnapped or as their husbands were killed by bandits. Men tried to fight back to protect their families or friends, but for some it was of no use. Their cries of pain and fear made Musashi's anger towards those bandits start to rise.

He ran quickly to try and save as many people as he could. "Trying to lock me up while you pillage the innocent…," he said angrily. He furiously took down the bandits who were surrounding a group of villagers.

"You…," he started to say. He took down some bandits who were attacking families and then some bandits who were kidnapping some young women.

"You won't get away with this!" he finally shouted at a group of bandits coming at him. He fought them with such fury, that many of the bandits were starting to fear for their lives and ran away. They did not want to face this man. He was too strong for them. Soon Musashi came to the gate on the west side. He glared up at the bandits in the tower. Those bandits had seen him fighting and, fearful of his glare and that he might try and get them, they quickly jumped down the other side. But the gates were still closed and they were still trapped. He had taken down quite a few bandits and some were too scared to fight now that they witnessed his strength, but there were still bandits who were still willing to fight. Musashi turned his glare to the bandits that were heading towards him.

Suddenly, the gates opened. Musashi looked up and saw that a villager had been brave enough to climb up to the tower and open the doors. Musashi looked around and saw that the other gates were opening as well. He nodded his head in thanks to the villager who had opened that gates and then sent another glare to the bandits in front of him. He took a step towards them and most of them took a few steps back. He ran at them, cutting some of them down. That made the rest run away. Musashi grabbed hold of one of them by the collar and brought him right in front him.

"You! Tell the other bandits in this town to leave here! Now!" he commanded, glaring right into the bandits eyes "Take back all the stuff you stole and let go all the people you have taken hostage before you go! Do as I say or else…" The bandit was shaking in fear.

"Y-y-y-yes! O-okay!" the bandit stuttered. Musashi let him go and the bandit ran.

"R-retreat!" he screamed in fear "Just drop all that stuff we took and people we kidnapped and run!"

Musashi watched as the cowardly bandit ran, screaming at the top of his lungs. He then turned towards the gates and started running out. Hopefully things weren't too bad over in the western village. But he had lost some time being trapped in the town, so who knows. He had to get there quickly. He could feel the aches from too much fighting starting to set in, but he could not stop now. Not until all the bandits were gone. But how long would it take? Could he hold out until then? Suddenly he saw two people running in the distance. He squinted to try and see who they were. Soon he got close enough to see.

"Kaitie?" he questioned. Why was she here? He saw that she was with the man who had come begging for help earlier. "Kaitie!" he called out. The two stopped at the sound of his voice.

"Musashi!" Kaitie called and ran towards him "Thank goodness you're alright!"

But Musashi did not look too happy. "What are you doing here! I told you not to follow me!" he said in an angry tone of voice.

Kaitie flinched. She could tell that he was angry. She was now thinking it might have been best to just stay where she was.

"I… I just got kind of worried..," Kaitie answered "He said there were a lot of bandits and… I thought maybe it would be better to have someone to help you instead of facing all of them by yourself…"

"I'm doing just fine!" Musashi snapped "I can handle things on my own! And what were you even thinking coming into battle when you don't even know how to fight!"

Kaitie bit her lip, trying to hold back the tears that she could feel forming in her eyes. "I-I'm sorry… You're right… I…," she apologized, her voice shaky "I'm not strong like you… I just thought… what if you needed help and no one was there… I… I'm sorry…"

Kaitie covered her face with her sleeve, trying to hide her face so they would not see the tears that she could not hold back. She tried to wipe them away. Musashi stood there and stared at this girl in front of him. There was no longer a look of anger on his face, but possibly a bit of a look of guilt. He was about to open his mouth to speak when suddenly they were surrounded. Kaitie quickly looked up and held up the two bokkens. Musashi turned so he faced back to back with Kaitie. The villager stood close to the two.

"I haven't seen you around here before. You know how to swing that sword, kid?" a voice said to them. The saw someone approaching them on a horse.

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Well there's chapter 6! I hope you enjoyed it! I think I'll try to update a bit more often now since I have my motivation back. So don't be surprised if you see another update very soon. LoL xD

Thank you again for reading! ^_^