Chapter 9: Memories… The Civil War in the Village Hidden in the Rain!
The next morning Yuki sat up from his bed covered in sweat He put his hand on his face wiping the sweat off his face sighing after realizing he had failed to kill Toyotomi.
"I failed to do it again. Just what have I been training all this time for!?" Yuki stated slamming his fist on the bed.
"You really want to kill him, don't you?" Masakatsu's voice asked from the other side of the room.
"Why wouldn't I? Especially after all he's done besides; it is the last thing I must do." Yuki said noticing Masakatsu was there.
"Right, speaking of last things…" Masakatsu said before swinging his right fist at Yuki's face hitting directly on Yuki's right cheek. "There, now we're just about settled, right?"
"Yeah, I deserved that. What about Taki?" Yuki asked rubbing his right cheek looking at Masakatsu.
"I haven't seen him since that day we woke up in those storage crates. He took off in a rage without even saying a thing to me. I think he went off in search for you." Masakatsu said scratching his head.
"I wouldn't blame him after what I did. Even though I say I don't want anything to do with world affair – it seems I have some issues to deal with on the world stage before I can say that." Yuki said looking straight ahead at the door of his room.
"Your little brother, huh? That little demon nearly wiped the clan off the map with that damned Civil War – I heard he even killed his fiancé and her family." Masakatsu said shaking his head in disbelief.
"I couldn't believe it either when I heard what had happened, that was around the time the three of us met up." Yuki said when the door creaked open. "Don't just linger out there, if you're planning to come in then just do so."
"Hehehe, sorry, Sensei." Kazuki said rubbing the back of his head as he walked in with Ayaka and Takeo behind him.
"Yuki sensei, what happened during the Civil War and where was it?" Ayaka asked since she had not heard a word about the Village Hidden in the Rain's Civil War.
"Village Hidden in the Rain, it's been a while since it happened though." Masakatsu said responding to Ayaka's question.
"The Village Hidden in the Rain had a Civil War? I didn't hear anything about this." Shikamaru thought sitting outside the window near Yuki's bed listening to the conversation.
"Sensei, would you tell us what happened?" Kazuki asked looking at Yuki completely interested in the story while Takeo stood next to him with his arms crossed listening.
"No choice then. I don't feel like being annoyed later so I have no choice but to tell you." Yuki said sighing while he got ready to tell the story of the Civil War.
In the not so distant past, the Village Hidden in the Rain fell into dark times. Hanzo lead the old regime while Pein lead the new regime but before had started Pein and had to gather followers which included fellow Akatsuki member, Yuki Shimousa, and his younger brother, Toyotomi Shimousa. They looked nearly the same age standing next to one another however; Yuki is roughly three years older than Toyotomi. The two of them were sent out from the temporary headquarters of the new regime to assassinate certain people that had the least connection with Hanzo since Pein was going to deal with the ones that had the closest connection to him. The orders were handed to Toyotomi and Yuki while they were about to leave the headquarters in two sealed scrolls and that is when the rain started to come down, light at first but slowly starting to come down as the day progressed.
"Leader said he was going to deal with Hanzo as well as those closely connected to him while we have to deal with the ones with the least connections. Little brother, make sure you carry out the orders you're given there no matter what or Leader will not forgive you for your failure." Yuki said standing next to Toyotomi in his Akatsuki cloak looking straight ahead as rain fell all around him.
"Yes, big brother. I will not fail the Leader and I will take care of these people that betray the ideals of our village! They will not live to see another morning!" Toyotomi stated firmly completely sure of his devotion to Pein and his brother.
"Good, do not hesitate or you will end up being killed or something worse. Just do the job without thinking about it – this is my only advice for your first job from Leader. Now, do our family name proud and take down those despicable people on your list. Farewell, little brother." Yuki said vanishing in a poof of powdery snow.
"I will end the lives of these traitors, big brother! You can count on that!" Toyotomi said obviously looking up to his big brother, Yuki. "I have to make sure big brother is proud of me and I have to make sure I make it home safe so Emiko won't have to worry about me. Right, I have to do this for our future, Emiko!" He thought fired up when he started opening the scroll.
At the top of the list was: Shirakawa clan. They were the branch family of the Shimousa main house, which meant they were basically relatives to Yuki and Toyotomi. Toyotomi stood there shocked looking at the list with the Shirakawa clan listed at the top.
"Th..this can't be…! Why must it be the Shirakawa clan…? Why must I have to kill my own family?" Toyotomi asked shocked looking at his scroll when he remembered what the others had been saying.
"During this war – you may come to fight against your own family but you must not thing of them as family anymore because they have betrayed you. If they were truly family, wouldn't they be supporting you and not be opposing you?" A voice echoed in Toyotomi's head.
"Right, if they are on this list, they are not family. They have betrayed the Shimousa clan and must be punished!" Toyotomi stated confident in his new resolve. "I will go to the Shirakawa clan's territory and destroy every last one of them by my own hands!"
Elsewhere, Yuki had opened his scroll and noticed two names sticking out at the top: Taki Musashi and Masakatsu Shirakawa, two of his former teammates during the peaceful times in the Village Hidden in the Rain. The three of them along with another member formed team Yuki, a group of strong Jonin from the Village Hidden in the Rain, that were one of the few strong teams that the village relied upon to do the S-ranked missions. But in that instant, Yuki was forced to turn against his ex-teammates and kill them.
"This has to be a mistake. Why would Taki or Masakatsu have anything to do with Hanzo, I must be reading this wrong." Yuki said looking at the scroll closer. "It doesn't look wrong but why would they be on the li…?" He thought when he suddenly heard a noise from straight ahead.
"Halt right there, enemy of the Village Hidden in the Rain!" A voice shouted pointing at Yuki.
"Taki, that cloak…! It's an Akatsuki cloak, are you sure we should…?" The other voice asked noticing Yuki's cloak but not his face.
"Those voices, it couldn't be…!? Taki, Masakatsu?" Yuki asked surprised noticing Masakatsu with another man next to him.
The guy next to Masakatsu was Taki, another member of Yuki's old team. He had long pitch-black hair down to his shoulders but it was tied back with a red ribbon, he was a little shorter than Yuki, and he was wearing a navy blue sleeveless sweat shirt with matching sweat pants. On his wrist he had some tape wrapped around each one up to his thumb.
"Yuki?" Taki and Masakatsu asked surprised.
"Yeah, what are you two doing here?" Yuki asked confused coming into clear sight of the two.
"What else? We're defending the village – the real question is what are you doing?" Taki asked noticing his headband with the scratch across it as well as his Akatsuki cloak.
"What do you mean?" Yuki asked confused then noticed they still had their plates untouched. "Don't tell me you two are…?"
"Defending the village from the likes of you people? Yes, we're doing just that." Taki responded quickly with a fire in his eyes starting to appear.
"Yuki, Taki, hold on a second. What in the world are you doing Yuki? Weren't we supposed to protect the village and not destroy it?" Masakatsu asked stepping in between the two.
"Masakatsu, stay out of this. Yuki has already made his choice when he joined the Akatsuki and turned against his village." Taki said clinching his fist tight glaring at Yuki.
"So it's come to this, huh? This was the last thing I wanted to happen but it looks like we have opposing ideals… besides that, Leader is a fearsome person to go up against – I suggest you two give up now and I'll try to get Leader to spare you both." Yuki said keeping an eye on Taki.
"Yuki, what in the world are you saying? Are you even listening to yourself?" Masakatsu asked when Yuki flashed the scroll with their names at the top of the list. "So that's what it is – we're marked people."
"I decline." Taki said confident in his decision.
"Taki, please reconsider." Yuki said pleading with Taki.
"I will not be a coward and run away from my people while they get slaughtered. If I have to stop you myself… I will do so but it will be an honorable fight with no dirty tricks." Taki said with a serious expression.
"Sorry, Yuki, but I am with Taki on this. I cannot just give up and let you and the others kill our people without a fight." Masakatsu said getting in his fighting stance.
"Very well, I… apologize my old friends." Yuki said regrettably putting his hands together. "Ice Clone Jutsu!" He shouted quickly making the hand seals: Serpent, Bird, and Tiger creating four Ice Clones.
"I knew you would do that, old friend." Taki said putting his hands together. "Water Style – Rain Needles!" He shouted making the hand seals: Bird, Dog, Boar, Dragon, and Tiger turning some of the droplets in the rain into sharp spikes heading directly at Yuki and the clones.
"I got your back up on the ground! Wind Style – Sonic Explosion Jutsu!" Masakatsu shouted making the hand seals: Dragon, a reversed Ox seal, and Tiger followed with a punching motion towards Yuki.
The ground ripped apart in a straight line headed directly at the five Yuki's starting from where Masakatsu punched from. The water spikes tore through the five Yuki's followed by a large explosion from the large shockwave created by Masakatsu leaving the area where the five Yuki's were covered in dust and mist from the puddles of water around the area.
"Forbidden Jutsu – Ice Enclave!" A voice stated quietly with a slight chuckle while the area where the five Yuki's cleared revealing smashed wooden containers.
"Substitution Jutsu!?" Taki shouted surprised turning around to see a large clump of ice coming straight at him and Masakatsu.
"No way, the Ice Enclave!?" Masakatsu asked in shock when the two clumps of ice wrapped around the two of them holding them tightly in place.
"Yes, the Ice Enclave. I've known it since I was a kid but I haven't been able to really use it in public since it was declared a forbidden jutsu so I've been working on perfecting it when no one was around but now that I no longer go by the old regimes rules, I can use it whenever I like. Like now for instance, how do you like one of our clan's most powerful jutsu's? It may not be as strong as the Ice Wasteland but it gets the job done." Yuki said in a sadistic tone walking out from on top of a small shed behind Taki and Masakatsu.
"Damn, you!" Taki shouted angrily trying to struggle free. "You're nothing but a traitor, after all that my village has done to take in your clan, this is how you repay them!? You are a despicable person! You truly are the Ice Demon!"He shouted angrily.
"Yes, the Ice Demon." Yuki said walking over to Taki.
"Wait, spare his life and take mine in his stead! At least let me pay for my clans' sins!" Masakatsu shouted to Yuki and he turned towards him.
"Masakatsu, you can't! He'll kill us both either way!" Taki shouted still trying to get free.
"I don't think so." Yuki said chopping Taki in the back of the neck knocking him unconscious. "Idiot didn't know when to shut up." He said when Taki was suddenly released from the clump of snow.
"W…what are you doing!? You only knocked him out!" Masakatsu shouted surprised and unsure what Yuki was doing.
"I've had enough of this. I have been force to do many horrible things by Lead… no, by Pein, and I give up on all these meaningless things. You two will leave this country and start new lives and I will do the same but first I must get my wife." Yuki said when his four Ice Clones came over with two large wooden crates.
"What about your little brother?" Masakatsu asked looking at Yuki.
"He will have to make his own choice if he will continue down this destructive path on his own but I will leave a message for him." Yuki said while his clones started putting Taki in one of the crates.
"What do you think the chances of our side wining this war?" Masakatsu asked clinging to hope that they would win.
"If Pein wasn't involved I would say the chances are high but Pein doesn't seem human from what I've seen of his 'powers'." Yuki said starting to walk over to Masakatsu.
"Try to save as many as you can since I am unable to now. We will meet again, old friend." Masakatsu said when Yuki chopped him in the back of the neck knocking him unconscious.
"I doubt it but farewell, old friend." Yuki said releasing him from the snow and having the clones package him into the other crate. "You four take care of the crates and make sure they get sent out to other countries. I will go get my wife so we can leave this horrible country before it gets worse." He said walking away while the clones got to work.
Toyotomi was standing in the middle of a sub-village of the Shirakawa clan but he was covered with blood and breathing heavily with a large grin on his face. He slowly looked around for any sign of life but there were only blood stains every few feet varying in size.
"Traitors must die… traitors must die… traitors must die!!" Toyotomi shouted crazily obviously starting to lose his sanity with a smile starting to appear on his face. "What fun it is to punish the traitors. I've never felt this much fun in my whole life, so this is how much fun big brother must have when he joined the Akatsuki." He said noticing no one was around when suddenly someone appeared the street from Toyotomi.
The man standing down the street was wearing a midnight blue cloak with the hood on his face looking straight at Toyotomi with the signature Shirakawa eyes with the spokes inside connecting to the pupil. Underneath the cloak he was wearing midnight blue sweat shirt and pants. His hair was barely visible under the hood revealing its color, periwinkle. He appeared to be at most in his early thirties. He looked as though he had already been through a tough battle with his clothing torn up with some blood stains.
"Toyotomi, what in the world are you doing!?" The man shouted furious about what Toyotomi had done.
"Shinji, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be dead? Yes, you should be dead along with the rest of the Shirakawa traitors. Yes, dead, no one must live from the Shirakawa clan, no one, yes. No one must live, for that you must die, cousin." Toyotomi said shaking slightly with a grin mumbling to himself.
"He truly has gone mad. Looks like I have no choice but to stop him one way or another!" Shinji thought getting ready to fight. "Toyotomi, you have lost yourself! I will help you return to your senses even if it costs me my life!" He shouted charging at Toyotomi.
"Foolish traitor, die. Yes, die and bleed and die some more! Hahahahaha!" Toyotomi shouted laughing crazily.
Yuki was about a half a mile away hearing some strange sounds coming from the Shirakawa sub-village so he slightly altered his course to find out what was going on.
"What is with all this noise? Could there be some kind of battle going on? No, don't tell me the Hanzo regime is attacking the Shirakawa clan!" Yuki thought running as fast as he could towards the sub-village.
In the middle of the street at the Shirakawa sub-village, Toyotomi stood there with a large icicle stabbed through Shinji's chest with some blood from him covering the last clean part of his Alice blue colored cloak. With that, Toyotomi had been finally covered from head-to-toe in blood.
"Looks like I wasn't able to do anything after all, old friend." Shinji said coughing up some blood on Toyotomi's shoulder. "After that cool speech and everything, I couldn't even do any of it. How pathetic that I couldn't even help my own cousin… I'm sorry…" He said laying all his weight on Toyotomi now lifeless.
"Shinji. Hey, Shinji, wake up. This isn't funny anymore, wake up." Toyotomi said pulling the icicle out of him setting him on the ground gently as if he had snapped out of his murdering craze. "Shinji… he's dead…? How…? What happened…?" He asked looking around seeing all the blood and seeing his clothes covered in blood that was not his own. "No… I… did all this…? Yes, I did and I'm proud of it. No! This is wrong, all wrong!" He shouted holding his head shaking unsure what is going on when he suddenly grabbed his scroll and opened it up. "Tsubaki family is next, very well. I will carry out the orders and get praise from big brother." He said getting up and walking towards his next destination, the Tsubaki residence, with an odd calmness after trying to refute what he had done.
Toyotomi arrived outside a large house on the outskirts of the Shirakawa sub-village with crops a little ways into the distance and a young woman about Toyotomi's age rushing to quickly bring in the clothes from the clothesline. She had long goldenrod hair streaming all the way down to the middle of her back and Kelly green eyes. She had on a pink blouse and an amethyst colored dress that went down to her ankles. Toyotomi just stood there looking at the house when he finally realized whose place he had been sent to and whom to kill.
"Emiko… no, I refuse to kill Emiko. She is the only one I refuse! What are you saying? You've already killed the Shirakawa clan – what is stopping you from killing your future wife and her family?" Toyotomi asked talking to himself out loud. "I could never lay a finger on Emiko, don't even think about hurting her!" He shouted when Emiko noticed him and started rushing over.
"Toyotomi! What brings you here today?" Emiko asked with a smile before she noticed all the blood all over him. "T..Toyotomi, are you okay? You're covered in blood!"
"I…I'm fine, this isn't my blood." Toyotomi said with a no emotion.
"Not your blood? What do you mean by that?" Emiko asked confused and semi-horrified by his response. "Don't tell me you…?" She asked gasping thinking of what it could mean.
"Yes. I have been ordered to take care of some problems for our people. I destroyed the Shirakawa sub-village and rid us of the traitors but my job isn't over yet." Toyotomi said as if he were a machine reading off lines.
"What do you mean by that? Toyotomi, what's wrong? Why did you do that to the Shirakawa clan?" Emiko asked worried about him.
"I'm sorry; Emiko but I must do this." Toyotomi said pushing her to the side gently and stood in front of the house.
"Toyotomi, what do you mean by that? Toyotomi!" Emiko shouted trying to get his attention but he was fixated on the house.
"Secret Art – Deep Freeze!" Toyotomi shouted making the hand seals: Bird, Dragon, Tiger, Ox, Horse, Dog, Bird, Ox, Ram, Tiger, Monkey, Ram, Tiger, Dragon, and Horse.
As soon as he finished the jutsu the house slowly started to freeze solid starting from the top down.
"Toyotomi, my family is in there! What are you doing!?" Emiko shouted rushing towards the door when her father came out of the door.
Her father was an older man roughly around the age of 46. He had long black hair down to his shoulders with some gray starting to take form. He was wearing an all burgundy kimono with a confused expression on his face.
"What's all the commotion about? Toyotomi…?" Emiko's father asked noticing Toyotomi.
"Nice to meet you again, Mr. Tsubaki. It's a shame we had to meet under these circumstances though, Leader sends his regards though." Toyotomi said with a grin.
"Leader?" Emiko's father asked confused while Toyotomi formed an icicle in his right hand.
"Father, get back!" Emiko shouted running towards her father as Toyotomi threw the icicle.
"Emiko!!" Toyotomi shouted in complete shock when the icicle hit her directly in the back missing her father completely. "What in the world were you thinking!? I never wanted to harm you!" He shouted rushing over to her side.
"Toyotomi… what has happened to you…?" Emiko asked before she stopped breathing.
"What's going on, what have you done!?" Emiko's father shouted looking at Toyotomi.
"It's your fault." Toyotomi mumbled with tears running down his face.
"What was that?" Emiko's father asked not able to hear him.
"It's your fault. It's your fault she's dead! If you would have just died inside the house peacefully she would be fine right now and we would be planning our wedding in no time! But now because of you, she is dead!!" Toyotomi shouted lunging at Emiko's father in a furious rage repeatedly punching him in the face. "It's your fault! It's your fault, it's your fault!!" He shouted as he continued to beat the man lifeless.
He continued beating the corpse for another ten minutes before finally stopping to take a breather. That is when he noticed the house had finally frozen over and he took a rock and threw it at the house making a large crack that slowly started cracking before ultimately shattering into pieces.
"Emiko… why…why…why!?" Toyotomi shouted up towards the sky when someone appeared behind him.
"Leader has another mission for you." Tobi said standing behind Toyotomi - he was wearing his black suit and strange orange mask with one eyehole.
"…" Toyotomi wasn't able to muster up a single word.
"Come on, don't be sad. You must become a good boy like Tobi! Then Leader will praise you!" Tobi said giving Toyotomi a thumbs up setting the letter next to him.
"What does Leader ask of me?" Toyotomi asked not sounding himself but more robotic.
"That's much better. Doesn't it feel good to be a good boy? Tobi, Tobi, is a good boy… the goodest boy in the world! Yay! Good boy, good boy, you can't defeat the good boy!" Tobi stated singing a small song.
"I said, what is it that Leader wants me to do!?" Toyotomi shouted angrily.
"Whoa, you don't have to be so rude about it. Fine, it's all in the letter right there." Tobi said before vanishing.
"The letter, huh?" Toyotomi asked with a grin on his face. "More victims even though I haven't finished the original list, how odd but it sounds like fun!" He stated cheerfully with no presence of his past self remaining.
Toyotomi opened the scroll the letter had been put on and started reading before his grin quickly turned into a large smile.
"Oh big brother, you cannot escape the eyes of Leader. I will have to punish you for betraying us and letting those traitors live! Where oh where will my big brother be? Home is what I would think – then it is to my big brother's home I go!" Toyotomi stated with a large smile on his face.
Yuki had decided to stop by the Shirakawa sub-village before heading home since he figured something was wrong when he got a notice to kill Taki and Masakatsu. When he arrived, all he saw was blood everywhere and Shinji's body in the middle of the street with a large icicle sticking out of his left side of his chest.
"What in the world happened here…!?" Yuki asked in complete dismay.
Yuki looked around completely shocked still getting closer and closer to Shinji's body. Some areas were covered in ice or snow and no other elements proving that it had to be someone with the ability to use ice jutsu's. Yuki slowly came upon the body of Shinji and noticed the icicle and the way it was formed.
"Don't tell me that…!" He stated surprised by all the evidence. "Toyotomi, don't tell me you did this to our branch family! How could you do this to family?" He asked shocked by the slaughter when something struck him odd. "I have a bad feeling about all this, I better get going. There is no more time to waste, I have to get home and get out of this country with Manami!" He shouted turning around and running towards his house as fast as he could.
Meanwhile, as Yuki was running to his home, someone had already beaten him there. Toyotomi was standing outside a medium sized house somewhat secluded from the headquarters of Pein's regime. There was one large tree in front with a small lake behind the house and some plains to the east. Suddenly a woman stepped out of the house - she had venetian red hair down to her neck and wore azure colored sweat pants and a fishnet shirt with an azure vest over it. She wore her scratched headband on her left leg just above the knee.
"Well if it isn't big sister, Manami." Toyotomi said with a twisted grin on his face.
"Toyotomi? What are you doing here? Weren't you supposed to be out with Yuki doing some of Leader's requests?" Manami asked surprised to see him there.
"Right, the orders – I can assure you that I am following orders." Toyotomi said with an even larger grin on his face.
"'Following orders'? Don't tell me that…?" Manami asked reaching behind her back for a kunai but she didn't have any of her gear on her. "Tch, I'm going to have to rely on my jutsu then." She thought angry she was unprepared.
"By order of Leader – Yuki and Manami Shimousa are to be disciplined by none other than me. So, where is my big brother?" Toyotomi asked looking at Manami.
"He hasn't come back yet. What is the meaning of this?" Manami asked now noticing all the blood covering him.
"Wondering about the blood? Everyone always asks - they always want to know why I am covered in blood. Why, why, why? It just gets so annoying! However, I will let you in on the secret, big sister." Toyotomi said smiling. "I killed them all, the entire Shirakawa clan here in the Village Hidden in the Rain."
"You did what…!?" Manami shouted as her eyes opened wide from shock.
"And now, I'm here to finish my job to rid this village of traitors for the better of our village!" Toyotomi shouted putting his hands together.
"He's lost it, his mind is gone!" Manami thought after hearing Toyotomi.
"Water Style – Water Dragon Bullet!" Toyotomi shouted making the hand seals: Ox, Tiger, Ox, and Tiger nearly instantly launching a large body of water in the shape of a dragon at Manami.
"Earth Style – Earth Dragon Bullet!" Manami shouted making the hand seals: Sheep, Ox, Dragon, and Tiger launching a large muddy dragon out of the ground destroying the water one.
"Earth Jutsu!?" Toyotomi shouted shocked by the revelation.
"Yes, I have an affinity to Earth as well as water. Did you forget Jonin must have an affinity to two elements?" Manami asked ready to fight.
"Oh? Then this'll be a more interesting fight than I had thought. Those other Shirakawa ninja weren't even that much of a challenge; they were nothing but a waste of time." Toyotomi said with a grin.
"How could you be so cold…?" Manami asked horrified by what he had said.
"Cold? No, I'm just purging our village of traitors! Forbidden Jutsu – Well Drowning!" Toyotomi shouted making the hand seals: Horse, Boar, Ram, Monkey, a reverse Serpent, and Dog before charging at Manami.
"He's going to try and drown me? Like hell I'll let that happen! Water Style – Water Projectile Jutsu!" Manami shouted making the hand seals: Tiger, Dog, Rat, half Ram, and Tiger creating a large body of water come out of the lake behind the house. "Now, smash down!" She shouted and the water smashed down onto the ground in front of Toyotomi.
"You missed; it won't help if you're that reckless…!" Toyotomi shouted starting to sink into the muddy ground.
"Don't underestimate me! I've been training with Yuki for a while now and he is a lot harder to face than you!" Manami stated moving on to the next step. "Earth Style – Muddy Prison Jutsu!" She shouted making the hand seals: Ox, Tiger, Hose, Ram, and Dragon making the mud wrap around Toyotomi.
"She planed all this two steps ahead!?" Toyotomi thought surprised while he was fully covered by the mud. "She thinks just like big brother… but even so, this won't be enough to stop me! Secret Art – Deep Freeze!" He thought making the hand seals: Bird, Dragon, Tiger, Ox, Horse, Dog, Bird, Ox, Ram, Tiger, Monkey, Ram, Tiger, Dragon, and Horse and the mud sphere started to freeze solid.
"He froze the mud?" Manami thought deciding to go for the finishing attack. "I'm sorry, Yuki, but your little brother must die… for he has lost his mind. Crush!" She shouted making the hand seal Ram when the mud sphere started to shrink just as Yuki arrived.
"Manami!" Yuki shouted from a distance noticing she was holding the Ram hand seal. "Is she fighting someone? Did Pein already find out about what happened with Taki and Masakatsu?" He thought running towards Manami.
"Yuki? Stay back, Toyotomi, he…!" Manami started to shout when the sphere shattered and Toyotomi jumped out facing Manami.
"Secret Art – Deep Freeze!" Toyotomi shouted making the hand seals: Bird, Dragon, Tiger, Ox, Horse, Dog, Bird, Ox, Ram, Tiger, Monkey, Ram, Tiger, Dragon, and Horse nearly instantly. "Now, die traitor!" He shouted when her hair suddenly started to turn stiff.
"Toyotomi, what are you doing!!?" Yuki shouted at the top of his lungs furious.
"Big brother…?" Toyotomi asked with his eyes wide open turning around to hit the ground on his back.
"Yuki… I'm sorry…" Manami said as she tried to take a step forward but her legs had been frozen solid.
"Manami, no! I'm the one who should be sorry! This is all my fault!" Yuki shouted rushing over to Manami and stopped right in front of her. "I'm so sorry, this is all my fault. If I hadn't been so careless in saving Taki and Masakatsu none of this would have ever ha…!" He started to say when Manami forced him to kiss her for a few seconds before pushing him away.
"Get back, Yuki! If you stay near me you'll freeze too!" Manami shouted with tears rolling down her face. "Live on… Yuki." She said when her body completely froze.
"No, Manami!!!" Yuki shouted falling to his knees.
"She took longer than expected to freeze. That woman really had a lot of resistance to the bitter end." Toyotomi said getting up looking at Manami. "Now you will die for sure this time!" He shouted charging at the frozen Manami but suddenly Yuki appeared in front of him punching him in the gut. "Ugh!"
"You will not harm her anymore, little brother!!" Yuki shouted punching Toyotomi in the gut three more times before kicking him through the air scatting across the ground. "You killed the Shirakawa clan as well, didn't you!?" He shouted furiously while Toyotomi slowly get up on his feet.
"Yes, I killed those pathetic ninja. They weren't much of a challenge though – only big sister was able to put up much of a challenge but thanks to you…!" Toyotomi started to say before Yuki appeared in front of him in an instant swinging his right hand into his left cheek knocking him flying further away.
"Why in the world did you do this!?" Yuki shouted furious at what his little brother had done to their family.
Author notes:
Would have had it up last night but it slipped my mind. As for the actual story, there are a few scenes I left out in the flashback so I could revisit later down the line and the last line doesn't end the flashback, it is to be continued until next chapter. If you have any comments or suggestions, leave a review.
-Steve Masters
Next chapter: Chapter 10: Continuation! Time for the Training to Resume!