"Last town in this tax tour and were off for some good old fun", announced Zuruhiro to his group of thugs. They smirked in return knowing just what old fun means...booze and woman. Hell they deserve it after what they been through, killing and plunder is not an easy task.
They were only 3, his seconds in command and the boy; zuruhiro smirked as he thought about the "boy" oversized muscles and ninja skills.
His second was expert in earth style, jutsues that he stole from a poor ninja who tried to take his bounty a few years back.
And he himself was an ex- jounin.
They were all rogues ninjas from kiri but he never bothered himself to remember their names, never paid attention to names at all, only money was important and since he was the leather of Gato tax squad he got the bigger share of the loot.
That's why he was furious when one of the local fishermen didn't have enough money for the monthly tax tour.
That gathered the town folks for the "punishment".
The locals watched with dread and shame as the thugs tied the poor fisherman and his wife and small 7 year old son to wooden poles.
Zuruhiro and his team didn't know any fire jutsu so he ordered his team to put some wood and straw for the public punishment, execution by fire of the fisherman and his family.
The fisherman 7 year old kid was crying loudly, his wife couldn't even comfort her son in their last moment of life and tried to be brave for him.
Her sorry excuse for a husband was crying like a small girl.
He knew it was his fault for slacking at work and having a bitter drop habit did not help to save the money.
But in their last moment she only pitied him.
Please kami-sama don't mind me, just save adri, please save my son she cried.
Suddenly the Inn doors slide open and her gaze fixed on the strange young woman that came to town a week ago.
Silence engulfed the town folks, and why is it so cold in the middle of the summer?...
My...my... a public execution... came a very cold and evil voice that sent chills in the fisherman wife body.
My...my...a public execution...
Zuruhiro felt something... a very strange feeling of dread.
The figure he saw was clad in black and red, even her face was covered, and by the looks of her wrapped sword on her back, probably a ninja.
the only way people knew she is a "she" is by the curves her clothes didn't manage to hide, and her voice, definitely a feminine, but the chills her voice gave in its metallic hue was giving him the creeps.
Zuruhiro was furious, what a foreign ninja is doing here? Did the locals hire her? Then where is her head band?
"Oy girl, from what village you are? I don't see your head band and even us rogues have a scarred on", he pointed to his scratched kiri head band with pride and a knowing all smirk.
Alex was dumbfounded...a village? She thought, what does and a headband got to do with it? I really need to study the local's culture more…
As dumbstruck as she was inside, on her exterior she was cold and calculated.
"i should finish them fast" she whispered to no one in particular, i don't have time for fancy sword play with novices"…
Her whisper was well heard all over the deathly quiet village.
Even the little adri, tied down to the wooden pole felt the death coming from her voice. He was silent and was starring the older teen with big round eyes, like all the town folks.
"How dare you?!" Erupted the "boy" rogue third in command when his hands made the hand seals for a water trumpet jutsu.
He never finished the seals as his hands shot to grab his pained head and collapsed in screaming and lost his consciousness.
What?! Zuruhiro and his second in command cried in shocked unison.
Alex reached her hand towards them and a purple sinister lightning like energy shot from her reaching hand as the weird energy grabbed the second rogue and like a rope the purple energy pulled him to the strange female ninja, and as he was a mere inches from her she just snapped his neck and he was dead.
Zuruhiro and the villagers' stunned quiet broke as a high pitch evil laughter rolled out from the strange female mouth.
Ninjas huh?" Smirked Alex "more like puny weaklings."
I can breath and you will break your back by accident."
For the first time in many years zuruhiro felt fear. Not fear for his life, he was a ninja after all. No he felt fear for his soul
"hh..oww..?" zuruhiro trembling voice asked as the teen girl approached him slowly; step by step as she closed the distance between them the air became colder and denser as if he was in a genjutsu.
He never bothered to try to release; he knew it was NOT a genjutsu.
How such a monster can exist in reality?
His thoughts ended as she was mere inches away from his face and he got a real chance to see his executioner. For some strange reason he knew he was going to die.
Her sunglasses covered face was pale like snow, her white hair was like frost cover mist in its paleness, and her face was sculptured like an angel.
Her soul full of power, hidden by her beautiful form.
And zuruhiro knew she was his beautiful angel of death.
He didn't notice that his knees failed him and as he fell down to the floor, a strong cold arms grabbed him and gently put him down in a sitting position.
His voice became a whisper that only she and the fisherman family which were still tied to the poles near them, could hear.
"Please…my…lady…", he whispered as he held his hands in pleading "Please…take …care…of…my…soul…
And he died in his angel of death hands.
Alex gently lay down her opponent corpse on the ground near the execution stall, remembering her grandfather when he prayed to the light when he took her to the church when she was a girl…in another lifetime…
When he prayed for the souls of the departs.
Gramps… she whispered to his memory, please forgive me…
And she shook her memories and touched gently at zuruhiro dead face cheek. Blue pale soft huh surrounded the girl hand as she caressed his cheek, his body decomposed and became rotten by the second and finally what left of zuruhiro were only his bones…
To be continued…soon…
Names of spells used:
Mind freeze
Death grip
And my upgraded spell