My computer broke I'm so sorry! I wanted to get out a new chapter as soon as possible so so sorry!
Chapter 11 Miko's First Mission
A twelve year old Miko laid back in an overstuffed chair. Her blonde hair was the color of snow and braided long down her back. She wore a red kimono that matched with her blood red eyes.
Instead of doing jobs why don't we just slit this guy's throat and take what we want? A red scaled Dralo gave her a toothy grin.
Where's the fun in that? Miko gave a twice as vicious smile.
The man before her gulped. He was a rotund man in red silk.
"Are you just going to stand there and gawk or are you going to tell me what I came here for?" Miko said.
"Dralo-sama, please you must get rid of her for me!" He begged.
"A woman?" Miko\Dralo said.
"A ghost that lives in the woods. The path through the woods cuts off an entire day of travel, the carts of goods can't get through there and it raises prices, people are complaining! You will receive a large reward please help us!"
The child smiled "Just make sure you have that 'reward' ready when I return." The girl rose and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
The forest the man was talking about was at the edge of the east border of the small town at the edge of the Wind Country.
The forest itself was fertile and full of life and apparently death as well.
After darkness had descended Miko started her search for the ghost.
"What are you doing here?" a somewhat shrill voice asked. Miko turned to look at a young girl with platinum hair. Miko noticed the lack of feet touching the ground.
"So you're the ghost, would you do me a favor and just cross over already?" Miko asked the attractive ghost.
"NO!" the ghost said. "You see my name is Silvana, and thirty years ago my lover and I made a promise to one another."
Miko began to pick at her nails.
"Hey are you paying attention!" The woman snarled.
"Yeah…" she mumbled.
"Anyways we promised to run away together for I was a poor orphan and he a the son of rich businessman, and marriage between the two classes was forbidden. So I ran to the woods to wait for him with the lantern we had promised to light as a sign to the others we were alive and well, but as I was waiting a nut fell from a tree and killed me." Tears fell from her eyes.
"So you intend to wait for him, and may I ask did he ever show up at all?" Miko questioned.
"Ah, no."
"And you wait for him because?"
"Because I promised! It's obvious you don't believe in the power of love."
"True and lets way your life compared to mine.
I am an all-powerful Jinchuuriki
You can float
I can go anywhere I want
Your confined to this town
I'm wearing clothing worth a small island
Your wearing… what are you wearing, what is that a nightgown?"
"It's comfy!"
"Listen the sooner you cross over the sooner I get paid so now that you realize the cons of being a ghost and the fact that your lover is a no good bastard go into the light."
"NO! He will come!" The Silvana persisted. She thrust her arms before her and wind blew harshly towards Miko, who then decided to retreat.
That went well.
Well?
We learned her name and how long ago the death occurred. If we ask around or go to the library we might be able to find the lover who we will then forcibly drag to the forest.
Sounds like a plan.
Miko talked to some of the old folks and visited the library once or twice and found out Silvana's best friends name, Chisa.
"Good evening Chisa-san." Miko purred at the startled woman. She was probably near forty years old.
"W-who are you?" she asked.
"You may call me Dralo. I am here because of a ghost problem I believe you knew her."
"Silvana…"
"Correct I assume you still care about her, even if you did marry her lover Jun."
"H-how did you know?" she asked.
"Oh it's a classic girl thing, after all he was your lover first. You see there was a law passed in the wind country by the son of the current Daimyo fell in love with a slave girl who got pregnant. In order to escape any sort of scandal a law was passed saying that any marriage bound by agreement by both side agreements was allowed. Of course then after the sin came to power the Free Slave Law was passed."
"What does that have to do with anything!" the old woman asked.
"Well why would Silvana believe that marriage between high and low classes was forbidden unless someone she trusted told her that? And then of course she was killed by a nut falling from a tree, and there are no trees that grow nuts in that forest. My question is who killed her you or your husband?"
"I did I killed that little (fill in with rude name). She knew how I felt about him but she still chased him like a puppy!
He thought he was so clever sneaking around to see her, but I could smell her perfume on his clothes. When I confronted him he promised he would stop seeing her.
He told me he had told her that they would run away together, but he told me he wouldn't go and that after that she would realize it wouldn't happen. But I knew her she would wait and wait forever and then she would look for him and make a scene. I had to get rid of her."
"So you murdered her." Miko yawned.
"She betrayed me."
"You didn't stop there did you?"
"No that dammed man knew she would wait for him after a week with her gone we married and just three days, three days" she cried "he ran off!"
"Or tried to." Miko picked at her nails.
"He couldn't just leave me he promised he said "I do" why did he lie to me?"
"Men tend not to like murderers." Miko said. "Any comment Silvana?"
"No" she whispered. Silvana's face was paler than a ghost's should be.
"You're going to hell when you die, Dralo please as a last request." Miko smiled and pulled out a kunai and before she could blink Chisa had a hole in her stomach. The old woman doubled over and died.
"I should go… Dralo after he died why didn't Jun come find me?"
"There was something even more important to him then you. Follow me." Silvana floated after her until they arrived at a small house. Miko knocked on the door.
A young man with platinum hair opened it.
"Hello Sib." Miko greeted "Silvana meet Sib the son you thought you had gotten rid of." Silvana cried a bit.
"You know I think I'll stay around a bit longer." She whispered.
"Just don't return to the forest otherwise I don't get paid." Miko walked off, and she could have sworn a male figure flashed in front of her.