SailorStar9: This is Chapter 10 of this fic. (Sighs) Come on people, you guys were the ones who wanted me to update this, so have a heart and review. Remember, boys and girls, reviews are an author's subsistence.

Disclaimers: I own nothing, except for the plot bunny. Heck I don't even know if my pairing is original.

Chapter 10: The Last Muramasa Awakens

"Let me show you, the real Mumyou Jinpuryu." Kyo grinned. "Mumyou Jinpuryu secret principle, Phoenix."

"That's..." Hotaru gaped as a fiery bird took form. As the bird flew towards him, the flame wielder merely raised his fire barrier. "I will be stronger than anyone else!" he swore and shattered the fire bird. "My black fire is hellfire." he declared. "If it hits the person, the person will burn down without even leaving an ash. Even if that person is Kyo. Everyone is too noisy. I don't like that kind of things. If you really care about Kyo, then why don't you go with him?" and sent a tunneling black fire dragon at the group. "What?" he gasped, Kyo's fire phoenix reforming itself, both flame constructs decking it out. "Impossible. That attack was supposed to be already broken."

"You're also weak." Kyo tsked. "The phoenix, being immortal, will revive from death. Even if it was burnt by hellfire, it will revive as many times from the abyss of hell." with a final blow, he took out his former partner. "Hotaru, you also felt it, didn't you? The breath of the phoenix."

"Why..." the fallen Hotaru inquired, Kyo re-sheathing his blade. "How come you didn't kill me?"

"Who knows?" Kyo replied.

"Kyo, just as I thought, you've changed compare to before." Hotaru remarked.

"I didn't change." Kyo corrected. "Just like you. That happy looking face you had when we were fighting. It was the same happy face you had back then."

"It's my loss." Hotaru admitted, smiling.

"We don't have time." Kyo walked past the group. "Let's go."

"Maybe I'm also weak?" Hotaru wondered, sitting up. "Oh yeah, Akira as well."

"Where are you looking?" Yukimura inquired, appearing before the group. "If it's for someone to fight, then that's right here."

"What did you come out for?" Kyo questioned.

"I came back you to beat you, Kyo." Yukimura replied. "By using this Tenguko." he revealed his new blade.

"Yukimura!" Sasuke barked. "What happened to you?"

"I decided to give all of Sanada's clan destiny to the Mibu clan." Yukimura replied. "I'm part of Mibu clan now."

"You're lying!" Sasuke snapped.

"I'm not lying." Yukimura corrected. "To prove this, I killed Saizo with these hands."

"There's no way I can believe that kind of story!" Sasuke glared.

"It's true." Shindara confirmed. "Saizo is definitely dead.

"Yukimura, I..." Sasuke muttered.

"You still can't believe it?" Yukimura questioned. "You're also a soft hearted person."

"Yukimura!" Sasuke roared, drawing his sword and charged, only to dodge the three kunai tossed at him.

"Your opponent is me." Makora declared.

"Kotarou." Sasuke gaped.

"Now we can fight as much as we want, Kyo." Yukimura added.

"Interesting." Kyo accepted the challenge.

"Here I go." Yukimura declared and the two samurai clashed. "What's wrong, Kyo?" he taunted as Kyo deflected his strikes. "Are you holding back because the opponent is me?"

"Stop it, Kotarou." Sasuke barked. "I don't want to fight you."

"I'm tired of hearing that." Makora replied. "Foolish." he readied his kunai, spotting Benitora and Mahiro rushed to aid Kyo and tossed the said weapon to intervene.

I have to see where that man's loyalty lie. Shindara mused. With my own eyes.

"How pitiful you are, Sasuke." Makora remarked, both former friends taking the fight to the roof. "The fate of throwing away the forest and going with Yukimura, and you get this. The worker has to serve his master. Because of that, I... back when our Fuuma clan was working for Houjyosin, we left our fate in Houjyosin's hands. And the survivor of our clan is only me, a baby. Even when I was born, I had to live alone. I don't believe the tradition of serving a master. Because of that, I also won't serve any general. The only one I will serve is myself. I promised myself that when I was a child, though it was before I met you. It was also a short-lived illusion. I was a fool for believing in you."

"You're not a fool." Sasuke objected. "Kotarou, even now, I still..."

"Shut up!" Makora snapped, releasing another hail of kunai.

"It's fun, Kyo." Yukimura remarked. "To fight you with our lives at stake. I've always dreamed of it."

"Shut up." Kyo smirked and the two renewed their fight.

"Seems like his loyalty to Mibu is true." Shindara grinned.

"Those guys..." Sasuke's attention was diverted to the fight on the ground. I see. He realized. It must be that. It was not because they were friends that they refuse to fight. It's because they are friends that they have to fight with each other face to face. Demon Eyes Kyo and Hotaru have already told me the answer waiting in the future. With that, he powered up his blade and charged once again.

"So, you've become serious?" Makora retorted, the two renewing their fight.

"Raikoken!" Sasuke fired his attack.

"Now's the chance, Makora!" Shindara declared, blocking the lightning with his body. "What's wrong? You are useless." he retorted and charged at Sasuke who countered with another lightning strike. "Useless!" he declared, closing in. "What a weak boy you are." he scoffed, holding the boy over the edge of the roof. "A person like you doesn't have the qualification to succeed the name of Sasuke. I was one of the Sanada's vassals before. Sarutobi Sasuke, that was my old name."

"That boy will die if it carries on like this." Kyo warned.

"I won't go." Yukimura shrugged. "My opponent is you, Kyo."

"So pitiful." Shindara tsked and tightened his grip on Sasuke's throat. "Abandoned by your master, and with that hopelessness, go to hell."

"Kotarou..." Sasuke was stunned when Makora plunged his blade into Shindara's back.

"Sasuke, don't just stand there." Makora retorted.

"You as well." Shindara added and electrocuted Makora, throwing him off the roof.

"Mumyou Jinpuryu," Kyo chanted. "Satsujin Ken, Mizuchi! What?" he gaped when Yukimura's blade started glowing as the attack hit its mark.

"I'll borrow this, Sasuke." Yukimura grabbed the cut off ball from Sasuke's broken toy, his sword revealing its true form as a bow. Pulling the light arrow taut, he released the arrow at Shindara and freeing Sasuke.

"Yukimura!" Saizo called, Yukimura having caught Sasuke before the boy hit the ground, the ninja having saved Okuni from her prison. "It was all Yukimura's plan which was to deceive the Mibu clan." he explained.

"Then about giving all of Sanada's clan destiny to Mibu was..." Sasuke gaped.

"Sorry, Sasuke." Yukimura chuckled. "To get this, there wasn't any method than that."

"Idiot." Sasuke muttered. "You made us think you really betrayed us."

"Don't be angry, Sasuke." Saizo scolded. "They say to deceive the enemy, you must first deceive your friends."

"Yukimura, you used Kyo to get the true Muramasa, didn't you?" Elenaithil cast a look at the Sanada scion.

"I'm very sorry, Kyo." Yukimura apologized. "To awaken the Tenguko, I needed a a serious duel with our lives at stake. Well, thanks to it, I had some fun too."

"I guess so." Kyo grinned.

"So, he has awakened." Elenaithil stated, looking at the beam of light shooting up into the sky.

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