Chapter 5- Repentance
Akabane and her militant group of Kouga kunoichi jumped over the walls to find that the Iga Tsubagakure estate was completely empty, "To those who shed the blood of brothers, The Kouga, come forth and meet those who ask you to repent!" Akabane cried with anger in her voice.
As soon as those words rang out through the village, hundreds of Iga shinobi were perched up on the walls and in the trees, staring down at the group of Kouga and Kageyasu kunoichi, "Well, that got their attention," Okoi joked grasping the small kodachi behind her back,
"Everybody, go find Gennosuke and Oboro-dono and lead them out through the back," Akabane ordered standing back to back with her sister, "we'll handle the welcoming party and the Iga ten," As the Kouga kunoichi searched the premises for their clan leader and Oboro; The Iga attacked the intruders.
The Kageyasu sisters repulsed the onslaught and cut a bloody swath through the Iga shinobi. With every strike and attack, their faces were splashed with blood and guts of their enemy. Hundreds of shinobi fell by the edge of their blade in a matter of minutes,
"Iga shinobi, you're blood has always been so sweet to my tongue," Gosunkugi snickered licking the long spikes and claws on her hands and forearms. The eyes of both kunoichi burned with a demon's anger and an executioner's bloodlust, all in the name of Kouga.
Hundreds of decapitated body parts flew through the air and rained blood on the hired executioners from the north. A section of the Iga ten showed up to witness the slaughter of hundreds of their own brothers. All were either ripped to shreds by Akabane's great scythe or were slashed and hacked to pieces Gosunkugi's bone spikes.
"You must be the two Kageyasu sisters I've been hearing about from my messengers or at least the ones that make it back alive," said Tenzen slowly but casually walking onto the bloody pathway, "If my clan has indeed harmed you in any way, we'll take any punishment,"
"Your shinobi took the lives of 300 hundred of our brothers yesterday!" Akabane blasted at the sharp-eyed elite shinobi, "it is only right that we take 300 of yours in their place!"
A low laugh came from inside the walls, "Judging by your voice you sound strong, girl, but those maybe your last words," Thick strings of hair slithered on the ground like serpents aiming for the kunoichi's knees,
"Hair? What the hell...?" Akabane used her gymnastic abilities to dodge the attack and land safely on the branches of an oak tree, "Mino Nenki...Azuki Rousai...some things don't change, "She blew some smoke out of dragon-head pipe, "....you're both still uglier than a horse's ass,"
"Hold your tongue, viperous hussy!" Azuki snapped meeting the hindrance at the gates, "you Kageyasu make me sick, defending those Kouga scum,"
"If we're the ones who make you ill," a bloodied Gosunkugi said snickering pulling off bits of flesh and a couple eyeballs that were stuck to her bone claws, "then we'll will be your remedy as well, old man,"
In unison with her older sister, they stated the Kageyasu vow Akabane spun her scythe to rest on her shoulder while her sister flashed her long bone claws in an 'X', "For we are what we trained to be, and through bloodshed punish the wicked and mal of heart,"
"Humph such valiant and soulful words," said Mino flashing kunai in his medusa-like hair, "I'll be sure to cut off your tongue before I kill you, Kageyasu Akabane,"
"You'll have to get past me first," Gosunkugi said licking the blood off one of her long claws and slashing away a few long locks of Nenki's hair, "what? Are you afraid to attack a woman you filthy ape, c'mon make my afternoon,"
Akeginu stopped Nenki before he could make another move to confront the Kageyasu Clan members, "Don't waste your breath, the only punishment you'll see here is for you bloodthirsty barbarians," said Akeginu pulling out a kama (sickle) from the inside of her kimono sleeve. Akabane smiled and chuckled finding Akeginu's actions rather amusing, "what? What's so funny, where's Hotarubi?"
"You think that little garden tool can kill me? That little thing won't even tickle me, read a book sister that kind of fighting is reserved for the peasantry," Akabane joked spinning her scythe ready to fight Akeginu,
"Even as your clan may justify," Gosunkugi said lightly throwing Hotarubi's severed head onto the dirt pathway, "the penalty for trying to escape...is death,"
Koshiro stared at the expression on Hotarubi's severed head and his anger began to flare, "Why you blood drunken harlots, I'll kill the both of you!" Chikuma blasted going in on the attack with his Kama. Akabane and Gosunkugi decided to grant his request and duel him, attacking him with speed that almost seemed inhuman.
To finish him off, the two women simply used their 'Hayate no Kuro-youkai' (Gail of the Black Demon) to dodge his Kamaitachi attack, "What? Not this technique again; come on out and fight me!" He cried watching the two women disappear
"Now, now there's no need to throw a temper," Akabane said whispering behind him with the edge of her scythe against his neck while Gosunkugi wrapped her long claws around his head like a cage, "Twice we have threatened your life,"
"And twice we have handed it back to you," Gosunkugi said retracting her claws and kicking Chikuma into the dirt, "our mission is complete, feel free to rejoice in the fact you get to keep your head on your neck, we bid you farewell," The two kunoichi made their escape into the forest canopy.
"Wait, their mission was to just slaughter our brothers in vengeance? What animals," Akeginu said in disgust at their devastating tactics,
"No, there seems to be another motive to this act," said Tenzen philosophically sensing that something wasn't right in this picture besides all the blood and guts,
"Tenzen-dono, Gennosuke and Oboro-dono are gone!" Jinguro said after searching the area to find that none of the other Kouga shinobi can be found.
