Kitsuki Yuushahime
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Post by Kitsuki Yuushahime on Mar 13, 2011 15:25:49 GMT -5
Yuushahime nodded at Ichiro's words, faintly smiling. This could be amusing she thought. The odd sound of metal on metal triggered in her ears and she turned to look out of the window quizically. Two drunken samurai fighting perhaps? No, it was closer. The garden!? Yuushahime began to rise and heard the yell as she was halfway off the floor. The next second, two bunched up figures crashed to the ground only a few metres away and right through the open window! There was an awful snapping noise and the non-mistakeable sound of flesh compacting as the lower most figure was forced into the floor by the weight of the second, the wood brutally resisting the impact.
The upper figure, an average heighted man in a fully covering dark grey outfit, with only his eyes showing, pushed himself up warily with one arm and yanked a blade out of the body of the lower figure. His front was covered in blood and more began to pool around the body of the first figure. Both their ninja-to's were clearly visible. He scanned the room, spotting Ichiro first as he was closest, and then Tomatsu closer to the table before snarling in his direction. He yelled out "Here!" before spitting out "this dead fool has led us right to you!" while flicking his weapon at Ichiro, who was closest, to try and blind him with blood. He then darted forward to attack the Scorpion daimyo who was in the way of his true target.
At the same time as the figures landed, Yuushahime had reached for her wakizashi with her right hand, freeing it of its scabbard in one clean motion while reaching behind her and into her obi for her metal fan with her left. She eyed the dangerous threat as it rose while straining her senses for any other surprises. She could just make out more barely audible footsteps rapidly approaching from the rooftop and the first few sounds of screams from other rooms before the man yelled out. "us?". Yes, there must be more! She could not intercept him in time as he launched himself at Ichiro.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, the servants' quarters were very quiet and only the corpses dragged into side rooms and the remaining blood in the corridors gave away what had happened. Over twenty figures had forced their way into the building, rapidly spreading out to scour it. They had swiftly killed a few wandering courtiers and samurai, overwhelming them, before meeting surprising resistance from similarly dressed and experienced agents on the upper floors. The roof top team, another group of nearly 15, had encountered the majority of these unexpected defenders. It had been beyond their calculations and intelligence but it would not be enough to save their target, who was too lightly guarded. They had cut through the obstacles, sustaining some losses, while one of the rooftop defenders had started to run back to the other side of the building. The second yell from their own man, moments later, was a homing signal to the others who quickly flocked to the room. Chaos then began in the rest of the building as the attackers openly cut into rooms to attack the occupants and a group stormed into the restaurant, throwing small balls that exploded - tearing through many of those seated at the tables and creating an inferno. Mayhem reigned as sleepy or inebriated patrons and defenseless servants and staff were butchered, caught unawares.
Lying down in her own room on the 1st floor, Haru woke up sharply and reached for her wakizashi. She only fumbled slightly as she freed it, hearing the beginning sounds of battle and screams throughout the building. Her mind raced as she slowly inched to the doors to the corridor - what was happening? A yobanjin raid in the capital?! Surely not! Someone else... ? A part of her desired safety, another part was curious and wanted to investigate, a stronger part wanted to find her cousin.
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Shiba Kazuma
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Post by Shiba Kazuma on Mar 13, 2011 18:03:06 GMT -5
Kazuma grabbed his Naginata and jumped to his feet in one quick motion. The sudden attack had taken him momentarily off guard and he soon realized that there was no time to remove the peace bond from his weapon. He shifted position to better address the attackers. The phoenix felt the familiar feeling of an impending battle descend upon him. Kazuma saw the attacker begin to move towards Ichiro and his feet reacted before his mind as he began to move towards them.
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Post by Ikoma Kibo on Mar 14, 2011 0:12:52 GMT -5
There was only one thing on Kibo's mind, and that was to protect her Lord. She drew her ancient Katana swiftly and took a position to defend Tomatsu-sama efficiently, her left hand holding her fan as it snapped open as her Father had taught her. A rather unusual technicue, but in this situation, highly effective to defend, deflect, and protect. Let individuals think that all the Ikoma knew were stories and how to drink, and that they were a bunch of doddering old folk!! If they came after her Lord, she would kill them. If worse came to worse, Tomatsu-sama and her would leave the room filled with corpses if they fell....
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Akodo Tomatsu
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Post by Akodo Tomatsu on Mar 14, 2011 8:25:25 GMT -5
He was hit with sense of anger. How dare these fools attack his people, during this sacred time of rest. He rose to his feet and drew his Wakizashi, a small replica of the Lion's famous sword Daitan. Unfortunately for him, his Katana sat on his Daisho rack, on the other side of the room and there was precious little time to get to it. Why can't these people ever attack me when I'm prepared? He appreciated that this time, the person who would likely save his life was from his own clan. Much easier to reward one whom I hold power over than to try and express gratitude to one outside my clan.
Ikoma-san, he said trying to will some confidence into his voice, I understand this might be a bit dangerous, please do your best to look after yourself. No unnecessary sacrifices today.
He then had a thought that did strike some fear into him. Kitsuki-san, where is your cousin? Does she have any guards with her? He knew it would pain him to see such a young and promising star in their clan stuck down before she had a chance to seize her destiny.
Without waiting for her to respond he grabbed his tea cup and hurled it at the man in the room, trying to catch him off guard, buying Ichiro a few moments to collect himself. However this time his aim wasn't as true as it was the last time he used this trick. The tea cup smashed upon the wall to the right of the assailant. He silently cursed himself for his poor aim.
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Shosuro Ichiro
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Post by Shosuro Ichiro on Mar 14, 2011 8:40:50 GMT -5
Ichiro heard the combat coming to the window and yet he pretend not to hear it. He watched as the two forms came through the window, he acted shocked and disgusted. He noticed the dead man on the floor and recognized him as Kenta, one of his bodyguards. He knew he came as a warning and made sure to point out the enemy.
Ichiro even let the fool assassin approach with his blade making his call for others to come. Before the assailant could flick the blood, Ichiro closed his eyes as he knew the trick all too well. Ichiro's perception slowed as all he heard was the beating hearts of all around him. He heard the excited rush from this fool of an attacker, and Ichiro let him close. It was in that moment when Ichiro pounced.
What was once a tired and exhausted Daimyo now became a creature of speed and death. Ichiro stepped into the swing of the would be assassin and caught the sword arm just below the elbow. With one fluid move he popped the elbow out of socket forcing the attacker to drop the ninja-to. While his other hand reflexively pulled a throwing dart out of his neck sheath and just pushed the dart into the jugular of his assailant. The look of shock and terror washed across the eyes of the attacker as he realizes too late that he under estimated his target. As his eyes lose their life Ichiro whisper that lats words he will ever hear.
"I am Shosuro Ichiro, Lord Shinobi and Kuroiban. Now know that you and your compatriots will all fail as my people and I destroy everything you hold dear."
Ichiro let the lifeless body hit the floor and pulled his dart out of his neck. He moved towards the lifeless body of Kenta and retrieved his blade and sheath. He stood ready for the oncoming onslaught and called to his companions. His voice firm yet calm, like a predator waiting for his prey.
"They will come from all sides so pick your fighting area well. My people will keep them busy as best as they can. Yuushahime, Reicko has orders to maintain safety of my friends. I am sure she is going for your cousin as we speak. Now lets have our attackers meet their fate."
Meanwhile Reicko and her assistants, Bayushi Torazo a bushi of some skill and Soshi Aiko, shugenja adviser to the Daimyo. Made their way to the room of Kitsuki Haru. Demolishing all opposition in their way.
(OOC:Yuusha if you could describe what they see when they round to corner to Haru's room I will continue from there.)
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Kitsuki Yuushahime
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Post by Kitsuki Yuushahime on Mar 14, 2011 13:03:39 GMT -5
(ooc: will do Ichiro in a later post. Tomatsu, you may want to describe what your guards are up to!)
"Downstairs... none now" Yuushahime said matter of factly to Tomatsu, moving towards the door of the room as Ichiro brutally put down his opponent. She watched as he whispered something to the man before picking up the other figure's fallen blade. It seemed the Shosuro knew the first man then, as he now wielded his ninja-to. An odd weapon. The stories about the Shosuro were more than just rumours then. This was no time to dwell on the matter though. Yuushahime listened to Ichiro's assessment.
"Thank you Ichiro-san. And yes... they are coming. Did you hear the loud bangs from downstairs too?" she asked nobody in particular.
Her wakizashi in her right hand and her war fan in her left, she felt the weight and balance of both and felt more at ease even as she heard steps approaching from the corridor and noises from above. The sound of fighting around the building had also increased. She would feel more at ease, she thought, with her katana or her cousin in sight. What was the Dragon outside doing she wondered, now covering the front entrance.
"We should move, I hear a fire and we do not know who they are or how many th..." her words were drowned out by two bangs that rocked the side room they had entered in from to the north. She distinctly saw the Ikoma within dodge for cover moments before but the bright light that followed and then the fire and white smoke made it impossible to tell what had happened. She had to cover her eyes with her fan, blinking and holding back tears as the smoke flowed, taking a step back. Seconds later a trio of pellets were thrown through each of the open windows in the room, bursting on impact to fill half the room with white smoke, heavily obstructing vision.
Immediately after that the enemy entered the room, four storming into the big room quickly through from the burning entry room with Yuushahime and Hikori in their path. Three entered through each of the windows, their shapes distorted due to the smoke. They wore dark grey fully covering clothes, unusual in design with only their eyes showing. They had an odd assortment of weapons; ninja-tos, sickles, tonfa and one even gripped an ono. Aggressively they each moved to fight the room's occupants, using their superior numbers and cover to their advantage.
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Akodo Tomatsu
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Post by Akodo Tomatsu on Mar 14, 2011 14:20:05 GMT -5
(I have a plan for my guards, we shall find out what happened to them once we make it out of the room ) Tomatsu was stunned. He had been caught off guard by the devices the assailants threw in. He could only see blurry figures moving about, his eyes watering heavily now, red with irritation. He retreated back to the corner of the room furthest away from the windows. Wiping with one sleeve of his kimono and brandishing his Wakizashi towards the blurry figures whose clothing color he did not recognize. After a few moments his sight returned enough to allow him to conduct himself properly. He leap on to the table and bull-rushed one of the assailants that was across the table. He slammed him into the wall that was behind him, planting his Wakizashi firmly in the man's chest. With one swift motion he lashed out and grabbed his sword off the daisho rack, now within his reach. He drew his blade and chucked the scabbard as a spear out towards another, hopping to grab his attention while assuming the high guard. Kitsuki-san, we must hurry and dispatch these men, your cousin could be in danger. As the last words left his mouth, he twisted his blade to block a strike from a ninja-to as the man who had been hit with the scabbard moved to face him. The two of them began to engage in one on one combat. Tomatsu was displaying a great amount of skill as a swordsman despite being partially blinded. Or perhaps his opponent was not much of a swordsman, regardless Tomatsu was maintaining the upper hand. The man made one critical misstep. He thought he saw an opening in Tomatsu's guard and struck out with an out stretched arm. However Tomatsu pivoted out of the way and brought his blade down on the man's sword arm. The figure recoiled, clutching the stump of his arm, cut half way up the upper arm. He stared for a moment blindly at his stump, not quiet believing his arm was truly gone. After a moment he looked up, seeming to remember he was in a fight. Tomatsu reached out and grabbed the man's clothes and pulled him to his knees. He stepped around the wounded man and plunged his Katana through the back of the man's neck, killing him without much effort and no sounds on the man's part.
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Shiba Kazuma
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Post by Shiba Kazuma on Mar 14, 2011 16:26:48 GMT -5
The flash and smoke blinded Kazuma for the brief second the adversary from the third window needed to get in a quick jab. Out of the blur in his vision Kazuma saw the glint of a blade coming in a slashing motion for his face. He reacted instinctively to pull a block with his Naginata, but because of his blurry vision was not able to judge the exact block. He felt a rush of pain as the assailant's blade partially blocked by his Naginata cut down along the left side of his face. He staggered a step back, regained enough of his vision to see the assailant standing in front of him.
Kazuma saw the blurry figure make another attack. Kazuma quickly brought the shethed blade of his Naginata up and thrust it into the mans chest. The man stopped dead in his tracks dropped his blade and staggered back a step. Kazuma pressed his attack and stabbed the man in the neck with his sheath. The man fell backward now clutching his throat as he coughed and wheezed, blood coming from his mouth.
Kazuma stood over the man grabbed the Phoenix mon attached to the sheath of his Naginata and pulled. In one motion the rope tying the sheath to the weapon came free, along with the sheath. Kazuma flipped his weapon over so the blade was facing down and thrust it into the mans chest twisted his wrist and wretched the blade free. The man's coughing stopped abruptly as his hands fell away from his throat.
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Post by Ikoma Kibo on Mar 14, 2011 21:51:43 GMT -5
Kibo guarded Tomatsu's left side as he attacked, denying any assailants angles on him. Her Father had taight her to deny angles of attack. Working with Tomatsu-sama, the both of them could effectively deny any assailant an easy opening. She swatted away one attacker with her off-hand fan and leaned back as the enemie's sword flicked up, missing her by a sun. Techniques were measured in such short distances, her Father taught, and she had listened carefully.
The other issue was to take situational awareness of the fight into hand. She'd trained with the Kuroiban in her travels and realized how dangarous one of them would be. Ichiro-Sama was indeed deadly. She cut at an oncoming assailant to throw their attack off-rhythm and conformed to Tomatsu-sama's movements as he spun. In this cramped area, they couldn't quite work in a wheel of blades if necessary, but she'd try. They stood on desperate ground, and whether their enemies knew it or not, it gave her and her allies the advantage. Desperate men fight harder....
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Shosuro Ichiro
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Post by Shosuro Ichiro on Mar 15, 2011 8:32:40 GMT -5
Ichiro heard the movement and knowing full well that more amateurs were coming he closed his eyes. The first bang happened behind him, but it was the window he waited for. Then he heard the pellets tick and burst as they came in the window. He inhaled the smoke as it filled the room. He heard the walking dead as they entered the window.
It was the exact moment of entering, Ichiro just started laughing. He then pounced.
Ducking under the sword swing of one attacker. He slammed the butt of the sheath of the ninja-to into the left foot of of another. Letting go of the sheath and leaving the attacker off balance. Still low to the ground he hamstrung the attacker with the tonfa.
He followed through his movement by shifting his weight and changing his stance, turning about on his less injured attackers. As doing such his left hand reached behind his neck and grabbed two dart, that he quickly released at his clustered foes. The one nursing his foot had his dart land in a most uncomfortable place and doubled over in extreme pain. While the swordsman dropped his blade as his dart landed just above his wrist destroying the tendons that helped his hand stay closed about the blade's hilt.
Ichiro then moved slowly forward upon his finished foes and reached into his Kimono. He pulled out a crimson and black ball just a little bigger than a koku and threw it just under the window sill. As it hit is burst and billowed out Crimson and Black smoke. Filling the window and blocking any view within the room from outside.
Ichiro then stopped at the hamstrung assailant and ended his life with a quick swipe of his blade, neatly slicing the man's femoral artery wide open. He stepped towards the man who is now less of one and stomped on his windpipe silencing his mewing for good.
As he approached the last quickly, he realized the truth. The attackers were meant to fail. They are diversions, deadly all the same but expected to die. If someone really wanted Tomatsu dead they would have sent for him. Good thing he likes the Akodo, and then he laughed some more.
"We should go there is more a foot here than it seems. We are not the real target. Hikori-san please stop dawdling and open the way. I will be the last out. The window is safe for now, as I am certain no one will try coming through unless they are desperate. It is also signaling my troops to the Inn. This place will be crawling with Scorpions in short order."
The most disturbing thing is the mirth in Ichiro's voice was genuine and if it wasn't for all the smoke, one could see his eyes showing utter joy to the chaos going on. Ichiro was having fun as his blade brought low the last window raider.
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Post by Shiba Kazuma on Mar 15, 2011 15:57:44 GMT -5
Kazuma saw that there was no longer a danger from the window and that there was no way for him to assist the others until he could better see. He removed a piece of cloth from his pocket and used it to wipe away the blood from his eye. He then folded it and placed that over the worst part of the cut just above his eye. The using the rope that he normally used to peace bond his weapon he tied the makeshift bandage to his head with the Phoenix mon hanging to the left side of his face.
Once he was finished he moved towards the door that lead to the hallway. I agree that we need to get moving. With all of these explosions and fire a building is no place to be. Besides while we are in these tight corners with multiple avenues of attack we can easily be outflanked.
At that he looked behind him to make sure the windows were still clear of any enemies.
Let us go and find your cousin Kitsuki-san and we should also try and help as many innocents as we can along the way.
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Post by Ikoma Kibo on Mar 15, 2011 23:30:16 GMT -5
Shiba-Sama was right- they had to get out- but were they being funneled into a trap!?
"Tono, keep your eyes open for a trap, they cuold be leading us into a killing ground if we're not wary!"
Could this be the feint designed to lure everyone to their doom? Perhaps. As for innocents, the best way to save them was to kill as many of these assassins as they could and give those individuals the chance to flee...
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Kitsuki Yuushahime
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Post by Kitsuki Yuushahime on Mar 19, 2011 8:33:01 GMT -5
Squinting and fanning the fumes away from her eyes, Yuushahime could just make out the scene before she was forced onto the defensive by the two garbed men who charged at her. She lost track of Hikori as he engaged two by the doorway himself.
Knocking blade thrusts to the side with her fan from one of the attackers, a shorter man, she had to sidestep the ono swing from the larger man. The two seemed quite experienced at working together; the one with the blade who was on her right was slicing and thrusting in a wild manner while the other, on her left, merely swiped at Yuushahime whenever she tried to step in to attack with her shorter wakizashi. After a few unsuccessful counters and being forced to continually deflect and parry attacks with her tessen, Yuushahime formulated a good tactic. Backing into the room to give herself space from their onslaught and to be further clear of the smoke, which she noticed the attackers all did not seem to care about, she fell back to the table at the centre of the room.
With just over a yard of space she let the smaller man advance towards her. He neatly swung his weapon in a sweep, which she deflected to the side with her offhand wielded fan while she spun on left foot and dipped, allowing gravity to pull her down into the man's right flank and away from the larger man. As she was momentarily blocked from being attacked by the ono as the shorter assailant was infront of the other, she found herself in a low crouch as the blade wielder recovered to attack again. For the first time she snapped the Menhari-Gata back into resting position and wacked the man's right hand right on the knuckles with all the force she could muster with such a quick attack. The tiny moment he was unable to control the weapon was all Yuushahime needed to ram her wakizashi into his gut before rolling backwards.
The short sword was buried halfway and would prove to be fatal, tears welling up in the shorter man's eyes as he looked down and dropped his weapon. The taller man audibly growled and darted around the other with surprising speed to try and cut into Yuushahime with his ono. Yuushahime stood and met him with just her fan, flicking it out once again into its full form. With a loud clang she managed to barely knock aside the heavy blow. As he went for another attack she crouched again and avoided the swing while sweeping her leg into those before her. Fortunately his angry attack had somewhat reduced his footing and he crashed down onto the tatami mats. Reaching into the front of her obi, she darted next to him as he scrambled to get up. Two quick thrusts with her tanto into his neck was enough to silence him.
She rose, noticing the shorter man beginning to slump to the floor. He had found his weapon again though. A flick of the wrist and her tanto found itself in another man's neck. The poor figure, with two blade handles sticking out of him, crumpled backwards awkwardly and lay over his ankles. Her two weapons stood vertically in the air, held into his body. She noticed Hikori had also dealt with his opponents, as had most of the others. Ichiro was just finishing off his while Kazuma struggled with another before putting him down. Eventually only one remained who was being helf off neatly by Kibo. The smoke had now filled the room and only words count be made out apart from the odd lull in the smoke. Yuushahime coughed lightly as she tried to fan it away from her. Luckily it was being slowly drawn out of the windows.
"She could be, yes" she replied to Tomatsu finally, enjoying the momentary safety as she reclaimed her weapons and flicked off the blood covering them, taking breaths where she could. She put away her tanto, while nervously watching the remaining assailant. She did not wish to disturb the Kibo's fight and could not clearly see the man as he kept hiding in the smoke. (ooc: hope this is okay!) Ichiro noticed the second window and did the same with that and blocked off vision into the room. Yuushahime nodded at his words, though she frowned slightly "I will be glad for the reinforcements but we do need to depart here quickly. They were likely just the first wave. They are going to a lot of trouble to attack Akodo-sama. They will have other measures in place I am sure. Do not underestimate them - they seem desperate. Kazuma is right, we should remain vigilant."
Yuushahime walked over to the wall next to the corridor as she spoke this; the northern exit was a little too dangerous now as it was covered in flames and the southern room did not have an exit door - she had spotted this as she walked the corridors earlier. Instead she cut into the top of the thin wall with her wakizashi, sliding it down to create an escape route. The fixed shoji wall collapsed easily. "We must move, kill him quickly" Yuushahime said. She gripped her fan in the same hand as her wakizashi for a second as she fumbled around inside of her kimono before taking out a red and yellow pouch and busying herself with something.
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Akodo Tomatsu
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Post by Akodo Tomatsu on Mar 19, 2011 11:23:35 GMT -5
Tomatsu nodded in agreement at the notion of moving quickly. He was genuinely worried for the Kitsuki's safety, he would grieve deeply if she were harmed during an attempt on his life. It was one thing to attack someone who had likely earned it, it was another to harm someone whose young life was just starting.
He walked over to the first man he had killed and retrieved, with some effort, his Wakizashi from the man's corpse. Before sheathing it, he wiped the blade on the dead man's clothes to clean it off. He trotted over to the Kitsuki's position at the wall, scooping up his Katanas scabbard on the way by.
He took up a position behind her, watching over her shoulder, while flicking away the blood in his Katana, away from her. What are you working on, Kitsuki-san? Some Dragon-clan magic? He mentally steadied himself, turning his attention to his fellow clan-mate in the room. He debating going over and assisting her in combat. It would not look good if he let her die on his watch he knew.
However he decided against it. It would look even worse if he deprived her of her glory in combat. He watched her as best he could from his position, and made mental note of her skill at fighting. He was always looking for new guards, this attack only confirming in his mind the need for guards at all times, and Mika could only provide so much protection, her skills more suited for espionage than combat. He also noted that if his current guards were worth their koku in weight, they would have been here by now to guard him, something must have happened to them, for surely they were loyal.
He took a survey of the room, quickly reading the strengths and weaknesses of the warriors at his side. A slight pang whipped through his heart, that for the second time in a row he would have to rely mostly on strangers to defend his life, but quickly reminded himself that his assassins must chose times that his clan-mates were not around, for they must realize that with even a handful of lions around him, he was invincible. He realized how truly blessed by the kami he must be to have such friends from other clans that they would risk their own lives, even courtiers, to defend him. He made a mental note to express his gratitude after this crisis had passed, to all of them.
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Post by Shiba Kazuma on Mar 19, 2011 12:00:54 GMT -5
Kazuma flicked the blood from his blade and while walking over to Tomatsu he picked up the sheath of his Naginata and slid it into place at his side. He looked around the room and seeing no threats he turned to Tomatsu.
Are you alright Akodo-sama?
As he said this he reached behind his back and pulled his Katana, sheath and all, from it resting place at the small of his back. He took his Naginata's blade and cut along the cloth that finely wrapped the blade and sheath together. It took him a couple of seconds before he could unwrap his Katana and remove it from its sheath. He checked to make sure it would slide in and out smoothly and then placed the weapon at his hip next to the sheath for his Naginata.
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