Post by Kaoru on Aug 12, 2008 20:29:10 GMT -5
The Beginning ~ Told By Kaoru Kamiya
I raced into the town that my dojo resided on the outskirts of. Edo was usually a small quiet town, but news of Battousi the Hikkatori was upsetting the civilians. My main concern was that the ledgendary Hikkatori was using the name of the Kamiya Kasshen-Ryuu, the sword style my father had created, in the vainness of killing others. Innocent others. I was destined to stop the Hikkatori for anything to protect the name of my father.
I raced into town and saw a young man with long frizzy red hair and a sword at his side walking down the empty street. A sword. He must be the Hikkatori!
I approached the young man and bluntly confronted him about the happenings around the town. He claimed that he was not this 'Hikkatori Battousi' but just a common rurouni. I pointed at his sword and asked him why he carried it, because of the sword banning law that had been passed several years before I was sure he had been the Battousi. He told me that his sword was that of a Sakabatou Katana. I drew the sword and gasped as the reveresed edge was revealed.
"Ahhhh!" I heard someone scream off in the distance. Throwing the reverse sword down quickly I raced to the scene.
A very tall man with his face covered had slain some of the local poliece chief. He saw me and charged. I fought off my best with the bamboo sword I used for training, but it was no match to his Japnanese Katana.
He cornered me up against one of the local resturant's outside wall. Just as he was bringing his sword down I felt myself being swept up from the ground. My eyes clenched shut as I expected to be cut open with the swiftness of the sword. When I opened my eyes above me was the rurouni from earlier!
"You'd better be more careful Miss, that you should," The rurouni smiled.
The Battousi ran off down a dark allyway crying, "I will use the sword of the Kamiya Kasshen-Ryuu to slaughter!"
I fought to free myself from the arms of the rurouni, "We must catch him! He's dirtying the name of my father's sword." but out of exhaustion I fainted in the arms of the strong, young, red-haired rurouni.
To be continued...
I raced into the town that my dojo resided on the outskirts of. Edo was usually a small quiet town, but news of Battousi the Hikkatori was upsetting the civilians. My main concern was that the ledgendary Hikkatori was using the name of the Kamiya Kasshen-Ryuu, the sword style my father had created, in the vainness of killing others. Innocent others. I was destined to stop the Hikkatori for anything to protect the name of my father.
I raced into town and saw a young man with long frizzy red hair and a sword at his side walking down the empty street. A sword. He must be the Hikkatori!
I approached the young man and bluntly confronted him about the happenings around the town. He claimed that he was not this 'Hikkatori Battousi' but just a common rurouni. I pointed at his sword and asked him why he carried it, because of the sword banning law that had been passed several years before I was sure he had been the Battousi. He told me that his sword was that of a Sakabatou Katana. I drew the sword and gasped as the reveresed edge was revealed.
"Ahhhh!" I heard someone scream off in the distance. Throwing the reverse sword down quickly I raced to the scene.
A very tall man with his face covered had slain some of the local poliece chief. He saw me and charged. I fought off my best with the bamboo sword I used for training, but it was no match to his Japnanese Katana.
He cornered me up against one of the local resturant's outside wall. Just as he was bringing his sword down I felt myself being swept up from the ground. My eyes clenched shut as I expected to be cut open with the swiftness of the sword. When I opened my eyes above me was the rurouni from earlier!
"You'd better be more careful Miss, that you should," The rurouni smiled.
The Battousi ran off down a dark allyway crying, "I will use the sword of the Kamiya Kasshen-Ryuu to slaughter!"
I fought to free myself from the arms of the rurouni, "We must catch him! He's dirtying the name of my father's sword." but out of exhaustion I fainted in the arms of the strong, young, red-haired rurouni.
To be continued...