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I thrust through the portal and flipped to a stop, landing on my feet, sword sheathed. I was completely surrounded... this would be a perfect chance to redeem the Arashi and try it again. I grabbed the hilt of my sword... but I hesitated. RYUUKANSEN! I drew my blade as fast as I could and turned in a 360 circle, allowing the sword to change from blade to whip in the middle, in an attempt to hit every enemy around me. I couldn't use the Arashi again... not yet. It was the first move I had come up with on my own... and it was a complete and utter failure.

"Thank you."

I took the man's hand and noticed the sounds of horses. Dammit the reinforcements had already arrived. My fist shook as I sheathed my katana. I ran towards the sound of the houses being destroyed. I jumped up onto a roof top and ran along them searching for the man destroying the houses. As I saw him leave one of the houses, I jumped down at him. I grabbed my sheath with my left hand and the hilt of my katana with my right. SOURYUUSEN! I pulled my katana out of my sheath with immense force, slashing at the enemy, aiming to hit his chest. As my right hand did that, my left hand dragged my sheath along the same path, diverging at the very end aiming to hit the man in his kidney with my sheath. This way even if the first attack was blocked, he'd be too focused on that to block the second attack.

Rolling over, I unsheathed my katana and with a twist reverted it to it's whip form. I slashed at the 5 crows that came toward me. I snapped my wrist to slash at all 5 of them with the whip blade. After that I used the whip sword to grab a hold of the handle of one of the treasure chest. I yanked it hard to pull the chest free and up to me. Dammit I was not getting this far for nothing. I continued to crawl forward with the chest. Once I was through with the arrows, I would wait for the perfect moment and charge past the pendulum blade, treasure in my left hand and my right holding my whip blade, back in katana form defending my side in case the blade came down faster than before. Hopefully I'd make it through the portal.

I winced as the arrows hit and my body slid down onto the top of the spiked trap. It was quickly rising back up, so I rolled to the side until I rolled off of the top of the platform before it compressed me between the platform and ceiling. I aimed my body to fall right on top of the treasure chest.

"COME ON! MAKE IT!"

Coincidentally >___> I used Sasuke as a bit of inspiration for this character.

I looked down the hall. This seemed easy... a little too easy. There were probably traps littered all over the floor. I stepped backwards a little, and then took off running straight towards the hall. Before I left the entrance way however, I would jump up and twist my body. I would plant one foot on the wall and run along it as long as my momentum would allow me to do. Once I felt myself slipping, I kicked off the wall and ran alongside the other wall. I would attempt to bounce between the side walls until I reached the treasure chest.

This was my first time out of the village in a while. I had finally helped it to a point where it could stand on its own two feet. I boarded onto a cargo ship. They hired me as their bodyguard. I was only one man but this wasn’t a very big ship and it definitely wasn’t carrying anything overly important. At least that was what they told me.



So I stood there on the deck. Leaning against the guard rail watching the sea, I took the time to relax. It felt calming being out on sea. Felt good to finally be doing something. I let the breeze blow through my hair softly as I smiled. Everything was going pretty well.



But that didn’t last too long. Off the horizon, I noticed a larger ship approaching us, with incredible speed. Quickly, I made for the captain of the ship. “I think we’re under attack. Secure your cargo and the crew below deck. I’ll handle this.” I took the wheel of the ship, and attempt to divert our course from the enemy ship. With no one at the sails, I wouldn’t be able to change speed, so I had the men put us to full sail and full speed before they hid below deck. I wouldn’t let anyone I was protecting die this time.

I stepped in to block the vision of both men as they charged me. I hoped to block their view of each other so that they wouldn't be able to see what the other was doing. As they both approached me to attack, I would swivel out of the way at the last second. Just placing myself out of their attack. I hoped that they wouldn't be able to stop their attacks in time and finish each other off for me. Even if they didn't... they still had to deal with me. RYUUKANSEN! After I side-stepped the attack, I would hold my blade at hip level, turning into a spin and swinging the sword horizontally at the same time. Hopefully I would be able to slash both of them.

Sooooo. I start spring break tomorrow and I'm visiting my girlfriend up in Toronto. I'll be on, just probably not as much. If there's anything important that you guys need, you can always send me a text at 610-333-6140.

Besides that, I'm going to keep on trying to have at least one post up a day in each thread. I will admit that this weekend and next weekend might be slow to non-existent for me. Sorry guys!

I had made this village my base of operations as of late. It was working out pretty well until a bunch of bandits attacked it and I had to fight them off. There were a couple villagers that had tried helping me who had died… I blamed myself for their deaths. So while I was still in this village, I decided to help out. I owed these people… they had sheltered me and I still hadn’t been able to properly protect them. I felt so useless.

“Masahiro-san, that roofs looking good! Do you want me to bring you a drink?”

“No… Thank you. I’ve still got more work to finish before I can take a break.”

”Must be nice to be young and full of so much stamina! Try not to over do it though!”

I nodded politely and resumed my work, wiping the sweat from my forehead. I worked shirtless on the roof top, I had pulled my kimono down. I hammered nails into place, restoring this rooftop. It had previously been wrecked when I had jumped on top of it to out run some bandits. It was my fault and I would fix it. No matter how long it took… I had been working on this roof in particular for about 2 hours now. I had nearly restored it. Placing the last slab of wood in place, I hammered two nails into the top of the plank, and two into the bottom. I continued on and hammered a couple places in the middle just to make sure it wouldn’t be budging anytime soon.

I jumped down from the rooftop and made my way to the town square with the necessary tools. I had set off quite the explosion in this place. The well had been damaged so I had to repair. Luckily none of the concrete had blown into the well, instead it was just needed a replacement bucket and pulley system to fix it. I pulled all of the broken pieces from the well, and slid in the new crank. Screwing on the stopper at the end to make sure that the crank couldn’t be pulled free, I wiped some more sweat from my forehead. After the crank was in place, I tied a rope to the new bucket, making sure it was on tight. I fixed the other end to the crank, once again making sure the rope was attached tightly. I cranked the water bucket down, and then back up making sure it was completely working. As I cranked the bucket back up, I saw a bucket of pure clean drinking water. Instead of drinking it myself, I shouted for the rest of the villagers to get their fill.

I still had more work to do. I wanted to reinforce the town’s gates. I couldn’t allow the town to be attacked by barbarians again like that. I could feel my body getting sluggish, but still I forced myself along. I finally reached the gate, my vision was blurring.

“Masahiro-san. Maybe you should rest. You don’t look so good.”

“Thank you but I-“

Blacked out. I woke up at the village’s doctor’s home. The wounds that I had endured from the bandits were properly taken care of and I awoke with a cold cloth on my forehead.

”Ah, Masahiro-san you are awake. It’s great that you’re so zealous to fix the village. But you should take a break.”

“There’s too much work for me to take a break.”

I stood up, almost falling over again. The doctor caught me and helped me up. Just as I was about to say thank you, my stomach rumbled. I hadn’t eaten or drank anything since yesterday.

“Masahiro-san. The village does not blame you. You are our savior. But if you keep up at this rate, you’ll be dead before you can accomplish anything else. You have greater ambitions than our little village right?”

I did… I couldn’t afford to die here. I had to put an end to this feudal system that destroyed my family. Part of that would be helping this village… but I couldn’t help anyone if I was dead. I was glad to know that the village didn’t blame me for the loss of lives… but I still didn’t completely forgive myself.

“Thank you… I hate to ask you this… but do you think you could help me over to the tavern? Lunch is on me.”

"Thanks, but this isn't over. Get onto that roof."

I nodded my head to the left telling Haji which roof as I sheathed my sword again. I myself ran towards the right and climbed a top another roof. I stayed low as to wait and watch. The bandits came back... this time a large hairy man led them. He wore a pathetic looking helmet with a crescent moon symbol on it. Six awful looking katana were on his hips, three at each side.

"I AM LORD DATE MASAMUNE! WHO DARES CHALLENGE ME?!"

What? Was this really the fabled Date? I stood up from the roof, nodding at Haji, and jumped down in front of them again, standing sideways not facing them. I placed my left hand on my katana's sheath and crouched low before turning to them.

"I do. Yuy Masahiro."