This Place...

[Birdie]

"Ah! Oo-aniki!" Jakotsu was startled. He reached out a hand, brushing some loose strands of hair from Ban's face. "Are you all right?" He asked, moving so that he was hovering over his leader slightly, a worried expression on his pale face.

[amaco]

Bankotsu couldn't have been more embarrassed. He grabbed his brother's hand , rose, and brushed himself off. "Heh, I'm fine," he replied while stretching, "But it's almost time for us to leave this place. I'm itching for some action."

He walked over to the tree and picked up Banryu. He held the blade to his face as if he were inspecting its condition. He gently knocked on the flat side of the blade and began to wipe away smudges and dirt that clung to his weapon.

[sithhunter]

Noli walked up to bankotsu and offered a hand to help him up and said "Hey ban you allright? We cant have our fearless leader dying so soon." Noli joked

[Birdie]

Jakotsu poked Noli in the side. "Kuro-kun, don't forget, you have to by me some clothes!" Jakotsu spoke in a cheery tone, but his eyes showed only mocking. He alsopicke dup his weapon and strapped it to his back, where it usually could be found. Jakotsu crosse dhis arms, looking towards no where really, just waiting.

[amaco]

Bankotsu took a second away from his weapon inspection to address Noli. "Kurokotsu, are you prepared to leave. The daimyou's palace is west of here and with no interruptions, we should reach our destination in a day or so."

Many paths could be seen through the hordes of trees that surrounded the river. Bankotsu pointed his halderd in the direction of a wide dirt road. "That's the path we are to follow." He resumed his halberd cleaning and his mind began to race with possibilities. Maybe, we should just take the daimyou's palace for ourselves. A smirk emerged on the youth's face.

[sithhunter]

Noli walked to bankotsu until he was standing beside the man. "The question is bankotsu." Noli said with a smile "Are you ready?" Noli Jumped down the path at full speed and yelled behind him "Hey jakotsu first one to the castle spill's the first blood!"

[amaco]

Bankotsu sighed. He would not participate in this competition. He gently rested Banryu on his right shoulder and began to walk. The path was very wide and extremely rocky. Tiny pebbles shot up as Noli ran along the road.

In an instant, Kurokotsu was tripped by what seemed to be seemingly nothing. As Bankotsu got closer, he could make out a thin, strong piece of wire. He stabbed his halberd into the earth and knelt down and examined the tough string. He placed his index finger and thumb upon the wire, rocking it back and forth.

A group of men sprang upon the road from both sides and drew weapons of various sorts (swords, pikes, naginato(s), spears, etc.). "Bandits!" was Bankotsu's original claim, but then he took a closer examination. They all wore red kimonos with a golden crest of two shrimp (in a circular fashion) stitched on the left breast. Their hair was pinned and they wore dark blue obi(s) around their waist and dark blue tabi(s) beneath their kimono. "These aren't bandits at all! They're samurai! But what the hell do they want with us?!" shouted the rogue in irritation. It wasn't as if he was scared or angered by the thought of a fight, but rather he was vexed by the element of suprise.

Bankotsu stood up and was greeted with a pleasant surprise. As far as the eye could see, there was red kimono-wearing samurai. He smirked menacingly. "This is going to be fun." He grabbed the long shaft of Banryu and released the large weapon from the earth. He pointed it in the direction of the red-clothed men. "You're messing with the wrong person."

A bold samurai wearing a yellow kimono appeared from the crowd. He had a katana and a wakizashi tucked into his obi and carried a huge one-edged battle axe. He pointed its huge blade at Yomi and stated, "On the behalf of various daimyou, Bankotsu and Jakotsu of the Seven, your deaths are requested. We ask that your traveling companion (Noli) turn himself into us and he will not be harmed." No doubt this man was their general (or higher). "I call the yellow one!" Bankotsu shouted to his companions as he charged at the seemingly thousands of samurai.

[sithhunter]

These samurai had made one mistake....they tripped noli so he was a good twenty feet behind the group......perfect for and ambush on account they dident see him.

Noli concentrated as little dimond shard's started to perice his skin and emerge on his arms. Noli swung his arms in a downward motion and yelled "Adamant Barrage!" every dimond shard flew out of his arms and flew at high speed into the back's of the unsuspecting samurai.

"Well." Noli said as he unsheated his demon sword from is back "There's still plenty more!" Noli charged at the samurai with a ferice look in his eyes

[Birdie]

"Awww, Oo-aniki always gets to have the most fun!" Jakotsu said with a playful pout. His opal eyes hardened slightly. A grin appeared on his face. So many men! So little time! He pulled his sword out of it's sheath. He licked his lips, holding the sword in front of him. With a simple twust of his wrist and thrust of his arm, the sword snaked foreward at the group of samurai.

[amaco]

As Bankotsu came closer to the yellow-clothed samurai, he noticed that the man was immense. He towered over his red-clothed brethren by at least 7 heads and wore the mask of a demon's face. The behemoth samurai swung the long-shafted axe downward toward Bankotsu's head. The young rogue dodged to the left, barely missing the sudden attack. He jumped high into the air and attempted to cleave the man's head but Banryu was only met by the shaft of the axe. The mercenary was thrusted backwards by the samurai and his brute strength. He was flung into the mass of samurai behind the general.

Bankotsu recoverd himself in midair and performed Banryuusen above the assembly. A wave of pink energy spewed from the halberd and obliterated a complete line of samurai. There like ants! the youth thought to himself, because as soon as he took out a row of samurai, the gap was quickly recoverd by more men. He landed in a the mass of red kimono(s) but wasted no time. He began slashing ruthlessly all around him. He impaled a man and flung him into a group to his left. He then grabbed the bottom of the shaft and began swinging the weapon in a 360 motion above his his head, slashing anyone who came in the path of the weapon.

The young man was enjoying this dance of blood and it was evident by the prominent smirk on his face as he hacked through the men like shrubbery. His violent dance was abruptly stopped by the blade of single-edged axe. The yellow-clothed behemoth had returned. Bankotsu flipped back to get a distance between him and the samurai, and he noticed that the red kimono(s) had stopped attacking. They instead had formed a large circle around Bankotsu and their general. They began chanting an unknown warcry, beating their weapons against the earth in rythm.

The chants of the samurai seemed to send their general in a crazed frenzy. He ripped off the upper part of his kimono, revealing his bare chest and hundreds of scars. A strange aura began to pulsate from the man. This is no normal man... This thought was confirmed when the samurai began to chant the mans name or rather, his title. Herenji! Ho! Herenji, the Kimono-wearing Demon! Ha!" "A kimono-wearing demon, huh?" Bankotsu mocked, "Is that the best you can come up with?" This remark snapped the demon's patience and he charged Bankotsu with the full intent of the youth's demise.

((Noli and Birdie, the red kimono(s) are still attacking you two. Don't want you to get bored. XP))

[Birdie]

Blood splattered onto his already ruined kimono. A smile grew on his painted lips. The buetiful man used a finger to wipe some blood from his dress, licking it from his fingers with amusement. The slightly disgusted, amused, and confused looks he was getting from the men made his blood lust only grow... But the fear that was evident in those who faced him.... it was only a turn on. Oh how he loved to see the looks on the faces, pain filled, when death is oh so close. Those were the things that sent him over the edge. How many males in the world weere their like him? Sexual pleasure from death... from pain and blood. Jakotsu was deffinately an odd man indeed.


His blade struck out again. again the thought of so many men to have fun with crossed his mind as his sword cut foreward, slicing through those worthless, pitiful people.

[sithhunter]

Noli cut through another samurai and smiled...he dident perticularly enjoy killing.....but he would kill a man who raised a sword to him....speaking of sword noli's had just be flung out of his hands and out of his sight. "Fraxian!" Noli cursed as he made the dimond shards surface on his arm....after dogeing a few attacks noli had his entire body covered im adamant.....it as like a second skin....a skin that was sharp enough to cut through solid stone....after slaying a number more of troops noli found himself back-to-back with jakotsu.." Quite a party! Huh bro?" Noli said with a grin on his face.

[Birdie]

"Ah, if only every day was like this one." Jakotsu said in reply, turning his head slightly towards Noli. One of the samuri though this a weak moment and decided to attack Jakotsu. In the end he and a number of brave others got themselves cut in two. Jakotsu gave a small laugh, sounding somewhat like a man, for just a moment.

So many samuri! His sword could only do so much! Death and blood were splattered everywhere. Bodies laying about, but still more came. This was Jakotsu's heaven on earth.

[sithhunter]

"Hey jakotsu..." Noli said almost sadly "Ill buy you that outfit you want...as long as you dont get yourslef killed!" This was the closest thing noli had to family in a long time....and he wasent about to lose it. Noli cut another line of samuri and looked at himself...there was blood allover his adamant skin....and..strangly NOli liked it.

[Birdie]

Jaktosu was stunned for a moment. He blinked a couple of times, his mouth slightly open. THis time a samurai was able to get a hit in. A slash across his arm. It felt more like a dull ache. Jakotsu turned his eye son the daring man, who immediatly began to back away. The fear on that samurai's face was delicious. Somthing along the lines of, 'What-the-hell-have-I-done'. Jaktosu smirked, licking his lips. His sword slashed forward, dancing around the man, killing his allies, splattering with his friends blood. THat is, tunil the sword finally came around to kill him.

Jakotsu's body healed. "That's very nice of you to say, Kuro-kun... But you forget, I'm alreayd dead." Jaktosu made a swift movement, killing a man whilst kissing Noli on the cheek. "Now, it is you I must worry about. Dieing won't get you anywhere in life. Beleive me, I would know." He winked. Jakotsu was in an unatrually good mood, more than normal anyway.