The King's Queen

Chapter 3

You were walking in the dark not really knowing where you were headed. For most it would be terrifying but you had this strange feeling that where you were going you wouldn't be harmed. The closer you got to the unknown destination the safer you felt the suddenly the floor collapsed and you fell with it. At first it was extremely scary but the strange feeling returned causing you to stop screaming and brace yourself for impact. Just like you anticipated you finally hit the bottom, the impact was hard and it was difficult to stand up. So you opted to raise your head only to see a horn of a dead wild bore right in between your eyes. Obviously like any other person you screamed and crawled away from the skull or the mountain of skulls infront of your eyes. Your eyes went up to see what looked like you were in a rib cage, obviously you freaked out. Not helping the situation was the fact that it looked like you were on top of water, you say water but your not sure because it was very dark where here was. A yawn suddenly echoes through the area pulling you away from your thoughts. Instantly you look up to the mountain of skulls to see the source of the yawn. Up above you could see a man like figure sitting on a throne on top of the skulls. Half of the man's was in shadows but you could make out some strange markings on his face. It looked like he had pink hair and he was wearing an oversized black and white kimono. "Oi who the hell are you and how did you get here" he spoke with his deep sleepy voice as he looked at you with his red orbs, just from hearing him speak made your heart skip a beat and made you blush making even your ears red. You were about to say something but suddenly hands started to come out of the water and began to drag you into the water in which they succeeded. You felt like you were suffocating as you began to see a bright light under the water...

You woke up with a start, in a pool of sweat from the nightmare you just had. "Are you okay master." Hamako said worried about you, for some reason ever since the day you used jujutsu on her she began to call you 'Master' even though you told her a million times that she didn't need to call her that Hamako would just say the same thing "That would be disrespectful to you." So you ended up just giving up. "I am fine I just need to go do my chores." You said reassuring her that you were fine. Luckily it was not dawn yet so you could make it in time. You finished your chores in record time and went to tell your aunt.  "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, ever since that day you have woken me up to tell me that you finished your chores? At this point just write a note so you can just LEAVE me alone you stupid girl!" Your aunt yelled once again at you for waking her up in the morning. This has been happening for about two weeks or more now because you wanted to go to Satomi-san's home, after getting the scroll he requested that you come the next day. So you did and you were not expecting what you had to do. Satomi-san wanted to train you to at least know the basics of jujutsu, you were hesitant at first but you started to get intrigued by jujutsu techniques and so on, so you agreed. Let's say you fell on your face so many time that your  nose started to bleed, he had given you a goal which was to not spill a single drop of water from the cup he gave you. The trick was that he would attack you while you were holding the cup of water, so you could see how difficult that was but you managed to finally do it.

"Y/n your form is sloppy you need to be abit more aware." Satomi-san said once again as you face planted into the ground "Once you finally master this we will move on." He told you 'What is it that I am supposed to master?' You thought as you were getting frustrated by this old man, it had been a few days of none stop falling that made you so fed up. Satomi-san went and got you another cup of water for the sixth time that day, this time you were determined to get it right so you maintained a steady breathing pattern and took the cup of water, your goal was to protect the cup. Again you face planted into the ground "You finally got your goal but you lack focus and awareness." He said 'So I should focus on you and keep my guard up?' You thought as you began to realise what to do. You went and got another cup of water ready this time, you faced your sensei and took a deep breath and began as usual. Satomi-san ran up to you reaching towards the cup in your hand, unlike the other times before where you would hesitant and draw the cup closer to you. You held the cup in you left hand and used your right hand to block your sensei's hand, pushing it to the side. However Satomi was quick to plan his next move so he caught himself and opted to make you fall by hooking onto your leg which would instantly make you fall on you back. Somehow you knew what he was trying to do so you jumped as he swung his leg causing him to miss. Luckily for you, you didn't spill a single drop of water. Instead of the approach he started with, he went and tried to attack your face to make you spill the water all over yourself like many times before. You immediately ducked, using your free hand to balance yourself you hooked your sensei's leg with your leg causing him to fall on his face. You stood still for a moment due to the shock, after a few seconds you went to place the cup down. Once you did that you went to your sensei who had just sat upright after the fall, you offered him assistance in getting up which he gratefully accepted. Satomi patted your head with a proud look on his face, you felt so happy. "Now that you finally understand what it actually means to have your guard up. We can now move on to blocking you little brat." He said and started stretching 'how is he still moving, I would still be in pain from a fall like that?" You sweat dropped at how strong he is...