Chapter 7: Masaharu Redemption

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Yuriko climbs on the village's middle watchtower and pulls out her bow as she takes aim at her opponent and kills four Samurai in one shot by shooting a rope that holds on a log over a house. The logs immediately tramples several Samurai. Sayaka on the other hand has her plate full by having 3 Samurai cornering her between them and the hostages they have rescued. Sayaka spins her Yari over her head and charges toward a Samurai and swings the shaft of her weapon on an enemy's head and knocks him out. As a Samurai tries to approach behind her, she simply pushes the Yari's Sakahoko and hits the Samurai stomach with the Shoe before she turns around and strike her spearhead across the Samurai's chest and ribs. She turns around and spins her weapon and again strikes the Samurai's head with her weapon's shaft and stabs him with the spearhead. Her beautiful long black hair and white Hakama spins beautifully as she moves.

Miyamoto hides behind a barrel as he observes the Samurai movements, they seems to be running toward Koji. Miyamoto pulls out three Kunai from his pouch and throws it toward them, missing no aim he was able to kill all three Samurai he aims at. Koji on the other hand is busy with the Samurai surrounding him. He spins and strikes his blade on every Samurai that comes near him. His father's Katana was surprisingly still sharp enough that it could strike through every of his enemy body plates. A samurai sneaks behind him which he now detected faster than before. Before the Samurai could make any more move, Koji instantly sends the Samurai flying away as he kicks the Samurai right on the face and slashes his blade toward every Samurai near him but also focuses on making sure no Samurai gets passes him into the house.

Yuriko takes another aim and kills a Samurai with her arrow. She turns around and finds a Samurai has followed herup the watchtower, quickly she draws her Tanto and charges toward the Samurai.She pushes his armed hand away and strike the Tanto right through his throat as she pushes them down the watchtower together. Using the corpse as a cover,Yuriko quickly stands and loads her bow before she releases the arrow and shoots the Samurai charging toward her from her right before she jumps toward her arrow direction and quickly pulls another arrow and shoots at the Samurai charging from her left. Yuriko quickly runs and joins in with Sayaka. She runs pass Sayaka and stands front of the hostages, protecting them while Sayaka slain every Samurai that runs toward them.

Miyamoto stands from the Barrel and quietly walks toward a Samurai behind their back. Miyamoto swiftly thrust his Tanto toward the Samurai's throat and pulls him back to drop him while pulling his Tanto out in the process. Not stopping at one, Miyamoto repeats his moves on every Samurai in front of him that fails to sense his presence. Koji strikes his Katana twice on his opponents head, breaking their helmet and forces his blade through the Samurai's skull. He looks around to look at the numbers of Samurai he has slain, he turns to his side and a Samurai slashes their blade on Koji's injured left arm. Koji winces through the pain and slashes his Katana from below onto the Samurai's jaw before he spins again and holds his blade close to his elbow and thrust his blade on the Samurai's heart. He pulls out his blade, breathing heavily as he thought to himself "When is it going to end?" Koji tiredly turns around as he sees a Samurai nearly strikes their blade on him. Before he can react, a blade thrusts through the Samurai from behind passes their chest. As the blade is pulled back, the Samurai falls. Koji smiles and nods "Thank you Miyamoto." Miyamoto smirks under his mask and turns toward the remaining Samurai "I can take this, you go get Takayuki head for us." Miyamoto prepares on his stance. Koji smiles and nods as he takes off toward the small fort on the hill inside the village.

Miyamoto shakes his head as he sees Koji go, even he himself could not believe what he is doing. Koji reaches to the fort's gate and yells "Face me you coward!" A Samurai fires an arrow toward Koji. Quickly, Koji jumps aside and dodges the arrow as two Samurai charges toward him and one of them quickly jumps to strikes on Koji's head. Koji pushes his blade up and deflects the attack before he stabs the blade right through the Samurai's chest. Before he could pulls out his blade, a samurai charges toward him and attacks Koji from his left. Koji ducks and rams his shoulder toward the Samurai's chest. Knocking the Samurai back, Koji quickly pulls his weapon out and hits the Samurai nose with his Katana handle before he slashes the Katana on the Samurai's collarbone. Pulls back his sword and thrust his blade through the Samurai chest. Koji looks up just in time to dodge another arrow. He runs toward the gate and jumps on a wagon before he jumps again and climb up on the watchtower. The arrow flies passes his left arm again, causing more cut. Having no time to flinch on the pain. Koji charge toward the archer and slashes his blade right passes his stomach. Causing the archer's intestine to blows out of him and blood sprays all over Koji's face and yukata. Koji tiredly jumps down the watchtower and holds on his injury.

Yuriko and Sayaka protects the hostages to the very end of their enemy's breath. Sayaka shakes her arms, finally feeling her muscle begins to sore at all the swinging. Yuriko takes out her bow and shoots a Samurai in the head before she pulls out her Tanto and nudges Sayaka on the side "Take the hostages away. I will deal with the remaining enemy." Sayaka nods and quickly runs toward the villagers and guides them away into the red leaf forest. Yuriko wipes the sweat off her face, also feeling the fatigued from the attacks. She grits her teeth and squeezes her Tanto as she looks at the remaining Samurai in front of her. As she begins to fend off the Samurai, blocking their path from chasing Sayaka and the hostages, she kills as much enemy as she can. Feeling sudden pain as a blade slashes her left shoulder, she stabs the Samurai right under their jaw before she herself fells on her kneels. Clinging on her injured shoulder, she looks up as one Samurai approaches her while the other in the back. Yuriko falls on her back and tries to crawls away as the Samurai raises his blade. She turns away and closes her eyes but instead of death, she feels bloods rains down on her.

As Yuriko opens her eyes she sees the Samurai dropped dead in front ofher with their throat slit. The Samurai who is previously behind has also diedwith a Kunai sticking out their back of his head. Yuriko looks up and sees Miyamoto, still wearing his demon mask and offers his hand to her "I'm startingto feel this Samurai things does not fit you at all" Miyamoto chuckles. Yuriko scoffs and slaps his hand away as she stands for herself and looks around "Where are the other Kurosawa?" Yuriko asked while she holds on her shoulder. Miyamoto turns back and points toward the other exit of the village. "They are calling for back up. Have the hostages been freed? And where the hell is Koji he should have been here minutes ago?" Yuriko shrugs and shakes her head before she says that they need to help Koji.

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