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13. Misfortune

This is a Touken Ranbu fanfic

I'm the manifestation of misfortune... I've told you, so don't blame me when calamity felt upon you...

That's what I told her the first time I met her. A sword that would bring nothing but bad luck to his owner, pretty cool huh. And yes, I even put my brightest smile on when I said that. I thought it would scare her, but you know what? She laughed! She was fucking laughed, right in front of my face!

"I didn't know that misfortune looks so beautiful," that's what she said between her laugh. "Now I wonder how will calamity looks like,"

And those words successfully shut me up. How could I answer it anyway? By describing Onimaru? Oh wait. He's not the calamity, although his face could bring a severe nightmare for the whole week. No, I've lost my words, to a girl! Honestly, it hurt my pride. Really! But she was my master, so I kept my silent and bowed my head as low as I could.

"Get up, please," she said. Funny though, since those words were something that I never heard from my former masters. They killed each other to have me, robed me from my master's grave and conquered his clan, stole their gold, killed every single man and boy, and fucked the woman to death. They never spoke kindly, even to their wives and children. They acted so mighty, arrogantly slashed anyone who brave enough to point out their errors. But then, this girl was asking me to get up in a manner of a queen. I looked at her in disbelieve, as I wonder was calamity already came on me.

"Is there something on my face?" I could see some blushes there before she covered her face with her sleeve.

"No, it's nothing, Aruji," I snorted back. "It's just, I think you're too kind to a misfortune,"

"Well, since you're summoned already, you're now a member of my family. This is how I treat my family so please, bear with me," she giggled. "You can call me Shizuka by the way. Now, come. I'll show you your chamber,"

And from that very moment, I've dedicated my life to her. Misfortune or not, I've promised to myself I will fight for her, no matter what. This Tsurumaru Kuninaga will destroy anything that trying to harm her. Anything, including myself.

I looked at my reflection on the surface of the water that running quickly as the river flow farther to the south. Down there, looking back at me was the corrupted version of me. With his dark hair and scary red eyes he gave me his cunning smile, the smile that I hate from the bottom of my heart.

I do really want to kill him.

I lift up my sword and pressed it on my throat. I was about to slice neck open when her scream stopped me. I turned around and found her standing there, scare on her face, shouting something I didn't understand. I shook my head and waved my hand, asking her to leave that place as soon as she could.

Don't look at me like that, Shizu! Don't come closer! Stay away, so you won't get hurt. Ask the other to protect you. Be safe.

And I cut my throat open. Those funny sensations were not the best feeling I've ever experienced indeed. Those sensations when my blood pumped out from my body and my heart gradually became weaker and weaker. Those sensations when my skin touched the cold water and started to drown. Funny indeed, since an old steel like me shouldn't be able to have those sensations.

In the end, I saw her figure running toward me, screaming something I couldn't hear. After that, everything disappeared into the darkness. Or so I thought.

I opened my eyes and found myself inside a room I know the most. Yes, the repair room. That was creped the shit out of me for I thought I've already met my end, so I tried to get up and regret it instantly. I tried to lift up my arm and a sharp pain stung half of my body. I gave up. I shut my eyes back and tried to breath constantly.

Then I heard her voice, with some others approaching the room. And the door slide open. She came in, followed by Ookurikara and Mitsutada. I blinked, and she suddenly cried. She ran to my side and cried more, covering her face with both of her sleeve while talking so fast.

I looked around for some help since I couldn't understand a single word she said. Then I looked at Mitsutada, but he was crying along with her, patting her back like an attentive mother. As expected from Mom! Then I looked around and found Ookurikara. I looked at him, asking for some explanation.

"You are the stupidest," the tanned man hiss. "You just need to stay there a bit longer and Aruji's spell would work perfectly, but you suddenly became deaf and killed yourself. Bastard!"

"Don't do that again. Don't you dare to do that ever again," she cried right on my face. "Or else... or else..."

"Or else?"

"Or else I'll tie you up with chains patched on the wall in my room,"

I didn't know why but all noises inside the room disappeared, and I could sense some dangers built up in the air around me as I could see Ookurikara and Mitsutada's eyes suddenly glowed in rage and hunger. Yeah, that'd turned really... really bad... I tried to ignore my sore bones and grinned.

"Yeah, I'll try,"