FORBIDDEN ARTS

The Blind swordsman

Location: Hatana clan village, Coellin state, Earth Kingdom.

Zaku's eye sparkled as the sunset stood proudly at the evening's horizon, Zaku and his brother, Kiikaku the Chief of the village, was watching the sun as it set. They both admired the beauty of the big red orange ball that was fixed at the horizon. Him and his brother both thought it was a good idea to watch the sunset near the lake that was near the village. Since is return 5 days ago, he took proud of the fact that his family , clan and mostly his mother's acceptance as they welcomed him with a warm and fuzzy smile.
"Isn't that a beautiful view?" Kiikaku asked as he turned his head to look at Zaku, Zaku just nodded and kept his head fixed at the sunset on the horizon.

Zaku narrowed his eye and developed a frown. He got up and looked down at his big brother, his brother also got up. Kiikaku's eyes met Zaku's, Kiikaku cleared his throat, "By now you have probably guessed that looking at the sun was not why I brought you hear." Kiikaku said sadly.

"What is it?" Zaku asked hesitantly and with a straight face. Kiikaku sighed, his did not know what else to do, "This is the only solution." Kiikaku thought. "About a week ago four Mountain bandits took over the mine near our forest , they killed two miners and and are holding some other miners in hopes of releasing them for 2 million shells." Kiikaku began.

"If that was not bad enough, one of the miners is a Hatana and I wanted to send one of our village you ones that have became Guardian, but after I heard that the leader of these Mountain bandits have mastered his Taki, I quickly decided to revoke my decision as an experienced Guardian/a strong bounty hunter would do and not an inexperienced Guardian." Kiikaku said as he balled his hand and his face turning red in rage.

Zaku still had his head fixed at the sunset, he put his hand on Kiikaku's shoulder. He turned his head, and a big, warm and cozy smile curved on his face.

"If you ever needed me brother, I swear that I will be there for you and ever my clan needs me. And if you need me to go to the mine and try my hardest to save those miners than... than I accept." Zaku said, with his eye glowing with confidence.

"Ah... Taki are abilities that all conscious organisms can possess, Taki are hard to awaken and even harder for one to master. I so far know about two types of Taki, which are namely are Toi and Koi, the Toi is a Taki that gives conscious organisms abilities that give them super powers, this Taki is clan/animal species specific, and an example of a clan that have an Taki that falls under this Taku is the Hatana clan which is an Taki that has an ability that gives a Hatana incredible speed and teleport." Zaku paused for a while.

"Koi is a Taki that allows a conscious organisms the abilities of shape-shifting to inanimate or animate things, it is also clan/animal species specific, and an example of a clan that have an Taki that falls under this Taku is the Feni that can change their body into a odourless and colorless poisonous gas." Zaku said.

Kiikaku nodded,he sighed and looked at Zaku. He could see the hunger for protecting his clan in Zaku's eye. Kiikaku managed a smile. "Zaku have you awaken your Taki." Kiikaku asked with curiosity written on his forehead.

"So far I have mastered speed, but I will now focus on teleportation." Zaku replied as he scratched his head.

"Hey you two shit faces, were may I find the Chief of this stinking village." A deep voice said behind them.

At the same time they turned, and before them was a tall, dark skin, abnormally big headed and with an afro hairdo man. He had a freaky smile on his face. This man just looked at them both, he approached them, "Am I farting or did I just asked you a question."

" I'm the Chief. " Kiikaku said with proudness in his voice." Well in that... The owner of the mine wants the problem to be gone by Friday... so you need to choose ASAP-MF." The man said in a deep voice. Zaku raised his eyebrow and let out a laugh. " I think it's ASAP, which stands for : as soon as possible." Zaku exclaimed. After Zaku's comment the man approached Zaku, he had a frown on his face.

"No! It stands for: as soon as possible mother fucker. Zaku was in disbelief of the man's bellicose behaviour. "Young man I don't like your tone, I find it irritating and what is your name." Kiikaku said a bit irritated with the man. "No disrespect to you shit face , even though you are a Chief but no-one speaks to Simamkele Sopazi like that." Simamkele said with his eyes filled with rage.

Simamkele walked away from them in anger, Kiikaku was stunned as no-one could speak to a Chief like that. Zaku had a smirk on his face. "Man! That is the guy I'm going to work with, and man that just now was heated."Zaku said as he walked back to the village. As he was lost in his thoughts while walking on the forest back to the village, instead of walking towards the village he started to walk away from the village. He did not notice this as until he was deep in the forest. He stopped and looked around the trees that stood proud around him, he could not tell south from north.

As Zaku was looking around he noticed a scabbard sticking out of a bush. Zaku walked slowly towards the bush. Zaku bend down and picked up the scabbard, Zaku then realised that it had a sword. It was oddly wrapped with a white dirty cloth at the hilt, Zaku ripped apart the cloth, by seeing the hilt he concluded that it was a Katana sword. By the looks of the long scabbard that was as long as his leg, he could tell it had a long thin blade, it also seemed it was a two handed sword.

Zaku wanted to see if it was double bladed sword. As he was about to remove the sword from the scabbard, when all of a sudden he felt a sharp pain in his left butt, Zaku grabbed his left butt firmly. He let out a gasp in agony, "Aahh!!" Zaku cried as he fell on his knees. His eye widen in shock, he started to sweat and his eyebrow started to twitch in pain. "Is this the end, could I be dying." Zaku though, he tried to get up but was in so much pain that he could not.

His vision started to get blur, Zaku narrowed his eye to see clearly as he noticed a human figure approaching him, Zaku couldn't see who it was, but who ever it was picked Zaku up, his vision was still blurry and the way he was positioned he could only see the human figure's hands, by their size and the scars that were all over it's hand, he assumed that they were off a man, but he was puzzled by a tattoo that was at the man's hand. "The blind swordsman." Zaku said in a weak and low voice. Zaku's body had taken a strain from his mysterious pain, after all that pain he finally became unconscious.