Oneshots (x male reader)

Sakura Hoshidan

Well let's see if I still suck at writing. And also I'm bored of the whole "stoic stone up my ass, be noble samurai" they always make them. So I'm gonna give you a bit of..... personality. Hope you like it.
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Fire emblem Sakura x samurai male reader

The wind whistles as it blows through all of the trees around me. Light shines in from the tree tops. I groan, stretching my arms out and rub my eyes. Propping myself up with one arm, I grab my helmet with my other and put it on. Damn..... that was a good nap. Time to get up and get on going.

I stand up, shoulders back and hands on my hips. My katana lays on my bag propped against the tree I slept under. I tie my katana to my belt and grab my sack, slinging it over my shoulder where it normally takes place.

Looking around, I spot the notch I made in a tree last night so I'll know what direction is north still. Slowly, I continue my journey. To the nearest village. And northern bound establishments are very wealthy so surely there's some work for a samurai. Hopefully anyways.

I start walking though the woods. My stomach grumbles as I make my way. Too bad I don't have anymore rations. Maybe I'll find a stream and can fish or something. Oh well. Something will turn up. If not, I have some money and can buy something at a village or wherever I end up at.

After about an hours worth of travels I hear something up ahead. I hide behind a tree and watch to see what approaches from the thicket. Peering from the side of it, I see two men in a few pieces of armor holding the wrists of a red head. The fat man of the group pulls her along by the chains connecting the cuffs that trap her hands. Well then. I guess I should intervene.

      The group move at an angle, but closer to me nonetheless. I hide as they near to me. I sneak closer to their path while they are distracted and talking with one another.

     "I'm sick and tired of these jobs man. Can't we have something that involves less walking? This is for a group of underlings." The chunky one whines

     "Yes, because we can trust a bunch of grunts to capture a princess," skinny says sarcastically," If anything, this should be an honor. To have been a critical part in the plans." He tells the other. I get close enough and ready my katana.

        I jump out in front of them, drawing my sword at them. I point it at the two.

       "Release her now. That is unless you like getting impaled by bladed objects. Ether way suits me. Heya there miss, I'll have ya out in a jiffy. Don't worry, I'm a professional." I tell her with a wink. The men look at each other in confusion before laughing. Well that was rude.

      "You think you can take the two of us on? Really? You're out of your league child. Return home and we will forget this encounter." Skinny announces making me deadpan. Wait, that means I get the fun way. I perk up at this.

    "Okay I may drink a lot of milk but that doesn't mean I'm a baby. Although sweetheart, after this I wouldn't mind if you called me baby." I wink at her making the girl blush.

     "Well then, I guess I'll take care of this punk." The large one steps forward while the other holds the girl with a firm grip on her arm. The man raises a wooden club and does a heavy swing above his head. I doge it and place the edge of my blade at his neck. He stops and tenses.

   "Are you sure you can't let her take care of me? She seems like a very responsible girl that is capable of babysitting. Even if I can get a little carried away." I laugh a little at my own joke. He drops his club.

And this is why I hate working with you, Dale.....," the other guy groans, face-palming," How about a trade then? The girl for my lumbering oaf comrade. Sounds fair enough, right?"

"Are you sure I can't keep him? No? Well darn," I say sarcastically," How about you take her shackles off first? And we obviously will make the handoff at the same time. That away we won't have to go through the "how can I trust you will release them" bit."

"You're loud, but smarter than you look. Very well then. I agree to your terms." He says. The skinny member of the duo takes a key from his pocket and removes the shackles on the girls wrists.

"We release them on three, got it?," he nods at me," one, two, three." He pushes the girl towards me, as I remove the blade from my hostages neck. She bumps into me and clings to my left arm, burying her face into my shoulder. The men stand next to each other now.

Dale's accomplice takes a step forward, unsheathing a blade. Really? "You wear the garb of a samurai, but act nothing like one. We shall see if you fight like one." He ponders out loud.

"Do you mind letting go of my arm for a minute miss?" I whisper to her. She let's go of my arm and takes a few steps back behind me. I ready my weapon.

Skinny takes a series of attacks at me. First, an angled downward strike, a horizontal slash, and an angled swing going upwards. I deflect each attack and take a step to his right. Before he can attack me again, I make a gash in his upper thigh. He groans and hesitates, letting me have opportunity and put my blade at his neck before he can turn to me and carry out with an overhead chop. The man stops his attack before his underarm touches my blade, arms high up. With the angle of my katana, if he continued then my blade would have gone right though his neck.

"I think we are done here guys. Thank you for always sticking your neck out for me." I wink at my foe. He removes one hand from his blade, and extends it to the side to drop it. With that, I lower my blade and go with the girl in the direction they came.

Timeskip

Sitting on the bed was the girl whom I found out is Sakura. She thanked me while blushing on the way there. I had asked if they came from a village and she said yes. Once we got there it took most of the day finding a place to stay. Well that, and also bartering with the owner of the place. Man was a money sucking vampire. But I managed to get him to throw in two free meals as a deal.

"So tell me about yourself Sakura. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to, but how and why did you get kidnapped?" I ask her. I mean, I am curious so I can't help it.

"It's-it's okay, I'll uh tell you," she blushed," I'm um a Hoshidan. Royalty so well I got kidnapped, probably for leverage. Sorry that you um you had to go all this way to save me." She told me. Okay the blush and stutter is adorable, but come on i wanted to save her.

"Well Ms.Hoshidan, it was no bother at all. In fact, samurai's like me are trained to try to protect and help good people like you. That is, unless katana's were made to be butter knifes. That would not be good for adventuring and protecting." I say, making her giggle a little.

"You don't um act a samurai warrior Y/n. And uh aren't warriors supposed to well um stoic?" She asks with a small smile on her face. I sigh, looking down at the floor.

"Surprisingly, I am actually a samurai. I'm from a small village and the warriors were samurai's obviously. My dad was one. One of the strongest ones. Trained me in the ways of the samurai. Well, we were skilled but a small village. And then one nation completely destroyed our village. Burned it down. Nohr killed them all. I survived because I wasn't there. I went in the woods to practice a little. Then I came back at dark to find the entire place ablaze."

"So I am a samurai. And why I'm not all solemn like most of them, even after I had everything taken away from me is because of what I live by. Samurai are meant to protect life and uphold justice. But if I'm not living my own life, never actually enjoying it and fighting for others, then didn't I just waste a life? It may be full of helping others but I wouldn't be helping myself. And if I don't, who will? So I just try to enjoy life. No matter how shitty it gets."

Before I know it, I feel her body collide with mine into a hug and making me stumble a little. I wrap my arms around her, close my eyes. The touch of her fingers brush against my cheek, wiping a few tears away.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you-that you had to go through all of that. If um if you need anyone to talk too, I'm here for you." I look down at her smiling.

"Thank you Sakura." She smiles at me, then snuggling into my chest. I plant a kiss on top of her head making her squeal