Fan Fiction ❯ New Dawn Of The Heart ❯ Embrace Your reason, Embrace Your Self Worth, Embrace Your Destiny ( Chapter 9 )

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Embrace Your reason, Embrace Your Self Worth, Embrace Your Destiny

Suzuka slowly paced toward the double doors she could still feel the slight pulse off her own blood pumping through her system. She found herself smiling widely killing always gave her such a great feeling. It was like a rush off lightening hitting her body refreshing all her senses at once. She slowly eased up her bloody hand looking at it the best part off killing was seeing there faces.

They always had that look in their faces which excited her even more it was a wide eye frightened gaze which reminded her off deer right before you slice their throats so they stop squealing. Fujio had been weak, she hated weak people they could never amuse her long enough for it to be entertaining or worthwhile.

Some how she'd expected that from the weak-minded fool, he believed in love something, which makes people weak. Weak hearted soft fools who from what she'd seen became to emotional and to concern about those around them. Love at the end off the day is just emotional baggage better off discarded by warriors, no one cares for emotions of the foolish.

Weak fools who believe in these things perish early on when it comes to fighting on bloody battlefields. She slowly narrowed her sightless eye to be the strongest you must feel nothing embrace the blood which you spill and enjoy every moment off it. Those who deny themselves this are loosing so much in not seeing blood soak the red fields of war.

The Samurai where weak warriors because they believed in the higher state of mind there blood lust always seemed lost in the sway of laws and meditation. As if they'd ever achieve this higher state off mind they liked to play out death like some suicidal romance by cutting their enemies in what they thought was a beautiful dance. She stiffed slightly it was a sickly display off there pathetically toned down love off war.

She slowly closed her bloody hand forming a fist to truly enjoy war is to cut your enemy open while he's still alive to lick his blood from your blade and to smile down at his frightened eyes and tell him in the mists off his beautiful screams that Emma-O is waiting for them in the pits of the flaming underworld. What is life with out a beautiful artistic death anyway?

A waste of time a life which didn't have any meaning to her, her enemies lives where a waste off time. Half off them had lived such pointless pathetic loved filled lives and by ripping their insides out she was giving them a glorious death fit for the Emma-O's underworld. She smiled slightly maybe it pleased him to know that she was sending him souls fit for his underworld.

She shrugged still if he didn't really exist then why did she care, she was good at killing and that was all that mattered. Killing made her strong unlike Taki whose love had made her weak. Somehow she'd always liked it better when the women had been an ice bitch at least then she'd had a spine. Now all she'd cared about know was that pathetic blonde haired Greek.

Pathetic was hardly the correct words for Sophitia she had always been weak, she wasn't even a warrior! She was a baker's daughter who just got lucky there was nothing magical about her rise to fame. She'd just got lucky once to often on top off that Sophitia didn't have the strength to be a warrior, emotional wrecks made pathetic warriors.

Why is it when the women had killed her she'd still remained weak? She could have been so much more she could have been full of vengeance and hate she could have taken that feeling and gone with it and become a real warrior. Instead she'd walked away from that path or so it seemed which just proved how cowardly she really was. That's probably why she needed Taki she needed a soppy bitch to do all her killing for her.

Hell maybe she could get the women to lick her boots for her while she was at it. Taki was no more than a pathetic lap dog when she was around Sophitia anyway. A weak emotional bitch of a warrior who'd totally lost her edge. All these things would make her so easy to kill if she ever got out off the labyrinth, she'd fall like all fools do who are in love, with such perfect ease.

She twirled the double-edged dagger in her other hand, death is such a beautiful thing Taki's death would be a well worth waiting for. Still she'd also get pleasure out of torturing her bitch of a girlfriend it'd be so nice to see the look on Taki's face as she kicked the weak little Greek around. She turned eyeing Mekki-Maru, or she could give Taki's little bitch a taste of her soul being ripped out.

She slowly swept her bloody hand over the long hilt she watched the eye open for a second it moved slowly to look up at her then closed again. She smiled widely perhaps she could use it on Sophitia and rip her soul right out instead of making her feel like it was being ripped out like she'd done with that annoying Chinese girl. Her punishment had been more mental than physical.

Still that had been fun but Sophitia deserved a far more painful punishment. She eased the blade out her belt slightly this was a Soul Edge weapon after all it was far more powerful than any weapon the ninja's had she should use it for it's intended purpose the ripping out and eating off souls like it's counter parts the Soul Edge swords had once done.

She turned slowly watched as Nagmo pushed the double doors open the big man slowly lowered his head as she walked through, the ninja arena lay before her. Nothing had really changed since she'd left earlier it was still a fifthly ninja palace. She eyed the huge chair she'd spent the past few days sitting on it was nothing more than a throne of supremacy used by Toki.

She snarled aloud Toki was the reason she hated sitting in it, it reeked off him. She narrowed her good eye once up on a time she'd wanted to sit in it so badly. She'd wanted nothing more than to throw out orders to the Fu-ma clan. To be their leader to order and conquer the other clans until only Fu-ma remained.

Somehow the whole childhood dream had lost its appeal it seemed just like everything else in this ninja temple to be a pathetic ill gotten gain that felt worthless to the touch. At the end off the day Toki's chair was no more than a souvenir, which he'd been given by one off the Lords of the land for ridding his house of some slimy demon. In truth just about everything this fifthly clan owned where gifts from people.

The chairs the tables, blankets, bedspreads and most off the weapons had all been gifts from people who they'd slain demons for. She shrugged her shoulder in annoyance what money they normally got went on buying armour and cloths as well as barrels full of Sake and other types of alcohol. Bags of food were also brought and stored.

The rest was swindled in brothels and going to Taverns and throwing parties as well as charming in beautiful girls and boys who would spend the night with them. She sneered it was somewhat off a pathetic life style. There was nothing in it that appealed to her, these fools seemed to enjoy working for their dreams and luxurious. Why bother when you can just force people to do what you want?

Threaten and you can get money, kill and you can have armour. Get rid off fourteen irritating children from high ranking political members and the Greek head off state will pay you for your troubles. Because in doing so you give him a chance to move a little higher up the ranks and knock down his weakened opposition.

Then use their innocent souls to gain power and strength from the demon world and from there on in all you can do is win. So what if she'd been died for a day or so what was a day in the whole of her life? Now she had the clan under her fingertips and Taki's weapon in her hand what could be better?

She turned slowly watching as one of the assassin guards pulled the lever forward so the huge bridges around the Arena could extend downwards. The huge metal bridges creaked as the clamped in to place. She sneered slightly hearing the Undead Destroyers roar from down below, It was a real shame she couldn't make the ugly bastard shut up because it's roar was starting to annoy her.

Toki had only been slightly older than her when he had resurrected and enhanced that stupid Revenant. From what she remembered him saying it would only answer to its masters call. Which meant only he could shut it up or make it go to sleep. Somehow she'd expected the ugly bone faced demon to have died by now it was so old, that wasn't to say it was any less potent though.

It still did its job if you call tearing unwanted demons apart it's job it seemed more like being fed. At the end off the day if was just a weak useless sake of bones that pushed unwary demons in to cages. Why is it Toki hadn't just killed it and got something better made no sense to her but then the old fool had always liked the old ways taught to him by his father.

Those pitiful ways that made the clan weak because the rules and laws bound them in almost everyway. They lived to kill demons a simple purpose and pathetic one, why care? Why bother killing demons? They could've been the greatest clan in Japan they could have killed off the Samurai generals and started a power struggle between the factions, which they could've taken advantage off.

It seemed even that was beyond them they just liked to stay the same as they always been unchanging even after the fall off the ten great ninja lords. Unlike the other clans who didn't care for demons anymore and wanted to be part off something bigger. Most had fought bloody battles against the Samurai or been the under hand assassins in wars that had broken out both in Japan and across the seas.

They had done great things they had soaked the battlefields in blood and killed those who stood against them unlike Toki's weak little clan. Nothing could stop their reign of glorious blood shed. She'd always hated how Toki had said that if they were to meet the other clan's member by chance they were to show them no respect because they had no honour.

They were brave! They had it in them to conquer! They wanted to be known for soaking the battlefields in blood! There was more honour in that than the old fool believed. At the end off the day the Fu-Ma clan just hid behind the temples great walls hiding away like cowards, missing the glory they could earn, there strength ebbing away becoming weak and only caring for the common people.

Why bother with these people? They are nothing more than weaklings who can't fight and die far to quickly. Disgusting fifthly peasants who live in hovels living there boring day-to-day lives and swarming like rats through the great cites. The lowest rank and nothing more than terrified deer in the greatness off things there only use if you could call it a use is shoeing horses.

Some off them weren't even good enough for that all they did was sow rice until their dieing day, making them just as useless as the crop they picked. The rest just sold items as if that was anything off a life. Somehow she wished she could crush them all under her finger and be rid off their disgusting smell.

Her gaze slowly moved upwards to the two demons roaring in their cages on the far side off the arena. She watched the huge Uni So An Ki rise up on it's hind legs then slam it's horned head in to the bars. She found herself smiling widely demons even though they where stupid could make her blood rush sometimes with their power and anger.

The Uni So An Ki, where such a primitive race off demons but they where so violent and uncontrolled in their actions. It was funny to think that human's looked upon demons with such disgust when they had such power even if it was brought on by the need for blood food or sex it was there. She snarled slightly they where just afraid off this power because off how primal it was.

She'd always found it funny how people tried so hard to fight their violent desirer's it made them weak and pathetic. She'd learnt long ago that if you give in to the inner desires you can become so much stronger. Why be a restrained warrior? Why care for morals and delusions of being proud?!

They amount to nothing in the end apart from a useless death by another's sword, if you give in to your demons you never loose, you can be god among the weak and useless and shape your world as you desire. Your enemies would be all died all dieing or waiting to die ether way you'd be the strongest you'd be the leader and no one would dear to oppose you!

Her gaze narrowed as the demon rose it's head up again in what seemed like slow motion smashing it the bars causing sparks to fly. Her smile widening she calmly turned to Akuma who was standing next to her, he turned smiling back at her. Suzuka slowly pulled up her hand "Akuma, I need you to do something important."

Akuma slowly turned fully to face her he pulled up his sword slightly "What would you wish off me?" Suzuka smiled taking a step forward she put a finger on his armoured chest "I want to get those other guards over there to set up three metal cages, I want them to be held up by metal supports so they hang high above the arena."

Akuma smiled slightly "May I ask why?" Suzuka pulled back folding her arms " There's no need to ask anything Akuma all will be revealed soon enough." She took a step forward on to the bridge leading to the arena " I'm just going to have a little fun that's all."

Akuma slowly stepped back "As you wish." He lowered his head slightly "I'm sure your reason will be a worth while one it always is." He grinned pulling himself up straight turning to two of the other assassin guards who immediately nodded then began to make their way towards the double door.

Suzuka watched them go this was going to be so much fun. Her gaze slowly drifted back to the Uni So An Ki it was time to deal with the matter in hand making this stupid beast in to her slave. She pulled up her hand forming fist even stupid slaves could have a use they could be moulded for a purpose.

She slowly walked forward across the bridge until she came to a stop on the arena's huge metal floor. She watched both demons rise up roaring at her as she took a step on to the bridge that led to their cages. Her gaze narrowed as the Shoji slammed its huge spider legs in to the cage it turned its cold green eyes meeting hers "Stupid female!"

Suzuka folded her arms slowly then turned spitting at it "Be quite you fifthly bastard!" The Shoji pulled back sneering, " Ninja scum you wont take my mind! I wont be your slave!" Suzuka's sightless eye narrowed "Your mind reading is annoying demon, plus what makes you think I want you?"

The Shoji slammed its clawed hand in to the cage "Because I'm more powerful that that ugly stupid bastard in the next cage." It turned spitting at the Uni So An Ki opposite. The huge Uni So An Ki roared pulling it's body up and slamming it's horns at the cage, which rattled, with the force off the blow.

Suzuka shrugged slightly "Your race is so arrogant I'm surprised these pathetic ninja's care for using you as slaves which they can kill in practice. I mean your just fifthly mind readers who steal Knowledge by eating humans brains. With out human's you'd be nothing! You'd be just like your ugly friend in the cage opposite you."

The Shoji pulled up its claws scrapping against the metal bars "At least I have purpose unlike you female, you stole all your power. Plus your mind just gives you away your not all powerful you just wish you where. Tell me when you kill this female you hate so much the one that blinded you do you think it will ease your suffering?"

The shoji slowly dragged one off its horn's across the bars "You think that by killing her you'll be a peace." It pulled up a wide smiled appearing on it's face "You will never have peace bitch, because when you kill her all will be left will an empty void. Pathetic female I'm stunned you made it to adult hood you have so much ambition and only one focus in life one which makes you weak!"

Suzuka snarled aloud "I'm guessing you stole that information you just blurted out from some Samurai. It's pathetic how you try to justify yourself to me demon, I mean look at you your information isn't even your own!" The Shoji pulled up sniggering "Sadly you'd be wrong female I got that information from some farmer female who's brain I eat, okay it's not mine but using it on you works."

"You human's are so weak especially you females, your just full off emotions, sad emotion which you sometimes try to hide." It paused then rattled the cage slightly "Such a pathetic race you are, your weak your bodies break under our clawed fingers and you bleed ugly red coloured blood. As if you deserve this world it should've been ours we should have this place you live on."

It's green's eyes narrowed "Why the Jin Uni Ki came to love your disgusting excuse for a race I'll never know. All I know is that you're a plague off fifth mammals which floods this world the world that should be ours!" It's clawed hand hit the bars causing the cage to shudder slightly with the force.

Suzuka calmly pushed her hair back "Well tough it doesn't belong to you ugly fucker! Human's own this world and your just the scum trying to take it, your no stronger than as! If you where strong we wouldn't beable to control you, if you where anything off a glorious race we wouldn't beable to kill you but we can!"

She pulled back slightly "Your just afraid, because you know your time is short and that this pitiful race off human's is going to wipe you out! Your so afraid of death it's unbelievable, that's why your so weak you fear death whether it be your own or your races…how pitiful."

The Shoji's eyes narrowed "Not nearly as pitiful as your attempt at become powerful." Suzuka took a step forward "If I had no power you wouldn't be in that cage! If I had no power you'd have killed me by now as it you haven't instead your stuck behind iron bars which you can't break no matter how hard you try."

The Shoji pulled up snorting, "There only iron bars, are no more than weak steel!" Suzuka smiled slightly "If that's so then why haven't you broken them? Truth off the matter is you can't break them you don't know how. Just like your friend in the other cage you haven't grasped the concept off picking magical locks."

She shrugged her shoulders slightly "Shame really I wish you could, I'd get so much pleasure out off killing you." She leaned forward "But hey maybe I'll save you for later when I've had my real fun." She slowly eased up her finger running it down Mekki-Maru's hilt "I always enjoyed chopping ugly demons like your self in to pieces."

The shoji snarled at her then pulled back behind the bars in a defeated fashion Suzuka's found her gaze slowly drifting to the Uni So An Ki which was still smashing it's head against the bars. She calmly walked forward until she was only a foot or so away from the huge cage. Her gaze narrowed as the huge demon opened its mouth it's long tongue slowly came out its eye blinking at the end.

She watched the tongue try to move through the bars towards her only to jerk back as a sudden jolt of lightening hit the tip. Suzuka smirked slightly "That's right stupid, you can't get close enough to use your blinding eye on me." The demon's normal eyes narrowed it pulled it's tongue out again only to end up pulling it back just as quickly in pain.

Suzuka raised an eyebrow slightly "I know you can understand what I'm saying, your pitiful race might only beable to growl but from what I've seen you understand human's just fine." She grinned easing out Mekki-Maru "I also know you can be controlled and used as slaves, apparently you make very good slaves because your so mindless and obedient."

"It's probably the reason the ninja's here always prefer to use your race to practice on." She eased the weapon up to the lock "I'm giving you a little choice come with me through your own will it be far easier, or I'll just make you my slave." She turned noticing that the two assassin guards who'd been close behind her had backed away from the cage."

Her smile widened "So what do you say demon?" The Uni So An Ki pulled up glaring at her, it's eyes slowly narrowed to slits it leered at her for a second then roared slamming itself in to the bars. Suzuka pulled back slightly "Oh well didn't think you'd come easy, no matter fighting you and making you my slave will be far more interesting."

She pulled up Mekki-Maru slamming the blades hilt against the bars in a long drawn out motion "This is going to be very amusing." She slammed the weapon harshly against the lock, she slowly took a step back as the cage started to rattle it magic breaking under Mekki-Maru's influence, Her blind eye narrowed as the blue waves of light started to shoot from the lock.

The piece of metal made a slow clicking sound, as it's magic seal broke, she watched as the door slowly swung open. The Uni So An Ki snarled loudly as it's clawed hands made contact with the bridge. Suzuka slowly stepped back on to the huge arena as the demon came closer, she watched as saliva began to drip from its jaws.

She eased up Mekki-Maru watching as it's eye opened turning to look at the demon, she twirled the weapon slightly" Come play with me you ugly bastard!" The demon slowly stepped forward slowly making it's way across the platform. It's red eyes stared at her although she knew all to well they couldn't see anything she watched as it's huge tongue moved to look at her.

She leaped back as the demon landed on the arena its roar hitting the air, it's tongue swung fully around looking at her. She calmly pulled out her double-edged dagger "That right ugly come play with me!" The demons claws scrapped the floor as it moved in to it's stalking position, the eye on the end of it tongue blinked then narrowed.

Suzuka pulled back slightly as the demon lashed out it's clawed hand narrowly missing her face. She jumped up kicking the huge beast in the face causing it to step back quickly. She moved forward quickly kicking it again in its right eye, she watched as it roared in agony stepping back further.

She smiled slightly "You disappoint me ugly I was expecting more off a fight." The demon snarled aloud then rose up bringing it's claws down near her feet. It pulled up its huge horns trying to ram them in to her. Suzuka moved as the huge horns flew past her, she flipped sideward as it brought them down full force slamming them in to the arena's floors.

Suzuka thrust her double-edged dagger outward slicing it across the demons shoulder as it roughly pulled it's horns out of the solid floor, She watched as it's green blood started to drip from the lengthy wound. The Uni So An Ki roared in agony as she quickly swung the dagger around slicing it's other shoulder.

She moved quickly kicking it's tongue as it came towards her, her foot came up with all it's force slamming the demon under the chin she watched as a spray of green blood flew through the air as her foot made contact. Somehow she had missed this a lot since she'd been tossed out the fu-ma clan, killing demons and beating the crap out off them had been one off the only pleasures she'd ever had from being a ninja.

She sneered kicking the demon in the face, she had to admit it was something off a guilty pleasure, which she'd always enjoyed. It had always pissed her off that she couldn't kill the Jin Uni Ki the dog faced bastards had always annoyed her personally. She'd always wanted to cut one off them open so she could find out what it looked liked inside.

She darted sharply as the demon in front off her tried to lash out with it's clawed hand, what did the Jin Uni Ki look like on the inside anyway? From what she'd heard cutting a Jin Uni Ki open was almost the same as cutting up a human being.

The only difference was the heart cavity, which had thick bone lined around it which over lapped a very odd shaped heart. Unlike their true demon cozens there inside weren't a mass of moving guts with a central organ that controlled everything. She smiled again one off these days she was going to find out if they really did look like humans on the inside.

She slammed the Uni So An Ki in the chest with Mekki-Maru's hilt as it came towards her, she watched the demon pull back in agony. She grinned twirling the one eyed weapon demons really were easy to hurt it was just a case of kicking them in the central waist where there central organ was located. She'd always enjoyed watching Yosho's lessons on how to hurt demons.

The fact that the crazy fucker liked to bolt them to his labs medical table then cut them open while they where still breathing had made it all the more entertaining. Then he'd get out his special knifes and slice them up while talking about where was best to hurt and mane them as well as what all the parts do.

She sliced Mekki-Maru outward catching the demon on the side off its chest as it tried to bring it's clawed hands down on her again, the arena was already covered in green blood which was pouring from the demons open wounds. She watched as in tried to get up again, with not much luck.

She slowly took a step forward then slammed her foot full force in to it's chest before it could get up again, somehow she felt slightly annoyed that the fight was coming to close she would've liked it to last longer. She shrugged kicking the already howling demon again in the chest it had been a somewhat disappointing fight.

She leaned down staring at the falling demon it was laying out stretched like a dead animal its howls of agony hitting the air. How pathetic could you get? It sounded like the people she killed for fun every once in a while, the annoying types who begged and cried for their lives. She calmly pushed her double-edged dagger back in to her belt.

Then leaned down grabbing it's horn then pulled its head up forcefully "You should've come to me off your own free will. Might have saved yourself the pitiful defeat." She slowly pulled up Mekki-Maru running it down the side off the demon's face "But hey now you get to serve me, you should be grateful for that a least. It means your not going to die."

She slammed her foot down hard on the huge demon's tongue before it could pull it's self off the floor to look at her "Think off it this way, you'll become useful, and you'll die serving me you should be happy about that ugly bastard." She yanked its head back further "See it as a good thing because I picked you over your ugly friend in the other cage."

She shrugged her shoulders slightly "I never liked the Shoji much anyway there always to smart and arrogant for their own good. Personally I prefer something a little stupider something like you." She slowly brought Mekki-Maru up "This won't hurt you much, normally I'd hurt demons like you a lot more you should see yourself as fortunate that your still in one piece."

She grinned watching as Mekki-Maru's eye open fully it turned looking in to the demons sightless gaze. She slowly began to chant, she watched as waves of red light started to fly out from the weapon's long blade. They hit the demon directly in the eyes she watched as it roared in agony it's tongue tried to move desperately from it's position under her foot.

She stamped on it again stopping its crazy movement she watched the demons claws scratch the ground in a terrified fashion as it tried to get up. She raised an eyebrow it was odd how demons could be so such cowards when knew there soul was going to be taken control off. She slowly eased her hand off its huge horn, which she'd been holding.

She watched the huge beast's leg fly outward, as a shocking bean off white light hit its sightless eyes directly. The blow caused it head to be thrown back and it's body to be sent tumbling across floor. She watched it shake uncontrollably its head hitting the floor over and over again trying to resist the spell she'd put on it.

It suddenly rose up on its hind legs its terrified roar hitting the air with such force it echoed around the arena's walls. She watched in what seemed like slow motion as it fell over it's body smashing in to the arena's solid floor it breathed in raggedly as it's body stopped moving all together.

It's closed eyes slowly opened they flashed a white colour for a split second then turned back to glowing red, the eye ball on the end off it's tongue slowly turned from red to a golden colour. It slowly began to pull it's self in to a sitting position shaking it's head slightly it breathing becoming normal again.

Suzuka grinned widely this had been so easy, now all she needed to do was test that her spell had worked. She slowly raised her hand pointing it at the sitting demon "Come to your master!" She watched the huge demon rise it slowly walked toward her on all fours, then stopped a few feet away from her slowly lowering its head.

She narrowed her sightless eye then slowly leaned forward with her free hand, she slowly ran her fingers over the demons head her fingers moving across the tough leathery skin. The demon pulled back its head grunting slightly. She moved her hand up feeling it's ears then slowly she traced her fingers over it's snout up to the bridge of it's horns.

It slowly growled leaning its head to one side, it's long tongue moving to look at her a low growl coming from it's throat as she stroked the side off its head. Suzuka turned it's head slightly "That's a good boy, be good for your master." She turned slightly noticing that the two guards who had moved off earlier had come back to watch her.

She turned eyeing them both "Something wrong?" The first guard took a step forward "Is it safe? I mean he is your slave right?" Suzuka narrowed her gaze "Do you have a name?" The guard pulled back slightly "My names Kentaro." Suzuka smiled widely " Well Kentaro why don't you give stroke him and find out."

Kentaro stepped back "What if it rips my arm off?" An evil smile spread across Suzuka's lips" Then you'll know it's not safe then wont you." She watched the terrified guard stepped back further, her gaze narrowed "Get your cowardly ass over here and stroke him now you little bastard!"

She watched the guard nervously step forward till he was close to the huge demon, which was now sitting up. He slowly pulled out his shaking hand slowly rested it on the demon's head, he watched as it's tongue wrapped around his arm for a moment then pulled away, he quickly took a step back. Suzuka smiled slightly then patted the huge beasts head "See as faithful as a dog, will do what ever I tell it to do."

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Taki slowly pulled Sophitia up on to her feet she calmly pulled her hand up running it through the younger women's soft blonde hair. Sophitia turned slightly looking around at the water, which was still spilling slightly over the bridge "What in Tarturus just happened?" Taki shrugged her shoulder slightly then turned to meet Sophitia's light green gaze "Someone broke one off the walls that keeps the water away from the exits."

She eased up her hand running down Sophitia's cheek "My guess is that, it got smashed badly and most off the water got out, it just carried on down till it got here." She leaned back watching as the last off the shining silver water hit the boiling seething pool bellow. Sophitia raised an eyebrow "Didn't you say those walls where unbreakable?"

Taki slowly ran her hand down Sophitia's arm tracing the muscles "I did, which is why I don't understand how one could be broken." She leaned forward until she was close to the younger women's ear "I'm guessing it was the work of those other stupid bastards who are down here with as." Sophitia eased up her hand running it through Taki's ponytail "You just want an excuse to knock them out don't you?"

Taki smiled slightly putting a hand on her chest " True but you gotta admit they've been more trouble than they're worth." She leaned even closer to the younger women "I mean aren't you just a little bit pissed off at them? Wouldn't you just like to break at least one of their teeth?"

Sophitia pulled up a hand poking Taki slightly in the stomach " You want me beat people up so you can watch." Taki slowly pulled up the blonde hair letting it run through her fingers "No I'd like you to beat them up, because then I can join in." She grinned evilly "Come on don't tell me you don't want to a just hit them a little, you know like give them a good kick here and there."

Sophitia shrugged her shoulders "Okay now I now your pinning for me to hit someone so you can join in." She felt both of Taki's hands as they rested on her shoulders the ninja leaned forward "I admit it I like watching you fight, I find it very…."

Sophitia smiled slightly "Very much off a turn on." Taki pulled back slightly "Hey that wasn't what I was going to say! I was going to say I find it very interesting and unique." Sophitia smirked slightly "Of cause you were." she eased her hand up slowly putting it on the ninja's side " Still I wouldn't have minded if you had, I mean fighting is just like a beautiful dance."

Taki put her hand gently under Sophitia's chin "So is making love." She eased her hand out "It's like knowing what to do and what to touch, how to please and how to pleasure." She grinned wildly " How to take your lover from earth to heaven in one beautiful dance." Sophitia found herself stared at her girlfriend there was nothing she could say back to those words.

She smiled trying to focus her thoughts, her thoughts where suddenly cut off by Taki's lips meeting her own. She watched slowly as Taki pulled away the ninja's hand found her hair again stroking it gently. Taki leaned forward her girlfriend had gone so quite, she smiled "What hasn't anyone ever told you that before?"

Sophitia looked down at her feet she could feel her self-blushing, she tapped her foot trying focus herself "No…I never heard it worded like that before." She pulled up her hand looking at it " I heard something similar but it didn't have as much feel as that." She suddenly felt Taki's hands around her waist the ninja pulled her slightly closer.

Taki eased up her hand running it down Sophitia's neck line "I'm surprised no one ever told you that, I would have thought your last lover would have you that all the time." Sophitia shook her head slightly "No he didn't." Taki pulled her girlfriend's head up slightly "Then he was a real fool, I can't believe he wouldn't see making love to you as a beautiful dance."

She slowly met the light green gaze "When this is over I'll take you on this beautiful dance. I'll take you as high as the heavens where the dragon's guard the sky" Sophitia narrowed her gaze "Okay now your trying to flatter me again." Taki looked up slightly "No I'm telling you that I'd do anything to make love to you. I would just like to send you to heaven that's all"

She raised an eyebrow slightly "I'm also being a soppy romantic because I love you so much." Sophitia smiled slightly "I thought you where being very charming, soppy romantic isn't a term I'd use." Taki slowly turned her head "Yeah but if my brother Nagmo could see me now he'd call it being a soppy romantic."

She sneered slightly "He'd probably ask to watch as kiss or have sex, being the total and utter pervert he is." Sophitia let the ninja's dark black hair run through her fingers "Sounds like Maxi, actually no he sounds worse than Maxi. Maxi never asked to watch as sleep together." Taki rolled her eyes slightly "That not exactly true he did. I just brought the deal down to watching as both kiss"

She shrugged her shoulders "I know your never going to forgive me for embarrassing you like I did. You know making out you where my girlfriend so we could get passage" Sophitia looked down at her feet "You know it wasn't all that bad, come to think off it I actually enjoyed it." She slowly ran her hand up the ninja's body suit "I guess I was just denying the fact that I had feelings for you."

Taki slowly leaned forward "Was part of you temper to do with that, I mean you threw one of the Greek vases in the hold at me." Sophitia found herself lowering her head that wasn't the greatest thing she'd ever done, probably one off the worst "No that was part off it, the other was to do with throwing up all over the ship, Maxi kept on making me clean up the decks because off it."

Taki breathed in deeply "I remember that he called you throwing that vase at me as having a lovers tiff." She laughed slightly "He kept on telling me I should sleep with you more because I obviously wasn't giving you enough bedroom wise and that's why you where so angry."

Sophitia shook her head "No the raging headache and the nauseous feeling in my stomach was the whole reason I was angry. I just wanted it to go away because I couldn't think straight." She gently leaned up kissing the ninja "If I hadn't felt like that all the time, I wouldn't have resorted to throwing one of vases at you."

Taki shrugged slightly "Who cares it was a cheap vase, I mean it was shoddy paintwork anyway. I couldn't have sold that anywhere even if I'd have wanted to you, probably did Maxi a favour." Sophitia slowly put her hand on the side of Taki's face " You know that wasn't as shoddy as you think. It was one of the Ares vases, they're very hard to come by."

Taki rolled her eyes "So you broke something pricey who cares, I mean people can always paint more. I mean I've been through Greece people are always painting them on street corners. Your people paint more pottery than any other place I've been to, you only have to look in the back off the stalls and you see hundreds of unpainted vases lined up ready for someone to decorate."

Sophitia slowly ran her hand up Taki's back "Guess you're right, I still don't remember what I was shouting at you for. I can remember lobbing the vases at you, because I was so angry but the rest is vague." Taki slowly tapped Sophitia's foot with her own "If I remember right, you had sickness very bad that day I was trying to comfort you but you wanted me to leave you alone."

"I guess I got under your skin to much by trying to help you and after throwing up three times in a row you just lost it. I was bringing you something for the sea sickness and you took it the wrong way, which I can understand since I'd been hugging and kissing you the whole time." She sighed aloud "I think I made some sexual comment at you thinking you'd take it as a joke."

She breathed in deeply "Your reply was to throw one of the vases at me." She suddenly found herself laughing, "I thought the look on Seung Mina's face when you did that was priceless. She actually looked scared, I'd give thirty yen to see the look she gave you again because it was so amusing."

Sophitia sniggered slightly " You know in all honesty I wasn't aiming the vase at you, I just wanted to throw something, it just smashed near the wall really close to you." She sighed allowed "I never really apologised for that did I?"

Taki slowly ran her hand through the long blonde hair "I don't think you need to apologise, the comment I gave you I deserved that. It was just me thinking with my lowers, something which I do when I'm making a total moron off myself." She leaned forward "Plus the comment was something about you getting laid with me and the look Seung Mina gave me for saying it wasn't that nice ether."

Taki found herself breathing in again "I mean it wasn't a very clever comment anyway. I guess I just come out with stupid things when I fancy someone, or I'm drunk." Sophitia gently put her hand on her girlfriends "Your comments aren't that bad okay you're rude at times but I think everyone can be very rude now and again it's only natural."

Taki raised an eyebrow "Oh so you don't mind the fact I throw fifthly comments at you every now and again. That's kinda nice to no, mean's I wont feel so bad about not being charming in future." She grinned slightly "I got the impression you liked me to talk to dirty to you anyway because it means you can be naughty back."

Sophitia eased her hand up pulling her girlfriend down slightly "Like I said I like you this way, I wouldn't change you for the world. I mean your interesting, unique and very attractive. I would hate you to be boring and Greek, I mean no one finds anything amusing where I come from."

Taki pulled up slightly " I noticed it's almost like everyone's caught up in ether business or building the army. When I came to visit I got stopped a least three times by the army soldiers asking if I knew how to fire a Tanegashima rifle. What is their dame obsession with that rifle?"

Sophitia sighed aloud "They want people to join the army who can fire them, so they can understand how to use them. Then they want to build their own version, Adrian wants to make the army stronger, its just going to send our country back in to another civil war because no one wants weapons like that in Greece. People believe that rifles are abominations and we'll anger the gods by using them."

Taki shook her head "You ever fired a rifle?" Sophitia looked at her hand "Yes, I don't ever want to do it again ether." Taki slowly pulled up the younger women's hand looking at it "What happened?" Sophitia looked up slowly "I was forced by Adrian to fire one in front off the army, I was given some rules on how to fire it but they where vague."

"I had to put gun power in the rifle and fire it, it all went fine till I fired, the force of it firing blew me clean off my feet, and the rifle's knock back caused me to break my shoulder." She ran her fingers through Taki's long fringe "After that no one wanted to fire one in the Greek army because they saw what happened to me. That's why now they're trying to get people from Japan and other countries to show them how."

Taki raised an eyebrow" When you where holding that rifle, did you have it braced against your shoulder?" Sophitia looked up slightly "No I was holding it outwards, I thought that's how you where supposed to hold it." Taki pulled up her hand "How many gun powder pack's did you use?"

Sophitia shrugged her shoulder slightly " I used two that was what the instructions told me to do." Taki breathed in deeply "You weren't holding the rifle right you should have had it braced against your shoulder, on top off that you used far to much gun powder." Sophitia sneered slightly "It's not fault the moron gave me the wrong instructions, I don't like rifles anyway I like swords."

Taki slowly ran her hand down her girlfriend's thigh "I know it wasn't your fault, still it gives me one more reason to hate that bastard Adrian. I mean if he's not mocking you or threatening you he makes you do dangerous things." She snarled aloud "I mean he's willing to put you at risk at very turn and it's sounds like he doesn't even care if you get hurt in the process."

She pulled up the younger women's hand kissing it "I mean you broke your shoulder and you probably couldn't fight for ages." Sophitia shook her head "Actually it wasn't that bad I could still use my sword hand, which isn't a bad thing. It meant I could improve my one handed combat, Aeon was really helpful he spared with me to help me improve it."

Taki sighed aloud "I have to admit he is a charming person Aeon, he'd help you out with anything." Sophitia smiled slightly "He's always been there for me, he's my best friend I don't care what everyone thinks off him, none off my friends ever stood by me like he does." She calmly put her hand on Taki's "Apart from you that is, I guess you've been there from the beginning."

Taki slowly eased up some of the blonde hair she twirling it around her finger "I never regretted that fight with Cervantes, to this day It was worth every moment" She found herself breathing in deeply "I met my equal on the battle field, I just wish I'd been ready for it, I spent so long thinking about how you broke that sword."

"It just never left my mind even when I brought you back to your parents, I know you weren't conscious at the time but everyone was so shocked by the sight off me holding you in arms wrapped in a simple Greek robe walking through the streets." She grinned widely " Your little sister was so sweet, she ran out to you as soon as your parents opened the door."

Sophitia looked up slightly "Cassandra never wanted me away on that mission. She tried to do everything to stop me leaving Greece, she was that worried" She shrugged her shoulder "Not that I blame her, we grew up together then one day I was gone from her life. She always expected me to be around, mostly because she could talk about her problems to me."

Taki slowly entwined her fingers in to Sophitia's "Sometimes I wish I'd never had to leave the Hoko Ji temple, it's still my home and I always feel that I should return to it. I regret that like you I didn't spend enough time with my youngest sister Rei, I ended up handing her over to Hitoshi to keep her safe. I wish now I'd taken her with me and not left her in someone else's hands."

Sophitia lowered her gaze "We all do things we regret, I regret that I didn't spend enough time with Cassandra. Always busy doing something if it wasn't running around for other people then I'd be training." She put a hand through her hair " If I could go back and change that I would, there were so many moments when I could've spent time with her but I was ether in a bad mood or tired."

Taki breathed in deeply "The only thing is you can't change it, I really hate that because if I could there are so many things I'd change." She put her hand slowly up putting it under Sophitia's chin "For starters I'd be nicer to you, I can't say I was very charming to you the second time we met." She sighed aloud tracing her finger down the younger women's yaw line "I wouldn't be such a bitch to you for starters."

Sophitia pulled up her hand slowly taking hold of her girlfriend's body suit "Bitch isn't the word I use more forceful, pushy and foul mouthed." Taki raised an eyebrow "Okay if the foul mouthed part is going back to Mitsurugi's Tavern where I was drunk and I said that really perverted thing about you not getting enough sex I'm really sorry, when I'm drunk I think with my lowers."

Sophitia narrowed her gaze slightly "You know I actually don't remember you saying that, probably because I was slightly drunk myself. Did I slap you at all? It's just I'm not good with alcohol I tend to hit people when I've had to much to drink." Taki pulled up slightly "Not that I remember, you know frankly I'm a little hazy on that whole night, I remember the drinking match with Rock."

She moved her gaze slightly "I remember the whole, argument with Mina, Oh and I remember you punching some moron who came on to you. Come to think off it I can't remember if it was a woman or a man. I just remember Mitsurugi cheering you for your effort along with Rock and Seung Mina." She pulled up her hand "It gets really hazy after that…just remember waking up with sleeping next to me in the room."

Sophitia smirked slightly "That I remember…I was fully clothed though and so were you, plus you kept on complaining about your hangover." Taki laughed slightly "You didn't complain though you just threw up, you where the lucky one you didn't have a headache for the rest off the day, or Mina ranting in your ear about how much off an idiot you are."

Sophitia lowered her gaze "No that not really true…she had a go at me for breaking one of the tables, I think it was the table I put that moron over I think he broke it with his fall." She eased her hand up Taki's side "It was just a table though I don't see what the big deal was, people buy tables by the dozen what was so special about that one?"

Taki's grin widened "I bet she was mad because it was old, she has thing about old furniture. I think it' something in her family about treating old items with respect, you know the Seung Family air looms being priceless and all that. It's a Chinese custom which I really don't get."

Sophitia looked up slightly "In my home furniture gets broken it's normally Aeon knocking something with his tail or smashing plates because his clawed hands are to big or he puts to much presser on the cups and ends up smashing them." Her smile widened "No one really cares we just buy new things, plus he tries so hard not to and at the end off the day we can replace anything."

Taki shrugged her shoulder "That's understandable my clan doesn't care, things get broken in demon's fights, we can get them replaced the next day, so we don't care for breakage and things like that. So long as our weapons don't get smashed or dented then it's not a problem, since we spend so long hand making them we can't afford for anything to happen to them."

Sophitia slowly pulled a hand putting it on the side off Taki's face "Understandable, weapons can take a long time to repair." Taki leaned forward gently kissing Sophitia on the cheek "It's also very costly, steel is not cheap and getting a trader who will sell you it is just as difficult."

She slowly eased both arms up around Taki's neck "You should see how much they try to sell swords for in Greece, no offence but some off those swords aren't made right. I remember buying one and using it in training then finding that it split with the force off the blow against the shield."

Taki leaned down "Have you ever thought that, that might be because you hit very hard with your sword hand." Sophitia slowly narrowed her gaze "True but they should still make swords which can take hard blows. Other wise what's the point in fighting if your weapons not built to withstand the force of being hit?"

Taki slowly ran her fingers down the younger women's back "A lot of weapons aren't meant to with stand the force you use on them Sophitia." She eased her hand down putting it around the katana that was hanging from her girlfriend's belt "I'm surprised you haven't broken this one, actually saying that this one is old and worn I wouldn't be surprised if it breaks."

She smiled widely "I think that's why your god gave you such a strong sword, because you like to hit so hard not that, that's a bad thing I think it shows your strength." She nuzzled the blonde hair " You know your really are strong, I love strength it adds so much more to your character. I guess that's why I like watching you beat people up your so stunningly beautiful when your angry."

Taki found herself breathing in deeply "If people piss you off, you just punch them very hard or break their shoulder with your shield." She slowly pulled up the blonde hair letting it run through her fingers "You know none off my other girlfriends where that strong, they weren't warriors and they where no where near as beautiful as you."

Sophitia slowly looked up her words were cut off by a soothing kiss, somehow she couldn't help but love every moment of this. She could feel every movement from Taki's mouth it send a warm feeling, which travelled down her spine in waves. She wanted to loose herself in every waking moment off it; it was so soft, so strong and so potent that it crashed through her like a tidal wave.

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