InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Okibi Guild ❯ Enployment ( Chapter 1 )

Manaleak: Why how do you do? I'm surprised to see you again…or maybe this is the first time…Ok…that was corny as hell…All right someone of you have read my other fics…some of you have not…you should read them….cus other people like them! You don't want to be a loser now do you?

But enough about my insane desire for reviews…it's time for my new fanfiction; “The Okibi Guild”! And be sure to review…else I'll have to punch a baby in the face…I'm serious.

 

DISCLAIMER: I Don't Own Inuyasha or any of the characters. All the characters in this story are fictitious, except historical figures, any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

 

Chapter 1- Employment

 

“This is certainly taking very long.” Said one of two men that where sitting across from each other sitting on the floor at a lowered table a bottle of sake with a small cup next to it sitting in the middle.

The other cup was in the hand of the other man as he lowered from his mouth. “Well this is no doubt then a very important person. Which means that our payment will certainly be more that usual.” The man was wearing a dark black Hakama with white under it creating a strong divergence with his clothing.

Sitting next to his right side was a Katana in a black sheath resting on top a round nearly flat black hat that looked to be made of some sort of metal. This man then sat down the small glass on the table and said with a slight smile “Besides I can't give up the chance for some free sake.”

The other man did not look pleased, at least that was the man that was drinking the sake guessed as his face was being covered by an elaborate mask depicting the face of a demon. It was extremely realistic and had made some people nervous when the two had entered the castle. His clothing was also black but covered nearly every part of his body and was quite tight.

Currently the two where inside a large room being told by a servant to wait here, the room was quite extravagant many of the walls covered with beautiful cloth tapestry. Most of the rooms in the palace where very similar all of them showing off the obvious power and wealth the leader had.

“I still have some suspicions Shizaburo.” Said the man with the mask on his voice was quite deep and strong with much seriousness, muffled by the mask he was wearing.

“I do understand that this is someone that would not normally hire a group like us.” Shizaburo said while pouring another glass of sake, his voice with more significance this time “However I don't see this as much of a threat to us. Quite obviously this is a very important mission having being hired by a person with great influence who is unable to achieve it on their own.” He finished, taking a sip from his cup.

“I do not doubt your wisdom.” The other said bowing Shizaburo rolled his eyes.

“Itsu, don't do stupid things like that. You know well you don't have to act like your lower than me.” Shizaburo said annoyed

“I'm sorry sir.” Itsu said, returning to a normal sitting position,

“And don't call me sir either.” Shizaburo replied

At that point the two stayed silent, both of them where blunt individuals and knew each other very well, so a long discussion was not needed to understand what the other was thinking.

After several minutes right after Shizaburo has finished off the Sake. The same servant who had entered them into the room came from the north door. He bowed and said politely. “Master Hayashi will see you now.”

Both Shizaburo and Itsu stood up, Shizaburo putting his hat on his head and began to walk toward the door but were stopped by the servant raising his hand.

“I am sorry, but Master Hayashi has requested that only the leader may join him.” He said a slight nervousness in his voice starring at Itsu's mask.”

“That's fine.” Shizaburo quickly said not wanting to displease his client. Leaving an unmoving Itsu standing where he was Shizaburo followed the servant into the next room.

After walking down a long hallway which walls were covered with paintings, most of them depicting battles or important individuals one of them Shizaburo was able to identify as Oda Nobutomo, however this painting seemed not to be as good condition as the others.

The reached the end and came to sliding door. The servant opened it before him and came inside first. Shizaburo stood back knowing that he would not be able to enter until he was officially announced. He had yet to completely understand the reason why leaders did such things, but he knew better to question another person's customs, especially one that is interested in hiring you.

“I present to you sire,” the servant began who was bowing on the side of the door. Shizaburo knew this was his cue and starting walking in calmly moving up his hat so that his face could be visible showing off his dark black eyes and hair.

“Shizaburo Hadiko, leader of The Okibi Guild.” The servant said Shizaburo entering the room at the exact same time that the servant said that. On the floor in front of him sat a middle aged looking man who was wearing a very formal kimono, one exclusive to royalty.

Hayashi stood up happily and took a good look at Shizaburo. “A-ha! Excellent! I am honored that you have traveled so far to come here!” he said joyfully making a slight bow to him.

Shizaburo does the same and says “And it is an honor for our Guild to be in the interest of one with such power.” Mainly to suck up to his client.

“Ah yes, please sit down.” Hayashi said his hand pointing to the point across from where he had been sitting. A velvet violet pillow sat on the ground where he had pointed. The servant left and Shizaburo took a seat, watching Hayashi with intent eyes.

“Of course introductions are not necessary for either of us as we both have well knowledge of each other.” Hayashi said.

“True, however I do recall this castle being under control of you when I had last heard of news from the south.” Shizaburo said hoping to get some vital information about who was to hire them.

“Yes, it has only been almost two months now since Kiyosu was put under my command.” Hayashi said proudly

“You captured this castle?” Shizaburo said quite interested.

“No, it was captured by Oda Nobunaga, and then given to me to protect from enemies of the Oda clan.”

“Yes, I have heard about Nobunaga attempting to unify Japan. However he has yet to make influence in the Northern regions.”

“That is true, many clans occupy that region, of what I've heard there is little peace there.”

“True as well, but I suppose it is good for us. Gives us plenty of work.” Said Shizaburo a sly smile on his face.

“I see.” Said Hayashi said slowly. “Well best to get to business.”

“Yes, now who is it you want killed?” Shizaburo said getting right to the point.

Hayashi smiles and says, “No, I need your group to obtain something for—“

“We are not a recovery service, if you need something to be found, you should hire someone else.” Shizaburo says cutting him off.

“Yes of course, but what I'm looking for being protecting by a group of people which could only be killed by the likes of your guild.”

“You wish for us to assassinate someone with a certain artifact and return it to you?”

“If required, yes.”

“What is this artifact?”

Hayashi hesitates for a moment but manages to say. “The Jewel of Four Souls.” A long silence occurs from that being said, Shizaburo trying to gather his thoughts. Finally he says.

“You wish to use the jewel to help Nobunaga complete his unification of Japan?” Giving a guess of what Hayshi's desire for the jewel was.

“Yes, indeed.” Hayshi says humbly.

At this point Shizaburo had an important decision to make. He knew well from the stories and rumors he has heard of corruption and suffering the jewel had caused to others. However it seemed if Hayshi didn't know, or did not believe in the tales.

`My concern is for myself and the rest of the guild, what happens to Japan is none of our business.' He thought to himself. So he decided that he would not mention the darker truths of the jewel.

“Though it's not a normal job we do. Our guild will take your request.” Shizaburo says finally.

Haysahi smiles brightly and exclaims, “Yes! Wonderful! Wonderful!”

“Now for payment.” Said Shizaburo.

“Yes of course, for this mission the Okibi clan and I will offer you control of any castle that you wish for you guild to have as their own.” Hayashi said if this was a common thing.

Shizaburo expression did not changed nor did his tone and simply said. “That would be most generous.” But `Oh hell yes.' Was what he was thinking as he heard those words.

“I must ask though, if you would know where the current whereabouts of the jewel is.” Shizaburo already had a general idea of where it was; he just wanted to see how much his client knew.

“From what I have heard the jewel is in the possession of a young priestess who is accompanied by three others. One of them supposedly a half-demon.”

“Interesting.” Shizabuo said, he did mean it this time, he had not heard about a half-demon being with the priestess before.

“Now I should go over some minor requests as well.” Hayashi said changing the subject.

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Itsu waited patiently outside the hallway to Hayashi's chambers. It had been almost thirty minutes since Shizaburo had went inside, and Itsu was somewhat concerned for his safety.

These thoughts were disproved as Shizaburo entered into the room from the hallway starting to walk back the way they had originally entered.

“Well then, was it as good as you predicted?” Asked Itsu as he walked alongside of him.

“Better.” Said Shizaburo “He's going to give us our own castle if we complete the mission.”

Despite Itsu's training of showing no emotions, he couldn't help but say amazed. “Impossible, who do they wish us to kill?”

Shizaburo groaned quietly, he knew this was going to come, he still wasn't sure if the rest of the guild would accept what was basically a delivery job.

“Well…” he said slowly. “It's…not a usual job for us,”

“What do you mean?” Itsu said his amazement quickly disappearing.

Shizaburo sighed there was no use sugarcoating it. “We have to get an artifact for him.” He said bluntly.

“What!?” Istu exclaimed disgusted, stopping in the main entrance. “I will not use my skills to find a lost item! We are assassins Shizaburo, we kill people not find things for them.”

“I know, I know.” Shizaburo said holding up his hands trying to calm Itsu down. “But I'm not sure you understood the `our own castle' part.” He said slyly trying to convince him.

Itsu stays silent for a few moments and says still unpleased “What are we to retrieve?”

“The Jewel of Four Souls.” Said Shizaburo gravely

Another moment of silence from Istu as the two stood unmoving. “You're actually going to give him such a powerful artifact? Don't you think that's dangerous?” Istu finally said the same seriousness in his voice.

“What they do with it is not our concern.” Shizaburo said walking off. Istu stayed where he was for a few seconds watching him, and then ran up ahead to catch up with him.

“Your not worried about them taking over all of Japan?” Istu said once he had gotten next to Shizaburo as they headed outside the large castle.

“Why should we? We've never had any sort of leadership control us before, so It would not effect us.”

“I am not as confident with this as you are.” Itsu said quietly, as they headed down the dirt road.

 

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`Lets see here, so if the function of x is supposed to be seven then, wait a minute that doesn't make sense. You're supposed to divide right? No, that can't be it either! I sure wish he stopped that tapping.'

Inuyasha sat against the wall of the hut tapping his foot impatiently. “Damn it, they should be back by now.”

“Inuyasha.” Said Shippou slightly annoyed who was sitting on the floor playing around with Kirara. “They've only been gone a few minutes.”

“Don't worry I'm sure they can handle themselves.” Kagome said lowering her textbook which she had been having trouble with. `That's what I get for spending so much time here.' She thought sadly to herself while sighing. 'I'm never going to pass middle school.'

“Hey what's this supposed to be anyway?” Inuyasha asks looking at Kagome's Algebra textbook.

“Oh it's my homework from school.” Kagome said trying to get back to it, but was interrupted by another question.

“Homework?” Asked Inuyasha confused.

“Well…” Kagome started unsure how to explain it to Inuyasha. “You know how you train for combat? Well it's kinda like that except that you getting your knowledge better instead of your combat. You understand?”

“I guess, but you should probably be working on you archery instead of your knowledge.” Inuyasha said coarsely.

“Hey!” Kagome protested and was about to say more till she noticed Miroku and Sango entering into the hut.

“Good your back!” Exclaimed Shippou “Inuyasha was worried about you!”

“Shut Up!” Yelled out Inuyasha making Shippou worried that he may hit him. Kagome could help but chuckle under he breath.

Sango and Mirkou ignored the comment and sat down, Mirkou starting to build a fire in the small pit in the center of the hut. The hut they where in had been found nearby an abandoned Buddhist shrine, having been sleeping in the wilderness for almost a week now, so they had decided it would be the best place to stay for the night.

“We looked up the road ahead and saw a village not far from here.” Said Sango petting Kirara who had jumped into her lap.

“Good, we can see if anyone has seen Naraku there.” Inuyasha said.

“Inuyasha, we have little chance of finding him on our own.” Miroku said acutely “If we keep gathering the jewel shards, Naraku will no doubt come to us.”

“We don't have that kind of time!” Exclaimed Inuyasha “The longer we take the more shards Naraku will get for himself!” his usual tone of anger present.

“I understand your frustrations, Inuyasha. However it would be wise not to attempt anything reckless.” Miroku said his stare tearing right though Inuyasha's skin. Inuyasha growled but said nothing and stayed silent for most of the night.

With the wood set up Shippou used his foxfire to light it and flush the hut with the glow of the fire. Kagome reached into her backpack pocket and pulled out a small glass jar, inside of it where three jewel shards glowing brightly with blue light. She lowered and stared at the fire gathering her thoughts.

 

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“Excuse me sir.” Asked a voice nearby the man as he sat on near the door of his house smoking calmly on a long wooden pipe. He looked to his left side and saw Shizaburo and Itsu standing there.

“Can you help us?” Shizaburo said relaxed.

“You need a place to stay?” Asked the man kindly “It's getting awfully dark.” He looked to be in his forties and was wearing normal peasant clothing.

“No thank you sir.” Said Shizaburo “We're looking for a group of people. A young priestess and a half-demon.”

“Oh yes, I remembered those people, a monk that was with them had sensed a ominous aura over my house, thankfully he removed it.” Shizaburo and Itsu looked to each other.

“Do you know who else was with them?” Asked Shizaburo finding out exactly what they where dealing with.

“Oh yes, I remembered there was a demon slayer and also two smaller demons. Quite an odd group if you ask me.” The man said as he smoked at his pipe and looked out at the small village.

“When where they here?” Asked Shizaburo.

“About a week ago they were heading west when they left. Why are you so interested in them anyway?” Asked the man curiously.

“They are companions of ours, we had lost them we had been attacked by demons and now we're are looking for them.” Shizaburo said quickly coming up with a lie.

The old man had heard nothing about that from Inuyasha and the others, but he never got to talk to them very much, so he believed him “Well, I hope you find them.”

“Yes, thank you again sir.” Shizaburo said giving a slight bow. With that the two continued to walk down the dirt pathway of the village. “The next village west of here is a week's walk away at normal speed. No doubt we'll find them there, or at least nearby.” Said Itsu calculating.

“We could make it by tomorrow by our pace.” Said Shizaburo matching Itsu's tone.

“Then we should be on our way.”

“No, we need to get the others.”

“Why?” asked Itsu looking at Shizaburo.

“Hayashi requested that the entire guild was on this mission.”

“That's a little much don't you think.”

“Clearly he is taking this very seriously and wants no chance of mistake.”

“Are we rallying them now?”

“No, first thing in the morning and then we find the priestess and her party.” Said Shizaburo threateningly.

 

((Well there we are first chapter…hope you like it, anyway updates may not be as fast as you may want considering I'm doing some side writing projects (I'll link them up when there done) and of course school is going on and I have quite a few IB classes, so I kinda feel like Kagome in some ways ;) Anyway please review…because I will punch that baby in the face))