The Samurai RP Thread

As Orin stayed tied to the stake in the middle of the Moto village, he began to cut the ropes with a small knife he kept. The streets were deserted now, though there were sentries around the perimeter, but he was stealthy enough to avoid their capture.

Orin dropped down quietly, and began to make a stealthy run towards the stables, where he could hopefully get a ride outta there.

- "Yes my lady I will do so" - Tomoko said and smiled at her. With a small bow she left for her room. She sat on the floor and closed her eyes. She started meditating and images of her past came to her.

- "Tomoko! Get up!" - the trainer said and Tomoko slowly got up from the mud. It was raining and she was bleeding, the blood running down her forehead and mouth.

- "You are weak! Compassion is not needed here. Your opponent was beaten, he was dishonored by defeat, why did you not kill him?" - the trainer asked. Tomoko did not answer. The trainer ran up to her and kicked her in the stomach with much force she rolled on the mud a few times until she stopped at a tree.

- "I...can not...kill....like that" - Tomoko managed to say, her body was bruised and wounded by the trainer.

- "You will kill when you are ordered to do so. You can not question the orders that are given to you. You must do what it is necesary. But you are weak and stupid!" - the trainer said and once again he kicked her but in her face causing her to loose conciousness.

Tomoko opened her eyes, a tear falling down her cheek. She wiped it off and lay down on the ground. She looked at her weapons, they were bearing the shield of the Utenzaki clan and she grabbed it and with the blade she started pealing the carving off to make the utenzaki shield disappear, she did not want to see it ever again. Her face changed to anger and tears ran down her face as she did so and she cut herself in her anger. She stared at the blood with the tears still running. Another flashback came to her.

- "That's what you get Tomoko. You don't wish to learn the arts properly. You are distracted!" - the trainer said and pushed her to the ground.

- "Maybe you are more fit as a wife for a trainer" - the trainer said and attacked her. Tomoko pushed the man to a side and with her sword she cut the man's hand. The man screamed in pain and some guards entered the room. They took Tomoko and she was whipped by the guards. Three men whipped her until they got tired. She was lying on a puddle with tears and anger. Her back completely scarred and wounded. Her hand drenched in blood by the cut of the sword she had been practicing with and she stared at it.

- "Never again" - Tomoko said as she turned to the sheath of her sword and saw the Utenaki shield was gone.

Michiko entered her mistresses room and turned to have her eyes widen in shock, she rushed to Tomoko's side and wrapped the bloodied hand in her sash quickly and tightly, "Mistress what are you doing? Are you alright?"

Tomoko turned to Michiko and smiled wiping the tears of her face.

- "I'm ok Michiko don't worry" - Tomoko said.

"But mistress, you're bleeding...here give me your hand." Michiko seemed genuinely worried about her new mistress and unwrapped the wound, frowning as she fetched a bowl of clean water and a cloth as well as a towel.

- "Thank you Michiko, I was just fighting with the past that is all" - Tomoko said as she showed Michiko the now erased shield of the Utenzaki.

Michiko smiled a little, a knowing glimmer in her eyes. "I have seen that shield once before...and you should be more carefull with your flashbacks mistress, I'd like to keep you here in the house rather than admitting you to the local hospital."

Tomoko smiled at her and looked down for a moment.

- "Yes Michiko, I promise I'll be more careful" - Tomoko replied still smiling at her not caring how much her hand was stinging from the cut.

"Thankyou, it wouldn't look good for me if you landed up in the hospital that's all. It's my duty to look after you and I'd be neglecting it if I didn't do so." Michiko replied softly, applying a little ointment to the wound and wrapping it up lightly.

- "Sorry if I make your duty difficult it is not my intention" - Tomoko said wincing slightly for the wound. She had been hurt many times before but she still had not grown acustomed to pain.

Michiko shook her head and smiled a little, "It's quite alright...cleaning work gets very boring after time goes by." She chuckled and removed the now dirty water and sash into the other room where they would be cleaned later.

- "What can you tell me about Kuro-u? She seems so nice and all is she always like that?" - Tomoko asked, she had been so pleasently surprised by Kuro-u that she had actually began to look up to her.

"Well it depends on what you would like to know. I have known Mistress Kuro-u since she was young so there is much I can tell." Michiko replied as she re-entered the room.

- "Was she born here? Did she always live here?" - Tomoko asked her.

Michiko smiled and shook her head, "You will find this either quite amusing or eerie...Mistress Kuro-u was found by the same council member that inducted you into our society today when she was very young. He took her in and raised her as he would his own neice.
Then, he began to oversee her training as a samurai. That is how she became the woman you see today. If not for that elder she would most likely be dead."

Tomoko was deep in thought, Kuro-u gave her a chance just like she was given when she had first arrived. Their situation was so alike but she would ask Kuro-u about it so she could hear the story with her words.

- "Thank you Michiko, I will ask Kuro-u more about it" - Tomoko said and smiled.

Michiko nodded and smiled a little, glad to be of some help she stepped away and made her way into the adjoining room to wash the soiled peices of cloth from earlier on.

Tomoko just lay down and closed her eyes. She started to sleep for while and for the first time in her life it was a relaxed and beautiful dream.

Nakamura grinned, so they had finally broke camp. The Utenzaki had been on the march sense midday, and the troops were eager for combat. The Lord of The Utenzaki Clan sat on his horse as his forces continued marching towards the Inuzaki castle. "We should reach their by tommorow night my lord." One of his generals had told him a few hours ago. Rations had all ready been handed out, and the Utenzaki men, and children, had learned to control their hunger as well as fatigue, for a certain extent. He had only lost two soldiers so far on their march, they died from thirst, which was strange sense most Utenzaki men do not generally die from thirst. I wonder if the Inuzaki have improved...? No, we shall take the castle and be victorious. A horn sounded off as the large attack force doubled their pace, the sooner they reached the enemy fortress... the better. The only worry that Nakamura had in his mind was how Horjo was handling things back at the Utenzaki castle.

Originally posted by Sora The Brave
As Orin stayed tied to the stake in the middle of the Moto village, he began to cut the ropes with a small knife he kept. The streets were deserted now, though there were sentries around the perimeter, but he was stealthy enough to avoid their capture.

Orin dropped down quietly, and began to make a stealthy run towards the stables, where he could hopefully get a ride outta there.