Blood Colored Autumn. ((Open/Mature.))

Blues_Hound · Subject: Re: Blood Colored Autumn. ((Open/Mature.)) Sat Aug 29, 2009 7:29 am

Tesshu gazed in as the girl finaly began to wake. He thought just for a second that she looked slightly farmillier to him, until he placed it. A small smile broke on Tesshu lips as Ayame gained her senses back.

This young Azuma had fought with him once. Only once however, he stopped the fight before it got out of hand, after all his boss told him never to cross swords with an Azuma. Nearly a minet after thier fight she fought that kill thief Rikimaru and then got captured by some doll freak. They had been in nearly the exact same position before, it was slightly amusing.

"Not at all," Tesshu scoffed."I just thought that Azuma ninja weren't supposed to get caught and rescued by vigilante assassins."Tesshu smile faded into a sigh before he reached into his hakama and withdrew a needle."I'll let you out, but you have to tell me why you are here." Tesshu paused for a second."I am Tesshu Fujiyka, in case you had forgoten." Tesshu grasped the locked and held it, ready to pick the lock, at this girl's response.

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MadHatter · Subject: Re: Blood Colored Autumn. ((Open/Mature.)) Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:09 am

As Tesshu peered in on her, Ayame began to wake from her dream. It was a simple dream of darkness; the kind you don't want to remember later on. Her raven colored hair fell lightly across one side of her face as she shuffled on the floor. ".....what the..." Groaned the young girl, barely audible against the cold stone floor. One hand began to feel the floor for a means to arise, but she found nothing but dirt.

Her eyes opened quickly as the memory of what occured only hours before jolted her brain. "Damn.." She cursed, bringing herself to her knees at last. For a moment she sat on the floor, her eyes had to adjust from their dizzy fog. "Hmm?" Looking up from beneath a curtian of black bangs Ayame stared at the man before her cage. He was immedately thought to be her guard and that she was indeed captured. Rikimaru would never let her live this down.

A frown appeared as she stared back at the man. "Do you have a problem staring?" Her dried, raspy voice asked.

Blues_Hound · Subject: Re: Blood Colored Autumn. ((Open/Mature.)) Sun Aug 23, 2009 3:41 am

Getting hired by two lords was always an interesting situation. Tesshu wasn't too good at the whole idea of lieing and subtlety, but he could do it for the money he was making. Tesshu sat with his feet kicked up on a small table in front of him.

He was on guard against some ninja, which he knew was comming because of his other employer. Tesshu pulled out his Riyo and held them out looking at the shimmering gold pieces. Six were from lord Ranzo and ten were from Gohda. He smirked before placing the coins back into his hakama. This was a hell of a lot easier than sneaking into some place and killing some poor bastard who pissed off the wrong guy, it paid better too.

It was just as Tesshu just started to relax when he saw a group of guards dragging in a girl. His dark eyes widened once he realized what she was."You have got to be joking." he muttered in his deep gruff voice.

Tesshu stood up and downed the cup of sake in front of him before he shuddered and began to follow the group. Tesshu looked like he would have footfalls like a brute but he walked with nearly a ninja's grace. In fact it wasn't until thiey were half way to the dungeon before the rear guard noticed him. "Tesshu!?" the man jumped nearly dropping his spear.

"You found an intruder?" Tesshu asked the obvious question trying to pry some information. "Y-yeah.." the guard said with a little hesitation in his voice. "How was she found?" Tesshu asked still scanning the guards. Not one of them looked skilled enough to find this girl on thier own. "Lord Ranzo informed us there would be anintruder." Tesshu nodded, not changing his expression at all. He turned on his heels after noting which of the cells the kinoichi was placed in.

Tesshu needed to find out who knew about this operation and eliminate them. Either that or take out the target himself. He might be a doctor in a clinic in the day but he a mercenary assassin when the time came. But before all of that he neeed to get this girl out of the dungeon.

Tesshu waited for the guards to return to normal before he walked down into the underground chamber. There was only one guard at the cell door and he was easy enough to dispatch. Tesshu threw a quick right jab to the base of the man's skull dropping him to the dirt with a thud. Tesshu crouch searching him for the keys, nothing, of course this guard did not have the keys. They were most likely with one of the higher ranking personel. Tesshu looked in on girl's condition seeing if she would stir. If she didn't move then it was on his shoulders to get her out and kill the mark, but he expected extra pay for this nuisence.

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MadHatter · Subject: Blood Colored Autumn. ((Open/Mature.)) Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:50 pm

Blood Colored Autumns

As the night grew stale, the winds blowing increasinly rough, two figures leapt forth from the lurching shadows of the bamboo forest. They're bodies flashed darkly against the pale silver moon, silhouettes they became. Soundlessly two pairs of feet struck the bitter dirt. There they stood for a brief moment in time, the moonlight illuminating their features momentarily. One was a tall, well built man whose locks of pure silver brushed gently against his marble like face. The other was a beautiful, well shaped woman with locks that resembled the feathers of ravens. Neither of them looked upon the other before making haste out of the clearing and back into the flood of forestry. Like shadows fighting and fleeing the sight of growing light the two moved, with such gracefulness and silence. It was unclear whether their feet had even struck the ground as they ran and leapt forth through and under the branchs.

After her feet touched a thick, rounded branch of a tree, the woman stopped. "I think we lost them." Her voice was soft and calm like fresh snow and just as quiet. Looking down below her she watchd the man come to a halt under the same tree. She could tell just from the way his head reeled around, he was scoping out the area. After all, he did happen to have sharper vision than anyone she had ever known. He then looked up at her, eyes locking for a second as he nodded. "Phew," grunted the girl softly as she lowered herself to take a seat upon the branch, legs hanging loosely in the air.

The man below her, only several or so feet, sighed a breath of air resembling that of the midnights late breeze, soft but soundless. "Ayame, we're splitting up." However, unlike his breath, his voice was dark and heavy like the night before a monsterious storm, holding a tint of mystery behind it all. With a soft parting of his hidden lips he leaned back gently, pressing his back into the trunk of the autumn leaved tree. Immedately he felt the jagged bark against his backside.

Gripping the branch with her hands she blinked and stared down upon him once more. "Yeah but-....Alright. Where can we meet up again, Rikimaru? Lord Gohda wanted us both back to report." The girl with a beautiful voice but deadly eyes questioned, tilting her head back. As her eyes pulled upwards to the heavens beyond, she caught sight of leaves fluttering to the dead ground, resembling red and brown hued butterflies in flight before death. With their broken, punctured wings. The leaves she deemed as dying butterflies swayed before her paled face and continued to drift along.

"There is a bordering village to the south of here. But the village I speak of is not the life adorned village. This one was burned to the ground many moons ago. No one guards over it because the temples and idols have already been stolen." Replied the man sternly, painting a visual in the womans mind of the village. He knew that she would have no problems finding it. With a light grunt he pulled himself away from the trees trunk and already began to head in the western direction. "Good luck, Ayame."

"Like I need luck." And just like that the two parted ways. Rikimaru headed to the west, Ayame to the east eventually to cross paths again. But for now, as Rikimaru vanished into the shadows, Ayame sat in the tree. For being a bloodstained warrior of darkness, a ninja, this beauty adored nature. Turning her head up once more to the heavens, a faint smile crossed her lips as a hand extended to the world before her. With her palm open, one of those 'dying butterflies' fluttered down and came to rest between her fingers. "Good luck..Rikimaru.." Was her whisper, tilting her hand just enough to allow the leaf to leave her hand.

Days passed, nights never went by without a tainted crimson stain. Ayame wandered only at night, occasionally during the day dressed as a commaner in nearby villages. But as night fell once more upon the sleeping world around her, Ayame sprang back to life as the stealth assasin. Her travels brought her around mountain passes, castles of blood thirsty lords and rouge samurai. Not a night past without her two kodachi's being painted red.

With a sigh the raven haired girl jumped high up into a dying tree perched upon a carved hill, just over looking a large village. In the distance beyond she could vaguely make out the shadow of yet another castle. "Looks interesting enough." She cooed gently to herself as the night breeze hissed throughout the dried grass around the tree. Erecting herself from her crouch position Ayame pulled her fingers through a loose lock of hair, tucking it behind her ear in the process. Her figure was stunningly outlined by the silver glow of a cresent moon but was suddenly lost. Ayame pulled her body to hug the tree abruptly, concealing herself in the shadows and silhouettes of the tree. Just as she had done so, approaching footsteps were heard, walking down a worn out path leading to the village. Peering just over the bark of the tree she made out three blotchy figures. Who was this now?

"I heard Lord Gohda sent some dogs out." One man coughed loudly, spitting furiously onto the ground. "I loathe ninja. Those pesky bastards. Killed three of my men they have." The longer she studied the men as they walked directly into a curtain of moonlight, Ayame could see swords perched at their sides. They were guards. Just her luck..

The two men beside him laughed and howled at him, one slapping his back. "It's alright. Why would a ninja come here? Lord Ranzo..."

"That's exactly why. Ranzo isn't to be messed with! Not to mention that creepy man whom lurks with him..What was his name? Onikage?" The trio of guards all froze suddenly at mention of the mans name. Onikage. The name even sent Ayame chills. But where had she heard it before...?

Suddenly, as her hand gripped tightly around the hilt of her blade, Ayame's orbs went wide as she looked down at her shoulder. She stared in disbelief as blood trickled down her perfect skin, glinting in the gleaming silver light. There was a moment where her body twinged at the sight, almost giving herself away but her body managed to still itself. But as her eyes adjusted in and out, growing hazed and glazed with confusion, the trio below her broke out in laughter as more men greeted them. "Heh, Lord Ranzo was correct. She would be lurking near by." One man stated with a chuckle. Ayame felt her body growing dull and numb suddenly. "Hurry and take her to the dungeon. Won't he be pleased with us..." That was the last sentance the kunoichi heard before her body crumbled with weakness, her body spilling over the branch and onto the ground with a thunk...

((ooc: Hey there. ^^ This is a ninja thread ((Not like Naruto but Tenchu.)) and I would like a male character to join. Maybe a spy within the castle which they're taking Ayame to. He stumbles across her, realizing she's a ninja and secretly tries to set her free. Of course Ayame wont know of this until later on in the thread. ^.^ Rated R for violence and possably romance. Thankyou!))