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Tears of Blood
By : SultrySundina
Category: +. to F > Blade of the Immortal
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Tears of Blood (My Story Arc: Finale to Blade of the Immortal):

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Chapter 25: Blood for Bones

Suzume slowly let her kimono fall, just to where her breasts were still holding it up. She looked at Manji and lowered her gaze to where his hands were resting on his knees. He was sitting cross legged and just staring at her. Just then Manji grabbed her hands and pulled her up to a standing position. Her kimono started to slip but did not fall down past the top of her breasts. Her curves compensated greatly for the loose fabric.

Manji held onto Suzume's wrists and moved her closer to the wall. Once he had her leaning against the wall he pinned her arms above her head and spoke in a deep voice, "So woman, just how do you plan to make up for your intrusion earlier. You know, I was in the middle of something back then. Do you plan on finishing it?" He leaned in closer, awaiting a reply.

Suzume swallowed harshly and began to speak. "Hai samurai-san. Besides I am sure I will be a much better partner than an inexperienced, young girl. I am after all, almost twice her age; but I am still very pleasing to the eyes, and other places as well."

"I am sure you are, but as for pleasing me, that is yet to be seen."

"I am sure I can do more than simply please you samurai-san. I am sure I will be able to make you feel as though death is near. At least I intend to try." Suzume flashed a devilish grin and tried to free her hands from Manji's grasp but he was holding onto her far tighter than she was able to escape from.

Manji moved his face closer to Suzume's until his lips were beside her ear, and he half whispered, "Listen here woman, I don't know what you want, but know this, I ain't fallin' for it."

"Whatever do you mean samurai-san?" Suzume replied trying to sound innocent to his accusation.

Manji grasped both her wrists with only his left hand now, and let the other start to travel across her waist, "Don't think I will let you play coy so easily woman. I intend to find out exactly what you're hiding."

"I have no idea what you mean Manji-san." Suzume still acted coy.

"That was your first mistake woman. Trying to seduce me was your second, and this..." Manji's hand slid beneath Suzume's kimono at her stomach, and slyly pulled out her hidden dagger, "This was your third."

Suzume now struggled even harder to be free from Manji's grasp. She did not expect him to be so keen and see through her so easily. This had rarely happened before and she realized quickly she would have to free herself somehow to gain the advantage once again. She knew things could quickly turn horribly wrong if she didn't tread carefully.

"I only want to know one thing woman. Why the fuck are you here, with a dagger? Are you so eager to die?"

Suzume snorted, so he had figured it out. He knew why she was here, but her; eager to die? she was far from eager to die. "That is where you are gravely mistaken samurai-san. I am not the one eager to die. I am the one who will be dealing out death today."

Suzume then was able to struggle enough to free herself from Manji's grasp and grab for Rin's sword that sat perched against the wall beside them. She quickly turned to face him, unsheathed the sword, and pointed it directly at Manji, "No, samurai-san, I will not be the one dying today."

Manji looked at the woman and almost laughed out loud, "Woman if you do not wish to die then drop that and walk away. I may be itching for a good fight, but not against a woman, and certainly not against one of Rin's so called friends."

"I will give you a good fight samurai, for I AM YOUR OPPONENT!" Suzume lunged at Manji and he barely dodged her attack, but not without hazard. She struck his arm and sliced almost to the bone. Manji hissed in pain and blood began to spill to the mat. " Woman, do not start something you can't finish!" He warned and pulled out his shido from inside his kimono and stood, ready for her next attack.

"If your death will save my husband then so be it." Suzume lunged at Manji with all her might.

Manji evaded her attack and caught the sword in his shido. "Woman do not underestimate me. If I have to, I will kill you, whether you are Rin's friend or not."

"Rin will see the error of her ways for consorting with you when this is all over, you can be guaranteed of that!" Suzume easily released the sword from the grasp of Manji's shido and took her stance once again.

"Is this all because she told your snot nosed brat of a kid that she wanted a real man and not him?"

"Do not be mistaken samurai-san, she will see the error in her judgement, and when she does she will be begging my son to take her in. However, my reasons for needing you dead do not lie with them. I have a far greater purpose."

"Oh, and just what deserves my head? What is your..."

Even before Manji had finished talking Suzume charged, the sword held high and aimed for Manji's neck. Manji saw her attack and dodged to the left. What he failed to notice right away however, was the small wakizashi Suzume had removed from the right side of her kimono, with her left hand, as she lunged forward. As he dodged her first attack, but the wakizashi slashed a deep gash into his collarbone. She aimed it too for his neck, and had just barely missed because Manji had seen the glint from its steel, in the last instant before it made contact with his flesh. There was now blood oozing from his wound. The previous wound had already healed and Suzume was disgusted with this.

"It seems I may have underestimated you woman. That will not happen again."

"You talk too much demon."

Suzume took another lunge at Manji and as her wakizashi connected with flesh once again, this time just below his stomach, she felt the sharp sting of metal sinking into her own body and the wakizashi fall from her grasp. Manji had sliced open a deep gash in her left shoulder. Blood dripped down her arm, staining her white kimono a deep crimson.

"Unlike me woman, you will not heal quickly. I do not wish to spill innocent blood."

"HA! If I were so innocent I would already be dead samurai, and not by your sword in the least. I do not fear a little blood."

Suzume grabbed her fallen wakizashi and swiftly stabbed Manji in the ankle, lodging the short blade deep within flesh and bone, completely through. Manji hissed in pain and fell to the ground. She now had him down at a height where his neck was readily available to be sliced. She quickly grasped the sword tighter and sliced it through the air above his head.

In a flash Manji had his katana out from its sheath at his side, and blocked her attack from above. With his other hand he grabbed her ankle and pulled her down to her knees. When she was down he punched her in the stomach, in an attempt to give him time to remove the embedded blade from his ankle. Suzume fell to the floor and coughed up blood. As he pulled the wakizashi free, blood gushed from the wound and covered the mat. The kessen-chu made quick time of mending his wound but it would take a short time for it to fully heal. Manji realized this woman was relentless in her attacks, and a simple punch would hardly be enough to stop her.

Manji leapt upon her, pinning her to the floor, grasped her right hand in his, and plunged the wakizashi deep into her palm. Suzume screamed in pain. She kicked Manji off of her, and with her left hand removed the embedded blade. As the sound of crushed bone and sliced flesh echoed in the room Suzume let out an agonizing guttural cry. She took the wakizashi and sliced at Manji's throat skimming his skin. Manji now knew for certain this woman was not going to go down without a fierce fight to the death. He let out a sigh and realized he would have no choice. This was a fight to the death.

"Woman you will die here if you don't stop." He knew words would not stop her but he had to give her another chance to back down and seek treatment for her wounds.

"I will not stop until you are dead." Suzume tore two strips of cloth from her kimono and wrapped her bleeding hand and shoulder. "I will not fall so easily samurai. I am a warrior, not a mere female you can brush off."

Suzume grabbed the sword with her bloody right hand. She flinched in pain but this was nothing to her. She would die, if it meant she could get what she wanted, but she would not die here, not today. No, she was determined to bring Manji's head back to Habaki. Suzume lunged again at Manji and he was unable to block the full brunt of her attack. He sliced her across her stomach but not before Rin's sword, which Suzume held, ended up slicing a large gash into his right thigh. She was much faster than he was and as she leapt forward again she was able to plunge the wakizashi into his heart. Manji fell backwards to the ground, dropping his shido. Suzume picked them up and walked over to the man now laying in a pool of his own blood.

Suzume's kimono was now covered in her blood from head to toe but that did not stop her, "It seems samurai-san that you are not impervious to great amounts of pain, and now you will die by my hand. Die demon."

Suzume took the shido and placed it around his neck. The blade cut into the sides of his neck and even more of his blood gushed to the mat from his sliced flesh. Suzume watched as the man beneath her lay limp on the floor. She began to put pressure on the shido and it started to slice into Manji's throat.

What happened next Suzume had not anticipated. Before she even realized what had happened she felt heat leaving her right side and she teetered in agonizing pain. Manji had managed to grab his katana, which was on the floor beside him, and plunge it into Suzume's side. While Suzume teetered above him, he quickly removed his katana from her side, and then his shido from his neck and plunged the shido into the woman's stomach. Suzume fell to the ground and lay there, gasping for breath.

Manji staggered to get up fully and slowly made his way over to Suzume, now lying on her back on the floor, staring up at the ceiling.

Manji quickly removed his shido from her stomach and spat blood to his side, "Is this what you wanted woman? Are you satisfied now?"

Suzume did not answer, she simply stared at the ceiling. The pain in her stomach and side was overwhelming. Death however, she knew would not come quickly like this; so in an attempt to quicken her death, she reached for the dagger at her side. Manji saw her reach for the small dagger and kicked it out of her reach.

"Fucking moron, as if I'd let you take another swing at me. Look at yourself you stupid female. You're half dead, and it ain't gonna get any better."

Suzume turned her head to the other side and tears began to fall down her cheeks. She had failed and knew it. She had failed her family.

"My husband's life depends on your death." Suzume began to cough up blood as she spoke. "Habaki-san will not release my husband until you are dead."

"Habaki? That prick is holding your husband hostage?"

"Hai..." Suzume coughed up more blood and began to speak in a rasp voice once again, "In exhange for him I was to kill you. Then my husband would have been returned to me and free of that evil man's torture. It's because of you that they took my husband in the first place." Suzume coughed up more blood again. "You are a demon, you do not deserve to be alive. My husband would still be with me if Habaki didn't want to experiment on you."

Manji picked up Rin's sword, which he held upright on the floor and leaned on it; blood seeping from the corners of his mouth, "As much fun as this has been, you should be told, all those who were experimented on are dead. They were all killed long before I escaped, and those who survived the experiments died when Rin set off bombs in the castle, and it flooded. Your husband is long since dead woman. No one else survived that flood. You're going to die in vain."

"You lie samurai!" Suzume sat up briefly only to have the pain from her wounds force her back down and more blood rise to her throat. Her breath became even more laboured but she continued to speak, "Habaki survived, and I know he has my husband. I have failed him." Suzume coughed up even more blood and Manji knew he had to end her suffering. He stood up, still holding Rin's sword, and held it above the woman beneath him.

"Woman, your husband is dead. Your fight has been in vain. Be known now, if your son crosses my blade he will meet the same fate."

"Onii-chan thinks we are simply looking for his father. He knows nothing of my hunting you. He would not have approved of me..." Suzume's words were cut off by her coughing and choking on her own blood.

Manji realized there would be nothing anyone could do for her now and he did the only thing he knew he could. He plunged Rin's sword deep into her neck and as her eyes rolled back into her head and the last spurts of blood were released from her throat, Tada Suzume was no more. Manji fell to the floor as his blood still poured out of him. He was in horrible shape himself. It would take some time for his wounds to heal. Right then he realized the Inn was quiet, too quiet, but he fell into darkness none the less as he lost consciousness.
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Tears of Blood	By : SultrySundina Category: +. to F > Blade of the Immortal Views: 1863 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Tears of Blood