My hands clutching the chest of his armor as I weep, I continue to look down tears streaming down my cheeks, though we achieved victory it feels like defeat. We lost a leader, fathers, sons, brothers, and good soldiers. I look around at the destruction I've wrecked so many good people dead because of my actions. Every time I try to do something good or change something it always backfires on me. I wipe my tears and looks down at my hands covered in the mix blood of my allies and enemies. In the corner of my eyes I see Waibo through the blur, he kneels down and places a hand on my shoulder silently nodding. "T-this is all my fault. He deserved a better way to go out, he fought and fought for a whole life time carried the burden of raising me while raising a kingdom all at the same time. He should've lived through it all to retire and enjoy the old life of drinking sake. Now instead he's laying here in the dirt, murdered by the hand of his son. This is not fair." I yell slamming my hand into the ground over and over snarling my teeth. "Ahhhhhhhh!" I yell into the sky crying out from the pain deep inside. My chest feels like its aching and I sluggishly get up and walk over to Dosarai dragging my katana across the ground on the way to him. He slowly starts opening his eyes barely staying conscious. "Who knew you had this power, you even killed your own father. I think that makes you worse than me." He says looking over at my fathers deceased battle and I slowly pick the blade up cutting across his mouth. "Shut up! You have no right to talk this is my fault, but this would've never happened if you didn't exist." I look down at him with hate and frustration.
"You have no honor your just a decrepit fool, you did all this just to be superior and yet you still didn't believe I could be this powerful. You do not deserve a swift death." I drop my katana and kneel down in front of him and I deliver one fist into his face after the other. His nose breaking within the first few hits, I start delivering elbows across his chin trying to break it off. His face just a blood mess, as I keep reigning blows. "Let me share with you the pain I feel inside" I proceed to stand and stomp on his torso aiming for his ribs waiting to feel a crack or break as I keep stomping, trying to destroy my enemy and beat him to death. I start kicking his legs shattering the knee bone on him, he's unconscious again from the pain no doubt. I wraps my hand around his collar and drag him all the way back to Onnajo ship, bumping him into branches and stumps along the way. As we reach the shore I drag him into the salt water making him burn from all the wounds hopefully waking him if that didn't work I pushed his head down into the water drowning him for a bit. I see bubbles arise and I yank his head up giving him a good gasp of air. "Now imagine this but so much worse you piece of shit. Death is too fucking good for you, you will fucking die on my voyage home as decoration!" I yell at him more consumed with anger but fully conscious of my actions. "Onnajo I need your help come down here!" I call out to her and she pokes her head over and with a disgusted face climbs her way. "What the fuck why did you drag him all the way over to my ship, what is the purpose?" She asks looking quite irritated no doubt she see's my actions are that of a upset child. "We're delivering a message to all daimyo across this fucking land, I don't know if you know it but he was the top dog, now he's just a fucking bitch so we're gonna tie him to the head of your ship and show his beaten decrepit body all across this land as we sail port to port all the way back home. If he's still alive by then I'll remove his head from his shoulders." I explain pushing Dosarai's head back down into the water with a annoyed look on my face from being questioned.
"Now I understand Lord Ishi, I'll get to it right away. Just so you know your are not a man I want to get on the bad side of." She says as she takes Dosarai out of my hands and she strings him up onto the head of the ship tying his arms to the each side of the ship. His legs tied to the bottom sides of the ship as well I climb my way up to the hull before looking out at see and the soldiers surrounding the ship, I wave my hand over to signal them to come up hopefully it holds everybody. "Captain Onnajo or Admiral whichever you prefer. I would like to go back to the Miwa port town. Send us there I have no time to grief I have one last battle we need to finish on a smaller scale. I have a promise to keep." I say look up at her at the helm, and she begins to turn the ship heading back out into the ocean looking like a absolute naval ship. Look over ahead of the route we're going on, I see nothing but ocean and I make my way down to the medical side of the ship. I see Fumikage in a hammock and he's resting still asleep. Kyo still by his side I look around pausing for a moment and I walk up behind Kyo placing my hand on her head ruffling her hair softly. "I appreciate you looking after Fumikage, he may as well be a younger brother to me and considering your feelings towards him I know you did what you had to save him so I forgive you for your betrayal." I say explaining my feelings to her and I smile softly. She turns her head towards me before taking a deep breath. "I still don't feel well about it, I never thought my daimyo would suspect me of betrayal I'm still having a hard time accepting what I've done. I couldn't keep our deal and because of the deal you spent a week locked in a cart and cell. I want to do better I would like it If I could serve your clan and pay off my debt." She opens up to me about her wants and her regrets and I just smile the whole time. I had planned for this all along.
"Stupid Kyo I had already planned all that ahead of time. Now I don't like arranged marriages but if you ever find yourself falling in love with Fumikage I will host the wedding myself because if you unite your clans together you will make the strongest ninjas the worlds ever seen under my rule. With that you two would become legends a myth of love based off you I'm sure." I say back to her and I turn to leave but before I do walk away look at Fumikage for a moment nodding my head. "Also tell Fumikage that I apologize for putting him through so much when he awakes." I say looking back at her, her face is almost beat red from the comment before. It would seem that your feelings will be returned Fumikage. It may take a while she's not quite as outgoing as she may seem. I turn walking my way back up to the deck where I see a couple soldier's leaning against the rails, they are watching some of the soldiers work awaiting the time to trade off between breaks. The corner of my eyes I see fish jumping out of the beautiful blue ocean, the night sky dark and the stars and glowing moon reflecting off the water. I make my way up to the helm looking at Onnajo inhaling deeply. "Hey Onnajo I wanted to apologize for earlier I let my anger get the best of me. Still even you can agree the bastard deserves this and I wont be checking up on him until we make it to Miwa." She slowly turns around taking a break from steering and she leans against the rail inhaling some of the opium from her pipe, that stuff is gonna kill her one day. "There's nothing to apologize for, honestly it was unlikely I'd make it out of that cell, and if my brother gets another shot at life without fighting then I'll give you my life and everything with it. He never deserved a sister like me, and even though he loves me he deserves better. He will finally get it by being on your side. Whatever you decide your the boss and I follow. However don't let what happened today happen again. I know you probably don't wanna hear it but you need to boss, your father died trying to stop you and that's message no matter what you would have done this would've happened one way or another as a lesson to you. He was destined to die to progress you that's the feeling I get." She explains it all to me and I nod along taking some time to reflect on my inner thoughts.
Perhaps she's right, my father kind of said the same thing a while ago before we set out for this. I was trying so hard to change something and it failed at every turn. At the very least I was able to hold him in my arms before he passed and take his message to heart. I need to visit my mother but first I need to finish my promise I made to Zexis. "Yeah I wont let it happen again, I've decided to refrain from using that power into I control it. I know about spiritual flow but I never could have guessed it was that strong. Kyo the female ninja down below, hers isn't that strong either I'll have to do my own research into this but for now the battle's ahead shouldn't require me to use it. No matter how much the blood lust calls out to me I wont succumb to it." I say looking at Onnajo and I shrug my shoulder a bit. Onnajo puts her arm around my head getting me into a headlock ruffling my hair a bit before laughing extremely hard. "Hahahahahaha! my ship my rules I am now the hierarchy, now you have to listen to me so get the hell out of your head before I throw you overboard." She says as she throws me into the railing playfully and I stretch and fix my hair up a bit before sighing a bit. "I'll try my best captain how long before we reach Miwa, as soon as we get there we're heading straight for the capital of Miwa, and sieging the castle?" I ask her how long and explain what's going down when we get there. She just nods along and takes control over the wheel before responding. "It'll be a couple days by sea, normally its about a week and a day but that's on land, just try to enjoy the ride in the meantime Ishi." She says as she starts steering the ship and I walk down going our separate ways. I need to wrap all these things up before I can even grief. Before I never even thought twice about my fathers presence and yet I miss him like crazy right now you never know how good you got until its gone. This is almost over I just have a few more battles to win and this struggle in my life will be over. The one good thing to come about this, is that I can make movements to becoming a better daimyo.