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Chapter 23 - Chapter 23: Shikari Gakure's Color and Monoke Gakure

Date: Æ1289 20, 3

Middle of the night. Shikari Gakure is standing in front of Rikezi's tomb that builds. Monoke Gakure came back holding a flower.

"I got this flower in the near flower plants place, so I got this for him I'm sorry that this is the only thing that I can do," Monoke Gakure said as he kneel in front of Rikezi tomb and put down the flower he's currently holding.

"Let's end them," Shikari Gakure said in a modest voice. Monoke Gakure said as he kneel his left knee. He stands up slowly as he got done after a couple of minutes kneeling on the ground.

"I didn't go to the kingdom that I was going there, I stayed here all night instead," Shikari Gakure said as he looked up in the sky facepalming.

Monoke Gakure turns around to Shikari Gakure and taps him on the shoulder. "We lost another friend, but that doesn't mean we're not continuing living," Monoke Gakure said.

Shikari Gakure stand up straight and heavy breath as he turns around and pulled out his sword.

They walk side to side as they walked they hear horses in their surroundings. "Found those fools make sure every one of them is dead, those bastards are the reason why we're in the middle of the night," an unknown voice said shouting in the middle of the forest as more knights walks into their place.

"Let's hide for now kill every single one of them, I heard enough," Shikari Gakure said to Monoke Gakure that on his side.

They both vanished. Suddenly there's a soldier who sees Rikezi's tomb in the distance.

"So in this place, knights are considered as soldiers, there's might be something different than them let's be careful, but I wonder what they're called to their leader," Monoke Gakure said standing upside down in a tree branch hiding in the shadow.

"Their leader must be called a sergeant, it's a complete stupidity that they called their knights as soldiers how ridiculous," Shikari Gakure said standing to the tree branch next to Monoke Gakure that currently standing under him as upside down.

"Here! Sergeant I see someone's tomb!" A knight said as he quickly kneel on the tomb to take a look. A horse with a man riding on it suddenly appeared and kick the knight away.

"Get out of the way kid!" The sergeant said as he gets off of his horse and pulled out his sword. He quickly swings towards the tomb but Monoke Gakure quickly comes in swooping killing the sergeant. He quickly comes for the head.

The knight that he kicked stayed on the ground sitting and scared. "What's wrong? Did I scare you already? What a weakling to call yourself a knight! Monoke Gakure said as he kills the knight stabbing him through the chest.

Blood splattered on the ground as the Sergeant's body slowly falls to the ground dead.

"I'm gonna clean Rikezi place as nothing happened," Shikari Gakure said who appeared behind Monoke Gakure holding their swords left and right.

Suddenly there are more knights as soldiers are running towards them as the shadow slowly hides the dead bodies and the blood-splattered.

"Where's the sergeant?" An unknown voice can be heard from far away. Shikari Gakure quickly vanishes from the shadow and suddenly the voice from the distance shouts and falls to the ground dead.

Shikari Gakure's sword is covered with blood as Monoke Gakure runs to the forest modestly into a group of knights.

They noticed Monoke Gakure running towards them giving a demonic aura to the knights and suddenly they knelt as Monoke Gakure came with a sword holding.

He swings it towards the knights killing a group of all decapitated. Shikari Gakure quickly vanishes. Suddenly he's at the front gate of the Kingdom.

Monoke Gakure stopped where there's blood splattered all behind him, we're there are knights dead on the ground showering on their blood.

"Shikari Gakure is furious... Well, I'm kinda the same, I deployed a bunshin to the west to report it but I will finish my work because of these traitors," Monoke Gakure said as he slays more knights walkway through the forest walking towards the kingdom.

"Another one down! And another one, wait for kid!?" Monoke Gakure said in a surprising tone. As he walks he stopped right at the kid who is wearing armor with a sword holding with the kid sitting on the ground scared.

Monoke Gakure walk towards the kid and now he's in front of him, suddenly the kid touches his sword and reached it towards Monoke Gakure but Monoke Gakure quickly throw the sword with his right hand. He's holding his sword with his left hand.

Suddenly there's a soldier comes in running towards him from the back holding a sword ready to be stabbed. He kicked the unknown soldier flewing a few meters away.

The soldier's sword flew up in the sky rotating. It's now coming back faster as Monoke Gakure stands up and picks it up in the middle of the air. He turned to his left and see a familiar path and saw dead knights on the way of the path.

"Shikari Gakure must have cleared the path already," Monoke Gakure said as stands up and walks towards the path holding the 2 swords left and right and suddenly the kid hug his feet to stop him.

"I'm not letting you go! You killed our knights!" The kid said as he shouts at him loudly.

"You betrayed us and killed our men, that means we're killing all of you for good," Monoke Gakure said as he kicked the kid towards the tree making him unconscious.

Monoke Gakure slowly walks toward the path where the light in the light post is currently open. Suddenly there are 5 knights all coming in once at him from behind. Suddenly from his right, there's a scythe with a chain attached to it that starts coming towards him.

It suddenly changes course towards the 5 knights decapitating them all 5 and falls to the ground dead.

"Nice chain you got there but I'm not asking for any help... Ria Koruwe, you're a Kuro student arent you? One of the masters," Monoke Gakure said as he slowly smiles not showing his eyes.

The scythe came back towards where it came from the right of Monoke Gakure. The 5 knights splattered blood all over the ground.

"And I'm not expecting you to join Shikari Gakure to have fun yourselves, I wanna have fun too, my men's are not with me so I'm fine," Ria Koruwe said as she appeared to the right side of Monoke Gakure in the shadow on the tree covering her and slowly walking towards him.

"Let's get this over with," Ria Koruwe said as she goes to the side of Monoke Gakure walking towards the path with Monoke Gakure.

In the front gate of the kingdom. Shikari Gakure is standing outside the gate. Suddenly the guards of the gate see him.

Shikari Gakure quickly kicked the Gate making it blow up and the guard standing in front of the gate flew a meters away with the gate. There's a large smoke in the gate of the kingdom with more knights are coming towards the gate all armored up.

The knights are standing in their post in front of the gate 1 meter away from the gate. "Fire the arrows!" An unknown voice from the distance said.

Suddenly they fired arrows in the distance to kill whoever is in there. Shikari Gakure turns around for a second and sees a guard getting stuck on the falling gate. Shikari Gakure quickly pulled out his sword and spin it in his hand faster and faster towards up to blow the arrows.

The soldier died due to the raining arrows that falls into the sky. "They're just abandoning they're men's who is this person? A prosperous kingdom like this, pathetic!" Shikari Gakure said as he flew up circling his sword and going down through the knights cutting them one by one and they're getting flew away.

Shikari Gakure landed on the ground giving a massive impact to the ground. The knights flew holding their swords getting unhold when they flew.

Shikari Gakure is swinging his sword left and right, the knights are charging at him not thinking.

Shikari Gakure is slaying knights as he walks towards the castle inside the kingdom. "Kill him or I will cut all of your heads," Queen Regina said inside the castle as another Dark Aura appeared on his left side and right side.

Monoke Gakure appeared on the gate of the kingdom with Ria Koruwe. "Looks like he's killing them all," Monoke Gakure said.

"Yeah let's join him, oh wait I sensed something in the castle another unknowns," Ria Koruwe said.

"I see him in the far distance let's run!" Monoke Gakure said as they both run towards Shikari Gakure as they see the path splattered on the ground with knights dead.

They reached Shikari Gakure, he stopped for a moment before talking to them. He looked at the castle. "Let's move! Monoke Gakure, clear out their piers and Ria Koruwe, wait here, I will assign you to destroy the castle," Shikari Gakure said as continued to walk.

They see in front of him the knights grouping up in one place, Shikari Gakure pointed his sword backward front to the right and flew to towards their head and swing his sword decapitating the knight's heads.

Hundreds more are coming towards Shikari Gakure. Monoke Gakure and Ria Koruwe looked at Shikari Gakure for a moment in the far distance before leaving.

"I will go to their docks or piers, make sure you destroy the castle, and have fun," Monoke Gakure said as suddenly vanish in a blink of an eye holding his sword.

Monoke Gakure goes toward the nearest pier of the kingdom, seeing people boarding the ship like nothing is happening.

Shikari Gakure slew the last knight of the army. He slowly walks towards the big door of the castle. "Futile," Shikari Gakure said as he slowly walks to the door.

He reached the door, he swing his sword through the door in speed. He kicked the door making it break down.

"You filthy attacked!" A special knight said. The special knight is wearing gold armor 2 in front of Shikari Gakure holding their swords.

"We're is Queen Regina, and both of you are not normal human beings," Shikari Gakure said as he don't show his eyes.

"Oh, so you can see it, impressive!" The special knight said as he turns into a Dark Aura vanishing the golden armor with another one of them.

"We are the kings of kings so you can leave n-" he said as he stopped talking and got cut by Shikari Gakure's sword.

"And you think you know who I am?!" Shikari Gakure said furiously as he swing his sword and cut the 2 Dark Aura's into 6. Both of them turned into dust as Shikari Gakure turned around to his left and sees the stairs. He walks towards it.

Monoke Gakure is in the wall of the kingdom sitting and watching the people aboard their ships.

"I wonder how many people Shikari Gakure killed, I'm showing my masked to them so no one will know me except for Shikari Gakure, now they will see our color," Monoke Gakure said as he quickly stands up and jumps quickly falls towards the ship.

He jumped in the middle of the Ship making a great impact and splitting it into 2 because of how powerful he is. Monoke Gakure masked is slowly building up on his own.

He jumped again standing on the other part of the Ship is slowly sinking to the bottom with humans on the water. Some of the people that are on the water are unconscious, dead, and swimming for their life.

Monoke Gakure sits down on the other part of the ship that is slowly sinking, he is watching the people fall to the bottom of the sea and the other part of the ship that is faster sinking than his ship.

Monoke Gakure masked is showing Dark and White Aura by only the masked itself as he sits down looking at the sea in front of him.

In the west. Monoke Gakure is walking towards the west gate the is currently getting prepared. He sees an army standing outside with their swords. The army gives away Monoke Gakure in front. The fourth army.

Monoke Gakure sees Himura Kiri in the distance talking with Teramoto Judikishi in the far distance.

He walked towards them. "Monoke Gakure!" Himura Kiri shouts at him as he sees him in the distance. Himura Kiri quickly comes over to Monoke Gakure.

Monoke Gakure taps him in the should before speaking. "Rikezi is dead, he got killed by the queen in the far northwest of the kingdom, somewhere there, Shikari Gakure buried him and put some flowers on top of his tomb, I'm also a bunshin so I'm gonna be vanishing in any second now," Monoke Gakure said as he lowered his head down and tapping Himura Kiri shoulder.

"What happened?" Himura Kiri asked as he facepalms as he looked at the sky. The sun is rising.

"He got stabbed by Queen Regina in the back as he protected her," Monoke Gakure answered as Himura Kiri looked at Monoke Gakure furiously.

"Don't look at me! Shikari Gakure and I are there killing every last of them," Monoke Gakure said.

"Good! Say to yourself and Shikari Gakure that bring her here alive! We're gonna torture her a little bit until she died," Himura Kiri said as he smiles demonically.

"Go somewhere in the far northwest you'll see a light post and a brick path," Monoke Gakure said as he vanished.

Himura Kiri knelt on the ground and punch it as he gets angry and gets harder the pain in his heart.

After a couple of minutes, Himura Kiti sits and heavily breathes. He quickly stands up as Teramoto Judikishi comes over to see him.

"Himura Kiri is there something I can help you with?" Teramoto Judikishi said. "There is, come with me," Himura Kiri said as he stands up and walks to outside the gate. Teramoto Judikishi follows him.

The 5 Greats see Teramoto Judikishi and Himura Kiri leaving in the far distance. "Let's follow them," Katrina said as she sees Agatsuma Hit quickly nodded and goes towards Himura Kiri and Teramoto Judikishi.

"Hashibira Kosuke and Hashibira Komoto you both stay here, for now, Himura Kiri is leaving you both are the only ones who can protect this gate primarily," Agatsuma Hit said as he sees Hashibira Kosuke and Hashibira Komoto nodded at him.

"We will do our best," Hashibira Kosuke said as Agatsuma Hit nodded at them both and goes towards we're Himura Kiri and Teramoto Judikishi.

Inside the west underground facility with the Generals. "We have a plan of renovating the village walls but we're gonna renovate only the gate, for now, I heard that the west is already getting done renovating their walls but renovating out walls right now is completely reckless," Kingston said to everyone that in the room. Only 4 Generals are sitting and 4 sergeants are only in the room. The Generals are sitting and the Sergeants are standing in the sides of the Generals.

"We lost a thousand people... We must bury them and give them their justice, the date before Æ comes those swordsmens or soldiers that died who has a family will be given money by their rank but three times bigger than their normal salary," Kingston said as he lowered his head down.

"The east deployed their Five Greats to defend our front gate with more swordsmens, we should be fine... We can now handle it since our Shira's are here," Kingston said as he sees everyone in the room is still quiet the generals are lowering their heads down.

"The General of the Fifth Army is dead, Sir..." The General of the second army said as he slowly tears out holding it.

"We're giving General award and honor for training his fifth army that now the highest, the fifth army is the highest, even though he died he did his job well done," Kingston said as he slowly tears out.

"Every army will be guarding the front gate so we can secure everything and part of the village," Kingston said as the Generals nodded at him.

"The meeting is done, you all can leave now freely," Kingston said as the Generals one by one left the room.

The other heads of the west stayed in the room to fix some papers. The Generals are getting serious about what they're doing every single day.

Himura Kiri and Teramoto Judikishi are walking out of the gate walking by past the army.

The other 3 Greats appeared behind them. "Himura Kiri we're coming with you," Agatsuma Hit said as Himura Kiri stopped.

Himura Kiri slowly turns around nodded at him and continued to walk.

Shikari Gakure at the kingdom far northwest reached another door in front of him inside the castle.

He kicked the door in full force with his feet. The door quickly breaks down and a large smoke appeared. Shikari Gakure appeared in the door as the smoke slowly disappears.

"You're coming with me Queen Regina or let's say traitor of the Kingdom heaven," Shikari Gakure said as he slay the guards that comes towards him.

"I'm Queen Regina! I'm the Queen of the Kingdom heaven!" Queen Regina said furiously.

Shikari Gakure picks out the soldier sword and throws it through the Queen. The queen got scared that she closes her eyes.

"I'm alive!" She said as Shikari Gakure appeared in front of him and She looked up that her crown is gone. Shikari Gakure quickly cut the crown in half.

Queen Regina punches Shikari Gakure at his stomach but Shikari Gakure ignored and kicked him destroying the throne.

Queen Regina spit out blood as Shikari Gakure kicked him. "Still alive I'm gonna torture you!" Shikari Gakure said as he grab Queen Regina using his left hand in her hair.

Shikari Gakure slowly walks back towards the door and leave as he drags Regina down.

Shikari Gakure teleported down with Regina and drag her again through outside and sees Ria Koruwe waiting outside.

"It's the time! Destroy the castle!" Shikari Gakure said as he drag and throw Regina far to watch her cattle get destroyed.

Ria Koruwe grabbed her chain from her back and scythe. She spins her scythe in her hands and she throws it going faster up with the chain.

She grabs the chain as the scythe circled the castle. She quickly pulled her chain and destroyed the primary part of the castle the throne room. Her scythe quickly comes back at her with the chain. She grabbed it mid-air.

"I destroyed the foundation now it will fall," Ria Koruwe said as she turns around and sees Shikari Gakure watching her and the castle fall.

"This is one of the Kingdoms, one of the traitors of every kingdom has finally eliminated," Shikari Gakure said as Ria Koruwe slowly walks towards her as the castle slowly falls apart.