the world goes silent as my thoughts drown out the blood shed, we've been ordered to kill civilians. i feel rage bubbling up inside of me. yori did this. the fighting ends and the battlefield if you can even call it that is stained red with blood
"we did it!" moritomo shouts but theres no response, the mist village is completely silent apart from the low howl of the wind. "hayashi whats the matter you look like youve seen a ghost" moritomo laughs and pats hayashi on the back "we did it, the cloud village is safe" i feel a deep hatred for moritomo, i have the chance to kill him right now. fuck it. i lunge at him with my sword drawn full of anger. im going to kill this bastard. he dodges my attack effortlessly and then strikes me in the face with a fist. theres suddenly a cloud of smoke, what is happening here. the smoke clears and standing in front of me is butcher.
"what the hell" butcher laughs and drops his chains from his sleeves
"whats wrong ibuki dont you recognize me? its me moritomo" he had to have been using a transformation jutsu, but this doesn't make sense. i yell and go for another slash but butcher deflects it, hes stronger than last time. the corpses of the civilians rise up and are engulfed in pure black, they look like shadows. so shadow is here. who is he? then the realization hits me, yori is shadow. the whole point of this mission was to kill the mist village residents so yori could use them as pawns. but why go through the trouble of recruiting so many people?
"youre going to kill us and make us shadows" i say as i understand.
"took you a while to figure out" butcher laughs menacingly. more shadows begin to appear until theres several hundred, now all of us that were part of this army are surrounded on every side.
"you used us" hayashi says and he swings at butcher but in the blink of an eye hes decapitated by butcher. before his body even hits the ground hes engulfed in shadows and becomes one of them. well mayumi, this is it.
the shadows advance and butcher disappears. the shadows have now begun to run at us
"help me hold them off" i say to ito and he nods "im going to kill yori and moritomo"