Dishonorable Samurai [1]

Asuka Yamasaki, the crown jewel of the Damiyo clan from the third empire. A woman who could slay a thousand men without using flashy techniques. A woman whose prowess could slap Blind Blade Nyakumi's on the cheek three times. That woman had come for his head.

"Damn..."

Seth glanced around the massive crowd waiting to ambush him and tear him apart. Two hours ago, he would have been scared, but now, he let out a light chuckle.

"What happened to your honor, miss samurai queen?"

Asuka looked back at him with a mocking smirk as she unsheathed her katana.

"Fuck honor. My mother was a shinobi."

With that she pounced on the great tree with the dexterity of... well, a ninja. Apparently, she wasn't lying about the shinobi thing. Shiruken flew out of her hand and exploded on the tree branch where Seth was hurriedly nocking in another arrow. This woman was damn fast.

"Oh sod all!"

The bow and arrow morphed into a similar katana, and the two swords met with a clang. Cheat or no cheat, the samurai queen was not someone to be trifled with, Seth was way in over his head in this case. Asuka deflected his sword strikes, not even giving him time to breathe, and attempted a horizontal slash at his stomach.

"Don't worry, Nascent Qi guy, I'll give you a nice and quick death." Seth could not feel pain, but he could feel the sword slice through his flesh with precise accuracy.

"Hey bitch, why don't you take on someone your own size!"

A voice that Seth knew very well called out from below the tree.

"One dantian Ki strike!"

A golden crescent made purely of Qi flew off of her sword, and sent the ten foot thick branch crashing down. Nyakumi had appeared, blindfold over her eyes and sword in hand.

"Thanks Nia!"

Seth took that opportunity to swiftly abscond from he scene. He did not activate any passed down technique in this battle because of a message from the scroll almost as soon as the battle began.

[If yo u us e an y mo re te ch ni qu es, th en yo ur bo dy wi ll co ll ap se]

He could not use any of the techniques contained in the scroll, and that was a total bummer. He almost got harakiri'd even. There was no guarantee that Nyakumi could conveniently appear like that the next time something like this happened, and so he had to find a way to strengthen his body as soon as possible. Behind him, trees fell and Qi crescents flew everywhere. Blood poured like rivers, and corpses made a mount Tai. Anyone unlucky to get involved in the battle net a swift, yet gruesome end. Though they were either being sliced to pieces by Asuka Yamasaki, or cleaved in two by Nyakumi Ren. The lucky unlucky ones got crushed under a giant falling tree or something. For the first time since he had known her, Nia was really mad.

Her sword flashed with dazzling dexterity and complete control, the concepts of cause and effect, gravity and leverage from the ninth grade was even applied into her sword techniques. She deflected, parried, stabbed, slashed at, and blocked attacks from Asuka.

"Smoke bomb jitsu!"

Smoke began covering the entire area where they were, when Nyakumi let out a chuckle and her ICU voice rang out in the fog.

"What? Are we now in Naruto or something? Have you forgotten that I'm Friggin blind, your stupid smoke jitsu won't work on me... It can't work on me!'

The silver woman took a stance, wielding her own katana, and swung it with all her might.

"Seven dantian Qi strike"

With practiced precision, the blade of the katana began to glow in a golden yellow hue. As she swung the sword, the hue was flung off of the weapon with a devastating boom. However, Asuka simply cut the incoming ki crescent apart using only her sword. Then in a flash the Katanna was aiming at Nyakumi's throat, but the silver haired woman deflected just a time, and performed a sweeping kick to the female samurai. Asuka was not stupid, she was almost a battle genius and found it rather easy to read the Blind Blade's movements, the sweeping kick ended in failure, but Nyakumi swiftly followed up with a good old fist punch. The punch hit Asuka point blank range and got her disoriented for a second or two, giving the platinum haired woman time to execute an inescapable attack. She began to channel as much ki as she could into the slender sword as quickly as possible, such that the katana in her hands vibrated and shattered in pieces as it could not contain the enormous Qi aura being channelled into it. Asuka also felt the ki emanating from Nyakumi and chose to, for the first time since going under the dayimo clan, use a technique.

"Kishieldjitsu!"

"Twenty dantian ki strike!"

A ten foot thick shield made completely out of ki aura appeared before the samurai lady, while a twenty foot thick crescent flung off Nyakumi's sword as she swiftly drew an arc in the air. The two techniques met with a deafening roar, and Asuka's eyes widened as the ki shield was torn apart. The golden yellow crescent continued to fly off into the distance, bringing down countless trees and unlucky cultivators in the process. As for the samurai queen, her terribly damaged body lay on the floor. But she wasn't dead though...

"Fuu..."

Nyakumi crashed to the floor with a very long sigh. She had just emptied out twenty dantians of all their ki, thus she had no bodily strength anymore. She had used all of her bodily energy to send the Qi crescent flying as far and as fast as it did, and was currently at a level of exhaustion that supplementing her entire being with Qi would be of no use. In fact, she did not even have the strenght to move her own Qi.

"I've tried my best, Seth..."