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Lotus moved in front of him, absolutely livid, "YOu listen to me, Chaos, I was not interrupting anythign, you're the one rudely interrupted my life so you could "prove yourself" Now I have no family and nowhere to turn. I have a right to be in your precence because you're the only connection I have with my late father so that makes you my older brother by adoption. Besides, death is better than being lonely and angry, I have no idea what to do with myself, pompous murderous b*****d, I have no idea. My only purpose is to either be by your side or trailign behind. I'm not leaving and you can try to kill me if you want to but I won't let you do that either because if I can't have a life with my father, you cannot have a life without me!" She had successfully said this without yellign at him thougth she wanted to pound on his chest until she had run out of energy but she had not been able to stop the angry tears streaming down her cheeks.

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For a second she was stunned adn felt her cheek, she listened to what he had to say and ever so slowly her anger filled her like a glass, PITY?! That b*****d thinks I pity him!? She didnt' turn or follow when he left her she stood there boiling in her idignant rage, He wasn't even listening...She paced furiously, too angry to know what to do with herself, she really wanted to destroy something but instead she sat on the floor and closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She fought with her fury and wrestled it down into a little box in her mind and closed it. She took another breath, stood up and, drew her sword, "Weighted."
She felt her sword become heavier than it usually was. She went through her excercises slowly, with the sword, it was a bit heaviar then last time she weight trained so she was winded a bit sooner but she completed three sequences then did her cooling down excercices. As she did this, the rage stopped fighting in the box she had put it in so now it rested inside like a deadly present just waiting to be opened. As she cooled down, she was muttering, "I wasn't trying to say I wanted to be a disciple of yours..." she cursed a bit, "You weren't listening, you never listen, never, ever, ever..." She continuted muttering to herself.

Chaos worked through the rest of the day making more and more swords always finding flaws in his work that others couldn't see except one...one that stood in the back and watched with a smile on his face. The other smiths and such couldn't understand why Chaos was so hating of his work...but this one in the back understood. He approached Chaos slowly and tapped his shoulder. Chaos turned having left the furnace and nodded. "Hai?" The older man smiled and bowed his head slowly. "I saw your work...and the flaws that lay in it...I would like to help you...will you accept young one?" Chaos looked into the wise eyes of this old man and bowed his head in respect...if you will take me..." The old man takes Chaos to the furnace and they work until daybreak. The hammer can be heard throughout the village his eyes focused as the old man councils him. Chaos works long and hard making more blades than he had made in the past few days. He worked long and hard tanning from the light of the fire and the ash and heat. He finally finished a pair of twins that shined with the silver light given to them. He smiled for the first time in a very very long time. He looked at the old man but he was gone. He looked around and sighed finishing up with the handles making them as perfect as the blades. Fulled and prepared to fight. He put the blades on each side of his body and walked putting his yukata back on as the sun slowly rose. He put the original Masamune on his back and stopped at his door looking in at Lotus. He stared at her for a long time. "If you're coming let us go...time is precious now and must not be wasted...if you don't keep up I will hold no remorse for you...understand?...good let's go" He turned moving from the doorway...if she followed fine...if not fine as well...

The old man watched them leave and smiled as he stretched a little bit. A young man walked up and yawned as he looked down at the old man and then out at Chaos. "Grandfather...why did you help him?" The old man smiled up at his grandchild. "Because he needed help my child...he needed guidance to overcome the challenges in his life...and now he can." The young boy nodded and turned walking back to the house slowly. "Whatever you say Grandfather Masamune" The old man smiled as he watched Chaos leave their town and turned walking himself into the house to rest...that boy had made the blade that not even he himself could...he had dubbed it Muchitsujo for the disorder, confusion, and chaos that was imbedded into it. The perfect weapon for a man like that...and he would be the only one to wield such a weapon...The only one whose life was the definition of the twin swords name...He bowed slightly when he got to the doorframe back to the man named Chaos...it would be a long journey for him to finish his life...a long time indeed...

Chaos left the village and headed to a boat and used it to sail back across to the mainland. Whether or not Lotus was with him was of little to no concern of his. He left the boat and headed through the countryside toward the spot he had told Yumi. Two days... was what he was thinking. He sighed slightly his face never changing. He would rest and then be ready to fight with her. He breathed slowly as he approached the open field. He sat down under a Sakura and closed his eyes. He was preparing his mind and body. Rest is a weapon... He sighed knowing his master had told him that and nodded. "I trust what you say master..." He wasn't asleep, but he wasn't awake. He needed the rest but would not lose himself in it. That was another thing his master had taught him. To always be on ready. Even when you're not...

Lotus was cleaning her weapon when she felt the most odd sensation in her chest. It soon turned to pain, and she clutched her chest and looked up suddenly. Some type of string shot out of her chest, it was pink like sakura blossoms and it went thorugh the wall. An image of Chaos sittign under a Sakura tree surfaced as if she were looking into the surface of water. The string went to him. She didn't know if he felt anythign but she did it hurt like the 6 shades of hell. Then she heard...no felt a second heart beat, slower than her, relaxed.
Lotus woke up with a start, she had drifted off to sleep sitting against the wall of the room. She had not dared enter any other room, this wasn't her house. She listened.
Silence
Then she heard it, lub, dub. She stiffened, the slower heartbeat was in her head. She blocked it out and it quieted significantly, "What the heck is wrong with me?" She stood a bit shakily. Her sword told her that Chaos was no longer in town but what scared her was that she already knew he was.

She felt the heartbeat quicken just a smidge and she hurried even faster. Her own heart was racing like a scared rabbits adn her breath came ragged. Once again she saw the sakura trees. An image hit her, a little boy, in pain. She flinced and bit back a cry of astonishment and put on an extra spurt of speed, cresting the small hill. She saw him in the distance and another figure, smaller...

Still trying to catch her breath, she followed, she caught up but stayed a distance behind, walking silently. She pressed her lips together.