The sun was shining bright in the sky, without a single cloud to mask it. The day was delightfully beautiful, enough for some peasants to pop their heads out of their houses and come out of their hiding.
Ever since the king acted like a complete douchebag toward one of the highest-ranking generals of one of the warring kingdom, the quiet little country of Daishonin lived in fear, they all knew that they were weak, with an army that wouldn’t stop the other kingdoms from wiping out the Ootsutsuki’s country, even if said army was still strong enough to restrain peasants from leaving the country.
Kyokukei really wanted for every man to be a soldier, and for every woman, children or eldery to build weapons and prepare rations for the soldier, while it was employed by the other countries, a certain sense of panic and lack of intelligent communication by the king meant that it ended with many confused young soldiers having a 2-day training and then being sent off to guard the kingdom or the palace if they were lucky.
As for the weapons and food, it was there but the production was often quickened, so the weapons, while more than capable of killing a human being, would often break apart when struck by the blade of the enemy soldiers.
Needless to say, most of the villages were living near the castle and tried to get the protection of the royal family, to no avail.
Therefore, only a few of the unfortunate peasants were able to come out and see the small unit that was heading for them. There was 30 soldiers at least, all of whom had a perfectly clean and ready-to-take-hits armor, with weapons and confidence in themselves, they were also mounted on horses and carried a weapon hidden in some sheets, standing on a rather large wood platform on wheels, carried by the horses.
Meanwhile, the Daishonin soldiers who came here to fight them had dented armors because of the hasty work of the kingdom, weapons that simply asked to be broken at the first clash, were visibly sweating in fear and were on foot, with the leader sitting on a tiny pink donkey. They, for an unknown reason, looked somewhat wary as the leader of the enemy unit approached.
The man looked like Ginkaku or Kinkaku, even if he wasn’t affiliated with them. However, he looked much more “dignified” than them, with a confident walk and a golden armor, even if he looked ridiculous thanks to his rather goofy design. The soldiers knew better than to laugh at him, however, he was the man who managed to push Amena back while making several plans to attack the other countries.
The man was so influent in the government, he could murder a man and steal his wife right in front of a crowd in the capital of Daishiru, Gozen, and still be respected as an hero. His name, Ryojiki Gurmanchi, was presumably one of the fastest ways to make the generals of the other nations flee in fear. His involvement in the invasion was mainly because spies saw that the Ootsutsuki weren’t prepared at all.
And the invasion needed to be carried quickly, so that’s why they gave to him the new top-weapon (sic, as said by the king of the country) of the nation. A cannon with enough power to vaporize the castles of the royal family, wipe out their army in one blow and ravage their land to the point that no civilization will exist on it for the next eons to come !
Ryojiki chuckled and patted the weapon, in a way that could earn quite a few chuckles given the number of “size jokes” possible, while two soldiers of the unit were spraying the blood of soldiers and civilians everywhere, the weapons of the Daishonin soldiers breaking upon contact with the armor along with the horrible difference in experience between the soldiers.
Soon, the village became a massive grave, with people running for their lives, be it the surviving soldiers or the civilians. The soldier spared the young or the women but only to bring them back home to have them work for weapons, since unlike Daishonin, the invading country could afford some time. Soon, the village was now nothing but a burning grave, while the general chuckled.
“Sir. I do believe that could’ve joined us without problems. These soldiers could’ve been used as fodder or trained further !”
“Come on, Nabuza. This country is nothing but a relic, ruled by the last degenerative members of a bunch of freaks, do you think we’re here to bring tea, peace and books to some amateurs ? If I’m going to invade a weak country, I want to enjoy it.”
He steps up, raising his arms while staring at the castle far ahead.
“Let us enjoy the bloodshed ! We shall drink their… ow !”
Accidentally, the wheel of the platform rolled on his foot. The general jumped back, clutching his foot while repeatedly swearing in a way that greatly contrasted with his maniacal behavior displayed earlier. He awkwardly pointed toward the castle and hopped towards it along with the other soldiers.
Meanwhile, a single, lone figure was spying at them. One couldn’t make out who it was at all, because of the dark blue outfit that covered every part of the body, the gloves, the shoes and a mask tat would hide all but the eyes, it was a ninja, albeit a classic one, the kind that isn’t orange with clones everywhere.
“Humph”
The ninja vanished thanks to its high-speed;
--
The castle wasn’t worried about the whole problem, or rather, they were trying to hide their panic by making grand declarations, raising the few victories against a bunch of confused, sleeping enemies and letting some people enter.
Since it all took places several years after the accident, Kaguya was now an adolescent, and her features were therefore more like the one that shall be feared as a demon, horns, sharinnegan and others withstanding. Her face was still much more innocent, with large, grey eyes and the usual red hair and pale skin, therefore, she had enough wedding proposals for her mother to assign bodyguards to her, mostly because of assassins but also thanks to the creepy behavior of some of the men who turned around her “daughter”.
So, Kaguya was now peacefully sitting in a table, not eating with her parents as always, as food was given on a plate to her. The princess therefore took a fork, gazing at all the delicious things in front of her with her usual giddy smile, until a large, burly hand made a sign to stop her.
“Princess Kaguya. You do know that a traitor could easily poison your dinner ? Let us taste to check.”
The young woman quietly observed them. The dude who spoke was Tonpo Kaguchi, the largest and strongest of the bodyguard. The other was a young man named Tenchiro Kuzuma, much slimmer but as deadly as Tonpo thanks to his weapon, the third was Mina Kara, much more deadly than her petite physique indicate and the fourth was Mikazuchi Daraoa, who was a weapon expert too.
“NAH !”
Kaguya ate some meat, much to the horror of her bodyguards, and stood there, smiling quietly, at least until the pain stomach started, her white skin slowly turning blue as she got up, both hands on her throat, at least until she fell to the ground, landing on her back and coughing.
“PRINCESS KAGUYA !”
They all piled up on her to try to help her up, seemingly succeeding after a while since her color became white-ish again, even if she seemed to be strangely at the verge of dying because of the food, so she just raised her hand.
“Tell… to my mom… that I died without any kind of… relation.”
“STAY WITH US PRINCESS KAGUYA !”
“THE LIGHT IS BAD !”
She dropped dead for a few seconds but suddenly got up, laughing loudly (to the point of snorting) to the face of her bodyguards who went white with shock for a while, until they regained their senses enough to facepalm at their collective panic, Tenchiro helped up Kaguya, who gazed into his eyes for a while before going back to Tanpo’s lectures.
“Princess. One day, you might fall sick and might really face such a scenario without you believing us ! Please, avoid making such scenes !”
“Ho, it was just a small harmless joke !”
Kaguya folded her arms, pouting for a while until Tanpo just gave up and sighed, the usual poison-check procedure was launched and Kaguya quietly ate until some dude in a monk robe arrived.
“Princess Kaguya ! Your father want to see you !”
“Ho ?”
She puts a finger on her lips, seemingly curious.
“Why ?”
“Just follow me !”
The bodyguards stepped up, wary about the mysterious monks, and collectively sighed when Kaguya started to run after him, they could all see that some objects such as paintings, tables or other things like dat where taken away by some servants, much to the ignorance of the princess who followed for some minute until they came out of the castle and arrived at the beach that was behind it.
Many boats were currently near the beach, belonging to the Ootsutsuki. Kaguya kept running however, and finally ended up facing her father who was busy discussing schemes with a bunch of soldiers, and somehow panicked upon seeing her and the bodyguards.
“What’s the meaning of this, daddy ?!”
“Huh… hello there ! I has, huh, great news for you !”
The queen arrived and ran up to Kaguya’s side, confused.
“What’s happening Kyokukei ?”
“Well… Kaguya, you’re the new queen ! And Takane, screw you, you’re a servant now.”
“W-“
He handed to Kaguya his crown, although she barely had time to register the placement of the important relic on her head. She instead feel somewhat… betrayed ?
“Where are you going Father ?! I’m… I’m not fit for such a task !”
“I’m going to an island to, well, direct my new micro-state. I mean, Daishonin is important and stuff, and I must understand that I’m not fit to rule it, so… well, the kingdom of Darjobu is born !”
“You’re fleeing when your country needs you !”
The Ootsutsuki hesitated.
“Well, I’ll bring supports to you, m’eukay ? The reason I must flee if because our soldiers were incompetents after all, right ?”
“No ! You brought that on yourself !”
The king waited for the main ship to be loaded and therefore, stood, extending his arms to hopefully hide the armada.
“Well. I really did not know about that fat man, I mean… his stare was kinda seducing, like, I’m not interested in men but I was captivated by his words, and he looked kinda homeless so I wanted to bring such a charismatic guy under a roof, and hum, I did not know that the other dude had a grudge.”
Kaguya looked sad and merely approached her father, gripping on his arm.
“Yo-You’re not going to leave us alone, father ? I’m not fit to be queen !”
“You’ll do good, Kaguya ! I told that to Father when he tried to wrestle with a crocodile and he told me to just do like him ! That’s the last words he spoke to me before being eaten by the crocodile.”
“But we’re in a war, and losing !”
“Keep losing then, maybe they’ll pity you !”
Then, at impressive speed, he dashed to a ship and fled before anyone could register the words.
Soon, the micro armada became nothing more than a point in the horizon while the queen slowly approached an immobile Kaguya, noticing that the princess was somewhat crying, probably because she thought about the war and the betrayal of her father. Having no choice, the former queen merely hugged her “daughter” tight, noticing that everyone who hasn’t left was staring at them.
It continued for a while until Kaguya began to turn toward them.
“F-fine. We should let the villagers enter the castle first !”
“Huh. No queen Kaguya. We, hum, sorta have to avoid doing that. We lacks the necessary food for such an occupation, and they’re… dirty.”
She turned toward the protester.
“Let them in, please… I mean, there are plenty of villages who suffer from the enemy so… let’s protect them.”
The whole thing made little sense but she was irrational and the others were afraid of the whole “execution” thingy so they set out to open the door as a whole slew of pleading villagers suddenly found themselves running into the castle, with the guards being forced to menace them with weapons to avoid some foot shortage.
Meanwhile, Kaguya herself was in the throne room, reading a book. Her bodyguards stood there, as he raised her head.
“I should find myself a king.”
She thought that having a companion would be useful for the long road that was waiting ahead, and turned toward her bodyguard group before being interrupted by her “mother”, who entered the room in a panic with a counselor at her side.
“Queen Kaguya !” yelled the counselor. “Akosen was destroyed by a squad of enemy soldier recently, we’ve been informed by some survivors !”
Kaguya froze up. Akosen was perhaps one of the closest villages to the castle, which meant that the enemy was really, really nearby. The queen started to hyper-ventilate a bit, but calmed herself down quickly.
“Well, we’ll just have to send a platoon of soldiers to deal with them, right ?”
“Our soldiers are… weak.”
Kaguya frowned and facepalmed, afraid and confused. The events just happened so quickly... but she will pull trough and save her people from the horrible fate that awaits them !
And then, a gigantic explosion shook the castle to the core.
Ever since the king acted like a complete douchebag toward one of the highest-ranking generals of one of the warring kingdom, the quiet little country of Daishonin lived in fear, they all knew that they were weak, with an army that wouldn’t stop the other kingdoms from wiping out the Ootsutsuki’s country, even if said army was still strong enough to restrain peasants from leaving the country.
Kyokukei really wanted for every man to be a soldier, and for every woman, children or eldery to build weapons and prepare rations for the soldier, while it was employed by the other countries, a certain sense of panic and lack of intelligent communication by the king meant that it ended with many confused young soldiers having a 2-day training and then being sent off to guard the kingdom or the palace if they were lucky.
As for the weapons and food, it was there but the production was often quickened, so the weapons, while more than capable of killing a human being, would often break apart when struck by the blade of the enemy soldiers.
Needless to say, most of the villages were living near the castle and tried to get the protection of the royal family, to no avail.
Therefore, only a few of the unfortunate peasants were able to come out and see the small unit that was heading for them. There was 30 soldiers at least, all of whom had a perfectly clean and ready-to-take-hits armor, with weapons and confidence in themselves, they were also mounted on horses and carried a weapon hidden in some sheets, standing on a rather large wood platform on wheels, carried by the horses.
Meanwhile, the Daishonin soldiers who came here to fight them had dented armors because of the hasty work of the kingdom, weapons that simply asked to be broken at the first clash, were visibly sweating in fear and were on foot, with the leader sitting on a tiny pink donkey. They, for an unknown reason, looked somewhat wary as the leader of the enemy unit approached.
The man looked like Ginkaku or Kinkaku, even if he wasn’t affiliated with them. However, he looked much more “dignified” than them, with a confident walk and a golden armor, even if he looked ridiculous thanks to his rather goofy design. The soldiers knew better than to laugh at him, however, he was the man who managed to push Amena back while making several plans to attack the other countries.
The man was so influent in the government, he could murder a man and steal his wife right in front of a crowd in the capital of Daishiru, Gozen, and still be respected as an hero. His name, Ryojiki Gurmanchi, was presumably one of the fastest ways to make the generals of the other nations flee in fear. His involvement in the invasion was mainly because spies saw that the Ootsutsuki weren’t prepared at all.
And the invasion needed to be carried quickly, so that’s why they gave to him the new top-weapon (sic, as said by the king of the country) of the nation. A cannon with enough power to vaporize the castles of the royal family, wipe out their army in one blow and ravage their land to the point that no civilization will exist on it for the next eons to come !
Ryojiki chuckled and patted the weapon, in a way that could earn quite a few chuckles given the number of “size jokes” possible, while two soldiers of the unit were spraying the blood of soldiers and civilians everywhere, the weapons of the Daishonin soldiers breaking upon contact with the armor along with the horrible difference in experience between the soldiers.
Soon, the village became a massive grave, with people running for their lives, be it the surviving soldiers or the civilians. The soldier spared the young or the women but only to bring them back home to have them work for weapons, since unlike Daishonin, the invading country could afford some time. Soon, the village was now nothing but a burning grave, while the general chuckled.
“Sir. I do believe that could’ve joined us without problems. These soldiers could’ve been used as fodder or trained further !”
“Come on, Nabuza. This country is nothing but a relic, ruled by the last degenerative members of a bunch of freaks, do you think we’re here to bring tea, peace and books to some amateurs ? If I’m going to invade a weak country, I want to enjoy it.”
He steps up, raising his arms while staring at the castle far ahead.
“Let us enjoy the bloodshed ! We shall drink their… ow !”
Accidentally, the wheel of the platform rolled on his foot. The general jumped back, clutching his foot while repeatedly swearing in a way that greatly contrasted with his maniacal behavior displayed earlier. He awkwardly pointed toward the castle and hopped towards it along with the other soldiers.
Meanwhile, a single, lone figure was spying at them. One couldn’t make out who it was at all, because of the dark blue outfit that covered every part of the body, the gloves, the shoes and a mask tat would hide all but the eyes, it was a ninja, albeit a classic one, the kind that isn’t orange with clones everywhere.
“Humph”
The ninja vanished thanks to its high-speed;
--
The castle wasn’t worried about the whole problem, or rather, they were trying to hide their panic by making grand declarations, raising the few victories against a bunch of confused, sleeping enemies and letting some people enter.
Since it all took places several years after the accident, Kaguya was now an adolescent, and her features were therefore more like the one that shall be feared as a demon, horns, sharinnegan and others withstanding. Her face was still much more innocent, with large, grey eyes and the usual red hair and pale skin, therefore, she had enough wedding proposals for her mother to assign bodyguards to her, mostly because of assassins but also thanks to the creepy behavior of some of the men who turned around her “daughter”.
So, Kaguya was now peacefully sitting in a table, not eating with her parents as always, as food was given on a plate to her. The princess therefore took a fork, gazing at all the delicious things in front of her with her usual giddy smile, until a large, burly hand made a sign to stop her.
“Princess Kaguya. You do know that a traitor could easily poison your dinner ? Let us taste to check.”
The young woman quietly observed them. The dude who spoke was Tonpo Kaguchi, the largest and strongest of the bodyguard. The other was a young man named Tenchiro Kuzuma, much slimmer but as deadly as Tonpo thanks to his weapon, the third was Mina Kara, much more deadly than her petite physique indicate and the fourth was Mikazuchi Daraoa, who was a weapon expert too.
“NAH !”
Kaguya ate some meat, much to the horror of her bodyguards, and stood there, smiling quietly, at least until the pain stomach started, her white skin slowly turning blue as she got up, both hands on her throat, at least until she fell to the ground, landing on her back and coughing.
“PRINCESS KAGUYA !”
They all piled up on her to try to help her up, seemingly succeeding after a while since her color became white-ish again, even if she seemed to be strangely at the verge of dying because of the food, so she just raised her hand.
“Tell… to my mom… that I died without any kind of… relation.”
“STAY WITH US PRINCESS KAGUYA !”
“THE LIGHT IS BAD !”
She dropped dead for a few seconds but suddenly got up, laughing loudly (to the point of snorting) to the face of her bodyguards who went white with shock for a while, until they regained their senses enough to facepalm at their collective panic, Tenchiro helped up Kaguya, who gazed into his eyes for a while before going back to Tanpo’s lectures.
“Princess. One day, you might fall sick and might really face such a scenario without you believing us ! Please, avoid making such scenes !”
“Ho, it was just a small harmless joke !”
Kaguya folded her arms, pouting for a while until Tanpo just gave up and sighed, the usual poison-check procedure was launched and Kaguya quietly ate until some dude in a monk robe arrived.
“Princess Kaguya ! Your father want to see you !”
“Ho ?”
She puts a finger on her lips, seemingly curious.
“Why ?”
“Just follow me !”
The bodyguards stepped up, wary about the mysterious monks, and collectively sighed when Kaguya started to run after him, they could all see that some objects such as paintings, tables or other things like dat where taken away by some servants, much to the ignorance of the princess who followed for some minute until they came out of the castle and arrived at the beach that was behind it.
Many boats were currently near the beach, belonging to the Ootsutsuki. Kaguya kept running however, and finally ended up facing her father who was busy discussing schemes with a bunch of soldiers, and somehow panicked upon seeing her and the bodyguards.
“What’s the meaning of this, daddy ?!”
“Huh… hello there ! I has, huh, great news for you !”
The queen arrived and ran up to Kaguya’s side, confused.
“What’s happening Kyokukei ?”
“Well… Kaguya, you’re the new queen ! And Takane, screw you, you’re a servant now.”
“W-“
He handed to Kaguya his crown, although she barely had time to register the placement of the important relic on her head. She instead feel somewhat… betrayed ?
“Where are you going Father ?! I’m… I’m not fit for such a task !”
“I’m going to an island to, well, direct my new micro-state. I mean, Daishonin is important and stuff, and I must understand that I’m not fit to rule it, so… well, the kingdom of Darjobu is born !”
“You’re fleeing when your country needs you !”
The Ootsutsuki hesitated.
“Well, I’ll bring supports to you, m’eukay ? The reason I must flee if because our soldiers were incompetents after all, right ?”
“No ! You brought that on yourself !”
The king waited for the main ship to be loaded and therefore, stood, extending his arms to hopefully hide the armada.
“Well. I really did not know about that fat man, I mean… his stare was kinda seducing, like, I’m not interested in men but I was captivated by his words, and he looked kinda homeless so I wanted to bring such a charismatic guy under a roof, and hum, I did not know that the other dude had a grudge.”
Kaguya looked sad and merely approached her father, gripping on his arm.
“Yo-You’re not going to leave us alone, father ? I’m not fit to be queen !”
“You’ll do good, Kaguya ! I told that to Father when he tried to wrestle with a crocodile and he told me to just do like him ! That’s the last words he spoke to me before being eaten by the crocodile.”
“But we’re in a war, and losing !”
“Keep losing then, maybe they’ll pity you !”
Then, at impressive speed, he dashed to a ship and fled before anyone could register the words.
Soon, the micro armada became nothing more than a point in the horizon while the queen slowly approached an immobile Kaguya, noticing that the princess was somewhat crying, probably because she thought about the war and the betrayal of her father. Having no choice, the former queen merely hugged her “daughter” tight, noticing that everyone who hasn’t left was staring at them.
It continued for a while until Kaguya began to turn toward them.
“F-fine. We should let the villagers enter the castle first !”
“Huh. No queen Kaguya. We, hum, sorta have to avoid doing that. We lacks the necessary food for such an occupation, and they’re… dirty.”
She turned toward the protester.
“Let them in, please… I mean, there are plenty of villages who suffer from the enemy so… let’s protect them.”
The whole thing made little sense but she was irrational and the others were afraid of the whole “execution” thingy so they set out to open the door as a whole slew of pleading villagers suddenly found themselves running into the castle, with the guards being forced to menace them with weapons to avoid some foot shortage.
Meanwhile, Kaguya herself was in the throne room, reading a book. Her bodyguards stood there, as he raised her head.
“I should find myself a king.”
She thought that having a companion would be useful for the long road that was waiting ahead, and turned toward her bodyguard group before being interrupted by her “mother”, who entered the room in a panic with a counselor at her side.
“Queen Kaguya !” yelled the counselor. “Akosen was destroyed by a squad of enemy soldier recently, we’ve been informed by some survivors !”
Kaguya froze up. Akosen was perhaps one of the closest villages to the castle, which meant that the enemy was really, really nearby. The queen started to hyper-ventilate a bit, but calmed herself down quickly.
“Well, we’ll just have to send a platoon of soldiers to deal with them, right ?”
“Our soldiers are… weak.”
Kaguya frowned and facepalmed, afraid and confused. The events just happened so quickly... but she will pull trough and save her people from the horrible fate that awaits them !
And then, a gigantic explosion shook the castle to the core.