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((Her name is Nobara))

Masamune watched Yumi and nodded slowly. "Now, go get one of the casks, and begin pouring and forming the liquid steel. We're going to begin the forming process. Now it is pure, and you have to make it how you want. This will be tedious, and long. Be ready."

Mouki's eyes opened suddenly, despite the blindfold, and everything, he still opened his eyes out of habit. He stood and began to leave. The monks sighed in relief and Mouki walked down. His steps silent, and other senses on peak. He moved out of people's ways, and searched till he felt that presence. That man who knew iaijutsu so well. Kazuma...

Kazuma sat there for a moment, thinking about what Miu had said. "So harsh, but you're correct I suppose. It's one of those things you think about when you start to get old. 'Did I live my life right? Would it have been better if i'd walked this path instead?' Old men sit on porches wondering things like this. When I left the island..I..suppose I was trying to run from my past. Or maybe it's..fate." He removed his hand from his chin, folding his arms across his chest. He felt the presence of someone..not near him, but..familiar, close. Still he couldn't quite make it out. Who was it..?

Kazuma did not move. It would have been futile anyway. Mouki could always tell where he was..where anything was..that was his specialty. Most warriors would not, could not fight in the dark. But Mouki..he could fight..blind. "Fall into nothingness? Well, the Shinsengumi may have lost, but I feel our spirit will carry on. Besides, I would not know about you, have your skills fallen into disuse? I myself am as quick as ever I was, my..commrade." He stood up at this time, picking up his katana and securing it in his belt. "Follow someone? At the moment, there is no one I would follow. But that man with the killing aura..the man who strikes fear into you with but a glance..his path is a way of death and destruction for his own gains. I would follow no such man." Kazuma stood but a few feet from the door. The situation could become explosive in mere moments..

Kazuma rested his hand on the handle of his katana, the sheath shifting slightly in reaction to the weight. It hadn't been his drawing hand. He didn't want to show aggresion. "A Reject..maybe, but i've found happiness in my life, Mouki. Perhaps you should worry less about defeating every person you come across, and worry more about becoming happy in life."

"You won't defeat that man. Do you think all nine others will ally themselves? I don't know. Much time has passed since we have left that island. I wonder..if you seek to challenge him..could you even defeat me?"

Miu sat frozen to her spot, during the whole conversation she stayed silent, since she knew she probably shouldn't be sticking her nose into their business. Also, she feared this man, she sensed he was unbeleivably dangerous, so dangerous that even Kazuma would be in trouble.

Quickly Yumi heated up the steel and while she did so she picked up the hammer. Hesitating slightly she then started working with the steel.

Hungry... Nobara had wandered out of the centre of the town and was now looking for some decent looking inn or just somewhere to get some food. Around 10 minutes she walked around, then got tired of searching and just barged into a house she smelled someone was cooking dinner in.

"Ciao!" She waved her hand and at the same time 10 needles flew out of her sleeve and pierced the peacefully dining couple. The woman and the man gasped for breathe a while then sank down to the floor with a gurgling sound, they had both choked in their own blood. Nobara kicked the woman so that her blood wouldn't drop down on the food then calmly sat down to eat. It had all happened swiftly and soundlessly, the only abnormal thing seemed to be the pair with widely opened eyes and the growing pool of blood beneath them. Outside you could hear a few birds chirping happily. Nobara continued chewing on the bread, moved her foot slightly so that she wouldn't get bloodstains on her socks and took a sip of the teacup.

"Even in simplicity there will be found death and destruction. The ten will continue to kill till they are tamed..." Sakura sat sipping tea near Miu. He smiled and offered it to her. "Tea?" This man, somehow evaded even Mouki's sense, as he didn't seem to note the other person, though he had referred to a person, most likely Miu.

Chochmah was walking towards that small little town where Kazuma and Miu were, as well as where Mouki had gone. Chochmah had always been one of the most difficult battlers among the ten, but wasn't invincible as he seemed. Only in normal to expert fights. The master fights and beyond were a little more challenging, though not by much. He now headed toward Kazuma.

Hakkyou began walking away from Edo now, he wanted to find another place, somewhere nice and comfortable to rest for a while. Maybe find someone to kill...

Sakura had moved with Kazuma's first movement. He was up in Kazuma's face, and using Kazuma's momentum, twisted the blade out and away from his hand and had him down on the floor within that same count, by a simply twist of his wrist. Sakura's grey eyes looked deep into Kazumas'. "I don't kill people like you do Kazuma, but I don't take it lightly when people make attempts on my life." Sakura drove the blade into the wood inches away from Kazuma's head, rose and walked back over to his tea. He smiled at Miu. "I apoligize for his actions, did you want that tea?"