Love in feudal times.

[Siren's Voice]

Princess Mikaeri

Before rising to get her own dagger, Mikaeri tied the blanket tighter around her body, making the knot just above her breasts. She retrieved her knife and picked up an unfamiliar green vegetable.

Mikaeri had never cooked anything in her life. She had never even seen anything being prepared before. Her movements were awkward as she tried to get all of the pieces uniform. She glanced over at Hi Achi, hoping he didn't notice. So she was not paying attention when her blade skidded across the surface of the vegetable and into the palm of her hand.

"Baka!"

Calling herself an idiot and ashamed at her own ineptness, she ignored the blood dripping down her arm.

 

[Ravenloft]

Hi Achi:

Looking up, placing his down at his side and the half cut carrot into the hammered pot, Hi Achi reached out to Mikaeri and took her hand, he eyes her cut for a moment, then brings out a length of cloth he had laying near by. He wrapped the cloth about the wound and tied it off. Her hand in his, he turned it up the back of her hand facing his lips, he kissed lightly as he flashed a glance into her eyes.

 

[Siren's Voice]

Princess Mikaeri

His hands were suprisingly gentle and his caring touched her heart. "It seems I have a lot to learn about him," Mikaeri thought.

"Thank you," she said quietly and without quite knowing why, she leaned forward and brushed his lips with her own. She sighed softly as their mouths met.

 

[Ravenloft]

Hi Achi:

Mikaeri brushed her lips lightly against Hi Achi's own, he rested a hand upon her neck, so their kiss could not be broken. His lips parted and he layed upon hers a sheen of moisture. He freed her from the kiss then, and sat back, looking into her eyes, his hands returned to fixing the vegetables.

 

[Ravenloft]

Kami:

Two hateful eyes watched Hi Achi and Mikaeri from cover of darkness, they honed in on Hi Achi with such sharp contempt that if they had been knives, Hi Achi would be nothing but shreaded flesh. Sniffing in disgust as the two of them kissed, Kami set things in motion with but a wave of her hand. Twenty of her fellow ninja's snuck through the darkness of the cave, taking positions to attack. They were all in place the moment the sickening kiss had ended.

Kami focused upon Hi Achi again, she knew he could sence them there, but it didn't matter, not even HE would be able to fight such a number... Oh, but she didn't want him dead, nor the whore he was with... She spat, knowing it would give her position away to Hi Achi, who was listening, focusing, but not caring.

Kami clicked the wicked metalic needle that rested upon her forefinger, it was coated with a drug, a drug only she knew of. She smiled as she formulated her course of action, the small click sent all twenty ninjas upon Hi Achi, as she herself snuck upon the whore, the needle was at the girls neck in an instant as the cave echoed with blade upon blade. Things moved so quickly, three of Kami's men were dead, Hi Achi never played games.

So now, Hi Achi was being held, a tanto to his throat, forced to face Mikaeri and Kami standing on the other side of the fire light.