The deadly body of Taki

Atop a large, Oriental-style rooftop a human shape was crouched, yet concealed by the coming darkness of the evening. Taki, the best kunoichi of the Fu-Ma clan was on a mission to kill, again. A ruthless warlord in the north of Honshu has been making the lives of common people a misery, and what’s worse, apparently sought to undo a seal on a tomb that was rumored to contain an ancient warlord turned demon. The kunoichi knew the bloodshed she was about to commit would create a power vacuum, and thus more chaos, but the efforts at undoing the seal had to be stopped.

The warlord had set guards on the entrance to the inn he stayed at, on his way to the tomb site. He was very upset about the delays in obtaining access to the grave, and the workers, many of them forced, would certainly pay the price.

Taki could see 2 guards below her. As they wore sturdy helmets and body armor, the back of their heads was not a viable target. Confident in her abilities, the dark-haired female decided to end them both in a flashy way, one that would minimize noise and possibility of the guards helping each other.

Gripping the edge of the roof with her hands, Taki slid downwards, and quickly bent one leg around each guard’s neck. As she squeezed, they thrashed, trying to break free, even as their strength went away quickly. Since they were trying to reach for their swords and point at her legs, the woman in the red suit had to end this quickly.

Pulling her hips to opposite sides, she exerted immense force on the trapped necks. A sharp, twin crack made her smile mildly. The soldiers drop their swords and slump within moments, as the hold killed them both in one go. Taki releases their broken necks, and lands with one foot on each corpse that laid face- down. Turning around towards the door, she presses her boots into the spine of each body, making sure they would not get up as vertebrae pop in a morbid rhythm.

She lands by the door, and peeking through a hole in the wood, sees the inn staff hurriedly carrying something, while a guard of the warlord yells at them. She opens the door, and takes advantage of the noise to enter the place, while reaching for a dagger holstered at her right ankle. As the guard turns around to face her, she flings it at him, hitting below his chin. He wheezes and gurgles, falling to his knees as he desperately tries to pull the weapon out.

The staff are in shock, and drop what they were carrying. A kunoichi had entered the inn… a stunningly beautiful woman, at that. The two males were staring at her, fixated on her shapely body hidden by the red suit. Nobody paid attention anymore to the guard that was about to expire within seconds.

“Where is the warlord?”, Taki asked, as the men gulped. The younger one spoke, in a really timid tone of voice: “Last room on the…upper floor…but he has guards…”

Taki did not feel any fear, and ran up the stairs to meet the guards head-on.

She catches a guard at the top of the stairs looking in the other direction, and does a front handspring, entangling her legs around his neck.